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Condi is not welcome in Lebanon
posted Sunday, 30 July 2006
This represents the kind of propaganda we are fed about the Middle-East conflict. I read on CNN a headline, that Condoleezza Rice has cancelled her trip to Lebanon.
Well, the BBC television news, tells me Lebanon has snubbed Condoleezza Rice and told her not to visit Lebanon till a ceasefire has been agreed.
Indeed, Dr Rice would have had cancel her trip, because she has been told quite clearly, you are not welcome, I must say, that appears in the body of text.
Like I said in an earlier blog, regardless of the American aid which is a sop in expiation for seriously letting Lebanon down, Lebanon knows this for sure, America is definitely not a friend in time of need.
Unfortunately, the UN building in Beirut is now taking the brunt of a violent protest as Israel argumentum ad consequentiam passes the blame for bombing up civilians to Hezbollah.
As I am writing, the culmination of events had now lead Dr Rice to request an immediate unconditional ceasefire. So, much for doors and bolted horses – this doctor is some mean gambler.
References
Sky News: Airstrike 'Kills Or Injures Dozens'
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid
No talks with Rice before ceasefire
Rice says "time for ceasefire" after Qana bombing
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A relocation from the cacophony
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
From noise to more amenable people, the results confirm what would be an aggressive course of treatment, it is Day 9 at the hospital.
Nigeria: When women rage with the pudenda and the paps
Thursday, 30 April 2009
The women are using unusual weapons of warfare to effect political dialogue and change, I think it would be very effective
Nigeria: Why Candidates Fail Our Examinations - WAEC
Saturday, 18 April 2009
WAEC lists why candidates fail their examinations, I think they are unto something very true.
Nigeria: Obasanjo's Hard Talk
Friday, 20 March 2009
The ex-president of Nigeria - Olusegun Obasanjo was on Hard Talk and failed to answer the real questions.
Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
Sunday, 23 November 2008
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.
Nigeria: Women badly represented at CEDAW convention
Monday, 21 July 2008
Our women's minister took a battalion to the UN, they could not shoot their guns and the medics gave them an overdose of sarcastic nudity.
Satan's hand in human stupidity as church splits
Friday, 4 July 2008
The split afflicting the Anglican Church is more about competing egos than doctrinal differences because it takes the church no further in its work of remaining relevant to the communities they are operating in.
A moment of madness
Saturday, 14 June 2008
In just a sudden moment of madness a reputation is destroyed in the quest for some pleasure in prohibited places, with illicit paraphernalia and using illegal substance abuse.
Do we need more control of our lives?
Adedibu, Half of Ibadanland, the man is no more
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The strongman of Ibadan, the elder thug that has plagued Oyo State with menace and with impunity - that power broker and peddler of the riotous mob - Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu has died.
Olympic torch lights up Tibetan cause
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
If anything, the Chinese have been naive to think they could pull off the Olympics without the spotlight being shone on their internal affairs including Tibet.
They should have known someone would take advantage of the Olympic year for this.
Inside China: Hatchlings of Democracy get nasty
Sunday, 23 March 2008
The election for class monitor of 8-year olds in China reveals a lot more about the machinations and manipulation of democracy and the dangers that might be ahead.
In Nigeria, can wives make independent choices?
Friday, 21 March 2008
A news story throws the spotlight on the husband-wife dynamic within a patriarchal hegemony.
Earth-queers quaking in Israel
Thursday, 21 February 2008
I have just had my fill of reprehensible religious and political leaders who seek a minority to blame for natural disasters.
How can gays have caused earthquakes in the Holy Lands?
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008
As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Day 2008, I do not think we are any nearer fulfilling the words of that "I have a dream" speech given almost 45 years ago.
We have individuals, fine, but not great numbers of people who have really made it.
Handling Internet Intimidation
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Handling an Internet menace of harassment can be a time-consuming and resource intensive business. However, sometimes one has to be tenacious enough to gather the evidence and bold enough to involve the police before it terrorises your existence.
The Nigerian restaurant kaleidoscope - Part 2
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
A continuation of my experience at the Nigerian restaurant on Sunday.
The Nigerian restaurant kaleidoscope - Part 1
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
A visit to a Nigerian restaurant and insights to other things in a many parts.
Nigerians: Ngozi at World Bank, Ibrahim in Burma
Friday, 5 October 2007
Nigerians that make me proud and what they are doing around the world. I salute Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Ibrahim Gambari.
Fielding 11 clowns for Chelsea
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Maybe Chelsea should have clowns to play entertaining football.
News: Chasing the thrill
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Are these news chases really about getting us the news?
Sustaining bad reports from Africa
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
Zimbabwe is given the chairmanship of a UN commission on sustainable development - surely, this is a joke.
Medinat Yisrael - 59
Monday, 14 May 2007
59 years since the declaration of independence of Israel, but how much longer for peace?
Farfour free to burn - II - Poor translation?
Thursday, 10 May 2007
A comment left on an earlier blog contends that a mistranslation has portrayed a situation as more serious than it really is. I do not know for sure.
Farfour free to burn
Thursday, 10 May 2007
A Hamas sponsored TV station broadcast a despicable programme indoctrinating kids into jihadist hatred.
Stripping the "Great" out of Britain
Wednesday, 4 April 2007
This UK-Iran crisis did nothing to affirm the great in Great Britain, instead we were out-manoeuvred at every turn as the Iranians chose the tempo of events.
The long Sabbath of English football
Monday, 26 March 2007
English football is at rest, it cannot be stirred to excel, it is too sleepy to move and obviously too dozy to score. Now, look forward to 2012 because 2008 is over for England.
Obama vs. Stupid is as stupid does
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
The name Obama has been juxtaposed with Osama sadly, however, when people then base their views on that unfortunate juxtaposition, well, they have got it coming, with no mercy. I just would not condone it.
CNN Exclusive: The creaks (sic) of Niger Delta
Sunday, 11 February 2007
A CNN Exclusive files last week appears to be a directorial debut of the correspondent rather than facts as they really are, this does a disservice to the people affected in the Niger Delta and it is a shame.
The year of Armageddon upon us
Saturday, 13 January 2007
There is a possibility that the Middle-East might in view of radical American policies see the ignition of the tinder box of Armageddon - US, Iraq, Iran, Israel and Syria filling the rivers of Mesopotamia to Jordan with blood.
Celebrating Guantanamo Bay at Five
Thursday, 11 January 2007
The symbol of our freedom and the loss of the high moral ground that gives us the means to sue for peace. Guantanamo Bay is rotten monster of a child at five.
The Cult of the Burnt Fornicator II - Judgment Day
Thursday, 11 January 2007
The leader of the Christian Praying Assembly where sex sinners get doused with petrol and set alight in Nigeria is to hang. Would this be a lesson to those charlatans who seek to deceive?
Diplomacy is dead, long live diplomacy
Thursday, 11 January 2007
One case study that the Bush administration would offer for posterity is how to engage your allies by disparaging them especially when they are critical to your wellbeing and success. I am speechless.
Can Bush be a great man?
Monday, 8 January 2007
If Bush changed his tone in the process of changing hois strategy, would he gain more success in Iraq?
O'Bama - Osama - Oh Bummer - Obama
Friday, 5 January 2007
CNN had to apologise for a typographic error that substituted Obama for Osama, one thinks there is an unsavoury effort to denigrate the good standing of Senator Obama.
Bolton bolts
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
John Bolton the US Ambassador to the UN would not offer himself to be confirmed by the US Senate having garnered not support, so he is stepping down and hopefully he would not be replaced with another diplomatic rottweiler.
Left with the bread crumbs of Middle East diplomacy
Thursday, 30 November 2006
There is a kind of self-determination going on in Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, all without the influence of America - probably a few lessons for America too.
Is Rice on bootlegged rice alcohol from North Korea?
Monday, 23 October 2006
These people need to wake up fast and face the realities of our world today.
Many U-turns Required - II
Monday, 23 October 2006
In response to anonymous comments made to an earlier blog.
Many U-turns required
Saturday, 21 October 2006
On Iraq, on Iran, on North Korea, on Syria, on Hezbollah, on Hamas and on many other issues, the Bush administration is in need a radical rethink if not a complete overhaul of his team which should include Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales.
Mr Moon's Magic Circus
Sunday, 15 October 2006
The moon, a prize and something that sounds like bank collide on Friday, the 13th of October 2006, thankfully no computers crashed - Written like a spoof, but on serious matters.
An opportunity to make friends - with Syria
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
Syria foiled a terrorist attack on the US Embassy building and the Iraqi Prime Minister visits Iran - looks like talking does yield some benefits and actions should be seen as opportunities.
Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Friday, 25 August 2006
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
A coffee blend bereft of Java beans
Monday, 7 August 2006
I just could not find the heart or inspiration to embark on a Java course, so that venture is postponed for 24 days whilst I seek some therapy through going on holiday.
Somehow, Israel can do no wrong
Monday, 31 July 2006
The angel of death arrives in Qana, Lebanon a second time, on the wings of American supplied bombs, autographed by religious Jews and chaperoned by Israeli aircraft. This is utter madness.
Condi knows nothing about birth pangs
Saturday, 29 July 2006
Bombs and hostilities continue as birth pangs of a new Middle-East as the midwife returns to the woman in travail and extended labour to probably deliver the baby still-born. No new Middle-East can emerge with this belligerence.
Explaining a stolen lunchbox
Thursday, 27 July 2006
A hapless stranger gets mobbed and killed because some other stranger believes that his manhood has been stolen. This a part of reality in some parts of Nigeria. Unbelievable but true.
Evidence of good medical research
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
That testtube baby is 28 today - that was research done in Europe for the benefit of all - hopefully, America and see through the emotion of stem cell research just as Europe did yesterday.
Condolezza condoles with aid
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Dr Rice's unannounced visit to Lebanon finished every semblance of genuine friendship between the Lebanese and America as they are being sacrificed on the altar of some new Middle-East order. Know your friends.
Tone blind
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Skin darkening (tanning) and skin lightening (toning) all get a look in as the sun tans some and the heat leads others to expose their toning mishaps. The Summer season is here at last.
The new ball order - Football meritocracy
Friday, 23 June 2006
The World Cup levels the playing field of political powers and undue influence - little countries make minced meat of behemoths and if you cannot play you get beaten and go home. The Olympics has nothing on the World Cup.
Arise! Sir easy
Saturday, 17 June 2006
The Chairman of easyGroup of companies is knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list- I suppose a new business can come out of this accolade - easyHonours?
The Joy of Living
Friday, 16 June 2006
20 years ago, a group of Christian joined in the United Artistes for Africa project to raise money for the Ethiopian famine victims. I remember only so much.
Insemination Tax Credit
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
Lady Oddjob decapitates Poster Child
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
Yesterday evening Mrs Verdonk called Ayaan Hirsi Ali and told her, her Dutch citizenship was suspect if not invalid. Basically, she cannot be a Member of Parliament. Opportunism has trumped perspective - what chance other immigrants?
Lady Oddjob does about face on Poster Child
Monday, 15 May 2006
Between Friday and today, Ayaan Hirsi Ali has gone from not having anything to worry about to an inquiry opened by the minister of two opinions. Meanwhile, a job beckons for her in the US, an opportunity to say "Good Riddance" to Dutch ambiguity.
Diplomatic tactlessness
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
The Iranian President writes to George Bush - they read and castigate - are there not other ways to reply to a letter? The US could have been more discrete, sensitive and mature about this episode - Unlikely!!
Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
Parachuting into Antwerp
Sunday, 30 April 2006
Your mind is a parachute, it works better when open; is the open minded lesson I learnt from Antwerp this weekend.
DeepThroat II exposed too early
Thursday, 27 April 2006
A CIA employee was sacked six days before retirement for unauthorised access to the press for exposing some activities in the secret services and possibly the Presidency which are almost certainly illegal. Whistle-blowers - an endangered species.
Why Brussels doesn't work
Sunday, 23 April 2006
Europe and Brussels are synonymous, Brussels is a microcosm of Europe. What works works and what doesn't grates. We, the people of Europe have to protest vehemently to be heard but no guarantee of good results. This is Europe through storage lockers.
Fatwa evangelist blurts out again
Tuesday, 14 March 2006
Pat Robertson the US TV Evangelist speaks again - Islam is demonic - How do religious leaders get away with such statements?
The people are high on opium - V
Friday, 24 February 2006
I am saddened to see that the Mohammed cartoon saga is still costing lives around the world. We now need to examine the conseqences of exercising the freedom of expression. It is time also for Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten to take some responsibility.
No harsh tongue for Mrs Verdonk
Monday, 23 January 2006
The Dutch have come up with a very innovative public places ban; whist we are still trying to stomach the smoking ban in some public places, we now have the prospect of banning other languages but Dutch in public places.
Setting democracy ablaze with gas
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
This little Ukraine problem of gas supplies has more far-reaching consequences that could affect the whole basis of our democracy
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