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Bailout: Manufacturing Consent for a rotten deal
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 3:43 A GMT+01
How far would the propaganda go to force us to accept this bailout without telling us the truth of who it is really helping?
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Between reflective Obama and reflexive McCain
Friday, 26 September 2008 7:15 P GMT+01
As Americans draw close to the day of destiny when the next leader of the free world of 6.3 billion people would be decided by 300 million people - the options must be clear that the choice has to be right.
Bailout: The premise that stinking shit becomes durable gold
Friday, 26 September 2008 12:04 A GMT+01
I am still not convinced that toxic assets when acquired with the bailout of $700 billion of tax payers' money would suddenly lose their toxicity and become durable and worthwhile assets. Bull!
Who is buying this shit?
Large Hadron Collider: The Tower of Babel endures
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 8:27 P GMT+01
Am I the only one seeing the parallels between the Tower of Babel of old and the Large Hadron Collider?
Paulson Bailout: Don't buy that rope
Monday, 22 September 2008 9:16 A GMT+01
Methinks this bank bailout business is bad rope attached to even more menacing cows - don't buy the rope and if you have been given rope give it a good tug and find out what is attached to it.
This is no $700 billion bailout, it could well be twice
Paulson: Burying the dead and ignoring the murderers
Monday, 22 September 2008 6:16 A GMT+01
Who really is paying for this great bailout? Why is the community playground usurped to bury the dead bodies.
Category: Commentary US
A contractual dilemma
Sunday, 21 September 2008 10:03 A GMT+01
What does it take to have the courtesy of having your emails acknowledged, your phone calls returned and having a contract signed before you commence an assignment?
I lot more than I bargained and none of it has been resolved yet.
Category: Commentary
Sent off in a pasta wrap
Thursday, 18 September 2008 8:24 A GMT+01
I had my send off dinner yesterday and ended up with a load of presents.
The Great Peace of Sabbath
Sunday, 14 September 2008 7:17 P GMT+01
A night out for a Sabbath meal with Christians
Category: Religion Commentary
The cravings of an omnivore
Sunday, 14 September 2008 3:33 P GMT+01
In praise of the medium rare steak where they know how to present it best for the fullest satisfaction of the hungry omnivore.
Category: Commentary Netherlands
Rough Spelling Though Thought Tough Enough
Friday, 12 September 2008 4:18 P GMT+01
It is just plain heresy for a Professor of Phonetics to suggest that the way we spell words in UK English makes students under-achievers.
Childhood: My aunts saw red
Friday, 12 September 2008 1:12 P GMT+01
Remembering events in relation to relations who stayed with us in Jos and the power and effects of discipline between the giver and the taker.
Category: Commentary Nigeria
AKO is hardly the best at rush hour
Friday, 12 September 2008 10:03 A GMT+01
The AKO bookshops in the Amsterdam Central Station probably do not belong there - there are queues, poor service, no urgnecy and a complete lack of appreciation of the setting of their shops for the rush-hour.
Category: Commentary Netherlands
Nigeria: Palm, Panic, Pandemonium - Yar'Adua's Lesser Hajj
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 12:07 P GMT+01
Between a lesser Hajj and a major kidney transplant, the health of the President of Nigeria appears to be a pendulum the swings without the assuredness of the truth.
The matter of tying the knot
Monday, 8 September 2008 8:46 P GMT+01
Reflections on the matter of marriage and where I stand.
Category: Commentary General
Childhood: The fruits of a chicken napping dog
Sunday, 7 September 2008 12:55 P GMT+01
More childhood stories.
The dishonest rights of the unborn child
Thursday, 4 September 2008 9:51 P GMT+01
An unborn child cannot have right defensible in a court of law, but we owe that unborn child a duty of care to ensure it is born into a conducive atmosphere.
Society plays a role of moral sanction, it cannot become legal sanction.
Childhood: Driving the languages of sacrifice
Wednesday, 3 September 2008 8:41 P GMT+01
Memories from childhood from driving lessons through school lessons to langauge lessons and the people it affected.
Category: Religion Commentary
The hard facts about preventing teenage pregnancies
Tuesday, 2 September 2008 5:09 A GMT+01
Dealing with a teenage pregnancy can be a life-changing or a life-threatening situation. Are there practical steps that can be taken to avoid the pregnancies and the taboo of abortion long before we get that far?
Im-Palin-g McCain's picket
Monday, 1 September 2008 10:51 P GMT+01
My view of John McCain's vice-presidential nomination.
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