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The old men say, talk with the enemy
Saturday, 31 May 2008 11:56 A GMT+01
Some old men have been in the news about talking to the enemy, they believe it is part of conflict resolution and nothing to do with appeasement.
Would anyone get out of their entreched positions and heed their call?
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Dare to think and change the world - Arthur C. Clarke tribute
Thursday, 20 March 2008 4:02 A GMT+01
Each mind developed on the thoughts of another mind till the reality changed the world forever. A tribute at the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Cleaning up tough Bare Stains
Saturday, 15 March 2008 12:29 P GMT+01
The emergency funds to Bear Stearns yesterday shows that the credit-crunch results of the sub-prime crisis and many other economic problems is going to be around for a while despite all the bale-outs.
A view.
No race issues about Obama or Clinton
Friday, 14 March 2008 12:31 A GMT+01
We have to believe a lie, there is nothing about race in the presidential nomination battle.
Eliot Spitzer: A man like you and me
Wednesday, 12 March 2008 11:29 P GMT+01
Whatever you are so dead against in public that you most enjoy in private should stop forthwith - get help, get something and stop it before you get caught out so badly.
Those Super Delegates
Wednesday, 12 March 2008 5:03 P GMT+01
The Super Delegates are not facing an election and they should not be beholding to any external influence apart from their convictions in voting at the Democratic National Convention.
The faucet apothecary
Monday, 10 March 2008 12:41 A GMT+01
One city in the States reveals that there are up to 56 pharmaceuticals and their derivatives in tap water.
Traces that would affect no one till you start to think of homoeopathy for which you will need a glass of water to handle your anxiety.
John McCain with a fistful of ashes for Castro's grave
Sunday, 24 February 2008 6:58 P GMT+01
Senator McCain, 71 wishes Fidel Castro, 81 dead, when people play around with such ideas of mortality like that, their feeling of invulnerability might betray them beyond redemption.
Fidel Castro: At a time of his own choosing
Friday, 22 February 2008 11:54 P GMT+01
Despite all that was done to unseat him for over 40 years, Fidel Castro of Cuba chose to go at a time of his own choosing - it is a rare but seriously enviable position to be in.
Cult of the Frozen Cow
Monday, 18 February 2008 2:41 P GMT+01
Being spared the detail of food processing can be merciful as we learn that 64.9 kilograms of beef have to be recalled in the States - some of that beef could be two years old.
Dickens Lives in New York
Monday, 28 January 2008 12:28 A GMT+01
An English family visiting New York relives a Dickensian nightmare.
Interest rates: Hammer hits nail (thumb)
Wednesday, 23 January 2008 5:16 P GMT+01
As far as interest rates are concerned in the US, the hammer has hit the nail quite hard - only that the nail is on the thumb - Ouch! Ouch!
And there would be a few more of those before things turn out right.
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008 9:52 P GMT+01
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.
Drugs: Chavez is NOT the problem
Monday, 21 January 2008 5:50 P GMT+01
A US Illicit Drugs control official accuses Hugo Chavez of Venezuela of colluding in allowing drugs to be trafficked through Venezuela to the United States.
I contend that Venezuela has other priorities than trying to solve the US drug problem.
Cloning: Vitually indistinguishable shit
Sunday, 20 January 2008 8:38 A GMT+01
Cloned food might be virtually indistinguishable from conventional produce but it does not give the FDA the right to not require cloned foods be specifically labelled.
Boats, Threats & Videotape
Friday, 11 January 2008 7:48 P GMT+01
The boats, the threats and the videotapes from both the United States and Iran about a confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz show that someone is up to no good - but who?
He´s Barack but she´s back
Wednesday, 9 January 2008 1:51 P GMT+01
You cannot trust the polls in US Elections and we need to give less credence to their influence and allow the votes to be counted fully before declaring victors.
Iowa is not Bethlehem of Judea
Friday, 4 January 2008 3:41 P GMT+01
The results of the Iowa State caucuses gives the laurels to Huckabee and Obama. I am however not convinced that these two successful gnetlemen represent the immediate future after this George W. Bush Presidency.
Out of the mouth of babes - PNG at Climate Summit
Saturday, 15 December 2007 5:24 P GMT+01
It took a stinging rebuke from Kevin Conrad of Papua New Guinea to the United States on the latter of leadership a consensus to emerge at the climate change summit.
Guns and Churches for Security
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 2:05 A GMT+01
Murder in the church and the right to bear arms could be difficult topics. But one wonders if church-goers need as much protection from others as they also need to be controlled by threat of the gun.
Fixing Capitalist Errors with Socialist Favours
Friday, 7 December 2007 5:57 P GMT+01
This US plan to freeze mortgage interest rates is a political and socialist response to serious capitalist errors of judgment and process.
This would probably exacerbate the problem and just postpones a deep seated problem to sometime in the future.
Words of Mean Dithering (WMD)
Wednesday, 5 December 2007 12:21 A GMT+01
The WMD issue is now not so much a threat since a WMD report leaves us with no WMD but other WMDs when we should be resolving issues with WMD.
Putin and Chavez - Great Leader or Dear Leader?
Monday, 3 December 2007 6:39 P GMT+01
Elections in oil-rich states belie the use of democratic process to entrench a benign authoritarianism or a virulent socialism.
Nigeria takes Big Tobacco to court about kids
Wednesday, 7 November 2007 7:17 P GMT+01
Nigeria is suing international cigarette companies on their complicity in allowing their cigarettes to fall into the hands of children.
They do have a cause, but maybe not a case.
Musharraf cannot fool us again
Sunday, 4 November 2007 3:18 P GMT+01
Emergency rule in Pakistan is bad enough but to be lectured by General Musharraf on his failed democratic credentials is an insult we should not take lying low.
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