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Visas in the US are still scarce

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Politics, Business, Society and Immigration. 0 Comments

The washingtonpost describes the current despair that can be felt in the US from many technology companies and research institutions who really need to hire skilled workers and were hoping that this year would see new legislation pass through Congress to allow US companies to employ talented people from aboard.
Some feel that the bill that […]

The war in Irak is fueling terrorism

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in News, Politics, Society and War. 0 Comments

The Far East was already fragile prior to the US invading Iraq on false pretences. A classified report from US intelligence agencies called “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States” concludes that terrorism is now being fuelled by the war on Iraq.
Agencies “found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has […]

L’Est Républicain reveals report of Ben Laden’s death

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Politics. 0 Comments

The French Newspaper L’Est Republicain describes a confidential report from the French secret service that in turn refers to the Saudi secret service who are convinced that Osama Ben Laden died from a severe case of typhoid. He is reported to have been in a remote area along the Pakistanian border that would have meant […]

The UK Government’s Wiki melt-down

Published 1 year, 12 months ago in Thoughts, Politics, Satire and Web. 1 Comment

Yes pun intended, the minister from the UK government that decided to create an open environmental Wiki that ‘all’ could edit must have been reading all the web 2.0 hype about getting people involved without any authentication required. Well the result is pretty impressive in that the site was defaced and lead way to numerous […]

How safer are we ?

Published 2 years ago in Politics and Society. 0 Comments

I came across several interesting articles and comments on articles in French, US and UK newspaper sites today about the foiled terrorist plot in the UK.
In Dickey’s article called “Foiled Plot doesn’t make us safer” there are several comparisons to the period leading up to 9/11 :
Panicked CIA analysts flew to Texas to brief […]

Lebanon, a video letter

Published 2 years ago in News, Politics and Society. 0 Comments

A simple and touching video letter about the need to stop the fighting in Lebanon :

You can view it here Save Lebanon (QuickTime format)

The coyote profits are set to rise

Published 2 years ago in Travel, Politics and Society. 0 Comments

A Newsweek article discusses the adverse effect the US move to tighten border control is having, by making smugglers richer.
There is often a hot debate about what legalising certain drugs would have, but a tighter control can sometimes make things worse for all parties except the real bad guy : in this case the coyote.
One […]

Blair and Bush chat caught on open mic

Published 2 years, 1 month ago in News and Politics. 1 Comment

This is really interesting to check out, some footage from CNN that catches Blair and Bush talking together about the Middle East crisis in a very candid manner. It also gives you an idea of how these guys, that have great impact on our world, talk about things !
You can watch the video itself (the […]

Who invited the Blair wolf in amongst the Labour lambs ?

Published 2 years, 4 months ago in Politics, Society and Satire. 0 Comments

An alarm system is extra insurance from my perspective that gives you piece of mind since there is little I can do about the global picture that leads to burglaries.
Spiegel’s interview with Kenneth Rogoff from Harvard can probably be considered similar to an alarm. In effect Rogoff discusses the alarming effect that ‘unbridled capitalism’ is […]

How criminalizing abortion affects a country

Published 2 years, 4 months ago in News, Politics and Society. 0 Comments

In a New York Times article, journalist Jack Hitt discusses the effects that criminalizing abortion has had on El Salvador. The article is not only nicely written it slowly brings you in to a country that’s catholic beliefs are putting women in prison for up to 30 years should they have, or participate in, an […]