This Week:
1. Boneheads in Belgrade
2. Squatting is not a crime
3. Brussels Brutality
4. French lessons for Americans
5. No freedom of speech in KKKanada
6. FBI’s new collegiate dictionary
7. The RNC 3
8. Holy! Holy! Holy!
9. Anarchists Against the Wall
On 19 January, as the people of Dubai marvelled at the very rare instance of rain in the city, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was being given muscle relaxant before being smothered. His assassins were 26 operatives that were using fake passports to get around the city. The operation took place quickly and mercilessly, at the end of which the Hamas operative who had been accused of trying to get his organization closer to Iran lay dead. What the agents, who have been by now been identified as Mossad, did not count on was the fallout. Continue reading ‘Mossad Plays Ocean's 26′
This is a complicated post. This post is about the old colonial policy about divide and rule and how it impacted the world over centuries and continues to do so to this day. This post is about the fallout from the colonial masters, the tatters of cultures they left behind once they decided that multi-nationalism worked far better at creating and maintaining slave culture than actual colonialism. This post is also about cows smuggled inside tunnels. How are these two subject related? Read on.
Divide and conquer was a maxim a lot of Indians I knew spat out with a certain amount of indignation. It came with the realization that said Indians had only realized the British strategy far too late, after it had caused deep enough rifts between religions and classed in the subcontinent to the point that when it was given independence, three different countries had to be created. Continue reading ‘Cows in tunnels’
First of all, I’m shocked to find out from Stim that “Izzy” was Asper’s nickname. Because that was my nickname as a child from the paternal side of the family. Coincidence? Yes, totally.
Incidentally, Comcast is planning to soon bulk up by taking over NBC-Universal. And you thought it was going to end with the latter.
But, this is an excellent segway into all things Israeli.
What has the country been up to? Other than bombing a few more settlements – the whole set-fire-to-the-apples-to-kill-the-worms strategy – it has also gone ahead with planning more settlements in Al Quds. Even the French were a bit miffed. As always, there’s more than meets the eye. Israel has what’s known as a heinous plan afoot. Continue reading ‘Location bloody location’
The Guardian is pointing to Japan’s new economic recovery signs like it’s the coming of the Messiah. Not to be outdone, Kin Jong is planning to reopen his country’s border with South Korea. It all goes quite nicely with Obama’s sight on world economic recovery on the horizon. And, a Saudi man bought a solid gold penis enlarger. But recovery for who(m – tsk tsk Real News), ask a few of my unemployed friends:
Continue reading ‘Kleptocracy and Immigration’
Last week I received the call for which I’d been waiting a year. If I were more dramatic, I’d write that I’d been waiting for the call my entire life.
Life with a passport from a country like India is interesting. A couple of friends told me that getting a visa to India, unless you’re going with a hoity-toity tourist group, is quite hard. Getting visas to other countries if you have an Indian passport is even harder.
Continue reading ‘The movement of the people’
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