Well folks, it’s been a brutal two months in the ghettos of South Africa. The Fixer had me on assignment to broker a deal with some Dutch land owners in Johannesburg to build a few villas in preparation for the World Cup next year. Unfortunately, they weren’t the land owner anymore, and I ended up [...]
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Nigeria = Fail
Posted in Civil Rights, Film, Foreign Policy, tagged alien sex, cnn, district 9, dutch, ET, jim fairthorne, johannesburg, nigeria, nigerian scam, pcp, prostitutes, reiki, sony, south africa, state of affairs, the fixer, world cup, zulu on September 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »
What Is It Good For?
Posted in Civil Rights, Economy, Foreign Policy, Government, Media, Religion, personal, tagged bill hicks, caesars, camel cigarettes, center for disease control, clowns, cocaine, gary gygax, george bush, george carlin, henry rollins, heroin, hitler, iraq, jeff o., jim fairthorne, keep your coins i want change, marijuana, middle east, money, nancy reagan, persian gulf, poverty, terrorism, toronto, violence, war, war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terror, weapons of mass destruction, whiskey, world trade center, world war I, world war II, writing on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Morning at the Compound is one of my favourite times in the day. The sun just rising over the barbed-wire and machine gun nests, the air has that delightful tang of midsummer dew to it – but the ass-gas that passes for “mist” in this city hasn’t yet ascended from the ground and the sewer [...]
Electorasshole
Posted in Civil Rights, Foreign Policy, Government, Religion, personal, tagged ahmadinejad, domestic policy, election, extremism, flobots, Foreign Policy, iran, israel, middle east, mousavi, nuclear, nuclear weapons, reform, right-wing, terrorism, united nations, united states, vote on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Good day again dear readers, and welcome to day two of the AJ guest spot. Thanks for coming back. As of right now the guest spots are slated to continue for at least the next week, because it sounds like Jim’s going to be held up for a while. At least, that’s [...]
Miss Universe Loves Guantanamo
Posted in Foreign Policy, Media, Stupid, tagged Dayana Mendoza, detainees, guantanamo, miss universe, new york times, obama, robert mackey, torture, USO Show on April 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
While I was preparing for an awesome weekend, it looks like on Friday, Dayana Mendoza, aka, Miss Universe and her entourage took a trip to visit the troops in Guantanamo. She wrote about it in her blog on the official Miss Universe page, and it was quickly taken down. Want to know why? [...]
Dalai Lama Denied Visa For Peace Conference
Posted in Foreign Policy, tagged boycott, china, dalai lama, desmond tutu, f. w. de klerk, iran, nobel laureate, peace conference, south africa, world cup on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From CNN:
South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said.
South Africa thinks that, if the Dalai Lama attended the conference, the focus would shift away from the 2010 World Cup — the global soccer championship it will host next year.
“We cannot [...]
Obamamania in Canada!
Posted in Foreign Policy, Government, tagged afghanistan, canada, clean energy, obama, ottawa, visit on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama is in Ottawa today developing plans with Stephen Harper ranging from Clean Technology to Afghanistan. From what I’ve heard so far, we’re pulling our troops out in 2011, meanwhile it was announced that the U.S. is sending more troops to combat the insurgency. I guess now that they’re getting ready to pull out of [...]
Obama is Coming to Canada!!!
Posted in Economy, Foreign Policy, Government on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today it was announced by the White House that President Barack Obama would be meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper February 19th to discuss the current economic crisis.
This is a great step forward as the relations between our two countries have been badly hurt since Mr. Bush was in the driver’s seat. If people [...]
Mexico On Path To Becoming Bigger Security Threat Than Iraq
Posted in Foreign Policy, Government, tagged drug cartel, iraq, mexico, obama, war on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Huffington Post:
MEXICO CITY — Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents.
This isn’t Iraq or Pakistan. It’s Mexico, which the U.S. government and a growing number of experts say is becoming one of the world’s biggest security risks.
The prospect that America’s southern neighbor could melt into lawlessness provides an unexpected [...]
US Judge Admits Torture Tactics Used in Guantanamo
Posted in Foreign Policy, Government, tagged bush, congress, guantanamo, john yoo, obama, rumsfeld, torture, war crimes on January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bob Woodward is awesome
THE official in charge of the military commission process at Guantanamo Bay has become the first senior Bush Administration figure to publicly admit that a detainee was tortured.
Judge Susan Crawford, who was in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees — beginning with Australian David Hicks — to trial, has [...]
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