Archive for 'Unconventional Politics'
Unite For Human Rights, Boycott the Beijing Olympics…
15 May 2008With the advent of the Olympics coming up, China wants us to forget about the Human rights issues lingering over their country. They have put a lot of money and energy into a Marketing Company campaign to make it appear that China is a country to contend with worthy of the attention of [...]
Has Rev.Wright’s 15 Minutes Of Fame Come At The Expense Of Obama’s Precidency?
30 March 2008
Now that the commotion about Reverend Wright’s offensive sermons has passed, what is left for Obama.
I listened to Obama’s very eloquent speech about America’s racial problems. And it left me perplexed.
Listening to him speak of the racial problems we still face today and what to do about them, it’s a little hard to believe that [...]
The Tibetan People Have Stood Up, Now Step Aside China…
18 March 2008If anyone should understand fighting for an ideology it should be the Communist Party of China. In the words of their beloved Communist leader Mao Zedong, who when proclaiming victory back in 1949, declared that “The Chinese people have Stood Up” against imperialism, feudalism, bureaucrat-capitalism and their general representative”. Well the Tibetans have [...]
Do We Lower The Bar For The Former Prosecutor?
12 March 2008Is it a be big deal when the governor of New York, and former prosecutor is caught in a prostitute scandal? Does cheating on his wife with a prostitute say something about his character? Are we making a mountain out of a mole hill?
Do we hold our leaders accountable for their actions, or do [...]
Could Chavez Be Bi-Polar…
7 March 2008
After ordering thousands of troops to the border of Colombia and threatening them with retaliation with his Russian weaponry, if they dared enter Venezuelan space, Chavez is singing a different tune. Or is he?
The tensions were triggered by a scuffle that broke out between the leaders of the terrorist group FARC, and the [...]
Hillary Comes Back, But Obama Still On Top…
5 March 2008Yesterday’s Primaries have left Hillary Clinton boasting a comeback and Obama counting delegates. With most of the votes counted, it looks like Clinton has won the popular vote in both of the big Primaries yesterday in Ohio and Texas. In Ohio Clinton got 54% of the vote to 44% for Obama, and in Texas’s [...]
Is War Brewing In South America?
4 March 2008Hard to tell what is really happening, considering the players. Hugo Chavez the somewhat boisterous president of Venezuela and Rafael Correa the president of Ecuador have both ordered troops to their borders with Colombia. An operation by the government of Colombia and it’s president Alvaro Uribe, led Colombian military to cross over into Ecuadorian [...]
Changing The Social Fabric Of Poverty…
27 February 2008Putting your money where your mouth is. The Mayor of NY City, Mike Bloomberg is doing just that. He has raised millions of dollars, a lot of it his, to to start a program to reduce poverty in the State of New York. No, not just by giving the money away, but by giving [...]
Indifference is Complicity: China Sells Arms To Sudan While We Do Nothing…
25 February 2008photo credit: mknobil
As long as China is held without reproach for selling weapons to the Government of the Sudan in exchange for oil, then the situation in Darfur will not change.
Evidence from a videotaped parade last year shows that the Chinese Government are heavily arming the Sudanese government without regard to the atrocities [...]
Fidel Hands Over The Cigar…and Retires to Miami…
20 February 2008
OK, so maybe he’s not moving to Miami and probably not going to Disneyland, unless Bush wants to invite him for a family outing. I am sure that there are many that would love for him to come to Miami, where he would be tarred and feathered at best.
Fidel Castro took over the reign of [...]
Pakistan Tries To Give Birth…
19 February 2008Pakistan tries to give birth to new leaders in the hopes to unify the Nation against Islamic extremists. The polls were finally opened after a delay of nearly six weeks after Benazir Buttho’s assassination. Although the voter counts were down due to fears about violence, and voter apathy, the offical death toll reported after the [...]
What does it take to make a leader…
14 February 2008It’s hard to believe that with all the people on Earth, the world is at a loss for leaders, but it’s true. Look around, and what do you see? Where are our leaders ? What’s happened to them?
Let’s take the bankers and mortgage brokers, they did a bang up job with the sub-prime mortgages [...]
East Timor: Still Struggling After All These Years…
12 February 2008
Not since 2006 has East Timor experience such violence, but here it is again, beckoning at the door.
After an attack on the President’s home, cult rebel leader, Reinado lays dead and the president, Ramos-Horta lays in a hospital bed in Australia. A 48 hour curfew is in effect, and things appear calm but more [...]
Darfur: Will the Genocide Ever End…
10 February 2008The UN Refugee Agency in Chad reported that around 12,000 refugees have fled Darfur into Chad over the weekend, escaping air strikes by the Sudanese Military. Reports of attacks in three border towns on Friday is what prompted the exodus. According to the incoming refugees who are mostly men, say to expect thousands [...]
