Category Archives: Politics
The city of my fathers should die…
I’ll see you at the debates bitches…
He’s good. He’s very good…
Nothing happening here…
The often repeated word in the anglo-saxon press is that Sarko has given up, all reform has stopped. One look at this map tells another story…Le Figaro – France : Nouvelle carte militaire : les sites concernés
The Olympic spirit…
“The committee which the government dismissed was elected in 2004, in line with the Olympic movement’s regulations.
Its chairman, Ahmad al-Samarra’i, and several other members were abducted by gunmen while attending a meeting in central Baghdad in July 2006.
They have not been seen since.
The Iraqi government said it took the move because the committee was corrupt and had not been functioning properly.”
It never rains…
…it pours bad news!
“The article focuses primarily on three measures: the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI), the quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the monthly figure for the unemployment rate. Phillips convincingly demonstrates that the real unemployment rate in the United States is between 9 and 12 percent, not the 5 percent or less that is officially claimed. The real rate of inflation is not 2 or 3 percent, but instead, between 7 and 10 percent. And real economic growth has been about 1 percent, not the 3-4 percent officially claimed during the most recent Wall Street and housing bubble that has burst.”
Data Fudging 101. The History Of US Government Statistics Manipulation | MadConomist.com
It would be nice to think that one result of this mess would be real international standards for economic reporting. However, I can’t see that happening. Can you?
New sport for the summer…
Spotting the compyright criminals on the silver screen.
“Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities”
How stupid can a “news” company be?
Can you simulate pain?
No.
“The “official lie” about waterboarding, Hitchens says, is that it “simulates the feeling of drowning”. In fact, “you are drowning – or rather, being drowned”.”
Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens | World news | The Guardian