Daily Archives: March 11, 2012
Does Fashion Police Emo Death Squad mean Iraq is the new Iran?
The hot news this weekend is that Obama has begun to tone down the animosity towards Iran. Most of the entertainment comes from watching the remarkable agility of media outlets in reversing their previous positions in order to follow suit. While pondering this acrobatic phenomena, I found this story in a UK tabloid about “emo” youths in […]
Air hostess loses her cool
In a way, this story highlights the forgotten victims of the war on terror. Millions of people who work with the public have had to deal with a tremendous additional burden as security alerts, procedures, protocols and risk management take up an increasing share of their workload. The only surprise is that more of them […]
Qatar’s Stake In Britain
Qatari investment companies own the Shard. They own the Olympic Village. And they don’t care if their Lamborghinis get clamped when they shop at Harrods. The tiny Gulf state has snapped up a range of famous British assets, which include: 1. Harrods, the upmarket department store formerly owned by Mohamed al-Fayed. 2. The Shard, soon-to-be Europe’s […]
Mauritania: A Country Without A Government
When Aziz orchestrated the August 2008 coup that enabled him to take the presidency, big backers like the African Union and the US were furious and froze all non-humanitarian funding and applied sanctions, while the French government condemned the act. Later, without sending their own observers (and presumably with much encouragement from France, which did a […]
