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6 November 2008
OSCE worried of the democracy process in US
(MONTGOMERY) The international electoral assistant organizations are criticize the US elections from severe flaws. According to the international electoral assistants the voting process hasn’t fulfilled the criterias of democracy for the lack of ballots, malfunctioning voting machines and the insufficient amount of them per capita or too long queues.
China, Russia and Cuba have already promised […]
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25 September 2007
Where’s mandela?
“I heard somebody saying ‘Where’s Mandela’. Well, mandela’s dead. Because — Saddam Hussein killed all the mandelas.”
R-rrright
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17 August 2007
Biased broadcasting
Source: Yahoo and AFP, August 14th
Can someone say what’s wrong with this picture? The text says “An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following and early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)”
I wouldn’t like to correct the Associated French Press, but […]
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3 July 2007
How to: Biased information
How to generate biased information? Ingredients: Take a speech with few limping analogies and quote them partially so the message suits your needs.
Examples from speech by Trent Lott on how to deal with immigration:
Newsweek, July 2 2007
“I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, […]
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15 February 2007
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors
Global warming has been cancelled - again. The Bush administration has announced the plan [link to actual Bush Administration plan] to solve global warming for good. The plan was actually innovated after watching a popular TV-series, Futurama, and consists of sending a giant space mirror to the atmosphere to reflect the sunlight.
The Bush administration has […]
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6 February 2007
Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq
If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier.
The video […]
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1 January 2007
Hunger problem solved
The hunger problem has finally been solved in US! The government has vowed the no American will be hungry ever again.
The amount of people suffering from hunger came down from 38 million to Zero when the US department of agriculture’s came up with a perfect solution; renaming hungry people, as in people without food, to […]
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15 August 2006
Oh dearie me. He’s lost it.
Check out Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s exercise in realpolitische madness.
He’s obviously insane, but just imagine how many fuckwits in influential positions are thinking the same? We’re all in the shit, get your bomb shelters ready.
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11 August 2006
Lessons for Bush
Ok, so we’re all pretty pissed off about the fact that we can now no longer carry laptops and so on onto our flights. Our eminent Rainer has already covered that. And a lot of people seem to think that there was never any plot at all, that this was a bluff, a fake in […]
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25 July 2006
The middle east buddy list by Slate
The middle east buddy list by Slate