Posted on April 13, 2009 by George Deftereos
The UN Security Council will give its most strongly worded letter to North Korea concerning its recent missile launch. Take that!! The Security Council ‘condemns’ your actions Kim Jong-il! What will you do?
It seems Kim Jong-il has little recourse but to do what he always does: ignore it while trying to squeeze more concessions from the [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2009 by George Deftereos
Some is fresh like that weak brew coffee we have, some is aged to perfection.
* Spain is pressing the USA over torture charges for 6 former high level Bush-ites who provided the legal framework to justify torture. The birthpace of the Inquisition supposes to lecture the land of the free and home of the brave [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008 by George Deftereos
Korea is planning to introduce fingerprinting for all foreign residents and tourists from 2010. Some human rights groups are against this policy but Korean citizens are already fingerprinted. Any visitor to Japan and the U.S.A is subject to fingerprinting, as well as the “Are you here for business or pleasure?” and “Planning on bombing anything?” [...]
Filed under: IMF, Korea, Russia, Ukraine, democracy, government | Tagged: calends, Clash of Civilizations, crime, democracy, Europe, fingerprinting, foreigner in Korea, Gazprom, Greece and the Greeks, human rights, IMF, Korea, privacy, Roman, Russia, Samuel P. Huntington, Ukraine, Yushchenko | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 4, 2008 by George Deftereos
Korea has FINALLY amended a law (The Disease Prevention Law under that beacon of freedom that is Chun Doo-hwan) that required HIV testing centres to report names and addresses of those testing positive for HIV. From the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Family Affairs “It is allowed by the law for testers to not reveal their names [...]
Filed under: Korea | Tagged: Armenia, Chun Doo-hwan, Colombia, Iraq, khap.org, Korea, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Sudan, United States, Yemen | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 22, 2008 by George Deftereos
In the dark days of the Cold War the West had the strong arm of NATO to defend it’s interests in the case of Soviet aggression. Now that those days are over, and the Russians were given assurances that NATO would not expand, one must wonder why these quasi-democracies are clamouring to join. Perhaps the [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2008 by George Deftereos
Just quickly, I read an interesting article on the Wall Street Journal. It compared George W. Bush to Batman and Jesus….
Disturbingly, he equates the American Administration with the themes and values of ‘300′, an entertaining yet historically inaccurate film. A film about a small independent city run by a totalitarian government which had a eugenics [...]
Filed under: 300, Batman, George W. Bush, Georgia, Greece and the Greeks, International, Lunacy, Russia, United States, president | Tagged: 300, Batman, Benjamin Franklin, eugenics, freedom, George W. Bush, Georgia, Jesus, Russia, Sparta | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 25, 2008 by George Deftereos
No one can understand what the Russians are fussing over. It’s a harmless Hollywood film after all. Never mind that it’s not quite accurate. Or that it was actually the Nazis who were searching for mystical artifacts.
Imagine if a film was made about the SS running around in Tibet in search of Aryan ancestry or [...]
Filed under: Beijing, Olympics, Russia | Tagged: Andrew Jackson, Beijing, Hollywood, Nazi, Olympics, Russia, SS, Steven Spielberg, Tibet | Leave a Comment »
