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Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satire. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Saturday, 23 January 2010
David Cameron: Smoother than a baby's bottom
David Cameron: Smoother than a baby's bottom, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.
Either this is a very bad case of photoshopping or David Cameron is about to star in his own video game. Grand Theft Nation perhaps?
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LIFE - Bush On Trial
'In the months following George Bush's dramatic arrest at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport three months ago the possility that a former US president maybe be tried and sentenced for war crimes has gripped the imagination of people from New York to New Delhi. Media representatives from every corner of the planet have turned the sleepy Dutch city of the Hague into a international news circus dwarfing the coverage given the O.J Simpson trial in the 90's. According to latests foreign ministry accounts 6,560 reporters have descended upon city to cover this week's preliminary hearings which are scheduled to conclude next week.
Bush's detention on route to the UN conference on North Atlantic Security and Safety in Zurich severely strained US – Dutch relations with some Republican members of Congress calling for the air strikes on military targets within the country if the former president was not released. In the days that followed hundreds of businesses and organisations with ties with the Netherlands were attacked throughout America with three Dutch citizens losing their lives in bomb attack on the country's Los Angeles consulate.
Not surprisingly, it has been the question of the sense and the legitimacy of the trials that is the center of attention for many eyewitnesses. Despite the lack of a legal precedent, most of them approve of the proceedings because, as U.S. writer Gore Vidal put it, "warmongers will no longer be able to live quietly in retirement." Some observers, however, have remained skeptical. Iraqi writer Salah Wali considered the indictment "bizarre" and American diplomats based in Europe have privately admitted that the Americans didn't "enter the war with clean hands. No nation could have done so."
The defendant, who await the world's judgment in varying postures of resentment, resignation, and revolt, is another focus for most members of the press. "While the counsel for the prosecution read US documents about the killing of Iraqis and Afghans," railed Polish reporter Pawel Osmanczyk, enraged by the prisoner's deliberate display of boredom, "Bush yawns, or just pretends to be asleep."
Fascination for and disappointment about the banality of the man who helped in the possible murder of thousands of people also appear in the accounts of the reporters witnessing the proceedings. "Involuntarily one desires to see a greater man," wrote Australian journalist John Pliger, "who have to stand trial for all the cruelties which are spread out before the court." Afghan opposition leader, Abdullah Abdullah remarked incredulously: "He is so insignificant that you ask yourself: Was it really this degenerate who laid my country to waste... ?"
Friday, 13 November 2009
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy: A life in pictures
Although French media have been quick to cast doubt on Nicolas Sarkozy's claims to have been present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 photographs have now emerged that definitively prove that the French leader has a Zelig like ability to be present at the 20th century's most important events.
As a Fullbright student Sarkozy manages to find his way into high society during his stay in the United States during the early 60's. He becomes a regular feature in the Kennedy's compound in the years leading up to JFK's term in the White House.
Later, with Sarkozy's drift to the right his presence in the American capital comes to the attention of Ronald Reagan who is quick to mentor his young French admirer.
As an ardent supporter of US foreign policy in the Middle East the future president of the French republic feels that his country's interests are best served by him taking a hands on approach to the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
However, as his political career starts to wane in the early 90's Sarkozy decides to return to his first love, football as a result he is instrumental in helping the country's national team achieve international success during his brief stint as goalkeeper.
As a Fullbright student Sarkozy manages to find his way into high society during his stay in the United States during the early 60's. He becomes a regular feature in the Kennedy's compound in the years leading up to JFK's term in the White House.
Later, with Sarkozy's drift to the right his presence in the American capital comes to the attention of Ronald Reagan who is quick to mentor his young French admirer.
As an ardent supporter of US foreign policy in the Middle East the future president of the French republic feels that his country's interests are best served by him taking a hands on approach to the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
However, as his political career starts to wane in the early 90's Sarkozy decides to return to his first love, football as a result he is instrumental in helping the country's national team achieve international success during his brief stint as goalkeeper.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Sarkozy is history
A young Nicolas Sarkozy addresses the masses in St Petersburg on the eve of the October Revolution. However, in the years that follow Nicholas attempts to play down his youthful transgressions.
Later Nicolas through force of personality and determination managed to reach the very highest circles of international politics to give his personal stamp to events shaping the world.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Remember, remember 5th November
Palace guards are questioning several men over the failed bomb attack on the Houses of Parliament last week. The five men arrested just before their planned attack Friday have been identified by the authorities as Catholic insurgents according to the sources close to the Crown.
One of the suspects, Guy Fawkes is said to have confessed that he was part of a terrorist plot by religious extremists to blow up members of the British government during the opening of parliament including representatives of the royal family.
A fifth man was also taken in for questioning over the IED found in the basement of Westminster Palace last week.
State security agencies are urging the public to remain vigilant to the threat of more attacks and report any suspicious activity to the authorities.
One of the suspects, Guy Fawkes is said to have confessed that he was part of a terrorist plot by religious extremists to blow up members of the British government during the opening of parliament including representatives of the royal family.
A fifth man was also taken in for questioning over the IED found in the basement of Westminster Palace last week.
State security agencies are urging the public to remain vigilant to the threat of more attacks and report any suspicious activity to the authorities.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Gordon Brown accepts his ABC award for best newcomer on West Wing
Gordon Brown accepts his ABC award for best newcomer on West Wing, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.
Following hot on the heels of Hugh Laurie, Gordon Brown has taken the now well trodden path from British stage to Hollywood screen. Brown's guest appearance on the revival of the 90's classic TV drama, West Wing was enough to get him this year's ABC award for best newcomer.
How Gordon Brown paid West Wing Writers $40,000 for 'tailoring' speech
"Gordon Brown's speech to the US Congress in March earned no fewer than 19 standing ovations, a congratulatory call from President Obama and plaudits for its command of global economics and rousing call to action.
What American politicians did not know at the time was that at least some of it was the work of a Washington-based speechwriting company called West Wing Writers – which charged the prime minister $7,000 (£4,300) for its services."
Monday, 19 October 2009
King Nicolas II (the commoner formally known as Jean Sarkozy) - A chip off the old block
King Nicolas II (the commoner formally known as Jean Sarkozy) - A chip off the old block, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.
"L'état c'est moi - et ma famille."
"The term banana republic has been used by a couple of French friends in reaction to the news from Paris this week. They were referring to the high-handed way that France's ruler and his caste have been behaving in two or three current matters.The latest involves an astonishing act of nepotism by Nicolas Sarkozy. His barons are about to elevate Jean Sarkozy, the President's 23-year-old, undergraduate son, to a powerful and prized executive post."
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Trafigura / Carter - Ruck enter the Oxford English Dictionary
The next few months will prove to be an interesting time as far as oil trading company Trifigura and the law firm Carter-Ruck are concerned. After their failed attempt to gag the Guardian from reporting the proceedings of the British parliament, a legal action unprecedented in modern UK legal history, it seems that the Oxford English Dictionary is likely to have a number of new entries to next year's edition. Let me humbly suggest a couple of examples;
2 : awful legal advice leading to public ridicule.
RUBAR , adj
2 : lack of judgement leading to PR disaster.
Trafigurated, adj
2 : to be in dire straits as a result of previous choices.
Main Entry: 1 Cluster - ruck
Pronunciation: \ˈkləs-tər - ˈrək\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: derived from legal firm of Peter Cluster - Ruck
Date: 2009
1 : a collision of several unfortunate incidents happening all at once2 : awful legal advice leading to public ridicule.
RUBAR , adj
Main Entry: 1Ru-bar
Pronunciation: \"ru-bər\
Function: adjective
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Rucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Prob derivative FUBAR.
Date: 2009
1 : a situation caused by excessive use of legal measures in order to obtain a dubious result which reflects badly on those involved.2 : lack of judgement leading to PR disaster.
Trafigurated, adj
Main Entry: 1 tra-fi-gu-rat-ed
Pronunciation: \ˈtra - fi - grə - atəd\
Function: adjective
Usage: derogatory
Etymology: derived from oil trading company Trifigura
Date: 2009
1 : to be publicly held to ridicule due to overweening arrogance2 : to be in dire straits as a result of previous choices.
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