Tag: ELITE
Los Angeles 'is a Third World city'
Los Angeles is on its way to becoming a 'third world city' with immigrants making up half of its workforce, says a new study by the Migration Policy Institute released today.Of all immigrants in LA, a third have not...
Food - The Ultimate Weapon
"Using food as a weapon is as old as the siege but today’s barbarians have upped the anté by several orders of magnitude.“…There are only two possible ways in which a world of 10 billion...
Bejing Olympics: USA to use SuperHero Suits for G...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSome are complaining about the level playing field for Athletes over the use of a Speedo's LZR Supersuits, which have broken world records and may garner Gold Medals for it...
"Elite" Grabs Top Berlin Film Prize
The Golden Bear (the Berlin Film Festival's grand prize) has been awarded to Tropa de elite (The Elite Squad) in a major upset; Paul Thomas Anderson's oil-man epic There Will Be Blood was the favorite."The Elite...
Obama foreign policy by Brezinsky?
"America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower
The Grand Chessboard Part 1
Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
October 1, 2007
In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), he...
Chomsky on World Ownership
"Chomsky on World Ownership
Michael Shank | January 23, 2008
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Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15, Michael Shank...
In The Eye of the Storm - Cyclone Sidr, Banglades...
The biggest impact of Cyclone Sidr may be that it has shaken up the local complacency towards the plight of the poor. Bangladesh, a small country in South Asia with large a population of over 150 million people, is...
Barry Bonds Indicted
Where's that home run ball now? I wonder what information prosecutors have now that they didn't before? I'll be curious to see what kind of circus they can conjure around this one. This should lend itself to be quite a show. There is a writer's strike after all - so all the...
Unsung runners chasing Glory at 2008 Olympic Team...
Another inspiring example of human potential to pursue and achieve desired goals. "ROCHESTER, Mich. — When Mike Morgan was in high school in Lincoln, Neb., he wanted to be part of a sports team. But, as he saw...
Iranian Troops form Swastika with drill teams
Iran’s precision drill teams are pretty good, I wonder if they go into battle in those formations.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s military used its feet this week to send a clear message to the...
US imposes new sanctions on Iran
I can sense a volcano building up.I pray for peace."The US has stepped up its sanctions on Iran for "supporting terrorists" and pursuing nuclear activities.
The new measures target the finances of Iran's Islamic...
A Violent Police Unit, on Film and in Rio’s Str...
Few days ago I brought to your attention the realease of a new movie in Brazil; Elite Squad, now it's at NYT. "RIO de JANEIRO, Oct. 13 — For Antônia Dalva de Souza, a new movie depicting the violent war...
TWC to release 'Elite Squad' in U.S.
It is a great movie, very intense, I watched and liked. A lot of violence, but nothing unusual to Rio de Janeiro. Real life on the Brazilian's shanty towns."The Weinstein Co. has announced plans to release the...
Civil war talk stokes Bolivian fears
"Miguel Roda fires four shots into the palm trees and imagines a civil war.
"We will spill our last drop of blood, comrades!" he shouts to a few dozen supporters gathered in a city plaza. "We will defend Santa Cruz inch by inch, street by street and town by town!"
The enemy,...
The Chavez Frankenstein
Here's an interesting article from Tech Central Station that attempts to explain how a monster like Hugo Chavez could gain such extraordinary powers in a country that at one point held such great promise."What made...
