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Alternate Cultural Hegemony
I stood there in a party Friday night, singing along to every rap/rock song that played, and then it hit me.
What if Africa was the “America” of the world? An alternate cultural hegemony? What if Africa had America’s GDP, cultural influence and virtually dominated the world militarily? What if the most publicized celebrities and music [...]
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Prime Minister Patrick Manning is Fucking Crazy
I'm under a lot of stress lately, but this has in no way impacted on this post, well ok maybe just a little.
I'm just fedup of being logical and pragmatic by saying that the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning is a megalomaniac, schizophrenic or just simply stupid. Some really WTF events have occurred this week which have now placed him into the "Fucking Crazy" category of assholes, yes, he is no ordinary asshole :
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T&T Attorney General Resigns over “Clico Conflict of Interest”
The Attorney General of Trinidad Bridgid Annisette-George has resigned.
According to the Newsday :
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,100951.html
She cites a potential conflict of interest over the Clico matter as her reason.
However the Guardian speculates that she didn’t “toe the line” and was thus forced out of the party :
http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2009/05/28/ag-did-not-toe-line
Regardless of the real reason, the words “Clico”, “conflict of interest” and [...]
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Trinidad Police use Tear Gas, Violence on Rioting Laventille Residents
The following standoff/riot occurred in Laventille, Trinidad after police officers allegedly kidnapped 18-year-old Trevlon Harry from Picton Road and took him to an area occupied by “rival gangs” who beat him in front of the officers who did nothing about it.
Media reports :
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/news/regional/05/14/gunshots-tear-gas-in-laventille
http://www.ctntworld.com/LocalArticles.aspx?id=12246
http://jyoticommunication.blogspot.com/2009/05/police-army-use-tear-gas-to-break-up.html
http://guardian.co.tt/news/crime/2009/05/12/gunshots-tear-gas-laventille
Video:
Well, they shouldn’t have kidnapped the guy and did what they did, that [...]
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MSNBC/Fox News Role Reversal
Funny how things have changed. There is surely now a total role reversal between Fox News and MSNBC. 6 months ago I mentioned this would be a possibility if Obama won the election, but I was just joking. But life is now imitating the art of comedy.
Everyone should be aware of how notoriously biased Fox [...]
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Interchange = First World Status?
As if anyone needs an additional a slap-in-the-face reminder that there is no difference between a herd of mentally-retarded jackasses with a lisp in their breys, and the Trinidad government, one popped out of nowhere today. Minister of Energy, Conrad Enill said at a news conference that the completion of phase one of the UB/CR [...]
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Fifth Summit of the Americas Cultural Presentation (Video)
See money gracefully wasted, the cultural presentation of the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad :
Part one :
Part two :
Part three :
Part four :
PM Patrick Manning’s speech :
Notice the focus of the comments on those videos :
“There was no Indian culture”
“I AM PROUD TO BE A TRINI”
“You are racial”
“IT WAS WELL WORTH IT”
Sigh, no [...]
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Summit Aftershocks
The TNT Mirror (Sharmain Baboolal) has reported that 300 security cameras that were installed from the Piarco International Airport to as far as West mall have been abandoned and are not in use after Israeli Security Consultants, the MER Group, left Trinidad after the conclusion of the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
That’s stupid on its [...]
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A Picture’s Worth a Billion Dollars
Hey well we’ll never see a damn thing to benefit anyone other than the companies who got all that money to “improve” Port-of-Spain from the Summit but we got these pictures at least :
Brian Lara and Barack Obama. Obama said it was cool meeting “the Michael Jordan of Cricket”. Lara is supposedly showing Obama how [...]
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