Curbs: count me out of England
The News Review:
- Curbs: count me out of England
- A Mullah Dies, and War Comes Knocking
- Letters from Dallas | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas |…
- PART III – Cultural Imperialism And The Caribbean
- Labour kills off ‘husbands’ and ‘wives’
Curbs: count me out of England
The Observer – Nov 18, 2007
‘Horrendous’, ‘impossible’, ‘a job no one will want to take’ were just three of the negative depictions of the England manager’s position. The nation’s European Championship future at the mercy of Macedonia, Israel, Russia and Croatia; its long-term future darkened by the ever burgeoning horde of foreign footballers employed on these shores. Eighteen months ago the country’s most lauded home-grown coaches had submitted themselves to the Football Association’s horribly drawn-out appointment process. Today, Steve McClaren is being hounded out by the media, Sam Allardyce is battling for survival at Newcastle and Alan Curbishley is emphatically not interested in serving the FA were they to come double-interviewing again. ‘When I was at Charlton I had all sorts of clauses in the contract – for other clubs, for the national side – and that’s why I was given permission to talk in the first place but I didn’t seek any of those sort of things in this contract,’ says Curbishley, the West Ham United manager. ‘I’m ruling myself out entirely. This is where I want to be and this is where I want to be successful, so I’ve got no intention of leaving the club… I’m quite into rugby union and haven’t they got a similar problem, that half their squad is foreign? If there is going to be a development that is going to help the home nations bring more people through, then we’re got to do it. ‘It’s no coincidence that Mark Noble’s is the biggest-selling West Ham shirt. Because he’s one of two home-grown players at the moment, because the fans can identify and see that he’s one of them. It’s so much better for a club and a team if that can be done. ‘Artificially or not, increasing the number of Englishmen on Premier League teamsheets should diminish another problem handicapping the national team. ‘No sooner does an English player break into his Premier League team than he’s being touted for England,’ says Curbishley. ‘He’s played a handful of games and people are talking about him that he’s going to come through – because there’s not a lot about.
A Mullah Dies, and War Comes Knocking
Washington Post – Nov 18, 2007
These Taliban, I have become convinced by evidence gathered over the past six years, were reconstituted into a force for mischief by the military establishment — in other words, it seems to me, the government — of. The only reason Pakistan’s invasion-by-proxy has morphed into something even vaguely resembling an insurgency is that the Afghan people are at the limit of their endurance with a government that pillages and brutalizes them and lies to them barefaced.
Letters from Dallas | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas |…
Dallas Morning News – Dallas Morning News (subscription) – Nov 18, 2007
Another day, another convenience store clerk shot and killed, this time in Grand Prairie. A gentleman comes here from Jordan, becomes a tax-paying citizen, works long, hard hours to support his family and dies at the hands of home-grown vermin who are low on drug money. Noticeably absent, of course, is the first sentiment from the anti-death penalty crowd. If and when these maggots are caught, convicted and sentenced to death (rightly) for their crime, they’ll be defended by the usual mobs, who’d sooner take the side of criminals than of the victims. Nick Garefalos, Dallas Valdez doing the jobSo the Dallas Police Association has decided to back Lowell Cannaday, former Irving police chief, for Dallas County sheriff in 2008.
PART III – Cultural Imperialism And The Caribbean
OpEdNews – Nov 18, 2007
But it still carries with it the tried and tested techniques of concealed racism, exploitation, and the unraveling of developing societies by both positive and negative technology, social transformnations, market dominance and unjust and unfair terms of trade. Nowadays the buzz word is “globalization” and unwittingly or consciously CARICOM (Caribbean Community) has embraced this westernized version of modern imperialism. Conditioned by the direct actions on powerful media houses the youth of the region have embraced “all things American and western” while they reject home-grown developments. The rise of US-style gangs and the accompanying senseless violence in small islands like St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, kidnappers in Trinidad and Tobago, and the “Ginger Crew” gang in Grenada – a wannabe gang of young people aping America’s Crips and Bloods – shows just how negative social influences can be adopted and find their way into the CARICOM mainstream via US Cable TV, Hollywood movies, DVDs and on-line websites. But all is not doom and gloom. While CARICOM will not be able to totally drive back cultural imperialism’s forward march in the region there are battles that can be won… A deliberate return to mass education of individual islands’ history, growth and development will also help to give the population a renewed sense of pride and help to renew and invigorate an objective sense of nationalism and patriotism. Politically, CARICOM nations need to tackle head-on the issue of unemployment since that is fueling mass migrations to America, Canada and Europe that also helps to “transplant” aspects of culture that are embraced in the adopted homelands of these immigrants who send them back – music, clothes, money and attitudes – back to the region. There is simply no incentive for our young people to stay home. Governments and local businesses must help create a climate there young people after imbibing a prolonged dose of MTV and BET still don’t think that the grass is greener “over there. ” This calls for objective and constructive dialogue with the youth. By dialogue I mean precisely that – not the “talking down,” adult attitude of “I-know-better-than-you” that turns off today’s young people. It is time that as adults CARICOM’s leadership genuinely LISTEN to the youth and genuinely engage them in the nation-building process.
Labour kills off ‘husbands’ and ‘wives’
dailymail.co.uk – Nov 18, 2007
Why not add your thoughts below?If you have to fill in one of these forms, just cross out the bits you don’t agree with and replace them with things you prefer. This is the stupid way this government want to play, no marriage recognition, and nothing for the home-grown natives. This does not mean you have to go to church or believe in god to prove your goodness you just have to live a life rich in love friendship help others and most of all show some self restraint.