Posts Tagged ‘George W Bush’
Culture of Protest: Shoeing
October 2nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Yesterday, a 24 year old Turkish university student, who is a journalist at the same time at a small left wing newspaper, BirGün, has thrown his Nike shoe at IMF‘s president Dominique Strauss-Kahn, while he was taking questions from students, after his speech at Istanbul Bilgi University. This was a protest that was influenced from [...]
Tags: Ahmedabad, Beşir Atalay, BirGün, Dainik Jagaran, Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, egging, flag burning, flag desacration, George W Bush, IMF, iraq, Istanbul, Istanbul Bilgi University, Jarnail Singh, journalism, journalist, Manmohan Singh, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Nike, P. Chidambaram, pieing, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reuters, Selçuk Özbek, shoe, shoe throwing, shoeing, Sikh journalist, Turkey, Turkish politics, Wen Jiabao, World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum in Davos
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
There Goes Democracy
August 27th, 2009 by lifeproof
Reuters recently reported that an American military helicopter has “accidentally” dumped 25 of the 50 ballot boxes that they were transferring to the election committee somewhere over the mountains of Nuristan. Here is the news report. Well, however the news report goes on to say that 15 of the 25 ballot boxes were recovered, it [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan elections 2009, ballot box, George W Bush, Karzai, Reuters, USA
Posted in PoliTickles
Flying Prejudice
July 14th, 2009 by lifeproof
16:9 Films from Australia has made a groundbreaking short film, which is being screened at many locations around the world as well as Ankara International Film Festival at the moment, that is titled The Terrorist. It is said that it will be screened at “the LA Shorts Film Festival on the 28th of this month,” [...]
Tags: 16:9 Films, Ankara International Film Festival, George W Bush, Grooveblog, LA Shorts Film Festival, Osama Bin Laden, short film, The Terrorist, Whybin TBWA Sydney
Posted in PinPoint, PoliTickles, Reminder
Turkey: Bridge between which East and West?
May 19th, 2009 by lifeproof
After 7 years in government, however AK Party’s votes decreased visibly 8% in 2009 local elections, it is still the strongest party and does not have any apparent competitors in the new Turkish political field, which has been established through their ascendance to power. There, no doubt, happened a drastic change in Turkish political field, [...]
Tags: 2002 elections, 2009 elections, Barack Obama, Black Turks, Bush, conservative democracy, Erdogan, George W Bush, icon of democracy, Milli Gorus, Muhafazakar Demokrasi, National Outlook, Necmettin Erbakan, Obama, politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Refah Partisi, Tayyip Erdogan, the European Union, the United States, the Welfare Party, the wolf in sheep clothes, Turkey, White Turks
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles