Posts Tagged ‘Reuters’
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
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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
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