Archive for July, 2005
I’ve been here for 3 months and after enduring an endless supply of torment from this society, my society, I have come to one conclusion. I have whittled down all our problems, and I mean every single problem you could possibly think of, to just one single villian: selfishness.
Selfishness my friends is why we have […]
Summer Thusfar
Halfway through my summer in Jordan folks so I wanted to go back and check what I accomplished on my wish list which I wrote back in Marchâ?¦nearly 4 months ago to this day. This will help me review what I’ve done and what I’ve yet to do (because I forgot) Bare with me
1- Camp […]
Jordan: A One Man Army
I have an idea…fellow Jordanians, tell me if you agree…
I say we take all the salaries of the ministers and the parliament members the everyone else that is supposed to be getting a salary from the government, then we give half of it to the king and fire everyone else because it seems to me […]
Jordanian Oil
Sights on Jordan oil blocks
GARIMA SINGH
New Delhi, July 7: The Videocon group, which is on a global expansion spree, is close to buying four oil blocks in Jordan next week.
â??We have had preliminary discussions with Abdullah II, the king of Jordan. We were accompanied by the Indian ambassador to Jordan during our recent trip. The […]
Changes
God, wasn’t the old template just awful? Well the dial up connections in Jordan are disasterous so I needed a template that provided less…clutter; at least temporarily. So I’ll be tweaking it all this week.
That Being Said…
I guess the latest buzz is all about the attacks in London. My heart goes out to the 50 […]
Political Rantings of July
These prisoners are known as “ghost detainees” or the “new disappeared,” and they’re being subjected to treatment that makes the abuses at the military-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba look small-time, say intelligence analysts.
Last year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller said CIA interrogation techniques “violate all American […]
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