posted by devonwhittle on Mar 21, 2009
I heard a school kid singing this song this week in Arusha.
Slave, slave, slave in America.
Working hard day and night.
Planting sugar, sugar and tea.
When I was in America.
See my hand, which is broken.
Working hard day and night.
Planting sugar, sugar and tea.
When I was in America.
If only I had a recording to share with you too. He says it’s a song that all the kids at his school sing. It’s quite catchy, but one wonders about the implications for international relations…
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posted by devonwhittle on Feb 4, 2009
Slacktivist has a
great post on the ludicrous views espoused and believed by some Christians in the USA. Their obsession with the all-powerful UN would be almost laughable if they weren’t so influential in stymying the development of international law. I particularly find it amusing how they like encouraging some ‘end times signs’ (eg. encouraging war in the Middle East) but then try the best to ‘limit the powers’ of the UN over the US. If they really thought one world government was a precursor to the end, and the UN was the route to that government, surely they’d be the biggest proponents of regional co-operation, merging of currencies etc?
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posted by devonwhittle on Jan 20, 2009
Alex Evans has a very
funny post over at Global Dashboard on the difficulty of (literally) entering the United Nations.
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posted by devonwhittle on Dec 19, 2008
Great quote from Rodrik:
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posted by devonwhittle on Dec 18, 2008
I found
this very funny. A fake Bloomberg piece on the Somali pirates “negotiating a purchase of Citigroup”.
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