salmandar
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
- Birthday
- August 03
- Bio
- Am a retired Accountant. A Muslim, born in British India, not far from a statue of Queen Victoria. Studied, lived and worked in England and Sweden. Presently in Canada.
Have travelled extensively around the world. Enjoy cruising. Love classical music and jazz.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Could anybody explain why?
March 22, 2011 07:33PM - News and videos you'll never
see in America's "free media"
July 14, 2010 07:46AM - Backward and Intolerant?
June 28, 2010 07:54PM - Lack of press freedom in the
United States
May 04, 2010 08:24PM - The Israeli-Palestinian
conflict
April 13, 2010 09:57PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Of course the headlines
in Murdoch's paper SUN in
England
were: BRITS 45
minutes…”
July 18, 2011 05:29PM - “I recall a number of
reasons: He had WMDs ( laugh
); He's a
ruthless dictator,
as…”
July 17, 2011 07:22PM - “@ traveler: You just
don't get do ya! Safe from
people
like
me???
Buddy it
wasn't…”
July 15, 2011 09:38PM - “@ Ingaz: And moron when
Jesus ( anglicised name ) was
alive,
there were no
Europe…”
July 15, 2011 05:30PM - “@ Ingaz: And moron, I
didn't say Jesus ( Isa )
wasn't a Jew,
but he was a
Palesti…”
July 15, 2011 05:21PM
Salmandar's Links
Could anybody explain why?
A week back a family of five Israeli settlers was killed by Palestinians. It was of course headline news in the U.S.
Today I read the following:
On BBC ( bbc.com ): 22 March 2011 Last updated at 18:27 ET
News and videos you'll never see in America's "free media"
From today's Rueter/Haaretz:
Always blaming the victims. All you do is call them militants or terrorists and keep the Congressmen and Senators happy with the cash flow.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-shelling-kills-palestinian-woman-in-gaza-1.301778
The only difference is that… Read full post »
Backward and Intolerant?
The twenty-first century seems to be moving forward on another interesting front.
Today Iceland's lesbian Prime Minister married her partner:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37980907/ns/world_news-europe/
Last week Australia appointed it's first female Prime Minister. She's never been marrie… Read full post »
Lack of press freedom in the United States
This may come as a surprise to most Americans that the media in Pakistan is much much more free than the American media. There are countless TV channels and the breadth of coverage is phenominal with people debating and voicing opinions on every concievable subject. Fox, CNN, all the other American… Read full post »
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
I do not profess to be a historian, but here's my take on this conflict. I am sure there will be many people who will disagree with me, but hey free speech is what we believe in, so welcome one and all.
There are two conflicts I can think of which… Read full post »
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