Monthly Archives: March 2012

Chico y Rita

Say what you will about Castro’s Cuba, yet one thing is certain: the arts have flourished…consistently. ‘Chico y Rita’ is an animated film from Cuba. Simply, it’s a boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and in the end boy finds … Continue reading

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No food aid for North Korea, say Peter Lavoy, secretary of defence for Asian and Pacific security affairs

GuamDiary readers should not blink an eye at the Obama’s administration’s decision to not send food to North Korea. You might say that it was a foregone conclusion the moment North Korea announced a satellite launch in mid April during … Continue reading

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A Brooklyn coop will not boycott Israeli products

y a 1005 to 653 vote, a food coop in Brooklyn’s upmarket Park Slope, will not proceed on a motion to boycott Israeli products, especially those manufactured in illegal Jewish settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. You could hear a … Continue reading

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Netenyahu and Barak have made Iran a personal issue

Quelle surprise! Netenyahu and his defence minister Ehud Barak have never stopped screaming about Iran as Israel’s ‘existential threat’. We know about Barak’s nose for getting things done…wrongly. Have we forgotten that he launched a war against Lebanon? The result: … Continue reading

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Mind your own business, North Korea tells Obama

North Korea will not put off its satellite launch in mid April, Pyongyang announced. The KNCA’s release was to be expected. In no uncertain words, president Obama was told to keep his nose out of North Korea’s business, as well … Continue reading

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Obama tries to sells an Edsel to North Korea

With his client South Korea’s president Lee Myung bak by his side, president Barack Obama tried selling an ‘Edsel’ of economic success to North Korea as the World Nuclear confab in Seoul wound done. The Ford Motor Company’s ‘Edsel’ sold … Continue reading

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Who’s missing an opportunity, president Obama?

Grandly, president Obama at the World Nuclear confab in Seoul, warned the DPRK that it was missing the boat if it stuck to its plans to launch a satellite in mid April during celebrations of founder Kim Il Sung’s 100 … Continue reading

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Obama lectures Hu Jin tao

As a strategy to not talk directly to North Korea about its nuclear programme, the George W Bush administration came up with the idea of sending the matter to a gathering of six countries–the US, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, … Continue reading

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Unclear who’s running North Korea, says Obama

What an admission! The president of the world’s only super power has no klew as to who is, as he puts it, ‘calling the shots’ in Pyongyang. Obama’s words speak poorly of the US state department and 59 variety of … Continue reading

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Cheap shot at DMZ: Obama plays tin star marshall at Korea’s 38 parallel

Looking serious, stern, and very much like an old fashioned school marm, president Obama, protected behind bullet proof glass, pointed a warning figure at the DPRK across Korea’s 38 parallel. He warned the Kim Jong eun regime of living up … Continue reading

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