<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590015876022600090</id><updated>2010-01-13T10:23:02.193+11:00</updated><title type='text'>Dr. Kangaroo - Comments</title><subtitle type='html'>Lookin' out for the little guy!
Without Fear - Without Favor</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dr. Kangaroo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272503520459800318</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590015876022600090.post-7657320155220486453</id><published>2010-01-11T14:55:00.004+11:00</published><updated>2010-01-11T15:31:14.299+11:00</updated><title type='text'>KFC Chicken AD</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 185px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/94502827@N00/197765919"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/197765919_c896c0667c_m.jpg" alt="KFC signs: Old and New" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="240" width="175"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/94502827@N00/197765919"&gt;SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent)&lt;/a&gt; via Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;OMFG... enough with the over the top political correctness! Enough with the small mindedness of certain American "Goody two shoes" types!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MQfZRnqQr-k&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MQfZRnqQr-k&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;amp;color2=0xcd311b" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get a f***ing life people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The ad was not intended for anybody other than an Australian audience, and we do not happen to suffer from the over sensitivity of African Americans. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Look at the story being told... If you happen to be unfortunate enough to find yourself sitting at the wrong side of the stands, surrounded by opposition supporters, and you want to shut them up... stick something in their gobs!!! Period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. The opposition supporters could have been French, Japanese, or Inuits... food in their mouths would tend to shut them up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. In this instance the opposition supporters happen to be Jamaicans or West Indians (cause they actually play cricket) and the food just happens to be KFC !!! Got it???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, you over sensitive African Americans shut the f*** up and go get yourself something to eat... so that we do not have to hear your rubbish... and if it's chicken you like... be my guests!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Dr. Kangaroo and I'm lookin' out for the little guy!&lt;br /&gt;Gonna test your hype!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var  _sttoolbar = {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;stBlogger.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=878c58e1-62af-4803-a92c-5c2003787118&amp;popup=true&amp;embeds=true');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/e6cb4b10-2282-4005-a667-ee24c405b432/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=e6cb4b10-2282-4005-a667-ee24c405b432" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1590015876022600090-7657320155220486453?l=www.doctorkangaroo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://mashable.com/2010/01/10/kfc-ad-racist-youtube/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&amp;utm_content=Twitter' title='KFC Chicken AD'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/feeds/7657320155220486453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1590015876022600090&amp;postID=7657320155220486453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/7657320155220486453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/7657320155220486453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/2010/01/kfc-chicken-ad.html' title='KFC Chicken AD'/><author><name>Dr. Kangaroo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272503520459800318</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04965045818893259051'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590015876022600090.post-58955499111491114</id><published>2009-06-11T23:11:00.005+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T23:40:50.941+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palestinian people'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jerusalem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Israel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Muslim world'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Middle East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hamas'/><title type='text'>Peace in the Middle East? - O Jerusalem!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jerusalem_from_mt_olives.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Jerusalem_from_mt_olives.jpg/300px-Jerusalem_from_mt_olives.jpg" alt="Jerusalem Old City from Mount of Olives." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="196" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image via &lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jerusalem_from_mt_olives.jpg"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;While &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/" title="Barack Obama" rel="homepage"&gt;President Obama&lt;/a&gt;'s speech to the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Muslim world&lt;/a&gt; was well received by many last week, I am yet to hear a voice that looks at the Israeli/Palestinian problem for what it is!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems to me that you can forget about settlement disputes, the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew" title="Jew" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Jewish&lt;/a&gt; wall, the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Hamas&lt;/a&gt; rocket attacks, and all the other stumbling blocks which both sides seem to put in each others way to impede the peace process. The one and only sticking point that will always raise it's ugly head and stymie any peace effort will always be the question of &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667%20%28Jerusalem%29&amp;amp;t=h" title="Jerusalem" rel="geolocation"&gt;Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt;. Who will rule it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis say that Jerusalem is not up for negotiation. The &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people" title="Palestinian people" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Palestinians&lt;/a&gt; say that Jerusalem is important to them also and must be the subject of any peace talks. Bam!!! Impasse!! Never the twain shall meet! Especially so, as long as &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.7833333333,35.2166666667&amp;amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;amp;q=31.7833333333,35.2166666667%20%28Israel%29&amp;amp;t=h" title="Israel" rel="geolocation"&gt;Israel&lt;/a&gt; remains a defacto religious State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Mr. Obama, nice speech but...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey here's a thought out of left field... why not turn Jerusalem into a Sovereign &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state" title="City-state" rel="wikipedia"&gt;City State&lt;/a&gt; like the Vatican?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Dr. Kangaroo and I'm lookin' out for the little guy!&lt;br /&gt;Gonna test your hype!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var  _sttoolbar = {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;stBlogger.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=878c58e1-62af-4803-a92c-5c2003787118&amp;popup=true&amp;embeds=true');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;fieldset class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;legend class="zemanta-related-title"&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/25202/obamas-speech-in-cairo-the-jewish-lobby-will-start-to-complain-in-321/"&gt; Obama's speech in Cairo: the Jewish lobby will start to complain in 3...2...1... &lt;/a&gt; (inquisitr.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/06/04/measure-for-measure/"&gt; Obama in Cairo: Aspirations, Admonitions, but No Apologies &lt;/a&gt; (attackerman.firedoglake.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americablog.com/2009/06/feeling-hate-in-jerusalem-on-eve-of.html"&gt; Feeling the hate in Jerusalem on the eve of Obama's address &lt;/a&gt; (americablog.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31105705/&amp;amp;a=5404726&amp;amp;rid=da50eba4-56b6-4423-9ced-649f0d5088e9&amp;amp;e=b61116821de099efc813dc0c49c73a7d"&gt; Arabs see positive shift from Obama &lt;/a&gt; (msnbc.msn.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;  &lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/da50eba4-56b6-4423-9ced-649f0d5088e9/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=da50eba4-56b6-4423-9ced-649f0d5088e9" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1590015876022600090-58955499111491114?l=www.doctorkangaroo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/feeds/58955499111491114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1590015876022600090&amp;postID=58955499111491114' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/58955499111491114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/58955499111491114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/2009/06/peace-in-middle-east-o-jerusalem.html' title='Peace in the Middle East? - O Jerusalem!'/><author><name>Dr. Kangaroo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272503520459800318</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04965045818893259051'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590015876022600090.post-4193343445653330641</id><published>2009-06-11T22:01:00.005+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T22:50:06.697+10:00</updated><title type='text'>The Iranian Non Elections</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad.jpg/300px-Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad.jpg" alt="President of Iran @ Columbia University." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="400" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image via &lt;a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad.jpg"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The mock &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Iran" title="Elections in Iran" rel="wikipedia"&gt;elections in Iran&lt;/a&gt; are about to take place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who will be the regime's next puppet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The insane incumbent &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt; or some other loon hand-picked by &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Ayatollah Khamenei&lt;/a&gt; and the mullahs of the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Council" title="Guardian Council" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Guardian Council&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afterall they are the ones who decide who can run in the elections and by definition therefore the outcome of the election!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The populace will engage in the charade of voting. Poor things need something to get excited about... but... it will be all for nought!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="infobox"&gt;   &lt;p class="title"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class="title"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Election rules&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who can run&lt;/strong&gt;: Candidates for president must be Muslim and between the ages of 25 and 75.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reaching the ballot:&lt;/strong&gt; All hopefuls for high elected office must be cleared by the Guardian Council, a 12-member body of clerics and scholars loyal to the ruling &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy" rel="wikipedia"&gt;theocracy&lt;/a&gt;. The council often rejects potential candidates considered too liberal or critical of the Islamic system. For Friday's election, four of more than 470 possible candidates were allowed.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who wins:&lt;/strong&gt; A simple majority — 50 percent plus one vote — is needed to win the presidency. If no candidate attains that Friday, a second round is held between the two top vote-getters June 19.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who votes:&lt;/strong&gt; Anyone at least 18.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President's role:&lt;/strong&gt; The president has control of some domestic policies and serves as the international face of the country. But the nonelected theocracy, headed by &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran" title="Supreme Leader of Iran" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Supreme Leader&lt;/a&gt; Ayatollah &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Ali Khamenei&lt;/a&gt;, controls all major decisions.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Associated Press&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Dr. Kangaroo and I'm lookin' out for the little guy!&lt;br /&gt;Gonna test your hype!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var  _sttoolbar = {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;stBlogger.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=878c58e1-62af-4803-a92c-5c2003787118&amp;popup=true&amp;embeds=true');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;fieldset class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;legend class="zemanta-related-title"&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www10.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html%3F_r%3D5%26partner%3Drss%26emc%3Drss&amp;amp;a=4817700&amp;amp;rid=4a46a0bb-5dbb-4ea2-be06-c4a397af8583&amp;amp;e=b8d3918d5c988577cb7040e0b5a18d0d"&gt; 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Electioneering banned from crucial Iran World Cup qualifier &lt;/a&gt; (telegraph.co.uk)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;      &lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/f3f1492d-920e-4977-9e2b-c96ae6deaa50/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f3f1492d-920e-4977-9e2b-c96ae6deaa50" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1590015876022600090-4193343445653330641?l=www.doctorkangaroo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/feeds/4193343445653330641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1590015876022600090&amp;postID=4193343445653330641' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/4193343445653330641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/4193343445653330641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/2009/06/iranian-non-elections.html' title='The Iranian Non Elections'/><author><name>Dr. Kangaroo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272503520459800318</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04965045818893259051'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590015876022600090.post-965400891512833168</id><published>2009-06-10T09:26:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T09:31:31.873+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='21st century'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economy'/><title type='text'>China - Expansion By Stealth?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 160px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.daylife.com/image/09dWf9x6US4Tk?utm_source=zemanta&amp;amp;utm_medium=p&amp;amp;utm_content=09dWf9x6US4Tk&amp;amp;utm_campaign=z1"&gt;&lt;img src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/09dWf9x6US4Tk/150x100.jpg" alt="SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 21:  A worker transpor..." style="border: medium none ; display: block;" height="100" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image by &lt;a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images"&gt;Getty Images&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://www.daylife.com"&gt;Daylife&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In days of old when a country or state coveted the resources of another state or simply wanted to expand it's empire it went to war!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;21st century equivalent? &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.0,105.0&amp;amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;amp;q=35.0,105.0%20%28China%29&amp;amp;t=h" title="China" rel="geolocation" class="zem_slink"&gt;China&lt;/a&gt; buys into other country's resources with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-owned_corporation" title="Government-owned corporation" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink"&gt;state owned companies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hmmph! Am I being paranoid?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Dr. Kangaroo and I'm lookin' out for the little guy!&lt;br /&gt;Gonna test your hype!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var  _sttoolbar = {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;stBlogger.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=878c58e1-62af-4803-a92c-5c2003787118&amp;popup=true&amp;embeds=true');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;fieldset class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;legend class="zemanta-related-title"&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/06/05/tinto-chinalco.html&amp;amp;a=5428911&amp;amp;rid=cb04999b-7727-4f70-89fc-c3fd43fced01&amp;amp;e=145338b0e290bb7917086b1d19677038"&gt; Rio Tinto stock surges after Chinese deal spiked &lt;/a&gt; (cbc.ca)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinavortex.com/2009/02/china-century-building/"&gt;China: Which Century Are You Building For?&lt;/a&gt; (chinavortex.com)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/fieldset&gt;  &lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/cb04999b-7727-4f70-89fc-c3fd43fced01/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=cb04999b-7727-4f70-89fc-c3fd43fced01" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1590015876022600090-965400891512833168?l=www.doctorkangaroo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/feeds/965400891512833168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1590015876022600090&amp;postID=965400891512833168' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/965400891512833168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/965400891512833168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/2009/06/china-expansion-by-stealth.html' title='China - Expansion By Stealth?'/><author><name>Dr. Kangaroo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272503520459800318</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04965045818893259051'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590015876022600090.post-8248836230304247250</id><published>2009-06-09T21:47:00.005+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T09:42:38.096+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ahmed Ghailani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guantanamo Bay detention camp'/><title type='text'>Guantanamo detainee arrives in NY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45803000/jpg/_45803415_000229179-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45803000/jpg/_45803415_000229179-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well about time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Courtesy of the BBC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="first"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The first Guantanamo detainee who is to be tried in a US civilian court has arrived in New York, officials say.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Ghailani" title="Ahmed Ghailani" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Ahmed Ghailani&lt;/a&gt; has been transferred to face charges in a New York court in connection with the &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings" title="1998 United States embassy bombings" rel="wikipedia"&gt;1998 US embassy bombings&lt;/a&gt; in East Africa. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Mr Ghailani, a Tanzanian, was seized in Pakistan in 2004. He is expected to make an initial court appearance in Manhattan later on Tuesday. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;He was taken to Guantanamo with other "high value" detainees in late 2006. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;!-- E SF --&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;His transfer comes as the Obama administration struggles to find a way to make good its election promise to close Guantanamo Bay within a year of taking office.&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This piece of scum deserves everything he gets!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Oh... and so does the US Administration if this whole episode fizzles or blows up in their faces... too long coming my friends!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This is Dr. Kangaroo and I'm lookin' out for the little guy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Gonna test your hype!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var  _sttoolbar = {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;stBlogger.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=878c58e1-62af-4803-a92c-5c2003787118&amp;popup=true&amp;embeds=true');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;fieldset class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;legend class="zemanta-related-title"&gt;Related articles by Zemanta&lt;/legend&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://r.zemanta.com/?u=http%3A//www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/09/ahmed-ghailani-guantanamo-new-york-trial&amp;amp;a=5504987&amp;amp;rid=16a629b0-01be-402f-9e7f-83251d994a0b&amp;amp;e=31bad1220261a04e601fac1140fcd801"&gt; 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float: right; display: block; width: 250px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84088661@N00/3219324038"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3431/3219324038_4c6be475f9_m.jpg" alt="Mr. Forty-Four" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84088661@N00/3219324038"&gt;akiey&lt;/a&gt; via Flickr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;When you read the great documents of the USA... The &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Declaration of Independence&lt;/a&gt;, The &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_rights" title="Bill of rights" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Bill of Rights&lt;/a&gt;, The US &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Constitution&lt;/a&gt;... documents which have shone a beacon of light for Democracies around the globe... when you read them... then you look at what America has become... do you not want to weep?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes... as a cynical friend of mine once said... "America was a good idea!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_founders" title="List of national founders" rel="wikipedia"&gt;Founding Fathers&lt;/a&gt; must be doing cartwheels in their graves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Dr. Kangaroo and I'm lookin' out for the little guy!&lt;br /&gt;Gonna test your hype!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;var  _sttoolbar = {}&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://w.sharethis.com/widget/stblogger.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;stBlogger.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=878c58e1-62af-4803-a92c-5c2003787118&amp;popup=true&amp;embeds=true');&lt;/script&gt;  &lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/928d2fd1-6077-454a-a537-d18a9bf8ea88/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=928d2fd1-6077-454a-a537-d18a9bf8ea88" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1590015876022600090-4177751187349997236?l=www.doctorkangaroo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/feeds/4177751187349997236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1590015876022600090&amp;postID=4177751187349997236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/4177751187349997236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1590015876022600090/posts/default/4177751187349997236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.doctorkangaroo.com/2009/06/america-was-good-idea.html' title='America - Was a good idea!!'/><author><name>Dr. Kangaroo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01272503520459800318</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04965045818893259051'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>