united states

American Principals

October 11, 2008 Opinion

Having lived in North America for over 20 years; almost half of my life thus far, with 99% of it during what is often referred to as the most influential period of an individual. Therefore, I am familiar with the “western believes” and “western culture”. Today New York Times published an article about an “U.S. [...]

Battle of Customs

August 23, 2007 Opinion

Repost from: Vinko’s Satellite Blog In recent months many of the products manufactured or grown in China had found to contain poisonous materials or chemicals. This problem was reported in many countries: United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, etc. With most of the cases reported in the United States. China’s responds to these accusations have [...]

Getting Your Own House In Order

May 24, 2007 Opinion

I know I say I try not to be political but the recent events in the past 12 hours had forced me to comment on the foreign policies of George W. Bush. Yesterday, after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports to the UN Security Council that not only had Iran not stop the production [...]

A Conflict Without George?

July 19, 2006 Opinion

…. or is that really true? As many of you may already know, there had been fierce fighting along the borders of Israel and Lebanon this week. The fighting is between the Israeli military and the Hezbollah’s military wing, Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya. As far as most people know, this conflict was neither started by the United [...]

Can United States Afford To be the Police of the World?

July 6, 2006 Opinion

Calling United States the “Police of the world” may seen as generous by some critics of United States’ foreign polices. These critics instead may refer it as imperialism, “U.S. Global Empire”. United States’ foreign policies have brought US troops to 135 countries around the world including Afghanistan and Iraq, which equates to 70% of the [...]

What is George W. Bush Trying to Do?

July 5, 2006 Opinion

The 43rd president of the United States. Over the years there had been many criticism on George W. Bush and I definitely do not call myself an expert in US politics, but it is hard for me not to comment on some of the policies and decisions of George W. Bush. His policies on Afghanistan, [...]

US Imposing On Others

June 15, 2006 Opinion

To be accurate, I am speaking of the United States government imposing their foreign politics on other countries. Where can I start. I don’t want to get too political and start debating US foreign policies. One thing I do want to comment on is the fact that everyone pounded on Google for creating a Google.cn [...]

U.S. Copyright Office contradicting the US eGovernment Act of 2002

August 26, 2005 Opinion

Another example of IT department taking the easy way out. With so many examples of IT departments abandoning the “right” way to favor the easy route, I am not surprise to see so many non-Standards (W3C) web sites out there. read more…

Are Criminals Stupid?

September 30, 2004 Observation

The following is a quote from the US Non-immigrant Visa application form (DS-156) Do you seek to enter the United States to engage in export control violations, subversive or terrorist activities, or any other unlawful purpose? Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization as currently designated by the U.S. Secretary of State? [...]