Cameron’s poster graffiti 29, January 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in UK.Tags: Cameron altered posters, Cameron posters, Conservative advertising campaign, David Cameron, The Conservatives
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David Cameron the Conservative Party leader and next British Prime Minister recently launched a new advertising campaign with his face front and centre.
He was soon criticised for having his skin ‘touched up’ and airbrushed and for the general silliness of the poster. Better yet, there has since been a rash of graffitiing of his posters as well as people doing their own. A few are below, taken from this website.
Job advert for ‘reliable’ workers ruled discriminatory 29, January 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in UK.Tags: Advert for reliable workers, Incompetence, Job Centre, Political correctness, political correctness gone mad, Red Dwarf, Rob Grant, United States of Europe
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A recruitment company in England sought to advertise in the Job Center for a ‘reliable worker’. In their wisdom, the staff at the Job Center turned down their application to post such a job description as it would discriminate against unreliable workers. Whilst I am loathe to describe this as ‘political correctness gone mad’ ever since seeing Stewart Lee’s fantastic sketch on the topic [below], this is as close to a perfect example of it as it is possible to get.
It reminds me of Incompetence, a Red Dwarf book by Rob Grant that I read many years ago. The scene is the United States of Europe x hundred years into the future where discrimination even on the grounds of utter incompetence is no longer allowed. Cue ensuing hilarity. A satire it may be but with this horribly Daily Hate story, fact just crept a bit nearer to fiction.
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HEC joins Education City, Doha 29, January 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Qatar, The Emirates.Tags: Education city, HEC Paris, NYU Abu Dhabi
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HEC Paris, one of the world’s top business schools, is joining various illustrious American institutions in Qatar’s Education City. It will offer MBAs as well as what The National describes as “coursework in executive education and research programmes.” The University is sensibly aiming at the part-time market so that business executives in Doha can study in the evenings. One of the problems of being based in Qatar is that professionals wanting professional development have to go back to Europe or America for such courses.
It can surely only be a matter of time before Masters level qualifications aimed at the oil and gas sector are inaugurated at one of Education City’s American institutions.
More generally, there are rumors afoot that some of the institutions in Education City are [choose your adjective] scared/terrified/concerned/worried about NYU in Abu Dhabi. Specifically, some are perturbed that this august institution with a truly bottomless budget and – crucially – no mandatory limit of the percentage of nationals to attend the University (i.e. a pure meritocracy), will poach staff and students from Education City. At the absolute least, it will provide the stiffest of competition.
Sorcerers arrested in Qatar 29, January 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Qatar.Tags: Magic, Sorcery
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The Gulf Times reports that three men have been arrested in Qatar on charges of sorcery. They were found with books and charms in a hotel room in Doha. Unlike in neighboring Saudi Arabia, the chances of these men being executed for this absurd crime are exceedingly low.
Israel assassinate Hamas commander in Dubai 29, January 2010
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, The Emirates.Tags: Al Mabhouh, Al Mabhouh killed, Assassination, Assassination in Dubai, Hamas assassination, Israeli assassination, Mossad
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The Palestinian Group Hamas claimed that Mahmoud Al Mabhouh died in suspicious circumstances on the day he arrived in Dubai. Al Mabhouh was a founder of the Izz Al Din Qassam Brigades who are responsible for countless attacks and bombings aimed at Israeli troops and civilians. Al Mabhouh himself, the BBC reports, was living in Syria and suspected of abducting and subsequently killing two Israeli soliders in 1989. Hamas has vowed revenge.
Update:
The Dubai police have named seven suspects all with Western European passports as wanted for the murder of Al Mabhouh. Their pictures will be released soon. Mossad have been named by the Dubai police as behind the assassination. Al Mabhouh was electrocuted before being suffocated.
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