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2004-11-28 International-UN-NGOs

Cotecna Paid Kojo Annan to Protect Cotecna's Business in Ghana

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-28 10:27:20 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Opinion piece - move it, plz.

Mike: Something is seriously wrong with you - or your motivations are somehow mercenary. Nothing else explains your obsessive doggy with a sock in his mouth bullshit. RB is not here for your purposes. Fuck off and run your own blog. Once you were just an alternative opinion, usually worth a look. Now that's no longer true.

You've become a laughing-stock, in case you've become so blinded you can't see it. Move along, sonny, you were never an authority of note and now you're a mere bandwidth hog and RB leech.

HAND - somewhere else.

Posted by .com 2004-11-28 11:42:08 AM|| 2004-11-28 11:42:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Governor Lepetomaine: "Quick, we have to do something to protect our phoney-baloney jobs."

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-11-28 1:42:28 PM|| 2004-11-28 1:42:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike is right as usual.

A few years ago, few people would have recognized her name. She's a nobody. Google her. 45,000 hits.

A biography from the Foundation for the defence of Democracies, one of her sinecures:

Claudia Rosett

Journalist-in-Residence
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Claudia Rosett writes on international affairs, drawing on 22 years experience as a journalist and editor, reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and the Middle East. Currently based in New York, she writes a column, âThe Real World,â on issues of tyranny and human rights, especially as these relate to the War on Terror, for The Wall Street Journal's www.Opinionjournal.com and The Wall Street Journal Europe. She has also contributed to publications such as The New York Times, Commentary, The American Spectator and The Weekly Standard, and makes frequent guest appearances on TV and radio

Ms. Rosett has served as a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board in New York (1997-2002), and as a reporter and then bureau chief in The Wall Street Journal's Moscow Bureau, covering the former Soviet Union (1993-1996). Prior to that she covered Asia, writing both signed opinion features and unsigned editorials as editorial-page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal (1986-1993). She has also worked as editor of the Journal's daily Bookshelf column, based in New York (1984-1986), and reported free-lance from Chile (1981-1982). More recently she has reported from Lebanon, and written on issues involving the United Nations, foreign dissidents, and tyrants who in various ways threaten the democratic world.

For her on-site coverage of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, Ms. Rosett won an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. Her work has included editorializing about global crises in emerging markets in the late 1990s; on-the-scene reporting of the 1994-1996 war in Chechnya, and the 1992 collapse of the Soviet-installed regime in Kabul; and in 1994 she broke the full story of North Korean labor camps in the Russian Far East, reporting from the camps.
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Ms. Rosett holds a B.A. from Yale University (1976), an M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University (1979) and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1981).

Google Mike Sylwester. 3 hits

Two Rantburg hits and an artilce on Jack Ruby's Mob Connections.

Who is this Mike Sylwester nobody's ever heard of? An obscure, low level commenter, lost in the multitude of other commenters. Perhaps he will be world-famous from his indefatigable defence of the indefencible. Who knows?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-28 5:19:34 PM|| 2004-11-28 5:19:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Exactly. Who knows? Who cares?

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-28 5:21:39 PM|| 2004-11-28 5:21:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#5
That article about Jack Ruby is a real blast from the past. I don't even know how that got onto the web.

I ran a Google search on "Mrs. Davis" and got ten hits and found this tidbit:
I worked with a company that populated surface mount printed circuit boards. The Chinese drove the Mexicans out of the business because the Mexicans are high labor cost producers. Then, to add insult to injury, they'd come in after they drove the company out of business and buy the equimpent at auction to stock their next factory.

... and this tidbit:
Hello, my name is Rica Davis. I graduated from Murray State University with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. I finished my Master's degree in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Memphis in May 2002. I taught 3rd grade one year in Paducah, Kentucky before moving to Memphis. I have been employed with Memphis City Schools for seven years. This is my fifth year teaching 3rd grade. I have two brothers and two sisters who live in Kentucky and Mississippi. I am married to Edward Davis. I have two children named Anthony and Jessica. In my spare time I enjoy reading, bowling, and shopping. I am looking forward to this school year.

Ha ha. All you Mrs. Davises are peas in a pod, but there's only one Mike Sylwester.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-28 8:13:48 PM|| 2004-11-28 8:13:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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