Politics
When Corporate Spending Turns Political
An interesting article out of Canada:
Corporate sponsors are paying for hundreds of supporters of the pro-Western Future Movement in Calgary and in other Canadian cities to vote on June 7, CBC News has learned.
The way the Future Movement coordinator in Canada puts it, it seems these companies can write the expense off as CSR:
“This is [...]
Ladies & Gentlemen, We Have Lift Off
This is it; the final leg of the election campaign and the expats are flocking in:
Lebanese expatriates have started arriving in Beirut to vote in crucial parliamentary elections that could decide the future of the country.
According to the Qatari newspaper:
…planes were arriving in Beirut full of expatriates from different parts of the world to vote [...]
Give a Man a Fish…
…and he’ll run for MP:
For fisherman Mahmood Khaled, nicknamed Abu Karam, it’s all about standing up for Lebanon’s poor and downtrodden.
“I have no offices and no money,” the mustachioed 47-year-old father of 15 told AFP.
Khaled admitted that he has little chance of making it into parliament but hopes his campaign will nonetheless force politicians to [...]
Thumbs Up from the Time’s
Time Magazine has given rave reviews to the current political play titled: The Suleiman Era.
Expectations were low when the former head of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Michel Suleiman, became president in May 2008 after a nearly two-year political crisis that ended in pitched battles between rival militias in the streets of Beirut.
Apparently, they are [...]
Shake a Hip, Win an Election
That seems to be the gist of it in South Africa:
[African National Congress treasurer-general Mathews] Phosa was confident of a convincing ANC win in the election, as was Mashatile, who predicted a large majority.
This was said during the ANC function in Johannesburg on Saturday night. Phosa was saying this as he was…
…clapping in time to [...]
