The Mind Set Podcast: Episode 95
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With one of our usual panel missing in action, we continue to push forward and attempt to make some sense of this crazy world we live in.
Topics discussed this week include:
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When Obama Met Osama
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger.
Here we present the day when Obama met Osama.
Brazilian Obama impersonator Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, 42, is a businessman and pastor who has lived in São Paulo since he was 17. He became a Barack Obama look-a-like three years ago.
When da Silva met Osama impersonator Francisco Helder Braga Fernandes, who closely resembles Osama bin Laden, hilarity ensued and had to be photographed.
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Obama’s Brain Surgery
Rampant speculation concerning President Obama’s head has been making the rounds on the internet recently.
Has the President recently had Brain Surgery?
While the images of Obama’s head really do look like there was some kind of surgical procedure performed on the President, it seems strange that this story would blow up now when the images are almost 3 years old?
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Controlling Revolution
UPDATE – EGYPT CUTS INTERNET!
A couple of posts ago I spoke of how the Tunisian Revolution has increased the unrest in Egypt. And here I spoke of reports that Egypt was blocking web access to certain sites.
The Egyptian government denied this but the allegations persisted…
Now it seems that reporting of the unrest is too much for the government to handle and the Internet is simply being ‘switched off’!
There are no ‘magic on/off switches’ for Presidents and Prime-Ministers to flick – there are procedures and controls already in place in every country. Egypt is a great example of this.
Obama’s background – In the Whitehouse
Are we seeing a denationalization of President Obama?
In May of this year America’s President gave a press conference without the ‘stars and stripes’ anywhere on display. It was held in the East Room of the White House. Here are 3 shots to show the room’s design and how the President looked.
Has President Obama forgotten Guantanamo?
The media reports today on the ‘delayed trial’ of a Guantanamo prisoner after a lawyer fainted…
Now 23, at the time of the alleged crime Omar Khadr was a boy of 15 (and whilst I do consider him to have been a child at the time of the alleged crime I also accept children can perform very violent acts too).
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