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NameNotFound
NameNotFound
He's called NameNotFound for a reason.
It's because he does not have a name.
Come to think of it, he does not have a physical body…
…therefore becoming non-eligible for gender denomination.
Oh, cut the c*@#!!!
NameNotFound is a collective op-ed page run by several veteran news reporters who, between themselves, have covered pretty much every big news story there’s been in the last twenty-something years – from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Obama election.
It's edgy and a bit condescending, just like you would expect from news veterans.
But unlike many couch-potato theoreticians, NameNotFound have seen the world change with their own eyes – and are not shy about share their musings with you…
3 May, 2012, 21:20
British press can't get enough of the NNF
In a way of answering our detractors: First. You have to be sick in the head – or The Guardian reporter in Moscow – to infer that the Op-Ed on Ched Evans condones rape. Let us ask you this: when Brian Moore and John Motson were expressing their (severe) doubts over whether Becks actually hit Diego Simeone back in 1998 and (even more severe) doubts over the mental capacity of the referee, were...
24 April, 2012, 11:33
Footballer's plight
Life sucks in a bad way if you happen to live in Britain. Disclaimer: Only if you are a man of virile age. Being rich and hot-looking makes it worse. Just ask Ched Evans. The Sheffield United footballer who was all that just a year ago but is now on his way to spend 5 years behind bars for rape. Rape? Wait, who said "rape" ? The jury, who found Evans guilty said so. For those who’ve managed to...
20 April, 2012, 19:54
The US, the real hermit kingdom
You ever heard the expression "The Hermit Kingdom"? Well, if you read the mainstream press and watch TV, you would recognize it as a label often attached to the DPRK or North Korea. Fittingly, the term was coined by one William Elliot Griffis in his book from 1882 "Corea: The Hermit Nation" The Wikipedia article adds, wryly, that "The writer of the book had never visited Korea, did not speak the...
3 April, 2012, 12:14
How Pentagon got scared by GoodReader
Wired Magazine calls it "a stunning execution of a simple idea — one program that can import and view any media in any format, from basic .txt files to entire books and even movies." PC Mag says it "transforms your $500 iPad into the best reader, file manager, and annotator on the market." Now Air Force Special Operations Command, or AFSOC, wants the little marvel of programming to be installed...
19 March, 2012, 12:08
Rejoice, Apple fans
Warmest congrats, Apple fans – you got yourself another object of adulation and material desire. For the uninitiated it is called the IPad 3 and its oh-so-mega cool. Like $500 mega cool. As opposed to the IPad 2 that you bought last year – that was mega cool in 2011. …Before proceeding further, let's get something clear: this is not a hit piece on Apple Inc, its fans or the astonishing...
7 March, 2012, 12:03
Don't Blame Putin, Blame Your Ignorance
So, Putin won hands down. Get used to it Europe and the United States. You do not have as much of a problem with Putin as with the Russian people – you're just too politically correct to say so. You would really dearly, very much prefer to have Japan or the Philippines as your neighbors, but you've got what you’ve got – a vast, rich country named Russia. And it's populated by Russians. Who...
27 February, 2012, 13:32
Surreal Show Flop
The Friends of Syria conference in Tunis has set a new plank in the already surreal world of international politics. Representatives from some 60-plus countries got together to discuss essentially one thing – how to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad in a way that would be most useful and beneficial for those attending. They, of course, got nowhere in their discussions. But it really was the...
22 February, 2012, 13:48
Journalists and wars
Anthony Shadid was one of the top guys in the business, covering the wars wherever they happened. " …Mohammed Abdel-Sattar, lay on the ground, his legs torn off. He lived. Across the street was the severed hand of Samad Rabai, tossed gracelessly in a pool of blood and mud. He died. In a moment, two explosions transformed a busy stretch of life today into a junkyard of mangled wires, uprooted...
5 February, 2012, 13:30
To win world sympathy and trigger intervention
US Ambassador Susan Rice can be "disgusted" all she likes with China and Russia. The choice of language – hardly fitting for a representative of a country that invaded several nations and bombed many more over the past decade – is also far from surprising. If they could, they would prove that the world revolves around the mighty United States. (Hint – it doesn't. Not anymore.) Let's instead...
30 January, 2012, 16:21
What's good about the USA?
What does America handle well? Its Armed Forces. Before you read any further – this is not an attempt to cover all the angles. Not everything is good and great about it. In the past decade alone, there was the scandal of Abu Ghraib "scalp hunters" from Stryker brigade and, most recently, the worldwide outrage over Marine snipers pissing on the bodies of killed Afghans. But compare the...
