What Is And What Should Never Be - Stuff
24 May 2012, 8:30 pm
On occasion Simon will drop his thundering digital jackboot on to the quivering delicate flower that is your favourite musician. What ensues is usually a lively, though not always coherent, debate. I, on the other hand, will pursue a more wholesale slaughter approach.

Olympic Torch can cheer up the bleakest of outlooks - thisissomerset.co.uk
23 May 2012, 3:06 am
So he made 3,000 people run 2,000 miles up through the Balkans and Hungary. There were protests, which were stamped on by the Nazi jackboot. So it has chequered origins. But if Goebbels and Hitler were to be somehow watching the Olympic torch wend its way ...

Success for Chelsea and Manchester City comes at a high price - The Guardian
21 May 2012, 1:39 pm
Of course, Chelsea finished sixth in the league, while City won the competition with the last kick of the last game on goal difference; hardly evidence of a petrodollar jackboot stamping on the neck of competitive balance. That misses the ...

It's time to go, Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan - PerthNow
19 May 2012, 2:07 am
Not only did it smack of jackboot militancy, the resulting photograph on the front page of our national newspaper The Australian with police vehicles and lines of officers surrounding a convoy of Woodside mining trucks made all of us look like mindless ...

NBA Playoffs Survivor Series: Celtics/Hawks and Clippers/Grizzlies End - Pounding The Rock
18 May 2012, 2:18 pm
I didn't know you were even in this picture." An ethereal voice cried out, "He's not!" Danny Ocean spun on the heel of his pilfered jackboot and found himself staring into a pair of eyes as hard and cold as a producer's heart. The ghost of Lee ...

The meaning of ribbons, and other mysteries - San Francisco Gate
18 May 2012, 7:51 am
"I'm just here for the music," says the ribbon. The olive and green ribbon was created to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the jackboot of Nazism. The Russians are almost as big on ribbons as we are.

Nigeria: Reflections On the Lagos State Government's Onslaught On Doctors - AllAfrica.com
18 May 2012, 5:07 am
In order to break the fighting spirit of the doctors, the government went ahead, in an action reminiscent of military jackboot absolutism, in ejecting the doctors from their quarters - an action that runs contrary to government's own tenancy law.

Darkness at dawn - Sydney Morning Herald
14 May 2012, 5:43 pm
To blindly follow them without recognising the sound of the jackboot is either naive or ignorant. In 1938, Time magazine made Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year" for his leadership of Germany ("The figure of Adolf Hitler strode over a cringing Europe with ...

Police probe councillor’s jibe at English Democrats - echo-news.co.uk
11 May 2012, 10:44 am
Mr Ware-Lane wrote: “There is nothing patriotic about the jackboot politics of the far right. “Never forget, while Labour party members were fighting the forces of far right extremism during the Second World War, the precursors of parties like the ...

France may have elected François Hollande, but she really needs a Napoleon Bonaparte - Daily Telegraph Blogs
6 May 2012, 1:13 pm
This was jackboot politics. But it was also the pitting of one mob (the French National Front) against another, the banlieue rioters (students, radicals, trades unions, disgruntled immigrant workers). Hollande, by contrast, is every other inch a ...