Wednesday, August 17, 2005
The Best of Pravda
After returning from Russia, researching this column, seems a little more interesting than normal. First Item:
Second Item: call this wishful headlining. The story is an analysis of riots in China, but this is the headline
Could this be a bit to quell potential propblems due to their own poverty levels?
Third Item:
Like I said Pravda is getting a little serious again, and not necessarily for the better. It's taking all the fun out of this feature.
Sverdlovsk region, Russia. A shop assistant managed to prevent the robbery by biting a shoplifter. According to the department of private security of the Government?s Department of Internal Affairs in Sverdlovsk region, the incident took place in one of the typical Russian kiosks where the articles are sold through a small window.I knew there was cannibalism during the siege of Leningrad, but things aren't that scarce anymore.
While the shop girl turned away a man thrust his hand into the window and started collecting money from the cash register. When the woman saw this she immediately reached at the hand with her teeth.
Second Item: call this wishful headlining. The story is an analysis of riots in China, but this is the headline
National poverty does not affect political stability in China
Could this be a bit to quell potential propblems due to their own poverty levels?
Third Item:
Washington adores to live on the knife's edge, inventing conspiracy theories and lies and then putting into practice what can only be described as a murderous foreign policy, supporting coups placing fascist dictatorships in office and more recently removing Saddam Hussein, who was alleged to have WMD which posed an immediate threat to Washington and her allies.Is it possible, just possible that this defense of Iran could be based on the fact that Russia is supplying them with know-how? Maybe?
The Iraq policy began with 9/11, with which Saddam Hussein had no engagement whatsoever and ended with one hundred thousand civilians slaughtered and Washington taking control of Iraq's oilfields, doubtless already engineered long before September 11th.
Iran, named as one of the members of the axis of evil by the intellectually challenged President of the United States, whose black-and-white, tunneled vision of the world is only too famous, is now targeted by Washington and the hype machine as the new pariah in the international community.
However, unlike Washington, Iran has not invaded a sovereign nation based on lies and unlike President Bush, President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad has not committed an act of wanton mass murder neither have his troops perpetrated acts of torture and sexual depravity on a scale unseen outside Hollywood.
Like I said Pravda is getting a little serious again, and not necessarily for the better. It's taking all the fun out of this feature.
