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POPSMcCain's Titanic Loses Rudder It's time for the public to focus on McCain's temperament and decide if he is qualified to have his "finger on the button". This worries me greatly.
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POPSThe Real Victims For some, it's as simple as a game of Risk with the goodies on one side and the baddies on the other. As elsewhere in many regions of the world it is tiny pawn peoples whose voices are forgotten as their lives are crushed between imperial pincers.
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POPSRussia-Georgia: Russia vs. USA on Grand Chessboard A worthwhile read to see the bigger picture, and how Georgia attacked! under cover of the Olympics, then Putin immediately responded (not how it is being presented to you). Yes, Georgia was the aggressor, Russia responded (whereas my clips said they conducted a pre-emptive attack because of evidence Georgia would attack South Ossetia). From the day that the Russian tank brigade raced through the tunnel into South Ossetia, Russia has not made one wrong move. Mr Bush's remarks yesterday notwithstanding, In five days it turned an overreaching blunder by a Western-backed opponent into a devastating exposure of Western impotence, dithering and double standards on respecting national sovereignty (viz Iraq). The attack was short, sharp and deadly - enough to send the Georgians fleeing in humiliating panic, their rout captured by global television.
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POPSRussia Starting a New Cuban Missile Crisis? This is exactly the re-action expected, and precisely the point of comparison I made during the announcement of the US European missile shield earlier. Bush provoked this, the Cold War is back. The Joint Chiefs, being players on the global chessboard, surely MUST have predicted this counter-move by Russia, yet they did not prevent the administration's provocative action. Why? Do they want conflict? Clearly some party does.
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POPSGhost Town and Land of the Wolves - Chernobyl and circumjacent landscapes Filatova Elena Vladimirovna, young Ukrainian and avid motorcyclist, runs a website on her impressions and thoughts she had when she was biking through the areas which have been contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident. High resolution photos and videos Video "Land of the Wolves" My Chernobyl playlist on YouTube There is something really sad about this town, for thousand years people lived here, great minds discussed ideas, average people discussed events, small minds talked about others... no voice is heard here now, wild boars stake out their homes, wolves survey the desolate territory, of a town built and destroyed by man, an abandoned domain that is theirs now... Elena ↗Deutsche Fassung
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POPSUK in Disarray Over European Union (EU) The grand chessboard to world government is not easy, it produces great conflict. While the EU has managed to alter the currency of all of Europe to the Euro, and used economics to usurp the sovereignty of the independent countries, citizens of UK are justly resisting, throwing their Parliament and leadership into scrambling for what to do to bring conformity. An attempt at a EU Constitution failed. Good. This is what will happen in America as they attempt a North American Union, then American Union (hemispheric, north and south)--which Chavez is resisting. African Union is also in the works, while a "war on terrorism" is seeking to conform and transform the Middle East, Indonesia toward the same goal.
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POPSChessboard Killer Gets Life in Prison The Moscow city prosecutor who personally took part in the process said that he was satisfied with the sentence. "Justice has worked, the punishment ordered is what the accused party deserves," he said. He also reminded that the life sentence is the hardest possible penalty under the Russian criminal code since the country has a moratorium on capital punishment. The prosecutor added that investigators were still probing 11 more murders that Pichushkin had claimed he had committed. According to court materials, the first of 48 killings took place in 1992 and the last one in 2006. He also said that he planned to kill a total of 64 people - one for every check on the chessboard, prompting another nickname he got from the media - the "Chessboard Killer." He told investigators that the major reason why he had confessed was that another man got arrested over the murders and he could not stand someone else stealing his glory.
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POPS The Tsar’s Opponent
Kasparov is also popular among the American right. In 1991, he won the Keeper of the Flame Award from the Center for Security Policy, another neocon think tank. The award, which is given to “individuals for devoting their public careers to the defense of the United States and American values around the world,” has also gone to Newt Gingrich, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld. Such an award does Kasparov no good at home. There is a centuries-long tradition in Russia of xenophobia. In the Soviet era, Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak, and hundreds of others were accused in the pages of Pravda of working for the C.I.A., M.I.6, or the Mossad. Vladimir Kryuchkov, who was the head of the K.G.B. under Gorbachev and directed the August, 1991, coup, was constantly trying to convince Gorbachev that his most liberal adviser, Alexander Yakovlev, was acting as a covert “agent of imperialist intelligence agencies.” Kasparov’s business-class ease abroad might be appealing to Americans,,,,,
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POPSThe ‘Good Germans’ Among Us Instead of taxing us for Iraq, the White House bought us off with tax cuts. Instead of mobilizing the needed troops, it kept a draft off the table by quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military’s holes. With the war’s entire weight falling on a small voluntary force, amounting to less than 1 percent of the population, the rest of us were free to look the other way at whatever went down in Iraq. “We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an M.I.T. physicist whose interrogation of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, took place over a chessboard. George Frenkel, 87, recalled that he “never laid hands on anyone” in his many interrogations, adding, “I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity.”
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POPSAnother voice of truth has been silenced. There was more sadness experienced this Memorial Day 2007. Besides all the tears shed, remembering those who died in wars and those who have died in this unnecessary Iraq war. Cindy Sheehan, has resigned from the Anti-War Movement. I hope her voice of courage and hope will not be silenced for too long. Cindy, we need you. thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSXinjiang factor in the new Silk Road
Page 1 of 3 The Xinjiang factor in the new Silk Road By David Gosset Because of endless reports on conflicts, trafficking, corruption, terrorism and extreme poverty, Central Asia's image is largely negative. When Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to US president Jimmy Carter, spoke about the "Eurasian Balkans" in his book The Grand Chessboard to describe Central Asia, he was contributing to a pejorative stereotype that does not reflect the complex reality, and certainly does not serve the interests of the people living between the Caspian Sea and the Gobi Desert. True, President Hamid Karzai's Afghanistan is far from stable, Pakistan's political situation is fragile, and post-Soviet Central Asia is in a difficult transition, but the region is certainly not in desperate chaos. If one can measure the constructive role played by Xinjiang in the middle of a new Silk Road, and put aside the irrelevant notion of a "Great Game", Central Asia appears as a so
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POPSChessboxing How can this be real? Who thinks lets combine chess and boxing into a single sport?
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POPSmmmmmmm anyone know where to find the old marine corp tv ad that uses the lifesize chessboard ?
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