FOUND OBJECTS
A CUSCO PAIR
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
MERKEL & MULTIKULTI
MULTICULTURALISM
HAS
"UTTERLY FAILED"
-- THUS SPAKE THE OSSIE --
GERMAN CHANCELLOR
HOLDS HANDS WITH
GEORGE W. BUSH
AT THE 2006 G-8 SUMMIT
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
A reporter for the Christian Science Monitor wrote of "multikulti" -- the German term for multiculturalism --as a concept in which "people of different backgrounds would live together happily." After more than two decades of German re-unification, is it a given that Wessies (West Germans) and Ossies (East Germans) "live together happily"? But this Ossie, this first Chancellor from East Germany, has something different in mind.
Monday, October 18, 2010
XI JINPING GETS HIS PROMOTION
XI
GETS
HIS PROMOTION
XI JINPING INTRODUCED
AS HU JINTAO'S SUCCESSOR
17TH CONGRESS OF THE
CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
BEIJING 2007
Today Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping was named vice-chair of the Central Military Commission, solidifying his slotting to become the next General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China.
This is succession planning with Chinese characteristics: Xi Jinping was unveiled as potential top leader-to-be of China in 2007; the changes are not due to take place until late 2012 (on the party side) and early 2013 (on the government side).
If he had not been given this new post, it would have been seen as a sign of weakness, and of uncertainty at the top with signs of ferment in the air.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
JIMMY BRESLIN TURNS EIGHTY
JIMMY BRESLIN
b. October 17, 1930
JIMMY BRESLIN
HARVARD COMMENCEMENT
CLASS DAY SPEAKER, 1971
A columnist and author, in 1986, Jimmy Breslin was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, for "columns which consistently champion ordinary citizens."
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
SERGEI SOBYANIN NOMINATED MOSCOW MAYOR
NEW MOSCOW MAYOR
NAMED
A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THE
HIGHLIGHTS OF FORMER MAYOR
YURY LUZHKOV'S
ADMINISTRATION,
THE CELEBRATION OF THE
850TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOSCOW
Here Mayor Luzhkov is seated on President Boris Yeltsin's right (the Patriarch is on Yeltsin's left). Today his successor was formally nominated by President Dmitry Medvedev: Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin, "top aide" to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
AS THE POLITICAL ELITE IN CHINA GATHERS...
AS THE
POLITICAL ELITE
IN CHINA
GATHERS
INTERIOR OF
THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE
BEIJING, CHINA,
WITH BASKETBALL COURT
A quiet photograph of the big venue as the Central Committee meets in Beijing in unquiet times.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
TWENTY-THREE MOSTLY "FORMERS" SPEAK UP FOR MEDIA FREEDOM IN CHINA
TWENTY-THREE
MOSTLY "FORMERS"
("PARTY ELDERS")
DEMAND
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
IN CHINA;
CRITICIZE PROPAGANDA ORGANS
LI CHANGCHUN
POLITBURO STANDING COMMITTEE MEMBER
responsible for the media, and overseer of the Propaganda Department, described by the letter of the twenty-three as "invisible black hands," censoring even Premier Wen Jiabao.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
THEY LEFT OUT THE COLD WAR
THEY LEFT OUT
THE COLD WAR
WARS LISTED ON A GRAVESTONE IN
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
The Washington Post has an article reporting on family members' protests of the inscribing of "propaganda" names for America's recent wars on the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery: "Operation Enduring Freedom"; "Operation Iraqi Freedom"; "Operation New Dawn." Previous names looked like those above: "World War II"; "Korea"; "Vietnam." (No "Cold War," however much it molded and warped so many lives, and deaths.)
Monday, October 11, 2010
THE CATHEDRALS IN THE KREMLIN, PART II
THE CATHEDRALS
IN THE KREMLIN
REFLECTIONS IN
THE PALACE OF CONGRESSES
THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW, 1990
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