TABLE of CONTENTS
Commentary
Articles of Michael Hammerschlag
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RUSSIA-
89-93 '94-'09
w UKRAINE IRAQ
BUSH IRAN
PAKISTAN+INDIA
ISRAEL-EGYPT N. KOREA CHINA
9-11+SECURITY ECONOMY
POLITICS SPACE+SCIENCE NUCLEAR THREAT
ELECTION 2000 BIG BIDNESS
MEDIA CRITIQUE MOVIES+TV FUNNY TRAVEL- CAIRO, ROME, VALENCIA
LUMINARY LETTERS
BLOG MENU
ACCURATE FORECASTS
AUDIO EXCERPTS PHOTOS
TRAVEL
PHOTOS
(this line on separate pages)
updated Dec 2012;
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NATIONAL SCOOPS
+ ELECTION 2000
"WHOOPS"-
HOW THE NETWORKS GOT
IT WRONG- PROBLEM POLLING POLICY - Nat. Scoop- Intellectual Capita1-
11/25/00 - Inside story on the screw-ups
(3-4) at the VNS and Florida counties that
caused the networks to blow the election
call in a strong article/analysis/commentary
against the networks projection policy and
the squirrelly polls w interviews w TV news
execs, Walter Cronkite, Florida officials,
pollsters, Sen. Gorton and VNS people, voting
machine reps.- MediaChannel- 12/26/00 Anchor of largest media
related
network. Issue
Cover Talk Show
Media Tenor Book w Whoops Article MEDIOCRACY -
234 pgs Table
of Contents
SAMPLE
BALLOT DECEPTIVE, DIFFERENT - Dems
denied hand count in Duval Co. - Nat.
scoop Capital
Times - Madison WI - Nov 25, 2000
HTML longer vers. Duval Sample Ballot
Duval Actual Ballot
FLORIDA
ELECTION DOCS
COMET PHOTO ALTERED, UH
SCIENTIST SAYS- .. - (Honolulu Advertiser)-Sun Front
Page-April 20,'97- Nat. scoop
Faking of Univ of Hawaii telescope photo
to "show" a "spaceship"
following Hale-Bopp comet by psychic "remote
viewing" institute; Publicized on Art
Bell national radio show + website, may have
been incitement for San Diego Heavens Gate cult suicide
. Original Article before lame editing- CLICK HERE
AP RELEASE
of article - (small) 
THE
GOLDEN
RING-
Quest
for the Presidency
- Yahoo
Network
LOCAL Republican
contenders
+ pretenders
- all
too extreme? Blow by
blow
flips
in states;
Profile of Romney and his Mormon exoticism
(can he ever win Repub hearts?); and Obama's
problems, and supposed betrayal of the base
in various suppressive acts; w long interview
of fmr DNC chair + Pres. candidate Howard
Dean - April-May 2012 - Scoop
in Ukrainian
Russian
RI NIGHTCLUB FIRE - exclusive - Worst US fire in
quarter century rips through
smallest state- w photos, interviews, radio
reports MIRROR
Inferno
horror
at The Station nightclub, R.I.- March 03
DUNNING
DEAN- nat. scoop -
DID
the DOCTOR GET GORED -
mediachannel HTML COLUMNIZED Did
the media try to destroy Howard Dean
by harping on his liberalness and inexperience
(both untrue), and electability until it
became a self-fulfilling prophecy with Dems
desperate to defeat Bush? Analysis of coverage
of campaign fm
Wash. Post, Newsweek, New Republic, US News, TV
debates; + my NH reporting- Jan 26,04
PUTIN'S CHILDREN
(Orig.) - exclusive
International Herald Tribune/NYT - SCAN
July 6 - from Moscow The
Putin Youth groups: Nashi, Young Guard, Young Russia; badger
and terrorize anyone who even differs
with Kremlin positions; By propagandizing
the vulnerable, is the Kremlin poisoning
the seed corn of young minds? On June 12th,
Russian Independence Day, Red Sq. was reserved
for the Party faithful po
Ryccki ONLINE
NYT vers.
THE INFINITE
PUTIN - Capital Times ORIGINAL Moscow: Putin is supposed to leave office in
March,
but that was impossible to believe. Appointing
unknown crony Viktor Zubkov PM (told only the day before and
rammed through
rubber stamp Congress 2 days later) ends
the doubt. Zubkov will be anointed President
(+ win), Putin will become Prime Minister,
and Zubkov will resign in 6-12 months to
let Vladimir Vladimirovich return as Prez.
Massive conflicts of interests in the Kremlin,
where mini oligarch ministers control the
biggest corporations in the world and can't
separate their interests from those of the
state, crushing and absorbing competitors.-
October 10, 2007
GETTING GOOD NEWS: The Government vs.
the Press in Times of
War (realaudio) windowsmedia- Mike's
BROWN U. Lecture (listing)
- History of Press restrictions in War since
WW2; How Vietnam changed everything and made
the media the enemy; 30 min., Salomon Hall,
Brown Univ., Dec 13, 2004
POSTER
10th Anniversary of Moscow
Oct '93 Revolt
- (
Exclusive AUDIO)
-
VIOLENT COMMUNIST ATTACK that ALMOST DEPOSED
YELTSIN --200 killed in 2 days of battles at WHITE
HOUSE and OSTANKINO TV CENTER ;
w article 24 Hours in October
Revolt +
Photos AUDIO ONLY - 7:20 min
STOPPING
the NEXT BOSNIA- comn.
scoop Capital Times -Dec 13, 03 FULL version. -
It seems obvious we will be forced out
of Iraq, which will explode into Civil War between the 63%
Shiites and 17% Sunni former
rulers (and the 19% Kurds?); Bosnia across
California; Beirut in the third biggest oil
country- Maybe partitioning Iraq could mitigate or prevent the
coming bloodbath
- Nov 4, 03 ; TALK SHOW
(audio) on subj.- 40min w Barry Farber- Dec
4 Brown U. Conf. on Kurds
(audio) 4:03 min- Oct 1
HUNTING TRUTH -
The Trouble with Harry-
MediaChannel
Exclusive Is
the Veep's story as honest as the
Iraqi WMD's?, Accident report shows much
closer distance than 90 ft claimed- smaller
pellet spread, too many pellets + too much
penetration; Cheney + Willeford abandon him
and go 100 yards farther, Cheney shoots him
behind him in the safe zone in a line towards the car,
"Witness" sees everything from
inside car 100 yards away; with Interviews of Corpus Christi
reporters;
investigative shotgun pattern comparisons;
Whittington blasted by 2/3 of shot in shell!- March 24
CRIME
STORY -(gif) Dec 94 - UNTOLD STORY of
REASONS Behind 1st CHECHEN WAR - Exclusive; Hijackings of Buses
with Children, Raids
+ Stripping of Trains, Hundreds of Billions
of Counterfeiting, Vicious Chechen Mafia;
Historical Genocides and Hatreds; STORY Western
Media repeated was simplistic "Soviet
Bear Rising" HTML vers
(hear '94 NPR
talk show on Chechen War + rise of Russian Mafia)
NPR
Comments on Moscow theater storming- slider
to 25:30
AN
OUNCE OF PREVENTION AlterNet Scoop
Sept 2005
ALT
ALT2
Against every rule of
occupation, almost no effort was made to
secure the vast munitions stores of Iraq
after the invasion; 250,000 tons, 39% of the ordinance was looted by
insurgents and is killing our soldiers
every day. IED deaths have more than doubled in the
last year- now 71% of US hostile fatalities, and there's
enough looted armaments to make
ten 500 lb IED's a
day for the next 274 years.
Interview
of Military Intelligence agent
who reveals how even an ammo dump next to
huge US base was negligently allowed to be
looted.
NSA Director Gen. William Odom (news article) -
exclusive (REALAUDIO)- 52
min Dissects
strategic blunder of Iraq,
escape strategies, geopolitical consequences,
Iran attack, Korea- April 7 -
Watson Institute Brown Univ.
-
OpedNews,
Scoop
+ 69,000 venues-
My Questions
7m (wma)
ECONOMY
THE BUSH
BATTERED DOLLAR - Scoop, OpedNews -April '08 In the News
Malaga, Spain: With 4-6 trillion dollars of tax
cuts to
the rich + his wanton war, Bush has rung
up more deficits than all Presidents combined.
Since he took office, the dollar has dropped 47%, 8% in just a
recent
5 weeks- halving the value of trillions of dollars
of foreign investments. For Americans living
abroad the slow sickening slide of the dollar
is devastating- every week less Rubles or
Euros or Crowns. The now worthless Republican-deregulated
junk mortgage derivative bonds are supposedly
more than all the real stocks and bonds put
together... and world markets are hanging by a thread.
Swiss UBS Bank just wrote off $37 billion,
and Japan could have $300 billion of losses.
A collapse by any major player could create a chain reaction that
would cause
a worldwide collapse. Desperate to prevent that, the Fed injected
$500 bil just to stabilize things. Lehman
Bros collapses, Merril sold, AIG,
WashMutual tottering
THE SOCIAL SECURITY SCAM + DEBT BOMB - SS trust fund has no cash, so Bush's privatization
plan would need to borrow $200-300 bil a year
but Deficit
is real threat to SSS; Dollar has dropped 38% since mid 2001-
disaster if foreigners stop
buying our bonds that fund deficit, let alone
sell them- Mar 10, 05
Energy Bulletin,
Los Angeles Herald, SCOOP -NZ,
Smkg
Chp
IT'S THE
ECONOMY, STUPID- (Don't Wreck It) -
onlinejournal.com-
Greenspan endorses a tax cut; Danger of George
Bush's $1.6 tril one- Jan 26, 2001
CALIFORNIA
ENERGY RIPOFF WASN'T JUST CRIME- 6
power companies, led by Enron, by manipulating
power production, raised rates up to 90 fold; CAL paid in
one day what it had been paying in 3 months;
Used this vast scam to punish Gore voting
state (+12%) and depose Dem governor; secret Cheney Energy Task Force
likely plotted Iraq war - May '06
Bartcop, Buzzflash
SPACE + SCIENCE
My LECTURE (wma)
@
MOHYLA U, KIEV
Are We Cooked? Global
Warming Worse
VOYAGES
to
NEW
WORLDS:
though
the end of the Shuttle means we are
dependent on Russian launches, a plethora
of unmanned missions are happening: the Dawn orbited the second biggest
asteroid Vesta July 16th
(330mi. diam. and will go on to the biggest Ceres in a year (arrive 2015) -
590mi diam. with
significant water ice); the $1.1 bil JUNO
spacecraft blasted off Aug 5th for a 5-6 year trip to a a polar
orbit
of Jupiter, the Mini
Cooper-size Curiosity
rover takes off for Mars on
Thanksgiving; and the Sun has
had the longest period of quiet + cool in shenkrecorded history:
from
2006-2009, 800 days without a sunspot, yet we still had the hottest
years in history (now maybe back 4 million
years) in 2005 + 2010, when
the cool sun was negating some of the Global Warming!
But, the 11 year-cycle warmer solar maximum
is in 2013-2014, when the coming Great
Drought may hit- Texas everywhere. July 2011 Dawn
leaves
Vesta
for
Ceres 9/5/2012
ARE WE COOKED?- Global
Warming Worse Than You Think new 8
Latest Scientific Findings each show warming
will be much worse than worst case estimate;
850,000 yr old 4 km Antarctic ice cores prove
radical temperature changes 5-12C happened
as fast as 3 years; CO2 generation exploding from Chinese (+
Indian)
coal power plants; Methane's threat from
melting tundra and gigantic ocean bottom
methane hydrate deposits (twice all other fossil fuels combined!);
High altitude sulfur from commercial jets
have cooled the whole earth 1 C- so real
global warming is over double what we see, and airline collapses
could instantly raise
worldwide temps; 1/3 of Gulf
Stream not flowing North; 1/3 of warming from black
atmospheric soot
from soaring coal burning; Catastrophic ice sheet collapse into deep
ocean could make worldwide killer tsunamis; 8 Feedback
loops multiply effects many
fold, inc. ice pack going from 90% reflecting
to 80% absorbing; CO2 in oceans released as it gets warmer;
increased
CO2 in ocean dissolving limestone shells, deforesting
a WA state every year; Interviews w 5 top GW scientists fm Nasa
Goddard, UAlaska, USGS, UCLA - coming;
CLOUD
WORLD: MISSION to TITAN- Jan
14,2005 - the 11 year $3 billion Cassini mission to Saturn,
successfully dropped a landing probe into
the most earthlike atmosphere in the Solar System, the heavy
clouds of
Titan, the largest moon in the solar system- at
3200 mi. diameter, bigger than planet Mercury,
and with an atmosphere- (94 % nitrogen, 6%
methane)
1.5 X Earth’s pressure and 4½X as dense. But it is a
bitter -178C
(-290F), leading to speculation of
lakes, oceans, and volcanoes of
liquid methane-
photos seem to show that
(inc.)-With interview of Huygens scientist
European Space Agency, Germany-
SCOOP (NZ),
MSN-UK
LUNAR ECLIPSE -
total lunar eclipse May 15, 2003- PHOTOS-
20 to 40 power from video stills
FAIRWELL COLUMBIA-
The nightmare of manned spacecraft- an
immolating reentry- finally has struck after
being staved off for 42 years. What should
NASA have done to prevent it? Personal wonders
of space. -
Liberal Slant
2/3
A WARM + BRIGHT FUTURE
part 1+2 gif-(
Maui Time- Sept 1+15, 98)- Evidence and
results of
worldwide unprecedented
warming- hottest ten years in last 2000
all since 1981. 1998 hottest
year ever, 1997 hottest before that, each
month a new world's record. Discusses Nitrogen
oxide, methane, + water vapor's huge contributions
(3-5 TIMES what we've been computing).
Part 1 - Evidence for worldwide global warming-
PART 2 What we can do + what we will do; Weather
extremes + resulting deaths..
Letter from
VP Gore about article
HTML
FULL Article
US NEWS + World Report cover article on
Global
Warming 2/28/00 - Antarctic Meltdown,
WEST ANTARCTIC
ICESLIDE 4800
Cu. Mi. ARCTIC ICE MELTED- 2-17-05 new
The STATE of SPACE
Oct'97 Likelihood of space disaster
in Russian space program and Mir (from 2
years in Russia); America's mistakes (predicts
cost cutting would lead to lost missions-
subsequently 3 Mars and several launches
met disaster) + needs in space and latest
wonders from Galileo spacecraft around Jupiter:
massive water ocean on Europa; and Cassini
launch to Saturn and Titan.
IT'S THE END OF THE
WORLD AS WE KNOW IT - Science + history behind meteor,
asteroid,
+ cometary impacts (rel. to
Armageddon + Deep Impact movies-
8/98)
STORMING LIONS -- Nov 18th, 2001+ Nov '98 Leonid Meteor
Showers w
End of World article above
FOLLY OF CUTTING SPACE SPENDING- (
Providence Journal)
Miracles of Voyager revelations- Jupiter
+ Saturn Moons; Madness of Reagan plan to
cut funding for receipt of data from Uranus
+ Neptune
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH
THE NEWS, ALL THE NEWS + NOTHING BUT THE
NEWS --
(scroll right) Columbia
Journalism Review (page 1 of 4) ...
911
+
SECURITY
WHO'S SAYIN
HUSSEIN NOW? -
Scoop Bin Laden's death
is good news, but
his quick disposal will fuel conspiracy theories:
monsters must be displayed to prove they
are gone- PolPot, Ceaseacu, Mussolini; Better
he rotted in a US prison- now he become myth
and martyr; But America was changed and damaged
forever, by it's own overreaction and Bush's
Oedipal criminal invasion of Iraq; $3 trillion of endless
war + 400,000 dead
9-11 NARCISSISM - The Oliver Stone movie World Trade Center is another
moving hagiopic to the terrible
sacrifice of 9-11. But we've been celebrating
ourselves for being victims for 5 years now,
and it's too much. It's time to stop congratulating
ourselves for something we didn't do. And
we didn't do many things.- Aug 2006 Scoop, Worldnews
UNPATRIOTIC SPYING - OpedNews,
Scoop,
Online
Journal The FBI is doing full spectrum
warrantless
monitoring of 30,000 people a year, but are there even 3000
legitimate
terrorism suspects a year? Now the
Pentagon, CIA, NSA have also been spying
on Americans- all illegally or illegitimately.
No judge, no magistrate, no control, no limits;
Records are open to state, local, and corporate
"authorities" and are never destroyed. Thousands can rip
through anyone's life,
and could this vindictive administration
avoid persecuting critics? With stunning
revelation from Joe Wilson. Jan 5, 06
COULD
AMERICA GO BAD? -
What would America do if we were hit
with a terrorist nuclear attack ... with
this President, Congress, and a packed Supreme
Court? Hyperbolic nightmare scenario- Nov
23-
Op-Ed
News, USA Editorial, Tokyo Hello, North American
Media, Chinese American News, Saudi Post,
Hiroshima Post, Scoop,
Liberia Sport, Turkmen Post, Tunesia Cup,
World News Network
MIXED SIGNALS-
President Bush has promised to punish states
that shelter terrorists while soliciting
Pakistan + Iran's help, 2 of the leading
supporters of terrorism// Now he claims we
won't overthrow the Taliban, but then whom
is this war against?- Sept 22,2001-
Liberal
Slant Interview
w Commander Massoud (saying Paki army were fighting w Taliban-
reporter killed in Israel in April)
WTC Ruins 12/6
More PHOTOS
A BRUTAL WAKE-UP CALL
- We have been heedless and careless in failing
to dispatch bin Laden, protect our airliners
w skymarshals or an air cap over our cities;
blind in our ignorance of the growing Palestinian
rage; stupid in our cruel embargo of a crushed
foe; arrogant in our imagined invulnerability//
Our enemies noticed...but will reap the whirlwind-
Liberal Slant-Sept 12,01
WTC Summit
PHOTO'S More
AIRLINE INSECURITY-5
months after 9-11 gaping security holes
exist in the airline system. "Screening"
now means "passenger bag matching",
but they can't even manage that for the connecting
flight; Skymarshals are nowhere to be found,
even by pilots; and up to 50,000 Al Qaeda
members lust for revenge; 2200 bag scanning
machines are needed by Dec- new orders since
911?-
ten until
March 5-
March 12,02 ALT
Radio
Comments
STEPHEN FLYNN
(audio) Radio News Report - author +
director of
HART-RUDMAN Report on America's
continued huge vulnerability
to terrorism -4:52,
Watson
Institute, Brown U.
2/10/2003
Council
on Foreign Relations Sn. Fellow -
Oct 2002
Task Force inc. Gary Hart, Warren Rudman, William Webster,
Warren Christopher, George Shultz, 2 Joint
Chiefs; Flynn's
Senate Testimony
on containers
GARY HART
(full audio) 5:10 min Mar 18,03- Senator,
Pres.
candidate and Chairman of Nat. Security Commission
- Brown U lecture on US security on eve of
Iraq War
IRAQ
WAR
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION Sept 2005 AlterNet Scoop
ALT
ALT2
Against every rule of
occupation, almost no effort was made to
secure the vast munitions stores of Iraq
after the invasion; 250,000 tons, 39% of the ordinance was looted by
insurgents and is killing our soldiers
every day. IED deaths have more than doubled in the
last year- now
71% of US hostile fatalities, and
there's enough looted armaments to
make
ten 500 lb IED's a day for the next 274 years.
Interview of Military Intelligence agent
who reveals how even an ammo dump next to
huge US base was negligently allowed to be
looted.
OVER THERE
- Capital Times Feb 26 HTML Bush claims we
are fighting them there so they won't
come here, and that seems logical, even to some liberals;
After all there haven't been more attacks
in America- Feb 15
NO
RESPONSIBILITY IN BUSH'S FANTASY WORLD ALT Bush steamed straight
ahead in a speech
that penalized no one for the systematic
brutalization of our Army prisoner policy
and ignored the insanity of dumping entire
Iraq mess on a government in 5 weeks that
doesn't exist -May 25
SmrkCp
STOPPING the NEXT BOSNIA- comn. scoop Capital Times
(
online)-Dec
13,
FULL version.
- It seems obvious we will be forced out
of Iraq, which will explode into Civil War
between the 63% Shiites and 17% Sunni former
rulers (and the 19% Kurds?); Bosnia across
California; Beirut in the third biggest oil
country- Maybe
partitioning Iraq could mitigate or prevent the
coming bloodbath
- Nov 4;
TALK SHOW
(audio) on subj.- 40min w
Barry Farber- Dec
4
Brown U. Conf. on Kurds
(audio)
4:03 min-
Oct 1
BUSH's BIG BETRAYAL
-
comn. scoop First
Cheney + Co. tried to bully the CIA
into claiming Iraq was an imminent threat;
then they created their own “intelligence”
outfit, which incorporated every wild rumor
to fuel Bush's War. Now that the Iraq Niger
uranium purchase was proved a cheap forgery
Bush knew about for a year, Cowards betray
CIA second time by
trying to blame them. Worse, they
punish Ambassador that reported
on Niger forgery by
outing his wife as a CIA agent; The CIA has
many ways to hurt him; imperial
lies, stupidities, and distortions carefully
filed and indexed. -
Smirking
Chimp ,
Liberal
Slant ,
Buzzflash ,
Bartcop- July 23
FIRM of MIND, SOFT on
FACTS - 3-18 Bush has, with a steady stream of
lies, deceptions, and propaganda, has managed
to convince half the country that Saddam
supports Al Qaida or
even was behind 9-11. Iraq invasion
historic blunder that may
echo through the decades-
Liberal Slant, Bartcop ALT
WARBLOG
BUSH's
WANTON WAR- Saddam is a monster, but Bush's militancy
is due to the '93 plot to kill his father
and upcoming elections, not any imminent
danger or 9-11 guilt. Punishing enemies is
a family tradition, where he started his
career-
Liberal Slant, Bartcop 10/12/02
LOCAL
ALTER
SANCTIONS
ON SANCTIONS- (
Moscow Guardian- Aug 20, 93)- Uselessness
+ immorality of
endless sanctions- In Iraq, Cuba, Serbia,
South Africa; Hurting the innocents rather
than the leaders
IRAN + BIG BIDNESS
BOMBING IRAN - Action against
the nuclear facilities of
Iran is said to be impossible, but this is
a
real urgent security concern; Iran has consistently
been the most murderous terroristic nation
+ has a perverse obsession with martyrdom;
Extremist leader Ahmadinejad still sees America
as the
Great Satan; For quarter century the world has known-
Iran must never possess nuclear weapons- what's changed now
? Reckless dishonest Iraq invasion paralyzes
all options-
4/'06
NEW HOPE for IRAN html- (scroll
right
below)
NPR
TOTN
comments on Iran- 1/22/03 Move
slider to 21:45-24:40
Overwhelming election of Khatami; likelihood
of overthrow of Islamic dictators. A country
of children: 70% under 25 years, 40% under
14- tired of sexual and cultural repression:
strict segregation of sexes, no dances, Western
videos, movies, handholding. Corruption of
ruling mullahs and perversion of Islamic
values: 98% of clergy NOT in leadership.
Origin of Shiite's obsession with death and
sacrifice. America's options- (forecasts
lifting of Rushdie Fatwa) - June
'97
PLUS
GRAPHIC
of BOTH ARTICLES
MONSTER MERGER MANIA - July
'97
Bishop
Estate Firestorm - Hon. Advertiser Aug 17, '97
$800
billion of mergers a year. Good for the economy,
improve efficiency, good for stockholders?
Untold is brutal downsizing of target company
workers, crushing load of debt, monopolist
concentration of power, and obscene amount
of executive profits. Criticizes crooked
management of Bishop Estate, largest charity
in US: 2 weeks later Governor ordered massive
investigation-
West Hawaii Today html
OUR
FAILURE OF WILL IN IRAN - (
East Side/West Side-also in
Providence Journal)-Dec
'79-Jan '80 Outrage of Iran Hostage
Crisis + our weakness in dealing with it
NORTH
KOREA + NUCLEAR THREAT
SPEAKING
LOUDLY WITHOUT ANY
STICK - Nightmare of North Korean nukes: the most
dangerous country in the world has started
to mass produce a nuclear arsenal; Administration
response?- no negotiations, no problem;
But Saddam needs crushing; History
of NK terrorism-
Liberal Slant 1/4/03 ALTER
TREMBLING
ON THE BRINK--
Pakistan + India have mobilized almost
all their forces and
are marching towards a war that neither can
control; Both countries have 30-100 nuclear
bombs and the missiles to deliver them; With
such tiny numbers, paranoia and pressure
for a first strike could be irresistible-
a threat that will last a decade-
Online Journal
1/16/02 Cover
ALT HTML
VULNERABLE WINDOW of OPPORTUNITY (2 panel gif- pan right)
NEXT STAR
of BETHLEHEM – meaning of Israeli nuclear arsenal
Chance
to buy + destroy Soviet missiles and
bombs- Moscow Tribune ‘93
Seattle Times '87
MAD
FANTASY OF LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR-2 panel gif- scroll right (
Prov.Journal)
Dangerous lunacy and impossibility of limited
nuclear warfighting strategies
A WARM + BRIGHT FUTURE (orig .-1/2 pending OCR) - Threat of nuclear war w visit to FEMA
defense
center, and detailed effects of 20 meg blast
on NYC (long mag. art.)
CHINA
RISING
DRAGON Feb '97 Dangers of China burgeoning wealth
and power. Aggressive actions in firing missiles
22 miles from Taipei, huge amphibious landing
"training", occupying Spratley
Is., murdering Tibetans and their culture,
rage + paranoia over world acknowledging
Taiwan.1.23 billion people- if they all
run east at noon, they could change the rotation
of the earth, and 20 mil added every year-
2 people every 3 seconds.
LETTER
fm US Sen JACK REED (D-RI) about article
PAKISTAN +
INDIA
MIXED
SIGNALS- President Bush has promised to punish states
that shelter terrorists while soliciting
Pakistan + Iran's help, 2 of the leading
supporters of terrorism// Now he claims we
won't overthrow the Taliban, but then whom
is this war against?- Sept 22,2001-
Liberal
Slant Interview
w Commander Massoud (saying Paki army were fighting w Taliban-
reporter killed in Israel in April)
WTC Ruins 12/6 More PHOTOS
TREMBLING
ON THE BRINK--
Pakistan + India have mobilized almost
all their forces and
are marching towards a war that neither can
control; Both countries have 30-100 nuclear
bombs and the missiles to deliver them; With
such tiny numbers, paranoia and pressure
for a first strike could be irresistible-
a threat that will last a decade-
Online Journal
1/16/02 Cover
ALT HTML
ISRAEL
WHY THEY HATE US
- Israel's savage assault on Lebanon is
shattering the rebuilt country and threatening
the tenuous government, all with GB2's blessing;
Hezbollah are bad guys, but destroying the
only Western-style free Middle East country
will have long term poisonous effects, creating
thousands of Hezbollah/Hamas recruits and
perhaps reigniting the hideous civil war-
July 24, 2006
- Scoop, Smrk Chp
BLIND FAITH- War Without End- Bush, who received only 47% of
the vote,
has demanded the removal of Arafat (whom
he's never met), who received 88%, though
the most likely successor is
Hamas. Our extreme tilt towards
Israeli hard liners
risks our position as an honest broker of
peace, increases potential US terrorists
from a few thousand to millions, and perhaps
extended our war a decade. The
real problem in the Middle East-
Liberal Slant- July 15,02 ALTERN
NEXT
STAR of BETHLEHEM – Seattle Times '87 meaning of Israeli nuclear
arsenal
AVNER COHEN (aud)
- Israeli historian of their nuclear
program; Author- Israel and the Bomb, The
Last Taboo Question when America knew about
Israeli bomb + if Israel has missile silos
and IRBMs- Brown U Watson Institute- Feb
10, 05 5:50 min
DENNIS ROSS (aud)-
Ambassador + Mideast Negotiator -
1:36 min April 29, 03 Brown U. - about difference
between US Camp David proposal + Arafat claims;
whether Abu Mazen will be endangered by plan
to confiscate arms
RAYMOND COHEN- (aud- threat of Shiite control in Iraq
3:14) Israeli terrorism expert 4-23-03-
Palestinian Peace
prospects (3:36), Brown U., Watson Institute,
Rabin Assasination,
CAIRO
CALM - new CAIRO: Obama makes
a historic speech in the heart of the
Arab World June 4th. A Feb 22nd terrorist
bombing in Cairo sounded like business as
usual... but Cairo is really one of safest
cities in world, where one can walk
anywhere at 3am; and never
hear an anti-Western sentiment in 2 months;
partly due to the civilizing
effect of Islam, which
punishes rude, criminal,or violent behavior,
but Egyptians are really special-a warm blend of world peoples-
Scoop, OpEdNews
MEDIA CRITIQUE
LIVING in the DANGER ZONE -
new COA
News, MediaChannel Reporters risk themselves in war zones for
far more than glory, Vulnerability of freelancers,
Tales of personal terror in the dissolving
Russian Empire; A prayer for Jill Caroll-
Jan 20, 2006
THE
COPYCAT EFFECT- proves sensational media coverage of
deadly
mayhem causes people to copy it; Loren Coleman's
important new book; Media + journalistic
response; Ethics and better approaches; Analysis
of newsmags coverage of murder; Imminent
risks: CLEAR and
PRESENT DANGERS - Columbine + Waco/OKC bombing anniversaries
and apocalyptic cults re. miniseries Revelations;
w interviews of cult members + experts
GETTING GOOD NEWS: The
Government vs. the Press in Times of
War (audio) - Mike's
BROWN U. Lecture - History of Press
restrictions in War since
WW2; How Vietnam changed everything and made
the media the enemy; 30 min., Salomon Hall,
Brown Univ., Dec 13 POSTER
"WHOOPS"-
How the Networks Got
it Wrong-
PROBLEM POLLING POLICY -
Nat. Scoop-
Intellectual Capita1-
11/25/00 - Inside story on the screw-ups
(3-4) at the VNS and Florida counties that
caused the networks to blow the election
call in a strong article/analysis/commentary
against the networks and projection policy
and the squirrelly polls w interviews w TV
news execs, Walter Cronkite, Florida officials,
pollsters, Sen. Gorton and VNS people, voting
machine reps.-
MediaChannel.org- 12/26/00 Anchor of largest
media related
network.
IF
DOESN'T LOAD Issue
Cover Talk Show
DUNNING
DEAN- nat. scoop - DID the DOCTOR GET
GORED - mediachannel HTML COLUMNIZED Did
the media try to destroy Howard Dean
by harping on his liberalness and inexperience
(both untrue), and electability until it
became a self-fulfilling prophecy with Dems
desperate to defeat Bush? Analysis of coverage
of campaign fm
Wash. Post, Newsweek, New Republic, US News, TV
debates; + my NH reporting- Jan 26
NETWORK
NEWS HEADS IN THE DOCK - Tauzin Hearings Confused by Red
Herrings,
Election Woes-
Exclusive
Comprehensive Jigsaw Narrative of Tauzin
Hearings testimony +
Network Reports (CNN,CBS,ABC,RTI) + Our
analysis- with
TABLES +
TIMELINE- Relative Times of Network Calls, Minute
x minute CBS/CNN Election Nt Miscall Timeline-
March 13, 2001-
MediaChannel.org -
Issue Cover
RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL of TELEVISION- War of
the Vladimirs.. Return to the Bad
Old Days?- Putin Has Taken Control of 2 Other Networks;
Strengthened Press Ministry; Prosecuted and
Persecuted Gusinsky's (+ Berezovsky's) Media
Empire- History of, Reasons for, + Meaning
of Conflict- with
timeline - mediachannel.org- April
9,01 3000 or 1500
wd
Issue Cover TALK
SHOW Comments on Reporter Attacks - (move
slider to 44:40)
THE
NEWS, ALL THE NEWS, AND NOTHING BUT THE
NEWS- (
Columbia Journalism Review)- more complete
version from
Isthmus, Madison WI
Analysis + examination of plethora of late
late night news programs; Distilled from
22 page art.; CBS Nightwatch, NBC Overnight,
ABC Last Word, America Tonight, + others;
1st page of 4
Columbia
Journalism Review version- scroll right
PRIVATE
WARS - Feb '84
Analyzed media's ability to cover wars in
Vietnam, + Predicted new restrictive
policies in Grenada, Lebanon, Falklands was
ominous trend that could cripple Press ability
to cover conflicts
Jan '91
Press is rigidly
controlled in Gulf War, not allowed free
movement or to talk to soldiers without officers
present; Reporters set out on their own
+ are captured + tortured by Iraqis
1989
RUSSIA - SOVIET UNION
WINDS OF
CHANGE - Predicts collapse of the Warsaw Pact +
possible end of the Cold War in June '89...
5 months before the Berlin Wall fell
1993-94 >>> from Russia chronological
SANCTIONS ON SANCTIONS- (
Moscow Guardian- Aug 20, 93)-
Uselessness + immorality of
endless sanctions- In Iraq, Cuba, Serbia,
South Africa; Hurting the innocents rather
than the leaders
PLUS
GRAPHIC of
BOTH
A VULNERABLE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY-scroll right (
Moscow
Tribune- Mar 5, 93) Chance to buy + decommission
Ukrainian, Kazakh, Byelorussian Nuclear bombs
and Plutonium; Cheap at any price....
THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE- (
Mos News- April 23,93) Supreme Court
Justice Valerie
Zorkin plotting perilous middle road in power
struggle between Yeltsin and Parliament +
allies Veep Rutskoi and Speaker of Congress;
Rule of law new concept in Russia
PLUS
GRAPHIC of
BOTH
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVILS- scr. down (
Moscow Guardian- Jun
11,93) Dismissal of prosecutors in
'91 Coup plotters case; Perversion of law
in typical Soviet style; Prosecutors go on
trial for libel while plotters go free-
WELCOME TO DODGE- VIOLENCE TAKING ROOT IN
MOSCOW-
scroll right (
Moscow News-English-
most respected liberal paper in
Russia)-Aug 27,93-
Epidemic of Gangland shootouts, contract
murders, government willful ignorance of
organized crime. Dangerous effects of violence
+ death; What can + must be done
HTML
1st
PLUS
GRAPHIC of
BOTH
UP, UP, AND AWAY- (
Moscow News- Sept 24, 93) Effects and
dangers of rampant inflation
(2600%)
NOT SO DANDY LITTLE WAR -(
Moscow Tribune- Oct 15,93)
reflections on Oct '93 revolt;
~200 killed in attempted Yeltsin overthrow;
Yeltsin's possible culpability; 25 Government
soldiers that defended television center
from 3000 Communists
PLUS
GRAPHIC of
BOTH
THE CULT OF THE WARRIOR -scroll right (
MosNews-) Wry
commentary on Russians' penchant for
ritualistic abuse and casual violence; Rude,
sullen, offensive service possibly cured
by Mafia murders...
24 Hours in an October Revolt - Moscow OCTOBER REVOLT - Oct
1-2, 1993
- Communist Revolt that almost Overthrew Yeltsin
- 200-500 died; Speaker of Parliament
+ Vice President urged violent attack on
Mayors Skyscraper + Ostankino TV Studios with live AUDIO
Reports + 10 year anniv.
report
A MORE PERFECT UNION - scroll right (
MosNews- Nov 26,93)
Russia's cynical effort to cripple
CIS states Georgia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan,
Estonia; Territory lust + yearning for reunifying
Soviet Union vs. new morality and
poverty
HTML vers.
PLUS
GRAPHIC of
BOTH
FORTIFYING THE CASTLE- (
MosNews- Jan 10,94) Yeltsin's move
to strengthen
the presidency + weaken other political groups
could lead to disaster when he's gone; Dec
'93 elections results- loss of Russia's Choice,
Zhirinovsky, crimes of KGB ...
HTLM vers.
THE BLUES CALLING- (
Moscow News Nov 5,93) Funny take on
diseased Moscow
phone system and a listing of it's many ailments
PLUS
GRAPHIC
of BOTH
AROUND THE WORLD IN 63 DAYS- scroll down (
We/Mui- Feb
7,94 weekly- Moscow/Wash DC -Hearst/Izvestia)-
(Full Front Page-2nd sec) story of round
the world Russia aircraft expedition, hitting
50 odd countries, 7 continents, in antique
planes.. inc. Soviet DC-3.. In
Russian
+ English editions
1994
MOVIE REVIEW- Tombstone-- Moscow Radisson Slavjansky
Hotel-
Moscow News-Jan 94
HTML vers.
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH
A BOY NAMED SUE - (
Mos News- Feb 94) -scroll right-
Funny reflection on
Russian penchants + redundancy of names:
60% of country are Sergei, Oleg, Lena, +
Natasha; COMMUNIST names- Tractor, Vladlen;
Persecution of "unsafe" names so
better stick w old stalwarts
HTML Vers.
RUMBLES
in the SOUTH (Pt 1)-html 7/93 Article about the Moslem wars
of the South (Armenia/Azerbaijan,Georgia,Abkhazia,Tadjikistan)
that morphs into an argument for Russia to
not sell submarines and advanced arms to
Iran (rel. to Gore/Iran deal) - ROUGH DRAFT
(rumbles.gif);
Page 2-
(rumbles2.gif)
QUÉ SERA SERA-
html
Rumination on the vagaries of fate, fatalism,
and the line between life + death: in the
Russian Oct. revolt, Mt. St. Helens explosion,
+ the Moscow metro- Nov '93
from
RUSSIA (AUDIO) RADIO TALK SHOWS - KING-am Seattle, Radio South Africa Reports,
Press Conference Questions
1994-95
TV
TALK SHOW on RUSSIA (Audio)- 13th State, WSBE -Ch
36, Providence RI - VIDEO (real)- 2:25 min
Only Guest - 1/2 Hour - RealPlayer
streaming G2 File fm Realproducer
8
CRIME
STORY -(gif
) Dec 94
- UNTOLD STORY of
REASONS Behind
1st CHECHEN WAR -
Exclusive;
Hijackings of Buses with Children, Raids
+ Stripping of Trains, Hundreds of Billions
of Counterfeiting, Vicious Chechen Mafia;
Historical Genocides and Hatreds; STORY Western
Media repeated was simplistic "Soviet
Bear Rising"
HTML vers
(hear '94
NPR
talk show on Chechen War + rise of Russian Mafia)
NPR
Comments on Moscow theater storming-
slider to 25:30
RUSSIAN MAFIA + CHECHEN WAR (audio)- KUOW-FM Seattle- NPR- Weekday
Talk Show - Dec 94 - 20 min REALPLAYER
SPEAKER ABOUT "RUSSIA on the EDGE"- Ad for my lecture on
Russia and its myriad
problems
PRESS HERE
THE NEW
EVIL EMPIRE - The Mafiya in Russia- details the rise
of the vicious Russian Mafia and full-scale
'93 gang war intercut with my kidnapping
at gunpoint in St. Petersburg 3 days after
Soviet Union collapsed (avail only on special
request) -5700 wds
1996-98
THE SWAN HAS
FLOW AWAY - West Hawaii Today Oct '96
Firing
of Russian Gen. Lebed from Security
Council-
- The most popular and toughest politician
in Russia driven from Yeltsin's government;
Litany of his offenses;
NON-WAGE
SLAVES -
Johnson
Russia List - Sept 10, '98 (
Center for Defense Information +
Carnegie
Corp) Abusive Russian habit of not paying workers
or creditors, employees for months- including
submarine captains and nuclear workers; Makes
business ex. difficult and semi-criminalized;
Security concerns
BACK
TO THE FUTURE -
Johnson Russia List
- Sept 29, '98 Disastrous reappointment
of Victor Gerashchenko as Russian Central
Bank Chrmn, whose reckless policies caused
40,000% hyperinflation before- regarded as
worst central banker in the world
2000-2001
SEASON
of PLAGUES - Russian
Kursk Submarine + Ostankino TV
tower disasters-
Aug 29, 2000
RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL of TELEVISION- War of
the Vladimirs.. Return to the Bad
Old Days?-
mediachannel.org- April 9,01 - Putin Has Taken
Control of
2 Other Networks; Strengthened Press Ministry;
Prosecuted and Persecuted Gusinsky's (+ Berezovsky's)
Media Empire- History of, Reasons for, +
Meaning of Conflict- with
timeline - 3000
or 1500 wd
Issue Cover TALK
SHOW Comments on Reporter Attacks - (move
slider to 44:40)
2003
10th
Anniversary of Moscow Oct '93
Revolt -
2003 (
EXCLUSIVE
AUDIO) -
VIOLENT COMMUNIST
ATTACK that ALMOST DEPOSED
YELTSIN --200 killed in 2 days of battles at WHITE
HOUSE and OSTANKINO TV CENTER ;
w article 24 Hours in October
Revolt +
Photos AUDIO ONLY - 7:20 min
2006
LIVING in the DANGER ZONE - new COA
News, MediaChannel Reporters risk themselves in war zones for
far more than glory, Vulnerability of freelancers,
Tales of personal terror in the dissolving
Russian Empire; A prayer for Jill Caroll-
Jan 20, 2006
2007>>> from Russia
FADING
FREEDOMS- Capital Times - from Moscow (must
view in IE) Step by step democracy
has become a fading
photograph of the nineties, as Putin restricts,
harrasses and crushes political independence,
the free press, and concentrates all power
in the Kremlin; Giant state industries reconstituting
as the state forces out foreign oilcos- March
24, 2007 LONG with Pics
RATTLING RUSTING SABERS- from Moscow- The US's proposed "missile shield"
in Eastern Europe has provoked a heated reaction
by Russia; Encircled by NATO against promises,
facing renewed US nuclear development and
bases in FSU, the US cancelling ABM treaty
+ non-proliferation regimes; Have the Russians
been betrayed? Heavy handed cutoffs of gas
+ oil supplies to neighbors have led them to seek shelter with the West,
no matter how destabilizing. Can Russia glean
respect without threats? April 2007 OpedNews,
Scoop
DEATH OF A BEAR
- from Moscow Boris Yeltsin, despite
his faults, was a courageous decent leader
and a historical giant; Tagged with much
that wasn't his fault, the early Boris broke
up the largest empire on earth without bloodshed
+ ended the Cold War that could have killed
500 million- Scoop, Johnson Russia List, OpedNews- April 22,
2007
PUTIN'S CHILDREN
(Orig.) - International Herald Tribune/NYT -
SCAN
July 6 - from
Moscow The Putin Youth groups: Nashi, Young
Guard, Young Russia; badger and terrorize anyone who even differs
with Kremlin positions; By propagandizing
the vulnerable, is the Kremlin poisoning
the seed corn of young minds? On June 12th,
Russian Independence Day, Red Sq. was reserved
for the Party faithful po
Ryccki ONLINE
IHT vers.
THE INFINITE
PUTIN - Capital Times ORIGINAL new Moscow:
Putin is supposed to leave office in March,
but that was impossible to believe. Appointing
unknown crony Viktor Zubkov PM (told only the
day before and rammed through
rubber stamp Congress 2 days later) ends
the doubt. Zubkov will be anointed President
(+ win), Putin will become Prime Minister,
and Zubkov will resign in 6-12 months to
let Vladimir Vladimirovich return as Prez.
Massive conflicts of interests in the Kremlin,
where mini oligarch ministers control the
biggest corporations in the world and can't
separate their interests from those of the
state, crushing and absorbing competitors.-
October 10, 2007
(On May 7, 2008 Putin
became PM; In 2012 he will return for 12 years as Prez,
the "tandem"
decided)
NO
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL- Moscow:
Putin visited the NKVD killing fields of
Butovo and expressed sympathy for the tens
of millions of victims of the purges and
murders, for the first time; Before he had
exalted the security agencies and diminished
the crimes of his agency; Many places have
had genocidal monsters, but only Russia still
has fans of them; supposedly 35% would vote
for Stalin now if he were running- Oped News ; Nov 07
2008-12>>>
from Ukraine
GEORGIA'S
FOLLY & the RAGE OF THE BEAR - Kiev: Saakashvili's reckless
invasion
of S. Ossetia was bound to provoke a
virulent Russian reaction, but
it has disappeared in the news as the world's
condemnation falls entirely on Russia; McCain's
foreign policy advisor is a paid lobbyist
for Georgia- did he or Administration encourage
this to create a new bugaboo enemy to intimidate
voters, since terrorism wasn't working anymore?;
Georgia isn't Budapest or Prague, but the
Russians can't resist grinding their face
in the dirt as an object lesson for Ukraine,
Estonia, or Poland- Scoop,
OpedNews Aug 19, 2008
NO NATO NOW - PIK (Russian, Ukrainian),
Scoop- KIEV:
The invasion of Georgia scared FSU states,
esp. Ukraine who lobbied fervently for NATO
membership, but that would provoke the exact
crisis it was designed to prevent, which
the callous gas cutoff is showing. Nobody
really wants Ukraine in NATO, the people
(61% against vs 24%), the Rada, and NATO
itself, for whom Ukr instability and Russian
military presence would be destabilizing.-
Dec 2008
TALE OF THREE
WORLDS - Skullduggery
in
the
Sugar
Business- KIEV:
What
is
going on at the Ukrainian Sugar Company, a Mykolayev project
of the commodities
giant ED&F Man with a 25% Ukrainian investor
UPK/TEKT. TEKT claims that the coal bought
for the renovated plant by the Polish managers
is "dead rock" and the new factory is a sweetheart deal
used one; Man and USC say the plant was in such
poor shape they had to replace it, and that original
assets were diverted. After over 2 years
it still hasn't started production - Aug 2009
"DEADLY"
EPIDEMIC in UKRAINE - KIEV: Ukraine panics over swine flu
epidemic but
the numbers don't support anything out of
the ordinary- less deaths or sickness from
flu than last year - Nov 2009
Radio Report (
MP3 audio) -
KIEV: Realplayer -
6:06 min,
Jan
17-18, 2010
Ukrainian voters are exhausted and
disillusioned by the endless vicious battles
between the big 3 candidates: President Yushchenko,
PM Tymoshenko, and former PM Yanukovich,
but after Presidential elections Jan17, one
will soon be gone.- Yushchenko's support
has plummeted to 5%. The top 2 will participate
in the second round runoff in 3 weeks with
Yanukovich (35% -results) leading Timoshenko (25%) by 10%. Early
fresh face former Speaker Yatseniuk (7%)
faded with an atrocious advertising campaign,
but newcomer Sergei Tigipko has surged to
third (13%). Interviews of a dozen voters
in Kiev + Mohyla Academy Political Science
Professor Olexiy Haran.
BLUE STEEL - Billionaire's Boy's Club;
Ukraine Pres Election - Business
Ukraine
KIEV: Mar 25, 2010, Ex-convict
ex-PM
Yanukovich has won the Presidential election by 3.47% points over Tymoshenko
in a 69% turnout. She claimed fraud and
challenged the result in a friendly
Appeals Court (which was threatened in an
occupation by POR MP's weeks ago), but liberals
were dispirited. 4.4% voted "against all". All
election observer groups have declared
the result fair. Yanukovich was
inaugurated Feb 25th. With blinding
speed, her coalition collapsed
and enough of her BYuT delegates and orphaned Our Ukraine
MOP's
defected
to
Yanukovich's
Party of Regions to
give them a majority and end her reign as PM
on March 3.
Yanukovich immediately packed his Cabinet
with the billionaire bosses of the POR, without a single Orange
face, and has moved
to control the Court system and attain absolute
control.Yushchenko's reckless constant
undercutting
of Tymoshenko, no matter what the damage
to the country, has given Ukraine back to
the oligarchs, and to a lesser extent Russia,
as dreams of European integration recede
and Soviet-style corruption returns.
ENDLESS
GAS -
Kyiv
Weekly - April 30
, 2010 Ukraine got some
breathing space on
gas prices- 30% discount in exchange
for 25 years longer stay of Black Sea Fleet, but at what cost;
Tymoshenko's deal was
horrible, Ukr paid among the highest prices
in Europe, but gas is plentiful due to exploding
US (and soon Polish/Ukr) shale gas production
and Ukraine has negligible transportation
costs, so the 30% "discount"
was maybe
4%; Is the next part of this deal turning
over Ukraine's pipelines to Russia, it's
last bargaining chip? With Russia buying
Industrial Union of Donbass, (probably) stage-managing the
Kyrgyz revolt,
helping Ukraine with billions of loans for
nuclear power plants- Russia is rising, and
looking to extend it's web of influence throughout
Ukraine
TAKEOVER
-
Kyiv Weekly May
20,2010
Can
Ukraine
Remain
Independent -
FULL Putin's
suggestion that Gazprom and Naftogaz
merge hit with a thunderclap; At 6% value, Naftogaz would be devoured by Gazprom and
Ukraine would be under Moscow's thumb; Oligarchs
maybe last guarantors of Ukr independence-
they would lose immense powers being vassals
of Moscow; Yanukovich resists proposal- Ukrainians
have been managing Russian overlordship for
centuries
THE
BEAR'S EMBRACE -
Kyiv Weekly May
27,
2010 FULL
Pres. Medvedev comes to Kiev- signs deals
on nuclear loans and plant-building; joint
aviation projects; controversial border "resolution" and joint Rukrainian textbook production
to howls from marginalized opposition; Answers
questions at Taras Shevchenko U; Linguistic
war against Russian is over- deep sense of
comfort among Russian speakers;
Yanukovich
attacked
by
Mother
Nature
DON'T
BE
SAD,
BE
BOTANICAL - Botanical gardens of Kiev - Kyiv
Weekly- May 27
The beauty of Kiev's 2
Botanichsky Sads- the central one by
Universitet Metro, and
the huge Vydubichy one south
ABSOLUTE
POWER - 
