Lyndon LaRouche,Tragedy and Hope

www.counterpunch.org/roberts08262008.html

".......The real issues are suffocated by the media. The American middle class is being destroyed by jobs offshoring and work visas for foreigners, while the incomes of the super rich are soaring. The US dollar’s reserve currency status is eroded. The US is massively in debt at home and abroad. Health insurance is unaffordable for the vast majority of the population. Injured veterans are being nickeled and dimed, while Halliburton’s profits escalate. Americans are losing their homes, while the US government bails out banks. Wars with Iran, Russia, and China are being planned in order to secure US hegemony.

Americans no longer have a government that is for the people and by the people. They have a government for and by special interests and an insane ideology....." Paul Craig Roberts 26/08/08

Lyndon LaRouche has identified the "special interest" group as The British. Not the British people however but the elite, the British Empire - the Anglo-Dutch Liberal Banking Cartel modelled on Venice and based in London. It is a syndicate of financiers and collectively acts like a locust hoard. Its "insane ideology" is the construction of the New Tower of Babel - Globalisation.

www.larouchepac.com/media/2008/05/07/tragedy-hope-may-7th-larouche-webcast.html

www.larouchepub.com/lar/2008/3519wells_cesspool.html

Is this a muffled scream by British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, emanating from the confines of his post through the suffocating British mainstream media? Is this all he is allowed to say about the state of Britain? Poor Darling!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7589291.stm

www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com

and scroll down to radio show dated August 28^th 2008 for an analysis of Darling's remarks, and to put them into perspective.

The Great Eye, Ever Watchful

www.prisonplanet.com/safe-in-our-cages.html

".......Not even George Orwell in his most febrile moments could have envisaged a world in which every citizen could be so thoroughly monitored every moment of the day, spied upon, eavesdropped, watched, tracked, followed by CCTV cameras, recorded and scrutinised. Our words and web searches, our messages and intimacies, are to be stored and made available to the police, the spooks, the local council – the local council! – and “other public bodies”...

AC Grayling. The Guardian. 27/8/08.

Analogies abound in relation to George Orwell and his prophetic works compared to current events and our future – Animal Farm, 1984, etc.

How about JRR Tolkien, for a change though? He was a devout Christian, and understood clearly the cancerous, corrupting, insidious nature of evil. Is The Lord of the Rings just a wonderful and enjoyable story? A folklore for the English people and nothing more, as he claimed?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnXQC0fbbf4

If Sauron - The Lord Of The Rings, was to build his great tower with the ever-watchful eye now, how would he do it? Would it be as obvious as the one of old in the book/film? Or would it instead consist of an invisible and highly secret series of high-tech projects, each masquerading as benign, gradually creeping up on us until we are all hopelessly ensnared?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubtOvpfY30I

Aragorn: "What do you fear, my lady?"
Éowyn: "A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them, and all chance of valour has gone beyond recall or desire."

What Georgia Did

www.navoine.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=112

Warning : Graphic photos of the war in South Ossetia taken by Arkady Babchenko. He is one of the editors of Russian war veterans Almanac " Art of War."

End of Olympics 2008

Thank heavens the poxy Olympics is over. What a farcical, bloody nightmare it has become.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-qeJOo7cs

Execution of the Twin Towers.

Experts begin the painstaking preparations for the twin towers demolition.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLqnA6hj70

However, even after taking so much time and trouble over weeks leading up to ground zero, the north tower stubbornly refused to give in and further action had to be taken before the job was completed hours later.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048652/Pictured-The-moment-Sheffields-giant-cooling-towers-reduced-rubble.html

A perfect demonstration of how, even the most carefully planned, professional demolition can so easily go wrong.
Just an occupational hazard, except that it makes one wonder about the total and perfect demolition of another, much larger set of twin towers that recently fell, due to terrorism - or did they? How many months of ultra-careful preparation might that have taken to set up?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzntuqLBOR8

The Elephant In The Room:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4701757632630708538&hl=en

Who Started Cold War II ?

"Vladimir Putin is no Stalin. He is a nationalist determined, as ruler of a proud and powerful country, to assert his nation's primacy in its own sphere, just as U.S. presidents from James Monroe to Bush have done on our side of the Atlantic."

"And can we not understand how a Russian patriot like Vladimir Putin would be incensed by this U.S. encirclement after Russia shed its empire and sought our friendship? How would Andy Jackson have reacted to such crowding by the British Empire?" by Patrick J. Buchanan

www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan94.html

Putin Walks Into A Trap

Putin Walks Into A Trap.

Mike Whitney

Information Clearing House
Thursday, Aug 14, 2008

The American-armed and trained Georgian army swarmed into South Ossetia last Thursday, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians, sending 40,000 South Ossetians fleeing over the Russian border, and destroying much of the capital, Tskhinvali. The attack was unprovoked and took place a full 24 hours before even ONE Russian soldier set foot in South Ossetia. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Americans still believe that the Russian army invaded Georgian territory first. The BBC, AP, NPR, the New York Times and the rest of the establishment media has consistently and deliberately misled its readers into believing that the violence in South Ossetia was initiated by the Kremlin. Let’s be clear, it wasn’t. In truth, there is NO dispute about the facts except among the people who rely the western press for their information. Despite its steady loss of credibility, the corporate media continues to operate as the propaganda-arm of the Pentagon.

Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev gave a good summary of events in an op-ed in Monday’s Washington Post:

www.prisonplanet.com/putin-walks-into-a-trap.html

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/14-08-2008/106098-hypocrisybush-0

“Wicked Empire” Bombers Sometimes Wave!
www.spacewar.com/reports/Russian_bombers_again_cloud_skies_in_Europes_far_north_999.html

( Actually, Putin is quite tasty! He has that mature, handsome but cruel, James Bond-look. Ex KGB eh! He can tie me to a chair in my black underwear anytime! Yes, he has a very high score on Cheesey's Crumpet-ometer! )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSPJDI8TfU

Prince Charles, mauled by dead, genetically modified sheep!

Luddite, MPs have attacked Prince Charles. They need to watch it! NuLabour and the LibLabCon are so out of touch with ordinary British people nowadays it could be our prince is much more on the average person's wavelength than they are.
Who are these MPs?

www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23531630-details/MPs+attack+’Luddite’+Charles+over+GM+fears/article.do

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Turner

This opinionated NuLabour biochemist who referred to Prince Charles as “Luddite,” was born in 1939, studied chemistry, became a teacher and part owner of a brewery as well as entering politics! Has he ever worked on the kind of modern developments now used in the high tech world of biotech including GM? I have been unable to find anything at all actually published by this renowned academic, let alone articles or books about genetic engineering, for or against! So really, is he more entitled to comment on GM crops than any other ordinary, educated British citizen. Probably not.

www.iangibsonmp.co.uk

Gibson (born 1938) is also entitled his opinions on GM food but is not entitled to tell Prince Charles or anyone else in Britain to shut up. Biased in his views on GM food ? See:

www.theoneclickgroup co.uk/documents/ME-CFS_pol/IAN%20GIBSON%20MP.doc

www.libdems.org.uk/party/people/mr-phil-willis.0047.html Phil Willis, another bossy, know-all teacher (1941).

Poor Charley must feel as though he has just been mauled by dead, genetically modified sheep.

For Cheesey’s views see: Food Heaven v Food Hell

The World According to Monsanto - Interested? No Thanks!

Cameron and Hague Disappoint

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/uk_politics/7553508.stm

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/11/georgia.russia6?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

Am I logical? Probably not.

How do things look from Cheesey’s armchair? Well, to me Russia’s reaction to South Ossetia is a lot like Britain’s reaction to the invasion of the Falklands. When your countrymen are under attack you are supposed to help them. That is what Russia are doing, it seems to me. Their countrymen in the Ossetia region of Georgia have been attacked and murdered by Georgians, egged on and led by deadly, vicious mercenaries from the US and Israel. The Russians have caught a few of them!

Well I seem to remember the old Labour Party and a great many academics, as well as the USA, being totally opposed to Margaret Thatcher’s decision to fight the Argentineans and take back the Falkland Islands. She was brave, she ignored them entirely, and made the right decision. Putin has made the right decision now.

So I am more then a little annoyed to hear that Tory leader David Cameron agrees with Gordon Brown and has made a statement that Russia should lay off bullying poor little Georgia – charming homeland of it’s most famous son - the super-maniac and murderer of millions - Joseph Stalin. Grace and gentility are obviously national traits!
Trained Georgian thugs launch a midnight sneak attack on a town full of Russian civilians. They tear the place apart, chucking hand grenades into family homes, and kill over 5000. Putin then sends in his army to defend those of his people still left alive, and gets told by the leaders of the western world – Bush, Brown, Sarkosy, the EU et al. to stop being so nasty Putin – you bully, stop attacking poor little Georgia! Am I missing something here?
Stop being so aggressive Putin and send your army home! No, Putin is now going to make sure that Georgia never, ever does anything like this again. Serves ‘em right!
They wanted trouble, now they have it! Lots of it! Backed up by nukes!

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4488800.ece

I once respected William Hague so it pains me to discover that he has been giving advice to Miliscum whom he describes as “very clever.”

No William, Miliscum’s exam results were actually very average – nothing more – look ‘em up for yourself! He’s not very clever at all really. He’s not very talented either. He is just very arrogant, very connected and thus very untrustworthy, plus he’s being very mentored by very dodgy people, and that actually makes him very dangerous, and very bad for Britain. Stop sucking up to, and giving credence to, this revolting, disgusting creature and his NuLabor hangers-on and the useful idiots who have fallen for his sick, satanic “charm”!

All this clever bullsh*t is just too much for me I’m afraid. I am old-fashioned, I don’t like clever. I like the awful truth, I like plain talk. I like sincerity. I really, really hate spin, and can usually spot it too these days. Practice makes perfect, and after 10 years of NuLabor we are all getting better at it!

More stabbings tomorrow, I suppose! Possibly at the Olympics!
Oh, and this could be a very good time to bury bad news!
I wonder who will next be found dead up in the hills? Or in the woods?

Things can only get better, but I’m afraid the LibLabCon won’t be getting my vote anytime soon!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMifTTJCwoY

Strange Fact/Fiction

Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon"

(video game)

available from 2001!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plot summary

The plot of this game has been discussed as an exemplification of the influence of various groups of anti-Castro Cuban exiles. ^[1]

Ghost Recon

Ghost Recon begins in April 16, 2008, with civil unrest in Russia. Ultra-nationalists have seized power in Moscow, with plans to rebuild the Iron Curtain. Their first step is clandestine support of rebel factions in Georgia and the Baltic States. This storyline foreshadows the 2008 South Ossetia War. This is where the Ghosts come in: to silence the rebellion. Armed with some of the most advanced weaponry in the world, the soldiers of the Ghost Recon force are covertly inserted into Eastern Europe and given specific missions to curtail the rebel actions and overthrow their benefactors.

The game's storyline stems from political turmoil that came to light a few years earlier, in which the Ultra-nationalist regime came to power and placed its leader, Dmitri Arbatov, as Russia's president. By 2007, the threat posed by the Arbatov Administration became clear. Russia forms an alliance called the Russian Democratic Union (RDU), which is made up of the previously conquered countries of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Together, they launch a campaign to revive the long-dissolved Soviet Union by taking back all of the former Soviet republics.

During the first few missions of the game, the Ghosts battle South Ossetian rebel forces from the north of Georgia, who are harassing the legitimate government and its allies. The Ghosts fight in the forests, on farms, and in villages while assisting their NATO allies in fighting the enemy. The Russian government complains to the United Nations that the Americans have interfered in their affairs, and eventually they send in their army to aid the South Ossetian rebels. The U.S. cannot hope to stop the Russian Army from invading Georgia, so the Ghosts slow down the invading forces so that their allies can evacuate. Eventually, the Ghosts are all that's left of the U.S. forces in Georgia, and they evacuate by SH-60 Seahawk helicopter on the rooftop of the American Embassy in T'bilisi, just barely avoiding the Russian forces. The Georgian government flees to Geneva and sets up a government-in-exile. With the fall of T'bilisi, Georgia surrenders and is forcefully incorporated into the RDU.

After Georgia falls, the Caucasus region is vulnerable to further attack. The Georgian government, Great Britain, Germany, and the U.S. all protest the Russian invasion, but Moscow ignores them. Russia then focuses on invading the Baltic States on Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. In response to this, the Ghosts are sent behind enemy lines to find intelligence on the enemy attack. The Russians launch their attack early and overrun the Baltic States within days. The Ghosts then are sent back in to slow the invasion down so NATO reinforcements can arrive from Germany. After cutting off the Russian reinforcements, the Ghosts fight alongside American forces to push the Russian Army out of the Baltics. Victories are won within the next months in Utena and Rezekne, and finally, NATO reaches Vilnius, Lithuania. The city was almost leveled after the invasion, but it is eventually liberated with some help from the Ghosts, forcing the Russian Army to abandon the invasion.

The loss of the Baltic states takes its toll on Russia. President Arbatov is blamed for the disaster and placed under house arrest, starting rumors about a coup de'tat. The Ghosts then run into Russia to free American and Russian POWs opposed to the government. Some time later, President Arbatov is executed. This sparks a rebellion all across Russia that borderlines on civil war. The Ultra-nationalists quickly lose the support of the people, and many members of the RDU are also liberated or quit the alliance. The Ghosts are then sent on a campaign to disable the combat capabilities of several Ultra-nationalist military bases, such as the naval base at Murmansk and the airbase at Arkhangel'sk. They destroy several subs and prototype aircraft, making Russian Forces combat ineffective in Naval and Air warfare. While the Ghosts are striking bases, the Ultra-nationalists engage in battle with American troops and Russian forces based North of Moscow that now opposed the Russian government. The Ultra-nationalist forces detonated a nuclear bomb during the battle. As a result the Ultra-nationalist regime loses legitimacy in the eyes of the international community, prompting an immediate invasion of Moscow.

After the Ghosts succeed in weakening the Russian fighting force, NATO forces launch an assault on Moscow, with the Ghosts spearheading the assault. By this time, the Ultra-nationalists have lost control of most of their territories, and the RDU effectively dissolves. The remaining Ultra-nationalist forces hole up their tanks, snipers, Spetsnaz, helicopters, and artillery in the wooded areas surrounding Moscow as a last line of defense. However, the Ghosts break through the lines and clear a path for NATO forces. On November 10, NATO forces finally reach Moscow and are joined by friendly Russians. The city is partially deserted, as many Russians fled prior to the attack. The Ghosts are sent in to finish the job once and for all. After assisting NATO forces, the Ghosts attack Red Square. The Ghosts then proceed to wipe out the Russian defenders guarding the walls of the Kremlin. Without any remaining defenses, the Ultra-nationalists, led by Prime Minister Karpin, finally surrender and both the Americans and the newly-liberated Russians celebrate their victory in Red Square. However, the world feels the effects of the war for years afterward.

Tweaking the tiger's tail

America is once again drawing Britain into conflict

By Martin Wingfield

Freedom journalist Steve Johnson warns against being duped by our Government’s interpretation of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and our media’s deliberate anti-Russian propaganda about the conflict in Georgia.

THE long-standing Labour and Tory policy of blindly following the wishes of American Presidents and entangling our country in unwise foreign alliances could just involve our country in a major – possibly nuclear – war.

If obscure former Soviet republic and now American client state Georgia, had waited a few months until it had signed up to NATO before picking a fight with its Russian neighbour, our own NATO membership would have dragged us into war with the second-biggest nuclear-armed power on Earth over an obscure patch of the Caucasus mountains.

Georgia is one of a ring of countries surrounding Russia in which the Americans have installed puppet governments following CIA-sponsored colour-coded “revolutions”. It was Rose in Georgia, Orange in the Ukraine and so on. Washington then trained and funded these client states’ armed forces, and began a process of signing them up to NATO and the EU.

The aim is to encircle and ‘contain’ Russia, which has had the temerity to elect a nationalist government. As it already has with former socialist countries in Eastern Europe such as Poland and the Czech Republic, NATO membership then leads to US military bases on their territory and is leading to American missiles bordering Russia. This was something the US understandably nearly went to war with the old USSR over when Moscow tried the same trick in Cuba in 1962.

Georgia is especially valuable to the US as it now hosts the only pipeline connecting oil and gas fields in Central Asia with Western Europe that does not pass through Russian territory, the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipe, which links the oil of Muslim Azerbaijan with another US puppet state, Muslim Turkey, whose government, though Islamist, has been careful not to offend Washington.

Allegations of dictatorship and human rights abuses against Georgian leader, US-educated lawyer Mikhail Saakashvili, have received curiously little media publicity in the West, but then that is because he has sent Georgian troops to take part in the American occupation of oil-rich Iraq.

However Saakashvili jumped the gun by attacking South Ossetia before he had been signed up to NATO. The Ossetians, one of dozens of tiny peoples inhabiting the Caucasus region, had their homeland cut in half by the old Soviet border. When Georgia broke away from Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ossetians wanted to stay loyal Russian citizens. Most of those trapped inside Georgia took Russian passports and refused to accept Georgian rule. For many years Georgia left them alone . . until now. Thinking he had US military backing in the bag, Georgian dictator Saakashvili launched a devastating attack on the Ossetians, and the Russian peacekeeping forces to whose presence Georgia had previously agreed.

Hardly surprisingly, Russia hit back to protect its own citizens and soldiers. Whereupon the Georgian leader broadcast an appeal for Western help, in American-accented English, with a photograph of US President G.W. Bush on one side of him and an EU flag on the other which was blatant propaganda as Georgia is not a member of the EU.

Had Saakashvili waited actually to join NATO before counting on its help in his armed adventures, Britain would have been compelled under the provisions of the NATO treaty to joining the US and many other countries in a war on Russia, with incalculable and potentially horrendous consequences, unleashing the nightmare of nuclear confrontation we had thought died with the Cold War (as should NATO as well as the Warsaw Pact!). Millions of Britons could have died over a quarrel between two tiny tribes on the other side of Europe.

It is often said that “nationalism causes wars”, but if nationalism ruled Britain we would keep well clear of this conflict. As we would have kept out of all the wars over the last ten years into which the liberal internationalists Blair and Brown have dragged us at the behest of their American masters. Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and so on. Thus keeping hundreds of brave young Britons from giving their lives heroically without benefitting our country in the least.

In this as in other such issues, nationalists would have kept the peace. Refusing to surrender our sovereignty to alliances that can drag us into wars against our interests – as nearly happened over South Ossetia and did happen disastrously over a Serbian nationalist shooting an Austrian Archduke in Bosnia in 1914.

Putting the interests of one’s own country and people first – especially where, as in this case, we can sympathise with our fellow patriots in Russia wanting to protect their own folk and worried about a ring of hostile puppet states being built around their homeland - is what nationalism is all about. Even if we did not see kindred spirits in Messrs Putin and Medvedev who now lead it, Britain’s interests in regard to Russia would to us be governed by two principles of self-interest.

In the short term, thanks to Tory and Labour Governments squandering the North Sea reserves that could have bought us time to become independent of such needs, we are now dependent on Russian gas to heat our homes and power our cities. Making our country dependent for such a vital resource on another nation and then deliberately annoying it, both by supporting American provocations and by safehousing Russian gangsters like Boris Berezovsky wanted for crimes in their own country , as Blair and Brown with full Tory backing have done, merely shows the lack of vision and intellect of those now governing Britain!

In the long-term, Britain, like the other nations of Europe, needs a strong and friendly Russia as a bulwark against the Third World hordes to Russia’s South and East. Whom famine, overpopulation, climate change and resource exhaustion will some time this century push west and north in their billions, as happened on a smaller scale in the last days of the Roman Empire.

Once already, 700 years ago, Russian bravery and sacrifice saved the rest of Europe from the orc-hordes of the East – Genghis Khan’s Mongols. Russia paid a terrible price – 250 years of slavery under Mongol tyranny. And got small thanks from the rest of us for it, alas.

To use an analogy from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, if Britain is the Shire, Moscow is Minas Tirith, the Tower of Guard warding us from the Easterling hordes and the darkness they would draw over all the Western lands. When the time comes for the Men of the West to stand and fight, Russia must stand with us. The laughter of the Chinese and Indians will be our only reward if instead stupid and outdated alliances and America’s greed for oil drag us into a war with Russia instead. Perhaps not over Georgia this time – but another Washington puppet-regime on Russia’s borders, in the Ukraine, which is also being groomed for NATO membership too . . .

I make no apology for this post. Grow up! It is the most accurate account of what has really happened in Georgia and Ossetia. The Angry Cheese upholds the painful truth over elaborate, embroidered spin. Be very careful what the mainstream media wants you to believe. Incidentally on analogies with The Lord Of The Rings, Serbia is also part of Gondor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXbqnULfIXc

http://www.stopnato.org.uk/research/america.htm

Beijing Olympics - Toilet Pan

Latest news from inside the toxic toilet pan.



A brave, protesting woman has been roughed up by a bunch of the brainwashed, nazi bullies the Chinese Regime call security people,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7550802.stm

Meanwhile, in Nepal, the Chinese are creating mayhem by provoking and fighting with hundreds of Tibetans and Tibetan sympathisers. (Yes they really love their ethnic people!) Business as usual in that sh*thole then!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7547056.stm

I hope all the competitors and fans/journalists/visitors to the toxic toilet pan are proud of themselves. I am not! I am ashamed. I just hope they enjoy themselves and have lots of fun. That is the main thing nowadays, of course. Gotta have fun. Fun, fun, fun! The Chinese Regime are disgusting, brutal, mass-murdering Nazis but, so what - let's all just stick our fingers in our ears and pretend they are not, and sing "La la la la," and jump about like children and have fun, fun, fun!

I hope the roof holds up for you fun-lovers. I hope there is not another earthquake while you are over there in Commie Wonderland.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLGa4X5H2c

Oh and by the way, I hope that you are actually eating what you think you are eating, and not something else instead – like snake perhaps, or tortoise, dog, cat or even human foetuses, or part of a dead child! Perhaps that tastes a bit like chicken! And let's hope you don't all glow in the dark when you get back too!

http://www.trosch.org/lif/baby-eat.html

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-6-3/71353.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc

Britons take Free Tibet Protest to Peking

"RULE BRITANIA,
TWO BRITONS UP A STICK,
NOT ALL BRITISH PEOPLE
HAVE LOST THEIR *ICK!"

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2508804/Beijing-Olympics-Britons-arrested-for-flying-pro-Tibet-banners.html

The Angry Cheese applauds the bravery of the two Britons arrested in China today with their two American friends, well done!

Hey, Take A Look At This!

www.inhabitat.com/2007/03/07/beijings-olympic-stadium-by-herzog-and-demeuron

Apparently the new Chinese Olympic Stadium has been nick-named "The Birds Nest." Well I have another, far more appropriate nick-name for it - "The Lavatory Pan!"
Look at the photos and think, not-too hard! Now tell me I am wrong. Does it, or does it not, look exactly like a giant toilet seat? It does, doesn't it? hahahaha

Welcome to "The Lavatory Pan Olympics", or perhaps "The Stink Olympics, 2008"?

Well, we've already heard about this:

www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/15/asia/algae.php

And we know about this:

www.sportsscientists.com/2007/11/dear-olympic-athletes-please-pick-up.html

and now some American athletes have obviously been bullied into apologising for offending the ever-irritable and ultra-touchy Chinese Regime by wearing masks,

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26035431

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPJtxEcgpCCBJPM6Br_gHUbVcVtQD92CM6P00

even though Peking/Puking/Beijing whatever, and China generally, is obviously very polluted.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZqBvtZpP0

Ugh, there seems to be a river near to the Olympic Stadium, I hope all the loos aren't just emptying into that! Perhaps further downstream!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph8tXsH9cD0&NR=1

http://blog.stopwhaling.org/2008/04/last-river-porp.html

Finally, from the Angry Cheese's hilarious Chinese cousin:

http://angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com/down_the_rabbit_hole_how_to_spot_pollution_in_china.htm

Death Of A Literary Titan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn at a press conference in November 1974.

( Photo Bernhard Frye/The Associated Press)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died last night, aged 89.

"..a freak, a monarchist, an anti-Semite, a crank, a has been."

"In the 1970s, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned President Gerald Ford to avoid seeing Solzhenitsyn. "Solzhenitsyn is a notable writer, but his political views are an embarrassment even to his fellow dissidents," Kissinger wrote in a memo. "Not only would a meeting with the president offend the Soviets, but it would raise some controversy about Solzhenitsyn's views of the United States and its allies." Ford followed the advice."

In an interview last year with Der Spiegel, Solzhenitsyn said that Russians' view of the West as a "knight of democracy" had been shattered by the NATO bombing of Serbia, an event he called "a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals." He dismissed Western democracy-building efforts, telling the Times of London in 2005 that democracy "is not worth a brass farthing if it is installed by bayonet."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful literary works of the 20th century, died late on Sunday at the age of 89 in Moscow. His son Yermolai said the cause was a heart ailment.

Solzhenitsyn outlived by nearly 17 years the Soviet state and system he had battled through years of imprisonment, ostracism and exile.

Solzhenitsyn had been an obscure, middle-aged, unpublished high school science teacher in a provincial Russian town when he burst onto the literary stage in 1962 with "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." The book, a mold-breaking novel about a prison camp inmate, was a sensation. Suddenly he was being compared to giants of Russian literature like Tolstoy, Dostoyevski and Chekov.

Over the next five decades, Solzhenitsyn's fame spread throughout the world as he drew upon his experiences of totalitarian duress to write evocative novels like "The First Circle" and "The Cancer Ward" and historical works like "The Gulag Archipelago."

"Gulag" was a monumental account of the Soviet labor camp system, a chain of prisons that by Solzhenitsyn's calculation some 60 million people had entered during the 20th century. The book led to his expulsion from his native land. George Kennan, the American diplomat, described it as "the greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times."

The rest of Michael T Kaufman's article may be read here:

www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/04/arts/04solzhenitsynB.php

One of his last books, “Two Hundred Years Together” has still not yet been translated into English. Not for the first time on this blog the Angry Cheese wonders why? And not for the last time asks if it will be, and when exactly?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0aZNybro5c

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXXHd8m2j4E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_60B0xgGvZQ&NR-1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIM81FKrlM4&NR=1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFbWXVTBU0

www.nomadjournaltrips.com/road_of_bones_siberia