Brief 10/17/07
A few notes on some things:
--Syria has released a statement denying that its U.N. representative had confirmed reports that the target of the Israeli airstrike was a nuclear facility. Syria also reaffirmed that there are no nuclear facilities within its borders. So, take that for what you will.
-- The bill formally accusing Turkey of genocide 100 years ago against Armenians seems to be losing steam in Congress, according to sources quoted by Crimson Guardsman and authority on U.S. domestic politics, Cesspool. This certainly hasn't helped relations between Washington and Ankara, but it isn't as much a problem in itself as it is the excuse that an unhappy significant other seizes upon to finally justify a breakup. It's going to be a messy one, though. Turkey doesn't need America nearly as much as it used to, and the destabilization of Iraq has actually been a liability for them, but the alliance is still too important to dissolve just yet.
-- Fidel Castro is not coming back. Raul, his younger brother, has been running Cuba for just over a year now, and his tone of rhetoric represents a drastic departure from The Beard. He talks about reforming many aspects of Cuban society, specifically, loosening up the command economy and encouraging more dissenting voices. Which is nice and all, but I won't buy into it until average Cubans get more earning power and unrestricted internet access, and the political prisons are drained beyond the ceremonial five guys a year.
-- Gunmen, Somali soldiers among them, stormed the U.N. compound in Mogadishu and kidnapped the World Food Program's top representative there. Everyone loses.
--Syria has released a statement denying that its U.N. representative had confirmed reports that the target of the Israeli airstrike was a nuclear facility. Syria also reaffirmed that there are no nuclear facilities within its borders. So, take that for what you will.
-- The bill formally accusing Turkey of genocide 100 years ago against Armenians seems to be losing steam in Congress, according to sources quoted by Crimson Guardsman and authority on U.S. domestic politics, Cesspool. This certainly hasn't helped relations between Washington and Ankara, but it isn't as much a problem in itself as it is the excuse that an unhappy significant other seizes upon to finally justify a breakup. It's going to be a messy one, though. Turkey doesn't need America nearly as much as it used to, and the destabilization of Iraq has actually been a liability for them, but the alliance is still too important to dissolve just yet.
-- Fidel Castro is not coming back. Raul, his younger brother, has been running Cuba for just over a year now, and his tone of rhetoric represents a drastic departure from The Beard. He talks about reforming many aspects of Cuban society, specifically, loosening up the command economy and encouraging more dissenting voices. Which is nice and all, but I won't buy into it until average Cubans get more earning power and unrestricted internet access, and the political prisons are drained beyond the ceremonial five guys a year.
-- Gunmen, Somali soldiers among them, stormed the U.N. compound in Mogadishu and kidnapped the World Food Program's top representative there. Everyone loses.
posted by Face of Spades at 1:46 PM
2 Comments:
Oh, I see you're posting again... i'll be doing that too over at black holes but for now all i've had time for literarily speaking is Marginal Minds.... that and armenian genoside (well hey, we haven't had a real great System of a Down album in a few years and sometimes ya gotta lite a fire under serge's ass...) (although i believe he has a solo album out nowadays..)
Awwww...food man...give him back...the world needs you!!!
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