I'm sticking on these stories because I've been covering them and are current:
Mourning Mandela
"Sign language interpreter is labeled a fake" by Alan Clendenning and Ray Faure | Associated Press, December 12, 2013
JOHANNESBURG — As one world leader after another paid homage to Nelson Mandela at a memorial service, the man standing at arm’s length from them appeared to interpret their words in sign language. But advocates for the deaf say he was a faker.
Can you really believe anything you see on your TV anymore, from the phony planes on 9/11 to staged and scripted hoaxes at Sandy Hook and in Syria to the fake fireworks CBS showed on the Fourth of July?
The incident, which outraged deaf people and sign-language interpreters watching the service broadcast around the globe, raised questions of how the unidentified man managed to crash a supposedly secure event attended by scores of heads of state, including President Obama.
So which head of state is due for assassination?
It also was another example of the problems plaguing Tuesday’s memorial, including public transportation breakdowns that hindered mourners going to the soccer stadium and a faulty audio system that made the speeches inaudible for many.
And they had a babbling fool providing the sign translation?
Police also failed to search the first wave of crowds who rushed into the stadium after the gates were opened just after dawn.
The man, who stood about a yard from Obama and other leaders, ‘‘was moving his hands around, but there was no meaning in what he used his hands for,’’ Bruno Druchen, national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa, said Wednesday....
No meaning in continue to purchase and read a Globe.
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Why is the Globe hiding his history of violence and mental illness, and how did he get on that stage?
Throngs vie for a last look at Mandela
I think I just took mine.
E.U. and U.S. Behind Ukrainian Unrest
The more print you get the more you are part of the agenda-pushing program.
"Police withdraw from Kiev square" by David M. Herszenhorn and Andrew E. Kramer | New York Times, December 12, 2013
KIEV — Although the police pushed forcefully through the crowd in the square early Wednesday, they did not use their truncheons and there was no repeat of the flagrant violence of two weeks ago.
The effort to clear large parts of the main protest site was a stinging rebuke to Western diplomats who thought they had received promises that force would not be used against peaceful demonstrators....
Looks to me like they were restrained.
In unusually strong language, Secretary of State John F. Kerry expressed the United States’ “disgust” with the authorities’ decision to use force.
“This response is neither acceptable nor does it befit a democracy,” he said in a statement....
It does when it is to clear out Occupy Wall Street or Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Egypt.
What a piece of shit is the AmeriKan Secretary of State. I'm disgusted with him.
US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who was in Kiev as the police action unfolded, visited Independence Square on Wednesday to hand out bread to demonstrators and to Interior Ministry police officers who spent the night on the street before heading to a meeting with Yanukovych.
But no U.S. authorities or officials visited Occupy Wall Street to do such things (although one did visit once).
Of course, nothing changed and why would it?
After the meeting, Nuland condemned the police action but said the United States had conveyed to Yanukovych that it would still be possible conclude a free-trade pact with the European Union and negotiate a loan from the International Monetary Fund.
There is where that loan I was talking about is coming from.
See what happens when you buck the IMF?
And as we $ee once again, money rules all at bottom.
“I made it absolutely clear to him that what happened last night, what has been happening in security terms here, is absolutely impermissible in a European state, in a democratic state,” she said.
“But we also made clear that we believe there is a way out for Ukraine, that it is still possible to save Ukraine’s European future.”
And it is not through IMF-imposed austerity. That's why he turning towards Russia.
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Nothing about Thailand today, and that tells you all you need to know about those protests.
Related:
No updates on any of those.
I've already updated yesterday's posts, such as they are.
Rather than read the Globe I find myself scrolling here for a different perspective, and even if I don't agree with everything it is a hell of a lot closer to reality than anything I'm reading in the Boston Globe. I then get lost on some of my favorite blog list sites that also have sites I don't link here.
I suppose that is why I'm not getting much done and why this here blog is shit. I'm sorry for failing you, readers.
