Obama - The Peace Fighter

Obama wants 33 billion more for Afghanistan and Iraq wars on top of a record 708 billion for 2011. Why does not he fucking spend his Nobel Peace Prize to finance it?

The least wanted country of Europe

Moldavia has long been the butt of jokes in the Soviet Union. I've never been there so can't say whether is is justified or not, but it is perhaps tale-telling that election after election, they find it hard to find anyone wishing to become their president. A few years ago it turned out a scandal when no one applied. This time they only have one candidate.

Berlusconi endorses Blair for EU president

News from the League of Crooks. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is backing TonyBlair for EU presidency. Blair's PR people should have contacted the zany Ceasar in advance because surely in the polite society Berlusconi's support is highly undesirable.

The Ugly Grimaces of the Latter-day Politics

Politicians are by far best entertainers. They are also most sinister ones.

Gordon Brown, the man who last 12 years spared no time fucking up British economy till it collapsed beyond repair is dashing around saving world's economy. Now what the fuck does he have to tell the world that he should be telling his own country?

It is hard to say whether this beats Tony Blair being a special peace envoy to the Middle East though. I reckon the level of brazen-faced spit-in-the-face kick-in-the crotch gall is about the same in both cases.

Gorbachev advises a perestroika to the US

America is in urgent need of its own 'perestroika', says Gorbachev. Clearly, he's aiming at fucking up another country big time.

Georgia to Barackia

Now that Barack Obama is the US President, isn't Georgia going to be renamed Barackia?

Hillary's Clitoris

Russia's Foreign Minster Lavrov was presented Hillary's Clitoris button by its proud owner. The Russian text instead of "reset" (perezagruzka) said"overload" (peregruzka). That did not stop both from laughing. After all, touching the clitoris is an enjoyable pastime for everyone!

For Russia, rubbing the button may mean the long expected cancellation of the plans to put American rocket control facilities in Eastern Europe. America in its turn hopes to defuse Iran's nuclear programmes.

Nato woos Russia on Afghanistan

Irony, irony, irony. This life is full of it but it is more fun to see it in major events. Twenty years after the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan Nato wants to involve Russia in its own doomed campaign there.

Why would it, you might ask. After all, it seems quite successful: helping triple Afganistan opium production is no mean feat. Here in London it has reportedly brought the street price of cocaine low enough for everyone to weather out the economy collapse in the best jolly mood.

Goodwin pension scandal

I do not get what this Goodwin pension scandal is about. The dude has fucked it up to the tune of 2.4 billion pounds just this year and you want his 16 million back? How will that help now?

Hot Air Fails To Lift US Economy

Surprise, surprise: perfectly crafted and inspiringly delivered appeals to "revitalise the economy" and make "America lead the world again" failed to accomplish both. Even worse, the stocks have actually fallen after President Obama's as usual toe-twirlingly amazing speech.

Perhaps, it is time Barack realised that it takes more than Magic Negro chanting to do his job.

UK ID card proof of address

I knew that Britain cherishes its traditions but I never knew just how it clings to all things whimsical and dusty. Only on observing it first-hand I come to realise how the exactingly logical and systematic French approach must be alien and even repulsive to British heart.

Anglo-Saxon idea of freedom is often used against proposal to introduce some kind of personal ID system. It is true because Anglo-Saxon rules and laws only designate the limits beyond which you are not supposed to go. On the Continent, the rules are guidlines that you are supposed to follow.

However, in modern state with it culture of fear and increasing control over more and more aspects of private lifes and actions, there is no way to do without some form of personal identification. While most Continental countries started using ID cards, the English just can't stop seeing it beneath their dignity. Instead, just not to forfeit their liberty and not to go the dreaded Continental way you need to bring your electricity or gas bill a a prove of domicile! And that is just for abiout anything for signing up at a GP's office to opening a bank account. Need to see a doctor? Where is your gas bill? Logical? Hardly, but at least we keep our freedom.

Geert Wilders denied UK entry

A huge round of applause to the British Government: Dutch hate-monger MP Geert Wilders was denied entry to the UK. Finally he is officially seen as a shameless self-promoter that he is. The shoddily bleached Catholic chauvinist attempted to come for peddling his failed act Fitna at the House of Lords.

JFK and Iraq

Being cute, popular and dating Marylin Monroe while married to Jackie is but a sexy media image. Action speaks louder than any PR strategy.

In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Abdel Karim Kassem, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy. The CIA helped the new Baath Party government led by Abdul Salam Arif in ridding the country of suspected leftists and Communists. In a Baathist bloodbath, the government used lists of suspected Communists and other leftists provided by the CIA, to systematically murder untold numbers of Iraq's educated elite — killings in which Saddam Hussein himself is said to have participated. The victims included hundreds of doctors, teachers, technicians, lawyers and other professionals as well as military and political figures.

Saddam's party was installed but no one else but adorable JFK, it turns out.

Is Our Lovely Barack Really Up To The Job He Applied For?

So, the cute skinny mixed (he's not Black, idiots, he's half-Black, half-White!) dude has become the US President. Like millions of others I am totally smitten with his gift of glib, charisma and perfectly tailored suits. Hip-hip-hooray!

However, there is a gnawing suspicion in the back of my mind. I have seen this so many times before: Yeltsin and Yushchenko, Taksin and Blair. Eloquent and sexily presented youngish hopefuls swept their nations off the feet with a promise of change only to show that there is little substance or integrity inside the shiny package. They all started on the shoulders of cheering crowds but ended up despicable displays of the ugliest traits of human nature, utter political failures that ruined the lives of millions.

Barack is taking over a shattered country: loathed in the world, on the verge of bankruptcy and split along so many fault lines. The 10-trillion-dollar officially recognised federal debt is, no doubt, just the tip of the iceberg. Is he up to the tough job ahead of him. We shall see.

Russia Says US Has No Right To Speak For The World

In response to Condoleezza Rice's Russia-bashing speech at the Marshall Fund on 18th of September Russian Foreign Ministry officially commented that no one gave her the right to speak on behalf of the whole world.

Public Self-Flagellation As The Last Resort

In Russian such situations are referred to as "Sergeant's widow whipped herself".

Nowhere else but in Lybia Condoleezza Rice threatened that the USA will punish Russia's Georgian blitzkrieg by putting the US-Russia nuke deal on hold. What it means in real terms: US does not get access to Russian advanced nuclear technology and Russia won't accept used American uranium for processing and sorting. No doubt many Russians will be crying themselves to sleep tonight.

The aftermath of the recent Russian campaign in South Ossetia revealed that the West has no leverage left to influence Russia in any meaningful way but resorting to pointless media caterwauling.

Goose Sauce That Is Good For The Gander

People living in glass houses should not even think of picking up stones to throw.

It turns out that Georgian Prime Minister Vladimer "Lado" Gurgenidze, a UK national, told the Estonian newspaper Postimees in March that Georgia would recognize Kosovo's independence.

Well, well, well. He probably should have followed Spain's suit who knows all too well that with its simmering Basque question it can ill-afford recognizing breakaway provinces of other countries.

Now Mr. Gurgenidze may need to go and eat his tie as did the man who appointed him, President Saakashvili.

In the meantime, 120 ties were collected by alert citizens in Moscow in order to froward them to Gerogian President.

Thailand Fed Up With 'Democracy'

Completely overshadowed by the Olympics and the Georgian war, Thailand's anti- government protests do not scoop much media attention. The same People's Alliance for Democracy that was instrumental in overturning Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 now demands an end to democracy as unfit to deliver the country from its economic turmoil and social stalemate.

In Thais' living memory every new democratically elected government has unfailingly been only more corrupt, self-serving and inefficient than the previous one. Glib Chuan, disastrous Chavalit, shamelessly populist (fascist, in fact) Thaksin all legitimately came to office on a wave of popular support only to end up with a bang of huge failure and scandal.

Fed up with Western-styled democracy, Thais now demand a sort of Turkish model where the army would have an institutionalized say in national politics and the parliament would be appointed, presumably by the King. Quite contrary to Western perceptions, Turkish military has played a very progressive role in the country's political history as a republic, preventing on numerous occasions Islamist rollback and rampant political corruption.

Parallels here can be seen with the general public opinion in Russia accepting the necessity of a strong authoritarian rule in the country. A decade of lawless turmoil and oligarchic bacchanalia under Western-backed Yeltsin made Russians strongly allergic to foreign-inspired institutions artificially transplanted to their soil.

Whether there is a new worldwide trend towards dismantling democratic structured as failed because of the local social terroir remains to be seen.

Great China To Little Britain

So, the clumsy slob of the new London mayor got to wave the Olympic flag in Beijing, looking like he had lost his trousers belt. There's none of Boris Johnson's merit in bringing the Olympics to London - it all was Tony Blair and Ken Livingston's doing - yet he radiated triumph and self-confidence. Let's remember his firm promise that the Games budget will be kept under£9.3bn budget (the original budget in 2005 was £3.4bn). I predict by 2012 this will be at least in the ballpark of 20 billion - that is if nothing unpredictable happens.


London 2012's 8-minute presentation really showed us that Britain is completely out of touch with what the rest of the world likes. After the Chinese awe-inspiring glamour on an unparalleled scale - two dozens modern dancers (costumes courtesy of the Salvation Army) with newspapers and umbrellas, Myra Hindley in the video reel and Beckham with a football - well, good luck trying to impress the world with that kind of symbolism!

Just like Britain's annual Eurovision contributions doomed to puzzled shrugs anywhere east of the English Channel, a soul starlet with a sweaty old dude playing a 30-year-old hit on the electric guitar were greeted by a bewildered rustle of the audience at the Bird's Nest. It all sure would have been taken well by beer-drenched London crowds but the world wants tacky torch ballads, acrobatic dances and lots of fireworks. Britain's insular idea of coolness can sometimes click with Anglo-Saxons but for the rest of the world it is just quaint and not really that much fun.


China with all its alleged aloofness seems to have understood the power of American cultural message which is in its fine tuning to the expectations of the whole world. Britain, on the other hand, can't seem to fathom that her little cultural idiosyncrasies stop being hip somewhere half way between Dover and Calais. I hope festivities at London 2012 will overcome cultural navel-gazing and won't end up with nul points. It's Olympics, NOT Olimpicks this time!

Yet Another Big Time Embezzler Finds Refuge In Britain

Alleged big-time embezzler and power abuser, former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, a convicted tax evader, have fled to UK where Thaksin owns Manchester City football club. It is not the first time UK gives aid and abet to foreign criminals as long as they made enough contribution to its economy. Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia's most hated personalities wanted in Russia, Brazil, Holland and Switzerland for money-laundering, is a recent example of Britain turning a blind eye on justice when it promises a fat money return.

It will be interesting to watch how the Thaksin saga is going to unfold. As it goes, for the years to come we are most likely to be spotting the billionaire couple shopping in Harrod's, lecturing his footballers and chumming with British MP's.

P. S. UK just gave a safe passage yet to another dictator, ex-President Musharraf of Pakistan.