Thanksgiving. Hm?
Maybe I should take about turkeys and the two pardoned birds with the hideous names of Flyer and Fryer?
See, the 'thing' that bothers me is that the names themselves are an indiction of destination. It is a 'wish' sorta. Normally the pardoned turkeys have gone to the Fryer Ranch. Let's see if I can find a link. Didn't find a link to the ranch but here are the results.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/thanksgiving/2006/
The 'Flyer' is to indictate the new place for these birds in California and the 'Fryer' was the old destination for pardoned turkey's in Virginia. It's commericalized and I don't feel there were any reflection of Thanksgiving at all. I am not sure the voting mechanisms were fair either.
So, that didn't take any in depth look see....So, maybe I should talk about the spy that swallowed radiation ions?
I don't know that will take much to explain either. One can always say the man was at the end of his rope and did it to himself. However, those surrounding him will consider it nonsense and state Russia is simply covering up a murder. See the radiation used is common place in nature. Although some say in Britain in order to have it available for a poison as was noted in the case of the former spy, it needed sophistated processing. The questions is did Alexander V. Litvinenko have the knowledge to 'set up a plot' to embarrass Putin or did any of his ? friends ?
Police trace last steps of poisoned former KGB spy
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4795643
The problem is that this is not an isolated incident. There have been some controversial Russians that have met with death within the span of a few months and it's getting to be an international concern. The people involved, however, were highly critical of Russia, BUT, they were also involved with some very dangerous people, namely Chechens. The Chechens would not at all mind putting President Putin to shame and make a case for at the very least defaming him with an ambition to see him charged with murder.
I don't believe any plot against these people go as high as President Putin and I can probably make a fairly good case to look closely at the Chechen aspect of this. However, how then is the poisoning of Yushchenko? The odd aspect to this is the man Yushchenko opposed has been returned to the position of Prime Minister.
Russia's Putin to visit Ukraine next month amid efforts to mend ties
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/23/europe/EU_GEN_Ukraine_Russia.php
This subject has some merit and I sincerely want to explore the Chechen aspect of it which I believe has conveniently been set aside. Russia is actually making 'in roads' to settlements with Chechnya:
Constitutional court starts work in Chechnya
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20061111/55543116.html
..."The constitutional court is facing a large amount of work to bring local laws and regulations in line with the Constitution of the Russian Federation," Abdurakhmanov said.
Sort of. At any rate while the free world feels different about the subject of Chechnya:
The reach of Russia is amazing, not to mention frightening
Publication time: 25 November 2006, 21:19
The poisoning of former KGB official Alexander Litvinenko probably is not "directly"linked to the G.R.U. or F.S.B. if anything that I have heard or seen is anything to go by. After all, such direct and traceable action is downright stupid.No, like the lady journalist who was gunned down on her way back from the grocery store, it was some disgruntled individual acting alone. There seem to be a lot of these disgruntled individuals acting alone, mind you, in the style of some 'Lee Harvey Oswald' fairytale ( of course the Mafia did not want to get rid of J.F.K. ... after all, he was only investigating them and trying to put them out of business ).
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/11/25/6542.shtml
Russian Puppets Arrest Foreign Journalists in Chechnya
Publication time: 25 November 2006, 17:58
An Austrian TV journalist, her cameraman and a sound technician were briefly detained Friday while filming in the restive southern Russia region of Chechnya, their station said.
State broadcaster ORF said its longtime Moscow correspondent, Susanne Scholl, and her two assistants were arrested and held by puppet police before they were released a few hours later. The station did not say whether the Chechen puppets gave a reason for the detentions or whether some foreigners' property was stolen, as usual, by Russian puppets.
ORF said the crew's video was seized, and general manager Alexander Wrabetz said the station would lodge a formal protest with the Russian Embassy in Vienna.
Austria's Foreign Ministry issued a verbal protest earlier Friday, officials said.
THERE IS A COMMON thread other than Russia in all these 'incidents' the world community would like to pin on President Putin. I don't think it is him at play here. I do believe there are issues surrounding Russia and it's embarrassment, however, a more prudent view might be better to first scutinize terrorists as the culprits and then look to sovereign nations. I personally would want to weed out the 'lone' wolves who could be lurking about. Sovereign nations aren't going anywhere.
But, I think I'll save this for another day....
