Гыыыы. Тем временем Луркмор спекся. Вместо драйвовой падоночной статьи обо мне - вывесили унылое кисельное говно изобилующее следующими оборотами в духе провинциальной райкомовской журналистики.
США вернулись в Латинскую Америку, можете не сомневаться. Переворот в Гондурасе исполнен с чарующей прагматичностью: ничего лишнего, только проверенные годами и отполированные в разных точках континента выверенные действия. Быстрота, эффективность, экономичность.
Ни одна из стран-членов и наблюдателей Шанхайской Организации Сотрудничества кроме России не имеют выход на Японское море. Казахстан, Узбекистан, Киргизстан, Таджикистан, Афганистан и Монголия вообще не имеют выхода к морю.
В последние дни международным информационным агентствам явно не хотелось снимать сводки о протестах в Иране из главных мировых новостей, хотя градус волнений в иранском столице пошёл на убыль.
NEW YORK – Forget about innovation and exotic new technology. People still haven’t learned to use the technology we already have. I spent many of my spare hours over the last month adjusting to a new e-mail program after abandoning Eudora and my PC for a Mac with AppleMail.
LONDON – Home to one-sixth of the world’s people, but contributing only one-fortieth of world GDP, Africa is the most conspicuous victim of the global recession. After a half-decade of 5% growth, the continent’s growth rate is expected to halve in 2009. Some countries, like Angola, are contracting. Elsewhere, the crisis has swept away the benefits of several years of economic reform. Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.
PRISTINA – Hundreds of people disappeared ten years ago in Kosovo, the former Serbian province that is now the world’s newest state. These are not missing persons like the Albanians whom Serbian police executed and buried in secret graves during the Kosovo conflict of 1999. These missing persons disappeared after the conflict, on NATO’s and the United Nations’ watch. Most were Serb civilians. Relatives of most report that they were abducted.
NEW YORK – One odd and disturbing aspect of global politics today is the confusion between negotiations and problem-solving. According to a timetable agreed in December 2007, we have six months to reach a global agreement on climate change in Copenhagen. Governments are engaged in a massive negotiation, but they are not engaged in a massive effort at problem-solving. Each country asks itself, “How do I do the least and get the other countries to do the most?,” when they should be asking instead, “How do we cooperate to achieve our shared goals at minimum cost and maximum benefit?”
BERLIN – Great speeches are all too often underestimated as being mere words. In fact, they can have powerful consequences. This is obviously the case with President Barack Obama’s recent address to the Muslim world in Cairo, because – mere coincidence or excellent timing? – things in the Middle East have been in flux ever since.
