Just a little video of election day. Trying out manual flash video instead of YouTube.
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St Petersburg
When I was in Russia, I packed up my backpack and took a little time off to travel. First stop, St Petersburg.
Russia and Georgia
I don’t want this blog to become political, but a couple of you have asked me what my take (and the take of the Russians) are on this situation. I’ll keep it brief: Everything you’ve heard from US media is a lie. Every word out of John McCain and W’s mouth has been a lie.
My take overall is that war sucks and I don’t support any type of aggression, but once again the US is directly responsible for an awful situation. This was intentional and was instigated by us for political gain. Now the people in Russia I talk to mostly ask some variation of “why is the US media doing this to us??”
I’ve compiled and expanded on some basic videos and info from other independent media, blogs, etc. I’m keeping it simple and it’s not all my wording, so it will be quick. Hope this helps some people understand what actually happened.
Basic facts:
“1. The citizens of South Ossetia have long expressed a desire to break away from Georgia and, in fact, declared themselves independent from Georgia in the 1990s. This is exactly like Kosovo/Serbia, where the US takes the exact opposite stand. Our double-standard exists for our political purposes only.
2. On the first day of the 2008 Olympics, Georgia launched an all-out, “shock and awe” attack on numerous civilian targets in Tskhinvali, the capital city of South Osseti.
3. Russia, which shares a border, CITIZENS and a long historical connection with South Ossetia, sent troops into the region to fight back the attacking Georgian military.
4. Media reported the US provided transportation to Georgian troops. The truth is, the arms for Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia were also largely provided by the US. The US was involved in the very planning of Georgia’s attack.
5. The US and UK news media have successfully managed to portray these events as a random, unprovoked and savage attack on Georgia by Russia, partially because of lack of solid facts or eye witnesses, partially because of lazy reporting, but mostly because of the same white-house-mouthpiece nonsense that we’ve been dealing with since media ownership diversification regulations have been stripped away.
In this video, Mikhail Gorbachev responds.”
And in this video a young girl from the SF Bay area lays it out for FOX:
That’s all I got. Don’t trust US media or leadership and certainly don’t trust McCain. If anyone has any additional information or counter-point to this, by all means, I’d love to hear it.
