Vladmir Putin Raps On American Psychology & Culture From Carthage To Scarlet O'Hara

If you relied on the warmongering Corporate and Think Tank media analysis of Vladimir Putin you'd never know he's one of the most knowledgeable of all the world leaders. In addition he is easily the most direct, the most savvy and as you can see in this new Russia Today open-discussion panel interview he is quite capable of being very witty.

Go ahead. Take a drink. 

Don't let the West poison the well. Here he is speaking English. He speaks German too.

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As I've been running on vapours and not always had access to a computer, I've been blogging with paper and pen sometimes in much the same way as I started to write my first post over here, on a flight from New Delhi to Mumbai in 2006.

There's lots of mistakes and chunks missing if you can see at all, but just in case anyone wanted to see how appalling my handwriting is I thought I'd post them anyway. I'll try and get them typed up later this week and really there's a self referential (ooh so po mo) element to this because the longer of the two posts is about Understanding Media from a paper (analogue) to electronic spectrum; or if we include this post it's starting off electronically. You may note that I used the back of the police report for my stolen goods to write this (so some good came out of it) as well as the EMERGENCY number for the British Embassy that the police gave me and which didn't work. Meaning I had to sleep in the police waiting room for the night before borrowing precisely Two dollars to catch the ferry home the next day.