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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #612633 added October 13, 2008 at 12:14pm
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Russian Media, hold your horses!
Russia must be living a revival of Anti-Americanism. I found this out when a research link took me to the Pravda’s online page.
http://english.pravda.ru/
After that, each time I look at the Russian press, I find lots of negative things about the US.
In today’s Pravda, top story is: The final shoe on American consumerism is about to fall
Another one is The demise of America
Yet another one:
Embargo Russia? America Had Best Get A Clue
Then another:
The hypocrisy of American democracy
Plus a few more:
On America’s Sickness and Inevitable Destruction
Being too proud of themselves, many Americans don’t know where New York is
George W. Bush has a crowd of skeletons in his closet
The Godfather USA
On the evils of American 'Multiculti'
And all of these are on the same page. With friends like these…!
This is not to say that everything is positive about us. If it were, we wouldn’t be in the hole that we’re in today. The Russian media, however, is not just reporting what happens here; it rejoices over our pain and exaggerates our mistakes.
You’d think we’d made friends with those people. After all, our president looked into Putin’s eyes and saw his soul. After all, we were told we were friends now. After all, we wanted to help them.
Maybe it is Putin’s KGB training that festered in his soul like a hidden cancer, which now spread to the Russian media. Maybe this is the bipolar Russian mentality that surges from one pole to another. Maybe it is just Putin’s politics that attempt to show him as the fearless leader in his people’s eyes. In any case, I did not like what I read. Russia is one good reason we should pick ourselves up and become as strong and independent as we possibly can. I just hope those who resent us like this do not spring any surprises on us when we are not looking.
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