I
see North Korea's young dictator has a pretty young wife whom he's no
longer keeping quiet about. As opposed to the 300 concubines whom he
is. I see also that he has a razor cut on each side of his head.
Rather like today's young beaus in the West. So, who's the trend
setter here, and who the follower(s)?
Incidentally,
Kim Jong Un's wife may or may not be the voice of this astonishing
example of what's big on Korean MTV. It's called “Excellent
Horse-Like Lady” and the words can be found here. Believe me,
they're worth seeing.
I
thought Argentina's President Kirchner was barrel-scraping when she
turned up the heat on the Falklands/Maldivas issue but she's taken
things to new heights/lows now. She's resurrected the image of Eva
Perón and had it projected onto government buildings. Not satisfied
with that, she's appeared at press conferences with her head framed
by a metal outline of Perón's head. Smacks of necrophilia to me. Or
at least necromancy.
Both
of Spain's main political parties (the PSOE and PP) are to the right
of their left and right wing equivalents in other western
democracies. So it's only to be expected that the PP would at least
threaten to row back the abortion measures introduced by the PSOE.
Specifically, it wants to remove the provision that foetuses can be
aborted where there is a congenital disease. The RC Church, of
course, is all in favour of such foetuses being taken through to
birth. Which reminds me, I read the national organ of the Church this
morning – the ABC newspaper. I rarely do this but there was
nothing else to read. I found the experience rather like reading what
a medieval paper would have been like, if they'd had papers back
then. There may not be many folk attending Mass even once a week but
the Church retains the power to influence events. Possibly via its
Opus Dei network of fellow flagellators.
This
week in Britain, the biggest ever fines have been dished out to a
Galician family – the Vidals – who were found guilty
of "wholesale falsification of official documentation"
amounting to a "systematic, repeated and cynical abuse of the EU
fishing quota system over a period of 18 months. A flagrant, repeated
and long term abuse of regulations. The fish targeted [hake] was at
that time on the verge of collapse and adherence to quotas was seen
as crucial to the survival of the species." Now, you'd think
this would make it into the national newspapers here. Or at least the
local rags. But, no. I can't find any reference to it. This reminds
me I've been meaning to write a paragraph on corruption in Spain. But
not tonight. Coming soon . . .
Finally
. . . Here's the Galician Xunta's version of a corporate video. And I
didn't think I was living in the Third World. Where all the women are
devastatingly pretty. And everybody worships some unknown deity. I suppose this is an advance on the Catholic Church, at least.
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