Back from Kurdistan

The most interesting story out of Iraq in the last six months (which I've spent with the PKK in Kurdistan researching my book The Pauper, the Prince and the Kurd: A Neo-Chronological Journey into the Last Frontier of Ethnic Identity") has been the buildup of Turkish troops on the Iraqi border. There are isolated reports on the AP wire (read at The Guardian), but they by and large are not picked up. In fact, America's very own State Propaganda Channel, Voice of America published a incisive, in-depth article on the subject, though it has since been pulled from the website. ( original: VOA Article can be read on an asian mirror).

So, a propaganda station reports, at least for some time, on an issue that the so-called independent media conglomerates refuse to touch. What does that say about the state of information in our country?
And to anyone who has ever said the media doesn't "report the good news in Iraq" put that front page article in any newspaper on the Iraqi soccer team in your pipe and smoke it.
Iraqi Futbol captain calls for US withdrawal

Iraq Unites-Temporarily
"Coach Jorvan Vieira....Vieira, who is Brazilian, resigned after the game...
The team’s players do not live in Iraq, and they earn their wages playing for teams across the Middle East. Because of tenuous security at home, wars and U.N. sanctions, the team had not played a home game in 17 years and must train and practice abroad."

More astute readers of the blog will realize I referred the US media as "our" media, and thats not a mistake. Following my return last week from Kurdistan, I was fired by the University of Victoria at Large for my alleged contact with a money laundering operation for Basque seperatist group ETA. I cannot discuss the issue in full, but arraignment the Vancouver Metropolitan Superior Court is set for August 16th. Meanwhile, I have moved to the United States pending a new job with the University of Washington at Walla-Walla, where I will be teaching "The Long Term Effects of Genocide: Armenia and the Boers" as well as "The Young Turks: An Ethnmorphological Analysis." The rest of my time will be spent working on my book, which will be submitted to my publishers October 25th.
In ETA news, following the Tour de France bombing,
which was overshadowed by the walking time bomb that was Micheal Rasmussen and capped by the arrest of three major logistics people. Appartenly, this guy has been in hiding since the 1970's, from the look of him. The picture doesn't show it, but you can image the leisure suit or buttoned down suit. And while the ETA continues to fight, the IRA seems to have lost its main cause celebre, UK troops on its soil. I've always said that while they are an important enemy, more caliber should have been aimed at paramilitary groups like the Ulster Volunteer Force. The Irish People's Defense Association and the IPD Fund had just this mission and was active in both Northern Ireland and North America. I was a member of the IPDF Independence Advisory Commission that studied ethnmorphological trends of the Brits and Scots in Northern Ireland on behalf of the IPD aligned Foundation for International Community Defense. The FICD is still in existence today, including in Basque country and Kurdistan. The Canadian government's accusation against me are ludicrous and the evidence harkens to the monitoring of US intellectuals and leftist in the 1950, 60's and 70's.
On a lighter note and relating to the Tour de Blame (the Tour de Shame was ironically already taken in 1998, which has nothing on this edition) check the video of a cyclist hitting a dog.