Online Stock Trading - Former KGB Spy Buys London Evening Standard
The Russians are Already Here!What a strange world we live in. "May you live in interesting times" say the Chinese, as a form of curse. Eighteen years ago we thought we were witnessing the collapse of communism and that Reaganomics and Thatcherism had won the cold war for us. It turns out that things ain't always what they seem.
The Western economic system is crumbling, largely as a result of Reagan's and Thatcher's laissez-faire policies, remember "You can't buck the markets!" and throughout the Western world governments are in the process of putting banks under State control and turning our capitalist economies into socialist states (not yet Communism, for, as we know, Communism is always for tomorrow, a bit like jam).
Now that the socialists have finally unveiled their cunning 18-year plan, they have progressed to step 2, controlling the capitalist media.
Former KGB spy turned Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev, has just bought the London Evening Standard. It is tempting to make KGB jokes, such as renaming the paper STANDARD EVENING TRUTH - but I will resist, as it seems that Mr Lebedev is one of the good guys.
Mr Lebedev will be hosting a press conference in Moscow tomorrow to explain his plan. His spokesman Mr Artemov last week told the AP that Mr Lebedev was an altruist who was "interested in supporting independent media ... media that have social value but are having some difficulties because of the financial crisis."
Good lord who would've thunk it! The KGB gave birth to an altruist interested in supporting independent media. Like I said, it is a strange world we live in.
One thing we do know is that there are plenty of Russian oligarchs around and no doubt plenty of Chinese billionaires too and we all know the Saudis have plenty of money. So all they have to do to make the most of the collapse of capitalism is to buy up all the media outlets and TV stations and Bob's your uncle they control all the news. A lot easier than sending tanks through the Channel Tunnel. Now that is what I call a cunning plan.
And in the interests of objectivity I must mention Tim Geithner, the guy now in charge of the US economy, who today said that it was imperative to restore confidence to markets whilst at the same time explaining just how it was he had forgotten to pay $34,000 in taxes.
How can you have confidence in a man who is supposed to run the
US economy yet is incapable of filing a tax return (yes, I know tax returns are reaaallly complicated but the guy's being touted as being reaaallly clever - not clever enough it seems), which reminds me of some of Homer Simpson's timeless words of wisdom"Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel. "
When Marge found out Homer had been seeing another woman : "Marge I swear, I never thought you would find out. "
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