This quick excerpt is from the pilot of the hit series Breaking Bad. Â Thegroup toasts the lead character Walt for his birthday with a hearty ‘Na Zdrovya’ (to your health)!:
Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family’s financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White’s releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.
Not really sure why this was written into the episode, they’re three seasons in and it hasn’t come up again since.
A very interesting video from Stratfor about how the Russian sphere of influence can extend Eastern Europe to Poland since losing their leaders last week:
Kaczynski, 60, who was elected president in 2005, forged close relationships with Ukraine and Georgia, and pushed for their inclusion in NATO, arguing passionately that a stronger NATO would keep Russia from reasserting its influence over Eastern Europe.
And he was a major supporter of the American antiballistic missile defence system to be based in Poland, infuriating Russia.
Back in 1983, Radio Quebec’s Planète featured the first documentary on the Holodomor on TV. A very good programme, it featured many testimonials of heartbreaking stories from this intentional genocide. It even features James Mace, the prominent Harvard researcher who published works on how the Holodomor was in fact genocide. It also mentions the Walter Duranty of the New York Times who denied the famine out right to the West, as well as the complicity of the British government not to help because of it’s relationship with the Soviet Union at the time. Please give it a watch:
I tweeted about this earlier today and posted a clip from the 2009 documentary Defamation in which an Israeli-Jew discusses the politicization of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in modern times.
Abe Foxman the head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the world’s largest advocate for Israel and fighting Anti-Semitism meets with Yushchenko’s advisors and warns them not to compare the two genocides – the Holodomor and the Holocaust:
Abe Foxman (head of the ADL): But one thing that you need to be sensitive about is not to link it (the Holodomor) with the Holocaust. Be careful that it not be linked as ‘your genocide’ and ‘our genocide’, because that would be counter-productive.
Israel has still yet to recognize the Holodomor as genocide.
The National Television Company of Ukraine produced a comprehensive Holodomor documentary a few months ago and were kind enough to put all 2 hours of it up on YouTube, in Ukrainian and English. Below is the English version, enjoy!
Holodomor. Ukraine, XX century.
Holodomor. ukraine, XX century. Millions of innocent victims of the bloody soviet rule. An attempt to destroy the spirit of the ukrainian nation.
This quick excerpt is from the pilot of the hit series Breaking Bad. Â Thegroup toasts the lead character Walt for his birthday with a hearty ‘Na Zdrovya’ (to your health)!:
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