ReaganFoundation YouTube Channel video: President Reagan's Address to the Nation About Christmas and the Situation in Poland — December 23, 1981. Uploaded December 10, 2012. http://youtu.be/9kiFK6xxE08
ColdWarWarriors YouTube Channel Solidarity Poland 1981, Uploaded on May 28, 2010. http://youtu.be/peT3-xSzj08
Teen girl's despicable revenge plot goes viral -and now comes the backlash to her cyberbullying! New York Observer's Jessica Roy has the scoop on the video from Putin's Russia: "Video of Russian Teens Brutally Bullying Peer Goes Viral. Bullying breeds more bullying"; @JessicaKRoy
New York Observer
Betabeat blog
Video of Russian Teens Brutally Bullying Peer Goes Viral
Bullying breeds more bullying.
By Jessica Roy
September 18, 2012
2:40 p.m.
It starts with a young blonde boy, who looks to be in his early teens, his face covered in dirt and bruises, bent over on his knees kissing the pink sandals of a teen girl. The video, which was filmed in Novomoskovsk–a city in western Russia–and depicts three teens violently bullying and abusing one of their peers, has gone viral on the Russian Internet.
Above, the Finnish first-class stamp that came out in March that features the official mascot of the Championship, HockeyBird. If you didn't already know, Angry Birds was created in Finland by Rovio Mobile.
Well, my pre-tourney prediction was half-right: Sweden disappoints, but Slovakia will face Russia in IIHF World Championship Gold Medal Final in Stockholm on Sunday; delayed telecast in U.S. at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBCCS, DirecTV Channel 603
Russia routed co-host Finland 6-2 in Helsinki in the first semifinal game. Finland defeated the USA in the Quarterfinals, while Slovakia defeated Canada in the Quarterfinals on Thursday.
Depending upon where you live around the world, you might be able to watch the Bronze Medal and Gold Medal matches today online at: http://www.youtube.com/icehockey
However, the U.S. is NOT one of those countries, as even the IIHF highlight videos on their YouTube Channel are off-limits if you live in the U.S., which is why I used the Aftonbladet video at the top. That's real marketing genius at work!!!
The IIHF tourney has been the source of lots of serious -and some would say unrelenting- media criticism in Sweden over the smaller-than-expected crowds that have shown up for some games in what is a world championship tourney, after all. More fans actually attended some of the Elitserien games this year than attended the tourney.
But whether you think it's the length of the tourney, over two weeks, or the high ticket prices, or both, there seems to be a lot of positing of the old chicken and egg conundrum.
Is turnout low because the ticket prices are thought by many to be higher than they should be, leading to a situation where the visiting fans who are able to get away from home for the tourney in Finland and Sweden are being overly judicious in what games they go to besides their own country's, and thus, spending the money at bars, night clubs and restaurants instead?
Is the tourney getting smaller crowds because the Stanley Cup playoffs are still being played in North America and many of the best players of those teams would be playing in the tourney if the NHL had reconfigured the schedule, so why see less-than-the best? Or, is it the tourney getting lower-than-expected crowds because Swedish and Finnish fans the organizers thought would be attending just aren't really too interested in going to games where neither team is playing -at those prices?
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My pre-tourney prediction of Sweden vs, Slovakia came in my April 26, 2012 post titled, Instant Classic video! Romania's National Ice Hockey Team manager lets loose after tough loss to Poland; IIHF World Championship 2012 Finland/Sweden starts next week, http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/instant-classic-video-romanias-national.html which featured this amazing video that everyone who sees it just loves because it's so honest! Warning -lots of expletives are flying in this video!
Romania National Ice Hockey Team manager lets loose with tough love after tough loss to Poland; Tränarens utbrott efter storförlusten Polen - Rumänien. This was following a Group B qualifying game at Krynica, Poland. April 2012. http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/sport/ishockey/article14728686.ab
Here's the English language version of the official information webpage, which also has one in Swedish and Finnish: IIHF World Championship 2012 Finland/Sweden
Sen. Marco Rubio video: Sen. Marco Rubio's speech on the future of U.S. foreign policy before The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. April 25, 2012. http://youtu.be/9Hb31bEa0mg
Sen. Marco Rubio's thoughtful speech on the future of U.S. foreign policy before The Brookings Institution -more muscle, less 'realism' dithering!
Marco Rubio’s foreign policy speech stakes out a middle ground in GOP
By Karen DeYoung
Published: April 25, 2012
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) took another step onto the national stage Wednesday with a foreign policy speech that positioned him squarely in the middle between a dying breed of GOP moderates and his partisan brethren who have condemned President Obama as an international weakling.
“The easiest thing for me to do here today is to give a speech on my disagreement with this administration on foreign policy,” Rubio told a packed auditorium at the Brookings Institution. “I have many.”
Sen. Marco Rubio’s speech on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution was not oversold. It deserved the designation “major” for its courage, skill and moral seriousness.
The courage came in criticizing a drift toward isolationism within the Republican Party.
DJ M.E.G. - Moscow to California ft. Сергей Лазарев & Тимати - Moscow to California -with a water pit-stop in Miami! What's surprising is not that this video was done or even that it's so damn catchy, but rather that Moscow to California has a pit-stop in Miami.
But then you remember that there's a good reason why I've left that 'anchor' labeled The South Florida I Grew Up In with quotesfrom Joan Didion'sMiami, 1987, Simon & Schuster, which has this line that I end with:
In this mood Miami seemed not a city at all but a tale, a romance of the tropics, a kind of waking dream in which any possibility could and would be accommodated...
I know, I know, it's not the sort of music I usually listen to, or which you regular readers of the blog have come to expect from me, but it's got a real "hook," and both the cinematography and shots of Miami and Miami Beach are imaginative and exciting. I'm sure it beats to hell whatever video the folks at the Greater Miami Convention Bureau currently have.
That goes double for you know who up in Ft. Lauderdale, Nicki Grossman, she of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, i.e Sunny.org, http://www.sunny.org/ who judging from the marketing efforts friends and I have seen over the past ten years, seem to only be targeting affluent, effete tourists with artistic pretentions for visits to Broward County. The more pretentiou$, the better. (As if the locals like that were not already too much to bear.)
Especially if they are from Europe and have more money than sense -and don't know when they are being taken advantage of.
Here's another classic view of Miami Beach by boat, Old School which I grew-up with living elsewhere, and posted here a few weeks ago... The Jackie Gleason Show opening http://youtu.be/E4b_-iwJwic
Hat tip to Europopped blog's March 8th entry, which a friend tipped me off to within 24 hours of it appearing online:
Summer Anthem Arrives Early in Russia! Timati, Sergey & DJ M.E.G. Drop "Moscow To California" Clip
RT video: KHL Catastrophe: Three-time champions plane crash into Volga River on takeoff after old Yakovlev-42 plane hits airport beacon. Tragedy shocks Russia to its core. http://youtu.be/lg3oFLeSJsI
TV4.se News video: Olympic Gold Medal-winning goalie Stefan Liv of Tre Kronorisamong 43 perishing in Russian plane crash into Volga River after his team, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, prepared for the KHL season-opener against Minsk. Only two passengers survived. September 7, 2011.
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