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Re: Good Putin questioners

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Re: Peter and the Wolf

Postby Gouda » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:31 am

I may be obsessing a lot about Putin and Cheney, Judo, the G8 and Iran lately, but since the long-anticipated Armageddon in the middle east <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>may have</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> begun in earnest (could also be a psyche-out, more 'strategy of tension', defining the stakes in real-time, pre-empting Russia's G8 pre-emption), coinciding with <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HG14Dj03.html">Russia's chess-like energy deals in play at the G8</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, coinciding with strange signals being sent between DC and Moscow, I started looking back at some earlier threads and found this one, initiated by sijepuis, to be a great refresher:<br> <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm42.showMessage?topicID=105.topic">"Please read - Cheney and the Moscow 'hardness test'"</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Within that thread, Jeff posted this article: "Putin lashes out at 'wolf-like' America" from the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Guardian</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> which hinged on this: <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>[Putin] added, in what appeared to be a reference to the US-led invasion of Iraq and its approach to Iran: "As they say, 'comrade wolf knows whom to eat. He eats without listening and he is clearly not going to listen to anyone'." <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> I found that the reference is from an old Soviet joke featuring a stereotyped Jew, Rabinovich: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Rabinovich and his pet sheep are walking in the woods. Suddenly they fall into a deep pit. A minute later a wolf also falls into the same pit. The scared sheep starts bleating. “What do you mean – baa, baa, baa?” – says Rabinovich, “Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat”.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=166928">engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?threadid=166928</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Interesting. <br><br>And so there is the G8 in St. PETERSburg, a young boy getting kissed like a kitten on the belly, and the 2 clever Putin references: the earlier "wolf" reference, and his recent slight against Cheney's hunting skills. Prokofiev's famous opera "Peter and the Wolf" comes to mind. <br><br>Here's the story:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Early one morning, Peter opened the gate and walked out into the big green meadow.<br><br>On a branch of a big tree sat a little bird, Peter's friend. "All is quiet" chirped the bird happily.<br><br>Just then a duck came waddling round. She was glad that Peter had not closed the gate and decided to take a nice swim in the deep pond in the meadow.<br><br>Seeing the duck, the little bird flew down upon on the grass, settled next to her and shrugged his shoulders. "What kind of bird are you if you can't fly?" said he. To this the duck replied "What kind of bird are you if you can't swim?" and dived into the pond.<br><br>They argued and argued, the duck swimming in the pond and the little bird hopping along the shore.<br><br>Suddenly, something caught Peter's attention. He noticed a cat crawling through the grass.<br><br>The cat thought; "That little bird is busy arguing, I'll just grab him. Stealthily, the cat crept towards him on her velvet paws.<br><br>"Look out!" shouted Peter and the bird immediately flew up into the tree, while the duck quacked angrily at the cat, from the middle of the pond. The cat walked around the tree and thought, "Is it worth climbing up so high? By the time I get there the bird will have flown away."<br><br>Just then grandfather came out. He was upset because Peter had gone in the meadow. "It's a dangerous place. If a wolf should come out of the forest, then what would you do?"<br><br>But Peter paid no attention to his grandfather's words. Boys like him are not afraid of wolves.<br><br>But grandfather took Peter by the hand, led him home and locked the gate.<br><br>No sooner had Peter gone, than a big grey wolf came out of the forest.<br><br>In a twinkling the cat climbed up the tree. The duck quacked, and in her excitement jumped out of the pond. But no matter how hard the duck tried to run, she couldn't escape the wolf. He was getting nearer, nearer, catching up with her. Then he got her, and with one gulp, swallowed her.<br><br>And now, this is how things stood: the cat was sitting on one branch, the bird on another . . . not too close to the cat. And the wolf walked around and around the tree, looking at them with greedy eyes.<br><br>In the meantime, Peter, without the slightest fear, stood behind the closed gate watching all that was going on. He ran home, got a strong rope, and climbed up the high stone wall.<br><br>One of the branches of the tree, around which the wolf was walking, stretched out over the wall.<br><br>Grabbing hold of the branch, Peter lightly climbed over on to the tree. Peter said to the bird: "Fly down and circle over the wolf's head. Only take care that he doesn't catch you."<br><br>The bird almost touched the wolf's head with his wings while the wolf snapped angrily at him, from this side and that.<br><br>How the bird worried the wolf! How he wanted to catch him! But the bird was clever, and the wolf simply couldn't do anything about it.<br><br>Meanwhile, Peter made a lasso and carefully letting it down, caught the wolf by the tail and pulled with all his might.<br><br>Feeling himself caught, the wolf began to jump wildly trying to get loose.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>But Peter tied the other end of rope to the tree, and the wolf's jumping only made the rope around his tail tighter.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Just then, the hunters came out of the woods, following the wolf's trail and shooting as they went.<br><br>But Peter, sitting in the tree, said: "Don't shoot! Birdie and I have already caught the wolf. Now help us take him to the zoo."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>And now, imagine the triumphant procession: Peter at the head; after him the hunters leading the wolf; and winding up the procession, grandfather and the cat.<br><br>Grandfather shook his head discontentedly: "Well, and if Peter hadn't caught the wolf? What then?"<br><br>Above them flew Birdie chirping merrily. "My, what brave fellows we are, Peter and I! Look what we have caught!" <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>And if one would listen very carefully, he could hear the duck quacking inside the wolf; because the wolf in his hurry, had swallowed her alive.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Incidentally, <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>In February 2004, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Sophia Loren won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra's album Peter and the Wolf/Wolf Tracks. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Peter and the Wolf

Postby Gouda » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:17 am

Mmm, now throw these into the mix:<br><br>We'll give you this: "U.S. strikes WTO deal with Russia"<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/07/13/wto.russia.reut/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/BUSI...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>For that: "Russia and China Inch Toward Iran Sanctions"<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/world/13diplo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">www.nytimes.com/2006/07/1...ref=slogin</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>With drum-and-bass bombing serving as background track of Israel, USA, UK and Turkey vs. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran - the global capital and energy markets look to be the dancing queen in these deals. <p></p><i></i>
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