Polonium 210 .....211 ...212 ....gone!

Come on, people!

Ever since that "poor ex KGB spy" got sick, you can not get anywhere without hearing that something is poisoned by Polonium or someone contains it.

1) It is EVERYWHERE. It is heavy metal and these days we consume about 200 plus of them on daily basis.

2) Anyone who plays "spy games" signes waiver that says "in case of my untimely death, please consider me an idiot". It's like the dude who crashed his private jet into high rise. You can't crash your private jet if you don't have money to buy one! So, once you do, don't expect sympathy.

3) Million bucks .... Putin could buy another head of state, like he did in Germany, with this money. Seems like much more profitable investment.

4) Putin is KGB. He is anything but stupid. Plus, they usually prefer to put folks into mental institutions or to jail for murders that accused never committed.

So, lets move one to something less annoying. Compared to this scandal, Bush seems like dear friend and Nobel Prize winner. .....

Latvia Fears New ‘Occupation’ by Russians but Needs the Labor

Recently, www.nytimes.com published something that I personally have been waiting for a very long time. You may same most of my life. The story describes that once again snooty inbreeding hiding-in-remote-farms Waffen SS (http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/baltic_nazis/latvia/index2.htm) Latvians NEED Russian help. No longer do they need to get us out of their got forsaken cold woody beach country. They actually smuggle Russian workers into Latvia illegally. Let me state in again: Latvian employers smuggle Russian Workers, not like in USA where Mexican workers have to smuggle themselves and pay for it.

For those who would say that Russians got what they deserved, here is a little bit of info - Revolution and following Soviet Union's "occupation" would not have happened if it was not for Latvian Shooters Battalions who were acting on behalf of Lenin as Battalions Of Death.

Why am I personally so connected to it? May be because I was born in 1971 in Riga. My mother was 2 years old when my Russian Grandmother and my Ukrainian Grandfather moved to Latvia. As true occupants, they spent their life's working (sometimes two jobs at the same time) at bread factory, as someone who is cleaning stairwells in the building, drove trucks, and other jobs that ethnic Latvians considered to be "dirty" and beneath them.

I will never forget how their children were instructed from early childhood never to play with us. Not because we were "occupants", but because were were lower class, could spread disease, ignorant subhumans.

My parents were first generation in their families to become college educated, they were associated with anti soviet crowd, I was raised to believe in freedom of expression and tolerance. We constantly had hand-typed underground manuscripts at our house and never did we consider Latvians to be our enemy. But now, after the way they treated non-Latvian children and old people for past 20 years, I rejoice when I hear that for all their propaganda to contrary, they do need Russian heads and hands!

"Persian Descent" ... What exactly does it mean?

Last night I went to Carnegie Hall and had pleasure to listen to works written by Shubert and Shuman performed by young and extremely talented artist - Mr. Nasiri.

The minute I saw him I realized that he is either Israeli, Armenian or Iranian. He could be from any country south of Russia for that matter.

Turns out, the program just say that he was born in "California to parents of Persian descent".

Here is map of Persian Kingdom at its greatest time -

It includes Libya and Egypt, its eastern borders are next to India. On south, it has Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea and on North it includes what later will become Macedonia, Armenia, Caspian Mountains, Partia and Aria.

Persia's conquest by Islamic Arab armies took place and marks the transition into "medieval" Persia between years 643 and 650, long after the birth of Persian civilization (3200–2700 BCE)

To make the very long story short, Persian Descent means a lot more than just to be Iranian, which today is considered to be such politically incorrect term, that talented musician has to hide his parents national identity!

Arts after Politics ?

OK, for those of us who are done with all this political nonsense (i.e. we'll get screwed no matter who is in the White , Senate, Representatives House), here are some ideas on how to spend time in artistic pursuits:

On Friday, November 11, 2006 , Christine Taylor Patten will talk about her work at 4pm at the Drawing Center.

Later that day, there will be open reception for her exhibition of 261 drawings (November 11, 2006 – February 10, 2007)

Opening Reception: Friday, November 10, 6-8 pm

261 drawings consists of 260 one-by-one-inch crow quill and ink drawings on three-inch paper (the micro) and one 21-by-103.5-inch study (the macro). A progression of images begun with a single dot in space, the complete series of thousands of drawings evolves through gradual movement, each drawing in the sequence referring to the preceding one. While strictly non-referential, the drawings evoke cosmic imagery – swirling clouds, clusters of planets, wave patterns – and have been numbered as years, celebrating two millennia.

35 Wooster Street,

New York, NY 10013

Tel: 212-219-2166

Fax: 212-966-2976

Email: info@drawingcenter.org

Another option would be to go and see John Currin at Gagosian Gallery.

Saturday, November 11 – Friday, December 22, 2006

Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, November 11th, from 6 to 8pm. This is Currin's first exhibition with the gallery.

Young children held until fathers surrender themselves

Veterans Group Deplores Interrogation and Detention of Iraqi Children By Military
Young children held until fathers surrender themselves

I usually do not get into politics, but this press release by Bruce could not go unnoticed by me. Just think about it. Who else used similar techniques in this century, but in purposes of ethnic cleanings? Now USA puts itself on same level with them?

I'd love to read what you have to say. I say only 5 words: SHAME ON ALL OF US!


TORONTO, ON, CANADA, October 28, 2006 - Today, the Chairman of Veteran Organ Donors International Bruce A. Gorcyca, also a U.S. military veteran, announced that their volunteer group received information from two independent sources in Baghdad that Iraqi children as young as 5 and 6 years old were being pulled from their classrooms and privately interrogated by U.S. soldiers in uniforms about their fathers. The children were asked if they wanted to be "mujahadin" when they grow up and those that responded with a "yes" were then asked if their fathers were "Mujahadin". If they again answered "yes" the children were taken away and held hostage until their fathers surrendered themselves for interrogation that could last for weeks, as they have in the past. Historically, less than half of those interrogated are ever released.

We received this information from the same source that told us of Iraqi mothers and wives being taken from their homes in 2005 in much the same manner by U.S. troops who then offered to release the women only if their husbands and sons would surrender and submit interrogation under the influence of drugs . ABC News later confirmed that story to be true a few weeks after we received the information. "I consider these tactics to be barbaric, un-American, and shameful" said Gorcyca. "Some members of the Arab League have suggested this may be yet another potential war crime, and we want the United Nations to establish a war crime commission to look into this immediately" he added.Just last week VODI published an open letter to the United Nations, U.S. Congress, and Parliament demanding that the death of over 5,000 Iraqi children from American bombs, missiles, and bullets be investigated. The group is now trying to attend to the some 3,000 Iraqi children in need of organ transplants due to injuries received from the last two invasions over the last decade.

Extensive use of radioactive depleted uranium weapons by coalition forces has almost doubled the leukemia rate of Iraqi children who are now in desperate need of bone marrow transplants. "Iraqi parents take no comfort in the fact their children were not killed or maimed deliberately" remarked Gorcyca who further explained "It is not hard to understand the growing insurgency in Iraq which may be nothing more than enraged citizens seeking revenge for the death of their children or parents". The Toronto-based human rights group is staffed by volunteer veterans of the U.S. and Canadian military.

About VODI. VODI is a non-profit volunteer organization focused on helping children victims of war and military conflicts by addressing their medical needs

Long Island Fat Wallets vs. New York Month - to - month

As I was heading to my studio from 72nd and Broadway, I realised something I never quite could make any sense of - why would anybody plan 34th street 1, 2, and 3 subway lines platforms in the way, that first you have to get down X number of stair, and then you have to go up X times 2 number of stairs to get outside.

Finally I got it - if you go downstairs, you can get right onto the Penn Station trucks!!! So those who have the hardship of living in big houses which require enormous amount of furniture, and the pool, and at least one maid and one nanny (how could then NOT care about the poor) and perfect lawn, and that milkman for the lady of the house have more convenient commute!

Hmmmm. Now I feel like warmhearted bitch. I almost feel remorse. I am done. Back to cold hearted one :)I think we should sell tickets to and from LI based on the residency. Work in NY but live in LI? Pay up double for that ticket dude. NY needs the money for those of us who support you nice commute by maintaining NYC subway system.