watch newspapers from other countries

I love foreign news. When I contrast foreign publications with the domestic ones and use them to fill in the blanks in each other, I feel like I almost know what's truly going on. (I often find out later that I didn't, but ignorance can be bliss.)

That, and the local papers around here seem to stubbornly cling to the belief that anything happening in Kitsap County is by definition far more important than occurances anywhere else. I, for one, honestly do not care to be told every time a new traffic light is installed in Silverdale. I expect that I'll find out on my own eventually.
 
A sampling of international news today wil ltell you that:

The Japanese refer to all Christians as "cultists"

The Russians like to call America "the new Nazis"

You can guess what the Arab papers are saying...

But still, you find out other things of importance, like the age of consent in Japan is 13, etc...
 
Iran's OFFICIAL governmental title for the United States is:

The Great Satan.

I'm not kidding. These are really friendly people who desire peace, aren't they?!?


Nam
 
I get all all the foreign slanted news I need from the front page of the New York Times.




munk
 
If you want a REALLY foreign slant, check out the New York Times editorial and op-ed columns. :)

I read a few foreign news sources and a lot of blogs.

I don't like the BBC News slant, but they do point out many interesting developments. The Guardian would be a great paper if it would restrain its lunatic leftism. Way too far out. I prefer the UK's Telegraph for actual news and pretty level-headed opinion.

And, of course, my Jerusalem Post.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If you want a REALLY foreign slant, check out the New York Times editorial and op-ed columns. :)

I read a few foreign news sources and a lot of blogs.

I don't like the BBC News slant, but they do point out many interesting developments. The Guardian would be a great paper if it would restrain its lunatic leftism. Way too far out. I prefer the UK's Telegraph for actual news and pretty level-headed opinion.

And, of course, my Jerusalem Post.
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You could, if you wish, also try THIS one for a slightly more southern slant.
 
There is a very telling article in that link, about the stand Politico's are taking in Australia. They do not wish to anger Indonesia and create a backlash. The writer of the article concluded the death penalty was barbaric in whatever nation it occured, but should not be the subject of Bali Bashing.

It appears I've crossed threads, between the Bali mess and the left slant in media; no matter.


munk
 
I'd like to add something; there are a group of ideas and perspectives shared by many nations, on the 'progressive' front, the Left. One of these is that the Death Penalty is barbaric. You hear this everywhere, and must wonder if it is an idea whose time is come.

I'm not a great fan of the death penalty- that is, believing it is a cure all for societies ills. I do think properly applied, it certainly cures the hazard of someone being killed again by a habitual felon; a member of a very small percent of criminals who are responsible for a majority of violent offenses.

Society's have the right to self preservation. This is not understood by today's Left, or the progressive wave. They give away many protections in the name of some democratic ideal, of being fair, of not wishing to offend anyone by a difference of value judgement, or of making any value judgments period. While it is true God Himself can apply value judgement accurately, man cannot. We simply must deal the best we can with space and time, limited resources and understanding. It is not realistic to mimic God while accepting the murder of our citizens from repeat or horrific killers.

It may be natural for a rattlesnake to strike when alarmed from sleep, but that does not give any consolation to the child about to be bit after innocently wandering down a road where the snake was sleeping. The father who then takes it's head off with a 20" Sirupate "Pappy" khukuri
has made a value judgement: My child should not die. That is not to say with the advancement of science we may not one day understand the snake better, warn him more efficiently, give him a nicer and safer place to sleep, but we cannot manage that today.


I think some DNA proof might be a prerequisite for future executions, and other such final determinants, but eliminating the death penalty altogether is yet one more submission to our inability to believe in ourselves and protect ourselves.

It's not fair we can't cure the sociopath. He may be just born that way. But until such time as we can afford to help him, ( and we can't even feed all the people of the world) or have a cure, allowing him an opportunity to murder again and again because the death penalty is 'barbaric' is, well, barbaric.

munk
 
I do that too, but
watching foreign news only makes sense when you know their overall political direction. Sometimes I see some marxist, nationalistic or racist crap from extreme tabloids cited as "INSERT COUNTRY HEREan newspaper". For example if you cite the German "Nationalzeitung" in an US-newspaper as "German Newspapers say INSERT XENOPHOBE/FASCHIST/NAZISTIC SLOGAN HERE" one could assume or gain the impression that "Germany" was still under the reign of Adolf Hitler...
The same with marxist newspapers...
I have a hard time reading all the German Newspapers and I know the political direction they favour. Sometimes I read TIMES and Newsweek or watch CNN - but these media are not representative of "America" or "Great Britain". You have no chance to read the real and full truth - until you go where the things that make the headlines happen - and then you have YOUR truth - and not the whole picture...

Andreas
 
A guy just does the best he can, Andreas. There is no way to hook words together without a 'slant'.



munk
 
Couldn't help but notice the title for the WaiWai article in the MDN:

Women look to little pricks to fill them full of goodness
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Whatever floats their boat, I guess. :eek: :p

Bob
 
munk said:
It's not fair we can't cure the sociopath. He may be just born that way. But until such time as we can afford to help him, ( and we can't even feed all the people of the world) or have a cure, allowing him an opportunity to murder again and again because the death penalty is 'barbaric' is, well, barbaric.
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At the risk of hijacking the thread...

Well said, Munk - as usual. We can only do the best we can do.

I'd like to add, without meaning to possibly offend anyone, that I have yet to see such a wonderful and peaceful utopia in this world that can rail against the death penalty on the simple grounds of barbarism. Every nation is barbaric in its own way - one just needs to look more closely. Some cultures are better, but all have something in their past or present that is disagreeable to someone. It's the nature of the beast. Until human society is created by something other than humans, it will by definition be subject to all the frailties and insecurities of the humans that make it. Again, we can only do the best we can do, with the result that it will not be perfect.
 
munk said:
I'm not a great fan of the death penalty- that is, believing it is a cure all for societies ills. I do think properly applied, it certainly cures the hazard of someone being killed again by a habitual felon; a member of a very small percent of criminals who are responsible for a majority of violent offenses.
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Not too convincing an argument. The probability of someone being killed again by a habitual felon is already vanishingly small.

Unless of course a habitual felon got on the FVZA Assault Team. But I think the intense psychological testing will make that improbable.
 
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