India And The World

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1. Ukraine developments: the west is using force to separate Ukrainians from Russia by striking out at the loyalists.

The old convert-or-kill tactic the W is famous for.



news.yahoo.com/ukrainians-back-poroshenko-way-crisis-044519384.html?__fssrc=1

Ukraine launches swift airstrikes on airport

Assault against pro-Russian rebels follows new leader's vow to reassert control in east.

Reuters

news.yahoo.com/ukraine-launches-air-strikes-eastern-gunmen-162038106.html?__fssrc=1

Ukraine launches air strikes at eastern gunmen

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's new president-elect promised Monday to negotiate an end to a pro-Russia insurgency in the east and said he was willing to begin talks with Moscow. Yet he described the separatists as "Somali pirates" and authorities in Kiev launched an airstrike against the militants occupying a major eastern airport.

Associated Press

2. Seems lots of people want out of the EU. And the movement is growing. EU was unnatural anyway: Europeans are very, very different populations who 1. never got on in the past (I mean, not even the universally-enforced christendom could keep them from killing each other in the past, and actually encouraged each nation to massacre the other) and 2. don't want to be stuck together in the present.



news.yahoo.com/anti-eu-parties-surge-whats-ahead-072855423.html?__fssrc=1

After anti-EU parties surge, what's ahead?

BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe's voters have spoken, and the result "is a shock, an earthquake," France's prime minister said.

Associated Press

news.yahoo.com/euroskeptic-rise-eu-leaders-step-fray-142114045.html?__fssrc=1

Associated Press

After Euroskeptic rise, EU leaders step into fray

BRUSSELS (AP) — Euroskeptics celebrated across the continent on Monday, from Britain to France and beyond, over their unmatched success in the European Parliament election. Now they are keen to put up internal borders again, keep foreigners out of their labor markets, abolish the common euro currency and let their nations go it alone in a globalized

3. Can watch how the "international" news spins "military coups implies dictatorships" in Thailand. Whereas one barely heard audible whispers of the numerous christo-dictatorships in Africa etc which famously bulldozed over masses of living people leaving them all dead (e.g. Uganda). Meanwhile wasn't Pinochet or something still a favourite of the Vatican?



news.yahoo.com/thai-coup-leader-dont-protest-no-090326723.html?__fssrc=1

Thai coup leader: Don't protest, it's no use

BANGKOK (AP) — Bolstered by an endorsement from Thailand's king, the nation's new military ruler issued a stark warning Monday to anyone opposed to last week's coup: don't cause trouble, don't criticize, don't protest — or else the nation could revert to the "old days" of turmoil and street violence.

Associated Press46 mins ago

But considering that this Thai coup leader sounds (from the following soundbyte) rather to be pleading to the populace that they don't immediately turn the matter into chaos mess yet again and instead give things time to settle, at least in stated intent it doesn't sound like the christo madmen of Uganda or Pinochet.

But still, the One Ring (absolute power) corrupts absolutely.





4. news.yahoo.com/ancient-myth-helps-veterans-battle-ptsd-153531485.html

Ancient warrior myths help veterans fight PTSD

Greek heroes struggled with battle stress, too. By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News

May 25, 2014 4:33 AM



Yahoo News



[image caption:] Ajax Defending Greek Ships Against Trojans (Bettmann/CORBIS)



A soldier returns home from battle but has brought the war with him. He stares off into the distance, unable to take joy in his family or friends, still hyperalert to threats he no longer faces. Unable to heal his invisible wound, he takes his own life.



This isn’t a tragic news story about a veteran coming back from Afghanistan with a case of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It’s a summary of the Greek play "Ajax," which is more than 2,000 years old.



The Greeks didn’t call it PTSD. But they understood that war brought trauma (from the Greek word meaning “wound”), which left some warriors with a thousand-yard stare long after they returned home. Advocates and the military itself have found that ancient myths and stories like “Ajax” can help veterans and active-duty soldiers cope with the overwhelming psychological stress that the country’s longest war has put on its relatively small volunteer force.



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Another group is bringing mythology to soldiers while they are still serving. The Pentagon has poured millions of dollars into funding a theater company that performs Greek tragedies, including "Ajax," to military audiences. So far, Theater of War has performed 250 times to 50,000 service members, veterans and their families.



Bryan Doerries, a director who founded Theater of War five years ago, said he was blown away by the response to the group’s first performance in a hotel ballroom in San Diego in 2008. The military audience and their spouses watched actors read through portions of “Ajax” and also “Philoctetes,” a play about a war hero abandoned on an island by his own men when he begins acting strangely. Afterward, a woman stood up and said, “I’m the wife of a Navy SEAL and the proud mother of a Marine, and my husband went away four years to war and each time he came back he was dragging invisible bodies back,” according to Doerries. “To quote from the play, ‘our home is a slaughterhouse.’”



Ajax, one of the Greek army’s most celebrated heroes, returns from war filled with rage and slaughters farm animals that he thinks are the Athenian officers who betrayed him. The play also explores the effect of battle stress on families. Ajax’s wife laments that, “Our fierce hero sits shell-shocked in his tent, glazed over, gazing into oblivion. He has the thousand-yard stare.”



Many people in the audience are surprised that these classic battle stress symptoms are thousands of years old. “By using an ancient text, we’re trying to create a safe distance,” Doerries said. According to John Klocek, a psychology professor at Baylor University who treated PTSD at the VA for years, letting veterans know that PTSD is an ancient condition might also help remove the stigma around it.



But today’s warriors also face a different, more undefined kind of battle than Greek heroes did, which has created a different kind of PTSD. “There’s no front line,” Klocek said. “You never know when something is going to explode at you, when someone is going to shoot at you, when someone is going to show up in a suicide vest.”



“They are on edge in a way that is tremendous for months and months on end,” Klocek added of today’s men and women in uniform.



But the parallels are still useful. Now Doerries’ group is using another round of Pentagon funding to create a graphic novel based on Homer’s “Odyssey.” The book is called “The Odyssey of Sgt. Jack Brennan” and is set on the last night of a Marine’s deployment. Theater of War is also perfecting software that will allow people to create their own graphic novels to explore their combat experiences.



The author of “Ajax,” Sophocles, was himself a warrior — an elected general who led men against Syracuse. Some scholars believe all of Western literature developed from the need to tell the stories of returning soldiers.



“These myths were designed by and for veterans,” Doerries said.



Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said Sophocles used the phrase "thousand yard stare" to describe Ajax. Doerries' translation of Ajax uses the 20th century phrase, but it's not a literal translation.

Oh no, if it isn't AmriKKKans pretending they're Hindus (and dressing in Hindu gear), it's AmriKKKans pretending the ancient Hellenes have anything in common with them and clawing at the Greek epics, yet simultaneously USAID / Joshua Project / World Vision is still clocking overtime.