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I couldn't agree more. This was my aha moment: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/europe/06bulgaria.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/europe/06b
by blago 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. This was my aha moment: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/europe/06bulgaria.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/world/europe/06bulgaria.ht...
I happened to be born in Bulgaria and keep current with events. This is what struck me:
1) Times' perspective: "prominent radio journalist". For anybody living in the country, the victim was a convicted conman who used his game show to defraud participant and advertisers. His other claim to fame: admittedly close connections with the mob. The "exposing the underworld" book they refer to was in the spirit of "one night, me and my buddies...". At best, the victim could have been described as a radio game show host.
2) At the end of the article, they referred to a US embassy report stating that there's been 125 contract killings in 2008 alone.
I sent an email challenging the "facts" and asked for a pointer to the embassy report. They corrected the number by an order of magnitude and ignored the rest.
- ChrisNorstrom 13y agoI'm Bulgarian too. Born in Sofia. Btw have you been keeping up with what's been happening there with government corruption? Billions missing. The insane electric bills. Bribing the gypsies to throw human feces into the anti-government protestor crowd. It's on the news stations. My parents have DJTacho.com which streams to the US. The children of the communists that once ruled basically raped and pillaged BG for anything left. And spent 100 million on surveillance/spying equipment.
- blago 13y agoChris, I'm not really invested in any of that, and this is hardly the right thread...