Riots & Spies
IN TODAY'S NEWS:
Oakland, California (where I currently live), RIOTS over a verdict given to a white former transit police officer for the shooting death of an African-American man.
Vienna, Austria (where I plan to live someday), Russian and American SPIES traded on the tarmac at Vienna International Airport.
Prisoner Swap in Vienna Ends U.S.-Russia Espionage Case
~ Both sound like they could be newspaper headlines from decades ago.
~ There may also be a novel, a thriller, a story in here somewhere.
~ Times change, and yet they don't seem to change so much after all.
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I read about the Oakland riots--so, so sad.
The Austrian free daily newspapers were going crazy about the spy swap. One of the true delights of Vienna is reading the ridiculous free newspapers on the Ubahn, which I could only really understand with the help of the illustrations, which usually make you think the end of the world is coming. There were the requisite naked photos of Anna Chapman and then a bunch of references to the Cold War. They loveddddd it. Get ready.
xx kate
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