Fwd: UN focuses on turmoil in Amerikanijstan

Hello everybody

Following the recent flare-up of mails on the British takeover of the 
US, here is now a report of the UN's perspective :-)

Shows how you can do distort the truth with creative reporting without 
actually lying.

Cheers
Karl Heinz

(taking cover in a flame-proof bunker)

--- In talkingwargames@egroups.com, "stevegilliard" 
<stevegilliard@m...> wrote:
From: "Nicolas Dinatale" <nick@k...>
To: "wwwac" <wwwac@l...>
>
> UN FOCUSES ON TURMOIL IN AMERIJKANISTAN
>
> After two decades in which social and financial inequalities 
> widened amidst unsustainable speculative development, the country
>  of Amerijkanistan held presidential elections this week.
>
> The two leading candidates were both drawn from a tiny elite, 
> both spent vast sums on propaganda, and both have claimed victory. 
> Experts on Amerijkanistan recall the history of violent revolution, 
> civil war and more recent political violence and assassinations, 
> resignations, impeachments, sexual scandals and corruption in this 
> emergent republic, and recommend that the UN supervise its elections 
> until the country stabilizes.
>
> "It is struggling to emerge from years of political polarization and
> turmoil" said a World Trade Organization spokesperson, "and its
> long-suffering people deserve our support."
>
> "One side of the country declared results before voting had finished 
> in another part" he explained. Moreover, he went on to spell out 
> that the southern province of 'Floridalandia,' in which the 
> leadership struggle is being fought, is run by the brother of one of 
> the candidates, whose father had previously ruled the entire 
> country, having risen through his control of the nation's 
> intelligence/security apparatus. Their family is based in a
> part of the country in which secessionist feelings have long run 
> strong and which was only incorporated into Amerijkanistan after a 
> border war.
>
> Experts on Amerijkanistan argue that the UN should go in to run 
> education programs, disarm the population, relieve the malnutrition 
> and environmental problems caused by adherence to a staple diet of 
> cheese and burgers, democratize the police forces and above all halt 
> the further development of war machinery. "This country has used 
> dangerous weapons in the past and often threatened to do so again. 
> But with our help, modernization, and a stress on human development, 
> it may have a more stable future and join the ranks of the civilized 
> international community" he said.