Russian beauty pageant controversy (Russia is begger)
A Russian beauty pageant contestant sparked controversy by launching a scathing broadside at her home nation during a competition, calling it a 'beggar'.Astonishing Natalia Pereverzeva was competing in the Miss Earth competition, an event similar to Miss Universe and other pageants but with a twist - competitors are expected to be both gorgeous and environmentally aware.
When Natalia, 24 was asked a question about what makes her proud of her country, she initially used glowing, if slightly odd, words about her homeland, according to Radio Free Europe. She said: 'My Russia, it is bright, warm, patched, but it is so pleasant to slumber under it on a winter evening when the storm rages outside. 'My Russia, it is a kind cow with very big eyes, funny horns and always chewing its mouth oh, what sweet milk she gives! Oh, how it smells -- meadow herbs and the sun.' But then she suddenly and angrily rails against widespread corruption in the troubled nation.'But my Russia -- it is also my poor, long-suffering country, mercilessly torn to pieces by greedy, dishonest, unbelieving people,' she said. 'My Russia, it is a great artery, from which the 'chosen' few people draining away its wealth. My Russia is a beggar. 'My Russia cannot help her elderly and orphans. From it, bleeding, like from a sinking ship, engineers, doctors, teachers are fleeing, because they have nothing to live on.
'My Russia -- it is a winner which has overthrown fascism but bought the victory at the expense of lives of millions of people. How, tell me, how and why does nationalism prosper in this country? 'My dear, poor Russia.'
But she also spoke of her hope for the future and made an passionate call for her countrymen to turn from superfluous consumerist wants and help the country 'blossom'.
'Only we can improve the situation. We must learn to express ourselves and to show our best quality traits. 'We should try not to live only as consumers, but to develop ourselves, read books, listen to interesting music and be interested in scientific achievements. 'When we seriously begin to take care of our country, it will blossom and shine brightly.'Natalia's verbal assault caused much debate in Russia, with newspaper columnists arguing for and against her standpoint. However, her remarks appear to have resonated with the Russian public. More than 90 percent of the thousands who voted in an online poll on a newspaper website said they agreed with her. Natalia was Miss Moscow in 2010 and she won a Russia-wide beauty contest last year.
Petraeus mistress murder plot update
DAVID PETRAEUS’ gun-toting mistress PAULA BROADWELL was obsessed with the former CIA director – and the FBI feared she could develop a fatal attraction for him that may have driven her to murder, sources tell The ENQUIRER. During their months-long investigation, federal agents became worried that Broadwell, whose affair with the decorated general led to his resignation on Nov. 9, was a deranged “woman scorned. “They also believed her extensive military background made her a credible risk to Petraeus, Holly, his wife of 38 years, and Jill Kelley, the family friend who first sounded the alarm after receiving threatening e-mails from Broadwell. Kelley, 37, a Tampa, Fla.- based State Department liaison to the military’s Joint Special Operations Command, sparked the investigation when she contacted the FBI about hostile e-mails she’d been receiving. The trail led to Broadwell and then to Petraeus – and to steamy e-mail exchanges, including one that talked about the two having “sex under a desk.”
But Broadwell, who often called Petraeus “Peaches” in their e-mails, apparently believed that Kelley had her eye on him. “Jill was close to David and his wife – they were like grandparents to her young children. But Paula didn’t buy that,” explained one insider. “Paula saw Jill as a love rival – someone who was going to steal Petraeus away from her. “She was insanely jealous of any woman who was close to David.”Broadwell, a 40-year-old mother of two, lives in Charlotte, N.C., with her radiologist husband, Scott.A graduate of West Point and an Army Reserve officer, she spent months embedded in Afghanistan with the former four-star general while working on the book “All In: The
Education of General David Petraeus.”One intelligence source called her “a cross between a female James Bond and G.I. Jane.”Another source said: “During their time in Afghanistan together, Paula developed a fatal attraction for Petraeus. She became extremely possessive, even though they were both married. She didn’t want any other woman to get close to him. “Paula was infatuated with his power – it was like an aphrodisiac to her.”After Petraeus retired from the military and took the helm of the CIA,
Broadwell became a frequent visitor to his office in Langley, Va. She often accompanied him on his punishing morning runs around the CIA grounds and attended several public functions as his guest.
He even sent her a photo of himself with actress Angelina Jolie that was snapped while he was in Iraq a few years earlier, saying Broadwell reminded him of her.
When CIA officers expressed concern about Broadwell’s unprecedented access to the director, Petraeus, 60, felt the situation was getting out of hand and cut off the affair.
“That’s when investigators believe Broadwell went a little crazy” and began e-mailing Kelley, said the source.
According to James J. Wedick, a 34-year veteran of the FBI, the e-mails received by Kelley “had to be very graphic and threatening” for the FBI to get involved.
“When they realized they had a potentially dangerous situation, of course they investigated,” said Wedick. “There is no way the FBI could have ignored this.”
And Ray Semko, a former special agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency, told The ENQUIRER: “The FBI would have been very nervous about investigating the head of the CIA but must have felt this woman could harm Gen. Petraeus, Mrs. Petraeus or Mrs. Kelley. They would have felt that they needed to negate the threat.”
Another highly placed intelligence source added: “FBI agents would investigate this as a possible worst-case murder scenario against Petraeus and/or his wife. A jealous woman who felt betrayed after being dumped by Petraeus has to be looked at as a serious threat and someone who might kill.
“A complete investigation was warranted – and the possibility of murder had to be considered.”
