{"id":2499,"date":"2018-07-06T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T07:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T07:34:34","slug":"mike-pompeo-to-give-kim-jong-un-rocket-man-cd-during-nuclear-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=2499","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo to give Kim Jong-un &#8218;Rocket Man CD&#8216; during nuclear talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jul\/06\/mike-pompeo-north-korea-kim-jong-un-rocket-man-cd-nuclear-elton-john\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CD is not the first bizarre White House offering to Pyongyang. During their summit, the US and North Korean delegations watched a four-minute video, made in the style of a Hollywood trailer, setting out the North\u2019s stark choice: conflict with a powerful enemy or a peaceful and prosperous future as America\u2019s (denuclearised) partner. The film, a copy of which was given to Kim, casts him and Trump as the architects of a new chapter in world history \u2013 \u201ctwo men, two leaders, one destiny\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elton John&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rocket Man<\/em> brings back memories of 1972-73 to me. Vietnam was very much on our minds. My Social Studies class (normal in those days, my son on the other hand didn&#8217;t experience anything similar) debated Watergate and Roe v. Wade.\u00a0<em>Rocket Man\u00a0<\/em>was on\u00a0<em>Honky Chateau<\/em> which I bought through my subscription to the Columbia Record &amp; Tape Club and listened to on my portable cassette player. When I pictured Mike Pompeo carrying a message from Donald Trump to Kim Jong-un I thought of another track on that album (we called them &#8222;albums&#8220; then, not &#8222;CDs&#8220;):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters<br \/>\nSons of bankers, sons of lawyers<br \/>\nTurn around and say good morning to the night<br \/>\nFor unless they see the sky<br \/>\nBut they can&#8217;t and that is why<br \/>\nThey know not if it&#8217;s dark outside or light<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSubway&#8217;s no way for a good man to go down<br \/>\nRich man can ride and the hobo he can drown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess is Trump isn&#8217;t thinking of a song somewhat critical of New York&#8217;s monied class when he hears\u00a0<em>Rocket Man,<\/em> but this morning in a Ukrainian laundromat that&#8217;s the connection I made. Funny that 45 years later some of us who listened to that album are as critical of capitalism as we were then, while others of us remain whores to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: The CD is not the first bizarre White House offering to Pyongyang. During their summit, the US and North Korean delegations watched a four-minute video, made in the style of a Hollywood trailer, setting out the North\u2019s stark choice: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=2499\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}