The times they are a-changing

I thought there might be more to that teddy bear than met the eye. So a little looking around led to the idea that the Chinese role in Sudan might be significant, which led me to look at China Daily. The pic is part of their website – and it surely is a weird conjunction.

Now that hammer and sickle I know all about. Karl Marx, the Communist Manifesto of 1848, the hammer for the workers in the factories and the sickle for those working on the land , OK. And placing that next to the link to the Party Congress looks very appropriate.

But flying to the Moon? Well, the Soviet Union had ambitions for that during the Cold War – or perhaps we should now call it Cold War I. See what I mean?

And the link to the Stock Market? Now that is really scary.