[Iran Press TV] Britannia's mainstream media coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations focused on the picturesque extravaganza of the event, while there were other aspects to that.
First comes the huge costs the event imposed on the public purse, which the government estimates showed that the cost to the taxpayer would be as much as £3 billion.
The cost estimates exposed as The Guardian revealed on Monday June 4 that coach-loads of long-term unemployed jobseekers had been taken to London to work as unpaid stewards during celebrations marking the Queen's 60th year on the throne.
Second came the news blackout of the protests the anti-monarchy and republican groups held to denounce such an outdated extravaganza.
The 100 protesters gathered near the million+ celebratingon the banks of the Thames River to censure "the hereditary system" in Britannia, which they considered as an offence to "all democratic values".
They used to say that it is increasingly difficult to see why, with 60 percent of the population not interested in such an outdated mechanism, the taxpayer has to pay for it.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... their voices were left unheard by the mainstream media outlets, which only showed interest to the 1000-flotilla of boats accompanying the queen and the music concert that was held on her honor.
Britannia's unhealthy habit of dwelling on past glories has blinded those in power as well as many ordinary people to the fact that the country is now largely insignificant in the world.
The country's outdated ideals and policies are failing to recognize the evolution of modern society and consequently enslaving the UK into a way of life that most other countries regard as either 'quaint' or primitive.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
