User talk:Petri Krohn

Hi, Petri! Thanks for joining, no pressure to do anything, but pleasedo, or I'll jump out a window - first (ground) floor. I hear you have done wiki stuff before. When you get a chance, can you look over the witness pages and fix anything wrong, so I can see what it looks like not wrong? Thx. - CL

Must say, Petri, you've been kicking ass widely here, esp. on 'Houla.' Too many spots to note each with its due, so let me just say here thanks for your work! --Caustic Logic 21:18, 2 October 2012 (EST)

Tit Crisis hits Finland
Got back from Strasbourg. Took the taxi straight from the airport to the Finnish National Broadcasting Company studios. While we were away, the Tit Crisis had escalated to a new level.


 * Levels of international crises:
 * Finnish president Niinistö calls Putin to solve crisis.
 * Finnish president Niinistö meets Putin to solve crisis.
 * Putin cancels pre-planned meeting with Finnish president Niinistö because of crisis. ? We are now here.

At the TV headquarters my friend Dr. Bäckman gave a 5 minute interview outside the TV studios, while our taxi stood by waiting. Later in the evening it was splashed over half of the YLE.fi web page. The evenings news broadcast spent the first 5 minutes covering the latest twists of the story. Today, Friday the censorship was relaxed and the victim was finally allowed to have her say in the Finnish press. The stories covered a total of 7 pages in the two tabloids combined (front pages included). The leading Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat is now averaging two stories a day on the issue. The web-only newspaper Uusi Suomi even has my photo (second from left) on the top of front page. Luckily Turkey has just captured a Syrian passenger jet with Russians aboard. Russia will be angry at Turkey for the next few days.

Summa summarum: The Finnish government lost the media war 0-20. "Activists say" rulez! -- Petri Krohn 12:23, 13 October 2012 (EST)

Thanks, I had no idea, and still only have some idea. Tit crisis? Not the nipple-sucking Finnish doctor, I gather, but a child custody scandal (an area Russia has had some issues with, I hear), and specifically, I guess on your end, the attack on your colleague Dr. Bäckman for allegedly (per the government) misinforming the Russians. I see you there in one of those links, you handsome devil. But Finland (meaning the government?) seems to have lost? So you'll be dealing with a sore government then? Man, a whole world of things you're into I know little about - would be interested to hear more, wherever. --Caustic Logic 19:43, 13 October 2012 (EST)

Checked one of the Saturday tabloids, it has six pages on the crisis. Also gives good advise to the Finnish government: respond quickly, make accurate information available and accessible in Russian, before "activist say" rules. Good advise for Assad government too! Will fly to Moscow tomorrow morning. Will speak with "Putin", maybe things will cool down. -- Petri Krohn 09:37, 14 October 2012 (EST)

Lol! I think?--Caustic Logic 15:21, 14 October 2012 (EST)

Continued: Something happens in Luxembourg. My friend explains. (I have been in Moscow for the last two days, so I have lost track of the developments.) Putin calls Merkel, puts EU-Russia negations on Syria on hold until this urgent matter is resolved. Merkel sends Finnish foreign minister Tuomioja knocking on Lavrov's door. Some settlement is reached. Backman's academic nemesis in Finland accuses Tuomioja of compromising Finnish sovereignty. Tuomioja responds: Bullshit!

Top news in Finland at the moment (most read item on the #1 newspaper site): University of Finland revokes docent Bäckman's email access. -- Petri Krohn 07:32, 17 October 2012 (EST)

P.S.: ? The leading Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat in its English language edition compares the proportions of the crisis to that of the Note Crisis of 1961. (Featured article on German Wikipedia!) The difference is however, that president Kekkonen would have solved this issue in half-an-hour. The "Niinistö regime" shows its total incompetence.

P.P.S. ? Hmmm, this raises a question of notability: I guess having an article about you on Wikipedia does not make you notable. (About 50 of my Facebook friends have articles.) You are truly notable, when someone on Wikipedia writes a Featured Article on something you and your friends made up at your kitchen table. -- Petri Krohn 08:14, 17 October 2012 (EST)

P.P.P.S. ? Niinistö loyalist attempt to counter "Activist say" disinformation. Quote: "Meanwhile, in Moscow, Ambassador Hannu Himanen met a group of about a dozen Russian journalists at the press centre of the state-run news agency Ria Novosti." ? I was at the same press centre, spoke to "about" two dozen journalists + 6 TV cameras. I wonder how many cameras he had? -- Petri Krohn 08:45, 17 October 2012 (EST)