So musician, producer and presidential hopeful Wyclef Jean apparently faked his shooting incident the day before Haiti’s election.
Cheap. Ridiculous. Low. He better stays in the music industry and use his dirty tricks there then go into the politics of the devastated nation.
Haiti has a very dirty, corrupt, chaotic politic cemetery. Wyclef better doesn’t step into the fold of Haitian politics if he has a sick attitude like that. The island of broken dreams urgently needs some really hands-on, focused, honest leadership. Will it get it? Who knows.... If history is a merry-go-round-and-round.... then it won’t unfortunately.
Human behaviour too often just plainly sucks.
From sucking to kissing is just a small step for humankind. And from Haiti to Florida ain’t too far to on the scale of planet earth.
It seems there won’t be a Romeo and Juliet romance between Helen and Dwight. 92 Year old Helen still has libido to satisfy and seems not to take ‘no’ for an answer. She fancies her 53 year old neighbour Dwight. But Dwight doesn’t seem to put the neighbourly affection in the same category.
So Helen demanded a kiss from Dwight. Dwight refused. Helen was furious and went back home. She took her semi automatic pistol and fired 4 shots towards Dwight. She missed.
Her libido might still be alive and kicking, but her shooting skills have gone downhill. Luckily for Dwight. That refers to the target-missing of course.
Instead of a kiss, Helen will now face justice.
Love is in the air,.... as do 4 bullets flying past.
From fake shooting and broken hearts, to some more serious desperation and killings.
The anger keeps spreading across the Middle East. And it all started with a pissed off vegetable seller in Tunisia! After Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen it now reached Syria. Another dictatorship.
The ‘special advisor’ to the president (the son of the previous dictator) had to rush to organise a press conference to tell the Syrians and the world that the protestors have some important issues that needs to be tackled. For Syrian arrogance, that is a very serious climb down. And on top of that the lady special advisor told the nation and the world that the president would study the possibility of lifting the state of emergency that has been in place since.... the early 1960s. Crazy.
The last statement might be a sweetener to reduce the heat and pressure on the streets. A promise without a clear end in sight. Damascus is not a regime that easily changes tactics, despite protests and several people killed by trigger happy security forces.
Same sweetener in Yemen. The sitting president-dictator promised to step down at the end of the year. Not enough!!!! It takes much more than one individual gesture to install freedom and democracy and justice. And on top of that the army isn’t speaking conciliatory language. It’s old-style hardline crap. Tunnel vision.
So there is no end in sight for the frustrations of the people of the Middle East boiling over. Who’s next? Jordan? Algiers? Morocco?
Meanwhile, to the surprise of many observers, the UN came reasonably quick to a resolution (a week ago) to start military action over Libya. A no-fly zone and protect civilians “by all means necessary”. And straight away the air raids started. First ones to hit were French jets bombing Gadaffi tanks shelling rebel town Benghazi. Then followed the first night of onslaught onto Gadaffi’s air defences and air systems. A display of Tomahawks and air superiority. The skies of Libya had flashbacks of Baghdad.
And as always, the politics were the first ones to stumble. Already the day after the UN resolution was voted the Arab League raised concerns about the bombings. And this despite Lebanon – the Arab League’s representative on the UN Security Council - having voted in favour of the resolution. Same with South Africa. They voted in favour of the resolution at the UN, but soon after president Zuma criticised the bombings. It’s BS. Honestly, don’t these politicians not know what installing a no-fly zone contains and what the term “by all means necessary” means? There are clear examples of no-fly zone enforcement in the recent past: Bosnia, Iraq. So get real!
It’s political posturing for domestic use. And in the case of Zuma, he needs to say something tough against the West,.... without mentioning that Gadaffi likely financed his election campaign and that last November Zuma’s government sold sniper rifles to Libya. Sniper rifles that are now being used in the town of Misarata to kill demonstrators from rooftops.
The hard reality of cold politics.
Human behaviour is too often misty. And political behaviour is misty and murky.
Meanwhile madman Gadaffi is still sitting solidly in power. Some talk of possible asylum destinations, but for now that seems not necessary (yet). But if a one way ticket might be needed, the options seem Zimbabwe or Venezuela. A flee to fellow madmen. Brothers amongst brothers. The crazy killers seek the company of lonely madmen. Insanity needs insane company.
And, as in the past, the world’s versatile and diverse opinion is always a merry go round and round. If the UN didn’t act on Libya people would have cried foul and blame the world’s body for inaction while the slaughter goes on. And if, as now, the UN acts then people cry foul that it’s a crusade, a re-colonisation, a quest for oil. It’s never good enough. Never right. Never wrong. It’s always a catch 22.
Human behaviour is just a flowing ocean. Up and down.
Meanwhile soon-to-be-world power China is still struggling with basic freedoms. The commies are again in conflict with Google for blocking certain access and certain search terms. Freedom is just not an option it seems for the Chinese ruling elite. Openness and free thinking is not an option as the communist narrow-minded fools want to keep their people indoctrinated and controlled. Like cattle in a pen. Outrageous.
Meanwhile across the sea, disaster struck Japan is still struggling to come back from the edge. Its nuke nightmare still not under control with nuke pollution now reaching the water and food chain. It’s a nation facing an enormous uphill battle. The currency under stress. The economy under stress. The people under stress and in pain of what nature has done to them. Thousands still missing and certainly presumed dead. Whole towns blown of the face of the earth. How a nightmare became reality on that Friday in March. It looked like a normal day, but the earth’s crusts decided otherwise. May they find the inner strength to start from scratch and start building again. For a better future without forgetting the grim reaper from the past.
Throw out. It’s an unstoppable train. An express. Boston’s celtic punkrockers Dropkick Murphys have done it again. The lads released another album – “Going out in style” – and it’s again full of fine tunes. And on top of that a nice guest appearance of The Boss Bruce Springsteen on the remake of the old-timer “Peg O’ My Heart”. Bruce also did a live guest appearance at one of the Murphys’ St Patricks Day gigs in Boston some days ago.
C -Ya
collateral – March 2011
That left breast
The boa constructor was brought in to spice up a photo shoot in Tel Aviv. Israeli model Orit Fox wanted to make it look sexy and spicy. Serious cleavage and wrap around snake.
But more was needed to raise the temperature. Fox wanted to be foxier. So she licked the boa’s head. The snake didn’t like Orit’s ‘advances’ and decided to make a point. The boa constructor sunk his/her teeth into Orit’s left breast. Loud screams of pain and the photo-crew to the rescue. Several men struggled with the boa but finally got the snake to release his/her bite.
The boa constructor got bad luck. Fox wasn’t totally for real. Few minutes after being taken off the breast the snake died of silicone poisoning. Orit Fox got away with a tetanus injection..... and an appointment with the boob-doctor. We’ve been told before that silicone ain’t good for one’s health!!!
Human cruelty to animals.
Human cruelty and nature’s cruelty. The world remains in shock and awe with the impending slaughter in Libya and the tsunami’s deadly power in Japan.
As if an earthquake (and series of follow up aftershocks) isn’t enough to handle. But then came the killing blow from the ocean. Amazing pictures of the advancing wall of death and destruction. And this in a nation which is the best prepared on earth against earthquakes. But when the tsunami came it was just out of this world. Devastating beyond imagination. Towns totally flattened. Like they never existed. Death and more death. It was horrifying watching the TV pictures as it was obvious that this natural force was taking innocent lives there and then. How the seemingly innocent TV pictures can be a testimony of horror and pain. How nature still rules the globe despite human development.
And then after the quakes and the monstrous tidal slaughter, comes the nuclear fear. Nightmares of another Chernobyl meltdown. Nuke apocalypse. The nuke reactors battling to stay operational and safe. Explosions, fires, leaks, warnings, evacuations,... Japan is having a tough time. It is struggling with its own existence. With itself. With being an innocent victim of nature’s brutal and deadly behaviour. Just like that. Unexpected. Unprovoked.
It’s scary.
From nature’s might to human insanity and brutality. This is not a story of innocence! Libya’s dictator Gadaffi is on a military revenge trip. The uprising in the west of the country has been crushed and now he is letting his army, navy and air force loose on the eastern towns. An impending slaughter of the main town of Benghazi is on the cards. The dictator has no mercy. They never have. He knows too well the world is looking at Japan and the world is (as too many times in history) divided and toothless. The world, as always, talks and talks, and makes statements, and warns, and meets again, and talks some more, and makes bold comments. But the world doesn’t stop the slaughter. The graves will be the only testimonies to the quelled uprising. To the quest for freedom and democracy and liberty. Cemeteries of crushed hope. And the witnesses are us.... global humanity. A humanity that rapes its own soul sometimes.
And soon, when the desert storm has blown away the blood-soaked sand, the world will promise again that next time it wont happen. Next time.... Promises as hollow as a freshly dug grave. Promises which are like colourful wrapping paper around lies and deceit. And the world just spins around. The pain is for those who are left behind under the dictator’s revenge. It’s the dictator’s stiff middle finger to the world. And he smiles. As does his family as they check their ever growing Swiss bank accounts.
Human behaviour at its worst.
And now one of Gadaffi’s sons is starting the blackmail tactic too. As father dictator’s army is pushing the rebels/protestors/resistants/... further back and closer to the wall of extinction, the regime feels confident and arrogant and almighty once again.
So the son says on a French TV news channel that he has prove how the Gadaffi clan funded part of the last election campaign of French president Sarkozy. That’s a political torpedo! Sarkozy is for now the only world leader who has broken ties with Gadaffi over the Libyan slaughter, and France is the only country so far that has recognized the opponents as the true representatives of the Libyan people. But it’s revenge time as the regime is winning the battle against its uprisers. After the blackmail there is silence in Paris.
The Gaddafi mafia have used their money power to gain access to leaders and keep business people and politicians under control. On a tight leash. The dirty under belly of politics. The murky financial world of party politics and money. A worldwide cancer.
Same with South African president Jacob Zuma. He is soon on his way to the Libyan capital as part of an African Union delegation. Too little too late, as the Tripoli madman is on the winning hand and thus has no time neither ear for any advice, comments, criticism or anything from the outside world. And what can Zuma do? It is a known secret that Gadaffi helped funding Zuma’s African National Congress party last (and previous) election campaign. And South Africa - as recent as November 2010 - sold sniper rifles to Gadaffi’s elite protectors. So what can Zuma go and say? Gadaffi’s cheque book tactics are keeping his potential critics silenced.
When human behaviour gets financed it’s a slippery slope.
And the protests against lack of a variety of aspects of freedom has now hit oil rich Bahrain. The tiny island near Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bahrain has always been a very important ally for the US navy during the Gulf wars. And its rulers obviously know that. And thus after days of unsuccessful ly trying to quell the demonstrations, Bahrain called in the forces from neighbouring big brother Saudi Arabia. Another very very crucial US ally.
And thus now we have a situation where foreign troops (aka Saudi) are shooting at Bahraini protestors in the Bahrain capital Manama. That’s a new development with an acid taste. And a deadly trigger. One crucial US ally is helping another US ally to kill off the freedom protests. Silence in Washington? And of course the Saudi intervention goes global. The nuke freak in Iran screams and shouts that the Saudi intervention is a US sanctioned invasion to keep the Bahraini regime in the saddle. Geo politics and their murky realities. The madman from Tehran adds fuel to the fire by saying it is becoming an ethnic clash between Sunnis and Shi’ites.
It is what it is, but it stinks. Freedom and justice and democracy is always a worthwhile prospect and goal, but Washington must be afraid that demands for more freedom and democracy in its strategic allied “bases” might lead to Iranian style power shifts. And thus Washington is stuck between a rock and a hard place. When the nature of geo political realities are cornering values. The banner of freedom, justice and democracy has a different meaning in Egypt and Libya, as it has in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The future will tell but the future ain’t what it used to be.
Human behaviour is monopoly.
Throw out. The sights and sounds of Middle East uprisings and Japan’s nuke threats, shifts the mind to 25 years ago when the NY underground band Cro-Mags released its debut album “Age of Quarrel”. A milestone in punkrock history. Still to this day. 25 Years later!! It’s a classic of the classics. Unfortunately internal quarrels ate the band up from within after this historic, kick ass release.
C -Ya
collateral – March 2011 creeps on
But more was needed to raise the temperature. Fox wanted to be foxier. So she licked the boa’s head. The snake didn’t like Orit’s ‘advances’ and decided to make a point. The boa constructor sunk his/her teeth into Orit’s left breast. Loud screams of pain and the photo-crew to the rescue. Several men struggled with the boa but finally got the snake to release his/her bite.
The boa constructor got bad luck. Fox wasn’t totally for real. Few minutes after being taken off the breast the snake died of silicone poisoning. Orit Fox got away with a tetanus injection..... and an appointment with the boob-doctor. We’ve been told before that silicone ain’t good for one’s health!!!
Human cruelty to animals.
Human cruelty and nature’s cruelty. The world remains in shock and awe with the impending slaughter in Libya and the tsunami’s deadly power in Japan.
As if an earthquake (and series of follow up aftershocks) isn’t enough to handle. But then came the killing blow from the ocean. Amazing pictures of the advancing wall of death and destruction. And this in a nation which is the best prepared on earth against earthquakes. But when the tsunami came it was just out of this world. Devastating beyond imagination. Towns totally flattened. Like they never existed. Death and more death. It was horrifying watching the TV pictures as it was obvious that this natural force was taking innocent lives there and then. How the seemingly innocent TV pictures can be a testimony of horror and pain. How nature still rules the globe despite human development.
And then after the quakes and the monstrous tidal slaughter, comes the nuclear fear. Nightmares of another Chernobyl meltdown. Nuke apocalypse. The nuke reactors battling to stay operational and safe. Explosions, fires, leaks, warnings, evacuations,... Japan is having a tough time. It is struggling with its own existence. With itself. With being an innocent victim of nature’s brutal and deadly behaviour. Just like that. Unexpected. Unprovoked.
It’s scary.
From nature’s might to human insanity and brutality. This is not a story of innocence! Libya’s dictator Gadaffi is on a military revenge trip. The uprising in the west of the country has been crushed and now he is letting his army, navy and air force loose on the eastern towns. An impending slaughter of the main town of Benghazi is on the cards. The dictator has no mercy. They never have. He knows too well the world is looking at Japan and the world is (as too many times in history) divided and toothless. The world, as always, talks and talks, and makes statements, and warns, and meets again, and talks some more, and makes bold comments. But the world doesn’t stop the slaughter. The graves will be the only testimonies to the quelled uprising. To the quest for freedom and democracy and liberty. Cemeteries of crushed hope. And the witnesses are us.... global humanity. A humanity that rapes its own soul sometimes.
And soon, when the desert storm has blown away the blood-soaked sand, the world will promise again that next time it wont happen. Next time.... Promises as hollow as a freshly dug grave. Promises which are like colourful wrapping paper around lies and deceit. And the world just spins around. The pain is for those who are left behind under the dictator’s revenge. It’s the dictator’s stiff middle finger to the world. And he smiles. As does his family as they check their ever growing Swiss bank accounts.
Human behaviour at its worst.
And now one of Gadaffi’s sons is starting the blackmail tactic too. As father dictator’s army is pushing the rebels/protestors/resistants/... further back and closer to the wall of extinction, the regime feels confident and arrogant and almighty once again.
So the son says on a French TV news channel that he has prove how the Gadaffi clan funded part of the last election campaign of French president Sarkozy. That’s a political torpedo! Sarkozy is for now the only world leader who has broken ties with Gadaffi over the Libyan slaughter, and France is the only country so far that has recognized the opponents as the true representatives of the Libyan people. But it’s revenge time as the regime is winning the battle against its uprisers. After the blackmail there is silence in Paris.
The Gaddafi mafia have used their money power to gain access to leaders and keep business people and politicians under control. On a tight leash. The dirty under belly of politics. The murky financial world of party politics and money. A worldwide cancer.
Same with South African president Jacob Zuma. He is soon on his way to the Libyan capital as part of an African Union delegation. Too little too late, as the Tripoli madman is on the winning hand and thus has no time neither ear for any advice, comments, criticism or anything from the outside world. And what can Zuma do? It is a known secret that Gadaffi helped funding Zuma’s African National Congress party last (and previous) election campaign. And South Africa - as recent as November 2010 - sold sniper rifles to Gadaffi’s elite protectors. So what can Zuma go and say? Gadaffi’s cheque book tactics are keeping his potential critics silenced.
When human behaviour gets financed it’s a slippery slope.
And the protests against lack of a variety of aspects of freedom has now hit oil rich Bahrain. The tiny island near Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bahrain has always been a very important ally for the US navy during the Gulf wars. And its rulers obviously know that. And thus after days of unsuccessful ly trying to quell the demonstrations, Bahrain called in the forces from neighbouring big brother Saudi Arabia. Another very very crucial US ally.
And thus now we have a situation where foreign troops (aka Saudi) are shooting at Bahraini protestors in the Bahrain capital Manama. That’s a new development with an acid taste. And a deadly trigger. One crucial US ally is helping another US ally to kill off the freedom protests. Silence in Washington? And of course the Saudi intervention goes global. The nuke freak in Iran screams and shouts that the Saudi intervention is a US sanctioned invasion to keep the Bahraini regime in the saddle. Geo politics and their murky realities. The madman from Tehran adds fuel to the fire by saying it is becoming an ethnic clash between Sunnis and Shi’ites.
It is what it is, but it stinks. Freedom and justice and democracy is always a worthwhile prospect and goal, but Washington must be afraid that demands for more freedom and democracy in its strategic allied “bases” might lead to Iranian style power shifts. And thus Washington is stuck between a rock and a hard place. When the nature of geo political realities are cornering values. The banner of freedom, justice and democracy has a different meaning in Egypt and Libya, as it has in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The future will tell but the future ain’t what it used to be.
Human behaviour is monopoly.
Throw out. The sights and sounds of Middle East uprisings and Japan’s nuke threats, shifts the mind to 25 years ago when the NY underground band Cro-Mags released its debut album “Age of Quarrel”. A milestone in punkrock history. Still to this day. 25 Years later!! It’s a classic of the classics. Unfortunately internal quarrels ate the band up from within after this historic, kick ass release.
C -Ya
collateral – March 2011 creeps on
The revolution will be televised
Something can be sicker than Colonel Gadaffi’s bloody insanity.
Catholic priests with sex-addiction! Catholic priests with no shame, no morals, no respect, no brains, no intellect, no wisdom, no standards, no values, no nothing…. besides that arrogant smile and arrogant thought (and the erection in (and out of) their pants) that they will get away with it.
The Vatican has admitted it is aware that a number of priests (more than 20!) have raped nuns. But it gets more sickening than the rape as such. It’s an evil deed with a very evil touch. Most of the rapes happened (and probably still happen) in Africa as priests ‘went for’ the nuns to avoid possible infection with the HIV virus if they would ‘answer’ their sexual needs with hookers. A priest with a stiff one is a danger to society!
Nuns on the run from their sex obsessed male faith-colleagues. It’s sickening beyond sickening. The secret Vatican report also outlines that priests have used their financial, structural and spiritual authority to seek sexual favours from nuns. With other words, the sexual motto of those priests are “I’m your boss and your master, so just shut up and get with the program. Amen”.Especially in Africa, where local nuns are unfortunately still conditioned by a belief of inferiority towards males. Sick society. Sick men of the cloth.
In some cases the nuns got pregnant and the priests forced them to have abortions. And then probably these same bastards preach against abortion in their sermons to their church-goers. The stench of vomit is now just untenable.
It’s sick. Disgusting. Mad. Abuse of the dirtiest kind. Life sentences and chemical castration is the only solution!!!
And the Vatican…..? Well the report is just filled in the dirty secrets box in the dark basement at the end of the corridor. The usual tactic.
Human behaviour has no limits when it comes to sick minds.
Ah. Sick behaviour. Colonel Gadaffi in Libya is showing the world how mad you can get. And the Oscar for madness goes to…..
Winds of change across the Arab world. Very interesting to see how one pissed of, disillusioned market boy in Tunisia put the match to the powder keg across the region. It just shows how the anger and discontent was and is just below the surface. A millimetre below.
But never ever forget that dictators and abusive rulers are not a one man show. To stay in power for so long outside a democratic process you need solid support from a clique of fellow gangsters. Mostly a combination of extended family, business deals and army. These dictators are never isolated. They rule because they keep their protectors happy with money, property, assets,… And thus it is not because the dictator and his family leave the country that it’s all shine and glory. The power pyramid needs to be fully taken down.
But – for now -Gadaffi still sits there in his Tripoli palace ignoring reality and claiming it’s all the fault of Al Quada and drugged Nescafe (yes, he said that!). It’s the fate of dictators to lose touch with reality because they are surrounded by yes-men whom eat of the same cake. It was like that with Hitler, with Stalin, with Mussolini, with Pinochet,…..
The reality of global power politics is that Gadaffi was sucked back into so called respectability by the West (and others) because they needed his oil and his influence in the region. A region that isn’t the most stable on the planet.
And now that the bad boy is killing his own people, he is back in the evil corner. He has gone a step too far and has become replaceable. Well, the powers that be have no choice as the uprising (just as in Tunis and Egypt) was a wide popular moment of bold rage. This wasn’t Islamists nor opposition politics. These were the people of the streets truly being fed up and finding courage in that market boy from Tunis. And so, as in Egypt, the outside world jumped the bandwagon and spoke out against the dictators. If they would not have done so, they would have lost all trust with the peoples. Already in Cairo the demonstrators found that the bullets and the smoke grenades the Mubarak regime was throwing at them were ‘Made in USA’. And thus Washington had to call for Mubarak’s departure not to totally lose touch with the popular rage. Otherwise, who knows how the new power brokers might take over Egypt and what relationship they would built (or destroy) with the US.
With Libya it was too obvious to see that the world (from Washington to Moscow to even South Africa) was waiting and waiting and waiting to see where Gadaffi’s tricks were leading to. But again the people from Libya forced their hands. The world had to call for the Colonel’s departure or lose trust with whoever comes next. And oil is always in the back of the mind!
But Gadaffi and his mad sons are still there. Soldiering on and promising an ultimate sea of blood. And it looks like the Gadaffis are not about to leave Libya. A bloodbath of enormous proportions looks on the cards. Desert plains turning red. Soaked in the people’s sacrifice and heroism. And South Africa has its tail between its legs because at the end of 2010 it sold sniper rifles and truckloads of ammo to the Gadaffi regime. Rifles that are very likely being used today against the popular uprising.
The mad man from Tripoli is not finished yet!
Human behaviour can be a very bloody affair. The revolution will be televised.
Down south in South Africa the defence minister has some explaining to do. 82000 Weapons have disappeared from the army and navy. Yes, 82 thousand! That’s a whole killing field. Handguns, grenades, rifles, RPGs, mines,… 82000 Deadly tools unaccounted for! Kick that. Lost and also sold onto the black market by soldiers. Crazy.
Throw out. Californian punks Anti-Flag have been around for more than 2 decades. And in true punk-style they have screamed and shouted their message across the globe. Anti-imperialism and anti-fascism. It’s the sound of the winds of change in the Arab world. Listen to “The old guard” from their 2009 album “The people or the gun”. Or “You can kill the protester but you can’t kill the protest” from “The terror state” from 2003. Or “Angry, young and poor” from their “Underground network” release many years ago.
C -Ya
collateral – March 2011
Catholic priests with sex-addiction! Catholic priests with no shame, no morals, no respect, no brains, no intellect, no wisdom, no standards, no values, no nothing…. besides that arrogant smile and arrogant thought (and the erection in (and out of) their pants) that they will get away with it.
The Vatican has admitted it is aware that a number of priests (more than 20!) have raped nuns. But it gets more sickening than the rape as such. It’s an evil deed with a very evil touch. Most of the rapes happened (and probably still happen) in Africa as priests ‘went for’ the nuns to avoid possible infection with the HIV virus if they would ‘answer’ their sexual needs with hookers. A priest with a stiff one is a danger to society!
Nuns on the run from their sex obsessed male faith-colleagues. It’s sickening beyond sickening. The secret Vatican report also outlines that priests have used their financial, structural and spiritual authority to seek sexual favours from nuns. With other words, the sexual motto of those priests are “I’m your boss and your master, so just shut up and get with the program. Amen”.Especially in Africa, where local nuns are unfortunately still conditioned by a belief of inferiority towards males. Sick society. Sick men of the cloth.
In some cases the nuns got pregnant and the priests forced them to have abortions. And then probably these same bastards preach against abortion in their sermons to their church-goers. The stench of vomit is now just untenable.
It’s sick. Disgusting. Mad. Abuse of the dirtiest kind. Life sentences and chemical castration is the only solution!!!
And the Vatican…..? Well the report is just filled in the dirty secrets box in the dark basement at the end of the corridor. The usual tactic.
Human behaviour has no limits when it comes to sick minds.
Ah. Sick behaviour. Colonel Gadaffi in Libya is showing the world how mad you can get. And the Oscar for madness goes to…..
Winds of change across the Arab world. Very interesting to see how one pissed of, disillusioned market boy in Tunisia put the match to the powder keg across the region. It just shows how the anger and discontent was and is just below the surface. A millimetre below.
But never ever forget that dictators and abusive rulers are not a one man show. To stay in power for so long outside a democratic process you need solid support from a clique of fellow gangsters. Mostly a combination of extended family, business deals and army. These dictators are never isolated. They rule because they keep their protectors happy with money, property, assets,… And thus it is not because the dictator and his family leave the country that it’s all shine and glory. The power pyramid needs to be fully taken down.
But – for now -Gadaffi still sits there in his Tripoli palace ignoring reality and claiming it’s all the fault of Al Quada and drugged Nescafe (yes, he said that!). It’s the fate of dictators to lose touch with reality because they are surrounded by yes-men whom eat of the same cake. It was like that with Hitler, with Stalin, with Mussolini, with Pinochet,…..
The reality of global power politics is that Gadaffi was sucked back into so called respectability by the West (and others) because they needed his oil and his influence in the region. A region that isn’t the most stable on the planet.
And now that the bad boy is killing his own people, he is back in the evil corner. He has gone a step too far and has become replaceable. Well, the powers that be have no choice as the uprising (just as in Tunis and Egypt) was a wide popular moment of bold rage. This wasn’t Islamists nor opposition politics. These were the people of the streets truly being fed up and finding courage in that market boy from Tunis. And so, as in Egypt, the outside world jumped the bandwagon and spoke out against the dictators. If they would not have done so, they would have lost all trust with the peoples. Already in Cairo the demonstrators found that the bullets and the smoke grenades the Mubarak regime was throwing at them were ‘Made in USA’. And thus Washington had to call for Mubarak’s departure not to totally lose touch with the popular rage. Otherwise, who knows how the new power brokers might take over Egypt and what relationship they would built (or destroy) with the US.
With Libya it was too obvious to see that the world (from Washington to Moscow to even South Africa) was waiting and waiting and waiting to see where Gadaffi’s tricks were leading to. But again the people from Libya forced their hands. The world had to call for the Colonel’s departure or lose trust with whoever comes next. And oil is always in the back of the mind!
But Gadaffi and his mad sons are still there. Soldiering on and promising an ultimate sea of blood. And it looks like the Gadaffis are not about to leave Libya. A bloodbath of enormous proportions looks on the cards. Desert plains turning red. Soaked in the people’s sacrifice and heroism. And South Africa has its tail between its legs because at the end of 2010 it sold sniper rifles and truckloads of ammo to the Gadaffi regime. Rifles that are very likely being used today against the popular uprising.
The mad man from Tripoli is not finished yet!
Human behaviour can be a very bloody affair. The revolution will be televised.
Down south in South Africa the defence minister has some explaining to do. 82000 Weapons have disappeared from the army and navy. Yes, 82 thousand! That’s a whole killing field. Handguns, grenades, rifles, RPGs, mines,… 82000 Deadly tools unaccounted for! Kick that. Lost and also sold onto the black market by soldiers. Crazy.
Throw out. Californian punks Anti-Flag have been around for more than 2 decades. And in true punk-style they have screamed and shouted their message across the globe. Anti-imperialism and anti-fascism. It’s the sound of the winds of change in the Arab world. Listen to “The old guard” from their 2009 album “The people or the gun”. Or “You can kill the protester but you can’t kill the protest” from “The terror state” from 2003. Or “Angry, young and poor” from their “Underground network” release many years ago.
C -Ya
collateral – March 2011
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