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