NYPD courtesy

On levels of stupidity it’s pretty up there. A Chinese kid has sold his kidney for a new Ipad.

The old Chinese communist leaders would turn in their grave,... or twist and turn in the mausoleum.

At least with his Ipad he can connect wirelessly and Google how to adjust his lifestyle with one kidney less. Of course it is always possible that the Chinese censors don’t allow his Google search.

What’s next? Bone marrow for an Iphone? Blood for the new Sony gamer? Platelets for a year-long subscription on Itunes? Sperm for a large screen TV with surround stereo system?

Human behaviour has no limits. We ain’t seen nothing yet.

From kidneys to below the belt. Frenchie Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in deep trouble. The IMF boss got a forced visit to Ryker’s Island. Courtesy of NYPD. A maid from a very luxury hotel in the Big Apple claimed DSK; as the Frenchies call Strauss-Kahn; couldn’t control his libido as she entered to clean the suite. More than just dust to wipe.

And thus sexual molestation charges. Kick that. The IMF boss might just be another sexual prowler. That’s the end of his career. Guaranteed. Guilty or not. Strong suggestions that he was aiming to try to be the next French president. Well that wont make the history books. Two options. From high finance to quiet retirement... if found not guilty. Or option 2. From high finance to cell 412, block A, Attica prison, USA. Chicken with noodles or champagne and oysters.

On the scale of falling down, it’s up there. Well down there in fact. Down in the gutter of society.

Amazing, how a successful politician can fall down by acting super-stupid. If indeed he did what the maid claims. Jekyll and Hyde? Top politician. Respected economic brain. Expected saviour of the French Socialist party. Top finance dude at the IMF in NY. Lovely wife (or so it seems). Permanent access to First Class on Air France. And still – if proven guilty – something went wrong in the head (and in the pants). Broken wire.

Oh... and on top of it all, it is plausible that the maid was HIV positive. At least according to some US media reports (so take it with grains of salt).

DSK is now caged under house arrest in a luxury flat in NY awaiting an uncertain future. One’s thing’s for sure. Those glory days are over. Forever.

Human behaviour is often a puzzle. Brains and dicks on the opposite of the spectrum.

Staying in the US of A. Wow, that tornado that passed through was a devastating killer. Amazing how nature can be without mercy. Just like that! Killer from the sky.

More death. The Arab world remains an ever-growing and ever expanding battle field of popular anger against hard-fisted leaders. NATO still on bombing runs over Libya. Madman Gaddafi goes on the radio to tell his people that he will stay and die if need be. Surrender or exit is no option. Victory or death. Martyrdom. The so called rebels are back on the advance after weeks of stalemate in the sandpit of Libya. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. And even then. And by the way..... who is that fat lady?

But the real slaughter these days is happening in Yemen and Syria. The presidential palace was attacked in Yemen and the president had to flee to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. Will he return home? That’s the current cloud hanging over Yemen. But already tribal warriors and Al Quada associated nutters are in control of vast parts of the country. The shadow of nearby Somalia is a nightmare with reality potential for Yemen.

And then there is Syria. The family dictatorship is using sledgehammer tactics to annihilate every protest in sight. It’s a bloodbath. But the populist anger is strong and fuelled by the brutal strong arm tactics of the regime. Chaos in Syria has a doom scenario option.

Geographically it’s a minefield. A very large minefield. Nuke freak Iran is on one side and looking anxiously to Damascus. Tehran successfully put down a wave of protest after its last elections. But the world has changed in the meantime. Yesterday ain’t today. Cause in the meantime we had Tunis, Egypt and Libya. And thus the mad Iranian freak ain’t sleeping that well these days. And then there is fragile Lebanon, with the Hezbollah freaks. And of course there is Israel. On the edge. On high alert and watching events like a hawk. Especially for any mad pre-emptive strike by the nuke freak in Iran. It’s all touch and go in the Middle East.

In Africa South Sudan is getting ready to become an independent nation on July 9. Breaking away from the motherland and from the butcher in Khartoum. But to spoil the party the Darfur-killer has send his tanks into the north-south disputed territory of Abyei. A semi-meaningless dot on the map but it has oil reserves, but also tribal tensions between Arabic nomads and Christian-inspired Dinka southerners. A tense situation. Fragile peace or back to war?

The south certainly can’t afford to go back to bloodshed. In 2005 it came out of two decades of a total devastating conflict with Khartoum. The south needs to rebuilt everything from scratch and is hoping that peace will bring massive investments from the US, Russia and China. Oil investments. If the country would go back to war it would be a serious step backwards. Tick tock to July 9. And beyond.

Human behaviour is tainted by blood. Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

On a lighter note. The price for a litre of tasty German beer at the upcoming world-famous ‘Oktoberfeste’ in Munich is going up! But something is guaranteed. It won’t scare drinkers away. This is the biggest drink-fest in the universe and thus a price hike won’t have a devastating effect on the gallons of fine ale consumed.

Drink to that!

Throw out. Dutch rocker Anouk just released a new album called “To get her together”. Written as a therapy for her marriage break up. Interesting because some years ago she put together an album that was inspired by the love for her husband and her pregnancy. But the tough-girl from Rotterdam soon found out that the husband was cheating – multiply – on her during her pregnancy. And thus the loving times were over. Reality came like an uppercut. But Anouk bounced back. Revengeful and full of hate. And the result is “To get her together”.

C -Ya

collateral – June 2011 is here... for now