Isidingo - The Need

Has any of yous noticed in dis whole tibet joke dat yous haven't seen any PLA "crackdown" bloody or uddawise in Tibet. Yep yep yep, da land of da peaceful munks maybe "rocked by riots" n stuff but cheez, its not da poor PLA dat's hurtin dem. Dey's doing it to da Chinese. All dose peeps everyone sez is dead is Chinese peeps being killed by da "non-violent" Tibetans. WTF? And like da whole world's blaming Beijing.
It's like dose dudes are begging for some tanks to come shoot dem down. Dey walkin tru da streets, killin an burnin an rioting like dey was blacks in sout afrika, and everyone sez Beijing must not bring violence to da party. Dat Duh Lie Lama is nuttin but a big bullshitter.
Do dey finks we born yesturday? I mean any one of yous ever try to organize like anything at all yous know how hard it is to get folk away from da telly dese days. Hey! Come out an burn a few shops...Nah, Afghanistan Idol is on da box.
So dis is all organised by da "peesfull" munks who just wanna start shit ahead of da Olympics and none of the news organizations is taking in any fact. Waddever da exiled dudes say, dis has gotta be da unbuyassed trut.
An...waddaya spect Beijing gonna do? Give dem all barley soup and wheat bread an pat em on da liddle bawld heads?
Beijing aint nevva gonna let Tibet go, dey should catch a clue man. Tibet aint nevva gonna be free cos dey gots all da water for China.

Labels: China, South Africa, tibet

This week Washington heads to the United Nations Security Council's debate on Kosovo, with most of Europe alongside it, pressing for independence. What does a little state in Europe have to do with the US? Nothing as usual. But there they are.
Most of the EU is with them on this idea that there should be an Islamic state right in the middle. Because, of course, that is what the world needs - more Islamic states.
What has changed this time from the last Kosovo crisis is that Russia is far more powerful. Also, Serbia has an ally in China, and strangely, South Africa. What does South Africa have to do with this? Only they know.
Serbia has flipped the tables on the EU. For the first time, a European country outside the EU is not clamoring to be let in, but, on the contrary, making demands of its own, insisting Europe continue negotiations over Kosovo until an agreeable solution to all parties is met. They see their neighbours who bowed and scraped to be let in the EU that now have crumbling infrastructure and lower wages than the Serbs do and wonder what all the fuss is about. Basically Serbia doesn't need to export its unemployment to Europe.
They believe, quite rightly, that to use force to separate the 90% ethnic Muslim area from Serbia would destabalise the Balkans. They are not alone in thinking this way as they are supported by Spain, Cyprus, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Greece.
One can only assume that this hacking away at Serbian, and de facto Russian territory is the west's punishment and a further move to strangle Russia. It is only natural that Russia will protect its neighbours and people who are of the same ethnic origin. It has learned in its scraps with Chechnya and its war with Afghanistan, what can happen when you have these broken-down Muslim states along your borders.
Kosovo has ties to the global jihad movement and organised crime. It's a Taleban state waiting to happen. Why, in their wildest dreams, would the UKUS think Serbia and Russia would welcome this?
Not everyone in the US is gagging at the idea too. Former Navy admiral and Joint Chiefs of Staff adviser James Lyons recognises the danger of giving Muslim fundamentalists a launchpad for their attacks in a key strategic area. Its independence, he noted, will lead to a "train wreck" in relations with Russia.
Former U.S. secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has cautioned against carving Kosovo away from Serbia for the repercussions it would have on future global policy.
All of this has had the effect of driving Serbia into the arms of Russia, and that is just what Moscow wants. Moscow is talking to Belgrade about putting a Russian military base in Serbia. Belgrade wants to sell its oil to Gazprom.
The problem is that the UKUS have promised Kosovo independance. A promise many say should never have been made.
Russia's Kosovo negotiator, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, has clearly warned the EU and the US against forcing the issue. Let us not forget what happened to Europe when there was trouble in Serbia before.
"The result of unilateral recognition of independence could be a situation close to a humanitarian catastrophe," he said. This is not a threat, Serb refugees would flow into northern Kosovo and Serbia.
Russia is looking for a chance to flex it's military muscle. Missile tests and Naval drills are all well and good but that is like having a ferrari at your home and only driving it around the garden.
Putin has sent clear signals to the west that Russia is ready too stand again.
How far is the EU and US willing to push this?

Labels: America, EU, kosovo, Russia, Serbia, South Africa

The gold price is soaring but South Africa's gold mines are in the red because of an uncertain electricity supply. The country's three biggest gold mines and the world's largest platinum mine had to suspend production because of power cuts. The disruption sent the metals to new highs on overseas markets, but left the mines in a shambles and investors fled.

Labels: Electricity, Gold, Mines, South Africa