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What's the issue?

What's the issue?

Date: 2014-07-25
Well didn't Obommer jump in boots and all and just blatantly defame Putin with no shred of evidence or even the slightest investigation into the facts of the Malaysian airline being downed in the war zone in Ukraine. Wont he look funny if it turns out that his buddies the Ukrainians shot down the airliner?

Blatant defamation with no qualm or consideration for any possibility outside of his assumptions, not the kind of behaviour I expect from the world's most powerful president. Or is that the world's second most powerful president? Or the third? It really is important you know. I noticed as well that no Western media is carrying the imagery or news of the blatant shelling of civilians in towns, close to the conflict zone, by the Ukranian forces.

How ashamed we should be of our human nature, the depth we sink to, I mean look at how Israel is behaving towards the Palestinians in Gaza, it is horrific. As is the bombing of suburbs by Hamas. The gross side to our human nature seems to be the putty in the hands of our leadership that is making this world a horror movie.

The famous poet and writer, Henry Charles Bukowski, once wrote "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

If Ukraine is about America wanting to put a military base as close as they can to Moscow, and Gaza is about a little strip of land of seemingly very little consequence, then what are we doing people?

I want to crack a quirky comment, but I can't stop seeing the mutilated corpses of young children and thinking to myself, "What if that was my child?" From one perspective these issues are not trivialities, sovereignty, power, domination. But factor in the understanding that we are all going to die and it might just start to seem a little less important to control the coming and going of a group of people. It might be easier to try and live together for the little time that we are alive. I don't know, it must be the hippy in me talking.

Lets talk about really important issues rather, like the eTolling debacle. Transport Minister Dipuo Peters just went up in my estimation after putting the prosecution of non-paying eToll users on hold for now. I am so proud of my fellow South African's who are boycotting this form of blatant extortion. We the people never wanted this theft to take place. We never wanted SANRAL to dip into our budget and charge us for what we are already paying. It is not even a South African initiative. We are getting ripped!

So Ukraine goes into full scale civil war, Syria makes a marathon out of it and Israel blackens its name as a bully with Gaza.

So glad I live in KZN.