Whatshot
What's The Issue?
What's The Issue?
Date: 2016-02-19
We can all breathe a real sigh of relief that government is going to cut down on catering expenditure. Sandwiches? I am falling off my chair. The nation was still reeling from the estimated R500 billion that having three finance ministers in almost as many days cost our economy. El Presidente recons we are over reacting. How much do we need to bleed before we get stitches?
Our economy is so busted that rumors of the state debating privatizing ESKOM are being circulated in dark corners and behind very thick curtains. At the same time the dreaded lurgie is lurking with more unsubstantiated reports of the full extent of Gupta Gate slowly coming to light. It looks like it is not quite over yet, not run its full course. Opposition to the nuclear power plants seems to be falling on deaf ears or having those voicing their opposition put to the sword. Names like Mohamed Bobat and Ian Whitley are being bandied about with rocket like career paths for Gupta connected folk.
I must distract you here and tell of how I started chuckling at the pathetic attempts of the Western media, trying to generate negative propaganda for Russia. I know I do not get everything right, but it looks to me like the Western backed rebel forces that were trying to wrench the country of Syria from its democratically elected president's hands, are now loosing the battle since Russia was given the green light to go ahead and bomb IS. In my fuzzy little mind I assume that the moderate rebels are the Western backed rebel forces. The not so moderate rebels, the ones who are a little more extreme, well those are bad.
Personally I was encouraged by the move to cease aggression, something the Americans proposed, only now I noticed, and I pray still that all military action will stop in the entire area, for the sake of the children at least. But meat is meat and gun runners must eat so there is little hope of that ever happening.
As the first Silk Train from China arrives in Iran and a ground breaking cancer medicine that could be the cure we have been seeking for so long, and the discovery of gravitational waves sends ripples through the science world, I have to hold onto the belief that we are a special species and that we can pull this human experience out of the nose dive that it is in and that we will not become totally extinct by the year 2116. I need to believe that.