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What's the issue?

What's the issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2019-12-06

"The world is facing three existential crises: a climate crisis, an inequality crisis and a crisis in democracy," Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-winning economist wrote saying, "Yet the accepted ways by which we measure economic performance give absolutely no hint that we might be facing a problem."

Joseph goes on to say that if we measure the wrong things we will go on doing the wrong things and just because the money system is growing, it doesn't mean we have solved the issues of environmental degradation or resource depletion, nor inequality, middle-class suffering, or lower standards of living.

Anyway the war machine of NATO is not concerned with those things I'm sure. I'm of the opinion that NATO must go! At 70 years old today, it appears to me as though they are pushing as hard as they can to get another war, with someone, anyone, especially Russia, just to justify their existence and satisfy the insatiable greed of the weapons manufacturers and their financiers. Donald Trump called them obsolete and then U turned and said they are not so obsolete, I think they got to him.

Macron said NATO was brain dead and had no purpose, international affairs specialist, John Laughland called NATO a sclerotic and bureaucratic zombie. They desperately need an enemy, so much so that they are practically admitting it and as they advance on Russian borders in every way they can, Putin and his government remain calm and offer the chance of talks.

Jens Stoltenberg, the head of NATO sounds desperate in his speeches, he speaks as if his job is under threat and that is probably because it is, or at least it should be, in my opinion. He must have felt a sigh of relief when Trump recanted, now that other member states are chipping in to the costs, and then I wonder how he felt when Turkish President Erdogan recommended that Russia be allowed to join. He went on to suggest that Macron was also brain dead.

Wow, I'm so opinionated this evening, another opinion I have is one that thinks Jacob's leave to appeal being dismissed with costs is a step in the right direction by our judiciary. That arms deal just won't go away. Then there are the new findings that have come to light from NGO Shadow World Investigations that have shed light on the Estina dairy farm and the various politicians involved in divvying up the millions intended for the poor. The worst part about this, in my opinion, is that the people who took all this money didn't need it.

Our public protector, who is not protecting the public that much is going hammer and tongs at the charges against Ramaphosa and he is returning the favour. We need a new one in my opinion.

Meanwhile Dudu Moyeni has scrapped up enough money for more than just a train ride to Pretoria, she is suing OUTA, the Organization for Undoing Tax Abuse for R8 Million, for ruining her reputation. What's your opinion on that?