THIS JUST IN:
Things other than Katrina are newsworthy!
That's right, you heard it here first if you are confined to only American news media... which you shouldn't be since I link to BBC World, Aljazeera, AND the Guardian on the left toolbar there... do I need to read the articles for you and give you brief summaries or something? Well, okay. Just this once. First two stories I see get the first things that come out of my head, and then we'll do the hurricane last just for the symbolism.... or something like that.
The Government of Namibia made its first... oh dammit FINE
made its first seizure of a white-owned farm today. While the BBC makes this sound like a Zimbabwe-esque (it's on the other side of Botswana I hate you so much) Nazi-era Reichstag type deal, the owner of the farm was paid $500,000 to leave. That's a third of what she asked, but it isn't like they disembowled her with the teeth of her children or anything. What does really suck about this is that there's like 75 people that work on that farm that now are evicted and get nothing at all for their troubles just because the owner of the farm is white. That's at the bottom of the article (of course) if you're following along.
Next, Pakistan is holding diplomatic talks with Israel in the hopes of approaching a sort of normalcy between the two nations. Pakistan, by the way, has a pretty long standing run of not recognizing Israel as a state in the same way China doesn't recognize Taiwan as a legitimate state and 51% of us don't recognize a lying son of a bitch when we see a whole administration full of them. zing? Anyway, Pakistan claims that it still doesn't recognize Israel, and that Abbas (leader of Palestine) had actually called the talks. Well, unlike in America, bull shit doesn't stick so well (must be the weather), and there were widespread protests as well as members of parliament just up and walking out. Granted the reasons for these protests were that the Islamic world feels Israel is the worst thing to happen since American foreign policy, but it isn't like Israel doesn't help with that perspective. Ok, so finally, on to the hurricane that apparently swept away the second coming of Jesus based on how much coverage it gets.
Things other than Katrina are newsworthy!
That's right, you heard it here first if you are confined to only American news media... which you shouldn't be since I link to BBC World, Aljazeera, AND the Guardian on the left toolbar there... do I need to read the articles for you and give you brief summaries or something? Well, okay. Just this once. First two stories I see get the first things that come out of my head, and then we'll do the hurricane last just for the symbolism.... or something like that.
The Government of Namibia made its first... oh dammit FINE
made its first seizure of a white-owned farm today. While the BBC makes this sound like a Zimbabwe-esque (it's on the other side of Botswana I hate you so much) Nazi-era Reichstag type deal, the owner of the farm was paid $500,000 to leave. That's a third of what she asked, but it isn't like they disembowled her with the teeth of her children or anything. What does really suck about this is that there's like 75 people that work on that farm that now are evicted and get nothing at all for their troubles just because the owner of the farm is white. That's at the bottom of the article (of course) if you're following along.
Next, Pakistan is holding diplomatic talks with Israel in the hopes of approaching a sort of normalcy between the two nations. Pakistan, by the way, has a pretty long standing run of not recognizing Israel as a state in the same way China doesn't recognize Taiwan as a legitimate state and 51% of us don't recognize a lying son of a bitch when we see a whole administration full of them. zing? Anyway, Pakistan claims that it still doesn't recognize Israel, and that Abbas (leader of Palestine) had actually called the talks. Well, unlike in America, bull shit doesn't stick so well (must be the weather), and there were widespread protests as well as members of parliament just up and walking out. Granted the reasons for these protests were that the Islamic world feels Israel is the worst thing to happen since American foreign policy, but it isn't like Israel doesn't help with that perspective. Ok, so finally, on to the hurricane that apparently swept away the second coming of Jesus based on how much coverage it gets.
Amazingly, this hurricane was labelled (before it struck) as "our tsunami" by some crackpot Bush voting state side official down south who just happened to get air time for some god damned reason. Yep, half a million deaths compared to this... our FUCKING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT event. If we were to compare the hurricane to the tsunami, though, I think we'd find out just why it is that such crackpot Bush voting yokels give America a bad world image. While when the tsunami struck, the victims pulled together to do all they could to collectively make it through.... we've had snipers firing on hospitals as they evacuate. Why would anyone on this earth think Americans to be messed up.
