What's the issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2013-09-13

Strike this country into the ground. That is what it seems is the objective of the labour unions in what we affectionately call strike season. How accommodating this season is, far from most elections and perfectly suited to toi-toi activists. Sure, industry is exploiting labour and labour needs to stand up for its rights. But is it not the strikes of labour unions trying to eek out as much cash as they can from the capitalistic opportunists that have me cringing every time I click the ON switch of my TV's remote control. I am shuddering and shivering in my boots at the impending threat of O'Bomber and his droning on about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime and how America, the moral conscience of the world, must strike. A military air strike, before any clear and unequivocal proof that the chemical weapons were used by the regime, and not the American backed rebel forces trying to make it look like the regime, seems ludicrous. Almost as ludicrous as America would look if the 'strong evidence' that Russia Today alluded to, proving that the chemical attack footage was fabricated, proved to be more genuine than the footage.

Thank goodness that the G20 Summit was being held in Russia this year, if not for that small detail, I think O'Bomber would have been able to drone on over Syria and make the weapons manufacturers of the US a whole pile of cash. It was the cool head of old Vladimir that prevailed and let Barak off the hook, the fuming pro war senators were almost laughable at their disdain that the chance to prove how morally fortified they are had been taken away from them. Almost as funny as the English lot who in effect made the only sensible decision to not attack Syria and in stead attacked their Prime Minister.

These chemical weapons will now be handed over to an international representative and hopefully destroyed in an environmentally safe way, or perhaps mixed with other chemicals to be made into useful fertiliser or something creative like that.

Zuma was there attending the G20 in St Petersburg and the BRICS group finalised a corpus of a mind boggling $100 billion for emergency funding. I just hope that emergency funding doesn't mean that we need even more emergency situations than the ones we already have before the funding is actually put to use.

I hope we all get to hear what is on those spy tapes and would welcome the opportunity to listen to them, although I would be totally lost, I am not familiar with the agenda, I am just going along with all the other people assuming that there is damning evidence of major corruption and mind spinning volumes of money being shared out like so much cake at a wedding. I believe we all deserve to know the truth, but recent headlines reporting that our Public Protector was being pressured by members of parliament to lay off the Nkandla probe, and now reports that the gold mines are bribing government officials. Eish, I can't go on, I don't think we will ever know the depth of our depravity.

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