Whats The Issue?

The EFF seems to have this violence tendency going as a party policy, if their latest leadership conference is anything to go by. Newspaper reports tell of bricks, pangas and pools of blood, security guards with their faces smashed in, vehicles vandalised and all in the name of choosing an EFF leader for the province. Imagine what it will be like when they meet to choose the party leader. Ooooh yes, I can't wait.

If the recent parliament debacle, which saw the police called in to restore order after the EFF and the DA tried in vain to stop the motion clearing Jacob Zuma of all accountability in the Nkandla saga, is anything to go by, we will have a very entertaining parliament indeed. The Economic Freedom Fighters MP, Ngwanamakwetle Mashabela called Jacob Zuma a thief saying "President Zuma is a thief. He is a criminal. He is the greatest thief in the world," and had to be forcibly removed from parliament because she refused to withdraw her statement. The use of the Police in Parliament violates our constitution and is an illegal act unless they are called by the speaker. So to summarise, our constitution is a joke, the police are puppets and our economy is even funnier, if you see the funny side that is. If you are poor and destitute and dependent on the state, then it would be excusable if you did not see the funny side.

Something that was really not funny was the recent pathetic attempt from Western leaders to apply pressure on the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit over Ukraine. Again it became obvious that the American administration was helplessly steering the ship of the USA economy straight into the reef of China and taking on Russia as a solution will be their certain downfall. We are just so lucky that there is an S in the acronym BRICS, because when winter comes and Russia turns off the gas supply to western Europe, the diplomats will be singing a different story and the sanctions, which so far have been totally ineffectual, will hopefully be able to be reversed.

I can't believe that an educated person does not see how Washington's desire for a missile station in the Ukraine is totally unacceptable to Russia. No amount of lies about passenger liners shot down by rebel separatists will soften their stance on this. And when the truth about who shot down the civilian airliner comes out, the blatant liars probably won't even blush.