What's The Issue?

But if you look closely there is a movement. The People, we the people, are hitting back. With the help of people like Edward Snowden and Thuli Madonsela, the truth is coming out. English comic Russel Brand just painted a trget on his back calling the Queen Mother by her real name. Mrs. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha must not have taken too kindly to the parvenu Brand being so callous as to lose formality. Pah!

We are closing in on the freedom of information, the powers that be are closing the door on us getting that information out in the open and so the struggle goes. Still the video of the Queen giving the Nazi salute is out there and their German heritage has once again been delivered as shock value to the world. But it is well known and of only entertainment value. The real information is still out of reach.

Take for instance the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine. The Dutch findings are due to be released in October and some factions are clambering at the opportunity to create a propaganda circus by calling for a tribunal to be set up by the UN before those findings have been released. Russia is fuming and issuing warnings against this tactic. The Russian UN Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, calls it a dangerous step saying Russia will veto the move.

Many na•ve people will try to portray this as Russia not wanting the tribunal to go ahead, but the learned and the wise will see it as what it is and that is Russia not wanting the propaganda machine to cause more conflict than it already has in the area.

So here at home we can rest assured that the nitty gritty details of Nkandla will probably never be fully revealed and a spin the spin blame game of finger pointing will go on endlessly until we all tire of the issue or something bigger comes along. We're not going to hear Thuli's voice. We're not going the get that money back, no matter how hard Julius screams for it. And Julius is out on a witch hunt of his own, purging the EFF of any sign of corruption. It is valiant of him to shout to the rooftops that you cannot beat the ANC by becoming the ANC. No.

While Eskom struggles with their load, Telkom announced planned job cuts despite doubling its director's wages. Nice. The metal workers industry is said to be facing massive job cuts in the light of the falling prices and slowing trade.

But we need not worry about any of this, what we should worry about are the massive fluctuations in what is the worlds second largest economy, the Chinese market dropped a massive eight per cent in some of its major indexes, now that we can worry about.