Bad Vibes This Week
Riots in China, internet down.
"At least 140 people have been killed in rioting in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, with the government blaming exiled separatists for the Muslim area’s worst case of unrest in years.
Hundreds of rioters have been arrested, the official Xinhua news agency reported, after rock-throwing Uighur people took to the streets of the regional capital on Sunday, some burning and smashing vehicles and confronting ranks of anti-riot police."
Usual suspects trying to balkanize China?
Honduran president's plane circles runway, can't land.
What the Cowardly Honduras Coup Lost Today
"President Manuel Zelaya Showed True Courage: One of the open questions prior to today was whether, threatened with 18 felony charges, including treason, and 20 years in prison (not to mention likely torture and seizure of his considerable properties and business interests), the legitimate president of Honduras would fail to show up for today’s showdown at 2,000 feet over Tegucigalpa.
It would have been easy enough to turn the recommendations by Canada and Costa Rica at last night’s Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington into a diplomatic pretext to delay his attempted return. He could have followed in the extra-light footsteps of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Al Gore, or Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when the moment of truth arrived against an illegitimate regime. The consequence of such cowardice would have been causing his own people in Honduras to lose faith in him. Having guts (or huevos, male or female) in Latin America, as in most parts of the world, is a Sina Qua Non for a political leader. Zelaya showed them today. He emerges from today stronger, with more popular support than before, and bigger than life before the international public and media. He passed an important test today, and thus passed into the history books.
Illegitimate “President” of Honduras Roberto Micheletti Became a National and International Laughing Stock: One cannot overstate the extent to which Micheletti lost grip and traction today in his quest to remain in power. After a week of threatening the criminal charges against Zelaya (in effect, gambling that Zelaya would chicken out), he won the most Pyrrhic of battles today when he ordered soldiers and vehicles out on the runway of Toncontin International Airport to keep his “most wanted criminal” from landing. If his coup regime’s charges were so iron-clad, why not just let Zelaya land and drag him off to jail? He proved all of his schtick a lie, today.
As part of today’s show, he threatened all the passengers on the airplane with arrest upon landing, including the President of the United Nations General Assembly. That act alone guarantees his further isolation and virtually assures that Washington will, likely tomorrow or the next day, declare his regime a “military coup, “ triggering the cut-off of all foreign aid."
Administration OK with Israel nuking Iran
Demonstrators battle police in Italy over US base
"At least 140 people have been killed in rioting in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, with the government blaming exiled separatists for the Muslim area’s worst case of unrest in years.
Hundreds of rioters have been arrested, the official Xinhua news agency reported, after rock-throwing Uighur people took to the streets of the regional capital on Sunday, some burning and smashing vehicles and confronting ranks of anti-riot police."
Usual suspects trying to balkanize China?
Honduran president's plane circles runway, can't land.
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What the Cowardly Honduras Coup Lost Today
"President Manuel Zelaya Showed True Courage: One of the open questions prior to today was whether, threatened with 18 felony charges, including treason, and 20 years in prison (not to mention likely torture and seizure of his considerable properties and business interests), the legitimate president of Honduras would fail to show up for today’s showdown at 2,000 feet over Tegucigalpa.
It would have been easy enough to turn the recommendations by Canada and Costa Rica at last night’s Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington into a diplomatic pretext to delay his attempted return. He could have followed in the extra-light footsteps of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Al Gore, or Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when the moment of truth arrived against an illegitimate regime. The consequence of such cowardice would have been causing his own people in Honduras to lose faith in him. Having guts (or huevos, male or female) in Latin America, as in most parts of the world, is a Sina Qua Non for a political leader. Zelaya showed them today. He emerges from today stronger, with more popular support than before, and bigger than life before the international public and media. He passed an important test today, and thus passed into the history books.
Illegitimate “President” of Honduras Roberto Micheletti Became a National and International Laughing Stock: One cannot overstate the extent to which Micheletti lost grip and traction today in his quest to remain in power. After a week of threatening the criminal charges against Zelaya (in effect, gambling that Zelaya would chicken out), he won the most Pyrrhic of battles today when he ordered soldiers and vehicles out on the runway of Toncontin International Airport to keep his “most wanted criminal” from landing. If his coup regime’s charges were so iron-clad, why not just let Zelaya land and drag him off to jail? He proved all of his schtick a lie, today.
As part of today’s show, he threatened all the passengers on the airplane with arrest upon landing, including the President of the United Nations General Assembly. That act alone guarantees his further isolation and virtually assures that Washington will, likely tomorrow or the next day, declare his regime a “military coup, “ triggering the cut-off of all foreign aid."
Administration OK with Israel nuking Iran
Demonstrators battle police in Italy over US base
posted by nolocontendere at 6:42 AM
3 Comments:
Thanks for this round up of bad summer news-I have been having very bad feelings recently and i think this has worsened my health a bit-I do wonder if the CIA is trying to destablize the one and only "faux" communist nation of China -geopoltically it would make a lot of sense in a way for these idiots-but what they dont (or perhaps do) realize is that their stupid hamfisted monkeying around with other nations will be the end of our own-if there is anything left of us by then anyway-the future looks very grim looking out from 2009 and beyond-if the fascists attack Iran I hope the plan so backfires in their faces that they regret it immediately! all the best to all of you as always!!
If any whiff of outside agitation is sensed by the Chinese, our money system will disappear overnight when countries spearheaded by them completely dump the worthless dollar.
Agree with you there nolo! My anxiety-o-meter is redlining this last few months-and worse with each passing week. I hope it means nothing. all this crap piling up and up-really scary shit.no pun intended:)best as always!
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