leap year

On a day like this i wonder why humankind has to make her great leaps on the moon.
Although.. all through the world this year things don't go off quite as bad as they could.
I am really proud of odinga, and perhaps even kibaki in Kenya. Knowing the regular superiority complex we must assume Kibaki has something terrible going on inside himself now, an identity crisis. He will no longer be the upper super of the overpeople... well even that you may consider tolerance. Like i said the year starts ok. Usa however is desperately moving to find an enemy the public would agree with.
On us the public rests the responsability not to give in to this landscaping of animositys. Currently we see israel provocating her due with a rising daily deathrate. Many reports how every aspect of palestinean life is frustrated (on water, food, medicins, fuel, humanrights, seep through), and for the critical observer... this time with prone zionist denials.

Obviously usa is looking for an excuse for fraudulent elections, now it shows the world sees no need to trust white woman over black man...
(man this can cost me an election..)

There is only one thing that would really help this world, and it is when people overcome their prejudices. Now the regular usian may think their prejudices are not as bad as say.. pakistani. A dangerous mistake. It's a whole different thing, if you have prejudices over everything the rest of the world is traumatised about, or that people just have a few prejudices becus they know no better and use the handhold to understand a world that is stolen from them.

The prejudice of the oppressor and the prejudice of the victim. Kenya proves once again, how victims overstep huge prejudices to improve on situations. Where the perpetrators usually have a hard time dealing with their insane attitudes.

Now one might think , in usa obama can only win if Usa oversteps so many prejudices..
if this is the case.. Obama lost.
The discussions on eg. Irak, in the usa, show. Not to mention say syria, of wich people know nothing at all in usa (or even eu), or iran is fed to new heights(1). If all else fails they will start a war the public hasn't been thinking over, becus it usually takes the public an age (several years really) to realise an injustice is perpetrated, and not a democratical move.

Whatever is the old object of animosity.. be it cuba or irak or islam or iran or syria or russia even china, is in the focus of new propagandist attacks, desperately looking for an excuse to use and sell weapons, what they are on the ruling republican side. Each and any of the oldys has been the object of vague and rather agressive attempts in the odd two months this year aged.

I am not saying we will have a war, just that some people seem to be really trying.
So why do republicans want a war? Thats easy: if there is a war the coffins drip in. If the coffins drip in , people want peace, that is.. a win. (loosing doesnt usually appeal to a people untill late in a war).

If people want a win you can sell weapons. Not only that, if there is a war (not a failed occupation) the republicans are at the best of their rhetorics. Used as the neocon system is to aim for war, insult other nations, starve them through boykots in such genocidal circumstances, a republican feels like a fish in the water. His words start running, every bit of lies he has been repeating into even his own subconscience becomes usefull and at its hardest to decipher.

If the usians want a chance to win their elections, they should prevent war. If war breaks out, their prejudices will overcome so much of the common sense, that election fraude wouldn't show easily.

So i think now is explained to the world Usa's last two months of sable rattling. Now to explain it to themselves.

I am trying to tell people that their own prejudices are used to sabotage the elections beforehand. That when there is enough of whining over how to solve the disaster in irak, afghanistan, somalia, darfur to name a few, even obama can't have an answer to everything.

The whole constructive aproach has not been used, so the whole world doesn't know what to expect if we would.

Must say Rice did something good in kenya, i feared her visit a bit. She isn't rili diplomatic always, mostly because she is very partial usually. If Kenya was in the ME , her loyalty would have definitily been with Kibaki, being the conservative that she is. So i feared her inbring would destroy far to much of odingas options. Seems not the case.

I am rili glad for annan he can do something else and hopefully less depressing now, he is a somewhat old man after all. Thinking of old man..

I think i will miss fidel, always found him the most sympathic dictator on the planet, since i consider vietnam, afghanistan and irak acts of dictatorship, i hope i tell you something. From that pov. i apreciate what raoul is doing. Ofcourse i trust that he will know well what fidel thinks, and that perhaps the change will be easier through that. Otoh... raoul is an old human at 76 (so is mccain.. so is hillary), just like honestly it seems mugabe is to old now and should at least consider to have his economically valuable presidency a ceremonial function.
Many people that rule nations are old, and usually actually it is not a great help.
(Kibaki is old).

No matter if these old people (like some) still relate to ww2, or the predigital era, the time isn't standing still. We now don't so much have power blocks that strive for dominance, we have a wide open pretty informable world where it becomes more and more obvious that complete cooperation is the only way out. That there actually even isn't so much room for personal enrichment as it might seem.(2)
That we don't want to buy more hate the communist crap, or democracy is good wars, bs all that.

In anarchist circles (and no we don't usually kill another, if the murderer of Seveke was an anarchist in that time he would supposedly have been better informed about trauma induced in people through police infiltration, then this), they say something funny about democracy, but i can't quite remember.

It's about that you let a whole bunch of stupid or uninformed people decide over something, more usually then not they will reach the wrong decission.
Used as such (what conservatives do) democracy actually equals fascism. Where some supposedly superior elite is allowed to use the masses as slaves.

Worst of all is conservative forces always use this argument to paralyse political processes beforehand.

And this my friends is what we can expect to see happen in the usian political debate. Poor Obama, anything he is even allowed to say will be compromising.

I think he does very well in his campaigning. I also so think our best chances are in his honest aproach on changes. By stressing changes he will have more options open, i also wouldn't know exactly what to do in Irak with Obama in charge on Usa side.

Noone does, the discussion would be completely different, i am very sure. At least the blogosphere might come up with a couple of surprises. Otoh people in irak are more aware then any Usa is all but intend to leave.
So if anything is supposed to change, Obama will need to leave many options open.
The rest of the world is pretty cynical about usa by now.

happy leaping



(1) in the case of iran i wonder if the suggested weapongrade uranium isn't the 1 or so percent that naturally exists in refined uranium. I think it is. Putins contribution sheds some doubt on that, but lets be fair, putin is trying to legalise his own election result, he and bush share an interest for once.

(2) In terms of ecological footprints, it is very hard in a western context to get under 100.. wich is that you use 100% of what you could use and still have neutral ecological impact. It means that you use over 100 some people will have nothing.
Lets assume lich people only buy a house twice as big, they will never stay under 100.
Someone somewhere, will have to try to live under subsistence level, and perhaps several.
That would be twice a rather small house. Best i did was 101, i am a vegetarian, almost greedy with electrical power, with no car, little flights and hardly luxury.
would you have a car you are probably at 110 immediatly, 1 other person would lack 10percent of what they needed to even be happy.