Morgan Tsvangarai Sworn in as Zimbabwe's Prime Minister

countdown until tsvan realizes he has absolutely no power what so ever and that his post is nothing more than a title?

Kadima and Tzipi Livni Get First in Votes in Israel

but it's really up to Israel Beiteinu as far as creating a ruling coalition. if theyre smart theyll make sure the world knows their party exists before fading into obscurity to create a coalition government. come next election they could be looking for first place in votes, so yea. sad times. 

i want to note that i did not watch this upon posting, but i trust al jazeera enough to say what needs to be known and you the viewer to watch critically

Netanyahu For the Win

the polls have been saying this for months but with elections days away today is the last day polls can be conducted) i figure its time to bring it up again. they vote for parties btw not necessarily the representatives

and just fyi these are the major political parties in israel and their Representatives in order of expected votes:

Benjamin Netanyahu- Likud (right)

Tzipi Livni - Kadima (left/center)

Avigdor Lieberman-  Yisrael Beiteinu (faaaar right)

Ehud Barak- Labor (center)

wow i capitalized names and stuff, how odd of me. anyways ill get a bit deeper into this after the election

Public Opinion Polls in Palestine

some interesting shit in here (its a pdf)

46.7% of people believe hamas won

9.8 said israel won

37.4 realize they both fucked them over

basicly every pro hamas question asked rosed compared to when it was last asked. this was expected though

Russia and Afghanistan

Kyzrgajhfjdhfdstan's Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Russia's Dmitri Medvedev

i considered posting part of a paper i wrote on american foreign policy with russia but i just want to stick to my guns about trying to make this as simple as possible. the paper is all academic and shit so fuck that!  ok its like this

us and russia were kind of about to lockhorns towards the end of the bush administrations run. reason being russia was treated like shit through out the 90s and forced into all types of agreements that wasnt beneficial to it. in the last couple of years or so the us has also been pushing for the entry of former soviet states into the NATO. most notable of them being ukraine and georgia.

these 2 states are waaaay to important for russia to lose to western influence and may be the biggest act of aggression by the us aside from a bullshit missile shield in poland and czech republic.

Obama and Putin

since the start of the obama presidency theres been progress already. its safe to assume obama will scrap the anti missile shield considering russias respose to it was to place short range missiles in the enclave of kaliningrad, which is sandwiched between poland and lithuania. two countries that reallyyyy dont like to see russia behave like this. its been said in the past week that russia will not be placing the missiles there, so yea i guess obama got the message. another issue seems to be the arms treaty and all signs point to this working out just the way the russians want it. 

Russia Afghaistand and America

its kind of funny how the ussr bled out in afghanistan thanks to us supporting the mujahadeen and eventually bin laden. im not saying russia is doing the same, but they arent exactly helping YET. NATO supply routes are constantly getting attacked. just today 10 trucks were hit in pakistan which is the home of our major supply route. theyre obviously needs to be an alternative because pakistan cant do shit and well russia is right there. if you want help from any of the stans above afghanistan then you have to go through putin. its his sphere of influence and you have to be prepared to pay the toll. america is slowly starting to understand this. it kind of sped up the process when kyrgyzstan decided to kick america out of a key air force base too

now i dont know much about the military of the stans. i doubt theyre very advanced but when medvedev calls for something equal to NATO i dont think they want to be too far off in the aspect of importance in the region. an alliance between these countries in afghanistan could potentially be as powerful just by being familiar with the area. there is no trade route issue, every state that a supply would need to go through is basicly at each others borders and its support from this organization/russia is what obama NEEDS to win afghanistan. do it or pack your shit because we cant win without it

karzai knows cooperation with russia is a must. he actually has to be in that shithole, there is no eventual withdrawl for him so it made sense to point fingers at americans for the death of civilians. he has to answer to the people. it also made sense for him to buddy up to russia as the power afghanistan will really need to answer to in a couple of years. now hamid karzais presidency will end may 20 with no election but because of his newfound ties with the kremlin theres no way he stays in office. some western friendly pawn will pop up, who i dont know, but it should be interesting to see if america can sell him to afghanistan and the arab world without russia

Why Nobody Cares What Britian Says

if you ask people what is the 2nd best country to the united states...within the united states chances are england will be the answer. its all we know, we have a long history with them and its simply a familiar old white face in history. there was once a time when britian held some power back with churchill. 

after ww2 and the germans were defeated and russia began heading towards europe america is practically begged for their business and to stay in europe to fight russia. america agreed but as we all know in return america became the great hegemon for decades on end. britian has pretty much been like an ox pecker on an ox ever since. its only as strong as we are, but now no matter how powerful the us may be the united kingdoms power is slowly fading

a dying population, an influx of arab immigrants that want their own way of life within the state, a weak military outing in afghanistan and iraq, weak political and national will, and now the economic crisis is pretty much the final blow. the uk is falling apart  and before the end of 2009 is will be painfully obvious. news media should stop pointing out any type of foreign policy of britian like it matters anymore. dont waste our time

UK & US ask for Ceasefire in Sri Lanka

haha yea thats gonna happen. the army is as close as its ever been to stamping out the tamil tigers. yes, have a ceasefire and let the tigers come up with a new gameplan. riiight.

The IMF's Bad News for Asia

The IMF slashed its forecast to 2.7 per cent from an estimate of 4.9 per cent made only two months ago. The move came as both Australia and Japan announced new measures to sustain their flagging economies. - FT

i noticed before this whole recession thing happen that when people referred to china some would call them our future lords and masters. it was assumed that china owned us through our tremendous debt to them and one day they would simply pull the plug on us. its not happening, only in some instance of war or conflict involving japan or taiwan could this happen. wen jiabao went around europe last week crusading for chinese business, but its nothing without america.

china has even went public as far as sharing its hope that the us does not enact any sort of protectionist policy that would further stunt the demand for chinese exports.  what china can do with its stimulus package and has stated it will do is work on its infrastructure. chinas countryside needs help, millions of people are losing their big city jobs and are simply stuck twiddling their thumbs. this is bound to lead to civil unrest and god knows what else, and i bet china is fully aware of this. i wouldnt be suprised to see china create jobs for these people and this will and should be chinas main priority not the slow destruction/manipulation of the western world. bring that shit back up in like 2020 until then just shut the fuck up

Moar 2/3/09

1. Egypt might open the borders to gaza so reconstruction materials get through. this is an absolute must for egypt and the longer they take to do it the more pressure it will recieve from other arab states. this is something that must be done no matter what israel does as a result. the place has been absolutely shelled and all the funding means nothing if materials cant enter
2. Sri Lankan hospitals have been shelling targets in the tamil tiger vs military conflict. times is reporting this sooo they may have shit fucked up like they did with the brief georgia x russia conflict

1. Iran may have launched a satellite and the pentagon is fucking pissed. ughhh an arab country making some type of progress in the world. unghhhh lets say its a concern cause it could have to do with our safety unghhh we are so full of shit 

Goodbye Tamil Tigers(unofficial)

i didnt forget to talk about russia, its just there are some other topics i want to cover. i think ill just wrangle them all up in a day or 2