Moar 1/27/09

ok, sorry for the extra day in the break. its time to get back to the daily grind. suprisingly nothing of note happened and we're still dealing with the same stories

1. US ambassador of the middle east george mitchell is on his way to israel to try and work a deal with israel and hamas. this is it, our first taste of middle east diplomacy from obama. the only problem is its subcontracted to george mitchel who may be a very capeable negotiator but he has to report back to hillary clinton, not obama. i dont see much progress being made under clinton in this subject. shes very pro israeli, and more than likely not to waiver any concessions for hamas. it would take some level of intervention from obama to really get things going
2. Sri Lankas safe zones obviously arent enough as the red cross reports a quarter of a million people trapped between the fighting between the sri lankan army and the tamil tigers
3. SADC (southern african development community) a new government in zimbabwe will take place in february. ill believe it if it still stands in april
4. Chinas prime minister wen jiabao will be going on a eurotrip to let europe know theyll be in chinas pocket soon enough 
5. Colombia and Venezuela has set up a 200m fund to increase bilateral trade. i guess things are pretty bad for cololmbia if they have to deal with a country they may be funding/aiding its biggest pain in the ass, FARC(revolutionary armed forces of colombia)
6. Bolivia voted to change the constitution. Now evo morales can run again. i didnt think theyd pass it now im kind of wondering if hugos can get through in feb
7. Iceland's government has officially fallen apart from the financial crisis. Looking forward(not happy about it, just saying its gonna happen) to seeing the same thing happen a couple former soviet states that the euro raped

i guess thats it for now. if youd like to see me get more detailed about a specific subject feel free to drop a line and ill oblige

Moar IV

i kept waiting and waiting to do this waiting for something new to pop up, but its been a slow news day, so meh lets just go with what we got

1. Europe is getting it's gas from russia again
2. Ban ki Moon (the un secretary general) is done checking out the damage in gaza. he said some shit about it too...like how the conditions sucked there. politicians have come and said this shit about it BEFORE israel started blowin shit up so why should anyone care now
3. A human rights lawyer who represented a little girl who was killed by a russian soldier was gunned down in cold blood. i dont thinka  single chechnyan male has died in any other way in the last 3 years. it resulted in a protest of over a thousand people. chechnya is absolutely insane there was no way any highly esteemed human rights activist was gonna live there for long
4. New bird flu warnings in china. i saw this  yesterday and ignored it but i guess ill mention it now. im looking forward to see how china handles it this time, my guess no more than 15 die before everything is ok again. chinese new year is coming up and theyll do anthing not to fuck this up
5. i could get to five but its stupid shit, so yea theres always tommorrow