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.

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 9/21/09 (updated)

1. Israel has completely withdrawn from gaza
   
2. Guantanamo may close within a year, but for the moment all trials are on pause until obama and his administration takes a good look at whats going on
3. Thailand refuses to let the UN check out the burmese refugees being held after the UN accused them of sending 1,000s back out at sea without adequate supplies. i hope thailand is building a secret pyramid with them or something.(provided that they are bein treated humanely)
4. Tibetans plan to protest the chinese new year to honor those who died during a 2008 protest. i dont see china really giving a shit, they still have a couple billion people ready to celebrate. tibet will never be free without a war of some sort. sorry, but its the truth
5. Hamid Karzai, afghanistans president says there needs to be a new military policy implemented for his country. he also called for all donations to be handled by afghanistan and not the donor themselves because its really hard to put in his and everyone elses pocket when it gos directly to the people
6. France isnt sending anymore troops to afghanistan ;[ i hate how the french try to do things that make sense, ugh
7. Sri Lankan army creates "safe zone" for the people displaced during the fighting with the tamil tigers
8. Student protesters in venezuela protest chavez proposal to be able to run for re-election as often as he wants. when you think of student protest it doesnt seem noteworthy but they seem to have a pretty powerful effect in south american countries in the last year or so

Moar III

1. Israel wants out of gaza by tuesday. we all know what happens tuesday, makes you kind of wonder if they only declared a ceasefire just because a certain changing of the guard. if this is the case did israel really accomplish what they said they did, or did they just want to tear shit up until obama comes?
   
2. Zimbabwe talks ended with no deal. not even linking that, OF COURSE IT DIDNT. fucking kill mugabe, someone, please.
3. Taliban attacked 5 schools yesterday in the most fucked up education based campaign since no child left behind
4. A couple of Arab states met up in kuwait again to discuss israel and gaza. the majority of states had harsh words for israel but saudia arabias words were stern, but definitely not as ridiculious as syrias bashar al assad calling israel a "terrorist state". saudi arabia king abdul offered peace to israel by asking them to accept the terms of the 2002 arab peace initiative or the offer may eventuall end up off the table. israel can ignore places like syria and egypt and even saudi arabia for now with the price of oil, so low but i honestly dont think  israel wants any part of saudi aggression. a lot of money backing that that shit
5. Tamil tigers oil storage facility found b sri lankan army. its getting shittier each day for those tigers. if thats all the oil the tigers had left then it should all end very soon. its tough to fight a war without resources,  impossible. i really dont want to say goodbye to one of my favorite names for a terrorist organization ever ;[

Moar II

1. North Korea says it has enough weaponized plutonium to make up to five bombs. the comments were aimed at south korea because they are really stupid up north and love to say shit like this whenever they dont like something. put up or stfu already. for future reference about 30kg of plutonium is 4-5 bombs worth
2. Russia's putin cut a deal with ukraines yulia tymoshynko (who is hot as fuck) that will have russian owned gas monopoly gazprom resuming operations in the ukraine. its still at a discount too, the interesting thing is now yulia will have this as a victory for ukraine under her belt. thats some real ammo when dealing with victor yushchenko in what will be if not already a fight for power in ukraine. now all it takes is victor to not be a bitter bitch and not veto
3. 100s of burman and bangladeshian refugees missing at sea after being booted out thailand. no fucking duh this shit was gonna happen, were talking about no engine bullshit do it yourself boats here.  with any luck theyll end up in indonesia, and thats with luck
4. Malaysia finally chooses islam. the pan-malaysian islamic party(PAS) is will be taking over the majority of the parliament.  it was obvious since the last election that this is where malaysia will be heading. the prime minister(nabib razak) stepping up in march represents the opposition party(United Malays National Organization) that got its ass whoop so it should be interesting to see if he can get anything done. hopefully the ethnicities of malay that arent muslim wont get marginalized but thats kindaaaa unlikely
5. Tamil Tigers say they kill 51 soldiers, sri lanka military is like 'nuh uh' its 7