News Roundup and intellectual malaise

Even the more democratic nations which are controlled by the people have problems instilling complete order over their populace.

-Imbecile on the Internet

Time sure flies. The stupid pothead lights another joint and flips the page in the book on conspiracies. September eleven images flash by on TV, and the pothead sighs. “You’re all just sheep”, he says to himself and return to the book.

It’s coming quickly now, coming? It’s here, already, everywhere, no escape. Scuttling across the alleyways and hanging outside the doors. A dark sinister shadow that haunts every step, a luring horror from beyond that clutches for you with skeletal arms – the pandemic. 12 years of fear: and now, it is here. Like the fires across the world in the last weeks of the life of the dinosaurs.

People lament the loss of pathetic pop-phenomenon Michael Jackson, they cannot shut up about what a loss it was, and what an important figure he was in the world. Lunatic Latoya spawns conspiracy theories like any inhabitant of an insane asylum; after such a childhood, mental illness is unavoidable. Meanwhile, in Tehran, opposition leaders are bothered by a loss that was visible years ahead, shouting election fraud in a manner similar to the Indian opposition following Indira Ghandi’s election in 1971. Despite opinion polls clearly indicating almost to the exact percentage the result, absurd claims hail from the opposition, and even more so, from the Western media. Apparently, people in an official’s home town will always vote for this person, as though it is some tribal thing. I guess that is how the West views the Middle East, tribal. The West of course, as always, has an opinion of how things ought to be done – everything is their business after all, masters of the world as though they no doubt see themselves. Moreover, the West never distrust expatriates and exiles. Like it matters who wins an election; the power will remain in the same hands.

In Tibet too, the Government in Exile and the expatriate forces are the one’s shaping the western perception of the Tibetian issue; not only in Tibet (Xizang) but in Xinjiang as well. Again, expatriates and exiled lying morons such as Rebiya Kadeer, seen presenting various unrelated pictorial “evidence” at a press conference as evidence of police violence in the handling of the riots (Police violence, what a surprise!). The west, as always, assumes that a so called “oppressed minority” is always honest and sincere (apart from their own minorities), and seemingly incapable of doing anything wrong, as though they were not at all themselves involved in and responsible for a lot of violence in the recent riots. Instead, it’s presented as a question of “peaceful demonstrations” – regardless of the context. Rowing gangs of ethnic groups seeking to attack the other ethnic group on the streets, and yet, the fundamental rejection is simply that of the police action in itself (contexts be damned); and the police’s pacification then, an action that is fundamental to the very function of the police force: U.S, U.K, China or Iran, becomes vilified in one moment and praised in the next.  As though the West does not try to handle violent riots themselves with the same violence – and for that matter, since when does the West really handle peaceful protests well, what with Kettling and suppression of protests in relation to WTO, G8 and G20 summits and various other events anyway?

Point is of course, that the West has no qualms about supporting certain movements they would not like to see at home when they are bothering the enemy – perhaps a bit of the old notion “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” – perhaps, funnily enough, originally derived from a Chinese proverb.

THERE ARE NO CULTURAL RIGHTS.

“[...]… colonists [the han-chinese] who want to replace us with their own people and assimilate those of us who remain, wiping out our culture.” -Erkin Alptekin