Shit. Well, there you go.
Today's topics:
An horrific airshow accident in Lviv in the Ukraine has left 80 people dead. I don't know if you've seen the footage, but it was ghastly seeing that jet plough through crowds, and film of the dead lying on the tarmac like bundles of cloth. Dreadful.
Jenny Shipley, New Zealand's prime minister, was returned to power in a coalition government with a reduced minority. New Zealand is an interesting country - its obviosuly Western, but so insignificant that it does things and no one cares. It refuses to allow US nuclear warships into its ports, and allows parallel importing to the horror of the US Trade Represetative. Shipley allowed NZ to take on the immigrants from the Tampa, which Australia refused to take. NZ acts according to its conscience, and good luck to them.
An enormous humanitarian disaster is happening across central Africa, with 12 million people, 7 million of them children, facing starvation due to drought. Angola, Malawi, Lethoso, and Zimbabawe are amongst the worst affected. Part of the problem is caused by the Hitler-moustache fuckwit Robert Mugabe, who has ordered farms in Zimbabwe shut down because they are owned by whites. The white owned farms are the most productive in the country, and as a result, black Zimbabweans and people in surrounding countries are starving. Zimbabwe used to be the regions breadbasket, able to feed itself and its neighbours. Good thinking, Robert.
Still in Africa, the president of Uganda hosted a meeting between the head of the Sudanese rebel army and the head of the Sudanese government. The two men shook hands and were all smiles. Sudan's civil war has been going on for 15 years, a result of violence between Muslims in the north and Christians (the rebels) in the south. Asked whether he would be able to live under the rule of the Sudanese government, the rebel leader smiled and said,"Of course, when we are the government." Something tells me peace is still a while off.
