Losing a bit of interest in the middle east. Too complicated and too hard to follow.
Current focus tends to be mostly on Ukraine.
However, I noticed that a heap of people (including Imran Khan) are planning on protesting in Pakistan over what they claim is rigged elections.
The government's troops/guards are going to square up to the protesters, so it could potentially get out of hand.
UK's Philip Hammond asked everyone to resolve things 'democratically', which struck me as rather lame and comic when things don't sound too democratic over in Pakistan.
Russell Brand's done another funny video; this time taking the piss out of some US wannabe-warmonger type of news presenter carrying on about ISIS.
Found it amusing mostly because the news guy's posturing carry-on actually is hilarious.
Don't have too many positive feelings about the middle east, though.
Middle east seems too warped to be fixed and it seems like there's no hope for anything over there.
The big story is a journalist (James Foley) has been beheaded.
Did not read about it until some 'Who was James Foley' article popped up in front of me on twitter (where I've been wasting time lately). Briefly skimmed over the article. Looks like he's had a close call before.
Anyway, I wasn't game to look at the video because I find it disturbing to see a slow act of killing.
It was only when I saw all these reports that it was being suppressed, that entertainers were calling on people not to look at it etc, that I thought I'll take a look (because they don't want me to look).
Went to LiveLeak (as twitter was allegedly blocking it). First video off the rank was the blotted out face version. Even so, I didn't get past a few seconds of it because I just couldn't handle knowing what was about to happen. Does my head in. Can't watch it even kind of screened off.
It is such a sick thing to do. I can't understand how anyone would think this was an OK way to kill someone. That sounds weird, because there's probably no really OK way to kill people. But, anyway, if you're going to take someone's life, I don't understand the need to be really close, personal, bloodied, slow and sick about it.
That's why I don't think there is any hope. There is no crossing that divide between middle east and west.
