Obamaland...

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 A couple of weeks ago I went to Obamaland, the land where people need instruction to be able to cross the street, but also the land where luckily you can chew some BlueQ Obama Gum while goin' shipping with the BlueQ Mighty Michelle Shopper.

Then.

Battlestar Galactica

Newly discovered planet 'habitable' -
 Al Jazeera English

And there we go! Once we'll be done fucking up our dear pachamama we can just hop on a shuttle and colonize Gliese 581 g!

For that we will be able to use Israeli intelligence, for they are expert in illegal colonization/settlements...

That would be nice wouldn't it?

Squares of Autumn

Squares of Autumn
Originally uploaded by L'Arlesien

And now Fall is kickin'in. School, work, rainy days, yellow leaves, orange leaves, red leaves, falling leaves, and leaves-less trees.

Seasons keep coming and going, and I still hear comments such as "well in 50 years or something maybe people will react more strongly to global warming because it may become more real..." This was from the mouth of a soon graduating political science student. Amazing.

Sheep on da street!

Wowowiwow! Well it has been a while since I had a single thought (which is strong within me) for the Enigmatic Worthlessness!

But an international (article on Al Jazeera) event that reveals both human stupidity and a regime's own stupidity has forced me to come out of the closet, so to say, and post this.

(reuters)

Chinese citizens are on the street in front of the Japanese embassy in Beijing because they feel angered by... they themselves have no idea what.

Or rather they think they know. They think they feel angered because the Japanese are keeping

Zhan Qixiong, the chinese trawler captain, in custody. How is that surprising?

Quick summary of the situation. Some days ago a chinese trawler was sailing around the Diaoyu/Sentoku disputed Islands. The Chinese boat was approached by Japanese coast guard, and as an answer the chinese boat hit the Japanese ones. The Japanese coastguards thus arrested the Chinese crew and brought them back to Japan. Then, of course, the Chinese were crying out loud saying that the Japanese are insane.

What is scary is that people are not understanding that this is all just a political game over a couple of islands, and most of all that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is willingly fueling popular resentment over the Japanese in order to gain momentum and legitimacy.

However, although the use of nationalism feelings is easy and handy for the CCP in time of social unrest, it is a dangerous thing to play with. We saw it in Urumqi last year.

Where it's all hapenning

Since the 11th of June I am traveling in China, the country where blogging is impossible if you use Blogger, Wordpress or other big names in the field. But I have my own domain name, so I am able to keep a travel blog updated quite often! However this present blog, Enigmatic Worthlessness, is highly suffering from the Great Firewall...
So until I reach Hong Kong in the end of august I won't able to post anything. I could use a proxy, like right now, but I prefer to write scandalous things about China once I'm out...

In the meantime, my journey can be followed at http://www.silkroadtraveller.com/blog/

More on Trafigura, and how it goes under-reported in the media...

Trafigura, or how can people be that evil toward their own kind. After looking for some time I found more material to read on Trafigura and it's shameful action in Ivory Cost about 3 years ago.

In a previous post I related the great documentary produced by Al Jazeera, but I just found out that BBC had also produced another report, which is just as good.
Or I should rather say 'devastating' instead of 'great', as the topic is absolutely horrible. It is even hard to conceive that such evilness can be so easily done to men. Well I guess we tend to forget rather too rapidly the many examples that spot our history, from Hitler to Rwanda and Cambodia and Armenia and Guantanamo and Darfour and Palestine and Northen Uganda and ... The list goes on.

Coming back to Trafigura, I was quite glad to see that Al Jazeera wasn't the sole media to report this case.

But this was before discovering this article from The Guardian in which we learn that Trafigura is doing it's best to shut down any report made on them. Apparently they are trying to sue BBC for showing this documentary which is supposedly alleging false claims about Trafigura's abuses.
In the same time there is a huge PR campaign going on to make the company look better, while many journalists are being threatened not to write about the scandal.

But here and there some stories are being published. Of interest is one from the Financial Time on the question of the US Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789 which allows anyone to sue any company in the world against alleged human rights crimes in a US court - or at least it is being interpreted that way.
Apparently it is becoming more and more common to see huge multinational corporations being held accountable for their abuses of the international laws' loopholes. It has notably been used in the case of the Ogoni people in Nigeria against the Royal Dutch Shell Company, and the trial is taking place right as I speak.


(photos: NYTimes)

Praising the Large Hearted Boy

I just found this MP3 blog. Although it doesn't have much to do with Enigmatic Worthlessness I still wanted to mention it because the guy has a great musical taste. Browse the page and look for the yearly best of lists and you'll find great music - that you can download for free and legally!

Congratulation, largehearted boy...