Disrespect in Hollywood

British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen attended the American Academy Awards ceremony this week dressed as his latest character "The Dictator". At his publicity stunt, he brandished an urn supposedly containing the ashes of the late North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-il. He proceeded to pour the ashes over a celebrity. This former leader is very much loved by his nation, and such actions may be compared to US soldiers burning the Koran in Afhganistan, if only North Korean's had access to Holllywood tv.
Normally such an prank would draw a wrath of criticism so soon after a state leader's death. Highly bigoted comedy is funny when sarcastic, and Cohen has approached many issues with his original pazazz. For example, his charactors participating in homosexual acts in the mixed martial arts ring watched to the horror of the redneck audiance. But the shocking thing is that such snides are so easy to get away with for this Hebrew-speaking British Jew. His attacks are wide ranging, and it is easy to go along with his comedy. It can easily become the norm. He may be able to make jokes about dead leaders like Gaddaffi or Kim Jong-il, which he does, but have you ever seen him target Zionist human rights abusers like Sharon or the Apartied system of the Israeli state? Maybe he will make a political parody of such "close to home" topics in the future, we don't know what this brilliant comic has up his sleeves.
The danger with such sofiticated comedy is that many people may not understand his actual humour and take him too literally, too racially, and develop hatred. Or be lead into hating the common enermy without really knowing facts.

Israel ready to destroy world economy

Just about every nation in the world has predicted that an attack on Iran's nuclear power projects will have a dangerous effect. It seems Barak and Lieberman(world mind your own business) are pushing Netanyahu to strike now! US president Obama(with Senior Advisor David Axelrod, Jewish), has an election coming up and not enough troops freed up from recently invaded neighbouring countries is in a bit of a quagmire.
Led to believe he can call the shots, he has found that Israel's power may exceed his commands both at home and abroad.
The Zionist propaganda machine is already ahead of him, the American public rates Iran as their most hated nation, even higher that some in power's next military target...China.
And then there is oil. Lots of it.
Efforts to get the Iranian people to overthrow their government failed last elections and left one BBC reporter homeless, the CIA arming of exiled Iranian dissidents complicated, and sanctions just leading to anti-American patriotism inside the country.
IAEA inspections seem more interested in spying for western intelligence agencies than ensuring Iran is following a safe civilian nuclear programme, even after the disasters in Chenobyl, 3 Mile Island and Fukushima.
In fact, they have produced no evidence, just inflated the volitile situation with hearsay accusations. War talk is blasting out of America and Israel, (a country that has attacked most of its neighbours and reportedly used chemical weapons and cluster bombs on women and children) and Britain and France have sent warships to Iran.
After an attack on Iran and probable bloody war, Oil prices will shoot so high that oil companies profits will exceed those made during the invasion of Iraq.
The effect of this will devastate the developing world. Billions of people will find transportation, electricity and food beyond their reach while the conflict rages.
Children will starve, innocent children, education will be deprived, health will decline. Poverty will wash like a wave on the poorer peoples of this world, all because one nation wants to be king.

Arab Awakening

Another gun-battle, another day. This time in el-Saadi district in central Tripoli, Libya. It could of also been in Baghdad, Kabul, and in the future, Damascus or Tehran.
So why do these loosely knit communities 'go at each other'?
Obviously, US/EU/Israeli foreign policy, scavenging Oil Companies, Christian fundamentalism and a pinch of colonialism are pretty big factors.
But, if one focuses past the greed, hate and capitalism that drives the West past their moral upbringing to interfere, one may realise that the Arab/Muslim nations currently bursting at the seams have several factors in common. Ethnic, religious, tribal, socio-economic and historical differences are ingredients that compliment such a wonderful collaboration of culture...but also unfortunately divide communities. That was the big Bush/Cheney mistake in Iraq.
For good or bad, such a mixture sometimes requires a strong ’somebody’...to mesh a nation together. Dictators, princes, sheiks, western puppets, strong men, gangsters, clerics and gosh knows who else...have lead these nations.
In pre-US Iraq, Saddam kept the peace between Kurds, Sunnis and Shites, Christians and others, much like the responsibility that has befallen on Bashar al-Assad when his father died. Gaddafi gave water, electricity and prosperity, making Libya a beacon of Africa. 
Even the Taliban, accused women's and human rights abusers, brought peace to an endless civil war, an end to poppy cultivation and calm.
But most of these “strongmen” are also alleged to have suppressed freedom, tortured, renditioned, stole and generally fleeced their own citizens, often with western backing and encouragement.
The dilemma of alternatives is of which is worse; unpredictable bloody revolutions that could see western backed dictators return, military governments or even radical governments that could polarise the Arab world and threaten the West, or, like Libya, a Western policy of messy regime change? Does anybody really want another Lebanon or Iraq?
The Arab peoples need change, opportunity, education and a choice in who governs them, this is sure.