Daily Archives: July 11, 2008

Maybe it’s some kind of gangster code.  All gangsters, of whatever stripes, stick together.

Russia and China took a steaming dump on the Zimbabwean opposition and much of the world by vetoing a UN Security Council Resolution that would place sanctions on Robert Mugabe and 13 members of his gang.  Nine countries backed the proposal, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Croatia, Italy and Panama.  Five opposed it: Russia, China, South Africa, and Vietnam.  China and Russia carry the big veto stick.

The sanctions would have imposed a travel ban and frozen Mugabe and his thug’s assets.

In recent weeks, Mugabe has unleashed a chistka on the opposition throughout Zimbabwe.  The latest report is that 133 supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change have been killed in political violence.  Reports the AFP,

Among the most recent victims was a polling agent, Gift Mutsvungunu, whose body was found in ..read more

So the ghetto bird has been hovering overhead all morning.  Now the local news vultures are here to feast.

It all started this morning around, I think it was, 5:45 a. m. Pack! Pack! Pack! I say to myself, “Those were gun shots.”

The neighborhood has been a clusterfuck since.  Two major LA thoroughfares closed. The dreaded Fairfax-San Vicente-Olympic junction has been closed about a mile in each directions.  Now the news crews are here and probably will be well into the night.  It’s headline news, baby.