5/12/11

The syrians have been criticised by the Arab league at the weekend and they have called on President Assad to quit according to Russia Today.

Egyptians have started to vote on the second round of their parliamentary elections for the lower house of parliament

Russia has voted for teh Duma (parliament) exit polls suggest that Putins ruling party has only had 45 - 49 % of the vote and as such has lost its parliamentary majority.

The United States has been criticised by pakistan for attacking its troops witjin Pakistani territory for which the nuclear armed pakistan is bouycotting the rebuilding Afghanistan conference. As such there is a danger that with support from the CIS Unless Iran complies with nuclear disarmament through Russia and IAEA that Iran and Pakistan become the rogue states as Afghansitan becomes part of a larger CIS (The North Asian equivialant of EFTA) with US and NATO Support. To stop that then the Commonwealth needs to start talks between India, Burma, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka about remaining territorial issues (eg the status of Kashmir) so that perpetual border conflict is replaced with perpetual peace (if that isn't too utopian).

At present the Eurozone is being turned into a fiscal union which means each state within it has to follow stricter guidleines on how they tax and spend. This is a good idea from purely economics but Politically? So to build on stronger forundations I think that there should be a managed global economic default, with infrastructure and assets being retained by each nation state and shareholders according to company law. That way there is less of a depression and sel;fish and destructive economic activity (ie over production of food rsiking dust bowl crops in the succeeding years).