Associated Press report that the talks setup today to agree on a government of national unity have failed.\u00a0 From where I sit, they were bound to.\u00a0 The opposing groups do not like each other.\u00a0 JRH (Jose Ramos-Horta) has given it until Wednesday to come up with something but says a decision will be made by the end of the month no matter what.<\/p>\n
As Charlie Brown would say, “Good grief”.\u00a0 Personally, I feel another election coming on because any other option seems bound to severely cheese off one of the opposing political groupings.<\/p>\n
Tonight, there were security warnings but very little action … so far.\u00a0 So why would there suddenly be a big increase in security incidents ?\u00a0 Wouldn’t be related to the attempts to form an agreement over a new government ?\u00a0 Nothing like this level of activity for 3 or 4 months.<\/p>\n
These days, the international security forces are pretty well drilled in how to handle the gang-related violence and more importantly, how to contain it so that life goes on for the vast majority.\u00a0 Setup a roadblock with an armoured personnel carrier and a couple of UN police vehicles with lots of flashing lights and send a group of heavily armed, night-vision goggles wearing troops to assert a visible presence and “Bobs your uncle”, she’s contained and not worth writing about.<\/p>\n
I am a little perplexed why the OZ ABC have gone extremely quiet in their reporting after being very active in past events.\u00a0 Don’t you just love politics ?\u00a0 There’s plenty of fodder here for the likes of the OZ political cartoonists.<\/p>\n
Get to it lads … just have a look at the way the OZ cartoon boys tear strips off Little Johnny and TinTin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Associated Press report that the talks setup today to agree on a government of national unity have failed.\u00a0 From where I sit, they were bound to.\u00a0 The opposing groups do not like each other.\u00a0 JRH (Jose Ramos-Horta) has given it … Continue reading