The George Lite Zone

To show what a caring nation they are, the South African Football League decided to organise a peace conference ahead of the next World Cup. Fantastic, an opportunity to let the doves of peace fly across the African Savannah. The trouble is that the doves in question were shot down in the night before they could so much as squawk. At least the one baring the Dalai Lama's visa was. Apparently it's not in South Africa's best interest to allow Tibet's spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate in for a conference that had the blessing of the Nobel committee. Thabo Masebe, spokesman for President Kgalema Motlanthe said that "South Africa thinks that, if the Dalai Lama attended the conference, the focus would shift away from the World Cup.". What the smeg has the world cup to do with peace? It has got an awful lot to do with commercialism and high finance. Which dovetails quite nicely with the South African government playing kiss ass with the Chinese authorities. At leas...

Christie's recently outraged the Chinese authorities with the sale of two bronze animal heads looted from Beijing over a hundred years ago. Jackie Chan called it shameful and plans to make a movie about the recovery of Chinese art treasures. And right they are too, after all it's wrong to steal something from a nation. If your going to steal some cultural icon's don't mess around with a few statue's, do what the Chinese did and steal the entire country. Hey, Tibet must have thousands of sacred statues lying about, I'm sure Sothebies would be only too happy to cut a deal and sell them on to the highest bidder. Then there are 2 million Tibetans. I'm sure there are modern slavers that'd want a piece of that action. Alternatively the Chinese could be given back their animal tat and the Tibetans could be given back their country and their spiritual leader. A rabbit and a rat for a Lama sounds like a great art deal to me. Especially as the latter is an origina...