SOUTH AFRICA: As the count down to footie 2010 continues Danny Jordaan takes issue with the Organisational Committees’ choice of official food vendor. As anyone knows who has hosted a World Cup this is no exercise in free enterprise. NO WAY - this is a very exclusive club with all your favourite corporates turning up to cash in.

One thing that seems to be missed in the rush of greed is who the ***K is going to fly 8 000 miles and really want to eat a burger they can get around the corner in Bradford UK.

So all you SA AD gurus stop sticking footballs on everything and start getting TRADITIONAL SOUTH AFRICAN - thats what your visitors will want a bit of…

AND TOON into the paperboy - IT’S FREE!

SOUTH AFRICA: As Thomas Carroll and Shamelia Clark bring human trafficking and sex slavery into the spotlight take a moment to consider where all the sex workers for big sporting events come from.

‘Salvation Army international social justice commission director Christine MacMillan said the World Cup and other major sporting events were a major draw-card for traffickers.

“There are large volumes of people coming and they are men. They are away from home and alcohol is flowing and they want sex,” she said. It was a “very lucrative” time for traffickers.’ Excert from IOL

Meanwhile the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill to cover a large loop hole in South African law that fails to protect victims of human trafficking has still NOT BEEN PASSED. The Bill was put forward June 2009 marked URGENT.

So lads next time your at the shag parlour spare a thought for that ‘foreign bird’ - could well be she was trafficked …

References and Resources

Christine MacMillan Quote
Concerned Young People of South Africa
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
All Voices - US$9.5 Billion Industry
Rense - 100,000’s Of East European
Women Sold For Sex
PBS - Sex Slaves Interview with Victor Malarek
The Human Trafficking Project

SOUTH AFRICA: Danny Jordaan begins the status update for the 2010 FIVA Footie Thingie with an introduction to the Nigerian Trade and Commerce Department.

TOON IN SOON for more, more, more…

SOUTH AFRICA: With just months to the kick off of the 2010 World Cup Soccer Tournament and once again Sepp Blatter is having to chase Danny Jordaan for that critical status update…

Will Danny give Sepp the slip? What’s happening to Sepp? What is the status update? Toon in soon for more, more, more…

SOUTH AFRICA: Danny Jordaan Head of the Local SA World Cup Organising Committee revealed his master plan for getting team players to and from the football stadium safely - Dusted off Armored Personnel Carriers called Casspirs used for patrolling Townships in Apartheid days prove to be the perfect trouble free transportation.

SOUTH AFRICA: Many of South Africa’s Commuters depend on an informal network of minibuses or vans known as ‘Taxis‘. These vehicles crawl, or race, along set routes with passengers hailing or disembarking at any point.

While other transport will be avaliable to and from matches Football fans visiting South Africa are urged to take a ‘Taxi’ at least once - for the experience.

EVERYWHERE: The COP15 Climate Change Conference concluded with a ’statement of intent’ - read WE GOT NOWHERE. Meanwhile cold snaps and winter storms lash Europe and North America. Washington DC experiences the highest snowfall on record.

HUULLOH - This could be kind of URGENT. Vague waffling is not helping at all.

Actually the Conference proved to be a great opportunity to emit more CO₂ ( COP15 Carbon Footprint and Climate Summit CO₂ Impact ) as Leaders and Delegates used hi-pollutant planes to scurry together from all corners of the globe. Nevermind the paper trail.

So sorry people this one is up to you! Waiting for the monkeys on top you call Leaders to get an action plan together will end in you swimming around in the ocean or burning up in the desert. So STOP SITTING IN TRAFFIC, SLOW DOWN, KEEP CALM and most of all BE KOOL!

References and Resources

Independent - Ireland
CNN - “The first official added Obama would leave Copenhagen shortly after addressing the media about the tentative deal in order to return to Washington before a major snowstorm hits.”
You can do something
Peeps who want to do something

Weather Babe Fetishists (yes they do exist)

Weather Babes
Weather Girls TV
Weather Woman
Weather Channel Babes

WORLD: William Shawcross states in his biography ‘Murdoch’ that ol’Rupe was once fond of quoting Arthur C Clarke “In the struggle for freedom of information, technology not politics will be the ultimate decider…” ahhh yes how those words must haunt you now Rupe.

Meanwhile in the very latest news Murdoch reveals plans to stop Google indexing his news stories. ” … and I think we’ve been asleep …” notes Murdoch as he Masterminds his own DOOM! OH YES YOU HAVE RUPE and if you Media Moguls hadn’t sat so self-satisifed in your Media Kingdoms while the Internet sprung beneath your lazy asses like a fungus on steroids then maybe content providers the world over wouldn’t be in this mess.

And so Folks that’s it! until News Corp drops it’s Paywalls - and we ALL have to wait to see what will happen then, Moguls, Journos and Readers alike…

Keep Tooned.

References and Resources

Amongst all the ranting, opinion and wild speculation this article in Wired stands apart.
Outfoxed Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.
A recent article on subscription stats.

WORLD: With the Internet wreaking havoc on his News Corporation Empire Rupert Murdoch decides to familiarise himself with this global phenomenon and the online community.

Toon in soon for the FINAL EPSIODE when Murdoch meets the PAYWALL-OF-DOOM!

USA/UK An intermission from the DOOM of Murdoch’s empire with this EXCLUSIVE-FREE-TO-VIEW content of the Pillars of the News Crap Propaganda Machine ripping each other apart. Yes it’s Page 3 Girl Keeley Hazell vs Fox News Anchor Courtney Friel … and the “still doesnt understand twitter!” link

Want more laughs? Read on as Keeley Hazell tells the Guardian about her basic lack of understanding for her job (why she is paid, is famous, etc. etc.):

Guardian: Do you ever wonder what men are thinking when they look at the picture in the Sun?

KH: I kind of do, but then I don’t know whether men would be thinking that, because it’s just a picture of a girl, smiling, with knickers on. If anyone is thinking anything rude or sordid, they’d just look at porn.

Guardian: Is it any different from porn?

KH: Yes. I don’t see how you could get off on a picture like that. It’s a girl standing there smiling. I don’t know why anybody thought of having it in a national newspaper, it’s such a strange idea.

Oh but what’s that?! - Keeley Hazell has inadvertently stumbled across another reason why News Crap is DOOMED with it’s Pay Wall - NO ONE is going to PAY to subscribe to the SUN to see some bare breasts when they have access to oceans of all action free porn everywhere else on the internet - they certainly won’t be paying for the journalism…

… and finally Courtney Friel on ethics:

“I’m a really bad liar, so I’ve never cheated, I have good morals.”

follow the logic and … hey Courtney that’s exactly why we aren’t bank robbers - ’cause we’re crap at it!

References and Resources

Page Three girls - the naked truth
Page 3 - Model Propaganda: The Sun, The Girls, The Truth
FOX News is a wing of Republican Party; and this is news, why?