A change… is happenin’

There are signs all around us that things are a changin’!! Not only in our dear Mudland, where we can see the changes with our own two eyes – but abroad across the world!! In our country, you just gotta step out of your door and into the streets – if not in your own yard! – and realize that our houses, our streets, our villages and towns have been and are continuing to be transformed!! And it’s led by the government that has self-consciously announced its gonna use our oil revenues to literally fuel that transformation!!
But the changes here and abroad sadly aren’t as sanguine – what with Sanction Man flexing his (money) power by unleashing his Scrapes to loot and burn in Georgetown and foreign wars going on for years and new ones breaking out almost monthly. But really, it’s nothing new, innit?? As far back as 1971 in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Flower Power upsurge, Marvin Gay crooned, “We don’t need to escalate/ You see, war is not the answer/ For only love can conquer hate/ You know we’ve got to find a way/To bring some lovin’ here today”. And concluded plaintively, “What’s goin’ on/ What’s goin’ on??”
Well, what’s going on – as your Eyewitness has been emphasizing – is there’s a change taking place in the entire world order – which inevitably reverberates downwards and eventually into our dear land of Guyana!! We’re in what one big time thinker called an “interregnum” – where the old order has been dismantled – or getting there – yet the new order remains unborn!! We’ve been through all of this before within the lifetime of some who’re still around – and from their accounts show – as the Good Book assures us – there’s nothing new under the sun!!
England once not only “ruled the waves” but much of the land across the world on which those waves washed up!! But around the turn of the last century she became embroiled in keeping order in the periphery – and lost sight of building its core strength at home. Other countries like the US and Germany stepped into the vacuum and by the time WWII ended – knocking out Germany from the race – America was Numero Uno. So here we are with China challenging America to be the top dog, and America’s sadly allowed itself to become bogged down in its periphery!! Iraq…Libya…Afghanistan…Syria…and ending right now with Iran!!
Meanwhile, China doesn’t get distracted – even when allies like Mad Maduro in Venezuela and the Theocracy in Iran are under attack!! They’re focusing on building their advantage in manufacturing – and in newer areas like Chipmaking and AI!!
All we can do, as Pres Ali’s doing – is dance between the raindrops!!

…in reporting to the police
Sanction Man and his Daady continue to show contempt for the institutions of the Guyanese state – which their party WIN’s competing to run!! They were pulled up on their latest transgression by Magistrate Judy for refusing to follow the stipulated time they’re supposed to report to the Police – in accordance with the conditions of their bail!! Obviously – with the $50BILLION they’ve bilked the GRA – they feel the $150,000 bail’s a joke and so are the conditions. So it seems they show up any time they feel like it – and don’t even bother to sign the required logbooks!!
This disrespect for the rules of Law and Order institutions is reflected on a larger scale when on one hand they’re vying to run the state and become exemplars of its values – but on the other hand, are tying up the Judiciary with all sorts of “Jimmy Cock tell Ram Goat” objections so as not show the Americans they’re innocent of their changes!!
And embarrassing our political system!!

…relationship
There’s a lot of talk about our position on the US new measures against the Cuban government. It cannot be gainsaid that Cuba’s helped us over the years. But in the world order, “there are no permanent friends…”