Barrack & Benjamin

Barrack Obama has announced a trip to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan to meet prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli network Channel 10 has announced the president's arrival is scheduled for 20th March and was arranged by phone to congratulate Netanyahu on recently being re-elected.

Obama, half Kenyan on his fathers side, was criticised in Israel for not visiting when in Egypt.

What is unusual: a US president visiting after an election campaign rather than just prior (satisfying the considerable Jewish US voters) however Obama did play that card in 2008 presidential elections and remains closely tied with Israel.

Chinese missiles pointing at Japanese ships

Japan has reported to the UN that they've detected Chinese Missiles pointing at Japanese naval ships in the eastern Chinese Sea.

The chain of 8 islands known as Senkaku in Japan, and Diaoyu in China, has been historically disputed by Japan and China (and Taiwan), and are thought to be high in fishing deposits and potentially plentiful in oil reserves.

The islands are officially Japanese, although recently the Chines Ambassador to Japan stated to the UN that the chain were 'inherently Chinese.'

This dispute has been on-going for years but was ignited when Tokyo purchased 3 privately owned islands in 2012 from a Japanese citizen.

There'll be no capitalist/communist referendum, as David Cameron has proposed for the dispute over the Falklands, as there's no inhabitants of Japanese owned chain Senkaku.

Referendum Re-Worded

There has been considerable controversy about the wording of the Autumn 2014 Yes/No Referendum on Scottish independence.

Although Alex Salmond, First Minister 'wanna be' Prime Minister of Scotland has always, on the whole, reserved bias on the matter of whether Scotland should become a single state, seperate from Great Britain.

The wording, initially passed by Scottish parliament asked: "Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?" 

This is just another persuasive vice of Alex Salmond to encourage Scottish nationals to vote YES rather than no.

After the Electoral Comission Watchdog highlighted suggestiveness within the wording of the all important question it has finally been changed to: "should Scotland  be an 

independent country?" 

The syntax of the ammended sentence should result in a fully fair democratic outcome.