Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under News
Oz, please forgive the following rant, but you know me, I have to get it off of my chest now and then. 🙂
It seems the major part of the world just love to focus on Paris, Britney, and the next whacko thing Rosie O'Donnell will be doing, and yet, so many REAL headlines get page 10 in the news, if they get a mention at all. I just wish people could stop obsessing about which overpaid athelete is getting caught with drugs or steroids and take a REAL look at the chaos around the globe. What do they think, if they don't read it, or pay attention to it, it will just go away?
Some will march, hold a sign, and scream, "No War!" but how many really know everything that is going on around there, and how much, if left alone in the Middle East at this point would come back to haunt us? I really don't even begin to pretend I know all that is right and wrong there, but there is no mistake that it really is an unstable part of the world. We are supposed to believe Iran's leader means no harm to anyone while he demands his nukes, threatens Israel, and
sends his bombers into Iraq , arming Shia rebels, and without it being declared kinda already puts us into a War with Iran - which they do seem to be trying to provoke. Oh, and what a sweet government, they gave their own people 2 hours notice that they were going
to ration their fuel down to a 100 litres a month.
Even as war kills, so does silence; In four years, more than 200,000 people have died in Darfur, and more than two million are thought to have become refugees, in a hugely complex conflict that has pitted ethnic groups against each other, and rebels against the Government. The Khartoum regime is accused of raising a brutal militia of Arab nomads called the janjawid to crush the rebels. Perhaps some peaceful solution? China, which buys 65 per cent of Sudan’s oil production, and sells it weapons, has refused to back proposals for sanctions in the UN Security Council. How many articles of Lindsey Lohan's rehabs does it take to divert attention away from such a travesty?
Meanwhile, while we pay like crazy at the gas pumps, another oil rich country, Venezuela is slowly losing its liberties. Their new constitution under Chavez has been written:
-  No more private property besides your personal belongings. I've read that some one in Venezuela living near Miraflores had "inspectors" came to take an "inventory" of her home (no. of bedrooms, bathrooms, size, who lives there, etc.) The inspectors were Cuban.
- The air borne media will have rights to emit only if they serve educative purpose. The state decides which are the educative goals.
- The autonomy of Universities is done with. The state will be deciding which careers should be offered and which is the right curriculum to follow.
- Decentralization will be done with. Governors and Mayors will be subordinated to special vice presidents. Mayors can be removed almost at will by the National Assembly.
- Unlimited reelection - Well this could keep Chavez in power for a long time.
Those of us who can more or less watch and read a free press, choose our career paths, and elect our representatives - if we continue to not pay attention and just immerse ourselves in the gossip side of the news, risk these kinds of downfalls in our own backyards.
A favorite story of many is that cooking a frog by putting it into a boiling pot won't work, it will just jump out, as it notices the boiling temperatures right away. However, if you let it get warm slowly, it won't even know it will be boiled. I suggest that happens everywhere around us, but would add one more element, entertainment. Give the masses something to take their minds off of what is real, and they will be the first to be surprised when freedoms we now enjoy and our precious resources disappear.
We don't have to leave our own countries to see this happening. Our elected leaders, minus a rare few, just play politics, and they use our tax money to do it with. Heck, Bush, some liberals, and big business want to sell our country down the river to Mexicans, no matter how many laws they have to break to do it. It's no wonder here in the USA the percentage of Americans with a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in Congress is at 14%, the
lowest in Gallup's history of this measure. That's so low, says Newt Gingrinch, that some of their own mothers must not even like them.
Here is a headline that is rather disturbing, "
Half the World Will Soon Be in Cities." That's sad, but will anyone really care?
The news is distressing, but it's real. If one buries their head and never notices it, it doesn't mean it will go away. Get real, world!
~ Boz, weary of celebrity nonsense, getting off her soapbox. 🙂 Comments
