China is without a doubt the fastest developing country in the world. Probably 50% of what you see around you (if you are sitting in front of a computer in a library, at home or at work) is made in China. Furthermore China has a continuously growing population and it is estimated that by 2020 this Asian country will demand 70% of the world’s resources like paper and cotton. If you think about it, China has the capacity to become the most powerful country in the world.
In the current economic climate, pressed by financial developments not dependent on their vote and pressured by the circumstances arising in banks and not the streets, people are getting more and more skeptic about capitalism and its mutation that led to the ’perverse'condition of the financial system today. Places such as London, New York, Sydney, Frankfurt and Paris became centers of discomfort and places for people to actually express their concerns about the condition of the world market.
Today, the 13th August 2011, is the day we mark a dark anniversary - fifty years ago, on this date, the Berlin Wall was completed and the separation of Germany was a fact. Berlin is today full of people enjoying their unity and safety, but it is also full of people placing flowers of what remains a wreck in the middle of the city. Because of both people, a day of recalling the events around the Berlin Wall is important More
Today, I came across an article on the BBC News website which didn’t surprise me at all. That, in itself, shocked me to some extent. I knew what my reaction meant: it meant, in no uncertain terms, that I had come to expect seeing such horrors as an every day thing. That concerns me a little. It makes me question what kind of a world we live in when surprise isn’t something that even occurs any more…
The story was about rapes in South Africa, the so-called ’corrective rapes’, to be precise.
lesbians are being persecuted by the thousandsover there as we speak. Not just persecuted butraped, beaten and routinely killed
Today, I came across an article on the BBC News website which didn’t surprise me at all. That, in itself, shocked me to some extent. I knew what my reaction meant: it meant, in no uncertain terms, that I had come to expect seeing such horrors as an every day thing. That concerns me a little. It makes me question what kind of a world we live in when surprise isn’t something that even occurs any more…
The story was about rapes in South Africa, the so-called ’corrective rapes’, to be precise. Now, stories of this nature, as we all know, are nothing new; Africa has long been dogged with the reputation of money ending up in the wrong hands and the people being used as pawns in a global game which all the other countries frequently capitalise on. But what was new about this story was the scale of it all, which seemed surprising, even by Africa’s standards; according to the information the piece conveyed, lesbians are being persecuted by the thousands over there as we speak. Not just persecuted but raped, beaten and routinely killed. And the police are nowhere in plain sight. In many cases they are — allegedly — in on it. This is the kind of terrible situation that the country is in and it shows no sign of slowing down any time soon.
According to the source of the story, these heinous acts are being committed by men who are doing this to ’convert'the women to the right sexuality. And this isn’t something any of the men are scared to speak publicly about. Indeed, more worryingly, this is an opinion which runs through the veins of the country: that homosexuality is wrong in God’s eyes, and anything against homosexuals, violent or otherwise, is deemed absolutely OK.
There has, as you might expect, been a huge backlash against this already. Many comments have been left on the page of the article, and there has been a huge global campaign underway for a while to get the atrocities to stop.
Where it will end is a good question, but one thing is for sure: other nations can’t just stand with crossed arms and watch the blood shed. Everyone from Occupational Therapy Jobs to police officers will have to start waking up to the fact that the only thing that will get this to stop is direct action.
It is no surprise that the EU is developing a serious financial fever that might let it down in the future. Greece is falling apart and unfortunately it is pulling the whole Euro zone back. But this is not the only problem, the lack of some serious regulatory measures allow abuse of Union law and thus countries from the Eastern European region continue the abuse of financial means granted to them in strategies developed by the Union institutions.
There was a great joke that Obama was too busy finding Osama to get his paternity tests and birth certificate. It is a difficult time and people are having to take difficult decisions. Yesterday, the news was released that Al Qaeda acknowledged the killing of Osama bin Laden and then uttered some horrible words to follow it up. What I think is interesting in the difference in how the United States government decided to not publish certain images that would More
Whoever claims that the deprivation of life is a justified approach to dealing with individuals, might have lost a certain sense of humanity. However, we, as socially responsible individuals and as people capable of realizing the good and bad features of a legal system, are well aware that human rights protection is what we all rely upon in different situations - when having an immigration dna test, when signing an employment contract and even when peaking into the neighbor’s More
In the news today was the sudden decision by Japan to cease chasing whales around the Antarctic with harpoons. This came as a very welcome surprise to animal rights campaigners and green groups, whose general hobby horse it has been to wage war on whalers (often at the expense of other, less famous green issues). The Sea Shepherd Conservation society are a well meaning but misguided organisation which has been bothering whaling vessels for years, occasionally getting rammed or squirted More
Climate change is already ravaging the world. In Australia it is causing droughts to continue for much longer than usual — that’s the global warming thing that you’ve heard so much about, but now it’s much better to refer to it as climate change because although the earth is being caused to get warmer this, due to various currents like the Gulf Stream, will actually have the effect of making some parts of the world colder. It’s best to think More
The USA is currently, along with Russia, claimed to be working in cooperation for the reduction of the number of nuclear weapons it has at its disposal. The armament of the country during the Cold War is about to be reduced and the war heads to be destroyed as agreed between the Russian Federation and the States. The other two important nuclear players - France and the UK have already agreed under the Treaty and have enforced it. The new More
