Piracy
By BBC News: Thursday, 1 May, 2003
For those who thought that piracy was eradicated when Peter Pan whacked the evil pirate, think again. It is flourishing and on the increase!
Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Somalia are well-known trouble spots. These are not the cute pirates from the Disney movies, these folks are vicious and ruthless! If you want to live out your dream of boating all over the world - watch out where you go...
Friday, May 02, 2003
Zimbabwe
Oh my, this reeks of quid pro quo... we helped you with Iraq now you help us with Zimbabwe.
Actually, I certainly hope the USA will intervene in Zimbabwe by pushing Mugabe to the sidelines, as they did in Palestine, with Arafat. I dont know if they could pull it off but you never know... if they can get the neighbouring countries to cooperate and agree, they just might! This is so, so needed... that jewel of a country is becoming a slaughterhouse as the world looks on indifferently.
Oh my, this reeks of quid pro quo... we helped you with Iraq now you help us with Zimbabwe.
Actually, I certainly hope the USA will intervene in Zimbabwe by pushing Mugabe to the sidelines, as they did in Palestine, with Arafat. I dont know if they could pull it off but you never know... if they can get the neighbouring countries to cooperate and agree, they just might! This is so, so needed... that jewel of a country is becoming a slaughterhouse as the world looks on indifferently.
Zimbabwe
Oh my, this reeks of quid pro quo... we helped you with Iraq now you help us with Zimbabwe.
Actually, I certainly hope the USA will intervene in Zimbabwe by pushing Mugabe to the sidelines, as they did in Palestine, with Arafat. I dont know if they could pull it off but you never know... if they can get the neighbouring countries to cooperate and agree, they just might! This is so, so needed... that jewel of a country is becoming a slaughterhouse as the world looks on indifferently.
Oh my, this reeks of quid pro quo... we helped you with Iraq now you help us with Zimbabwe.
Actually, I certainly hope the USA will intervene in Zimbabwe by pushing Mugabe to the sidelines, as they did in Palestine, with Arafat. I dont know if they could pull it off but you never know... if they can get the neighbouring countries to cooperate and agree, they just might! This is so, so needed... that jewel of a country is becoming a slaughterhouse as the world looks on indifferently.
Americans....
I have known many over the years. I've known a brilliant man, a gifted scientist, who believed in creationism with all his heart and would use that brilliant mind to come up with the most convoluted reasoning to make the facts and science warp to his beliefs. I've known a poor woman who was generous beyond my understanding to utter strangers who were in need; afterwards I found out she gave us all the food she had for that month... I've known a soft-spoken, incredibly gentle man, who was so rabidly pro-life that he felt it was quite justified to murder someone to prevent an abortion. Those are but a few. Over the years, I've met them in all shapes and sizes, from earth-shakingly obese to Jack Spratt... from all corners of the political spectrum... funny, angry, aloof, kind, hospitable, curious, arrogant, friendly, blindly patriotic, and often, so often, with a naive, child-like wonder at the country they live in. I have been speaking to Americans a lot lately... just to keep my head straight and remind myself that my anger should never translate to them personally.
It's the American government I am angry with, and the money men behind the leaders - those men who truly shape world events. I am also irritated at the sheep-like mentality of the American population which prevents them from separating truth from lies, spin and bullshit. That blind patriotism... that not understanding and not wanting to hear what their government has been doing outside of their borders for the past 40+ years. That propensity for seeing life as a western movie or reducing everything to a Disney analogy. I know Americans are not stupid, I know at some point the grassroots movement will gather such momentum that people will start to understand what is being done in their name and the risks their government exposed them and future generations to. Let's hope it wont take too long - there are elections coming up.
America is a lovely country and a wonderful ideal that is being desecrated by greedy, power-hungry men of money. And that makes me angry....
PS I'm still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction!
I have known many over the years. I've known a brilliant man, a gifted scientist, who believed in creationism with all his heart and would use that brilliant mind to come up with the most convoluted reasoning to make the facts and science warp to his beliefs. I've known a poor woman who was generous beyond my understanding to utter strangers who were in need; afterwards I found out she gave us all the food she had for that month... I've known a soft-spoken, incredibly gentle man, who was so rabidly pro-life that he felt it was quite justified to murder someone to prevent an abortion. Those are but a few. Over the years, I've met them in all shapes and sizes, from earth-shakingly obese to Jack Spratt... from all corners of the political spectrum... funny, angry, aloof, kind, hospitable, curious, arrogant, friendly, blindly patriotic, and often, so often, with a naive, child-like wonder at the country they live in. I have been speaking to Americans a lot lately... just to keep my head straight and remind myself that my anger should never translate to them personally.
It's the American government I am angry with, and the money men behind the leaders - those men who truly shape world events. I am also irritated at the sheep-like mentality of the American population which prevents them from separating truth from lies, spin and bullshit. That blind patriotism... that not understanding and not wanting to hear what their government has been doing outside of their borders for the past 40+ years. That propensity for seeing life as a western movie or reducing everything to a Disney analogy. I know Americans are not stupid, I know at some point the grassroots movement will gather such momentum that people will start to understand what is being done in their name and the risks their government exposed them and future generations to. Let's hope it wont take too long - there are elections coming up.
America is a lovely country and a wonderful ideal that is being desecrated by greedy, power-hungry men of money. And that makes me angry....
PS I'm still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction!
Americans....
I have known many over the years. I've known a brilliant man, a gifted scientist, who believed in creationism with all his heart and would use that brilliant mind to come up with the most convoluted reasoning to make the facts and science warp to his beliefs. I've known a poor woman who was generous beyond my understanding to utter strangers who were in need; afterwards I found out she gave us all the food she had for that month... I've known a soft-spoken, incredibly gentle man, who was so rabidly pro-life that he felt it was quite justified to murder someone to prevent an abortion. Those are but a few. Over the years, I've met them in all shapes and sizes, from earth-shakingly obese to Jack Spratt... from all corners of the political spectrum... funny, angry, aloof, kind, hospitable, curious, arrogant, friendly, blindly patriotic, and often, so often, with a naive, child-like wonder at the country they live in. I have been speaking to Americans a lot lately... just to keep my head straight and remind myself that my anger should never translate to them personally.
It's the American government I am angry with, and the money men behind the leaders - those men who truly shape world events. I am also irritated at the sheep-like mentality of the American population which prevents them from separating truth from lies, spin and bullshit. That blind patriotism... that not understanding and not wanting to hear what their government has been doing outside of their borders for the past 40+ years. That propensity for seeing life as a western movie or reducing everything to a Disney analogy. I know Americans are not stupid, I know at some point the grassroots movement will gather such momentum that people will start to understand what is being done in their name and the risks their government exposed them and future generations to. Let's hope it wont take too long - there are elections coming up.
America is a lovely country and a wonderful ideal that is being desecrated by greedy, power-hungry men of money. And that makes me angry....
PS I'm still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction!
I have known many over the years. I've known a brilliant man, a gifted scientist, who believed in creationism with all his heart and would use that brilliant mind to come up with the most convoluted reasoning to make the facts and science warp to his beliefs. I've known a poor woman who was generous beyond my understanding to utter strangers who were in need; afterwards I found out she gave us all the food she had for that month... I've known a soft-spoken, incredibly gentle man, who was so rabidly pro-life that he felt it was quite justified to murder someone to prevent an abortion. Those are but a few. Over the years, I've met them in all shapes and sizes, from earth-shakingly obese to Jack Spratt... from all corners of the political spectrum... funny, angry, aloof, kind, hospitable, curious, arrogant, friendly, blindly patriotic, and often, so often, with a naive, child-like wonder at the country they live in. I have been speaking to Americans a lot lately... just to keep my head straight and remind myself that my anger should never translate to them personally.
It's the American government I am angry with, and the money men behind the leaders - those men who truly shape world events. I am also irritated at the sheep-like mentality of the American population which prevents them from separating truth from lies, spin and bullshit. That blind patriotism... that not understanding and not wanting to hear what their government has been doing outside of their borders for the past 40+ years. That propensity for seeing life as a western movie or reducing everything to a Disney analogy. I know Americans are not stupid, I know at some point the grassroots movement will gather such momentum that people will start to understand what is being done in their name and the risks their government exposed them and future generations to. Let's hope it wont take too long - there are elections coming up.
America is a lovely country and a wonderful ideal that is being desecrated by greedy, power-hungry men of money. And that makes me angry....
PS I'm still waiting for those weapons of mass destruction!
Thursday, May 01, 2003
Webcounters!
Amazing, how many of them there are....
Amazing, how much info they want from you for a free counter....
Amazing, how hard it can be to get such a short bit of HTML to work like it should...
Amazing, how I jump through all kinds of hoops because I want to see how many people stop by here....
HMPH!
Amazing, how many of them there are....
Amazing, how much info they want from you for a free counter....
Amazing, how hard it can be to get such a short bit of HTML to work like it should...
Amazing, how I jump through all kinds of hoops because I want to see how many people stop by here....
HMPH!
Webcounters!
Amazing, how many of them there are....
Amazing, how much info they want from you for a free counter....
Amazing, how hard it can be to get such a short bit of HTML to work like it should...
Amazing, how I jump through all kinds of hoops because I want to see how many people stop by here....
HMPH!
Amazing, how many of them there are....
Amazing, how much info they want from you for a free counter....
Amazing, how hard it can be to get such a short bit of HTML to work like it should...
Amazing, how I jump through all kinds of hoops because I want to see how many people stop by here....
HMPH!
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