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Global Issues

January 21, 2010

The world is now being barraged with minute by minute reports of the devastation in Haiti.

What is alarming is that many of the world's richest Countries have done little if anything about the

situation, which is nearly biblical in the amount of death and destruction to the small country.

Americans as usual, responded with everything necessary to comfort the overwhelmed

people of Haiti, but where is the help from the rest of the world?

We are no longer the richest Nation on Earth, in fact we are now a Nation in debt

 to other Countries for amounts of money we cannot not even imagine.

At what point do we say to all those who have done little,

"hey, how about some help here".

Our country has just been through a historical depression/recession and is barely

 hanging on, but yet when the world calls, we respond, like always,

with everything we can send or bring to those who are suffering.

Can we ask others to share the burden with America?

Or are we afraid to offend?

March 10, 2009

On this 50th Anniversary of the takeover by China,

that sent the Dali Lama into exile,

Tibetan Monks protest once again and

Tibetans still remain hostages of the Chinese.

The Dali Lama says "China makes life Hell for Tibetans".

November 2008

Today in Bombay, many died and more were hurt by

 senseless acts of violence.

In a time when much of the world is thinking of family,

holidays and cultural customs, we are once again forced to

remember that there are still those for whom hate

remains all consuming.

The sadness and rage the world is feeling towards these cowards

 who kill innocents blindly in the name of their beliefs, cannot turn us

away from the goodness that is celebrated at this time of the year.

If Gandhi were alive, he would begin fasting and remain

steadfast in his belief that violence must be met with

not more hate, but with kindness, peace and love.

If only we had a leader somewhere in the world right now

 who could step up and show the way.

October 2008

The economic crisis in the United States, a direct result of

greed and gluttony, has now become a Global economic Event.

Banks and leaders around the world are feeling the same crush of

public pressure as those are here to respond to the current situation.

One possible benefit of this disaster is that some of the

world leaders are now sitting down and talking about how we

can work together to find a solution to these economic problems.

Any opportunity to have this happen is a good thing,

in spite of the dire reasons that may have caused it.

Now if only these same leaders could also find a way to turn

the conversation around to Global peace and understanding.

September 2008

The US elections are closing in and the rest of the world

waits to see who they will be dealing with next.

For those of us here in America, we are not really

sure who or what to believe anymore.

It would seem that candidates running for office in this

 country have one primary agenda, power.

Our country is in desperate need of a real leader.

Americas is teetering on a cliff and empty words

need to be replaced with solid deeds.

This country is mired in a most critical economical

crisis not seen since the great depression.

How and why we got here no longer matters, what matters

 is that people have lost their jobs, their homes

and now for many, their life savings.

No one cares anymore whose fault it is,

we just want someone to make it stop!

But, what we need and are absolutely demanding,

is one who is capable of not only strong leadership,

 but who will put the needs of the people first,

not who or what they believe will best serve their own needs.

August 2008

The Olympics in China focused a spotlight on this country,

 permitting a Global inspection of sorts, allowing the world a

view of what is going on in the most populous nation on Earth.

The Olympics went as well as possible considering the situation,

China kept its thumb on any who might cause embarrassment

and the world saw little to complain about in the human rights arena.

The only hiccup was the possibility of underage athletes which the

Government quickly denounced and showed proof of this being untrue.

Today, China is as it was before the Olympics,

the people still do not have the freedom to speak.

March 14, 2008

The focus of any page dedicated to Global Issues might

 likely begin with the people of Tibet or Myanmar/Burma,

whose plight has become daily fodder for Global Media

and who have for so many years been persecuted

by the tyrants who control their fate.

There are to be sure, countless other Global peoples

who face the identical conditions as these two do

with much less press and attention.

Once again today, as for the past sixty years, exiled Tibetans were

convincingly reminded that they have little reason to hope that their

homelands will ever be returned to them by the Chinese Government.

As this is written, Monks have been taken prisoner, some have been killed

and Tibetans march in protest in the streets of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet,

fully aware that they are outnumbered by the powerful Chinese Army

and have virtually no chance of reclaiming their ancestral homes.

Read the whole story here:

TV3 New Zealand

In response to this latest ugly power move on the Chinese chessboard,

 the Dali Lama, the US State Department and Human Rights groups

 around the world have rattled their verbal sabers at them,

 but China knows that none is really a threat in this Global game.

The correct response by the world to these newest attacks in Tibet

must be that it would be unconscionable for any country

to consider attending the summer Olympics in China.

"Boycott China" should furthermore be the mantra

of the masses for those who have no voices.

America needs to get out of the warm, comfy bed with

the Chinese and set an moral example for the world.

While China is buying our silence with their money,

their inferior, dangerous products threaten our children,

our pets and our society in general.

Can you say RECALL!

In the meantime, America is losing not only the respect

of the rest of the world, but her own people as well.

There will be few, if any, reference web pages listed here,

only updates concerning intolerable and

unacceptable Global situations.

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