Tag: world affairs

  • Japan Votes For Change

    Image by abuckingham via Flickr I have been reading a lot about the recent Japanese elections where ruling party for the last 50 YEARS lost their majority. The people saw where their country was heading and decided they didn’t like it. They decided the leaders they had in place were lacking the foresight to get…

  • How Do We Know That The World Wasn’t Destroyed?

    The Large Hadron Collider is a particle smashing machine that is supposed to help scientists understand (or be able to prove) the so-called "Big Bang Theory", which in turn "could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins". That’s the upside. A lot of critics of the project thought that the…

  • The World Bank refuses to help Myanmar

    According the The Voice of America news website, the World Bank is refusing to give loans to Myanmar because the military government hasn’t paid any outstanding debts since 1998.  Once again the greedy and incompetent junta that runs that country are causing damage to their people at a time when they can no longer afford…

  • Now China is in trouble

    First, Myanmar gets hit with a cyclone that left 1 million homeless and almost 100,000 dead. Now, China gets hit with a major earthquake (7.8 on the Richter scale in one portion) and it turns out thousands have been killed.  Of course this is just the initial estimate; it will probably end up being much…

  • Myanmar Update 5/9/2008

    As outrageous as I have found the behavior of the Myanmar generals who run the cyclone ravaged country (see amateur video below that was linked from the BBC’s news site), I found it even more reprehensible that the junta is finally accepting foreign aid, but not foreign aid workers.  Here are links to stories from…

  • Myanmar update

    Apparently there are over 100,000 dead and the Myanmar junta is keeping US aid workers from the people. When that part of the world gets back on its feet, I wonder how many people in charge are going to be able to keep their lives after condemning so many others to death. I am saddened…

  • Myanmar

    1 million homeless 80,000 estimated dead The US government and the Myanmar government are playing political games. I’ve been staring at what I’ve just written for about ten minutes and I can’t think of anything else to add.