tony mitra
09-13-2007, 04:51 AM
Yeah.
There is a whole world out there. So here are issues that have little to do with Iraq, oil corporations, US presidential election, or the subprime groan (loan). My own list, on issues that makes me think.
1. Russia declares "sex day"
Russia is losing population through migration, falling birth rate and rising healthcare problems since the collapse of the Soviet Empire. So, the Governor of the Ulyanovsk region in Russia is encouraging folks to take a day off today, and have sex. He offers lots of prize money and goods such as Cars and other gadgets to any couple that produce a baby in nine months, on their national day.
Some folks predict that Russia might lose as much as 40 million of its population i another forty years - or a million a year. Russia having the largest landmass among all countries on earth, and having a huge amount of natural resources, manpower is of paramount importance if they are to improve their lot and their economy.
My guess is, some 20 million or more Chinese will move into Russia and become naturalized. They share a long border, and CHina has lots of people. The political danger is if China gets aggressive and decides to slwoly incroach into Russia with their people, rather then let them emmigrate.
Russia could also open its borders to large scale immigration of skilled people, competing with the US, Canada and Australia, all of whom depend a lot on immigration of skilled people from around the world.
2. Indonesia gets hit by strong earthquakes, again.
For two successive days, the archipelago was rocked by high earth quakes, sending fear of a tsunami which did not materialize. Last time that happened, over 200,000 people perished in regions as far away as Africa. Indonesian islands sit on top of one of the most dangerous regions three different continental plates are grinding against each other. These are the Australian plate, the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate. The result is a very long history of cataclismic eruptions, earth quakes and rising or sinking of islands.
There is a theory going, called the Toba Eruption, around 75,000 years ago, which caused part of a huge island to literally explode into the air, which caused the planet to go into a four year continous winter cycle, deposited ash as thick as 18 ft as far away as India, and nearly killed off over 99 percent of all living humans, and nearly made us extinct.
3. Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Abe decides to resign, taking responsibility for the scandals that plagued his Government.
Hmmm, wonder if Mr. Bush might take a page out of Mr. Abe's book. Okay, I was just kidding. I don't believe Mr. Bush can read Japanese.
4. South Koreans were offered : convert or die.
Appaently the South Koreans taken hostage by Taleban were offered a gruesome choice, at gun point : convert to Islam, or die.
5. US plans to hold international forum to discuss Iran's nuclear plan, since Iran refuses to halt enrichment program.
Hmm - good idea. I wish the world would same time also decide to discuss Israel's nuclear plan. And while they are at it, discuss every other nuclear powered nation's nuclear plan. I do not buy the argument that some nations are inherectly more "deserving" to have nuclear bombs while some others are not. But if we are to talk only about the middle east and no other region, then Israel needs to get in the bus too.
6. 12 more Pakistani soldiers get abducted by pro-Taleban forces.
Since the incidence in the Red Mosque, Islamic fundamentals have taken the war to General Musharraf's Government, blowing up towns and cities, targetting soldiers in outlying tribal lands and conducting repeated assassination attempts on the Dictator.
On top of that, the judiciary is up in arms against Musharraf and the political leaders are screaming for him to resign as the army chief and to hold democratic elections. Lots of things happening there.
I hope the contry does not fall into hands of fanatic groups.
7. Oil price hits new high ; 80 dollars to a barrel.
Why am I not surprized?
8. US dollar hits new low against the Euro, $1.3914 to a Euro.
Wait - the game is just beginning, and is going to be a long one.
9. Gorillas heading for extinction.
For some reason, this message makes me more sad than other other man made and natural disasters one can read today. They are practically our cousins. The worse thing is, I have never seen a Gorilla in the wild. Perhaps I shall never get to see one.
10. Citizens offer new take on news.
According to BBC, news outlets driven by citizens would be radically different from that put together by journalists through so called main-stream media, as per a recent PEW research.
I am not surprized at all. Watching CNN or FOX or or most so called main stream media makes me so irritated that I tried to get my service provider to remove those channels so I could save some money from my cable TV bills.
Guess what, those are free channels. I gotta pay for the better ones. Smirks.
OK - thats it for today.
Have a nice evening.
There is a whole world out there. So here are issues that have little to do with Iraq, oil corporations, US presidential election, or the subprime groan (loan). My own list, on issues that makes me think.
1. Russia declares "sex day"
Russia is losing population through migration, falling birth rate and rising healthcare problems since the collapse of the Soviet Empire. So, the Governor of the Ulyanovsk region in Russia is encouraging folks to take a day off today, and have sex. He offers lots of prize money and goods such as Cars and other gadgets to any couple that produce a baby in nine months, on their national day.
Some folks predict that Russia might lose as much as 40 million of its population i another forty years - or a million a year. Russia having the largest landmass among all countries on earth, and having a huge amount of natural resources, manpower is of paramount importance if they are to improve their lot and their economy.
My guess is, some 20 million or more Chinese will move into Russia and become naturalized. They share a long border, and CHina has lots of people. The political danger is if China gets aggressive and decides to slwoly incroach into Russia with their people, rather then let them emmigrate.
Russia could also open its borders to large scale immigration of skilled people, competing with the US, Canada and Australia, all of whom depend a lot on immigration of skilled people from around the world.
2. Indonesia gets hit by strong earthquakes, again.
For two successive days, the archipelago was rocked by high earth quakes, sending fear of a tsunami which did not materialize. Last time that happened, over 200,000 people perished in regions as far away as Africa. Indonesian islands sit on top of one of the most dangerous regions three different continental plates are grinding against each other. These are the Australian plate, the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate. The result is a very long history of cataclismic eruptions, earth quakes and rising or sinking of islands.
There is a theory going, called the Toba Eruption, around 75,000 years ago, which caused part of a huge island to literally explode into the air, which caused the planet to go into a four year continous winter cycle, deposited ash as thick as 18 ft as far away as India, and nearly killed off over 99 percent of all living humans, and nearly made us extinct.
3. Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Abe decides to resign, taking responsibility for the scandals that plagued his Government.
Hmmm, wonder if Mr. Bush might take a page out of Mr. Abe's book. Okay, I was just kidding. I don't believe Mr. Bush can read Japanese.
4. South Koreans were offered : convert or die.
Appaently the South Koreans taken hostage by Taleban were offered a gruesome choice, at gun point : convert to Islam, or die.
5. US plans to hold international forum to discuss Iran's nuclear plan, since Iran refuses to halt enrichment program.
Hmm - good idea. I wish the world would same time also decide to discuss Israel's nuclear plan. And while they are at it, discuss every other nuclear powered nation's nuclear plan. I do not buy the argument that some nations are inherectly more "deserving" to have nuclear bombs while some others are not. But if we are to talk only about the middle east and no other region, then Israel needs to get in the bus too.
6. 12 more Pakistani soldiers get abducted by pro-Taleban forces.
Since the incidence in the Red Mosque, Islamic fundamentals have taken the war to General Musharraf's Government, blowing up towns and cities, targetting soldiers in outlying tribal lands and conducting repeated assassination attempts on the Dictator.
On top of that, the judiciary is up in arms against Musharraf and the political leaders are screaming for him to resign as the army chief and to hold democratic elections. Lots of things happening there.
I hope the contry does not fall into hands of fanatic groups.
7. Oil price hits new high ; 80 dollars to a barrel.
Why am I not surprized?
8. US dollar hits new low against the Euro, $1.3914 to a Euro.
Wait - the game is just beginning, and is going to be a long one.
9. Gorillas heading for extinction.
For some reason, this message makes me more sad than other other man made and natural disasters one can read today. They are practically our cousins. The worse thing is, I have never seen a Gorilla in the wild. Perhaps I shall never get to see one.
10. Citizens offer new take on news.
According to BBC, news outlets driven by citizens would be radically different from that put together by journalists through so called main-stream media, as per a recent PEW research.
I am not surprized at all. Watching CNN or FOX or or most so called main stream media makes me so irritated that I tried to get my service provider to remove those channels so I could save some money from my cable TV bills.
Guess what, those are free channels. I gotta pay for the better ones. Smirks.
OK - thats it for today.
Have a nice evening.