A Bit Odd...

We have our Ministers busy off trying to sell trade.  Obama too. 

What strikes me as odd, is they will be busy telling their voters that they are doing so on behalf of their populations.  I look around the world and see the destruction successive governments have inflicted on people around the world.  The US and the UK have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan.  And that means they have destroyed the lives of the people there, either by killing them or destroying their normal lives.

If they can do that to others, then doesn't it make you wonder what they could do to their own people.  The methods would be different, of course.  My thoughts are this: callous people are callous people.  Full stop.  I don't think their callousness is restricted depending on where borders lie.  It's just a matter of what they think they can get away with without being stopped, really.  Just a thought.

I Shouldn't Smirk

I can't help it.  I'm smirking.

Dave Cameron et al wanting to represent people, giving democracy back to local communites etc.

How many Girl Guides leaders, local kids football club organisers, fete organisers, Smaritan volunteers etc has he taken on his latest mission overseas? 

Or is he being a bit like Obama, and being met by multinational company bosses, mostly from his own country?

Oh, it's trade is it?  Right.  Where is the soft Loch Ness Monster toy, a photo of Edinburgh Castle and a bit of Blackpool rock?   And don't forget the music, the designer clothes...... suppose the airline lost the luggage......

Poison Media

The world is beautiful, sometimes contaminated by humans with nothing more than hate to pimp via the media.  As the media runs riot in the US, we have the press in Uganda printing the names of homosexuals at a time when some vicious people, pretending to be religious, are demanding the death penalty for homosexuality.

I'm all for freedom of speech.  But surely there are limits?  The Uganda press participating in this disgusting, dangerous activity bring shame, not to East Africa, but to the press. 

For those of you not so great with geography, Uganda borders Rwanda.  For those of you who have not kept up with history, Rwanda suffered genocide in the 1990s.  800 000 people murdered in a short few months. For those of you who don't pay attention, the US press, well is the US press.  Currently, there is the election campaign targetting immigrants, the tabloid journalism that fails to inform the citizens about what really goes on while their country wages war.  The list is almost endless. 

The press were an active instrument in that orchestra.

The press in both America and Uganda are a threat to reason, possibly a threat  to people. 

Hate speech such be illegal in my view.  But do not forget, the press relies on money.  The most efficient way to stop hate speech is to refuse to purchase the peddlers of division, the bullies and to refuse to join in their dangerous delusions. 

Have we forgotten the words 'Never Again' so soon, again? Or do we not understand their important meaning?