Angola Blood Diamonds

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32067602

Hello, it has been awhile since my last post.  So my blog post for today is about Blood Diamonds.  Information that I have read about comes from the above link from BBC News and opinions are from myself.  It has been reported that the United States is Angola's second trader and the first is China.  The United States obviously gets some oil and definitely diamonds.  Therefore, the United States government ignores the problem that is occurring in that country as well as international organizations.  There are over 90% of the people living in the slums in Angola.

While the majority of the country is poor the rich are enjoying their lives.  There is no middle class in Angola, only poor and rich. These people cannot even afford watermelons ($100) or chicken ($200) because it is too expensive.  The only thing that is reasonably priced is beer which is under a dollar.  The government figures that alcohol and offering free entertainment will keep them from revolting.  So far it is working, they will offer free things (exception of food) before a schedule protest and then it suddenly turns pro-government.  

These people should raise in mass to fight against there government. Somehow they should either gather weapons or seek help from the international community.  However, the government is killing and imprisoning the people who protest, but the only way things are going to change is if lives are sacrificed for the greater good.

Lastly, our dear government should think about doing something either by being vocal or cutting down trade.  If President Obama is all about helping other people and being vocal about injustice then he needs to be vocal against Angola.  On the other hand, trade is more important to the United States then being vocal against that type of government.  Something needs to be done.  

Sex Offenders Video

Hello to everyone

So I have not been blogging for awhile due to school and working, but I hope everyone is doing well.  

So I am going to start off by telling you that I am going to school for my Master's in Criminal Justice and currently I am taking a class called 'Sex Offenders and Sex Crimes."  This is a really interesting class because you learn from the views of offenders and victims.  In addition, history and society views.  

For my class this week our professor assigned us to watch a video called "Our America-State of Sex Offenders (Lisa Ling)

Our America-State of Sex Offenders (Lisa Ling)

This video highlights the issues of victims and mostly sex offenders.  It was a very powerful film about sex offenders must live in Florida.  That some of these laws are ways to keep people in prison or to keep them away from society in the woods.  

There are always going to be criminals re-offending and it happens to be that sex offenders are the ones to be the least worried about and if you want me to provide you sources, I can provide that to you.  These laws seem to be doing more harm than good.  Lastly, it is those who have not been caught are the ones that are the most concern.

I encourage you to watch this video to open your eyes.  I have been a victim myself, but I do not let that dictate my logic.  These offenders are humans too and they should not have to live in the woods to survive, they should be able to find employment and housing too.  If they cannot then the state needs to build homes to help them live and get back on their feet. 

Businesses do not create jobs?

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/jeb-bush-hillary-clinton-112339.html?hp=l4

Hello all,  the topic for today is the Jeb Bush and Hilary Clinton fiasco.  During a speech Clinton had told people that business does not create jobs.  However, businesses are the ones who create jobs and so does government.  Jeb Bush had pointed out that there are not enough jobs being created.  This can apply to government and businesses, but private business are the ones who hire the most people out of any sector.  They are the ones who need the workers, but jobs are not being created because the economy is still a bit rocky.  In addition, people are being more careful about their money because they do not want to suffer like they did in 2008 and in 2001.  Therefore, people are spending less so businesses do not need to hire as many people. 

The government needs to provide an incentive for businesses to bring business back into the states to create jobs.  Businesses have to think about cost-effectiveness or prices are going to increase if they are not cost-effective.  If it was cost-effective for businesses to bring their factories back to America then they would hire more people, but until then they will keep it in other countries for cheaper labor.

Everyone Needs to Calm Down about Ebola

Seriously people really need to calm it down with Ebola.  Especially, those who live in the United States, we generally do not get in contact with other people's fluids.  

Furthermore, those who are in contact with fluids need to protect themselves from becoming sick.  There are three cases one in Madrid and there were two in the United States. 

Everyone has to find some new thing to worry about. 

For those health care workers who were in the countries that have Ebola should be quarantined when return so as to not infect other health care workers who are treating them.

I feel bad for those who are infected, but at the same time people have to think logically about the situation. The media is not helping because they always have to be the most dramatic, they are going to keep talking about Ebola because they like to scare the people and make it seem worse then it is which it largely contained to one area of the world. 

China Believes that Protestors are Influenced by Britain and United States

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/asia/some-chinese-leaders-claim-us-and-britain-are-behind-hong-kong-protests-.html?_r=0

Hello, it has been awhile since I have posted. I have found an interesting article regarding the protesting in China.

As some of you may know China has been experience protesting in regards to democracy.  The people want democracy rather then communism.  I do not think that America and Britain is behind the protesting.  I think that the people are tired of being controlled by a government who restricts expression and speech that does not align with the values of communism. 

The Communist party controls the media and controls the internet.  The people have no ability to express their concerns to the government through speech or through the media. They are tired of being oppressed therefore they have resulted to protesting.  

Protesting is their only means to get the message heard and it expands media coverage worldwide. It is difficult to supress or imprison a large group of people who have gained the attention of the world.  Therefore this protects them from obtaining the maximum harm that a government could do like massive killing or massive imprisonment.  They could do all those things if it was a smaller group who could not influence media attention like they have done before. 

All in all, just because these people are protesting the government does not mean that countries are funding them.  They want more freedom.  

Airstrikes in Iraq

        Obama has authorized airstrikes against Islamic Militants to protect Americans and help the Kurds.  I am not surprised that the extreme Sunnis were back at it again fighting with Shiites and the Kurds.  The militant Sunnis have a problem with being put out of power even though they were the minority religious group and they have always had a problem with Christians and the Kurds.  Although Saddam Hussein did protect the Christians from harm (most of them), but he still had a lot of fun targeting Shiites and the Kurds.

    I understand that a majority of Americans wanted us to withdraw out of Iraq and it happened in 2011. However, there was a belief that Iraq could become the new Vietnam.  American troops left Vietnam in 1973 because it was not favorable for the people.  After we leave North Vietnam attacks South Vietnam,  South Vietnam is forced to surrender, uniting the country again except under Communism.

     Iraq is not a country divided like Vietnam.  No it is much worse where extremists will stop at nothing to push their beliefs onto others until they have control.  This would not have happened if Americans had stayed a little longer and had diplomats working with the different factions and groups in Iraq to have a working relationship.  However, we were not given enough time because Obama was facing re-election and he wanted to look good for the people so he had the troops leave.  I understand that the Iraqis wanted us to leave but the original agreement was actually for 2014 for full withdrawal, but he wanted to look good for the election.

Image by Rudaw  http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/25032014
 

     All in all, we should not have left so abruptly.  Furthermore, if Americans had been paying attention you would have seen that the Sunni Extremists were building in power. They had took over the government of some cities and forced the people in those cities to follow extremists laws when it comes to morality and strict Islamic code.  The extremists slowly started gaining, however after full troop withdrawal in 2011 they were able to gain massive power and weapons for exactly what they are doing right now.  

     Americans and Europe blamed former President Jalal Talabani and current Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki for the reason the extremists are attacking the people because they say he did not work hard enough to establish peace with the Sunnis. However, the extremists do not speak for a majority of the Sunnis.  Yes he is to blame for some of the problem, but so is the United States and the United Nations.

   

In conclusion, everyone is to blame President Obama, former President Talabani, Prime Minister Nour al-Maliki, and United Nations because they did not do more to eliminate the extremists.  The extremists do not speak for the majority of the Sunnis. The extremists want power to force people to submit to their belief system.  Now the solution is to eliminate the leaders of ISIS because there is no way that peace is going to work at this point.  Point in case: extremists from any group that are attacking innocent people should be killed and shown no mercy.

CNN and FOX Bias

This is going to be a short post to tell you that you should read articles by news agencies very carefully because one little sentence will indicate bias.  For instance, in the article "World Events Derail Obama's Agenda" by Cassie Spodak from CNN she states, "...otherwise push his proposals to build middle class opportunity-all rejected so far by Obama."  In which case, that is not true because the middle class is essential for this economy.  Who else besides the rich are going to support Republicans. Many of their supporters are also middle class too.  Democrats and Republicans needs the middle class because who else is going to be able to afford to buy things besides the rich?  Definitely, not the poor.   Democrats and Republicans need to work together.  That is where are bias is stated in the post the rest of the article is actually on what is causing Obama's Agenda to go out of control.

Always be weary of the media especially since the media is not free to oppose Obama in which I will go over that in more detail on another post. 

Sources:

Spodak, C. (2014, July 20). World Events Derail Obama's Agenda . CNN , p. 1.