On Wednesday 1,500 farmers committed mass suicide. This is so awful. There seems to be a link between their extreme debt and Monsanto. Here’s some footage from similar catastrophes in the past:
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TrackbackCheckout this following study: Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?
It’s an eye opening story. Somalia’s standard of living has increased during its period of statelessness. Also,
You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Published on Monday, 5 January 2009 by Johann Hari – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commenta…
Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as “one of the great menaces of our times” have an extraordinary story to tell – and some justice on their side.
Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the “golden age of piracy” – from 1650 to 1730 – the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage Bluebeard that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda heave. Many ordinary people Read the rest of this entry »
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