Hurricanes kill. Humans confuse.
It is very, very unbelievable to accept the fact that the United States government knew about the risks of New Orleans from the seventies on.
The threat of Terrorism is renewed by presidents according to the changing political landscape. The threat of flood, hurricane and natural catastrophe is a known.
How can a president that is waging war in Iraq in order to "protect the United States" still rule, while the agency that was supposed to write emergency plans was privatised and apparently (they have been working since the nineties) uncontrolled.
This whole happening is very confusing. I hope this confusion will bend into realisation of the severeness of the political and social corruption of the American Nation. I hope this idea will gain democratic majority so that the United States can stop the Imperialist myth and learn to govern and manage itself first. Stop the weapons-lobby, stop the jewish-lobby, stop the oil-lobby. Clean and sweep the dependency of the White House on money.
I hope this flood will reach deep into the United States mentally. I know it does already in the world.
Seeing the images of the victims, the flooded city, the poor conditions and the looters. Hearing anecdotes about the anarchy in the city and the marching and operating National Guard. I hope this will be put to an end very very quickly. How can the USA cope with such a large area of problems. Where can they pur this people so that they can "live the american dream", to put it loudly.
The US has to learn to manage first, rule second.
posted by jonathan even-zohar @ 03:33
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It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars
mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the
next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge.
After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism
it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his
decision.
Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more
complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the
complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the
entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the
philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.
For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a
lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the
Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the
European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the
role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact
between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims
constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive
the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West
pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the
Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.
5 Comments:
Right (write) on !!!
Inderdaad ongelooflijk. En je word er erg boos van: hoe kan de 'voorbeelddemocratie' van deze wereld, the home of the brave and land of the free, nu zoveel burgers de stront in laten zakken? Wie weet overleeft Bush deze affaire ook nog wel; dat is dan voor mij voldoende bewijs dat de USA echt het gestoordste land ter wereld zijn. En is het je al opgevallen hoe racistisch deze ramp is? Heb jij al blanken zien verzuipen? Ik namelijk niet.
totally right.
but being amazed about things not being as one would expect is one step in awareness. It has influence on one's own level of perception. The art is not to be amazed anymore about between others the distinction between creditcard holders and credit card no-holders which has been made by mr Powell in relation to this disaster. What is new? How can we create a better social structure ourselves instead of wanting the netherlands to be the best boy in the american class?
Hey Jonathan,
Short update from the Midwest: it really doesn't matter here that Bush screwed it all up. All kinds of democrat senators are saying nice nasty things like 'Hey mr. Bush, here's your homeland security for you' and alike sharp remarks, but that simply doesn't get through to the media here. The feeling here, at least in the local media, is rather: 'It is terrible that this has happened, and we must see it through together!' A very heartwarming, ideological yet completely uncritical and approach to the whole thing. The world is just not seen in the same terms here, I suppose.
It seems to me an approach based on fear of change and fear of outwardness. You can also change you government together first. Oh well, I just hope that one day the United States will somehow transform into a critical and democratic nation, instead of this fluffy-on-the-outside / sharp-on-the-inside drugs-and-weapons-for sale - multimedia fasist state led by corporative-political caste.
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