Archive for May, 2007

Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land

{ May 8, 2007 @ 8:52 am } · { Documentaries, Palestine conflict }
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This is a documentary worth watching!

We are all after wanting to know the truth. Well, to know the truth about the sad forced situation of the former country Palestine, you will have to watch this 79 minute informative documentary that will totally change your perception of the media at large. It will show you how closely the media is linked with Public Relations efforts and the numerous filters a news report can go through when it’s about a touchy topic.

It is heartbreaking to see the conditions the people of Palestine are made to live in. The Israelis have taken over their land and are controling their lifestyles. There are borders up everywhere that make Palestinians beg to be allowed to travel short distances. They are being deprived of their needs and are forced to stay most of the year in house arrest. No one should be forced to live like this! It is awful to know that there are people who are willing to sacrifice others’ freedom and lives for their own happiness. It is even more sad to know that the Jews, that feel so strongly about their “right” to kick the people of Palestine out, have learned nothing about persecution from the holocaust.

For viewing of the documentary click here.

Guelph-Humber Plant Wall Biofilter

{ May 7, 2007 @ 1:20 am } · { Education, Plants }
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The Plant Wall at the University of Guelph-Humber is quite a charmer. It acts not only as a beautiful decoration that brightens the day of each student, but also as an air filter, clearing the air, and a vent, which circulates warm air during winter and cold air during summer.

The 1000 plants provide a relaxing environment that freshens the minds of the young minds at the university. One can only imagine the amount of thought and hard work that went into the creation of this wall. It is nice to know that there are people willing to care for the environment that students study in.

Students that have been blessed with the opportunity of learning in such educational facilities should always be thankful for their chance to learn and achieve as there are many who are only left with the desire to ‘learn and achieve’.

Nations cannot be reformed without the reformation of its youth!

{ May 3, 2007 @ 9:14 pm } · { Reflections, Society }
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The wise saying of a saintly man was that “Nations cannot be reformed without the reformation of its youth” and we are bearing witness to this statement in our daily lives. After every little while it seems that there is a new shooting that takes place at some school that outdoes a previous school shooting.

The Virginia Tech Massacre, that occurred on April 16, 2007, marked the new worst school shooting in American history.

Why are there so many guns in the hands of wrong people? Why is power in the hands of wrong people? Well, both these questions are linked together. If nations will not focus on the reformation of its youth, how do they expect to reform themselves when the present and future also lies within the hands of their youth?

Today kids are roaming killing one another in schools for their own problems, tomorrow who knows what extent they will go to.

The Economist states:

The difference, as everyone knows but no one in authority was saying this week, is that in America such individuals have easy access to weapons of terrible destructive power. Cho killed his victims with two guns, one of them a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a rapid-fire weapon that is available only to police in virtually every other country, but which can legally be bought over the counter in thousands of gun-shops in America. There are estimated to be some 240m guns in America, considerably more than there are adults, and around a third of them are handguns, easy to conceal and use. Had powerful guns not been available to him, the deranged Cho would have killed fewer people, and perhaps none at all.

More thought and effort should go into focusing on programs to keep the youth busy in intellectual activities rather than having them waste time thinking of how to hurt others. The amount of money that is being spent towards the wars in the Middle East should be put towards better use in helping further one’s own civilization rather than destroy it by not focusing on the youth. It is crucial for the betterment of society that we focus on the moral upbringing of our children.

Yes, 33 people were killed in the Virginia Tech massacre, but does anyone care to notice how many die each day in Iraq? Why would we? It’s a matter of proximity, right!? Well, regardless, they are also people, just like us and we should stand up to the cruelties they are having to deal with.

Angel Hair for Kids – Donate your hair!

{ May 3, 2007 @ 8:43 pm } · { Cancer, Charity, Society }
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Countless numbers of people get haircuts each year, yet not many care to notice that their hair, which will end up in the garbage after the cut, could go to benefit a disadvantaged person. “Angel Hair for Kids” is an organization that makes wigs for children, 19 and under, that have lost their hair due to cancer or other diseases.

It is estimated that at least 10,000 children will lose their hair this year because of illnesses. Thus, the next time you decide to get a hair cut, try to think of the smile your cut hair will make on a disadvantaged child.

Click here for more information.

Mailing Address for Donations:

Angel Hair for Kids,
A program of A Child’s Voice Foundation,
3034 Palstan Road, #305,
Mississauga, ON L4Y 2Z6

Pakistan’s Cricket Coach Poisoned & Strangled

{ May 3, 2007 @ 8:04 pm } · { Sports }
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I understand that being competitive is an influential ingredient in the success of sports, but there is a limit (not visible) that one should stick to. Killing someone is totally outrageous, and that too, for a sport!Bob Woolmer was poisoned, according to BBC’s reports, and also strangled.

Why is all this violence happening just for a game? And we tell kids not to fight over a game! Nonsense… adults possess the same child-like qualities of fighting over a game, but to a greater level!

The reasons as to why he was killed is still up for question although, it is obvious it was regarding the cricket matches going on at the time for the Cricket World Cup of 2007.

It is sad to know that people are actually willing to kill others just for a game!