In the past few months in Mexico there have been many people coming up missing during this drug war that they are currently in, they have almost 150 people missing and maybe even more that they have pretty much neglected and they have done hardly any investigating in these missing persons. This has become such a big issue that an organization by the name of Human Rights Watch has stepped in to investigate and put an end to Mexico’s neglect. Right now they are investigating over 100 missing persons cases. They are trying to figure why national security has not been investigating these cases as much but so far they have no evidence that National Security has anything to do with these missing people. In my opinion this is crazy. How could your country seriously not care whether you are missing or not? Why are they not taking these cases seriously and why aren’t they investigating? If they are paying taxes for their government then they should for damn sure be investigating its missing people. This makes me worry about their society down there, if their people don’t care enough to look for them. Not to mention this makes the country super unappealing to go visit if there are many people coming up missing and no one is trying to look for them. This just makes for a bad reputation for Mexico, they aren’t looking for their people which makes it an undesirable destination and makes every other country question their government, and that will just end up being worse for them. To me this is so scary and horrible to think about, who would want to live in a place where the people don’t even care whether you go missing or not, which also makes you wonder if they are in on it or not. Maybe Mexico should think about that the next person goes missing. (317)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Adopted Russian Boy's Death
Recently Russian officials have accused an American woman of beating her 3 year old Russian adopted child when he tragically passed away on January 21. The woman and her husband were both accused of physical abuse and neglect of their 3 year old son Max. This caused so much attention that the Russian President signed a law to ban on all adoptions by Americans. The Russians have said that we do not believe this death is a tragedy saying that our congressmen and Politian’s have not showed any interest in this young child’s death. I personally believe that this is a tragedy and that any child’s death is a tragedy, considering they have barely lived! It just breaks my heart to hear that this young child suffered and died. I am so glad that they are investigating this case and that they find the person who inflicted the pain on the child and I do not blame Russia for signing a law to ban us from adopting Russian children, although the US is taking its normal precautions and investigations is it enough? And why isn’t the death of a child more important than other things? Personally I think that this should be thoroughly investigated and it breaks my heart that there is absolutely no way for anyone to adopt a child from Russia now, because the adoption agency didn’t think that these people would end up being abusive. I think that this should bring to our attention how “thorough” the adoption agencies are being when they allow certain parents to adopt, because I guarantee that they could find so many great people who would love to adopt one of those kids and it is a tragedy that someone’s horrible actions and selfish ways has ruined someone’s dreams of being a parent one day. (303)
Chinese Gov. Cyber Bullying?
Recently American cyber security has found links to hackers to the Chinese government. They found a 60 page report that had described the groups’ actions and tactics over the last 6 years that include over 141 different organizations and 20 different industries. When the story came out about China being involved they responded by saying that they had victims of cyber-attacks and that they had never supported any hacker activities. I think this shows how much technology can be a good thing and a bad thing, because it can be manipulated in war, and could possibly assist in starting another cold war if they are starting cyber attacks. This could grow to an online world war, and think about how much worse it will or could get when we advance even more in technology. This could affect the way we think of war and could start an entire new era of war. Maybe we could have just an entire online war, instead of sending people over to fight and possibly lose their life but this could also affect our society, if they could tap into our systems here, then they could cause mass destruction over here in the United States or vice versa. I am not sure if that is a power that we can actually handle. I think that technology can help us in many ways in war but what if it gets manipulated or hacked into? Today our society is run by the internet and everything is online, so if someone were to be able to access it then they could do some serious damage and destroys our society, then we would have to completely rebuild, they could set us back technologically for about 30 years, which would cause us to be weaker and vulnerable. In the end I think with these technological advances we need to make sure we are on top and that our cyber world is protected. (322)
Horse Meat Scandal in the UK
Recently in the UK they have been testing over 5,000 meat products that were labeled as beef but may have contained more horse meat than actually beef product inside. So far they have found only 29 meat products that have contained more horse meat which have come from 5 different distributers, 15 of these 29 positive tested products came from Findus, a popular frozen food distributor, most of the horse meat products found in their lasagna products. Personally I find this topic completely disgusting, I personally would like to know what I am eating when I am eating and this just makes you question what you are eating and there really isn’t anyway for you to know if companies are telling you the truth about what is in their products. This can cause so many issues including health and with their business as well. If someone were to buy their product and were allergic to what was in your food and the company didn’t put that on the box, they could sue them and it would ruin their company because in all honesty who in their right mind would want to buy that product? I personally wouldn’t, I would like to know what is going in to my mouth and if it is not listed on the back, then I don’t want to buy from your company and I am sure that many others feel the same. I am sure that with this accusation that business for them has gone down, which makes me wonder why they would do it in the first place? If you know that it is a possibility to get caught and you know that it would ruin your companies name then why would you do it? In general I think this has brought to attention what people are actually eating when they buy frozen foods, it is just like when people found out that they were using dolphin in tuna in the past few years. This should be a warning to people to read the labels on the products they buy to make sure they know what they are eating. (356)
Friday, February 15, 2013
The Pope Resigning
Earlier this week the Pope, Benedict XVI made the difficult decision to resign from his papacy. This is the first time a pope has resigned in over 600 years and has come as a huge shock to many people in the Catholic community and even to people who are not a part of the Catholic Community. Part of the reason this was such a huge shock was because it was the first time in 600 years, so many years ago, no generations alive have seen it, so it is new to them, many of the people upset about this are of the elderly community because they have never seen it before and because most people are not a fan of change. Being raised as a Catholic myself; I can remember when this new pope began his papacy and when he was chosen to be the Pope and seeing the footage of the white smoke coming out of the church, back when I was in third grade. Personally this is also very strange to me but in all honesty I am okay with the change. One of the reasons the pope decided to resign was because he did not believe that with this more advance age then most of the previous popes that he could not do his job properly and that he does not have the energy to do his job anymore. He stated that to do the job you have to have the spirit of mind and body and lately his strength and spirit have been deteriorating. He does not have the energy to keep up with his job anymore, which is why he has decided to resign. Some people believe that he was not up for the job anymore, that he just did not want to be the pope, and he couldn’t spiritually handle being the pope. What are your opinions? (314)
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Santa Cruz Earthquake
This past Wednesday there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 in that hit the Santa Cruz Islands, causing a small tsunami as well, and killing 5 people. The earthquake killed four older people and one child on the beach with a 3ft wave. The director of the nearby hospital expressed that there were damages done to local villages and the airport. At this time the hospital was also evacuated and the patients were moved, while the hospital experienced some flooding. Although the death of these 5 people is very tragic, it is a very good thing that no one else got hurt with this earthquake, so unexpected and with such great magnitude.
I believe that this shows how we should all prepare for sudden natural disasters, in case of emergency. Even though there is no way to detect such a destructive thing, we should be prepared for whenever it might hit. The good thing is that with the awfully high magnitude of the earthquake there was not that much damage. Everyone living in earthquake areas should constantly be practicing what to do in case of an earthquake and the architecture in the areas should be designed in some way to be able to stay stable during an earthquake, designing the structures to somewhat withstand the natural disasters when they strike. I think that everywhere natural disasters hit, they should practice safety precautions to prepare them in case one were to strike unexpectedly. They should also design their cities to move the more important buildings in the least likely area the disaster would hit, away from water, so they are more protected from tsunamis and water damages. Overall we should all be prepared and practice safety regulations when it comes to natural disasters, so we are more prepared when they hit. (302)
Human Trafficking Scandal
Recently in Europe they uncovered one of the biggest or possibly the biggest human trafficking scandal. So many people were involved, 103 people to be exact. All across 10 countries including: Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Turkey and Kosovo. When searched, they found 240,000 dollars, laptops, cell phones and bank statements from previous times. Most of the people that were being smuggled were from Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan some of the most violent countries in the world. And recently Syria is getting a lot of publicity with so many protests and movements that have turned violent.
I think that this just helps put in perspective how much violence is going on in the world today, and how much money that people who do these huge crimes can accumulate before actually getting caught. If it took this long to uncover one of the major trafficking operations how long will it take for them all to disappear? And how many more are out there in the world right now, it’s a scary thought when you think about it because for all we know, it could be near you, which is why things like trafficking need to be investigated more, so we can uncover any more that might be close and so more people don’t get involved in operations like these. Operations that exploit people and take away so many human rights that they deserve, all for the sake of money. Do these people involved even know what they are doing, and how much they are affecting someone’s life all for the sake of money? Now that they have uncovered a large trafficking operation they need to keep investigating to make sure that things like these don’t happen again and that trafficking does not spread and become even larger.(303)
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