You Ain't Got Nothing I Never Had
i don't know how much of a secret this is (probably not very much of one), but I read BBC news every single morning. I prefer BBC news to any American news broadcaster. I find that every single American news broadcaster is biased to criminal levels (with the possible exception of CNN, but they're pretty decidedly Republican and Pro-Bush; not inherently a good or bad thing, but biased nonetheless) and I will have to admit that there's nothing like getting news on American happenings from a British newscaster. (One of the sole reasons I want cable so badly is because I want the BBC channel.)
In any case, I find BBC is relatively impartial and even sort of anti-government to an extent (for being a state-run news program), and is surprisingly reliable when talking about World Events (though, contrary to American and domestic news, has biases abound.)
But as I read it every morning, I find that theres so much turmoil in the world right now. I mean, just off the top of my head, I can name three major conflicts; or what BBC progressively labels as "crises" -- Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe (dictatorship regimes FTW), Israel and Iran on the brink of war, and of course, the ever-present Darfur crisis (though people need to stop kidding themselves and call a horse a horse; it's a genocide.) If I racked my brain hard enough, I could think of dozens more, albeit smaller, "crises" (Iran's nuclear ambitions comes to mind, as does Malaysia's political meltdown; the oil crisis always tops the list, even though no one talks about the far more important food crisis; the massive earthquake that just hit Greece [I guess it has to be in China in order for it to mean anything, huh?]; Italian political corruption at record highs [though I guess that's nothing new]; and naturally, the ill-forgotten Afghanistan!)
So I ask the people of my friend's page --
In your opinion, what's the most pressing wold "crisis" right now? What keeps you lying awake at night wondering if the MAD disaster will occur while you sleep?
In any case, I find BBC is relatively impartial and even sort of anti-government to an extent (for being a state-run news program), and is surprisingly reliable when talking about World Events (though, contrary to American and domestic news, has biases abound.)
But as I read it every morning, I find that theres so much turmoil in the world right now. I mean, just off the top of my head, I can name three major conflicts; or what BBC progressively labels as "crises" -- Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe (dictatorship regimes FTW), Israel and Iran on the brink of war, and of course, the ever-present Darfur crisis (though people need to stop kidding themselves and call a horse a horse; it's a genocide.) If I racked my brain hard enough, I could think of dozens more, albeit smaller, "crises" (Iran's nuclear ambitions comes to mind, as does Malaysia's political meltdown; the oil crisis always tops the list, even though no one talks about the far more important food crisis; the massive earthquake that just hit Greece [I guess it has to be in China in order for it to mean anything, huh?]; Italian political corruption at record highs [though I guess that's nothing new]; and naturally, the ill-forgotten Afghanistan!)
So I ask the people of my friend's page --
In your opinion, what's the most pressing wold "crisis" right now? What keeps you lying awake at night wondering if the MAD disaster will occur while you sleep?