Showing posts with label Politics.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics.. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2008

Are We Being Responsible?

I'm not much into politics,but I do follow things that happen around the world.The political scenario in my country have turn for the worst.I thought the last election in March was the biggest thing to happen,but now there are new things unfolding,sadly,it is more about personal attacks rather than a political issue.

What I like to focus about is not one regarding the attacks being made,just read the newspaper or see the news and you will know what is happening.My concern are about bloggers.Bloggers are free to express what is on their mind.My country are not like China where you can be caught and imprisoned for writing certain things about the government,about freedom.We always hear people talking about freedom of speech,but what is actually freedom of speech?

Does freedom of speech mean we can say anything,or for bloggers to write whatever we want to write,even if it is not the truth?Can we write something like calling name to a certain leaders,writing about their families,wife,children?Do we know the truth that give us the right to write something about it or we just write merely on something that we hear,something that was told to us?

They say the media in my country,the newspaper and television are being control by the government,so the stories are pro-government,but they still got licensed to publish their own newspaper and distribute it.No bloggers have ever been caught and send to prison for what they wrote.Doesn't this mean you are free to express yourself?

To what extend do we exercise our right to freely express ourselves?To write something that we doesn't even know the truth behind it can be considered slanderous.Yes..we can be famous because we write about something that other people only dare to talk about while having coffee in some laid back coffeshop among very close acquaintance.People will wait for our latest posting to know what is the latest "news",but is it the truth or just hearsay?

We have responsibility,to ourselves,to our country and our religion.Do we want to be known as the one who created chaos in this little and peaceful country?Do we want to be known as the one who instigate the people to go against the government?Are we writing our blog for our own satisfaction or do we get paid to do it by somebody else?

We can be heroes,we can be champion,but let it be because we do something right,not because we spread rumours,because we spread slander.Be a real champion,fight for the people,not for certain individual who use who ever they can to achieve their dreams.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Shiny,Happy People And Breaking Records.

Happy people or breaking records first..

Lets see about an interesting record breaking feat first.I guess most of you know what Mozilla want to achieve when they launch the latest version of FireFox browser,FireFox 3.It was launch on June 17 with Mozilla aiming to get 5 million people downloading it within 24 hours of the launch.They did manage to get it,the actual figure when the 24 hours is up is at 8,002,530!What a marketing strategy isn't it.Now after 2 weeks,the number is well over 28 million and Mozilla has published this map below showing the penetration of FireFox 3.Congratulation FireFox.



According to the US government-funded World Values Survey,a survey done regularly by a global network of social scientist,Denmark is the happiest country in the world with its democracy,social equity and peaceful atmosphere while Zimbabwe,torn by political and social strife,is the least happy while United States,the world's richest nation ranks 16th.

The survey found that overall the world is getting happier and it found increase happiness from 1981 to 2007 in 45 of the 52 countries analyzed.Ronald Inglehart,a political scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research who directed the study said he believe there is a strong correlation between peace and happiness and also between democracy and happiness.

Denmark might not be the richest country but it is prosperous.Among other countries that rank high in the survey are Puerto Rico,Colombia,Northern Ireland,Iceland,the Netherlands,Canada and Sweden.Though the United States is not the happiest country but from a global perspective it looks good said Inglehart.The US is not only prosperous,it also ranks relatively high in gender equality,tolerance of ethnic and social diversity and has a high level of political freedom.(Source:Reuters)

I wonder if my country is included in the survey,if it does,where it ended,over to the top or more towards the end.Most of the people in my country are not happy before the General Election in early March,so the ruling government suffer defeats but still manage to keep on ruling,now the fuel price is up by 41%,they become more unhappy,then there is this conspiracy theory going on,one person who was next in-line to become the Prime Minister back in 1998 was surprisingly caught and charged with sodomy,but now he is trying to be the Prime Minister again,and another sodomy case was reported against him.Would the government be so stupid to come up with the same conspiracy,and I doubt the first time it happened it was a conspiracy.The person in turn accused the current Deputy Prime Minister of his involvement in this conspiracy and in a murder case that is still on trial.

I'm bored with all this political drama,in politic,you can say and do whatever you want,but it is all about you wanted to be where you want to be,it is not about the people or the party you represent.Like this guy,you are supposed to be the Prime Minister,but for a sodomy case,you went to jail instead,so now,10 years later,you are out,and you have lots of people backing you up,are you fighting for them or just to fulfill your ambition of becoming the Prime Minister?Even the party that has his wife as the leader was formed with the initial intention to fight for his release back then and now it is the fight to make him the Prime Minister.

I'm happy with my life but things like this is very disturbing for the future of this country and especially to the people.It is not the time to fight for position or what,now is the time to recover the economy,to bring back stability and to provide a better living for us citizen,so we can all be happy :-)