do you know the origin of your food?

An economic hit man is someone hired in order to bankrupt other countries. As soon as the economy of the country is in the ground U.S.A. enters and extracts resources from the poor country. This is something that makes the rich countries richer and the poor ones poorer.

There is something similar happening with food chains. Earlier in this era the food market in U.S.A was controlled by many different companies, but now a day only control almost entirely the food market. Becoming a farmer is economically difficult since they need big amounts of money for things such as feeding their animals, building chicken houses, etc. Here is when the big companies enter and loan money to the framers; a debt that becomes bigger and bigger. When the farmers bankrupt the companies force them to work only for them.

Since the fast food market demands a lot of food production have changed over the years.  Farmers today raise animals in the ugliest conditions that you can imagine. These conditions lower the meat standards, are unsanitary, and as a cause of these animals develop different diseases. As a cause of the big debt that the farmers have with the companies they are forced by the companies to maintain silent. When the farmers decide to talk in interviews they lose their job almost instantly.

The food citizens eat is junk food. Everything is raised in bad conditions and is harming the citizen’s health. My recommendation is to be aware of what you are eating before it’s too late. 

How to mess up other countries

An economic hit man is someone hired by a corporation in order to mess with other countries economy. This has consequences such as creating turmoil in other countries and makes the rich countries richer and the poor countries poorer. The economic hit man loans money to a country and makes it an almost unpayable debt.  This is when the United States intervenes by taking resources from the country as a cause of the debt between them.

This corporation is never willing to give up their requirements for certain situations. If the other country does not agree they will fool their enemy in order to create a situation that benefits them. There is an example in the book Confessions of an Economic Hit man in which Panama’s ruler does not want to give away their canal. Shortly after this demonstration of resistance the ruler died in a plane crash.  Then the ruler that succeeded him also opposed the canal situation; a few months later he will also get killed in a plane crash. These events demonstrate that they are not willing to give up their requirements no matter the cost.

U.S.A fully benefited by the obtention of the canal economically. By obtaining the canal the United States will grow economically, while Panama will have no benefits over its own land resources.  This is completely unfair because each country should work their own resources in order to benefit economically. The economic hit man makes that poor countries are not able to use their resources and keep them from growing economically.

In conclusion the economic hit man is someone trained to bankrupt other countries in order to benefit U.S.A economically. They fool country leaders in order to create a huge debt between them and the United States. When this debt becomes unaffordable the United States have a complete benefit of the other countries resources.

Malaysia airlines plane disappeared?

This is an event that had a great impact in many different places all over the world. There also exist a different bunch of theories about what happened to the plane. Some said it got abducted, others that there was a fire and other technical problems, and a suicidal action of the pilot.

This event could have been a fail of abduction of the plane. There were pieces found at more than seven flight hours away from the determined flight line for the MH370 between Kuala, Lumpur, and Pekin.  This big distance between the determined flight line and were some plane pieces were found could demonstrate the plane abduction. Even though, shortly after the plane got abducted, some technical problems could have caused the crashing of the plane. This is a relief for many people but also huge pain for others.

The people that thought that the plane got abducted waited for a terrorist attack at any moment, but this also gave hope to the families of the victims that their loved ones still alive. The finding of the plane pieces is the relief for many people because there will be no terrorist attack with the plane. Either ways the families of the victims now know that their loved ones are dead which will be even more hurtful.

Finally the pilot of the plane mentioned a polemical phrase during the flight. This phrase could make people think that he was involved in the plane crash. At the middle of the flight the pilot mentioned “Todo bien buenas noches” which could demonstrate that the pilot knew something was going to happen.

We cannot be sure about any of this possibilities but something happened in that plane for sure. Which event convinces you the most?

Maduro inventing conspiracies

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, just before proposing a high level commission for peace and respect mentioned that it will be a mistake to kill him. Maduro always invents conspiracies. These conspiracies were once made with Colombia and now it was made to the president of the United States. Nicolas maduro announced that Barack Obama had a plan to kill him. Due to the conflict between Washington and caraca maduro announces: “Presidente Obama, con todo respeto te digo, sé que en tu despacho están el conjunto de recomendaciones, algunas de ellas extremistas, y sé qué le ha pasado por la mente a los halcones del Departamento de Estado y del Pentágono, lo sé con nombre y apellido, proponerte el asesinato del presidente de Venezuela como medida extrema para buscar la crisis en nuestro país. Así lo denuncio”.  This quote demonstrates that all around the world there have been discussions about the crisis that Venezuelans are currently living. This discussions do not have to be so extremist giving the death of Maduro as an option, but there must be ideas on how to improve Venezuela's situation. 

Taken from tha article :"Maduro Denuncio que Obama Planea Asesinarlo."

Work cited:

               Larazon. 2014. Maduro denunció que Obama planea asesinarlo. [online] Available at: http://www.larazon.com.ar/internacional/Maduro-denuncio-Obama-planea-asesinarlo_0_551400103.html [Accessed: 16 Mar 2014].

race is just an illusion

What is race? Is it an idea supported by science and genetics or just an idea used to segregate humans due to their physical appearance? We all know that humans are physically different; it’s easy to distinguish a Latin from German citizens. What humans define as race has no genetic basis, as mentioned by the documental race the power of an illusion in human race there is almost no difference between races, and there is more variation within not between this so called races. The previous idea illustrates that humans are the most genetically alike specie in the world; therefore human “subspecies” have no genetic backup.

Race is a justification for social inequalities and segregation as natural. As the race of concept evolved it justified things such as discrimination of negros, Asians, Mexicans, etc. Back in the 20´s scientist tried to justify this kind of discrimination by proving those groups as an inferior race. An example that the documental race the power of an illusion gave us was the black people´s biological background. Scientist explained that due to their different physical attributes such as their different cranial shape made them inferior specie. As a cause of the previous statement whites discriminated black people in order to prevent the mixing of races, and with this prevent the “damaging” of white superiority.    

In conclusion race is an idea that has no scientific backup because humans are the most alike specie in the world. The idea of race was created by humans in order to discriminate other people as a cause of physical differences. 

Photo taken from the article "Human Race"


citation

Pbs.org. 2014. RACE - The Power of an Illusion . What Is Race | PBS. [online] Available at: http://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm [Accessed: 16 Mar 2014].

Unification against maduro's regime

The vice president of the United States recently criticized the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, for inventing conspiracies. Maduro has been a president who do not care about the situation his country is in, and rejects the idea that Venezuela is consumed by chaos. According to the vice president of U.S.A. Joe Biden the president of Venezuela is just trying to distract the people from the events that really matter in his country. According to the previous statement the purpose of the violence in the streets of Venezuela is to terrorize the citizens in order to keep them for fighting for their rights.

The president Maduro responded with the only answer he has: Biden, es un "abusador" por afirmar que Venezuela enfrenta una situación político-social "alarmante," "Ellos saben que se les apagó el golpe de Estado... y quiere darle ánimo a los golpistas." In other words the critique from Biden was just a "conspiracy" agains his government; that Biden just wants to give the opposition hope. 

Now Biden finds himself at chile in order to talk about Venezuela's crisis with: Michelle Bachelet (president of chile), Juan Manuel santos (president of Colombia), Ollanta Humala (president of Peru), and Enrique Peña Nieto (president of Mexico). Either ways Vice President Biden is not the only one concerned about this; Latin American ministers of UNASUR will also analyze the situation of Venezuela.

Photo taken from the article: "Maduro Inventa Conspiraciones"

Lemon tree, a representation of israeli unfairness

Lemon tree is a movie that demonstrate the unfairness that the Palestinians have to suffer under the Israeli regime. All we hear is about suicide bombing attacks made by the Palestinians in Israeli territory, but we never get to know the bad situation in which most of the Palestinians have to live each day. As mentioned by a Jewish deputy "the only way that the Palestinians Can fight against the Jewish regime is with the use of terrorism." 

Israel became the strongest force in this territory. They have almost  absolute controls over the Palestinians, and control each detail of palestinian's life. This is demonstrated in the movie lemon tree when the live of a Palestinian civilian, Salma, gets turned upside down when a Jewish minister moves next to her. Salma has a plantation of lemon trees that her dad gave to her and is the way in which Salma survives economically. According to the Israeli secret service this plantation of lemon trees represented a threat for the ministers security. The secret agents mentioned that at any time a terrorist group could hide there and attack the ministers family. Salma tries to fight this injustice, however she is forced to cut her trees down to 30 centimeters.

The minister did not cared about what the trees mattered to Salma; they just determined that the minister interest where much more important than her interests. There could not be better representation on what is happening between Israel and Palestine Thant he one of this movie. Today in Israel, after the control of the West Bank and gala, Palestinians are forced to live under Israeli conditions. Palestinian lives are the result of the Israeli government wanting to get power any cost.

 I highly recommend this movie in order to get a better understanding of what is really happening in Israel; the unfairness many civilians have to live day to day. 

Lemon Tree. Dir. Eran Riklins. Perf. Haim Abbass, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Doron Tavory. IFC Films, 2008. Film.

Israel and Palestine conflict

I found an article about Israel and Palestinian constant conflict http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21597967-israel-doing-too-little-protect-muslim-heritage-sites-constant-competition and considered it evidence about the fight between Muslims and Jews for holly ground.  This explains to me that this fight is not only for territory, but also to preserve the religion and culture of each group involved. What do you think about this article?

Image taken from the article "Constant competition, Israel is doing little to protect Muslim heritage sites" 

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Jewish invaders

Jewish people think that the west bank occupation is what they deserve and a territory that belongs to them. There is a show in youtube called dining with terrorists in which a journalist adventures in the western territory in order to identify when a man has the right to fight without being called a terrorist.  In the videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNWCltcqdo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FYsBRq5l0U the journalist demonstrates the different point of views between Gaza’s “terrorism” and how Jews feel about their occupation in the west bank.

In the first video the journalist goes to some of the Jewish settlements and talks to a priest about how Jews are invaders of Palestinian lands. To begin the discussion the priest takes the journalist to the highest point of the land and reads a fragment of Tanaj, one of the sacred books of the Jews, which states “God says to Abraham to lift up your eyes and see from the place that you are; to the North, to the south, to the east and the west, and everything that you see in this land to you and then to you I will give this, and your offspring forever.” The priest says that this fragment is the “truth,” but the truth is an abused word in this case. Jews are invading Palestinian territories.

In the second video the journalist adventures to the Gaza strip in order to see what do the Palestinians called terrorist in the west think of themselves. In Gaza a group labeled terrorist in the west were elected by the people in order to fight against the occupation of their territory.  Hamas, the elected terrorist group, are labeled as terrorist because they use missiles and suicide bombers in order to attack Jewish civilians. The defense that the “terrorist” use against this accusation is that in Israel all the citizens are a part of the Jewish army; as mentioned by a soldier “today they are sales man, but tomorrow they will become soldiers for the Jewish state.” This demonstrates a justification for the Arab acts against civilians and also a Jewish deputy director admits that the only thing Palestinians have left is to terrorize in order to fight against these settlements.

   

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/juliankossoff/100056469/west-bank-jewish-settlements-enough-already/

http://www.idfblog.com/spanish/alto-funcionario-de-hamas-atacaremos-israel-y-a-todos-sus-aliados-en-todo-el-mundo/terroristas-de-hamas-3/

Citation:

Rease, Fill. "Dining with terrorists - Fighting occupation-28 Feb 09-Pt 1." YouTube, 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNWCltcqdo>.

           Rease, Fill. "Dining with terrorists - Fighting occupation -28 Feb 09-Pt 2." YouTube, 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FYsBRq5l0U>.