PLN 5

I was skimming through the articles on Google reader today, when to my surprise I found an article on the Iranian presidents' visit. Iran president in NY campus row (ctrl + click to view source) was the title of the BBC news article.
Seeing how I missed the news yesterday I decided to follow the link. Once opening the article I was appalled to see that the Iranian president denies the holocaust. Seeing how I have done two school projects, one twelve page report and interviewed close to thirty holocaust survivors I was very infuriated at the president's words.

The “brazen” president had no respect toward other people at the meeting. He was also very dull when it came to his people. When a student asked how he treated homosexuals in his country he smirkly replied, “In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country” with that in thought I began to laugh at the presidents’ remark as did everyone else in the meeting.

Though I do not enjoy the president of Iran, I still wish I would have been able to see him speak in person. Why? Well because even though he is an Arabian Hitler it is definitely a once in a life time chance to see someone of such importance.

This matters to me because all world issues are important and affect everyone. It could also be a popular subject in the classrooms. My personal view is that the man is a war hungry maniac who raises tensions for fun. But that is my opinion on the story. Now think what do you think about a man like this?

PLN 4

While sifting through the articles today I found another world crisis article talking about bin laden and his holy war. Bin Laden urges Pakistan jihad was the title of the article on the BBC. First the article talked about the promises of the bin laden overthrowing the Pakistan leader. He declared how the leader was weak and is an infidel for losing 100 men in an army operation. I did not think much of this threat because Bin laden has made threats like this in the past and has no fulfilled. Of course I would not put it past any human especially a terrorist to try and kill a world leader. This matters to the world because this small threat could turn into a huge epidemic which could turn into a war and wars affect everyone. This matters to me because if the war is still going on when I am eighteen years old I have a high chance of being drafted into the war on terror. With the technology that we are developing war zones are very dangerous especially in foreign lands.

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While flipping through the TV channels today a story on BBC America had caught my attention. The story was about a Swedish cartoonist who had to go into hiding because he drew a picture of the prophet Muhammad on a dog’s body. Thinking how this might be on the BBC blog on Google reader I decided to look up the story. After a few minutes of searching I found the head line saying “Swedish cartoon drawer in hiding”. Wanting to find out more about the story I clicked on the link and read the page report.
Three key points I found in the story were that terrorist groups had put a 100,000 dollar reward on the authors head. Another is that the author was brought into hiding and is not known when he may return from it. Finally the Swedish prime minister had met 22 Muslim ambassadors from other countries over the issue.
While reading through the article I couldn’t help but chuckle a few times. I found it silly that the Muslim community can be so easily offended about one picture of their prophet, while Christians and Catholics see indecent pictures of their saviors being drawn everyday even some by Muslim illustrators. To me this is a very ironic story because it shows how politically correct the world has become and how easily offended some communities can be on the subject of religion.

PLN ENTRY 2

While looking through many bland and somewhat lifeless blogs today one headline from the BBC news had caught my eye. In big blue bold letters the blog read “FRANCE WARNING OF WAR WITH IRAN”. Now with this in mind my first thought was oh no could the murmurs of an upcoming world war be true. So with this thought in my head I clicked the link and read the article. Submitting to my own thoughts I began to become worried of having another Middle Eastern country obtaining another nuclear weapon. But while reading on the article soon soothed my mind by reporting that Europe is ready for any nuclear attacks and is reducing all shipments to Iran. While this is all good news for European powers I begin to wonder what the U.S. is preparing to do. Being a super power full of “rich fat pigs” quotes some French citizens are we really ready to go to war with another country. Can we handle not only being in an intense condition with Korea and other Middle Eastern powers should we really add one more to the list? "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," says the French foreign minister. Now is this true should we prepare for war? Is the Mayan prediction of the apocalypse of 2012 actually real? Will technology be the doom of us? We will all find out sooner or later but until then I leave the question with you. Should we prepare for war with Iran?

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While going through the blogs today I came across a particularly interesting article. This article not only talk of future space travel but also how there may be life on unknown planets. The blog was created by David in the 2 cents folder. While reading through the article I came across three interesting points I would like to talk about. The first was the book that Daves friend was writing about a mind blowing look into the future of inter stellar travel. This to me is very important for two reasons one I had always enjoyed astronomy and reading about it the second reason is because I have always wondered what futuristic travel would be like. A second interesting topic was the talk about life on other planets. When hearing that there may be life on other planets I was definitely blown away. Thinking about other life other beings is one of the most amazing thing in the world also given the fact that they are not even on this planet is extraordinary. One other subject that intrigued me was the advances we have made over the past years. David recalls the past events of watching sputnik or echoes flying into space. He also recalls the time when the world watched man walk on the moon. An irony was also told in his story, he reminisces when the thought of space travel was the idea of a crazed man and today it is in an every day conversation. This article is very interesting to me and I am glad I subscribed to his blog.