This news
was published today, on December 7th, 2017, by the BBC newspaper. It
talks about some of the reactions the announcement of Donald Trump got from
Palestinians, Israelis and the main countries of EU.
According
to the news, Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital had
different impacts. The Israeli PM said it was a historic day, while the Palestinian
President said it was a deplorable move. Palestinians will protest, and plan
strikes in order to “confront” Israel and the US.
Finally, the
Arabs countries condemned the Trump’s decision, while Theresa May, the British
PM, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor and Emmanuel Macron, the French
President, didn’t support the decision. The following video is an analysis from BBC focusing on what Mr. Trump said and what it means for peace.
OPINION:
The president
Trump’s announcement about Jerusalem being the Israelis’ was hard to swallow,
even if it was quite predictable, considering that the US is the biggest ally
of Israeli government. It looks like Trump's politics is not that different to the Obama's one. Keeping in mind how powerful the United States is, the decision
they took yesterday was important even if countries like UK, France and Germany
doesn’t support it, taking into account that it breaks the peace accords from
1993 and the US declaration as a neutral ally.
From my point
of view, the US announcement is just another political move, just like all of
their participation in each conflict throughout history. I think that
supporting the Israeli country is definitely a point in favour in the US interests
in the Middle East. So, the best way to secure the growth of Israel and to maintain
it powerful is to recognise Jerusalem as their capital. As a result, the Israeli
illegal settlements will keep going, the repression towards the Palestinians
will increase and so will the attacks. Finally, I would like to say that Palestine must keep demanding the recognition of their country. It is not fair the occupation Palestine is suffering since 1947. Also, focusing on the current situation in Spain, comparing the wanted independent republic of Catalonia with Israel is in poor taste, meaning that what really have in common is the illegal action they make and the Zionism character both have.
This news was
published on December 1st, 2017, by the BBC newspaper. It talks
about the Julia’s Roberts reaction when it comes to the movie Wonder.
According to
the news, Julia Roberts declares speechless when it comes to her role in Wonder,
which is a mother of a boy with a rare congenital condition that has affected
the way his face is formed. She also says she thought that the book was so
special and incredible, when she first read the book. What left her speechless,
she says, is how her character spends time with the boy and how she decides to
send him to school.
Jacob Trembay,
who plays the main character of the movie, had to spend a lot of hours to do
his make-up, according to Roberts. He also maintained contact with different
patience who are suffering from that illness and sent letters to him.
Finally, both
actors agreed that the main message of the movie is to choose to be kind but
also true to yourself and never give up.
OPINION: I haven’t
watched this film yet, but it is a thing that I will have to do as soon as
possible. As far as I am concerned, I think that Jacob Trembay is right when he
describes the main goal of the film, the big message which is given to the
audience which is to always act with kindness, be true to yourself and, one of
the most important thing, to just never give up. I have to say that I have high
expectations when it comes to the film and I hope I’d like it as much as I do
without even seen it.
This news
was published on November 6th, 2017, by the BBC newspaper. It is
about the disease that could change how we drink coffee.
According
to the news, Colombia’s coffee has been traded since 1960, when people started
to bring plant materials from abroad. Because
of that, coffee plants are suffering from a rust, which is a disease with power
to wipe out the production of coffee.
Considering
that coffee is the base of one of the biggest industries in Colombia, that
disease could affect the economics of the country and would affect the price of
the coffee we drink everywhere.
Finally, researchers
from Colombia are trying to investigate how the plants can survive to the disease,
if it’s even possible. The disease is caused by the fungus Hemileia
vastatrix, which causes discoloration to the plants’ leaves, which end up
falling. The plants lose their ability to produce beans.
Coffee rust looks like a brown powder on the leaves.
OPINION:
From
my point of view, I think that if the coffee rust will not be stopped, will
have a problem. Considering that as a human being we consume a lot of coffee,
the importation will be more expensive if we keep in mind the reduction of
production of coffee. In these cases, the role of the scientists is important
to find a possible solution to this problem. That’s the reason why the Colombian
researchers are working hard to solve issue that concerns a lot. I know that there are other countries where is posible to import coffee from but, imagine one day waking up without coffee.
This news was published on November 30th, 2017, by the BBCnewspaper. It is about the intervention of Chinese police into the fake Peppa
Pig products fabrication. Peppa Pig is a British children’s cartoon which is
very popular in China. According to the news, Police in Chine raided various places where it took
place the manufacturing of counterfeit Peppa Pig products. This act took place because
the British company Entertainment One complained about it, after they spotted
the products on commercial websites. The raids took place in the city of
Yangzhou on November 4th, days before the country’s biggest annual
online shopping event. Finally, the head of the company which faked the products was arrested and apologized.
OPINION:
From my point of view, from
one hand, I think that it is not fair the fabrication of fake trademarks
products, because the brand doesn’t win anything for its own work. That’s the
reason why I think that the Chinese police did an excellent job with the raids.
From another hand, I think that the head of the company which did all the
counterfeits did such a good action when it comes to admit the wrong thing he
had committed.
This news was posted on November 29th,
2017 by the BBC newspaper. It is about the death of the Bosnian Croat war
criminal, Praljak, who took poison in court, during an appeal hearing in The
Hague.
According to the newspaper, Praljak was
sentenced for crimes in Mostar during the Bosnian war in 2013, next to five
more formers. On this day, it took place the final appeal judgment hearing
where Praljak was sentenced for 20 years on jail because of the crimes he committed,
which were crimes against humanity.
After he drunk the poison, he was immediately
assisted by the medical staff and transported to a hospital, even though, he
died.
Slobodan Praljak, in the middle.
OPINION:
From my point of view, I think that Praljak
drinking the glass of poison is just a coward action. If he truly believed that
he wasn’t a criminal, he wouldn’t drink poison, he wouldn’t give up on himself.
Otherwise, he would go to jail and fight for his thoughts, but that’s
impossible to do because even himself knew that he was such a big criminal.
When it comes to the crimes he committed, they
are horrible. As far as I am concerned, one of the worsts wars was against Muslims.
He destructed as many mosques as he could, leaving aside the city’s historic Old
Bridge, and tortured them as bad as he could.
The problem I see in here is what now for the
victims. Now that the ex-commander is dead, that doesn’t take away the pain people
had suffered and all what they went through, for not talking about the losses of
their loved ones.
Lately, I
have been shocked when it comes to the different songs are very successful
nowadays. As far as I can remember, I didn’t really know the reason why the
songs achieve such an overwhelming victory in the music industry and, most important,
how did people like it. However, I think that know I might be conscient of it.
To explain the possible reasons why some current type of music is so overrated,
I am going to give different examples.
When it
comes to the rappers, I could say that there as been clearly changes. I still
remember the time when Lil Wayne, Eminem, Jay Z used to sound on the radio. I
think that the current style hip-hop music isn’t what it used to be anymore,
mainly because of the lyrics of the songs and how they don’t treat the same
themes as before, considering that hip-hop was a way to recriminate the injustices
people where suffering, specially in the United States. Even thought, I think
that a lot of people made and make money by making rap songs, even though, in
my opinion its lyrics is just a bunch of nonsense sentences. Despite that, I
have to say that the songs can be hilarious, and that’s maybe why those singers
have so much audience. Big Shaq song is clearly an example of what I am saying.
In the following video, you can hear his song which reminds me of the beginning
of Stormzy.
Additionally, we must keep in mind that music
industry tries to get the higher number of earnings, as any other industry. So,
how could I talk about music and profits without mentioning the one and only
Jake Paul. The YouTube star has revolutionised the social media since he
dropped out his song It’s everyday bro. The problem comes when he and his
brother got into the music industry. In my opinion their songs are an example
of what music shouldn’t be but, even so, they seem to succeed taking into
account the number of visualizations they get in each song they post in YouTube
and Sotify and, the number of sells in iTunes.
Finally, I would like to talk about the classic
pop songs which are basically made for boybands for commercial interest. I can
not stand to that type of music anymore just because it has turned into weary music
style.
As a conclusion, I can say that the music industry
has every right to promote and sell any type of music, but it depends on us in
making it succeed or fail and since now, it looks like people just makes
victorious the kind of music which discriminates, disrespects and is characterised
by being lacked of talent.
One of my
favourite tv series is How to get away with murder. It was premiered on
Semptember 25th, 2014 by the original network ABC. The series was
created by Peter Nowalk. The genre that characterise it are legal drama,
mystery and thriller. The cast is formed by Viola Davis (as Annalise Keating),
Billy Brown (as Nate Lahey), Alfred Enoch (as Wes Gibbins), Katie Findlay
(Rebecca Sutter), Jack Falahee (Connor Walsh), Matt McGorry (as Asher
Millstone), Aja Naomi King (as Michaela Pratt), Karla Souza (as Laurel
Castillo), Charlie Weber (as Frank Delfino), Liza Weil (as Bonnie Winterbottom)
and Conrad Ricamora (as Oliver Hampton). There are 4 seasons with 15 episodes
each of them.
When it comes
to the plot of this series is quite difficult to explain because of the
mechanism of order follows each episode and to avoid possible spoilers. Despite
that, I can say that How to get away with murder is about a law professor,
Annalise, who works at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, next to five
of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot. With the help of her
employees and a detective from the Philadelphia Police Department, she tries to
investigate who are the murderers and the reason why she was entwined with
them.
The first episodes of each season are always a
short anticipation which leaves the audience with suspense and curiosity. Then
the episode goes by until the last minutes where there’s another anticipation
leaving a clue for the audience so that we can make our own hypothesis once the
episode is finished.
As a lot of
the Tv series I have watched, how to get away with murder was recommended to me
by my sister. She was always talking about it, especially when she was
finishing some episode. I don’t really get how the writers and director are
able to think about the amazing plot of this series. I really like how each
action and move of any character throughout the season might seem to be
insignificant but at it end it is not. I can say that is one of that Tv series
that I could watched on repeat without getting tired of it. I’m looking forward
for the premier of the second part of the last season. This is the trailer of the first season of How to get away with murder:
As the title
says, in this post I will talk about women; huge problems women still face in
2017 and how they face them. I decided to talk about it because the latest news
about masculine domestic violence, the sexual raping a lot of women are
suffering, between other facts, have been the straws that broke the camel’s
back.
One of the
many horrific problems women face is domestic violence and oppression. Women
are not safe from violence; it’s a clear fact. Last month was the national
domestic violence awareness month and according to the statistics, there has
been 15 victims because of gender violence, which most of them are women. This
number should be 0, that’s the reason why we must keep fighting for safety and
non-violence assaulting.
Another of the
problems women face is sexual assaulting and rape. The following table shows
the statistics in Spain throughout the years, according to Instituto de la
Mujer y para la Igualdad de Oportunidades. The numbers talk by themselves.
Worldwide, the
picture is just as bad. The world Health Organization estimates that 35 percent
of women internationally have experienced domestic violence or sexual violence
in their lifetime. The International Center For Research On Women estimates
that there are over 70 million child brides worldwide.
Globally, as
many as 38 percent of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner.
Unfortunately, women not only have to fight for her
safety but for equality in different areas. For example, in the labour area, in
politics, … Furthermore,
the reaction of women should have when it comes to all the problems they go
through or even how they face the world can be summarised into a word:
strength. Women have to be strong. They must fight against expectations,
specially when they have to face obstacles, and bounce back, even if they have
been hurt, they must keep going on no matter what. Women are just fighters. As a conclusion, I could like to say that as a woman an most of all as a human being I am obligated to fight for our rights and equality.
Zaria Forman's drawings show the beauty and the fragility of Earth. She travels around the world, mainly to the Artic, the Equator, Greenland and the Maldives. With each photographs and experience that she lives, she makes a painting to show the world how the climate change is affecting each part of our planet.
I think that the climate change is one of the current biggest issues of the human being. It is already happening and represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the planet.
The warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures. I read in a newspaper article that the Earth's average surface temperature has risen by 0.76º C since 1850.
The climate can affect every person and our health directly through increases in temperature. Such increases may lead to more extreme heat waves during the summer while producing less extreme cold spells during the winter. Actually, we start to feel that. It's November and the Sun still shines like if it's Summer. Also, people with heart problems, asthma, the elderly and the very Young can be especially vulnerable to extreme heat.
Most of the warming that has occurred over the last 50 years is very likely to have been caused by human activities. Nowadays there are so many factories that exhale really destructive substances and pollute the air. We all know very well that air is something we can’t live without. When we breathe the polluted air, we can get seriously ill.
Another huge problem is that the sea levels are rising worldwide. Also the expansion of ocean water is caused by warmer ocean temperatures...The temperature is rising which means all the mountain glaciers and small ice caps are melting faster and faster, just like Zaria Formans said. Zaria drew a few paintings where we can see the melting of the ice in Greenland and in the Artic. She has also went to places which are dryness. People from Africa, for example, can not cultivate plants because the dryness don't allow it. That is why they die from malnutrition; they can not get food from anywhere. Once again, they are suffering from a fact created by the pollution that we create.
As a conclusion, I think that as the responsables of this problem, we should take responsability of it. The autorities should start to make changes to slow the efects of the climate change, considering that it can not be stopped now. If we don't make any change, we will end up like the third world. Zaria does such a good work. All of her drawings, apart from being very beautiful, original and impressive, reflect very good the issues that the climate change brings.
You can check out the Zaria Forman's Ted Talk where she talks about her drawings and the climate change.
A few days ago, I saw a video by Prince Ea where he criticates the school system in general. Prince Ea is a famous youtuber known for his motivating videos about life, death and other topics. The following video gained me a lot, because, largely, I was agree with it.
In the video, Prince Ea explains the issues that the current school system has. On the hand, he starts to explain how the students feel useless sometimes because of the way they educate him. On the other hand, he illustrated how the working of a class has not change throughout history. He adds that this education system treats the students as equal when in real life, each student has his way to think. He also talks about the teachers' low wage and the schools system of other countries like Finland.
This is the Prince Ea's YouTube video:
Prince Ea talks mainly about the American school system but the thing is that here, in Spain, the working of the education is the same. Throughout history, a lot of things from different aspects has changed, the way to communicate with people, the vehicles,... basically everything except the school system. Why we still holding on it when everything has changed?
Albert Einstein said once: 'Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish for its ability to climb the tree, it will live its whole live believing it is stupid.' I agree with this idea. As for the students, they are just like a fish. If they do not understand a lesson or they are not good at it, they are treated like a useless person. The truth is that each one of us has their special ability.
From my point of view, we are educated like robots. We have to work, to study and get good marks so that we can enter to a university and get a degree to have a good work with a good wage. But the thing is that life is not a fairytale and nothing makes us sure of anything of that. The education that we are receiving teachs us to be competitive and selfih.
Don't you ever asked yourself how can be possible that Spain is popular for its number of dropouts when it is one of the countries where the students work more in school and at home. I think that we should focus on what Finland is doing right, on the condition that the government wants to change the education system. If their interest has to do with having a lot of dropouts, then, our country is doing it right.
When it becomes to the teacher's wage, I have to say that it doesn't respond to what they do for the society. They have the responsability to prepare the youth. The youth are always the future of everything. As Prince Ea says, we may be the 20% of the population but we are the 100% of the future.
As a conclusion, I think that it is very difficult to reform, correctly, the education system. We can not change the current school system for the Finland's one in a couple of years, for example.
In this post, I will talk about Leonardo Layana's artwork. I know him about two years ago, when I saw some of his photographs on instagram. I found his artwork very interesting and curios, so that is why I wanted it to share it with you.
Leonardo Layana is an Argentinian profesional photographer who got famous for one of his works named 'Ensayo sobre la miopía'. This artwork recreats the vision of a short-sighted person. The objective of this work of art is to show to people how short-sighted people can see with clearly only with glasses.
I don't know nothing about photography. The only thing that I like about the world of photography is to see how a person with just a camera can capture things. I am impressed how Leonardo uses the photography to show what is the short-sightedness. I think that his photographs are very original and gains a lot the public.
Don't you ever asked yourself how it feels being deaf, mute, blind... or in that case short-sighted? I think that we will never know (except for those who unfortunatly are). I am not short-sighted, but one of my siblings is. One day, we were watching a football match and he was not wearing the glasses. When he put the glasses he said: 'now I see more clearly everything'. Then, I asked him how he was seeing the match without the glasses. He answered me: 'I don't see the football players, the public or the lines of the field. I don't even see the scoreboard'. I was very shocked seeing how he could not see the tv correclty when the distance between him and the tv was not big.
Finally, from my point of view, I think that this is a good work of art. It is funny how Leonardo Layana uses the glasses in every photograph, separating the blurred view from the clear one. According to my sibling, the view of a short-sighted is like what a normal person sees in a video when the camera is not focused, just like in the photographs from 'Ensayo sobre la miopía' on the right.
In this post, I will make a review about a TV series which impressed me a lot, Stranger Things. This is a Netflix series and I knew about it because a lot of youtubers talked about Stranger Things. I wanted to see if it was really a good series as they were saying, that was why I watched the first season about two months ago.
As I said, Stranger Things is an original series from Netflix. The Duffer Brothers are the guionists and the directors of it. The first episode it was realised on the 15th July 2016. Since then, the tv series recieved a lot of good critiques.
The first season of Stranger Things is basically about the disappearing of a young boy. His mother and brother, Friends and the police chief must confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.
The boy's friends find a girl, Eleven, in the place where Will, the boy, was disappeared. She will help all of them to find Will and to understans what is really happening in Hawkins.
This is the trailer of the first season:
Stranger Things treates themes like science fiction and fantasy. In the first season of Stranger Things there are eight episodes. The rate of the plot is quite slow because they want to leave you with curiosity to know what is really happening and what is going to happen. The series is set in the eighties. Everything is from that age: the music, the cars, the bycicles, the clothes, etc. The guionists and the directors based this netflix series on works from Steven Spielberg, Stephen King and John Carpenter, between others.
The second season's premier will be on September 2017.
In my opinion the plot of the series is very good. When I saw the trailer I knew that I would love it. It is not my favourite tv series but I really like the idea of the tv series. I really like its atmosphere. Stranger Things is exciting, heartbreaking and sometimes terrifying. I recommend Stranger Things to anyone. When someone tells me what is it about, I only answer: 'Go and watch it'. I can not explain the plot of the series because I would make a lot of spoilers. I had enjoyed each episode with so much enthusiasm and I can't wait for the second season's premier.
Fine Brothers Entertainment is a YouTube channel with more tan fourteen milions of subscribers. It is well-known because of the contingut that makes. About a week ago, I say one video of them which, basically, it shows some teenagers' reaction to encyclopedias.
As you can see in the video, The Fine Bros (the owners of the YouTube cannel) gave an amount of books and they made them guess
what type of books were. Some of them didn't know what they were, but there were some who knew exactly its uses. Most of them didn't use them nowadays, even though they said that when they were in school, they had to use them.
Right after, The Fine Bros made the teens to find a word. At the begining, they had a little bit of dificulties but then they quickly realised that the enciclopedia is organised in alphabetical order.
In the end, the teens were interviewed to know a little more about the encyclopedias.
The enciclopedias are dieing, but not now. Since the appreance of Internet and new technology, people started to have minimum a computer with internet. Little by Little, we started to forget about the dicctionaries and the encyclopedias in books and we replaced them with the diccionaries online or with other information sites. I don't think it is our fault. In my opinion I think that having access to information about anything from internet has more advantatges than encyclopedias. As they said in the video, encyclopedias are created in a determinate time. Anything that happends after it creation, doesn't apear in it. They made a clear example with 'youtube'. It didn't appear in the encyclopedia because it was created after the book was published. However, in the internet you can find any kind of information upgraded.
But the internet also has disadvantatges. All the information that you find there can be true or fals. Considering that in the internet everyone can publish things, you never know if what you are reading is the truth or it is a lie. However, the information in the enciclopedia it is always true. On the other hand, the encyclopedias are very expensive back then and nowadays. In my case, I wouldn't like to spend money on encyclopedias that year by year, for example, have to upgrade information. If it is like that, you would have to buy encyclopedias every year. I still rememeber when we used to use encyclopedias in class when I was little. I remember that I spend a lot of time trying to find the words that I needed. Even though I really liked to find words in the diccionary or encyclopedia. Currently, I have quite a lot of diccionaries at home in different languages, but I don't use them. There are some which are even news and still wrapped up with the plastic of the shop. Even if the books, in general, are so expensive, I prefer books before the online stuff, especially to read and to study.
These two years had been an incredible spectacle when it becomes to the United States' campaings for the 2016 election. The famous Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were the principal candidates for presidency, besides from Bernie Sanders and others. The Americans had an important role in those election. They had to choose the right candidate to take up Obama's place. The best way to choose the right one is doing a Little bit of research about them and comparing there strenghts and weaknesses.
DONALD TRUMP
Weak Points:
Immigration:
Donald Trump wants to build a wall which will separate the USA from Mexico and he explain himself saying: 'We have no country without borders'. He also says that Americans are killed who came to the USA illegally and that they bring with them drugs to sell it and make money. He says exaclty this: We have some bad Hombres here and we are gonna make them out.
Women discrimination
The buisnessman has a dark past with horrorific discriminatory comments about women. He does not have any respect for women. An obvious example is when he was caught saying vulgar things about women with Billy Bush. He also humilated women such as Alicia Machado (the Miss Universe of 1996), when he called her an eating machine and the 'Miss Piggy'.
Climate change:
Trump doesn't take the climate change serious. He makes fun of it and he says that it is a chinease hoax. The climate change is very important to have it present everyday. If he will be the president, he must take responsability of that and make security mesure, just like Hillary Clinton would do it.
Strong points:
About the speeches:
I think that Donald Trump got more and more famous for the speeches that he made. When Trump makes a speech he says everything: his opinion, his points of view, what he wants to do and what he will do. That shows him the kind of person he is. I think that this is a strong point from him because people know who is he and what are his thoughts. However, Hillary Clinton does not say anything. In fact, in every speech she has made or in the debates with Trump, she focus on what Donald said and she doesn't give her opinion in some aspects. That makes me feel that what Hillary says and what she really thinks is not the same.
He knows how to win voters:
In my opinion, I think that Donald Trump knows how to win voters even if it seems quite the opposite. He knows what people think about the current situation in the world (the wars, the terrorism attacks, the refugiees, the immigration,...), so, he takes advantatges of that. He is racist because a lot of people in the USA is. So, he can use that to win people. On the other hand, his humor influences the opinion of the youth. I bet that a lot of young people could voted him because he looks cool and funny.
HILLARY CLINTON
Strong points:
Women’s rights and opportunity:
Hillary Clinton says that if she wins the election she will rease the mínimum of the women's wages. She will also fight for paid leave, then women would have to chose between keeping their Jobs and taking care of a sick family member. She adds that parents shouldn't have to go back to work right after they welcome a newborn baby. Clinton wants to confront violence against women, considering that there is a lot of women victims because of that.
Education system:
A good thing about Clinton is that she wants to reformate the United States' education system. Hillary Clinton said that as a president she will make preschool universal for every 4-year old in America. She will increase childs care investments so that the families would not have to pay more tan he 10 percent of its income to afford high-quality child care. She will also award scholarships of up to 1,5000 dollars per year to help students parents ans she will increase access to college campuses. She also says that every student should have the option to graduate from a public college or university in their state without taking on any debts.
LGBT rights and equality.
Hillary Clinton fights for full federal equality for LGBT American. She supports LGBT youth, parents and elders and she will protect transgender rights.
Climate change
About the climate change, Hillary said that if she becomes president of the United States of America, she will launch a 60 billion of dollars in Clean Energy Challenges to partner with states, cities and rural communities to cut carbón pollution and expand clean energy. She will also try to esure safety and responsability in energy production.
Weak points:
Emails scandal.
Everyone knows about the email scandal but not everyone gives the importance that this has. Why would Hillary use a personal email to work with top secret things? You only hide things if you want anybody to notify. Why would Hillary Clinton hide things if she is politically correct? This gide us to believe that Hillary and her political party have a lot to hide.
What she had voted for.
Hillary Clinton doesn't says what she really things about many aspects. She only says what we want to hear. If we describe her, she is not racist, she is a good person, she would never hurt someone, etc. But the thing is that she is not like that. Hillary seems to fight for womens rights but when it becomes to reality, she voted against abortion. She also voted yes for war in Iraq, for a 'barrier' in Mexico (which is the same as a wall), etc. In the following video, you will see the semblances between what Hillary says about immigration and what Donald Trump says.
The strategist politics that she hides.
The following video explains exactly what I mean:
In my opinion, It think that it is not right to build a
'wall' and seperate people from a country. But the think is, why we
focus a lot on the fact that Donald Trump wants to build a wall and
we don't give importance to the fact that Spain build a fence in
Melilla, that Britain will start to build a huge wall in Calais,
France, to stop the migrants trying to get onto trucks near the port
or that Israel built a wall up to eight metres high in the West
Bank.
Yes, Donald Trump is a racist and a bad person but this doesn't
mean that everyone who is not Trump is good. The world is not just
like a film: sometimes the bad caracter is not really the bad one.
Also, a good thing about Hillary Clinton is that she has the support of Barcak Obama, of course. They are from the same political party, remember?
This news is from The Guardian newspaper and it's about the Jo Cox's killer, Thomas Mair. The news talks about the information that the court obtained after five months of Jo Cox murder in his trial, which took place on Monday.
The Labour MP was shot twice and stabbed about fifteen times causing her numerous wounds in her heart, lungs, abdomen and in her right arm. The murderer was shouting 'Britain first, this is for Britain, Britain will always come first' when he was just going to attack Cox.
These affimations from the witness who were in the crime scene lead the court to suppose the reason why Thomas Mair killed Jo Cox.
Considering that he killed her one week before the referendum on the united kingdom's membership of the european union was taken, the cause of the killing is influenced by the differences in the ideology of the murderer and the victim. Jo Cox was a supporter of the campaign for Britain to remain in the UE. She also was assosiated with charities like Oxfam, where she was always demanding for more help for the victims of the war in Syria, or Save The Children.
Mair is alleged to have accessed in diferents internet sites about Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, the Waffen-SS, the death penalti in Japan, Israel, matricide and serial killers in the days before Cox was killed.
A firearm that was presented in evidence
during the trial of Thomas Mair.
I still remember when Jo Cox was killed this summer. It was very shocking and unbelieveble. At the begining, I could not understand the reason why the murderer killed her. But, after I had thought about it in a couple of days, I came into an easy and simple conclusion, similar as the court's supposition.
June was not an easy month for British people. On the 23rd, they had to make an important decisión for their contry: they had to vote if they wanted Britain to remain in the UE or to leave. Many ministers were supporters of the campaign to remain in Britain, such as Jo Cox. She defended her thoughts about that issue and she fought a lot to make the Britain's population see what was the right choice - remain in the UE -. Even though, there were people, like Thomas Mair, who did not respect other opinions, in that case Cox's opinion, and they wanted to show there disagreement by violence.
The Labour MP was doing a lot of campaigns and that annoyed Mair. So, he wanted to take revenge on her by killing her. What an useless way to show his anger.
The way that the media and people (including me) in general call Thomas Mair is curious. We call him a murderer who comited a crime. Up to here everything is normal. But if we think a little bit more, if the person who killed the minister was, for example, muslim, we would not call him "the murderer" or "the killer". We would call him "the terrorist", "the radical muslim", "the jihadist",... and we would say that he comited a terrorist attack and that he did not respect the freedom of expression or thought of the minister.
Otherwise, it is interesting how people were not afraid for Thomas Mair's researches. Searching information about nazis, Ku Klux Klan, the Waffen-SS,... is normal, you know (ironically). It is crazy how we treat this action normal.
On the other hand, I bet that there is a lot of people who didn't even know that Jo Cox was killed. Once again, people only focus on there own interests. I do not blame them for that; we living in a world were the media is very controlled.
About a week ago, I read this news from the Huffington post newspaper. It talks about the Lily Allen's visit in the refugee camp in France, Calais, with charity Help Refugees, after the France government decided to take it down. She went with some BBC's reporters to film a short documentary. The singer interviewed a teenage Afghan boy. She asked him about his situation and what took him into it. He explained that his father sold land to finance his departure from Afghanistan because of the bad situation there. Allen, tearfully, apologised in the name of Britain, the bad situation that her country put the Afghan population into. She exactly said: 'Bombed your country, put you in the hands of the Taliban and now we’re putting you at risk, risking your life to get into our country. I apologise on behalf of my country. I’m sorry for what we’ve put you through.'
The afghan boy told to the singer that he has the right to go to Britain, considering that there there's his father.
On the other hand, others celebrities like Lily Allen disapproved the Britian's role in the refugee crisis in France, such as Carey Mulligan. The actress said that she was ashamed to be British after the UK's "inaction" in this issue.
Finally, the news explains that according to the UN refugee Agency, there is about 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers and 40.8 million migrants. It also revealed that about 88,000 refugee children are estimated to be stuck in Europe without their parents and many of them have faced violence, police brutality and even jail.
This video shows a part of the documentary filmmed in Calais.
Personally, I think that this is an important issue that all of us we have to be aware of. First of all, I could like to say that every fact has its own causes and consequences, and the situation in Afghanistan (the same as others Western Asia countries) is just a fact created by a succession of earlier causes. We could say that the US's and its alliances occupation of Afghanistan favoured a lot the current civil war there. As always, the US's and its alliances occupates territories and provocates a lot of instabilities in those territories just because of their own interests, specially in the Middle East. The higher amount of energy resources, the strategic ubication of the countries there, between other facts, leads them to have the desire of taking the control of those regions. Then, after they have finished using all the advantage of those states, they leave them in a bad situation, as Lily Allen said 'Bombed your country, put you in hands of the Taliban...'
For me it is funny (ironically) the continually complaints of some government about the high number of refugees in Europe. They are complaining about a consequence of a fact caused by them a long time ago. That is why I think that the governments have to take responsability of what they have created indirectly.
Finally, I recognise that it is obvious the alert level of instability or collapse in the country. The massive crush of refugees could bring diferent types of crisis or other results. But I think that it is not an excuse to act, at least, as a humanity that we supposedly are.
After I had listened some of the protests songs suggested by our English teacher, I chose the Tracy's Chapman song, called 'Talkin' 'bout revolution'. The song was released on 1988 and its part of her debut album, Tracy Chapman.
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemplotment lines
Sitting around waitinf for a promotion
Don't you know
They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Anf finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution
It's finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Talkin' bout a revolution oh no
Going in depth with the song, in the first paragraph, I think that the singer-songwriter when she says 'Don't you know, They're talkin' 'bout a revolution', she is refering to what the people wants and talk about.
In the second paragraph, the author talks about what people do when they are in a bad living situation. She says that they wasting their time waiting for government assistance, welfares, and better jobs or even job, considering that she says: 'Wasting time in the unemployment lines, sitting around waiting for a promotion.'
Finally, Tracy Chapman says that the poor people will rise up and that is why the goverment better run. And then, she sings 'finally the tables are starting to turn' refering to the beginning of a revolution.
In my opinion, even if this song is a little bit short and it is formed practically by three paragraphs (taking into consideration the paragraphs replay that she does), the song defends clearly the idea of revolution against the corrupt governments and the economical system. I can say that the song brought or could had brought a lot of polemic considering that by the lyrics of the song, she led us to believe that she had (or has) some Marxism feeling because of the indirectly criticism she does about the economic sistem that controls the majoritary of the states.
