It Is Happening
I have come up with the idea of this ning social network because of the ability of big coprporations or nation-states to skew reality and the flow of media information to suit a particular elite interest group.
I think this is fundamentally wrong, and that wherever such warping of reality do occur, someone should be courageous enough to say: "Hellooo, I do not think that you are being completely open and honest about what is actually happening here" and then speak up and say why precisely they think that justice is not being served in whatever matter is at issue.
This social network also was prompted into being by the recent protest in anniversary of the 1959 uprising of the Tibetan people against Chinese rule. There has been ample media coverage of the protests by the monks and laypeople in Tibet, the disruptions of the torch lighting ceremony in Greece and the horribly dishonest and evil smear campaign of the Chinese government, media and those taken in by their lies and deceit.
As a young South African who has lived in Burma for three years as an ordained buddhist monk in the Burmese Theravadin tradition, I experienced first-hand the brutality, fear and stress of living under a brutal, totalitarian regime where armed security forces shoot first and ask What was it you wanted to say after the fact...!
Also as a descendant of the indigenous KhoiSan peoples of Southern Africa, it is also the perfect time to highlight the plight of so-called coloured people in this region.
Today they are a minority in their own aboriginal homeland, having been driven farther and farther south through waves of migrations though the centuries south by Bantu-speaking tribes. In the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries with the arrival of colonial settlers of the Dutch East India company and their Malay and Indonesian slaves, the demographics and "population transfer" experiment was nearly complete: the Bushmen and Hottentots were hunted and exterminated like vermin, and those that had a bit of foresight and survival instinct, aligned themselves with Dutch farmers as labourers and slaves, just to keep them from being eradicated altogether.
Today South Africa has a Coloured population of little more than 4 million, in a population of roughly 48 million.
The socio-political challenges of the last remaing concentration of Coloured people in the Western Cape province of South Africa is something which can fill books and movies and websites: gangs, guns, drugs, domestic violence and abuse and a structural "wall" in a new South Africa where scarce resources are mismanaged and stolen by corrupt organised criminal cliques in the ANC/SACP/COSATU coalition government and the little bit that trickles down to the unwashed masses goes first and foremost to the newly enfranchised poor, black majority who voted those thugs into power in the first place.
I do not expect you to agree with anything that is said here. If you do decide to come by and you find that this stuff does not resonate, feel free to peacefully press on and be on your merry way.
I tolerate no abuse and bullshit from anyone, and I do not stand for intimidation and flamewars; that you will find straight down the hallway, second door to your right.
To everyone else: Speak Friend and ENTER!
I think this is fundamentally wrong, and that wherever such warping of reality do occur, someone should be courageous enough to say: "Hellooo, I do not think that you are being completely open and honest about what is actually happening here" and then speak up and say why precisely they think that justice is not being served in whatever matter is at issue.
This social network also was prompted into being by the recent protest in anniversary of the 1959 uprising of the Tibetan people against Chinese rule. There has been ample media coverage of the protests by the monks and laypeople in Tibet, the disruptions of the torch lighting ceremony in Greece and the horribly dishonest and evil smear campaign of the Chinese government, media and those taken in by their lies and deceit.
As a young South African who has lived in Burma for three years as an ordained buddhist monk in the Burmese Theravadin tradition, I experienced first-hand the brutality, fear and stress of living under a brutal, totalitarian regime where armed security forces shoot first and ask What was it you wanted to say after the fact...!
Also as a descendant of the indigenous KhoiSan peoples of Southern Africa, it is also the perfect time to highlight the plight of so-called coloured people in this region.
Today they are a minority in their own aboriginal homeland, having been driven farther and farther south through waves of migrations though the centuries south by Bantu-speaking tribes. In the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries with the arrival of colonial settlers of the Dutch East India company and their Malay and Indonesian slaves, the demographics and "population transfer" experiment was nearly complete: the Bushmen and Hottentots were hunted and exterminated like vermin, and those that had a bit of foresight and survival instinct, aligned themselves with Dutch farmers as labourers and slaves, just to keep them from being eradicated altogether.
Today South Africa has a Coloured population of little more than 4 million, in a population of roughly 48 million.
The socio-political challenges of the last remaing concentration of Coloured people in the Western Cape province of South Africa is something which can fill books and movies and websites: gangs, guns, drugs, domestic violence and abuse and a structural "wall" in a new South Africa where scarce resources are mismanaged and stolen by corrupt organised criminal cliques in the ANC/SACP/COSATU coalition government and the little bit that trickles down to the unwashed masses goes first and foremost to the newly enfranchised poor, black majority who voted those thugs into power in the first place.
I do not expect you to agree with anything that is said here. If you do decide to come by and you find that this stuff does not resonate, feel free to peacefully press on and be on your merry way.
I tolerate no abuse and bullshit from anyone, and I do not stand for intimidation and flamewars; that you will find straight down the hallway, second door to your right.
To everyone else: Speak Friend and ENTER!
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