What kind of truths are we searching for?
Italy
£7 billion rich ex Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi apologises for his playboy infidelities to
his seething wife by publishing a letter in a newspaper.
Africa
8 million people in East Africa are faced with livelihood loss and malnutrition. 10 children die every minute as a result of malnutrition in developing countries.
UK
15 million people in the UK are struggling with debt repayments. The British government are supporting the opening of casinos across the country to encourage people to gamble; this includes a 'super-casino' in Manchester. The prisons are already overflowing.
USA
9 year old Semaj is so miserable at home he has tried to runaway by a) driving a stolen car at 90 mph until he hits a tree b) bluff his way onto a plane to another state. While kids like Semaj may be growing up in an unhappy household they have plenty of food like McDonalds to make them 'happy' 1/2 of US children will be overweight by 2010. It's fair to feel pessimistic about how Semaj is likely to grow up.
Indonesia
340,000 people have been made homeless by flooding in Jakarta. Global warming through human activity spewing crap into the air is dangerously rising the earth's temperature. Yet Co2 emissions are rising by 2% every year. 126 species of animal are facing extinction through global warming.
Iraq
130 people have been killed by a bomb blast at a market in Baghdad, that's 130 more to add to the 650,000 estimated death toll since 2003. Just another day in Iraq, but if 130 people were killed by a bomb in London or LA it would be a different kind of 'human' story.
One boy is shot in an ice rink by wanable gang members in London and it is a tragedy.
Pakistan
Mukhtar Mai is a Pakistani woman who had to fight for legal justice after she was gang-raped as a punishment for a crime her brother was alleged to have committed. She was expected by custom to kill herself. Instead she used compensation money to set up schools to educate girls. In the UK Celeb Big Brother is in trouble for allowing some of its z list celebs to call the female Indian contestent a 'Paki'.
Jordan aka Katie Price is one of the UK's top earning celebs, a millionaire by posing with plastic 32 G breasts. She recently married a failed greasy popstar wearing a big pink marangue.
These are just a few examples of the craziness that is in our media and our news. We are so consumed by the fast-paced who did what and where and how we don't stop to contemplate and try to resolve together the most important question,WHY?
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