The Guardian and Eurekalert focus on a subject near and dear to my heart, the value of human life.
I am compel nowadays to accept that many things change in politics and society. But one thing you can always count on, whoever is in power, is hypocricy. Human race is the master of early positioning - using the security issue to drown out their opponents and to reinforce their value of human life message. Hitler said: ‘it is my unshakable will that Czechoslovakia shall be wiped off the map.’
Neville Chamberlain said:‘ How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches [in Hyde Park, a borough of London] and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.’
I reflected this morning on this strange democratic reality which verges on satire ... Can we really compare Iraq of 2003 to Germany of 1938? As I get older my reading on the Seventh Day of the week seems to get more absurd and bluer, but somehow also more colourful and thanks to bloggers like Tim Dunlop even jazzier.
Media Seven lives were lost in a sudden and shocking disasters around the world
Seven people die in the train accident at Waterfall in Australia. Seven schoolchildren are swept to their deaths on a skiing trip in Canada. Seven Africans are washed up dead on a beach in Spain. Seven astronauts are lost when the space shuttle breaks up over America. Only one story captures world attention. Why?
· Some Sevens are more equal than others [Guardian (UK)]
· Better Balance Needed [Eurekalert]
