Oil Rich Islamic Nations Refuse To Take In Fellow Arab Muslim Refugees

                                  Why is it that the oil rich Islamic nations of the world are exempt from responsibility in taking in refugees, especially because millions of the refugees are their fellow Arab Muslims that share the same language, religion, and culture?  Does their oil exempt them from moral responsibility by a hypocritical west? Already they have squandered billions of dollars of oil wealth on destabilizing the world by spreading the most intolerant, bigoted, hate filled versions of Islam. They are perfectly capable of helping their fellow Arab Muslim refugees, and yet they will not lift a finger, and no one questions why or holds them responsible.

What The NY Times Misses Regarding Wildlife Officers Getting Killed By Poachers

                        From my own personal experience, I believe the NY Times is not credible and will make up facts to suit a story. But that will be the subject of another blog. The NY Times ran an article regarding how wildlife officers are being killed and decimated by poachers.
                       The conservation, wildlife, animal protection organizations collectively are sitting on billions of dollars in assets. How is it that to this day, other than in a few high profile selective situations and sites, they have completely failed to adequately protect flora and fauna, especially when it comes to the third world( the places with the greatest biodiversity and also destruction)? These organizations bear responsibility for the deaths of rangers that they could have ensured are adequately trained and armed.
                   

Limited Government With Maximum Corporate Power

                                        The mantra in the United States by the republicans and conservatives is to have limited government, even as a number of them do everything they can to get an elected position in government or a government job. Meanwhile, no one talks about limiting or at least questioning the vast power of corporations, assuming that they are the holy grail. Will the future be more corporate monopolies, more corporate corruption and collusion with government, more corporate control of every aspect of our lives? From the coffee we drink to almost everything we eat, breathe, drink, see, hear, taste, touch and smell. If the corporations do not like the environmental and labor laws, these entities with loyalty to no one except their boards, senior management, and big shareholders, simply change locations to another country. Every time the mantra is sung about limiting big government, listen carefully how no such song is sung about what really controls our lives.

Russia And Qatar, Perfect Paradises. The World According To Russian Television(RT) And Al Jazeera

                                     The reason Russian Television (RT) and Al Jazeera never probe or investigate their sponsoring countries, Russia for RT and Qatar for Al Jazeera, is because everything is perfect in those countries. They can serve nonstop incitement against the countries, peoples and places their sponsors do not like, but never, ever tarnish the image of their masters. Putin and the oil rich king and sheikhs of Qatar are above reproach. In Russia, there is no corruption, no poverty, no environmental concerns, no human rights abuses, no dissatisfaction among laborers, farmers, or anyone. Or so the propagandists would have us think. Ditto for Qatar, another perfect paradise, even for all the foreign workers that slave away so Qataris never have to.
                                   

Protecting Unskilled Filipino And Other Foreign Workers; Long Overdue In The Islamic Nations Of The Middle East

                                    The Islamic nations of the middle east would tremendously advance decency and humanity in this world by aggressively protecting the rights of all their foreign workers. Not just the highly skilled and educated professional foreign workers, who often do not share the fate of many of the unskilled, uneducated workers. Unskilled women in particular are highly vulnerable to rape, physical abuse, and even murder. Men and women from poor countries are frequently exploited, earning less than their promised wages. Domestic helpers are subject to beatings, loss of wages, and sexual abuse.
                                     The Philippines has not been able to adequately provide its citizens with decent jobs. (We will not delve into the driving forces, including how a tiny few control almost all of the countries wealth, resources, and often politicians, the inability to provide responsible family planning in an incredibly overpopulated country where there is enormous religious resistance, a vastly degraded environment depleted of forests, coral reefs, mangroves, with few environmental protections, few labor protections, exploitative contract labor, and more).
                                     Many Filipinos, desperate to help their families and escape poverty, risk their health, safety, and lives by going abroad to foreign lands where they are left vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. They are particularly vulnerable in a number of middle east Islamic countries where there has been a failure to protect this eager to work, vulnerable population.
                                     By undertaking initiatives to protect their foreign worker population, the Islamic countries of the middle east will be achieving a huge step forward in the advancement of human rights and decency. This must include treating their foreign workers as equals to their own citizens when it comes to their safety and welfare. Special task forces can be created that will track, monitor, and maintain in personal contact with foreign workers to ensure they are properly treated. By ensuring all human beings will be treated fairly under their jurisdiction, the Islamic nations of the middle east will be places where all people will want to work and visit. They must not continue to be places that vulnerable populations fear.

Why The Media Wanted Trump. Why RT And Al Jazeera Are Not Alternatives To The Corporate Media

                                            There is a corporate media, not a free media. The United States is bought, sold and owned by corporations. A free and independent press died years ago. The media is not there to serve the public interest. Its first and primary goal is to make money for its shareholders. The media is about money, and money comes from ratings. The media is not about the public good, the national interest, even though that may be part of their spin.
                                            Donald trump has been great for the media. Liberal or conservative, it makes no difference. Trump is the best thing that ever happened to them, even if they personally do not like him. Trump brings to them an expanded audience and ratings they never could have imagined under a less colorful person. Trump did not have to outspend Clinton on advertisements. Trump received more free media exposure than any candidate ever.
                                             To those media outlets owned or sponsored by governments that pretend to be the alternative to the corporate press, they may deceive some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Let us be clear- when an outlet like Russian Television(RT), or Al Jazeera (Qatar owned), shine their spotlights on the targets they do not like, but never on themselves, they become the propaganda arm of a government. They do have insightful documentaries at times, but never anything critical of what takes place in their sponsoring countries( one would think everything is perfect in Qatar and Russia, which is far from the reality). Their complete failure to ever criticize their sponsoring governments or anything that takes places inside of Russia or Qatar renders them useless as an objective media source and as an alternative to the corporate press.
                                            A small number of media conglomerates own and control most of what people daily access. The world gets shaped by their corporate vision and eagerness to earn money and have high ratings. The alternative is no alternative, which are the government sponsored propaganda media outlets that endlessly spin news and programs against what their sponsoring governments do not like, and never anything against their sponsoring government masters. How unfortunate the media is controlled by big money and certain governments, and served fresh by corporate and government sponsored lackeys.

Why Is An International Conservation Organization Approving Salmon Farms?

                                            A prominent conservation organization with a worldwide presence has been giving their seal of approval to some Pacific ocean Australian salmon fisheries that are farming Atlantic salmon. An expose by an Australian television network about salmon farming revealed that the conservation organization's seal of approval does have a price tag.
                                            We will not digress into the environmental and health consequences that are associated with salmon farming. Rather, let us ask, why is a worldwide conservation organization lending their corporate logo and seal of approval to salmon farming corporations? What qualifications does this nonprofit corporation have to assess Atlantic salmon fish farms? What does the organization mean by responsibly raised salmon that is in environmental compliance? What are the guidelines and standards that must be met in order for the organization to grant approval? Do they even have standards and guidelines? If so, are they readily available to the public? Are the salmon farm fisheries really in environmental compliance just because this organization, or another nonprofit entity, makes this assertion?