The useless and endless world conflicts. This photo makes me wonder, when will humanity learn to live in peace.
Welcome to our article,
This year, I am continuing to write my world news
diary, and my views, but I will be writing it less often. So, I will publish an
article every two or three months, instead of every month. You see, I am
writing it to remember those important things that I have seen happen, and when
they happened.
Anyhow, we all start a new year with new hope
that things will turn out better than last year, but so far, I have not seen
any improvement, the war in Ukraine is continuing, people are dying in this
useless war, where no one can gain anything. The only thing this war creates is
problems, for Ukraine Russia and the rest of the world. So, I hope that
President Putin finds a way how to end this war. You see, the world has many
problems to solve, and this useless war only makes things worse. I believe that
it is a useless war because the Ukrainian people want to be free to choose,
they do not want Russia to tell them what to do, so, this war may never end for
that reason, unless Russia let them free to choose their own ways.
Now this is not the only conflict in the
world, because there are others as well. One of which is the Israel Palestinian
conflict. This has been reported thus. (And I quote). Explained:
How the Israel-Palestinian conflict may be entering a new deadly phase
Unlike previous unrest, newly emerging Palestinian
militant groups are increasingly fragmented and calling for a popular uprising.
This demand, in turn, coincides with a radical shift to the extreme right in
Israel’s government.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to the Middle East this week to make yet another push for a
negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians following yet another
dramatic escalation in violence between the two sides.
Blinken urged peace in his meetings with Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the president of the Palestinian
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, but the prospects could hardly be dimmer.
More than 30 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the beginning of this
year, mostly at the hands of Israeli security forces. And last Friday, a
Palestinian gunman killed seven Israeli civilians outside a synagogue in the
Israeli settlement of East Jerusalem, one of the worst attacks in
the city in years.
So, Israel and Palestine jump from crisis to
crisis, but a string of brutal and deadly attacks over the past few days have
raised fears that the Holy Land is spiralling toward unrelenting bloodshed.
There is speculation that the region is on the brink of an intifada – a Palestinian
uprising, or literally, a “shaking off” of Israeli control. The first two
uprisings were cracked down on hard, failed to end the occupation and left
several thousand people dead, mostly Palestinians. Some believe a third
intifada has already started.
What has occurred
over the past few days?
Israel
launched one of its
deadliest operations in years in the
occupied West Bank on Thursday, sending soldiers on an unusually fierce raid to
kill militants stationed in the Jenin refugee camp. Ten Palestinians, mostly
gunmen, but also two civilians, including a 61-year-old woman, were killed.
The
attack sparked back-and-forth violence, including the exchange of rocket fire
between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Israel. On Friday evening, a Palestinian
gunman killed seven Israelis as they exited a synagogue in East Jerusalem. It
was the
deadliest Palestinian attack in the city in years.
And
there is more bad news.
Peshawar, Pakistan blast: Death toll rises to at
least 100 in …
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/asia/pakistan-peshawar-mosque-blast...
The
death toll from a suicide bomb that
ripped through a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan,
rose to at least 100 on Tuesday, marking one of the deadliest attacks in the …
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And
there is more bad news in the world, see Turkey earthquake, which today while I am editing this article has reached 50000 people dead.
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Turkey
Syria earthquake toll is more than 50,000 people dead, but there are some near
miracles, see below. (And I quote)
Dwarfed by his adult hospital
bed, five-year-old Aras is resting on his back playing with a model car.
He is one of Turkey's miracles.
Rescue teams freed him from the rubble of his home in the now
devastated city of Kahramanmaras, 105 hours after the earthquake.
When he was brought into the intensive care unit, hypothermia
had set in and his body temperature had dropped to 28 degrees Celsius (82
degrees Fahrenheit).
Seven more people have been rescued
eight days after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and
Syria, but hopes of finding further survivors of what the World Health
Organization called the worst natural disaster in 100 years in its 53-country
Europe region are dwindling.
As a UN aid convoy entered stricken
north-west Syria through a new crossing, the combined death
toll rose to nearly 38,000, including 31,974 in Turkey and at least 5,714 in
rebel-held and government-controlled Syria – a figure that is expected to
continue to increase.
Among those recovered on Tuesday was
Muhammed Cafer, 18, who could be seen moving his fingers as he was lifted from
rubble in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey. Muhammed Yeninar, 17, and his brother Baki,
21, were found alive in the same region.
Now let us look at the pope visit in Africa.
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'Hands off Africa' Pope says on visit to DR Congo.
Shortly after landing in Kinshasa in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pope Francis delivered a speech full of
stinging condemnation of the exploitation over centuries - not just of this
country, but also the continent.
He talked of political strangleholds giving way to
"economic colonialism", which he said was equally enslaving.
In the best-received section of the speech he told the outside
world to acknowledge the catastrophic things that have been done in the country
and to fully respect people here.
"Hands off the Democratic Republic of the Congo! Hands off
Africa! Stop choking Africa, it is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be
plundered," Pope Francis said to applause, referring to the rich resources
that have brought so much conflict and death to the country.
However, the Pope did not specifically refer to the role played
by Catholic colonisers, backed by historic edicts from the Vatican, and the
atrocities they committed here.
Anyhow, Pope Francis made repeated appeals
for peace during his landmark trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo this
week, but there was no let-up in fighting in the east. So, pope Francis is
trying his best but not everybody listens.
Pope Francis to the Congolese: Your country is beautiful, Pray for your country.
Greeting
pilgrims after last Sunday’s Angelus Prayer, Pope Francis addressed a special
word to Congolese nationals, who came to express their gratitude to him for the
visit he recently undertook to their country.
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Health
and financial problems, early 2023.
I believe that
humanity needs to solve health and financial problems, instead of making war,
as we have reported above. So, let us look what else is
happening. Because of the covid for over two years the people have not been
able to work and produce things as usual, so, most economies are suffering.
During the covid most government in the world have spent more money than they could
afford, so, today they are in the red, so to speak. Now because of what has
happened, there is inflation, and most people find hard to live as they used to
live in the past. The central banks are
increasing the rate of interest to slow down inflation and gain some control,
but so far it is not happening, so, most of us are worried, in case the economy
goes out of control. Anyhow not everybody is affected adversely, because people
that have their saving in the bank will earn more interest. So, as usual some
people win and some people lose, this is a general idea what is happening in
the world, but let us talk about Australia now, since this is where I am
writing from.
In Australia they have this financial set up, the first
Tuesday of every month, the RBA bord meets and decides, if they need to change
the interest rate, and about how much they have to put up or down the interest
rate, and so far, they have increased the interest rate nine times in a row.
So, it went from extremely low 0.1 % to 3.5% and growing.
This has happened before in Australia, and that time went
up to more than 15% if I remember right, and according to the then prime minister
Keating, it was the recession that we had to have, but I wonder if really, we
have to have these recessions.
Anyhow, this time is much lower, but still, it will hurt
some people that have borrowed a lot of money, mostly it will be those people
that have bought properties and have a big mortgage to pay. I can imagine that
some of those people may lose their property, because they might not be able to
pay even the interest.
Now, if some people lose their properties, the question is
this, if the RBA of Australia had not lowered the rate of interest so low, at 0.1%,
and if the banks had not approved these large loans, then the people would have
not been in a position to lose their bought properties. (Well, that is just a
simple bloke view, and I might be wrong).
Anyhow, this article is becoming too long, so, I better
stop writing. See you next time.
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