Just to note that in my blogs and pod posts and comments I tend to highlight parts of my text like this. It may sometimes seem strange why I have highlighted this thing and not that one, or in such particular order etc. This is merely to make it easier for readers to skip through my often quite long texts and still grasp the main points I'm trying to make there.

One of the main issues with Zaadz communication (and any forums for that matter) is the amount of text generated. With all respect to their authors, upon seeing a large body of text with minimal or absent paragraphing or highlighting, I often just skip it all. Time is scarce, we all know that. Usually what follows is someone quoting a sentence from that text later and asking to clarify. Bingo - now I know what that was all about! :)

That is why I think it is worth encouraging strategical highlighting, it proves to be very useful, to me at least. I try to highlight in such a way that, if someone reads only the highlighted text, they still end up reading a coherent flow of ideas and miss very little. I know full well how a lot of highlighting and especially CAPITALISING can put readers off, but I hope we all learn a difference between unnecessary and very useful highlighting. And act on it.

One military gunship costs the taxpayer over 15 million dollars. This is what the west sends to “problematic” countries. To give help.

I just realised that if all the money the US (et al.) have spent in a single war was collected and given to someone with an open mind and loving heart, the whole of Africa could be taken out of poverty in a few years time.

I don’t believe in the good intentions of western aid. It is more concerned with dumping the excess of its own production onto the third world, or plainly just making a profit. Excess food production and even GM crops are given as help, instead of tools and resources for poor countries to develop their own food production infrastructure. Medicines with questionable properties are given massively to people whom nobody will miss (in the west), instead of actually providing training, facilities and resources for those countries to develop their own medicines, doctors and healers. Multinational corporations are moving in to exploit the cheap local labour and taking all profit out of the country, rather than helping a development of the poor country’s own industry. And if they have their own industry, it will be bought and corrupted to once again exploit the population and produce cheaply so we can have a relatively comfy lifestyle here in the west. Even charities mostly donate food, clothes and medicines, fuelling the problem indirectly rather than dealing with the roots of it. Moreover, the west and the demilitarised east dump their weaponry onto third world countries, fuelling all those local wars and civil bloodshed. Go to any African country and find an armed faction: we sold them those Kalashnikovs, in return for that faction giving back to us their gold and diamonds for our shiny trinkets, amongst other stuff. And if the faction decides to stop giving, we just sell to the opposing faction, resulting in even more bloodshed.

We are such a greedy, ignorant, selfish race.

It’s a f*cking disgrace.