Waiting On the World To Change!

Waiting On the World To Change!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

I couldn't believe my ears & eyes as I viewed Patrick Winn's report below & World Focus on TV tonight. I saw the chaos outside the airport in Thailand, amongst Thailand's people- brother to sister , neighbor to neighbor. I watched the Thai airport worker apologize & try to make an American man in a wheel chair understand that the airline has no control & were not being allowed to fly out of the airport because of the uprising of her fellow Thai brothers & sisters in what they saw as their last effort to fight for their Democracy & define Thailand as a nation.

She proceeds to try to tell the passenger that the Thai people are kind, smiling people (with her kind smile in the middle of chaos), & that what was going on outside did not define them; in terms of trying to inconvenience him, rioting & preventing him from his freedom to fly. The American passenger looked at her straight in the face & said " There is a major holiday in America that you are going to cause a lot of people to miss just because you have a little riot outside" ! Wow!

It is appalling regardless of the inconvenience to completely minimize the fight for a nation's sense of democracy big or small, to having to get to a holiday which has been allowed by our nation to be advertised/ summed up to having turkey, worrying about family drama erupting (according to a Thanksgiving travel survey- family drama erupting was the top worry for Thanksgiving travelers this year, surpassing traffic & travel delays), Black Friday and the start of a retail/consumerist orgy of capital -let alone worrying about your safety & the safety of others, while parts of the world around you are erupting. On the Day before Americans are to celebrate Being Thankful & Giving Thanks- remember the being thankful part of Thanksgiving! Even someone in a wheel chair, who is physically denied certain basic freedoms couldn't have that empathy or sympathy for his fellow human!

This dude is the biggest Turkey- Well worthy of a good Thanksgiving Roasting!! Please find this clip & put it online for Americans on our day of Thanks to see why it has been so hard to root out, as Barack Obama said tonight in his statement on the attacks in Mumbai, "The hateful ideology that lead to these attacks" !


We are experiencing the first tests of Change & what could /should be the definition of good governance in the world & a redefinition of America's relationship with fellow nations, while spreading her ideology of the fine balance of a capitalist based democracy.


We all have to do our part to be part of the Change we want to see! It starts with respecting one another as global citizens. I was disappointed in the lack of coverage of the Mumbai attacks today, even on news stations. On 9/11 the majority of the world came in solidarity & sympathy for the American people in condemnation of Terrorism, despite what they may have felt about America's foreign policy. All eyes were on America with a pursuit of the dissemination of information & to show the world how a few men & hateful ideology can cost so much destruction & devastation amongst innocent people. Doesn't India deserve the same coverage with the focus of the eyes of the world, as it is being attacked by the same hateful ideology? The marketing of Thanksgiving -sticking to the usual programming- in the same way showed to be of greater importance than the "little riot" another nation faced!

No one's happiness, hardships & freedom are lesser than yours! Let's let that be the redefinition of the America Way! -GLOBAL Fusion ProductionsInc .

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/11/25/violent-thai-protests-shut-down-airport/2923/comment-645

AUDIO: Patrick Winn, a correspondent for GlobalPost, speaks to Martin Savidge from Bangkok.

Tuesday saw more violence in Thailand, where supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's government battled in the streets of Bangkok. The anti-government protesters also took the dispute to Bangkok's international airport, where they succeeded in halting departing flights.The fighting began when government supporters threw rocks at a truck carrying members of the opposition group, the People's Alliance for Democracy. Opposition members, who consider the pro-Western government corrupt, then fired back with slingshots and guns.

http://wjnoblog.com/2008/11/
Obama On The Mumbai Attacks: Posted by Shawn Wasson
November 26, 2008

"President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks. We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks."

Why did it take so long for the Obama team to issue this response?

GFP answer to blogger-Shawn:(Damned if he does -damned if he doesn't -as he has respectfully stated, there is only one president serving at a time- where is Bush's statement on your blog- oh i guess he took even longer or was it not interesting enough for you to post?)!

Update: At least 50 hostages rescued at the famed Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
Video: British hostage tells of his ordeal…The Google map shows the areas that have been attacked.

Flickr photos from the scene…
More on this Deccan Mujahideen:
Indian intelligence believes the Indian Mujahideen is a front group created by Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Harkat ul Jihad al Islami to confuse investigators and cover the tracks of the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI, a radical Islamist movement. The groups receive support from Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence and are al Qaeda affiliates.

The fighters appear to be young, supporting the blurb above…They were boys of about 20-25 year-olds and apparently they demanded that people with American and British passports to identify themselves.

Live-blogging from Mumbai via Ultra Brown. Here's how it's playing out in an Indian news room…
Continued live coverage from NDTV as night turns to morning in Mumbai, India.

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