I've been hangin' around this place for several years, and this "World Events" forum is pathetic and pitiful with regard to ....yeah, World Events. I know most of you don't think so, but there's more to World Events than just the Israeli/Palestinian issue. There's thousands of things that happen in the world every day, yet there's almost never any new threads about any of it. Does that actually mean that no one here knows any of those world events? Or do none of you care about any world issues other than the Middle East? I'm confused. I've been confused since coming to this site years ago. Is there really no World Events that anyone cares about other than the Middle East? I know this thread will be closed and deleted, but I hope some people get to read it before it goes. Something's wrong ...and I think that that something is that people here don't know anything about World Events! Baron Max
Well I tried opening topics on other places. But apparently the only threads that get any attention are those from or about North America or the Middle East.
i agree with sam, i have tried operning up threads on issues in australia and they end up empty or MAYBE commented on by the other australians here and maybe a NZer or a pom. The only one i can think of which went for a fair while on an australian issue was the one on the bush fires
Why don't you start any? It's mostly that the most frequent posters to World Events are obsessed with the Middle East. No. Those are just your personal bugbears. Most of the threads you start are either to slam the US for something or to slam Israel for something. That's when you're not complaining about the moderators, of course, or slaming atheists for something.
Easy enough to see the differences in responses to the other threads I started. http://www.sciforums.com/search.php?searchid=2890283
Most events are news related to some other thread. For example, US under Obama is relaxing US / Cuba tensions would likely get placed under politics etc. New volcano that erupted yesterday in Earth sciences. etc. Stocks surge 500 points under economics, etc.
james thats a little harsh, shes right. Anything not US or israil related gets ignored. An example, i did a quick search of all my threads in WE and if you look down the list you have Japan's oldest whaling town battles for survival 30 posts Mugabe's leadership a failure, says Mandela 11 30 years on how much has changed? (sydney Mardi Gras) 23 Assaination atempt on the President and PM of east timor 10 National Apology 28 Police officer shot in sydney 1 compared to: Tornado storm across the US 81
Normally I’d post in economic the following, but to help W.E. out: "... China’s purchases {Billy T insert: Last month, before China publicly questioned the soundness of the dollar. Next month's buying, if any, will be much more interesting.} slowed and most were in short-term* Treasury bills, the country remained the largest foreign holder of Treasuries after its holdings rose 0.6 percent to $744.2 billion, according to a monthly report released in Washington. ... Still, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiao chuan, last month urged the establishment of a “super- sovereign reserve currency” after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he’s “worried” a weaker U.S. dollar may hurt China’s investment. The U.S. needs China to sustain its purchases to fund billions’ worth of programs aimed at reviving the economy, about 70 percent of which reflects consumer spending. “If they are going to boost their economy by selling consumer goods to the U.S., accepting U.S. Treasuries is part of their bargain with the devil,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in New York. ... According to an analysis by Win Thin, a senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York, today’s report shows “we are not seeing any wholesale dumping of dollar assets by China.” In an interview, Thin said the smaller increase in holdings of Treasury securities reflects a slowdown in capital flows between investors in China and other emerging markets rather than deliberate efforts on the part of the Chinese authorities. ..." From: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahckIGO9Dqp8&refer=home ------------ *I noted more than a month ago that the steeping of the yield curve indicated to me that China and others have little faith that 10 and 30 years hence the dollar will be worth much. Note that US bond markets are very liquid and one can normally sell in a few seconds when they are open, but you do not get face value - you get what someone will pay and when the run on the dollar starts that could be only 20% of face. If you do not like the market price, and term is short, you can hold to maturity and get 100% of face value. Uncle SAM will never default, but the green backs he pays with may not be worth much when the dollar run is a few days old. I do not think it likely that China will dump dollars or even stop buying entirely in 2009, but when it does and publicly says it has, that triggers run on dollar and depression in US and EU - I guess that qualifies as a "world event." Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!:bawl::shrug: I am on record, for some years now, in many posts of predicting this happens before Halloween Day 2014, but I now think there is a slight chance Obama's leadership, ability to inspire and tell it like it is may foil my prediction -make it just the longest, most pain full recession ever (one hard to tell from a depression.)
Looks that way. I've posted a few threads about European issues before and they almost always get no replies. The most popular topics are the ones that wind a lot of people up. Atm that seems to be Gaza and the Middle East.
Good call. Actually about less than a week ago, there is an election in my home country (Indonesia). I was thinking to put it up in World Events, but I suspect it will get few or no reply *sigh*... Now if there is election in USA, hundreds of threads would be dedicated for that like 1 year before/after the election!
Zionist separatism haunts the US empire, because her citizens remain in confusion and denial about the assumptions and implications of our commitment to it. For as long as the USA remains obsessed with zionism- for as long as we can afford to continue as the planet's overbearing military busybody- and for as long as the Mideast remains Earth's biggest fuel tank, our obsession with our Chosen Ones will be the talk of the planet. For as long as the USA avoids coming to terms with this cause that we confuse with righteousness, and that we unquestioningly place above our own national interests, zionism will continue to animate the worst demons of our racist and imperialist past. As moral pressure from all over the world increases, zionist policy will continue to become more threatened and depraved, and Israel and her US nanny will experience increasing isolation until the zionist institution of ethnic separatism is discredited and abolished. It's not because zionist separatism is the only or last example of cultural trauma and dysfunction that the world's attention is riveted there. USAmericans, of all people, should understand why this issue keeps intruding on our lives: It became the story of our age because history's most powerful military nation became deeply, obsessively, and unquestioningly invested in the zionist cause. We became politically and strategically entangled in monotheistic rivalries that any enlightened, secular, and constitutional democracy should instinctively avoid. Where echos of holocaust and religious rivalries combine, fools rush in eagerly. In our moral confusion and hubris the USA (with some early assist from the British Empire) has upped the ante more than any other player, escalating and elevating the story of Jewish separatism in the Mideast into humanity's definitive and fateful test of whether we can evolve beyond the destructive cycle of viral fear and hatred. Presently USAmericans have taken the lead in setting the modern stage of this defining passion-play. For a US citizen to whine about being tired of the hubbub surrounding our profoundly provocative project is an appalling demonstration of ignorance.
See? Even this thread goes the way of all threads on this forum .....straight into the "It's all America's fault!" or "It's all Israel's fault!". Do we, at sciforums, know of nothing else going on in the world ...OTHER THAN... the events of the Middle East? Sciforum members try to present themselves as intelligent and knowledgeable, yet are we so ignorant of the rest of the world? Even threads about "What's Going On in the Rest of the World?" turn into "Blame America" threads!! Baron Max
Hey Maximus I hope you are well and had a good Easter Break!! u have a point maximus however i ahve start quitre a few thread ion other shite but they dont seem to pick up aty all that well!! cheers zak
My word, Even the Baron's had enough. I have tried in the past to deal with this problem, unfortunately people didn't like how I was pushing an agenda on them, however what they tended to neglect was to realise that most of the protesters to me locking their threads and asking them to not keep posting the same rhetoric over and over again was actually an attempt to stop their form of "Extreme Fascism" from spamming this subforum. Perhaps one day some enlightened people that watch other headlines will flood the forum with more tales of the world than just the objects of obsession from the usual xenophobes and extremists. (I really wish I could say that day was now, feel free to make it so)
