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I've noticed that the images of Darfur seem very much absent of late, and Israel gets 95% of the coverage in the Palestinian dispute, and the truth of both is far from correctly reported, and do you 'watch the news' on a regular basis? and if you do, why do you accept this crap as the 'news' when in fact it is the spin/hype/warp/concealment of the reality that many of us are really distressed to know you're watching? Did you know that one BILLION people will jump on an airliner this next year? 40% of them will have a non-scheduled 'event' in that experience, too, and that is my extrapolation; between customs holdups, checkin snarlups, takeoff delays, security scares, maintenance emergencies, flight emergencies, terrorist intervention (that'll get .0002% of the action) and WEATHER.... don't forget the weather..).... plus if you plan to cross the United States of Anal Retentivity, you can double your chances of a snarlup, and New York? treble it.... So there's a bit of news for you; air travel is going to be more a hassle than driving, but, in the wisdom of putting smaller airliners on routes with more frequent flights, (completely contra the Airbus A380 behemoth that the French have so succinctly created,) we have allowed all that is grossly inefficient in human nature to stab another great wound to the heart of this fragile globe of ours, while Darfur and Palestine go to the spin doctors too. Might I suggest we frequent flyers make a resolution to include one diaster zone to their list of destinations? I actually have seen a few in my life, and have deliberately tried to access the Vietnamese Highlands, for example, which is the scene of one of the least reported ethnic catastrophes of the world, only to be rebuffed by that very prevalent institution in disaster areas; men in uniforms; wherever I go with a negative outcome in the 90%+ probability range, men in uniforms have the whole action sewn up. You do the math; can we honestly allow military agents to uphold law and order in the world? The answer is an absolute 'NO', and the aforesaid USA's privatisation of the foreign security business is an even worse scenario; 'Thugs in uniform'; who, in every event I have ever witnessed, and a lot I've seen covered by independant docos, (e.g.'Lessons of Darkness', Werner Herzog) are the very worst representation of foreign interest in the many unfortunate countries of this world. So, you who are informed of sweet fuck all by your personal choice of news coverage, can you start to show a little innate intelligence; a little 'personal involvement' in world affairs? Can you line up with the masses at a Burmese rally, or help out in a food delivery run to Darfur, or, for my preference, try to stop the displacement of the aboriginal natives of the Montagnard Highlands (the true Vietnamese are NOT Asian, OK?) from their very fragile predicament in Pleiku Province? I know very well that in Pleiku Province all the money action is illegal, criminal and corrupt; a totally forsaken borderline between no man's land and hell, and no one goes there as you'd have to be a bigger warlord than George W to even think of it. How do we stop that? Same way we stop Afghanistan and it's drug and crime ridden wastelands. Oh, tfff tfff tfff sniff sniff sniff, have another pain killer... Nuff said