Ballon D'or 2013

This award is supposed to go to the player who has had the best performance of the last year, not the last five minutes! If they give this award to Ronaldo it will be just that, don't get me wrong, he's a great player ( but a bigger ass hole!) but what has he really achieve last year, I mean where was he for the big games? It's not as if he won La Liga , The Champions League or win Euro 2012- if I remember correctly he didn't even get to take a penalty against Spain.

On the other hand Ribery was vital in the Champions League and helped Bayern Munich win it and also the League and he has also helped France qualify for the Word Cup. We all know why Ronaldo really wants this. it's because Messi won it more than once and he's jealous, well, in my humble opinion I don't really think Messi deserves it this year.

I don't claim to be as wise as " the powers that be", all I'm saying is that if they decide such awards on the basis of who has is the " hot property" of the last week- they might as well hand them out every week because they will become meaningless. By the way has everyone forgotten about Andrea Pirlo?!! A lifetime achievement award perhaps.

30 and Over the Hill!

Music by Bear Mc Creary- Battlestar Galactica

Such beauty....

The forgotten past

Everyone wants to be remembered and everyone searches for some kind of meaning to their existence, and a large part of that meaning come from what  you have done in the past- your history. That is why I feel that  UNESCO World Heritage is an important organisation to be a part of. This program  is basically a catalog of sites that are considered to be of cultural or natural importance to humanity, which could by the UK  has only 28 and the USA only 21.

The country with the most UNESCO world heritage sites is not surprising, it's Italy with a whopping 49 sites. China has 45, Spain 44, France and Germany have 38. It is important to preserve the past, that is how we learn from our mistakes after all. Now it comes as no surprise that the UK has so little, it just goes to show where their priorities lie! They don't care beauty, knowledge or culture unless you can make a lot of money from it straight away. What legacy are we leaving behind for the future?? A whole bunch of debt!

UNESCO is all about the about preserving such things like forest, mountains, lakes, islands, deserts, monuments, buildings and even whole cities like the city of Verona in Italy or Venice that is also in Italy for the common heritage of humanity. You may be wondering why things like mountains or forests are on this list, they are at threat from corporations who would want to blow the tops of mountains to get to the minerals, and the very real threat of deforestation.

Some people are just so short sighted and selfish that all they think about is how much money they can make in their lifetime, they don't spare a thought for future generations- that's why we should be grateful to UNESCO for helping to preserve what really matters.

Conditioned to forget..

It troubles me deeply when  I look back at this year that is now coming to a close. Isn't that what usually happens around this time, people take the time to reflect? But what kinds of things will people remember? There's no doubt that people will recall the devastation in the Philippines, after all, that has just happened and is still in the media, but do people remember the hundreds that died in Bangladesh when the factory collapsed due to the fact they have no health and safety because that might mean that the dress you got from Primark might cost a pound more?!! Or perhaps the earthquake in Pakistan that killed over 500 souls? How about the fact that after 10 years, Iraq and Afghanistan are just hellish if not more before the so called democracy that was supposed to arrive.

Does anyone pay attention to what's happening to their food- GMO's anyone? It isn't going to benefit anyone but the big corporations, no matter what BS they are chucking around it's not going to solve world hunger!! Do you really want to be like the States where having bloody diarrhea and anal leakage is a common occurrence??  How about the whole spying thing? I brought up this issue in a conversation with a friend and her reply was that of a person who doesn't care, and that is disturbing. People have become so distracted by things like the x factor or the royal baby that they are completely blind to what's going on, and what's going on is that this society is closing because we have stopped paying attention.

Just earlier this year the whole Frakking "debate came up, well, it wasn't really a debate as the companies just brushed aside the protesters and did it anyway. The UK is going in the wrong direction, instead of listening to the concerns of the people who " elected" them into their plush offices, they would rather listen to the money hungry corporations. A lot like the States, what this shit hole of a country should do is is try and use some common sense, I know that maybe difficult but I'm begging you, try! Across the pond you have some of the most unhealthiest and some of the poorest people in the western world, that is not progress, what that is is a society regressing!

Also I hear a lot of Euro bashing and I got to say I don't like it! When I see them protesting or striking, you know what I see... Intelligence, because those people know the injustice of bailing out the banks while letting the people suffer. Europe is still full of so much beauty and culture that is worth fighting for, what culture is there her??? Being a drunk and pissing in the street.

This country has its priorities all wrong and that is what happens when you allow big money into politics? People have to realize how far from "democracy" that is.

Who are real slackers,the people who will risk everything to see that people know the truth like Mr Snowden and the people protesting all across Europe or you, the people who are just oblivious to the fact that you are modern day slaves??