Is The World Going To Hell In A Handcart

[emmie]

whichever paper you read, or tv news item, there are wars, strife, conflict,
nowhere is really safe, not even in good old Britain, or is it just the same old story, mankind can't help but muck things up..

[jno]

relax. For everyone doing something bad in the papers, there are a million who aren't. The newspapers just don't have the space to report them.

[DrFilth]

i was going on my bike emmie but i had to sell it

[emmie]

i think that perhaps its worse, because now mankind has devilish weapons, of that mass destruction types that Blair told us about, so at the press of a button up we all go

[Old_Geezer]

One had hoped with a new millennium, we may have moved forward, but apparently not in my lifetime. Still here's to the next millennium. Maybe we'll have the answers by then.

[emmie]

by then it may be too late.

[emmie]

my nan was bit shady, but not evil x

[Zacs-Master]

It's fun fun fun on here today ain't it. Anyway enjoy your wallow im off to the pub.

[emmie]

actually my nan could be an evil witch, but don't tell anyone

[bibblebub]

Back in the 1980's I realised that in the Times News In Brief column, which is always hidden away somewhere deep within the newspaper, there would be a story almost every week consisting of just a couple of sentences to the effect that a ferry had sunk somewhere in Asia and 200 or more had died. Back then such a story never got a mention in the news broadcasts yet now it is headline news simply because details of such stories can be available here within seconds.

Things happened in the past, it is just that the news broadcasters now have (primarily) video of incidents available very soon after they have occurred and so make them the big story that they never were in the past.

[emmie]

it doesn't seem that way, war in Syria, hundreds of thousands died, millions of displaced citizens conflict in Afghanistan, how many dead there, Egypt, many part of Africa, famine, drought, tsunamis, its never ending, the wars should have stopped by now, but they haven't, they just kill more than those of old, except for the last two major ones

[emmie]

add in this, and the current conflict in Ukraine, so its not a good world

The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. During the approximate 100-day period from April 7, 1994 to mid-July, an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed

[shaneystar2]

No wonder you feel under the weather at times emmie keep worrying yourself about what might happen and probably never will .Chill for goodness sake .
The world keeps on turning and whatever happens there's b. all we can do about it .There have been been wars ,strife and muck ups (pardon the pun ) since time immemorial .

[emmie]

on a bigger scale you mean, and that doesn't keep me awake at night, pain however does.

[pixie373]

We just hear about more things quicker and if you look out for the bad things, you'll find them.

[boxtops]

It seems it's always been the same, and the speed that news travels round the world now means we get to hear about things very quickly. I remember being terrified of the tension over the Bay of Pigs when I was a teenager - I thought they were going to blow us all up.

I am wondering whether our own Herald of Free Enterprise disaster on the Zeebrugge-Dover run in 1987 got half as much international coverage as the current ferry disaster. 193 people died that night.

[emmie]

on the news, if you watch it, on tv if you watch it, how can you not hear of these things, like the killings here, it was on our doorstep

[shaneystar2]

Pain keeps me awake too .That's enough for me to worry about without concerning myself too much that someone is going to drop a bomb on me .