A Century of Disaster: Riddles, Lies and Lives — from Muhammad Ali to Barbie

[Uncle Joe]

http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/18/a-century-of-disaster-riddles-lies-and-lives-from-muhammad-ali-to-barbie/

Walls

The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From morning till night we read, saw, heard: the Wall of Shame, the Wall of Infamy, the Iron Curtain…

In the end, a wall which deserved to fall fell. But other walls sprouted and continue sprouting across the world. Though they are much larger than the one in Berlin, we rarely hear of them.

Little is said about the wall the United States is building along the Mexican border, and less is said about the barbed-wire barriers surrounding the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the African coast.

Practically nothing is said about the West Bank Wall, which perpetuates the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and will be 15 times longer than the Berlin Wall. And nothing, nothing at all, is said about the Morocco Wall, which perpetuates the seizure of the Saharan homeland by the kingdom of Morocco, and is 60 times the length of the Berlin Wall.

Why are some walls so loud and others mute?

Much more on the link.

[Uncle Joe]

1. Of course there are also walls which aren't so easily seen but are just as destructive.

That being sociological walls; of which Iceland doesn't seem to suffer from

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22288564

Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland?

First - and arguably foremost - there is virtually no difference among upper, middle and lower classes in Iceland. And with that, tension between economic classes is non-existent, a rare occurrence for any country.

" The tycoon's children go to school with everyone else”

Björgvin Sigurðsson Social Democratic Alliance

A study of the Icelandic class system done by a University of Missouri master's student found only 1.1% of participants identified themselves as upper class, while 1.5% saw themselves as lower class.

The remaining 97% identified themselves as upper-middle class, lower-middle class, or working class.

On one of three visits to Althing, the Icelandic parliament, I met Bjorgvin Sigurdsson, former chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Alliance. In his eyes - as well as those of many Icelanders I spoke with - equality was the biggest reason for the nation's relative lack of crime.

[Rex]

2. Walls and walls of names...

Each name has a story to tell and was a life before war.

[Uncle Joe]

3. That's a most appropriate pic, Rex.

[Rex]

4. Too much blood is spilled over walls and hills and occupying land.

Thanks, hope you are having a good nite. We are in dire need of peace, yet it seems we always make a new wall for our next generation of fallen comrades. Will humans ever learn Joe?

[Uncle Joe]

5. I believe we will, Rex but it's a damn slow, painful ass process.

I hope you're having a good night as well.