Download CNN news ticker here or just switch on your TV and watch the "breaking news" about Mumbai – cowboy CNN style:

 

• death toll rises to 87, 185
   
• Deccan Mujahideen is a little known group

First the amazing numbers of death people in Mumbai: can you really kill 87, 185 in one go? That must have been an atomic bomb?

This is where CNN get’s very misleading: there are actually only 87 people killed, and 185 is the number of hurt people.

That’s still 87 people killed to many…

To get rid of this confusing news, we advice you to download the CNN news ticker which said clearly :

"almost 90 killed in Mumbai rampage":

Why download the CNN news ticker?

Because once you have the CNN news ticker on your computer, you can get more in depth information about the "Deccan Mujahideen is a little known group".

I mean, you must be a silly idiot to write on the worldwide renowned CNN news TV that you know little about Deccan Mujahideen.

Even if you know little, at least say how little you know in stead of just saying little.

Luckily there is the BBC news that on the spot gives you in depth information about who is doing what for which reasons, where CNN is still reporting the amount and the colour of blood that has been spilled in Mumbai.

CNN TV is really said when it comes to in depth information but they are great when it comes to breaking news.

That’s why I downloaded their CNN news ticker long time ago already: when something is shaky in the world of business travelers, they will be the first to announce which place is under attack and therefore not safe to travel to.

Who is Deccan Mujahideen in the CNN TV news ticker?

• Deccan refers to the Deccan Plateau in southern India and
   
• Mujahideen are Muslim fighters involved in Jihad – the so called Holy war to defend  Islam against its enemies.

They attacked the Taj hotel in Mumbai and where looking for US and UK hostages. You wonder why exactly those 2 targeted are also the 2 I just mentioned for their international news coverage. Take a German hostage and most likely you won’t get covered worldwide on the news.

Maybe CNN and BBC news should change their reporting strategies or other countries should get more involved covering the news world wide. So far Al Jazeera and German’s DW are rising stars but can’t compete with CNN or BBC.

How to download CNN news ticker

The news ticker comes as an executable file and you can download the CNN news ticker for free at http://edition.cnn.com/services/desktopnews/.

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At this moment of writing, Thailand has closed Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok. Due to demonstrations to topple the current government. This government is considered a proxy for the previously democratic elected and now ousted Prime Minister Thaksin.

Thaksin last weekend divorced his wife. His wife posted a 10 times higher tax declaration than her husband Thaksin. I don’t know what her profession is, but Thaksin is supposed to be a multimedia tycoon in Thailand. Earning only 10% of his wife… how sad and why would we not believe that…

But let’s explain what the protest has been all about : it’s actually a protest against democracy "the Thaksin way".

Thaksin won an overwhelming rural majority for the only reason that he seemed to have bought his votes.

That’s a problem any democracy faces when people in power have to rule over a population:

• that’s doing very well in the main cities but
   
• that is lacking behind in money in the rural areas.

Not only is it easy to buy votes from the poor, poor rural areas also are a possible heaven for extremism. When money is scarce, people have empty stomachs and only think black and white.

Meanwhile flights to Bangkok are cancelled worldwide.

4 ongoing months of demonstrations has caused tourism income in Thailand to be only a fraction of what it should have been this year.

In other words: the poor in Thailand are now even more poor and still there is no solution in sight. Thaksin is still flying from country to country…

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We all followed 3 years ago how Jamie Oliver asked Tony Blair to reform school dinners in good old England. Both men had a constructive chat and it seems that there was a light at the end of the tunnel

3 years later, lots of English children are still eating industrial rubbish and Tony Blair is no longer in charge.

And that’s once of the main problems democracy is facing: unlike Mahathir in Malaysia who managed to stay in power for 22 years, most democracies don’t allow the same person in charge for an extended period.

Take again Mahathir: although 22 years in power, he actually had a vision until the year 2020. That would mean he would have to live until reaching 100 in order to see his vision come through. That’s quite unrealistic.

But few years after he left power, and after the crushing defeat in the last elections in March 2008, Malaysian politics are reduced to:

• the Prime Minister should go
   
• they set a date and agree that he should go
   
• they review the date he should go
   
• they already have a successor appointed
   
• they want to contest the place of the successor

And all this is done inside the ruling party. On top of that the opposition party also thinks that it should be the opposition who should be ruling the country.

But with all this bickering about, one really wonders if there is actually anybody ruling the country in the first place or is everybody waiting until the Prime Minister steps down?

Even without bickering: problems stay, politicians go

Back to Jamie Oliver and Tony Blair: even without power struggles, Tony Blair is no longer on top, so whatever deals were made in the past, are they going to be continued in the future or are they going to be revised, especially in times of economical recession as today?

And it gets even worse in the US: Clinton managed to get the US economics back on track, to see it utterly butchered by president Bush in the last 8 years. So incredibly butchered that the US deficit is in trillions of dollars and the whole world economy is in recession due to useless spending of the US.

Can you really imagine a CEO of a leading US car company begging for money? well, that’s exactly what happened a few days ago, just that those CEO’s beg in style, private jet included.

So there are the problems, there is the mess and the person who was on top of the country can just wave his hand, say goodbye and let his successor deal with the mess.

Maybe it is time that we revise the democratic system or even better: people who mess up should be personal accounted for.

Just combine the corporate world with the student loan world: whatever you use up now, you will have to pay back sooner or later and there is no room for bankruptcy.

Who would be ready to take that challenge? For sure not your power hungry politician who knows nuts about economics.

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