archives of june, 2001

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8 june 2001
guyana lives. america lives better.

compared with the incidents a couple of months ago, we should be pleased with our country's present.

guyana airways 2000 is folding, which seems to be a 21st-century-version of the good-intentioned guybus. remember that?

i dislike airlines. a person who desires a trip to guyana, pays more, much more depending on how long he/she stays -- a maximum of us$1000 in fact.

so we are paying not only for the hundreds of gallons of gasoline that will be burnt to take us home; not only for the pounds of food and plastics that can't be reused, due to international policies, and must be wasted into rubbish; not only for the megawatts of electricity that are used for things such as the illumination of small switches, that make us feel comfortable about pressing otherwise dull plastic; we are, in fact, paying to stay on the land of our birth.

well, enough about that. i'm sure they have reasons why they waste vast resources on unnecessary luxuries.

there are about 700 cruise ships that float the seas of earth. the maximum cost of a cruise liner such as this is about 700 million dollars. an utter waste of earth's resources.

i wish to be reborn in a time when humans do not drain their environment of all its life to satisfy their needs for vacation, relaxation and other cravings.

if we were not to consume all our resources to appease ourselves, we may have used these immense amounts of currency to help humankind...a cure for aids may have already been achieved through more funding, giving educated men more reward for their research; poverty may have been a word that only the old people used -- the concept of poor would not exist; the possibilities would now seem surreal.

with every scene that our eyes inhale, we see hundreds of things that we can do without, things that are unnecessary, but yet they are produced to "make life a little bit better".

i'm in the process of learning to say what i have to without curses. aircrafts and cruise ships are just two. with thought, one can make an unending list.

i am aware that all this has nothing to do with the title of this site. it doesn't matter.

i worry every day about the eventual extinction of mankind and his earth. we guarantee this future with every wasted drop of resource.

just think about it. no one will know.

i will stop writing this now. if i do not, i'll become overwhelmed and type harsh words.

i remain your socialist, your environmentalist, and your bastard.

16 june 2001
a few weeks ago, i wrote about an organisation called 'guyana, usa!'. quite unbelievable to me is that they are "dedicated to the legal incorporation of guyana into the usa."
i'm very sure that it isn't just me who feels that they are completely ignorant of the consequences of such an incorporation. did these persons just wake up and follow some unconscious to a murky gathering place where only the low and rejected huddle? was it here that they decided to toy with what we fought for so long, our independence? well if we're going to offer ourselves once again to those "crazy baldheads", we might as well offer the queen mum of britain, her former role as plantation owner, since she may have some sort of compassion towards her good ol' slaves.
it is too easy to see what would happen if we were attached to the u.s. in any way. take puerto rico for example...i like to call it 'the virgin offering', they practically opened wide and screamed blindly, "com' on in!".
and now they struggle to defend vieques, an uninhabited area of puerto rico used by the u.s. navy for military exercises. they climbed atop the statue of liberty to protest, there were violent protests at vieques itself, and now al sharpton is on a hunger strike in jail, but little has changed. even if things improve now, look at what puerto rico has to do to get attention from their captor.

i gave mention to this organisation again because a friend of mine found a small postcard of sorts (see below), advertising their website. i was very surprised and angered to know that this trash was seeping into my habitat, and i thought it was something important to mention -- the disguised colonisation of guyana coming via postcard to a most unexpected place near you!

most likely, this is old news to you.

the front of the flyer.

the back of the flyer. you may have seen one of these already.

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