JAPAN ENFORCES NEW ROAD RULES FOR 'MARIO KART' DRIVERS

In this piece of news, we can see how Japan’s roughed their legislation in reference to go-karts driving in Japan’s streets. This happens because there is a tendency in Japan of costuming up as Mario’s character and drive a kart inside of Tokyo and the tourists are starting to do this massively. This leads to some problems, such as there is no actual legislation of go-karts running down Tokyo. However, this was solved, adding some requisites to the karts, such as safety belt, regulating how the kart has to be…etc.

This news is really funny because it shows how sometimes we are really weird. Is there an actual necessity of dressing up as a Mario Kart player and drive a kart in Tokyo’s streets? However, good point for the Japanese community that they have improved the safety in the streets, so even if it is freak, it is a good action.

LINK:http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42263757

MARI OLIVER

In this other piece of news, a black girl who is a student in a high school in Houston, Texas has sued his school for not accomplishing the expectations of what’s supposed to be a school in the United States; free and equal. She has refused to do the Pledge of Allegiance, before starting every class. She calls out that she has been bullied for refusing to stand on that pledge and also that she hasn’t received any help from her school’s principals.

This is a rough news, because it shows how even in the United States of America, where everyone is supposed to have rights and be free there is still discrimination, and people who fight against that is often bullied. She is from Texas, what is considered one of the most conservative states in America, what makes everything even worse because it shows how we haven’t progressed not even a little bit with the objective of respect humanity in every human being on Earth.

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42114340/meet-the-17-year-old-who-is-suing-her-school

BRYAN SINGER

In this piece of news, a denounce is done to a film director, Bryan Singer. In this one, a boy named Cesar Sanchez-Guzman allegedly says that he was sexually abused in a yacht, when the film director invited him to a room, locked the door and asked him to perform sexual activities against his will. Singer’s legal representative says that his client receives these kinds of accusations really often and that he refuses to have done any of these.

The worst part of this news is that we will never know what has happened to the boy. Either he only wants to win a trial and get some free money, or he was in fact abused, we will never know. The film director’s representative is for sure much better than the boy’s, so it is evident that the trial will be won by him. Also, he wants to demand the boy for malicious prosecution so we can see that there is only one possibility when the trial will be fair. However, it also exists the other possibility, which makes the legal system a complete mess.

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42278174

'SAMURAI SWORD'

Basically, in this piece of news, it is explained that a woman who was a priestess has been killed to death by her brother together with her wife. The incident had happened the night of the 8^th of December of 2017 in Tokyo, Japan, near a Shinto shrine. It is believed that the siblings had some religious feuds and they solved it using force. Apparently, the brother has killed his sister by stabbing her several times using a katana and his wife has stabbed with knives the priestess’ driver.

It seems that the incident has occurred because of a stupid reason, but it is another way of remarking how many conflicts religion can make, even between members of the same family. I think that this should be investigated, because it's not another conflict due to discrepancies between members of the same religion, it has something to do with inheritance of a charge, in this case, a religious charge, so this kind of topics should be deeply investigated with the objective of making a safer world for everyone.

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42275875

MASSIVE CANNABIS CARGO SEIZED AT SEA

In this piece of news, it is explained that a Police patrol found a cannabis seize near Crete’s coast and it was worth it 71 million euros. This happened the 8^th of December of 2017. The travelling of the illegal drug was between Cyprus and Malta, near Greece’s territory coasts. Actually, the drug was hidden in a boat in a quantity of six tonnes. Six men, allegedly from Syria were arrested.

I think this kind of news is really funny because it’s kind of stupid how many drugs are circulating near us and we don’t even know what happens in our seas. I would never think that these kinds of astronomical money are travelling in our sea, but indeed it does.

LINK:http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-42277397/massive-cannabis-cargo-seized-at-sea 

EXHAUSTED LONDON MARATHON RUNNER

Just 200 yards before the finish line runner David Wyeth's legs turned to jelly but Matthew Rees, of the Swansea Harriers, stopped running and turned around. He grabbed him and supported him across the line as race organizers stepped in. 

Viewers on social media have heaped praise on Rees, calling him a hero. 

What I can say about this news is that sometimes sport can contribute to make people more solidarity and even though it’s difficult to renounce competition and ease the loss of the first position, people learn to grow up developing some other aspects and values that makes them more winners than those who gets the first place. 

I think that one activity that helps boosting solidarity and respect and lots of other values is sport. We are used to hear that group sports are better than single ones, but today we have an example that shows it doesn’t matter which kind of sport you practice is just what you learn from it what  you can apply in real life.

A HOLIDAY FOR THE FILTHY RICH

The much-anticipated XXII Carat holiday villa complex in Dubai is set to be finished later in the year. There are 22 seven-bedroom villas on the market, each with landscaped gardens and a 24-hour concierge. 30% of the luxury properties - costing between £8.5million and £19million - have already been snapped up.

This is one of the reasons why I wanted to study something related with hotels, but is also the reason why I realize that just few people can afford it and while they waste their money in sleep over the most comfortable MATALÀS in the world or in having a bath wrapped in gold, hundreds of millions of people are trying to find any shelter to rest the night.
Hotels show really good the difference that has come up between rich and poor people and it increase every day a little bit more. 1% of population has the 99% of the world wealth while 99% of them has the other 1% and it must be one of the change proposal along the history. However, I consider it is something that will never happen taking in consideration that money corrupts people and it makes them greedier.

NORTH KOREA HAS NEARLY COMPLETED WORK ON ITS ADVANCED SUBMARINE MISSILE PROGRAM

A United Nations report suggests North Korea has made 'rapid developments', so it is believed the country is developing submarine-launched ballistic missiles and North Korea has said missile tests will be carried out at least once a week.

I’ve tried to summarize the news a much as I can because I just want to focus in the fact that power positions are occupied by mad people. On one side, Trump and on the other hand Kim Jong-un (EEUU and North Korea). 

It means that an argument between them can lead the world into a disaster and I’m sure that if a war take place, the entire lands will be devastated and the majority of them will suffer innocently. 

As I said in the last posts, we have progress in lots of aspects that can help our society lead it into a better world with new medicines, new ways of communication, etc. But at the same time, progress can fall in evil hands and it can be use in a painful way. 

I think society must change nowadays and we have to start thinking what can happen if we don’t stop these situations, if we let mad people stay in the power. We can’t not wait until all ends and we must avoid any disaster because, at the end, changing or not is in our hands.

NELSON MANDELA

Here, we have a kind of weird news. At first, this is the publication of a book, in which the writer is dead since 2013. Secondly, the writer is a worldwide famous activist who fought racism in South Africa during Apartheid. Well, you can imagine that this man is for sure Nelson Mandela. So, what is this book about? It’s the continuation of a saga of books which he wrote while he was staying in prison (he wasn’t a criminal, in fact he was fighting for black people’s rights and the white government captured him for 20 years). I haven’t read the book, but I can easily assume that it will have tons of philosophy in it, a way to see reality. Because no, Nelson Mandela wasn’t just a nigga making noise (as I’ve heard from feminists during 8th of March), no, he was a visionary. The world needs more people like him.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/10/nelson-mandelas-presidential-memoir-dare-not-linger-due-in-autumn

HIGH PRICE OF RHINO HORN

This piece of news informs that recently a rhino called Vince has been murdered in a zoo near Paris. This has happened many times per day (specially in Africa, where there are three rhinos found dead every morning) and it has an only meaning: people are desperate to get money from horns. The demand from Asia is extremely high and there are some people who still think (because of urban stories) that rhino’s horns can give someone a really strength health, or sexual power…

The main problem here is that people who are involved in this has a lot of money, and they use people who doesn’t have even a little to get their hands dirty instead of them. It’s almost like white collar crime, but without humanity.

I think as one of the experts from the new; we need a powerful law which doesn’t have any empty sides to be used for this. If some kind of animal specialized tribunal existed, this would be much easier. As I said before, these people are rich. And we ain’t, so we have exactly 0 possibilities to defend ourselves in tribunals against them. We can just fight by our hands, or let animals die

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/10/high-price-of-rhino-horn-leaves-bloody-trail-across-the-globe

JO COX MURDER

The 17th of November, the politician woman Jo Cox had been murdered by a 52 years old man who screamed:”Britain first!”

This happened during a meeting in a library where Cox was doing a constituency meeting. The woman had also been stabbed and shot several times during daylight. An old man took part defending de lady, but he had also received a deep stab on his stomach. The attacker also had bonds with Neo-Nazi,pro-Apartheid and Nationalist groups. 

I think that he did this because he thought that violence was an option against different political opinions, which in my opinion is really sad.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-west-yorkshire

Migrant crisis: Chios island camp in Greece attacked

In this new we can see how a group of people who had thrown petrol bombs, fireworks and stones to a refugee’s camp in Chios Island, Greece. 

At first it looked like a group of greek people who disagree with the idea of having refugees in his island. Then, three suspicious people were arrested and, amazingly they are refugees.

I know it’s a complicated topic, but when I saw the new, I thought it was a good think to talk about, because sometimes the same refugees aren’t comfortable with the fact of being bad treated in the camps, even some of them prefer war rather than living in one of these bad mounted camps.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38025109

DONALD TRUMP

The whole world had been amazed with Donald Trump’s winning in the 2016 election. Indeed, it’s a really big surprise, because Hillary was the one who seemed to be the best choice. Anyways, once we had realized that Trump has won, we better look how the other countries had responded to this. In Spain’s case, as we can see in this new, it was a really big surprise, because even Hillary and PP’s ideology are completely different, the last one hoped that Hillary would won, because it would be better for the economy in the whole world. After all, Spain has to start thinking about a plan B, which in this case would be start improvising ways to make new bridges with the USA administration, led by Donald Trump.

http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/11/10/inenglish/1478768618_509204.html