Foreign Affairs
I took out a subscription to a magazine. One that was published by the CFR. A well informed radio host once said if you want to know what the elite are planning then read one of their publications. Perhaps he was right, but I found something else.
While I was waiting for my print copy to arrive—I went to their website and since I was a paid subscriber, had access, I started reading their articles. First one gave me a few ideas I hadn't been aware of. Okay, fair enough I thought. As the weeks went by and the more articles I read I started noticing a trend in their jouralism. No matter who wrote the piece most of the time you walked away knowing a little more about the subject—but—without a strong opinion one way of the other. This started bugging me—like the magazine was trying to placate and neutralize your views.
Then one day I spotted an article on Nigeria. I've know someone from there. Used to work with him. I remember when he came back from a vacation to his homeland. He told me he'd forgotten that men used to hold hands as they walked down the country roads—not cause they had a fancy for one another, but just because they were close friends. Interesting, I thought at the time.
So this article went on to document the violence, crime, and corruption in Nigeria. Its focus was on how government could better handle this situation and change things, but they didn't have the financial resources, manpower and a plan to get this reduction accomplished. The article recommended a course of action and pointed out where the Nigerian Government was not performing as well as it could.
This got me thinking about Nigeria. I decided to spend a little time researching Nigeria's history of crime and violence—guess what? It's always had a lot of violence and crime in it's history. Even before colonial rule—tribes were at war with each other fighting over territory and resources. In short the people of Nigeria have always had a combative violent history. Thinking to back to the article it made me wonder why they hadn't mentioned this. Why they acted like Nigeria's situation was out of control from a previous state when it wasn't?
I think that was the last straw for me. I canceled my subscription to this magazine—the print copy still hadn't arrived, finally it did and now sits on my clothes dryer along with other items that may or may not go in the trash.
