The grim reality of our unstoppable immorality
Khen Lim
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Introduction
Look at the world around us today. The eternal optimist will
say it’s a great world out there. No conservative would ever be this
optimistic. Only a liberal would believe that the world is changing for the
better, that the people want equality, affirmative action, minority rights,
free education and all sorts of handouts by the government and that they have
the right to insist that the wealthy pay for their daily needs.
Gone is the world in which our parents remind us that success
comes to those who work hard at their goals. Gone is the world where if you’re
good at something, you can be any race, creed or colour because people will
notice your skills and recognise the real value of your talents. Gone is the
world in which honesty is cherished and immorality is not tolerated at all
levels of government.
What we have left today is worse than a half-eaten plate of
stale dog chow. We have an incredibly corrupted world filled everywhere with so
much immorality that it’s a real worry trying to hand this world over to our
children to inherit. There is so much evil happening literally around us that
it’s difficult to know which target to aim at first and perhaps the hardest
thing to swallow is that our governments are not in a hurry to do anything
concrete in protecting their people from it.
In this in-depth article, we look at immorality and determine
what it is that churches can do for their flock but before that, we have
handpicked twenty-four areas to see how far we have turned away from God and
the values He commanded us to embrace. Each of these areas offers us a cursory
glimpse as to how much society has brazenly sinned against God and we try to
offer some real-world examples for the reader to take note of.
Note: If you want to get on with the article and skip these
details, wait for Part Two, which will be published next week and then head on to the chapter titled The
Thessalonian Lesson.
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Making the news almost every month for the last few years is global jihadist terrorism. We saw them
in the news and watched with horror, the images plastered across the Internet.
People died in the subway trains, at work, in schools and universities, in
supermarkets and during concerts, in a nightclub, in embassies and consulates,
in mid-flight at high enough altitudes, and even in sea vessels. It seems that
we are no longer safe from anywhere.
It isn’t also confined to Europe and America as we also have
seen terrorism in Australia, Thailand, China, Indonesia and also Malaysia. Since
the formation of the European Union (EU) in November 1993, more than 660 have
lost their lives and 4,255 injured in Europe alone. Governments seem incapable
of providing the right forceful response to counter terrorism and their
insipidness is simply sending the wrong signals to the terrorists to mount even
greater attacks in greater frequencies across wider expanses throughout the
world especially in countries that oppose jihadism.
It doesn’t look like things will change for the better anytime
in the foreseeable future and the catastrophes will continue to senselessly
mount. Thoughts of visiting Paris, London and all the wonderful European cities
just to enjoy their history, culture, architecture etc have all but evaporated
for many people.
2. Massive doping scandal makes dopes
out of us
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In the last week or so, most people have riveted themselves to
the Rio Olympics 2016 and for good reason – the sport events themselves – but
it will also be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
This is the first Games
in which a massive doping scandal
have stripped Russia of its dignity. Disgraced by solid evidence of a covert
state-sponsored systematic doping programme, the country’s entire track and
field team is banned from competing in Rio de Janeiro. Of the original 389 Russian
competitors, only 271 were cleared to compete in twenty-eight of the Olympics
sports.
None of these is actually surprising and it isn’t just the
Russians who are into doping. Before the fall of the Iron Curtain – and the
Berlin Wall – East Germany and other eastern bloc nations have been actively
doing this to win their sports events at the Olympic Games and other
participating world championships but mainly focusing on swimming as well as
track and field. Some are also certain that China is complicit but we await
hard evidence as well as the right opportunities to trap them.
The historical impetus behind the doping scandals is a
communist-inspired desire to display superiority over the West but today, this
has become prevalent in other sports including cycling, baseball, badminton,
tennis, football, gymnastics and others.
What is even more alarming is that in
some cases, the athletes were not even aware that they were taking
performance-enhancement drugs. In other cases, athletes are coerced into
covertly participating in the program only to have serious – and sometimes
deadly – health problems later.
3. Corruption scandals of beguiling
scale
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Another country that has been in the news for the wrong
reasons for the best part of this and last year is Malaysia. To the United
States, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad – or 1MDB – corruption scandal is the largest that the Department of Justice (DoJ)
and FBI have ever had to deal with.
Centring on taxpayers’ money lost in the billions, the scandal
involves a Hollywood film company, a shady wheeler-dealer from Penang, a
stepson of the Prime Minister and many go-betweens, this isn’t just a massive
embarrassment to the country but it is also staggering in terms of the amount
involved.
The embezzlement is the worst that the world has seen and it involves
not only glamourous and exclusive real estate properties but also prized
collectible artworks, yachts, private jets, exotic cars, jewellery and millions
to whittle away gambling in casinos, living it up in the company of
celebrities, wining and dining and buying up businesses. Using shell companies
and offshore accounts with bogus lead names, they attempt at every corner to
hide their tracks.
However with the initial exposé by the Attorney-General of the
U.S. Department of Justice to begin confiscating properties owned by the
suspects, other countries such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom,
Australia, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Singapore have stepped up
their investigations and are progressively narrowing their findings.
Yet in all
this, the one person that has not been named so far is known to the world today
as ‘Malaysia Official Number One.’ Some news media have reported that this
person is related to the Malaysian prime minister’s stepson.
This brazen act of stealing points to people who genuinely
believed they would get away with it…even if they are ‘caught.’ It remains to
be seen if the main actors of 1MDB walk free or not and that will ultimately
depend on whether the ultimate suspect gets named and what will take place in
Malaysia if that happens. Nobody is holding his breath here for that to occur
though.
4. State-approved euthanasia – the
return of Nazism
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Inspired by the Second World War’s Nazi programme, state-approved euthanasia is quite
actively practised not only in the Netherlands but also Belgium, Ireland,
Colombia, Luxembourg including Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Albania and Canada
and in some states in America.
Euthanasia is the act of painlessly killing a patient
allegedly suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible
comatose. In strict terms, this isn’t just killing but in every sense of the
act, this is patently an act of murder since it is planned and deliberate. Like
all murders, the plot is laid out and the outcome is clear.
In some documented
examples where the patient himself might not be in agreement with being
euthanised, this is a clear case of murder and when the country considers this
legal, then this is considered institutionalised murder. If the patient
voluntarily wills himself into terminating his life, it is considered a
murder-suicide because he has decided to take his own life.
In 2012 alone, there were 4,188 euthanasia cases in the
Netherlands, which is 3 percent of all deaths recorded. If that rate were to
apply in America with euthanasia legalised, the figure would have been 75,000
deaths in a single year. Although we do not have ready access to local figures
in Malaysia, it is a common understanding that doctor-assisted euthanasia is
discretely practised even in private hospitals.
5. Rewriting laws to legalise marijuana
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For the people of Colorado, USA, Amendment 64 was a victory
for those who persistently accuse law enforcement of discrimination against
their habit. On November 2012, the state voted for cannabis to be legalised,
meaning that marijuana can now be commercially cultivated manufactured,
distributed and sold for recreational use. And from that point, marijuana legalisation has snowballed
across the world.
Canada wants to follow suit and so do Mexico, Colombia and
four more states in America and yet no one genuinely knows what’s down the
slippery road for all of them. Meanwhile the marijuana business has exceeded
US700 million dollars in 2015 alone with recreational pot outstripping sales of
its medical cannabis or even alcohol. Today like it or not, Colorado alone is
home to more than half a million growing pot plants.
Today, marijuana is found in cookies and for 19-year-old Levy
Thamba, it ended his life when he inexplicably leapt to his death off a
fourth-floor balcony of a Denver hotel after eating an entire cookie purchased
from a so-called licensed pot shop in Colorado.
By legalising marijuana, there
now arises legal child protection issues as well. Californian couple Daisy Bram
and Jayme Walsh lost custody over their two small kids because they grew and
consumed marijuana in their own home. And there are many other similar cases in
America as well.
It is naïve to think that by legalising the consumption of
marijuana, the government could decriminalise it. This is no different to how
some states legalise prostitution, thinking that this would flush out shady
operators including Mafia involvement. In both cases, the intentions fail because
legalisation simply broadens the options for abuse, which in turn, brings havoc
to personal lives and breaks up families.
6. Burgeoning drug trade goes global
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When it comes to the drug trade, it is not uncommon to only
talk about Mexico and Colombia but the actual picture is far wider and more
devastating. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that
consumption and seizure numbers for heroin place the annual flow at 430 to 450
tons in the world market and as much as US20 billion dollars’ worth (including
morphine and opium) come from Myanmar, Laos, and Afghanistan travelling through
routes that take in the Balkan and northern regions cutting across into
Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria across south-east Europe into the Russian
Federation and Western Europe. From the north, the drugs go through Tajikistan
and Kyrgyzstan (possibly also Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan) to Kazakhstan and
then to Russia. North Korea also deals in state-sponsored illegal drug trafficking and has been since the 1970s.
Worldwide drug trafficking will continue to have shady
connections that in so many cases, link up governments and/or government
agencies operating covertly. In Malaysia, some of us wonder what really happens
to the drug haul after police have caught the suspects and publicise the case
to the media. Do the drugs get burned and if so, are there any independent
witnesses? Or do they get stashed away somewhere or apportioned to certain
people for personal gains? It’s hard to know although we really want to believe
that the right thing is done.
7. Vulgar materialism defies reasoning
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Even since its liberation and embrace of capitalism, China has
literally gone out of control with materialism.
It has become an opportunistic market for everyone to get involved and sell to.
Huge industries are mushrooming production plants in China and making
indigenous products exclusive to its consumers.
While Chinese brands have become far more competitive in
recent years, some of the visible international labels continue to rake in the
profits including Ikea, Starbucks, Hershey, Prada, Coach, Apple, Wal-Mart
Stores, Nike, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and Armani but these pale by comparison when
it comes to the pursuit of glamour, prestige and exclusivity. Here, the Chinese
devour brands like Lamborghini, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce etc. And the more
astronomical they cost, the more in demand they are. Never mind if they look
grotesque, the Chinese are more preoccupied with one-upmanship.
Despite talk of an economic slowdown, the size of China’s
luxury market tips the scale at RMB113 billion in 2015 and is slated to
increase this year. Meanwhile, mainland Chinese are also travelling abroad and
buying up at a rate of 10 percent increase every year as they flock to Japan
where their spending habits fly off the scale by 200 percent as well as South
Korea, Europe and Australia.
All told, Chinese consumers have bought up US116.8
billion dollars overseas in 2015 purely on luxury items. This constitutes a 46
percent of total global volume of high-end goods. We are told that overseas
spending on luxury good will continue to escalate because the same premium
products sold in China are priced 68 percent higher than where they come from.
Vulgar materialism is an overt example of idolatry because
people spend more time enslaved to gadgets and submit themselves to acts of
superficial self-glamour. Modern society gives this a cute name, calling it
‘bling’ but it is a behavioural aberration with serious longer-term
ramifications to spiritual well-being.
8. Persistent crackpot warmongering
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Not far from the Chinese is the world’s single most worrying
source of warmongering – North Korea.
With millions suffering from hunger and famine and up to 3.5 million having died
as a result, this immoral dictatorship shows no sign of letting up its
behaviour to its own people and to the world. In fact, the country spends almost
40 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (annual income) purely on the military.
To put that into perspective, that amounts to around US10.1 billion for 2015
alone.
Its merciless and remorseless leader, Kim Jong-Un has already
killed off many close relatives with an anti-aircraft gun whom he suspects of
disloyalty and senses any remote threat to his leadership. USA Today reports
that up to 70 people have been executed by him since taking power in 2011. With
China as its doting sugar daddy, North Korea is well protected from any
pressure to back down and as they develop their nuclear arsenal, regional
stability will forever be threatened.
Posturing for war isn’t just a North Korea exclusive. Iran and
surrounding Muslim nations do that persistently to Israel as well, demanding
annihilation and promising anyone seventy-two virgins upon martyrdom. No one
seems to ask what a woman martyr would receive in heaven though.
9. Resurgent anti-Semitism – Past
lessons not learned
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Across to the other side of the world, anti-Semitism continues unabatedly. While we believe that it peaked
with the Holocaust of the previous century, there is also every reason to
suspect that it is worsening. Hatred against Israel isn’t just a Middle-East
pastime; it is today an emerging problem exacerbated by Arab-appeasing
countries in Europe including North America. Other than the obvious Middle-East
and North African countries, the rest that makes up the world’s most
anti-Semitic include Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary and Italy.
Anti-Semitism is today known in different guises such as the
BDS movement designed to asphyxiate the Jewish nation of trade revenue through
boycotts, divestments and sanctions. Haters claim they are opposed to Zionism
but not Israel itself but that’s only political posturing because in effect,
they hate everything to do with Israel and her people.
10. Complacency leads to deadly disease
outbreaks
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Other than HIV/AIDS, which has so far killed more than 30
million with nearly 40 million currently infected, the world we know today has
to also contend with some of history’s most fearful contagions including Ebola,
SARS, H1N1 (Swine Flu) and Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).
Added to this list are
the more common diseases that have never been eradicated including cholera
(100,000 deaths/year), smallpox (nearly 500 million deaths so far), yellow
fever (resurgent), tuberculosis, diphtheria, meningitis, whooping cough
(295,000 deaths/year), syphilis (12 million infected yearly), malaria and
innumerably more.
In recent times, the Zika virus, spread by infected Aedes
mosquitoes, has left many families heartbroken not just in Brazil but now also
in the United States, causing serious birth defects on newborns.
Despite such a
serious threat to every competitor and members of the vast number of
contingents, organisers have selfishly and foolishly ignored pleas to defer the
2016 Rio Olympic Games. One must now wonder if any female competitors, upon
returning home after the end of the Games, worry if they find themselves
pregnant. All because there is big money to be made through the Games?
11. Power and greed corrupts world
sports
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One of the biggest news of 2015 was, not surprisingly, also
the most disappointing for many soccer fans throughout the world. FIFA (Fédération
Internationale de Football Association), the governing body of world football,
suffered its most ignominious corruption scandal in its history involving wire
fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
After
guilty pleas from four executives and two corporations, more than fourteen
others within FIFA have since been arrested on suspicion of briberies worth
around US150 million dollars, triggering criminal investigations to be
conducted separately in Australia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany and
Switzerland. While corruption in world
sports has long been known, the FIFA scandal is a signal that things have
gotten far worse than we could ever imagine.
Like
many of those who are involved in the International Olympic Committee, the
people who walk the corridors of power in FIFA wield incredible influence and
control over even political leaders and heads of states in many countries worldwide
because the prestige in holding the World Cup is rarely surpassed by anything
else.
And more importantly, a lot of money changes hands under the table
because so many countries are desperate to host the World Cup for corrupt
reasons centred on purely selfish personal gains. Just as it takes two hands to
clap, it is invariable that this is a very dirty business that involves
hundreds of millions of dollars changing hands between the country of interest
and FIFA often with a middle-man involved.
12. Unbelievable large-scale industrial
corruption
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And if that is disheartening enough, try to wrap your head
around Volkswagen’s software cheating scandal that according to The New York
Times will cost them no less than US17.9 billion but even this figure is set to
grow even further in the months to come.
Revolving around the corporate desire
to be the world’s largest car company, the German automaker set about
installing a piece of software into its cars so that it can turn on and off
emission control to cheat authorities and make their products appear
environmentally friendly yet powerful when in reality, it is anything but.
Volkswagen has since lost significant ground in many countries
including South Korea where all its models have been withdrawn from the market,
pending a complete reapplication of approval certification. The matter is so
serious because consumers feel grossly cheated but none of this is to say that
the rest of the auto industry isn’t the same.
The Volkswagen scandal isn’t the
only one that is rocking the whole industry. Prior to that was the Takata
airbag issue in which there is now clear proof that the company had hidden
evidence of problems in the conduct of their own in-house tests. The case is
now mounting and the company faces the real threat of total collapse.
Before that, Toyota was deeply embroiled in a massive and
costly scandal in 2010 that forced them to recall 8.5 million cars worldwide,
costing beyond US2 billion dollars to fix the faulty gas pedals and floor mats
as well as to compensate families of victims who died as a result. However the
figure is expected to rise to US5.5 billion after taking litigation settlements
into account.
In fact, right after the start of 2014, there has been over 100
million cars recalled just in America alone and since mid-2015, most of them
have yet to receive repairs. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) reports that the biggest recalls are coming from Mercedes-Benz
(22/1.2M), Hyundai (15/1.6M), BMW (19/1.6M), Nissan (23/4M), Mitsubishi
(10/4.9M), Ford (53/5.4M), Fiat-Chrysler (10/6.9M), Toyota (27/8.4M), General
Motors (52/10.6M) and Honda (26/13.6M*).
* The cars recalled are primarily because of the Takata airbag
problem.
It now appears that corruption
on a huge industry scale is about to get more rampant and beyond just the
car industry. According to CNN in a 2014 report, the world’s most corrupt
industries include extraction (drilling, mining), construction, transportation,
information/communication (technology) and manufacturing. Other sources also list
energy (utilities, oil and gas), agriculture/biotechnology, media, defence,
healthcare (pharmaceutical), banking and finance (securities, insurance) and
even retail. In other words, pretty much business itself has gone phenomenally
corrupt.
13. Poverty is everywhere but no one is
noticing
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In the world we think we know today, there are more than 3
billion people living on less than US2.50 a day. That’s nearly half of the
world’s population. Unbelievably to many, there are more than 1.3 billion
around the world who lives on only US1.25 a day. Somewhere in these statistics
are 1 billion in abject poverty who
are merely children and of these, UNICEF tells us more than 22,000 of them will
die each day because they are simply
too poor to survive.
In another statistic, we learn that 1.6 billion people in the
world live without electricity with most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan
Africa and the rest in East Asia and other places. In contrast against all of
this, the world’s wealthiest crop of 8.3 million people earn, in 2004, as much
as US30.8 trillion dollars, which works out to be almost 25 percent of the
world’s financial assets. That is 0.13 percent of the population controlling a
quarter of the world’s wealth.
Another way of looking at the world’s poverty is how the
lifestyles of the affluent. According to a 1998 United Nations Report on the
state of human development, Europe and the United States including Japan spent
about US1.4 trillion on cosmetics, ice creams, perfumes pet foods, business
entertainment, cigarettes, alcoholic drinks, narcotic drugs and military
expenditure while only US40 billion dollars were prioritised on fundamentals
like basic education water and sanitation, reproductive health for all women and
basic health and nutrition for the poor throughout the world. For more shocking
statistics, read here.
As the rich gets richer, the poor sinks into oblivion,
forgotten by most of us and at best, conveniently ignored. The discomfort in
knowing how poverty stricken some parts of the world is, is counterbalanced by
our willingness to turn away and think of something happier and less
depressing. We just don’t appreciate the gravity of the situation to want to do
something about and this is a problem that is centred on the immorality of
selfishness.
14. Tarring conventional marriage to
spite God
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While billions are suffering from malnutrition and hunger, and
salvaging what they can from rubbish heaps, there are those who probably have
nothing else better to do than to dismantle the institution of marriage because
it does not fit into their personal agenda of same-sex unions. Since the
Baker-McConnell vs Minnesota case in 1970, gays have been fighting for
inclusiveness irrespective of what the word ‘marriage’ actually means but the
resistance did not last.
In less than a decade, the sacred institution crumbled
one bit at a time until the courts began to pass a ‘domestic partnership law’
in California (1984) followed by the first mass same-sex wedding ceremony in
Washington DC (1987) and then a court ruling deciding that same-sex couples are
also families (1989).
By 1993, Hawaii recognised the right of same-sex couples to
marry and in 2000, liberal rabbis working under the Central Conference of
American Rabbis as part of the ludicrous Jewish Reform movement decided to
agree on gay partnerships.
In the same year, the state of Vermont became the
first in America to recognise full benefits of marriage to same-sex couples and
in the next sixteen years, the damage just simply worsened while at the same
time, large proportions of the gay community took their civil victories to heap
scorn on those who believe in the sanctities of family and conventional
marriage, accusing them of hate.
In 2001, Netherlands became the first in the world to legalise
gay marriages followed two years later by Belgium as well as Ontario and
British Columbia in Canada. In the same year, 2003, State of Massachusetts and
San Francisco followed suit. New Mexico joined in 2004 and so did New York,
Oregon, California and many others. Even the King of Cambodia joined the
chorus. By 2016, pretty much everyone else around the world joined in including
some churches.
Very few issues in the world are more divisive than same-sex
marriage and while the world appears to be embracing the idea of it, most
everyday people oppose it thus making this a highly controversial topic with
strong political overtones. In more liberal societies, support for same-sex
marriage – and homosexuality – is a very visible vote-grabbing strategy. In
other words, every left-leaning ambitious politician will embrace it for
popularity’s sake.
15. Forcing transgenderism down our
throats
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Just as we thought we couldn’t sink any deeper now with gay
marriages widely recognised throughout the world, President Obama decided that
the transgenderised must be given due legal recognition and he does that by not
only sanctioning the LBGT movement but also by demanding that everyone
accommodate their washroom requirements.
This means girls who think they are
boys will get to use the men’s facilities but far more alarming are the guys
who think they’re women who now get to walk into the ladies’ room. That’s like
letting the predator into a room full of defenceless prey.
Today, as many as 700,000 people identify themselves as
transgender in the United States with 15,500 doing military service. As of
2012, there were already 207 companies that actually offer healthcare for
transgender employees. Yet no blanket policy to cover up the truth by
mainstream media can suppress the real news for long. Breitbart.com reports
that there are enough horror stories about Target Stores’ pro-transgender
bathroom policy that will make you cringe. Read it here.
16. Wanton environmental destruction for
profit
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It’s not just the Amazon forest in Brazil that is being so
rapidly destroyed. Across the world, environmental destruction doesn’t just
apply to forests but it is simply a loss or depletion of natural resources
owing to human intervention, usually for personal profiteering gains. Pollution
in air, water and soil, use of toxic wastes that destroy agriculture and
livestock and result in forced human migration and indiscriminate burning etc
have all been very costly to the world and its population.
A study conducted
six years ago by a London-based consultancy ordered by the United Nations
estimated the combined damage to the environment in 2008 owing to activities of
3,000 of the biggest public companies in the world was at a shocking US2.2
trillion dollars.
And yet for all of this, accusations of climate change due to
human consumption have become increasingly shallow as evidences are emerging
that this is nothing but a politically-motivated hoax first propagated by
former US Vice-President Al Gore whom the British has recently discovered his
significant scientific untruths on global warming.
And it appears that as many
as 31,487 American scientists including 9,029 with PhDs have signed a petition
to reject the proposed greenhouse gas limitations imposed by the Kyoto
Agreement signed in 1997, citing “no convincing scientific evidence that human
release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases.” To read more, go here.
Without a doubt, people the likes of Al Gore are looking to
benefit handsomely from the imposed Carbon Taxes and other green energy laws
including even the production of alternative energies and non-fossil fuel
propulsion initiatives including the electric cars. In other words, not
everything we read is real anymore.
17. Legalising illegal immigration for
political expediency
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In Malaysia, illegal immigration has been taking place for
many years and at the highest level, it has also become a sticky political issue
of sorts. Across in America, illegal immigration, according to the Federation
for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), costs the country upwards of US100
billion dollars every year because taxpayers foot the bill to educate, feed,
accommodate, train and subsidise them in all sorts of ways such as medical
costs, public schooling, food stamps, unemployment benefits, vocational
training, language learning and roofs over their heads. However, on the other
hand, the illegal aliens do not contribute to the coffers since they don’t pay
income tax.
In Arizona, losses between US1.3 and 2.5 billion dollars have
been incurred owing to illegal immigrants. Moreover illegal aliens have also
forced expenditure to increase, which adds more pressing burden on the
country’s own citizens. This includes steeper car, home and property insurance
rates, wider deployment of law enforcement resources, stiffer employment
opportunities owing to availability of cheaper labour and many others.
It is inconceivable that any country would want to bring in
illegal migrants and not care or protect its own people first or even take into
account those who put in so much effort, time and personal savings to migrate
legally. It makes a mockery out of decent people and it teaches the naïve that
it’s okay to do the wrong thing because the government condones it.
18. Unity in diversity ends in Syrian
refugee crisis
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If there was anything that Germany doesn’t need more than the
Volkswagen crisis, it is the Syrian refugee crisis. While the automaker from Wolfsburg,
Lower Saxony has become an engineering embarrassment, albeit a very costly one,
the Syrian refugee crisis has often turned violent and deadly.
With over a
million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle-East, Germany is
now riven with crimes that are downplayed or hidden from view by authorities.
Police officers are warned to toe the line and go with the flow, which might
explain how local Germans are now very worried about their personal security.
This is an example of multiculturalism gone completely
pear-shaped. When the Germans themselves criticise migrant assaults on their
kind (including vicious rapes), they are unanimously and publicly branded by
their own fellow Germans as racists.
Meanwhile, in early 2016, police in
Cologne received more than 1,000 complaints from women including 454 reports of
sexual assaults during New Year’s Eve. Over in Hamburg, 351 women filed police
reports including 218 reports of sexual assaults on the same night. A shocking
report on the extent of this Syrian refugee crisis can be read here.
While the people are reeling from all these horror stories,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her French and Belgian counterparts appear
remorseless. While she owned up to evidence that the Islamic State has
infiltrated the migration routes and planted their own terrorists so that they
may reach Europe ‘legally’ and form more sleeper cells, nothing concrete is
being done to provide a stern response to stemming the migration.
There is no
denying that Europe has already begun to break apart at is seams, no thanks to
the incompetence of the European Union. We have now seen the last of European
common sense. Now comes its demise.
19. Honour killings define Islamic
defiance of justice
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According to a study commissioned by the US Department of
Justice that was released last year, there is an estimated 23 to 27 honour
killings each year. This figure might appear very small but they are
significant because they are all hidden among thousands of non-descript murders
and cases labelled deceptively as domestic violence.
Yet we know it as killings
that are purely motivated by a radical interpretation of Islam in which such
deadly violence portrays a behavioural conduct of men who victimise their wives
and daughters because they see their behaviour as insulting to their faith and
therefore bring dishonour to the family.
Honour killings and similar forms of violence are often
unreported and even when they are, there is a deliberate disconnect between the
murder and the religion by which they are motivated. It is an endemic cultural
problem that also encompasses violence in forced marriages, honour-based
domestic conflicts and female genital mutilation, and it is made worse because
it is difficult to indict.
Knowing the motive for violence or murder is
‘honour,’ federal authorities are in a quandary especially if there is no hard
evidence, any claims of religious motivation can then be used to demean or
defame Islam, something that the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
a Muslim advocacy group, is always keen to accuse.
Honour killings as much as stonings and beheadings are all
inter-related because they carry common elements.
Firstly, they are usually
condoned and protected by a fatwa (ruling by a ‘recognised’ authority based on
Islamic law).
Secondly, they reflect dishonour to the religion and family.
Thirdly, they are approved by the Sharia, which is an Islamic legal framework
that governs the way Muslims conduct their lives.
Fourthly, the victims are
almost exclusively women preyed upon my men whom they know.
A significant case
in point about honour killings is that 91 percent of the victims in North
America are murdered for being ‘overly Westernised’ and where they involve
girls under the legal age, the fathers are invariably involved.
What makes honour killings so difficult to bring to justice is
that the families are, more often than not, uncooperative and resistant.
Instead law enforcement agencies encounter out-and-out defiance, making it very
hard to prove in any court of law. Given the ‘small’ numbers involved, the
immorality angle may appear overworked but it is pertinent to remember that all
sins come from very small – and insignificant – beginnings.
If society does not
identify and recognise the root of such evil, honour killings will simply grow
and one day, become uncontrollable. As it is today, much of the rampant
Islamisation movement throughout the world is already very difficult to rein in
because liberal governments refuse to act. Honour killings may just go the same
way so long as the police are not given the power and authority to act on them.
20. Worldwide unemployment proves
resistant to change
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Unemployment simply means one is out of a job. If you haven’t
experienced the deep end of it, you won’t know what it can do to your
self-esteem and dignity. While US unemployment measured in January 2016 is at
what seems to be a low and manageable 4.9 percent, it still translates into 7.8
million Americans who don’t have jobs. Yet the US government trumpets this as
an achievement never before sustained since 2008.
But what is so deceptive about this figure is that it does not
paint the real ugly truth. This is because the Obama government prefers to use
a more flattering statistic to bolster their political image. Most economists,
however, contend that the real figure is far higher, at a staggering 9.7
percent. This figure, they say, defines all who are unemployed as well as
‘persons marginally attached to the labour force plus total employed part-time
for economic reasons, as a percent of the labour force.’
In more painful terms, this means 37.3 percent of Americans
over the age of 16 are not working or actively seeking employment and a large
part of this is because many people have simply given up finding work. The Wall
Street Journal estimates that around 2.6 million of about 92 million employable
adults in America are unemployed but do want a job and yet aren’t really out
there looking for them.
If America already portrays a grim portrait of unemployment,
the figures for the rest of the world are far darker. Taken as a percentage of
its total population, the ten worst countries in the world in unemployment
terms include Zimbabwe (80%), Djibouti as well as Mozambique (60%), American
Samoa (49.9%), Senegal (48%), Nepal (46%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (43.9%),
Lesotho (42.7%), Kenya (42%) and the Gaza Strip (41.5%).
The figures for the
more affluent countries aren’t exactly worth cheering about either. In Europe,
the poor performers include Spain (18.7%), Ireland (11.8%), Slovakia (10.9%),
Greece as well as Iceland (9.1%), Portugal and Sweden (8.9%), Finland and
Slovenia (8.8%), Germany (8.3%), Czech Republic (7.9%) and then Belgium and
Italy (7.4%). At 8.4 percent, Canada is not exactly doing very well in North
America also.
With a world in a tailspin and mired with a whole lot of other
serious problems like jihadism, there are enough reasons to doubt if there is
more to unemployment than just recession alone. Whatever happens next, one
thing is fairly clear – world unemployment figures will continue to be cause
for worry because of the potential negative dynamics that emerge from it.
21. Atheism and in-your-face anti-God
movements
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Whatever the reasons are for church attendance numbers around
the world to decline, the unfortunate offshoot of it is a growth in atheism.
With burgeoning atheistic movements in Europe and North America, hatred for God
has become rampant.
Already in 2012, atheism was said to be the world’s third
biggest ‘faith’ after Christianity and Islam, according to the online Daily
Mail. Dominating 31.5 (2.2 billion) and 23 (1.6 billion) percent respectively,
the Pew Research Centre reported that atheism commands 16 percent of the
world’s population, which is at 6.9 billion people. These are people who are
unaffiliated with any religion and they cover atheists and agnostics to those
with spiritual beliefs but not connected to any mainstream faith.
In fact atheism has such a stronghold these days that in
England and Wales, as high as 48.5 percent of all people profess to having no
religious beliefs at all, meaning that they have now outnumbered Christians in
the two countries. In the British Isles, Anglican and Catholic churches are
losing members who were brought up as Christians. Similarly, for every person
who joins up, the Catholics and Anglicans eventually lose ten and twelve
believers respectively.
There’s a simple perspective to all this. The people churches
lose are the ones the devil gains and in so many ways, this is a failure on our
part. When someone leaves church and not look back, the probability that he
turns away from God is mathematically fifty-fifty but in reality, as he drifts
apart, he invariably finds lesser and lesser reason to return. That is when the
loss becomes permanent.
Atheism is a mainstay feature of communist regimes but today,
it is also an important part of governments that model themselves after
socialism not just in North America but an increasing proportion of Europe.
Godlessness is also seen as a powerful scientific statement because logic and
God do not mix.
Hence the ‘intelligent man’ rationalises life through science
and logic and eschews God, believing that decision-making must be a process
grounded on reason instead of blind faith invested upon an all-powerful ‘myth.’
The big picture of all this is of course liberalism.
22. Abortions and the indiscriminate
killing of lives
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The biggest deception befalling women was actually recorded on
the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus in 1550BC but of course, it was in 1973 that the Roe
vs Wade landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that shaped society for the
acceptance of abortion as a woman’s right. In all the years since the momentous
court case, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that globally, around
40 to 50 million abortions have taken place, which corresponds to around
125,000 abortions a day.
In the United States alone, almost half of all
pregnancies are unintended and of these, four in ten ends up aborted, which
works out to be 3,000 on a daily basis. Statistics in China concerning abortion
are even grimmer. Because of its one-child policy, there has been at least 336
million abortions. Put that in an even more frightening way, that’s 1,500
abortions for every hour.
India, on the other hand, sees about 19 to 20 million
abortions annually but this alone doesn’t paint a complete picture. Abortions
are also selective in India because of a strong preference for boys and this
has resulted in the country having 7.1 million fewer girls in the national
population. Between 1980 and 2010, an estimated four to twelve million girls
were aborted simply because they were not boys.
Founded in 1916, Planned Parenthood is today the jewel in the
crown for the Obama administration and with US500 million dollars in annual federal
funding, abortion services have fast become a central feature offering women
easy access to terminating the lives of their babies.
With abortion being a
central political piece for the liberals, Planned Parenthood has also become a
hugely important reflection of what the government deceptively call women’s
rights. And unfortunately, liberal but naïve women are falling for this line.
23. Reversal of fortunes through
leadership immorality
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It is beyond belief how much politicians get away with when
considering their wayward behaviour bordering on immorality.
In 1994 when
former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders proposed masturbation as a way to
distract the youth from risky and unsafe sex, the then-President Clinton had
her removed but Clinton himself was not much better, having gone on a sexual
rampage in which he had trysts with not only Monica Lewinsky but a host of
other women including Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Wiley, Gennifer
Flowers, Dolly Kyle, Eileen Wellstone, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Sally Perdue,
Connie Hamzy, Lencola Sullivan and possibly countless others who might not have
chosen to reveal themselves. To all these women, Clinton either raped or had
illicit extramarital sexual affairs with. In all of these, either the women did
not provide consent to him or his wife, Hillary, had no knowledge of.
Sexual misconduct isn’t the only form of immorality at the
highest offer of leadership. Immorality also comes in a great number of other
forms such as the unstinting promotion of homosexuality, transgenderism and
offensive behaviour.
Michelle Obama’s invitation to rapper ‘Common’ to the
White House where she welcomed him calling for the burning of George W Bush and
wantonly praised a Black Panther cop killer is unprecedented behaviour for
anyone, let alone a First Lady. Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry regularly
visits strip clubs. Former senator Anthony Wiener was caught sexting and
revealing his manhood. Charles Rangel then defends Wiener’s behaviour and
refuses to take him to task. It gets worse from here.
Hillary Clinton appoints Huma Abedin as her aide, knowing of
her deep connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. US Rep Sheila Jackson Lee
brazenly compared Muslim militants to ‘Christian militants’ and there was no
outcry. Another US Rep Pete Stark is even more vulgar when he openly spewed
profanities and racist rantings at Republican Congressmen and still he gets
re-elected to Congress.
Meanwhile Obama discontinued the traditional annual
National Day of Prayer at the White House under the dictate of the all-powerful
CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations). He then signed over funds to
promote abortion and repealed President Bush’s ban on federal funded research
on embryonic stem cells.
Obama’s compulsion to legalise same-sex marriage and
transgenderism is as morally abhorrent as his legalisation of marijuana and the
forcing of his repugnant Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) healthcare reform
law as well as his authorisation of alternative energy development. In fact
Google Search will reveal an almost endless list of immoral actions and
decisions made by Obama and the ruling Democratic Party.
Outside the United States, immorality is just as rife. Other
than the notoriously immoral acceptance of Syrian refugees without security
vetting, the European Union (EU) has forcibly persecuted Christians within
Europe and then ignored the pleas of Christians under attack by the Islamic
State.
As notorious as the refugee crisis is Europe’s obsession with sexual
freedom and permissiveness masked to society as an individual right to free
expression. Evil influences are literally filling homes everywhere through
electronic media, books, magazines, social networking and even false preaching.
In Asia, corruption is virtually a household expectation. With
the exception of perhaps Singapore, literally every Asian nation has its fair
share of very visible corruption including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam,
Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Pakistan
and all the way westwards to Turkey. And the same can be said of the African
continent.
Sir John Dalberg-Acton (1834-1902) famously said, ‘Power tends
to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always
bad men.’ It would do us well if only all of us are made thoroughly aware of
this.
24. Destruction of world values through
liberalism/progressivism
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And when all is said and done about all things immoral in this
world, it is the governments in power that bears their influence on people. It
is they who bring the kind of change that self-destructs society. It is also
they who go under the disguise of modernity and pretence of progress to
introduce evil that destroys the spiritual value of man. And for most parts,
the overpowering influence of liberalism has much to answer for.
As we head into the second decade of the new millennium, we
are seeing the melding of liberalism and socialism with collectivist power
vested in government to control the masses by removing from the people the
means to protect themselves. Under the guise of a ‘protective’ government, the
people will become powerless to act in their own interests anymore. In
replacement of this, governments will reveal their true socialist behaviour and
turn the corkscrews to force the people to finally submit.
Since 2008, we have seen this beginning in the United States.
The transformation has already begun and if Hillary Clinton becomes the
forty-fifth President, there is little hope for any purposeful turnaround save
for a huge civil war. Europe’s transformation is becoming almost irreversible
as well.
In and around all of this, the Islamic State’s grip over the continent
is showing devastating results and through covert jihadist cells everywhere
around the world, people can only live in fear devoid of hope for any decent
government to stand up for them.
NOTE: The second and concluding part of this article will be published on Sunday, August 28 2016
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