Saturday 20 September 2008

crash, bang and wallop

The world has gone mad.

Crash - Financial institutions in chaos (those that still exist), turmoil in the markets, government bail-outs to some and not others, restrictions on the types of trading that can be carried out in an attempt to stop speculators, and lack of confidence by many. These are some of the results of this week, described as "never experienced anything like it since 1929".

Bang - problems with the LHC in CERN means that the "big-bang" 'atom smasher' will have to be shut down for repairs, before it has been used in a serious experiment.

And Wallop - Baha'is are still imprisoned in Iran, denied access to education, their administration disbanded years ago because of government orders. And now a petition being circulated round mosques calling for the dissolution of the Baha'i administration. Sorry, is the government of the country so out of touch with what it has already done in the past? Or is it just stirring up hatred for the Baha'i minority in the land of its birth? Thanks to Iranpresswatch for this news.

"Though the world is encompassed with misery and distress, yet no man hath paused to reflect what the cause or source of that might be. Whenever the True Counsellor uttered a word in admonishment, lo they all denounced Him as a mover of mischief and rejected His claim." Baha'i Writings

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