Documentaries by Susan L.

  As I knit away, the TV is on for company. I've watched a couple of programs that have both alarmed and disturbed me.
  Greece is struggling. They are in the process of negotiating a large, open pit, gold mine with a Canadian company. This mine will devastate pristine forests. This mine will force the relocation of people who live there. Greece is desperate for income and investment to help ease the financial woes of the government. No matter the cost to individuals or the environment.
  There is a huge outcry against this operation. No wonder. It's a shameful display of corporate greed.
  Will it have any effect? I doubt it very much. Not when there's billions of dollars at stake.
  I am finally getting an inkling of how the global economy works. It isn't anything I've thought about before. From a rather simplistic point, it's like this: Canada sells oil and diamond rights to foreign investors. We, in turn, buy mining rights in other countries to keep the wheels of finance turning.
  Then there is the growing disparity between the haves and the have nots. The invention of the credit card is a weapon used to keep the masses down. The more we owe, the less likely there are to be job actions or strikes. The more we owe, the more willing we are to work for less and simply get by. The more we owe, the more we are willing to do in order to keep our jobs as companies cut back and slash jobs to help improve their bottom line.
  Science fiction has a way of foretelling the future. Many imagined things have found their way into our lives. It's a grim thought that societies imagined in the Hunger Games or in George Orwell's 1984 are a foreshadowing of the future.
  Lord, have mercy on us.
  "Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore, the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." Rev 7:5-7