Wangjialing Mine Disaster: Warnings Ignored
When the incident occurred, 261 workers were located in the mine. Once the people who could escape did so, 153 workers remained trapped within.
Five days later, after pulling out around half of a million gallons of water each day, a sign of life came from the tapping of a pipe. Other signs, including a moving light source, made it obvious that trapped workers were signaling for help.… Continue reading
WorldView Tales of Travel: Sedona, Arizona
Every other Thursday, we will be dedicating our 1st World View blog post to an amazing travel story from one of our readers. The series is entitled “WorldView Tales of Travel” and will rely on you, the readers, to submit your amazing stories. From backpacking through Europe to crusing through the Caribbean, we want to share and discuss your incredible, ubelievable, unforgettable stories of travel.
1st World View is not only a place for you to discuss world news, but a place for you to discuss the world at large. Traveling expands the way we each see out… Continue reading
Moscow Suicide Bombing and the Russian Media
Moscow’s Metro station was the site of two suicide bombings this morning, tragically killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 60 others. Two females were responsible for the bombings and have been linked to Islamic terrorist groups from the North Caucasus region of Russia, terrorist groups that the Russian media had claimed to have been eradicated.
Although the people of Russia have been comforted for years by state-controlled television telling them the threats of danger from terrorist groups in the North Caucasus region were pacified, that comfort came to an abrupt end this morning. This bombing, along with… Continue reading
Toyota Blunder: An Industry Wake Up Call
Toyota has found itself in hot water due to problems occurring with their vehicles, but it has recently been brought to the public’s attention that the automotive giant knew about these problems since 2002.
This is an unfortunate but necessary wake up call for the automobile industry.
At the time of discovery, Toyota issued a technical service bulletin to all Toyota dealers across the country explaining that “some 2002 model year Camry vehicles may exhibit a surging during light throttle input at speeds between 38-42 mph.” In other words, the cars continuously accelerate without the driver’s control. You can view… Continue reading
2010 Health Care Overhaul – Establishing Hope
It is difficult to listen to politicians call this health care bill “unconstitutional.” If providing health care to the citizens of our own country is unconstitutional, than we have a problem with the Constitution.
Plans to provide health care to 32 million Americans who are currently without should open your eyes to the necessity of this bill. When did we become so isolated and self-absorbed that we would prefer watch our own people suffer? Have capitalist ideals overtaken Christian ones?
It is a shame that we ignore the slow moving, consistent problems in our world to focus on the ones… Continue reading
