Status Report: Snapshot of the World through 4 articles

These stories are taken from the Huffington Post, an independent internet news publication. However, just because these stories happen to coincide with what this blog is about DOES NOT mean they are accurate or even true. In this day and age information can be hidden, distorted, or falsely generated in the blink of an eye. Question Everything.

Afghanistan's Child Rapist Police Return Behind Shield Of US, UK Troops

Apparently, the people of Afghanistan have been consistently abused by the police governance over the past 8 or 9 years. One of their alleged abuses is the abduction and rape of pre-teen boys. The situation is so bad that the general populace is vowing to support the Taliban just to get rid them. The situation gets stickier considering this police force was not elected by the Afghani people but was assembled from the US backed forces fighting the Taliban in 2001. Aw shit.

Children Hit Hardest By Pakistani Turmoil
The war in Pakistan has displaced so many people, and has taken a toll on the nations children (when does war ever not?). But who cares right? I hope somebody does, for all our sakes

Iran To Begin Trials of Protesters
The world has been watching the struggle taking place within Iran, and many across the globe are showing their support for people who are attempting to take their destiny into their own hands. This article details the brutal conditions that protesters face, justified in the name of government and God. But they refuse to give in. Long live the revolution.

Company Fined After Robot Attacks Worker
The title says it all on this one.

Project Update: First song off upcoming mixtape Rebel Muzik V. I

This is what i've been working on for the past couple weeks. This is a pre-release version of the first song of 7. Tell me what you think.

The Path To Greatness - Rage the Rebel

Swinging For The Stars

Exit (Call Me) - k-os

Sometimes I just don't understand things.

There are so many things I want to do. So many things I can't wait to experience; see, taste, hold, hear- so many things I can't wait to be.

I want to reach my dreams, reach the top of that mountain that has seemed so far ever since I can remember. But every thing I see, everything I hear is saying "give up, that's not reality, you'll never make it.

But there is something I hope for even more than my own dreams. Something so strange and out there that I can't tell even my friends who believe in me because I know they just won't understand; they won't understand that my most secret desire is that somehow, someway we can all find a way to achieve whatever calls to us from the inside, whatever makes us feel happy and energized and alive.

Why? Why do people hate on me for believing that everyone deserves the right to shape their own destiny without others stomping on it? Why do people think I'm crazy just for thinking that a world where you aren't ever truly free to do what rings true to you is a world that I don't want to live in, a world that is worth fighting to change? How can you be so jaded as to believe that life is the way it is and even though it's fucked up nothing you can ever do will change anything? Are you really that convinced of your own powerlessness?

I can't accept that. I'll never accept that. I'ma shoot for the moon, swing for stars and know that one day I will shine for the whole world to see. I know you know which kind of life sounds way more appealing.

So will you stay where you are, never satisfied and forever longing for something more? Or will join me on this quest to find something beyond what we have ever dreamed?

The choice is yours.

-Rage, July 11 2009 C.E.

A Brother in Thought

This kid pretty much said all the things I've been thinking for a long time.