How To Make The World A best Place

"What the World Needs Now Is Love" is a 1965 popular song with lyrics by Hal David and music composed by Burt Bacharach.

1965 was also the year of the snake and they say that population born while the Year of the Snake are said to be endowed with wisdom and with deep philosophical understanding. They are said to be born thinkers who excel in finding solutions to complicated problems. In matters of business they can be shrewd, biding their time in manufacture a deal only to strike when they judge the occasion is right. Thus in life, the majority of those who are born in the year of the snake are financially thriving and generally lucky with money.

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During that year President Johnson outlined his "great Society" in January 1965, and a month later on February 21, Malcolm X, a black nationalist, was gunned down in New York City. Throughout the month of March 1965 saw African Americans actively engaged in the Civil possession movements especially in Alabama. This was also the year America started to send forces to Vietnam and saw the starting of some anti-war protests in Washington and kept on spreading to eighty cities throughout the nation eventually. As a matter of fact 1965 saw very petite of the wisdom and deep philosophical startling of the leaders anywhere. Life in normal then was anyone but good, which I calculate was probably the calculate why Hal David wrote the song "What the World Needs Now is Love" - the world badly needed love then!

This year, 2011, is the year of the rabbit. And according to the Chinese Horoscope the year of the Rabbit is traditionally connected with home and family, artistic pursuits, diplomacy, and retention the peace. Therefore, 2011 is very likely to be a relatively calmer one than 2010 both on the world scene, as well as on a personal level. Conversely, nations will also come to be more insular and increasingly lock down their borders to protect against the "other". However, 2011 will also see new art movements projecting a sure national identity taking the world by storm. Shrewd and creative new business partnerships will also form to the advantage of all - this is the prediction.

The three words that best report the rabbit: calm, gentle, but persistent.

So far 2011, The Year of The Rabbit, is anyone but calm and gentle. We see none of those, but what we do see is the persistency shown by the population in Tunisia and Egypt in their efforts to turn their respective governments. And as I am writing this article, Bahrain, Algeria and Libya are on the boil; who knows which government in the region will bear the brunt of the people's anger next.

How ironic that Libya's Col. Gadafi, who took control of Libya in a bloodless coup, is now unleashing a bloody onslaught on the very population he had sworn to protect, who now wants him to step down after his forty-two-year rule. It is, ultimately, immaterial to his population either he had ruled Libya well or he had not, the population of Libya just want a change. This, I think, is a episode and an important message to all world leaders - don't overstay your hospitality!

In Yemen and in China too their population are starting to show signs that some changes are needed in the way things are run. Countries with autocratic and authoritarian rulers should take these signs as their wake-up calls. They should act now before it is too late. They should ask themselves this interrogate - in the worst scenario, what would they do if their population decided to demonstrate against them in the streets? Will they just gun them all down; clean up the mess afterwards, and to have business as usual the following day? I think not. These punitive actions may have worked before, but in a borderless world we are in today, it may not be that easy to sweep unpleasant things under the carpet. The lump will too noticeable and to avoid tripping over it will be next to impossible.

It is apparent that the world needs something new now - more love perhaps? Even that may not be enough, but something is assuredly needed to pacify the population everywhere who feel that they have been short-changed and a turn is needed. For a start, leaders should move on after two terms in office, but don't go beyond a two seven-year-term, then that come to be too long. A two five-year term is ideal de facto - if after a decade a leader can't help his population then he should voluntarily step down. The oppositions, while waiting in the wings, should prove their mettle to the population to see if they are worthy to rule if only they were given a chance.

Revolutions tend to make a mess of things and population suffer; ideally a government turn straight through the electoral process is the best alternative. And regime turn initiated by an face party tends to make too much mess of things, and costly too as we are witnessing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Besides, it could backfire like it did in Iran a while back where the turn turned out to be worst than what it was before. Clearly both methods should be avoided at all costs.

Poverty, the main cause of hardship suffered by the people, and the malcontents, who sometimes may not be the usual run of the population but population of responsibility, breeds discontent. And when society's durableness ceased to come to be bearable and the population have had adequate with the way society is organized, their only remedy is to show their frustrations in the streets.

It is estimated that 1.3 billion population live on less than one Us dollar per day. This amount is startling to grow, ironically, due to events like what is happening in the world today. normal loss of employment and restructuring of societies are generally the two main creators of the newly poor. The respect for human rights, meeting basic human needs, and more equitable distribution of wealth, clearly are the priorities for the eradication of poverty. To those who seek high office be mindful of these lofty aims.

How To Make The World A best Place

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