Mobile phones, Media and Welcoming the culture that Globalisation brings

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Islamasaurus

Within the first day or two of arriving in Lahore it became all too apparent that people are facing a sort of trial, some being well aware of it’s threat, most however completely oblivious to what’s going on.

There seems to be a reoccuring question when I meet people, “what phone do you have?”, you’d think there’d be more interesting things to talk about having not met ever or in atleast a decade! Anyway, much to their surprise I have no idea what model my phone is and to make things even more dissapointing(for them) I pull out a very primitive phone from my pocket. To emphasise the cell phone infatuation here I stress that it’s not just young people asking these questions, I visited a village where older middle aged people asked me the same question, intrigued what kind of a phone someone who lives in the west keeps, however once again my basic boring phone emerges.

So what’s causing this mobile madness? Madness might sound extreme, but the effect it’s having on people although not completely apparent(yet) is quite substantial and is only going to get worse.

1) Network providers are offering incredibly cheap deals. But how can it be that in the US/UK you might get 300 free text messages and 100 free minutes for say £15/$30, but over here they are giving people over 1000 text messages for a £1/$2, along with free minutes. May I ask why they are being so generous in this 3rd world country? I’ve really never known multinationals to be so generous.

2) TV commercials. I’ll give one example of a commercial. There’s a guy talking to his fiance and the girls mother say’s something like you need to be a new bride don’t talk to the guy too much it’s not good. In the end the commercial says you can now talk absolutely free of charge between 12am and 12pm. Not exactly a good message. It’s mostly young wannabe romeo’s that will take advantage of this service most, or should we say be taken advantage of. But as always things which have up until now been frowned upon or not encouraged are shown to us in commercials, movies and music in jest to start with so they don’t seem so bad; most people become desensitized after a while and unknowingly accept them. Given we live in increasingly Godless societies where the idiot box(TV) dictates what we see and beleive and what we see comes from the multinational corporations(MNC’s) who don’t care about what happens to society so long as their pockets are getting fatter I think we can agree we’re not going to move anywhere wholesome.

3) Internet. Again like satelite TV it’s cheap. The adverts here on TV from what I have seen are based mostly around mobile phone network deals and becoming “fair and lovely”, aside from that you have the great GEO tv which is utter crapsense, since i’ve been here they’ve been covering some marriage that is taking place between Shoaib Malik(Pak Cricketer) and some other Indian ‘celebrity’ tennis player women. Tell me a country that doesn’t have electricity for 8-12 hours a day, has bombs going off and Mr 10% Zardari as their president doesn’t have more important issues to be covering!!?

So the above 3 are easily available and you’ll find people living below the poverty line with them. Something is definitely wrong here. Why? Because the people of this nation need to be focused and realise the severity of their situation, not remain heedless and distracted by useless issues that make no difference to them. From the perspective of the MNC’s it’s a great strategy. Bombard people with gadgets and toys, introduce the celebrity culture, keep them busy, whatever makes the Multinational money, keep people thinking about anything but their purpose in life and their situation, control what they know through the idiot box using it as an indoctrination machine to spread their materialistic ideas. After that their job is simple, just keep releasing new objects and there you have it, slaves that are unaware of their slavery, drones working to get the latest new things.

We live in the age of technology, we’re taught the more technology we have the more modern we are, technology has become the mark of progress. I have no problem with technology, it’s a great tool which can help us, however….. we’ve forgetten a word called moderation.

Coming back to the mobile phones; the obsession with the latest phones and deals is just an indication of where the Muslims are going; sadly we’ve moved away from being free thinking human beings that lead mankind to light, a result of being liberated from the slavery of dunya. Contrary Muslims have become enslaved by whatever the ‘New World Order Globalisation Culture’ brings us, spread by it’s embassadors that sit in every household… i’m talking about the television of course. The multi national companies are more than happy for us to forever forget and enjoy all the temporary pleasures of materialism, but surely we’re already starting to taste the bitter side of the poisonous fruit as it spreads around the world, yeup, globalisation and the spread of one world culture… MATERIALISM. Fast, shallow and empty… but tempting as hell.

N.B: Technology is not evil. It all depends on how it is used.

Who controls the Media today from behind the scenes

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Islamasaurus

John Swinton was a well known journalist and economist who was the cheif editorial writer for the New York Times in the 1860′s. He said the following over 100 years ago, so what then can be said about the media today, in our global villiage like world, where it’s become very apparent that the truth is hidden from us, stats are twisted and henious crimes go unreported, while often insiginificant issues are on the front pages. We are hearing more and more about celebrities and sports, while civilian lives are taken daily, while the Zionist state of Israel goes on committing it’s atrocoties, while over 6,000 former service personnel of the U.S military commit suicide every year and soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan who are becoming more and more disillusioned day by day as they fight an unjust war, realising they aren’t helping liberate people but rather taking and ruining lives.

“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

[Source: Labor’s Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979.]

Living in a land of Corrupt Government Officials and possible (U.S) Mercenary Forces

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Islamasaurus

Before I left the safe sanatized environment of the western world and came to Pakistan two weeks ago I had some concerns, one of them being the fact that there had been a series of explosions where I was going, Lahore, the day before I left. None the less I was on my way and for the first few days I was pretty cautious about going to the local markets. While passing a market my cousin pointed out the place where one of the explosions took place, which I must say made a little uncomfortable as we approached the area. But as the days passed I noticed people continue to function as nearly normal, well they have no choice, life must go on, right? What surprised me more however was when I saw the likes of BBC news, Sky News, CNN or any other Pak news network while in England things always looked worse than they really were.

I originally thought most people would be living in fear, there are exceptions, but the majority of people don’t live in fear, they simply accept the situation and live as they were previously remembering that Allah has confirmed that the time of death is fixed and cannot be brought forward or delayed for even a second. Further, the majority of people beleive that the bombings are being orchestrated not by Muslim terrorists, but by other external forces bent on destabalising the country, as Pakistan is one of the few Muslim countries with Nuclear facilities and also a military force with some power.

Keeping this in mind, eyebrows must be raised when we hear about the U.S based private companies Blackwater now called XE being here having a large number of heavy armoured hummers along with their trained merceneries, a sort of shadow army. Blackwater forces who had immunity were secretly used in the Iraq war until some events unfolded regarding their killing of innocent civillians. So now we hear about Blackwater (Xe) working in Pakistan covertly; well it was only after the damage was done that we found out who was behind JFK’s assisination, it was only after thousands died in Iraq that it was confirmed that WMD’s were a sham and it’s sadly evident it’ll only be after more innocent people are killed that the terrorists who are wreaking havoc with these explosions will be exposed and we’ll find what part the U.S government, it’s private army(Xe) and of course Mr 10% Zardari’s government had to play in all of this, if any (yeh right!).