"Lighting a Billion Lives"

(D)ude: Man! I’ve become dependent on BBC America for the morning news and Hardball with Chris Matthews right before supper. Both have a crispness that is unparalleled in American Media.

(M)an: Dude! I’m totally trying to understand the George H. W. and George W. Bush presidencies and the total chaos that they left the Middle East and South Asia in after their total 12 years in the White House.

D: Man! The spent one and one fifth decade in the White House, it could be said. I’ll tell you what they did in that span of time, they basically tore apart the Muslim countries and spread a marginalization campaign of Islamophobia throughout the world.   

M: Dude! According to a recent opinion piece in Aljazeera dot COM, Maung Zarni of the London School of Economics brought forth the sad reality of how even the female human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi has intellectually surrendered to an Islamophobic pretense. She has chosen to remain misinformed of the facts, which Zarni clearly delineates as stemming from the seventies onward.

D: Man! Why doesn’t Aung San Suu Kyi repent by just reading Maung Zarni’s article and acknowledging her deliberate denial of what’s taking place in Burma, now Myanmar, with 4% of the population?

M: Dude! If you think about it, Suu Kyi is protecting herself from the military, which is currently running the country of Myanmar with hate towards the Burmese Muslims there, like the Rohingya Muslims that aren’t even recognized by the government! 

D: Man! What are we to do?

M: Dude! First off, we have to protect our own media outlets in the United States. Personally, I don’t entirely trust the big name newspapers and prefer to Google cross-reference and read a worldwide mix of articles from about as many corners of the world I can process without becoming cross over American journalism’s inability to free itself from the corporate grasp that has choked the Supreme Court of the United States’ six male justices since 2010.

D: Man! And then what?

M: Dude! Secondly, we have to protect voters in the United States. Wendy Davis can win the Texas governorship only if we secure two forms of identification for all our brothers and sisters. That’s the only way to get around the voter suppression hurdles being placed in front of US.   

D: Man! Have you seen the way Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have torn up the Affordable Care Act? Why would two brilliant men subject themselves to enslavement in Pepsistan? 

M: Dude! The Burmese media is silent, like the American Media was during the reign of the Bush Dynasty, which cost US countless lives in very Islamophobic war engagements. Bush Senior #41 put into place the forces necessary to create the international turmoil that Bush Junior #43 exploited for spoils like his paternal grandfather, a government contractor, had during the World War. 

D: Man! What about the newly minted Pepsicans Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?

M: Dude! The state of Pepsistan laid its foundation last week when Stewart and Colbert basically sold their shows to the Huffington Right.  

D: Man! The Huffington Right? What’s that? The latest in Arianna Huffington’s efforts to preserve the Tea Party Right, which she ushered into Congressional power with Stewart and Colbert’s assistance during the March to Restore Sanity in 2010?

M: Dude! The Huffington Right descends upon American democracy when progressives appear to disappear into the midst, especially when there is a slump in defense spending and a steady movement towards peace accords by the United States.   

D: Man! We have to get our sisters and brothers to vote! Why does Arianna Huffington do such collateral damage to democracy in America? Why can’t she and her Tea Partiers see that their daughters stand to inherit so much pain and persecution along with the instability that comes when American democracy fails to protect the disenfranchised?

M: Dude! Arianna Huffington and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert actually believe that they have secured enough treasure that their children will inherit fenced in communities where likeminded moneybags essentially go after each other by constantly competing to acquire the loudest house and the tackiest personalities.

D: Man! Talking about the tackiest personalities, have you heard of Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan’s latest mix up?

M: Dude! Imran Khan wants to block NATO trucks carrying crucial supplies for American military personnel in Afghanistan through Pakistan until the United States agrees to stop drone strikes targeted at terrorist organizations and leaders. However, we must keep in mind that Imran Khan lost the June 2013 election for Pakistan’s Prime Minister and is still recovering from the loss to Nawaz Sharif.

D: Man! Nawaz Sharif’s the guy who built the highways in Pakistan. And Imran Khan’s ex-wife was a good friend of Princess Diana of Wales. Isn’t Imran Khan always frustrated and falling off platforms?

M: Dude! He fell off a forklift during a campaign rally this summer. It might be that the brutal impact to his body and mind could have led to the sore loser that he has become. Mohammed Hanif of the Guardian explained Pakistani politics magnificently in a May 13, 2013 article entitled Pakistan Elections: How Nawaz Sharif beat Imran Khan and what happens next.

D: Man! What’s the solution to move Pakistan forward?

M: Dude! Nawaz Sharif wants to provide electricity to all Pakistanis. Surprisingly, this is a venture that Imran Khan has dealt with in his charitable works. If Sharif and Khan could forget about party lines, with Khan releasing himself from the grip of terrorists, and work together, electricity in Pakistan can be a clean and modern endeavor.

D: Man! Huh?

M: Dude! The Imran Khan Foundation has already introduced parts of Pakistan to solar powered technology via the “Lighting a Billion Lives” project through Buksh Energy.

D: Man! I’ll tell you another source that is lighting billions of lives. Barbara Buono attaining 40% of the vote in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race has lit the way for women in United States politics. The question of how to face a night like that has been accomplished by a woman of integrity and mettle. Barbara Buono’s graceful composure throughout the campaign was breathtakingly exemplary.

M: Dude! Barbara Buono has liberated women and opened countless doors to the future for girls all over the world.

D: Man! Barbara Buono and Milly Silva will be the ones to watch as the glass ceiling breaks further and quicker.