Change There Must Be - Take Action

Since President Obama is talked about this, I talked with my father about it too, and we came to some personal conclusions. We both went our separate ways, so here’s my side of the story. In a big study done by the World Health Organization in the year 2000, it is illustrated that the United States was 37^th on the list in terms of health care. Despite what other stubborn people might think the ranking is pretty accurate even considering sources of error, and there are those who would testify to the belief of a lesser tanking. One must keep in mind that the majority of western European countries are better in healthcare than the US. . For instance, France is rated #1. Never the less, other countries such as Singapore, Colombia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco also rank better US. . Other countries such as Italy, Spain, Austria, and Norway also are on the upper part of the long list and most of them are in the top ten.

Yes, I believe that the efforts made by the people of the United States should be carried through so that the United States moves closer and closer towards socialized health care. Why am I saying this? Well let’s ask ourselves: Do the countries motioned above, having great healthcare systems, have socialized health care? The answer is yes. Doctors in the United States suggest that the people who are less fortunate should not receive the same level of health care as the ones who are fortunate. These are the actions of greedy people. As a citizen of the United States one should reflect on whether or not these people should be allowed to dictate who gets the best health care. Are you going to throw away your money to healthcare insurances and doctors when you could have it for free, when it is your write to have it if you should choose to? Even if the company you work for pays for it, it is still coming out of your pockets, only indirectly. Your salary could be higher if your employers did not have to pay for your healthcare. Change there must be. Take action because it is my write.

Countries that put hand in hand

Images source: http://www.tcnj.edu/~darakjy2/globalization.jpg

Did any of you ever wounder what globalization means? I bet you did because not many people understand it, but that does not matter. Lets see what it means. Globalization is to make relations with other or all parts of the world or to make universal.

Though globalization we can creat a society throughout the world that works the same way, exchange cultures and ideas, pay more attention to humman rights, and share enviormental protection and technology. Because technology has improved, it reduced the costs of transportation and communication which increase tourism. Globalization creates more economic oportunity. Some other benefits of globalization is that it rises the standards of living, there is a better education, increases democracy. The basic benefits of globalization are faster growth with new opportunities.

Globalization is great but like everything it has it's cons. The most minor is that developing countries tend to try to keep the benefits of the economic growth for themselves. When stock markets crash in a country, then others crash in other countries because they are all realted. We are all connected so we depend on eachother and if some of us start to fail or even just on like the United States or Canada, then other places like Europe will start to fail, and then other places in Africa like Morocoo which is very dependent on the help of European countries esspecialy France.

Internet is another example of globalization. You can comunicate around the world using msn, facebook, YouTube, e-mail, my space, and other sites such as blogger. Globalization should be controlled in my opinion because if we get two dependent on eachother then sonner or later noone will want to work because, "you can just look it us on internet man and if it's not there then ask for it on yahoo answers ." It's that simple.

Dinamite PCs

Name of the company: Dinamite PC

Products of the company: Cheep computers that don’t last more than a year

Horizontal Nature of the company: Our markets are all around in the world. Places that are targeted are not where the richest people are. We mainly target the middle and low class who don’t like to spend a large amount of money for electronics because their chances of breaking are high. The issue is that there are no refunds, returns, or exchanges except if the product is defective.

Our first store will be in Morocco because the majority of the people are either from the middle class or from the low class. I know from personal experience that people in Morocco from the low and middle class want personal computers for the lowest price even if they are not the best quality. This will work especially in Morocco because there is a black market where people can fix their computers. We will plant other stores in France, Germany, Russia, China, and Brazil.

Another version of our computers only last one month but is of high quality. There computers will target rich people that want to use a portable computer for a month during their vacation or when they go to places like Las-Vegas to play in the casinos for a week. This computer will have everything a high quality apple computer has. The software will be the same as the one you would find in a stock apple computer, but this one will have installed antivirus.

Another type of people this product will target are spies and astronauts. These people want their data to be erased after a while. What this computer does is break after a month or when a code is correctly typed into a special area. When they break, the computer’s memory if completely erased without, leaving any trace of anyone ever being on it.

Vertical Nature of the Company: These computers will be completely built by machine so each factory will have its own sets of stores within the country, and it will produce depending on the demand. Each factory will have an estimated 5 stores in small poor countries, 20 to 50 stores within middle class counties, and estimated 70-130 stores within really wealthy or populated countries like china, The United States of America, and Canada. The factory will produce a lot of computer so no more than 5 factories will ever be needed, maybe one in each poor country we decide to target. The computers will be transported from the factory to the stores by our trucks, so this will not drain our wealth very much.

Energy: Energy usually means money. The employees of the stores will be paid by the stores from the profit the store makes, and the employees of the factory including the driver of the truck will be paid by the factory by what it gains. The factory will play the role of the manufacturer, in other words it will not give the computers to the stores for free. It will get paid by the stores as if they were an individual company.

Raw Materials: The materials used to create this computer are the same that are used to create every other computer. There will be metals and plastics. The factory part of the company will pay for this.

Labour: There are basic workers that are permanent at each location, and there are others that can come and go. The permanent employees at the factory, there should be a manager, chef of machinery. Other people such the people that sort the materials, count what there is, clean, use smaller machines, drive the trucks are not mandatorily needing to always be the same. At the store, the permanent employee is the manager. The others are just workers. Each location will pay for its own employees. The higher someone gets in rank and the more important he/she becomes, the higher their payment is the rule.

Government and Regulations: I think that governments will welcome this sort of business because it also get profits from taxes, makes their people work at our locations, and makes other people want to work to get a personal computer. I don’t believe there will be a problem there. Of course we will follow the rules of the country and not do any illegal activities, but if the rules are going to be a problem for our money because of for example too high taxes, then we will simply leave the country because we are there for business and to gain money and not to sell computers.

Profits: As I explained earlier each location will be responsible for its money and buying and selling its products. Let’s take a store for instance. It buys its computers from the factory, which is also ours, at $50, and spends $20 to sell it by paying employees, cleaning, and paying electricity, etc…, and sells them at $140. This is a $70 profit which is 100%.

After I get rich and pay back the money that I have borrowed, then I will help people that are in need, build shelters, provide food and water and clothes, etc… This can go on and on for ever and I don’t know what I will do first or how I will go on doing this, but I am sure that I will get there. Of course this is after I get a Ferrari and a Bugatti (cars that are fast).

Can’t you see it grow and notice the difference

Morocco has changed a lot during the last ten years. It’s leaders are beginig to care for it, and we can notice a change. A university professer once told my uncle that to see that a country is in the procces of a revolution one must first look at the public places. Are there guardens? Are there public bath rooms? What is provided for the people like roads, railways, communication, etc… We must see what the country is investing it’s money on. A small example of this would be when a dad gives his son 100DH. If the son spends it all on games, then he is not investing his money well, but if he buyes a healthy drink for 20DH, eats something healthy for 30DH, buys a book for 15DH, keeps in his pocket 5DH, and plays video games with 30DH, then he is a good boy that knew how to invest his money. This is the same for countries because they must also invest their money and they can invest it in just playing, building big buildings, building castles, etc…, or they can invest it in their people that way they can get something back because a castle gives nothing back it only demands more.
The middle east countries are not doing very good investments with their money. Because they have petroleum and gain a lot of money, they spend 100Billion dollars on a caslte and none on research for improvement. They could have spent 1Billion dollars on a castle and 99Billion dolars or resarch for improving their medical systems, getting new medicin that they do not have, ect…

Morocco is not a very wealthy country, but it has a very good strategical location. It is the door to Africa from Europe and the door of Europe from Africa. It is 15Km away from spain. It has many advantages, one that is its beloved king, King Mohamed 6, a man that truly has a vision for this country. Although he is the chief of it all, he cannot do this by himself because there are people that just want money for their own benefit. Never the less, we can see that Morocco has started its revoloution. It is being revolutionized in a positive way. We can see this through public spaces, transportation, communication, farming, industry, and relations.
If you walk down a more Moroccan treat were people are rather not wealthy, you will find some garbage on the floor, and some kids playing soccer with a ball of a diameter of 5cm (very small). You will also see some house wives cleaning up that mess, and telling the kids to clear the path for any passing cars. These people are trying to be clean although the government is not providing for them the best ways to do so because they are not the priority, but I think they are trying to be clean because they don’t want to be seen as a messy or unclean part of Morocco. What I have noticed in Moroccans is that they do not let anyone open their mouth at them, and they will do anything not to be criticized. These people have extened families that might be wealthy, and they will not want to be seen as unclean. Another point is that they notice that Morocco is a growing country and that it has started its revolution, so they don’t want to be seen as someone that holds this country back.
Now if you go to a rather cleaner area, you will see that there are public water closets, guardens, trees full of fruit, and nice people. You will find nice people because that garden is known to have nice people. This is another issue there is. The issue that there are different social classes in many ways, me and you could or could not end up in some the following different ways of social classes to together, by how clean you are, by how rich you are, by how polite you are, by how much you are related to the royal family, by how you are dressed, by where you spend your weekends and holydays, and many more. If you do not understand me then let me give you an example. I have a farm by Settat city and by my farm there is a big cement factory. There is a farmer that had 5 hekters of land by that cement factory. This company offered this farmer, that never got 500 dirhams all at once in his pocket, 2 billion dirhams for that piece of land and now he is super rich. That famrmer is ungly, not well dressed, not polite, does not anywhere during his vacations and all this even after he got rich. Now this farmer would not fit in the social class of a person that goes to that garden, and someone that is not rich but is polite would fit in perfectly with other rich people. This is a true story. Now we can see that there are social classes which is a sign of a revolution.
There are now three big comunication companies. These big companies are competing in Morocco to sell their communications. With compition, people lower their prices, give more services, and provide better products. This is only one example of compition in Morocco. Others are like banks and Internet. It is said that we will have the subway in Morocco and TGV. These two diffenrent train will lower the costs and quicken the procces of going to either long distances with the TGV or short distances with the subway which will most likely be connected with the trains.

Morocco is doing lots of export with other countries and has international relations. Moroccans export a bit of what they industrialize and their farming goods. Morocco pays up to 60% of any machines farmers buy to help them grow better, faster, and needed goods. Morocco also pays up to 100% of the drop system to any farmer that wants to implement it in his farming. Morocco is making good investment in its people and it is time that they also start to see the European farmers as people to look up to.
Morocco is revolutionizing.

Where to start peace

In the world there are many places where there is no peace, infact there is noware where there is total peace even if your in a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th world country and it does not even matter the governement of that country. I beleive that global peace in this world can not be acheived. Ask yourself this: when is the last time I heard about total peace in the world any time in history? Your answer is NO, NEVER. Thats because humans are not made in the way that they make peace with everyone. We love ourselves more than anything, and they only make relationships with others for their own benifits- This can also be seen in how countries behave because they are based on humans, countries base their relations on what will help them later ( ex: Morocco is friends with sends help to other countries while its people suffer- Why?- it's because they could help them keep the sahara desert). All the laws and rules we follow will not bring us to tatal peace ( or any other form of governemet) , it only delays the wars (disagreements) that will happen, for the way people think will never change.

In the socratic seminar, we discused other wise, but my team mates were all agaist me so I had to agree. We discused that they are ways to atain and keep peace. Some examples are that we could reinforce the law and educate the people. I did not attend the entire seminar, so I don't know what we discused after the first question, but if I were there then I would of wrote something.

Why Did Europeans Import Slaves From Africa, Instead Of Enslaving Native Americans?

The Europeans tried to enslave the Native Americans, and they did. A disadvantage to this was that Native Americans would tend to easily die because of the European brought desires. So when they had to choose an alternative to this, they decide to turn to West Africa which had already booming slaves markets. The slaves were not expensive, and they were located on the coast which made it easier to transport because west was The Americas and north was Europe.

However Europe did not turn to countries like Morocco, Algeria, and many

Arab/Muslim countries because they were not open to slavery. Columbus wrote himself

about the troubles about enslaving the Native Americans. The Natives knew the lands

and had

relatives which were ready to help them anytime.

SO I was thinking while coming home...

As I was coming from my farm to my normal hose, I noticed that there were many "things" wrong with the Moroccan roads that shoudn't be. Let me give an eample, one of our tires was flat out so we decided to go to the nearest city and have it fixed. The closest city at that time was berchid, and at about 10:00 PM we were gonna crach into a big circle that they have here, in all of Morroco, where cars coming from many different directions go around that circle and exit in the direction they disere. Now the problem with this was that there was nothing to indicate that there was a big giant circle of concrete in the middle of the road, and the silly thing is those were just addaded in that specific place so many people did not know about them.

When I finaly arrived at Casablanca, the city where my home is, I had to go to my aunt's hose to get my medical report for the school, so we went slowly and causly on the road. As we were getting neer to a turn, a motorcycle passed us even though we wern't gonna turn and turned. This rilly worried us because if my dirver was not aware that the guy had passed us and was intending to turn left we were going to crash into him, and the mistake would be our because we bumped into him.

As we approched the house I noticed that there were exesive amounts of speed bumps. In the past when I was in more civilized countries as Canda I never saw a single speed bump. I notice now that there are speed bumps everyware, and I think that the governemt thinks that this will reduce the speed which is wrong. The fact that a "crazy person" will go fast if there is a speed bump or not is true because he does not care about the car, he cared about the speed. And people who have a tendancy to move slowly will still move slowly.

Morocco as a growing country but with some wrong aspects

As you may have ready in my last post, Morocco is gorwing to become ultimatley a first world country, but as a well as this advancement is happening, I have a sad oppinion about this too.
Morocco is focusing too much on politics, internatinal affairs, ecology, economy, roads, the diving code, and many thing that have to still be changed, altered, replaced, or executed. The sad thing is that Morocco is not focusing on Education, sanitation, healthy food, and most importantly but equaly needed more than the other things Morocco is focusin on currently, poverty.

Morocco is a poor country for many reasons that I see, First, about half the people are not imployed and rely on others to take kare of their needs. There are poor people who just don't feel like working, and there are other that just can't find a job for just about any price, and there are other that are either too old or two young to work. The people are not incouraged by the governement to go to work. Insted the governemt is working on projects that of forein affairs, and trying to bring more companies in to morocco like Wana...! The governement is also working on a $ 9,000,000,000 project for building a solar power power plant which by the way does not help at all in any way the poor who can't find jobs, or are too old or too young to work.

Morocco is trying to improove the driving code, but I beleive that what (they) are not seeing is that the people (more than half is a very low approximation for this) are noteducated at all, so how could they even follow the one there is currently. People don't go to school because they are not incouraged to, their parents might have a farm or a small buissness like a sodering shop or something, and they would like it very well for their children to be a source of free labor without having to pay for school supplies or the school itself for most of these people.

If the governemt did their jobs, and there is a person in charge of each of the thing I metioned (if not then there should be, and the people currently in those posts should go to meetings not make a profit out of people but to actuly help them), then I beleive that this nation has the potetial to become a leading first world country way furthur in the future. This can't happen with the ideas of the current Moroccans (work to live, or not all just depend on people or bribes).

Sanitation is just one of the things that make Morocco a super country for becoming unhealthy. For example, the big, I mean enormous, dump down by "tarik Madiouna" is just filty. Tuns of garbage that could be recycled is just burned and evaporated into the air that we (me included) breath. I have to say that once my cloth we out in the rain (they were supposed to get some wind to be dired), and when the rain stopped and we got the cloth, they were as dark as dirt. There are also people living in that dump, as discusting as it is this is true. I have seen them coming out of their houses which are under a pille of garbage. Garbage that should be disposed of, recycled, re used, reduced (for example, the black plastic bags wich are by the way toxic), and disposed of in a different much cleaner maner. I say that Morocco should not make a $9,000,000,000 power plant that is ecofriendly, but rather use that money to fix this even bigger problem once and for all. The power plant that is supposidy going to help the climate change will only make the change slower, for that fuel that will not be used by Morocco will be used by other countries and will make no different what so ever ultimatley. But as for this garbage which probably polutes more than that fuel per year, it will continue to gorw and expand even furthur than it has, for the way that people think did not change. Another example that also goes into bad food, is the river of (excuse me if I say this) urin and pooe down from "Berchid" to about the begining of "tarik Madiouna". This filty water not only polutes, but is used by local farmers to water their plants, which I find absolutley under any degree or surcumteances what so ever discusting. I rily think that a drastic change much occur in this country.

I don't know if Moroccan officals are seeing the big picture here, if they are seeing outside the box and the world that they live, but one thing is for sure is that it does not seem like it. For example, when the rain can last winter I beleive (correct me if I'm wrong) Moroccan officals did not see the need for helping especialy farmer that had their houses destroyed, the roads fludded, but rather sat down and talked in parlement (I saw it on tv) about how this effected the growth in agriculture.

As a Moroccan that has seen and heard of the these things from people that I find very trustworthy, I say that Morocco is going in the correct direction, but with the wrong state of mind. I think something should be done about this... Morocco, I beleive in you, but please get on top of things. I only wish I could sit down with governemt officals to see a solution for this, but I am just a boy that goes to school well educated, that sees these things, and could only write about it in the hope of making a positive change. Go Morocco, Go Morocco, Go Morocco,...

Morocco goes green and healthy

Morocco hopes to be less dependent on foreign energy sources and protect the environment by making a huge solar power project.

It is the $9 billion project that hopes to create 2,000 MW by 2020, and would reduce the kingdom's reliance on imports of electricity, oil and gas. In 2007 this was 96% of Morocco's power, and this made Morocco a very unfrendly Kingdom with the enviorment.

The project is to be more ecofriendly; we hope to protect the environment and sease the climate change, according to Minister of Energy and Mining Amina Benkhadra, who presented the project on Monday November 2nd, this year.

"The project will reduce energy imports by saving the equivalent of a million tonnes of oil per year," said the minister, adding that it will "help protect the environment by cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 3.7 million tonnes annually".

The wanted capacity of 2,000 MW by 2020 will be the equivilant of 38% of the of the other three main power plants. This new power plant will be on a 10,000 hekter area.ers.

To be sertan that these goals will be achieved, the project will also consist of introducing solar energy programmes to colleges of engineering and universities. The project will as well train technicians to be ready for this big turn in Morocco's economy and realtion with the enviorment.The project is said to be financed by foreing private companies and the governemt.

Moroccan officials also say that the production will be of 5 kWh per square metre per day of solar radiation and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, which will could make Morocco a more environmentally-friendly Morocco.

Morocco wants to get rid of the need for forien electricity, and to be a more inviormently firendly Kingdom.

Emmigration-Morocco

People who immigrate from Morocco are usually young. Some people immigrate illegally usually to Europe. These people are known as``heragas``. Other people, we Morocco for social purposes. Some people leave for their education, they might want to study in some better schools, and places, or just because they want to. I'll really know a lot about the subject, all I know is that people immigrate to different places for better lives or to earn some money. If you would like more information about this I suggest to visit Wikipedia which is not a bad source as long as you compare with another.

Immigration-Morocco

Many people immigrate to Morocco for several reasons. People from France, Spain, and other countries from Europe and North America find resources to use it are already used up in their country or that there is none of in their country. Countries like Spain and France come to Morocco as fishers. They're allowed to bring their boats to fish in Moroccan territory sea as much as they like. They do not respect reproductive seasons. They're allowed to do so because as a reward to France and Spain for freeing Morocco from their control, Morocco offered the fishing rights and others. People from Europe and America also comes Morocco because it's the key to Africa. It is located under Europe, on the other side of America and at the top of Africa. They use Morocco to import and export. Other businessmen come to Morocco to do tourism. They build hotels and expensive coffee shops. To show you how expensive these things are here are some high prices. For instance, a hotel could cost someone around 80 to 90 thousand dirhams. A coffee can cost someone around 100 dirhams. People come to Morocco to earn money and not to stay any longer.