A tale of 2 cities in pictures « seeker401

A tale of 2 cities in pictures

Joe Cada shows off his US$8.5m haul from winning The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

A young Indian child cries as he is rescued with 19 other child labourers from a factory in Delhi.

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the nexus that is the world we live in..from one extreme to another..

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~ by seeker401 on November 11, 2009.

Posted in India, USA, World News

2 Responses to “A tale of 2 cities in pictures”

Way, way, way beyond sad really.

Poker boy has been given a gift of sorts. Good for him, he worked for it.
Let’s see what he does with it.

Campagnolo said this on November 11, 2009 at 10:12 am | Reply

very sad photo indeed

seeker401 said this on November 11, 2009 at 11:29 am | Reply

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” And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival… It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist… The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word ‘war’, therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ” – george orwell