So Pete made me some breakfast in bed and I’m in the office now. I’m onto the usual morning routine – facebook and gmail. I came across this post from a friend of mine about MARTA, the public transportation system of Atlanta, and it’s nothing too good to hear about. Starting October 2nd this year, the one-way fare jumps from $2.00 to $2.50. I mean, that’s not bad compared to other transportation systems in US. However, Georgia and Atlanta’s economic situation is not like NYC or Los Angeles. MARTA’s monthly pass (like the metro card) also goes from $68 to $95. It’s pretty steep. MARTA is privately owned and funded so it’s not helping that Congress nor the state government wants nothing to do with MARTA. It doesn’t matter if the fare price increase will allocate funds for MARTA because in the long run, it will go out of business in no more than three decades. MARTA can only keep increasing its prices in short amounts of time for so long before everyone gets fed up. In the meantime, I guess this is some kind of incentive for Atlantans to really step it up and all buy cars.

Another thing that’s currently going on is the China-Philippines-Vietnam issue. I’m pretty sure that the tension will blow over as soon as it started with no escalation of any sorts. Of course, that is if the US starts to learn from its own mistakes and stops trying to be Big Brother (no reference to 1984 or Orwellian) to a whole bunch of countries. We’re in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and a few more to boot. Either it’s WWIII around the corner or the fact that America is doing some really interesting behind the scenes work to make more nations like us or controlled by us. There are a lot of events currently that the media is being a bit too quiet about. It’s almost a hassle to learn the truth these days because that’s not what the media wants us to focus on.

Knowing China, this is one nation that will never start the fight but if anything is started, China will retaliate although China will remain unresponsive to the taunts of Philippines and the US. This a typical territorial spat between China, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Of course the US signed a defense treaty in 1951, but the fact that the US believes China will act aggressively in this matter is something too far-fetched to even believe. Face it America, shit ain’t going to happen and stop trying to find a reason to claim more territory through your pretenses with other nations. Let these nations talk it out in a conference, like they were planning on doing in the first place, and call it a day.