The 60s, 70s and 80s…. we had so many dreams and gave our hearts, hard
work and $$$ because we believed in humanity… many of us WWII babies grew up so
hard and recognized that the poverty of victory of freedom… cost dearly…. And wanted
our world 2 be better…
If I remember correctly, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta did not take
government money because she didn’t want to be under their control and
influence.
What would Michael Jackson
do?? Children of the world need 2 matter.... they just must... humanity must
take as stand apart from United Nations and rich grabby despots and thieves and
rich white men and politicians and Media MeS of this world.... we must take
back our humanity..... How can Latin America shame themselves.... How can
Canada condone paedophiles and women abusing themselves by selling their bodies
after the 1000 highway of tears.... how can Europe condone sextrafficking how
can Asia pretend they don’t have the world’s largest sold children in2 sex and
slavery – how can Africas destroy their women and girls as though they just
don’t matter.... and USA how can u continue 2 use war over peace??? And Russia
and Balkins- how can your incredible history and beauty be savaged by greed of
the rich and poverty of the millions... this is so wrong... God help us all...
imho..
We Remember....
USA for Africa - We Are The
World ( Original Music Video 1985 ) HD / HQ
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The truth about the immigration “crisis”: Our drug policies and U.S.-backed tyrants created Central America’s culture of violence
If you want to really understand what's happening at the border, revisit the violence we visited upon the region
Francisco Ramos holds up a picture of
his son, whose decomposed body was found in the Texas desert, as he waits for
the arrival of his son's body, in Customs, in Guatemala City, Friday, July 11,
2014. The remains of Gilberto Francisco Ramos, the 15 year old boy who died in
the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, trying to reach the United States alone,
was delivered to his family on Friday.(Credit:
AP/Moises Castillo)
Some years ago, I flew in from Asia to interview some State Department people
and stayed with my dear friend Judith Evans in Northwest Washington. A Latin
Americanist with an honorable record as a correspondent, Judith spoke Latin
American Spanish. This put her right at home in her building: The staff were
all Honduran and Salvadoran.Jump cut. Years later I strayed into the town of Brewster, New York, one morning as dawn broke. Brewster would have been another white-bread Westchester suburb but for one thing. On every corner were scrums of guys in shabby work clothes. A pickup would come by, and the driver would hold up two, three, four fingers, and that many men would climb in back for a day’s labor —landscaping, house painting, bricklaying, what have you. They were Latin Americans to a one, none documented.
One more jump cut, this by way of a confession. More years later I had a decrepit farm up here in the New England hills, with maybe an eighth of a mile or more of stone wall that dated to the 18th century settler who first cleared the meadows. I rebuilt it as the bank book allowed, always with crews of Mexicans or Central Americans, itinerant so far as I could make out. I own up to participation, then.
The question everyone asks now is O.K. “Why do we suddenly have floods of unaccompanied children washing across the southern borders of the U.S.?” But there is a better question. “Why have we had floods of Latin Americans pouring northward for a couple of generations running?”
And then there is the best question. “Why are we so preoccupied with the first question that the second never gets asked?”
It seems to me a question of ownership, as in — two more good questions — “Who owns this tragedy? Who are the architects of the continent shoving these children into perilous journeys of no certain end?”
Maybe my answers seem already to be evident. Anyone who has held even a brief history of our hemisphere in hand would have to come to the same conclusion. We have detained more than 50,000 undocumented Latinos, most children, trying to cross the border since last autumn. This is not a Latin American crisis; it is an American crisis in the fullest meaning of the term. Acknowledging this is sine qua non of any serious solution.
Do American lawmakers and the Obama administration want a serious solution? It is my final question, promise.
To address the recent surge in undocumented migrant children without reference to the historical phenomenon permits our officials and journalists, and in turn all of us, to put it down to such problems as gang violence. “Gang violence, fueled by the drug trade” is the favored explanation over at NPR.
Mealy-mouthed, this stuff. For me, “gang violence” starts to take on aspects of the term “terrorism,” my least favorite word these days. Nothing more need be examined. It is implicitly “other.” Instantly one lands in the safe, eternal present, where one is clean of it all.
At bottom our address of the immigration problem serves the need we norteamericanos nurse to claim a kind of detached perplexity at the perverse behavior of Central Americans — the petty criminals, the traffickers and now even the mothers and fathers. As with so much else in the orthodox American worldview, it is all a matter of spontaneous generation.
For weeks I have waited for some account of this crisis that acknowledges the very large role of American policy of various kinds over many years or, depending on how you count, centuries. This would fracture the narrative, yes. But this elephant is simply too large to ignore, surely. And the narrative has critical fault lines, like a piece of old marble, as we all know.
Nothing. I am not a declinist, but we do seem determined to duck the realities of our time until we make decline one of them.
“Do not send your children to the borders,” President Obama said in a television interview the other Sunday. “If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More important, they may not make it.”
I find this remark not short of disgusting for its several subtexts. Central American parents are so stupid and loveless that they must be instructed to care for their offspring. Their decisions are calculated — suspect, that is. These mothers and fathers are ignorant of the dangers facing their emigrating kids. The best place for them to be is in the environment — to which no reference — they are escaping on orders from the calculating parents.
Let us look briefly at the causes responsible leaders should be talking about and responsible correspondents, above all those in the field, should be writing about even if — especially if — the leadership refuses to acknowledge responsibility.
Violence is a good place to start. Practically every nation in Latin America has passages of gruesome violence in its past. There seems no question it is a factor now among the Central American nations. What about this violence?
Those Central Americans I met in Washington long ago were refugees from violence — state-sponsored violence in the 1970s and 1980s. They had fled wars fought by American-supported regimes, nominally against a Communist menace. But these were not anti-Communist campaigns, of course. The enemy was social democracy, from the Arbenz coup in Guatemala onward, and Washington feared the region’s social democrats more than Communists for the simple reason social democracy actually works.
One of the challenges of post-Cold War Latin America has been to root out the culture of violence the Cold War cultivated. We have a different kind of violence now, non-state violence, but this cannot be understood as unrelated to this culture. Indeed, the gang violence is in part prompted by the harsh, not to say brutal police and sentencing policies still in effect and still encouraged by American police agencies.
The causes of Central America’s culture of violence are not lost on those forced to breathe its air. And no amount of flinching on our part will ever come to anything.
Drug trafficking is a related phenomenon so obvious that it more or less speaks for itself. NPR would have been more honest in its “explainer,” noted above, had it mentioned even once who was at the other end of the “drug trade.” No buyer, no transaction.
Since the Nixon administration American officials have been intent on suppressing supply — in effect exporting the problem, a common way at a lot of things. But pretending North America is not a primary factor in Latin America’s drug-related violence is too silly to waste more than a couple of sentences on.
Poverty, then. Neither is this a new cause of the flows of Latin American northward. It is very old, indeed, but it has worsened markedly in recent years. Note the ages of these children: pre-adolescent, adolescent? I find a clue in this. Almost certainly most of the children coming now were born after the signing of NAFTA in 1994 and before the signing of CAFTA, the Central American version of same, a decade later.
The impact of these agreements is accumulating a record. Anyone not given to rational-choice theory, or corporate manipulation, would have easily understood that these societies could not possibly withstand the import of neoliberal economic models. Cheap grain imports drive farmers off land, small businesses are bankrupted, state-run companies providing essential services and products are turned private, subsidies are withdrawn, wages suppressed.
And parents made desperate must love their children enough to help them get out. Where, please, is the surprise? And where lies the responsibility?
Given that causality prompts hives in our legislators and leaders, to say nothing of our media, you get all kinds of nonsense emanating from Washington. For much of the Republican right, this is another occasion to attack Obama, nothing more. O.K., you cannot expect more from a party that cares about nothing or no one else.
Then you have the “pull factor” argument — the thought that American law induces people to drop their lives entirely and come our way. Think about this for a sec. How inhuman does this imply Central American mothers and fathers to be if the northward migration is all about a law that protects migrant children from harm? This is enough to break up families? One must have some weird idea of Latin American families (which are, indeed, greatly more coherent than the norm in the north).
Here is a good one on this point, from Carl Hulse, a longtime New York Times reporter in Washington who ought to know better, if I may say so. (And maybe he does but cannot write it.) The topic is a law called the Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. It does what its name suggests, and Bush II signed it at the very end of his second term.
“Now the legislation, enacted quietly during the transition to the Obama administration, is at the root of the potentially calamitous flow of unaccompanied minors to the nation’s southern border,” Hulse wrote in the July 7 editions.
At the root? The law is at the root of nothing. There is no shred of evidence to suggest otherwise. The net of this argument is to get Americans to accept that there is law and there is humane behavior, and we are to prefer the former in our late, besieged state (except when we break it). The latter is thus made the weak-kneed stuff of “liberals” or whomever — unworkable.
At this point, no one in Washington appears to be missing a chance to make gains on the backs of desperate young people and their parents. John Kelly, the Marine general running the Southern Command, warns of a “crime-terror convergence, an incredibly efficient network along which anything — hundreds of tons of drugs, people, terrorists, potentially weapons of mass destruction or children — can travel, so long as they can pay the fare.”
Incredible is just right, general. Your opportunism is beyond belief.
One can no longer tell what Obama thinks or stands for on more or less any question in front of him as he begins his long, too-slow exit. In this case, at a minimum he is guilty of countenancing these kinds of arguments instead of shoving them back very hard at those making them.
For the rest, per usual, one cannot make out what is Obama and what is Obama getting his arm twisted. And if the latter is the case, I blame him for not being a better political wrestler. In either case, the recent record is dreadful.
He proposes to suspend the 2008 law noted above, in the service of getting these children out of our midst more quickly. This to me is the worst. As to the $3.7 billion increase in the enforcement budget he proposes, it is a wasteful play to the peanut gallery. The southwest border with Mexico must already be one of the world’s most militarized, up there with the Israel-West Bank wall.
So does our president feed the brazen, unmissable fallacy that we Americans up here in the north must ward off the sordid problems of others. It is the enormity of the shuck in front of our eyes that astonishes me this time.
Footnote: David Bacon, an accomplished writer on Central American migrations, the Free Trade Agreements, globalism’s impact in Mexico and Central America, and related topics, has contributed an excellent piece to In These Times. I urge it upon readers who get this far in mine. It is here.
Patrick Smith is the author of “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century.” He was the International Herald Tribune’s bureau chief in Hong Kong and then Tokyo from 1985 to 1992. During this time he also wrote “Letter from Tokyo” for the New Yorker. He is the author of four previous books and has contributed frequently to the New York Times, the Nation, the Washington Quarterly, and other publications. Follow him on Twitter, @thefloutist.
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HUMANITY AT IT'S LOWEST- HOMELESS MAN BEATEN ALMOST 2 DEATH BY YOUTH MONSTERS... DOWN ON MAIN STREET NOVA SCOTIA.... AGAIN!!!
Two more arrests made in beating of man in North Sydney
DAN ARSENAULT CRIME REPORTER
Published July 19, 2014 - 9:29pm
Last Updated July 19, 2014 - 9:30pm
The campsite of Shawn Curtis Jack, who was assaulted behind a grocery store in North Sydney last Monday night. A total of five arrests have been made in the case, so far. (STEVE WADDEN)
The campsite of Shawn Curtis Jack, who was assaulted behind a grocery store in North Sydney last Monday night. A total of five arrests have been made in the case, so far. (STEVE WADDEN)
Cape Breton Regional Police arrested two more people and seized a wrench that’s believed to have been used in the Monday night beating of Shawn Curtis Jack.
Northside Sydney resident James Darren Clarke, 33, has been charged with obstruction of justice and was remanded to the Cape Breton Correctional Centre until a court appearance Monday.
Another Northside man, who is 47 but has not been identified, is still in custody but charges are anticipated, according to police.
Their arrests are the fourth and fifth in the case, which began after the 48-year-old, homeless victim suffered serious injuries outside the Atlantic Superstore on King Street.
Police said they conducted a search Saturday that turned up a wrench and a bandana that are both believed to have been used in the attack.
Officers continue to seek one more suspect, 22-year-old Cory Patrick Blinkhorn of Sydney Mines.
Police previously charged a 16-year-old girl with aggravated assault, wearing a disguise and two counts of breaching court conditions. Jennifer Lynn MacLeod, 22 of Boularderie, has been charged with aggravated assault and wearing a disguise and Kyle William Nichol, 25 of Sydney Mines, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, wearing a disguise and breaching court orders.
Anyone with information of value to police is asked to call 563-5151.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1223978-two-more-arrests-made-in-beating-of-man-in-north-sydney
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HUMANITY AT IT'S LOWEST- HOMELESS MAN BEATEN ALMOST 2 DEATH BY YOUTH MONSTERS... DOWN ON MAIN STREET NOVA SCOTIA.... AGAIN!!!
Two more arrests made in beating of man in North Sydney
DAN ARSENAULT CRIME REPORTER
Published July 19, 2014 - 9:29pm
Last Updated July 19, 2014 - 9:30pm
The campsite of Shawn Curtis Jack, who was assaulted behind a grocery store in North Sydney last Monday night. A total of five arrests have been made in the case, so far. (STEVE WADDEN)
The campsite of Shawn Curtis Jack, who was assaulted behind a grocery store in North Sydney last Monday night. A total of five arrests have been made in the case, so far. (STEVE WADDEN)
Cape Breton Regional Police arrested two more people and seized a wrench that’s believed to have been used in the Monday night beating of Shawn Curtis Jack.
Northside Sydney resident James Darren Clarke, 33, has been charged with obstruction of justice and was remanded to the Cape Breton Correctional Centre until a court appearance Monday.
Another Northside man, who is 47 but has not been identified, is still in custody but charges are anticipated, according to police.
Their arrests are the fourth and fifth in the case, which began after the 48-year-old, homeless victim suffered serious injuries outside the Atlantic Superstore on King Street.
Police said they conducted a search Saturday that turned up a wrench and a bandana that are both believed to have been used in the attack.
Officers continue to seek one more suspect, 22-year-old Cory Patrick Blinkhorn of Sydney Mines.
Police previously charged a 16-year-old girl with aggravated assault, wearing a disguise and two counts of breaching court conditions. Jennifer Lynn MacLeod, 22 of Boularderie, has been charged with aggravated assault and wearing a disguise and Kyle William Nichol, 25 of Sydney Mines, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, wearing a disguise and breaching court orders.
Anyone with information of value to police is asked to call 563-5151.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1223978-two-more-arrests-made-in-beating-of-man-in-north-sydney
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1980s....
Anne Murray- A Little Good News
God bless Israel.... and the $$$$trillions and
$$$trillions wasted on Palestine (face it.... over 40 years the $$$trillions
would make each and every Palestinian a $$millionaire....and God’s First
Peoples are the Israelites.... the Jews.... and every piece of land was stolen
and Jews butchered everywhere.... just like the Indigenous, First Peoples of
Americas and Globally.... it’s time this sheeeet stopped.... and 4 all the
children of the world.... and yes there are way 2 many 4 the planet 2 feed...
but children deserve their innocence..... and parents must stop bartering their
lives...imho..... please don’t sacrifice ur children ... our world must be better than this....imho
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Islamic
State offers ultimatum to Iraqi Christians: convert, pay or face death
Much
of the Christian population has fled Mosul for the largely autonomous Kurdish
region
Members of an Iraqi Christian family fleeing violence arrive in the
village of Qaraqosh. Hundreds of Christian families fled their homes in Mosul
as a jihadist ultimatum threatening their community's centuries-old presence in
the northern Iraqi city expired.
By: Sameer N. Yacoub And Ryan
Lucas The Associated Press, Published on Sat Jul 19 2014
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BAGHDAD—The message played over loudspeakers gave the Christians of
Iraq’s second-largest city until midday Saturday to make a choice: convert to
Islam, pay a tax or face death.
By the time the deadline imposed by the Islamic State extremist group
expired, the vast majority of Christians in Mosul had made their decision. They
fled.
They clambered into cars — children, parents, grandparents — and headed
for the largely autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq or other areas
protected by the Kurdish security forces. Their departure marks the latest —
and perhaps final — exodus of Christians from the city, emptying out
communities that date back to the first centuries of Christianity, including
Chaldean, Assyrian and Armenian churches.
Iraq was home to an estimated one million Christians before the 2003
U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Since then, militants have
frequently targeted Christians across the country, bombing their churches and
killing clergymen. Under such pressures, many Christians have left the country.
Church officials now put the community at around 450,000.
Most of Mosul’s remaining Christians fled when the Islamic State group
and an array of other Sunni militants captured the city on June 10 — the
opening move in the insurgents’ blitz across northern and western Iraq. As a
religious minority, Christians were wary of how they would be treated by
hard-line Islamic militants.
For those Christians who remained in the city, the order first made over
loudspeakers on Thursday and later in leaflets passed out on the streets made
clear their status under the extremist group’s rule.
“When the Islamic State people took over Mosul weeks ago, they were nice
to us at first and they used to knock our door and tell us that they mean no
harm to the Christians in Mosul and they even gave us a mobile number just in
case we are offended by anybody,” Sahir Yahya, a Christian and government
employee from Mosul, said Saturday. “This changed two days ago. The Islamic
State people revealed their true savage nature and intention.”
Yahya fled with her husband and two sons on Friday morning to the town
of Qaraqosh, where they have found temporary lodging at a monastery.
“I know a lot of Christian families that left Mosul. We will always want
to return to our houses and pray in our churches in Mosul, and eventually we
will return, but not under the rule of the terrorist Islamic State,” she said.
In Mosul, the Islamic State group has gradually imposed its strict
interpretation of sharia law. The militants banned alcohol and painted over
street advertisements showing women’s faces, for example, but have held off on
strict punishments. More recently, the group began seizing the houses of
Christian and Shiite Muslim families who fled Mosul and gave some of them to
Sunni families uprooted from other areas, residents said.
Still, the edict calling on Christians to convert, pay tax or face death
took many in the community by surprise.
“I went to the Islamic State religious court to make sure that the statement
is authentic, and the man there told me that I should leave my house, car,
money and properties behind,” said Maan Abou, a 45-year-old retired army
officer.
On Friday, Abou left his home and washing machine repair shop in Mosul
behind and headed for Kirkuk with his wife and four children, as well his own
parents and his sister’s family.
“My wife and daughters wore the Islamic head scarf in order to deceive
the Islamic State people at the checkpoints and make sure that our money and
mobiles were not confiscated,” he said. “All that I want is to return to the
city that I grew up in and that I still have nice memories of. I have strong
faith that we will return sooner or later because the cruel rule of Islamic
State will not last forever.”
The Islamic State group has vowed to continue its offensive on to
Baghdad, although it appears to have crested for now after overrunning Iraq’s
predominantly Sunni areas. But the capital, while largely calm after a few
weeks of panic, has not remained immune from the crisis.
On Saturday, a series of bombings, including three over a
span of less than 10 minutes, killed at least 27 people, police
officials said. The attacks, which hit the neighbourhoods of Abu Dashir,
Baiyaa, Jihad and Khazimiyah, are among the most significant in the capital
since the militant campaign began.
Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures. The
officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
brief the media.
The Iraqi military’s only major effort to roll back the militant gains
has targeted the city of Tikrit, some 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of
Baghdad. That campaign has sputtered, however, and the city remains in
insurgent hands.
Northwest of Tikrit, heavy fighting has raged around an airbase
that previously served as a U.S. military facility known as Camp Speicher.
On Saturday, Iraqi military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi denied
reports that militants had captured the base,
saying government troops repelled an attack on Friday and the air field remains
under government control.
A resident of Tikrit, Ahmed Jassim, said by telephone that clashes were
taking place around Speicher on Saturday, but “the gunmen are outside the
camp.” The centre of Tikrit is still under insurgent control, and is being
shelled by the Iraqi military, he said.
Meanwhile in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq’s ailing president,
Jalal Talabani, returned to the country after more than 18 months abroad, state
television said.
Talabani is wrapping up his second consecutive term as president, and is
not eligible to run again.
With Talabani’s term set to expire, Iraqi political leaders are in talks
to decide on a new president as part of broader negotiations over forming a new
government.
Iran’s fingerprints all over Hamas-Israel conflict
Terror groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have long depended on the Iranian-Syrian axis for arms, training and funding.
Ariel
Schalit / AP
A rocket fired by
Palestinian militants from inside Gaza makes its way toward Israel on July 16,
2014.
By: Sayeh Hassan Published on Sat
Jul 19 2014
While media have widely reported on the
ongoing
war between Israel and Hamas, few have picked up on the significant Iranian
connection to the conflict. Indeed, one cannot comprehend the events of recent
weeks without an adequate understanding of Iran’s role in Gaza.
To begin, it should not be overlooked
that many of the more than 1,000 missiles fired at Israelis in the past month were
manufactured in Iran, transferred by Iran or built in Gaza with Iranian
technology.
This includes, for example, the
Iranian-built Fajr 5 and the made-in-Gaza M-75, both of which have a range of
75 kilometres. In 2012, Iran openly admitted to having given Hamas the
technology to manufacture the M-75. These weapons have been a strategic
game-changer for Hamas, allowing it to extend its range of attack to Israel’s
two largest cities: Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv. The longer-range M-302, which enabled Hamas to hit cities in
northern Israel, was reportedly imported from Syria via Iran.
Hamas has long depended on the
Iranian-Syrian axis for arms, training and funding. These resources have had
serious implications for Gaza since Israel left the territory entirely in 2005,
a move that opened a window of opportunity for a peaceful, democratic
Palestinian state-in-the-making to emerge. Hamas and Iran quickly moved in and
closed that window, with tragic implications for the people of Gaza.
A 2007 Hamas coup within the
Palestinian Authority enabled the group to seize control of Gaza and proceed to
build a remarkably advanced infrastructure of terrorism. The territory is now
replete with tunnels, bunkers and underground missile launch pads. In recent
days, Hamas even launched its own drones over Israel.
None of this would be possible without
extensive funding from Iran. At one point, the government of Egypt revealed that
Iran was funnelling upwards of $300 million annually to Hamas.
Additional numbers are equally
staggering. Prior to Israel’s current operation, terror groups in Gaza
possessed an estimated 10,000 missiles. Hamas operatives, many of whom were
trained in Iran, now also number at least 10,000. Palestinian Islamic Jihad,
which is even closer to Iran than is Hamas, boasts several thousand fighters in
Gaza. Analysts have noted that the two factions have been competing to see
which one can fire missiles deeper into Israel.
Despite a falling-out between Hamas and
the Iranian-Syrian axis when the group moved its headquarters out of Damascus
in the wake of the Syrian civil war, co-operation in fighting the common enemy,
Israel, has resumed. As former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and a
seasoned analyst of terrorist groups, Col.
Richard Kemp, told AFP: “Hamas were very badly damaged by the Israeli
Defense Forces back in 2012, but since that time they have been re-equipped
significantly by Iran and also by weapons from Syria.”
Every missile made in Iran and fired by
Hamas threatens Israeli civilians and puts Palestinian lives at risk by
requiring Israel to take countermeasures. On that note, the news that Hamas is
openly calling the people of Gaza to serve as human shields is particularly
nauseating.
Iran’s mentorship of Hamas in Gaza is
modelled on its development of Hezbollah in Lebanon. In both cases, Iran seeks
to advance the Islamic Revolution throughout the Middle East and support local
groups willing to wage a proxy war with Israel. Unfortunately, those who pay
the price for Iran’s destructive ventures are Israelis and innocent
Palestinians alike.
As an Iranian-Canadian who has spent
years raising awareness of human rights violations inside Iran, it grieves me
that Tehran’s brutal agenda is now playing itself out in Israel and Gaza. Were
it not for the Iranian regime’s extensive role in laying the foundation for the
current war, the past few weeks may have been very different for Israelis and
Palestinians. Those of us in the West who care about peace in the Middle East
should recognize that Tehran’s fingerprints are all over the current round of
violence.
Sayeh Hassan is a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto and a pro-democracy activist
fighting to change Iran’s Islamic regime.
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tens of thousands of
unaccompanied, undocumented Central American refugee children crossing the
southern border daily to escape increased violence and poverty rests with Congress, but it's clear action is necessary.
Communities polarised by influx of unaccompanied child migrants
Amid protests and resolutions against migrant shelters, some leaders rally to help young people arriving from Central America
COMMENT:
The well-intentioned 2008 William Wilberforce Act applies to sex trafficking
and peonage, not to human smuggling by parents--it is wrongly applied here to
encourage more smuggling, by freely admitting non-Mexican (NoM) families who
can afford to pay coyotes $10,000 from remittances, and putting unaccompanied
minors at risk at the border, when they should be applying legally and safely
at embassies in their home countries. Even if the Act applied, it provides that
in "exceptional circumstances" such as this, NoM UAC can be
expeditiously and safely returned to home as other UACs.Definition: "6 U.S. Code § 279 - Children’s affairs (2) the term “unaccompanied alien child” means a child who—(A) has no lawful immigration status in the United States;(B) has not attained 18 years of age; and(C) with respect to whom—(i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or(ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody." Since 95% are released to parents or guardians illegally in the US, these NoM UACs do not qualify for the Act and should be returned from the border as the Mexicans are. Please note that last year fewer than 0.008% of NoM UACs were granted legal refuge--all these children now are not granted refuge either but released pending a possible immigration hearing, and are not deported if they do not show for the hearing--but are not granted permission to stay legally either.
All this encourages more smuggling,
damage to the economies of the home countries, gangs, abuse, lower wages,
welfare dependency, fraud, disrespect for laws, and collapse of social
cohesion. There is no need for funding or new laws, the US simply needs a
leader who can enforce existing laws properly and not use racism to pander to a
section of voters.
Bolivia becomes first nation to legalise child labour for over 10s
Bolivian
President Evo Morales has been quoted as saying child labour is part of the
country's social conscience
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500 children found in
vermin-infested Mexico shelter
http://www.punchng.com/news/500-children-found-in-vermin-infested-mexico-shelter/
U.S. nation-building
efforts should be in Central America, not Iraq and Afghanistan
The Washington Post
It’s nice
to see the United States paying attention to Central America again. Too bad it
took tens of thousands of desperate children pouring across the border to
attract our interest.
If we’d
done more to help our poor, violence-racked neighbors to the south over the
past couple of decades, then there’s a good chance we wouldn’t be struggling
with the current crisis.
Read more here:
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Love and Loathing in North Texas Amid Child Refugee Crisis
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Sixty-six years later, too many Arabs still dream of slaughtering Israel’s Jews
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God bless Afghanistan:
FROM NOVA SCOTIA TO AFGHANISTAN- WOMEN MARCH- 1 BILLION RISING
The dancing demonstrators of One Billion Rising - EURONEWS- IN AFGHANISTAN- THEY MARCHED-
Breaking the chain of violence against girls and women- ONE BILLION RISING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IuIycEFgVQ
and..
God bless Afghanistan:
The dancing demonstrators of One Billion Rising - EURONEWS- IN AFGHANISTAN- THEY MARCHED-
Breaking the chain of violence against girls and women- ONE BILLION RISING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IuIycEFgVQ
and..
QUOTE:Most
importantly, Afghans trust Canada, and full Canadian backing for constitutional
reform in Afghanistan would go a long way to redeem the sacrifices Canadian
soldiers and their families have made to Afghan democracy’s great cause.
Glavin:
Fixing mistakes in Afghanistan
By
Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen July 16, 2014
Afghanistan's
president Hamid Karzai (R) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speak during
a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, July 13, 2014. US
Secretary of State John Kerry on July 12 held a second day of talks with
Afghanistan's feuding presidential hopefuls, seeking a deal to "clean up
the tally" after disputed elections.
Photograph
by: JIM BOURG , Ottawa Citizen
It is
moving testimony to the statesmanship and generosity of both of Afghanistan’s
leading presidential contenders that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has
been allowed to take credit for having pulled Afghanistan back from the abyss.
Discretion being the stuff of valour’s best bits, it wasn’t until well after
Kerry had arrived at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, when all eyes had turned to
his efforts on behalf of the Obama administration’s shambling Iranian nuclear
negotiations, that the full outlines of last weekend’s Kabul agreement were
allowed to leak out.
The
most sweeping, deal-clinching feature of the agreement that ended up unlocking
Afghanistan’s tainted-vote conundrum went wholly unmentioned while Kerry was in
Kabul. It is an arrangement far more complex than the one Kerry announced
Saturday at the United Nations Afghanistan headquarters with UN Afghanistan
director Ján Kubiš at his side. Neither did Kerry say anything about it during
his remarks later in the day at the presidential palace, in the company of
Afghanistan’s twilight president, Hamid Karzai.
Initiated
by Afghanistan’s April 5 first-round vote frontrunner Abdullah Abdullah and
graciously accepted by the come-from-behind June 14 tainted-vote winner Ashraf
Ghani, the arrangement’s central feature is the candidates’ mutual commitment
to a thoroughgoing, long-haul constitutional revolution in Afghanistan.
Leaving
that all unmentioned was necessary to allow Kerry to save face, and not only because
the constitutional-reform project is in aid of undoing the disfigurements in
Afghan democracy that the United States insisted on building into the country’s
political and electoral system a decade ago. It was also because just one of
those malignancies is the presidential vote-rigging toolbox Karzai and his
cronies fully utilized in 2009, which caused precisely the agony that Kerry
himself, while chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had taken
such pains to anaesthetize by his personal interventions in Afghanistan’s
bollixed presidential elections of that year.
What
goes around comes around, as they say.
In
2009, Kerry was oddly credited for convincing Karzai to agree to do what Karzai
was unavoidably obliged by Afghan law to do anyway, which was to submit to the
runoff vote ordered by the Elections Complaints Commission, headed at the time
headed by Canadian Grant Kippen and still independent of Karzai’s grasp, after
the commission’s discovery of vast heaps of faked votes. But Kerry’s neatest
trick back then was to convince Abdullah, Karzai’s most formidable challenger
in 2009?s presidential contest, to pull out of the race for the sake of
“stability” and on the promise that the U.S. would see to it that the country’s
gruesomely manipulable electoral system would be repaired.
That
promise turned out to be hollow. The 2010 parliamentary election was an open
market in counterfeit votes, and by 2012 the Obama administration had given
everybody in Afghanistan the impression that “stability” sufficient to allow a
cheap American exit from the whole scene was the only thing the U.S. cared
about accomplishing in Afghanistan, owing to delicate and “war-weary” domestic
sensibilities, especially within Obama’s Democratic Party base.
Thus,
what both Ghani and Abdullah were left with by the time Karzai’s term was up
this year was an American-monkeywrenched constitution that had allowed Karzai
to turn the country into something that resembled not so much a republic as a
Pashtun khanate, with a bizarre single, non-transferable voting (SNTV) system
otherwise peculiar to such jurisdictions as the Pitcairn Islands, Vanuatu, the
near-absolute monarchy of the Kingdom of Jordan and upper houses of Thailand
and Indonesia (if it strikes you that this isn’t what 158 Canadian solders had
died for in Afghanistan you’d be on the right track, and we’ll return to that
in a moment).
How
things got this way goes back to 2004, when the U.S. wielded its influence over
the architectural drawings for Afghanistan’s post-Taliban constitution in such
a way as to establish a strongman presidency that suited the State Department’s
convenience and a voting system with a built-in, crippling disincentive to
political-party organization. Such was the dysfunction that had left Afghanistan’s
June 14 presidential runoff so prone to the “industrial-scale” sabotage that
ultimately ruined this year’s elections.
Kerry’s
deal brokerage last weekend resulted in two obvious and immediate remedies.
The
first is a total recount of the roughly eight million votes tallied from the
June 14 runoff. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force will
return all ballot boxes to Kabul from nearly 24,000 voting districts across
Afghanistan. The UN will oversee a process of examining all the dodgy ballot
boxes, alongside teams of observers assigned by both Ghani and Abdullah.
The
second part is the pledge by both candidates that no matter which of them is
found to be the legitimate winner of the June 14 vote, the other will be
intimately involved in the establishment and administration of a “unity
government.”
Agreeing
to a total recount required a climb-down for Ghani, who had earlier refused to
be cajoled into agreeing to revisit any more than a third of the votes. But the
“unity government” notion had been a key plank in his own election platform
anyway.
The
third and most ambitious aspect of the deal – the constitutional reform
commitment – has been central to Abdullah’s vision for several years. Its
absence from last weekend’s arrangements would have been quite properly a
deal-breaker for Abdullah’s supporters, who are heavily concentrated among
Afghanistan’s largely marginalized, non-Pashtun northerners. For them,
especially, another stolen election would have been an indignity they should never
have been expected to tolerate.
When
Abdullah and Ghani turn their attentions to the hard work of building a
constitutional order suited to Afghanistan, the U.S. would be better situated
at the sidelines. Canada, however, is a country well-equipped to making some
particularly effective use of itself.
Canada’s
unique federal system – the primacy of Parliament, clear constitutional
jurisdictions vested in the provinces, transparent distinctions between the
head of state and head of government, a functioning multi-party system –
provides models that Afghans are already looking at. And Canada’s domestic
politics already exhibit a healthy appetite for initiatives from Ottawa that
would involve non-military and uniquely Canadian contributions “on the world stage.”
Most
importantly, Afghans trust Canada, and full Canadian backing for constitutional
reform in Afghanistan would go a long way to redeem the sacrifices Canadian
soldiers and their families have made to Afghan democracy’s great cause.
Terry
Glavin is an author and journalist.
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What would Michael Jackson
do?? Children of the world need 2 matter.... they just must... humanity must
take as stand apart from United Nations and rich grabby despots and thieves and
rich white men and politicians and Media MeS of this world.... we must take
back our humanity..... How can Latin America shame themselves.... How can
Canada condone paedophiles and women abusing themselves by selling their bodies
after the 1000 highway of tears.... how can Europe condone sextrafficking how
can Asia pretend they don’t have the world’s largest sold children in2 sex and
slavery – how can Africas destroy their women and girls as though they just
don’t matter.... and USA how can u continue 2 use war over peace??? And Russia
and Balkins- how can your incredible history and beauty be savaged by greed of
the rich and poverty of the millions... this is so wrong... God help us all...
imho..
Pop songs, cartoons aim to
deter Central American youth from heading for US (+video)
US and Central American campaigns are deploying
ominous cartoon characters and catchy tunes – not to mention some grandmotherly
advice – to deter children from migrating north.
New York
— With thousands of minors trekking perilously from Central
America through Mexico and into the United
States, several
nations are looking for new ways to halt the flow.
But can El
Salvador,
Guatemala, and Honduras – with high
rates of murder and
unemployment – convince their citizens to stay put? And can the US persuade
migrants that the “American Dream” may not be worth dying for?
They're
giving it a shot – with cartoons, posters, and hit pop songs.
El
Salvador this week launched a public service campaign to educate families about
the risks of sending their kids to the US. The animated ad is presented like a
storybook, with the voice of a young child reading the title, “The tale of the coyote,” and listing all the terrible
things that frequently happen to unaccompanied minors along the northward
journey.
“It’s all
lies. We spent days without eating and he hit me,” one child tells viewers
about the promises made by "coyotes," or smugglers, of safe passage.
Another
child chimes in, “For me, the coyote sold me to other people who forced me to
work and abused me.”
The
commercial, complete with evil laughs and ominous drawings, is anything but
cheerful. It ends with a serious lecture from a grandmotherly figure, and
advises viewers to take care of and protect their children. “It’s our
responsibility,” she warns.
The hope
is that the message reaches any adult who might consider sending – or
sending for – a child. The clip started playing "in all corners"
of El Salvador on Tuesday, and is scheduled to air in parts of the US with
large Salvadoran populations, like Washington D.C., Texas, and California.
"It's
not right that unscrupulous people who profit from trafficking [humans] are
creating rumors, confusing fathers and mothers so that they send their children
to risk their lives," said Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugo Martínez.
Some
estimates have more than 90,000 migrants under 18 attempting to enter the US
illegally across the Mexican border by year's end. Already the US has started
deporting children and mothers, in hopes they carry a clear message back: Don’t
risk the journey, you’ll be sent home.
The US
launched a $1 million ad campaign in the region this month aimed at stemming the flow of young
migrants. The “Danger Awareness Campaign” will utilize hundreds of billboards
and some 6,500 TV and radio spots. According to the Associated Press, a TV ad set to run in Guatemala shows a teen boy getting ready to
leave home for the US, sending a strong warning to viewers.
His
mother pleads with him not to go. He confides to his uncle -- already in the
U.S. -- in a letter that she's warning him about the dangers of the gangs on
the train that immigrants ride through Mexico, the cartels that kidnap and the
days long walk in the desert. Ultimately, he writes his uncle, "he who
doesn't take a chance, doesn't win."
The next
image is of the boy dead on the cracked desert floor. A voice over says
smugglers' claims that new arrivals will easily get papers are false. The
television and radio spots all finish with a similar parting message:
"They are our future. Protect them."
In case
the TV spots and billboards are too obvious, the US has had success with other
approaches – like pop music – in the past. In the early 2000s the border patrol
hired an agency to write songs about the risks of illegal immigration, reports
the Associated Press. Lyrics included things like, "After
some hours/
Abelardo opened his eyes/ And in the middle of the cold night/ Discovered his
dead cousin at his side," set to an upbeat, accordion-filled tune.
In 2009,
the songs and other measures were credited with helping decrease the number of
border-crossing-related deaths.
According
to The Daily Beast, there’s a more recent US-penned hit filled with messaging about the
risks of the journey north called “La Bestia,” or "The Beast." It’s a nickname for the
freight trains that carry migrants across Mexico, and that are responsible for
many deaths and lost limbs along the way. Rodolfo Hernandez wrote the lyrics,
including: “They call her the Beast from the South, this wretched train of
death. With the devil in the boiler, whistles, roars, twists and turns.”
“I really
think that putting music to this message makes it very powerful, because people
listen to the radio in their towns and their villages,” said “La Bestia”
composer Carlo Nicolau. “The songs don’t accuse anyone of wrongdoing, there are
no heroes or villains in these stories. They are just letting people know that
their lives are in danger.”
To be
sure, a new surge in Central American youths arriving at the US-Mexican border
involves run-ins with armed gangs and corrupt police officers, threats of rape
and robbery, and passages atop thundering freight trains or crossing
quick-moving rivers. But such events have gone on for decades.
And so
have campaigns trying to stem the flow.
An
excerpt below from a conversation between a professor of sociology, David
Spener, and a migrant from Mexico, published by the Economist in 2010,
highlights how ads meant to deter migration or highlight the dangers of
coyotes can be misinterpreted:
Spener:
So, your opinion at this time is that people are better off crossing with
a coyote.
Álvaro: I
think so. But moreover, immigration itself has a poster there that says
“Trust a coyote.” In other words, how does it say, saying that a coyote is
better, that you shouldn't risk it on your own.
Spener:
The Border Patrol says that? [incredulous]
Álvaro:
Right. They have a poster there that I saw.
Spener:
Where? On the Mexican side or the American side?
Álvaro:
On the American side.
Spener:
And what did it say?
Álvaro:
It's there, in Spanish, and it says “It's better to pay a coyote than to
cross alone.” And there's a cross painted there. People cross on their own
and a lot of them don't make it. They die, they drown, and all that. And
it's better, recommended, to pay a coyote.
Spener:
Well, I've seen those posters, in fact I have a copy of one in my office.
It's a photograph of the desert.
Álvaro:
Right, of the desert. With a grave and a cross.
Spener:
With a cross there and it says “He trusted a coyote.”
Álvaro:
[repeats] He trusted a coyote!
Spener:
And he wound up dead. That's the message, right?
Álvaro:
Right. But no, that's not it. They're saying, a coyote is better than
going it alone. That's how I understood it. A lot of people come on their
own and that is what happens to them. But I didn't understand it very
well. I just read it in passing.
Spener:
In the detention center where you were?
Álvaro:
Right, but I didn't read it very well. It's just my idea,
my interpretation.
Think you know Latin
America? Take our geography quiz.
South
America is home
to 19 countries and an incredibly diverse geography. The site of ancient
civilizations, European colonies and emerging world powers, South America will
play an increasingly large role in the 21st century and beyond. But can you
distinguish between Guyana and Guyane? Can you sort your
-guays?
It's time to brush up on your knowledge of South
America. This is the perfect place to start.
1. Which country is South America's second largest?
The
traditional South American infused drink yerba mate, served in a hollowed out
gourd, is Argentina's national beverage.
Colombia
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Paraguay
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Chile
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Argentina
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2. Which Central American country does not have an
Atlantic coastline?
El
Salvador has 200 miles of Pacific coastline with beaches popular among surfers.
But to the east, the country is surrounded by Guatemala and Honduras
Panama
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El Salvador
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Costa
Rica
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Belize
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3. What is the name of the world's largest river,
highlighted here?
Due to
the remoteness of most of the river, not one bridge crosses the Amazon.
Congo
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Amazon
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Rio
Negro
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Nile
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4. What is the name of the maritime strait that
separates the Dominican Republic from Puerto Rico?
The
Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are separated by the 80-mile wide Mona
Passage, considered one of the most difficult passages in the Caribbean to
transverse.
Puerto
Rican Sea
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Mona Passage
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Bay of
Pigs
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Costa
Bravo
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5. What type of biome is represented by green in
this picture?
The
Amazon Rainforest is the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical
rainforest on Earth. One out of 10 known species on Earth lives in the Amazon
Rainforest.
tropical rainforest
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grass
savannah
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arid
desert
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tundra
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6. Which famous Maya city was located here?
Located
in the Petén department of Guatemala, Tikal was the center of one of the most
powerful kingdoms among the Maya. Today, the archaeological site is a national
park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Jacob
Turcotte
Tulum
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Copán
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Tikal
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Caracol
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7. What South American city is pictured here?
The
130-foot-tall statue, known as Christ the Redeemer, looks over a city of some
6.1 million people. The statue, built between 1922-1931, has been named one of
the New Seven Wonders of the World.
Santiago
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Rio de Janeiro
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Buenos
Aires
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Lima
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8. From which country did Panama declare
independence?
In
November 1903, a junta declared Panama’s independence from neighboring
Colombia. The move was backed by the US government, which wanted to sign a
treaty to build the Panama Canal.
United
States
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Colombia
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Spain
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Mexico
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9. Which South American city is pictured here?
Lima is
Peru's capital and its largest city. It was originally founded by Spanish
conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535.
Paramaribo
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10. On which island is the Caribbean’s tallest
peak found?
At
around 10,164 feet (measurements vary by a few feet), Pico Duarte in the
Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola is the tallest peak in the
Caribbean. (Madagascar is situated in the Indian Ocean off the coast of
Africa.)
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God bless
our men and women serving our nations.... and our flag.... we trample on way 2
many freedoms that good men and women died 2 give us- SOLDIERS WIN OUR FREEDOMS- POLITICIANS AND
ALWAYS SELL THESE HARD WON FREEDOMS AND BARTER THEMAWAY....All Canada political parties - u are neglecting the everyday people u serve 4 ur MediaSellOuts$$$ ... 2015 will matter- we matter.
Reveille
Canada
Music Video of Canadian Heroes - One
and All- God is watching.... each and all and holding u close to Him- WATCH THE
CHILDREN- can't stop crying
Music video of "Canadian
Heroes", written for the Canadian Forces Troops. Check out:www.canadianheroes.com This new song for the Canadian Troops is amazing!!
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Canada's Military- PURE CANADA LOVE
Standing Strong & True (For
Tomorrow) Official Music Video (HD)
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God loves our Nova Scotia and our Canada.... God loves our planet... and our humanity's children- it's time we did as well..... we need more humanity and less hate and war....
The Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners
CANADIANS LOVE OUR AFGHANS SO MUCH..... GOD LOVES AFGHANS SO MUCH...
Waging Peace: Canada in Afghanistan FULL DOCUMENTARY
Published on Dec 29, 2012
Canada's Only Independently funded and filmed documentary on our mission
in Afghanistan. http://www.wagingpeacefilm.com
Follows Canadian Richard Fitoussi on a personal quest into the fiercest
parts of Afghanistan's war-torn southern frontier to learn why Canadian
soldiers are dying in a mission that has sparked more controversy than any
other military intervention in Canadian history.
Embedded with the Canadian military alongside established war
correspondents. Fitoussi sees for himself what is at stake for the Afghan
people and the Canadians who serve in our name.
As his journey unfolds, Fitoussi is faced with the realites of modern
day peacekeeping, and tries to distinguish between the reality on the ground
and the rhetoric of the U.S. led "war on terror". In the end he witnesses
the ultimate sacrifice of young Canadians in a journey that nearly costs him
his life.
COMMENT:
I agree, I believe that Canadians are indeed the better basic soldiers
and are more resourceful than our soldiers. I just meant that the USA's military
has more resources and a larger budget to allow for more types of training.
Generally though, when comparing Canadian and American soldiers, the
Canadian soldiers tend to operate better than ours.
Also, there is a large amount of military
cooperation between the? US and Canada too, so we're designed to be
interoperable with each other anyways. :)
December 2013
Would u please go 2 Facebook and 'like' Walking With The Wounded
https://www.facebook.com/walkingwiththewounded
NATO TROOPS- HONOUR- ALL COUNTRIES- Do I Make U Proud-
Pls. hug r vets, all serving r flags- then, now always, Troops, Wounded, Soldiers of Suicide, Homeless, and hurting- from.. home and away-yelling real, real, loud or signing- HELL YA...u all make us soooo proud.... thank u, thank u, thank u
2 families of Nato Nations from Nato troops- Do We Make U Proud: tears and prayers yes, oh yes... on this day- u are the true heroes of this earth....
Tribute to all the NATO and ISAF soldiers in Afghanistan
Would u please go 2 Facebook and 'like' Walking With The Wounded
https://www.facebook.com/walkingwiththewounded
NATO TROOPS- HONOUR- ALL COUNTRIES- Do I Make U Proud-
Pls. hug r vets, all serving r flags- then, now always, Troops, Wounded, Soldiers of Suicide, Homeless, and hurting- from.. home and away-yelling real, real, loud or signing- HELL YA...u all make us soooo proud.... thank u, thank u, thank u
2 families of Nato Nations from Nato troops- Do We Make U Proud: tears and prayers yes, oh yes... on this day- u are the true heroes of this earth....
Tribute to all the NATO and ISAF soldiers in Afghanistan
PAEDOPHILE HUNTING TILL WE DIE.... THAT’S HOW WE ROLL...
Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh complainants 'concerned' by travel
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Hundreds of thousands of ceramic poppies are to be 'planted'
at the Tower of London marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War
One.
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Palestinian UN rep: "Each and every missile launched
against Israel constitutes a crime against humanity"
The extraordinary admissions by Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi came in a July 9th interview on Palestinnian TV. Below is video and transcript by MEMRI.
Interviewer: The popular demand is to appeal to the International Criminal Court and to sign the Rome Statute. The demand is to do this immediately. To what extent is this realistic? You are our representative in all the international organizations. What can we gain from such a step, and could we ourselves be indicted?
Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi: I am not a candidate in any Palestinian elections, so I don’t need to win popularity among the Palestinians. The missiles that are now being launched against Israel, each and every missile constitutes a crime against humanity, whether it hits or misses, because it is directed at civilian targets. What Israel does against Palestinian civilians also constitutes crimes against humanity. OK?
With regards to war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the settlements, the Judaization, the checkpoints, the arrests, and so on — we find ourselves on very solid ground. However, there is a Palestinian weakness in regards to the other issue. Therefore, targeting civilians — be it one civilian or a thousand — is considered a crime against humanity.
Interviewer: This is why Israel resorted to an attack against Gaza.
Amb. Khraishi: Appealing to the ICC requires a consensus in writing by all Palestinian factions: so [that] when a Palestinian is arrested for his involvement in the killing of an Israeli citizen, we will not be blamed for extraditing him.
Please note that many of our people in Gaza appeared on TV and said that the Israelis warned them to evacuate their homes before the bombardment. In such a case, if someone is killed, the law considers it a mistake rather than an intentional killing because [the Israelis] followed the legal procedures.
As for the missiles launched from our side, we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall or about the operations we carry out. Therefore, people should know more before they talk emotionally about appealing to the ICC.
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2014 Last updated at 23:03 ET
Barrowford school's KS2 'proud' letter to pupils goes viral
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A head teacher's "special and unique" letter has inspired messages from around the world
A
letter sent to pupils at a Lancashire primary school along with their key stage
two test results has gone viral on social media sites.
The letter to pupils at Barrowford Primary School in Nelson told
them the tests do not always assess what makes them "special and
unique".
It has been posted on Facebook, Twitter and featured in national
newspapers.
Head teacher Rachel Tomlinson said she had been "absolutely
astounded" by the reaction in social media and elsewhere.
Mrs Tomlinson said she found the letter on a blog from the US
posted on the internet.
Organisations
have also tweeted the letter
It tells pupils the school is "proud" of them as they
have demonstrated a "huge amount of commitment and tried your best during
a tricky week".
But it adds that "these tests do not always assess all of
what it is that make each of you special and unique".
The people who drew up the tests, it says, "do not know
each of you... the way your teachers do, the way I hope to, and certainly not
the way your families do".
These people do not know "you can be trustworthy, kind or
thoughtful, and that you try, every day, to be your very best", it
continues.
The letter finishes by telling pupils to "enjoy your
results" but to remember that "there are many ways of being
smart".
Barrowford
Primary School's letter in full
Please find enclosed your end of KS2 test results. We are very
proud of you as you demonstrated huge amounts of commitment and tried your very
best during this tricky week.
However, we are concerned that these tests do not always assess
all of what it is that make each of you special and unique. The people who
create these tests and score them do not know each of you... the way your
teachers do, the way I hope to, and certainly not the way your families do.
They do not know that many of you speak two languages. They do
not know that you can play a musical instrument or that you can dance or paint
a picture.
They do not know that your friends count on you to be there for
them or that your laughter can brighten the dreariest day. They do not know
that you write poetry or songs, play or participate in sports, wonder about the
future, or that sometimes you take care of your little brother or sister after
school.
They do not know that you have travelled to a really neat place
or that you know how to tell a great story or that you really love spending
time with special family members and friends.
They do not know that you can be trustworthy, kind or
thoughtful, and that you try, every day, to be your very best... the scores you
get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything.
So enjoy your results and be very proud of these but remember
there are many ways of being smart.
The head denied the letter was telling pupils that test scores
did not matter.
"We never give pupils the message that academic attainment
isn't important - what we do is celebrate that we send really independent,
confident, articulate learners on to the next stage of their school
career."
Writing on Twitter,
Barrowford school said: "Wow. There are posts all over the world about
this letter!! All we did was remind our Y6 how amazing they are!!!"
That message was retweeted over 1,000 times, with the school's
name trending on Twitter.
The 313 pupil school was rated as Good in its last Ofsted
inspection in September 2012.
The Department for Education said the letter was "a matter
for the school".
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u are a child of the universe as much as the stars, trees and sky... u matter
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