The ban imposed on the LA
Clippers basketball team owner over racist remarks has received widespread
praise
The team coach Doc Rivers
said the lifetime ban and fine for Donald Sterling was the start of a healing
process
Mr Sterling was recorded
asking a woman not to associate in public with black people or bring them to
the games
These remarks have earned him
a lifetime ban from the NBA whose commissioner is Adam Silver
He urged the Board of
Governors, the other team owners, to force Mr Sterling into selling
Mr Silver has stated that Mr
Sterling had hateful opinions, which simply have no place in the NBA
The league has also fined Mr
Sterling $2.5m
The players were all happy
with the resolution and they are now all in a better place because of it
Some sponsors had already
dumped the team as the race row deepened
But since the ban the
electronics company Samsung said it would resume its advertising starting with
Tuesday’s playoff game
Former basketball players
have also commended the swift action by the NBA
The team are speaking out for
what they are, which is against racism, hatred, bigotry and intolerance
They embrace everybody with
love and tolerance for their fellow man
Justice has been seen to be
done & it’s high time that more institutions stood up for what is right
& to eliminate bigotry in all its forms
An anti-toxic dump campaigner
in South Africa has been recognised with a prestigious environmental award
Desmond D’Sa’s efforts
resulted in him winning the Goldman Environmental Prize
The awards are described as
the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism
Mr D’Sa and five other
winners will receive their awards in a presentation ceremony in San Francisco
on Monday
As a co-founder of the South
Durban Community Environmental Alliance he campaigned to raise awareness of the
plight of communities
They had been living
alongside the waste facility
He got people to collect
samples of air in their communities and these were sent off to the US, where
they were analysed
The results of the various
smells showed how they had an impact on people’s health
The studies showed that more
than half of the 300,000 strong population had chronic asthma
There was a qualified cancer
risk of 25-in-100,000 people compared with 1 in 100,000
In lobbying officials he
stated the human cost was too high and the dump was closed
“As a result, the trucks that carried all the highly toxic waste
through the communities are no longer there,”
he said proudly
It is comforting to know that
there are many people, who are saving both lives and the environment
It is these people who need
to be highlighted in the battle they face against corrupt governments and
industries
As in the case of Ruth
Buendia, who fought a powerful campaign against large scale dams that would
have uprooted indigenous communities
They were still recovering
from the Peru’s civil war
Rudi Putra, a biologist who
found there were illegal palm oil plantations that were causing massive
deforestation in northern Sumatra
He not only protected the
habitat, but also the critically endangered Sumatran rhino
Helen Slottje helped towns
across New York State to pass bans on fracking, as it damaged the structure of
the earth
All these people stick their
neck on the line for us & we should thank them for their unstinting
devotion to humanity and the environment
We could all do with more of
them!
Police are now examining
evidence, which suggests there was a cover-up over claims that Cyril Smith
sexually abused boys
This is said to have occurred
at a school in Rochdale
The leader of Rochdale
Council and Greater Manchester’s Chief Constable are due to give an update on
these claims
The abuse having been carried
out at Knowl View School for boys
Officers are already
investigating the abuse allegations and the Council are widening their own
inquiry
There are also claims that
Smith abused boys at the privately run Cambridge House Children’s Care Home
A pattern was perpetrated by
Jimmy Savile when innocent children were in homes supposedly to be protected
Yet they were exposed to the
flagrante abuse by these paedophiles that get away with it, because of their
famous position
MP Simon Danczuk has written
a book about Cyril Smith
Allegations about Smith’s
conduct were first published in 1979
With Danczuk’s new book, a
number of victims have come out to see him and they have raised concerns
Police are also looking at
whether there was a cover up at Rochdale Council
This was one of the
authorities that ran Knowl View School
It is now widely claimed that
Smith used his position of power to sexually abuse young boys and then escape
prosecution
The problem that abuse
victims had, over thirty years ago, was that nobody would believe children from
Homes of telling the truth
So the matters were always
dropped
It takes years for victims to
summon up the courage to face the crime that has ruined their lives
For many, the trauma is too
great and too painful to admit
They scurry away from society
with guilt that somehow they themselves were to blame for their demise
It really is high time that
high-profile people, especially those who are in a position of trust, are
exposed for who they are
Whatever the perpetrators
punishment, it can never be enough compared to the continual suffering of those
who had their lives spoilt
These very sick characters
gave a lifetime’s sentence to their victims and the emotional scars run deep
In the next life, the likes
of Jimmy Savile and Cyril Smith will have to see the results of their sickness
There will be no getting away
with it. They will need to make amends
Unfortunately there is no
comfort to those who still suffer daily, as they are branded psychologically by
their oppressors
This world is a very harsh
place for them to bear
We pray that their suffering
continues to diminish and that they find the right help to alleviate their pain
In the world today it is
refreshing to hear of something worthwhile and sobering
Mexican writer and journalist
Elena Poniatowska has received the most important award for literature in the
Spanish language
The Cervantes Prize was
presented to Elena by King Juan Carlos of Spain in a ceremony in the town of
Alcala de Henares
It is the birth place of
Miguel de Cervantes
Elena, who is 81, is only the
fourth woman to be awarded this prize in its four decades-long history
Her writings explore the
social injustices of Mexico
One of her most famous
investigative works is ‘Massacre in Mexico’, which chronicles the 1968
killings
There, hundreds of student
protesters in Mexico City were brutally killed at the hands of the military
Another of her famous pieces
a non-fiction work, ‘Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake’
Here she reported on the
aftermath of the 1985 quake. More than 10,000 people died and there was lack of
action by the Government
Interspersing victims’
personal stories and her own reflections she has created a powerful account
Her account describes the
ensuing disintegration of the fabric of society
Many of her works have
focused on roles of Mexican women, especially in their history
Women of the Mexican
Revolution, which traces the story of women soldiers through photographs and
text
In Elena’s acceptance speech
she recalled the nation’s less fortunate people and the continuing struggle of
its women
She is an amazing woman and
is an inspiration to many Mexican women, who see her as the voice piece where
so many do not have a voice
Her sensibility is like a
breath of fresh air
The Mexican Government should
take note and learn from this distinguished writer and journalist
There should be many more
female voices, but like all greats this one is exceptional
President Putin’s aggression
and bullyboy tactics have now opened up a hornets’ nest of disagreements
The Russian and the Crimean
people will be the ones to suffer and pay the most
Crimea gets its much needed
water supply for its crops from the Ukraine
Their crops of grapes, rice,
maize and soya will be ruined if they do not get enough water soon
Russia has said the
Crimea-Ukraine border is now officially a state border
The Russian Government has
already plans to establish permanent checkpoints there as new rules for
entering and leaving Crimea
The North Crimea Canal
delivers water to Crimea from the River Dnieper in Ukraine’s southern Kherson
region
The canal accounts for 80% of
Crimea’s water
The current water shortage
held up by Ukraine is threatening 120,000 hectares of Crimea’s crops, which
rely on irrigation
A ruined harvest across this
area would mean losses of up to $140m – a deficit Moscow could well do without
at this time
Credit ratings agency
Standard and Poor have cut Russia’s rating to one notch above junk status
This move comes as foreign
investors continue to take money out of the country amid tensions over the
situation in Ukraine
The downgraded Russian
ratings are from BBB to –BBB, other credit rating agencies are likely to follow
suit
The situation between Russia
and the Ukraine has seen significant outflows of both foreign and domestic
capital from the Russian economy
This will further undermine
an already weakening growth prospect
Investors have been pulling
out money from Russia since last year when the country’s economy ran into
trouble
The situation has intensified
over Putin’s rash bully movements of wanting Ukraine back in the fold
In just three months, foreign
investors have withdrawn $63.7bn, which has caused a significant economic
slowdown
Russian shares have traded
lower this week and fell further with the downgrade due to the weakness of the
rouble
They have lost 8% against the
dollar
It might seem alright in
Putin’s eyes to work his aggression out on the Ukraine
He feels he is justified in
taking Crimea away from the Ukrainians
In a global market where we
are all attached to each other and dependant on each other…
…then delusions of grandeur
play no part in today’s survival
If Moscow thinks it can
outwit the world with ideas of aggression it will need to think again
The screws of economic
sanctions will start to play a significant part in the lives of Russians and
Crimea
They sadly believe the
propaganda that is foisted on them
Little does the man in the
street conceive what will happen to their economy as it begins to bite
All they can think of is
Mother Russia. Mother Russia is no longer what she was
The realisation that we are
all interlinked and that we all depend on one another will start to dawn on
them
They will have to realise
their misjudged ideas as personal hardships begin to sink in
Who will be prepared to save
Russia? Only a diplomat who has the interests of his people and not of a
dictator!
Sherpa guides in Nepal are
meeting climbers at the Everest basecamp to decide whether to cancel ascents
Last Friday an avalanche
killed sixteen Sherpas
The Sherpas risk their lives
daily, as they go up Mount Everest. Such are the dangers that are held around
the mountain
The Sherpas wish to boycott
their assistance to climbers unless they get a bigger share of the revenue from
foreign climbers
Last Tuesday the Government
raised the amount of compensation it is to offer the families of those who died
The Sherpas also want better
measures to ensure speedy rescue and treatment facilities for guides
This has been long overdue
and is badly needed
One of the guides who died
was working for a UK based company and the other five of its Sherpas were
injured when the avalanche struck
The Sherpas also want a
boycott as a mark of respect for their dead colleagues. All were experienced
and dedicated climbers
Those who lost their lives
were on the slope early in the morning, fixing ropes for climbers and preparing
the route
The avalanche struck a
passage called the Khumbu Icefall
It is riddled with crevasses
and ice boulders that can break free without warning
Although it is relatively low
on the mountain, it is one of the most dangerous points
There are no safer points
along the famous South Col route, first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay in 1953
Sherpas often make 20-25
round trips to carry kit and supplies to advanced camps
This again exposes them to
further risks and complications
Some 250 climbers have died
on the mountain with many Sherpas going up to retrieve the bodies for burial
Thus again putting their
lives at risk
Because of the high prestige
that the mountain seduces, it has become a very lucrative industry to the
Government
They earn millions of dollars
each year in fees for climbing permits
It is high time that Sherpas were
fully recognised
They are the ones who risk
their lives so that others may claim victory
The difficulty of the work
should be reflected with a salary that shows the enormity of the valuable work
that they do
It is the Sherpas who
safeguard all those who wish to climb
Without the intense knowledge
of daily difficulties that the mountain imposes, it cannot be mastered without
the Sherpas expert knowledge
It shows how good a job the
Sherpas are willing to undertake with the rising numbers of tourists
There have also been raised
concerns about safety and environmental damage
Every time another climber
goes up, more rubbish is left behind
It has now been ruled that
climbers must bring back their own rubbish, which has further caused hazards to
climbers and Sherpas
There will be new guidelines
for both Sherpas and climbers and where respect for all is now coming about
In Iran they are marking
Women’s Day and Mr Rouhani has urged equal opportunities and rights for both
men and women
He has criticised those who
consider women’s presence in society as a threat
He further said Iran has a
long way to go to ensure gender equality
Foreign activist groups argue
that Iran’s laws discriminate against women
Yet Rouhani still maintains
that he will not accept the culture of sexual discrimination against women
Women must enjoy equal
opportunity, equal protection and equal social rights, all this he said on
Iranian television
Yet Iran’s Supreme leader,
the highest authority in the land, states that he did not oppose women’s
employment…
…but it should not conflict
with their main issue, which was women’s role in the family environment and the
household
Even though, women in Iran
have served as lawmakers in Parliament
In 2012, several Iranian
universities introduced rules banning female students from nearly 80 degree
courses
They are drawing criticism from
campaigners
A human rights group Amnesty
International said in its 2013 report that Iranian women faced discrimination
This is in law and practice
with relation to marriage and divorce
Also their inheritance rights
were not observed together with child custody and nationality and international
travel
In May 2013, a constitutional
body in Iran ruled that women could not run in Presidential elections…
…all in all, women should
know their place, which is in the home where they can be of no harm to men
It is men who seek to
maintain the upper hand in Iranian life
They are truly afraid of
women to install such draconian methods to keep them subservient in this day
and age
But women the entire world
over are starting to fight back with every means at their disposal
Men will need to think very
carefully if they wish to continue in this selfish way
More women are becoming
independent and they will no longer tolerate these rulings by men
The Internet is a powerful
tool and women are now uniting in a common theme of united power and support,
which is growing daily
Iran will need to come into
the 21st century whether it likes it or not
There are subtle ways in
which women do win and this is happening all the time
They have after all right on
their side and justice will be done whether men accept it or not
The tide is turning and can
never be stopped!
Thousands of runners are
preparing to take part in an emotional Boston Marathon on Monday
It will be with some sadness,
but also with a reunification of souls who are united in both grief and
optimism
These special people will
feel the strength and determination that no matter what happens…
…this race will give credence
to those who lost their lives and for the many who were wounded in the bomb
blasts
All those runners who were
killed and those who suffered will be united in a single determination
That is that decency, honesty
and togetherness count for something
Religious hatred and ideology
can have no place in this special event
So united, this race will
carry on with a more determined fervour than at any other time
The runners’ resolve will be
strengthened, as collectively they are united in a common theme of comradeship
and love
Many more people will wish to
participate in this special event
They will send out a clear
message that whoever wishes to destroy these innocent people, and this event,
will see that they cannot win
Common decency is what unites
them all
Some 36,000 participants will
start in this race – 9,000 more than last year
The event will become more
special with every passing year showing that Mankind will not be put down by
those who act through violence
This year will be an
especially exciting race with two runners fighting out amongst themselves for
the top prize of winning
A glorious day with much
patriotism and love will make this race a euphoric moment in all their lives
This holy day of Easter
Sunday, the day Our Lord Jesus rose again from the dead, is a very important
day in the Christian calendar
It is equally important as
Jesus Christ is recognised as a great prophet in the Muslim world as well as in
the Jewish faith
Jesus is alive and
flourishing today and many have seen him, as they have Mary the mother of Jesus
People the world over see
holy visions of the saints and of Jesus
His proof to us that he rose
again from the dead was his teaching to us
It was so that we would
understand that life continues after this earthly body is no more
For many who have seen Jesus,
there can be no doubt that he lives and is working on our behalves
One does not need to be a
believer or have a faith of any kind, just to know that what you saw in your
vision was real
It has a profound effect on
all those who have seen him. Their lives have been changed for the better
Every moment of every day one
in two people have a spiritual experience the entire world over
Thus their lives have been
changed for all time, where through great trauma or through impossible odds
Jesus has been seen
The love he gives is a
significant turning point in their lives forever
The fact that Jesus left his
physical body and rose again in his Spiritual body happens to all of us who die
in this earthly life
We are born again as he was
and are reunited with our loved ones as Jesus came back and visited Mary
Magdalen and his apostles
So many earthly beings have
enjoyed a reuniting with their deceased family members
They have had open
conversations with them as normal
It is the Church alone who
puts a stigma on our talking openly to our deceased loved ones as if it is
something that is ungodly
It is the Church alone who
think they have the monopoly of speaking to those we love
This is not so, as it is the
deceased loved ones who decide who they wish to speak to and it never involves
the Church
Why should it? They wish
alone to speak to their families and know that the Church would interfere with
their communication
There are many people who see
Jesus and, where he has actively helped them, none are in any doubt of what
they have seen
The light and the love is so
powerful and one instinctively knows it comes from a higher power, the Divine
All those who have been
privileged to have seen Jesus from different parts of the world, all speak of
the overwhelming sense of love
There is wellbeing that they
received in his presence
The love was so profound that
all sense of fear was totally removed, such was the impact that they felt
They knew they were saved and
whatever ordeals they still had to encounter on this earth…
…they were in no doubt that
Jesus lives on for our benefit and the benefit of the world
For those of us who do
believe without question, our lives are forever rich
We know we are in the power
of love, which daily sustains us and we are all rich indeed
The problem Mankind has, is
that he no longer respects himself or anyone else
Too many of us are only
involved in the self and how things appear from our own stand point alone
Until we begin to see how our
actions can hurt or harm another, then there is little hope for Mankind to recover
There is such an inequality
within Mankind today
An example of this is the air
pollution that drifts all around China, which kills off its own land and its
own people
Then it drifts off over other
countries infecting and damaging their land and people and nothing is said or
done about it
There are wars around the
world, because of inequality and injustice to so many people. It all breeds civil wars and unrest
It is as if no one cares any
longer and the precious few who do get lambasted in so many ways
They appear to be fighting
against the tide of negativity that is wreaking havoc everywhere in the world
today
What is happening now is that
the tide of despair is now turning and that Spiritual Law is being enforced in
a rapid way
This will allow for Mankind
to start thinking with others in mind and where they will be rewarded for their
acts of kindness
It will continue to follow on
the more kindness that they do
It is a form of teaching,
where their conscience can no longer escape the penalties of what they have
done wrong
It goes against the good that
they will receive when they do something right
So like children, the entire
world over, a new concept of thinking is strongly being introduced
Mankind will start to calm
down and begin to mend his ways
It will take time, but what
is now needed and is now coming to the fore, are certain role models
Then young and old can start
to see the right way to conform, which is being recognised and upheld against
those who do wrong
It is Mankind alone that must
start to learn what is basically inherent in them
Man has chosen to ignore it,
hoping to continue down a road of selfishness as being the only route that he
can recognise
There must be a permanent
shift of the mind-set to address the misdeeds done by Mankind, where good at
last can be restored
Just recently a wonderful
woman called Peaches Geldof parted this world. She was just 25 years old
Her life was struck down when
her dear mother Paula Yates died, when Peaches was just 11 years old
When a child loses a parent
& where there has been so much love, that soul becomes broken & it is
as if the light has gone out of her soul
Her loving father, Sir Bob
Geldof, was the support that kept her going
He was never able to
completely fill that void that was so deeply entrenched in Peaches’ heart
As a result, her body and her
mind still held the shock of her mother’s death
She carried it with her
throughout her life, never finding the peace she so badly needed
When you look into Peaches’
eyes, it tells the real story that she carried this grief always
She could not find the solace
that would really have comforted her. She was in fact pining away
In time she was able to find
a man who truly loved her, her husband Thomas
He was able for a time to
give her that valuable support of love and understanding, but the inner pain
lingered on
Her two beautiful young sons
gave her the anchor she felt she needed, but their birth took its toll on her
fragile body and mind
Peaches is a remarkable
person to have kept going as long as she did, which showed the true guts and
courage that she had
Eventually it became too much
and so she literally ran out of steam and could do no more
Peaches is now reunited with
her beautiful mother in the Spirit Realms & with the Spirit doctors &
nurses will be able to finally heal
That void will be filled with
the Divine love together with her mother’s for all time
My husband Michael and I
reunite people with their deceased loved ones, but only if they wish to come
through and make that connection
Peaches felt her mother’s
presence when she had her babies, so it would have been highly likely she would
have come through
By making that contact, both
physically and emotionally, people are able to finally heal and carry on with
their earthly lives
Sadly for Peaches, she was
not steered to our door and so unfortunately we were not able to make that
connection for her
She has now and, for Peaches
at last, she will have peace of mind
She will be fully healed and
restored to full health and vigour in her Spirit body
She will be shown ways in how
to assist in her sons’ future and give strength to her loving husband to carry
on
At this time she will be held
in peace and love until she fully recovers
She is not dead, but fully alive
and functioning
Sadly for many in the West,
death is a taboo subject
If we were born in the East,
it is normal to talk with our loved ones on a natural day to day basis.
They are not mad. They are
normal as their ideology is different to ours
They do not suffer the same
trauma that death brings to us and therefore they recover more quickly
They fully understand where
their loved ones have gone, while we in the West do not!
Unless of course you are
involved in this valuable work, then many will continue to suffer the anguish
of death
That is the suffering that
bereavement entails
Peaches, you are alive and
God Bless you!
The Roman Catholic Church in
England & Wales has turned down a request by members for results of a
sexual ethics survey to be made public
This survey was commissioned
by Pope Francis
Reformers say that the
Churches refusal to publish results suggests the Church is not sincere about
sharing responsibilities with laypeople
The survey tackled subjects
such as contraception, cohabitation and homosexuality
It also informs the Vatican
about family life in modern day
Many Catholics see this as a
sign that the Church’s teachings would be reformed
That laypeople will have a
greater say in how the Church is governed
Catholic Churches in Germany
& Austria have described the wide gap between the Church’s teachings and
the behaviour of ordinary Catholics
Pope Francis is calling
bishops to Rome to discuss possible reform that considers modern social
realities
He further states the Catholic
Church is too tied up in small minded
rules
Had Jesus Christ been alive
in the flesh today, he would have advanced with the needs of the people
He would have continued his
Ministry on today’s lives and not what was appropriate 2000 years ago
We have all moved on since
then and life is very different from those days
The Catholic Church remains
entrenched in those Dark Ages because it has not caught up with today’s
problems
By their very actions they
prove they do not care
Birth control has been
practiced by well-educated Catholics for decades in total defiance of the
Catholic Church
Common sense and their
conscience made them realise they could not afford to have multiple children as
they could not afford them
Everywhere where the Catholic
Church has the greatest control is where the people are ignorant and cannot
fight back
Such is the stranglehold of
the indoctrination of the Church that they forget about love & survival –
that does not enter into their setup
An example of this is where a
young girl has just been rescued, who has been starved by her foster parents
They kept her in a garage for
nine years with only bread and water to live on
The child weighed 20 kilos
and while in captivity her only company was a dog and a monkey
If she ate the leftovers from
the animals she was beaten
Her biological parents, who
had seven more children, could not financially look after her, so she was put
with foster parents
This child is not alone and
where the Catholic Church is involved, so multiple children are born
It is regardless of whether
the parents can support them, which often is just impossible
The children are sent out to
work from an early age to bring money for the home, so that the family can eat
The Church has a lot to
answer for and cannot ever now take the moral high ground with their own
adverse codes of conduct
MEP’s have backed rules for a
banking safety net to minimise the risk of further taxpayer-funded bailouts
It is now necessary for a
European authority to be able to wind up or restructure failing banks
The EU banking union reforms
will create contingency funds of $76bn by bank levies…
…so that the cash can be
injected before the bank actually fails, which is what happened in Cyprus and
Greece
They had to be bailed out
with taxpayers’ money
This is at least a step in
the right direction
This new legislation comes in
to safeguard banks doing their own irresponsible thing by running amok
Unfortunately the Eurozone
still does not have credible backstops to deal with a major systemic failure
like the 2008 financial crash
But matters are now in place
to stem this tide of deceit and appalling banking practice
It is up to the European
Central Bank to put safeguards in to protect the taxpayer, who is always at the
brunt of bad practice
This package of banking
reforms enshrines in binding rules the principle of bail-in…
…so that shareholders and
creditors pay for their banks mistakes and not the taxpayers
There will be more reforms,
as has already been predicted by myself previously
Gradually an iron tight fence
of laws will be implemented and the banking system will never be the same
again!
In the Netherlands they have
now a 500m stretch of highway which has glow in the dark markings
This new invention is paint
which has a photo-luminising powder that charges up in the daytime
It then is able to slowly
release a green glow at night
This invention is to do away
with street lighting
An interactive artist
together with a Dutch civil engineering firm have worked on the idea
It is the first time ‘glowing
lines’ technology has been piloted on the road
Once this paint has absorbed
daylight, it can glow for up to eight hours in the dark
The Dutch Government are
shutting down street lighting at night to save money
Energy is becoming much more
important than we could ever have imagined 50 years ago
This revolutionary idea is
all about safety and the more that can be done to light up darken roads the
better for all
The inventor Daan Roosegaarde
was already working on projects involving energy-neutral streetlights when he
came up with this idea
He thought of jelly fish that
give out light yet have no solar panel and no energy bill
Nature is a wonderful thing
and all our inspiration comes from nature and its natural laws
We just need to look at
Leonardo da Vinci, who was an inventor, engineer as well as a painter and
geologist
He invented the parachute,
diving suit and air flight all from watching and learning about nature
We are so rich in this world
However we need the skills of
those whose minds are receptive to the Higher Intelligence to see what is all
around us
The answers are all there
when we have time to look
Governments at last are
starting to get tough with tobacco firms
South Korea’s state health
insurers are suing three tobacco firms, which include a local unit
They are suing to offset
smoking relating treatment costs
They has soared to over $1.6b
each year over the treatment of smoking-related diseases
The tobacco companies are
Philip Morris, the local arm of British American Tobacco and KT&G Corp
The insurers are seeking an
initial sum of $52m in damages
South Korea’s National Health
Insurance has stated that Smoking is a serious issue affecting particularly the
youth and women
So they are pushing ahead
with strong determination for the future health of their nation
A group of 36 cancer patients
and their family members claimed that KT&G Corp had added elements to their
cigarettes that…
…increased the risk to
smoker’s health and raised the chance of addition
Where incidents of tobacco
smoking is declining in the western world, it is increasing in the east
People who live in poor
countries, who have hardly any money for food seem to find money to smoke
Tobacco companies prey on the
illiterate and the vulnerable, especially children who are uneducated
They are the easy targets for
free supplies of tobacco
Then they get addicted and
like other drugs addicts are trapped in a downward cycle of need over common
sense and education
It is time that institutions,
especially where health issues are concerned, fight these monopolies that trade
in human misery
The Government and opposition
forces in Syria have accused each other of using poison gas in an attack on a
village on Friday
Opposition groups have quoted
doctors saying that the attack by regime planes led to suffocation and
poisoning
The entire situation is now
turning, where Basher al-Assad thought he had the upper hand
He was playing for time to
receive a bigger bail out of arms from Russia and will now see a change in plan
and strategy
Other forces are now
controlling areas, which the regime can no longer supply
A new wave of offensive is
materialising, leaving Government forces nowhere to go
They will be completely out
flanked and forced to capitulate
This war is now turning, as
new policies are coming in, giving the true freedom fighters a fighting chance
Kenya’s failure to deal with
its insurmountable poaching is now placing this country in grave international
condemnation
Kenya has suspended five
officials from its wildlife service amid growing concern over the poaching of
endangered elephants and rhinos
Still not enough has been
done to alleviate this problem
There is a rise in poaching
and Kenya has taken its eye off the problem and has become irresponsible in its
handling of these crimes
A leading conservationist
Richard Leakey is a former boss of the Kenyan wildlife service
He has said Kenya has become
the global hub for ivory smuggling
Dozens of poaching bosses
have been allowed to act with outrageous impunity
This is clearly signifying
that corruptions and backhanders are at the very heart of this problem
Kenya does not deserve to
have these magnificent wild animals roaming around their lands
Perhaps there are other African
countries that are better able and more responsible to tend to these herds?
Kenya does not have a divine
right to have these magnificent animals if it can’t look after them
Kenya has enjoyed a constant
revenue from tourism for its wildlife
Surely it is time to put
something back and start to save these endangered species
A senior environment ministry
official has stated that the problem of poaching has now become serious
It has become necessary for the Government to assume direct
control of the wildlife service
An AFP news agency has quoted
that the investigation into the mismanagement of the wildlife service needs to
ask…
…why has night-vision googles
and weapons against poachers not been used despite being paid for?
Poachers are becoming more
sophisticated and so the protection of these wild animals needs to be stepped
up
These animals must be given
the chance of surviving
Should the elephant and the
rhino become extinct then…
…the likes of Kenya and other
African countries will need to ask themselves, did they do enough?
At this time Kenya has been
found wanting and it is a race against time now, such is the seriousness of
their plight
Ivory and rhino horn needs to
be outlawed
China and Asia have already
decimated these species. Perhaps it will
be better if there were no more alive in this world
These countries’ contemptible
greed is all that they are interested in
They have no appreciation or
love for these animals who share this land with us
They never see the pain that
these animals suffer before they die
They are just oblivious to
these facts and the sadness is, they do not want to know!
Israel continues to put the
boot into Palestinians as they have signed a number of international treaties,
which are not to Israel’s liking
This is purely to try and get
some International support for their hopeless plight
Israel has now said it will
freeze Palestinian taxes and limit Palestinians to their own bank deposits,
which are in Israel
All this in retaliation for
their signings
The Palestinian chief
negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned the move as Israeli hijacking and theft
There will be no peace
process while Israel continues to provoke and bully their own agenda
At the same time it continues
to approve 700 settlements in East Jerusalem
All of which are against
International Law and this has already been stated enough times
As has been said before,
Israel does not want peace. They want ethnic cleansing so that they can occupy
more land for their own people
They will do everything in
their power to achieve it even if it means mass extermination of the
Palestinian people
Many Israelis state that the
Palestinian people do not even exist in their eyes
Who in this world is going to
address this situation, where the might of one race can so dominate another’s
whose rights are forfeited?
This is because they have no
say or any International back up
The might of America
continues to support this heinous regime
This is because of Israeli
influence and the stranglehold that they have in America
The world continues to look
on as the injustices remain constant
How can we as a human race
stand by and do nothing?
When will it finally stop for
these people?
There are a few Israeli
people who are ashamed of their own Government’s extortionate policies
Yet precious little is done
to change the status quo and John
Kerry and the White House continue to say tut-tut and carry on
They are making overtures
which to them seem right, yet are a fiasco, a mockery to peace!
No one can now take up the
moral high ground, while we as a race continue to put up with these injustices
and do nothing
We let Israel continue to
walk all over us, as there is no deterrent for their crimes and no justice for
the Palestinian people!
A medical charity has accused
the UN of showing ‘shocking indifference’ towards displaced people in South
Sudan
They are sheltering at one of
its compounds. About 21,000 people were living in flood water contaminated with
faecal matter
Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF)
said the UN has not yet reacted to their statement
This group of people sought
refuge at the compound after fighting broke out between Government and rebels
in December
Over one million people have
fled the conflict with 803,200 having been displaced in the country
Over 250,000 have fled into
neighbouring countries. At this time the UN have 8,000 peace keepers in South
Sudan
Diarrhoeal diseases,
respiratory infections and skin diseases have broken out with these displaced
people in this compound
UN’s failure to improve
conditions is shameful
In the first rainfall of the
season 150 latrines have already collapsed mixing in with the flood water
The rains, which can last up
to six months, are getting heavier
If nothing continues to be
done the consequences, which are already horrific, could be fatal
At the same time UN
peacekeepers have failed to protect civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region even
where they have been shot in front of them
Ban Ki-moon is part of a
conspiracy of silence about the conflict
A UN spokeswoman resigned
last year, because she felt ashamed to be a spokesperson for a mission of lies
The spokeswoman Aicha el
Basri said she decided to speak out after the UN ignored her appeals to
investigate its operations in Darfur
Civilians were shot in front
of UN forces and they failed to act, they just watched
This conspiracy of silence
has extended all the way to the top to Ban Ki-moon
Mr Ban has failed to mention
in his report released about the conflict in Darfur that…
…the Government forces had bombed
villages 106 times in 2012
This flagrant cover up will
have far reaching repercussions in both Darfur and by MSF regarding UN’s forces
of neglect
Its wilful disobedience to
protect the very people they were sent out safeguard
This is just the tip of the
iceberg as more shocking practices will be revealed
The truth always comes out
and by those who are on the ground regarding these activities
You can never silence those
whose integrity is for the welfare of those who are suffering
Mr Ban Ki-moon will be
replaced for his many acts of folly, not only in Sudan but in Syria and CAR as
well
He is not man enough for the
job
With the UN’s so called
special tasks forces, involving so many innocent civilians, there needs to be a
person at the helm who is not afraid
He must be able to make
important decisions to save lives
Mr Ban will be further
exposed and so the necessary changes will come about
The UN needs leadership and
where one is up to the mark and is not there for person gain
The Supreme Court in the
Philippines has finally approved a birth control law and defeated the Catholic
Church
The new law requires
Government health centres to distribute freely condoms and contraceptive pills
The Government has defied
years of Church pressure by passing this bill
This law will help primarily
the poor, who often cannot afford birth control and combat the country’s high
rates of maternal mortality
Something the Church appears
conveniently to ignore
Breeding more Catholics is
all the Church is interested in and to continue to fill their coffers at the
expense of human life
Sex education will now become
compulsory in schools and public health workers are now required to receive
family planning training
There will now be medical
care for all those women who have had illegal abortions
The Philippines is 80%
Catholic with a growing population of 100 million
The Church has played a
significant role in Philippine politics and continues to wield its influence
over the population
A Philippine woman of 33
years old having had seven children already, said she did not know about family
planning and contraception
She was never educated in
this practice, had she been educated she said, she would never have had seven
children
Her great concern is that she
is in no position to feed them and struggles every day
Where is the moral compassion
for this young woman and many like her throughout the Philippines, where no
help is given by the Church?
They are the ones who dictate
that more children should be born
The Catholic Church lost
their moral compass many years ago
They have no right to exert
their own hypocritical demands over those who cannot help themselves
All those people, who are
educated, are able to control their birth rate
All those who live in countries
where they are not educated in these matters, the birth rate soars
This leaves poor families in
great hardship and the burden on the state is severely handicapping
This law in the Philippines
will have a knock on effect in other countries around the world…
…where the Catholic Church
seems to have a stranglehold in this manner
It will be the people
themselves who are now fighting back to take charge of their own lives
irrespective of the Catholic Churches dictate
The UN is still ashamed over
its failure to prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
This was announced by the UN
chief Ban Ki-moon while addressing thousands of people in the capital Kigali
Rwanda begins a week of
official mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide
Many people were overcome by
the emotion during the ceremony with some suffering fits
At least 800,000 people died
at the hands of Hutu extremists
The killings ended in July
1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front seized control of the country
Rwanda’s President Paul
Kagame and Mr Ban lit a torch, which will burn for a 100 days – the length of
the time the genocide lasted
There was also a wreath
laying ceremony at the national genocide memorial
At the time the UN took over,
they then deserted the people leaving a blood bath in their wake
It was finally the act of the
Rwandan Patriotic Front, who rescued this devastated population
Whole families and villages
were wiped out by being macheted or clubbed to death by wielding Hutu
extremists
Families that were rescued by
the UN were then separated and literally farmed out to various parts of Europe
Brothers separated from
sisters, mothers from husbands and children
Instead of saving these
desperate families who survived and…
…keeping them all together, they
were placed in different countries all alone and where their native language
was not spoken
The UN’s rescue mission such
as it was, was a sham
Then they literally washed
their hands of the responsibility of their own input of the genocide
It was French soldiers who
helped to train the Hutu extremists and even helped them to escape
They have the blood of the
Rwandan people on their hands
The world should have stepped
in and should have stopped the slaughter, but did nothing!
The amount of stress in
today’s life is phenomenal
So many people are thinking
they can no longer carry on with their lives and want to get out of it
Stress in today’s society is
a killer with physical ailments increasing all the time
Health issues, where nervous
breakdowns are the prime aspect, show increased unhappiness
People feel they have to
shoulder those burdens alone
We have become a pill-popping
nation with stress related conditions
The medical profession are
stumped to know what to do, never mind find a cure for it
Doctors are prescribing
anti-depressants as the panacea for all ills
Especially when they are out
of their depth to be able to treat what they do not seem to understand
The general public now are at
a loss in how to deal with these problems
Try as they may to sort
matters out, they feel overwhelmed and under supported
Again the medical profession
deals with the symptoms presenting, never looking at the root cause as it does
not appear to be in their remit
This allows for problems to
continue untreated for years
Eventually one pays a heavy
price with either a breakdown physically or mentally
Mankind must start to realise
that he is not alone and that there is help out there
The medical profession do not
know all the answers and so another way is found and relief on a substantial
level is achieved
By understanding the problems
fully, we all can start to deal with our own health issues
We must allow control into
our own lives without trying to work blindly all the time
Stress is a mental condition,
where the individual feels overloaded
It is by relieving that
stress mentally and emotionally that relief can come about
By understanding our
weaknesses & trying alternative forms of practice to rectify these
situations, so that we can become stronger mentally
Then we no longer feel
helpless, but finally back into control
There are many different
forms of therapy out there
It is only by deciding to
take control instead of pill-popping all the time that we can begin to get
better
We must address our many
fears, so that stress begins to leave us and we are no longer a slave to these
conditions
Where there is a will, there
is always a way!
The tragedy for Jordan as 22
of its police force have been taken to hospital after clashes with Syrian
refugees
This happened at the Zaatari
camp in northern Jordan
Security forces have used
tear gas to disperse stone-throwing refugees, who have set fire to tents and
vehicles
This camp houses some 106,000
refugees and has seen several protests since opening two years ago, mainly over
poor living conditions
Zaatari is only 12 kms from
the Syrian border
It is the world’s second
largest refugee camp and has now become the fourth largest city in Jordan
Violence broke out after
police arrested a group of refugees trying to leave the camp illegally
Zaatari is made up of 30,000
shelters and administration buildings
The cost is $500,000 a day to
run with half a million pieces of bread and 4.2m litres of water distributed
daily
A second overflow camp is now
under construction. It will have the capacity to host up to 130,000 people
The strain on Jordan is
immense even with the humanitarian aid for these displaced people
The financial aspect also
gives Jordan a heavy burden
There is always a tense
situation where frustration can overspill when refugees see no end to their
suffering
What they forget is that
Jordanians themselves are suffering
Their Government have to make
allowances for these huge amounts of people in their very small country
Their economic situation is
causing a huge strain, yet morally they have done the decent thing by taking in
these refugees
That is something that can
escape a refugee’s mind
Of course President Bashar
al-Assad cares nothing for his people and that is where the anger should be
placed
Jordan has done an amazing
job and there appears little to no thanks for the invasion to this peaceful
state
It is the sheer numbers which
are daunting and what this war has cost in human suffering
Neighbouring countries have
taken the brunt over a power hungry dictator
The world yet again stands
idly by and does nothing to end this war
The prolonged agony carries
on to the people and all neighbouring countries as well!
The people of Afghanistan are
voting for a new President in what will be the nation’s first ever transfer of
power through the ballot box
A massive security operation
is under way to thwart the Taliban, who have vowed to disrupt the election
It is time now that the
people of Afghanistan really voiced their opinion
They need to seek their
rights and independence from a force bent on fear
Only the people themselves
will have this power & where there may be some overlap of voting the vast
majority will see it as legal & fair
Many of the Afghan soldiers
will also want to express their right as well as the ordinary people
They have fought bravely to
bring stability to their own country and where the law is enforced a greater
democratic power is given
Start to see a new
Afghanistan approach where fear no longer applies
The people are defiant
against a regime that is hell bent on crushing them
This will be no more and
every day renewed confidence in this country evolves
The people are more secure
and less tolerate of the Taliban, whose influence is waning because of their archaic
ways
Start to see new life and
impetus returning to this troubled land
Even though there will be
some disruption, the democratic process will win the day
Moscow is pressing NATO to
explain its plans to enhance its military presence in Eastern Europe
Russian Foreign Minister,
Sergei Lavrov, expects answers based fully on the respect for the rules agreed
on in NATO
The NATO Secretary General,
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has denied the alliance has broken an agreement with
Moscow
He further accuses Russia of
violating every international commitment it has made by annexing Crimea
NATO has said it will
continue to carry out collective defence to protect its member states and to
reinforce Eastern Europe
NATO has halted all civilian
and military co-operations with Russia
Russian’s annexation of
Crimea has been described as the gravest threat to European security for
generations
There are grave concerns over
the massive build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s Eastern border amid fears
of an invasion
Russia cannot image it can do
what it likes without reprisals
We all understand the
significance of wanting the Crimea back into the fold
They continue to think of it
as part of their great Russian territory
It was the brutal way in
which it was conducted that has alarmed the West and NATO and so defensive
measures needed to be taken
A tit for tat situation is
never advisable, but where diplomacy had failed there has been little choice
left open to NATO at this stage
All sides, both East and
West, have behaved badly, where guns once again are left pointing at each other
We are all in this world
together and there has to be accountability on both sides and where the West
has to withdraw as well as the East
If we don’t trust each other
by our respective deeds then we dive down into a hell of like for like and the
downward spiral starts to grow
Constructive talks need to be
dealt with and where all must do the right thing and that includes Russia
