01 July 2015

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What is needed now for the Eurozone is to strengthen in its commitment to bringing Greece to the table

They must be advised on other issues to save their flagging economy

Greece needs to understand it can no longer expect the Eurozone to turn a blind eye to Greece’s increasing intractable demands

Greece really is in no position to demand anything any longer

They have continually overstepped the mark and continue to isolate themselves from any radical reforms

Their positon is completely untenable and they have no outside creditors willing to entertain their demands to remain solvent

Greece has to start looking to themselves for hard-line solutions of which they have no choice now but to meet

The Greek people are naïve if they think that austerity measures will simply go away

The country is already in too much hock to too many creditors

It needs to step back from the coal face and begin to see an alternative route

By being plunged once again into the abyss without a lifeline, so it is hoped that they will come to their senses

They need to bring about a system of reforms, which must be implemented if Greece wants to stay alive and not dead?

Whatever the European situation might think that without Greece Europe will fall, will never happen

Europe will just close its ranks and become stronger, as it will always attract strength and outside investments

Europe’s economic strategies are founded on long-term, sound economic practices

Europe will always survive without Greece, but Greece cannot survive without Europe!

Greece with so many of their concessions having already been extinguished, it is now up to the Greek people to see the light

Because of the many continuous mistakes made by their own corrupt politicians…

…the Greeks must accept a package of extreme hardships in order to re-float their sagging economy

Until their own economy is brought back from the brink of total collapse, nothing will ever be the same again

Greece can survive outside the Eurozone, but it will be a very hard austere life

Greeks enjoy the good life and when they are expected to truly work for their luxuries they are not prepared to do so

Such is their own mentality and work ethics

An example of this was in the preparation of the Olympic Games held in Athens in 2004

This was turning into a theatre of the absurd

The IOC has already warned Greece about the delays in construction for those games

Athens looked like a building site and as usual things were left to the last minutes before situations started to turn around

The IOC President at the time Jacques Rogge issued a stark warning for the Greeks to pull their socks up

Even in 2000 Rogge’s predecessor threatened to take the games away if things did not improve

It was in the last months before the Games opened that help was given by neighbouring countries

They had to assisted with the backlog of work so that Athens could have their games

It is this mentality that has come to bite them hard

No longer will they be allowed to pull the wool over Europe’s eyes and cheat their way out of what is not their entitlement

They are between a rock and a hard place. There is no easy solution and they must now fight to stay alive!

New Zealand’s South Island and some parts of Australia have been treated to the Aurora Australis, a natural light display in the sky

There was a solar storm

This allows the Aurora Australis in the southern hemisphere to become more visible much further north than it usually is

Aurorae occur when cosmic rays or solar wind interacts with the earth’s upper atmosphere

Another view of its activity will be shown this Thursday giving New Zealanders another chance to see this amazing phenomenon

Many New Zealanders have already braved the cold conditions to capture and enjoy this amazing sight

In the northern Hemisphere, Finland, Iceland and Northern Canada are able to see these northern lights more frequently

But for those who live in New Zealand, it is a rare sight and a rare treat indeed

Many people have already waited years to see this phenomenon with one man who has already been chasing aurorae for the last 15 years

He is truly ecstatic with the amazing sights

All things that are natural in the world are beautiful

We should never take these for granted. We are after all truly blessed

Is Greece playing the Russian card against Europe?

The Greek Syriza Government chose the pro-Russian right wing populist ANEL party

This is the Greek version of UKIP, as its coalition partner over the pro-European Potami party

A distant threat that Greece might leave NATO and sell a naval base to Russia would be a serious matter

Not just for Europe, but for the US as well

Greece’s playing around with Russia could get Europe and the US to focus on geopolitics rather than its fiscal counting

The US and the IMF feel that Greece needs a cut in its debt burden anyway

By dealing with Russia it hopes it would strengthen Greece’s hand in its demands for a big debt write off

This of course is not easy, when Cyprus wanted to get money to avoid asking for a European bailout…

…its finance minister came back empty handed. At that time Russia was awash with oil

The problem with Greece is it is not just a matter of plugging a hole for a short-term fiscal loan for a few billion euros

Russia is now in deep recession and it will not be able to be the backstop for these huge Greek amounts

Greece needs a backstop for its banking system

Already the European Central Bank (ECB) had reached a peak of 135 billion euros at the time of the Greeks repeat election in June 2012

A bank backstop is the financial support for banks

Whereas for Governments it is used to mean their debts can be guaranteed by a central bank

The only possible backstop for Greek banks in the euro is the ECB

If Greece decided to renege on its obligations to Europe and the IMF…

…and turned to Russia instead for a small bridging loan, the ECB support for Greek banks would have to stop

A Russian loan would not help Greece at all

The coalition of Syriza and ANEL may have inclined to a pro-Russian line, but it would be toying with their key national interests

Greece sits on an exposed corner of Europe

It is close to the war torn regions of Syria and Libya and next to their neighbour Turkey, who they are afraid of

For Greece to exchange wealthy and powerful allies, such as Europe and the US for Russia would not be wise

Russia is visibly crumbling under its economic incompetence and the Greek people would not let Syriza-ANEL get away with it

Greece badly needs fresh money and a reliable backstop. This it can only get from Europe and the IMF

Flirting with Russia won’t help Greece secure better terms from the only realistic leaders it has

It is high time that Greece comes to terms that the financial hardships were caused by mismanagement of their respective economies

Japan took ten years to turn over its indebted economy and Germany after the war took even longer

It is high time that Greece understood that it can no longer expect other countries to continually bail it out

It has to start the long road to recovery and to become strong again

It is in their hands alone. Help is there, but not on their terms any longer!

The Queen has visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh

It was at this camp, where thousands died that were Jews, gypsies and homosexuals

It was also at this camp that the teenage diarist, Anne Frank and her sister died

The Queen with Prince Philip visited a memorial to Anne Frank

The Queen laid a wreath at the camp in memory of all those who died there

It was in 1945 when British soldiers liberated the camp

They saw the many horrors that words cannot express adequately about what happened there

The Queen’s presence has shown that complete reconciliation has taken place between Britain and Germany

Mankind still has not learnt about the atrocities of war

Many still want to remember, but not enough is done to prevent these happenings occurring again

Solutions to long term sufferings need to be addressed more thoroughly, so that atrocities can be avoided throughout this world

We all must move forwards to find peace and justice and eliminate sufferings that cause so much hardship to so many

Massive street protests in Argentina on the 3rd June called for an end to the killing of women

Tens of thousands of people mostly women, but many men as well, took to the streets to demand an end to violence against women

They protested in particular against femicides, the killing of women because of their gender

It was the female journalists who organised the rally after they heard of the death of a 14 year old girl murdered because she was pregnant

The slaying of the girl called Chiara Paez, who was buried alive, was the latest in a long line of female casualties

The female journalists said that they would raise their voices to say ‘THEY ARE KILLING US’

The march saw over 150,000 people, who gathered in the capital alone

Many people were surprised as they hadn’t realised that male chauvinism was such a big issue

Argentina has a female president in Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

They also had the famous first lady Eva Peron, who fought for women’s rights in the 1950’s

Now the Argentine Supreme Court and the Human Rights Secretariat will create a register on violence against women

They hope to have the information by the end of the year

Most Latin American countries have this problem with El Salvador and Mexico being the worst, where women are killed daily

A women’s shelter carried out a national estimate showing that a women is killed every 31 hours

It is now known that more than 1,800 women have been shot, stabbed, beaten, burned, strangled or drowned to death since 2008

That is when these records began

Argentine’s Congress passed a bill in 2012 increasing the jail sentences for gender related violence

Femicides differ from other crimes, because the killer is the husband, boyfriend or former partner of the victim

This was one of the main issues addressed by the protest march

This male-on-female violence stems from a culture, which allows men to see women as objects

These marches will continue to increase until a notable advancement in public re-education is realised

People are now fighting back. This brutal culture has to be changed!

Who says one man’s demonstration cannot move a whole country

In this case a 62 year old Guatemalan man received a hero’s welcome after a 200km march in protest against his Government’s corruption

Oswaldo Ochoa was cheered and applauded from crowds of supporters on his arrival into Guatemala City

Mr Ochoa said he was inspired by Gandhi and he wants social, political and agricultural changes

Already a series of corruption scandals had forced the resignation of Vice-President Roxana Baldetti to occur last month

Mr Ochoa left his home a week ago

His Guatemalan flag wrapped around his neck as a cape

He joins a growing movement of Guatemalans demanding the resignation of President Otto Perez Molina

In addition to Mr Ochoa’s protest he went on hunger strike during his journey only drinking tea and juices

When Mr Ochoa reached the capital he called on all Guatemalans to rise up against the impunity of corrupt politicians

They who had taken public money to fill their own coffers

It is only the power of the people who will be able to change the tide of corruptions throughout the world

The fight against this global disease of corruption is gathering momentum and those involved will see their days coming to an end!

Until the International community starts taking responsibility then more and more people become displaced

They die from being in a war zone that they cannot get out of and like sitting ducks waiting for their end to come

Until the International community starts to speak with a majority voice to save our fellow citizens then what does that say about us?

Have we all become so battle hardened and oblivious to what is actually happening to Mankind?

Do we continue to bury our heads in the sand until these conflicts are at our doorstep before we act?

The world is in crises

It is up to the world to devise solutions and act morally to do what is right to save Mankind once and for all

Sitting on the fence, continuing to see the suffering and plight of refugees in the world and doing nothing means we are heartless souls

If we were in these situations, would we not want Mankind to respond?  Of course we would

It is up to all of us now to act and to impress on politicians that solutions to war-torn countries must be found

That time has come and the International communities must bring in political strategies to solve these refugee crises and political inertia

We, as humans, cannot keep on killing each other

Ways of how to live together in peace and harmony will be found if right thinking is given

Syria is the greatest problem and has the greatest number of people displaced

That political destruction needs to be addressed. It cannot be allowed to continue

With President Assad openly dropping barrel bombs on his people, he kills them with impunity, while the world sits by and does nothing

Surely these atrocities need to be stopped?

There must be an International peacekeeping force with teeth to rectify these problems so that stability is restored

Dictatorial leaders must be removed and placed before the criminal courts

The International community is far too slow to act, while daily thousands more die while politicians deliberate and do nothing

It is on their heads that the souls of these destroyed people will start to weigh heavily

Mankind must finally do the right and decent thing!

It is now time for Israel to reflect, as the US starts to back away from them

No longer can Israel rely on the US for moral support for Israel’s wrongdoing. Israel’s day is coming

President Obama has given a revealing interview to Israel’s Channel 2 television station. He was able to talk to the Israeli public direct

He stated his support of the Jewish state, but also warned that the status quo between Israel and the Palestinians cannot continue

If there is no progress towards the peace process with Palestine…

…there would be an impact upon how America will approach defending Israel on the International stage

There would be immediate diplomatic consequences too

President Obama said that the US would no longer obstruct any European effort…

…to bring about a resolution to the Palestinian problem through the UN Security Council

Mr Netanyahu’s speech to Congress has pushed the situation too far

He overstepped his rights by criticising the President in his own country

The rift in Congress created by Netanyahu has now opened up a field of criticism of Israel

It has damaged the Israelis quite badly

Netanyahu has caused grave hostility and it leaves the Obama administration and its supporters disappointed

They are frustrated and insulted at a level of contempt, which has been directed at them by Israel

The continued ascendance to the right in Israel, presents a challenge to the American Jewish community

They overwhelmingly vote for the Democratic Party. They do not vote for the hard right Republican Party

As Israel continues its policy in the West Bank, it puts itself at odds with the rest of the world

So much so that America will no longer stand alone with Israel against the world

Israel is already being side-lined and ignored by world Governments and every day is increasing its own isolation

This often happens when arrogance takes hold and one can’t see reason anymore

Israel is in a sense digging their own graves all by themselves

The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has the oldest black congregation in the southern state of South Carolina

This church is a historical landmark, where black churchgoers escape from suffocating conditions from the days of slavery

It is where thousands of faithful members gather to worship today

The Emanuel AME Church in Charleston signifies not just a place of worship but a safe haven

It offers safety from segregation and the discontents of slavery and second class citizenship

This church goes back before the days of the abolition of slavery and is an important landmark to this day

It was in this sacred space during a prayer meeting that nine black members of the congregation were shot down and killed

This was by a lone white gunman

It has been suggested that it was a hate crime, but others believe the motive to be racism

Too many black people have been gunned down violently and this is becoming apparent more and more

The attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is now the new low!

The white man’s attack on the black man’s sacred history has been desecrated. It shows nothing is off limits

Time is long overdue in America dealing with their African America fellow citizens

More than a hundred years have passed and very little has changed

At the rate that America is now changing with Latin Americans coming in all the time together with other minority groups…

…white Americans will soon feel they are in the minority

Until America can start to build legitimate bridges and bring justice to those who have suffered the worst…

…there will continue to be backlashes

America already has had its civil war, does it once again want to divide its country and allow another war to ensue?

America, do the wise thing and start to reconcile these hostilities and bring back order and love to these broken communities

It shows once again that the gun is never the answer to these solutions, only dialogue and the right intentions are!

The UN peacekeeping missions face ‘chronic challenges’, such as too few resources and are often too slow in engaging in crises

A UN panel are conducting their first major review of peacekeeping operations in a decade

It is stated that the UN must form a new quicker response force and that their peacekeepers do not engage in counterterrorism operations

At this time the UN peacekeepers system is creaking under the strain of what it needs to do

There are only 125,000 peacekeepers at this time

When the UN deployed a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, it took five months to get it up and running

Now the panel states that operations must act quicker with responses taking just eight to twelve weeks

The UN peacekeeping missions lack specific equipment, intelligence, logistic capabilities and specialised military preparations

These operations need to be tackled by the host Governments or by a capable regional force

The UN is now considering a small UN vanguard force, which interacts with civilians, military and police capabilities

There have been many requests for a study of peacekeepers

They have repeatedly been floundering on their availability and where costs are incurred

The panel in the UN Security Council should engage earlier to address emergency threats

There should also be a Deputy Secretary General position, which is responsible for peace and security

The UN acknowledges the enduring shame of the organisation’s sexual exploitation and abuses

These still continue in the UN peacekeeping operations

The UN has recommended that victims of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers will be compensated for the harm they have suffered

Information leaked by the media has revealed that UN peacekeeping troops commonly paid for sex with cash, dresses and mobile phones

The information on 480 allegations of sexual exploitations of abuse was made from 2008 to 2013 with one-third involving children

At last Ban Ki-moon has appointed a panel to recommend changes to international peacekeeping in the face of dangerous conflicts

Ban Ki-moon states the world is changing and UN peace operations must change…

…that is if they are to remain an indispensable and effective tool to promote international peace and security

If the world cannot have faith is such an organisation as the UN and their peacekeeping forces then what can it have faith in?

Clearly these peacekeepers have failed in many ways and the lack of resources has not made it any easier

However it is the integrity of these peacekeepers which are in question here

There is no real overseer to do what is right and proper in areas of conflict and unrest

It is right that the peacekeepers needs to be overhauled and it is sadly overdue

There are also so many things that are not right in the UN Security Council

It is always too little too late and the world continues to suffer with the lack of leadership and clout to do anything about it

It is a sad day for the world and for any form of right action

Justice for all must not only be seen to be done, but delivered in the right and proper way

The UN Security Council are not worth the salaries they are given

At last a Pope who is taking the atrocities of the Catholic Church seriously enough to act finally on child abuse

The Vatican is putting a former envoy to the Dominican Republic on trial for child sex abuse and child pornography charges

He is Jozef Wesolowski

Pope Francis has also accepted the resignations of a US archbishop and his deputy

They are accused of ignoring a priest’s child abuse in Minnesota

It was the archdiocese in Minnesota that covered up these sexual abuses of children

The US prosecutors charged the archdiocese with turning a blind eye to repeated reports of a priest molesting boys

The priest was later convicted of his crimes and is serving a five year prison sentence

Jozef Wesolowski is accused of sexually abusing children in the Dominican Republic from 2008 to 2013

He is now under house arrest in the Vatican and his trial begins on 11th July

This move is seen as a crackdown by Pope Francis on clerics and employees of the Church, who have exploited children

Pope Francis has also strengthened the Vatican’s laws against child abuse

Wesolowski’s crimes surfaced after incidents materialised that he had been abusing Dominican boys while being a papal envoy

He was defrocked in June of last year after he was found guilty by a Church tribunal

Wesolowski is the highest-ranking Church official to be defrocked for such abuse

He will now be facing a Vatican criminal court. If found guilty he could face between six and ten years in prison

Pope Francis is two years into his papacy and is making good on his promise

Promptly to follow up on allegations of sexual abuse and cover ups by Church’s bishops

In the past it had taken months and years for any action to take place…

…in spite of repeated whistle-blowers attempts to expose paedophile priests

Now with Pope Francis he is acting within days

The Pope has created a special Vatican tribunal to try bishops accused of covering up sex crimes

It is for the public to consider how effective these measures will be

The sexual abuse scandals have happened over decades

It is time for the victims to get recompense for their many agonies and to allow healing to take place

This abuse cannot be allowed to continue if the Church wants to halt a massive exodus by its congregation on its failings to its public

The continued lies by Israeli military to the world and its people are noticed and are gathering momentum and justice will prevail!

During last year’s Gaza war we saw 2,200 Palestinians die - the vast majority were civilians

The funeral of a 26 year old Israeli soldier killed in the war was held in a military cemetery

This funeral was attended by Lieutenant Colonel Nerya Yeshurun

He was so incensed by the killing of one of his own soldiers that he ordered his troops to fire on a medical clinic in Gaza

This crowded neighbourhood, where the Israeli troops had killed 120 people just days before, was again subjected to brutal force

Yeshurun’s words are military evidence of deliberate war crimes, including targeting a medical facility without military necessity

He took military action in revenge that was clearly prohibited by international law

Five people were killed and dozens were injured by the Israeli attack on this medical centre

It was clear that Yeshurun’s shelling was something the Israeli army wanted the Israeli public to know about

It is the swaggering commander’s admission of a war crime, which did not even get a murmur from the Israeli public or press

On 11th June it was made public that the Military Advocate General had opened a criminal investigation on this incident

It was based on evidence uncovered

The MAG has now announced the closing down of investigations without charges of several prominent criminal investigations

The most notable was the unlawful killing of four little school boys, as they played football on a Gaza beach

It had been openly declared a crime when it occurred and later it was presented to the Israeli people

The idea was to boost a flagging moral in the Israeli army and the nation

Yeshurun trumpeted his eulogy at the funeral as an attack on Palestinians

He was performing for his soldiers and his country

Yeshurun insists this is the right way to behave

He was insisting upon the honour and righteousness of his soldiers and it was the invader’s chief concern

This single episode speaks volumes

It says that the sadistic 50 day assault committed by Israel on Palestinians last summer was intentional and premeditated

This crime was in plain sight of the world’s media

It is being systematically immunised against accountability by their own army’s internal investigations

Israel will delay or prevent any investigation by the International Criminal Courts

For the Israeli soldiers the wanton shelling of Palestinian civilians, their homes and hospitals is something to boast about at home

It is up to the Criminal Courts to now take a stand and to show openly to the world they will not be dictated to by the US and Israel

Have the Courts got the guts to do something positive and constructive?

Will they do what is morally right or will they do what they always do and chicken out?

The world now in complete chaos and where retribution on a number of levels is ever increasing

The Higher Intelligence is now formatting a system of highly successful operatives

They will be able to put in place a package to suit so many countries and Governments

This strategy will be long-lasting and have incredible effects throughout the world

There will be a number of Governments, who will settle old scores to bring in a more decisive approach to not only helping one another…

…but to put together a planned objective to increase wealth and to reduce massive sufferings on so many levels

It will be the brainchild of one man, whose foresight is already established into so many things

He is already established and where from a commanding position he can now alter the state of events

A specialised team of operatives will see that the work is carried out, where corruption and personal interests are not required

This is a humanitarian approach within a legal framework, where relief is given to so many

The structures of policies not before seen will renew Man’s confidence in justice once more

The interests of this group is to renew standards of diplomacy

Here personal gains are not the issues, but overall global satisfactions is

The group will be in a position to adjust strategies, which will allow for lasting relief against violence and discrimination

It will be the blueprint that all Governments around the world must abide by irrespective of colour, creed or religion

This will allow for changes to occur nationwide and to bring relief and satisfaction to an ailing world

Justice is the main theme to be recognised, where all have a direct hand in its delivery and purpose

All have to obey, so that circumstances are able to change from the grass roots up

No longer can Man rely on the discretions of another

These new policies will be signed up as law, so that lasting benefits can be delivered to all

The guiding hand of The Almighty will be seen by all and witnessed by all

This will allow Mankind to rebuild his life and the lives of the generations to come

A lady, who has the calling, will be the initial instigator in helping/formatting of these policies

She has the Higher Calling and will not be denied

Her influence through the power of God sees to all the needs of everybody in this world

The world will come to know her soon enough

They will see that Mankind must learn from his misdemeanours in order to make amends and to then go forwards

All is given with love and the right indoctrination to influence others in now taking up the cause to save Mankind

Mankind must be saved from the very brink of destruction

All will abide by these new rulings

Lasting relief to the masses changes the elements of war and focuses them into peaceful productive schemes

It is high time that Mankind listened and expanded his conscience

He has to follow the true path of righteousness if he wants to be saved

No single person will be excluded

This is a blueprint for right living and where those who choose to fight against it will be dealt with by the Law

These laws are Universal and are accepted by all religions and creeds

They will establish the basis to do what is right and turn Mankind away from the abyss of personal destruction!

The situation in Greece will continue to be dire and many Greek people will feel the pinch as their money or lack of it bites them hard

It is Greece’s political culture and their thoroughly corrupt public institutions, which have hindered their economic growth

The public institutions have blocked the adjustments that all societies need to make in this world in order not to remain static & backward

It was the Greek Government that cheated their way into joining the Euro by giving false accountings

Then the political elite took advantage of cheap borrowing costs and engaged in reckless spending, pushing up debts to unstainable levels

How can anyone lend hundreds of billions of Euros to a country that was already posting the highest debt of GDP levels in all of Europe?

Greece’s political regime is notoriously corrupt, lacks structures and processes of transparency, democratic accountability and openness

It really does not deserve any more bailouts where their system of reform is not worth the paper it is written on

With five years of hardship the Greek people are quite naturally fed up with austerity

They were hoping to secure a debt write off and be addressed as a humanitarian crisis

Greece is now bust

It is time that all of its citizens realised the true costs of their respective corrupt Governments have put them through

The Greek people also have to address their own culture, which tends to be corrupt and underhanded

Until this culture is addressed then going forwards will be extremely difficult and painful for them all

It would be better for all concerned for Europe and Greece that Greece leaves the Eurozone

Even if it means that from rock bottom they will be able to find a way and eventually rebuild their nation

It might be decades, but they will at last be masters of their own fate

Greece will no longer be subjected to paying off enormous loans, where there was no money to do so!

Equally they can no longer expect loans of billions of Euros given from hard working countries, where corruption is not part of the system

Finally they will need to learn that corruption does not pay and they will all have to suffer this fault in their culture

Let’s hope they finally learn from it. They will certainly need to in order to survive
Barrel bombs are the scourge of the Assad regime on the innocent children

Now the Arab world is expressing their solidarity with the child victims of barrel bombs in Syria

Barrel bombs, which are made from oil drums filled with explosives and scraps of metal, are dropped by helicopters

The use of barrel bombs has escalated in recent days in Aleppo

These weapons destroy children and the graphic scenes are continually shown

They have been criticised for causing indiscriminate destruction, despite being banned by a UN resolution

The world now recognises the uselessness of the UN resolutions and its lack of teeth into bringing those responsible to account

It is because of the uselessness of the UN that dictators can act with impunity and nothing changes

There needs to be another organisation, which is law abiding, that will bring those who blatantly commit acts of genocide to account

The International Criminal Court is too slow and too bureaucratic

It is outrageous that so little is ever done when so many are suffering

In Syria 12 million people have been affected by the Assad regime

It needs the Arab world to start to take responsibilities and act for their own fellow man

No longer can they afford to sit on their hands and just watch. Active action needs to take place

Assad will never leave his chair of office

Assad will fight to the bitter end regardless of how many Syrians are left standing

Syria will be left as a barren wilderness until somebody is prepared to rise up and take action

The many humanitarian operatives risk their lives every day to bring in food and water to the starving Syrians

If these volunteers did not care, more Syrians would die each day

The political dialogue has been exhausted. Action with the right intention is the only hope for the Syrian people

The Arabic hashtag, which translates as “We are the child, you are the barrel”, opposes the Assad regime

This man does not care for his people or his destruction on his children

There needs to be a united Arab contingent to operate in saving Syria from total destruction!

As more historical abuse victims finally come out of their closet of fear, they can begin to express the horrors they were subjected to

This important work needs to continue

Boys, who were placed in boarding schools, are now having their complaints investigated by two police forces

These police forces are taking their cases very seriously indeed

The abuses took place in privately run schools in the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire area

Pupils stated they were subjected to horrific abuse during the 1970s and 1980s

Staff working there at the time categorically deny any involvement, as is so often the case until they are found guilty

Then they bleat like lambs

Some of the boys were sexually abused, while others were beaten violently

The owner of these schools, a Mr Anthony Hurley, oversaw the regime of terror and beatings

Hurley died in 2003.  He had already been in court in 2000 on allegations of cruelty and sexual abuse on children

At that time Hurley was deemed unfit to stand trial

Hurley would force food down through pupil’s mouths, saying “I’m not paying for this food and you are not eating it”

The head teacher at the time, a John Derek Williams and his deputy Ashley Pritchard, are accused of carrying out violent assaults on pupils

One pupil was caned repeatedly and his face smashed into a bowl continuously after he refused to eat his meal

The pupils have stated that the teachers terrorised them and that, when Williams just stood next to them, they would wet themselves

The mental and emotional abuse was rife to the extremes and pupils were told they were unacceptable in society

The schools at the time were privately owned and therefore not regulated by the Council

It was only when the Council became aware of allegations involving staff in the 1970s that the Council stopped using these schools

In spite of that, nothing was done by the Council to bring about any safeguards for these vulnerable boys

It is right and proper that historical and present day abuses are brought to the surface

This culture of warped-minded butchers of children must be ended

The public has to be more educated and to realise that children are vulnerable, as these sick-minded predators will not go away

It is the job of every individual to shine a spotlight on these evil practices and bring the culprits to justice

Children can feel that in some small way they are vindicated

There has been too much abuse of children and many have ignored their pleas/cries for help

This now has to be addressed on a massive scale

All children need to be taken seriously and with compassion and understanding

It is now that the tide is turning and that the perpetrators of these crimes against the vulnerable are named and shamed

Society will no longer put up with these abusers and the law will show it is doing its job by ripping out this abuse by root and branch

Understand that these souls suffer a lifetime of emotional pain and suffering

They are perpetually in their own hell. They need to be given love and therapy to alleviate their sufferings once and for all

This is where Psychotherapy can rectify the symptoms from the past by getting to the root cause and dealing with it to save these souls

We all know they deserve it!

The shameful omission by Ban Ki-moon on Israel’s name being left off the List of Shame

This List of Shame is of states and armed groups that violate children’s rights during conflicts

Ban Ki-moon has crumbled under pressure from the US and Israel and should be ashamed of himself

As he cannot do the job properly he should leave

He needs to allow others, who hold moral principles to their hearts, to do the job instead

While Ban Ki-moon continues to submit to US and Israel pressure it shows he is not fit for purpose and should go!

In the 2014 war in Gaza, there was unprecedented and unacceptable scale of impact on Palestinian children by Israeli forces

Israel has no compunction in its ethnic cleansing of Gaza and all Palestinians

Their determination continues to obliterate this race while the world looks on and does nothing

What is the point of having a UN to service the people of this world against injustice when they openly do nothing?

The UN inquiry showed Israeli military were responsible for seven attacks on UN schools

This was in spite of precise GPS coordinates being given many times

It is known that many Israeli soldiers no longer have the stomach for these atrocities

Many of them have openly admitted their instructions were to destroy these people leaving no one alive

Israeli soldiers are made fully aware that Palestinians are of no count and should be obliterated from the face of the earth

How can any UN Security Council faced with this objective by Israel, continue to sit back and do nothing?

Where are the UN’s moral values?  Where are the rights of innocent children?

When will the world act against the continuous oppression by Israel on Palestinians?

Last year’s 50 day conflict saw 495 children killed and 3,100 injured with 1,000 having a permanent disability

Almost 1,500 children were orphaned. All are suffering deep psychological traumas and again nothing is done!

Israel continues to hold the power throughout this world, as no one has the might or influence to stand up to them!

Israel is the occupying power and every day they continue their hostile regime

They control the borders, the airspace and territorial waters as well as all activities of goods and people

How can the international community continue to sit on their hands and do nothing?

Where is international law when Israel systematically oppresses Palestinians and their children with all impunity?

The US, who is controlled by Israel, exercised their veto power 41 times in the UN Security Council

The US is voting against resolutions to hold Israel to account for their crimes

The UN will continue to be a laughing stock by all those who hold justice in their hearts

It is crystal clear that the UN does not!

The McLaren Formula 1 racing team needs to improve everywhere!

Their engine partners in Honda once again failed with their engines

Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button are now on their fourth and final engines

Jenson Button’s problems with his car are so severe that he failed to qualify

Alonso only managed to finish in 14th place in the Canadian Grand Prix

Alonso’s car had a fault inside his engine necessitating a change

Button’s car was found to have damage inside the system and needed another replacement

McLaren’s chairman Ron Dennis needs to think very carefully about these Honda engines

They continually fail their experienced and exciting drivers

They need to return to a reliable engine and so become a winning formula again

This is deserved by the team, the drivers and especially their fans

Continuous breakdowns are no longer acceptable and they need to realise that Honda is not up to the job, which is very evidential

Ron Dennis, do the right thing and go back to Mercedes engines and get the formula back on the track and not continually in the garage

Tony Blair’s resignation from his job as Middle East Peace Envoy is not surprising

Is it coincidental that a new UK documentary film puts Blair and George W Bush at the centre of this century’s Middle East disasters?

The film ‘We Are Many’, now released in the UK, was made by Amir Amirani and tells the story of how we went to war in Iraq

At that time there were the biggest international anti-war demonstrations ever seen throughout the world

On 15th February 2003, millions of people around 60 countries and over 800 cities marched in a coordinated effort

They marched to stop the impending war in Iraq

It was the biggest demonstration ever seen in London with 1.5 million people

In Madrid there were 1.5 million and in Rome there were 3 million people who demonstrated

Despite these demonstrations, the US and UK and their allies invaded Iraq in March 2003

Hans Blix, head of weapons inspections mission in Iraq, still needed three weeks before could finish his job

Hans Blix’s findings confirmed that Saddam Hussein was not hiding any weapons of mass destruction

Bush and Blair did not want Blix to finish his job and they certainly did not care about massive democratic peace protests

They wanted to wage war on Iraq in order to control oil reserves at any cost!

The cost of this war was huge. 4,491 American service men were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2014

The number of Iraqis killed ranges from 150,000 to over a million

This war has destroyed a state, its political, military, social and economic institutions

It has also decimated a society with ethnic and religious groups. Some of them are sectarian and may become wiped out completely

This film, ‘We Are Many’, reveals 25% of Iraqi children live with chronic malnutrition

Amir Amirani, the film maker, took nine years to make this film. For him it was a labour of love

He started out ‘wanting to tell the story’, but quickly found ‘he needed to tell it.’

The film, now released, has come along to remind us through interviews of an impressive array of politicians…

…together with international lawyers, anti-war activists, journalists and former high profile figures

All tell the story of Bush and Blair’s great lie

The film shows many testimonies from those directly involved in policy

They include Hans Blix and various politicians as well as Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

Colin Powell, who was Chief of Staff at the time, states he would gladly sacrifice his freedom…

…if the administration he worked for could be punished for what they did!

With the biggest anti-war movement in the world, it shows that International Law remains feeble and with no real teeth

Tony Blair still roams the world freely

He is earning millions from public speaking and advising Governments and now this week posing as a peace envoy

Tony Blair together with George W Bush has no conscience

But with all things in life and when they least expect it, the Higher Intelligence that sees all and knows all will deal with these souls

It will not be in the way they would expect it

They have blood on their hands and no amount of washing can ever remove it

More than 3.5 million lives a year could be saved if the G20 cracked down on corrupt businesses practices

Money laundering and tax evasion costs the world’s poorest countries at least a trillion dollars each year

The advocacy group ‘ONE’ has been campaigning to fight poverty, disease and hunger

All of which are being damaged by a ‘web’ of corrupt activity

It is this corrupt web of activity that siphons hundreds of billions of dollars from economies every year

The ONE report says that money is being stealthily drained off through anonymous shell companies and shady deals

It is in these developing countries that corruption is a killer

Up to 3.6 million lives could be saved if we end the web of secrecy that helps the criminal and the corrupt

It is when Governments are deprived of their own resources

They are unable to invest in their essentials, like nurses and teachers, where the cost is devastating

ONE estimates that these practices result in between $972bn and $2.02tn going out of these developing countries every year

At least $20tn is held in off shore tax havens and this money could yield tax revenues of $19.5bn a year for their own countries

It is not only the scandal to save 3.6 million lives a year in low-income countries, but it would prevent 4.3 million deaths a year

In the sub-Saharan Africa alone the money recovered would pay to educate 10 million children a year

It would cover the costs of 500,000 primary school teachers

In addition the retrieved money would provide antiretroviral drugs for more than 11 million people

Those that have HIV and Aids would benefit by 165m vaccines

ONE’s report is being launched in the run-up to the G20 summit in Brisbane in November

There must be a light shone on these anonymous shell companies

Their information must be made public to identify corrupt and criminal individuals and businesses

The G20 needs to introduce tough payment laws to increase transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries and crack down on tax evasion

It is the only way to hold Governments to account. It is the use of these shell companies where the corruption lies

A case, where a licensing payment was paid by Nigerian subsidiaries of Shell and Italy’s ENI was made in 2011

This was to develop lucrative offshore oil drilling

That money ended up in a bank account of a private firm owned by Nigeria’s former oil minister

The British-Dutch company insisted it had paid the Nigerian Government, not a private firm

They added that they have acted lawfully at all times

Another report of tax evasion was against the mining firm in Zambia that is controlled by the Swiss trader Glencore Xstrata

They have always denied the allegations

For too long now the G20 countries have turned a blind eye to these massive outflows from developing countries

Here funds have been channelled into offshore bank accounts and secret companies

It is down to the G20 to make drastic changes and to save millions of lives

If they have any moral conscience at all they will finally do this act and swiftly!

Cultural genocide, a practice which occurred in Canada where the indigenous children were separated from their parents

This occurred in residential schools, a system is now in place to bring in reconciliation to the survivors

In 1966, five year old Joseph Maud was separated from his family

He was sent to live at the Canadian residential school for indigenous students in Pine Creek, Manitoba

Maud did not speak English or French, only his native language of Ojibwa

When the students spoke their own language their ears were pulled and their mouths were washed out with soap

The greatest hurt to these children was being separated from their parents

When the lonely little boy would wet his bed the nun in charge of his dormitory would rub his face in his own urine. That was so degrading

Maud remembers kneeling painfully on the cement chapel floor, because the nuns had told him it was the only way that God hears you

Maud cried, “When is this going to end?”

The Government of Canada released a report on their residential schools with testimonies from 7,000 witnesses

It was called the ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (TRC)

From 1840 to 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were taken from their families and placed in these schools

The idea was to ‘kill the Indian in the child’

TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair said that more than 6,000 children died at these schools

Many more suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse

It is the survivors of St Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ontario, who are suing the Government

They want them to release the unredacted documentation

The documentation proves staff used an electric chair to shock students as young as six and forced sick students to eat their own vomit

The TRC report concludes that the Government-led policy amounted to cultural genocide

These inhumane policies were to eliminate Aboriginal people as distinct peoples

It was to incorporate them into Canadian mainstream against their will

The will of the Canadian Government was to remove themselves of any legal or financial obligations to the Aboriginal people

It also wanted to gain control over their land and resources

The Canadian Prime Minister apologised to the survivors in 2008, but it is the report that states urgent reconciliations needs to run deep

Canada now needs to move from apology and into action

The TRC report made 94 recommendations about the way we talk to and about each other

There needs to be an Aboriginal Languages Act to preserve and promote these languages

There needs to be a memorial museum launched by Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017

It is high time that we removed ignorance and begin to recognise people from all parts of this world and even in our own country

All have a right to live and to be respected for who they are

The Aboriginal people enrich our lives and our history

We must never take them for granted, because we are all a part of this world together

The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) leader is gaining support with voters opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Selahattin Demiras is a confident and charismatic 42 year old lawyer

He is transforming the People’s Democratic Party from a dedicated Kurdish faction into a mainstream liberal party

Its rise shows the growing influence of the Kurds not only in Turkey but across the region including Syria and Iraq

It is the self-governing Kurdish communities, which are rare islands of stability

Should the HDP party receive the valued 10% of the vote, it needs to get representation in the Turkish Parliament

It would be enough to deny Mr Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted Justice Development Party or AKP a supermajority

The HDP’s performance on June 7th could affect the balance of power in the precarious peace process

This is between the Government and the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party or PKK

It is their aim to end a three-decade insurgency that has cost them some 40,000 lives

The HDP’s campaign has shifted its focus on promoting democracy, free speech and the rights of women and minorities

The HDP is increasingly appealing to the young, secular Turks weary of Mr Erdogan’s dominance

This will be a high stakes election – it all hinges on the HDP

The AKP have been dominant for more than a decade and they are now vulnerable, largely because they are a single party

The AKP have won nine back-to-back elections and other votes since 2002

Mr Erdogan wants more power. He hopes to change his Presidency from a ceremonial role to and executive one

When Mr Demiras’s party hits the threshold of 10% to enter Parliament, it will get the 50 out of the 550 seats

This would be enough to stop the AKP from getting three-fifths supermajority to overhaul the construction to beef up the President’s role

Relationships with the 15 million Kurds and the Government have improved

However the Kurdish region is still poor and many feel disenfranchised

Selahattin Demiras has worked as a human rights lawyer in Turkey’s de facto Kurdish capital Diyarbakir before entering politics

Mr Demiras has seen first-hand the many killings of the Kurdish people

Many of his friends were killed in clashes and in the prisons

Selahattin Demiras states the youths joined militants, because their conditions were dire. These conditions have not changed

Mr Demiras wants to turn to the youths to encourage them into politics instead

One must not forget the Gezi Park protests last summer

This demonstrated the extent of dissatisfaction with the ruling AKP party and especially Mr Erdogan

Those street protests high-lighted the lack of a viable political alternative to the AKP party

The Turkish people themselves are crying out for modernisation and freedom of speech

Instead they get more gripping control by their Government, again by Mr Erdogan

It is time that the Turkish people voiced their opinion in the ballot box and asked for reform and not more control over them!

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