The London Zoological Society
says its new Living Planet Index shows species have been halved in just forty
years
These results are extremely
alarming over what was first reported two years ago
Populations of mammals,
birds, reptiles and fish have declined by 52%
This is a staggering
amount. Freshwater species have suffered
an even worse fall of 76%
The Living Planet Index
tracks more than 10,000 vertebrate species and population from 1970-2010
The Zoological Society have
improved their methodology since their last report two years ago – this is why
these results are so alarming
WWF says humans are cutting
down trees more quickly than they can re-grow
They are harvesting more fish
from the oceans than can be re-stocked
We continue to pump water
from rivers and aquifers faster than rainfall can replenish them
Mankind continues to emit
more carbon in the oceans and the forests than they can absorb
In short Mankind is killing
mother earth of all its resources without a care in the world
Lion populations have
decreased by 90%
Forest felling has restricted
elephants in their historic ranges – not to mention the amount of elephants
killed daily just for their ivory
Nepal tigers, which numbered
100,000, are now just 3,000 and declining
The biggest threat to
biodiversity is by uncontrolled and unsustainable human consumption
Mankind’s incontrollable
greed over wildlife and natural resources will see nothing left of this planet,
while Man’s greed goes unchecked
While Governments continue to
ignore the plight of destruction to our planet, there will be nothing left
This will enforce a decline
in Mankind’s population
At the rate we are going we
will not have the resources to feed and maintain our lifestyles
As these resources become greatly
reduced and where pollution continues to poison our planet, then Mankind will
ultimately die
We will not be able to
sustain our needs
As there is natural culling
to help various species to survive, where other species are more dominate and
can cause extinction of the other…
…so Mankind will die off
naturally, due to starvation and the absence of basic natural resources to keep
him alive
We will in effect be killing
ourselves off in ever greater numbers than even warfare can manage
We will be starving ourselves
out of existence
All the IT and financial
institutions will be redundant
It will be the farmers of
this planet, who will make the difference of life over death
When one is starving what
good is millions in the bank, where there is no food or water to live off
Food and fresh water will be
the currency of life, not money!
The world population is ever
increasing with Mankind taking no responsibility to curb his desires
The resources to keep one
American child alive – those same resources will keep eight children alive in
Africa
We all must now look to our
own responsibilities and to start to see what we really need and can we make
do?
Do we really need to change
our cars every three years?
Do we really need to have a
hundred pairs of shoes and clothes?
Do we really need to change
our mobile phones every year?
Or are we of that mentality, “Yes we can?”
Therefore we will have these
items regardless of the impact and drain on the environment
Understanding of our planets
needs to maintain a healthy life on this earth, needs to be addressed before it
is too late
We cannot keep taking
habitats away from our animals and polluting our atmosphere so that poisons
enter our oceans and forests
Be mindful that the
Zoological Report is a deeply worrying concern and cannot be taken lightly!
We all need to act
The people must speak in
order for Governments to address important serious issues if we are to survive
at all!
The tragic reminder of all
those firefighters who went in to help victims of the 9/11 disaster are still
paying with their lives today
Three firefighters who were
on duty at Ground Zero on that fateful day have died within hours of each
other. They all died of cancer
The thirteen years that have
gone by still see firefighters paying with their lives after their heroic
efforts to save those on that day
It is now known that 1,000
deaths have been linked to the toxic dust, which was breathed in from the twin
towers
New York’s Fire Department
had lost 343 firefighters on that dreadful day
Since then they have lost a
further 89, who have died as a result of illness to their lungs and bodies
Although compensation has
been set aside for these illnesses, there needs to be more done!
It is understandable that the
emergency services almost volunteer their lives on a daily basis to keep us
safe
They never know how dangerous
a situation they may encounter when the call comes in
These brave men and women,
who engage in our emergency services, are the true heroes of the day and our admiration
goes out to them
Whatever their salaries, it
can never be enough as they put their lives on the line for us every day
Their courage and bravery is
outstanding
These tragic illnesses that
the fire department and the public of New York are still battling with daily
with no relief in sight
Building materials, that are
used which are toxic, need to be better scrutinised should another tragedy
occur
Asbestos used in roofing
materials has been especially toxic
Many different forms of
cancer have been diagnosed due to asbestos inhalation
The dust that falls as the
asbestos begins to deteriorate, causes many forms of illnesses, cancer to the
lungs and other organs of the body
Schools especially are
vulnerable, where asbestos roofs have affected the children’s breathing and is
known to be carcinogenic
We all have a responsibility
to society and its welfare and a need for non-toxic substances should be
examined more thoroughly
Our hearts and prayers go out
to all those who have lost loved ones and for those who continue to suffer due
to the 9/11 disaster
India can applaud finally the
conviction of Tamil Nadu’s chief minister after 18 years of evading justice
There has to be a clean-up of
India with politics and corruption, which far outweighs all situations in India
The politician has been
sentenced to four years imprisonment on corruption charges
Jayaram Jayalalitha has been
found guilty of amassing wealth of more than £6.1m, which was unaccounted for
Indians cannot even defecate
because of no toilets and where politicians practically steal funds for their
own purposes
The law really needs to throw
the book at these criminals
These criminal politicians,
whose corrupt ways are squeezing the life out of their own country men, have no
conscience
Greed is at the very heart of
their cause, the Indian people are but a means to their ends
It is high time the Indian
judiciary continued to name and shame and bring down corruption in their
Government officials
When will the people see
justice for all and where is there a level playing field?
The situation with the new
Iraqi Government is not great!
There are too many obstacles
still left undone
The motion to go forward
continues to be disrupted and the consensus is not forth coming in so many ways
Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi has not fully got the measure of the problems
He knows he has to fight IS,
but is still unable to make strides on the domestic issues, which are mounting
up all the time
His level of diplomacy and
tact are not really there, as he circumnavigates a minefield of problems and
adversities
Until he can start to deliver
on various points of reform, the status
quo of limbo remains the same
His allies, on whom he is
relying to deliver, will only do so once certain diplomatic issues are in place
Stalling for time, as he has
been doing, is not favourable to those who feel aggrieved and hard done by
His philosophy of hoping all
will go away and get sorted out by other people will not happen
The US is watching his
performance with a keen eye. What they have seen so far does not come up to the
mark
Another incompetent
politician, who cannot negotiate himself out of a pint pot!
Until there are more robust
strategies on the table to meet the Iraqi people’s demands for equality and
performance…
…the slow plod of going
nowhere remains
This only fuels more
resentment and allows for IS to seek more territory under a flagging regime
There needs to be strong
political advisors, who can make a substantial difference to guide Prime Minister
Haider al-Abadi
He cannot alone get through
the minefield of problems, which he sees himself in
At this time he is not
equipped to make these decisions
It will be up to the US once
again to sort matters out, if they want a united front for all of Iraq and a
working force against IS
Pope Francis continues to be
put under pressure from humanitarian rights movements
He is finally beginning to
show action against atrocities done by the Church on sexually abused young
parishioners
The latest sacking is of a
Paraguayan bishop accused of protecting a priest, who was involved in sexual
abuse on young people
It is the second time this
week that Pope Francis has taken disciplinary action over clerical sex abuse
scandals
Pope Francis has promised “zero
tolerance” as part of his ministry. He has a long way to go!
The bishop has been at the
centre of a local dispute over the promotion of a priest accused of
inappropriate sexual behaviour
This has been the culture for
decades, promote the perpetrators and move them on to continue their practice
of abuse
Pope Francis has insisted
that there be no privileges for bishops when it comes to sex crimes against
children, hence his dismissal
Church prosecutors have dealt
with some 3,500 abuse cases worldwide during the past decade. This is but the
tip of the iceberg
The Higher Intelligence
continues to watch over us
This Intelligence begins to
instruct those who can be swayed to take a proactive course to bring justice to
all those abused victims
Peace and healing must be at
the very heart of saving those who have been so wilfully damaged
They have been damaged by
those who were in a position of power and trust
As the Ebola outbreak appears
to be contained, new outbreaks will follow and the disease will continue on its
path of destruction
There needs to be more
hospitals on an International basis in Africa
The proper staff and
medication are needed in a greater capacity to deal with such diseases
throughout this continent
Wars need to be abated and stability
needs to come to several regions throughout this troubled land
Hospitals must be protected,
but equally provide assistance to a much larger area
Africa needs to wake up to
its own responsibilities and cannot always expect the richer countries to come
to its aid
Until corruption in many
parts of the continent is brought to a halt, the people are continuously left
vulnerable and helpless
It is time for African
leaders to work in partnership for the Greater Good
A certain amount of an
individual country’s finance should be used to obtain hospitals and widespread
health assistance
Ebola and Aids will continue
to spread and more must be done to alleviate suffering and the spread of these
diseases, which won’t go away
Education on the ground and in
schools needs to be more active to reduce the state of potential infection
Ebola can become a world
problem. Its spread knows no limits and so needs to be taken seriously
The wakeup call for Africa
has already been given in the past and virtually ignored
On humanitarian grounds and,
what is now right for all countries of Africa, that wakeup call is more serious
The World Health Organisation
cannot manage alone
Help and responsibility must
be taken by all countries, as disease affects us all and is now more prevalent
than ever before
As IS make new advances in
other areas of Syria and Iraq…
…it is bringing its forces
together to disperse other areas of opposition against them
Its new plans of action are
dependent on what the onslaught of US/Arab factions against them incurs
Its main theme is to bring
about swift decisive divisions within the US/Arab onslaught
IS has the upper hand at this
time, as its control over many regions of territory increases and not
decreases!
The US/Arab onslaught, although
effective in some areas, leaves them exposed in others and there is no back up
for them at this time
IS military action is well
coordinated to bring down what they feel is injustice against their fellow
Arabs, whom it is fighting for
It will win the guerrilla
warfare, as air supremacy by US/Arab forces is unable to penetrate the heart of
where IS is and this it knows!
IS has various false dugouts
It uses them momentarily and
leaves again giving false readings for US/Arab air forces to strike when there
is no one in them
So the cat and mouse game
continues. What seems effective by US/Arab teams is in fact non-effective, but
they can’t always know that!
The onslaught on IS will take
an unexpected turn, where IS rebels will be able to infiltrate areas not known
to the allied assault…
…thereby insuring a defect
for the allies until a more construction method to annihilate them becomes
possible
Don’t believe the propaganda
that comes from the US and Arab states
IS are playing for time in
their guerrilla warfare and so expect many casualties on their side
As they have no fear of dying
anyway and they trust in a Higher Power to save them…
…they become an invincible
force, where fear is not part of their vocabulary
The object by IS is to create
fear, destruction and isolation of their enemies
The fact that the Arabs are
now joined at the hip to US airstrikes makes IS’s criteria even stronger in
their eyes
They oppose an enemy, which
is not of their mind-set
IS will try to force a
divide, so they are fighting simultaneously on two flanks causing confusion
Allied forces will need to be
careful not to attack each other
The cat and mouse game of
weaving and ducking will become effective on IS’s side
They wish always to reduce
the power force on them by their opponents
Thus rendering the opposition
forces inoperable with many more misses than hits
For IS to be defeated means a
collapse in their strategy to occur,
A massive wave of force by
the allied opposition to go in as a tidal wave and systematically take them out
The tidal wave force needs to
be a broad one, as IS will double back to do a rear action assault
Something they have already
practised and they are very good at it
So there needs to be a
constant broad sweeping wave of attack followed on behind with another
IS’s leader has seen
strategic warfare before and is well adversed in dealing with most plans of
warfare
They are capable of
contingency plans, as they have their forces positioned all over the place
Defeating IS, as we have said
before, is not by military action, but by steady demolishing their ideology
This tyrannical group is a
challenge to the entire world.
With the right plan of action
they can be defeated!
Angelina Jolie has signed up
to direct “Africa”
A film about a celebrated
conservationist called Richard Leakey. He has personally battled with ivory
poachers
Richard Leakey is a former
head of the Kenyan Wildlife Service and was key to stemming the trade in
illegal ivory
Leaky had to take extreme
measures to tackle poachers, which included sending helicopter gunships to the
National Park
This helped to secure Kenya’s
elephant and rhino population from the brink of disaster
Unfortunately this trade
still continues, so the battle is always ongoing
Angelina Jolie has a deep
connection with Africa and it is where she chose to give birth to one of her
beautiful children
Africa with its culture and
protection are very much a part of her life
Miss Jolie is an extremely
sensitive and caring person
She will be able to add her
special gifts in directing what will become a masterpiece of filming
This film will be cherished
by all ages around the world and will send out a very clear message that these
animals are worth saving!
Tragedy has occurred with
some 66,000 refugees, mainly Syrian Kurds, who have had to cross over to Turkey
for safety
They have been fleeing the
onslaught of IS militants over the last 24 hours as IS advance onto northern
Syria
Until the ideology of IS is
undermined, nothing will stop them
They have to be shown that
their actions will only destroy them in the Afterlife
Everything that they do is
against the teachings of what their Prophet Mohammed said and is contrary to
the laws of God himself
The eroding of their ideology
has to commence now!
It is simply no good that
other Arab states condemn their actions, as this only puts their backs up even
more
For they will see it that
those Arabs states will want power over them and therefore make them more
violent
What is required here is what
the Islamic instruction by the Prophet Mohammed stated in God’s name
This is that their behaviour
will only lead to their own destruction both in this world and the next
Either way there is no
salvation or gains for their heinous crimes
The punishment for them by
the Higher Power will be forthcoming, rendering them inoperable
They will see all their gains
gradually diminish
God sees their actions
against humanity as a direct sin against him and his vengeance will be swift
and everlasting
To go blatantly against the
Higher Authority will bring further shame on their families and offspring for
generations to come
By IS’s own hand they will
destroy themselves and others attached to them in the face of God!
This message needs to be sent
out now!
There is the tragedy of six
Iranians, who were arrested for appearing in a video dancing to Pharrell
Williams’ song ‘Happy’
The Iranians had been
sentenced to one year in prison and ninety-one lashes
The sentence having been
suspended for three years, means they will not go to prison unless they
re-offend
The video shows three men and
three unveiled women dancing on the streets and the rooftops of Tehran
In six weeks it has been
viewed by one million people on YouTube
One has to ask oneself what
kind of a society wants to suppress happiness in their people
This kind of attitude breeds
a public who are morose and cut off from what God intended, which is that
happiness and joy is a part of life
This is what God had said to
his prophet Jesus Christ. It is not a sin to be happy and to express it
The tragedy here is that the
state seeks to think otherwise and better over a Higher Intelligence over them!
The NO vote has won, which is
what we advised would be the very best course of action for Scotland
The hearts and minds of the
Scottish people will be honoured by new enforced legislation, which will be
both a comfort and a security
The Scottish people can feel
proud about this
The vote to remain in the UK
is a vote for reason and common sense
The UK consists of the whole
working together in partnership with everything now going for it
The united element will give
the people a stronger say in European matters, which are flagging in its
control of output resources
There needs to be a major
overhaul of European matters
The control from Brussels has
become overinflated and ineffective in so many ways
With Scotland now united in
the UK, the force for change far out paces anything that has been done in a
long time
See speedy solutions being
met and managed
This knock on effect will
assist Wales, Northern Ireland and Britain in so many ways
The almost top heavy aspect
of powers in Government will become more centralised, allowing greater autonomy
to the rest of the UK
It is high time that
responsibility is handed down to local governments
There will need to be greater
accountability for all the people to see
No longer can the people be
allowed to sleepwalk through life
They need to learn to act, if
they wish a better life for those in local communities
The revolution is here to
stay bringing in a greater balance of power
As this begins to manifest
and the people can see the benefits in their local communities, so a more
effective consensus can come in
The people will then feel
they have a greater say and control in how they want things to happen
This will bring back more
stability, as everyone will need to participate and will be expected to for the
Greater Good
No longer will it be a select
few who hold the power, but that everyone will now have a say & where a
united contented front is established
Too many UK people have felt
left out in the cold, even abandoned in some cases
Where their position has gone
unheard as if nobody cares
This now will have to change
and where the people by governing will be included and not excluded
Parliament in London will
become more democratic, representing the people and not what the respective
parties wants anymore
Scotland will thrive after
this. The battle has not been lost. It has just shifted to a better way to
govern
In time the UK will challenge
and win against Europe, where the need to reform is ever increasing
The power of the people will
be heard!
A physicist, a graphic
memoirist and an organiser of homecare workers are among this year’s
recipients…
…of the MacArthur
Foundation’s Genius grants
Each of the 21 recipients of
the MacArthur Foundation receives £383,000 over five years to use in the way
that they wish
It is impossible to apply for
the grant and the recipients do not know they are being considered
Many of this year’s winners
work on issues facing minorities and underserved groups
The idea of the grant is to
speak to people’s sense that this kind of work needs to be done
Some of the recipients are in
psychologist researches racial stereotypes and crime
Others work with getting
legal rights for Native American women in sexual assault cases
Another is a filmmaker, whose
work has covered the states use of violence
A lawyer, who works to
improved legal representation for the indigent
Grants were also awarded to a
playwright, two poets and a physicist working on brain connectivity
All this goes to prove that
people, who engage in projects with the sole intention of helping others…
…who are unable to help
themselves, is certainly worthwhile
It is high time that these
kinds of people were rewarded, but as is often the case they are the unsung
heroes
They always do their best to
serve humanity, but no one recognises them
Now that is changing and we
hope it will encourage more people to do good works, not for the money, but
because it is the right thing to do
As Russia braces itself
against further sanctions, it will be the people who will feel the pinch first
Inflation has already
increased, as the weakened rouble increased the cost of foreign imports
Putin has enforced a ban on
foreign food produce from Europe
This again will affect the
Russian people, as they have very much enjoyed the free market available to
them
The Russian Central Bank has
to take action to boost liquidity in their banking sector
This will allow their banks
to overcome the limited access they have to foreign capital due to these
sanctions
Other aspects have already
affected the value of the rouble
This includes the fall in the
price of oil and their related products, which still account for nearly half of
all exports
This means lower prices
translate into lower export revenues, which again puts pressure on the currency
Sanctions will have a great
material impact on the Russian economy and this is where Putin has already over
stepped the mark
Until Putin removes his
brutal control over Ukraine he will see the economic situation begin to squeeze
hard
It will be the Russian people
who will cry out in outrage
The banks and Putin will need
to listen, in spite of his ego being so large he will personally rebel against
it
EU-Russian arms deals have
also been banned. The squeeze is on!
Mankind must realise we are
all joined together in trade
One cannot be so arrogant as
to think they alone can dictate policy over another and simply get away with it
The Civil War in Central
African Republic (CAR) between Seleka rebels coalition forces and the
Government began in December 2012
This war had shown no signs
of abating. Now the UN is formally taking over in the way of peacekeeping
operations in CAR
Some 25% of the population
have already fled their homes
The new peacekeeping force
will largely comprise of 6,000 African troops, who are already there
Some 2,000 French troops will
not be a part of the UN force, but will have other duties to perform
CAR has been in turmoil since
the rebel Muslim group seized power in this majority Christian country
The rebel leader was forced
to resign under intense diplomatic pressure, but the killings continued
More than 5,000 people have
already been killed this year alone
Muslims have fled revenge
attacks, with the country now being largely split into a Muslim North and a
Christian South
The African Union troops will
don blue UN peacekeeping helmets
The point of this mission is
to protect the population, back the political process and restore the authority
of the state
The UN Security Council has
authorised a force of some 12,000, but many more troops are still needed on the
ground
They must effectively protect
the people and restore justice and faith in a Government to control the country
The protection mandate is the
main priority, so that informed solutions can be presented to the Government
& begin a secure working strategy
This way all the people gain
and not just a few
Confidence to the CAR people,
from all sides of the religious divide, is necessary
An established political
framework, which has not properly been in existence, will become operational
The overseeing UN Protection
Plan will allow for a stabilising of the entire country
This will allow for people
again to feel safe and can go about their business
Any rogue elements will be
dealt with severely
The process is too valuable
to allow for upstarts to violate this necessary peaceful mandate
All the people in CAR must
co-operate with the eventual ruling of Government, so that solutions on the
ground can bring in a stable future
Only then can the displaced
people return to their homes and rebuild their lives again
All will be working on a
united front to enable this stability to occur with contingency safeguards
already in place
CAR, as with other countries
around the world who are experiencing wars, do deserve peace and security at
long last
It is only the arms dealers
who gain in war. All else is destroyed for all time
You cannot rebuild on so much
suffering, healing will take a very long time indeed
The situation in the Ukraine
is on the brink of collapse
There are too many
infiltrating forces not only in the eastern section of Ukraine, but overall as
well
There needs to be a more
orchestrated and consolidated approach to dealing with the multi-faceted aspect
of the pro-Russian separatists
The separatists have access
to intelligence supplied by Russia, which allows for them to entrench in guerrilla
warfare
It is now up to Kiev to bring
about a settlement, which could mean annexing off part of the Ukraine in order
to save the rest
Putin wants Ukraine back as
he sees it
It will be a slow death for
Ukraine, a sucking out of its life blood
This Putin is prepared to do
to get what he wants, which is his mission of a greater Russia
Putin’s mission is a dream of
his that he has been after for a long time
President Poroshenko needs to
summon up a deal, which segregates the Ukraine
Otherwise he will see the
slow, but methodical removal, piece by piece of Ukraine
Russia has all the time and
Putin will act as a constant thorn in the side of this country
There will be no peace!
A wall, the likes of what
happened in Germany/Berlin, might be the only way the rest of the Ukraine can
feel safe
Then by becoming a part to
the European Union, it comes into a broader aspect of controlled protection for
all its people
Out of the EU it becomes too
vulnerable and exposed to the Putin reforms of liberty-taking with land he
feels he already owns
Regrettably the people of
Eastern Ukraine have not made their feelings clear enough, so the
pro-separatists have gained the initiative
It is the people themselves,
who see themselves as more Russian than European
Sadly for their naivety is
that Russia controls!
Europe is democratic and
lenient, where travel across states is taken for granted
In Russia there are
controlled areas, travel is closely scrutinised
The Eastern Ukrainian people
have enjoyed the liberty of being free
Now that is to end and they
will experience what it is like to be under the Russian thumb again
A cold but hard realisation
no one wants, but the Eastern Ukrainian people are complicit in their own
downfall!
The only way to defeat IS, is
not by guns and air missiles, which is exactly what they want to happen
It only adds credence to
their anger and feeling of what they are doing is right in their eyes
They want to fight their
enemy with guns and slaughter; that appeals to their thinking and to the cause
that they are fighting for
How to beat them hands down
is to wipe away and literally destroy their ideology
To be done in such a way,
that their every advancing step that they take will only bring them closer to
their own destruction
It is their own belief in the
cause that they are fighting for, which gives them the fuel to rip people apart
They see no wrong in it. If
anything it is their divine right as they see it to oppose the suppression of
Islam in their eyes
What is needed is to find
their default strategy/mind-set and remove it
By appealing to their better
nature it will have no effect
They want violence, which
will allow for greater violence as being justified in their eyes
One needs to destroy the very
heart of their thinking to neutralise it so completely that they are stopped in
their tracks
You have here a fanatic group
with fanatical leaders
Reasoning with them is futile
But to neutralise their
ideology as fit for no purpose sends the seeds of destruction, which will be
fast growing indeed
Their purpose on this earth
and in the hereafter will be of no account
They cannot proceed towards a
state that will never exist, because it has no purpose/foundations for merit
It just can’t happen. It can
never evolve. It is like pouring water through sand. It cannot hold its
substance
By destroying the one thing
that gives them power over all others, it leaves them helpless, redundant and
ineffective
They would become the
laughing stock of the Islamic world
Their voice holding no sway –
no credence. It is what it is, nothing but hot air and rhetoric
Understand the majority of
their fighters are young and impressionable and are easily influenced
For them to see this ideology
being of no consequence removes all necessity to fight!
It is the young who fight and
want to die for glory, but when there is no glory – there is only nothing
What is then the purpose in
dying for nothing?
The cause ceases to be and so
the entire IS army will dissolve of its own accord
It will just peter out –
cease to be!
You cannot fight IS with arms
You need to attack it with
wisdom and right thinking and then the victory over their false ideology is
wiped out for all time!
There will be no future in it
and they will see it too!
South Africa is a country
which has a serious problem of domestic violence
Many had been hoping that the
homicide by Oscar Pistorius on his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp would show an
impetus…
…for a change in the laws
protecting women
Although it has not been proven
that this was a case of domestic abuse, Pistorius had a very strong emotional
control over Reeva
She had been in abusive
relationships before, so she was already psychologically predisposed to the
familiarity of this type of relationship
Political parties and woman’s
organisations are using Miss Steenkamp as the face of a vulnerable woman
She was not only failed by
her country, but by the system which is supposed to protect her
One protestor outside the
court said, “Women always lose”
That is the case in some
cases, but thankfully not all
The near fatal attack on
Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan was where Taliban gunmen shot her in the head in
October 2012
They also injured her other
school friends that boarded their school bus
Malala’s only crime was to
campaign for girl’s education. She was 15 years old at the time
Now it has come to light that
the Pakistani army have arrested a group involved in the attack on Malala
There were ten members who
were a part of the group involved in the attack on Malala
They are part of the
Pakistani Taliban, a joint operation of Pakistan’s army, police and
intelligence services
These men will face an
anti-terrorism court
The operational group are
still hunting the main man believed to have carried out the shooting on Malala
Malala by the grace of the
Higher Intelligence was not destined to die…
…but to exercise her right
for all Pakistani girls to get an education
Her attack brought light to
the International community, who were outraged about her assault
Since her full recovery, she
has been catapulted to International fame
Malala continues her
dedicated work to bring attention to the plight and subjugation of women around
the world wherever she can
It needs more women
collectively, who are in a position of influence, to take up the mantle for
women’s rights
Men fear the power of women
over them and so become misogynists in many societies
Their male-orchestrated
culture serves up endless demeaning and damaging images of women
This allows young boys to
believe from a young age that they are entitled to have power over women as
their right
That is when the abuse starts
and continues throughout adult life
Women also have a
responsibility to guard against this abuse and to bring it to the attention of
the police and other organisations
Too much abuse regarding
vulnerable girls and women has been going on
There needs to be a
collective force to bring a halt to this practice
Until Governments begin a
strategy to change the culture of abuse on women, then nothing much will change
Women around the world can
make a difference if they wish to. It just takes a collective force!
For Oscar Pistorius to walk
free will be an act of injustice as far as his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is
concerned
A young woman with her entire
life before her was cruelly gunned down by a man who is not in control of his
emotions
We have here a man whose
lifestyle afforded him great privilege and fame, who felt he was above the law
in more ways than one
He has now flaunted the law too
many times bringing him down to a level he never thought possible before
To say he acted hastily and
irresponsibly goes without saying
The verdict is already
indelibly marked on his head. He will never rise from his mistakes again
Not only is he a broken man,
but he is a man who has divided emotions
One he wants to be let off
and to enjoy his freedom and the other he will find harder to bear
That is one must pay for
one’s misdeeds and he has stepped over the line more than once
His fiery temper makes him
unpredictable and unstable. No one knows at any one time what he is likely to
do or what he is capable of doing
When he performed in one of
his last races, another man won
Instead of Pistorius
congratulating him on his win as all competitors do at the end of the race, he
rebuffed him & refused to shake his hand
The winner instead was not
perturbed and went on to congratulate all his fellow competitors including
Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius is not
gracious in defeat and especially when there are cameras recording these events
His attitude was both hostile
and cold
He has no grace in him and it
was this one event which showed the man up fully for what he is
He is a cold and heartless
person, who only shines in self-aggrandisement when the spotlight of fame is on
him
When it is not, he pales into
insignificance as if nothing
It is this nothing that will
eat away into him now. His life ruined by his own hand and reckless behaviour
He still thinks he is great
in his own mind and warrants being let off, so that he can pursue his career
and greatness again
His thunder has been taken
away from him and he will be incapable of living a life of benefit on the back
of a senseless crime
Reeva Steenkamp is in a
better place, finally realised of his grip of power over her
She shines brightly now in
the afterlife, where she will continue to support her aging parents who have
lost the light in their lives
Reeva will be missed, but not
forgotten. She already is immortalised in the memory of the nation and the
world
The world should not expect
anything less than abject murder on his fellow citizens by Bashar al-Assad
His regime has used Chlorine
Gas to attack both rebels and his people in northern Syria
Chlorine Gas can never be
localised, it spreads and this is where the innocent fall in its wake
The Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been seeking to implement global
laws banning chemical weapons
The OPCW have found
compelling confirmation of the use of Chlorine in its pure and mixed form
These attacks have occurred
in the villages of northern Syria
Bashar al-Assad showed the
world that by releasing his store of chemical weapons he was abiding by
International Law
As with all these monsters,
they always hold back, so one should not be so naïve or surprised that other
chemicals are being used
He will stop at nothing to
maintain his power and nothing has stopped him so far
It is not that his luck will
run out, no it will be a Higher Power which will bring this madman down
His country is already
destroyed, yet his arrogance compels him to remain in power no matter what the
costs
Where is the justice for the
Syrian people whose only wish was for a more equal society and to no longer be
under the hammer of a dictator?
The continued terrible plight
of women in India just wants to make one cry
Police in India have rescued
a woman whose husband’s family held her captive for three years, because her
parents failed to pay enough dowry
“The young woman was dressed in tattered clothes and looked very
scared,” said the officer who rescued her
She was also denied contact
with her daughter now aged three
Dowries have been illegal in
India since 1961, but the practice still continues
This practice leaves women
vulnerable to domestic violence and death. Thousands of women a year are killed
in dowry-related disputes
The alarm was raised to the
police, because the father of the young woman had not been allowed to see his
daughter in three years
The torture occurred to his daughter,
because she had given birth to a daughter where the culture demands a boy
child, which is valued
The poor woman was confined
to a dark and dingy bathroom and given little to eat
She was dressed in tattered
clothes with unkempt hair and overgrown nails
On being rescued she
immediately asked for her daughter and cried inconsolably, because her daughter
did not recognise her
The woman’s husband and
in-laws were taken into custody and later freed on bail
What kind of a barbaric
country is India, where women continue to be treated lower than cattle?
Again what is the Government
doing to enforce the rights of this vulnerable class? Being a woman is of no count in India
There is wonderful news that
Michael Schumacher has now left the Swiss hospital to resume his recovery at
his home
The medical profession has
already done a remarkable job
The rest of the process will
need to be determined by a Higher Power than man and science alone
It is the healers of this
world who do the true miracles and allow for more in-depth healing to occur
This is out of the scope of
the medical profession
Healers are able to cure
cancer. Healers are able to cure inoperable brain tumours and so on
For all those people around
the world who have suffered or are suffering illness or accidents and who have
had healing…
…they know the difference
that it makes
It literally gives the
individual their lives back and the medical profession have no answer to it.
The results speak for themselves
This is nothing new and is
not a subject to be sneered at, where even medical science has already
discovered scientifically that it works
My husband and I do many
incredible things and the medical profession with the help of x-rays are able
to see the proof for themselves
That is why we are always in
demand for our work all over the world
It is the individual who
admits the medical profession have no more answers to their condition
They then look for
alternative means; that is when we healers are approached
So if Michael Schumacher
wants to make that recovery quicker, then the family should enrol in healers
worth their weight in gold
They are able to surpass
anything the medical profession can do!
We wish Michael well
His accident will have life
changing results and Michael, once he is better, will start to see life in a
very different way
All for the better I might
add!
Finally the Catholic Church
is beginning to deal with years of abuse of children, whose lives have been
wrecked to this day
The Church will continue to
pay the price until all has been settled and the perpetrators brought to
justice
It is now time that the
Vatican extended its cause in the form of rehabilitation to all its victims
worldwide
A responsibility needs to be
openly seen to be done for the public, in restoring what little faith they may
still have in this organisation
It is for the Vatican and
therefore the Church to accept responsibility in their negligence in these
affairs
Archbishop Eamon Martin has
been announced as successor to Cardinal Sean Brady whose reluctance to give up
his powers is hardly surprising
The people will now see what
Archbishop Eamon Martin is able to do to restore confidence
This congregation has seen
Sean Brady finally resign. He was leader of all Ireland’s Catholics
Brady’s tenure had been beset
by clerical child abuse scandals over an 18 year period. He even covered up one
case
Brady had resisted calls to
resign in 2010
It emerged that as a young
priest in 1975 he attended meetings during which two teenage sex abused victims
were sworn to secrecy
This was after they had been
abused by Father Brendan Smyth
Brendan Smyth was at the
centre of one of the first paedophile priest scandals to rock the Catholic
Church in Ireland
He was later convicted of
more than 100 charges of child sexual abuse and he is only one priest
Brendan Smyth died in prison
in 1997 horror after horror!
The Church must make amends
and bring healing to all those victims in Ireland and throughout the world
This they have been denied
them for so long now
Until one can walk in a
victim’s shoes, nobody can ever know the pain and suffering that they still
endure to this day
May the new successor bring
in that healing and compassion, so that these lives can finally be restored
The Vatican owes them that
much at the very least!
Joan
Rivers will be remembered for her strong opinions as a comedian; she was a
truly funny lady
What
perhaps is less known about her is her charity work, which she was passionately
involved in
One
of them was called ‘God’s Love We Deliver’, which started in 1986
It
is a New York based charity organisation, which provides free nutritious meals
to ill and housebound people living in New York
It
also works in parts of New Jersey, again where people are not able to provide
for themselves
Joan’s
impact on ‘God’s Love We Deliver’ will be felt always by her clients,
volunteers, staff and community
The
charity delivers 4,500 meals a day and there is no waiting list. If you ring up
in the morning you will get your meal that day
She
had been a board member and volunteer for more than 20 years
In
May of this year she delivered the organisation’s 15 millionth meal to an 84
year old lady living in Brooklyn
Joan
would sit with these people and listen to their needs when she delivered their
meals and always made them laugh
Joan
brought love, compassion and humour to every delivery she made and every event
she supported
She
was also involved with guide dogs for the blind and another charity called ‘Our
House’
The
‘Our House’ charity counsels children and families of suicide
When
Joan’s husband committed suicide there was no counselling for those left behind
and you felt as it if was your fault
This
charity ‘Our House’ gives support as well as counselling to the families left
behind, so that they can come to terms with their grief
Joan
Rivers was a very misunderstood lady, who had deep aspirations to make the
world a better place
At
the same time, she was hiding much grief and anxiousness about her own
vulnerability
Joan
Rivers had a heart of gold inside a tough exterior, which was the only way she
knew how to survive
Her
rare and inexhaustible talent brought tears to many who watched her shows. She
will be sorely missed
“Should Scotland become an independent country,”
is the question on everybody’s lips?
If Scotland truly wishes to
become independent then they must accept true responsibility of all that goes
with it
This does not only include
the economic situation
Scotland would see a massive
dip in revenue and that is in spite of North Sea Oil, which will be running out
at some time soon
They have no other natural
resources and tourism will be the only other lucrative contribution
Many businesses will go out
of business, as they will not be allowed the very generous tax exemptions which
they now enjoy
The Scottish people would
struggle to make ends meet
There would not be enough
revenue in their treasury to meet all the shortfalls they will incur, giving
them lasting headaches for all time
Scotland’s current MP’s have
severely hoodwinked the electorate
It all appears safe sailing,
which is far from what the reality will actually be
Shortfalls in economic
revenue is what will split this country for all time
With no way back they would
struggle to see their country trying to keep afloat, which will prove
impossible for all time
Trade deficits and many of
the things they now take for granted in the way of concessions, will all
foreclose
Thus bringing the harsh
reality of what Scotland will have to endure forever more
Europe will not allow them in
and so, as sole traders, they would have to negotiate trade with other world
trading markets
With their treasury coffers
not up to scratch, they would not be able to negotiate proper deals
In the end they would have to
pay top dollar as the saying goes
This will leave them further
struggling along the bottom with no safety net to secure any respite from their
own self-inflicted situation
They will never be able to
repay the balance. There are not enough tax paying people in Scotland to bring
about a trade surplus
Many industries will move
south of the border as they have no other choice
Those businesses are already
considering moving out to safeguard their company, shareholders and the people
who work for them
Their jobs will be saved
It will be Scotland’s loss,
not these companies who are older and wiser then Scottish MP’s who are only
able to see glory
This glory will be short
lived
A very unwise situation if
Scotland should free itself from the Union. Let us hope the Scottish people
will see sense at the last minute?
All those matters, where the
Scottish people feel they will gain from removing themselves from the English
parliament, will happen
However they do not realise
they will encounter far more serious problems of discourse and unsettledness
from other aspects
Problems they never thought
to even consider will now be placed at their doorstep, which they will
encounter head on
There will be no time to
think or to negotiate. They will have to act immediately
That will be the unsettling
and undoing of this sweet nation
Can they afford in their
naivety to take the risk? The answer has to be unequivocally, “NO!”
The rights for the common man
are being fought for
A group of indigenous people
in Brazil’s Amazon region have detained and expelled loggers working illegally
on their ancestral lands
Leaders of the Ka’apor tribe
accused the Brazilian authorities of failing to protect them
The tribe tied up the loggers
and set fire to their trucks and chainsaws before forcing them out. The wood
was later burnt
These souls request tighter
security in the Alto Turiacu Indian Territory to prevent further violent
clashes
Brazil needs to honour these
wonderful peace loving indigenous people
To remind themselves
continued deforestation of Brazil’s forests will have severe ecological
consequences starting with their own country
Justice might take its time
in coming, but it comes nevertheless
A US judge has approved a
$41m settlement between New York City and five men wrongfully convicted of a
rape of a woman jogger in 1989
These five men all black, or
Hispanic, teenagers at the time confessed under police interrogation, which
they later recanted
They served prison terms
ranging from seven to thirteen years before their exoneration in 2002
The New York Mayor said the
settlement was ‘long overdue’
This settlement marks the end
of one of New York’s most protracted and bitter legal disputes
The settlement is thought to
be the largest in a wrongful conviction case in the city’s history
It came to pass that a
Manhattan prosecutor determined that a serial violent offender named Matias
Reyes had confessed to the attack
Reyes also stated he acted
alone
This racially charged case
shocked the city and provoked fears of gangs of black teenagers going on crime
rampages
Too many incidents have
occurred unjustly by police brutality and coercion and it is time that the
police forces are brought to book
One has to ask the obvious
question, “What now has happened to those
officers?”
Their brutal interrogation
inflicted such a punishment on these youths and they have paid with their lives
for no crime committed
What now do the police
officers get as punishment for their crimes against these youths or is that
swept under the carpet as usual?
Money is no compensation for
their loss of life and dignity
Only full justice with the
weight of the law can determine a better police force in the future, where all
are treated equally
The time is fast approaching
where President Zuma is completely found out with no leg to stand on
His days are truly numbered
He is one of the most corrupt
men
Zuma denies his own people
justified wages to live on and did not defend his own citizens against the
mining crisis
Several died by police heavy
handedness and all under President Zuma’s watch and little has changed
This man continues to feather
his own nest for all it is worth
It had been stated that the
white man was using and abusing South Africans
Nelson Mandela sacrificed 27
years’ incarceration, so that equality could be brought to all the people of
South Africa
President Zuma blatantly
continues to steal from his own people
It is now time for justice to
finally make its mark and to bring closure on this man’s tenure of Presidency
Helen Zille, South Africa’s
opposition leader, has been handed spy tapes, which should finally expose
President Zuma for all he is worth
Zuma has been accused of
taking bribes in a multi-million dollar arms deal
New evidence will come to
light implicating President Zuma on other crimes against his own people
This man is no longer
credible and so he has already shot himself in the foot and will ultimately pay
the price for his greedy ways
Vladimir Putin is a most
dangerous creature with sights way above his station and control
He thinks he is bigger than
he is and so wants to create another USSR
His thinking behind the
objective is to make Russia great again and to exercise its rights in the
global forum over Middle Eastern policies
Putin wants to take centre
stage for officiating deals that will bring Russia more into the global economy
He wants to safeguard and
secure all the land under his power & control and has no reason to remove
himself from his strategy of command
Putin knows his place in
history and it is determined by how great he is and what he alone can do for
his people
He has little opposition in
his own select cabinet of officers, as all have been handpicked by him anyway
He wants to bellow out that
he is the greatest leader that Russia has ever had
Even greater than Stalin,
whose legacy still haunts many Russians today
With his strategy already
intact he just needs to chip away at the onslaught that he knows will come his
way
He has already in his mind
thought of everything and where he can build a stronger alliance with the
Eastern countries of this world
The West will be hung out to
dry
He does not care whether
Europe takes his gas or not, as he already has China on side for his surplus
supplies
Putin will be able to
undercut any market forces, as he has an abundance of gas supplies to meet all
needs
As he sees it, he is the
rising star and the West better get used to it!
All the sanctions that are
imposed on him to bring him to his knees he has already thought about
His contingency plans are now
being implemented
He sees Europe/NATO and the
West as being both weak and divided and their causes for straight thinking no
longer apply to him
Vladimir Putin is a man on a
mission and is answerable to no one
His strategy will hold,
unless the West make a determined effort to stop him, but nothing will be done
Putin is too clever right now
and too buoyant for his own good. The momentum is with him and he sees no
reason to change
Europe and the US will just
sit on their hands, as usual too insecure to do anything
It allows him further scope
for expansion and the cost to him will be minimal in his eyes
To be great always comes with
a price and he is prepared to pay that price to satisfy his own ego!
At last common sense prevails
and the UK prosecutors have withdrawn a European arrest warrant on Mr & Mrs
King
They are free from prison and
can now visit their son Ashya
They will be able to take
their son to Czechoslovakia, where he can obtain the Proton Therapy treatment
there
Southampton General Hospital
should be ashamed of themselves for the lies and the intimidation they put this
family through
How can anybody afford to
ever trust their medical judgement again?
One has to ask the obvious
question, “By denying the King family
Proton Therapy for their son…
…how many other patients were also denied this treatment and, as a
result, how many have died at their hands?”
Amnesty International has new
evidence that the Islamic State militants are carrying out a wave of ethnic
cleansing against minorities
The human rights group said, “The IS has turned the region into a blood
soaked killing field”
America is admitting they
don’t have a strategy yet for dealing with the sharp rise of this militant
group
Since G.W. Bush, America has
made an unbelievable mess of its Mideast policies – they are now reaping those
mistakes
Small numbers of US troops
are being sent back to Iraq to quell the sickening fighting
There will be enough men to
get the nation stuck in a new conflict, but not enough to make any major
difference
President Obama is now being
pressed to attack Syria. This idea is crazy
The US sponsored an armed
uprising against the Assad regime, which brutally ruled Syria for 43 years
France, Britain, Saudi Arabia
and other Arab nations backed this campaign to overthrow Assad as a way to
damage Iran
The result was a bloody war
of attrition that is slowly being won by Damascus
Worse still, the western
intervention in Syria has produced what is known in the intelligence business
as a blowback, this is now happening
These Syrian jihadists
supported by the western powers are now running amok with deadly consequences
The IS were a previously
unknown band of gunmen, who were trained and armed in Jordan by the CIA, then
turned loose on Syria
They now are rampaging across
northern and central Iraq
What makes IS so effective is
that the major portion of its leaders and soldiers are veterans of President
Saddam Hussein’s army
They were the noted
Republican Guard
With IS, is the last
surviving Saddam insider, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
When the US first invaded
Iraq, Saddam predicted it would face the “Mother of all battles.” Westerners
laughed
Eleven years later the
laughter has been silenced
Iraq continues to fight on
and it is no longer safe for foreign oil companies – Saddam’s revenge
The Islamic State has risen
from the ruins of Iraq and Syria to challenge America
Light bombing by the US in
Iraq won’t stop the IS
It is now that America and
the West are reaping so many losses of lives and abject carnage that they first
started. Well done Tony Blair!
If Mankind stopped and
thought before it started a war, then this would not have happened
It is all very well to go to
war…
…but if you cannot build a
future after the destruction of a country for these people then you do them
equally a disservice twice
This is exactly what has
happen in Iraq and the same will happen in Syria
Has the West not learnt
anything, but to go in with their heavy boots and destroy what is none of their
business in the first place?
It is down to Muslims to
settle their own affairs and for the West to butt out
Unless they are asked for a
better solution that can improve those people’s lives in every way
This, the West continues to destroy
Amnesty International is
right to be concerned, as it is often them who have to pick up the pieces of
destroyed lives
It is they who are the true
heroes with very little back up. This will soon change!
As true to form, Israel takes
their right to exploit International Law and moral ethics
They are unstoppable!
There is no court on this
earth that has the teeth to bring this flagrant abuse against another nation to
account?
Israel is there purely to
satisfy its own thirst for land and power
They continue to be a thorn
in the side of the world and all the international community just say, “Tut-tut!”
Israel uses any pretext, any
excuse, to do precisely as they please, while the world does nothing and looks
on
Goliath is certainly ruling
the world here. What Israel says, “Israel
does.”
Where is the justice that
allows Israel to now expropriate four sq. km of Palestinian land in the
occupied West Bank?
It will be Israel’s largest
seizure of land in 30 years
There was laughable comment
by the US to urge Israel to reverse the move
This is like asking a thug,
who has you by the throat and squeezing, not to be a naughty boy!
Chief Palestinian negotiator
Saeb Erekat said
“The world community should hold Israel accountable for the ongoing
Israeli settlement activity”
Let us be very clear about
this, Israel does not want peace
They want land and to occupy
as much of it as they can
They will stop at nothing to
get it and to drive their foe into the ground and rebuild over them
They will continue with their
land grab into Lebanon and beyond
The world is not interested
in doing anything to stop this carnage continuing
The world will fight IS
because of Oil. Palestine has no Oil, so
it is of no benefit to anyone
The moral shame, where one
race of people take carte blanche to
do as they please over another, while the world stands by and watches
We did not let Hitler get
away with it, but we do allow Israel to exterminate in their own way
What are we becoming? Have we no moral standards any longer?
Is there nobody who is
prepared under the law to say enough is enough until it is too late?
What is the point of the law
if it is never exercised?
It makes a complete mockery
of having any laws, as they are only used when it doesn’t really affect
anybody?
Justice is never seen to be
done and we purport to be a civilised society?
The joke is on those who are
supposed to enact the law, but choose not to
What moral principles or
conscience do they have? It appears none!
