that "In his 2006 autobiography, In the Line of Fire, President Musharraf boasted that, in return for handing over 369 terror suspects (including many transferred to Guantánamo), "We have earned bounty payments totaling millions of dollars.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child#United_States
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Did You Know.......
that “because the USA is one of only two states that have not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which recognizes that children need special safeguards and care, it feels free to trample on the human rights of juveniles in its ‘war on terror,”’
See it Here
"The United States has not so far ratified the CRC, in part due to possible conflicts with U.S. law and because of opposition by some political and religious conservatives to the treaty.[20]
The administration of president George W. Bush has explicitly stated its opposition to the treaty:
"The Convention on the Rights of the Child may be a positive tool for promoting child welfare for those countries that have adopted it. But we believe the text goes too far when it asserts entitlements based on economic, social and cultural rights. ... The human rights-based approach ... poses significant problems as used in this text." [21]
Active opposition to the Convention in the United States has been concentrated in politically conservative groups.[22] Senator Jesse Helms, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, described it as a “bag of worms,” an effort to “chip away at the U.S. Constitution”.[23]
Legal concerns over ratification have mostly focused on issues of sovereignty and federalism.[24] The United States generally does not sign treaties that it believes would impair its sovereignty.[25] Most United States laws for the protection of children are state rather than federal laws, and the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution restricts some of the authority of the United States government to pass legislation or ratify treaties that will protect children. The US Constitution not only limits federal jurisdiction over children, the US Supreme Court has held that to some significant degree, no government, federal, state, or local may interfere with the parent-child relationship.[26][27].
The Heritage Foundation sees the conflict as an issue of national control over domestic policy: "Although not originally promoted as an entity that would become involved in actively seeking to shape member states’ domestic policies, the U.N. has become increasingly intrusive in these arenas."[28] They express concern about "sovereign jurisdiction over domestic policymaking and preserving the freedom of American civil society",[29] and argue that the actual practice of some UN Committees has been to review national policies that are unrelated, or are marginally related to the actual language of the Convention.[30] Supporters of homeschooling express concern that the Convention will "subvert the authority of parents to exercise important responsibilities toward their children. Under the UN Convention, parental responsibility exists only in so far as parents are willing to further the independent choices of the child."[31]
David Smolin argues that the objections from the religious and political conservatives stem from their view that the U.N. is an elitist institution, which they do not trust to properly handle sensitive decisions regarding family issues.[32] He suggests that legitimate concerns of critics could be met with appropriate Reservations, Understandings and Declarations by the U.S. [33]"
From Wikipedia
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See it Here
"The United States has not so far ratified the CRC, in part due to possible conflicts with U.S. law and because of opposition by some political and religious conservatives to the treaty.[20]
The administration of president George W. Bush has explicitly stated its opposition to the treaty:
"The Convention on the Rights of the Child may be a positive tool for promoting child welfare for those countries that have adopted it. But we believe the text goes too far when it asserts entitlements based on economic, social and cultural rights. ... The human rights-based approach ... poses significant problems as used in this text." [21]
Active opposition to the Convention in the United States has been concentrated in politically conservative groups.[22] Senator Jesse Helms, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, described it as a “bag of worms,” an effort to “chip away at the U.S. Constitution”.[23]
Legal concerns over ratification have mostly focused on issues of sovereignty and federalism.[24] The United States generally does not sign treaties that it believes would impair its sovereignty.[25] Most United States laws for the protection of children are state rather than federal laws, and the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution restricts some of the authority of the United States government to pass legislation or ratify treaties that will protect children. The US Constitution not only limits federal jurisdiction over children, the US Supreme Court has held that to some significant degree, no government, federal, state, or local may interfere with the parent-child relationship.[26][27].
The Heritage Foundation sees the conflict as an issue of national control over domestic policy: "Although not originally promoted as an entity that would become involved in actively seeking to shape member states’ domestic policies, the U.N. has become increasingly intrusive in these arenas."[28] They express concern about "sovereign jurisdiction over domestic policymaking and preserving the freedom of American civil society",[29] and argue that the actual practice of some UN Committees has been to review national policies that are unrelated, or are marginally related to the actual language of the Convention.[30] Supporters of homeschooling express concern that the Convention will "subvert the authority of parents to exercise important responsibilities toward their children. Under the UN Convention, parental responsibility exists only in so far as parents are willing to further the independent choices of the child."[31]
David Smolin argues that the objections from the religious and political conservatives stem from their view that the U.N. is an elitist institution, which they do not trust to properly handle sensitive decisions regarding family issues.[32] He suggests that legitimate concerns of critics could be met with appropriate Reservations, Understandings and Declarations by the U.S. [33]"
From Wikipedia
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Another Scare Raises Its Ugly Head: WHEAT
"THE world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years.
The crisis has pushed prices to an all-time high and could lead to further hikes in the price of bread, beer, biscuits and other basic foods."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3423734.ece
AND
"Consumers usually reduce their purchases of goods and services if prices become too high. Buyers of United States corn, soybeans and wheat seem to be ignoring that economic principle, however, as the nation‘s grain stocks reach critically low levels, said Chris Hurt, a Purdue University agricultural economist. With global demand for grain and oilseeds at record levels and a weak U.S. dollar, foreign buyers are outbidding domestic buyers for American grain. While the higher commodity prices are good for crop agriculture there are disconcerting downsides, Hurt said. "Food consumers worldwide are going to have to pay more," Hurt said. "We ended 2007 with our monthly inflation rate on food nearly 5 percent higher. I think we‘ll see times in 2008 where the food inflation rate might be as much as 6 percent. "I also think we‘ll have discussions about food security in 2008. We‘ll have discussions about whether we should allow the foreign sector to buy our food. Is food a strategic item that we need to keep in our country?""
"Wheat prices have been near $10 a bushel, more than $6 a bushel higher. Cash prices for soybeans are about $13 a bushel, up more than $7 a bushel. Corn is pricing at near $5 a bushel, an increase of greater than $3 a bushel."
http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/wire/news/00392_World-Grain-Demand-Straining-U_S_-Supply_171358.php
AND then BBC has it's say.
"The price of higher-quality spring wheat jumped almost 25% on Monday - the biggest one-day increase to date.
The rise comes as the UN's World Food Programme warns that it will have to start cutting rations or feeding fewer people if it does not get more money to cope with the higher cost of food.
Wheat is used to make staple foods such as bread, pasta and noodles."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7264653.stm#subject
Feed The World? We Are Fighting a Losing Battle, UN Admits
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The crisis has pushed prices to an all-time high and could lead to further hikes in the price of bread, beer, biscuits and other basic foods."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3423734.ece
AND
"Consumers usually reduce their purchases of goods and services if prices become too high. Buyers of United States corn, soybeans and wheat seem to be ignoring that economic principle, however, as the nation‘s grain stocks reach critically low levels, said Chris Hurt, a Purdue University agricultural economist. With global demand for grain and oilseeds at record levels and a weak U.S. dollar, foreign buyers are outbidding domestic buyers for American grain. While the higher commodity prices are good for crop agriculture there are disconcerting downsides, Hurt said. "Food consumers worldwide are going to have to pay more," Hurt said. "We ended 2007 with our monthly inflation rate on food nearly 5 percent higher. I think we‘ll see times in 2008 where the food inflation rate might be as much as 6 percent. "I also think we‘ll have discussions about food security in 2008. We‘ll have discussions about whether we should allow the foreign sector to buy our food. Is food a strategic item that we need to keep in our country?""
"Wheat prices have been near $10 a bushel, more than $6 a bushel higher. Cash prices for soybeans are about $13 a bushel, up more than $7 a bushel. Corn is pricing at near $5 a bushel, an increase of greater than $3 a bushel."
http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/wire/news/00392_World-Grain-Demand-Straining-U_S_-Supply_171358.php
AND then BBC has it's say.
"The price of higher-quality spring wheat jumped almost 25% on Monday - the biggest one-day increase to date.
The rise comes as the UN's World Food Programme warns that it will have to start cutting rations or feeding fewer people if it does not get more money to cope with the higher cost of food.
Wheat is used to make staple foods such as bread, pasta and noodles."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7264653.stm#subject
Feed The World? We Are Fighting a Losing Battle, UN Admits
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Is EU buying up charities
I wrote to all my MEPs to object to the EUs policy on bio-fuels. One of the MEPs; BOOTH Graham H, The UK Independence Party (UKIP), is the only one so far who has written to me. He is against the legislation, which is good. And he is explaing about the charities like the Friends of Earth who are been bought by the EU. Bought means been funded by EU. Well the whole letter I recieved is below.
"Dear Enquirer,
Thank you for your message regarding the EUs policy on bio-fuels. Wewill be voting against any legislation, which is based on those policies.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has always condemned these targets asirresponsible, and we have tried to highlight the dangers of ploughingforward with them. As usual our protests went unheard, but yet again, wewere proved to be correct. We are the only party in the Parliament thathas consistently voted against these targets, and the EU's drive (at anycost)for such legislation.
It may interest you to learn that a number of "green" charities, such as Friends of the Earth - even though they have the integrity to opposethese biofuel-targets (and GMO's, for that matter)- receive substantialamounts of EU funding. It has been suggested that part of the reason theEU is "buying up" charities like this, is that they will then call foraction, which the EU has already decided to take. Indeed, this isusually what happens. The appearance is of a democratic and responsiveEU. In fact, the EU is the paymaster of its own lobbyists. In this case,however, everyone agrees that the Commission's position is indefensible.Even the "captive NGO's" cannot be seen to be supporting it.The target of a 5.75% market share for bio-fuels, in the overalltransport-fuel supply, is wholly un-reasonable and un-sustainable for anumber of reasons:
(i) The damage caused in developing nations, by cultivation of oil-palmand soya etc - for the purposes of the export of bio-fuels toEU-controlled markets - is destroying precious, tropical habitats, and
(ii) This expansion would be contributing more to carbon-imbalance (werethat possible) than the substitution of bio-, for fossil-, fuels wouldredress it.
(iii) Given increasing food-shortages, it is not a good idea to beproducing bio fuels at the expense of food production.
It may also interest you to learn that the EU has a number of otherpolicies, which are devastating for the environment. For example, itsCommon Fisheries Policy sees countless dead fish thrown out of nets torot on the ocean surface, as the CFP only allows fishermen to catchcertain types of fish, and nets are not renowned for their ability to discriminate between types of fish. The EU also has its Common Agricultural Policy, which vindictively condemns poor farmers in theDeveloping World to poverty - and an inability to compete withsubsidised, European farmers - and obliges them to exploit their environment more ruthlessly. Incidentally, the EU also funds farmers inSpain, whose consequent expansion threatens the habitat of the IberianLynx, one of Europe's rarest animals.
We at UKIP feel that the inherently remote, un-democratic and corrupt,nature of the EU, coupled with its laughable attempts to cloak its cynical intentions in altruistic camouflage ("environmental protection","health and safety", "human rights" etc) mean that it deserves nothingbut contempt. We look forward to the day we can abolish the EU (inBritain, to begin with) take our billions of pounds with us, and spendthem on serious and sensible measures to support public services,including the protection of the environment.
Thank you for your message. Please rest-assured that UKIP MEPs willcontinue to vote against the biofuel-targets.
Yours sincerely,
Michael McManus
Office of Graham Booth MEP"
So I wrote toFOE like this:
Is it true that the EU is funding FOE? If that is true, then, when the EU is discussing about Bio Fuels, the FOE will be taking a positive posture towards the coming legislation. Is that what most of the members of FOE want? What is your position towords the up-coming legislation. I wrote to my MEP Mr Booth and he says that FOE is not aggressively lobbying against the Bio Fuel quotas for 2020. Thank you for your time ,patience and an early reply.
I will post anything which comes from them.
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"Dear Enquirer,
Thank you for your message regarding the EUs policy on bio-fuels. Wewill be voting against any legislation, which is based on those policies.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has always condemned these targets asirresponsible, and we have tried to highlight the dangers of ploughingforward with them. As usual our protests went unheard, but yet again, wewere proved to be correct. We are the only party in the Parliament thathas consistently voted against these targets, and the EU's drive (at anycost)for such legislation.
It may interest you to learn that a number of "green" charities, such as Friends of the Earth - even though they have the integrity to opposethese biofuel-targets (and GMO's, for that matter)- receive substantialamounts of EU funding. It has been suggested that part of the reason theEU is "buying up" charities like this, is that they will then call foraction, which the EU has already decided to take. Indeed, this isusually what happens. The appearance is of a democratic and responsiveEU. In fact, the EU is the paymaster of its own lobbyists. In this case,however, everyone agrees that the Commission's position is indefensible.Even the "captive NGO's" cannot be seen to be supporting it.The target of a 5.75% market share for bio-fuels, in the overalltransport-fuel supply, is wholly un-reasonable and un-sustainable for anumber of reasons:
(i) The damage caused in developing nations, by cultivation of oil-palmand soya etc - for the purposes of the export of bio-fuels toEU-controlled markets - is destroying precious, tropical habitats, and
(ii) This expansion would be contributing more to carbon-imbalance (werethat possible) than the substitution of bio-, for fossil-, fuels wouldredress it.
(iii) Given increasing food-shortages, it is not a good idea to beproducing bio fuels at the expense of food production.
It may also interest you to learn that the EU has a number of otherpolicies, which are devastating for the environment. For example, itsCommon Fisheries Policy sees countless dead fish thrown out of nets torot on the ocean surface, as the CFP only allows fishermen to catchcertain types of fish, and nets are not renowned for their ability to discriminate between types of fish. The EU also has its Common Agricultural Policy, which vindictively condemns poor farmers in theDeveloping World to poverty - and an inability to compete withsubsidised, European farmers - and obliges them to exploit their environment more ruthlessly. Incidentally, the EU also funds farmers inSpain, whose consequent expansion threatens the habitat of the IberianLynx, one of Europe's rarest animals.
We at UKIP feel that the inherently remote, un-democratic and corrupt,nature of the EU, coupled with its laughable attempts to cloak its cynical intentions in altruistic camouflage ("environmental protection","health and safety", "human rights" etc) mean that it deserves nothingbut contempt. We look forward to the day we can abolish the EU (inBritain, to begin with) take our billions of pounds with us, and spendthem on serious and sensible measures to support public services,including the protection of the environment.
Thank you for your message. Please rest-assured that UKIP MEPs willcontinue to vote against the biofuel-targets.
Yours sincerely,
Michael McManus
Office of Graham Booth MEP"
So I wrote toFOE like this:
Is it true that the EU is funding FOE? If that is true, then, when the EU is discussing about Bio Fuels, the FOE will be taking a positive posture towards the coming legislation. Is that what most of the members of FOE want? What is your position towords the up-coming legislation. I wrote to my MEP Mr Booth and he says that FOE is not aggressively lobbying against the Bio Fuel quotas for 2020. Thank you for your time ,patience and an early reply.
I will post anything which comes from them.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Somalia The History
Somalia is situated in the Horn Of Africa in the coast surrounded by from North Djibouti, Ethiopia and then Kenya.
This part from Wikipedia
Long time ago around - we only know because the greeks wrote it - The Horn Of Afrika was known as the Berber Coast and Azania. reeks went there by boat to buy Myrrh and Frankincense, both highly valuable commodities as they were required for many religious ceremonies and in perfumes, in great demand throughout the Roman Empire, Asia, India and China.
Next written accounts of the region comes from two famous Muslim explorers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He, in the 13th and 14th centuries. Ibn Battuta and Zheng He are both travellers and recorded their travels. Zheng He's sea travels can be found in this website. I have read Dr Menzies book called 1421, and it blew my mind and had to wash my memory about the naval history of the world and start a-new. I asdvise you to buy a copy. Ibn Battuta was a walker really but had did go on ships and junks. He describes Mogadishu in 1331 as "a town of enormous size and its merchants possessed vast resources; they owned large numbers of camels, of which they slaughtered hundreds every day for food, and also had large quantities of sheep." Wonder what they did with the sheep!
This is from Somalia: From The Dawn of Civilization To The Modern Times
Somalians as lots of other nations has a tradition of hospitality. So if you visit a Samalian in Somalia they say, "Somalidda" or "Somedida" which, in fact, meant "milk the domestic animal" in order to present fresh milk to the visitors. So the ancient Greeks and Egyptian understood stupidly as the name for the country. And that is how the country started been called Somalia instead of Puntland. Hmmmm nice init the falk-fucking-lore? But I am reserving my judgement on some of the arguments this auther brings out. You see he brings out unprooved arguments to bring out somethings as facts. Check this for a while:
"'The News Week" the International News Magazine of January 11, 1988 carried a very thrilling article "The Search for Adam and Eve" by John Tierney et al.1 It reported that geneticist Rebecca Cann, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley who is now at the University of Hawaii, and her erstwhile colleague Allan Wilson of the University of California, have proved through their startling mitochondrial DNA research that all human beings in the world are descended from a common single woman ancestress Eve who lived two million years ago in Sub-Saharan Africa."
It is not prooved. It is a hypothesis; "Come out of Africa". Anyway he says this in the third chapter.
"As we have seen earlier, the ancient people inhabiting north-eastern Africa or the Horn of Africa (Somalia) about 50,000 years ago were stone-age hunters. Around 35,000 years ago these stone-age hunters specialised in making "finely retouched leaf-shaped points and scraping equipments (of stone"
So we have proof that peeople lived in that are as far as 50,000 years ago. That is long time ago init? But not as long as our brothers down under the Ausie Abos hmmmm....is it?
Now I have a problem with the following statement.
"The closing millennia of the Paleolithic period were marked by a wet phase in the Sahara, and other followed approximately 5500 and 2500 B.C. The well-watered Sahara was afforded attractions to flora and fauna alike and man followed plants, and other animals to establish himself as a skilled hunter and fisherman along the many Saharan water courses.
From the north came the Caucasoids, ancestors to such modern people as the Berbers and Tuaregs of North Africa and the desert, the Galla, Somali and Beja of the East African "Horn", and most Egyptians of the Pharaonic times."
So if we are to beleave in "Out of Africa" theory. The people who lived in Africa went to middle East and the Europe and became white skinned and blue eyed
around 10,000 to 6,000 ago, and came back to this area because it got wetter. Why? because Caucasoids are ......hmmmm......
Caucasoid:- caucasoid [Adjective] (comparative more caucasoid, superlative most caucasoid)
(anthropology) a member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples indigenous to Europe, the Northeast Atlantic, North Africa, West Asia, South Asia and parts of Central Asia, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caucasoid"
Bind Moggles! No not really I am trying my best to simplify this as I go along. Sorry if you think it is a bit screwed up. That is me, as I am myself a bit screwed up. And that is why I try to simplify the shite init?
So this tiny little scrawny Asian guy walks to a Canadian Forestry compound and was looking for a job. So he goes to the foreman and says "I want to work as a lumber-jack."
The foreman lookes at the man and says,"Ok do that 100 acres and come back when you finish."
In an hours time the little bugger is back without any sweat. So the foreman goes to have a look and sees the whole 100 acres flattened. He says, "Where the hell did you work before to get experience like that?"
Little man says," Sahara forest".
The foreman goes, "You mean the Sahara Desert?".
Little man surprised, "Is that what they call it now."
Seriously now:
This is very complcated business ...the history is... as everyone looks at it in different ways. Astonished I am; that there is no unique system of recording history all these years of historian boffinhood eh eh eh huh?
Now we go back to the 1 BC, and find this.
"Robin Hallett in "Africa to 1975", however, states that:
"Many centuries later other Caucasoid groups, arriving in East Africa around 1000 B.C., introduced domestic cattle and possibly also cereal cultivation. By the first millennium A.D. these "Ancient Azanians", as some historians have termed them (Azania was the name give by Greek writers to the coast of East Africa), had come to populate most of the Kenyan highlands and adjoining areas in northern Tanzania.""
So we can see that there were people there before but "the pastoral tribes of Galla and Somali did not exist in the area now called Somalia till the end of the first millennium B.C."
Now I am gettig some sense outa this huh! There were tribe of people called Sabeans who comes from Yemen. They migrated to the Horn Of Africa in the 1st century BC or so, due to the lush mountain range of Ethiopia. But most of them lived along the coast trading goods to the Greeks etc. Greeks called them Barberi, to confuse everyone. At the same time there were aboriginal people in the area like the Midgans, Hawaltarits, Azhurans etc.
"Midgan
It is likely that the Midgan, who number about 50,000 people in Somalia today, have perhaps for more than 7000 years, been a very serious and ferocious hunting and catching nomadic tribe. They have been great experts in archery, spear-throwing, and catching all kinds of animals even big animals like leopards, geopards, wild elephants, giraffe, ostrich, and snakes etc. by using traps made of ropes, nets and by making holes or pits in the earth. They have since ancient times not only been catching but killing animals, cleaning and selling their skins and drying their meat. Perhaps, their ancestors used to provide goods to the Puntite merchants of the coasts to be sold to the Egyptians of the Pharaonic period and other trading countries all through the last four thousand years."
"Hawaltiryat
They are builders of graves. (hawal: cemetery and Tiriyat: builders) These were the first Somali people who made concrete development in the land in the hoary past. They used to build small conical pyramids of stone on graves. The graves made by the Hawaltiryats thousand of years ago are still found at many places in Somalia.
Ajhuran
These ancient people were pure specimens of the Somali people. They were very intelligent and skilled in engineering works. They could build wells even in hard rocks, make caves and also draw figures in the caves in the mountains in ancient times. They were very beautiful and good people. Some of their descendents are still living in the central region of Somalia and in the Galla Sadame region of Ethiopia. They have a sense of nobility and beauty. Their ancient techniques of boring wells in the rocks is not lost; we do not know anything about them now. Whenever any archeological place is discovered, the Somali believe that the Ajhurans may have built it. The first President of independent Somalia, Ahmed Abdulla Osman, was an Ajhuran; his sub-tribe was Ogaden.
Galla
In ancient times they lived in southern Somalia and some also lived in north Somalia, but they gradually moved to western and south-western Somalia. They have been pastoralists for the last 3,000 years, and they have inhabited Somali since approximately 2,500 years ago. They have been driven away by the Somali tribes during the last ten centuries to Ethiopia and Kenya. Now they are mostly concentrated in Addis Ababa, Chima and Neghelee regions of Ethiopia and Kenya. The Gallas did not have an advanced civilization. A part of Galla population might have amalgamated with Azuran and Hawaltiryat."
There is a problem here, the people this auther refers to as Gallas is also known as Oromo. And to make life difficult for everyone the wikipedia says this:
"Galla can refer to:
The Ethiopian ethnic group known as the Oromo. (The name Galla is now often considered derogatory.)"
If any of the Oromo people read this please don't kill me!
Now we know simply that the Somalia was known as Puntland by the Egyptians from about 2350 BC to 600 BC. There is recorded history to that effect.
So the Puntites were quite sophisticated society by the end of Egyptian Pharoah rule. The Egypt went down to the Persian empire in 525 BC and 200 years later got taken over by the great Greek king Alexander of Macedonia. Hmmm... now I can see.
""Egypt, occupied by him in 332 B.C., was entrusted to Ptolemy, one of the generals of the victorious army. When the empire of Alexander broke after its founder's death, Ptolemy made himself ruler of an independent kingdom and founded a dynasty that lasted for nearly three hundred years... Gradually, the Red Sea became a regular highway of maritime commerce, by the end of first century B.C., Greek merchants from Egypt had developed a regular trade with India and were beginning to feel their way down the East African coast."1
This shows that they reached the ports of Puntland in the first century B.C."
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This part from Wikipedia
Long time ago around - we only know because the greeks wrote it - The Horn Of Afrika was known as the Berber Coast and Azania. reeks went there by boat to buy Myrrh and Frankincense, both highly valuable commodities as they were required for many religious ceremonies and in perfumes, in great demand throughout the Roman Empire, Asia, India and China.
Next written accounts of the region comes from two famous Muslim explorers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He, in the 13th and 14th centuries. Ibn Battuta and Zheng He are both travellers and recorded their travels. Zheng He's sea travels can be found in this website. I have read Dr Menzies book called 1421, and it blew my mind and had to wash my memory about the naval history of the world and start a-new. I asdvise you to buy a copy. Ibn Battuta was a walker really but had did go on ships and junks. He describes Mogadishu in 1331 as "a town of enormous size and its merchants possessed vast resources; they owned large numbers of camels, of which they slaughtered hundreds every day for food, and also had large quantities of sheep." Wonder what they did with the sheep!
This is from Somalia: From The Dawn of Civilization To The Modern Times
Somalians as lots of other nations has a tradition of hospitality. So if you visit a Samalian in Somalia they say, "Somalidda" or "Somedida" which, in fact, meant "milk the domestic animal" in order to present fresh milk to the visitors. So the ancient Greeks and Egyptian understood stupidly as the name for the country. And that is how the country started been called Somalia instead of Puntland. Hmmmm nice init the falk-fucking-lore? But I am reserving my judgement on some of the arguments this auther brings out. You see he brings out unprooved arguments to bring out somethings as facts. Check this for a while:
"'The News Week" the International News Magazine of January 11, 1988 carried a very thrilling article "The Search for Adam and Eve" by John Tierney et al.1 It reported that geneticist Rebecca Cann, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley who is now at the University of Hawaii, and her erstwhile colleague Allan Wilson of the University of California, have proved through their startling mitochondrial DNA research that all human beings in the world are descended from a common single woman ancestress Eve who lived two million years ago in Sub-Saharan Africa."
It is not prooved. It is a hypothesis; "Come out of Africa". Anyway he says this in the third chapter.
"As we have seen earlier, the ancient people inhabiting north-eastern Africa or the Horn of Africa (Somalia) about 50,000 years ago were stone-age hunters. Around 35,000 years ago these stone-age hunters specialised in making "finely retouched leaf-shaped points and scraping equipments (of stone"
So we have proof that peeople lived in that are as far as 50,000 years ago. That is long time ago init? But not as long as our brothers down under the Ausie Abos hmmmm....is it?
Now I have a problem with the following statement.
"The closing millennia of the Paleolithic period were marked by a wet phase in the Sahara, and other followed approximately 5500 and 2500 B.C. The well-watered Sahara was afforded attractions to flora and fauna alike and man followed plants, and other animals to establish himself as a skilled hunter and fisherman along the many Saharan water courses.
From the north came the Caucasoids, ancestors to such modern people as the Berbers and Tuaregs of North Africa and the desert, the Galla, Somali and Beja of the East African "Horn", and most Egyptians of the Pharaonic times."
So if we are to beleave in "Out of Africa" theory. The people who lived in Africa went to middle East and the Europe and became white skinned and blue eyed
around 10,000 to 6,000 ago, and came back to this area because it got wetter. Why? because Caucasoids are ......hmmmm......
Caucasoid:- caucasoid [Adjective] (comparative more caucasoid, superlative most caucasoid)
(anthropology) a member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples indigenous to Europe, the Northeast Atlantic, North Africa, West Asia, South Asia and parts of Central Asia, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caucasoid"
Bind Moggles! No not really I am trying my best to simplify this as I go along. Sorry if you think it is a bit screwed up. That is me, as I am myself a bit screwed up. And that is why I try to simplify the shite init?
So this tiny little scrawny Asian guy walks to a Canadian Forestry compound and was looking for a job. So he goes to the foreman and says "I want to work as a lumber-jack."
The foreman lookes at the man and says,"Ok do that 100 acres and come back when you finish."
In an hours time the little bugger is back without any sweat. So the foreman goes to have a look and sees the whole 100 acres flattened. He says, "Where the hell did you work before to get experience like that?"
Little man says," Sahara forest".
The foreman goes, "You mean the Sahara Desert?".
Little man surprised, "Is that what they call it now."
Seriously now:
This is very complcated business ...the history is... as everyone looks at it in different ways. Astonished I am; that there is no unique system of recording history all these years of historian boffinhood eh eh eh huh?
Now we go back to the 1 BC, and find this.
"Robin Hallett in "Africa to 1975", however, states that:
"Many centuries later other Caucasoid groups, arriving in East Africa around 1000 B.C., introduced domestic cattle and possibly also cereal cultivation. By the first millennium A.D. these "Ancient Azanians", as some historians have termed them (Azania was the name give by Greek writers to the coast of East Africa), had come to populate most of the Kenyan highlands and adjoining areas in northern Tanzania.""
So we can see that there were people there before but "the pastoral tribes of Galla and Somali did not exist in the area now called Somalia till the end of the first millennium B.C."
Now I am gettig some sense outa this huh! There were tribe of people called Sabeans who comes from Yemen. They migrated to the Horn Of Africa in the 1st century BC or so, due to the lush mountain range of Ethiopia. But most of them lived along the coast trading goods to the Greeks etc. Greeks called them Barberi, to confuse everyone. At the same time there were aboriginal people in the area like the Midgans, Hawaltarits, Azhurans etc.
"Midgan
It is likely that the Midgan, who number about 50,000 people in Somalia today, have perhaps for more than 7000 years, been a very serious and ferocious hunting and catching nomadic tribe. They have been great experts in archery, spear-throwing, and catching all kinds of animals even big animals like leopards, geopards, wild elephants, giraffe, ostrich, and snakes etc. by using traps made of ropes, nets and by making holes or pits in the earth. They have since ancient times not only been catching but killing animals, cleaning and selling their skins and drying their meat. Perhaps, their ancestors used to provide goods to the Puntite merchants of the coasts to be sold to the Egyptians of the Pharaonic period and other trading countries all through the last four thousand years."
"Hawaltiryat
They are builders of graves. (hawal: cemetery and Tiriyat: builders) These were the first Somali people who made concrete development in the land in the hoary past. They used to build small conical pyramids of stone on graves. The graves made by the Hawaltiryats thousand of years ago are still found at many places in Somalia.
Ajhuran
These ancient people were pure specimens of the Somali people. They were very intelligent and skilled in engineering works. They could build wells even in hard rocks, make caves and also draw figures in the caves in the mountains in ancient times. They were very beautiful and good people. Some of their descendents are still living in the central region of Somalia and in the Galla Sadame region of Ethiopia. They have a sense of nobility and beauty. Their ancient techniques of boring wells in the rocks is not lost; we do not know anything about them now. Whenever any archeological place is discovered, the Somali believe that the Ajhurans may have built it. The first President of independent Somalia, Ahmed Abdulla Osman, was an Ajhuran; his sub-tribe was Ogaden.
Galla
In ancient times they lived in southern Somalia and some also lived in north Somalia, but they gradually moved to western and south-western Somalia. They have been pastoralists for the last 3,000 years, and they have inhabited Somali since approximately 2,500 years ago. They have been driven away by the Somali tribes during the last ten centuries to Ethiopia and Kenya. Now they are mostly concentrated in Addis Ababa, Chima and Neghelee regions of Ethiopia and Kenya. The Gallas did not have an advanced civilization. A part of Galla population might have amalgamated with Azuran and Hawaltiryat."
There is a problem here, the people this auther refers to as Gallas is also known as Oromo. And to make life difficult for everyone the wikipedia says this:
"Galla can refer to:
The Ethiopian ethnic group known as the Oromo. (The name Galla is now often considered derogatory.)"
If any of the Oromo people read this please don't kill me!
Now we know simply that the Somalia was known as Puntland by the Egyptians from about 2350 BC to 600 BC. There is recorded history to that effect.
So the Puntites were quite sophisticated society by the end of Egyptian Pharoah rule. The Egypt went down to the Persian empire in 525 BC and 200 years later got taken over by the great Greek king Alexander of Macedonia. Hmmm... now I can see.
""Egypt, occupied by him in 332 B.C., was entrusted to Ptolemy, one of the generals of the victorious army. When the empire of Alexander broke after its founder's death, Ptolemy made himself ruler of an independent kingdom and founded a dynasty that lasted for nearly three hundred years... Gradually, the Red Sea became a regular highway of maritime commerce, by the end of first century B.C., Greek merchants from Egypt had developed a regular trade with India and were beginning to feel their way down the East African coast."1
This shows that they reached the ports of Puntland in the first century B.C."
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Did You Know.......
that Americans More Likely to Identify Themselves as Creationists Than as Evolutionists?
Check this.
"God created man in present form", is in 40 to 50% range in the years 1982 to 2007.
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Check this.
"God created man in present form", is in 40 to 50% range in the years 1982 to 2007.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Does History Repeat Itself or Are the West Stupid?
I remember back in late 1990's Israel supplying aerial maps of Iraqi Nuclear sites to West and getting the International Atomic Energy Agency all fired up to go into the private palaces of Sadam Husseign and his underlings. I remeber Mr Husseign kicking the International Atomic Energy Agency out of the country stating that there are spies among the inspectors, which was true - our man who "commited suicide" and Scott Ritter from US.
Now there is another one been waged against the Iranian regime. Change the frigging offending barstards.
"On 21 August, 2007, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency came to an "understanding" with Iran on a "work plan" for resolving outstanding "issues" tangentially related to the implementation of Iran’s Safeguards Agreement.
On the eve of what is expected to be the issuance of the final IAEA report on that resolution, the National Council of Resistance on Iran – the "political arm" of a U.S. State Department designated "terrorist organization" – has gone public with highly inflammatory charges that Iran (a) has recently established a "new command and control center" at a military site at Mojdeh, a suburb of Tehran, for a program code-named Lavizan-2, and (b) is actively pursuing "production of nuclear warheads" at a military site at Khojir, code-named B1-Nori-8500.
Great Zot!
The Iranian military is producing nuclear warheads in a suburb of Tehran?
The Iranian military has established a command and control center just outside Tehran for its burgeoning nuke-armed ballistic-missile force?
Hard to believe?
Well, at a Brussels news conference, NCRI "foreign affairs chief" Mohamad Mohaddessin presented space-satellite photo-images of the two alleged military sites.
Mohaddessin further charged the Khojir site was under the command of "missile expert" Mehdi Naghiyan Fesharaki.
So there!"
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Now there is another one been waged against the Iranian regime. Change the frigging offending barstards.
"On 21 August, 2007, Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency came to an "understanding" with Iran on a "work plan" for resolving outstanding "issues" tangentially related to the implementation of Iran’s Safeguards Agreement.
On the eve of what is expected to be the issuance of the final IAEA report on that resolution, the National Council of Resistance on Iran – the "political arm" of a U.S. State Department designated "terrorist organization" – has gone public with highly inflammatory charges that Iran (a) has recently established a "new command and control center" at a military site at Mojdeh, a suburb of Tehran, for a program code-named Lavizan-2, and (b) is actively pursuing "production of nuclear warheads" at a military site at Khojir, code-named B1-Nori-8500.
Great Zot!
The Iranian military is producing nuclear warheads in a suburb of Tehran?
The Iranian military has established a command and control center just outside Tehran for its burgeoning nuke-armed ballistic-missile force?
Hard to believe?
Well, at a Brussels news conference, NCRI "foreign affairs chief" Mohamad Mohaddessin presented space-satellite photo-images of the two alleged military sites.
Mohaddessin further charged the Khojir site was under the command of "missile expert" Mehdi Naghiyan Fesharaki.
So there!"
Read it all here.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Food I Eat
For a while I been thinking and working towords a proper diet for myself. First I should not have any tabboos. And I should not have my favourtes. Those are mind made. If I listen to my body with an analytical mind then decide what to eat everyday then I should be alright.
"The human digestive tract has about the same number of neurons as the spinal column."
Why did I start this rant?
"Paul Rozin is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and I call him the psychoanalyst of our eating disorder in America. He's done wonderfully creative experiments like conducting word/image association tests with different cultures. For example, he showed a picture of a slice of chocolate cake to an American audience and a French audience. The Americans look at it and their response is "guilt" or "calories," and that seems very understandable to us until you realize that there's another way to look at that. When he shows it to a French audience, their first response is "celebration." How much healthier is that?
We have this very narrow lens through which we're looking at our food, and I think it's robbing us of pleasure. Perhaps it would be worth looking at food in this guilt/health way if it actually made us healthier, but there is no evidence that worrying about your nutritional health makes you any healthier. In fact, we are the great food worriers of the world, and our nutritional health is really very poor. Why is that? I think a lot of our obsession with nutrients ends up becoming just another license for eating badly. When all those products became no-fat, people felt they could eat as much of them as possible, and we ended up getting very fat on that low-fat diet."
I went off butter due to my lazyness. I forget to put the bugger in the fridge and rancid butter is a vomit facter in the morning when you come into the kitchen to make your first cup of coffee. So I still buy the bloody marge init? It has become a thing I cannot control at the moment.
"In fact, when the government decided to tell people to stop eating fat or cut down on saturated fat, the science was very thin then. But the net result of that public health campaign was to essentially get people off of saturated fat or try to get them onto trans fats, and we've since learned that that was really bad advice because the link between trans fats and heart disease is the strongest link we have of any fat to heart disease. They told us butter is evil and margarine is good, and it turned out to be the opposite."
Do you like eating weeds? That is what our man says in this article I am reading. Because if we take care of everything for the plant to survive, it stops producing some of the ingredients it normally has. Now these ingredients are the ones which we need to absorb into our bodies as nutritional stuff. So if we do not stress the tomato plant by not giving it enough water it tastes better. How cruel? Bloody farmers init?
Hang on there is something funny here. Farmer tend to the plants and waters them regular and he produces say some tomatoes which have less nutrients. Now as the tomatoes have less nutrients we have to eat more tomatoes to get the same amount of nutrients. No wonder we got a problem of obesity?
Read this for more.
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"The human digestive tract has about the same number of neurons as the spinal column."
Why did I start this rant?
"Paul Rozin is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and I call him the psychoanalyst of our eating disorder in America. He's done wonderfully creative experiments like conducting word/image association tests with different cultures. For example, he showed a picture of a slice of chocolate cake to an American audience and a French audience. The Americans look at it and their response is "guilt" or "calories," and that seems very understandable to us until you realize that there's another way to look at that. When he shows it to a French audience, their first response is "celebration." How much healthier is that?
We have this very narrow lens through which we're looking at our food, and I think it's robbing us of pleasure. Perhaps it would be worth looking at food in this guilt/health way if it actually made us healthier, but there is no evidence that worrying about your nutritional health makes you any healthier. In fact, we are the great food worriers of the world, and our nutritional health is really very poor. Why is that? I think a lot of our obsession with nutrients ends up becoming just another license for eating badly. When all those products became no-fat, people felt they could eat as much of them as possible, and we ended up getting very fat on that low-fat diet."
I went off butter due to my lazyness. I forget to put the bugger in the fridge and rancid butter is a vomit facter in the morning when you come into the kitchen to make your first cup of coffee. So I still buy the bloody marge init? It has become a thing I cannot control at the moment.
"In fact, when the government decided to tell people to stop eating fat or cut down on saturated fat, the science was very thin then. But the net result of that public health campaign was to essentially get people off of saturated fat or try to get them onto trans fats, and we've since learned that that was really bad advice because the link between trans fats and heart disease is the strongest link we have of any fat to heart disease. They told us butter is evil and margarine is good, and it turned out to be the opposite."
Do you like eating weeds? That is what our man says in this article I am reading. Because if we take care of everything for the plant to survive, it stops producing some of the ingredients it normally has. Now these ingredients are the ones which we need to absorb into our bodies as nutritional stuff. So if we do not stress the tomato plant by not giving it enough water it tastes better. How cruel? Bloody farmers init?
Hang on there is something funny here. Farmer tend to the plants and waters them regular and he produces say some tomatoes which have less nutrients. Now as the tomatoes have less nutrients we have to eat more tomatoes to get the same amount of nutrients. No wonder we got a problem of obesity?
Read this for more.
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Study links heavy cell phone use to cancer
Scientists claim to have found a link between heavy cell phone usage and cancer of the salivary gland. The researchers suggest people use hands-free cell phones to avoid a risk...........................
Read it at the link
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Read it at the link
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
There is trouble ahead........
It is the Kosovo problem I am talking about. According to the countries who oppose the independance the EU did a sleight of hand to get the necessary agreement from the EU. It is a bit complicated; but I want to Make It Simple here.
I think the two former world wars staarted in that area. Then the west is trying to create a disturbance there. Why?
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I think the two former world wars staarted in that area. Then the west is trying to create a disturbance there. Why?
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Message from the Burma Campaign UK
Dear Friend
I am writing today with very sad news. On Thursday 14th February Padoh Mahn
Sha, the father of one of our staff members, Zoya Phan, was assassinated by
agents of the military regime in Burma. Two gunmen came to his house and
shot him in the chest.
Padoh Mahn Sha was General Secretary of the Karen National Union, which
represents the Karen ethnic group in Burma in their struggle for democracy
and human rights.
He was a greatly respected leader who had dedicated his life for the
struggle for freedom. He was killed because of his effective and principled
stand against the regime.
His assassination is yet more evidence, as if it were needed, that the
regime is determined to cling on to power, no matter what. They see leaders,
such as Padoh Mahn Sha, who speak out for freedom and justice, as a threat
to their survival.
Many of you will have seen Zoya Phan speak at events and on television news
or seen her articles in our magazine. You can view some of her speeches on
our website.
Zoya and her brothers and sister have set up a fund in memory of their
father. Donations can be made online. The fund
will be used to tackle poverty and provide education in Karen state, two
issues very close to Padoh Mahn Sha¹s heart. Please visit
. You can donate by credit card from any country or
you can send a cheque made out to ŒBurma Campaign UK¹ and post it to Padoh
Mahn Sha Fund, care of Burma Campaign UK, 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT,
UK.
A statement from the children of Padoh Mahn Sha, released on the day of his
death, follows below.
Anna Roberts
Director, The Burma Campaign UK
Statement from the children of Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan
We are very sad to lose a great father and a great leader.
We were lucky to have a father who was caring and full of love. He gave us
guidance and support, and taught us tolerance and to stand against
injustice. He could not give us wealth or luxury, but ensured that we had an
education and the opportunity to fulfill our potential
He was always humble, yet a strong and brave leader. He dedicated his life
to the struggle, and always put the welfare of his people and his country
before himself. His example of determination and self-sacrifice to win our
freedom won him the love and respect of not just the Karen people, but also
the Burmese democracy movement and of freedom loving people around the
world.
He will be remembered by many not only as an inspirational leader, but also
on a personal level for the many acts of kindness he performed for those who
needed help.
We are proud to be his children, as all Karen people and all people who long
for freedom in Burma are proud of him.
Our father may be dead, but we will remember him. He taught us that it was
our duty to work for the Karen people, and as his children we will continue
his dedicated work towards true freedom for our people and peace in our
country.
His determination for freedom and democracy lives on within us and within
the Karen people. He did not live to see freedom for our people, but his
dream will be fulfilled. The Karen, and all the people of Burma, will be
free.
We will be establishing a foundation in memory of our father.
Saw Say Say
Nant Bwa Bwa Phan
Nant Zoya Phan
Slone Phan
A brief biography of Padoh Mahn Sha
Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan was born in Rangoon on 5th July 1943.
He graduated from Rangoon University in 1966 with a degree in history.
He joined the Karen National Union (KNU) in 1963. In 1964 he became a member
of the KNU Central Committee, and was elected Joint General Secretary in
1995. He was elected General Secretary in 2000, and is also a member of the
Secretariat of the National Council of the Union of Burma, the umbrella
organisation representing organisations in the Burmese democracy movement.
Padoh Mahn Sha married Nant Kyin Shwe in 1976. She passed away on 31st July
2004. He is survived by four children, two sons and two daughters; Saw Say
Say, Nant Bwa Bwa Phan, Nant Zoya Phan, Slone Phan
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I am writing today with very sad news. On Thursday 14th February Padoh Mahn
Sha, the father of one of our staff members, Zoya Phan, was assassinated by
agents of the military regime in Burma. Two gunmen came to his house and
shot him in the chest.
Padoh Mahn Sha was General Secretary of the Karen National Union, which
represents the Karen ethnic group in Burma in their struggle for democracy
and human rights.
He was a greatly respected leader who had dedicated his life for the
struggle for freedom. He was killed because of his effective and principled
stand against the regime.
His assassination is yet more evidence, as if it were needed, that the
regime is determined to cling on to power, no matter what. They see leaders,
such as Padoh Mahn Sha, who speak out for freedom and justice, as a threat
to their survival.
Many of you will have seen Zoya Phan speak at events and on television news
or seen her articles in our magazine. You can view some of her speeches on
our website.
Zoya and her brothers and sister have set up a fund in memory of their
father. Donations can be made online. The fund
will be used to tackle poverty and provide education in Karen state, two
issues very close to Padoh Mahn Sha¹s heart. Please visit
you can send a cheque made out to ŒBurma Campaign UK¹ and post it to Padoh
Mahn Sha Fund, care of Burma Campaign UK, 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT,
UK.
A statement from the children of Padoh Mahn Sha, released on the day of his
death, follows below.
Anna Roberts
Director, The Burma Campaign UK
Statement from the children of Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan
We are very sad to lose a great father and a great leader.
We were lucky to have a father who was caring and full of love. He gave us
guidance and support, and taught us tolerance and to stand against
injustice. He could not give us wealth or luxury, but ensured that we had an
education and the opportunity to fulfill our potential
He was always humble, yet a strong and brave leader. He dedicated his life
to the struggle, and always put the welfare of his people and his country
before himself. His example of determination and self-sacrifice to win our
freedom won him the love and respect of not just the Karen people, but also
the Burmese democracy movement and of freedom loving people around the
world.
He will be remembered by many not only as an inspirational leader, but also
on a personal level for the many acts of kindness he performed for those who
needed help.
We are proud to be his children, as all Karen people and all people who long
for freedom in Burma are proud of him.
Our father may be dead, but we will remember him. He taught us that it was
our duty to work for the Karen people, and as his children we will continue
his dedicated work towards true freedom for our people and peace in our
country.
His determination for freedom and democracy lives on within us and within
the Karen people. He did not live to see freedom for our people, but his
dream will be fulfilled. The Karen, and all the people of Burma, will be
free.
We will be establishing a foundation in memory of our father.
Saw Say Say
Nant Bwa Bwa Phan
Nant Zoya Phan
Slone Phan
A brief biography of Padoh Mahn Sha
Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan was born in Rangoon on 5th July 1943.
He graduated from Rangoon University in 1966 with a degree in history.
He joined the Karen National Union (KNU) in 1963. In 1964 he became a member
of the KNU Central Committee, and was elected Joint General Secretary in
1995. He was elected General Secretary in 2000, and is also a member of the
Secretariat of the National Council of the Union of Burma, the umbrella
organisation representing organisations in the Burmese democracy movement.
Padoh Mahn Sha married Nant Kyin Shwe in 1976. She passed away on 31st July
2004. He is survived by four children, two sons and two daughters; Saw Say
Say, Nant Bwa Bwa Phan, Nant Zoya Phan, Slone Phan
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Did You Know.......
Did you know that during WW1 the collateral damage to civilians in the theater of war was 10%.
WW2 it went upto 50%
Vietnam war 70%
Iraq war 90%
Makes you think init?
The whole thing is all the time the bombs are getting more and more sophisticated and they are supposed to be smarter haha.
Makes me weep.
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WW2 it went upto 50%
Vietnam war 70%
Iraq war 90%
Makes you think init?
The whole thing is all the time the bombs are getting more and more sophisticated and they are supposed to be smarter haha.
Makes me weep.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Ave a laugh for a change
Salary rise
I, the Penis, hereby request a raise in salary for the following reasons:
I do physical labour.
I work at great depths.
I plunge headfirst into everything I do.
I do not get weekends or public holidays off.
I work in a damp environment.
I work in a dark workplace that has poor ventilation.
I work in high temperatures.
My work exposes me to contagious diseases.
Sincerely,
P. Niss
The Response :
Dear Penis:
After assessing your request, and considering the arguments you aave raised, the administration rejects your request for the following reasons:
You do not work 8 hours straight.
You fall asleep after brief work periods.
You do not always follow the orders of the management team.
You do not stay in your designated area and are often seen visiting other locations.
You do not take initiative - you need to be pressured and stimulated in order to start working.
You leave the workplace rather messy at the end of your shift.
You don't always observe necessary safety regulations, such as wearing the correct protective clothing.
You will retire well before you are 65.
You are unable to work double shifts.
You sometimes leave your designated work area before you have completed the assigned task.
And if that were not all, you have been seen constantly entering and exiting the workplace carrying two suspicious-looking bags.
Sincerely,
V. Gina
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I, the Penis, hereby request a raise in salary for the following reasons:
I do physical labour.
I work at great depths.
I plunge headfirst into everything I do.
I do not get weekends or public holidays off.
I work in a damp environment.
I work in a dark workplace that has poor ventilation.
I work in high temperatures.
My work exposes me to contagious diseases.
Sincerely,
P. Niss
The Response :
Dear Penis:
After assessing your request, and considering the arguments you aave raised, the administration rejects your request for the following reasons:
You do not work 8 hours straight.
You fall asleep after brief work periods.
You do not always follow the orders of the management team.
You do not stay in your designated area and are often seen visiting other locations.
You do not take initiative - you need to be pressured and stimulated in order to start working.
You leave the workplace rather messy at the end of your shift.
You don't always observe necessary safety regulations, such as wearing the correct protective clothing.
You will retire well before you are 65.
You are unable to work double shifts.
You sometimes leave your designated work area before you have completed the assigned task.
And if that were not all, you have been seen constantly entering and exiting the workplace carrying two suspicious-looking bags.
Sincerely,
V. Gina
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Blue Eyed People, Persuade People,
Did you know that before 10,000 to 6,000 years ago there were no blue eyed people in the world. According to the boffins it all started with this some one going mutant with blue eyes. Before that we were all brown eyed. The gene called OCA2 codes the colour of melanin.
Comes out of "A common ancestor for all blue-eyed people"
When your other half is feeling powerful do not try to convince that person on a new idea. It will not work according to the Boffins. They say wait until they feel defeated over some crap. Good init?
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Comes out of "A common ancestor for all blue-eyed people"
When your other half is feeling powerful do not try to convince that person on a new idea. It will not work according to the Boffins. They say wait until they feel defeated over some crap. Good init?
Read it all here.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Damn it I suffered,
Nice to be back and with the news; but without the internet connection for a bit, I say, I did enjoy somethings I have not been doing for a while as I had more important other-things to do, and I never thought I will ever say these words with conviction to boot. Say no more I do understand. Hmmmmm.....
Now and again I get this wistful thinking that there are others who read thease little ..... yeah rumblings, an old famous One called them but who am I to do that eh? But it is nice to imagine that sonmeone else is listening to what you figer into the keyboard.
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Now and again I get this wistful thinking that there are others who read thease little ..... yeah rumblings, an old famous One called them but who am I to do that eh? But it is nice to imagine that sonmeone else is listening to what you figer into the keyboard.
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Monday, February 04, 2008
Obama
Mr Obama is coming out into a prominant place in the democratic side of the presidential campaign. I am not a partcularly interested in the bloody US politics as it sucks. But I have to make a comment here as I found a little bit of news which I think is important when you think of the whole world.
"Obama is not, however, the product of the civil rights struggles against racial oppression, nor is he associated with any popular movement from below. His career has far more in common with those of Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, individuals selected and groomed by the American ruling class to carry out its policies. Like them, he is being used to put a new face on fundamentally reactionary policies and institutions."
And
"While the American people will cast ballots on November 4, the real decisions are made long before then, in the selection of candidates and framing of the election by the media and the corporate bosses and billionaires who finance and politically screen the candidates."
I wonder whether people in US realise this. Well even UK it looks like the same thing is happening; except I haven't any proof of it, as in written internet archives. Help appreciated if you know any articles of proof in your walk-arounds in the internet world.
Then
"The Times editorial says Obama “electrifies young voters ... because he embodies the desire to move to the next chapter of the American story.” It praises his early opposition to the war in Iraq, while noting approvingly his “understanding that some liberal orthodoxies developed during the last 40 years have been overtaken by history.” This last indicates that Obama has reassured the ruling elite that there will be no return to policies of liberal reform or expensive government social programs.
Then comes the meat of the argument: “An Obama presidency would present, as a distinctly American face, a man of African descent, born in the nation’s youngest state [Hawaii], with a childhood spent partly in Asia, among Muslims. No public relations campaign could do more than Obama’s mere presence in the White House to defuse anti-American passion around the world...”"
Mind this article is from "Socialist" side of politics.
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"Obama is not, however, the product of the civil rights struggles against racial oppression, nor is he associated with any popular movement from below. His career has far more in common with those of Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, individuals selected and groomed by the American ruling class to carry out its policies. Like them, he is being used to put a new face on fundamentally reactionary policies and institutions."
And
"While the American people will cast ballots on November 4, the real decisions are made long before then, in the selection of candidates and framing of the election by the media and the corporate bosses and billionaires who finance and politically screen the candidates."
I wonder whether people in US realise this. Well even UK it looks like the same thing is happening; except I haven't any proof of it, as in written internet archives. Help appreciated if you know any articles of proof in your walk-arounds in the internet world.
Then
"The Times editorial says Obama “electrifies young voters ... because he embodies the desire to move to the next chapter of the American story.” It praises his early opposition to the war in Iraq, while noting approvingly his “understanding that some liberal orthodoxies developed during the last 40 years have been overtaken by history.” This last indicates that Obama has reassured the ruling elite that there will be no return to policies of liberal reform or expensive government social programs.
Then comes the meat of the argument: “An Obama presidency would present, as a distinctly American face, a man of African descent, born in the nation’s youngest state [Hawaii], with a childhood spent partly in Asia, among Muslims. No public relations campaign could do more than Obama’s mere presence in the White House to defuse anti-American passion around the world...”"
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
Israel is No 1 threat to peace, says EU poll
Israel is No 1 threat to peace, says EU poll
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
Last Updated: 11:49pm GMT 03/11/2003
Europeans view Israel as the No 1 threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea, according to a European Commission survey yesterday.
The results prompted a furious reaction from the Israeli government, which has already accused the European Union of turning a blind eye to rising anti-Semitism.
The Eurobarometer poll of 7,500 EU residents found that 59 per cent deemed Israel "a threat to peace in the world", with the figures rising to 60 per cent in Britain, 65 in Germany, 69 in Austria and 74 in Holland.
advertisementFranco Frattini, Italy's foreign minister, apologised for the results on behalf of the EU, saying they sent "a false signal" and would not shape Middle East policy.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the poll was proof that Europe has swallowed the media's vilification of Israel "hook, line and sinker". The EU has long been accused by hardliners in America and Israel of tilting to the Arab side.
The list of 15 countries that might be a threat to peace was put together by a low-level EU unit in concert with Belgian members of EOS Gallup Europe. It was not cleared by foreign policy experts working for Chris Patten, the external relations commissioner. "We had nothing to do with it," said his spokesman.
In a twist that left analysts scratching their heads, the poll suggested that the British have turned against Washington even more sharply than the French or Germans. Asked if America posed a threat to peace, the "yes" response was 55 per cent in Britain, 52 in France and 45 in Germany.
In Greece, the figure reached 88 per cent, with 96 per cent calling the Iraq war "unjustified". But the EU itself is deemed a threat to peace by 18 per cent in Britain compared with eight per cent for the whole union. Only Denmark continues to back the Iraq war.
In Britain, a comfortable majority still thinks that the Government should keep troops in Iraq now that the country is committed. While the Dutch were the most worried about Israel, they were also alarmed by America, North Korea, Pakistan and China.
"This is the strangest poll I've ever seen. The Dutch have always been very pro-Israel and so I ask myself how can this possibly be?" said Ben Van Der Velde, European editor for the Rotterdam-based newspaper Handelsblad.
The poll was part of a regular series by the commission's press service and was intended to investigate views on the Iraq crisis.
Gallup questioned 500 people in each EU state - the same for 82 million Germans and 350,000 in Luxembourg - although the final results were "weighted".
The Israeli embassy in Brussels blamed the anti-Israel mood on reckless reporting by the European media, saying: "We are not only sad but outraged. Not at European citizens but at those who are responsible for forming public opinion."
The World Jewish Congress said Europe's elites had been playing with fire by routinely treating Israel as the Middle East villain.
In a recent case, Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of the departing president of the European Central Bank, called the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank worse than Nazi rule in Holland. Almost all of Holland's 100,000 Jews were exterminated by the Germans.
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
Last Updated: 11:49pm GMT 03/11/2003
Europeans view Israel as the No 1 threat to world peace, ahead of Iran and North Korea, according to a European Commission survey yesterday.
The results prompted a furious reaction from the Israeli government, which has already accused the European Union of turning a blind eye to rising anti-Semitism.
The Eurobarometer poll of 7,500 EU residents found that 59 per cent deemed Israel "a threat to peace in the world", with the figures rising to 60 per cent in Britain, 65 in Germany, 69 in Austria and 74 in Holland.
advertisementFranco Frattini, Italy's foreign minister, apologised for the results on behalf of the EU, saying they sent "a false signal" and would not shape Middle East policy.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said the poll was proof that Europe has swallowed the media's vilification of Israel "hook, line and sinker". The EU has long been accused by hardliners in America and Israel of tilting to the Arab side.
The list of 15 countries that might be a threat to peace was put together by a low-level EU unit in concert with Belgian members of EOS Gallup Europe. It was not cleared by foreign policy experts working for Chris Patten, the external relations commissioner. "We had nothing to do with it," said his spokesman.
In a twist that left analysts scratching their heads, the poll suggested that the British have turned against Washington even more sharply than the French or Germans. Asked if America posed a threat to peace, the "yes" response was 55 per cent in Britain, 52 in France and 45 in Germany.
In Greece, the figure reached 88 per cent, with 96 per cent calling the Iraq war "unjustified". But the EU itself is deemed a threat to peace by 18 per cent in Britain compared with eight per cent for the whole union. Only Denmark continues to back the Iraq war.
In Britain, a comfortable majority still thinks that the Government should keep troops in Iraq now that the country is committed. While the Dutch were the most worried about Israel, they were also alarmed by America, North Korea, Pakistan and China.
"This is the strangest poll I've ever seen. The Dutch have always been very pro-Israel and so I ask myself how can this possibly be?" said Ben Van Der Velde, European editor for the Rotterdam-based newspaper Handelsblad.
The poll was part of a regular series by the commission's press service and was intended to investigate views on the Iraq crisis.
Gallup questioned 500 people in each EU state - the same for 82 million Germans and 350,000 in Luxembourg - although the final results were "weighted".
The Israeli embassy in Brussels blamed the anti-Israel mood on reckless reporting by the European media, saying: "We are not only sad but outraged. Not at European citizens but at those who are responsible for forming public opinion."
The World Jewish Congress said Europe's elites had been playing with fire by routinely treating Israel as the Middle East villain.
In a recent case, Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of the departing president of the European Central Bank, called the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank worse than Nazi rule in Holland. Almost all of Holland's 100,000 Jews were exterminated by the Germans.
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Profits of Oil Companies
"Oil giant makes corporate history by booking $11.7 billion in quarterly profit; earns $1,300 a second in 2007."
From Exxon shatters profit records
"Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said fourth-quarter profit rose 29 percent as crude prices climbed to a record on their way to topping $100 a barrel last month."
FRom Chevron 4th-Quarter Profit Rises on Record Oil Prices
"Royal Dutch Shell, the world's second-largest publicly traded oil company, today reported net income up 60 percent last quarter to a record $8.47 billion, thanks to the same rising crude oil prices that most observers expect will lift the profits of Exxon Mobil and Chevron tomorrow to nearly historic levels."
From Shell Rakes in $8.5 Billion in Three Months
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From Exxon shatters profit records
"Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said fourth-quarter profit rose 29 percent as crude prices climbed to a record on their way to topping $100 a barrel last month."
FRom Chevron 4th-Quarter Profit Rises on Record Oil Prices
"Royal Dutch Shell, the world's second-largest publicly traded oil company, today reported net income up 60 percent last quarter to a record $8.47 billion, thanks to the same rising crude oil prices that most observers expect will lift the profits of Exxon Mobil and Chevron tomorrow to nearly historic levels."
From Shell Rakes in $8.5 Billion in Three Months
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Friday, February 01, 2008
The Houseing lark
Now my serious friends (do you know friends means fri (fry) ends meaning just that) this is going back to the good old days of 80's where we had a lot of good times in the 'squats' (occupy (a dwelling) illegally ). Now the times are back in the near future. I know the landlords had a very fine time due to the laws passed by the Thatcher gov and promised to get rid of by the Blair gov but didn't; but the landlords will not have enough doss to make their illegal play.
"Vacant homes attract vandals and depress property values," explained Douglas Robinson, spokesman for NeighborWorks America, a nonprofit created by Congress to offer financial and technical support and training for community-based revitalization. "This negatively affects existing owners and reduces local property tax revenues. But very few homeowners walk away, although those who do believe that is their best option. Of course, trying to get a loan modification so that the payments are affordable is their best option.""
Don't tell me I am heartless but due regards to those who saved money and bought houses and rented them to likes of me; this is just action in the Newtons 2nd law. Hmmmm equal forces and all that....
And then again I see a different view. I remember the council members of this fine city of Bristol letting the best sites in the city be taken over by the homeless (me mates were them) and getting the homeless to damage the premises to such an extent the value of property in the whole area goes down; so that one of the councilors' cronies can buy it at a cheaper rate and develope them.
In this article it...... you will understand:
"According to the county prosecutor, the 31-year-old Snyder allegedly offered to pay a neighbor $5,000 to help her burn down her house and make it look like a botched rape attempt - all in order to claim $80,000 in insurance money. Snyder wanted the neighbor to bind her hands in duct tape, write "whore" on her shirt, and then help her escape once the blaze was set, the prosecutor says. The neighbor demurred, instead reporting Snyder to police."
"Homeowners have crunched the numbers and decided their houses are worth less than their mortgages."
Good I cannot wait until it hits the social scene here. The frigging landlords had a very good time in the past taking money for nothing from people who can least afford it; or you are homeless. I lived in a house where the landlord did not do any paint and decorating for 7 years but frigging cunt raised the rent from £400 to £750 per month.
Back to the article
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Iraq
"More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday.
A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS).
The study based its findings on survey work involving the face-to-face questioning of 2,414 Iraqi adults aged 18 or above, and the last complete census in Iraq in 1997, which indicated a total of 4.05 million households.
Respondents were asked how many members of their household, if any, had died as a result of the violence in the country since 2003, and not because of natural causes.
"We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been in the order of 1,033,000," ORB said in a statement.
The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 percent, making the estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities."
From this.
And
"An Iraqi MP preferred to remain anonymous told the newspaper that highly confidential negotiations took place by representatives from American oil companies, offering $5 million to each MP who votes in favor of the Oil and Gas law.
The amount that could be paid to pass the votes do not exceed $150 million dollars in the case of $5 million to each MP, pointing out that the Oil law requires 138 votes to pass, which the Americans want to guarantee in many ways, including vote-buying, intimidation and threats!
Focusing on the heads of parliamentary blocs and influential figures in the parliament to ensure the votes, the Americans guaranteed the Kurdish votes in advance but they are seeking enough votes to pass and approve the law as soon as possible."
From this.
"The High Court today lifted a gagging order stopping the media reporting allegations of torture and brutality by British troops in Iraq.
Soldiers are said to have captured 31 Iraqis following an ambush in May 2004 before killing 22 and leaving only nine injured survivors after detaining them at military headquarters in Abu Naji.
However reporting restrictions imposed earlier on by the court have now been lifted following a petition by several national newspapers and the BBC.
It has been claimed the men were seized by the British Army following a firefight on the road from Amara to Basra, near Majar al-Kabir in south-east Iraq.
Iraqi families and survivors are seeking compensation and a ruling at a High Court hearing, due to start in the near future, that the Government is legally obliged to set up an independent inquiry into the incident.
Death certificates to go before the court are said to state that corpses of Iraqis rounded up showed signs of "mutilation" and "torture"."
From this.
And lastly:
"I'm 32 and I am a trained psychopathic murderer. The only things I can do are to sell youths the idea of joining the marines and kill. I am not able to keep a job. For me civilians are despicable people, mentally retarded and weak persons, a flock of sheep. I am their sheepdog. I am a predator. In the army they used to call me Jimmy, the Shark".
From this.
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A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS).
The study based its findings on survey work involving the face-to-face questioning of 2,414 Iraqi adults aged 18 or above, and the last complete census in Iraq in 1997, which indicated a total of 4.05 million households.
Respondents were asked how many members of their household, if any, had died as a result of the violence in the country since 2003, and not because of natural causes.
"We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been in the order of 1,033,000," ORB said in a statement.
The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 percent, making the estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities."
From this.
And
"An Iraqi MP preferred to remain anonymous told the newspaper that highly confidential negotiations took place by representatives from American oil companies, offering $5 million to each MP who votes in favor of the Oil and Gas law.
The amount that could be paid to pass the votes do not exceed $150 million dollars in the case of $5 million to each MP, pointing out that the Oil law requires 138 votes to pass, which the Americans want to guarantee in many ways, including vote-buying, intimidation and threats!
Focusing on the heads of parliamentary blocs and influential figures in the parliament to ensure the votes, the Americans guaranteed the Kurdish votes in advance but they are seeking enough votes to pass and approve the law as soon as possible."
From this.
"The High Court today lifted a gagging order stopping the media reporting allegations of torture and brutality by British troops in Iraq.
Soldiers are said to have captured 31 Iraqis following an ambush in May 2004 before killing 22 and leaving only nine injured survivors after detaining them at military headquarters in Abu Naji.
However reporting restrictions imposed earlier on by the court have now been lifted following a petition by several national newspapers and the BBC.
It has been claimed the men were seized by the British Army following a firefight on the road from Amara to Basra, near Majar al-Kabir in south-east Iraq.
Iraqi families and survivors are seeking compensation and a ruling at a High Court hearing, due to start in the near future, that the Government is legally obliged to set up an independent inquiry into the incident.
Death certificates to go before the court are said to state that corpses of Iraqis rounded up showed signs of "mutilation" and "torture"."
From this.
And lastly:
"I'm 32 and I am a trained psychopathic murderer. The only things I can do are to sell youths the idea of joining the marines and kill. I am not able to keep a job. For me civilians are despicable people, mentally retarded and weak persons, a flock of sheep. I am their sheepdog. I am a predator. In the army they used to call me Jimmy, the Shark".
From this.
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