The results of the Australian elections, just held, have highlighted a number of things that, if not addressed, will spell the end of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in terms of the party being able to retain any future support of the Australian electorate. read full story
One aspect of the Australian Government in which coup-leader Julia Gillard played a major role as Deputy Prime Minister has been very conveniently swept aside by Gillard and her off-siders during the current Australian election campaign has been the totally failed home insulation scheme through which four people subsequently died, a number of Australian were injured and through which over 200 Australian homes were destroyed by fire.
According to UN estimates, more than 100 million people are homeless. Dr. Wally N'Dow, Secretary General of Habitat II said that the majority of Homeless are woman and dependent children. However, in Buenos Aires, the Interparroquial mutual aid service, states, that the new homeless profile has changed since the 1990s. They say that today 80 percent of the homeless are men, and only 20% are women.
The sex scandals in catholic churches There are far too many news items about priests from the catholic churches indulging in sex activities. This is a bad reputation for the Christiana community.Something needs to be done to quell this completely.
Kingdom of Thailand: The Soul of the Silent Tree The Sun Maker was covering Thailand, specifically Thailand´s Environment and Foundations working in Thailand in environmental education, when the streets of Bangkok shifted the focus. As we observed the Red Shirts, in what is their given right to take the streets to protest, we paused. Our source says; "The Red Shirts support deposed Billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra who did billion Baht deals with the Burmese Generals." The information published by the international media agree with this statement. The contrast between the Bangkok of politics, the Thailand of advertising, the breathtaking environment of Thailand, and the Thailand which seems to escape our knowing, turned us idle. In the wet tropical forest of the Thailand and Burma border the day becomes mid sunny morning. There is no rain in sight, no clouds either, the insects hidden away give away their presence with an orchestration of natural streaks. A young girl plants a small tree with care in the place she picked out herself. There are no cities where she lives, no noise, no time fading away. Her imagination runs free, her eyes wide open, dream the growth of her small tree, silently...
Want to Change the World? End FGM, says Development Workers For girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, one cultural practice is all that stands between them and the struggle for life and dignity.
According to development workers, ending this rite alone would stem the tide against AIDS, reduce maternal and infant mortality and encourage respect for women’s human rights throughout the developing world.
THE POPE. HE SHOULD GO AND GO NOW. Ah yes, another week of religious upheavals within the catholic religion and how wonderful it is to see what can only be described as an unaccountable, greedy lot of pedophiles and their protectors go down in a screaming heap having to defend the indefensible and not making a very good job of it.
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RELIGIOUS SCANDAL FOR THE VATICAN These people within the Vatican walls must think it's Christmas or something and they must certainly be counting their blessings due to the fact that they seem to have gotten away with more revelations of child-abuse and other crimes without having to lift a finger. Bloody disgusting it is.
MOSSAD CONFIRMS ISRAELI ROGUE STATE STATUS Mossad, Israel's secret service organisation, by its most recent actions, has confirmed Israel's status as a rogue state.
The organisation, and thus Israel, have been accused by Dubai authorities of killing Hamas operative Mahmoud Al-Mabhoud in a luxury hotel in Dubai, sending a number of Israeli agents travelling on false passports.
SACK THE POPE - AND TURN THE VATICAN INTO A FINE ARTS MUSEUM Well might you say, "You can't be serious making that statement" and I would then reply that I am very serious in terms of what I am saying and that I have a substantial number of very good reasons for doing so...
WAR CRIMES SUSPECT TONY BLAIR. ARREST HIM, CHARGE HIM, CONVICT HIM, JAIL HIM The evidence provided by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to a UK inquiry may have taken him six hours to provide but it will take him the rest of his miserable life to live down the consequences of his actions - actions that, to me, are much less admirable than what the British public would have and should have expected from a British Prime Minister.
GUANTANAMO DETAINEES FARCE As was expected, it only took the Obama administration to back-track on its commitment to legalise past illegal US processes that were taking place at the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp during the Bush era.
IRISH BLASPHEMY LAWS A RELIGIOUS NONSENSE Ah yes, trust the Irish Government to put both left feet into an issue where sound and competent Governments would and should never venture unless such Governments have a desire to look like complete fools as well as idiots, the conclusion being that the Irish Government is certainly able to classed as incompetent and well as a little 'strange'.
THE YEAR 2010. MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS YEAR. DEMAND STRONGER ACCOUNTABILITY AND DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS While the year 2009 might well have been a bit of an eye-opener for some people, in overall terms, apart from some major disasters, year 2009 was a rather forgettable one for more people.
With any luck, however, year 2010 might well be a somewhat different in numerous different ways.
On the international scene, Iraq and Afghanistan are still major trouble spots at this point in time, while 2010 will see Yemen will be one country to watch in terms of Al-Qaeda and related insurgency.
DRASTIC ACTION NEEDED TO SAVE ISLAND STATES - TUVALU AND KIRIBATI NOW IN SERIOUS TROUBLE It was rather interesting to see the conclusions that were reached, or the lack thereof, at the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. There appeared to be plenty of waffle but very little action. The final communique, which states that the world will aim for a 'not above 2c' rise in temperatures might well setting off alarm bells in small, low-altitude island nations in the Pacific as well as the Caribbean.
CLOSE DOWN THE IRISH CATHOLIC CHURCH AND START AFRESH UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT For those people of the catholic faith, and especially for catholics in Ireland, the recently released 700-page Murphy Report into child sex abuse and rape must have been made their blood boil.
The report contains 700 pages of details about a systemic regime of blatant and disgusting child abuse and attempts by the Irish catholic hierarchy to hide some most serious criminal offences by a little help of a number of senior Irish police officers.
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