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Stolen elections/Check out this petition!
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Check out this petition!
http://www.democrats.com/no-stolen-election-2008?
I signed "No Stolen Election 2008"
As the election draws closer, a quiet battle is raging all across America -- the
battle to protect our votes. Republican operatives are working overtime to
manipulate the election, using tactics right out of Karl Rove's playbook.
Their goal: suppress Democratic voters, disenfranchise poor and minority
citizens, do whatever it takes to get John McCain and Sarah Palin in the White
House.  
We all remember the Florida 2000 debacle. Katherine Harris handed the election
to George W. Bush with her voter list "purges" and her crooked recounts. We
can't let it happen again.
This petition is sponsored by the Secretary of State Project, an independent
progressive organization devoted to electing Secretaries of State who will count
every vote.
http://www.democrats.com/no-stolen-election-2008?
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From: "Peace network"
Subject: Fw: Sponsor
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:45:56 +0000
Dear friend we are looking NOW for national and international: partners,
sponsors, grants and supporters for the projects:
I. For helping children and orphans
1.. Long Distance adoption project
It is our intent to continue helping children from two orphanages located
in two major cities in the Republic of Moldova. We are continually seeking
sponsors who would be willing to provide monthly financial support to one or
more orphaned children in Moldova. Termed "adoptive parents", the sponsors are
requested to send money to assist individual "adopted children" from the orphanages. This would enable the orphans, who receive only a weak support from
the state, to receive greater benefits through the support offered by their
"adoptive parents". This aid would allow for the provision of clothing, school
supplies, medical care and the satisfaction of all the child's basic needs. This
program is a long-term project and is still developing.
For photos of prospective supportable orphans please contact the
director, Nicolae Cirpala at irff@pisem.net
Join this project by sponsorship or volunteer work here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/long_distance_adoption_project.html
The Children's planet project
Beginning in January, the main goal of this project is to educate the
young generation in the spirit of care for everything which represents life on
earth and to prevent global warming. This project, which will be divided into
two parts, will involve both the planting of trees to improve the local
environment and the participation in the annual ‘Children’s Planet’
festival at the National Palace.
Support the festival here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html 3. The festival Flower of peace
This event will take place at the National Palace on September 21 and will
be dedicated to the International Day of Peace. At the festival young talents
from all over the world including, Moldova, Ukraine and Romania will perform. Partners: 1. The Women's Federation for Peace,2. Silver bells Organization.
Support the festival here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
II. For helping youth INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS ACADEMY
1. Community Service Projects
As part of the 'Youth Change the World' initiative which represents a
network of 40 youth clubs from different localities of the Republic of Moldova,
our intent is to perform community service and ecological projects in all the
localities involved in our initiative during this spring. This project will
culminate in a large scale ecological project.
Join by supporting here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
2. "The impact of youth in mass-media for peace" project
This project, which will be held in the summer of 2008, will include
trainings, a summer camp workshop, community service projects and media summer
schools on various topics, ending with the Media Festival dedicated to the
International Youth Day.
3. The Voice of Community project
Together with Radio Singera we are planning on launching the "Voice of the
community" radio program. This will represent a range of weekly broadcasts
oriented toward serving the communities of approximately 100000 radio listeners,
including those in the capital city.
Add you support here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
III. For helping families and elders
1. The project for micro financing of the family businesses
This project, which will begin in June, will consist of diagnostic and
consultancy support for the micro financing of family businesses and will end
in an international conference where the code of ethics for business will be
signed and awards will be offered for the best family businesses from the
Republic of Moldova.
Join it: http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
2. The Health Expo
This project will involve cooperation between traditional and
nontraditional medicine and will present the Health Expo, with the participation
of 100 physicians, 100 NGOs, 200 medicine students and 100 peer-educators from
the country.
Invest in health:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
3. Monthly peace building conferences and projects
According to our established plans, it is our intent to organize monthly
meetings and projects regarding the creation of a 'culture of peace'. Well known
personalities from the scientific, cultural and mass-media spheres, to name a
few, will be invited. These meetings and peacebuilding projects will result in
an important scientific conference at the end of the year called "Family and the
culture of peace in the Republic of Moldova" and BIG International Peace
Festival.
For this project we are looking for: national and international partners,
sponsors, participants, volunteers and supporters. Contact us for details at:
irff@pisem.net
Invest in peace building here:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
Contact us for more info about becoming partners, sponsors, participants,
volunteers, grants and supporters for our projects: Tel/Fax
(37322)73-83-30,Mob.(373)69-00-63-51,
or just join by monthly or single donations for the projects with any
amount here: http://www.irffmd.net/public/make_a_donation.html
Announcements:
fast-paced non-profit organization for our Volunteer and training program:
"Today’s Youth- Tomorrow’s Leaders"-2008
We are looking for youths who are able to take initiative and have good
written and verbal communication skills. This program will assist you in
developing and practicing your leadership abilities..
Participants from our country and abroad will have the possibility to
participate on our projects as volunteers.
This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn more about peace
building, meet members of the nonprofit community in Moldova and learn about the
logistics of a membership organization.
Next program's are:
-Project proposals
-Photo/video
- Promote youself throw you oun newsletter
- English
Monthly program fee for international participants is €30
Application: You may join the program any month by e-mailing your
participation confirmation by the 1st day of the month to Cirpala Nicolae,
Program Coordinator at irff@pisem.net , and the completed application
form.
Application form:
1. Please describe your motivation to participate on our program:
2. Shortly describe your past experience in similar programs:
3. State your opinion about the benefits of the contribution given by
volunteers in society:
Name:
Email:
Messenger: (skype, yahoo, etc.)
Please go to our FORUM from the home page of our web for any questions,
suggestions, comments and info.
2 A. F. IRFF ONLUS is seeking year around youth for internship
applications to work for our rapidly growing, fast-paced non-profit
organization. We are looking for youth who is able to take initiative, and has
good written and verbal communication skills. No phone calls please. Email or
mail resume, cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, education and professional,
experience to Cirpala Nicolae, Program Coordinator at irff@pisem.net More on
www.irffmd.net
3. Ajuta sinistratii inundatiilor in Moldova / Help victims of floods in
Moldova
Rom: Guvernul a deschis conturi bancare pe care oamenii pot
transfera bani pentru a-i ajuta pe cei care au avut de suferit in urma
inundatiilor.
1) În lei moldoveneşti
Beneficiar: Ministerul Finanţelor al Republicii Moldova –
Trezoreria Centrală
Contul beneficiarului: 3357003
Codul fiscal al beneficiarului: 1006601000037
Contul trezorerial: 460100000000002
Banca beneficiarului: Ministerul Finantelor Trezoreria Centrala
Codul băncii: TREZMD2X
Destinaţia plăţii: Lichidarea consecinţelor inundaţiilor 2008
2) În dolari SUA (USD)
Beneficiar: Ministerul Finanţelor – Trezoreria Centrală
Contul beneficiarului: 3261584015
Codul fiscal al beneficiarului: 1006601000037
Banca beneficiarului: Banca Naţională a Moldovei
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
Contul corespondent al BNM: Federal Rezerve Bank, NY, SWIFT: FRNY US
33, account no. 021087125
Destinaţia plăţii: Lichidarea consecinţelor inundaţiilor 2008
460100000000002 (contul trezorerial)
3) În EURO (EUR)
Beneficiar: Ministerul Finantelor al Republicii Moldova –
Trezoreria Centrala
Contul beneficiarului: 3261797815
Codul fiscal al beneficiarului: 1006601000037
Banca beneficiarului: Banca Nationala a Moldovei
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
Contul corespondent al BNM: De Nederlandsche Bank N. V., Amsterdam,
SWIFT: FLOR NL 2A, account no. – 060.01.26.226
Destinaţia plăţii: Lichidarea consecinţelor inundaţiilor 2008
460100000000002 (contul trezorerial)
Si Mitropolia Basarabiei a deschis un cont bancar pentru sinistrati:
BC ”Victoriabank” S.A.
Cod bancar 280101416
Cont MDL 22510000186757
De asemenea, doritorii pot acorda ajutoarele materiale, î
mbrăcăminte şi obiecte de primă necesitate, prin intermediul Agenţiei
Rezerve Materiale, Achiziţii Publice şi Ajutoare Umanitare pe adresa:
Republica Moldova, mun.Chişinău, str.Columna, 118/1. Telefon de contact:
24-33-66
Eng: The government has opened bank accounts that people can transfer
money to assist those who had suffered after the flood.
1) In MDL
Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova - > Central Treasury
The beneficiary: 3357003
Fiscal Code of the beneficiary: 1006601000037
The trezorerial: 460100000000002
Bank beneficiary: Ministry of Finance Central Treasury
Bank code: TREZMD2X
The destination of payment: Liquidation of the 2008 floods
2) In U.S. dollars (USD)
Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance - Central Treasury
The beneficiary: 3261584015
Fiscal Code of the beneficiary: 1006601000037
Bank beneficiary: National Bank of Moldova
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
The correspondent for the NBM: Federal Reserves Bank, NY, SWIFT:
FRNY U.S. 33, account no. 021087125
The destination of payment: Validation of the consequences of floods
in 2008 460100000000002 (trezorerial account)
3) Euro (EUR)
Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova -
Central Treasury
The beneficiary: 3261797815
Fiscal Code of the beneficiary: 1006601000037
Bank beneficiary: National Bank of Moldova
SWIFT: NBMDMD2X
The correspondent for the NBM: De Nederlandsche Bank NV, Amsterdam,
SWIFT: FLOR NL 2A, account no. -- 060.01.26.226
The destination of payment: Validation of the consequences of floods
in 2008 460100000000002 (trezorerial account)
And Metropolis of Bessarabia opened a bank account for sinistrati:
BC "Victoriabank" S.A.
Banking Code 280101416
MDL Account 22510000186757
You also may wish to help with aid materials, clothing and articles
of first necessity, through Agency, Public and Humanitarian Aid address:
Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, str.Columna, 118 / 1. Telephone contact: 24-33-66
Briefly:
International Relief and Friendship Foundation Moldova:
Help orphans live and study just for a 1Euro/day:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/long_distance_adoption_project.html
Year around Youth and volunteers programs and projects, Internship:
http://www.irffmd.net/public/events_archive_2006.html
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Supporter of UN MDGs, Global Peace Festival and UPF:
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macain/sarah article [great comment]
About this category: Peace, Conflict & Governance
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http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-and-mccains-shotgun-marriage
The reason that McCain and
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 17:47 — LClark (not verified)
The reason that McCain and Palin can stand there and spew the garbage that they do without the slightest concern for the repercussions is that they already know what the outcome will be. They know that the plan to steal this election is already in operation and they're banking on it. The republican party doesn't play by democratic rules--the speeches and posturing are just a dog-and-pony show to help distract the press and the voters from noticing that THE THEFT OF AMERICA IS IN PROGRESS NOW. Which should be front page news. The more stupid and outrageous they are, the more press time they take up and the more people's attention is diverted from the real election process--purging voter lists, pre-loading electronic voting machines with McCain votes, creating "bugs" in the counting software, bribing election personnel, disenfranchising as many as possible who would vote democratic. So we need to pay less attention to the illusory face of Oz and more to the operations of the man behind the curtain... I think the american voters have been given short shrift of late. It isn't that we're stupid--anyone with even half a functioning marble can see that what Obama proposes would be good for American and what McCain represents (he hasn't bothered to propose anything) would be a final resounding flush toward sending everything we care about (planet included) down the toilet--it's that our democracy well... it isn't one anymore.
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Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage
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http://www.truthout.org/article/palin-and-mccains-shotgun-marriage
Sunday 07 September 2008
by: Frank Rich, The New York Times
Sarah Palin makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night. By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech - longer even than Barack Obama's - you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum's rush.
Still, attention must be paid. McCain's address, though largely a repetitive slew of stump-speech lines and worn G.O.P. orthodoxy, reminded us of what we once liked about the guy: his aspirations to bipartisanship, his heroic service in Vietnam, his twinkle. He took his (often inaccurate) swipes at Obama, but, in winning contrast to Palin and Rudy Giuliani, he wasn't smug or nasty.
The only problem, of course, is that the entire thing was a sham.
As is nakedly evident, the speech's central argument, that the 72-year-old McCain will magically morph into a powerful change agent as president, is a non sequitur. In his 26 years in Washington, most of it with a Republican in the White House and roughly half of it with Republicans in charge of Congress, he was better at lecturing his party about reform than leading a reform movement. G.O.P. corruption and governmental dysfunction only grew. So did his cynical flip-flops on the most destructive policies of the president who remained nameless Thursday night. (In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love that dare not speak its name.)
Even more fraudulent, if that's possible, is the contrast between McCain's platonic presentation of his personal code of honor and the man he has become. He always puts his country first, he told us: 'I've been called a maverick.' If there was any doubt that that McCain has fled, confirmation arrived with his last-minute embrace of Sarah Palin.
We still don't know a lot about Palin except that she's better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter's right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.
She didn't say 'no thanks' to the 'Bridge to Nowhere' until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers' money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed 'she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,' she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her 'executive experience' as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: 'It's not rocket science. It's $6 million and 53 employees.' Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.
How long before we learn she never shot a moose?
Given the actuarial odds that could make Palin our 45th president, it would be helpful to know who this mystery woman actually is. Meanwhile, two eternal axioms of our politics remain in place. Americans vote for the top of the ticket, not the bottom. And in judging the top of the ticket, voters look first at the candidates' maiden executive decision, their selection of running mates. Whatever we do and don't know about Palin's character at this point, there is no ambiguity in what her ascent tells us about McCain's character and potential presidency.
He wanted to choose the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman as his vice president. If he were still a true maverick, he would have done so. But instead he chose partisanship and politics over country. 'God only made one John McCain, and he is his own man,' said the shafted Lieberman in his own tedious convention speech last week. What a pathetic dupe. McCain is now the man of James Dobson and Tony Perkins. The 'no surrender' warrior surrendered to the agents of intolerance not just by dumping his pal for Palin but by moving so far to the right on abortion that even Cindy McCain seemed unaware of his radical shift when being interviewed by Katie Couric last week.
That ideological sellout, unfortunately, was not the worst leadership trait the last-minute vice presidential pick revealed about McCain. His speed-dating of Palin reaffirmed a more dangerous personality tic that has dogged his entire career. His decision-making process is impetuous and, in its Bush-like preference for gut instinct over facts, potentially reckless.
As The New York Times reported last Tuesday, Palin was sloppily vetted, at best. McCain operatives and some of their press surrogates responded to this revelation by trying to discredit The Times article. After all, The Washington Post had cited McCain aides (including his campaign manager, Rick Davis) last weekend to assure us that Palin had a 'full vetting process.' She had been subjected to 'an F.B.I. background check,' we were told, and 'the McCain camp had reviewed everything it could find on her.'
The Times had it right. The McCain campaign's claims of a 'full vetting process' for Palin were as much a lie as the biographical details they've invented for her. There was no F.B.I. background check. The Times found no evidence that a McCain representative spoke to anyone in the State Legislature or business community. Nor did anyone talk to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically 'a Google,' he wasn't joking.
This is a roll of the dice beyond even Bill Clinton's imagination. 'Often my haste is a mistake,' McCain conceded in his 2002 memoir, 'but I live with the consequences without complaint.' Well, maybe it's fine if he wants to live with the consequences, but what about his country? Should the unexamined Palin prove unfit to serve at the pinnacle of American power, it will be too late for the rest of us to complain.
We've already seen where such visceral decision-making by McCain can lead. In October 2001, he speculated that Saddam Hussein might have been behind the anthrax attacks in America. That same month he out-Cheneyed Cheney in his repeated public insistence that Iraq had a role in 9/11 - even after both American and foreign intelligence services found that unlikely. He was similarly rash in his reading of the supposed evidence of Saddam's W.M.D. and in his estimate of the number of troops needed to occupy Iraq. (McCain told MSNBC in late 2001 that we could do with fewer than 100,000.) It wasn't until months after 'Mission Accomplished' that he called for more American forces to be tossed into the bloodbath. The whole fiasco might have been prevented had he listened to those like Gen. Eric Shinseki who faulted the Rumsfeld war plan from the start.
In other words, McCain's hasty vetting of Palin was all too reminiscent of his grave dereliction of due diligence on the war. He has been no less hasty in implying that we might somehow ride to the military rescue of Georgia ('Today, we are all Georgians') or in reaffirming as late as December 2007 that the crumbling anti-democratic regime of Pervez Musharraf deserved 'the benefit of the doubt' even as it was enabling the resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. McCain's blanket endorsement of Bush administration policy in Pakistan could have consequences for years to come.
'This election is not about issues' so much as the candidates' images, said the McCain campaign manager, Davis, in one of the season's most notable pronouncements. Going into the Republican convention, we thought we knew what he meant: the McCain strategy is about tearing down Obama. But last week made clear that the McCain campaign will be equally ruthless about deflecting attention from its own candidate's deterioration.
Palin and McCain's Shotgun Marriage
Sunday 07 September 2008
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by: Frank Rich, The New York Times
What was most striking about McCain's acceptance speech is that it had almost nothing in common with the strident right-wing convention that preceded it. We were pointedly given a rerun of McCain 2000 - cobbled together from scraps of the old Straight Talk repertory. The ensuing tedium was in all likelihood intentional. It's in the campaign's interest that we nod off and assume McCain is unchanged in 2008.
That's why the Palin choice was brilliant politics - not because it rallied the G.O.P.'s shrinking religious-right base. America loves nothing more than a new celebrity face, and the talking heads marched in lock step last week to proclaim her a star. Palin is a high-energy distraction from the top of the ticket, even if the provenance of her stardom is in itself a reflection of exactly what's frightening about the top of the ticket.
By hurling charges of sexism and elitism at any easily cowed journalist who raises a question about Palin, McCain operatives are hoping to ensure that whatever happened in Alaska with Sarah Palin stays in Alaska. Given how little vetting McCain himself has received this year - and that only 58 days remain until Nov. 4 - they just might pull it off.
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believes grizzly bears should be killed. She wants to pass a law that allows aerial
killing of wolves. Buffalo steak is an all time favorite meal.
The republican bait now is the Catholic church.
Middle class Americans and Latins are the target and the great majority of them are Catholic. These are people who are faithful to the Catholic church who rules with the flesh of Christ bleeding over a cross. If you are well informed you know that the Catholic Church has been paid to write history for generations. The history books are full of lies about our ancestors.
Palin, A woman strongly disliked by animal lovers, who is pro life
but loves the sport of hunting is appealing to Catholics. She believes in sending young men to war. She caters to those with handicapped children by putting on a big show starring her mongoloid child and her pregnant daughter with her boyfriend who doesn't want kids. The entertainment is not complete without the appearance of a Native American Indian and African American man who join them in their all American front to keep people from thinking. Take the words away and the great spectacle they put on has no real connection to the heart of man. Again people are being driven by superficial means.
I believe we can be clever enough to blow their cover as long as we
remain connected in heart and spirit with one another.
Love is thicker than blood
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Project Iris - Currency Indicator Device
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For Colorss Foundation the months of July and August had been hectic. We were busy carrying out surveys and meeting people. As mentioned in the last blog we are still doing a survey to find out the monetary transaction patters of visually impaired people. Its really important to trust when it comes to monetary transactions.
We are about to launch Project Iris - 'Iris' is a small, easy to use and simple mechanical device that will help identify Indian currency to visually impaired people of India. The device 'Iris' would empower visually impaired people. In the initial phase we plan for national launch and then move to other countries as well.
Survey response has been good, we do encourage more who can help us get questionnaires filled up by visually impaired people. These inputs will enhance us.
Our website is under constructions, we are looking for volunteers who can help design us a website. We need volunteers for other areas of work too.. If anyone is interested please email me at anand.koti@gmail.com.
Thanking you very much for your time and energy.
For Love,
Anand
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next up.
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Bu…uut we still have the same cycle.
In labels and in particular, now since we have the game ready, I invite new users who are willing to go through the game and lend it their story.
We take it from there into a collaborative narrative which we’ll bring to life.I call it interactive fiction.But it’ll also grow into a visual and performance/experiential tale which should burst out into mythic proportions, invoking all your heroes and heroines,all your totems and gods and goddesses.
But we will be beginning and ending with you as protagonist/ess.Your new avatar will also be called upon to cull it’s courage and occupy performative roles in print and in shows.(Only if you’re comfortable with it)
It’s a whole new persona.
Join us at the labelsthinktank or write to me at project.labels@gmail.com!

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Billion lack WATER sanitation
Related to country: Nigeria About this category: Health & Wellness
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Water is essential for all dimensions of life. Over the past few decades, use of water has increased, and in many places water availability is falling to crisis levels. More than eighty countries, with forty percent of the world's population, are already facing water shortages, while by year 2020 the world's population will double. The costs of water infrastructure have risen dramatically. The quality of water in rivers and underground has deteriorated, due to pollution by waste and contaminants from cities, industry and agriculture. Ecosystems are being destroyed, sometimes permanently. Over one billion people lack safe water, and three billion lack sanitation; eighty per cent of infectious diseases are waterborne, killing millions of children each year.
- World Bank Institute WATER POLICY REFORM PROGRAM - Nov. 1999
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"Quotes of the day"
Related to country: Nigeria About this category: Health & Wellness
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If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
- Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey, 1957
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Национализм в России или Разве россиян волнует ситуация на Южном Кавказе?
Related to country: Russia About this category: Peace, Conflict & Governance
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ниже привожу текст заметки с сайта http://www.newsland.ru
http://www.newsland.ru/News/Detail/id/292340/cat/78/
а также один из комментариев(грамматика авторская).
а что вы думаете по этому поводу?
и вообще - что сейчас происходит в России?
чем все закончится?
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Разве россиян волнует ситуация на Южном Кавказе?
2 сентября 2008 08:18
Удивлён! Боже мой!!!! Признаться, я и представить не мог, что у нас в России людей так волнует ситуация на Южном Кавказе. Более того! Они представляют оное происшествие как трагедию!
Я, наверное, покажусь вам через чур циничным (но что есть цинизм - голая, неретушированная правда), но вспомним слова нашего великого (конечно, некоторые будут до потери пульса спорить со мной) соотечественника (кстати, грузина по национальности, человека, политика которого и зародила данный конфликт) Иосифа Виссарионовича Сталина: «Смерть одного человека – это трагедия. А смерть миллионов – это статистика». Можете призирать меня, однако, вдумайтесь в эти слова.
Вдумайтесь. Как точно! И эти тысячи (а осетин погибло там явно около 3 тысяч, а то и ещё больше)! Не верите? Спросите у людей, простых своих сограждан, кто волею судьбы оказался в Цхинвали 8 августа. Ой! Убеждаю вас, мои дорогие, они много вам чего интересного расскажут: и про нашу доблестную и непобедимую армию и про зверства грузин. Ну да ладно - пусть даже некоторые наивности верят нашим «честным» СМИ, которые трындычат всего о 2 тысячах погибших осетин и о 64 российских войнах. Пусть. Сути дела это не меняет, для вас, уважаемые, это лишь СТАТИСТИКА!!!! В противном случае в Россию необходимо было б тогда завозить цистернами валерьянку и карвалол.
Р.S. Парой диву даёшься, когда видишь, насколько широка душа русского человека, насколько он человечен, добр и миролюбив, насколько он всё принимает близко к сердцу. Как мы полюбим осетин! Как мы любим выходцев с Кавказа! Сейчас заплачу от трогательности! Так любим, так обожаем… особенно арматурой по спине, когда бритоголовые выродки организуют облавы на людей, приехавших из ближнего зарубежья, выполнять работу, которую эта шваль «высокого происхождения», считает для себя унизительной (дабы хоть как-то заработать, хоть какие-нибудь гроши, но прокормить семью). Удивительно! Не правда ли? У нас принято в загулы уходить, когда эти ублюдки избивают, издеваются над детьми, имеющими смуглый цвет кожи. Нет! Нет, мой читатель, бесспорно, Вы беленький и пушистый. У вас и в голове никогда подобного не возникало. Это всё Ванька и Манька из соседнего подъезда. А вы нет.
Удивительно насколько душевный, добрый у нас человек…
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Народ, да публикация вообще не о том, что вы тут обсуждаете. Парень говорит о том, что в у нас в стране люди со смуглой кожей - не люди, и не надо стыдливо отворачиваться. Вспомните, как их называют? Вспомните, как относятся к тем, кто торгует на рынке или арбузами на развалах? Посмотрите, кого хватают на улице менты? У нас в России - свой геноцид людей - выходцев из Кавказа. Рестораны грузинские - хорошо и молодцы, а вот когда армяне или грузины покупают квартиры рядом с вами - так они уже и черножопые? Кстати, к последнему термину отношусь крайне неприязненно, как и к людям, которые их употребляют.
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ТИПА, ЛЕС РУБЯТ, МИЛЛИОНЫ ЩЕПОК ЛЕТЯТ?
Для защиты 100 осетин (жители другой страны) ввели войска на чужую территорию, уничтожили около тысячи чужих граждан, положили около 200 своих. Уложили несколько миллиардов долларов (несколько хороших современных больниц) для чего? При этом бритоголовые пацаны убивают на улице всех, у кого не славянская внешность. И это не сильно заботит наших топ-менеджеров ЗАО "Россия"?
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Можно вспомнить Плутарха, Гомера, народные сказки. Кстати, о сказках - пару лет назад мне попалась на глаза книжка 'Сказки' Пушкина, изданная в 1999 году. Совершенно случайно, наугад, я раскрыл ее на странице 87, на зачитанной в детстве до дыр 'Сказке о Мертвой Царевне и о Семи Богатырях' и буквально остолбенев прочитал следующие строки:
'Перед утренней зарею
Братья дружною толпою
Выезжают погулять,
Серых уток пострелять,
Руку правую потешить,
Сорочина в поле спешить,
Иль башку с широких плеч
У татарина отсечь,
Или вытравить из леса
Пятигорского черкеса'.
'Серых уток пострелять' - это я хорошо помню с детства, а вот, что шло дальше я не помнил. Во времена моей пионерской юности я и представить себе не мог, чтобы взрослые люди, добрые молодцы 'тешили' себя тем, что рубили нацменьшинствам головы и такие забавы для них стояли в одном ряду с охотой на 'серых уток'. Оттого я тогда на эти строки и внимания не обращал. Пушкина при всех его арапских корнях и восторженных сборниках стихотворений о Кавказе невозможно заподозрить в нелюбви к татарам, черкесам или арабам (сорочина - это сарацин, арабский всадник), просто одной этой строчкой поэт без всякой задней мысли обнажил целый скрытый пласт геополитики Древней Руси.
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| August 31, 2008 | 12:08 PM |
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Queer.Azaadi.Queer Azaadi.Azaadi.
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Working it out.
The fight for rights and self-determination for Queer communities in the sub-continent has come through a big milestone with the Queer Azaadi March 2008, as well as various gay pride parades all over the country.
India’s draconian and dated Section 377 which criminalises non-procreative(’unnatural’) sexual behaviour has to give way to a more aware, sex-positive and rights based approach to sexuality law.
Only when you take a good long glance at the margins, you come to understand different ways of being.
I have had a long history of brawls with my latent homophobia.It is’nt that I’m regressive by choice, just wary.
While I’m not that interested in homosexuality as a way of life and don’t think that choices are always unilateral, between this and that or either and or…I have come to understand the binary as a mode of recognition.My work on affirmative stances with respect to identity is about espousing the real struggle which makes you what you are.And freedom is a vital need.
In a group discussion by ‘Cinelabia’, the cinematic wing of ‘Labia’, a support group for Bisexual and Lesbian women that holds film screenings every fourth weekend of the month at Majlis, the need for new languages rang clear.The endeavor, made clear through a film called ‘Working it Out’ was clearly drawing from queer theory but finding utterance to the real freedoms that we seek.The real problems that we have with patriarchal society and it’s termite-eaten woodwork.
Let’s concretise.
The body needs to freed from morose sexual slavery, be it female or male.And sexual violence that patriarchy’ engenders upon it’s inhabitants as modicum of compliance needs to be, the use Bush’s words , smoked out of murky corners.After all, it’s about the joy of life and love that sexuality should be.

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| August 31, 2008 | 12:08 PM |
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BACK from UGANDA - Fighting AIDS...!
Related to country: Uganda
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Dear colleagues,
I am finally back, from Uganda, where i stay for a month working with the Aids Support Organization - TASO of Uganda.
The Experiential Trip was intended to build a young activist's capacity in massive fight against HIV/AIDS while practically experiencing the impact of the Aids Virus in the Ugandans communities.
I must admit-----it was both an opportunity for me and a sad experience looking on how deadly the virus can become when it have totally overcome a human body/immune system.
Through out my stay, I manage to combine integrated approach to learning, both building up my experience in project work and also field services provision, making use of TASO's vast level of experience in HIV work and service provision.
My stay with TASO ----- in Uganda, was a great level of step forward to my road to joining the global strive to reduce the level of impact of HIV/Aids in Africa and beyond. As a young activist, i have always believed in finding solutions to problems, through alternative researches and multi-dimensional approaches. With this, the organization TASO was a better place of inspiration for me and therefore my stay give me something more that just a trip to learn about fight an epidemic, rather a journey of SUPLUS empowerment....YES..!
As a participant, it was an exciting experience joining over 30 skilled activists from all over Africa. I must admit also that this was a another breakthrough for me, meeting people of different backgrounds understandings and cultures, this i never forget.......!
TEACH as a continue project, sponsored by the SWEDISH government, is actually a dream liner for Africa in the fight against HIV/AIDS and i always want to encourage past, present and future participants to make good use of this opportunity, been very resourceful and committed to their projected plans.
At a times when citizens of Uganda were striving very strong to survive from the deadly hands of the most fearful disease (HIV/Aids), from the enormous stories death tour, The Aids Support Organization of Uganda emerged as one of the key among others who tried to counter the attack.
One thing i can never forget and never fill to apply in my life are the diverse strategies been applied by TASO in HIV/AIDS service provision - the care and support which sub passes awareness and publications, to an unnecessarily already inform population as see in most cases. HIV/AIDS now, with major concern require more than these and every advocate have to beyond just awareness and education, applying methods such as care and support which are actually the major needs now for communities already most affected by the disease.
One of the greatest lesson learned as a visionary is that I have met an exceptional organization, one that is a possible road model for my visions and goals for the future and growth of my organization.
As I work through the doors of TASO, from the warm welcome to the ultimate setup and structure of leadership and the assured good family spirit, those a lone have been a great lesson for anyone who really yield for success in every endeavor.
More to that, from the introductory workshop, my spirit was lifted and eyes opened to the reality and soul driven need to jump into my experiential buss.
As we move down to realities, it became vivid to me how a quality organization and organize service provision can upgrade the standard of living for PLWHA. More of the lessons learn could be summarizing as follow:
Meeting clients needs.
I discover through this experiential trip that Africa and the world beyond can defeat this deadly disease, if clients and prospective clients can be assure of greater love, care and support for their needs instead of just bringing them to public ridicule and abandoning them to stigma.
It was also observed that, given the socially driven nature of young people and the society at large been polluted with the massive involvement of technically made sound producing instruments, DRAMA performances during outreach do serve and a better cause since such incidents attract more people, who at the same receives important information such as awareness and education. With some clients publicly discussion the issue during performances helps to reduce stigma and denial as well.
I HOWEVER believe that if we as volunteers and advocates for the cause are very well committed to our promises and be more passionate to serve, service provision, care and support, can minimized the impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
We are not God's displeasure, neither are we course, but rather need to collaboratively reawaken to the need, concerns and to the call of the crisis that surrounds us all.
I believe, always, that together, we can all defeat whatever cause, whatsoever degree of case a condition may be.
Don't forget to visit: www.tasouganoda.org. You will sure be inspired.
Thanks and welcome
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