Eleven per Minute, that is the rate. Kids die needlessly at that rate. Every minute of every hour of every day including Christmas day. That day when in the west we will spend more on paper that gets burned than we spend on saving those 16,000 kids. The ones that will die that day. Because, although it seems that everything stops that day, they don’t stop dying. 33 died whilst I indulged myself in writing this post.

Peace for Palestine will lead to freedom for all from terrorism. The message is clear. Make the linkage explicit, Mr. Bush, and you will get there sooner than you think. Make it obvious that every day the Americans are held up in Iraq and in Afghanistan is one day longer til they fill the gap between the palestinians and Israelis. Move troops in to fill the gap and tear down Israels wall of concrete. Then make them talk.

My Guess Mr. Bush is that you have one year to make good any promises you now indulge. The situations that need resolving will need to see more than words in that time. Rather you than me now, Mr. Bush. Seriously though, this, with a little luck is where you will make your name. As a man of peace.

From theuktoday.co.uk

WARS & CONFLICTS

Allied Intervention in Russian Civil War (1919 - 1921)

Second World War (1939 - 1945)

Ecuador - Peru Border War (1941)

Madagascar Rebellion (1947)

First Kashmir War (1947 - 1948)

Israeli War of Independence (1948 - 1949)

Korean War (1950 - 1953)

Mau-Mau War (1952 - 1956)

Algerian War of Independence (1954 - 1962)

Suez Campaign (1956)

Lebanese Civil War (1958)

French - Tunisian Clashes (1958)

Dhofar Rebellion in Oman (1960s - 1970s)

Congo Crisis (1960 - 1967)

Cameroon Rebellion (1960 - 1963)

Liberation of Goa (1961)

French - Tunisian Clashes (1961)

Angolan War of Independence (1961 - 1975)

Sino-Indian War (1962)

Eritrean War of Independence (1962 - 1991)

Tutsi Invasion of Rwanda (1963)

Algerian - Moroccan Border War (1963 - 1964)

Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands War of Independence (1963 - 1974)

Vietnam War (1956 - 1975)

Laotian Civil War (1960 - 1975)

Mozambican War of Independence (1964 - 1975)

Somali Border Wars with Ethiopia and Kenya (1964 - 1967)

Tutsi Invasion of Rwanda (1964)

Second Kashmir War (1965)

Dominican Intervention (1965 - 1966)

North Yemen Civil War (1966 - 1968)

Namibian War of Independence (1966 - 1990)

Sino-Indian Skirmish (1967)

Nigerian Civil War (1967 - 1970)

Six Day War (1967)

Jordanian Civil War (1970)

Mercenary Invasion of Guinea (1970)

Cambodian Civil War (1970 - 1975)

Bengali War of Independence (1971)

Yom Kippur War (1973)

Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990)

Angolan Civil War (1975 - 2002)

Mozambican Civil War (1975 - 1992)

Saharan War (1975 - Present)

Egypt - Libya War (1977)

Ogaden War (1977 - 1978)

Uganda - Tanzania War (1979)

First Persion Gulf War (1980 - 1988)

Casamance Rebellion in Senegal (1980 - Present)

Ecuador - Peru Border War (1981)

Falklands War (1982)

Israeli Invasion of Lebanon (1982 - 1984)

Grenada Invasion (1983)

Israeli-Lebanese Border War (1984 - 2000)

First Intifada (1987 - 1993)

Panama Invasion (1989)

Sierra Leone Civil War (1990s)

Kashmir Border Conflict (1990 - Present)

Somali Civil War (1990 - Present)

Second Persian Gulf War (1990 - 1991)

Third Balkan War (1991 - Present)

Yemeni Civil War (1994)

Occupation of Haiti (1994 - Present)

Chiapas Uprising (1994 - Present)

Ecuador - Peru Border War (1995)

Yemen - Eritrea Border Conflict (1996)

Zairian - Congolese Civil War (1996 - 1997)

Congo Civil War (1997)

Saudi - Yemen Border Conflict (1998)

Kosovo Conflict (1998)

Congo Civil War (1998 - 2002)

Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998-1999)

Liberian Civil War (1999)

Second Intifada (2000 - Present)

The War in Afghanistan (2001 - Present)

Third Persian Gulf War (2003 - Present)

All those dead, all that waste. Will we ever learn? Will we ever stop?

16,000 children die worldwide every day and we think we can call ourselves civilised. We have the power. We allow this to be.

Freedom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Freedom - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Freedom is a remarkably imprecise word that can refer to:

• Political freedom is the absence of political restraints, particularly with respect to speech, religious practice, and the press.
• not being in prison, not (in particular, no longer) the victim of false imprisonment
• economic freedom, i.e., having choices, not being subject to very many natural or institutional constraints. A monopolistic firm has more freedom to set prices than does a firm in a perfectly competitive market. One with more net worth has more freedom than one without any. See economic power.
• being not in any relationship (be it a romantic relationship or a cooperative, for example), free to do what one wants, including starting a new relationship or having relationship tests (like one-night-stands, casual physical intimacy, etc).
• coming of age and leaving one’s parents’ home
• freedom of choice i.e. free will
• the absence of interactions in physics; for example, asymptotic freedom discovered by David Gross, David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek
• For the shorter term, being free also means having holidays, weekend, finished work for the day, having a break.

It is also the name of a British newspaper, an album by Neil Young, two otherwise unrelated songs by Richie Havens and Rage Against the Machine, and small towns in New York, New Hampshire and Wyoming.

Europhobia: Could Kerry still win it?

Don’t be silly. Look at the Republican machine’s success in overturning a Gore victory ;last time. If it were that close to be possible, the machine would whirr and clank into action.

S.89 Title: A bill to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.

Oh dear, America, here go more of your national freedoms. Funny thing - that a draft dodging Mr Bush should oversee such a bill - but really no surprise. More of that black and white thinking again, characteristic of the dry drunk. As is widely reported Mr Bush was working for the Republican Party and a series of local bar owners during his time in the military. Perhaps that is why he romanticises that period of his life. Perhaps that is why this bill contains no escape clauses. “I know that people will take advantage if you let them. I did”. And what “other purposes” is the bill relating to: Working for the Republican Party? Blowing up imaginary terrorists under America’s aggressive international policy inspired by Mr Bush’s “principles”. Those will be the ones he put up front whilst telephoning funders and propping up bars whilst less worthy American’s had their backsides shot off in Asia all those years ago.

I forget. God wanted Mr Bush to be President, and clearly needed him to do these things so that his backside would be safe. God wanted a draft-dodging President who would strip hard won human rights from all in the name of a war characterised principally by his own mental illness. Sure thing Mr Bush.

Here Is Post FBI Seized Servers For, Translated : Melbourne Indymedia

Could this really be behind the Indymedia seizures? A picture of two swiss undercover agents? Perhaps it’s time for some reason amongst the people who made this decision. And time for the servers to be returned.

EFF: Indymedia Server Seizures

The FBI acting in London, England seize the servers of a somewhat anarchic media collective, Indymedia. Should it bother us? Yes it should, because freedom of speech was hard fought for and hard won.

A rather small coterie of power players are setting the agenda, under the banner of the war on terrorism, by which the oppression of hard won rights becomes the norm. This is not drip, drip, this is splash, splash. Your rights are rights, they are not defined by government, YOU are not defined by government. And yet, you are. Government decides what you should learn at school and indoctrinates you into not knowing yourself. Government defines the Psychiatric agenda, by which you become a thought-criminal for trying to know yourself. Government is a bad, bad thing. All round.

People would not need governing if they had not been governed so poorly and for so long. People are naturally, basically good, they are not originally sinners. It is the conditions people suffer that lead them astray, and the chief defining factor in the conditions they suffer is the government of the many by the few. The removal of power from individuals is progressive and pervasive. The fight for freedom and rights needs to win forever. Before the small coterie do.

BBC News - US to remain “aggressive” abroad.

Unfortunately for all of us the US will remain aggressive abroad as “It’s a continuation of [the Presidents] principles, his policies, his beliefs,”, Colin Powell has told the financial times.

People who suffer Dry Drunk syndrome, as does Mr Bush, can not be relied upon to have principles, policies and beliefs. Only hard and fast positions that help them avoid feeling the pain they took up the bottle to hide from.

That these hard and fast positions should form the basis of the most powerful nation on earth’s international agenda is very worrying. People hate that which they do not know and understand. As a sufferer of this debilitating condition, Mr Bush does not know or understand his own mind or his own back yard, let alone the world accross the oceans. His lack of understanding of the world has lead the US into a terrible war, decimating the lives of innocents.

Mr Bush is a small minded aristocrat and will not be thought well of by history. He wil be recognised a sad and sorry man whose lack of compassion and insight lead him to mistakes that cost the world dear.