The air strikes, although
concentrated, do not eliminate the IS forces
They are not only scattered,
but strategically more advanced in their approach to warfare than the opposing
forces
The US/Arab forces at this
time have no answers to combat IS’s plans for surrounding Baghdad and squeezing
its life blood from it
The Iraqi Government is not
doing enough to bring in the Sunni coalition and the various tribesmen together
to help them combat IS
Due to heavy suspicions that
the Sunni & tribal leaders will take an upper hand in policies, leaves
Haider al-Abadi to move too cautiously
Where he is greatly failing
is the backup that Iraqi forces need on the ground in order to give a greater
offensive against IS
With many Iraqi military
having not been paid, why should they risk their lives for nothing?
The complete sham by the
Haider al-Abadi is causing so many stalemates, which allows IS to amass in
greater numbers
They now outnumber and outwit
their various counterparts on the ground
The wakeup call to the Iraqi
Government has long occurred
They still remain entrenched
in their own thinking expecting allied forces to do the job for them
They sit and wait for the
miracle to come!
For IS forces this is what
they have been waiting for and what they realised would happen
IS is not a tin pot army, but
a resourceful and well-organised group of fighters
Their leaders are the main
guard from Saddam Hussein
They know the territory and
the mind-set of this feeble Government
They have the strategy,
combat intelligence, experience and tactics on their side
The present feeble opposition
is no match for them and they know it
Unless the Iraqi Government
stops sleeping on the job, they will find they are completely overrun before
they have even got out of bed!
The tragic reminder of all
those firefighters who went in to help victims of the 9/11 disaster are still
paying with their lives today
Three firefighters who were
on duty at Ground Zero on that fateful day have died within hours of each
other. They all died of cancer
The thirteen years that have
gone by still see firefighters paying with their lives after their heroic
efforts to save those on that day
It is now known that 1,000
deaths have been linked to the toxic dust, which was breathed in from the twin towers
New York’s Fire Department
had lost 343 firefighters on that dreadful day
Since then they have lost a
further 89, who have died as a result of illness to their lungs and bodies
Although compensation has
been set aside for these illnesses, there needs to be more done!
It is understandable that the
emergency services almost volunteer their lives on a daily basis to keep us
safe
They never know how dangerous
a situation they may encounter when the call comes in
These brave men and women,
who engage in our emergency services, are the true heroes of the day and our
admiration goes out to them
Whatever their salaries, it
can never be enough as they put their lives on the line for us every day
Their courage and bravery is
outstanding
These tragic illnesses that
the fire department and the public of New York are still battling with daily
with no relief in sight
Building materials, that are
used which are toxic, need to be better scrutinised should another tragedy
occur
Asbestos used in roofing
materials has been especially toxic
Many different forms of
cancer have been diagnosed due to asbestos inhalation
The dust that falls as the
asbestos begins to deteriorate, causes many forms of illnesses, cancer to the
lungs and other organs of the body
Schools especially are
vulnerable, where asbestos roofs have affected the children’s breathing and is
known to be carcinogenic
We all have a responsibility
to society and its welfare and a need for non-toxic substances should be
examined more thoroughly
Our hearts and prayers go out
to all those who have lost loved ones and for those who continue to suffer due
to the 9/11 disaster
As Hong Kong begins to fight
for its rights against Chinese oppression, the word is democracy must win the
day!
A civil disobedience
pro-democracy movement called Occupy Central aims at paralysing parts of Hong
Kong, has Beijing outraged
China is scraping rules
outlining the election of the next chief executive in 2017
It is China who wants control
over the democratic reform and it wants to put their man in as leader over Hong
Kong
The people of Hong Kong
desperately want to be removed from the clutches of Beijing and their
restrictive commercial practices
The people want to remain
independent to conduct their own affairs far from the watchful eyes of Beijing
China will continue its
stranglehold over this lucrative state
The people complain that
nominations will be channelled through a committee packed with Beijing
loyalists
Hong Kong wants to put
forward their own candidates, who have a greater interest in the wellbeing of
the region
The Occupy Central is a
non-violent civil disobedience movement modelled on the activism of Martin
Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
The world looks on and waits.
Will China give way to democracy and western values or will Communism rule?
Therefore the people will
fight against control, which is always the case
China should enjoy both
worlds and allow for a greater autonomy where they too can gain
To be too harsh and
controlling is short sighted, as rebellion will always ensue!
The situation with the new
Iraqi Government is not great!
There are too many obstacles
still left undone
The motion to go forward
continues to be disrupted and the consensus is not forth coming in so many ways
Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi has not fully got the measure of the problems
He knows he has to fight IS,
but is still unable to make strides on the domestic issues, which are mounting
up all the time
His level of diplomacy and
tact are not really there, as he circumnavigates a minefield of problems and
adversities
Until he can start to deliver
on various points of reform, the status
quo of limbo remains the same
His allies, on whom he is
relying to deliver, will only do so once certain diplomatic issues are in place
Stalling for time, as he has
been doing, is not favourable to those who feel aggrieved and hard done by
His philosophy of hoping all
will go away and get sorted out by other people will not happen
The US is watching his
performance with a keen eye. What they have seen so far does not come up to the
mark
Another incompetent
politician, who cannot negotiate himself out of a pint pot!
Until there are more robust
strategies on the table to meet the Iraqi people’s demands for equality and
performance…
…the slow plod of going
nowhere remains
This only fuels more
resentment and allows for IS to seek more territory under a flagging regime
There needs to be strong
political advisors, who can make a substantial difference to guide Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi
He cannot alone get through
the minefield of problems, which he sees himself in
At this time he is not
equipped to make these decisions
It will be up to the US once
again to sort matters out, if they want a united front for all of Iraq and a
working force against IS
The rise of Europeans joining
IS fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than 3,000
As more US/Arab aerial
strikes occur, then more retaliatory action and attacks will happen in Europe,
Syria and Iraq
IS is hell-bent on massive
destruction and fear. Their objective remains on track and they will divide
nations at will!
Their strength lies in their
terror tactics and where they have bunkered themselves in for a long and
protracted war
They have time and man power together
with artillery at their disposal. Their might psychologically is fierce and
unyielding
It is now down to Governments
on the ground to bring in new policies to curb their objective
IS do not want peace, they
want power at all costs
They cannot be beaten
militarily, so their ideas and strategies need to be countermanded and
effectively silenced
By rendering their ideology
and their strategy ineffective, all fear against them is removed
This will allow for a better
and more level playing field to become possible
One must also look to where
this faction has been fuelled and this is due to not having the right people in
power
Both Maliki and his
disruptive ways have helped fuel these atrocities
The West has to take
responsibilities for propping up regimes where dictators go largely
unchallenged
This is the case with Bashar
al-Assad and Saddam Hussein
Until people in their
countries feel safe & where a truly elected Government comes in, made up of
all the various sections of the people…
…then wars against humanity
will continue and where genocide will be rife if those responsible are not
brought to book
Until the people can see
justice given out against these violators of humanity, nothing changes and more
wars will escalate
As the Ebola outbreak appears
to be contained, new outbreaks will follow and the disease will continue on its
path of destruction
There needs to be more
hospitals on an International basis in Africa
The proper staff and
medication are needed in a greater capacity to deal with such diseases
throughout this continent
Wars need to be abated and
stability needs to come to several regions throughout this troubled land
Hospitals must be protected,
but equally provide assistance to a much larger area
Africa needs to wake up to
its own responsibilities and cannot always expect the richer countries to come
to its aid
Until corruption in many
parts of the continent is brought to a halt, the people are continuously left
vulnerable and helpless
It is time for African
leaders to work in partnership for the Greater Good
A certain amount of an
individual country’s finance should be used to obtain hospitals and widespread
health assistance
Ebola and Aids will continue
to spread and more must be done to alleviate suffering and the spread of these
diseases, which won’t go away
Education on the ground and
in schools needs to be more active to reduce the state of potential infection
Ebola can become a world
problem. Its spread knows no limits and so needs to be taken seriously
The wakeup call for Africa
has already been given in the past and virtually ignored
On humanitarian grounds and,
what is now right for all countries of Africa, that wakeup call is more serious
The World Health Organisation
cannot manage alone
Help and responsibility must
be taken by all countries, as disease affects us all and is now more prevalent
than ever before
As IS make new advances in
other areas of Syria and Iraq…
…it is bringing its forces
together to disperse other areas of opposition against them
Its new plans of action are
dependent on what the onslaught of US/Arab factions against them incurs
Its main theme is to bring
about swift decisive divisions within the US/Arab onslaught
IS has the upper hand at this
time, as its control over many regions of territory increases and not
decreases!
The US/Arab onslaught,
although effective in some areas, leaves them exposed in others and there is no
back up for them at this time
IS military action is well
coordinated to bring down what they feel is injustice against their fellow
Arabs, whom it is fighting for
It will win the guerrilla
warfare, as air supremacy by US/Arab forces is unable to penetrate the heart of
where IS is and this it knows!
IS has various false dugouts
It uses them momentarily and leaves
again giving false readings for US/Arab air forces to strike when there is no
one in them
So the cat and mouse game
continues. What seems effective by US/Arab teams is in fact non-effective, but
they can’t always know that!
The onslaught on IS will take
an unexpected turn, where IS rebels will be able to infiltrate areas not known
to the allied assault…
…thereby insuring a defect
for the allies until a more construction method to annihilate them becomes
possible
Don’t believe the propaganda
that comes from the US and Arab states
IS are playing for time in
their guerrilla warfare and so expect many casualties on their side
As they have no fear of dying
anyway and they trust in a Higher Power to save them…
…they become an invincible
force, where fear is not part of their vocabulary
The object by IS is to create
fear, destruction and isolation of their enemies
The fact that the Arabs are
now joined at the hip to US airstrikes makes IS’s criteria even stronger in
their eyes
They oppose an enemy, which
is not of their mind-set
IS will try to force a
divide, so they are fighting simultaneously on two flanks causing confusion
Allied forces will need to be
careful not to attack each other
The cat and mouse game of
weaving and ducking will become effective on IS’s side
They wish always to reduce
the power force on them by their opponents
Thus rendering the opposition
forces inoperable with many more misses than hits
For IS to be defeated means a
collapse in their strategy to occur,
A massive wave of force by
the allied opposition to go in as a tidal wave and systematically take them out
The tidal wave force needs to
be a broad one, as IS will double back to do a rear action assault
Something they have already
practised and they are very good at it
So there needs to be a
constant broad sweeping wave of attack followed on behind with another
IS’s leader has seen
strategic warfare before and is well adversed in dealing with most plans of
warfare
They are capable of
contingency plans, as they have their forces positioned all over the place
Defeating IS, as we have said
before, is not by military action, but by steady demolishing their ideology
This tyrannical group is a
challenge to the entire world.
With the right plan of action
they can be defeated!
A UN brokered peace deal with
the Houthi rebels and the Yemen’s Government has been signed
The Houthis have taken
control of Government buildings and are primarily in charge
The Shia insurgency in Yemen,
also known as the Houthi rebellion, has been at civil war in the north of Yemen
This war began in June 2004
when a dissident cleric launched an uprising against the Yemeni Government
The Yemeni Government alleged
the Houthis were seeking to overthrow the Government
The rebels said they were defending
their community against discrimination and Government aggression
The northern region is
largely ignored economically and remains underdeveloped, so they have
legitimate grievances
The conflict essentially pits
Yemen’s Sunni majority Government against Shia fighters
This conflict has added
significant worries for many Arab countries who are worried about the rising
influence of Iran
Iran is a Shia majority
country
The fighting, which has
continued since 2004, has seen hundreds of thousands killed on both sides
In 2010 the US were involved
in air strikes, where civilians were killed including children
There have been many
religious insults between the Sunnis and the Shias, which has fuelled extensive
anger amongst both sides
In 2011 a major demonstration
by protestors took place to end the war, yet violence continued
Now the Houthis have advanced
on the capital Sanaa and have damaged many key buildings. The Government is no
longer in control
Hence a UN brokered peace
deal has now been signed
The Houthis wish an immediate
ceasefire and then to form a National Unity Government with fuel prices reduced
They wish political and
economic reform, which has been denied the Yemini people overall for a very
long time
With right governing, peace
with prosperity can finally come to Yemen
Where you have different
tribes like Sunnis and Shias, one must be sensible and start to have dialogue
and fairness
That is why when one tribe
rules over another, this never happens
There will always be one
tribe which is suppressed, therefore fuelling discontent all the time
Until Arabs become democratic
instead of remaining tribal, they will continue to have wars and many are
slaughtered for what purpose
No one wins and suffering
continues unabated
We are all God’s children and
have been created to support one another
No tribe or race is superior
to the other. All are entitled by God’s law to be born and to co-exist in this
world
Religion must start to take a
back seat and remove their right to rule
They must allow for a
democratically elected people to govern fairly or nothing will change
We had the horrendous
situation in Iraq where Maliki would not incorporate a Unified National
Government
Look what horrors he
unleashed by his stubborn and idiotic stance
They all reap what they sow
and the price for being irresponsible is wholesale slaughter of the innocent
people
Too many Iraqis have suffered
needlessly because of irresponsible governing. When will they learn?
Tragedy has occurred with
some 66,000 refugees, mainly Syrian Kurds, who have had to cross over to Turkey
for safety
They have been fleeing the
onslaught of IS militants over the last 24 hours as IS advance onto northern
Syria
Until the ideology of IS is
undermined, nothing will stop them
They have to be shown that
their actions will only destroy them in the Afterlife
Everything that they do is
against the teachings of what their Prophet Mohammed said and is contrary to
the laws of God himself
The eroding of their ideology
has to commence now!
It is simply no good that
other Arab states condemn their actions, as this only puts their backs up even
more
For they will see it that
those Arabs states will want power over them and therefore make them more
violent
What is required here is what
the Islamic instruction by the Prophet Mohammed stated in God’s name
This is that their behaviour
will only lead to their own destruction both in this world and the next
Either way there is no
salvation or gains for their heinous crimes
The punishment for them by
the Higher Power will be forthcoming, rendering them inoperable
They will see all their gains
gradually diminish
God sees their actions
against humanity as a direct sin against him and his vengeance will be swift
and everlasting
To go blatantly against the
Higher Authority will bring further shame on their families and offspring for
generations to come
By IS’s own hand they will
destroy themselves and others attached to them in the face of God!
This message needs to be sent
out now!
China has fined the
pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline $490m after a court found it guilty of
bribery
This is a record penalty,
which follows evidence that the drug giant paid out bribes to doctors and
hospitals
They did so in order to get
their products promoted
The Chinese court also gave
GSK’s former head a suspended 3 year prison sentence. He is being deported
The Chinese authorities have
been investigating GSK since last July. It is the biggest corruption scandal to
hit a foreign firm in years
GSK has been accused of
making $150m in illegal profits. GSK said it published a statement of apology
to the Chinese Government
GSK said they will continue
to learn from this situation
What is so appalling is that
GSK thought it could get away with it, knowing that to bribe doctors and
hospitals was wrong
As always it is greed which
is at the heart of their objective
Corruption in the end always
fails
It brings so much injustice
to other people trying to earn a living and doing it in what is the right and
honourable way
Corruption is always found
out. In GSK, a very large company feels they are above the law and what is
right
Their integrity has now been
questioned, not only in China, but all over the world. They cannot be allowed to be trusted any
longer
They will begin to see their
own downfall in time
The NO vote has won, which is
what we advised would be the very best course of action for Scotland
The hearts and minds of the
Scottish people will be honoured by new enforced legislation, which will be
both a comfort and a security
The Scottish people can feel
proud about this
The vote to remain in the UK
is a vote for reason and common sense
The UK consists of the whole
working together in partnership with everything now going for it
The united element will give
the people a stronger say in European matters, which are flagging in its
control of output resources
There needs to be a major
overhaul of European matters
The control from Brussels has
become overinflated and ineffective in so many ways
With Scotland now united in
the UK, the force for change far out paces anything that has been done in a
long time
See speedy solutions being
met and managed
This knock on effect will
assist Wales, Northern Ireland and Britain in so many ways
The almost top heavy aspect
of powers in Government will become more centralised, allowing greater autonomy
to the rest of the UK
It is high time that
responsibility is handed down to local governments
There will need to be greater
accountability for all the people to see
No longer can the people be
allowed to sleepwalk through life
They need to learn to act, if
they wish a better life for those in local communities
The revolution is here to
stay bringing in a greater balance of power
As this begins to manifest
and the people can see the benefits in their local communities, so a more
effective consensus can come in
The people will then feel
they have a greater say and control in how they want things to happen
This will bring back more
stability, as everyone will need to participate and will be expected to for the
Greater Good
No longer will it be a select
few who hold the power, but that everyone will now have a say & where a
united contented front is established
Too many UK people have felt
left out in the cold, even abandoned in some cases
Where their position has gone
unheard as if nobody cares
This now will have to change
and where the people by governing will be included and not excluded
Parliament in London will
become more democratic, representing the people and not what the respective
parties wants anymore
Scotland will thrive after
this. The battle has not been lost. It has just shifted to a better way to
govern
In time the UK will challenge
and win against Europe, where the need to reform is ever increasing
The power of the people will
be heard!
A physicist, a graphic
memoirist and an organiser of homecare workers are among this year’s
recipients…
…of the MacArthur
Foundation’s Genius grants
Each of the 21 recipients of
the MacArthur Foundation receives £383,000 over five years to use in the way
that they wish
It is impossible to apply for
the grant and the recipients do not know they are being considered
Many of this year’s winners
work on issues facing minorities and underserved groups
The idea of the grant is to
speak to people’s sense that this kind of work needs to be done
Some of the recipients are in
psychologist researches racial stereotypes and crime
Others work with getting
legal rights for Native American women in sexual assault cases
Another is a filmmaker, whose
work has covered the states use of violence
A lawyer, who works to
improved legal representation for the indigent
Grants were also awarded to a
playwright, two poets and a physicist working on brain connectivity
All this goes to prove that
people, who engage in projects with the sole intention of helping others…
…who are unable to help
themselves, is certainly worthwhile
It is high time that these
kinds of people were rewarded, but as is often the case they are the unsung
heroes
They always do their best to
serve humanity, but no one recognises them
Now that is changing and we
hope it will encourage more people to do good works, not for the money, but
because it is the right thing to do
As Russia braces itself against
further sanctions, it will be the people who will feel the pinch first
Inflation has already
increased, as the weakened rouble increased the cost of foreign imports
Putin has enforced a ban on
foreign food produce from Europe
This again will affect the
Russian people, as they have very much enjoyed the free market available to
them
The Russian Central Bank has
to take action to boost liquidity in their banking sector
This will allow their banks
to overcome the limited access they have to foreign capital due to these
sanctions
Other aspects have already
affected the value of the rouble
This includes the fall in the
price of oil and their related products, which still account for nearly half of
all exports
This means lower prices
translate into lower export revenues, which again puts pressure on the currency
Sanctions will have a great
material impact on the Russian economy and this is where Putin has already over
stepped the mark
Until Putin removes his
brutal control over Ukraine he will see the economic situation begin to squeeze
hard
It will be the Russian people
who will cry out in outrage
The banks and Putin will need
to listen, in spite of his ego being so large he will personally rebel against
it
EU-Russian arms deals have
also been banned. The squeeze is on!
Mankind must realise we are
all joined together in trade
One cannot be so arrogant as
to think they alone can dictate policy over another and simply get away with it
The Civil War in Central
African Republic (CAR) between Seleka rebels coalition forces and the
Government began in December 2012
This war had shown no signs
of abating. Now the UN is formally taking over in the way of peacekeeping
operations in CAR
Some 25% of the population
have already fled their homes
The new peacekeeping force
will largely comprise of 6,000 African troops, who are already there
Some 2,000 French troops will
not be a part of the UN force, but will have other duties to perform
CAR has been in turmoil since
the rebel Muslim group seized power in this majority Christian country
The rebel leader was forced
to resign under intense diplomatic pressure, but the killings continued
More than 5,000 people have
already been killed this year alone
Muslims have fled revenge
attacks, with the country now being largely split into a Muslim North and a
Christian South
The African Union troops will
don blue UN peacekeeping helmets
The point of this mission is
to protect the population, back the political process and restore the authority
of the state
The UN Security Council has
authorised a force of some 12,000, but many more troops are still needed on the
ground
They must effectively protect
the people and restore justice and faith in a Government to control the country
The protection mandate is the
main priority, so that informed solutions can be presented to the Government
& begin a secure working strategy
This way all the people gain
and not just a few
Confidence to the CAR people,
from all sides of the religious divide, is necessary
An established political
framework, which has not properly been in existence, will become operational
The overseeing UN Protection
Plan will allow for a stabilising of the entire country
This will allow for people
again to feel safe and can go about their business
Any rogue elements will be
dealt with severely
The process is too valuable
to allow for upstarts to violate this necessary peaceful mandate
All the people in CAR must
co-operate with the eventual ruling of Government, so that solutions on the
ground can bring in a stable future
Only then can the displaced
people return to their homes and rebuild their lives again
All will be working on a
united front to enable this stability to occur with contingency safeguards
already in place
CAR, as with other countries
around the world who are experiencing wars, do deserve peace and security at
long last
It is only the arms dealers
who gain in war. All else is destroyed for all time
You cannot rebuild on so much
suffering, healing will take a very long time indeed
The situation in the Ukraine
is on the brink of collapse
There are too many
infiltrating forces not only in the eastern section of Ukraine, but overall as
well
There needs to be a more
orchestrated and consolidated approach to dealing with the multi-faceted aspect
of the pro-Russian separatists
The separatists have access
to intelligence supplied by Russia, which allows for them to entrench in
guerrilla warfare
It is now up to Kiev to bring
about a settlement, which could mean annexing off part of the Ukraine in order
to save the rest
Putin wants Ukraine back as
he sees it
It will be a slow death for
Ukraine, a sucking out of its life blood
This Putin is prepared to do
to get what he wants, which is his mission of a greater Russia
Putin’s mission is a dream of
his that he has been after for a long time
President Poroshenko needs to
summon up a deal, which segregates the Ukraine
Otherwise he will see the
slow, but methodical removal, piece by piece of Ukraine
Russia has all the time and
Putin will act as a constant thorn in the side of this country
There will be no peace!
A wall, the likes of what
happened in Germany/Berlin, might be the only way the rest of the Ukraine can
feel safe
Then by becoming a part to
the European Union, it comes into a broader aspect of controlled protection for
all its people
Out of the EU it becomes too
vulnerable and exposed to the Putin reforms of liberty-taking with land he
feels he already owns
Regrettably the people of
Eastern Ukraine have not made their feelings clear enough, so the
pro-separatists have gained the initiative
It is the people themselves,
who see themselves as more Russian than European
Sadly for their naivety is
that Russia controls!
Europe is democratic and
lenient, where travel across states is taken for granted
In Russia there are
controlled areas, travel is closely scrutinised
The Eastern Ukrainian people
have enjoyed the liberty of being free
Now that is to end and they
will experience what it is like to be under the Russian thumb again
A cold but hard realisation
no one wants, but the Eastern Ukrainian people are complicit in their own
downfall!
The only way to defeat IS, is
not by guns and air missiles, which is exactly what they want to happen
It only adds credence to their
anger and feeling of what they are doing is right in their eyes
They want to fight their
enemy with guns and slaughter; that appeals to their thinking and to the cause
that they are fighting for
How to beat them hands down
is to wipe away and literally destroy their ideology
To be done in such a way,
that their every advancing step that they take will only bring them closer to
their own destruction
It is their own belief in the
cause that they are fighting for, which gives them the fuel to rip people apart
They see no wrong in it. If
anything it is their divine right as they see it to oppose the suppression of
Islam in their eyes
What is needed is to find
their default strategy/mind-set and remove it
By appealing to their better
nature it will have no effect
They want violence, which
will allow for greater violence as being justified in their eyes
One needs to destroy the very
heart of their thinking to neutralise it so completely that they are stopped in
their tracks
You have here a fanatic group
with fanatical leaders
Reasoning with them is futile
But to neutralise their
ideology as fit for no purpose sends the seeds of destruction, which will be
fast growing indeed
Their purpose on this earth
and in the hereafter will be of no account
They cannot proceed towards a
state that will never exist, because it has no purpose/foundations for merit
It just can’t happen. It can
never evolve. It is like pouring water through sand. It cannot hold its
substance
By destroying the one thing
that gives them power over all others, it leaves them helpless, redundant and
ineffective
They would become the
laughing stock of the Islamic world
Their voice holding no sway –
no credence. It is what it is, nothing but hot air and rhetoric
Understand the majority of
their fighters are young and impressionable and are easily influenced
For them to see this ideology
being of no consequence removes all necessity to fight!
It is the young who fight and
want to die for glory, but when there is no glory – there is only nothing
What is then the purpose in
dying for nothing?
The cause ceases to be and so
the entire IS army will dissolve of its own accord
It will just peter out –
cease to be!
You cannot fight IS with arms
You need to attack it with
wisdom and right thinking and then the victory over their false ideology is
wiped out for all time!
There will be no future in it
and they will see it too!
At last the truth comes
out. It always comes out no matter how
long it takes!
Dozens of veterans in an
elite Israeli military signals intelligence unit have said…
…that they will no longer
serve in operations against the Palestinians
These veterans are from the
past and the present reservists, who all signed a letter about the Unit 8200
This unit carries electronic
surveillance similar to the US National Security Agency
NSA was exposed by the
whistle blower Edward Snowden
Those working for 8200 said
that most of the intelligence gathered concerned innocent people
The reason for this was to
‘deepen military rule’ in Occupied Territories
Their protest letter was sent
to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other armed forces chiefs
They said they refused to
take part in anymore actions against the Palestinians
They refused to continue
serving as a tool for deepening military rule in Occupied Territories
This surveillance intrudes on
millions of people’s lives and does not allow for normal living; it further
fuels violence
It puts off any end to
conflict!
The Israeli media have also
been informed by the 8200 members, who said they were tasked to gather private
information
This included sexual
preferences and health problems so that these people can be used to extort
information on others
At last there are finally
some Israelis who are prepared to stand up for what they believe is no longer
right
These people have a
conscience and it has been long overdue
More information will come
out
This is but the tip of the
iceberg and the Israeli Government can no longer keep the lid on their misdeeds
Even their own politicians
are voicing their displeasure. Israel has gone too far and they know it
This situation has been
allowed to continue unabashed, as no one in this world will take this
Government to task
While all this is going on,
Israel has ordered criminal investigations on five incidents in the recent Gaza
War
They are too worried to allow
International investigators to come in and seek out the truth. This they are so
desperate to hide
The International
investigations will come about. They needs to – to bring justice back in the
eyes of the world
Ban Ki-moon has ordered a
separate inquiry into the targeting of UN schools being used as temporary
shelters
At the time of the attack on
the UN school by Israeli mortar fire…
…the UN principals had
alerted the Israeli forces some 12 times of their coordinate position
This way they would be free
of any straying shells – all this was ignored
What was not ignored was that
the media was there filming it all and so the truth went out
Human Rights Watch has also
carried out its own research into the bombing of UN schools killing 45 people
including 17 children
There was no military
objective. This was wholesale slaughter,
simply because they could!
When unlawful attacks are carried
out wilfully and deliberately, these are called war crimes
It is up to Ban Ki-moon and
others to bring Israel to account
These incidents have not only
happened in this war, but in others by Israeli assault
Schools and hospitals have
been deliberately targeted and civilians and hospital staff together with
patients were bombed
Again this was captured by
the media at the time – yet again nothing was done
When will Ban Ki-moon and
others do the right and honest thing?
The world watches and waits
Are we not civilised people?
Should we not bring these monsters to justice? We are after all in the 21st
century?
For Oscar Pistorius to walk
free will be an act of injustice as far as his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is
concerned
A young woman with her entire
life before her was cruelly gunned down by a man who is not in control of his
emotions
We have here a man whose
lifestyle afforded him great privilege and fame, who felt he was above the law
in more ways than one
He has now flaunted the law
too many times bringing him down to a level he never thought possible before
To say he acted hastily and
irresponsibly goes without saying
The verdict is already
indelibly marked on his head. He will never rise from his mistakes again
Not only is he a broken man,
but he is a man who has divided emotions
One he wants to be let off
and to enjoy his freedom and the other he will find harder to bear
That is one must pay for
one’s misdeeds and he has stepped over the line more than once
His fiery temper makes him
unpredictable and unstable. No one knows at any one time what he is likely to
do or what he is capable of doing
When he performed in one of
his last races, another man won
Instead of Pistorius
congratulating him on his win as all competitors do at the end of the race, he
rebuffed him & refused to shake his hand
The winner instead was not
perturbed and went on to congratulate all his fellow competitors including
Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius is not
gracious in defeat and especially when there are cameras recording these events
His attitude was both hostile
and cold
He has no grace in him and it
was this one event which showed the man up fully for what he is
He is a cold and heartless
person, who only shines in self-aggrandisement when the spotlight of fame is on
him
When it is not, he pales into
insignificance as if nothing
It is this nothing that will
eat away into him now. His life ruined by his own hand and reckless behaviour
He still thinks he is great
in his own mind and warrants being let off, so that he can pursue his career
and greatness again
His thunder has been taken
away from him and he will be incapable of living a life of benefit on the back
of a senseless crime
Reeva Steenkamp is in a
better place, finally realised of his grip of power over her
She shines brightly now in
the afterlife, where she will continue to support her aging parents who have
lost the light in their lives
Reeva will be missed, but not
forgotten. She already is immortalised in the memory of the nation and the
world
It takes a desperate family
to take desperate measures to secure treatment of Proton beam therapy for their
son Ashya King
It took all the publicity and
the heartbreak of a Court Order to bring this family’s plight to the world
attention
Now because of that something
has done about it
It has been announced that
Proton beam therapy will be made available for brain cancer patients in the UK,
but not until 2018
What an absolute disgrace!
The whole idea of having
Proton beam therapy is to minimise the destruction to healthy brain tissue that
radio therapy gives out
The Proton beam therapy just
deals with the cancer cells around the tumour
Therefore healthy brain cells
are not at risk of being destroyed, giving the patient a greater chance of
survival – 80%
Unless a patient or their
families have the resources to go to the US or Switzerland for their treatment…
…radio therapy is all that is
available
Where the UK medical
profession sees fit then patients are referred to the US or Switzerland for
treatment of which the NHS pays
This makes it a lottery who
is allowed to go and who isn’t
You might as well say who
lives and who dies?
Ashya’s father whose love for
his son researched what else was available in treatment for his son
He came up with Proton beam
therapy
This information had been
denied him, as the oncologist advocated that radio therapy was the best therapy
for his son
Many patients have found that
radio therapy did not work on their brain cancer tumours
Had they not sought treatment
outside of the UK they would not be alive today
There is a need for this
treatment in the UK
But patients suffering from
this awful disease to wait another four years before treatment is available in
the UK is an absolute disgrace
As predicted several months
ago, disease will be the main killer of people over and above guns and warfare
Africa is now facing great
hardship over the deadly Ebola virus, which is spreading like wildfire
There will be no stopping
this disease and countries will have to come together to support each other
Wars will become secondary in
the plight of human suffering
The World Health Organisation
(WHO) has already warned that thousands more cases will occur in Liberia
The disease has already
claimed 2,288 lives in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Half of these deaths
occurred in just three weeks
The disease will continue to
gather momentum and will stretch right across Africa and will not stop there
Many countries feel they are
immune to this disease, thinking it is fairly localised. They will be amazed at how far it can stretch
This disease does not
discriminate bringing down whole families, young and old alike
The outbreak has been
described as a ‘latter-day plague’
Cure will come about once
right thinking and action is taken to prevent this disease from spreading
further
Governments, with their
complacent attitudes, remain sleeping on the job
The disease will infiltrate
what was supposed to be a healthy society
Watch and learn how events
take a sharp turn and move on elsewhere, nobody is safe
Until pharmaceutical
companies are prepared to give the right medication to the people for free,
more lives will be lost
This they owe to the people
of the world on moral grounds and where profits will not be tolerated!
Human Rights Watch now face
another unlawful action
Israel is unlawfully coercing
7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals to leave, who have come into their
country seeking asylum
These souls have begun
arriving in Israel through Egypt’s Sinai Peninsular since 2006
Some 37,000 Eritreans and
14,000 Sudanese have now entered the country
HRW have stated that Israel
have employed measures to get these people to leave. They have been placed in a
camp in the remote Negev Desert
There they remain locked up
in this desert detention centre for the rest of their lives or risk detention
and abuse back home
HRW says Israel is violating
the international principle of ‘non-refoulement’
This forbids states from
returning refugees and asylum seekers to places where their lives are
threatened
Israel, as we know, is above
the Law – both Man’s and God’s
It acts with impunity to keep
Israel white and pure, as they think they are the only superior race that this
world has
To say they discriminate is
laughable, as their methods of ethnic cleansing are already well-known!
They remain unstoppable. Has nobody got the guts to bring them before
the Law!
Finally the Catholic Church
is beginning to deal with years of abuse of children, whose lives have been
wrecked to this day
The Church will continue to
pay the price until all has been settled and the perpetrators brought to
justice
It is now time that the
Vatican extended its cause in the form of rehabilitation to all its victims
worldwide
A responsibility needs to be
openly seen to be done for the public, in restoring what little faith they may
still have in this organisation
It is for the Vatican and
therefore the Church to accept responsibility in their negligence in these
affairs
Archbishop Eamon Martin has
been announced as successor to Cardinal Sean Brady whose reluctance to give up
his powers is hardly surprising
The people will now see what
Archbishop Eamon Martin is able to do to restore confidence
This congregation has seen
Sean Brady finally resign. He was leader of all Ireland’s Catholics
Brady’s tenure had been beset
by clerical child abuse scandals over an 18 year period. He even covered up one
case
Brady had resisted calls to
resign in 2010
It emerged that as a young
priest in 1975 he attended meetings during which two teenage sex abused victims
were sworn to secrecy
This was after they had been
abused by Father Brendan Smyth
Brendan Smyth was at the
centre of one of the first paedophile priest scandals to rock the Catholic
Church in Ireland
He was later convicted of
more than 100 charges of child sexual abuse and he is only one priest
Brendan Smyth died in prison
in 1997 horror after horror!
The Church must make amends
and bring healing to all those victims in Ireland and throughout the world
This they have been denied
them for so long now
Until one can walk in a
victim’s shoes, nobody can ever know the pain and suffering that they still
endure to this day
May the new successor bring
in that healing and compassion, so that these lives can finally be restored
The Vatican owes them that
much at the very least!
Joan
Rivers will be remembered for her strong opinions as a comedian; she was a
truly funny lady
What
perhaps is less known about her is her charity work, which she was passionately
involved in
One
of them was called ‘God’s Love We Deliver’, which started in 1986
It
is a New York based charity organisation, which provides free nutritious meals
to ill and housebound people living in New York
It
also works in parts of New Jersey, again where people are not able to provide
for themselves
Joan’s
impact on ‘God’s Love We Deliver’ will be felt always by her clients,
volunteers, staff and community
The
charity delivers 4,500 meals a day and there is no waiting list. If you ring up
in the morning you will get your meal that day
She
had been a board member and volunteer for more than 20 years
In
May of this year she delivered the organisation’s 15 millionth meal to an 84
year old lady living in Brooklyn
Joan
would sit with these people and listen to their needs when she delivered their
meals and always made them laugh
Joan
brought love, compassion and humour to every delivery she made and every event
she supported
She
was also involved with guide dogs for the blind and another charity called ‘Our
House’
The
‘Our House’ charity counsels children and families of suicide
When
Joan’s husband committed suicide there was no counselling for those left behind
and you felt as it if was your fault
This
charity ‘Our House’ gives support as well as counselling to the families left
behind, so that they can come to terms with their grief
Joan
Rivers was a very misunderstood lady, who had deep aspirations to make the
world a better place
At
the same time, she was hiding much grief and anxiousness about her own
vulnerability
Joan
Rivers had a heart of gold inside a tough exterior, which was the only way she
knew how to survive
Her
rare and inexhaustible talent brought tears to many who watched her shows. She
will be sorely missed
“Should Scotland become an independent country,”
is the question on everybody’s lips?
If Scotland truly wishes to
become independent then they must accept true responsibility of all that goes
with it
This does not only include
the economic situation
Scotland would see a massive dip
in revenue and that is in spite of North Sea Oil, which will be running out at
some time soon
They have no other natural
resources and tourism will be the only other lucrative contribution
Many businesses will go out
of business, as they will not be allowed the very generous tax exemptions which
they now enjoy
The Scottish people would
struggle to make ends meet
There would not be enough
revenue in their treasury to meet all the shortfalls they will incur, giving
them lasting headaches for all time
Scotland’s current MP’s have
severely hoodwinked the electorate
It all appears safe sailing,
which is far from what the reality will actually be
Shortfalls in economic
revenue is what will split this country for all time
With no way back they would
struggle to see their country trying to keep afloat, which will prove
impossible for all time
Trade deficits and many of
the things they now take for granted in the way of concessions, will all
foreclose
Thus bringing the harsh
reality of what Scotland will have to endure forever more
Europe will not allow them in
and so, as sole traders, they would have to negotiate trade with other world
trading markets
With their treasury coffers
not up to scratch, they would not be able to negotiate proper deals
In the end they would have to
pay top dollar as the saying goes
This will leave them further
struggling along the bottom with no safety net to secure any respite from their
own self-inflicted situation
They will never be able to
repay the balance. There are not enough tax paying people in Scotland to bring
about a trade surplus
Many industries will move
south of the border as they have no other choice
Those businesses are already
considering moving out to safeguard their company, shareholders and the people who
work for them
Their jobs will be saved
It will be Scotland’s loss,
not these companies who are older and wiser then Scottish MP’s who are only
able to see glory
This glory will be short
lived
A very unwise situation if
Scotland should free itself from the Union. Let us hope the Scottish people
will see sense at the last minute?
All those matters, where the
Scottish people feel they will gain from removing themselves from the English
parliament, will happen
However they do not realise
they will encounter far more serious problems of discourse and unsettledness
from other aspects
Problems they never thought
to even consider will now be placed at their doorstep, which they will
encounter head on
There will be no time to
think or to negotiate. They will have to act immediately
That will be the unsettling
and undoing of this sweet nation
Can they afford in their
naivety to take the risk? The answer has to be unequivocally, “NO!”
This is how it starts, to
provoke unrest in a country by Russia’s henchmen, where fear is the ultimate
weapon of unrest
Estonia’s Foreign Ministry
has summoned the Russian Ambassador
Their complaint is regarding
the abduction of an Estonian Security Officer by unidentified individuals from
Russia on their borders
The Estonian Ministry said
the incident took place inside Estonia near the checkpoint with evidence to
prove this
The missing Estonian official
works for the Estonian Internal Security Services
Russia uses any pretext it
likes to obtain individuals, who they wish to interrogate when they need vital
information
This incident came on the
second day that a key NATO Strategy Summit was in place. This is not by
accident, but by design
The Russian kidnappers are
highly trained military operatives
They used a smoke grenade to
capture him and jammed Estonian radio communications – a well thought out
operation
President Putin’s mission is
to make himself the greatest leader of all time
He is paranoid into thinking
he can do it by whatever means are at his disposal
Putin feels he cannot be
stopped as Europe now is too weak to do anything about it
Also with other wars already
keeping troops occupied, the direction of attention is on IS and not on him
Do not be so naïve as to
think he cares about sanctions, he has already considered this tactic and will
act against it
He cares nothing for his
people only for himself
By causing unrest throughout
Europe he provokes the very system he wishes to undermine & he exercises
fear and unrest throughout the region
Estonia and other Baltic
states have real cause for concern & if NATO is not fully alerted yet with
events in Ukraine, then they should be
This is just the start of
Putin’s plan to secure back what he feels is his entitlement to Russia’s
greatness
Do not be asleep, he is a
wily fox and his policy is to breed fear, so that when he finally jumps his
victims are already paralysed
They all know the Russia of
old and do not wish to go back to that control with no freedom to do or to be
NATO needs to act and to
secure all borders, because there is no stopping this man now!
UNICEF has announced that 120
million girls around the world have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age
of 20
Also that 95,000 children and
teenagers, most of them Latin American and Caribbean, were murdered in 2012
alone
What is the matter with
humanity today? They cannot recognise the harm and cruelty they are inflicting!
Where is our understanding
and moral codes of conduct? Are we humans or beasts? Animals have a greater sense of decency than
us
We are but despicable souls
with no care for the children we love
We condemn them for life by
our violent acts of torture that no child should be subjected to
Until harsher laws and
education is imposed, these figures will only get worse
There needs to be a name and
shame policy that also affects the families of these perpetrators, so all are
collectively responsible
The pain and suffering
imposed on these victims already is a life time’s sentence, as their mental and
physical recover is NIL
That needs to be spelled out
to these Governments that these crimes are being committed under their watch
They are ultimately
responsible for not doing more to prevent these heinous crimes against their
own innocent citizens
We collectively have a moral
obligation to high light these abuses far more
We need to bring Governments
to account, who show lack of moral responsibilities
Vladimir Putin is a most
dangerous creature with sights way above his station and control
He thinks he is bigger than
he is and so wants to create another USSR
His thinking behind the
objective is to make Russia great again and to exercise its rights in the
global forum over Middle Eastern policies
Putin wants to take centre
stage for officiating deals that will bring Russia more into the global economy
He wants to safeguard and
secure all the land under his power & control and has no reason to remove
himself from his strategy of command
Putin knows his place in
history and it is determined by how great he is and what he alone can do for
his people
He has little opposition in
his own select cabinet of officers, as all have been handpicked by him anyway
He wants to bellow out that
he is the greatest leader that Russia has ever had
Even greater than Stalin,
whose legacy still haunts many Russians today
With his strategy already
intact he just needs to chip away at the onslaught that he knows will come his
way
He has already in his mind
thought of everything and where he can build a stronger alliance with the Eastern
countries of this world
The West will be hung out to
dry
He does not care whether
Europe takes his gas or not, as he already has China on side for his surplus
supplies
Putin will be able to
undercut any market forces, as he has an abundance of gas supplies to meet all
needs
As he sees it, he is the
rising star and the West better get used to it!
All the sanctions that are
imposed on him to bring him to his knees he has already thought about
His contingency plans are now
being implemented
He sees Europe/NATO and the
West as being both weak and divided and their causes for straight thinking no
longer apply to him
Vladimir Putin is a man on a
mission and is answerable to no one
His strategy will hold,
unless the West make a determined effort to stop him, but nothing will be done
Putin is too clever right now
and too buoyant for his own good. The momentum is with him and he sees no
reason to change
Europe and the US will just
sit on their hands, as usual too insecure to do anything
It allows him further scope
for expansion and the cost to him will be minimal in his eyes
To be great always comes with
a price and he is prepared to pay that price to satisfy his own ego!
Corruption is the greatest
crime of the century involving many lives and this leads to the destabilising
of the human structure
An estimated $1trillion a
year is being taken out of poor countries and millions of lives are lost
Extreme poverty has been put
further at risk by corruption and crime
There have been many phantom
firms and money laundering by these corrupt methods
A report blames corruption
for 3.6 million deaths every year. It is an abject scandal
Corruption inhibits private
investment, reduces economic growth and the cost of doing business can lead to
political instability
It is when Governments are
deprived of their own resources to invest in healthcare and food security
It even lacks the ability to
invest in the essential infrastructure that costs lives
If corruption were eradicated
in sub-Sahara Africa then education would be provided for 10 million additional
children
There would be many more
school teachers made available
Antiretroviral drugs would
help 11 million people with HIV/Aids conditions
The G20 leaders will meet in
Australia in November to take measures to tackle these problems
Until countries in sub-Sahara
can benefit from their own natural resources of oil, gas and mining…
…where those resources have
been stolen from them by big organisations not paying the right tax and various
dues, nothing will ever change
Many years ago in The Gambia,
a Swedish construction firm chose to be benevolent
They said they would fix all
the roads in The Gambia for free
They would provide all the
materials and the manpower and give it freely to the people of The Gambia
The governor of the country
at that time said, “What is in it for
me?”
The construction company
said, “Nothing. It is for your people and
for your country that badly need this service”
The governor replied, “No thank you.” So the construction
company withdrew their offer
This type of thing is not
uncommon in Africa and so it is now up to the G20 to do their bit
Long have they sat on their
backsides doing precious little, but prevaricate while their fellow man
continues to suffer
Where inaction continues to
carry on, the innocent people continue to suffer
Those in power only continue
to feather their own nests at the expense of their people
Amnesty International has new
evidence that the Islamic State militants are carrying out a wave of ethnic
cleansing against minorities
The human rights group said, “The IS has turned the region into a blood
soaked killing field”
America is admitting they
don’t have a strategy yet for dealing with the sharp rise of this militant group
Since G.W. Bush, America has
made an unbelievable mess of its Mideast policies – they are now reaping those
mistakes
Small numbers of US troops
are being sent back to Iraq to quell the sickening fighting
There will be enough men to
get the nation stuck in a new conflict, but not enough to make any major
difference
President Obama is now being
pressed to attack Syria. This idea is crazy
The US sponsored an armed
uprising against the Assad regime, which brutally ruled Syria for 43 years
France, Britain, Saudi Arabia
and other Arab nations backed this campaign to overthrow Assad as a way to
damage Iran
The result was a bloody war
of attrition that is slowly being won by Damascus
Worse still, the western
intervention in Syria has produced what is known in the intelligence business
as a blowback, this is now happening
These Syrian jihadists
supported by the western powers are now running amok with deadly consequences
The IS were a previously
unknown band of gunmen, who were trained and armed in Jordan by the CIA, then
turned loose on Syria
They now are rampaging across
northern and central Iraq
What makes IS so effective is
that the major portion of its leaders and soldiers are veterans of President
Saddam Hussein’s army
They were the noted Republican
Guard
With IS, is the last
surviving Saddam insider, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
When the US first invaded
Iraq, Saddam predicted it would face the “Mother of all battles.” Westerners
laughed
Eleven years later the
laughter has been silenced
Iraq continues to fight on
and it is no longer safe for foreign oil companies – Saddam’s revenge
The Islamic State has risen
from the ruins of Iraq and Syria to challenge America
Light bombing by the US in
Iraq won’t stop the IS
It is now that America and
the West are reaping so many losses of lives and abject carnage that they first
started. Well done Tony Blair!
If Mankind stopped and
thought before it started a war, then this would not have happened
It is all very well to go to
war…
…but if you cannot build a
future after the destruction of a country for these people then you do them
equally a disservice twice
This is exactly what has
happen in Iraq and the same will happen in Syria
Has the West not learnt
anything, but to go in with their heavy boots and destroy what is none of their
business in the first place?
It is down to Muslims to
settle their own affairs and for the West to butt out
Unless they are asked for a
better solution that can improve those people’s lives in every way
This, the West continues to
destroy
Amnesty International is
right to be concerned, as it is often them who have to pick up the pieces of
destroyed lives
It is they who are the true
heroes with very little back up. This will soon change!
A young boy, Ashya King, has a
brain tumour and he has been denied another form of treatment
The prescribed conventional
treatment by Southampton General Hospital for Radio Therapy was the only
therapy that was right for Ashya
That was according to the
hospital
This therapy, which kills all
good cells as well as bad cells, goes right through the brain
Mr and Mrs King pleaded with
Southampton General Hospital for their son to receive Proton Beam Therapy
The hospital said it would
have no benefit to the child whatsoever and they must go with what they had
prescribed
The true reason was not that
it couldn’t help a dying child, but that the hospital had already allocated it
funds for this treatment
To go on to the Proton Beam
treatment would mean sending Ashya to a different country where the treatment
is available
The cost to the NHS is
£100,000
Southampton Hospital having
already allocated £½m for the treatment, do not wish to incur any additional
costs
There have been many
patients, who have suffered from brain tumours
Radio Therapy has done
nothing to reduce the tumour and patients have been left to die
For those who refused to see
their loved ones die, they have taken the initiative to go to the countries
that offer Proton Therapy
They have gone at their own
expense, because they feel the treatment is worth it
In 80% of patients receiving
Proton Therapy, where the disease has been found earlier enough, all have
recovered
Some have even stated they
are living eight years after treatment, free of the disease
Proton Beam Therapy attacks
only the rogue cells and stops the tumour from growing and then it diminishes
Mr & Mrs King wanted to
pay for their son’s treatment in Czechoslovakia, where the treatment is
available
Other countries, where Proton
treatment is available are the US, Germany and Switzerland
In the UK, the NHS says
Proton Therapy doesn’t work covering themselves for not utilising this
treatment here
Mr & Mrs King did what
any parent would do to save their child
That is to go where the right
treatment in the right country is available to save their son
It is the NHS which has let
them down and the lies given out by Southampton General Hospital will come back
to bite them hard
Remember Ashya has the right
to live and the right to the best treatment available in this world to save his
life
Southampton General Hospital
does not have any right to deny him life!
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