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Subject: New: From The Kwagga.com BLOG
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:51:13 -0500
From: Hanif Kruger <grr@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx
Greetifications nimer
Wellcome to this newsletter thing over here.
This is a newsletter that updates you on the newest additions to my
personal Weblog.
My name is Hanif and I live and work in Pretoria, South-africa. When
browsing the internet, reading newsletters or generally mucking about, I
always find interesting things on the wild, wild web. Keeping these bits
of info in my bookmarks is probably an option but, I love to share and
besides, keeping a publically accessible record available, benefits many
people.
Politics, computers, software, tips and lots of other stuff is covered
on my blog.
Also, if you are visually impaired or would just like to get access to a
new, small but, perssonal collection of useful software applications,
mostly for windows, be sure to visit BlindFiles.net
<http://blindfiles.net/>
If you have anything to contribute, in the form of articles, opinions,
etc, please feel free to let me know by replying to this email or by
clicking on the link below. Contact Me. <http://kwagga.com/contact.php>
Enjoy and Take care
Hanif Kruger
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 12:00 PM.:
Spiritual Energy: Your Renewable Resource - By Rena M. Reese
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Category: Insparational <index.php?catid=33> | Posted by: babagrr
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What are you?
Ask that question of a thousand people and the vast majority will likely
respond with their occupation or job. I am a parent, teacher, lawyer or
a whatever-I-do-to-earn-money-and-fill-my-day. Yet this is not who we
are. We are not what we do. Think about that for a moment; while it
sounds simple, do you really know who you are when extricated from the
identity a profession, role or achievement provides? Can you tell me
what you are without naming what it is that you do? The most accurate
answer to that question is actually the same for each of us. The truest
response is the same for you, me, your doctor, your mail carrier as well
as each person with whom we share this gorgeous planet.
We are energy. The parts of us we can see and feel, as well as those we
cannot, are pure energy. We may visualize a storehouse of energy in our
body much like a gas tank contains the fuel for a car. On some level of
consciousness, we check in with our energy supply regularly,
acknowledging when we are powered up or running dangerously low. We know
it is true since we innately...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 11:06 AM.:
Liberty Has Been Lost - By Paul Craig Roberts <index.php?itemid=1787>
Category: United States <index.php?catid=34> | Posted by: babagrr
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Originally published on January 06, 2009
-- I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn’s book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when
I came across Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists”. -
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24273.htm -
In Hedges’ description of the US government’s treatment of American
citizen Syed Fahad Hashmi, I recognized the Stalinist legal system as
portrayed by Solzhenitsyn.
Hashmi has been held in solitary confinement going on three years.
Guantanamo’s practices have migrated to the Metropolitan Correction
Center in Manhattan where Hashmi is held in the Special Housing Unit.
His access to attorneys, family, and other prisoners is prevented or
severely curtailed. He must clean himself and use toilet facilities on
camera. He is let out of solitary for one hour every 24 hours to
exercise in a cage.
Hashmi is a US citizen but his government has violated every right
guaranteed to him by the Constitution. The US government, in violation
of US law, is also subjecting Hashmi to psychological torture known as
extreme sensory deprivation. The bogus “evidence” against him is
classified and denied to him. Like Joseph K. in Kafka’s The Trial,
Hashmi is under arrest on secret evidence. As...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 10:58 AM.:
The Coming Fury Of An Angry America - By Aetius Romulous
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Category: United States <index.php?catid=34> | Posted by: babagrr
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January 06, 2009
"Countercurrents"
-- A tiny part of a tiny part of the population of the earth will set
the terms for the future of all humans. A tiny part that is broken,
spent out, and increasingly disillusioned. That sliver of humanity is
the broken, spent out, and increasingly disillusioned American middle
class, burdened with the task of spending all America out of
catastrophe. When they break under the weight of desperate
impossibility, how will the heartlands good citizens react, and what
will they do?
According to the World Bank, there are 6,692,030,277 human beings on the
earth. 308,108,741 of them live in the United States, about 4.6% of the
total. Of these fortunate Americans, about 231,000,000 are of voting
age. In general elections in history's greatest democracy, about half
those eligible to vote actually do...115 million people. History's
greatest democracy has only two options every election, a choice between
two almost similar positions, and the winning option typically enjoys
the support of only half of those who choose, approximately 60 million
individuals.
For a scant 90 years, America has been the wealthiest, most powerful
group of humans in all 20,000 years of recorded civilization. Decisions
made by Americans can and do...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 10:51 AM.:
Viva Palestina Starts Entry To Gaza <index.php?itemid=1782>
Category: palestine <index.php?catid=30> | Posted by: babagrr
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/ Wednesday January
06, 2010 21:28/
*Report by George Galloway*
The Viva Palestina Convoy, and after facing ongoing Egyptian
rejection and violent
attacks by the Egyptian security forces, started on Wednesday
evening to roll into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians, carrying flowers and flags, gathered in
the streets while the convoy continued to move in.
A Press conference would be held on Thursday and would be followed by
the official ceremony of handing the international humanitarian
aid.
The Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported that a convoy of eight truck started
crossing the Rafeh Terminal.
On its website the Viva Palestina reported that “convoy continues to
move into the strip to be greeted by flowers and flag-waving
crowds. Press conference later to be followed tomorrow with ceremony to
hand over the aid”.
*17.30 GMT Wednesday 6th January*
One month, thousands of miles, ten countries, one ship and a four
flights later, Viva Palestina has begun to
enter the besieged Gaza Strip.
"We are all emotional to see that
all of Gaza are out to greet us! Our Viva Palestina convoy is symbolic!
It shows the Palestianian people just how much the people of the West
do care.
" We come in peace to deliver humanitarian aid and we hope that our
convoy (and convoy's like ours) will help
to build pressure on the Israeli government to...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 09:52 AM.:
Assassination without borders - By Peter Schwarz
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Category: United States <index.php?catid=34> | Posted by: babagrr
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CIA and mercenaries plotted murder of German citizen
7 January 2010
Four years ago in Hamburg, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
mercenary firm Blackwater planned and prepared the assassination of the
German-Syrian businessman Mamoun Darkazanli. This is reported by the
American magazine Vanity Fair in its January issue. The report has
unleashed considerable turmoil in German political circles. It reveals
that the policy of targeted killing, the liquidation of alleged
terrorists by the US, does not stop at the borders of Afghanistan,
Pakistan or Yemen. It is also practiced on the territory of Washington’s
NATO allies.
The information about the plans to murder Darkazanli can be found in a
lengthy article about Erik Prince, the boss and founder of Blackwater,
now called XE. Prince founded the company in the mid-1990s with the help
of an inheritance worth billions. This former member of the elite US
Navy Seals offered to provide specialised training for US military units
at the company’s premises in North Carolina.
Blackwater’s big moment came with the declaration of the “war on terror”
by President George W. Bush. The company evolved into a private army,
which could be deployed wherever it was too hot for the military or
intelligence forces. Between...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 09:35 AM.:
Failed Detroit bombing used to justify crackdown on British
universities - By Paul Bond <index.php?itemid=1776>
Category: United Kingdom <index.php?catid=65> | Posted by: babagrr
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Originally published on 7 January 2010
The British ruling establishment has been quick to use the failed
attempt to bomb Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day to demand
greater security monitoring. In particular there have been demands for
the exertion of greater control over universities. Attention has focused
on student societies and on the regulation and restriction of foreign
students.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian-born attempted bomber, had
studied Mechanical Engineering at University College London (UCL)
between 2005 and 2008. During that time he was President of the UCL
Islamic Society, and organised a number of speaking events.
Abdulmutallab’s family have suggested that he may have made contact with
Al Qaeda while in London, but they believe that he was trained by Al
Qaeda later on a subsequent trip to Yemen. His father, a former banker,
alerted US authorities to his suspicions.
In the aftermath of the incident, Home Secretary Alan Johnson stated
that Abdulmutallab, who had studied legitimately at UCL, had had his
second application for a student visa rejected. Abdulmutallab had
claimed for a non-existent course, resulting in the British authorities
placing his name on a watch-list. This list is shared with treaty
partners, such as the United States. Johnson...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 09:29 AM.:
US cold snap highlights depth of social crisis - By Kate Randall
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Category: General <index.php?catid=1> | Posted by: babagrr
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Originally published on 7 January 2010
A protracted cold spell eased somewhat Wednesday, but wide areas of
the US—from the Northern Plains to the East Coast and stretching to
the South—were bracing for more winter weather and freezing temperatures
this weekend. The cold snap has spelled misery for many, especially in
areas unaccustomed and ill-prepared for the frigid conditions.
The freezing weather has placed in sharp relief the devastating social
impact of mass unemployment, growing poverty and the refusal of the
Obama administration to provide any serious relief for the victims of
the economic crisis.
The arctic blast began last weekend and has been blamed for a least
seven confirmed deaths. The number is likely far higher, and confirmed
deaths can be expected to climb as packed shelters turn away people
seeking refuge and communities struggle to provide a warm place for the
growing ranks of the homeless.
Other households may have a roof over their heads, but have had their
utilities shut off due to non-payment. The use of space heaters, fires,
candles and other unsafe sources of heating and electricity leaves
families vulnerable to house fires.
Three people died early Tuesday morning in Detroit when their home
caught fire. It is believed the...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 09:16 AM.:
Six million in the US with no income but food stamps - - Jerry
White <index.php?itemid=1772>
Category: United States <index.php?catid=34> | Posted by: babagrr
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Note: I predicted this, Haven't i? Smirks. End note.
Some six million Americans—one in 50 people in the US—are living on no
income other than $100 or $200 a month in food stamps, according to an
analysis of state data by the New York Times. The number of people who
reported that they are unemployed and receive no cash aid—neither
welfare, nor unemployment insurance, pension benefits, child support or
disability pay—the newspaper reported, has jumped by 50 percent over the
last two years, as the recession has taken hold.
According to the January 3 article, the number of people reporting no
income tripled in Nevada over the past two years, doubled in Florida and
New York, and increased nearly 90 percent in Minnesota and Utah. In
Wayne County, Michigan—which includes Detroit, where half the population
is unemployed or underemployed—one out of every 25 residents reports an
income of only food stamps. In Yakima County, Washington, the figure is
one out of every 17.
The figures reveal the vast scale of human suffering in the US as the
new decade begins and puts the lie to talk of an economic “recovery.”
The 6 million people in households reporting no income—which includes...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 09:09 AM.:
Court setback for Guide Dogs on Exhibition Road shared space
scheme - By Ruth Bloomfield <index.php?itemid=1768>
Category: General <index.php?catid=1> | Posted by: babagrr
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I'm disgusted at this guy. Luckily, I do not reside in the UK> Thank the
lord for small mercies.
***
Originally published on 6 January, 2010
A leading charity’s attempt to derail Dixon Jones’ revolutionary £25
million redesign of London’s Exhibition Road has suffered a major setback.
Lord Carlile of Berriew QC has refused to grant Guide Dogs permission to
proceed with its judicial review against the scheme, which involves
removing traditional kerbs and expecting pedestrians and motorists to
share the same space.
Kensington & Chelsea council claim the change will force drivers to slow
down, making the road safer, but the charity said the lack of a kerb
could endanger the lives of the visually impaired.
Jeremy Dixon said he remained committed to the concept of shared surfaces.
“We are certainly confident that what we are dong has been tested and is
a good solution. This is a sensible thing to do for the widest
possible benefit.”
Council leader Merrick Cockell said he hoped the charity would now agree
to work together with the council and the designers to enhance the
safety aspects of the scheme.
In an open letter to the charity he wrote: “With over one hundred
accidents in the area over the...
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Thursday, January 07, 2010, 08:51 AM.:
Telling the truth - By Yvonne Ridley <index.php?itemid=1767>
Category: newcat2 <index.php?catid=70> | Posted by: babagrr
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Telling the truth can be a complicated business.
It was one of the first lessons I learned at a very tender age.
Still unable to grasp the importance of the school timetable in my first
week, I rolled up for class 20 minutes late having been diverted by a
rather splendid game of marbles. Four black jack chews and a sherbet dip
were at stake.
By the time I walked in, the teacher was so fraught that lying seemed to
be the best option.
Five minutes later I was before the headmistress because my colorful
story about helping a blind man find his way home after his old crippled
guide dog had dropped dead outside the playground gates was not believed.
At the end of the day, when my mother came to collect me, she was hauled
in to the head’s office where I was forced to recount my rather
elaborate story before being made to apologize to the grownups and
promise always to tell the truth. Just as we were about to leave, she
reminded my mother school finished at 3:30 pm and noted she had arrived
five minutes after the bell.
My mother was really annoyed -- angry...
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