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TURMOIL IN THE MIDEAST: UNITED NATIONS; Annan Urges Immediate Halt To the Fighting In Lebanon

Secretary General Kofi Annan called Thursday for an immediate end to hostilities between Israel and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, saying it was necessary to prevent further deaths of civilians, enable aid to reach the wounded and for work to begin on longer-term peace. Both the deliberate targeting by Hezbollah of Israeli population centers - By WARREN HOGE

United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - Wikipedia, the free ...

... coexistence with the region's other inhabitants: Jewish units in the United States hailed the action by the United Nations.

Do you ever get tired of folks saying "We need to bring America back to its moral values"?

As if this nation ever had them in the first place?

Answer: Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!

Rates for gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

As christianity fades away behaviour will improve, the economy will improve and america will regain the respect that it has lost!
Category: Religion & Spirituality

No More Mystery Meat

I miss the cookies and the fries, Max Gold-Landzberg said. Sitting in the cafeteria at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y., Max, 17, a senior, chomped on a roast beef and cheese sandwich on a whole wheat roll. Last year he would have had the sandwich on a regular roll, Max said, but white-bread products are no longer sold in this - Article on changes to public school menus across New York metropolitan region as districts begin to comply with new federal law requiring them to develop wellness policies outlining nutrition and exercise goals before classes began this fall; local school boards vary enormously in how they are interpreting federal mandate, with some making significant changes and others doing almost nothing; photos (L) - By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER

Security Barriers Born of 9/11 Are Rethought, Then Removed

They started appearing on Manhattan streets immediately after September 11: concrete and metal barriers in front of skyscrapers, offices and museums. Some were clunky planters; others were shaped artfully into globes. They were meant to be security barriers against possible car or truck bombers in a jittery city intent on safeguarding itself. But - New York City orders removal of many of security barriers that were installed in front of skyscrapers after Sept 11, 2001; citys Transportation Dept acts after evaluations by Police Dept; barriers have been removed at 30 buildings out of estimated 50 to 70 in city; counterterrorism experts say that in terms of safety, some of barriers might do more harm than good; none of Manhattans building owners were ordered to install barriers, and they will have to remove them at their own expense; photos (M) - By CARA BUCKLEY; Al Baker contributed reporting.

Why do people love telling each other how evil and violent Christians are when?

You ask them if a Christian has ever harmed them they say no. And if they do say yes,you ask them if that person showed you from the Bible where Jesus commanded harm to other people,they say no.
Yet you still avoid my question.

Answer: What a silly and false claim and trying to deny the truth is simply silly!

Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!

Rates for gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!

George W Bush started FIVE wars in less than eight years stating each time that it was his "God Given Duty” and in 2001 even called it a Crusade!

Not his duty to the electors!

Not his duty to America!

Just his duty to keep slaughtering heathens for his god!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

Did you know that 46 MILLION Americans live below the poverty line and christians have opposed every move to help them?

All the other Western countries are far more moral, peaceful and have better standards of living!

The rise of the American fundamentalist corresponds directly to the fall in standards across America!
Category: Religion & Spirituality

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No More Mystery Meat

I miss the cookies and the fries, Max Gold-Landzberg said. Sitting in the cafeteria at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y., Max, 17, a senior, chomped on a roast beef and cheese sandwich on a whole wheat roll. Last year he would have had the sandwich on a regular roll, Max said, but white-bread products are no longer sold in this - Article on changes to public school menus across New York metropolitan region as districts begin to comply with new federal law requiring them to develop wellness policies outlining nutrition and exercise goals before classes began this fall; local school boards vary enormously in how they are interpreting federal mandate, with some making significant changes and others doing almost nothing; photos (L) - By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER

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Reactions from My Twitter-Feed: SCOTUS Overturns DOMA. Today's ... Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads Region: The Showdown States . Walnut .... Recent Commentary on Nation-Dividing Tactics of GO.

Reactions to Iran's Peaceful Presidential Election 2013 | Inayat's ...

Reactions to Iran's Peaceful Presidential Election 2013 ... Given the volatile nature of the region it's no surprise that the local nations take an intense interest in what their neighbours are up to and who they are friends with.

Supreme Court Decisions Won't Affect N.C. Law Now « CBS Charlotte

The mixed decisions from the court brought mixed and sometimes muted reactions in North Carolina, which approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage in May 2012. “We are thankful that North Carolina's marriage ... we lives in a region of the country that is not likely to adopt same-sex marriage on a state-by-state basis in the near future despite growing public support for marriage equality,” the Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara. “Fundamental civil rights such as ...

What are the negative and positive effects on state to state migration?Also?

what states have the greatest and least net migration, and why is it them?

Answer: Migration to California,Florida,New Jersey Nevada,Washington State,Arizona,. Migration from New York,Montana,North Dakota,South Dakota,Wyoming. December 28, 2007 —
Analysis of the new Census Bureau annual estimates of state population changes for 2006-7 shows that the sinking housing market has yanked back high-flying states like Nevada and Arizona. An even bigger tug in growth occurred in Florida, another housing-boom driven state. With credit harder to get and the disappearance of housing deals, the allure of these states appears to have dimmed.

Meanwhile, the up-scale states—California, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts—are seeing fewer residents leave for a lower cost of living elsewhere. And those states benefiting from the previous flight to affordability—Nevada and Arizona in the west; Florida in the south; and Pennsylvania and New Hampshire in the east—have shown slower migration gains or greater declines.

Even the states surrounding Washington, D.C., another hot market, have attracted fewer migrants. Potential home buyers in the outer suburbs of Virginia and Maryland face trouble getting credit and recent buyers in the District and inner suburbs are stuck because they cannot sell.

The D.C. region has, in short, become a microcosm of the nation’s reaction to the housing bust. Like in Nevada and Arizona, the market for the region’s suburban buyers is drying up due to the credit crunch, and construction and in-migration is stalling. But the District and inner suburbs are more like coastal California, where housing-rich residents are waiting to sell in order to move to opportunities elsewhere.

In sum, there appears to be a migration correction going on. We’re at the beginning of a leveling off of migration between unaffordable and affordable America. As with the broader economy, we don’t know how much longer it will last.http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1228_migration_frey.aspx
State-to-State Migration Flows: 1995 to 2000 ,https://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-8.pdf
Category: Geography

How much ground time has the congressional black caucus?

spent in Darfur? How many members? When ? What is their reaction to a real tragedy?

Answer: They have done plenty of advocating on Darfur.

7 of their members were arrested at Sudan's Embassy while protesting violence in the nation's Darfur region.
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/17/world/fg-arrest17

They urged immediate action be taken to end the violence in Darfur, Sudan
http://www.house.gov/list/press/nc12_watt/pr_cbc_121505b_genocideindarfus.html
Category: Other - Cultures & Groups

Alternative Fuels Star at Clean Transport Expo | Environment News ...

And the Georgetown Climate Center established their support and awareness for electric vehicles by creating an inventory of EV training courses offered in the Northeast region. Gladstein, Neandross and Associates, organizers of the ACT Expo, have announced that Tom O'Brien, managing director, president and chief executive of the nation's largest full-service truck stop chain, TravelCenters of America (TA), will deliver the keynote address at this year's event.

How could political changes have led to America winning the Vietnam War?

How could the avoidance of watergate or changes in foreign policy have led to the US winning Vietnam?

Answer: A general theory on the best chance for the US Military to win the war outright was in 1968 after the Tet Offensive. General Westmoreland wanted to counter with attacks throughout the country. A key part of this strategy was an attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which was a vital supply line for the NVA. Their officers have repeatedly stated that the Ho Chi Minh Trail was the key premise for their success in overwhelming South Vietnam by 1975. I studied the Vietnam War very comprehensively. My primary project was on Agent Orange for a master's degree in public health.

So General Westmoreland had a somewhat legitimate strategy. But the media exposure of the Tet Offensive led to negative public reaction and strong political negation of legitimate military tactics. The general theory of the best chance to win the war usually revolves around the historical incidents related to the Tet Offensive and the irony of Westmoreland's removal. However, the theory of a "counter strategy" into the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1968 is an oversimplication. Additional details of the overall military command should be analyzed. There are military officers who criticized Westmoreland's emphasis on the "kill ratio" with "search-and-destroy" because they thought it created more enemies. Most notably, Colonel Hackworth was such a critic. By 1971 he concluded that the Vietnam War would end by 1975 with defeat. He was politically castigated by senior officers in the military.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hackworth

Some historians have pointed out the "holes" in that theory of winning the war after Tet. Even if Westmoreland was allowed to remain in command and counter after the Tet Offensive, would the USA have continued to maintain a strong military presence for 30+ years to "hold" the positions gained in such a counter? The answer for some historians is "No."

The reality is that the "Domino Theory" of Communist Expansion was an inadequate argument to hold such a position with a large military presence. The irony in the battle against "Communism" is that the "Domnino Theory" was false. After the US withdrawal in 1975, the Communist nations in Southeast Asia actually went to war against each other.

So despite the arguments of an effective counter in 1968, the best strategy would have just been to point out the flaws in the "Domino Theory" and not send troops at all after the French were defeated in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu.

I like the scene in "Apocalypse Now Redux" where fictional French survivors of Dien Bien Phu had somehow managed to remain in Southeast Asia for about 15 years after the fall of Dien Bien Phu. They point out the flaws in the "Domino Theory" and how the Communists of the region are capable of going to war against each other. I like that scene because I read the book "Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu." I'd recommend it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxENJ2LwecY&feature=related

The best book about the soldiers in the war zone of Vietnam was "Combat Medic." Historical sources about the political strategies and failures are listed in that URL below.

The Vietnam Conflict is very controversial. The emotional bias is very strong. It's hard to sort out objective facts. When I was a child in the 1980s none of my teachers would discuss Vietnam. It was a taboo subject. So I did a lot of research on my own since my youth. I've met Vietnam Veterans and was always fascinated by their stories of Vietnam. I met a former Marine who had served at Camp Carroll, which was heavily described in "Combat Medic: Vietnam." May the US soldiers killed in Vietnam rest in peace.
http://www.virtualwall.org/
Category: History

No More Mystery Meat

I miss the cookies and the fries, Max Gold-Landzberg said. Sitting in the cafeteria at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y., Max, 17, a senior, chomped on a roast beef and cheese sandwich on a whole wheat roll. Last year he would have had the sandwich on a regular roll, Max said, but white-bread products are no longer sold in this - Article on changes to public school menus across New York metropolitan region as districts begin to comply with new federal law requiring them to develop wellness policies outlining nutrition and exercise goals before classes began this fall; local school boards vary enormously in how they are interpreting federal mandate, with some making significant changes and others doing almost nothing; photos (L) - By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER

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Selective listings by critics of The New York Times of new and noteworthy cultural events in the New York metropolitan region this week. * denotes a highly recommended film, concert, show or exhibition. Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current shows, additional

What would the world be if it were only Christians or atheists?

What if the world was only atheists,or on the other side only christians? State your answer,what side you are on,and what it would be like. Thanks!

Answer: Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!

Rates for gonorrhea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!

George W Bush started FIVE wars in less than eight years stating each time that it was his "God Given Duty” and in 2001 even called it a Crusade!

Not his duty to the electors!

Not his duty to America!

Just his duty to keep slaughtering heathens for his go

So surely a christian world would be full of horror?

But consider what science says!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra

An atheist world would be far more peaceful, moral and loving!
Category: Religion & Spirituality

What was the Wests reaction to the Hungarian Uprising and to the Prague Spring? How was it different?

I want to know how the Western countries reacted to both the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968. How were their reactions different or similar? What actions did they take (if any) and why?

Answer: The West was in reality uninterested to both events while the sympathies were numerous to the cause of the Czechoslovakia and Hungary among public; and its leadership did not engage in any action besides some verbal outrage. Hungary was very unfortunate since Western Radios were constantly reminding the nation that the NATO is on its way and would support the uprising. Any case, it was not true. The Western powers were at the same time preoccupied with Suez crisis and they had no interest in region that was given to Stalin at Yalta 11 years earlier. While the rightist media in USA and Germany had sympathy for Hungarian cause and many anticommunist elements sided ideologically with Hungary; the Left had not show much support for a nation which sided with Germany. The revolution of 1956 and quick response of USSR did indeed shocked Europe, but it was nothing else than distant conflict in unknown region for the public.

The Czechoslovakian experience was different. It was also happened to be driven by mass media and had longer ties with the West. Czechoslovakia had rather relaxed atmosphere in 1968 and stayed opened to Western visitors in comparison of Hungary, so the West had option to explore Czechoslovakia within. Since Prague Spring was a communist/leftist experiment, it was rather not supported or sympathized by USA. But the leftist organizations across the globe took immense interest in it and were extremely shocked with Soviet invasion. It created permanent split among many western leftist parties. However, USA was uninterested and official government France insisted that it was matter behind the Iron Curtain and no business of the West. Some countries in the West did also approved the invasion as the Czechoslovak experiment was much threat to changing postwar status. Germany was extremely displeased with the invasion, but it was due having Soviet army behind the fence. There was no Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia prior 1968 and this changed the German's outlook for defense. Majority Germans did take a pleasure from seeing a nation that was so pro-Russian to get trashed by Moscow. Since Czechoslovakia and West Germany had no diplomatic relationship well into 1970, German government did not really care what would happen to the people of Czechoslovakia. Also 1968 was rather volatile year with a war in Vietnam, with multiple revolutions from Paris to Mexico city, and the public had quickly lost interest in it.
The main difference between 1956 and 1968 was a role of the media. The Czechoslovak press and the accessibility of TV into world audiences immediately boosted interest to the Czechoslovak cause by broadcasting invasion into peoples living room worldwide. The Hungarian uprising was very isolated and the real devastation of the Budapest was not known until hundred of thousands of refuges appeared on Austrian borders.
Again as with Czechoslovak and Hungarian revolts, the West again demonstrated that it was not and is unwilling to do anything beside filling some useless verbal complains against Moscow. To what had happened in Prague, Budapest and later in Riga or Tbilisi shows that the West will never oppose any Russian ambition directed against its smaller neighbors.
Category: History

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THE NORTH KOREAN CHALLENGE; BUSH REBUKES NORTH KOREA; U.S. SEEKS NEW U.N. SANCTIONS

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Why is Africa so backward in comparison to Asian nations?

Asian nations have experienced much the same Colonialism as well as both internal and Colonial slavery as well as many other conditions including poverty, starvation, disease and so forth. Despite this, most Asian countries are constistnetly improving, with even the beggar nations of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan vastly improving quality of life for their many denizens.

Why are most Asian nations many decades ahead of their African counterparts?

Why does Africa regress rather than progress?

Is it an issue of human resources, skills, education, nutrition, native intelligence, attitudes, exposure?

What can be done to end the cycle of regression?
Most Asian nations have only 15 years head start:

Burma- 1948
Cambodia- 1954
China- 1944
Indonesia- 1945
India- 1946
Korea- 1954
Malaysia- 1957
Philippines- 1946
Singapore- 1965
Vietnam- 1962
Watercress- I read the report to end.
My opinion: Total apologist twaddle.

Man who dont work, dont eat. Simple.
This is Asian mentality. African is just "give me".

Answer: "...A community cannot survive when its so-called educated citizens are morally and intellectually bankrupt and decrepit.

You cannot have a community whose intelligentsia are mere parasites of other cultures...A people which regards itself as independent should be able to produce independent thought. Yet, Africans still depend on Europeans, 40 years after "gaining" their independence from their former colonial masters.

Not my words but those of Emeka Okafor a writer on the African nations.

I am sorry to say this but early missionaires did not help the current situation.

It was once told to me by and African leader that when the missionaires came to Africa the Aficans had the land and the missionaires had the bible.

The missionaries then asked the Africans to close their eyes and pray for salvation. On opening their eyes to recieve their salvation they suddenly found that they now had the bible and the missionaires now had the land.

I think that Africa’s winner-takes-all politics lie at the heart of everything that has gone wrong with the continent. It is the reason why it has fallen behind the rest of the world economically, the reason for its wars and poverty...Its roots go back to the creation of African states themselves, the lines drawn on maps by the European colonial powers at the end of the 19th century. The process eventually produced fifty-three states overlaying some 10,000 pre-existing societies and political entities...African states, with a few exceptions, have no common understanding or experience of nationhood. Their flags, national anthems, and identities were created by outsiders. Patriotism, in the good sense of positive loyalty to one’s country and fellow citizens, is in short supply. If you want power, you play the ethnic card or smear your religious rivals. When you achieve power, you bring your own people into government – and even more important, into the army...",

When aid money keeps coming, all there policy-makers do is strategize on how to get more," said,James Shikwati the Kenya-based director of the Inter-Region Economic Network, an African think tank.

"They forget about getting their own people working to solve these very basic problems. In Africa, we look to outsiders to solve our problems, making the victim not take responsibility to change.

Try having a read of this report. Even here they are only touching the surface of Africa's problems.

http://www.commissionforafrica.org/english/report/reactions/16-06-05_rr_denis_atabong.pdf
Category: Other - Politics & Government

What are the political changes in the labor systems in Latin America between 1750-1914?

Please help! I am researching information for my essay for ap history and I need more.

Answer: The opposition to Jesuits was an important political change which would alter this rather broad region's political situation.

From the History of Latin Americas:

"The move against the missions is led by Portugal. The Jesuits are expelled from Brazil in 1759. Spain follows suit in its American viceroyalties in 1767. The thirty-two reducciones of Paraguay are abandoned and fall into decay. It is all part of a broader reaction in Europe, leading to the suppression of the entire Jesuit order in 1773.

As early as 1791 the Negro slaves in Saint Domingue, the western half of the island of Hispaniola, conclude that revolution has its attractions for them too.

Their uprising rapidly succeeds, being protected by the British navy from French retaliation. By 1801 the whole of Hispaniola is under the control of the first revolutionary hero of Latin America, Toussaint L'Ouverture.

In 1808 Napoleon invades Spain, secures the abdication of the Spanish king Ferdinand VII, and places on the throne his own brother Joseph Bonaparte.

This unexpected circumstance provides two good reasons for independent action in Spanish America. With no Spanish government in Spain, it can be argued that the provinces overseas must look after themselves (a theme implying long-term independence, attractive to many Creoles). Equally, and more acceptable to the peninsulares, it can be said that interim local governments should now be set up on behalf of the deposed Spanish king.

The first two outbreaks of rebellion occur high in the Andes during 1809. In May in Chuquisaka (now Sucre, the capital of Bolivia) the governors of the university defy the Spanish authorities, proclaiming instead their loyalty to Ferdinand VII. Their example is soon followed by other groups in the province, some of them demanding independence.

Three months later in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, patriots rise in a bid for independence. In both Bolivia and Ecuador these first rebellions are soon put down and their leaders executed. But the theme is infectious, and the following year sees a positive rash of rebellions through south and central America.

On 19 April 1810 Venezuelan officers expel the Spanish governor from Caracas and form a junta to run the province. On May 25 a regional government takes over in Buenos Aires, in Argentina, on behalf of Ferdinand VII.

Next it is the turn of Bogota, the capital of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Granada, where on July 20 the royal officials are thrown out and a local regime is established. Again the new government's stated allegiance is at this stage to the deposed king, Ferdinand. Only somewhat later is complete independence claimed (and it takes nine years more to secure it), but 20 July 1810 is the date commemorated in Colombia as independence day.

The Guayaquil Conference: AD 1822

Bolívar and San Martín later write differing interpretations of their conversation at Guayaquil, but a common theme emerges. It is succinctly put in a phrase of San Martín's: 'Bolívar and I together are too big for Peru.'

With the independence in 1821 of Mexico and Guatemala, along with similar proclamations in Peru in this same year and in Gran Colombia two years earlier, the whole of the Spanish empire in continental Latin America has declared for liberty. Brazil follows suit in 1822, ending the Portugese empire in the American continent.

There will be adjustments during the next two decades, as smaller nations free themselves from larger groupings. Thus Uruguay goes its own way from 1828. Gran Colombia splits in 1830 into the three republics known today. And the Central American Federation is divided by 1838 into five independent states.

Caudíllos: 19th - 20th century AD

From the 1830s each new Latin American republic goes its own way, though often distracted by border conflicts with neighbours.

Then came the World Wars.
Category: Other - Social Science

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What is your opinion about Helen Thomas and her treatment concerning her opinion about Israel and Jews?

My view is this...

Helen Thomas has the right to speak her mind and say what she pleases...

However, she must also accept responsibility for her actions. She must also realize that there may be consequences related to her actions.

Answer: I agree. Helen Thomas' parents were Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon. Would anyone support an American Indian telling Helen to go the hell back to Lebanon? Why not? It's the same thing. What Helen Thomas actually said is stupid. The idea that somehow the Israelis have no right to the land they now inhabit, and therefore no right to defend themselves and their acquired homeland, is ridiculous. Suppose rockets from an Indian Reservation were being launched from the reservation into an American city, killing innocent civilians? Regardless of the past history, involving Americans displacing said Indians and taking over their land by force, invading the attacking reservation and arresting and executing the criminal attackers would still be considered a justifiable reaction. Israel’s situation is no different.

After all, there are very few countries lacking a history similar in this respect. Every nation in North and South America displaced the native population and took over their land. Does this mean that they have no right to defend themselves from attack?

Human history is replete with examples of a weaker people being displaced by a stronger people, from Australia to Britain, and all points in between. In fact, this is a long established tradition of us Homo Sapiens, who began our dominance of the planet by wiping out all the Neanderthals and taking their lands. (While I am in no way comparing Palestinians to Neanderthals, one imagines the Neanderthals appealing to the UN!)

The other Arab countries also add to the problem by supporting the Hamas terrorists and refusing to resettle the Palestinians in their own countries. They would do this if they really cared about the Palestinians, but they do not. They only care about hating Jews.

The Palestinians, instead of whining about the lost battles of the past, should instead abandon the political leadership that has been unable to redress the situation through terrorism, and give good-faith negotiations a shot. The Israelis are not unreasonable, and would be perfectly willing to come to an equitable resolution of the regions difficulties, if they only had responsible Palestinian leaders to work with.

Helen Thomas, at 89 years old, is well past time when she should retire. It is a shame that such a long and distinguished career should be ended on such a sore note, but she is the one who answered the question in such an extraordinarily insensitive manner. For a long time now Thomas has been anything but a reporter, with views and opinions literally from another age.

Traditionally, the White House Press Corps has held a higher standard than radio talk show fellows and news broadcasters, or even columnists. Back in the newspaper days, being in the White House Press Corps was the pinnacle of success in the field. Times have certainly changed since Helen Thomas pulled her Model T up to the front door of the White House.

Perhaps this will bring back the debate as to whether the White House Press Corps should have only reporters, not columnists like Thomas or radio talk show trolls. The standard for who is allowed in the White House Press Corps needs to be brought back to what it used to be, an elite group of top-of-the-line reporters. Of course, the great reduction in quality in the White House Press Corps does match the downward trend in media reporting since the cable 'news' shows came into being. Now that 'news' is a for-profit venture, rather than a non-profit public service of the three networks, it is pitiful indeed. Imagine calling fellows like Beck and Olberman reporters. Let's just reserve seats for real reporters (if we can find any) from now on, shall we?

When the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rebelled (even though the situations are hardly comparable), they armed themselves and fought against Nazi SOLDIERS, not innocent civilians. But the Palestinians do not fight according to the Geneva Convention, they fight as terrorists with suicide bombers, rocket attacks on civilians, and fake 'aid' convoys meant to create martyrs for propaganda. Let the Palestinians field an army and initiate combat. I would not deny the Palestinians the right to fight for land they consider theirs, but the Palestinians are too weak to win, so they whine to the world media instead. Public opinion rarely wins a war. The Turks should be ashamed that they have allowed Israel's enemies to mount such a cynical 'aid' mission. They have some 'splaining to do.

In conclusion, a sovereign state such as the US or Israel answers to no one but themselves. Only the weak, the senile, or those whose grasp of human history is mediocre at best, whine about it.
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Category: Media & Journalism

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A question for All Turkish users in this Category : Please answer it more reasonably and rationally?

Id like to know What you would do if the situation of your state would be different.

I mean a situation where Turkish people would be a minority and a Kurdistan state were existed instead of Turkey, and all of the policies of the "Kurdistan" toward the Turkish minority in that situation would be the same as the current policies of the "Turkey" toward the Kurdish minority, What would you do then?


Consider a situation where a law would applied to Turkish people through military control, boarding schools, the banning of the Turkish language and culture, changing place names, and deportation. What would you do then?

Consider a situation where Any expression of Turkish identity would be treated as a crime against the "indivisibility of the Kurdistan nation" and "territorial integrity" of Kurdistan.
What would you do then?

Consider a situation where The use of the Turkish language, music, dance, dress, personal and geographic names, and even listening to broadcasting and recorded music were all criminalized by the Kurdistan state.
What would you do then?

Consider a situation where Turks would be allowed to speak their own language in public aftre 70 years of banning.The use of Turkish in education, broadcasting and publishing would be prohibited. Anyone publishing, or attempting to publish, an objective historical analysis of the Turkish situation is subject to prosecution and imprisonment.
What would you do then?



Would you like that situation? Would you just sit back and do nothing against these actions?

Answer: Your question is hypothetical although you have unsuccessfully tried to make a comparison of what Turkish Kurds are supposed to have gone through, many of what you have written down is simply not true. You have minced your words here but in another answer I saw, you claimed Kurds are imprisoned and tortured every year in Turkey, excuse me for asking but what have you been smoking? One of my best friends is Kurdish and she abhors the PKK and its fascist sympathisers, just like millions of other Kurds. I have written this numerous times before, and I ask you now, how would you explain the fact that the party that has the clear blessing of the PKK (BDP) never receives more than 10% of the votes?

What do you think about people belonging to BDP making provocative and threatening speeches, one MP from this party said "His people would turn the streets of Turkey to hell" (implying the PKK would start bombing urban targets, as it did only yesterday by planting a bomb on the way of a bus and killing 5 people). IF the Turkish government is brutal as you say, how come people like this MP find the audacity to make such statements in front of the TV cameras? How come people openly cheer for the PKK in rallies and get away with it? Imagine people gathering in New York and holding Osame Bin Laden posters and jumping up and down in joy. How would be the reaction of Americans?

So what do you expect me to say under this question which lacks insight and is written in a regrettably dramatic tone seasoned with outdated 19th century nationalism? When I read the question, I thought the details contained some analysis, since it asked for a rational answer and what I find here is a bad attempt at a logical fallacy.

Turkey has had problems with human rights, but that really has little to do with one's ethnicity. Turks, Kurds and millions of other people, who come from tens of ethnicities (I hope you are aware that it isn't just the Kurds who live in Turkey) have suffered from mistreatment.

I also find it exceedingly biased for people to ignore and deliberately brush aside the proceedings relating to the use of Kurdish language for instance. Our government established a Kurdish language channel for instance. There are other proceedings as well yet I always see that people such as the asker find exuberance in focussing on all the negative news concerning Turkey.

Lastly, Turkey is a democratic country and if people, be it Xs be it Ys or interest groups, feel they cannot exercise their rights as they should, they can find democratic means to express their concerns. Taking up arms, kidnapping 14 year old children and making them drug addicts so that they'll fight for you is not a part of 'democratic re/action' nor is killing civilians nor is killing your own soldiers.

@the answerer above:

I beg to differ. The only reason why Kurds are associated with manual labour is not because of any deliberate discriminatory practices regarding education and job hiring but because of Kurdish culture, which attributes, just like any other Middle Eastern culture, unfortunately, little importance to education and women's rights, deplorable honour killings continue to be a problem in Turkey. Many of these rural Kurdish families prefer to make their children work on fields rather than sending them to school, if they feel they do not have enough money, they should avoid polygamy -which again is illegal in Turkey- and tens of children that comes with it! It is hard for the Turkish government or any other government to change the basic tenets of a very closed culture.

In addition to that, I am sure you are, as I am, aware that there are millions of very wealthy and influential people of Kurdish origin in Turkey, politicians, journalists, singers, business men...

There are poor villages in the Black Sea region, poor villages in Western Anatolia and poor regions in South-eastern Turkey. The latter's situation may be worse due to the PKK's dastardly attacks there, which continue to traumatize the lives of many ordinary citizens in the region and this has little to due with the ethnicity of people who live there. After all, it isn't as if the whole of Eastern Turkey has only Turks of Kurdish origin! Millions of Turks and other groups of people live there.
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Why do you think that the majorly atheistic countries have lower crime rates?

Im curious. Id like to hear what both atheists and theists think about this.

Answer: Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!

Rates for gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime whilst year on year government figures show atheists make up only 2% of the prison population!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it‽

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra
Category: Religion & Spirituality

Why do most Christian dominated countries in the west have a high rate of pre marital sex/fornication?

Do most Westeners not care about their religion and its teachings? Are they just nominal Christians/Atheists?

Answer: Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!

Rates for gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime whilst year on year government figures show atheists make up only 2% of the prison population!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it‽

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra
Category: Religion & Spirituality

What do Atheist lack that denies them the ability to have morals?

Basically what is lacking for christians to be able to accept that someone else has morals as well to say.

Answer: They lack nothing since it is athesits that are the moral standard bearers!

Whilst many Americans claim that America is a shining Christian, moral nation blessed by God they could not be more wrong.

The higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion!

The US is the world’s only prosperous democracy where murder rates are still high!

Rates for gonorrhoea in adolescents in the US are 300 times higher than in less devout democratic countries. America also has uniquely high adolescent and adult syphilis rates, and adolescent abortions!

All the lesser devout nations developed countries are the least dysfunctional!

Research shows that the reason humans struggle with emotion to find equitable solutions is pinpointed the region of the brain called the insular cortex, or insula, which is also the seat of emotional reactions.

The fact that the brain has such a robust response to unfairness shows that sensing unfairness is a basic evolved capacity.

The emotional response to unfairness pushes people from extreme inequity and drives them to be fair. This observation shows our basic impulse to be fair isn't a complicated thing that we learn.

It therefore fully illustrates that all humans have morals controlled by the brain and that Christians are entirely wrong to try and claim morals as their own!!!!

But Christians found a way round it!

Government statistics show that christians are vastly over represented in prisons for sexual, violent and fraudulent crime!

The Catholic church is paying millions in compensation for the sex/pedophile crimes of their priests alone!

Christians are vastly over represented in the divorce courts!

Christians invented the concept of sin and then the idea that you could sin, ask forgiveness, get pardoned and start with a clean sheet!

So no surprise that they are so expert at it is it?!

A Christian is a man that feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. - Thomas Russell Ybarra
Category: Religion & Spirituality

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How do you think ww3 is going to take place?

This fascinating future event has been an object of fascination for me for the past few weeks. Although I abhor violence, I just had to ask this question, who do you think would win out of this war? Will the New World Order be completely established after this war?

Answer: Well since it hasn't happen yet, we have no idea, who's fighting who, what they’re fighting with, the region where they're fighting, what they’re fighting with and the circumstance of how the war began so we can't guess who will win.
I reckon it will be either a resource, power grab war or a small conflict that escalates. I reckon it will be in the pacific and Asian region, mind you South America is a possibility. It could be China vs US and everyone’s allies thrown in the mix too. But I have the feeling, and I can only speculate with what is happening today, that America might the aggressor. If you look around America has been quite aggressive and provoking in the past few years especially in South America and the Middle East and maybe one day a nation will bite back.
There is also the possibility of a mass religious war, with extremist. You know what? With all the reaction that the small clip on YouTube got, some idiots are making a feature length film about the same thing as we speak. Oh because that reaction won't be worse than the ones we already got. I don't get why people provoke then turn around and complain when their provoking worked.

@Anna: And why would they use that nuke? Nuclear weapons are mainly used as deterrents. Plus the Iranian military isn't equipped to take on the US military. Let’s say they detonate a nuclear bomb in America, they still have the rest of America do deal with. America won't sit there and accept it, they will attack. And Iran and just about everyone knows that even the nuts. They're not stupid.
What is it with Iran and you people? Is Iran that much of a threat to America? North Korea is developing nuclear weapons and EMP which can shut down a nation’s power grid or close to it, and what done about that? They’re the ones who I think we should be concerned about. What is it will Iran anyway? And balance won't be such a bad thing. The world needs to be balanced. America can’t roam around the world without anyone to challenge it or give them a pause for thought. At least in the Cold war there were the Soviets to think about and how they would react.

@Freedom and Liberty: There’s already an arms race in the Middle East with Pakistan, India, Israel, Palestine and Iran. And as Mommanuke said, mutually assured destruction is not something to be taking lightly, and everyone knows it.
Category: Politics

What effect did Operation Urgent Fury have on the Caribbean? How did it impact or change the region?

What was the reaction of the Grenadions to the operation?

Answer: The Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, was a 1983 U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, a Caribbean island nation with a population of just over 100,000 located 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. It was triggered by a military coup which ousted a brief revolutionary government. The successful invasion led to a change of government but was controversial due to charges of American imperialism, Cold War politics, the involvement of Cuba, the unstable state of the Grenadian government, and Grenada's status as a Commonwealth realm with Elizabeth II as the monarch.

Grenada gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1974. Left wing rebels seized power in a coup in 1979. After a 1983 internal power struggle ended with the deposition and murder of revolutionary Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the invasion began on October 25, 1983. A combined force of about 7,600 troops from the United States, Jamaica and members of the Regional Security System (RSS) defeated Grenadian resistance and the military government of Hudson Austin was deposed.

The invasion was criticized by the United Kingdom, Canada and the United Nations General Assembly, which condemned it as "a flagrant violation of international law". It enjoyed broad public support in the United States. Some sectors in Grenada welcomed the invasion, as they viewed the post-coup regime as illegitimate. October 25 is a national holiday in Grenada, called Thanksgiving Day, to commemorate this event. Additionally, on 29 May 2009, the Point Salines International Airport was officially renamed in honour of the slain pre-coup leader Maurice Bishop by the Government of Grenada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada ----------
Aftermath
Following the U.S. victory, Grenada's Governor-General Paul Scoon formed a government. U.S. forces remained in Grenada after combat operations finished in December as part of Operation Island Breeze. Elements remaining, including military police, special forces, and a specialized intelligence detachment, performed security missions and assisted members of the Caribbean Peacekeeping Force and the Royal Grenadian Police Force. .

The invasion showed problems with the U.S. government's "information apparatus," which Time described as still being in "some disarray" three weeks after the invasion. For example, the U.S. State Department falsely claimed that a mass grave had been discovered that held 100 bodies of islanders who had been killed by Communist forces.[6] Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, deputy commander of the invasion force, said that 160 Grenadian soldiers and 71 Cubans had been killed during the invasion; the Pentagon had given a much lower count of 59 Cuban and Grenadian deaths.Ronald H. Cole's report for the Joint Chiefs of Staff showed an even lower count.
Also of concern were the problems that the invasion showed with the military. There was a lack of intelligence about Grenada, which exacerbated the difficulties faced by the quickly assembled invasion force. For example, it was not known that the students were actually at two different campuses and there was a thirty-hour delay in reaching students at the second campus. Maps provided to soldiers on the ground were rudimentary, did not show topography, and were not marked with crucial positions. The U.S. Navy ships providing naval gunfire and U.S. Marine and Navy fighter bomber support, as well as U.S. Air Force aircraft providing close air support mistakenly fired upon and killed U.S. ground forces due to differences in maps and location coordinates, datum, and methods of calling for fire support. The landing strip was drawn-in by hand on the map given to some members of the invasion force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada#Aftermath -----------------
Other
St. George's University built a monument on its True Blue campus to memorialize the US servicemen killed during the invasion, and marks the day with an annual memorial ceremony.

In 2008, the Government of Grenada announced a move to build a monument to honour the Cubans killed during the invasion. At the time of the announcement the Cuban and Grenadian government are still seeking to locate a suitable site for the monument.

A heavily fictionalized account of the invasion from a U.S. military perspective is shown in the 1986 Clint Eastwood movie, Heartbreak Ridge.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Grenada#Other
Category: History

Rapid match Magnus Carlsen vs Borki Predojevic in Lillehammer

It happens that this "battle of Lillehammer" starts on a very historic day for the Balkan region. 28th of ... Reactions: .... 15 national, 2 state, and 2 regional titles, in addition to the national #1 ranking in College Chess in 4 years.