“The heart is what is important.” There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.
Daisaku Ikeda
● Quote by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
LINK – Daily Quotes
LINK – Life Potential
image from www.michaeljackson.com
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Xenophobia Monitors / Architects & Builders / Environmental practitioners / Communication Officer / Web Content manager / Editor / Bookkeeper / Fundraiser / Coordinators
Human Rights Education Centre, constituted as a group of women that have supported each other through personal, community and institutional journeys. Currently the HREC coordinates activities and mobilises resources with a focus on 4 related thematic areas: namely Gender based violence, social integration, socio-economic rights (human dignity) and community healing.
The Human Rights Education Centre is currently recruiting volunteers for the following positions:
Human Rights Education Coordinators (2) Ref: V37
Fundraiser (resource mobilisation) Ref: V38
Bookkeeper Ref:V39
Web content manager Ref: V40
Editor Ref: V41
Communication Officer Ref: V42
Environmental practitioners Ref: V43
Architects and builders Ref: V44
Xenophobia Monitors
Who can apply:
This is an opportunity for undergraduate, graduates and interested persons to gain practical experience and recognition for future career or interest.In return you will be trained on participatory action, reflection,
gender based violence and social integration. Visit our website for
more information about the Human Rights Education Centre
http://www.humanrightseducationcentre.org.zaCome and join us, have fun – as we build this organization together.
If you are interested, please contact:Sarah Motha, indicating the reference number of the position you are applying for by email to:
community@live.co.zaor call
Cell: 084 765 5930 [inside South Africa]
+0027 84 765 5930 [outside South Africa]
We hope to hear from you soon!
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Sarah Tobhi Motha (Coordinator)
Human Rights Education Centre, 19 Van Niekerk St, Oakdale. 7530
T: 0027 (0)21 948 6836
C: 0027 (0)84 765 5930
Fax: 0027 (0)86 546 6647
Website:
http://www.humanrightseducationcentre.org.za
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“From a healed, peaceful heart, humility is born; from humility, a willingness to listen to others is born and from mutual understanding, a peaceful society will be born. Non-violence is the highest form of
humility; it is supreme courage”
Daisaku Ikeda
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200 years later – human trafficking still continues – children and countless young girls are forced into sex work. Why? Because it’s a multi billion money maker for the traffickers.
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LINK – Liverpool’s apology for its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade – Podcast: The age of slave apologies
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“….12 million people were forcibly transported over the ocean in four hundred years. It is to our great shame that if today’s statistics are correct, 700, 000 people are now being trafficked across borders into slavery annually….”
Ndioro Ndiaye – Dep.Dirtr Gen. Intrnat.Org of Migration
Slavery was officially abolished by law, through out the British Empire, 1st August 1834. It was not brought about through civil unrest, as in the States and other countries.
The principle protagonists were: Thomas Clarkson, Henry Brougham, William Wilberforce, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth Heyrick, Mary Lloyd, Jane Smeal, Elizabeth Pease, Anne Knight, Helini Hermanda and Prime Minister Pitt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
The slave trade carried on for an other 200 years.
…contemporary forms of slavery – such as human trafficking, forced prostitution, child soldiers, forced and bonded labour and the use of children in the international drug trade – are still flourishing today, largely as a result of vulnerability exacerbated by poverty, discrimination and social exclusion….
·It is estimated that 300,000 children are currently being exploited as child soldiers in as many as 30 areas of conflict around the world. Many of the kidnapped girls who are made into child soldiers are also forced into sexual slavery.
·The International Organization for Migration estimates that annually 700,000 women, girls, men and boys are being trafficked across borders away from their homes and families and into slavery.
·The International Labour Organization reports that there are 191 million economically active children between 5 and 14 years of age. Nearly 40 per cent of these – 74 million children – engage in ‘hazardous work’.
·An estimated 5.7 million children are victims of forced and bonded labour, also known as debt bondage, and 1.2 million children are victims of child trafficking.
·Linked to trafficking is the commercial sexual exploitation of children of whom 1 million, mainly girls, are forced into prostitution every year. These girls are sold for sex or used in child pornography in both the developed and the developing world.
http://www.un.org/events/slaveryabolition/factsheet.shtml
Who are the consumers of the sex trade?
What are men doing to stop it?
It is men who are the consumers of the sex trade – when will MEN stand up and do what ever needs to be done to address this atrocity that is being perpetrated by our brothers on children and young girls?
Let’s talk about it – let everyone know what is going on.
Unless we know about it, how can we stop it?
LINKS - International Slavery Museum [Liverpool UK]
LINKS – Wikipedia – Slavery
LINK – The Anti Slavery Org. – Breaking The Silence
LINK – Because I’m A Girl – 68,000 teenage girls die from unsafe abortions every year
Photos by Fay Venegas [Barbados] Click on them to see them larger.
The UN Assembly designated 25 March as the International Day for the Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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●Ikeda: on Success & failure
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Failure is an instrumental part of every success. Whether our life has been a triumph or tragedy can only be judged at its very end.
● Quote by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
LINK – Daily Quotes
LINK – Success
Photo by Ann J P
click on image to see her magnificent work
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The place where you are now is vital. Never avoid what you must face. Challenge your circumstances and steadily persevere. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
● Quote by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
LINK – Daily Quotes
Photo by Ann J P
click on image to see her work
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It is the function of evil to divide, to alienate people from each other and divide one country from another. The universe, this world and our own lives, are the stage for a ceaseless struggle between hatred and compassion, the destructive and constructive aspects of life. In the end, the evil over which we must triumph is the impulse toward hatred and destruction that resides in us all.
Daisaku Ikeda
● Quote by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
LINK – Daily Quotes
…factors that can create a “perfect storm” which leads good people to engage in evil actions. This transformation of human character is what I call the “Lucifer Effect”, named after God’s favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan….Although it is often hard to read about evil up close and personal, we must understand its causes in order to contain and transform it through wise decisions and innovative communal actions. Indeed, in my view, there is no more urgent task that faces us today.
Dr Philip Zimbardo – Stanford University – Psychology
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LINK – Download podcast [mp3] or see or listen to Zimbardo’s facinating, enlightening lecture on The Lucifer Effect given at the TED conference
Many thanks to JAX 60, for your beautiful photograph
LINK – original photo [& find out more about this 50m high sculpture - Angel of the North?]
● A few of the things mentioned in Zimbardo’s talk on, The Lucifer Effect that were eye openers for me
- Power lies in the system, that corrupts people.
- The Lucifer Effect – It’s about the crimes against humanity – Its about power, the key is power – perpetrating of evil acts against humanity/people.
- Anonymity – uniforms make one anonymous - make many capable of terrible things [behind closed doors - domestic violence]
If someone else takes responsibility for our actions we can seriously harm or even kill others if told to do so – eg the electric shock experiment and the fake jail experiment – fascinating stuff
- Evil – that people can BECOME, not ARE.
- and what we can do to change it – education of children [& adults] in taking responsibility/deciding to be a hero in waiting
LINK – Zimbardo’s web site on The Lucifer Effect
LINK – To join Zimbardo’s HERO PROJECT – Exploring And Encouraging Our Inner Heroes – to create an international organization to promote heroism as an antidote to evil and as a celebration of what is best in human nature.
LINK – Every day heroes site – Who will be the heroes of the 21st Century? What is heroism in the digital age? These are a few of the questions this site seeks to understand and explore.
LINK – 10 questions answered by Zimbardo re The Lucifer Effect
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Image left
Original courtesy of Malachi Lopez
Image right
Phil Zimbardo
Photo courtesy Skeptic
LINK – EVIL google search – result – about 223,000,000 [223 million] in (0.19 seconds)!!
LINK– GOOD Google search – result – about 2,210,000,000 [two thousand two hundred and ten million] in (0.15 seconds) – pheeeyou!
Google YES – Results of about 857,000,000 for YES [definition]. (0.05 seconds)
[857 thousand million]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&q=+yes+&btnG=Search
Google NO – Results of about 7,510,000,000 for NO (0.06 seconds)
[7 trillion 510 thousand million] interesting!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&q=+no+&btnG=Search
VIVA! PHIL ZIMBARDO VIVA!
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Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities
Of your existence
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendour of beauty
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
Kālidāsa [600 - 1200 AD ]
[Sanskrit poet and dramatist]
LINK – more about Kālidāsa
LINK – Dale Carnegie [1888 - 1955]
LINK – How to Stop Worrying and Start Living 1948 [!] [excellent & funny & charming - an other amazing person - Dale Carnegie]
LINK – Photo Webcam – Cape Town dawn – South Afreeka – November 5ish
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Living on earth may be expensive but it does include an annual free trip around the sun
Ashley Brilliant
The creator of Brilliant Thoughts In 17 Words Or Less [Pot Shots]
Photo found by Don Eastwest [Flikr] Source NASA
spacelab/station @ 400klm (250 miles) up
[ = Cape Town - Beaufort West/George] ±3.5hrs @ 120k phr [legal limit!]
[ = London - Newcastle]
[ = New YOrk - Watertown]
[ = Calcutta - Orissa]
[ = Beijing - Yinchuan half way between the 2]
LINK – gizmo for distances between cities
[This is [was] my first post!]
28.2.08
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courtesy – cybercapetown.com
LINK – TWITTER Micro blog [max.140 word posts] on SA 2010 World Cup with stream of latest posts of their ‘tweets’ they are following with footi related info links [148 words with spaces!] [=173 words]
LINK – flyby animated breathtaking video on youtube of completed building
LINK - webcam of CTN stadium construction site
[Thanks to framing challenged webcammer]
Photographed by Odette Herbert
Click on image to see it enlarged – taken June ‘09 [3rd year building]
LINK – Images of Cape Town airport, CTN station – with dramatic music! [oooow] What our 8 billion rands [2.8? billion pounds stirling] are being spent on [plus roads infrastructure plus?] Will they complete those city centre flyovers that have hung there for 30 years or so?!
UPDATE – 20 FEb 2009
LINK – BUY YOUR TICKETS – application and requires the brain of a rocket scientist to understand the charts!
I’d like to buy a ticket for one of the Cape Town games but have no idea how to go about it as the charts are all greek to me!
Got to be there – I’ve witnessed the stadium being built for the event! and the tickets for locals are going for 20 US dollars – which i didn’t see on the FIFA ticket charts
BBC World service radio, has been giving out all the infomation about the tickets going on sale to day.
UPDATE – 18 FEb 2009
Tickets for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will go on sale at 1100 GMT on Friday, Fifa has announced.
Individuals may apply for up to four tickets per match to a maximum of seven matches.
The first phase of sales runs from 20 February to 15 April and will see successful applicants chosen in a random ballot….
The physical tickets will be issued in April next year through specially created automatic teller machines situated around the venues in South Africa…..
Three further ticket sale phases will follow from 4 May to 16 November, 5 December to 22 January; with the final phase running from 9 February to 7 April 2010….
LINK – BBC NEWS – World Cup tickets to go on sale – By Ben Wyatt – BBC Sport
LINK – FIFA
UPDATE – 31st January 2009
The stadium is very very big! 65,000 seater The roof will be put in place and raised from the 5th to the 8th of February – you will be able to see it happening on the webcam link below. It’s a structure similar to a spoked bicycle wheel which is raised into place rather like a horizontal London wheel Apparently it’s a first of it’s kind – new technology never done before
LINK – Cape Town Stadium – Visitors centre website.
They do construction site walk abouts! – not while the roof is being done 5 – 8 Feb – call first to make sure they are on again.
And a viewing platform And they have an excellent presentation where the principle people involved are gruelled by a panel Will you get it done in time?
Why spend all that money? [it doesn't say how much though] 800 million pounds stirling according to the UK Gaurdian newspaper.
How will you stop the roof being blown off by the notorious south easter wind? etc
You see who the project manager is, the architect and other clever people also being grewlled by the panel
The centre has been put together with great ingenuity – the seating in the screening room is made from the last remaining section of the old stadium – with the original seats.
The presentation was most uplifting! Fabulous fly by animation of the stadium with table mountain as the back drop There is also a one man theatrical presentation of the history of the area – starting with the Khoi San up to today
LINK – Webcam of stadium building site
Hard Hat sculpture… The architect…. Visitors entrance wall paper
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A brilliant site for anyone who wants to know about human anatomy
And what all the bits and pieces are called.
What a fantastic tool for medical students and the curious – Winkingskull – a non profit organisation I was told
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●Click on image to see it really v big
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interested in looking at stunning, state-of-the-art illustrations of human anatomy, www.winkingskull.com is the interactive study aid that is for you!
WinkingSkull.com is designed to let you study anatomy and test yourself on must-know concepts. You can gauge your proficiency against a handy timer and see your test results instantly.
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LINK – to Winkingskull – see how you’re neck & back muscles mesh together
LINK – If you’re in pain – The Alexander Technique [AT] sorted out mine – learning how to use my body correctly – letting go of tension in my neck and shoulders
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● UPDATE: 10th July ‘08
Winkingskull have changed their set up
to see the diagrams you need the following:
1. You have to register with Winkingskull
2. There is a link to download software from Microsoft to view the diagrams
I have been and still am struggling to get to see the diagrams with no success so far! I found out today that the reason is I use the browser Opera which it wont recognise
And
I’m using windows 2000, which is not compatible with the Microsoft software!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
How about that!
Microsoft is forcing everyone to upgrade their operating system
more sales = more profit for share holders.
Bloody marvellous!
I have just downloaded the browser FIREFOX and am hoping that I can access the software through it.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
update: firefox and windows 2000 does NOT work! boo hoo [13.7.08]
Good news is that for anyone else with a later operating system, it will work!
I’m not prepared to go through the pain of reinstalling windows and all that goes with it – having to reinstall all my software and drivers and router/internet connection etc etc – aaaaaaaaaaagh
I’ll stick to what I’ve got till i can’t use software i need to use, for now – but it’s inevitable – it will have to be done – it’s a whole day at Cidac, my fabulous computer people and weeks of tweaking!
I have used the later operating system and it’s rubbish!
LINK – to Winkingskull – see how you’re neck & back muscles mesh together
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Your brain will pay attention to what you are thinking and saying to yourself and others and make sure that’s what you get!
Rather than focusing on how terrible things are try focusing on what is wonderful in your life! What you are greatful for.
What have we got to be grateful about?
Our health, family, friends, partners, pets, animals, our job, employer, food on the table, roof over our heads, running water, chocolate cake, great teachers, blue sky, the sun, rain, thungderstorms, forrests, art, music, litrature, food, singing, the wind etc
Rather than being concerned about poverty and the financial uncertainty which the media are having a humungous field day with….
We need to be concerned about abundance for all!
If we focus on poverty we give it more ‘power’ ‘energy’ ‘force’[?]
We might then get fearful and slip and slide all the way into a jolly depressing powerless place which also adds to all the others who are thinking similarly to you which then becomes the general trend and guess what? it happens – its called a self fullfilling prophesy
Top Photo by © Miguel Ángel Horcajada – LINK – to their stunning work
So what can we do?
What we need to do is focus on how we want things to BE – according to the ‘law of attraction’ & deal with NOW – not worry about what has been or what might happen
FEEL the feelings of how you want things to be.
Not on how you are being told things ARE or how things MIGHT be
Yes? Are you with me?
For example – instead of being ANTI WAR – which keeps one focused on war, violence, destruction etc
Rather we must focus on PEACE – fulfilment – tranquillity – well being – our community – fun – laughter – caring – all the goooooooood stuff we love and want around us and in our communities
After all this is what makes us feel gooood and safe and secure and happy – all we can really be ‘in control of’ and influence – our immediate community
We must not focus on the things we do not want
We must not focus on the things we do NOT want
WE MUST NOT FOCUS ON THE THINGS WE DO NOT WANT!
WE MUST NOT absolutely NOT FOCUS ON THE THINGS WE
DO NOT
WANT
FOCUS ON WHAT YOU
DOOOOO WANT
ONLY!
It took me a while to get that one!
So what are some of the gooood powerful words we can start to use and focus on no matter how under whelmed we feel?!
Abundance …. Vitality … Relaxed Enthusiastic … Caring … Joyful … Loving … Patient … Considerate … Listening … Sharing … Generous Prosperous … Invincible … Keep on till it’s sorted … Finding Solutions … Seek the positive aspect in all challenging situations … being energised … See The Bright Side Of Life … Laughing … Smiling!
A friend told me they saw a graffito that said
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty!
Anthony Robbins [The power with in] encourages us to turn the volume of harsh angry destructive words down and turn up the intensity of the good things or ordinary things!
Lets say you’re fuuuuuuuming and steam is coming out of yr ears…..
“I’m feeling a tad irritated” ! [& and a smile would be excellent too!]
Did you know that your brain can’t tell the difference between you smiling or laughing and faking a laugh or smile?!
So if laughter makes you feel good then if yr feeling seriously miffed, a tad concerned about the sate of affairs
Try laughing or even just hold a smile – fake it
Smile at everyone – and see what happens!
The muscles that we use to smile tells the brain that we are happy and it releases the appropriate feel good chemicals – endorphins i think they are called
The power of smiling
We are wired up to feel good when we see one and when we use one!
[even if yr feeling a smidging under the weather]
Smile Smile Smile
Try it!
I found out that there are laughing clubs!
Hooo hoooo hooo haaaa haaaa haaa hooo hooo hooo haaa haaa haaa
See if there is one near you or start yr own!
I’m going to get the neighbours in for a good laugh and maybe a tipple too!
Here’s a brilliant site that tells you where to find one and if there isn’t one near you how to start yr own and how to do it!
How generous is that?!
heee heee
LINK – to laughter groups in your area!
Sources & enourmous thanks to:
SGI Buddhism
Dale Carnegie [1888 - 1955]
Anthony Robbins – Feel good expert
Gregg Braden – Scientist
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From a healed, peaceful heart, humility is born; from humility, a willingness to listen to others is born; from a willingness to listen to others, mutual understanding is born and from mutual understanding, a peaceful society will be born. Nonviolence is the highest form of humility; it is supreme courage.
● Quote by Buddhist Philosopher Daisaku Ikeda
LINK – Daily Quotes
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The City will receive 30% of earnings before tax (inclusive of municipal rates) from the stadium on a fixed percentage basis, which will be to its benefit when the stadium is successful.
Cape Town is gaining a world-class, purpose-built stadium in arguably the most beautiful setting in the world.
“It is getting a team with an international and local track record of experience and success to maximise the value, revenue and viability/sustainability of its stadium,” Mike Marsden, Executive Director of Service Delivery Integration.
As part of the contract, the City will pay the consortium to manage the stadium from January 2009 up to and during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™
After this, the top tier of seating will be removed, reducing the stadium to 55 000 seats to make way for commercial and facility space. The stadium will be then used for various sporting events, music concerts and other major events.
The approval for the lease of the stadium will be considered by Council on 3 December 2008.
By Martin Pollack – 2008/11/27
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/Pages/Stadiumoperatorcontractawarded.aspx
LINK – ●2010 CAPE TOWN STADIUM – WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE [posted 12 march 08]
WEBCAMS – CAPE TOWN
http://www.kapstadt.de/livecam.htm
CAPE TOWN WEATHER REPORT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0081
INFO SA
http://www.southafrica.info/
[First Posted Nov 29 2008]
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1. Courage is not the absence of fear – it’s inspiring others to move beyond it
2. Lead from the front – but don’t leave your base behind
3. Lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front
4. Know your enemy – and learn about their favourite sport
5. Keep your friends close – and your rivals even closer
6. Appearances matter – and remember to smile
7. Nothing is black or white
8. Quitting is leading too
Photo by Esquared Fashion
Source: Time – 21st July ‘08
Photo LINK
What an exquisite photograph of him!
It looks like it was taken at his 90th birthday bash @ Wembley England?
[Clue - the shirt!] Am waiting to hear from the link i took this from, where and when it was taken
4664 – it’s in our hands
46664 is an African response to the global HIV AIDS epidemic – fund raising/shop/T shirts/events/etc
http://www.46664.com/1
Photos from 46664 web site – click on them and you will be taken there
46664 was Mandela’s prisoner number
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TAKE Action for the survival of sharks, tuna, whales & many other threatened and endangered species..[not to mention what's happening to coral reefs [food/protection for the bottom of the food chain ocean living things] and as for plankton, the absolute start of the food chain – teetering at deaths door…cose of rising temperatures of oceans/seas – don’t get depressed!]….by signing the petition you are doing something about it!
Please go to the Green Peace website to sign the petition
[Just found out about Ocean Day on twitter - very useful for info by 'following' the groups that yr interested in - new info pops up on yr twitter page]
LINK – HELP make a difference
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/MR-petition-thanks
Get hold of your MP’s/councillors/municipality/marine departments etc – give them hell/what for/hard time/hard talk! [in the nicest assertive way] if enough of us are being heard then action will be taken! We need to be creative in spreading the word of what we CAN do as apposed to what we mustn’t do – heard someone say this the other day.
When we know what the problem is we can take action to correct it collectively – big numers work every time – this is what true democracy is about!
CNN Larry King to day [Monday 8.6.09 rerun] interviewed some of the brave green peace people who are risking their lives by putting themselves between the whaling ship and the endangered whales they are trying to harpoon – this is an illegal act as they are protected because they are endangered. The whales takes at least twenty minutes to die from the harpoon which also has an explosive in it – it eventually drowns – shame full – and we are expected to believe that it is for scientific research hah! Its all to do with money. They advertise and encourage the Japanese populous to eat whale [see green peace ocean page] good idea to contact Japanese embassies to complain metion the Tokyo two also!
Try to see CNN LARRY KING to day its 15 mins into the program – terrible footage I had to switch off – I couldn’t watch the footate of the whales being killed
LINK – Take action things – some things you can do to make a difference
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/take-action 
LINK – join our ship
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/marine-reserves/roadmap-to-recovery
LINK - Japanese government’s attempts to cover up an embezzlement scandal within the whaling industry.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/justice-for-the-tokyo-two
Donate
https://secureusa.greenpeace.org/securedonate3/index.php
If the Japanese government is going to arrest people for the crime of opposing whaling, they are going to need a lot of handcuffs. Are you a suspect?
Help us defend the Tokyo Two, and oppose whaling. Greenpeace accepts no money from governments or corporations. We rely on you. [Green Peace]
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/justice-for-the-tokyo-two
other LINKS
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-make-a-difference-for-our-ocean-planet
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BBC News is following a container around world for a year to tell stories of globalisation and the world economy – track the BBC Box on a live updating map as it travels the globe.
The Box is heading to Japan via the Cape of Good Hope and Singapore with a cargo of monosodium glutamate.
In normal circumstances the location of the Box should be shown on the map, as transmitted from a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit attached to it.
Track the route of the Box
Click on map to see it BIG
ID numbers/markings on BBC NEWS container/box at departure was:
NYKU 8210 506 4[?]2GI – [no idea if they changed on rout]
It is 12m long [40 foot/feet]
This might help you find out if it is in port and find where it’s docked – as the BBC haven’t given the name of the ship it’s currently on.
It’s virtually impossible to get any where close to the ship to look for the container let alone to photograph it!
There are new international anti t e r r o r i s t rules which prohibits any/all photos being taken with in any harbour/port! This could explain why there are so few photos of the red box on the BBC NEWS web site
The Red Box’s GPS location on 28th March @22:28 – Green dots show the GPS readings with the time and contents in pop up box, when you hover over them – exciting stuff!
LINK – Send BBC NEWS your pictures
What’s in the red box?
Monosodium glutamate and car parts
Globalisation explained, with key facts and figures
See the Box get a double-quick paint job
How containers transformed world
The bizarre uses for containers
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UP DATE 30th March @ 7.30ish Local Time
STOP PRESS! BIG Whoops – Green dots misleading!
Rats! The BOX has sailed right past Cape Town!
The GPS dots on the map really looked like they were B lining into port!
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Tags: bbc box, bbc red box, CARBON FOOT PRINT, containers, globalisation, GPS, shipping
If his holiness’s visa is refused, then I won’t take part in the coming 2010 World Cup-related peace conference. I will condemn government’s behaviour as disgraceful, in line with our country’s abysmal record at the United Nations Security Council, a total betrayal of our struggle history
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Read more – IOL Sunday Tribune
So much for freedom of speech and association in South Africa
SA sucks up to China by refusing a visa to the Dalai Lama – who was going to take part in peace conference in JHB this Friday.
Shame on South Africa
The Mayor of Cape Town was criticized for voicing her comments on corruption in the country – being told it will scare investors off
Not giving the Dalai Lama a visa is really going to spell it out to investors and the tourists – init
Grrrrrrrrrrrr
Spineless wimps – what happened to freedom of speech and association for all?
Who will be next?
STOP PRESS!
UPDATE – 1st APRIL [this might be an april fools thing?]
Buthelezi’s Dalai Lama application set for Thursday
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Mar 31 2009 17:18An urgent application by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi to force the government to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama will take place in the Western Cape Division of the High Court on Thursday afternoon, Buthelezi’s advisor said on Tuesday.
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-03-31-buthelezis-dalai-lama-application-set-for-thursday
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Tags: CHINA, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, International Relations, SOUTH AFRICA
Outstanding coverage of the reasons behind the violence in May 2008 [South Africa]
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=297984
Refugees: City goes to court
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4877984
‘I tried to hang myself twice’
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4877960
The case of De Doorns is indeed the early warning of recurring xenophobia in South Africa and should serve as a wake-up call.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7PYGEQ?OpenDocument
One-stop 72-hour process to legalize Zimbabweans
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=83350
Zim refugees face bleak future
http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=91246,1,22-
Arrested foreigners fret about deportation
http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4881330
links & articles sent to me by Tracey Saunders
peace4africa@gmail.com
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Tags: REFUGEES, SOUTH AFRICA, XENOPHOBIA
boo whoooooo – they’ve switched it off!
could have been contributing to the green house effect – processing power required
13 January 09
Happy marvellous brilliant abundant joyful pivotal new year to you!
Just discovered that the snow angle direction is determined by your mouse’s position on the page!
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Abdi Sirej from Ethiopia was murdered in Masiphumelele on Friday the 7th November. After the initial xenophobic attacks in May he sought refuge at Soetwater.
After overtures from the community he returned to Masiphumelele. He appeared in a documentary ” Baraka”. The words he spoke during his interview “No answer, no safety.no guarantee” have turned out to be chillingly prophetic.
The interview can be seen at:
http://www.vimeo.com/2204139
by Tracey Saunders
Email: peace4africa@gmail.com
Mobile:084 561 9131
Fax: 086 611-7167
LINK – The Genocide List
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Tags: CAPE TOWN, GENOCIDE, MASIPHUMELELE, REFUGEE, SOETWATER, SOUTH AFRICA, XENOPHOBIA
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