Image via WikipediaPartnership seeks help for homeless youthhttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless-youth-20101123,0,6145485.story
4,200 people under 25 are homeless on any given night in L.A. County
Homeless youths face high rents, long waits and cumbersome applications for the few housing programs available to them, and if they do get a spot, there are stiff penalties for breaking the rules
( Back to the Basics : Food,Shelter,Clothing - without these deaths occur )
Teaching for America
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/opinion/21friedman.html?src=me&ref=general
There are three basic skills that students need if they want to thrive in a knowledge economy: the ability to do critical thinking and problem-solving; the ability to communicate effectively; and the ability to collaborate. If you look at the countries leading the pack in the tests that measure these skills (like Finland and Denmark), one thing stands out: they insist that their teachers come from the top one-third of their college graduating classes.
Refugees from Afghanistan's Helmand province disheartened at U.S. presence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/21/AR2010112104570.html
Helmand refugees living in this squalid camp Charahi Qambar offer a bleak assessment. They blame insecurity on the presence of U.S. and British troops, and despite official claims of emerging stability, these Afghans believe their villages are still too dangerous to risk returning.
Image via Wikipedia"Where is security? The Americans are just making life worse and worse, and they're destroying our country," said Barigul, a 22-year-old opium farmer from the Musa Qala district of Helmand who, like many Afghans, has only one name. "If they were building our country, why would I leave my home town and come here?"
Fidel Castro: NATO, world gendarme
http://inteltrends.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/fidel-castro-nato-world-gendarme
In just 10 days – less than two weeks – world opinion has received three great and unforgettable lessons: the G20, APEC and NATO in Seoul, Yokohama and Lisbon, in such a way that all upstanding people who can read and write, and whose minds have not been mutilated by the conditioned reflexes of imperialism’s media apparatus, can have a real idea of the problems currently affecting humanity.
In Lisbon, not one word was uttered that could convey hope to the billions of people enduring poverty, underdevelopment, insufficient food, housing, health, education and employment.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the vain character who figures as secretary general of the NATO military mafia, declared in the tone of a little Nazi fuehrer, that the “new strategic concept” was in order “to act in any part of the world.”
when Yeltsin dismembered the USSR, the United States advanced NATO’s borders and its nuclear attack bases to the heart of Russia from Europe and Asia.
Those new military installations also threatened the People’s Republic of China and other Asian countries.
When that took place in 1991, hundreds of SS-19s, SS-20s and other powerful Soviet weapons could reach U.S. and NATO bases in Europe in a matter of seconds. No NATO secretary general would have dared to talk with the arrogance of Rasmussen.
The United States is trying to use its enormous media resources to maintain, deceive and confuse world public opinion.
The total public debt of the United States, not only that of central government, but the rest of the country’s public and private institutions, has already risen to a figure that is equal to the world GDP of 2009, which amounted to $58 trillion. Did those meeting in Lisbon maybe think to ask themselves where those fabulous resources came from? Simply, from the economy of all the other nations in the world, to which the United States handed over pieces of paper converted into dollar bills which, for 40 years now, unilaterally ceased having their backing in gold, and now the value of that metal is 40 times superior. That country still possesses its veto within the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Why wasn’t that discussed in Portugal?
It would be laughable to imagine that that colossal and costly deployment of the anti-missile nuclear shield is to protect Europe and Russia from Iranian missiles proceeding from a country which does not even possess a tactical nuclear weapon. Not even a children’s story book could affirm that.
NATO: Afghan War Model for Future 21st Century Operations
http://world.mediamonitors.net/Headlines/NATO-Afghan-War-Model-for-Future-21st-Century-Operations
"With NATO already involved in airlifting Ugandan troops to Somalia, running naval operations in the Horn of Africa, arming and training Georgia and Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus (on November 16 the NATO Parliamentary Assembly referred to Abkhazia and South Ossetia as "occupied territories"), and pledging to "defend" the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania over which it has flown warplanes on continuous rotations since 2004, there will be no lack of opportunities to employ and expand the Afghanistan-Pakistan template."
Launching an unprovoked war of aggression and operating outside the territory of NATO member states - and outside international law without a United Nations mandate - inaugurated the U.S.-controlled military alliance as a global warfighting organization. The war in Afghanistan beginning in the first year of the new century and millennium represented the further implementation of the 1999 Strategic Concept, itself the first since 1991, the year of the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.
On November 10 Holbrooke "asserted the US had 'no exit strategy' for Afghanistan, and instead a 'transition strategy' would be unveiled in the Portuguese capital" during the NATO summit.
"After 2014, the diplomat continued, the international community was not going to be leaving Afghanistan."
General Sir David Julian Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, claimed "this week’s Nato summit will outline plans to keep British troops in Afghanistan for a generation," and "Nato now needs to plan for a 30 or 40 year role to help the Afghan armed forces hold their country against the militants." [3]
If it proves to be accurate, Richards' projection could entail the U.S. and NATO spending half a century in Afghanistan.
US clutching at straws in Afghanistan
http://world.mediamonitors.net/Headlines/US-clutching-at-straws-in-Afghanistan
America’s anti-Pakistan rhetoric has grown louder; the country is painted as being ungovernable. This is then conflated into a threat to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons...US officials insist they cannot allow Pakistan’s nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of “terrorists”. How this would happen is not explained but some 3000 Blackwater mercenaries are prowling Pakistani cities killing people and planting bombs. The government of Asif Ali Zardari is complicit in such crimes. He was installed by direct US-British intervention and maintained in power by them. Zardari is the most hated man in Pakistan, even more than the villainous Americans but the US needs him because he cannot say no to them."
In an incredible twist of events that would qualify as a script for a spy thriller, the Americans are publicly claiming credit for “succeeding” in convincing the Taliban, especially some members of the Quetta Shura, to negotiate a peaceful end to the war in Afghanistan. Incredible because had the US wanted, this deal was on the table as far back as September/October 2001 before a single shot was fired or a single person killed in Afghanistan.
Taliban leader Mulla Muhammad Omar had offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to the US if Washington provided proof of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks. He also offered to meet American officials to discuss the issue.
General Hamid Gul, former chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence said in a recent interview: “It is the wrong war, with the wrong people at the wrong time.” He also said the Afghans have three things going for them: time, manpower and space. This is what determines the outcome of a struggle. “The Americans,” he asserted confidently, “have lost the war.”
Why Making Neutral Antimatter is Such A Big Deal!
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/11
It's worth asking the question, what's truly remarkable about this antimatter?
Antimatter, for us, is the most efficient source of energy in the Universe.
Growing a Forest, and Harvesting Jobs
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/americas/23mexico.html
Three decades ago the Zapotec Indians in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico fought for and won the right to communally manage the forest. Before that, state-owned companies had exploited it as they pleased under federal government concessions.
They slowly built their own lumber business and, at the same time, began studying how to protect the forest. Now, the town’s enterprises employ 300 people who harvest timber, produce wooden furniture and care for the woodlands, and Ixtlán has grown to become the gold standard of community forest ownership and management, international forestry experts say.
Mexico’s community forest enterprises now range from the mahogany forests of the Yucatán Peninsula to the pine-oak forests of the western Sierra Madre. About 60 businesses, including Ixtlán, are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council in Germany, which evaluates sustainable forestry practices. Between 60 and 80 percent of Mexico’s remaining forests are under community control, according to Sergio Madrid of the Mexican Civic Council for Sustainable Forestry.
Why mixing alcohol and caffeine is deadly
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2013494181_webbooze23.html
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