How War Affects Children
War tears the childhood happiness apart. According to the United Nations, children in 50 countries are currently growing up in the midst of war. When researchers asked few moral questions to these children, there was a whole new moral outlook found. When researchers questioned these children about the morality of stealing or harming someone. Although they grew up in an environment filled with homicide, theft and physical violence on daily basis, surprisingly, these children all said that stealing and harming others was wrong, morally wrong, even if everybody did it. But the children had a whole different view of right and wrong within the context of revenge. They will harm someone when it comes to revenge.
Fights, terrorism and all-out conflict are based in real or imagined scenarios where each side see themselves as victims. These children justified the reason for revenge. You have harmed me or those I love, so I can righteously harm you and yours which is a social context of tit-for-tat. These children are dragged into the complex network of revenge justice.
Iran Test fired Long range Missiles.
Iran warned the United States and Israel it was ready to retaliate for any attack on their country,following the test fire of nine long range missiles. Iranian officials have said the missiles could reach targets 2,000 km away. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has insisted his country had no intention of attacking Israel. Crude Oil prise rose $2 to around $138 a barrel. Iran is the world’s fourth largest oil producer. The French, German and Italian governments expressed concern at the missile tests.
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G-8 For Controlling Global Emissions
The Group of Eight leading industrial nations agreed on halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. In the battle against global warming all major economies are called to join to eliminate the potentially dangerous rise in world temperatures. The G-8 countries include the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy.
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US congress approval rating at low
The percentage of voters who give US Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to historical low in Gallup Poll polling history. This month, just 12% say they have confidence in Congress. This is the lowest level ever for any US institution since Gallup began asking the question 35 years ago. But when pollsters ask if voters think that their local member of Congress deserves to be reelected, the response is usually positive. The United States government is divided into three separate branches—legislative, judicial, and executive—to prevent abuses of power. Congress comes under legislative branch of the US government.
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New funding for Iraq war.
New Funding for Iraq war
A $162 billion emergency spending bill passed by senate last week signed by President Bush.The bill will pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the remainder of his presidency and into spring 2009. The total cost of the war in Iraq is brought to $400 billion after the bills approval. Since the electoral victories in November 2006, the Democratic-controlled Congress has approved more than $300 billion in emergency spending bills for Iraq and Afghanistan. A new GI Bill that expands education benefits for veterans who have served since the 9/11 attacks, is also part of the bill.
Nazi Dr.Death still alive
Heim,an Austrian doctor with Adolf Hitler’s dreaded police unit, the SS,has been on the run for 46 years since evading police in Germany in 1962 prior to a planned prosecution. He is nicknamed Dr Death for killing hundreds of inmates at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria with injections of petrol or poison direct to the heart. Heim removed organs from victims without anesthetic. He even kept the skull of one man he decapitated as a paperweight. He is likely hiding in southern Chile’s Patagonia region, says leading Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff. Hundreds of Nazis sought refuge in Latin America after World War II. Holocaust survivors remember Heim relishing seeing the fear of death in the eyes of his victims.
Oil Price “fake & imposed”: Ahmadinejad
Iran’s president Ahmadinejad said, that the oil market is plentifully supplied and the rally to record high prices is “fake and imposed”. Iranian president also took aim at high energy taxes in consumer nations. He blamed the decreasing US dollar value and reiterated that oil should be sold in a basket of currencies rather than dollars. Iran has been accused by western nations of building nuclear weapons. Iran is the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter.
Price of Iraq war $121,000 per person in US.
The US budget for Iraq in FY 2007 came to $4,988 per one Iraqi. This is three times higher than Iraq’s per-person GDP. With the 2007 Iraq war budget US citizen can be paid $121 000 each. zFacts have a price clock in their site with a detailed report of the cost. Until this moment $543,641,450,398 had been spent on Iraq war.
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Rumors & Obama’s birth certificate
Barack Obama’s refusal to the repeated requests for his birth certificate has led to wild speculation as to what possible reason he would have to hide this. There are several rumors circulating regarding his birth certificate.
- Rumor one: Obama was born in Kenya.
- Rumor Two: Obama’s middle name is not “Hussein” but “Muhammad.”
- Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name him after his father, and his birth certificate says “Barry.”
Who knows why Obama won’t just make the birth certificate public?
Hillary ready for VP
Senator Hillary Clinton said today she’d consider being the vice presidential candidate on a Democratic ticket. Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination today. He won at least 5 more delegates than the needed 2 118 delegates. The United States presidential election of 2008 is scheduled for November 4, 2008 to elect America’s 44th president.
Former UN Ambassador escaped Citizen’s Arrest
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, escaped a citizen’s arrest last week. Security guards blocked the path of columnist and activist George Monbiot, who tried to make the arrest as Bolton left the stage. Monbiot planned the action, because he says Bolton is a war criminal for his role in helping to initiate the invasion of Iraq in 2003 while he served as US undersecretary of state for arms control. George Monbiot, is a columnist for the Guardian of London. His latest book is Bring On the Apocalypse: Collected Writing.
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Nepal become the world’s newest republic
Ending its 240 years of monarchy, Nepal become the world’s newest republic. A constituent assembly meeting in the capital, Kathmandu, overwhelmingly voted to abolish royal rule. Only four members of the 560 members Constituent Assembly opposed the change. King Gyanendra is given 15 days to vacate his Kathmandu palace. The palace will be transformed into a museum. May 29 is declared as “Republic Day.” Nepal is the only Hindu country in the world.
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