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However at present some clergy are doing more bad than good. Also when the masses are scientifically educated most of them abandon the teaching of the clergy and with it the moral education that they got from the clergy and so the country in question is worse of.

There shouldn't be any religious schools. There should be only ones that teach religion as the only subject and they should not start teaching until the child is twelve years old and only for half an hour a week.

The non practicing individuals are at a disadvantage as they have no or very few leaders. Though they make up large numbers they are not organized. The religious people on the other hand have fanatic leaders with great powers of organization.

MALTA PEACE COUNCIL Valletta – MALTA - Joseph M Cachia 5/8/2011

Libya war lies worse than Iraq - By Thomas C. Mountain

ASMARA, Eritrea —The lies used to justify the NATO war against Libya have surpassed those created to justify the invasion of Iraq . Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both had honest observers on the ground for months following the rebellion in eastern Libya and both have repudiated every major charge used to justify the NATO war on Libya .

According to the Amnesty observer, who is fluent in Arabic, there is not one confirmed instance of rape by the pro-Gadaffi fighters, not even a doctor who knew of one. All the Viagra mass rape stories were fabrications.

Amnesty could not verify a single “African mercenary” fighting for Gaddafi story, and the highly charged international satellite television accounts of African mercenaries raping women that were used to panic much of the eastern Libyan population into fleeing their homes were fabrications.

There were no confirmed accounts of helicopter gunships attacking civilians and no jet fighters bombing people, which completely invalidates any justification for the No-Fly Zone inSecurity Council resolution used as an excuse for NATO to launch its attacks on Libya .

Today, according to the Libyan Red Crescent Society, over 1,100 civilians have been killed by NATO bombs, including over 400 women and children. Over 6,000 Libyan civilians have been injured or wounded by the bombing, many very seriously.

Saddam Hussein was evil, he invaded his neighbors in wars that killed up to a million. He used weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the form of poison gas on both his neighbors and his own people, killing tens of thousands. He was brutal and corrupt and when American tanks rolled into Iraq , the Iraqi people refused to fight for him, simply putting down their weapons and going home.

Libya under Col. Gadaffi hasn’t invaded their neighbors. Gadaffi never used WMD on anyone, let alone his own people. As for Gadaffi being brutal, in Libya ’s neighbor, Algeria , the Algerian military fought a counterinsurgency for a decade in the 1990s that witnessed the deaths of some 200,000 Algerians. Now that is brutal and nothing anywhere near this has happened in Libya .

The majority of the Libyan people are rallying behind the Libyan government and “the leader,” Muammar Gadaffi, with over one million people demonstrating in support on July 1 in Tripoli , the capital of Libya . Thousands of Libyan youth are on the front lines fighting the rebels and ,despite thousands of NATO air strikes, authentic journalists on the ground in western Libya report their morale remains high.

In Egypt , the popular explosion that resulted in the army seizing power from Mubarak began in the very poorest neighborhoods in Cairo and other Egyptian cities where the price of basic food items, like bread, sugar and cooking oil, had skyrocketed and led to widespread hunger. In many parts of Egypt ’s poor neighborhoods, gasoline/benzene is easier to find then clean drinking water. Medical care and education is only for those with the money to pay for it. Life for the people of Tunisia is not that much better.

In contrast, the Libyan people have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world. The Libyan people have the best, free public health system in the Arab world. The Libyan people have the best, free public education system in the Arab world. Most Libyan families own their own home and most Libyan families own their own automobile. Libya is so much better off than its neighbors that every year tens of thousands of Egyptians and Tunisians migrated to Libya to earn money to feed their families, doing the dirty work the Libyan people refused to do.

When it comes to how Gadaffi oversaw a dramatic rise in the standard of living for the Libyan people, despite decades of UN inSecurity Council sanctions against the Libyan economy, honest observers acknowledge that Gadaffi stands head and shoulders above the kings, sheiks, emirs and various dictators who rule the rest of the Arab world.

First of all, Gadaffi was on the verge of creating a new banking system that was going to put the IMF, World Bank and assorted other Western banksters out of business in Africa . No more predatory Western loans used to cripple African economies, instead, a $42 billion dollar African Investment Bank would be supplying major loans at little or even zero interest rates.

LIbya has funded major infrastructure projects across Africa that have begun to link up African economies and break the perpetual dependency on the Western countries for imports have been taking place. Here in Eritrea the new road connecting Eritrea and Sudan is just one small example.

What seems to have finally tipped the balance in favor of direct Western military intervention was the reported demand by Gadaffi that the USA oil companies, which have long been major players in the Libyan petroleum industry, were going to have to compensate Libya to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for the damage done to the Libyan economy by the USA instigated “Lockerbie Bombing” sanctions imposed by the UN inSecurity Council throughout the 1990s into early 2000s. This is based on the unearthing of evidence that the CIA paid millions of dollars to witnesses in the Lockerbie Bombing trial to change their stories to implicate Libya which was used as the basis for the very damaging UN sanctions against Libya . The government of the USA lied and damaged Libya so the USA oil companies were going to have to pay up to cover the cost of their government’s actions. Not hard to see why Gadaffi had to go, is it?

Add the fact that Gadaffi had signaled clearly that he saw both Libya’s and Africa’s future economic development linked more to China and Russia rather than the west and it was just a matter of time before the CIA’s contingency plan to overthrow the Libyan government was put on the front burner.

NATO’s war against Libya has much more in common with NATO’s Kosovo war against Serbia . But one still cannot compare Gadaffi to Saddam or even the much smaller criminals in the Serbian leadership. The Libyan War lies are worse than Iraq .

Thomas C. Mountain is the only independent western journalist in the Horn of Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He was a member of the 1st US Peace Delegation to Libya in 1987.

Unite says that the intervention is a mistake and will provoke a lengthened civil conflict. An immediate ceasefire ought to be called to allow for resolution through peaceful means, the union argues.

"While holding no brief for Colonel Gaddafi and his regime, and strongly supporting the movements now developing for democracy and freedom across the Arab world, Unite believes the present military intervention is a mistake because:

- It raises the possibility of escalation leading to military occupation of all or part of Libya , when similar occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown how disastrous and counter-productive such interventions are. This could lead to a wider war in the region.

- The action has little or no Arab involvement, and is opposed by, amongst others, Russia , China and India , leaving it dependent on those western powers whose policies have aroused deep hostility throughout the Middle East .

- It stands in contrast to the indulgence shown by the government to the autocrats in Bahrain , Saudi Arabia and elsewhere who have been allowed to repress movements for democracy in their own countries with impunity.

I think the European Union should do much more to solve this problem. First and foremost it should buy a big piece of land from some African country. Turn this piece of land into a country under the countries own jurisdiction, and then the extra emigrants would be sent to this country and live there until they find a country that host them or live there as if this was their country.

Another thing, To-day designer babies are possible .Therefore those parents who so wish could have babies that whilst they resemble them would have features like the colour of the skin removed. Some people say that if we allow designer babies, everybody would have yellow hair and blue eyes. To say so would be to forget the power of diversity .We would start seeing people with three or more colours in their hair and irises and with other exotic gene expression

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS(OR THE SPORT OF UNHAPPINESS) - Joseph M. Cachia - 20th May 2011

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” - Oscar Wilde

I have to admit that I often have found the language of divorce "rights" off-putting. Yet the idea of divorce as a "right" is usually pitted against the idea of divorce as a "privilege." Given that choice, I'll circle "right" every time.

Still, when people claim something as a "right," they often sound shrill and demanding. Then someone comes along to remind us that people who have "rights" also have "responsibilities", and the next thing you know, we're off and running in the debate about divorce as a "right" vs. divorce as a matter of "individual responsibility."

This is based on the idea that there should be limits to the "you-made-your-bed-now-sleep-in-it" principle. Personal responsibility is important, but it should be moderate and not a cruel and unusual punishment.

Anyone watching a ship from land is no judge of its seaworthiness, for the vital part is always underwater. It can’t be seen. We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong.

I can understand this ‘Yes’ campaign – soliciting for the granting of a civil right. What I can’t understand is the hate ‘No’ campaign – isn’t it enough to vote No if so says your conscience, but to entice and encourage others to vote for not letting you enjoy your right is, in the least, hateful and malicious.

The Malta Story

This is Malta . Anything for a polemic; and if it’s between ‘yes’ and ‘no’, so much the better. We are quite expert at bi-focal views; look at our politics.
But aren’t we clutching the wrong end of the stick in this whole ‘divorce’ debacle? Maybe a lot of people like to talk but very few like to think.
Divorce is a civil right that is not yet fully recognised in Malta . However, the 1975 Marriage Act had introduced divorce in Malta through the back door by recognising divorce decrees granted in foreign jurisdictions.For marriages between Maltese and foreign ers there is and was always the possibility for a divorce, as each State provides a possibility for jurisdiction for its citizens for a divorce. Such judgements have to be recognized in Malta automatically by the EU-Regulation 2201/2003, since Malta became a member of the EU.

The divorce issue wil l not be concluded in a right and just way through a referendum. This is a civil right and should be adopted forthwith; no Parliament or public approval needed. Nothing could be more insensate and ludicrous than finding myself voting whether or not my neighbour would be able to strive in his or her pursuit of personal happiness, on the same line that one is free to choose his ingredients in his mission of seeking eternal happiness! Is it possible to imagine an attitude toward happiness and living further from our own?

Wake up and forget that any legalistic and social factor is being seriously considered and applied in this matter of contention. It has turned out as a political battle between three contestants; the Nationalist Party, the Labour Party and the Church.

Perhaps, that’s why none of our political parties never ever took the serious issue of contesting the unfairness of the coming referendum which immorally forces the determination of the majority and imposes its rules over the minority. Asking the people’s opinion on the rights of the minority is totally out of place, especially when the issue has no imposition on either party but is simply a right of one’s choosing in his or her pursuit of happiness?

It must be common knowledge that the great majority of Maltese and Gozitans are against divorce. If any of you ever thought or imagined that the referendum wil l end in a ‘Yes’ majority, think again! Should one doubt that this conviction is not shared by most followers of Maltese politics, no lesser than by the Prime Minister himself, who has been striving incessantly to stimulate the voters’ negation of this right? “The fact that the whole world has divorce means nothing to me”. Thus spake he! Of course, he is the one and only! That’s democracy!

If ever there was anything more irresponsible and indiscreet, it was the bringing of God and the Devil in this issue. How naïve can we be?! But perhaps this suited well the individual interests of a certain category of the local population.

The Maltese church, or rather the Church in Malta , is manifesting grossly and strongly against the introduction of divorce in Malta . Recognizing the civil right of divorce, one is bound to ask how ethical or legal this is when we are cognizant of the fact that our taxpayers’ money is funding Church schools.

Furthermore, since the Church has entered, in full force, the fray, why shouldn’t we raise the public awareness of defrocking the Church of all its political, financial and social privileges being constantly employed to target civil administration and imposing its diktats in public civil affairs? This is what lies at the root of it all and unless it is resolutely and incessantly tackled, its impositions would continue to be the tune of the day!

For those who believe that Malta is not a religious State, please remember that there are Arabic states which leave the family law up to the law of the religion of the spouses. It is evident that Malta is not so different in as much as it empowers the Catholic Church to play around with marriage and annulment over the civil law.

We gave it too much rope! Church marriages and annulments (Church divorces) in themselves should have no legal effect in Malta . Only a civil marriage or divorce should be legal.
The ‘in favour’ and ‘against’ should strictly be confined to one’s conscience in refuting or adopting this civil right, following the introduction of the divorce law in Malta, and nothing more.

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”

Il-kor huwa unanimu. Il-bejta konservattiva tal P.N., il-P.L. liebes il-libsa tal-moderati mfassla minn Joseph Muscat, u l-filoewropej eterni ta' l-A.D. kollha maghqudin wara l-Prim Ministru jcapcpulu u jelogjawh ghall-pozizzjoni ambigwa u ipokrita tieghu...issa favur in-newtralita' ta' Malta...u ftit wara ta' appogg passiv u eventwalment trasformat f'wiehed attiv, ghall-gwerra tal-potenzi mperjalisti fuq il-Libja.

Pero' dan m'ghandu jghaggeb lil hadd. Ilkoll nafu x' unanimita' jaf ikun hemm bejn il-Partiti msemmija. Li jhallik sorpriz jekk mhux imnixxef u perpless, huwa l-fatt li l-Partit Komunista Malti nghaqad f'dan il-kor ta' tifhir lill-Prim Ministru deskritt kwazi kwazi bhala paladin tan-newtralita' Maltija, kemm fuq il-blog ufficjali tal-Partit, kif ukoll fuq il-gazzetta Zminijietna. Prim Ministru, li fil-medjokrita' diplomatika tieghu ma kien kapaci johrog b'xejn aktar minn kummenti tal-kalibru ta' “Gaddafi ghandu jwarrab”, jew miz-zamma taz-zewg ajruplani Mirage tal-forzi aerejonawtici tal-Libja.

l-unika skuza li possibilment tista' tiggustifika lill-P.K.M. hi li jammetti li dwar din il-krizi saret analizi superficjali u ghaggelija, li njorat aspetti li kellhom ikunu moghtija l-attenzjoni mehtiega minn moviment pacifista u antimperjalista bhal dak tal-Partit Komunista.

Ghaliex fl-ebda cirkostanza ma gie evidenzjat il-fatt li l-Gvern Malti abdika mill-obbligu kostituzzjonali li jaghmel minn pajjizna centru attiv ghall-paci fost il-gnus tad-dinja, f'din l-okkazjoni? Wiehed jistenna li l-P.K.M. jaghmel appell dirett lill-istess Gvern biex iheggu jistieden liz-zewg fazzjonijiet tal-Gwerra Civili Libjana ghall-waqfien inkondizzjonat mill-glied biex jibdew tahdidiet ta' paci f'pajjizna stess, meqjus bhala fost l-akbar hbieb tal-poplu Libjan. Minflok, il-Partit Komunista ghamel biss dikjarazzjonijiet vagi fuq il-htiega ta' inizjattivi diplomatici.

U ghahfejn il-P.K.M. ma lissinx lanqas kelma wahda, meta l-Gvern irrifjuta li flimkien mal-Germanja, ir-Russja, u c-Cina, jissorvelja l-waqfien mill-glied propost mill-Gvern Libjan stess? Soluzzjoni pacifika hija dejjem awspikabbli f'dawn is-sitwazzjonijiet, u m'ghandniex inkunu ahna li nitfu l-fjamma tat-tama.

Sejha konkreta ghall-waqfien mill-glied mhux biss tista' tghin biex ma jinqerdux eluf ta' hajjiet, l-infrastrutturi u l-kapital tal-poplu Libjan, imma sservi wkoll bhala vuci li titkellem f'isem il-Maltin kollha li nvestew u li jaqilghu l-ghixien taghhom mil-Libja. Biex ma nsemmux ir-riskju tal-gholi tal-hajja li jista' jirrizulta minn zieda fil-prezz taz-zejt, hekk kif dan il-pajjiz huwa esportatur importanti fiz-zona Mediterranja.

M'hemm dubju li dawn huma kollha valutazzjonijiet ghall-qalb il-Komunisti Maltin, izda xorta wahda ftit jew xejn ma nstema' minghand it-tmexxija taghhom f'dan ir-rigward.

Xi nghidu mbaghad ghas-silenzju religjuz tal-P.K.M. rigward il-ftuh komplet ghall-ajruplani bellici tal-ispazju tal-ajru nazzjonali? Dan mhux biss ifisser komplicita' hekk kif l-ajru li fuqu ghandna sovranita' jista' jintuza f'din il-gwerra mahmuga, imma hu ksur car tal-kostituzzjoni taghna hekk kif it-torri tal-kontroll tat-traffiku tal-ajru jsir facilita' nazzjonali wzata f'din it-tigrija ghall-hakma taz-zejt Libjan.

l-interessi Maltin gew ukoll mhedda mill-vokazzjoni tal-Prim Ministru li jissottometti l-interessi nazzjonali ghal dawk tal-Ewropa, meta kien minn ta' l-ewwel biex japprova s-sanzjonijiet ekonomici kontra l-mexxej Libjan Gaddafi li issarfu fl-iffrizar ta' assi ta' kumpaniji bhal dawk tal-Grupp Corinthia. L-iskuza tal-punent hi li l-profitt li jsir minn dawn l-assi jservi biex Gaddafi jixtri aktar armi ghal kontra r-ribelli. Pozizzjoni tassew ipokrita meta tqis li l-punent stess kien fornitur kbir ta' armi ghal Jamahiriyya. X'qal il- Partit Komunista dwar dan?

In-natura Marxista tal-Partit spiss tpoggi lill-istess Partit f'pozizzjoni antagonista ma' partiti u istituzzjonijiet akbar u aktar f'sahhithom minnu. Imma dak li ghandu jikkontradistingwi u jaghmel kbir lill-P.K.M. hija l-glieda kontinwa tieghu f'isem l-ideali li jemmen fihom. Minghajr ma nkunu sentimentalisti zzejjed, ghandna nheggu lill- P.K.M. jiehu pozizzjoni aktar deciza fi kwistjoni ta' importanza u attwalita' bhal dik ta' dan il-pajjiz Nordafrikan illum. Nistennew issa jekk din l-omerta' hix ser tirrepeti ruhha bl-izvolgimenti l-godda fejn pajjizna qed jinsab jospita l-ajruplani tal-qawwiet Francizi nvoluti fl-attakki fuq il-forzi governattivi Libjani. Fin-nofs hemm il-kredibilita' tal-Partit stess.

Irregular Immigration – A Political Solution

The problem of irregular immigration has been the subject of controversy for years now; public discussion has however to be coupled with appropriate political action in order to resolve the issue. The question has now assumed national importance due to the vulnerability of our country as a frontier state of the European Union and consequently the political action is to reflect both the national and the international dimensions of the problem.

We have first to distinguish the socio-economic reality in Africa from the political measures that need to be taken by Malta and the EU.

The waves of population migratory flows from Africa to Europe are of biblical proportions which will continue , irrespective of what Malta and the other countries effected do or don’t do to control the harmful consequences on their territories Legitimate action by receiving countries is not to be construed as encouraging or discouraging the migratory flows since the migratory flows are the consequence of the economic adjustments taking place in Africa and as arising from situations of conflict within and between several African countries. (continued)

For many years now the clash between religious fundamentalism and secularism has so absorbed the world’s public attention , that other issues like the collapse of the financial system , the abject poverty of millions and the environemental issues and climate change – which assumedly are capable of disrupting the very foundations of organized civilization itself - are relegated to secondary importance.

Why is this so ? Is it not because the people are so affected by their religious leaders that they know no better ? This to my mind is a superficial response and does not come anywhere near responding to the problems involved.

The more plausible explanation is that secularism has so compromised itself that religious fundamentalism seems a much more credible and consistent way of living- way of being. I am suggesting that religous fundamentalism is not being imposed from above by fanatic religious leaders but that it is being accepted by the people for the lack of an organised modern alternative. (continued)

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