Canada and Japan has best image in Global Survey, Israel US and Iran Worst

Interesting, after I read this article on MSNBC's headlines it was removed (from the headlines) within an hour...

Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released Tuesday.

The survey for the British Broadcasting Corp.'s World Service asked more than 28,000 people to rate 12 countries — Britain, Canada, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, the United States and Venezuela — as having a positive or negative influence on the world.

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Peace...a video by Palestinians and Israelis

Ordinary young Palestinian and Israeli citizens were given an unprecedented opportunity last week to present an impassioned video expressing their views to world leaders at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni listened as leaders of the youth movement, OneVoice, told them, "Enough!"

GO AL-GORE...

Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.

During eight years as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore pushed for climate measures, including the Kyoto Treaty. Since leaving office in 2001 he has campaigned worldwide, including with his Oscar-nominated documentary on climate change called “An Inconvenient Truth. Read More Here.

Also...Scientists world wide are saying Warming 'very likely' due to man, tie bigger storms to warming...

9/11 Videos And Documentaries

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Turning of the Tide





ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release - Full Film

This is very interesting, the first half about Christianity or religions in general and the other half about how the elite (bankers) are the main cause of whatever happens in the world and finally the only way to stop it is the knowing that we are all one and that whatever happens in one country affects others and off course to spread the knowledge



Loose Change, Currently watched by nearly 5 million people on Google Video..




9-11 Mysteries
This is one of the latest sources of information about the intentional demolitions on September 11, 2001

Designers of the towers speak that the buildings were built in a way to withstand planes hitting it. The skyscrapers are built like a screen mesh where a plane going in would act as pencil puncturing a small piece never dangering the whole mesh. The fire would never bring down a building. The steel itself will not rupture or melt due to fire.

Mr. Silverstein had 99 years lease on the towers, the year before 9/11 Silverstein changed his insurance policy to include terror attacks and his rights to re-build in case of Towers collapse. After the tragedy he demanded double his insurance limit since two scrapers went down instead of one thus doubling his insurance limit. He won, rewarded 7 Billion dollars...
The director who provided electronic security to the towers, Bush's younger brother "Marvin Bush" from 1993-2000, under the company name Securacom where they installed new security system from 1996-2000 for 8.0 M$. Walker II, the CEO of Securacom, cousin of Bush brothers from 1999-2002, was it that security system that was added during those years already have the demolition hardware built in?

The story gives you the official story of how they explain how the towers went down compared to Engineering explanation of why it is not correct. The sample of steels collected show the high grades of steel used that were not affected or "melted down" as the official story tells and how ridiculuos the official story is.





Expert analysis by Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT Engineer Jeffrey King, and Professor James H. Fetzer





Interview w/ former Boston Center Air Traffic Controller regarding 9/11




Professor of Physics on 9/11 and Collapse of the towers





TERROR STORM .. (2006)




Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State





INSIDE BOHEMIAN GROVE .. A Secret Cult of the Elite in the U.S



OPERATION P2OG.. A Context to let countries or cultures such as Muslims attack the U.S by attacking them first



Alex Jones Predicts 911

Global Centre for Pluralism

Government of Canada

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Aga Khan Sign Funding Agreement for Global Centre for Pluralism

I am not Ismaili , However I support this kind of work for diversity which by nature spreads peace and understanding among religions. For more information Click Here

Ambrose shifting gears, but will she walk the talk?

Politics is politics. The only thing that can change it is pressure from own nation or others.

The conservatives in Canada have blamed the liberals since they got into office about not making any progress in Kyoto to a degree that they wanted to back off from this accord.

Canada, a country that the world expects a lot from regarding environment has been siding with the policies of the U.S. That was such a shame. Now in the U.N, and under a lot of pressure, Ambrose seem to change her tone. Is it only politics at it dirtiest? I hope not...
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You shoot Bullet, Bullet goes up, Bullet comes down...

A Palestinian gunman shoots on the air next to a crowd on and around the house of Mohammedweil Baroud , leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, in Beit Layiha, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday. (AP /Hatem Moussa)..

All things aside, and all the tragedies that the area has been hit with, , a normal way in the Middle East to show victory is to shoot straight up in the air... After a day of such festivities, you hear all the tragedies the next day. One guy sitting on a chair in his balcony gets hit with fallen bullet, a car gets bullet in the windshield, a kid gets one while crossing the street... Why no one is paying attention to this issue? Until when innocent people will keep on dying for such stupidity? When will happy-events-bullet be exchanged with rice or flowers or whatever thing that doesn't kill?

Rape victim subjected to lashes in Saudi

AL-AWWAMIYA, Saudi Arabia - When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined the judge would punish her — and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received...
“The big shock came when the judge sentenced me and the man to 90 lashes each,” said the woman. The sentence was handed down as part of the rape trial. Lashes are usually spread over several days, dealt around 50 at a time...More

Syria's flags

Before 1918

by Antonio Martins

Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire and used the Ottoman flag.

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1918-1920

by Filip Van Laenen, 03-NOV-1996

In 1918 the British forces established an Arab military administration in Damascus and inner Syria under Faysal (son of Hussein ibn Ali, Grand Sharif of Mecca and King of Hejaz), using the Aarb Revolution flag.

Britain turned effective control of nowadays Syria and Lebanon to France on September 1919.

The 2nd Syrian National Congress held in Damascus on March 8th, 1920 crowned Faysal I King of Syria, who was not recognized by Britain or France and claimed a Great Syria (with Palestine and Lebanon). A similar flag was adopted but with a seven-pointed white star in the red triangle. Faysal adopted a standard that was the same flag with a star and a royal golden crown in the central green strip.

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1920-1922

The Allied Supreme Council gave the mandate of nowadays Syria and Lebanon to France on April 25th, 1920 (confirmed July 23rd, 1922). General Gouraud occupied Damascus, Faysal was defeated in Maisselum July 24th, 1920, dethroned and forced into exile in Iraq. The French organized Syria into 5 states under the mandate:

• Sanjak of Damascus (Summer 1920) (Damascus or Syria proper): A green/white/green (or green/white/black?) horizontal tricolor with a canton of the French flag. According to Jaume Ollé however, the flag of Damascus (adopted 1922) was blue with a white circle.

  
  by Santiago Dotor, 13-JAN-1999

• Sanjak of Aleppo (Summer 1920)

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• Alawite State (September 29th, 1923, including Alexandretta), later renamed Sanjak of Latakia (after its chief town, September 22nd 1930): White, French flag in the canton, triangles in other corners of red, gold sunburst in center. Separate existence as a French mandate in 1920-30 and as a republic in 1930-6.

  
  by Santiago Dotor, 13-JAN-1999

• State of Souaida (March 4th, 1922), later Jebel Druze State (1927) with the addition of Damascus' Hawran (Jabal ad-Duruz or Druze Mountains): White, French flag in the canton, to right of canton equal horizontal stripes of green, red, yellow, blue and white (reading down).

  
  by Santiago Dotor, 13-JAN-1999

• Greater Lebanon (May 1920): French flag with a cedar centered on the white stripe.

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1922-1932

by Santiago Dotor, 13-JAN-1999

In June 1922 France established a loose federation between the four Syrian puppet states (Damascus, Latakia, Aleppo, and Jebel Druze); Lebanon was considered a separate entity thereafter. According to Jaume Ollé, the federal flag is created, horizontal green-white-green with French flag in canton.

The partially Turkish populated Alexandretta was turned into a sixth division within the French mandate on March 4th, 1923.

France reunited Aleppo and Damascus on December 1st, 1924, adopting the federal flag (green-white-green with French canton) as the Syrian flag. This encouraged the nationalists who formed the People's Party. The Druze Revolt started and lasted till 1927.

A constituent assembly summoned by France and enjoying nationalist majority drafted a Constitution not recognising the French mandate and was thus rejected. The French introduced a Constitution which was approved May 14th 1930, establishing Damascus and Aleppo as the 'Syrian Republic'.

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1932 (Autonomy) - 1946

Green-white-black horizontal tricolor with three red five-pointed stars pointing downwards, ratio 2:3. According to National Geographic [geo32], the stars should be upward and the ratio 5:8, but maybe they got the flag from Syrians already preparing/wishing for independence. Maybe the autonomous republic was proclaimed in 1934. The flag adopted had a ratio 1:2 (see Flagsmaster, last issue, flag of 1936). It was first hoisted in Aleppo on January 1st, 1932 and in Damascus on June 11th. The three stars stood for the districts that formed the Republic (Aleppo, Damascus and Deir es Zor).

Elections were held in 1932 and a Treaty acceptable to both parties was concluded in 1936, adding Latakia (including Alexandretta) and Jebel Druze to the 'Republic'. The stars then stood for Aleppo with Damascus and Deir es Zor (one), Jebel Druze (one) and Latakia (one).

On September 2nd 1938 the French turned the Alexandretta district into the autonomous Republic of Hatay. It was thereafter handed to Turkey (June 23rd, 1939).

During the Second World War, after invading Vichy-governed Syria, General Catroux proclaimed the independence of Syria in September 1941. The French troops evacuated Syria in May 1945.

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1946 (Independence) - 1958

by Vincent Morley, 12-APR-1997

Green-white-black horizontal tricolour with three red five-pointed stars pointing upwards, ratio 1:2. Source: National Geographic, February 1951.

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1958-1961

by Zeljko Heimer, 07-FEB-1996

Syria and Egypt united on 22nd February 1958 to form the United Arab Republic. Red-white-black horizontal tricolor with two green stars.

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1961-1963

by Vincent Morley, 12-APR-1997

Syria left the union with Egypt (UAR) on 28th September 1961 and reverted to the 1946-58 flag.

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1963-1972

The Ba'ath party made a coup d'état in 1963. Red-white-black horizontal tricolor with three green stars.

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1972-1980

by Zeljko Heimer, 29-JUL-1996
modified by Santiago Dotor, 07-MAY-1999

Syria joined Egypt and Libya on 1st January 1972 to form the Federation of Arab Republics. They adopted the same flag, with minor variations, for the three countries: red-white-black horizontal tricolour with the hawk of Quraish (the tribe of Mohammad) looking to the hoist (at the right side) [?] on the white band with a small inscription of the name of the federation below. Unlike Egypt or Lybia, the name of the country did not appear below the scroll.

The Federation of Arab Republics ended March 1977, but Syria retained its flag.

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Since 1980

Reintroduction of the United Arab Republic flag of 1958-61, ratio 2:3.

is forces needed to make peace?

Is force needed sometimes to make peace? If so how can we draw the line? if not how do we combat a dark or insidious power or force, a bully, a murderer... Time is running out and you need to act, what do you do?

I think the confusing part in all of this, where is the force coming from?
At the time where politics is nothing but lies and deception, how can you trust any force?
In theoretical situation, yes I believe force is needed sometimes. This theoretical environment is when you have leaders that have humanity, environment and the well-being of our planet as top priority. So until then, every force utilized must be doubted or ignored as good intent force.
In theoretical situation again, the force is needed in impossible situations. Such example when someone is about to hurt or commit murder, has to be stopped or even shot. Increase this scenario to a country and you can figure out how force can be utilized.
Force use therefore should be minimized. Other situations must be taken patiently with the human evolution in mind. Certainly some beings are not able to "get it" and that also need to be addressed. Again the trick is have a trusted assembly that guides such decisions. In my opinion such assembly can only be possible when our human race evolves itself. Catch 20/20 it seems.
But either the assembly or the evolution of our race must start with an intent, a dare dream to a better world, probably a spiritual revolution..not political one. Spiritual revolution has nothing to do with our current religion thinking by the way. It is our intent to bring joy and feel our oneness.