The Closure 5 August 2009
1. The stalling of Canada's military intervention in Afghanistan: the collateral damage of some are the other brides
2. The most violent conflict in the world in a country without oil: the links between the Congo and your IPod
3. One year later: the outcome of the war a few days between Russia and Georgia
4. Events in Xinjiang in China: how ethnic conflict may inflame relations with Turkey
5. Five centuries of revolutions: lessons from the past to our current climate and economic crises
6. The reason against faith: why the course of sexual abstinence for teens are worth less than nothing
NATO AFGHANISTAN
The bodies of two Canadian soldiers who were killed this weekend in Afghanistan have returned home since Tuesday
the beginning of the Canadian mission Afghanistan in 2002, 127 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have died.
although the death of our soldiers is always a tragic event should be remembered that the death of innocent Afghans is equally if not more ...
Since 2001, dozens of celebrants Afghan ... including the bride and groom themselves ... were killed when their wedding celebrations were bombed by NATO planes mistaking them for Taliban operations
While Canadian troops are not engaged in aerial bombardment, they were also involved in Afghanistan's death on the floor
Last week, Canadian soldiers fired a warning shot at a motorcyclist traveling at high speed towards them
the ball bounces on the ground to reach a young girl lying not far away, killing her instantly
The deaths of innocent civilians are part of the reason for the NATO mission does not seem to win hearts and soul of the Afghan people
the collateral damage for some and still a girl or a bride for the other
and attitude of the military authorities to the deaths of civilians has something disturbing
Last week, Maj. Mario Couture simply put the blame the insurgents
A week earlier, a Canadian soldier killed one Afghan and injured three others when the minivan they were traveling in was not sufficiently slowed, according to The Canadian Army Major
Couture explained that victims had all the manhood in a position to fight
And it is an affair of the Taliban to deceive NATO forces, they play tricks and cause blunders
But what the Staff does not explain is the context, the fact that our army is a foreign military occupation in Afghanistan
Ottawa says we are here to introduce democracy, but many Afghans see us as simply an invading army who kill and take part in the torture of innocent Afghans
And should also be remembered in all this that Canadians are increasingly against this military adventure our troops in Afghanistan since the beginning that Quebecers are against
An EKOS poll released earlier this month shows that support for the mission has fallen from 60% in 2002 to only 34% today ...
CONGO
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo next week, and it will be a great opportunity to show how important it is to stop the systematic rape of girls and women who continue to Congo ... even as I speak
An essential ingredient for a solution would be to launch an international campaign asking consumers to their phones, laptops and iPods
electronic products are free from material taken from mining areas that feed violence Congo
The humanitarian crisis in Congo has increased dramatically with the forced displacement of 500,000 people earlier this year
All this fed through the appropriation of a mining sub-soil and the world's richest
The Congolese government, supported by the UN are to blame first for the state of Congo
Ironically, the international community spends nearly $ 2 billion per year to treat the symptoms of the humanitarian crisis
but only one tenth of 1% of this amount spent on aid and peace keeping address the issue of violence related to minerals
the Congolese government is promoting the insecurity in order to allow its officials high level of enrichment in the theft of natural resources
and neighboring Rwanda and Uganda, whose growth economy is nourished by their involvement in illicit trade and violence in Congo
electronics companies should put pressure on their suppliers to ensure that minerals do not come from mines that cause war and encourage Corruption
The worst part is that the mining industry could be the engine of development of peaceful Congo
Such a result would come really quickly if businesses, governments and other stakeholders agreed on a system to trace, verify and certify the minerals that go into our electronics
It would change the structure place, encouraging people to move away from violence and illegality, and go to security and the rule of law in Congo
WAR RUSSIA GEORGIA
We will reach in a few days after the first anniversary of the war between Russia and Georgia last summer
and it looks like it took only 100 days before the world forgets this event ... time that the world economy collapses
is a good time to review some who won and who lost in this conflict ... So between Georgia, Russia themselves, but also the U.S. and the EU
Russia is therefore at the heart of all this Case
war was an opportunity for Moscow to launch its first military operation on a large scale outside the Russian Federation since the end of the Cold War
recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and the Abkhazia in the Kremlin was the first revision of state borders between the territory of the former Soviet Union
Russia was out of this war there as a revisionist power that broke all illusion of existence of a European order established
For his part, President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia still has to live with her bad bet for launching a military attack against the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali
he gambled and lost, and Georgia, also
The five-day conflict between Russia and Georgia have demonstrated the end that Washington no longer had the upper hand in Moscow
and the security of President Bush to protect the territorial integrity of Georgia was just the wind
reality is that the U.S. no longer the dominant power in Europe as was the case during the Cold War or during the 1990
then in strictly military terms, Russia has won the war August 2009, reinforcing the legitimacy of the coup regime of Putin and Medvedev
was very popular with the Russian public for whom this small military victory was a balm on two decades of humiliation
but at the same time, strong military response from Russia brought in its wake a loss making important strategic
the Caucasus region even less stable
The recognition by Russia of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent from Georgia certainly increase the instability of the region
now that Russia is seen as a strength revisionist feared by its neighbors, it could change how the minorities even Russia will be received and how they will act in the future without forgetting
is how the financial crisis and global economic crushes Russia right now, adding to the pressure by making it less attractive to investors
At this time of new economic blocs are being formed, with China, India and Brazil on one side
EU has offered an economic partnership six former satellite countries of the Soviet Union was a direct response to the war last summer, isolating Russia
advantage
So, in short, only China and Turkey for the moment seem to be the winners of the war between Russia and Georgia
China has used the war to convert his advantage into economic and political space of the former Soviet Union
For his actions during the conflict, Turkey has emerged for his part as an autonomous regional power
Some argue that amnesia West over the Russian military adventure outside its borders will encourage the Kremlin to start elsewhere
Others say that his victory will isolate more, opening the way to the Western world to build Europe future without consulting Russia
TURKEY CHINA XINJIANG
The violent ethnic conflicts that have plagued the Chinese province of north-west of the 5 and 6 July will have effects well beyond the region
countries with high presence of the Uighur diaspora or those with ethnic and cultural ties with them
are those who are most expressed on the bloodshed and the brutal repression of Beijing then
These countries is also of course trade and economic ties with China
The potential for political impact is obvious
the situation is particularly
to Turkey where the government was torn between desire is to protect its economic ties with China
and pressure of public opinion in order to do something to protect their fellow Muslim and Turkish province China was once the East Turkistan
The majority of economic links between Turkey and China of course goes through Xinjiang, one of the least developed areas of China
why the events of early July destabilizes the relationship between the two countries
remember that most victims in riots initially, 197 according to the official count of Beijing, was the Chinese of Han origin
but many Turkish media are hundreds of deaths among the Uighur population
So the Turkish opinion makers began to openly seek what former East Turkistan is released from the oppressive rule of China, as have done in the past Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
The government then responded to the demands of its population and has slammed Beijing's reaction
... which for its part took a week to respond to Turkey, calling Turkey withdrew its criticism and accusations of genocide and assimilation
Now Turkey is in hot water, first it may be isolated in this story, because the international community including the U.S. did not at all taste shock China
States the most powerful in the world are much more concerned about the stability of China than to see progress toward democracy and inter-ethnic harmony
And Turkey itself is likely to be severely criticized for its management of ethnic minorities out of its territory, especially its treatment of Kurds
and there is Uighur population itself likely to be injured by a position of advantage over protester in Turkey, making them a target for Beijing, which sees foreign plots to destabilize across its territory
Turkey may have made a important strategic mistake in his pro-Uighur ...
But in a historical context, the tensions caused by the events of early July were inevitable, rooted in the political, cultural and nationalist area
In the late 19th century, the territories of Central Asia were separated between the Chinese empires and Russian
during the collapse of the Soviet Union, the five Stans emerged as independent states, suddenly releasing the nationalist aspirations of the Turkish people and the rise of Islam
quite natural that these same factors play across the Chinese border in Xinjiang, East Turkistan historical
As long as the territories of Turkistan remain volatile and uncertain geopolitical status, there will be a competition between countries to have influence on And the region
seems that Turkey is part of the game, including of course China, Russia and the U.S.
This means that no matter how the crisis will end in Xinjiang, Turkey and China likely will compete again on the destiny of the territory of former Turkestan
DURING SEX
Rising rates a teenager who falls pregnant teenagers catching STDs are the direct result of programs of the neoconservatives who were just to get rid
The American neocons are really not a movement based on empirical data and science and reason, but rather on an ideology of denial
and this applies to their views on evolution, climate change, foreign affairs and tax policy
and collectively, the denial has very unfortunate consequences
a recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows that during the last years of the Bush administration
constant progress reduction in the number of teenage becoming pregnant and the number of MTS was overthrown
Between 1990 and 2004 the birth rate among teenagers fell by 46% for 15 to 17 years
The same s is produced in the rest of the Western world, though 20 years earlier
But between years 2005 and 2006, something strange happened: the number of teen giving birth has increased by 3%
In 2007 it was an additional 1% ...
What is tragic, because according to the UN agency UNICEF, girls from poor backgrounds who give birth to a baby are twice as likely to remain poor all their lives
They are likely to remain unemployed , to suffer from depression and become alcoholics and drug addicts
Same for STDs, the implications of gonorrhea has declined over the past two decades, and has increased the U.S. in 2004 after a long
period of decline, the incidence of syphilis among teenagers increased in 2002 for girls in 2004
Between the years 1991 and 2007, the percentage of adolescents who have never had sex has declined
these data include the number of sexual partners, and the level of activity
But in 2005 and beyond, these trends were reversed
Condom use among secondary school students had quietly increased between 1991 and 2003
then to stagnate between 2003 and 2007
As for Hispanic teens, as they data less sex than their classmates non-Hispanic, but are three times more children than they probably
park that the Catholic Church is very present in their lives and we all know is against the use of Condoms
Looking more closely at the geo-political figures, we find:
nine of the ten U.S. states with the highest increases in birth rates had voted Republican in presidential elections of 2000 and 2004
eight of them voted for McCain in 2008
among them are the core territory of conservative Christians, including Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma
These are the places where Bush's abstinence campaigns have been promoted with as much enthusiasm
$ 80 million dollars for this program Bush has increased to $ 170M in 2005
sexual education programs, if you can call them that, who received this money was not allowed to teach participants methods to reduce risks of sexual activity, other than promoting abstinence until marriage
They had the right to talk about contraception, but only in order to describe the rate failure
an independent report of the U.S. Congress has found that 80% of the teaching materials contain false information, misleading or distorted about sexual health
and a long series of scientific articles have proven beyond a doubt that teaching abstinence only programs are worse than being useless
... causing even a rise of STDs and teenage fertility rates
so, because teens who have been brainwashed less use of condoms, are more reluctant to seek advice from adults or go to the clinic if they suspect they have some catching When something
UNICEF compared the fertility rates in different parts of the world, the UN agency found that it was the Netherlands, but no, they are each other you Case that the number of teenagers falling pregnant is at its lowest among wealthy countries
5 for 1000, in the U.S.? is 53 per 1000
UNICEF explains that the Dutch have adopted a much more open attitude towards sex education, including the use of contraception
Fortunately, the new budget Obama aims to change all that with U.S., rather than investing in sex education programs based on science
Neocons are obviously angry ... They insist that American children should not be exposed to sex education, we must lie to them about contraception and maintained at a level worthy of ignorance of the Middle Ages
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