breastfeeding in public
breastfeeding in public
Breastfeeding in Public : RIGHTfully Ours and Our Babies’!
A few months ago, I was shocked to read about a woman who was asked to leave an Ontario Place Theatre last summer because she was breastfeeding (The Star, January 23, 2007 Issue).
I felt for her. Wasn’t too long ago when I had the same fears. As a first-time breastfeeding mom, I was incredibly shy and insecure about breastfeeding my daughter in public. If we happened to be in a restaurant, I would crouch down ito a booth, cover up my baby and my breast with a blanket and just leave “air holes” for her to be able to breathe through. I would hide in fitting rooms and washrooms, in a car, behind a a bush… anything but to actually be seen breastfeeding my baby for 2 reasons:
- A mom I met at Mothercraft told me how she was told by another woman in a restaurant to “not gross other people out with that and to go to the bathroom.”
- I was new at this motherhood and breastfeeding thing and had no idea what to do and how to do it properly.
See, as new moms, we face a myriad of challenges and insecurities. Understandably, a lot of us are unaware of what is right for us until we actually do it and learn from experience. However, as breastfeeding moms, wouldn’t it help to know that we have a RIGHT TO BREASTFEED IN PUBLIC if we choose to? I wish I had known then what I know now!
The Ontario Human Rights Commission clearly states our rights as Nursing Mothers:
You have rights as a nursing mother. For example, you have the right to breastfeed a child in a public area. No one should prevent you from nursing your child simply because you are in a public area. They should not ask you to “cover up”, disturb you, or ask you to move to another area that is more “discreet.”
So if you ever happen to be in a situation where someone challenges your breastfeeding in public, quote them your RIGHTS and refer them to the:
Ontario Human Rights Commission
1-800-387-9080 (toll free)
or in Toronto:
(416) 326-9511 or
TTY (416) 314-6526,
8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Monday to Friday.
Additionally, the City of Toronto has a policy called Breastfeeding on City Premises:
Breastfeeding on City (Toronto) Premises :
The city promotes women’s right to breastfeed on city premises and supports employees who wish to breastfeed upon returning to work.
However, the policy is problematic because it is specific only to City Employees right now and doesn’t apply to other mothers yet. Joanne Gilmore, nursing manager with Toronto Public Health said in The Star interview that
“We’re proposing a new policy talking about a woman’s right to breastfeed anywhere in Toronto,” Gilmore said in an interview yesterday. Hopes are that such a policy would be available on the city’s website, Gilmore added.
It’s important for us to fight for our rights and to know what they are. More importantly, it is imperative that we let other moms know of these rights so more of us can stand up for ourselves. Our babies have a right to eat in public too (NOT in a public washroom!) without a suffocating blanket over their heads and our breasts are the perfect container and supplier of this nourishment. No one has the right to tell us to stop breastfeeding because of their personal feelings or beliefs. At least in Ontario anyway.
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Articles:
- Policy would defend public breastfeeding
Donovan Vincent| The Star | Jan. 23, 2007 | Read more…
After ‘numerous incidents,’ city officials want to protect women’s right to nurse infants anywhere in Toronto. Toronto Public Health wants everyone to know it’s a woman’s right to breastfeed her child in public.
- Booby-trapped: breastfeeding in public is still a battle
Georgie Binks| CBC News Viewpoint | Nov. 5, 2004 | Read more
A couple of weekends ago, I was flipping through one of the Saturday newspapers and noticed, in the body of restaurant critic Joanne Kates’s column, an item about a breastfeeding woman being turfed out of a Toronto restaurant. I checked the date of the paper, wondering if perhaps some 30-year-old story had become wedged in with the sushi wars. But no, Oct. 9, 2004, was the date. To this day women are still being shown the door, sometimes the bathroom door (where they can supposedly feed more discretely) at establishments when they breastfeed.
From what i know Romania has an unstable external position, our president seems that he dosen’t know what kind of position to take.
maybe you can tell me more about this?!
you folow the internal news also.i don’t.
ahh eu am raspuns in engleza desi tu ai scris in romana.:)
yes, that’s right but i’m gona make an engish version also know! thanks
Burca Alice Larisa
nun stiu ce se va intampla dar sa speram ca cei de la UE iii va opri pe nebuni din balkani fiindca oamnei astia parca sunt bomba atomica, iar ce motive serioase are buch pentru o asa actiune?
for the rest of our readers i will translate what you expose up here:alind:I don’t know what it will happen , but i hope that those from UE will stop the crazy people from the Balkan side,they always have an open conflict position, as they were the atomic bomb, and what are those strong reasons that Bush has to take such action?
ok, reasons there are always for a conflict , there are not strong enough it’s true, usualy they are pushed by finance problems and prioritys.
What do you think?
Please search for more detailed news, search in deep of this story not only what is fresh and you will see the reason.
Thanks for the coments, opinios we wait for more
When it’s deal between Putin and Bush, it seems to me a horror movie of the devil. Let them think about peace, not about war. And let them be transparent in this.
Last years I visited Iran several times. I can tell you: the Iranians are really afraid for a USA military attack. Their president is doing clever, but many times ridiculous, even dangerous diplomacy. Reality is that they are scared by what USA did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Also their own war with Iraq, in which many Iranians died, is still fresh in their memories. ‘We never started a war’, they told me.
Indeed an important question is: What’s the role of EU and NATO in this!. I think they are too much in silence regarding world piece. The EU has a big identity problem. EU is not able to make her own foreign policy, not able to be united in military policy.
What we urgently need is a strong EU which defends peace and justice, in a world in which the strong world powers USA and Russia especially defends their own interests.
Let’s fight for a transparent world, in which the citizens can trust the world powers. Obama said in his election campaign: ‘We have to change’. WHO will be able to make a start?
thank you Ton Veen for youre coment , i am gled that you notice that this blog is people oriented, and we do have a lot of what to defend ourselfs.
Burca Alice Larisa
we have alot to learn from our writer here,we do have to fight for a transparent world, but does our society really want’s that or it’s even oriented to that?
And if those two have an agreement,how can we stop or interfier?
yes we never want but sometimes you are obligated to respond to DEFENDE youre self from others who invade you, so in the end we have war on the bouth side’s.who stops it , when it’s already made a conflict ?internationl interfiers with big intrests also or who wins the war,in this case we have 2 strong position , so after all we arive down to strategy.
But we don’t want war , nobody want’s war , it almost started one when Kosovo declared independence.
why suddenly in all parts of the world there is a conflict , bigger or smaller , but there is one…………what do you think about that,….the human prioritys are no longer an intrest for nobody,…….stars like Madonna made a documentary about aids victims and how to prevent, becouse the human rase is gona be vanished from earth , and what do we say about earth it ’s gona be vanished also soon too…
What is happening to us , where is the social responsability level ?why human don’t love humans back like it supose to be?
where the laws of nature and the love for it hide?
Thank you again for you info shareing and youre strong opne opinion,we want more…
Burca Alice Larisa
i am new to this disscution, but i am happy to find out so many, and from own experience not just news, we need the real poulse about this.thanks Ton
and thank alice also , forgot,that book was very good, but i have one for you the same.
eu inteleg elngleza dar nu pot raspunde , so sorry
Am fost si eu in partile musulmane ,Israel de exemplu, un actor foarte important, cu un nivel de interventie real in muuuulte lucruri.
Cred ca se stie despre ce vorbesc.
Ce spuneti de asta-Israel -Us?!
i’m gona translate for our readers what you said up here, MIKA:i do not know how to write in english , but i do understand it ,i am sorry !
I was my self in the muslim parts of the world,for exemple Israel, avery important actor in this world , with deep level of interference in a loooooot of things or situations.
I think that you know what i am talking about.
But what do you say about this-Israel-Us?!
what i can answer you Mika is that you gona have to look in a geopolitics picture book (atlas) with an evolution in the topics and it has to be edited and created by ebglish or french….you can watch the edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, and there you will find the answer.What i can say , is just that there are friends ,a nd friends help e-other, right?!mostly with money or investments.
but lets look at what Ton Veen said that US is gona have afresh start, we gona wait and see what happends.So good luck to Hillary, because she’s gona need it!
Putin starts war in Georgia and Bush in Iran, that’s what the latest news tell!
Did they had an agrement about this in there meeting in Soci?
If georgia goes to war, Romania is gona loose connetion with gas provider,is she reorientending to Rusia becouse of the forced future position?
Where is UE and NATO in all this?
By Burca Alice Larisa
First debate of the week-01
debate of the week-02-
i invite you to a very urgent matter of disscution.i want opinions and maybe solutions about this .
Let’s talk my friends about this.
this is a big problem, we have that also, i think that we gona have also a revolution about this , also here day many people, poorness is a big problem .
But my God there is a curse there in Africa , those people they can not reach a normal level.
What’s happening all over the world?
we know about this , we gona study the fenomenon , but in this only a guverment can interfier,not only people.sorry
i welcome you to the third debate that we have.
this is avery hot and challengeing problem, can’t wait to see youre responses so i can complet mine like you do also with others.
so let’s debate
eh uite asta de o problema acuta, ca stau si ma intreb daca se scumpeste tot astia cu forta militara de unde dumnezeu or sa mai scoaat bugete?sau de aia se scumpeste tot?
yes it’s a problem a major one, i still observ , but tell me what you see about this……
oh youre back , i hope youre ok.i see no theme for this weekend.
i think you still fell alittle disy , my friend felt too after this kind of operation, so had so much courage , i scream when i see hospital.
the debate is very strong exposed and well pointed, but i am very furios about the burma guverment , there i think is military dictarship.how can be helped those people , if youre own don’t want to accept a hand in help?
isn’t there an international law who can go beyond them?
cyclon in Burma and deadly earth quake in China, people suffer all over the world ,hungar in Somalia extend know in most part of Africa’s poor countrys, but also this wave comes to Europe…
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS?
by Burca Alice Larisa
debate nr. 3 ended
this is very scareing , but on the other side to see balck people , haveing a diffrent religion of the magority, it’s abig think.i wonder when it’s gona stop.
because till now somebody has an intrest to keep the conflict
i liked much better to disscus another topics that maybe can be the next debate of the week, what do you say about liban?and the new position of obhama about iran?
Racial violence spreads in S Africa
The unrest has killed more than 20 people since it began last week and increased political instability at a time South Africa is struggling with dire power shortages, rising inflation and growing disaffection among the poor over President Thabo Mbeki’s pro-business policies.
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=82690&videoChannel=1
debate with nr. 4 will edn here , but you can still comment , but please mention the debate topics.
many thanks
Burca Alice Larisa
am fost extrem de surpinsa cand l-am vazut pe obhama cu rice, in campania electorala, deaja vad afilianta culorilor politice si influenta ascunsa:)), dar sigur iese al treilea.:)))
i consulted my best friend and yes we think also that m’cain like we say
, it’s gona win, even that some powers on the world want hillary.
after all this time in US the people is gona decide not somebody else for them.
what do you say?
ANOTHER DABETE OF THE WEEK ENDED!thanks to you all fot the comments!
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice :The war from Iraq was the right thing to do she defended on Thursday the Bush administration’s record in Iraq after sharp criticism of the war in a new book by a former White House spokesman.
By Burca Alice Larisa
you can see more about this topics :
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2970030020080529
She declared:
“We did some things well, some things not so well,” said Rice, who was national security adviser when the Iraq war began in 2003. “The one thing that I am certain was not a mistake was to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein.”
what dose israel want exactly , because i see they look like acivilized country,but do they act as one in the future?i hope so!because otherwise they will kepp it in constant conflict with everycountry around!:)
i make a sugestion, use diplomacy not wepons!
israel, israel, israel..!!!!everywhere problems around israel, i want to talk wiht you about this on messenger!give me abuzz when you finish writeing that paper.
till then nice weekend
i would like to folow this position of Israel about Iran, a presian country after all.Can i send you a much better profile about this?
I want to give information to everybody about this!I send by mail to you and you expose here at the profile page.
mah eu cred ca israel tocamia este in stand by , dar franta are gura mare acum , cu Sarkozy , cel putin as azice la TV.
Super misto,Alice.
we finished another’s week debate nr.4
Israel to attack Iran unless enrichment stops!
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks “unavoidable” given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s deputies said on Friday.
“If Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,” Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
ok!the treaty has been redone i think , now are negotiantion about it!
But i read also today on bbc that EU i concern about the high level of coruption!and Romania is somewhere on the top of the list!
The Lisbon Treaty
A big question mark hangs over the future of the Lisbon Treaty – the set of institutional reforms aimed at streamlining the work of the enlarged European Union.
The treaty was rejected by Irish voters in a referendum on 12 June 2008 and, under EU rules, it cannot enter into force if any of the 27 member states fails to ratify it.
Since then, the Czechs have suspended their parliamentary ratification vote pending a constitutional court ruling and Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski has refused to ratify the treaty for the time being, calling it “pointless”.
The treaty, signed in Lisbon in December 2007, was drawn up to replace the draft European constitution, which was thrown out by voters in France and the Netherlands in 2005.
What options does the EU have now?
There are several possible scenarios – none of them easy.
The countries that have not yet ratified the treaty press on with ratification despite the Republic of Ireland’s No vote. By the time that process ends, a solution for the Irish “exception” might have been negotiated. That might mean an extra protocol with more Irish opt-outs and guarantees on sensitive issues such as abortion and neutrality.
The EU puts the ratification process on hold and carries on as before, according to the rules of the existing Nice Treaty. Hopes of the treaty coming into force in January 2009 would be abandoned. The “streamlining” changes, such as the slimmed-down Commission, the new job of EU president and the new post of foreign policy chief, would be put on hold; the EU might resume negotiations on a replacement treaty some time in the future.
The EU scraps the Lisbon Treaty, but comes up with a new one, cherry-picking key parts of Lisbon and repackaging them in a shorter version more comprehensible to voters throughout Europe. The ratification process starts again and Ireland holds another referendum. Irish voters did reject the Nice Treaty in 2001 – then said Yes to it just over a year later, in a referendum re-run. But the constitution debacle in 2005 makes that option more difficult now.
Countries keen on further EU integration form an informal club inside the EU and a “two-tier” Europe develops. That idea has been mooted by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. Ireland, the UK and a few other countries which prefer a looser union would stick to various opt-outs, without formally ratifying Lisbon.
Which option do European leaders favour?
France took over the EU’s six-month rotating presidency on 1 July 2008 and President Nicolas Sarkozy has set himself the tricky task of salvaging the treaty.
EU leaders meeting in Brussels on 19-20 June decided to delay any decision until their next summit in mid-October. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he could not speculate on whether Ireland would hold a second referendum.
The leaders are very divided. EU foreign ministers agreed on 16 June to keep the treaty alive and rejected suggestions that Ireland might be left behind. But Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said there were “no quick-fix solutions” and called for a “comprehensive analysis” of the Irish No vote.
LISBON TREATY PROGRESS
Approved by parliament: Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK
Defeated by referendum: Irish Republic
Challenges: Legal objections in Czech Republic, Polish president delays ratification
No firm date: Belgium, Cyprus, Netherlands (held up by referendum proposal), Italy (new government), Spain (new government), Sweden
Before the Irish vote the European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, insisted there was “no Plan B”. And after the Irish No he insisted that the ratification process should continue. France and Germany support that position.
The Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, expressed a Eurosceptic view of Lisbon, saying the Irish No meant the treaty was finished and that liberty and reason had defeated elitist plans and European bureaucracy.
In the UK, the government is under pressure from the opposition Conservatives to call a referendum. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there could be no “bulldozing or bamboozling” of Ireland. He did not rule out that the Lisbon ratification process might be halted.
How similar is Lisbon to the draft constitution?
It contains many of the changes the constitution attempted to introduce, for example:
A politician chosen to be president of the European Council for two-and-a-half years, replacing the current system where countries take turns at being president for six months
A new post combining the jobs of the existing foreign affairs supremo, Javier Solana, and the external affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, to give the EU more clout on the world stage
A smaller European Commission, with fewer commissioners than there are member states, from 2014
A redistribution of voting weights between the member states, phased in between 2014 and 2017 – qualified majority voting based on a “double majority” of 55% of member states, accounting for 65% of the EU’s population
New powers for the European Commission, European Parliament and European Court of Justice, for example in the field of justice and home affairs
Removal of national vetoes in a number of areas.
Most European leaders acknowledge that the main substance of the constitution would be preserved.
Reform Treaty in detail
If it contains the same substance, why is the Lisbon Treaty not a constitution?
The constitution attempted to replace all earlier EU treaties and start afresh, whereas the new treaty amends the Treaty on the European Union (Maastricht) and the Treaty Establishing the European Community (Rome).
It also drops all reference to the symbols of the EU – the flag, the anthem and the motto – though these will continue to exist.
Who has ratified the treaty so far?
Hungary was the first of 18 countries to approve the treaty in parliament.
The Republic of Ireland was the only member state to hold a referendum on the treaty. According to an Irish Supreme Court ruling in 1987, any major amendment to an EU treaty entails an amendment to the constitution – and that in turn requires a referendum.
How long did it take to agree the treaty?
The effort to draft a constitution began in February 2002 and took two-and-a-half years, but that text became obsolete when it was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Work began in earnest on a replacement treaty during the German EU presidency, in the first half of 2007, and agreement on the main points of the new treaty was reached at a summit in June that year.
Negotiations continued behind the scenes over the following months before a final draft was agreed by the leaders of the 27 member states last October.
Why was the constitution dropped?
France and the Netherlands said they would be unable to adopt the constitutional treaty without significant changes, following the 2005 referendums.
The UK also pressed hard for a modest “amending treaty”, which could be ratified by means of a parliamentary vote, like earlier EU treaties.
Does the Charter of Fundamental Rights feature in the new treaty?
No. There is a reference to it, making it legally binding, but the full text does not appear, even in an annex.
The UK has secured a written guarantee that the charter cannot be used by the European Court to alter British labour law, or other laws that deal with social rights. However, experts are divided on how effective this will be.
Q&A: Charter of Fundamental Rights
Are any countries seeking opt-outs?
Ireland and the UK currently have an opt-out from European policies concerning asylum, visas and immigration. Under the new treaty they will have the right to opt in or out of any policies in the entire field of justice and home affairs.
Poland is also due to sign up to the guarantees on the Charter of Fundamental Rights negotiated by the UK. During the treaty negotiations, Polish leaders voiced concern that the charter could contradict Polish law in moral and family matters.
Denmark will continue with its existing opt-out from justice and home affairs, but will gain the right under the new treaty to opt for the pick-and-choose system.
When will the new treaty kick in?
The pre-referendum plan is in disarray now. Originally, the treaty was supposed to come into force in January 2009, but it would be phased in gradually:
• The High Representative on foreign affairs could start work by late 2008, as long as the treaty has been ratified
• The new-look European Parliament would not appear until after the European elections in June 2009. In fact, that poll will be seen partly as an endorsement of the new arrangements
• The new president of the European Council could also start work at that point
• Although a new commission would be chosen in 2009, its size may not be slimmed down until 2014
• Some extensions of qualified majority voting in the European Council are already in place, such as the appointment of the new commission president and the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy – but Poland’s objections over voting weights mean the redistribution of votes will not come in until after 2014.
It could be at least 10 years before the process is complete.
we finished another debate!
I love the comments from the reuters blog about the tense situation in Iran,I am pro Democracy!and you are?
yes freedom it should b everywhere on the earth, but i belive in diplomacy most ,and with help from there first we can avoit or define exactly the conflict!
Because you have to reduce the damage to zero if it’s posible!
I have friends who say that the pictures from the press with missile test are fake,that they were made 30 years ago?
what do you say?
I can’t pronounce my self over that!I heard rumours also!It may be a fashion of conspiracy this century?Is this what you are saying?
transparency should be the next future politics!so don’t think so much at conspiracy,focus on the next level!
Thank you all for the comments!
i will be here tomorow in the morning again!
ahhhhhhhhhhh the John M ?wrote here?the one from wikipedia?oh, really, i’m gona start reading this blog much often!it’s getting intresting.
Kiss you Alice and a beautiful vacation!Maybe i can arive also in Bruxelles for that conference in fall!
Will Iran keep the promise and atack US shipping?
Who is sending the first bullet after all?
Is agresion the answer to our problems in the future?
But we do defende ourselfs to keep peace in this world and for this we have to be strong also!
By Burca Alice Larisa
this meeting it’s seen so well about topics on the international press! a good diplomat is there!
yes i noticed that Iran is open to this!and they are a superior rase as history tradition, the great Persian Empire!
but i will recoomand yo youu all this weekend to listen the dabate of goodwill ambassadors! i had a plesant surpise like always,splendid people talk about real problems witch they notice , with others eyes also and alife experience in it!you will find the link on the blog!
a beautiful weekend to all!
we will dabate about Iran’s diploatic act at Geneva, on monday!till then please comment on enything that draws youre attention about situations in the world!
“We have finally agreed to sit down and negotiate, then what is this about issuing a deadline and ultimatum? Let’s give this negotiation a chance with patience and perseverance,” former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said in a Friday prayers sermon.
“Every time the situation (of the nuclear dispute) is about to get better, these Western hardliners and radicals begin diverting attention by various propaganda ploys,” the mid- ranking cleric said in a speech broadcast live on state radio.
how the realtion ended after all?did they got a convenient understanding? you have news from iran direct here on the blog, do they comment more about this?
yes i will look for info on iran direct news sait!:) and exposed it as soon as posible!
the media is not so focused anymore on this , they simply lost track!like usual!
Alice
The two nations have not had diplomatic relations since the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the taking of hostages at the US embassy in Tehran.
Does this represent a significant change in America’s policy towards Iran? Will this meeting and the financial package offered encourage Tehran to halt its nuclear enrichment programme?
as we can see people suffer all over the world! but i would like to give a big aplausse to mtv for campaign to stop global worming!use youre hands!they say!
i will make a matterial also about this and it will be with active , practical orientation!
but we welcome here again our constant writer john maszka and people from Iran , also but we have to rewieew again the situation there form there news agency!
Putin’s government has already in recent months made noises about the desirability of the Crimea, with its vociferous pro-Russian population, being Russian territory, despite Stalin’s gifting it to Kiev.
Ukraine could be the next battleground.
And if it goes on like this a wider East-West split looks inevitable.
Not a return to the Cold War, but it could mark a chilling end to the post Cold War era of collaboration
5 debate of the week ended
Iraq’s hot summer adds to challenge of Ramadan fast
When I was nine years old, I began fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It is a religious duty I love to carry out each year, to experience the sense of unity with Muslims who don’t eat or drink from dawn until sunset.
Women carry water supplies in Baghdad/Kareem RaheemBut this year the chronic shortages of electricity and water supplies that plague the Iraqi capital Baghdad — combined with Ramadan falling during a very hot summer — has forced many to abandon the fast at times.
This saddens me but I don’t blame them because I also have had to stop fasting on Friday and Saturday, my days off from work, because of frequent power outages at home.
One Friday during this Ramadan my eight-year-old son saw me drinking water during the fasting period. I confessed to him that I was not fasting.
I should have been a symbol of strength for him just like my mother was to me during my childhood.On the first day of Ramadan, my son said he wanted to fast so I encouraged him to do so.
He made it until 1 p.m., when thirst forced him to drink water.
Baghdad vendor sells sweets during Ramadan/Ali Abu Shish
My mother, who I enjoy preparing food and sweets to break the fast with, managed to fast only for the first two days of Ramadan. After that, she had to stop. A friend of mine told me she fainted on the first day and said she would not be able to complete the fasting month. Muslims in Iraq are fasting for around 14 hours, until the fourth prayer of the day at sunset. Like Muslims around the world, they can eat and drink after the sun has set until the next morning’s predawn prayer.
let’s learn more about the middle east big religious celebration
the 6 debate week ended
what about too much electricity?
youre front picture inpired me, i think that we have to use all with temper and attention!
that will solve our problems for the future!
yes , but i don’t know how to manage that, this web sait of gwp exposes a method for that problem.
much better i guess it’s a lake house
the picture is fantastic, i heard also about GWM not GWP, global water management dear bill.
and yes alake house can be a short solution maybe , or maybe not…..who knows
yes dear nina it’s gwm and the websait presents a wonderful solution for water waiste.
i like youre observation points. also i sow bill’s comment on the drogs problems i will try to find a good article to expose that, it’s abig problem, we have so many problems in this world, today.:(
but i am gled for people who are able still to help or at least to see this!
thanks for commenting\alice
does somebody planted a tree this week??it’s still fall for another week, we can still do it!
what about reading G W M program and advise for water waiste?
thank you again for commenting and showing intrest in this subjects.
best regards , till next time
alice
there is a websait of a strong brands online shops who offers 1 mil dolars to a future activity project , I snoticed this year many people voted for the nature conservecy ,I am suprised in a good way, ofcourse!
Many others should do that too!
Stop Wasting Water
I know water looks cheap to you and that’s why most people waste it, but it’s expensive for the environment and that’s why we have to preserve it and use as less as we can, at least we shouldn’t waste it with no use.
Here you have 5 ways to stop wasting water:
1. Don’t spend hours in the shower with the water running.
2. Don’t throw away bottled water, better use it to water your plants.
3. If you have an aquarium, don’t change the water too often, use a special cleaner.
4. While brushing your teeth, stop the water running.
5. When you need to clean your car, go to ecological car washes or clean it with a dried car cleaning product.
Those are five most important ways to stop wasting water, but you can think at many more and really do it, because Earth’s future depends on this too
we finished another debate of the week
thanks for commenting and building ideas for our future
alice
We have here a strong example from Iran ,we thnk foreign policy blogs to report this horible kind of abuse and drag our attention on real problems of our future.Stop killing children!
It was Shari’a law that was carried out on 13 year-old Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow in Somalia after an the al-Shabaab rebel militia group had the girl stoned to death for adultery after her father reported that she was raped by three men.
Reports indicate that she had been raped by three men while traveling on foot to visit her grandmother in the war-torn capital, Mogadishu. Following the assault, she sought protection from the authorities, who then accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death. A child was victimized twice — first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice. UNICEF
Duhulow was stoned in front of a crowed of a 1,000 who filed into the stadium to watch 50 men burry her up to her neck and brutally throw stones at her head until she was finally dead.
Inside the stadium, militia members opened fire when some of the witnesses to the killing attempted to save her life, and shot dead a boy who was a bystander. Amnesty
The child begged for mercy as she was being burried;
“Don’t kill me, don’t kill me,” she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones. BBC
Saddly this is not the first report of a child being sentenced to death under Shari’a law, nor is it the first time that the childs age was reported incorrectly to avoid international media attention, in 2004 16 year-old Atefah Sahaaleh sentenced to death for “crimes against chastity” (BBC).
“This was not justice, nor was it an execution. This child suffered a horrendous death… This killing… demonstrates the importance of international action to investigate and document such abuses, through an International Commission of Inquiry.” said David Copeman, Amnesty International’s Somalia Campaigner.
Nici eu nu sunt deacord cu agresarea copiilor, dar ce putem face , uni oameni sunt rai si nu inteleg ca nu se da intrun copil.
numai legea ii putea pedepsi, dar la noi legea nu isi face datoria mereu
It’s true that many people don’t give a fuck about thier children.
yesturday i was at hospital visiting a close relativ , in the sallon a baby was brought for the 8 operation , a masiv burn o hes body was produced by the grandparents who droped hem in the pot on fire while cooking, how stupid you can be to do that.
O my gosh, a nd they din’t even payed by the law with prison or some other paying
We should write more about the prblems of our future children , the young generation and maybe act even more..
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I heard an interview on CNN about this new trend from the rich people for the poor, they kind of saying ”we got everything,there is no left for you”
what about India and China(they already take mesures for cuts of co2 for the next year, but they are scialists)
ahhhhhhh this article is kind of strange because everybody wants to get rich , we are so fuking poor now, but compareing with congo or mozambic we’re not so poor, but see depends on what you eat, those from congo do have normal banas and ornages and pineapple, we have meat , but we don’t have natural fruits, everything is with black and white, nobody has enough, why this article comeing from the welthy people?
elena read the article with automotive from the intellectual redneck and you will see how much matters to nomeal , even if you are in a special way, start looking around , and about the healthy food, it’s a matter of choise , you can have if you really want.Don’t get upset, but I am rational you know me.
best regards again and thanks for shareing youre opinion with us
AliceB
I am still alone here tonight, everybody is crazy about the security law that has been aproved by the goverment, so scary from one point of view , we can’t protect our selfs from itruders for info blackmale.
Getting rich quick – and having much more money than you ever need – will look as pointless as taking bodybuilding too seriously, says Clive James.
This is my last broadcast until my next spell and I’m in a summing up mood. I have no New Year resolutions apart from the usual one about tidying my office in case the body of my missing cleaner is lying mummified under that pile of magazines.
But I do feel like making a New Year prediction. I want to put down a marker that proves I have a grip on world events. The best way to prove this is to make a prediction that everybody knows has already come true, but that few people are yet ready to admit.
I hereby predict that from now on, starting today, nobody will look good who gets rich quick. I can predict more than that, in fact. Even getting rich slowly is going to look silly, if getting rich is the only aim in mind.
Women bodybuilders
Strike a pose
Getting rich for its own sake will look as stupid as bodybuilding does at that point when the neck gets thicker than the head, and the thighs and biceps look like four plastic kit-bags full of tofu. And on the men it looks even worse.
Just before Christmas, as if the collapse of some of the world’s relatively honest financial institutions had not already been unsettling enough, hedge fund boss Bernard Madoff was accused of swindling the world’s smartest investors out of a grand total of $50bn.
How, it was asked, could the world’s smartest investors have fallen for this character? The answer, surely, is that they were all like him. They thought they had found a way of making money out of nothing. Unfortunately for them, the ineffable Mr Madoff appeared to have found a way of making money out of nothing. All he allegedly had to do was tell them he had invented something called “a split conversion strategy” and they handed over their money.
Madoff surrounded by media
Bernard Madoff is due in court in January
But most of them had got their money the same way, by promising vast returns on money from other people who were trying to make money out of nothing.
Many profound articles were written by the financial experts to explain how the whole mad Madoff cycle had been generated, but the question that was never asked is the one that bears most closely on my theme. What was he going to do with $50bn?
Too much
Back at the start of this series, I raised the issue of what the multibillionaires who owned yachts were hoping to achieve (see The name’s Bond in the Clive James archive, top right). At best, their ridiculous unarmed battleships, permanently parked in the teeming marina of the sort of city where the world’s well-dressed dimwits gather to gamble at the casino, were described as floating palaces.
Clive James
Bill Gates got to the point where he started to look for useful ways of giving some of his money away
Hear Radio 4’s A Point of View
What kind of numbskull wants a palace that floats, when he could just have a palace, out of whose front door he could stride with some confidence that he would not plunge face-first into the harbour? I was really asking a question about what you can do with too much money, and the answer was obvious: never enough.
How much money is too much? It’s too much when you’ve already got all you could possibly need, and there’s nothing to do with it any more except count it.
There have been some encouraging signs that this elementary realisation has at last begun to dawn. Bill Gates saw the light early. Bill Gates, who invented the software which has just given me a picture of Donatella Versace after I pressed the wrong button – wait a second, I certainly don’t want to see any more of that – Bill Gates got to the point where he started to look for useful ways of giving some of his money away.
It was good news for Africa, which needs the kind of well-researched, well-targeted and well-protected money that will go into things like roads and seeds, and not the kind of money that will go into the bank accounts of black leaders as greedily aimless as the kind of white dolts who buy yachts as big as the USS Nimitz.
If there is a tragedy anywhere in the uproarious comedy of the Madoff madness, it lies in the fact that some people who were trying to do what Gates did – assemble a fund that would help the world’s poor – handed the fund to someone who promised to make the fund bigger, who then applied the magic split-conversion double downdraft fiscal disappearance strategy.
So good money vanished that could have helped to build a road that would have carried the equipment to the right spot to build a well that would have watered a field that might have grown the grain that might feed the sort of people who are currently eating their own carpets in Zimbabwe.
Tattered Zimbabwe flag
A torn Zimbabwe flag
The first thing Zimbabwe will need, of course, after Mr Mugabe finally gets sent off into exile to live in a suite at the top of some nut-job Gulf hotel with an uninterrupted view of 10,000 square miles of desert, is honest government, which is based not only on real elections, but on double-entry bookkeeping.
Worldwide, the mundane but crucial concept of balancing the account books with earned income against genuine expenditure is more likely to become implanted now that all the split-conversion doubletalk is suddenly no longer fashionable.
The upmarket weekend papers have been full of canvassed opinions about what good might come out of the recession but the right answer is already in. The recession isn’t just a wake-up call telling us to get real. We’ve got real. The good housekeeping seal of approval has returned to power. It’s the end of an era of silly money.
More for less
The actor George Clooney spends a lot of time on good causes. He’s famous for it. You could say that all the publicity he gets for doing it helps to make him even more famous than he is already and that therefore charity is to his advantage, but it would be a mean view.
George Clooney
George Clooney at a charity gala
He couldn’t make all those interesting little movies we admire him for so much if he didn’t make all those uninteresting big movies for which we admire him a little less, so we should forgive him his huge salary.
But already, because of the new mood, it’s getting harder to forgive him for advertising coffee. If the coffee commercials make him the extra money that he gives away, that must leave the huge salary intact.
Well, yes, he might say, but he has a lot of people on his payroll. Ladies, I like him too, so I want to believe that it all checks out. But one thing doesn’t. He isn’t credible when he tries to sell me coffee. I just don’t believe that a brand of coffee tastes better because George Clooney drinks it. He looks silly.
I advertised something myself once. I made a set of commercials for an Australian telephone company. The commercials were beautifully shot but the campaign was a total failure, because the competing telephone company was selling a better product cheaper, so nobody believed what I was saying. I could still use that kind of money even now, but if I tried to get it that way I would expect to be told that I looked silly.
Nicole Kidman looks exactly as if she’s hustling for a buck she doesn’t need
Matthew McConaughey is doing commercials for a certain fragrance. I’m sure the extra money he is making is going to a good cause, but there are two questions that I ask automatically whenever I see those commercials. The first question is: Who wants to smell like Matthew McConaughey? And the second question is, doesn’t he looks silly?
Life is harder and shorter for female film stars than it is for male film stars and I’m sure there are good reasons for Charlize Theron to be the face of a certain fragrance. She might even sincerely believe in the stuff if it gives her the confidence to wear nothing else except a pair of high heels as she sways away down the corridor into the bedroom, the bare behind of a certain fragrance trailing a subtle cloud of bliss. But I can only ask: couldn’t she have just sold her Oscar? And doesn’t she look silly?
For Nicole Kidman, also, life might be tougher than we think. A beautiful woman reduced to starring in a film like Australia when she could have negotiated a year’s work painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a nailbrush and made a greater dramatic impact might well need extra income, but her commercials for another certain fragrance ask us to believe that it must smell good because she’s wearing it.
If I could be assured that the certain fragrance doesn’t make Nicole Kidman smell different, but instead smells exactly like Nicole Kidman, I would buy a bottle and drink it. But otherwise I’m convinced of nothing except that she looks exactly as if she’s hustling for a buck she doesn’t need. Even if she does, is this the way to get it? Doesn’t she look silly?
Foreign screens
In the old days, the actors did commercials offshore. Harrison Ford advertised products in Japan on the understanding that the commercials would never be screened in the United States. He was following the example of Laurence Olivier, who advertised cameras in the US on the understanding that the commercials would never be screened in the UK.
Superyachts
That’s not a yacht, it’s a superyacht
It was agreed, back in the day, that serious artists should not look like hucksters. Now it is assumed that serious artists look even more serious if they do look like hucksters. They look bigger, more corporate, more influential. Or they did until yesterday. But now it’s today, and it suddenly looks like a fast buck. It looks off. Madoff off. And it looks silly.
We’ve reached a turning point. A madness has gone out of fashion: the madness of behaving as if only too much can be enough. There will always be another madness, but not that one. From now on a man will have to be as dumb as an petrodollar potentate to think that anyone will respect him for sitting on a gold toilet in a private jumbo jet.
Excess wealth is gone like the codpiece. The free market will continue but any respect for the idea of free money is all over. If you’ve got it, flaunt it by all means, but if you haven’t earned it, forget about it. There isn’t going to be a change of consciousness, there’s already been one, which is why I can be so confident when I predict it. Until next time.
bbc.co.uk
I noticed youre comment on foreign policy blogs, you took the ideea from them, but it’s important to keep going, the gesture for it cause.
yes you should do a dialogue or debate about it.
i am surpised that not so many of my readers are intreted in peace , balance and prosperity in education and intelect, I do not mind, but I am a little surpised, not in a positive way , ofcourse.
Shell we try people, to be people?and forget alittle the law of the jungle or the conlicts situation around the world?!
what do you say..
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Talking to our children about violence and war is difficult in its own right, as no parent wants to bring their child into the harsh reality that is our globalized world. And while yes, sheltering children from violence is ideal, it is not an option that holds feasibility for long. Soon children will catch a glimpse of the destruction the fills our evening news, see the images of death on the cover of the morning newspaper; hear something at school about a child in his class that was abused, etc. The reality of life is that most children two thirds of the worlds children live in violent conflict, making violence are part of everyday life. Helping children who live in environments of peace understand violence and conflict, and that children across the globe do not all live as they do, does not only help to be more prepared should they ever be faced with such situations, it also works to help prevent instances of violence and conflict. Children undoubtedly have a clearer understanding of human nature than adults tend to realize, and they tend to see past the political polarization that so often muddles’ the peace process.
So how do you talk to children about violence and conflict, with out leaving them daunted and distressed, but leave them empowered for peace? Start with letting them know that everyone does both good and bad things sometimes, but violence based on someone’s race, religion or gender is never ok. Work with them to see that real war and violence isn’t a black and white issue, there is no good guys versus the bad guys, and regardless of how gray the areas between the two sides are, atrocities such as ethnic cleansing and genocide, are never ok. Helping children to brake down the barriers between fantasy war and real war, by highlighting the realness of the victims, who are disproportionately children, lets them know that life and conflict do not always end with a storybook ending…that people die and lives are uprooted, and once peace comes there is still much to be done to help people rebuild their lives and maintain peace.
Help your children understand the world better and take time out once a week to learn a about a new culture, show them what a child’s life is life for someone their age in Brazil, China, India, Kosovo, Spain, Zambia… Why not have your child pick a country which they feel the most connected to, and work with them to find a way to give back; collecting clothing, donating their allowance, donate books to a school, etc. You and your child will not only have fun learning together, but you will be helping your child develop into a more cultured and tolerant person, and possibly even a future leader for peace! Peace begins with social responsibility and teaching our children that it is the only way forward is the only way to ever move towards sustainable peace.
See Books for Children , Resources for Children and Young Adults , Resources Teachers and Parents , and the other resource pages as well as the links for more resources and tools to help you talk to your children.
foreignpolicyblogs.com
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