because I am never gonna have my own children; this won’t be a problem.

Im thinking of facebooking & maybe even……myspacing…

I do like macs alot & I think there ads are getting very good too.

Straight from the ‘feeling filo-fax’ is powerlessness. Finished watching an inconvenient truth last night, well done movie very well presented and does well at explaining the issues of global warming. The problem with theses movies I would is it doesn’t give alot of knowledge on what to do and how to change the world little things like changing light globes great but what next? Who do I write to? So anyway feel very frustrated because I want to see the world change…stupid world is going to the dogs.

Well today marks the 5th year that david hicks has been in prison in Guantánamo Bay. Now see I don’t care if he is guility or not, if he is guility he should be in prison. My problem is that it has been 5 years with out a trial we don’t know if he is guility or not, I think its unlawful & wrong. Why is it when ‘terorism’ started that all the laws & justice went out the window?

I heard a stat today that in Thailand there is only 9 doctors for every million people that can prescribe drugs for aids. Im feeling very fortunate right now & maybe alittle more tolerant when I have to wait 4 days to see my doctor.

Found a interesting article on news.com.au, there correspondent went “under cover” as a muslim wearing the whole nine yards, the “burka”. As per my old residence of campsie, seeing people in head scarfs & burka’s was a daily thing and I find in rather normal but interesting what elisabeth reports.

Its worth a read here

This made me laugh, there are now sites that help parents decode there young peoples language.

http://teenchatdecoder.com/ http://www.noslang.com

I think thats funny

Last night went to see Fast Food nation with Adventure Sam

The movie was alright I enjoyed it, parts of it I was thinking of becoming a vegitarian thats for sure. The movie is based on a book by Eric Schlosser (the guy in the photo above at the top, also featured in McLibel & Supersize me) titled Fast Food Nation-The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

I’ve been slowly reading the book, the movie did well at at least touching on many points he makes in the book even if there just one liners. I think they did a really good job at making a book to a film. I do recommend the book though as much as the movie

A little blurb from Mcspotlight
This myth-shattering book tells the story of America and the world’s infatuation with fast food, from its origins in 1950s southern California to the global triumph of a handful of burger and fried chicken chains. In a meticulously researched and powerfully argued account, Eric Schlosser visits the labs where scientists re-create the smell and taste of everything - from cooked meat to fresh strawberries; talks to the workers at abattoirs with some of the worst safety records in the world; explains exactly where the meat comes from and just why the fries taste so good; and looks at the way the fast food industry is transforming not only our diet but our landscape, economy, workforce and culture.

The movie is still showing in mainstream & dendy cinemas, the book is avalible where good books are sold.

There are a few things in this world that I understand, but mostly I have no idea about most things. Things like where does coffee come from like is it really from Brazil, how does my car work, how does Hornsby fountain work, no sorry how does Hornsby fountain not work?

Other things like how do mirrors, mirror? How do they make paper so thin from a tree? Anyway that’s a long introduction to I don’t understand Americans and the topic of me not understand is how they have a ‘world series’ game of baseball but only America plays? Sorry that’s stupid!

Want the new firefox before its released?

PC
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-GB/

Mac
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/mac/en-US/

So there you go!

Oh so wonderful!

First, if you know me at all you know that I have a love for the BBC, I enjoy the BBC and go to bed listening to the BBC world service on ABC National radio, my home page is the BBC news website. I think from what I know & see they are the most impartial news reporting service and do there best at leaving their agenda behind them.

Anyway was sitting on night around 2am (I wasn’t feeling heaps well that’s why I was awake..) anyway. Heard a bit on Iraq government, the Americans are unhappy that the Iraq president has not chosen a cabinet and the Americans aren’t happy. From the BBC website “The US has warned that aid to Iraq will be cut if the new government includes politicians with a strong sectarian bias.”

Its funny isn’t it, that first the American’s would like to have a free Iraq and a free government. George Bush said in the State of the Union 2006 address.

“No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it.” & “First, we are helping Iraqis build an inclusive government, so that old resentments will be eased, and the insurgency marginalized.”

Its funny, it doesn’t match up how is saying that you have to do what we want of you don’t get aid, doesn’t sound very free.

I found this on the weird news, but at the same time I don’t think that it really is a way of making things better at all, I think it is just a bandaid solution;

Homeless children in Brazil have been given doll houses to live in.

The houses, given to children in Sao Paulo by a housing association, are one and a half metres tall.

Local priest Julio Lancelotti said: “This is in fact a denunciation of the lack of housing programs for the homeless.”

The association’s president, Lusia Lopes da Silva told Agora: “People get desperate by the winter cold and my little son had this idea and we thought it was good.”

Was it worth it?

Nearly 25,000 civilians have died violently in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, a report says.

The dossier, based on media reports, says US-led forces were responsible for more than a third of the deaths.

The survey was carried out by the UK-based Iraq Body Count and Oxford Research Group - which includes academics and peace activists.

The Iraqi government criticised their conclusions, saying Iraqis were most at risk from terrorists who target them.

The Dossier on Civilian Casualties in Iraq 2003-2005 says 37% of all non-combatant deaths were caused by the US-led coalition.

The ever-mounting Iraqi death toll is the forgotten cost of the decision to go to war in Iraq
John Sloboda
Report author

Most of these occurred during the invasion phase, which it counts as ending on 1 May 2003.

But killings by anti-occupation and criminal elements also increased steadily over the entire two-year period.

Insurgents are said to have caused 9% of the deaths, while post-invasion criminal violence was responsible for another 36%.

Targets

The number of civilians who have died has almost doubled in the second year from the first, according to the report.

Almost a fifth of the 24,865 deaths were women or children and nearly half of all the civilian deaths were reported in the capital Baghdad.

“On average, 34 ordinary Iraqis have met violent deaths every day since the invasion of March 2003,” said John Sloboda, one of the authors of the report.

“The ever-mounting Iraqi death toll is the forgotten cost of the decision to go to war in Iraq,” he added.

Mr Sloboda also said: “It remains a matter of the gravest concern that, nearly two-and-a-half years on, neither the US nor the UK governments have begun to systematically measure the impact of their actions in terms of human lives destroyed.”

The Iraqi government welcomed the attention the report gave to Iraqi victims, but said it was a mistake to claim that the “plague of terrorism” had killed fewer Iraqis than the multinational forces.

“The international forces try to avoid civilian casualties, whereas the terrorists target civilians and try to kill as many of them as they can,” it said in a statement.

“The root cause of Iraq’s suffering is terrorism, inherited from Saddam’s fascist regime and from mistaken fundamentalist ideology.

“Everybody knows that international forces are necessary in Iraq, on a temporary basis and they will leave Iraq at a time chosen by Iraqis, not in response to terrorist pressure.”

‘Failure’

The IBC wants to see an independent commission set up in Iraq to give the best estimate of civilian deaths and full details of how each person died.

Human rights groups say the occupying powers in Iraq have failed in their duty to catalogue the deaths of civilians.

But the US and Britain say the chaos of war-torn Iraq has made it impossible to get accurate information.

More than 1,700 US soldiers and dozens of other coalition troops are known to have died.

The Iraqi government says 1,300 Iraqi police and military have been killed since security forces were set up in late 2003. But US think-tank the Brookings Institute puts the figure at almost twice this number.

More than half of all civilian deaths were said to have been caused by explosive devices, which disproportionately affected children.

At least 42,500 civilians were reported to have been injured.

The UK-based Iraq Body Count - run by academics and peace activists - is one of the most widely-quoted sources of information on the civilian death toll in Iraq.

The Oxford Research Group describes itself as an independent organisation “which seeks to develop effective methods whereby people can bring about positive change on issues of national and international security by non-violent means”.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/4692589.stm

I found this at the bottom of the BBC website and because it is such some important news!

Three passenger trains have collided in southern Pakistan, killing at least 132 people and injuring hundreds more.

The accident happened at dawn near the town of Ghotki in Sindh province. The trains were packed with passengers.

Police said a train travelling to Karachi crashed into a broken-down train, catapulting carriages across the track into the path of another train.

The general manager of Pakistan Railways said the crash was caused by a train conductor misreading a signal.

People are crying, fathers are looking for children, husbands for their wives and brothers for their sisters
Witness

Medical officials collating casualty figures from hospitals in the area said the death toll was expected to rise. A number of the injured are in a critical condition.

At least 13 train carriages were derailed. Shocked survivors described being thrown from their beds and seats.

“I woke up at the noise of a huge bang and then there was [a] big jerk and smoke all over the place,” injured passenger Mohammad Amin told Reuters news agency.

“There was total darkness… I hit the floor and fainted.”

Rescue workers have been cutting through twisted metal to reach the dead and injured trapped inside the wreckage. Bodies were strewn across the tracks.

The army has cordoned off the crash site, and troops are helping with the rescue effort.

Train traffic along Pakistan’s main north-south route has been badly disrupted, and a special relief train to bring survivors back to Karachi has been cancelled.

Worried families in Karachi have headed to the city’s main train station, but officials said they had no passenger lists.

Many families are renting private cars in an effort to reach the crash site and look for loved ones, many of whom where thought to be holidaymakers from Karachi.

“It is a very gruesome situation,” said police official Aga Mohammed Tahir.

One witness told AFP news agency: “It’s a painful scene. There are bodies scattered all over.

HAVE YOUR SAY
There are many in my carriage who have been badly injured or even died
Mohammed Akhtar, Karachi, Pakistan

“People are crying, fathers are looking for children, husbands for their wives and brothers for their sisters.”

The accident happened at about 0400 (2300 GMT Tuesday) on the border between the provinces of Sindh and Punjab.

The express train heading from Lahore to Karachi slammed into the rear of broken down Quetta Express at a station near Ghotki, about 600km (370 miles) north-east of Karachi.

A third train travelling in the opposite direction, heading from Karachi to Rawalpindi - the Tezgam Express - then hit a number of derailed carriages, which were scattered over several tracks.

Abdul Wahab Awan, general manager of Pakistan Railways, said the conductor of the Karachi Express had failed to read a signal correctly.

The Karachi train was travelling at 120km/h (75mph) when it struck the stationary train, a senior railway official told AFP.

The injured have been taken to hospitals in three nearby towns. A doctor at a hospital in Sukkur said about a dozen people there were in a critical condition. Some of the injured had lost limbs or suffered terrible head injuries.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he was “deeply saddened” at the crash and ordered an urgent investigation.

Pakistan is no stranger to train crashes involving multiple deaths. The BBC’s Paul Anderson says casualty figures are often so high because trains are packed with far greater numbers than they were designed for.

More than 200 people were killed in a train crash in Sindh province in 1990. The following year more than 100 people were killed in another accident, also in Ghotki.

PAKISTAN TRAIN CRASH
1. Quetta Express, travelling from Lahore to Quetta, is stationary for maintenance work
2. Karachi Express, travelling from Lahore to Karachi, crashes into Quetta Express. Carriages derail across other tracks.
3. Tezgam Express, travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi, crashes into derailed carriages

Were you a passenger on one of the trains? Did you witness the crash? What can be done to improve the rail system in Pakistan? Send us your comments and your accounts using the form below.

Your comments:

Horrific is the only word that can describe this. I survived by pulling myself from metal and glass around. Horrific experience, my thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims.
Jameel Rehman, Lahore, Pakistan

It is such a horrible sight. I myself have fortunately survived, but there many on my carriage who have been badly injured or even died. I can only pray for the families of those who have died.
Mohammed Akhtar, Karachi, Pakistan

In Pakistan, this is not a new thing. We still run our trains on age old tracks. Our signal system is very out of date.
Mukhtar Azad, Karachi, Pakistan

Today early in the morning the first news I heard was this railroad accident. My uncle was in the Karachi Express with his family. My father called me up and was crying and not even able to talk what happened. The news took the soul out of me, as last Sunday he was here visiting us after several years. Luckily he and his family survived and we were relieved after 3 hours of the worst ever suffering.
Waseem Riaz, Chakwal, Pakistan

It is pathetic to hear about this sad news with the loss of so many lives. It is the responsibility of the Pakistani government to look after their people and provide the best technology available for public transportation.
Mohammed Imam, Raleigh, USA

My prayers are with all those who have suffered in this tragedy. I hope that the Pakistani government will rethink its budget and divert from military spending to building a reliable infrastructure for ordinary Pakistanis.
Nayo, Lancashire, UK

I have travelled on this route several times. I am really shocked and horrified. I will certainly not travel on trains any more. I can well imagine that the government will conduct superficial inquiries and after four weeks this accident will be treated as a bygone matter. Pakistan has to learn a lesson with this tragic accident. Well organized and business oriented railways can generate enough money to invest in technological upgrading.
Imran Ahsan Mirza, Lahore, Pakistan

It’s about time that Pakistan Railways invested in new tracking systems, better equipment and more training facilities for current personnel.
Omer, UK

I am deeply saddened that so many people have lost their lives in such a horrific way. All we can do now pray on behalf of the deceased and their families and hope that the Pakistani government decides to invest in the best for the country. These trains are far unsafe for passengers because they are archaic, not managed efficiently, and are not designed to cater for the huge numbers of people that use the service on a daily basis.
Bilal Khan, Kingsbury, London

If it was really a human error, training camps should be set in order to train those drivers not to make such mistakes ever. The issue is sensitive and the devastation caused due to driver’s mistake is much more expensive than training them not to make those mistakes! There should not be any economical concerns for going to such trainings and for giving moral support to those drivers.
Fahad J Khokhar, Lahore, Pakistan

Very sad to know of so many casualties in today’s rail accident. The government needs to take strict action against people responsible for this carelessness to avoid future loss of valuable lives. It also needs to improve and modernize its transport system.
Aziz, Rawalpindi

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4677595.stm

Published: 2005/07/13 17:13:50 GMT

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