Posted by Timothy Lynch
23-07-2007
IRAQ - A Possible Answer?
This Is A Framework To Work With and Improve.
How can American forces, who illegally invaded Iraq, be extricated, without the country descending into a vicious lose/lose civil war that spills over into neighboring states causing regional conflagration?
Possibly the best way is to have the UN ask all countries within the Islamic realm to field lightly armed blue helmeted personel for an alliance of Islamic countries to go into Iraq as peace keepers.
(This paid for by the USA and Britain and proportionately by all other countries who supported this non UN sanctioned incursion.)
With around 51 countries being Islamic with 1.5 billion adherents, a fifth of our planet, this is the time to give them all an opportunity to take care of their own affairs.
The goal is that true Moslem's do not kill Moslem's.
The challenge is to have Shite and Sunny Moslem's working in the spirit of cooperation to bring peace to this area of the world. The aim is to school the Sunny and Shites to co-operate for the good of the community. A big challenge, however one worthy of the higher values of love and chivalry, especially as we all share the same breath.
Shite and Sunny team and language translators / communicators would be with every brigade, battalion, company and platoon. Being a living example of peaceful co existence. No extremist troops would be engaged. Possibly a neutral country can oversee the selection panel and training.
Conflict resolution is a learned system, to be able to reconcile opposing points of view is possible, especially with the correct training, monitoring and ongoing support.
Having Islamic/Arab/Academic think tanks using the latest techniques of peaceful reconciliation can broaden the scope of cooperation. Bringing polarized points together in the spirit of goodwill is achievable.
This will put the Islamic world in the global media spotlight, where they can show the world that Islam is a peaceful religion, dedicated to the brotherhood of man, and (sister hood too).
Yes, there are huge hurdles to surmount however, there are many Moslem's with academic training who should be able to show their communication abilities and bring these threads all together.
With financial support, and a strong will, steps towards resolution can be achieved.
Why is this not been seeded and debated on global TV, Radio and Newsprint media?
Why is the media, not focused on solutions?
Why are the politicians not willing to broach this subject?
Why have the big bloated think tanks in the Western world, not been putting this concept forward? Because they want the oil reserves, even though the burning of oil will cause more Co2 causing climate degradation.
Tim Lynch
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Posted by Timothy Lynch
16-12-2006
How can we help our Australian Mates?
Australia is the climate change canary for global heating!
I have had the privilege to have lived in Australia twice and what an enjoyable time I had. A superb place to live, and have good times.
Having visited at least 500 times, when I used to fly as crew for Air NZ, I have a very warm relationship with our Aussie cousins. They are essentially a very good, friendly, fun loving people.
Australia is known as the driest continent on earth, precluding Antarctica which is drier. I have fought bush fires there and they are terror inducing. The first thing you notice after exiting your cool air conditioned room or car is the sudden impact of hot air blasting you, then enveloping you. Whoommp! 40 degrees and higher and dry as! Your first breath of heated air shocks you. Just like opening up an oven in your kitchen, but instead this is surrounding you!
Instantly you start sweating and you feel beads of sweat running down your face, inside your shirt/ blouse down through your underwear even down your legs.
However, with the added stimulus of urgency and adrenaline, being surrounding flames, smoke all around, you don’t notice this. If you have goggles at least your eyes are protected, a wet scarf over your mouth and nose helps sightly but your breathing is laboured as hot air scorches your throat, but you are too occupied with the horror that surrounds you, the roar of flames, the crackle of trees and branches going up in flames, the explosion and whoosh and crackle of eucalyptus leaves igniting. And you are running, as the fire spreads towards you, moving so fast at times we have to sprint to our cars and utes and out-pace it as the scorch of tires on gravel road and tarmac - to get in front ,as kangaroos bound along trying to outrun the flames of a fire storm that can be up to 100 feet high! With helicopters whirling above us dropping water it’s a cacophony of noise and tumult ...
Horror and terror that’s what an Australia bush fire is. Becoming a scorched earth covering 1000’s of hectares! A true nightmare. Where unheard of bravery goes unreported a hundred times a day as our Australian kin go in to beat out the flames, or if you are fortunate squirt them out with water.
With global warming, climate change and weather patterns altering, I have a huge concern that Australia is going to dry from the inside out.
This is a horrendous story in the making, unless we find a way to alleviate this.
Regrettabl, there is another story that many will say has accelerated the drying out of the land within the farming community across Australia and that is this.
If you go up onto
http://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/land clearing/Queensland/qldveg0007/ or do a search on Google, it used to be on the Queensland Greens web site, you will find that in Queensland alone 4,000 square kilometres of land have been cleared annually for the last 30 years plus. Admittedly a lot of these trees were arcacia, but trees protect the earth, stimulate bird and insect life and have a tendency to drawing precipitation. (rainfall.)
4000 sq kilometres a year and that is only in one Australian state! What's going on here?
And when the farmers suffer from a drought, they then ask the city population to bail them out with loans?
Unfortunately, the Howard National Government, have been basically blind to climate change, and never signed the Kyoto protocol, showing its ignorance of climate degredation.
This is a reflection of the collective consciouness of Australians in general.
Very sad for all biota in Australia.
The land clearing practices, of many hard working and tenacious Australian farmers sadly defies logic. Especially in the era of climate change or in Dr James Lovelock’s new vernacular “Global heating”
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