“There will always be sacrificial lambs in this [unequal] World.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/sharmeen_obaid_chinoy_inside_a_school_for_suicide_bombers.html
Address inequalities, cyclical settled disadvantage, strife, poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, vulnerability, or forever be lucky. Suicide bomber has to be lucky only once.
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MP scandal could spark revolution at Westminster
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Actress Joanna Lumley puts minister Phil Woolas on the spot over the Gurkhas after a highly charged chance meeting.  Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you  Sir Ralph Turner MC, 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles, 1931
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As last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten (in white dress uniform, centre
right) handed over to Jawaharlal Nehru (far right). It was Nehru’s work
that made secular democracy thrive in India
Born in Mumbai, Mihir Bose
has won numerous awards for his wide-ranging journalism over four
decades. Now the BBC’s sports editor, he reflects here on democracy in
India – and asks if the British really wanted their former colony to
survive
Looking back to my paper submitted to then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott 4 December 2004:
"research in
Ethnic Pluralism & Social Cohesion indicates that (i) Immigration
has not undermined national integrity (ii) Some immigrant groups have
progressed well, others not (iii) Labour market integration has been unwisely
downplayed (iv) Discrimination persists & thus affects social trust
(v) High risk, alienated, left behind groups are the priority (vi)
Building common glue is vital but so is the need to avoid overly prescriptive,
threatening answers. Promoting solidarity depends on underlying
(in)equality in a three-way triangular relationship thus solidarity <> equality <> diversity.
Thus building greater & more explicit cohesion across ethnic lines depends
on (i) understanding recent history (ii) learning the lessons of how economic
integration has worked abroad and (iii) systematically tackling settled
disadvantage."
The Deputy PM’s Community Plan has completely missed Community
Cohesion as a critical issue within it. I am arguing that where there is no
injustice, unfairness &/or inequality – there can be no strife,
dissatisfaction, disappointment, disaffection, complaint or grievance.
In order for Britain to effectively manage and address the
internal risks of communal violence and (putting it bluntly) threats of
terrorism from left behind groups, it has to pay heed to my assertions
in the third paragraph (last page) that Discrimination persists & thus affects social trust.
Rest is history.
Anant
The same shamefully inflicted disadvantage is also apparent in both Canadian and American indigenous Indians. So what’s new?
Latest: Helping Aborigines [gain social mobility] ‘to take time’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7912065.stm
Let this be the first hour of the first light of the new morning. Not a Rudd awakening but an over due obligation yet to be discharged.
Anant
He must address the balance between security and liberty, greed and responsibility which his predecessor got it very wrong. History has started. It will be made when he gets it right.
American dream will only become a reality and sustainable when the thinking, rhetoric, and actions become congruent with and exemplary of the CHANGE
It is the beginning of the day USA claimed their Country back. President Obama has 80% of the US mandate whilst exiting George Bush has merely 22% even lower than ****ing Nixon had in his lowest ebb 25%.
I hope that in all this euphoria the indigenous Indians are not excluded*
Dr [Mrs] Suzman, a member of parliament first for the opposition United
Party and later the Progressive Party, was an outspoken critic of
and the only white MP to have the conviction, courage, character and chutzpah to stand, in the minority of one, against apartheid.She was an exemplar who held her South African colleagues practising racial discrimination to account. A very rare breed of Atmas [souls] who exemplified human rights, social and racial justice and equality.
She was the only candidate, since the first South African parliament
was established in 1910, to be elected by a white constituency on a
platform that clearly rejected racial discrimination.
I am personally saddened by her loss from this ever strife stricken world. This World will be so much poorer and less just without the likes of her.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1694056.stm
Anant
In pictures
Anant M Vyas 