Why I can’t celebrate Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize.

A sobering post that throws a different perspective on the situation. One cannot deny the hypocrisy. It’s pretty bad when even a member of the Defense Dept. has reservations about it. We need to reexamine this and the video-game atmosphere of drone strikes.

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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this Friday to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people’s rights, including the right to education. That is great news, and it might almost mean Nobel Peace Prize makes sense again, after being awarded to Barack Obama in 2009 “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”, and to European Union in 2012 “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.

Still, there is something that really troubles me. How come we (meaning the West) always recognize the “devils” of the East, the torments children like Malala had to and have to go through (in her case, with the Taliban), but always fail to recognize our own participation in creating those “devils”? How come we never…

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Mother of captive aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig reaches out to ISIS

If I had known of the prayer service, I would have asked for the day off and gone–Paula’s humble request moved me to tears. God Bless her and Ed and AbdulRahman (Peter).
Beheading him, and anyone, is not in keeping with Islam. Do unto others as you would have done to you. You can force a person to convert, but you cannot force a heart to change. People are led to certain paths by their life experiences, which I believe are part of God’s plan. Therefore, you are playing God by choosing a person’s spiritual path. It is wrong on so many levels. It is not your choice to make.

Blockade could shut mine: Imperial Metals

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Tahtlan, members of Secwepemc delegation and comrades from Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe Camp blockade Red Chris Mine site, Sept 29, 2014. Tahtlan, members of Secwepemc delegation and comrades from Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe Camp blockade Red Chris Mine site, Sept 29, 2014.

Imperial Metals is applying in court to have Mounties come and remove First Nations blockaders who have closed off access roads to its Red Chris gold and copper project in northwest B.C.

In an Oct. 3 filing, Imperial subsidiary Red Chris Development Company Ltd. said the blockaders — from the Klabona Keepers and the Secwepemc — “will not allow anyone or any supplies through” to reach the project site.

“An enforcement order is required as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have taken the position that they will not enforce a court order for an injunction without an enforcement order,” Imperial said.

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