03 January 2006

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news with a vision 2006

and never forget Friday
2 December 2005

Nguyen Tuong Van,
hung in Singapore
on Friday 2 December 2005
for drug smuggling .
pretending to be a model city,
they murder young life..
willingly and knowingly

singapore: death spot in Asia

sin or ?

religious favour in Iraq-
"Go to hell, enemy of God, kill him, kill him, cut it well, cut off his head,"

persons of the year:

Bill,Bono & Melinda:they turned a corner in the drive
to make poverty and disease history

Gates foundation=32 billion dollars

people who mattered 2005

George Bush & Dick Cheney
Condoleeza Rice
Ariel Sharon
Tony Blair
Angela Merkel
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (the why not wipe out Israel Iranian president)
Steve Jobs(sold 18 million Ipods)
the google guys(Larry Page &Sergey Brin)
Michelle Wie(16 year old golf Wunderkind)

those who changed world

pope John II
Rosa Parks(the black woman in a front seat)
Ibrahim Ferrer(the Cuban Buena Vista singer)
Zhao Ziyang(Tienanmen square)
Simon Wiesenthal(holocaust survivor)
prince Rainier III of Monaco
Arthur Miller(death of a salesman)
general William Westoreland(Vietnam)
king Fahd(from bedouin kingdom to country of schools and hospitals);

those who still hang people ...

singaPOOR


headlines:

-yes, 2006 , we are any more there:the good news was wrong: twelve U.S. miners who have been trapped underground for more than three days are alive, the body of the 13th missing miner had been found dead but....the cruelty of fate…only one person found alive in the mine of West-Virginia, although the families where told that 12 had survived.

-landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed or left missing more than 250 people on Indonesia's Java island, buried beneath tons of mud and rocks early Wednesday

- peer-pressure in action… African leaders break silence over President Mugabe of Zimbabwe. His human rights record has been condemned for the first time by African leaders.

-China on Wednesday confirmed a new outbreak of bird flu in its southwest province of Sichuan

-stubborn Iran will restart its nuclear research program to put idle atomic researchers back to work

- finally some justice?...the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Bush administration to cut back its direct foreign aid to Israel until the latter complies with calls to stop settlement expansion and work on the separation wall.

- Dubai's ruler dies…The prime minister and vice president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has died.

- one man’s meat is another man’s poison…a sold-out Hurricane Katrina bus tour, promising passengers a look at some of the city's most misery-stricken spots, was to make its inaugural run on Wednesday morning. Of the $ 35 ticket, $3 will go to Katrina related charity.

-innocent or not innocent..but in any case brutal and stupid Virginia USA:) with less than two weeks left in Gov. Mark R. Warner's term, time is running out for him to arrange DNA testing that could determine whether Virginia sent an innocent man to the electric chair in 1992.

-hot news:Australia had its hottest year on record in 2005, data showed on Wednesday, with meteorologists saying the rising temperatures were due to global warming.

- the truth unveiled?...German documentary - on air ARD Friday Jan, 6th - claims new evidence that Castro had Kennedy killed

-natural gas prices dropped Tuesday ;the Russian monopoly has promised to maintain deliveries and there is now an agreement on the price of the Gaszprom gas

- long and dense snowfalls have brought havoc to southern Germany and Austria, triggering avalanches, felling trees, blocking roads and rail and cutting electricity to thousands of homes.

- ...and the bombing continues in 2006: 2 assassination attempts against officials in Baghdad failed but a suicide car bomber killed seven people in an attack on a bus carrying police recruits.

-and in Germany ...workers in a southern German town pressed their search in the snow Tuesday for survivors (at least 10 died) after a roof partially collapsed at a Bavarian skating rink.

- India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Rajnath Singh as its new president, marking a shift to a younger leadership

- will the Palestinian parliamentary elections go on as planned on Jan. 25? they might be postponed if Israel does not allows Palestinians from East Jerusalem to take part.

-not from an Arabian bullet...: prime Minister Ariel Sharon had an operation to repair a small hole in his heart

-dead , by accident: a Tanzanian national who fell ill aboard an Air Malawi flight and was subsequently pronounced dead had swallowed 177 tubes of cocaine, ;" three of which burst," ;three other surviving drug couriers had released between 20 and 30 tubes of cocaine, which they had inserted in their anus.

-Austria has taken over the revolving EU presidency for six months on January 1..

- Japan's population to drop this year for the first time since records began more than a century ago

- another campaign.. peacefull: Mexico's Zapatista rebels are emerging once again from their jungle hiding place ;the Zapatistas are going on a six-month tour of Mexico's 31 states as an "alternative project" to the presidential elections..weapons will be left behind.

- 131 Ethiopian opposition leaders, aid workers and journalists - facing treason, conspiracy and genocide charges have been denied bail. The charges relate to protests over the ruling party's strongly disputed May 2005 poll win. Trial postponed to February.

- democracy in Congo: main opposition party of Etienne Tshisekedi said that his Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) will take part in the polls due by July 2006.

leisure and pleasure

10 good films in 2005:
Cinderalla man
Crach
Good night and good luck
Capote
Brokeback mountain
King Kong
Transamerica
Matchpoint
Munich
Walk the line

- the end of luxury treats? international trade in caviar and other products made from the wild, endangered sturgeon fish has been banned for scientific reasons and to bring an end to illegal poaching in the Caspian Sea.

- hip hip hurrah for the World Wide Web(www): today we celebrate the 15th anniversary of the very first web page.in 1990 ,launched byTim Berners-Lee ;the web a powerful liberating source that brought people closer together and shaped new businesses;the most popular website remains GOOGLE.

- successful twin robots still on Mars: after 2 years, the NASA's twin robots that were expected to last three months are still motoring around Mars and have succeeded in their mission's main assignment: finding geologic evidence that water once flowed on Mars.

- collecting Christmas trees to fight bird flu: because only one country supplies the main ingredient of tamiflu, doctors use pine needles from recycled Christmas trees to make more of the medicin ;they need half a million trees to make medication for 5 million people.


stock markets:

- Asia: Nikkei extends five-year highs on Wednesday, with exporters gaining on signs the U.S. Fed was nearly done raising interest rates, while stocks in Seoul and Sydney ratcheted to new highs-

-Europe: European shares ended stronger but off the day's highs as U.S. stocks fell after a key gauge of factory activity showed slower-than-expected growth

-America : Stocks sizzled, staring off the new year on the right foot, after the minutes from the last Federal Reserve policy meeting seemed to support Wall Street's hope that the 18-month rate-hiking campaign is nearing an end

2005 Losers and winners

Dow winners
Boeing +37.4 %
Hewlett-Packard +37.1 %
Altria group 22.9 +22.9 %

Dow losers

-51.5 % General Motors
-25.5% Verizon
-16.6% IBM

Nasdac winners and losers
Sandish + 155.4 %
Celgene + 136 %
Apple comp. + 125.6 %
Express scripts +122 %
Google + 199.8 %

- 40.4 % Mercury interactive
- 32.7 % Verisign
- 32.9 % Symantec
- 32.2 % Biogen
- 28.4 % Dell


commodities

- oil : crude jumps back near $63 a barrel as Russia-Ukraine dispute stokes fears of supply disruption

- gas supply: Russia and Ukraine settled the price dispute after Gazprom cut Ukrainian supplies from the pipelines. The price of 1,000 cubic metres of gas will change from $50 to the European market price value of $230, but Ukraine will be allow to mix it with cheaper gas from Central Asia.

currencies

- the Chinese yuan hit a record high of 8.0676 to the dollar, as China brings in a market-making trading system for the yuan, letting it float more freely against foreign currencies. Beijing still only allows the currency to rise or fall by 0.3% a day against the dollar.

1 Euro = 1,18 US dollar = 139,22 Yen = 9,15 Yuan

1 USdoll = 0,85 Euro = 118,03Yen = 7,75 Yuan

about the weather

Europe:in central Europe (3°C cloudy in Brussels; 1°C cloudy in Berlin), in the South (11°C cloudy in Madrid)

N-America: cloudy on the Westcoast (16°C in San Francisco), rainy on the Eastcoast (4°C in New York),

East Asia: snow in the North (0°C in Beijing), sunny in the Southeast (22°C in Hong Kong)

quotes of the year

Condoleeza:"nobody is perfect even not the US"

Ahmadinejad pres.of Iran: "Israel must be wiped off the map" or moved to Alaska



cartoon in words

hurrah
no caviar
yes for the fish

pc
perfect couple
p..cb
condoleeza & bush

keep the road jack
keep the road side
not in iraq..

o tempora... o mores...
China rules the waves ?

one for the road

"to love" is
OK
"being in love" is
better

end of the one page (daily)



look into the future

- nuclear power , the solution for the energy crisis

-the Yuan has to and will be reevaluated thanks to
China's competitive edge against the rest of the world

-Japan's next 15 years sunnier than the last 15

-a positive bet : birdflu no epidemic human flu
although allready a mass psychosis

-once the president of the USA
will be a woman
will be black
we bet on Condoleeza Rice

-UN and all people of the world will be
more and more in real control of their 'own' world
there is :America and
since a few decenia
giant Asia , awakes;
between the two world powers
we find small but decisive
miss Europe


the cruiseship and
the 'old folks'home

getting old is a depressing prospect;
if things go well, you may find yourself
playing shuffleboard on a cruise ship
if things go badly, your kids put you off to
the old folks'home

tomorrow (5 Jan) in history

birthday: Yves Tanguy (1900) French painter, Friederch Durrenmatt (1921) Swiss writer, Alvin Ailey (1931) American chroegrapher

1463 - poet Francois Villon is banned from Paris
1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment
1896 - mention by an Austrian newspaper of Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery that will later be named X-Rays
1909 - Columbia recognises the independance of Panama
1845 - the Soviet Union recognises the new pro-soviet government of Poland
1968 - beginning of the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia: Alexander Dubcek comes to power
1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Campuchea

today (Jan 4) in history

birthday: Isaac Newton (1643) English scientist and philosopher, Louis Braille (1809) French teacher of the blind, Gao Xingjian (1940) Chinese-French Nobel Prize laureate in literature

1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey

1717 - France, the Netherlands and ENgland sign the Triple Alliance against Spain which was becoming a superpower

1948 - Burma becomes independant from the UK

1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik I fell to the earth from its orbit. The craft had been lauched on Oct. 4th, 1957.

1960 - French author Albert Camus died in an automobile accident at the age of 46.

1965 - Poet T.S. Eliot diex at age 76.

1991 - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to codemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

yesterday (Jan 3) in history

birthday: Cicero (106 BC) Roman statesman and philosopher, Anna Pavlova (1885), J.R.R. Tolkien (1892) British writer and philologist

1496 - References in Leonardo da Vinci notebooks suggested that he tested his flying machine. Th test didn't succeed and he didn't try to fly again for several years.

1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.

1777 - The Battle of Princeton took place in the War of Independence, in which George Washington defeated the Britisch forces, led by Cornwallis.

1815 - Austria, Britain and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia

1833 - Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. About 150 years later, Argentina seized the islands from the British,but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.

1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia

1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.

1925 - Mussolini takes dictatorial powers over Italy

1947 - In Trenton, NJ, Al Herrin, passed away at age 92. He had claimed that he had not slept at all during his life.

1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th state of the USA.

1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro.

1988 - Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century.

1998 - China announced that it would spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.

2004 - NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars. The craft was able to send back black and white images three hours after landing.

the day before yesterday (Jan 2) in history

1492 - Granada surrenders in the Reconquista, as last Moorish state in Spain (Murcia)

1860 - the discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced

1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives.

1905 - the Russian fleet surrender at Port Arthur during the Russian-Japanese war

1942 - The hilippine capital of Manila was captured by Japansese forces during World War II.

1968 - Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first successful heart transplantation.

three days ago (Jan 1) in history

Birthdays: Bartolomé Murillo (1617), George Washington Carver (1860), J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) (1895)

45 BC - the Julian calender is used for the first time

404 - The last gladiator competition was held in Rome.

1582 - the Gregorian calender is promulgated

1622 - the Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th).

1785- London's oldest daily paper 'The Daily Universal Register' (later renamed 'The Times' in 1788) was first published.

1801 - The Act of Union of England and ireland came into force.

1808 - import of slaves into the United States of America is forbidden

1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.

1887 - Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.

1912 - the Republic of China is established

1939 - The Hewlett-Packard partnership was formed.

1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churgill issued a declaration called the "United Nations". It was signed by 26 countries that vowed to create an internatoinal postwar World War II peacekeeping organization.

1958 - The European Economic Community (EEC) started operations.

1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.

1971 - Tobacco ads representing $20 million dollars in advertising were banned from TV and radio broadcast.

1973 - Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway joined the EEC.

1979 - The United States and China held celebrations in Washington, DC, and Beiijing to mark the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

1981 - Greece joined the European Community.

1984 - the Sultanate of Brunei becomes independant from the UK

1986 - Spain and Portugal joined the European Community (EC).

1993 - Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered in 1992.

1994 - Bill Gates, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft married Marilyn French.

1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existance. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.

1999 - the Euro currency is introduced


current topics

the saddam trial

Saddam Hussein : "I will not be in a court without justice. Go to hell, all you agents of America,"


reflections:


- the common cold and birdflu: more than 60 people in Southeast Asia have died of bird flu or a fraction of the people dying daily of the comon cold...

-Darwin or God: a not so easy choice?


EARLIER DAYS most important news items

-South Korean Hwang Woo-suk, a trained veterinarian, gained worldwide attention apologizing now after announcing last year that his team had cloned the world's first human embryos and extracted stem cells from them ;in Korea he is a national hero..

-Angela Merkel was sworn as Germany's eighth post-World War II leader and its first female chancellor,heading an alliance of the right and with the key task of reviving Europe's biggest economy.

-flying competion :Boeing extends lead over Airbus with $13.7 billion in orders.... but Airbus and Jintao agreed to build a plant in China;that alliance could be 'fatal' for Boeing

-China incorporated:after years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits.:cartoon renditions of a panda, fish, Tibetan antelope, swallow and the Olympic flame, each one the color of one of the Olympic rings.

-China announces it will walk on the moon in 2018, two years before the Americans ...the Russians out the race ???

- rights protesters and Tibetan activists jeered Chinese President Hu Jintao .....China is still occupying Tibet....

- "wipe out Israel":" of (the) Iranian nation,"Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his doubts about the Holocaust

- European Union membership talks with Turkey .......sombody has to remember the genocide of Armenians, Kurds and Assyrians

- in Northern Ireland, the IRA has put all of its weapons beyond use, ending more than 30 years of violence.

-do not forget half a million: Protais Zigiranyirazo, the brother-in-law of late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana went on trial on charges of extermination and murder related to the 1994 genocide of more than half a million people in Rwanda.

-Venice 'will get protection dam' : an underwater dam to protect Venice from flooding will go ahead; a 4.5bn euro project

- a bargain... South Korea estimates it will cost as much as 15.5 trillion won (US$15 billion; euro12.27 billion) aid to North Korea in exchange for the country dismantling its nuclear programs--

- go east young man... :Microsoft wil outsource more than 1,000 jobs a year to China ....the trend

- US space agency Nasa has announced plans to return to the Moon by 2020 :four astronauts would be sent in a new space vehicle, in a project that would cost $104bn (82 bn euro)

leisure and pleasure:

Vancouver is the world's most desirable place to live while Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby is at the other end of the scale.

best 10: Vancouver, Melbourne, Vienna, Geneva, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney, Zurich, Toronto, Calgary
(4 Australian 3 European 2 Canadian and Calgary?)

Worst 10: Port Moresby, Algiers, Dhaka, Karachi, Lagos, Phnom Penh, Abidjan, Harare, Douala, Tehran

- rich America becomes richer:the top five: Bill Gates - $51bn - Warren Buffett - $40bn - Paul Allen - $22.5bn - Michael Dell - $18bn - Larry Ellison - $17bn


secret garden

love is always
from infinity
till eternity


Book of life



-be and stay healthy by prevention
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and kill cancer
before it kills you
and stop a heart attack
before it stops

onepageTAO

what' it is
it 's not the name
nor the battle of names
darkness within darkness
the gate to all understanding

seeing beauty
makes the ugly

defending the good
creates the bad

being and non-being create each other.
difficult and easy support each other.

your health

-kill cancer before it kills you

-stop a heart attack before it stops

-fries may come with warning on side or
the battle to stop genocide by junk food???

most diseases can be prevented

and did you ever consider:
-90% of degenerative diseases and deaths are clearly linked to one’s diet and lifestyle-more than 50% of a ‘modern’ country’s healthcare budget is spent in curing diseases that could have been prevented
-the three main killers are heart-attack, stroke, cancer-premature ageing and degenerative diseases always bring suffering, especially when one becomes dependent on others, and in many cases, has to enter a hospital or ‘home’
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-save billions of dollars in healthcare expenses and budgets
-stop unnecessary human suffering
-achieve happiness for you, your loved ones, and for all the world’s people

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smart living and practicing a healthy lifestyle

about EXERCISES physical:
- aerobics: daily, 15’ intensive aerobic exercise or 30’ cycling, fast-quick walking, or similar activities (sports you like)
- power-training: 2 times 45’ a week
- hobby’s: as much as you can and enjoy spiritual:
- meditation: 15’ morning and evening
- breathing deeply: several times a day
- gracious slow movements: for example tai chi
- music: listening - singing
- believe in your still hidden potential (self-actualisation)
about FOOD-
mainly: fruit, vegetables, fat fish, olive oil, hard wholemeal bread,
- plenty of water in between meals
- avoid: too much alcohol, caffeine, sugar, animal fat, meat, artificial chemical compounds (especially ‘mind’ drugs, sleeping pills, tranquilizers), smoking (strictly)
- fasting: moderately and regularly
about SOCIETY
- be society oriented : attention for others and the future
- change attention from yourself to outside
- closeness with your partner, collaborate, work and play for yours’ and others’ dreams
- join teams, associations, clubs
- travel whenever you can and like to

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and your potential:

famous Maslow taught us:the normal person utilizes only 20% of his potential
why not be a genius?
let it be

rule one:
to be competent you have to feel so

rule two:
working hard is ok if you like it
working smart is better

rule three
creativity is the consequence of being interested and involved

rule four:
success breeds success;a big victory is prepared by small ones:step by step

rule five
you are what you are but 'plus est en vous'


practice a healthy lifestyle

-most diseases, including cancer and heart diseases, can be prevented: stop them before they stop you -stop cancer before it kills you -stop heartdiseases and degeneration before it starts -be and stay healthy by prevention. click http://www.belteecommunity.com/

-once upon a time:
there were problems:
-first: the 'problems' which are no problems
-second: the problems you can resolve; so they are not problems any more
-third: the ones you cannot resolve: these are an act of God
-today:
there are no problems anymore

10 Golden Rules. in children's education:

1. do not start education of children before they are an adult
2. although it starts prior to conception
3. the 1+3 most important years are:. 1 year before birth, and. 3 years after ; these years are the most essential time period for the rest of their lives
4. be aware of the 'truck': protect children from the real (small and) big dangers that exist and may occur
5. let children become free and independent from adults, including yourself
6. good education for children starts with giving good food and a beautiful home:soft music, gentle colours, good air and of course love
7. there is always a good reason why a healthy child cries. never let him/her cry
8. between the two-way communication of the child and the adult, the direction child>adult has priority
9. only when the child has lived out of his own 'centre', can (s)he confront others
10. let it be: let children grow, experience trust, and develop their self-esteem. let them discover their own potential, and support their self-confidence
parents and the miracle of the empty hands? as most parents got good education,it s no easy task to refrain from itputting free the potential of their beloved little children

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