Speaking about children, aid staff and peacekeepers in war torn countries were sexual abusing children as young as 6 years old. According to an organization called, Save The Children Fund, they had released a scaving reprimand on those aid workers and peacekeepers who are suppose to be there to help children, not abuse them. Half a year before, a 12-year-old girl, Elizabeth was raped by 10 United Nations peacekeepers. A gathering of the world's humanitarian agencies hammered out promises to end sexual abuse of children by aid staff and peacekeepers. Much more would be done, promised delegates at a Dec.2006 conference in New York. Investigations would be faster, punishments would be harsher and codes of conduct would be strengthened. After the world's humanitarian agencies had hammered out these promises to end sexual abuse of children by aid staff and peacekeepers, more than 200 children reported cases of being coerced into sex, often in return for the very food or protection aid staff and peacekeepers were there to provide. How many of these kind of cases were not reported, we can only guess. The Save the Children report stated that all organisations had their share of abusers which involved in some of the most despicable abuse against some of the world’s most vulnerable children. The scale of abuse was “significant” and victims were being let down by “endemic failures” in responding to the incidences that were reported. Save the Children research found that children as young as 6 were trading sex for food, money, soap and even mobile phones in warzones and disaster areas. The findings by Save The Children Organization demanded action after its report findings and suggest that the commitments mabe by the world's humanitarian agencies are still largely, just words on paper. Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need. The inspiration and vision for Save the Children came in part from the international children's rights movement which begun in England in 1919. The Save The Children Organization urged that an international watchdog must be set up to deal with child sex abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers. Yeap! The UN crowd sure knows how to take care of their own.

At the beginning of the 20th century, two sisters had a vision to achieve and protect the rights of children. Their vision has survived into the 21st century. Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy (Buxton), had decided that direct action was needed as well as campaigning in order to save the children in war torn countries. The Save the Children Fund was set up at a public meeting in London's Royal Albert Hall in May 1919. Eglantyne ended up being in charge of the Save the Children Fund. She was born in 1876 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England and grew up on her family's estate. The Jebbs, apart from being a well-off family, also had a strong social conscience and commitment to public service. Eglantyne Jebb's mother, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, had founded the Home Arts and Industries Association, to promote Arts and Crafts among young people in rural areas, her sister Louisa would help found the Women's Land Army in World War I.

I read on the CTV News web site that former White House Press secretary Scott McClellan has accused the Christian President, George W. Bush of relying on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign'' instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, according to published reports Wednesday. The Bush White House made "a decision to turn away from candour and honesty when those qualities were most needed'' -- a time when the United States was on the brink of war, McClellan writes in his forthcoming book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception.''

US President, George W. Bush attends services at United Methodist Church in Texas and when at the White House, he goes to St. John's Episcopal Church. The former US President, Bill Clinton goes to the Foundry Methodist Church. The Clintons played an active role in the life of the church. Bill Clinton is known for lying to the public. Jimmy Carter attends and teaches Sunday School at a Baptist church. He loves the Palestinians and justifies their terrorists ways. Present Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Christian who belongs to the Foundry Methodist Church. She is known to tell fibs to the public, then has to retract her lies. Present Democratic candidate Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. attends the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. We all know what they stand for. Present Republican candidate John McCain attends the North Phoenix Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation. John McCain flip-flops on most issues. He goes where the wind blows. Yes, Christians are real good at deception. They have two thousand years of practice in deceiving people.

A person was shot near the Blessed Mother Teresa secondary school in Scarborough, Ont. Located north of Highway 401, near Neilson Road and Finch Avenue East. A predominately black neibourhood. The shooting happened shortly after 10 a.m. near a Catholic school. Students were in their classes at the time. Police have confirmed one person was shot this morning. The man, who police have not identified, was shot several times in the chest. Const. Vella said a witness heard six shots, although it is not clear whether the victim was shot six times. victim was still "conscious and breathing". He was rushed to Centenary Hospital but was pronounced dead at the hospital. The victim is believed to be about 20 years old. Toronto police Insp. Dave Brown said victim was not a student at the school. "The shooting has nothing to do with the students or the school itself," he told reporters at the scene. At 10:37 a.m. police had responded to a shooting where they found the male victim. Police are now looking for two male blacks in their late teens, early 20s, last seen fleeing the area. The suspects are also reported to be wearing dark clothing. The shooting happened near the corner of Sewells Road and McLevin Avenue. The person with the gun, is described as black, 19 years of age, wearing dark clothing. Police do not have a full description on the second person. Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic School is located at 40 Sewells Road, in the Neilson and Sheppard area, Deanne Foidart Sedef, a spokeswoman for the Toronto Catholic District School Board, said the school is in lockdown along with three other schools in the area. She said that is normal procedure while the police hunt for the suspects.

When I had left Toronto some twenty odd years ago, you would only see an occasional black person. When I had returned to Toronto, it seem like half of the population from the Caribbean Islands had migrated to Canada. Most of them must have come to Toronto. I could not believe how many black people were within the greater Toronto area and its suburb’s. I also noticed a huge increase of Asians, Indians (India), Pakistani, and those from Moslem countries within the GTA.

A large prayer rally had taken place at Jerusalem's Western Wall Plaza this evening for the recovery of former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who had suffered a relapse early this morning. Rabbi Eliyahu had been in intensive care and is in critical condition at the Sha'arei Tzedek hospital. Doctors said that Rabbi Eliyahu is conscious and is improving slowly, though he has difficulty speaking and his condition remains serious. Only GOD will determind the fate of Rabbi Eliyahu. Until then, all we can do is wait. Rabbi Eliyahu has a good medical team who will look after him. Rabbi Eliyahu is considered one of the leading rabbinic figures of the religious-Zionist in Israel. Rabbi Eliyahu means a great deal to a lot of people in Israel and the Jewish world. May we hear only good news!

May 29th, 2008; This morning at 5 AM when I took Buddy out to do his latrine it was quite warm. The tempature was around 11°C with clear skies. I think this is the end of the cold weather we had been having latley. From here on end, it should be frost free weather for those people who are tending their gardens. I have to go into New Liskeard this afternoon so it will give me a chance to go to the Tamiskaming Mall and pick up a few things I can not get here in Haileybury. A person had dropped in last night and ask me if I would look at their computer because it was having some problems, so I will have a look at it this morning. People are starting to have their sidewalk or yard sale which will allow me to look around and pick up some things that I might want. What is one person's junk, might be another person's treasure as the saying goes. I had picked up some neat things in the past, through these yard sales.

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation's leader Bob Lovelace had spent 3 1/2 months in jail for protecting his community's traditional aboriginal territory from a privet mineral exploration company who was trespassing without aboriginal approval. What gives the courts the right to allow a privet non-aboriginal mining company to trespass on aboriginal land? The eastern Ontario aboriginal leader was jailed in February for breaching an injunction that allowed Frontenac Ventures to conduct uranium exploration activities on his community's traditional territory unhindered. While the ruling does nothing to resolve the dispute, Lovelace said he hoped this "exercise" would prompt the Ontario government to engage in "meaningful" discussion and consultation on the matter which ultimately comes down to an archaic Mining Act that allows companies to stake land anywhere they like. But Lovelace cautioned he must "continue to protect our land," meaning he may be forced to occupy the disputed territory again if the company decides to proceed with its exploration activities on aboriginal traditional territory. The court also decided six leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation had served enough time and ought to maintain their freedom. They had breached a similar injunction involving the company Platinex Inc., which sought to drill on their land some 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont. Chief Donny Morris, deputy KI chief Jack McKay and members Sam McKay, Darryl Sainnawap, Cecilia Begg and Bruce Sakakeep were granted a temporary release last Friday pending the outcome of Wednesday's sentence appeal. Chris Reid, a lawyer representing the two aboriginal groups, argued aboriginal law dictates the leadership must uphold the wishes of their community, which in this case, is to stop companies from engaging in mining exploration on their land. "This is not an isolated case," Reid said. "It's something that's going to occur again and again." He suggested the aboriginal groups are prepared to discuss the matter, but want the right to say no if they don't like what they hear.

That court had not the right to give an injunction that allowed Frontenac Ventures to conduct uranium exploration activities on aboriginal traditional territory unhindered. All land, water, mineral or forestry rights belong to the aboriginal people to use for their own development on aboriginal traditional territories. It is bad enough that the British/Canadian Government had stolen aboriginal traditional territory from the aboriginal people when they were suppose to protect those aboriginal lands (Crown Lands) from the intrusion of settlers and privet non-aboriginal enterprise companies. This whole matter about aboriginal traditional territory has to be settled first, before any court can grant any non-aboriginal enterprise, an injunction to invade or trespass on aboriginal traditional territories. That was the original mandate of the British Crown, least we forget.

A Christian family were involved in a domestic homicide in Calgary, Alberta. The bodies of four family members - a young couple in their 30s and their two daughters, aged four and six, along with a second woman, a tenant of the house in the quiet Dalhousie neighbourhood, were found dead by Calgary police. Only one person remained alive in the house after the slayings, a one-year-old baby girl whose crying prompted the discovery by a neibour of the bodies. Although little has been released about their cause of death, five seasoned police officers who made the discovery were quickly taken back to their station for counselling. Another officer broke down while speaking to media. None of the adults involved were known to police. Calgary Police said that a friend went to the house early Wednesday to pick up one of the children for school and couldn't get a response. The person went into the house, saw the bodies, then called the police. Calgary police Insp. Frank Reuser, a 35-year veteran of the force was visibly upset by the events. The bodies were found throughout the home and none of the deaths was from natural causes. The major crimes unit has been dispatched to the scene, a police spokesman said. A neighbour had told police that the family of that domestic homicide consist of two adults and three children, and a female tenant had lived in the home on the quiet street for at least three years. They were described as a normal, nice, really friendly family. Another neighbour, Mia Albino, said she often saw the mom walking the kids to school, and had seen the children and the parents at the nearby community centre. Police have identified the people in the house. Their names are,Joshua Lall,34, his wife,Alison,35, and their daughters, Rochelle, 3, and Kristen,5, as well as Amber Bowerman, the basement tenant were all found dead. They were a church-going family and was active in the community. A trauma consultant said the memories of the one-year-old girl will fade quickly. "By the time she is in elementary or middle school, she'll have no memory of this, just memories of what people tell her and show her." The baby should not be told about the details surrounding the deaths until she is at least a teenager and can understand what happened and not blame herself.

I had refrained from saying anything about this domestic homicide at the time I posted it on my web site. This domestic homicide made no sense at all given what was known about the Lall family. How can people who appear to have been religious, Catholic, have killed their two young children in cold blood, yet had the compassionate mind to spare the baby. Frankly, I find it awfully hard to understand how any parent could do such an evil thing, to murder their very young children. Let alone to commit suicide in the first place. I have no words for what had happen there. According to a CTV News report, police are investigating reports that Joshua Lall had called his parents days before his death to say he was suffering some kind of mental breakdown. It was also revealed that Lall wasn't missed at work on the day his body was found because he had a "planned absence." The chairman of the architecture firm where Lall worked said he was shocked to hear of the slayings. Rob Adamson of the Cohos Evamy firm described Lall as "kind-hearted," calling him a "solid" member of the company for the past five years. Get the full A police source confirmed that Joshua called his parents in Ontario a few days before the killing to express concern over his mental state. A close friend who lives in Edmonton had detected some anxiety from Joshua during a visit a few weeks ago, but said it didn't appear to be anything more than what he and his wife could handle. Joshua was also a little stressed with work, and had some big exams on his mind that could allow him to fulfil his ambition of becoming an architect. Joshua mother and father were concerned enough about their son's emotional state to book a flight to Calgary, but were due to make the trip Wednesday night. Joshua seem to have been suffering with some mental and emotional trouble when they spoke to him on the phone. To learn more about the family, you can check out the CTV News Story which give further information on the Lall family background. Police would not say what was the weapon used, or if a suicide note was found inside the home. They called the crime scene "gruesome."

It is great to hear that Nadia Lefebvre, the Canadian woman who was abducted last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been released and is in good condition. She had been released Wednesday night. Nadia Lefebvre, a non-medical volunteer from Montreal was in Haiti on a short-term assignment with the Paris-based organization Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World).