It all started a few decades ago, the US government wanted to have total control, and decided that this could be achieved by creating fear among the people.
The CIA has organized several events that shook the world, and succeeded to blame others for it, which is not too hard in a country where justice means guilty until proven innocent.
A few of the events are the murder of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Oklahoma bombing and the biggest and most effective one is definately 9-11.
Ever since that day in 2001 a lot of people have been paranoid, the fear for muslims has gone through the roof and people wouldn't even trust their own neighbour anymore. Many countries in the world has been thrown into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are based on a bunch of lies, most clear this is with the war in Iraq, it was all about weapons off mass destruction, the Americans had evidence, overruled the United Nations, and started a war. Now several years later, they say it was to free Iraq from a dictator, but America still controls the country, owns most of the oil companies and the American embassy controls all decisions taken by the new Iraqi government. What do you mean freeing from a dictator when you just place another dictator in there? And wasn't Hussein not put there by the US in the first place?

But anyhow, back to the paranoia statement that I started with.
Just recently in New York, New York Times columnist Leonore Skenazy, gave her nine year old son a Metro card and some change to call in case anything happened, after he has been asking to go to school alone for some time, and so the kid had finally got the chance to go to school on his own and got the feeling he was growing up. The child was very proud of course and probably loved his mother more than ever.
Leonore published in the newspaper, sort of as a joke, a short article "Why I let my 9 year old son travel in the metro alone". Ever since that moment she has been named the worst mother of the USA and been getting loads of hatemails.

I think this mother did what is good. At some point children need to learn to be able to help themselves in certain occassions, and with simple things like the daily trip to school the age of 9 is not too early for that. I have been going to school alone since I was 6, although I didn't live in a big city like New York, still I had the chance to develop parts of myself from that age which children who are always accompanied by a parent cannot do in the same way.

Of course things can go wrong, but that can also happen when the parents go with them. And people who call Leonore the worst mother should open their eyes to the world that's outside their front door and their newspaper, look at how many kids carry weapons to school with or without their parents being aware of that. Look at how many parents in the USA have weapons in their home and sometimes even allow the kids to use them to shoot at junk. Each and every single one of these parents is a million times worse a parent than Leonore, because they teach there children violence, and Leonore teaches her son trust and confidence.

I'd say Leonore Skenazy is probably one of the best parents in the USA, but the USA is to paranoid to realize that.

The illegal state of Israel has showed properly how it deals with human rights again.
An Israeli army helicopter has killed three people from a Palestinian family when firing a missile at their car.
They thought they were shooting at a bomb-manufacturer, who ownes a similar car.

Last tuesday 18 Palistinians were killed by Israeli military actions, including the son of Hamas leader Zahar.

This action of pure coldblooded murder proves again that the state of Israel has no respect at all for the Palestinian people.
Even though they are a member of the United Nations, they do not respect the United Nations' declaration of the human rights, which says that every human has the right to a fair trial. Just shooting rockets at innocent people, what the Israeli army does all the time, is not a fair trial.

Some people may have already noticed in earlier posts that I do not accept Israel as a country (I write the nationality of chess grandmaster Gelfand as Palestinian in the results from the Corus Chess tournament), and the violence that Israel brings to the people of the land they occupied is the reason for that.
Unfortunately Israel is the watchdog for the USA in the Middle East and any attempt to do something against the violence by Israel is stopped by the USA veto in the United Nations. It's about time something is done about that.

There is a song about the situation here in Ireland which partly can be used about the combination of USA and Israel as well:

You have plundered many nations
Divided many lands

You have terrorized our people
You ruled with an iron hand
And you brought this reign of terror to my land


I will probably write more about the situation in the Middle East in the future