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Comment on Educating For Citizenship by Fiona Cullen-Skowronski

Fiona Cullen-Skowronski — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:05:30 +0000

Every sentence in this rings true. Many of my teenage students of English have been brought up by TV, DVDs, computer games etc. Many refuse to discuss anything that is not new. So our discussions, instead of being about riveting classics like Lord of the Flies, 1984 or The Third Man, or great tragedies like Othello and Macbeth, are reduced to being about rap music and horror DVDs. I seem to be teaching sheep without a shepherd, and the students who do get involved in real study tend to be veiled Muslim girls. (Is that because they are not forced to share a house with a succession of mum’s boyfriends?)
I’m going to take sentences from this article, pre-teach the vocabulary, and invite my teenage students to react.

Comment on Abortion To Be Advertised On Television and Radio – abortion is never safe for the developing child. by Rosalinda

Rosalinda — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:52:38 +0000

Your Honorable Lord Alton: Thank you for your courageous witness in defense of the unborn and their mothers. Women and children have never been as dehumanized as in this throw away culture. Use the women for one’s own gratification and glorification then throw away any child conceived in the act. If the woman refuses to co-operate throw her out too. Television and the media have long glamorized sin and now they seek more financial profit from advertising “infanticide” and the ultimate violence against women. In other words, further enable narcissistic and irresponsible men. I only hope this disgusting fruit from the tree of death is never advertised in Canada.

Comment on David Alton by liberty reserve

liberty reserve — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:46:29 +0000

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Comment on David Alton by Jasmine Lee

Jasmine Lee — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:45:55 +0000

Thank you for your continuous work for persecuted people in North Korea. I watched your interview with south korean broadcaster about Father Lee Tae-Suk.

Comment on Welcome Back Mr.Chips by David Alton

David Alton — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:09:26 +0000

Appreciated -I really did enjoy the book enormously. I hope it gets to a much wider audience. DA.

Comment on The Predictable Unpredictability of North Korea – and a small cause for hope as North Korea Faces Life Under the Leadership of Kim Jong Un – and the role of Dr.James Kim who will tell the story of the creation of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology at Westminster on February 15th. by Mum

Mum — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:22:47 +0000

Building bridges is a most important concept in interpersonal human relationships,
human endeavour and diplomatic relations between nations. Thank you Lord Alton for your huge efforts on behalf of manking.
Mum

Comment on About by Mum

Mum — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:35:04 +0000

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa

Comment on Welcome Back Mr.Chips by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Ysenda Maxtone Graham — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:39:31 +0000

I’m the author of ‘Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School’ and I loved this piece by you. Also my grandmother wrote ‘Mrs Miniver’, and the script writer for the film of her book was James Hilton of ‘Goodbye, Mr Chips’ fame. So, lots to think about. Thank you for writing it. I hope ‘Mr Tibbits’ can bring some of the good old battiness, eccentricity, unpredictability and charm back into the British classroom.

Comment on Camp Ashraf is a Srebrenica in the making and the world has a duty to act. by CNGS

CNGS — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:06:20 +0000

A dignified and compassionate humanitarian has spoken. The true fact is that if the civilized community of nations do not act in concert, the regime in Baghdad, in concert with the thugs of Tehran, will cause a killing field no less horrible than that was allowed to take place at Srebrenica, an encclave of Bosnia-Herzegovina, at the hasnds of Serb forces, where more than 6000 men and youth were slaugtered wholesale.

And now at this junture, the conscience of humanity is about to be pounctured yet again with an impending massacre at Camp Ashraf, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, home to 3400 women, men and children.

In late 2008, prior to the transfer of authority to the Iraqis by US forces to prtect Camp Ashraf residents, protected under the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV) Article 45, and given “Protected Persons” status by the US command, following the voluntary reliquishing of their arms and reouncement of violence; this writer along with a US Lt. General publised a column, warning the civilized people of the world over, that the Iraqi government, an agent of the mullahs of Tehran, can not be trusted with the task at hand, comparing the assignment to “a fox given responsibilty to protect the chicken coop.”

Well, the world at lage, and the US in particular ignored this warning, and the result was two massacres in July 2009 and april 2011, where in all more than 47 residents, including 8 women were mowed down with US supplied personnel carriers and weapons, and many hundreds wounded.

And now with the deadline looming for December 31st to relocate the residents to a feared prison, despite international pleas for the cancellation of the unlawful deadline by al-Maliki government, in collusion with the terrorist Qods force of the mullahs, the US, EU and the UN, have before them a humanitarian catastrophe of unprecented dimension, that would no doubt stamp yet another black stain on the conscience of humanity.

The regime in Tehran, one of th most tyrannical religious fascisms and soul-destroying entities known to contemporary histor, is intent on annihilating Camp Ashraf and its residents.

The despicable actions of the recent days, where their thugs, under the direct order of the so-called spupreme leader, mullah Ali Khamenei, ransacked the British Embassy in Thran, and their foiled attempt to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington a few weeks ag, is a manifestation of the reality on the ground that the Iranian regime would would engage in the vilest crimes, disregarding all international norms and humanitarian protocols.

Thus, as the good Lord has pointed out, we should all rise up against this imminent act of genocide before it is too late and compel the dictator of Baghdad to cancel the deadline, so that the UNHCR and other UN organizations are able to begin their task of registering the residents and make provisions for their relocation to third countries.

Thank you Lord Alton for your wonderful column.

CNGS

Comment on David Alton by Peter Hardwick

Peter Hardwick — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:30:11 +0000

You show us the destructive trends in our society and shine a light on the world’s dark places. And always positive in attitude, with never a word wasted. We are in your debt.