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At 2:12am on August 13th,- Key success is PEACE like Olympic games today CHINA and not like WAR today Russia with Georgia .We must love PEACE ,and nonviolence!
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My Page - Nonviolence#chatter-#chatter-
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On this page you will find some of my favorite quotes. They are just here for everyone to live and learn from. I still am. They are in no particular order. If you know of a good one you can offer, please email me and I will post it... Sincerely, Jade Tiger Productions (http://www.jadetiger.com/)
"Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither."
- Benjamin Franklin
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Ursula LeGuin
"I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
- W. E. Henley (Invictus)
"Dream is the spark of passion; talent is the firework of its expression; perseverance, the sacred fire of its accomplishment."
- Daniel Chabot
"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life."
- Antoinette Bosco
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."
- Chinese Proverb
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in."
- Alan Alda
"To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities."
- Goethe
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
- Epictetus
"To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish."
- Ancient Chinese Proverb
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
- John Stuart Mill
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein
"The simple function of man is to live, not just exist." - Jack London
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
- Orison Swett Marden
"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."
- Dennis Wholey
"Only those who dare, truly live."
- Ruth Freedman
"Obstacles are necessary for success... victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."
- Og Mandino
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." - Lord Chesterfield
"When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage."
- Jewish proverb
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
- William F. Halsey
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
- John Morley
"What we think, we become."
- Buddha
"You can cheat an honest man but you can not make a fool out of him."
- Confucius
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
- Chinese proverb
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich." - Tao Te Ching
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
- Harvey Fierstein
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes
"The mind is owned by the self and can make a hell of heaven or heaven of hell."
- John Milton
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
- Hermann Hesse
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson
"Allow yourself to be inspired. Allow yourself to succeed. Dare to excel."
- Vince Dente
"It ain't easy to get movers and shakers to believe in you until you have a track record. So go make your own track and build your own record."
- Jack R. Stanley
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
- Socrates
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
- Abraham Moslow
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
"If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead."
- Wynn Bullock
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." - Norman R. Augustine
"Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."
- Madeline S. Bridges
"It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered." - Michael Harrington
"Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils." - Warren G. Harding
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
- Orison Swett Marden
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
- Leo Rosten
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
- Seneca
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
- John F. Kennedy
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two."
- Chinese Proverb
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible."
- Miriam Schiff
"Patience and fortitude conquer all things." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
- Charles M. Schwab
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk."
- Rosalynn Carter
"If you have a 'why' to live by, you can live with any 'how'."
- Nietzsche
"It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it."
- Ralph Marston
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
- Goethe
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests." - Gail Sheehy"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light."
- Buddha
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
- Henry Moore
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean"Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them."
- Phantom F. Harlock
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Ralph Vaull Starr
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
- Khalil Gibran
"All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true."
- T.E. Lawrence
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles du Bois"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Pamela Vaull Starr
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is but today's dream."
- Kahlil Gibran
"All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allen Poe
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." - Kahlil Gibran"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
- John Lennon
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
- Leo Rosten
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American reformer
"This above all; to thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
- Robert M. Pirsig
"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it."
- Konosuke Matsushita
"Temet Nosce"
- Latin Proverb, means
"Know Thyself."
On this page you will find some of my favorite quotes. They are just here for everyone to live and learn from. I still am. They are in no particular order. If you know of a good one you can offer, please email me and I will post it... Sincerely, Jade Tiger Productions (http://www.jadetiger.com/)
"Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither."
- Benjamin Franklin
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
- Ursula LeGuin
"I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
- W. E. Henley (Invictus)
"Dream is the spark of passion; talent is the firework of its expression; perseverance, the sacred fire of its accomplishment."
- Daniel Chabot
"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life."
- Antoinette Bosco
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."
- Chinese Proverb
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won't come in."
- Alan Alda
"To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities."
- Goethe
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
- Epictetus
"To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish."
- Ancient Chinese Proverb
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
- John Stuart Mill
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein
"The simple function of man is to live, not just exist." - Jack London
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
- Orison Swett Marden
"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."
- Dennis Wholey
"Only those who dare, truly live."
- Ruth Freedman
"Obstacles are necessary for success... victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future."
- Og Mandino
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." - Lord Chesterfield
"When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage."
- Jewish proverb
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
- William F. Halsey
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
- John Morley
"What we think, we become."
- Buddha
"You can cheat an honest man but you can not make a fool out of him."
- Confucius
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
- Chinese proverb
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich." - Tao Te Ching
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
- Harvey Fierstein
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes
"The mind is owned by the self and can make a hell of heaven or heaven of hell."
- John Milton
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
- Hermann Hesse
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson
"Allow yourself to be inspired. Allow yourself to succeed. Dare to excel."
- Vince Dente
"It ain't easy to get movers and shakers to believe in you until you have a track record. So go make your own track and build your own record."
- Jack R. Stanley
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
- Socrates
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
- Abraham Moslow
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
"If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead."
- Wynn Bullock
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." - Norman R. Augustine
"Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."
- Madeline S. Bridges
"It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered." - Michael Harrington
"Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils." - Warren G. Harding
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
- Orison Swett Marden
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
- Leo Rosten
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
- Seneca
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
- John F. Kennedy
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two."
- Chinese Proverb
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible."
- Miriam Schiff
"Patience and fortitude conquer all things." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
- Charles M. Schwab
"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk."
- Rosalynn Carter
"If you have a 'why' to live by, you can live with any 'how'."
- Nietzsche
"It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it."
- Ralph Marston
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
- Goethe
"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests." - Gail Sheehy"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light."
- Buddha
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
- Henry Moore
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean"Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them."
- Phantom F. Harlock
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Ralph Vaull Starr
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
- Khalil Gibran
"All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true."
- T.E. Lawrence
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles du Bois"Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
- Pamela Vaull Starr
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is but today's dream."
- Kahlil Gibran
"All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allen Poe
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." - Kahlil Gibran"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
- John Lennon
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
- Leo Rosten
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) American reformer
"This above all; to thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
- Robert M. Pirsig
"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it."
- Konosuke Matsushita
"Temet Nosce"
- Latin Proverb, means
"Know Thyself."
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 Russians showcase Georgian POWs Boston Globe POTI, Georgia - Russia showed the first signs of drawing down at least some of its troops in Georgia yesterday, but in a pointed reminder of their continued grip on the country, its forces bound and blindfolded 21 Georgian soldiers at the Black Sea port of Poti, displaying them along with five seized American Humvees. Michael Schwirtz and Ellen Barry August 20, 2008  Russians showcase Georgian POWsPullout begins amid mixed signs By Michael Schwirtz and Ellen Barry New York Times News Service / August 20, 2008 POTI, Georgia - Russia showed the first signs of drawing down at least some of its troops in Georgia yesterday, but in a pointed reminder of their continued grip on the country, its forces bound and blindfolded 21 Georgian soldiers at the Black Sea port of Poti, displaying them along with five seized American Humvees. NATO says no "business as usual" with Russia. A4 Two days after President Dmitri A. Medvedev promised that the pullout would begin, signs of movement began. A platoon of armored infantry was seen moving away from Georgia through the narrow mountain passes on the Russian side of the border. Near the city of Gori, the Russian and Georgian sides exchanged prisoners, including two Russian pilots who were shot down over South Ossetia. Meanwhile, however, a Russian engineering platoon was reinforcing trenches for a checkpoint north of Gori, suggesting that Russian forces expect to be in Georgia for some time. Russian armored vehicles held high ground overlooking Gori and Igoeti, and a network of checkpoints blocked the main highway. Moreover, some of the troops that on Monday had packed their equipment and said they were ready to leave had unpacked and moved back into checkpoints at the city's edge. A large part of the conflict area and the region depopulated by civilians fleeing from the fighting remained lawless, and according to several residents in hiding in four villages, in need of water and food. In Tkviavi, a Georgian village near the South Ossetian capital, Tshkinvali, the remaining Georgian residents were mostly in hiding, fearful of looters. The most potent image of the day came from Poti, where Russians transported Georgian soldiers on top of armed personnel carriers after a three-hour blockade of the commercial port. They drove the prisoners to their base in Senaki along with a caravan of seized American Humvees, which they then sent to Abkhazia, deep in Russian-held territory. A few hours later, a local priest in black Eastern Orthodox robes entered the base, hoping to negotiate the soldiers' release. "They want everything - our bases, our ports, our roads," said Shalba Kuthava, a driver for the port, who waited outside the Russian-held base in the hope the men would be released. "We don't want that. We want to live separately and in peace and not to be attacked." A top Russian military official said the Georgians had been detained at a checkpoint, armed and driving the Humvees, in violation of the six-point cease-fire agreement brokered last week by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. But the Georgians said that the soldiers were guarding the port against looters, and that the Humvees were US property that had been used in a joint exercise with Georgia earlier this year. They said the vehicles had been crated up and packed in a container, ready to be shipped back to the United States.Continued...   (Getty Images) |
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Romania warned about Black Sea frozen conflicts ŞTIRILE ZILEIabonează-te:Băsescu: Zona Mării Negre nu poate fi "în securitate" fără implicarea Federaţiei Rusezat: 15:41, 20 august 2008Romania's foreign minister Lazar Comanescu mentioned in yesterday's North Atlantic Council reunion that his country would continue to support Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations, in keeping with the decisions reached during the NATO summit in Bucharest. The information comes from a press release authored by the Romania Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the document, the Romanian official expressed Romania' special concern about the recent evolution in Georgia and the conflict between the latter state and Russia. The head of Romanian diplomats argued that the escalation of the conflicts is clearly proving the threats consisting in the frozen conflicts in the Black Sea region and the Caucasus. According to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania thinks that for the time being the priorities are the following: full and well-meaning respect for the cease fire agreement, the Georgian victims' access to humanitarian assistance and conditions for peace, in keeping with Georgia's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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NATO schimba foaia si acuza Rusia
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NATO schimba foaia si acuza Rusia ca nu a respectat acordul de armistitiu din Caucaz * "Relatiile nu pot continua ca si cum nu s-ar fi intamplat nimic", a declarat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, dupa reuniunea de la Bruxelles
Moscova riposteaza si considera ca pozitia Aliantei redeschide conflictul
* Aliatii au cerut Rusiei sa-si retraga toate trupele pe linia ocupata inainte de 6 august * SUA a atentionat Kremlinul ca nu va permite trasarea unei "noi linii" in Europa intre tarile integrate in Alianta si cele din afara acesteia * "Actiunile militare ale Rusiei au fost disproportionate si incompatibile cu rolul de mentinere a pacii", se arata in declaratia finala a reuniunii NATO de ieri * In replica, Rusia acuza NATO ca s-a facut purtatoarea de cuvant exclusiva a pozitiei americane * Ambasadorul Rogozin a declarat ca SUA au fost implicate, in mod activ, "in pregatirea agresiunii facute de Saakasvili" * Faptul ca Georgia a fost definita in declaratia finala drept "un partener de valoare
si de durata" al NATO a iritat la maxim Moscova * "De ce? Pentru ca Saakasvili vrea sa internationalizeze conflictul? Daca asa stau lucrurile, suntem in fata unei escaladari verbale extrem de periculoase, extrem de dure", a fost concluzia ambasadorului Rusiei la NATO
Cu blogu-n balta
-- Politicienii folosesc Internetul pentru a-si regla conturile intre ei sau pentru a transmite mesaje alegatorilor * Defularile lor merg de la injuraturi pana la declaratii de dragostePoliticienii romani au descoperit jurnalul electronic si de atunci se dau in stamba pe Internet. Cei mai multi se avanta in consideratii politice despre colegi, partid si tara. Altii se detaseaza de problemele economice, meditand adanc asupra conditiei umane si cautand natura raului in societate. In jurnalul lor electronic gasesti orice, de la injurii aduse adversarilor politici sau ziaristilor pana la declaratii de dragoste. Asa au aparut blogul "birou de presa" (Vasile Dancu), blogul "pentru uz electoral" (Cozmin Gusa), blogul "liric" (Corina Cretu), ori blogul "anti-DNA" (Adrian Nastase). Prezentam spicuiri din arhiva de aur a blogosferei politice. Pentru ca in conferintele de presa politicianul nu isi permite derapaje de exprimare si mesaj, in blogosfera politica, care suporta aproape orice, si-au facut loc si exprimari mai neelegante. Adrian Nastase, cunoscut pentru discursul sofisticat, uneori pana devine prolix, a folosit pe blogul propriu o sintagma care trebuie ca i-a surprins pe admiratorii sai. Pesedistul avertiza, intr-o postare, ca nu vor mai fi admise comentarii scrise "cu inteligenta celor care incep fiecare fraza, de regula, cu "Ce p...a mea". Insa Elena Udrea n-are probleme in a-si eticheta fosta colega de la Palatul Cotroceni, Adriana Saftoiu, drept "pasarica". Udrea a inclus-o pe Saftoiu in categoria "pasaricilor" care raspandesc informatii false desprea ea. Adrianei Saftoiu i se imputa interviul in care afirmase ca liderilor PD-L le este frica de Elena Udrea. "Nemernicii dracului ce sunteti" In schimb, deputatul PNL Mihai Malaimare a deprins arta combinarii savante a diatribei virulente cu exultarea poetica. Pe 28 iulie, Malaimare acuza politicienii ce plang soarta sinistratilor de la inundatii de victimele acestui dezastru pe un ton care l-ar face sa plesneasca de invidie pe cel mai dur pamfletar. "Ba da, nemernicii dracului ce sunteti, ba da, macar stati dracului in casele voastre si nu va dati cu presupusul la televizor, ba da, jigodiile dracului ce sunteti, criminalii dracului ce sunteti" s.a.m.d., spumega vajnicul blogger. Dupa ce a dat bine in ciocoi, Malaimare isi ia adio de la vacanta sa draga petrecuta prin Ungaria, Austria si Spania. "S-a terminat vacanta, vacanta mea draga! Acum ea se va odihni, va dormi ceva vreme ca sa ma lase sa ma chinui si sa-mi faca mai placut gandul pe care mai spre Craciun il voi indrepta spre misterioasele ei carari", constata elegiac Malaimare. Un alt blogger liric este Ion Iliescu care-si felicita o admiratoare cu ocazia zilei de Sfanta Maria, care nu figura pana acum in calendarul sau de liber cugetator: "Iti doresc sa fii mereu acelasi suflet sensibil, preocupata de toti cei din jur si un adevarat om", ultimele trei cuvinte fiind scrise cu majuscule, la fel ca "nemernicii" care l-au indignat peste poate pe Malaimare. "Vad frumusete peste tot in jur" De altfel, Iliescu s-a obisnuit sa fie inconjurat de suflete gingase si sensibile la frumos. O dovada este blogul fostei sale consiliere de la Cotroceni, europarlamentarul PSD Corina Cretu. Punctele de atractie sunt mai degraba fisierele video de pe blogul acesteia. Intr-unul din ele, se perinda oameni zambitori si mesaje precum "Vad frumusete peste tot in jur" sau "Astazi este inceputul vietii mele". Si toate acestea pe un fundal sonor atat de siropos, incat s-ar dovedi fatal unui diabetic. Cei care ar supravietui vor fi rapusi cu siguranta de cantecul lui Louis Armstrong, "What a wonderful world". Cum PSD-ul e plin de oameni sensibili, Cretu nu uita sa-l felicite pe Adrian Paunescu cu ocazia implinirii a 65 de ani si posteaza un cantec pe versurile bardului social-democrat. "Spune-mi, padure cu frunza rara/ Unde-i iubirea de asta vara?/ Nu stii de iarna o sa se indure/ De copacii fara padure?", suspina adanc o voce feminina. Internetul ca arma politica Majoritatea politicienilor folosesc blogurile personale pentru a-si cosmetiza imaginile, pentru a-si justifica actiunile si pentru a-si ataca adversarii. In cazul fostului lider PSD Cluj, Vasile Dancu (foto), blogul a tinut locul unui adevarat birou de presa. Pesedistul a anuntat pe site faptul ca nu va mai candida la alegerile parlamentare din toamna, si-a atacat colegii de partid care l-au executat din functia de lider al filialei Cluj si a descris, melodramatic "momentele de libertate" ce au urmat scandalului PSD. Imediat dupa inlaturarea sa din fruntea organizatiei de Cluj, Dancu posta un reportaj intitulat "Cu streangul in gat - note de la o executie". Povestind cum a fost indepartat din functie prin vot, Dancu observa psihologia celor care i-au "varsat sangele", amintind de senzatia de foame ce pusese brusc stapanire pe intreaga suflare pesedista. "Raman cu imaginea unor oameni care se grabeau pe scari sa uite gustul sangelui indesandu-si pe gat ciorba de burta si mici. Coborand pe scari, mi-era frica sa nu alunec pe vreo dara de bale", nota pesedistul. Refugiul lui Nastase Blogul fostului premier Adrian Nastase pare a fi o compensatie la nivel de imagine fata de perceptia de politician corupt, o parte dintre postarile pesedistului insistand pe ideea ca dosarele de la DNA pe numele sau sunt instrumentate politic. Pe 13 august, imediat dupa votul dat de Camera Deputatilor in privinta cererii de incepere a urmaririi penale, Nastase a precizat, triumfator: "Nici unul dintre acuzatorii mei nu doreste, de fapt, sa se faca dreptate. Justitia dorita de Traian Basescu inseamna folosirea oricaror mijloace pentru distrugerea celui care i se opune". Asemenea lui Nastase, Ion Iliescu aloca mult spatiu si timp raspunzand comentariilor de pe blogul sau. In plus, semnalele sale sunt imediat receptate si transpuse in practica de pesedisti. Este cazul lui Nicolae Vacaroiu care, imediat dupa ce Iliescu si-a exprimat indignarea fata de controversata expozitie organizata de ICR la New York, a comandat o comisie parlamentara de ancheta. La randul sau, pedelista Elena Udrea foloseste blogul pentru a se razboi cu adversarii lui Traian Basescu si ai PD-L, dar si cu ziaristii "distrasi" de la lucrurile esentiale. Fosta consiliera de la Cotroceni reuseste cu fiecare postare sa laude actiunile presedintelui si sa critice Parlamentul. Votul le-a inchis gura Pentru o parte dintre politicienii autohtoni, pofta de blogging a disparut odata cu aflarea rezultatelor dezastruoase de la alegerile locale, motiv pentru care sirul entuziast de postari pe internet s-a oprit precipitat in jurul datei de 10 iunie. Liderul PSD Cristian Diaconescu a dat atentie cititorilor sai ultima data intre cele doua tururi de scrutin, intr-un mesaj care se incheia promitator cu "va urma", fara a preciza insa ca ceea ce va urma va fi o pauza pe o perioada nedeterminata. In aceasta postare, fostul candidat la primaria Capitalei justifica scorul slab obtinut la scrutin prin faptul ca a subevaluat nivelul ghemului de interese "care pluteste ca un nor negru peste administrarea Bucurestiului". Si liderul PIN Cozmin Gusa promitea pe 2 iunie, in penultima postare, o evaluare a consecintelor rezultatelor votului de la locale, odata ce va redeveni obiectiv. Deputatul nu a reusit totusi sa faca vreo evaluare, probabil marcat de scorul slab obtinut. Doar pe 28 iulie, Gusa si-a amintit de jurnalul online si si-a motivat decizia de a nu mai candida la alegerile parlamentare. Liderul PIN preciza, intr-un stil de blogger "cool": "Am facut azi anuntul k nu voi candida la Parlament. Normal si de asteptat pt cei kre ma urmaresc de ceva vreme si stiu parerea mea despre votul uninominal. adik proasta, daca dorim reforma politica". Un alt perdant al alegerilor locale, ministrul Educatiei Cristian Adomnitei, a intrat si el in categoria "fost blogger". Pe 15 iunie se inregistreaza ultima sfortare virtuala a demnitarului, care are directa legatura cu regretele privind rezultatul alegerilor din Iasi: "Iasiul a decis raul cel mai mic: continuitatea. Vom continua, probabil, sa avem drumuri proaste, gropi, locuri de munca prost platite, caini fara stapani umbland liberi pe strazi".Adrian ILIE, Raluca PAPADOPOL,
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