An Overview of Great Lakes Outreach

I once met this guy, and he gave a very hard hitting talk. I still recieve his prayer letters, and they are always full of the amazing stories of Gods works in Brundi. But along with the amazing miracles, there are always really sad stories of the terrible things happening there.
Pray for these people, pray for Gods work and those doing it.

Sierra Leone bridge house

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I thought i was done for the day, but here is one more great link from the BBC for today

Bush pledges to keep Cuba embargo

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A few of my favorite snippets from the artical

• "Mr Bush said he looked forward to a world without Cuban leader Fidel Castro" - and im sure many people look forward to a world without Mr Bush

• "Cuba rejected Mr Bush's appeal and accused him of promoting violence to bring about a change of regime." - Well if you read the next quote...

• "It is a confirmation that the current policy of the Bush regime is regime change in Cuba, including through the use of force," - You'll find that despite the failures of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that America has yet to learn its lesson on force other countries to accept their ideas.

• "Mr Bush spoke of citizens there who, he said, had no freedom of employment or expression, who lived in dire circumstances and who feared beatings for pursuing the lives they wanted." - Again, Im sure many Americans feel themselves in similarly desperate situations

• "Mr Bush mentioned the names of dissidents who had been imprisoned for long terms, harassed or persecuted for speaking out against the Cuban communist regime." - Like those at Gantanamo bay

• "The dissidents of today will be the nation's leaders," - We could rephrase "This to the terrorists of today will be the nation's leaders" - and get an interesting view on this war on terror...

Official quits over Iraq security

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I find something quite bizzare about a job where the moment anything goes wrong, you run away. Even if nothing happend, but you get a few complaints you are expected to leave.

I know democrazy is about the kinda trust thing, and when people no longer think you are doing the right thing then you have to leave, and let them choose someone new, but in some ways i think the way this works, just be constant resignations takes away from this. Because people dont have to clear up there own mistakes they are less account able than they might be if they where expected to take the critisism and deal with it, rather than running out and never being seen again, and leaving some mess for the next guy to pick up and try to deal with. But then as i said not long ago, i think maybe democracy as we know it abit outdated, look at the way the wikipedia has replace the regular, controled by a few people encylopidea, maybe goverment could be the same. In this world where communication is so fast and far reaching, maybe the idea of representative goverment is no longer needed, and everyone can represent themselves.

London Baby

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Well, not much in the news to write about, at least i havnt read it for about 3 weeks, so have no idea if there is...thats mostly 'cause ive been really busy livin' it up in london!

Just thought i'd try to remind myself of all the crazy things we've been doing since 100 or so of us where randomly put together in Garden and Weeks halls ("Probably the best hall in the world") here in South Kensington. Basicaly everything is great, lots of cool people, I think last night was pretty much my first night in, been to lots of places, a boat party, pub crawling, clubs, china town, comedy store, gay bar, church, and a little bit of uni, lectures and stuff, thrown in for good measure. Not too much work so far, mostly just relax, still don't really know my way around Kensington, let alone london, though im managing the night buses back from lester square and the like...Got new glasses today, first time in about 5 years, kinda wierd, also been nice to talk to some peps on skype from home (ukraine...)

Well, not much more, check out a few pics on flickr...

Priya

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this is priya!!!!