SILVIO BERLUSCONI THE 'PLAYBOY' HEAD OF STATE

Sylvio Berlusconi the Cassanova head of sate


No matter how powerful and intelligent a man is, he has a weakness in something. Many are those with promising careers, rich and famous that alcohol and drug have removed them from the right track to taste the bitter part of sad life and many are those that have publicly disgraced themselves because of their association with other women outside wedlock as married men.


Ex-president Bill Clinton, ex-boxer Mike Tyson, Jeffery Archer, Tiger Woods, to mention but a few, are four major examples of men that daylight turned to darkness because of a woman. 

This form of disgrace upon married men keeps on coming to the news daily, yet none of these publications serve as a lesson to keep them tarnishing their image with women's affairs. 

The latest of these publications is that of Sylvio Berlusconi, the Italian premier. The president has been accused of having sex with underage girls, provided free flats to fourteen of his favorite girls and spending large sums of money on girls at his sex-organized parties named 'Bunga-Bunga-Sexroom at his villa. 

An investigation has also revealed that Berlusconi paid and had sex with a 17-year-old girl. This is a young girl that could be a daughter to Berlusconi.

Further investigation has revealed that in the past 8 months, Berlusconi organized 45 sex parties. 

Many Italian politicians think Berlusconi deserves not to be a premier but what they have forgotten is that the Business tycoon owns all the major televisions stations in the country, which has provided work for thousands of Italians, in this case, many like him and do not care about what he does in his private life. He has money and power and that's what rules his life.

As a matter of fact, this sex scandal can be used as a 'crime' against Berlusconi by politicians and other public heads that do not like him and therefore wanted to remove him from power but the common Italians do not care much about this. 

If successfully Berlusconi is removed from power today, the same man would be elected again tomorrow.

Just like the mafia organization, they have captured many of its brains behind but the organization still exists, causing havoc and crime in Italy and around the world. 

Berlusconi might be a philander but his charisma has captured the heart of the people to the extent that he can't be defeated.

ADOLESCENT NICOTINE VICTIMS LACK BRAINS

Nicotine effects

How smoking could affect the brains of the young

Adolescents who smoke, bring irreparable damage to their brains. Their concentration decreases and impulsivity increases. 


"This could mean that early smoking contributes to the development and attention impulsivity disorders such as ADHD," said Sabrine Nail (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

A university in Amsterdam, examining the effect of nicotine, put rats into a cage whereby lights were installed in five holes. 

If a light was burning, the rats had their snouts as quickly as possible through the corresponding hole stabbing. Which yielded a reward. Rats that puberty got nicotine administered, performed 5 to 10 percent worse.

At the time that a lot of attention was requested, then they missed a light, "says researcher Sabine Spijker De Volkskrant. Their concentration was found due to nicotine bloodstream deteriorated their impulsiveness right up

LESS CONCENTRATION

If you would translate this to people, you're talking about young people who start smoking between the twelfth and sixteenth, "says Nail. In later life would be that workers who do it are fine. 

But once it becomes extremely difficult sought hooks them off sooner than others. They can not quite keep their attention.

The researchers discovered that nicotine in adolescents leads to a permanent reduction of a specific protein, mGluR2, in the part of the brains that regulate attention and concentration. The protein can be stimulated with drugs, and that can also lead to less attention stimulated, but this only works temporarily.

ADULT BRAINS

All rats that indulged in nicotine in adulthood, had no problems with continuing problems because their brains were already formed. The brains of rats and humans are very similar. 

The researchers are therefore comparable effects in humans and cause so addictive substances like nicotine permanent damage to young brains. 

But such research does not repeat in humans, for ethical reasons: the young people who would participate in smoking and thus would learn would be a big risk to get addicted to the cigarette.

BELGIUM: "CHILD FOCUS" FIGHTS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE

Child abuse is real, protect your children

Child abuse is considered a worldwide social problem that many institutions including UNICEF are fighting against to free children from bondage, sexual abuse and all kinds of crimes done against children.

One of such institutions in Belgium, which is tirelessly working hard to reduce or prevent child abuse in the country is "CHILD FOCUS". Every week the 'Child Focus' administration receives about ten complaints of sexual abuse against children, said Dirk Depover, the head of 'Child Focus'.

According to 'Child Focus' quarter of the victims of sexual abuse are children under 6 years and still, yet 30 percent of the children are between the ages of 7 and 13.

75 percent of the cases revealed that the victims do not know the perpetrators before been abused, while 10 percent comes from their neighbors and 7 percent from teachers or schoolmasters.

In the first months of 2011, 20 percent of child abuse cases were reported, according to 'Child Focus', this was probably the result of the outburst of sexual abuse within the church community. It is estimated that more than 60 percent of children have been sexually abused.

Further, an investigation has revealed that it is only 40 percent of abused cases are reported or known but the greater percent lies in the dark. Nothing about the case is known by the police.

As a result, the perpetrators stay free without facing the law for their crimes. They simply escape punishment and prosecution. In the file of child abuse cases, the internet is seen as the major cause out of the seven causes leading to this problem.

This is mainly about victims which can be accessed via chat or spicy spreading of images by someone known.

(The original publication of this article appeared in the Wednesday 4 May 2011, edition of "Het Laatste Nieuws", translation by the writer).

GHANA CAN BE BETTER WITHOUT KONADU AND J J RAWLINGS

Ghana's John Jerry Rawlings: The first head of state to carry executions under military rule


In developed countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, etc, political leaders' priority is to make things better for the masses. 


Their wish is to serve the people and make things better for them in a way that the people will acknowledge them as good politicians but in Africa, the story is quite different.

Ninety-nine percent of Africa politicians are inspired into politics by corruption without any plan to improve the welfare of the people. 

The idea or plan to loot the state, empty the government coffers, enrich themselves, feed and put their families into better institutions and positions, with stolen money banked at Swiss banks are the main priorities on the agendas.

The corrupt African head of States has no sympathy, emotions and does not know what suffering is because they are well fed with their families. To be in power for the rest of their lives, some become dictators and others try to create a one-party state to avoid the attack of opposition.

The typical examples of such men are Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (already stepped down after political chaos in his country) Muammar Ghadafi of Libya (yet to step down) and many others.

The desire of Ghana's former lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, to contest against president John Evans Atta Mills as the presidential candidate of the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC) in the year 2012, on every grounds doesn't make sense. 

What do Konadu and her husband want in Ghana politics, after all, the crimes her husband committed in the political history of Ghana to fulfill his dreams as head of state?

Why must Konadu even at all try to do such a thing against Atta Mills when both are members of the same party? There are so many raw materials in Ghana to satisfy the need of everyone but never enough to satisfy the greed of Konadu and her family. 

I know that academically Ghanaians are very intelligent people but if any Ghanaian could cast a vote to make this woman the president of Ghana, then there will be room for people to question the integrity and intelligence of Ghanaians.

This is the time for every Ghanaian to be particularly aware that Konadu Rawlings' desire to contest as president of Ghana, is not to do anything better for Ghanaians but greed. 

Ghanaians must continue to support president Atta Mill's government to make NDC and other political parties strong and shouldn't allow the greed of the Rawlings family to collapse the party.