Dear Readers and Fellow-Apes; 2008 was a Murky and Hapless Year! Let us hope that 2009 does not turn out to be even More Murky and Hapless!
I intentionally did not wish you a Merry Christmas, because Christmas is another story for another Posting at another time; and I do not wish you a Happy New Year, since I believe that ONLY FOOLS ARE, OR CAN BE, HAPPY ALL YEAR ROUND. I do, however, wish all of you A GOOD YEAR! With a little Good in one's life, one can be a little happy, which is all one can ask for in one's short sweet dream one calls a life-time. BY GOD AND SATAN!
A Jack of many trades and master of all; I am honest to the core and I hate lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and stoic compliance; and I despise – and actually pity – Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack
I expose and reveal the lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and blind, deaf, and stoic compliance, and Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack; I tell or write the truth; and I say what I mean and mean what I sayI fear nothing; least of all, death
If I must fear anything at all in life, then let me fear what I think and know of myself; because, in the end, one’s knowledge and opinion of oneself is what counts most. All the world may think and believe one is such and such, but one knows one is such and such. Also, I like to look in the mirror and like what I see and know about me.
I invite comments, remarks, criticisms, and even insults – so long as they are straight to the point, in order for me to correct or adjust myself accordingly. What I do not welcome and won’t accept or tolerate is HORSE-SHIT!
Dear readers and felow-Apes; with every page, every report or article, every paragraph, every sentence, every word, and every letter; I thank you for taking the trouble and the time to read My Not-So-Humble Comments.
THE MAYANS AND THE DRESDEN CODEX – an ancient people not to be underestimated or taken for fools
The Dresden Codex, named after the city where it had been lodged is a strange book inscribed with hieroglyphs which no one could decipher until 1880. A German scholar, who worked at the Dresden library, managed to crack the code of the Mayan calendar and made it possible for other academics to translate the many dated inscriptions found on buildings, stelae, and other ancient Mayan artifacts.
He discovered that the Codex contained detailed astrological tables that calculated the year to be 365.2420 days long, more accurate than the Julian calendar we use today – and to calculate the lunar cycle as 329.53020 days, thousands of years ago, only 34 seconds out – and without the latest modern scientific instruments, too!
The tables were used exclusively by the Mayan astronomers to predict the solstices and equinoxes, the path of the planets in our solar system, the cycles of Venus and Mars, and other celestial phenomena. Other information we have today has been gleaned from the Chilam Balam and Popol Vuh – books written just after the Spanish had arrived. The knowledge found in these books and codices, combined with the uncovering of mysterious pyramids, demonstrate that the Maya had an intelligence to rival – if not surpass – the Greeks and the Egyptians.Stela / Stelae: ancient stone slab(s) or pillar(s), usually engraved, inscribed, or painted, and set upright.
Lunar cycle: a calendar that is based on the cycles of the Moon. The Moslem calendar is based on the lunar cycle. It requires constant revision or intercalation, which the solar calendar does not.
Intercalation: the insertion of an extra day or month into a calendar year in order to keep it consistent with the solar year.
Solstice: either of the times when the Sun is farthest from the equator, on or about 21st June and 21st December. The summer solstice falls in June in the northern hemisphere and in December in the southern hemisphere; and vice versa for the winter solstice.
Equinox: either of the two annual crossings of the equator by the Sun, once in each direction, when the lengths of days and nights are approximately equal everywhere on Earth. The equinoxes occur around 21st March and 23rd September.
The Mayan Chilam Balam books are collections of disparate texts in which Mayan and Spanish traditions were coalesced. Due to their often allusive metaphorical nature and the archaic Yucatec used, the Chilam Balam texts present formidable challenges to scholars and translators. The quality of existing translations varies greatly…
The Popol Vuh is the Mayan story of creation
THE MAYAN CALENDAR – To Those Human-Apes That Say That The Mayan Calendar Does Not Extend Beyond 2012
This is by I, myself, and me; and it is personal:
I wonder whether it has occurred to any of you human-Apes out there – albeit my dear readers and fellow-Apes, but Apes all the same – that the Mayan Calendar extends not beyond 2012 because the Mayans did not need to extend it beyond 2012? They knew!
Human-Apes would do well not to scoff at the Mayans – a strange but wise people who knew enough to be able to calculate the cycle of the moon as 329.53020 days thousands of years ago, only 34 seconds out; and without the latest scientific instruments, too!
A word to the wise is enough, and a thousand words to the fool ought to be enough!WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE! THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING – It Has Begun. Lands Retreat as Seas Advance
WEST AFRICA: Coastline to be submerged by 2099
Gleaned from: IRIN/Plus-News
ACCRA 25th August 2008: Huge swathes of West Africa's coastline, extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon, will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.
Even where urban areas appear unscathed, sea level rise will still challenge towns and cities by threatening the underground water supplies from which millions of people across the region draw their water. The effects of sea-level rise will be most dramatic in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, which is just five metres above sea level, with some parts of the city lying below sea-level.
The flooding is likely be most severe in Lagos because of its position at the southern end of the Gulf of Guinea where stronger tropical storms from the South Atlantic create storm surges up to three metres high. He estimates that most of the 15 million inhabitants of Lagos will be displaced and Nigeria's southern Delta region where oil installations are located will also be swamped.
Compounding the situation; in August 2007, a tropical storm 5,000 kilometres off the coast caused a shift in the strong currents that run along the Nigerian coast and destroyed a protective sand bar.
Environmentalists blame Global Warming for the gradual melting of the 3,000 metre-thick Greenland ice cap in the Arctic as being responsible for……experts made their comments at a UNFCCC – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – meeting held in the capital of Ghana, Accra, where representatives of 150 countries gathered to continue preparatory negotiations for a landmark climate change conference due to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009 where a successor to the Kyoto Treaty is to be signed – Daniel: Human-Apes! Talk, Balk, and Walk!
BENIN: Coastal erosion threatening to wipe out parts of Cotonou
COTONOU 2nd September 2008: Rising sea levels have destroyed hundreds of homes, hotels, roads and harvests, and threaten to engulf large areas of Cotonou, the capital of Benin. A government-commissioned study about a year ago recommended urgent action to hold back the rising tides, and save the city's ports, airport, and coastal communities, but political infighting blocked funding.
Daniel: Dear readers and fellow-Apes; surely you do not believe for one moment that sea levels will rise in only one part of the world!?
MOSQUITOES FLY WILD AND FREE AND BITE & DISEASES SPREAD WIDE AND FAR AND KILL
Gleaned from: IRIN-News / Plus-NewsDaniel: Read: 292 / 293 / 294 / 295 / 296 / 297 and here are a few facts before I begin:
Hepatitis A virus/HAV lives in faeces in the intestinal tract. It is spread when infected individuals do not wash their hands after…
Hepatitis B virus/HBV lives in blood and other body fluids. HBV is transmitted from person to person through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, or through sharing infected needles or other sharp instruments that break the skin...
Hepatitis C virus/HCV, identified in the mid-1980s, is a slowly progressing infection that is primarily spread by intravenous drug users and blood transfusions…
Hepatitis D virus/HDV, found in blood, is transmitted through the sharing of infected needles or through sexual contact with an infected person…
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) lives in faeces and is transmitted through contaminated food or water. HEV is found primarily in countries with poor sanitation…see HAV
UGANDA: Hepatitis E/HEV outbreak in Kitgum
KITGUM 20th June and 3rd July 2008: Uganda's Ministry of Health sent a team of experts to the northern district of Kitgum to investigate an outbreak of Hepatitis E/HEV in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) over the past 8 months. Very poor Sanitation and hygienic conditions in IDP camps and villages to which people returned in the wake of rebel insurgency in the north were very poor. HEV is a viral disease spread along the faecal-oral route. Outbreaks tend to be linked to contaminated water and food supplies. Mortality rates are generally low, ranging from 0.5 to 4.0 percent. But among pregnant women in their third trimester this rate can rise to 20 percent. More than 3,082 cases had been registered in the district since October 2007, with 64 deaths.
Daniel: Don’t look now but, in my not-so-humble opinion, these people are making a terrible mistake. Viral means caused by a Virus; and Virus means Vector-borne; and Vector-borne means Mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, among others; but these three are the best in the business and the mosquito is the King; or should I say: the Queen, since it is the female anopheles of the species that do all the very dirty work. Very poor sanitation and hygienic conditions mean ticks and fleas, and surely they do not think or believe – or even dream that the mosquitoes, that are the experts in the field, are going to sit or stand or fly by and let the ticks and fleas have all the fun and action!? No way, José!
Moreover, to say that Hepatitis HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, and HEV live in faeces, in the intestines, and blood is putting the cart before the horse. What these Human-Apes need to ask themselves is: How do these viruses get into faeces, intestines, or blood? To get into faeces and intestines, the viruses need to get through skins, under skins, and into blood or blood-streams; get my drift? Among all the vectors, the anopheles mosquito is the undisputed Queen and champion. Ticks and fleas wait for their victims to come too close, but the anopheles mosquito can fly and is able to sense body-heat and movement a mile away What are we; Etc, and so forth and so on!?
KENYA: Cholera confirmed in western region
NAIROBI 25th June and 3rd July 2008: Outbreak of cholera confirmed in the Kisumu municipality in the western region with 134 cases reported since the outbreak…most affected areas included the slums of Manyatta, Nyalenda and Obunga which lies in the district of East Kisumu…new outbreak attributed to heavy rains…contamination of wells…the main sources of water for residents…aggravated the already poor sanitation in slum areas. Cholera is a serious and acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms include watery diarrhoea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment…
TIMOR-LESTE: Porous border increases avian flu risks
DILI 26th June and 2008: With little capacity to prevent avian flu from crossing the border from the neighbouring Indonesian region of West Timor, health officials fear possible outbreaks…black-market trading in oil, rice, and chickens…and cock-fighting…
PAKISTAN: Dengue fever threat in Karachi
KARACHI 1st July 2008: Dengue fever has re-emerged, with the death of…In 2007, at least 22 dengue deaths were reported in the country, most of them in the southern province of Sindh. Some, 2,600 people were reported to have been infected with the virus. Dengue fever sometimes takes the form of the more severe dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), and is a viral disease borne by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo: Monkey pox kills 22 in Equateur Region
KINSHASA 1st July 2008: An outbreak of monkey pox in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Equateur province has killed 22 of the 470 people infected since the start of 2008, according to medical officials
BURUNDI: Fatal chicken disease a blow to food source
BUJUMBURA 3rd July 2008: Food source in Burundi's Kayanza province threatened by an untreatable disease that killed more than 1,000 chickens in one commune…the disease is similar to Newcastle Disease…the result is egg-production dropped by 80%t…Health officials claimed the meat of infected chickens did not pose a threat to human health as long as it was well-cooked…and although the disease itself can be passed on to humans, the only effects are mild conjunctivitis.
Newcastle disease: a highly contagious disease of birds caused by pathogenic strains of Avian Paramyxovirus type 1 APMV-1. Virulent strains of Paramyxovirus of pigeon APMV1 can infect poultry causing Newcastle Disease. Birds affected by this disease include fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such ostriches, emus and rhea.
Conjunctivitis: inflammation of the conjunctiva – a delicate mucous membrane that covers the internal part of the eyelid and is attached to the cornea
MYANMAR: Malaria risk high in cyclone-hit delta
YANGON 24th July 2008: The risk of malaria remains high in Myanmar's cyclone-affected Ayeyarwady Delta, almost three months after Cyclone Nargis had struck the area…140,000 people killed or missing…the National Malaria Control Programme said very few cases of the mosquito-borne disease...UNICEF reported over 100…salty water inland created perfect breeding sites for Anopheles sundaicus in coastal areas, while early onset of monsoon rains created favourable breeding grounds for Anopheles dirus and minimus
BISSAU 1st August 2008: Cholera epidemic sweeping across Guinea Bissau infected 1,077 people… killed 25…leading experts asked…Cholera killed 400…infected 25,000 in 2005…
NIGER-NIGERIA: Border on high-alert for bird flu
DAKAR 4th August 2008: Bird surveillance along 1,500-kilometre border with northern Nigeria intensified after recent resurgence of bird deaths…more than 20,000 birds suspected of carrying the virus killed…northern Nigeria states reported several thousands of poultry deaths in July. Birds have been sent to laboratories in Italy to determine if the H5N1 avian flu virus is responsible.
AFRICA: TB failures threaten HIV treatment gains
MEXICO CITY 8th August 2008: Tuberculosis (TB) biggest killer of people living with HIV in Africa…but only one percent of HIV-positive people were screened for TB in 2006…oversight that threatens to roll back the gains made in placing more than three million people on life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment.COTE D'IVOIRE: Yellow fever epidemic feared as vaccinations start
ABIDJAN 12th August 2008: The Ivory Coast Ministry of Health confirmed 19 people infected with yellow fever
NIGERIA: Sickle-cell disease kills 100,000 infants every year
WHO: 200,000 infants are born with sickle-cell disease in Africa every year…with Nigeria accounting for about three-quarters of these births. 60% of the 200,000 will die
Sickle-cell disease is an incurable genetic disorder widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and among descendents of Africans worldwide; no visible symptoms…periodical severe pain and anaemia because the blood cells break down between 10-20 days…sickle-cell is particularly prevalent in areas of high malarial transmission Daniel: Malaria causes sickle-cell disease which makes the victims more vulnerable to malaria because of their weakened condition – never underestimate Mama Anopheles Mosquito
MYANMAR: Dengue fever still a risk in cyclone-hit south
KARACHI 25th August 2008: Dengue fever, also known as break-bone fever is caused by a vector-borne virus transmitted by the aedes aegypti and albopictus mosquitoes… number of dengue patients in Karachi…287…Last year, 22 deaths were reported in Sindh Province. This is the fourth consecutive year dengue has spread in Karachi…
During the Holy month of Ramadan, Moslems get together before sunrise to have their last meal before beginning their fast, and at sunset to break their fast…the increased number of people going to mosques at sunrise and sunset…anopheles mosquitoes bite most often at these times…using the mosque pond for ablutions and those fasting drink more water…
FIJI: Dengue fever outbreak
IRIN/Plus-News and Xinhua News via the Daily Star Lebanon Wed. 3rd Sept. 2008
WELLINGTON: Outbreak of Dengue fever confirmed by Medical authorities in Fiji
IRIN/Plus-News
TANZANIA: Cholera kills four in northern districts
DAR ES SALAAM 10th September 2008: Four people died and dozens were admitted to health centres in the northern Tanzanian region of Mara
IRAQ: Cholera claims five
IRIN/Plus-News
BAGHDAD 11th September 2008: Five people died in a cholera outbreak that has hit Baghdad and the southern provinces since late August and at least 22 other cases have been confirmed
SYRIA AND THE IAEA – Monkey-antics, Jitter-bug Dances, Rotten Ruses, and Run-around Ring-around-the-Roses Rigmaroles; and I TOLD YOU SO!
IAEA: Contact man's murder delays Syria nuclear probe
Gleaned from: the AFP via Yahoo! Alerts Thursday 25th 2008
Daniel: What I saw and knew and said yesterday, you have seen and heard today, and you will see and hear tomorrow; but when will those of you know and admit it?
IAEA chief Mohamed El-Baradei told a closed-door session of the IAEA/International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board that the UN atomic watchdog's probe into Syria’s illicit and covert nuclear programme(s) in Syria has been delayed because the agency's contact-man in Syria was murdered – in Syria; he did not provide any further details about the identity of the man or the circumstances of the assassination. AFP, however, managed to obtain a recording of his remarks.
Daniel: Who needs details, especially from this piece of cat-shit?
According to Arab media – The Saudi Arabia Pan-Arab daily: Al-Hayat; Al-Bawaba, the Lebanese Anti-Syrian Al-Mustaqbal, the Lebanese Daily Star and Al-Nahar – you name them, they had it – all reported on the assassination with details of who he was, and how and where and when – as for the why and by whom, only Daniel in The Lion’s Den knew. Read: 328 / 329 / 337 / 341 / 365 / 371/ 372
El-Baradei's revelation came on the fourth and final day of the IAEA’s board meeting, in which Syria was the final matter of debate. During the discussions, Western countries, and the United States and Australia in particular, complained that Syria was dragging its feet in the IAEA investigation. Washington claimed that Damascus had built a covert nuclear facility at Al-Kibar – a remote desert area near the Euphrates River in north-eastern Syria – it was bombed by Israeli planes in September 2007.
Syria denied the allegations as ridiculous, saying the edifice was simply a disused military building. Syria allowed a three-member IAEA team to visit the site in June; it has since refused any follow-up trips.El-Baradei said the IAEA was still evaluating samples taken from the site but that the IAEA inspectors have found no indications of any nuclear materials so far. He also said that Syria has not yet responded to IAEA requests for additional access to individuals, sites and information.
During the debate, the US envoy to the IAEA called for a comprehensive report by agency inspectors in time for the next board meeting in November, and that the report should provide written/typed details on the status of the investigation in Syria and Syria's co-operation with that investigation. El-Baradei replied that although the IAEA had not submitted a report, they would submit a report as and when they had enough facts and/or assessments to include in a report but that a report would be submitted as soon as possible – Daniel: My dear readers and fellow-Apes; you have heard and read a lot of Horse-shit and Farts by Asses in my postings; but have you ever heard or read such Horse-shit or Fart? If the Horse knew I used his Shit and Fart for this Shit and Fart, only Satan knows what he would do to me.
He had the nerve and the gall to insist that he was not trying to be evasive. BY GOD!
WHAT IS SYRIA UP TO NOW? Up to no good for Lebanon for sure
Original title: Syria to occupy Lebanese city – so it begins, and here we go again
United Press International (UPI) and Times-Online Via Yahoo! Alerts Wednesday 24th September 2008
DAMASCUS, Syria: Military sources: Syria plans to occupy the north Lebanese city of Tripoli. A reliable news site reported that allegedly 10,000 Syrian troops are massed on the northern Lebanese border ready to follow an advance force. The advance forces occupied seven villages around Tripoli earlier this month, the report said. A Lebanese army spokesman said Beirut had asked Damascus for clarifications and was told the measure was internal and was in no way directed against Lebanon.
Daniel: HORSE-SHIT! Bashar Al-ASS-Ad has begun his semi-final moves to cover his tracks and save his ASS! This is a message to the UN, the UNSC, the IC, and the rest of the Arab world – Iran is not Arabic; it is Persian – and especially, the International Tribunal: Lay off, or else we go back in to Lebanon; and you know what we can do with that puny little piece of land that is part of Syria, and its silly little people and their so-called leaders and politicians, and their religious leaders, too; all or almost all of them with our boots on their necks and Iran’s boots in their mouths!
One would think that the Syrians had better things to do than conduct anti-smuggling operations – especially when Damascus's friends in the Bekaa Valley are the primary or only beneficiaries of smuggling in that area.
QUEENS IN HISTORY AND QUEENS AND FEMALE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT CURRENTLY IN OFFICE – Including leaders of Self-governing External Territories
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; this is going to give all the Mad-Manic-Arab-Moslem-Male-Moron Monkeys (Apes) – Osama Bin Ladin and all the rest like him – a heart-attack (I hope), and their Rabid-Rats, Jackals, and Hyenas, the shock of their lives:
There have always been female rulers. Egyptian Queens ruled from around 3000BC and the first to be named by the sources without any doubt is Ku-baba, who ruled the Mesopotamian City-State of Ur round 2500BC.
4530BC: The Legendary Queen Eyleuka of Ethiopia: Also known as Dalukaha and, according to legend, she was one of the rulers before the Antediluvian (the flood). She succeeded king Borsa, who had ruled for 67 years, and ruled for 45 years.
2585BC: Legendary Queen Nehasset Nais of Ethiopia
2570BC: Queen Meresankh III of Egypt
2500BC: Queen Ku-Baba Azag-Bau of Kis – Ancient Mesopotamia
2334BC: High-Priestess Enheduanna of the Moon Temple – Ur, Ancient Mesopotamia. The daughter of King Sargon of the Sumerian Dynasty
1875BC: Queen Kasiopo of Kush – The Sudan
1590BC: Co-Regent Tawananna Herapscheki of the Hitite Kingdom – Ancient Turkey
Around 1472BC: Joint-Reigning Queen Jopes Cassiopeia of Jaffa, Israel.
1470BC: Joint-Queen Itey of Punt in Somalia – With King Parahu
1300BC: Queen Ninurmahmes of Ayalon (Israel)
981BC: Dowager-Queen Ishaq of Thama (Arabia)
811BC: Legendary Queen Elissa Dido of Chartaga (Tunisia)
745BC: Queen Zaire of Higaz (Arabia)
738BC: Queen Zabibe of Kedar ( Jordan)
733BC: Queen Samsil of Kedar (Jordan)
730BC: Queen Mout of the Sudan
Around 529BC: Queen Tamyris of the Massagatae Tribe (Iran) – Persia
526BC: Dowagar-Queen Pheretime of Cyrene of Salamis (Lybia)
268AD: Regnant-Queen (reigning Queen) Zenobia of Palmyra (Syria)
421-443AD: Empress Athenais-Eudokia of the Byzantine Empire (Greece and Turkey)
The above were selected from a list covering too many pages and, I could go on and on and on……but, so much for the past; now, for the current……
1952- H.M. Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Her other Realms and Territories, Defender of the Faith, and Head of the Commonwealth. Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, in each of which she is represented by a Governor-General.
1972- H.M. Queen Margrethe Alexandrine Þorhildur Ingrid II of Denmark; her motto is: with God’s help, the People’s love, and Denmark’s strength. Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces and Head of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, and The Rigsfælleskab – or Commonwealth of the Realm: the external territories of The Faero Islands and Greenland.
1980- H.M. Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands; alsoPrincess of Orange-Nassau; Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld; Marchioness of Veere and Flushing; Countess of Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Diez, Spiegelberg, Buren, Leerdam and Culemborg; Viscountess of Antwerp; Baroness of Breda, Diest, Beilstein, the city Grave and the land of Cuyk, IJsselstein, Cranendonk, Eindhoven, Liesveld, Herstal, Warneton, Arlay and Nozeroy; Hereditary and Suzerain Dame of Ameland; Dame of Borculo, Breedevoort, Lichtenvoorde, Het Loo, Geertruidenberg, Clundert, Zevenbergen, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Naaldwijk, Polanen, Sint-Maartensdijk, Soest and Baarn.
1997- President Mary Patricia McAleese Irish: Máire Pádraigín Bean Mhic Ghiolla Íosa of Ireland.
1997- Her Excellency Hon. Dr. Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy Governor General of Saint Lucia
1999- Prime Minister Hon. Helen Clark of New Zealand
2000- President Tarja Halonen of Finland
2001- Executive President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of The Philippines
2004- Prime Minister Luísa Días Diogo of Mozambique
2004- President of the General Council Nassimah Magnolia Dindar; Réunion: French Overseas Territory
2005- Governor-General Michaëlle Jean of Canada
2005- Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany2006- Executive President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia
2006- Executive President Michelle Bachelet Jeria of Chile
2006- Prime Minister Emily Saidy de Jongh-Elhage, of the Nederlandse Antillen (Self-governing Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands): Formerly Emily Saidy Elhage of Lebanese descent
2007- President Pratibha Devisingh Patil of India
2007- Executive President Cristina E. Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina
2007- Governor General Dame Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack of Antigua and Barbuda
2007- President Borjana Kristo of The Federation of Bosnia (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
2007- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of the Ukraine
2007- Premier Viveca Eriksson of Åland, Finland: (Finnish External Territory)
2008-October Captain Regent Rosa Zafferani of San Marino
2008- Governor-General Dr Quentin Bryce of Australia
First female ministersIt was not until during and just after the World War I that the first few women became members of the revolutionary governments in the Ukraine, Russia, Hungary and Ireland. Nina Henriette Wendeline Bang née Ellinger, Danish Minister for Education, was the first woman to be minister in a democratically elected parliamentary government. Nevertheless, development was slow and it was not until the end of the 20th century that female ministers stopped being unusual.
First female Prime Minister and President
In 1960, Sirivamo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female elected Premier Minister; and in 1974, María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón or Isabel Peron of Argentina became the first woman President.Today, the only two countries that never had a female member of government in at least a sub-ministerial position are Monaco and Saudi Arabia. The Vatican has got one Assistant Vice-Minister. In 1999, Sweden became the first country to have more female ministers than male: 11 women and 9 men; and in 2007 the Finish government was composed of 60% women.
Current female heads of state and government
There are 192 members of the United Nations, 2 independent states outside, a few self-declared de-facto independent states, and many self-ruling dependencies. 23 have got female leaders at the moment.
Of the monarchies, there are reigning Queens in three countries: Denmark, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; the latter is represented by female Governor-Generals in Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Canada and Saint Lucia, who function as their countries' de-facto Heads of State.
The 8 female Presidents are in Argentina, Chile, Finland, India, Ireland, Liberia, The Philippines and San Marino.At the moment there are 8 women-Prime Ministers; in Germany, Haiti, New Zealand, Moldova, Mozambique, the Netherlands Antilles, Ukraine and the Aland Islands.
OSAMA BIN LADIN – What to do with him; when – and if – he’s captured
The problem:
What can you do about Osama Bin Ladin? I mean, what do
