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Wikileaks Julian Assenge and his Wikileaks colleagues are heroes...

...and the survival of Wikileaks won't depend on the accusation of a CIA plant that he didn't tell her his condom broke. We admire people who struggle to tell the truth in oppressive societies despite death threats. I admire a friend in Serbia who ran the news agency Beta and told the truth about what was happening in the face of the Milosevic government's threats. But if we can admire this openness on a national level then we should admire it even more in the lawless international arena where,  ELF subsidises and promotes a Coup d'Etat in Congo Brazzeville and answers to no one for this crime. Where wars are declared without justification and hundreds of thousands die. Where a company like Exxon Mobil can destroy the environment of the coastline of Equatorial Guinea with pollution and trick the local population out of petrol billions without possibility of redress. Where Thatcher's son can help to organise an attempted coup with such alacrity, it&

Scenic pictures of pre-war Vienna

  Vienna best captured in words, in my opinion, by Stefan Zweig in his book: The World of Yesterday. Stefan Zweig

Lisa and Eve, North Beach Durban 1947

Richard Steinhardt (Grandpa) leaving on a ship to Mozambique in September 1939

Steinhardts 1935 Paris

Paula Neumann, Regina, Else and Isidor Steinhardt

Former Women Fuelwood Carriers Association - Eve Hall's project in Addis Ababa 1993

  Drawings by Edoardo di Muro, Former Women Fuelwood Carriers Association (FWFCA)  P.O. Box 2788, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA

The Bike that ate Andy's right leg at Woodley School