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According to Margot Wallstrom, the vice-president of the European Commission, 1000 journalists and support staff have died trying to report the news around the world in the past 10 years.

That's an average of two a week!

Madame Wallstrom reminds us to put faces on the statistics and mentions:

"Anna Politkovskaya, Hrant Dink and Terry Lloyd"

We wonder what role Margot thinks freedom of speech plays in a democracy?

Would you vote on someone for president of the world?
Oh, if I could resuscitate someone I would vote for Gandhi, that’s the person that came in my mind, he is my idol, and I really believe in philosophy, in pacific revolution.

Is God democratic?
Well democracy was coined by human beings not God. Whenever I read the Book of Genesis which is an attempt to illustrate that God provided for our need and not for our greed …by entrusting the world to us he is a great democrat in fact. He made us human beings, stewards of his creation, we have been delegated authority and responsibility.

I cleaned our Why Democracy? del.icio.us-account today: The unbundled tags are as reduced as possible, the bundles include all currently relevant tags and the stumb-tags are deleted. Furthermore, the del.icio.us-Show Room is prepared for providing a neat Press Room about our project.

It seems everyone is watching Lars Ulrich answering the 10 questions on MySpace.

Check it out for yourself here.

A former officer in the Burma military defected and went into hiding after being ordered to shoot on Buddhist monks.

He is now fearing for his life and the life of his family.

The story is telling of the military situation in Burma.

Read the rest of the story on Al Jazeera.

The most famous hereditary politicians are probably of the Bush family in the US, but in Japan, too, 2nd or 3rd generation politicians seem to be everywhere.

The former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who surprised the world by suddenly quitting his job, is a political thoroughbred. His grandfather was Nobusuke Kishi, a prime minister, and his father Shintaro Abe was a foreign minister. His grand-uncle was Eisaku Sato, also a prime minister.