Peace in Gaza and Israel Now, Not Tomorrow!

Israel's PM: No truce now, time is not ripe. If rockets and bombs falling on Gazans and Israelis were olives, you'd say the time is ripe! Peace Now! Talk Now!

clipped from www.nytimes.com

The Slaves Next Door in Cincinnati

Sex and maid slaves in the Cincinnati suburbs? it's true - read on.

clipped from www.citybeat.com

The SS Dignity Rammed by Israeli Navy

Both sides of this conflict need to step back and look for peace as the answer.

clipped from www.commondreams.org Cynthia McKinney Relief Boat Hit by Israeli Ship by Craig Schneider A boat carrying international activists, including former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip sailed back into a Lebanese port on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy, organizers of the trip said. Lebanese fishermen cheer as the vessel SS Dignity arrives at Tyre, Lebanon, on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy, according to organizers of the trip. (Mohammed Zaatari / AP)

ICE Needs Light Shown on Its Bad Seeds

Read this story and you will be amazed that this fellow is still here and now a citizen! ICE under Bush League is more of a national shame, than anything to feel secure or proud about.

clipped from www.dallasnews.com Immigrant from Senegal tells of being sedated on commercial flight

Doctors without Borders reports on top human disasters/needs this past year

Our memory is still too short and when a crisis fades from the TV, many of us think it is over. Sadly, this is not true, it is just old news that so many young and old are dying or about to die.

clipped from doctorswithoutborders.org

Why is World Letting this Happen?

Why are South African nations not doing anything and USA and EU as well?

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Cholera deaths soar in Zimbabwe

The UN has warned the total number of cases could reach 60,000

Illegal Immigrants Too Long on ICE

The people talked about in this report are accused of breaking immigration regulations but are not felons. We should be able to process these people's cases without putting them in jail with felons for months and months - We'd expect that for an American citizen illegal in France or Germany - would we not?

clipped from www.milforddailynews.com Posted Dec 27, 2008 @ 11:35 PM Local Brazilian immigrant advocates agreed with the main finding of a state-wide report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which concluded that immigrant detainees spend too much time in jail.

Why The Death Penalty Is Irrevocably Wrong -- Courant.com

Why The Death Penalty Is Irrevocably Wrong -- Courant.com

U.S. De-Regulates Factory Farm Pollution

http://us.oneworld.net/article/359152-us-exempts-factory-farms-from-regulation

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (OneWorld.net) - On the heels of a decision to allow factory farms to apply for permits to discharge waste into waterways, the Bush administration on Thursday exempted the industry from reporting hazardous air emissions to the federal government, prompting a consumer group to accuse the outgoing president of undoing years of environmental protections and "putting millions of Americans at risk."

Now we know what the Bush League really thinks about the American people - undiluted cow plop is more valuable than the rest of us, or "Let them drink plop!"

AG Jerry Brown Asks California High Court to Overturn Prop. 8 | CommonDreams.org

AG Jerry Brown Asks California High Court to Overturn Prop. 8 | CommonDreams.org

The Long Wait for Women's Equality - too long

http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=PB&pubid=673

The Long Wait for Progress: Women and Economic and Social Equality Email Printer-Friendly
Beverly Goldberg, The Century Foundation, 12/18/2008
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In The Long Wait for Progress: Women and Economic and Social Equality, Century Foundation Senior Fellow Beverly Goldberg analyzes the substantial gap in wages between men and women, and then measures that gap in the context of women’s educational achievements and the continuing discrimination against women in the workplace, with attention to the impact of the issues of health and child care. This analysis of the complex and interrelated problems facing working women reveals both that women are subject to pay discrimination and that the inequities between white women and women of color are as striking as those between women and men. This new report from The Century Fo

Bird Flu kills 23rd in Egypt - Culling does Not Work!

Dec 16, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Egypt's health ministry has announced that a 16-year-old girl died of an H5N1 avian influenza infection, the country's first human case in about 8 months, according to a report today from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The girl died at Assiut University Hospital yesterday in central Egypt's Asyut governorate, the WHO reported. She got sick on Dec 8 and was admitted 3 days later to a district hospital before she was transferred to the university facility on Dec 13. She becomes Egypt's 51^st H5N1 case and its 23rd death.

She became ill after exposure to sick and dead poultry in her household, the WHO report said. The girl is from a village near the city of Asyut, the governorate's capital, Xinhua, China's state news agency, reported today.

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing by Egypt's Central Public Health Laboratory on the girl's samples was positive for the H5N1 virus, and the findings were confirmed yesterday by the US Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in Cairo, according to the WHO.

Egypt's last H5N1 case was reported in mid April when a 2-year-old boy became ill after having contact with sick and dead poultry, according to previous reports.

Animal health experts have said that the H5N1 virus is endemic in Egypt's poultry. The country has the most human avian influenza cases outside of the Asian countries that have been hardest hit by the virus.

The girl's death brings the WHO's global H5N1 count to 391 cases and 247 deaths.

Why culling does not prevent spread of bird flu

Told you all this for two years of more - think in new ways or get ready to bury millions from next flu pandemic!

clipped from uk.reuters.com "The villagers tried to hide their poultry that survived the virus," said Bishon Chowdhury, a senior local government official. "Also, many resisted because the workers arrived without spot payments for the culled birds," he said. Villagers and poultry farmers are being paid between 20 and 50 rupees (between $0.50 and $1) for each bird killed, depending on its age.

You are the person, this is the time to help to save the children

Find a way to take an individual action step to save children from war and women from rape.

clipped from www.savethechildren.net War and Peace: Perceptions from Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo Recent resurgence of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) between the Congolese army and rebel forces led by General Laurent Nkunda, has caused a major new wave of population displacement in a region that has seen nearly constant turmoil in the past ten years. Up to 300,000 internally displaced persons are flooding into existing camps or staying with families, in churches or schools. Approximately half of the displaced are said to be children.

Peace Original Art for Christmas - Check it Out!

Could be investment in peace for you and world - how about it?

clipped from www.witnessforpeace.org Calling all potential art collectors! Dozens of Witness for Peace members and friends gathered for Witness for Peace's annual Holiday Party and Silent Auction, this year at the incredible Peace Mural Exhibition in Washington, DC.  In addition to enjoying the fellowship, artwork and beautiful array silent auction items, we were spellbound by local actor/playwright Anu Yadav's powerful monologues. As part of the evening's festivities, the exhibition's artist Huong - herself a refugee from the Vietnam War - shared a moving tribute to all war refugees, providing us with a stark reminder of the importance of our continued work for peace.

Robert Hildreth: ICE wasting time, money in sweeps of workplaces | Viewpoints, Outlook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Robert Hildreth: ICE wasting time, money in sweeps of workplaces | Viewpoints, Outlook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

China culls chickens after finding bird flu virus | Agweek | Midwest farm news and ranch news

China culls chickens after finding bird flu virus | Agweek | Midwest farm news and ranch news

Asia getting ready for Lunar New Year means raising up poultry production and feeds production of new flu mutations and reinvigorates avian influenza.

Business Daily Africa - the international window into East African business opportunities - Kenya eyes lucrative carbon trade market

Business Daily Africa - the international window into East African business opportunities - Kenya eyes lucrative carbon trade market

Shame of War in Congo

What's that line from Tears of the Sun - "God left Africa a long time ago?" Seems no one is shamed enough to do anything about Congo, the Sudan, or Zimbabwe?

clipped from www.hrw.org We wish Security Council members could have been with our researchers. The sight of drugged children carrying AK-47s might convince them that they should take stronger action to end the recruitment and rape of children and hold the guilty parties accountable.

Bury My Dreams at Wounded Knee

The American Dream will forever be stained by this massacre. I hope President-elect Obama joins with them.

clipped from www.commondreams.org American Indians on the Big Foot Memorial Ride gather at Wounded Knee, S.D., on Dec. 28, 2007. This year's nearly 300-mile Big Foot Memorial Ride to remember the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre starts Monday Dec. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Carson Walker)

Bush League Races to Do as Much Harm as Possible in Name of Ideological Zeal!

The only part of this that is news, is that it took 7 plus years for this and other Inspector Generals to work up the courage to tell the truth.

Once the debacle of Katrina began, it should have been obvious to everyone that ideology not competence, being law abiding, or having common decency was the hallmark of nearly all of the Bush League helpers.

clipped from www.commondreams.org This August 2005 file photo provided by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks shows a gray wolf pup from the Calder Mountain pack along the Montana and Idaho borders west of Troy, Mont. The Bush administration is poised to remove the region's estimated 1,500 wolves from the endangered species list as soon as next week. (AP Photo/Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Kent Lauden, File)

Don' Let the Door Hit You as You Leave! Vice President of Dishonor Cheney

clipped from www.commondreams.org The Guantanamo 'war on terror' detention center should remain open indefinitely, Vice President Richard Cheney, seen here in october 2008 in Washington, DC, told ABC News in an interview Monday, while also defending the harsh interrogation method known as waterboarding. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)

IOM - Feature Stories - Child Marriage, Drug Smuggling and Forced Prostitution – An Afghan Trafficking Experience

IOM - Feature Stories - Child Marriage, Drug Smuggling and Forced Prostitution – An Afghan Trafficking Experience

The US is not to blame for the trafficking of children and women but our actions in Iraq and Afghanistan have created conditions the make it easier for those who profit from enslaving women and children. We need to make our leaders aware that the US should do all it can to end this horror not facilitate it!

Bird Flu in India Hits Another State

By relying on culling and vaccinating alone, and not looking for other solutions, India can expect more bird flu and we can expect to read of it becoming a pandemic in near future.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Fresh bird flu outbreak in India

By Subir Bhaumik BBC News, Calcutta Thousands of birds have been slaughtered in the state of Assam Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal say they have identified the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in thousands of dead chickens. Tests on poultry from two villages around Englishbazar town in the Maldah district have returned positive results, a health official said. He "few thousand" birds in the area will be slaughtered, he said. The H5N1 strain of bird flu is regarded as highly pathogenic and can also cause disease and death in humans.

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: ADC RELEASES REPORT ON HATE CRIMES AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ARAB AMERICANS

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: ADC RELEASES REPORT ON HATE CRIMES AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ARAB AMERICANS

Picasa Web Albums - Ned - Heros of Mexico

Picasa Web Albums - Ned - Heros of Mexico

Greenpeace - Donate

Greenpeace - Donate

My name is George, this is my story

From Greenpeace USA

Yesterday at 5:10pm

The Bering Sea I knew growing up is vanishing before my eyes. The local communities here are having trouble finding fish to eat so they can survive. Baby fur seals are washing onto our beaches - dying from starvation. Animals like the walrus seem to have left the area altogether. The pollock population is on the verge of collapse and, if that happens, many of the animals like fur seals and the endangered Steller sea lion will disappear along with it.