Sarkozy's Place in Sun - #1, Not Libya?

Thanks to France for pitching in to help save Libyan's effort to found a new government. Did France's President suddenly discover how wonderful was the cause of Libyan freedom after his deporting Roma and disrespecting Muslims and immigrants in general did not raise his standings in polls?



Don't know - what do you think? I am still wondering why the slaughter of women in Ivory Coast does not cause a Security Council meeting and why on Darfur continued killings and politically motivated rapes in Congo - we hear........?

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Libya crisis may save Nicolas Sarkozy from electoral humiliation

The French president certainly needs something to prevent him coming third in next year's election

It would surely be poor taste to accuse Nicolas Sarkozy of leading France into combat for purely selfish political reasons – but that won't stop some in the president's inner circle wondering if Operation Odyssey Dawn might just save the skin of a man who, a matter of days ago, seemed destined for electoral humiliation. Ever so discreetly, they will be hoping Libya can do for Sarkozy what the Falklands did for Margaret Thatcher – anoint a successful war leader deserving of re-election. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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Afghan Follies Redux - Trust Us

Vietnam. Cambodia, Afghanistan, SWAT, ????, Iraq: trust us, we will help you if you come in to be reconciled, to give up fighting us. Those saying it always mean it at first. If the government is not real and just the machine set up by the occupier, it is a promise almost always swallowed up by corruption fed by the occupier's agenda changing.



Why don't we learn, why do we believe this kind of "war" can be clean and good, why do we repeat past mistakes?



How does Captain Cat continue to do good work, in the face of such dispiriting truth? I wish her well. You should read what she has to say and think about it - then take action.

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Despatch from the moon

Last month I flew to Khost for a week, where the day after I arrived a young man blew himself up along with thirteen other people whilst he was waiting for the provincial governor to drive by.  I climbed up onto a roof and watched people fleeing the scene – faceless figures draped in blue shuffled hurriedly along a path through dun fields of sleeping maize, boys on bicycles, a man on a motorbike, patu flapping wildly behind him in dust kicked up by his wheels.

Almost two years ago to the day, I met a Maulawi and reconciled Talib, cousin of Southeastern insurgent commander Jalaluddin Haqqani (see interview here). I want to see him again, to ask how things have been going.

“We need 30-35 reconciled commanders,” they told me; I said it takes time to talk to people, to convince them. “So bring us shopkeepers with beards” was their response.

“I regret joining this process; all of my brothers regret it as well. We have received no assistance from the government, nothing that they promised. We gave up everything in Miram Shah and now we have nothing. Our six families share a single room. Read more at captaincat.typepad.com

 

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Hats off to Fukushima Fifty - Heroes!

Courage of the highest order!

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Heroes of Fukushima - 50 workers remain at Daiichi

But around 50 employees - dubbed the Fukushima 50 - have remained at the site working tirelessly around the clock to avoid possible meltdowns at three reactors at the quake-hit nuclear power plant.

They are attempting to cool down fuel rods at three reactors by injecting seawater into them.

Despite wearing protective clothing, experts say there will be negative effects to their health as a result of the radiation levels. Read more at www.nzherald.co.nz

 

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Fox News Hoaxes Fox Viewers

How good are fact checkers at Fox News? Not so good - can't tell Pakistani humor from real news. Does Fox News care if they run false news? When they get caught but otherwise - not so much?

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Silly Fox. Trix are for Kids.

Yesterday, Fox News proved yet again that it’s a credible (*cough*) news source by publishing a story they thought was real news. The article ran on the Fox Nation website with this title, “Pakistan: Islamic Clerics Protest Women Wearing Padded Bras as ‘Devil’s Cushions,’” noting (via Salon),

But how hard is it to fact-check or even just click through a source’s website?

The stories published in Roznama Jawani might only be applicable and true in another universe. That universe might be parallel to this universe. Might even be serial. Who knows?! Maybe some one does. Read more at changinguppakistan.wordpress.com

 

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Palestinian/Israeli One Voice Works!

In the midst of all the reported violence of the extremes on both sides and taking more Palestinian land, there are still Palestinians and Israelis working together for peace.

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OneVoice Palestine activists attending West Bank unity rallies

OneVoice Palestine's Ezzeldin Masri addresses demonstrators at al-Manara Square in Ramallah.

OVP's Abdullah Hamarshe joins demonstrators in Ramallah's al-Manara Square. Read more at blog.onevoicemovement.org

 

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: Universal Soldier Video Live & Lyrics

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Universal Soldier Video Live & Lyrics: "I wanted it to get people out of their classrooms and onto their feet. But certain things I have to say are pitched at too high a level to b..."

McCarthy-wannabe-Peter King fact? Oops!

I recall watching (I was a little kid) Senator Joe McCarthy shouting that he had a list of thousands of Reds Commies not Boston or Cincinnati) working for the US State Department - and waved sheets of paper that turned out to be blank and no list ever showed up. If King wanted to do anything other than scapegoat Muslims to get votes and campaign donations, he would investigate the growth of hate groups in the US of all different strips in an effort to figure out if there is anything the Congress could do anything different to better protect the country.



Fact checking is something everyone needs to do these days since so many have figured no one is doing that and lying to push their ideology or finances.

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The Screaming Hypocrisy of Congressman Peter King

Mark Potok

Yesterday, in the opening statement of his hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) claimed that his political dog-and-pony show was not Islamophobic because “not one terror-related case in the last two years involved neo-Nazis” or other domestic groups.

precisely one day before King made his eyebrow-raising claim, law enforcement officials arrested a long-time neo-Nazi in what is undeniably a “terror-related case” — the attempted mass murder of up to 1,500 Martin Luther King Jr. Day marchers in Spokane, Wash.

on the very day that

you were opening your

attack

on Muslims

tate and federal law enforcement authorities arrested five people in the area around Fairbanks, Ala., and charged them in connection with a plot to kidnap or kill a local judge and state troopers. Read more at www.splcenter.org

 

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Shoot Polar Bears for Trophies? For Real

This idiot wants to make it legal for his friends and him to go to Canada and shoot unarmed Polar Bears and then import them to US to stick on the wall, in their bathroom or what ever. Really a crime against nature. Tell him where to stick his proposal.

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To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada.

Rep. Donald Young [R-AK](no cosponsors) Read more at www.govtrack.us

 

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Sgt. York, Secret Afghan Cyber Warrior?

$200 million of your tax dollars are being spent to try and influence the Afghanistan conflict by a few contractors pretending to be dozens of different Taliban, Taliban sympathizers, and other Afghans who oppose efforts of Afghan government and NATO.



What if everyone in a 100 person chat room or network is actually two guys - one a NATO contractor and the other a Taliban contractor and living in the same hotel in a rich Kabul suburb? And they figure this out but continue the game because the money is pretty good.



Grin. And people want to cut money from NPR? Ha, ha, ha - as the two contractors nod to each other on the way to the bank.

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Operation Earnest Voice Part III

US Army's top secret psyops initiative aimed at the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online personas. This $200 million CENTCOM programme was first developed for use in Iraq and is now said to be targeted at countering Taliban propaganda in Afghanistan.

One can imagine how easy it would be to influence events via Twitter, for example, where people tend to follow particular hashtags. Astute tweeting on a popular hashtag by a lot of personas acting in unison could easily be used to divert people away from what was really happening. Read more at circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com

 

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Humans Killing Bees? Seems Likely

Many flowering plants that bees depend upon being wiped out due to human induced climate change - check.



Pesticides - check.



Genetically Modified plants - check.



This will end up killing? Planet? Could be.

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Bees Under Bombardment

• Increasing use of chemicals in agriculture, including 'systemic insecticides' and those used to coat seeds, is being found to be damaging or toxic to bees. Some can, in combination, be even more potent to pollinators, a phenomenon known as the 'cocktail effect' Read more at www.unep.org

 

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Over drugged poultry may kill us

New study coming out will show again that factory farming and overuse of drug on poultry is producing bacteria that can kill us because they are resistant to medicines used to fight bacteria harmful to humans. I don't know if buying local will help. Not eating poultry products sold on mass market might help and just not eating poultry and eggs can certainly help protect you and the planet. Industrial poultry farming is unhealthy for everyone: poultry, people and the planet. It is producing superbugs and avian influenza and perhaps the next mass killing pandemic.

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Drug-resistant bacteria: To humans from farms via food

“Show us the science that use of antibiotics in animal production is causing this antibiotic resistance,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Council

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Chickens, chicken meat and humans in the Netherlands are carrying identical, highly drug-resistant E. coli — resistance that is apparently moving from poultry raised with antibiotics, to humans, via food.

The case has been proven on the population level: populations of chickens, collections of chicken meat, populations of humans. If you look at the 30 years of research on this question, it’s been proven time and time again. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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BP Board Meeting Dinner - Dead Dolphin

Not on the nightly news or first in your mind anymore but cannot be ignored by people who love and live on the Gulf. See this BP? When do you ever feel ashamed of what you do to make a buck?

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Death of a Dolphin Sparks Anger in the Gulf

The BP oil disaster put a huge dent in Capt Lori’s dolphin-watching business, but now it’s personal. Recently she watched over a young adult male dolphin that had washed up on the sandy shores of Orange Beach, lying motionless with its mouth agape.

Many on the Gulf like Capt. Lori think they know already. “The oil is toxic, and it’s even more so with all the dispersant they sprayed out there. Anytime you have that much oil in the water you should expect to be collecting dead fish and animals. Nothing will stop this from rearing its ugly head for years to come.” Read more at switchboard.nrdc.org

 

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No Oil, No Help, No Rush, Women Die!

All eyes on Libya - they need help but women in Ivory Coast being gunned down. Secretary Clinton deplored but no ships deployed? No oil just chocolate?

Amplify’d from globalvoicesonline.org

Sadness and anger are just some of the feelings being shared by Ivorians netizens and others in the wake of the attack. Here are some of the reactions from social microblogging network Twitter, sent to the hashtag being used for the unrest, #civ2010. Read more at globalvoicesonline.org

 

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Drug Addicted Factory Farms - Killing Us

Factory farming resembles automobile factories millions of defects and producing dangers that can kill as well as sicken us and the planet. The really dumb part - put drugs into feed and sick animals may not get the protection they need and fitter animals overdose on drugs in feed. The resulting "super-bugs" may kill off humans and herds when an oops unexpected new bacteria or virus is "manufactured."

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Ag antibiotic use: Risky — but also sloppy and wasteful

So, to sum up: It’s always been clear that indiscriminate use of antibiotics in agriculture leads to costs outside farms, in environmental contamination and in development of drug-resistant bacteria. What this analysis shows is that antibiotic over-use has costs on the farm as well. It’s inefficient, it wastes drugs and money, and it doesn’t necessarily do what it is intended to do.

So why keep doing it? Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Friday Congress Follies

Remember, "Don't think twice, it's all right?"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGKIGpD1tk). When it comes to making or proposing laws, instead of songs, maybe these folks should think twice to make it right? Well, maybe they should just go home and leave us be.



Hard to believe but true - take a look.

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Don’t Think Twice – When You Propose a Law?

It is Friday, so maybe that is why there are stranger than strange laws proposed today by real members of the US Congress. But… Well, read a few summaries with my comments first.

Another guy wants to bring back the Confederacy - I guess. Wants to amend the US Constitution to make us the Disunited States of America

Drill Baby Drill – BP Support Bill? Not making this up; this guy is for real.

If any country every votes against our position in UN – screw them – no assistance ever! Read more at nedhamson.wordpress.com

 

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Mimi unplugged - saying what you are thinking - Lol!

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I have a few things to say. This is Mimi unplugged.

Hide your children.

If Kadafi  would pull a Mubarak and Mubarak would fly in the proposed no-fly zone - all problems solved!

Does this make sense to you?   All the teachers in Providence, Rhode Island were given pink slips but Rush Limbaugh still has a job.

Mexican border mayhem: Please, for the love of God, stop supplying weapons to Mexican drug dealers from my corner of the globe. I am ashamed.

To Mr. Webster! Please! I have seen exactly 23 ways to spell the Libyan leader's name in the last 24 hours. Somebody call it.

To Charlie Sheen:   Go directly to Rehab. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 Read more at mimiwrites.blogspot.com

 

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War and Incompetence (?) Eating Pakistan from Inside Out?

Heavy doses of politics, "bravado" sectarians, high unemployment, rage, intolerance, constant "war," no experienced democratic leadership and on and on and on = people acting out movie scenes from their own wannabe life films.

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Another Islamabad Assassination

AFP/Express: Relatives see the bullet-riddled car.

On Wednesday, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Minority Affairs was shot dead in Islamabad. According to news agencies, Shahbaz Bhatti, the only Christian member of the Federal Cabinet, was on his way to work “when unknown gunmen riddled his car with bullets.” Al Jazeera English noted that Bhatti’s driver was also wounded in the attack, and correspondent Kamaal Hyder reported, “They asked the driver to get out of the vehicle and then peppered the minister with bullets…He was on his way to a cabinet meeting.” Read more at changinguppakistan.wordpress.com

 

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Long-term deficit talk is a smoke screen to not help 24 million out of work, cut health care, savage minimum wage, and bust unions! http://amplify.com/u/bs0tk

100,000 for rights of working people - Madison, WI

Can you hear us now? We, said we would negotiate but you can't take away our rights to free speech and association!

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More than 100,000 Rally in Wisconsin

On a snowy Wisconsin Saturday over 100,000 union members, working families, community members, faith leaders, activist groups and concerned citizens gathered in Madison to tell Gov. Walker to stop the attacks on the middle class and kill the bill.  Read more at blog.aflcio.org

 

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Vaccinate to save the children!

Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. It's safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe, it is safe.

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Measles: A bracing reminder on vaccines

The measles outbreak at a Back Bay office building this week is a reminder that the disease is still a threat. Fortunately, a simple immunization can prevent its spread. Now that the only study linking autism and childhood vaccination has been thoroughly discredited, parents can rest easy when protecting their children against a potentially fatal disease. Read more at www.boston.com

 

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Got a scary medical diagnosis? Is it real or is it the one making money?

Too crass a description? Read this story by a nationally known writer about healthcare and how she found that she probably got treatment for more than 25 years for something she may not have really had!

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Guess Who Has Been Over-Treated For More Than Twenty Five Years?

When I was in my twenties, I was diagnosed with glaucoma

A friend recommended an ophthalmologist who, I was told, was one of the best in the city.

Over a period of years, I saw Dr. X regularly, and continued to use the eye drops, morning and night.

Ultimately a friend who is an M.D. recommended a new ophthalmologist, a young man from India

Dr.Z asked

“What makes you think you have glaucoma?”

I’ll report back and let you know what happens. But at this point, I’m fairly certain that I don’t have glaucoma. Read more at www.healthbeatblog.com

 

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The people who voted to kill your children and grandchildren - listed below

These representatives want to trust the companies who have already poisoned generations of kids to now kill your kids and grandchildren with lead, mercury and dioxin. Mark the name of your representative and send him a note about what you think of the vote.

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Mercury and Toxic Pollution Hall of Shame: Meet The Members of Congress That Sided With Corporate Polluters Over Children and Your Health

For the first time in the forty-year history of the Clean Air Act, a majority of the House of Representatives has voted to block EPA from implementing and enforcing standards to sharply reduce mercury and other toxic air emissions from a polluting industry.

Mercury and lead both are dangerous neurotoxins – brain poisons – that harm the developing brains of children and fetuses. Dioxins are known human carcinogens linked to birth defects, reproductive abnormalities, and lung and breast cancer. Arsenic is a known human carcinogen linked to lung and kidney cancer and PCBs are probable human carcinogens linked to liver cancer. Read more at switchboard.nrdc.org

 

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Organize! If you are Latino, Black, Native, Female, or Union American!

Those who want to enslave you, reassert elitism, and exert complete sway over America will never give up. The only way to keep this nation free and democratic is to organize to vote for freedom and democracy. If you have "recall" rights in your state - exercise then now and get ready for next election. Those who sat out the 2010 races, do so again and you may not have another chance to be free and equal again.

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The Supreme Court's Failure To Protect Civil Rights

After the Civil War, the United States seemed poised to grant equal rights to African-Americans. But the Supreme Court's rulings in the late 19th century kept African-Americans segregated for decades, says constitutional scholar Lawrence Goldstone. Read more at www.npr.org

 

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Remember Polio - I do. If you don't vaccinate, you may know it too.

Millions live today without having to fear many diseases because of past vaccination campaigns. Blindly fearing vaccinations out of love and fear for your your children can cause more harm for all children. Life is not easy and there are no guarantees but without vaccinations many children will die or be permanently harmed by what could have been prevented.

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As a child of the 1950s I well remember a time when American kids by the tens of thousands were still being crippled – and sometimes killed – by polio. In the 1950s, the fear of polio was palpable across the nation.

There were hospital wards filled with polio-paralyzed children trapped in iron lungs (a grim technology many younger adults have no memory of), which were used to keep them alive.

See more at afludiary.blogspot.com

 

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Animals on Drugs Could Kill Us but There Is Something We Could Do

Listen to a microbiologist who is also a member of Congress rather than company hacks and make-believe, science dummies in Congress. Take steps to prevent further help by industrialized big company agriculture to foster bacteria resistant to medical treatment and harmful unto death to people.

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News break: Slaughter will reintroduce PAMTA

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Congress’s only microbiologist, said late today that she plans shortly to reintroduce PAMTA, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, a timely move given the collapsing antibiotic market (see this morning’s post) and continuing reports of resistance moving off farms (as in this post).

PAMTA would direct the FDA to re-examine its approvals of veterinary antibiotics that are close analogs of ones used in humans, because they can stimulate the development of resistant organisms. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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Dumb n Dumber take over Arizona state government! Want guns on campus!

Are there not sane people in Arizona - who will go to the Capitol and tell these legislators to get real? Have they all been standing too long in the sun without a hat on?

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Arizona Senate Seeks to Loosen Gun Laws on Campuses

Early this January, a 22-year-old former Arizona community college student named Jared Lee Loughner walked into the parking lot of a grocery store near Tucson, took out a gun and shot nineteen people—six of them fatally.

Now the Arizona State Senate is considering a law that would make it easier to carry a concealed weapon onto the state’s college campuses—including Loughner’s own alma mater, Pima Community College. Read more at www.wiretapmag.org

 

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Most Dangerous Places to Live? Mega-Pig Farm or BP Oil Refinery? Pig Farm May Be Worse!

Read the article - I recommend it!

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Giant pig farms: Antibiotic resistance is not the only problem

University of North Carolina associate professor Steven Wing.

details the acute physical symptoms experienced by North Carolina residents who live in areas near very large hog farms: eye irritation, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, sore throat and nausea. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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BP your death dealing management is still killing dolphins

BP is looking for $5 a gallon gas to fill its coffers while people on the Gulp Coast see BP killing ways still washing up on their shores. BP should be criminally prosecuted for marine murder!

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Infant dolphins dying in high numbers

GULFPORT -- Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are finding. Read more at www.sunherald.com

 

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Dreams of Peace and Freedom in Afghanistan

Dreams - thankfully - no nothing of borders and reach from mind to mind with a swiftness that defies miles between the dreamers.

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We Will Rise

We will rise like a bird in the blue sky of Afghanistan to bring peace We will shine like a star in the dark sky of Afghanistan to bring brightness We will rise like a sun to cover the darkness We will stand like a stable mountain to reach our goals  We will plant like a gardener to raise our children  We will fall like a drop of rain to water our homeland  We will raise our hands to accomplish our dreams By Pakiza Read more at www.awwproject.org

 

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Any questions about venomous Arizona Atmosphere?

Kill a nine-year- old just cause she was there when you were trying to steal money to fund your anti-alien Minutemen??? Spin this away - not.

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Vigilante Found Guilty of Murder in Arizona; Could Face Death Penalty

Shawna Forde (left) was convicted in the murder of 9-year-old Bricenia Flores (right) and her father Raúl Flores. (Via New America Media)

PHOENIX, Ariz.—Shawna Forde, the founder of a vigilante border group, could face the death penalty after she was found guilty on Monday of killing 9-year-old Bricenia Flores and her father Raúl Flores in 2009.  The jury began deliberations on Tuesday on whether or not to impose capital punishment. Read more at news.feetintwoworlds.org

 

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Afghanistan: Time for everyone to come home in peace?

1939-1945 - that's almost 6 years to fight an actual world war. 2001-2011 US and allied nations fighting in Afghanistan. Something wrong with this picture? Read what this former elected official in Germany has to say after visiting/researching Afghanistan since 1980. Maybe has has learned something that Americans, as well as Germans need to know.

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Why Germany Must End its Deployment in Afghanistan

A Commentary by Jürgen Todenhöfer

The first lie says we're there to fight international terrorism.

The second lie is that we're there to defend our civilization's values.

The third lie is that we prioritize civilian reconstruction over military activities.

The fourth lie is that we're in the Hindu Kush to prevent the return of the Taliban for good. Read more at www.spiegel.de

 

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Montgomery, Alabama is for you on Saturday - if you want to return to racism!

Post racial America? Not in Montgomery, Alabama on Saturday! They will be telling lies and yearning for times when no one even thought about Black-American voting but wanted to hang on to getting 3/4 of a person "credit" for Black-Americans when figuring seats in Congress and then decided to try and have a slavery country of their own.



Free speech - sure but I want them to hear that I think they are fools and not to be fully trusted - still.

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Defending the Antebellum South, Neo-Confederates To March on Montgomery, Ala., Saturday

This coming Saturday, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is holding a major event to honor the sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, of the beginning of the Civil War. The festivities will “commemorate” events that most Americans see as a terribly dark period in American history: “the founding of the Confederate States of America, the inauguration of Jefferson Davis and the raising of the first Confederate Flag. Read more at www.splcenter.org

 

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Both Sides Now: It Is Long Past Time to End this Afghan War; Is It Not?

Regardless of what your intentions are - the result is that children die and are maimed. Time to stop - no?

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The price paid by children for the conflict in Afghanistan

A UN report on children and armed conflict in Afghanistan makes very sad reading. It shows, for example, how children have been used by anti-government elements for suicide bombings and planting explosives, or recruited to the Afghan National Security Forces, despite official government policy banning such practices. The report also sheds light on the detention of children for alleged association with armed groups, on the number of children killed or maimed by suicide attacks and on sexual violence committed by armed groups against boys and girls. Read more at circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com

 

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