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Disabled girl starved to death by mother, ignored by state
I am completely outraged at this. The only person who can help this poor girl with cerebral palsy is her mother who ignores her to the point of maggot infested bedsores and starvation. While the other sibling tried to call an ambulance on multiple occasions, the mother stops them. On top of it all, it could have all been stopped if someone from the state would have just gave a shit and visited her twice a week like they were SUPPOSE to. Instead they filled out the paperwork and forgot about her. I hope this woman rots to death in prison in the same horrific way she did to her own daughter, except she deserves it and i hope the people responsible in the state are tried and convicted. I am completely outraged at this. The only person who can help this poor girl with cerebral palsy is her mother who ignores her to th... more
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Suicide Car Blast Kills 41 in Afghan Capital
A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 17 civilians, most of them children, and four police in a bazaar in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, police said.
Taliban suicide bombs have killed more than 230 civilians and wounded nearly 500 already this year, NATO says.
Afghan and foreign forces are stopping a greater proportion of the attacks but the Taliban are attempting many more suicide bombings this year compared to last, security experts say.
In the latest attack the bomber, travelling on a motorcycle, targeted a police vehicle in a bazaar in the Deh Rawood district of Uruzgan province, the provincial police chief told Reuters.
"Seventeen civilians and four policemen died in the attack. Thirty-seven more civilians and five police have been wounded," Juma Khan Himat said by telephone, adding the death toll could rise. Most of the civilian victims were children, he said.
Afghanistan is suffering from a rising tide of violence this year, with a sharp increase in Taliban attacks, especially in the east where NATO says militants have taken advantage of peace deals in Pakistan to cross the border and fight in Afghanistan.
The Interior Ministry in Kabul said 24 people, four of them police, including a senior officer, were killed in the attack.
Growing insecurity has added to the rising frustration of many Afghans more than six years after U.S.-led and Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban government after it refused to hand over al Qaeda leaders behind the September 11 attacks on the United States. A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 17 civilians, most of them children, and four police in a bazaar in southern Afghanistan on S... more -
Ingrid Betancourt Exclusive Interview: "Ma faith has saved me"
Ingrid Betancourt : "Ma foi m'a sauvée"
L'ex-otage la plus célèbre du monde s'est rendue au Sacré-cœur de Montmartre ce dimanche 6 juillet pour remercier Jésus et la Vierge Marie de sa libération.
Ingrid Beancourt, the most famous Ex-hostage in the world went to the Sacred Heart basilica in Paris, this past Sunday to thank Jesus and the Virgin Mary for her liberation
Parce qu’elle voulait tenir une promesse faite durant sa captivité
Because, she wanted to keep a promesse she made during her captivity
Parce que si je n’avais pas eu le Seigneur à mes côtés, je ne pense pas que j’aurais réussi à grandir dans la douleur. Etre otage vous place dans une situation de constante humiliation. Vous êtes victime de l’arbitraire complet, vous connaissez le plus vil de l’âme humaine.
If I had not felt God at my side, I do not believe that I would have been able to overcome such suffering. When you are an hostage, you are facing constant humiliation. You are the victim of total arbitrary. You get to know the worse there is in the human soul. Ingrid Betancourt : "Ma foi m'a sauvée" ... more -
Will Obama Get Rid Of Mugabe And End Suffering In Zimbabwe ?
"Let me be a Hitler ten-fold "
Robert Mugabe
After 28 years under the hard dicatorship of Mugabe, people in Zimbabwe have done everything they could and are begging for help.
The UN, the AU and the EU are not willing to do the job.
What would Obama do ? "Let me be a Hitler ten-fold " Robert Mugabe ... more -
Starvation claiming Ethiopia's tiniest
This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh.
Bizunesh is 3 and weighs less than 10 pounds. "There is nothing ... I beg for milk," her mother says.
The rangy 3-year-old weighs less than 10 pounds, or 4 kilograms. Her long limbs, weak and folded like a praying mantis, cannot carry even her slight weight. She cannot speak. She doesn't want to eat. Health officials say she is permanently stunted.
Bizunesh -- whose name, sadly, means "plentiful" -- is one of untold numbers of children hit by this year's double blow of a countrywide drought and skyrocketing global food prices that has brought famine, once again, to Ethiopia.
"She should be bigger than this," said her mother Zewdunesh Feltam, rocking the listless child. "Before there was maize, different kinds of food. But now there is nothing ... I beg for milk from my neighbors."
The U.N. children's agency said in a statement Tuesday an estimated 126,000 Ethiopian children urgently need food and medical care because of severe malnutrition -- and called the crisis "the worst since the major humanitarian crisis of 2003."
The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 2.7 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid because of late rains -- nearly double the number who needed help last year. An additional 5 million of Ethiopia's 80 million people receive aid each year because they never have enough food, whether harvests are good or not. This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh. ... more -
Sky Nelson - "Ngeh"
"Ngeh", talks about misery in the village. In this song, Sky Nelson is asking the question: "Who started this thing called suffering?" "Ngeh" means suffer. He portrays the degree of misery in the village and begging for people to put their heads together and seek for solutions.
Tags: Cameroon Ndu Africa suffering misery African music solutions riot Yaounde hip-hop r&b unsigned "Ngeh", talks about misery in the village. In this song, Sky Nelson is asking the question: "Who started this thing cal... more -
Un-edited statement by jailed American Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier
National Day of Mourning Statement from Leonard Peltier:
November 22, 2007
Greetings my Relations, As I sit here in my cell, thinking about you, and gathering my thoughts, I can't help but appreciate you remembering me.
I was told just the other day that people in Oklahoma protested Oklahoma's 100 year celebration of its statehood.
They protested or demonstrated and also celebrated their 100 years of survival of an adversed government that has violated all treaties and has gained control of most of their land.
I support those Indian people.
It also brings to mind those who - like Columbus came and did the same, take our lands, and also what has happened to all people all over the world- the Jews, the Palestians, as well as other indigenous countries and peoples.
Yet I have to say that America shares most of the responsibility to do the right thing.
What happened to the teachings or commandments of: Thou shall not lie Thou shall not kill Thou shall not steal
I can't remember all the commandments but what I do know is They have lied They have killed They have stolen.
They have mistreated our Mother- our Mother Earth, our rivers, our land, the air we breathe and the water we drink.
I consider global warming the wrong that has been done to our people.
Even the Mexican people state in their own way, "We did not cross the border, the border crossed us". The Mexican people are Indian people.
I have no doubt the Indian people of South America, North America, Central American will join in unison to make all the America's better.
A circle of Life is what dictates that the earth shall renew itself every spring.
We have said this for generations.
Go back and read our Elders sayings as we have been trying to tell Europeans that came here- to honor our traditional ways and to honor our Mother Earth and keep the Circle of Life.
Chief Seattle said: "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." Chief Seattle, 1855
This is just one of the many quotations from our ancestors.
Now today we have global warming.
We take no pride of solace in saying " We told you so."
But we do hope that the people of Europe and all around the world will start looking at the Native way of life.
Our Elders teach us that when we take from this earth, we must give back.
There is no greater resource on the face of this earth than our children.
America is leading in the wrongful influence of our youth.
Wrong medicine is being offered to our youth, commonly called alcohol and drugs.
It is up to each one of us, to get involved and make a difference in a positive way.
It is time to give back to our children.
I encourage each of you to take it upon yourself to stand up and find someway to help our youth.
The youth of the world are in jeopardy; let us not rob future generations of their future.
The greatest symbol of the Creator is the circle.
I encourage each of you to make the circle complete- the sacred cycle of the family, the cycle of the seasons, your personal cycle of life make them as strong as possible spiritually, mentally and physically.
Stay strong and never, never give up.
I can not say it enough or express my appreciation to each of you how much I appreciate those of you who came here today to remember me and to listen to what this prisoner has to say.
Again I simply say,
Thank you In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Leonard Peltier
#89637-132
USP Lewisburg PA
PO BOX 1000
Lewisburg ,PA 17837
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Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
Toni Zeidan-Co-director LPDC
Website:
http://www.leonardpeltier.net
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The Healing of Suffering
This paper took three years to formulate and finally put together. It is about how the basic tenets of Traditional Tibetan Medicine can help to Heal the Suffering Involved in Relational ShiftsSM. It breaks down the foundations of Tibetan Medicine, then gives my personal story of going to India to study for two months and all the practice I got in applying those techniques and applications, and then hypothesizes on how those tenets of Tibetan Medicine can be used to heal the suffering involved in Relational Shifts.
I am happy to have anyone read it and give me feedback on how it could be a better paper, but I would benefit if anyone else was able to benefit from reading it. Thank you for your interest. This paper took three years to formulate and finally put together. It is about how the basic tenets of Traditional Tibetan Medicine ca... more
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