In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell --
Monday, November 29, 2010
Putin’s new economic (pipeline) design for Europe
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is in Germany once again, for a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. His working visit will last two days: November 25-26. The entire European Union (EU) and the rest of Europe are watching this visit particularly closely. This is always the case when Moscow and Berlin are planning to redesign the architecture of Europe.
Russian Oil and Gas Challenges
The agenda for their talks is interesting indeed. Putin and Frau Chancellor will discuss construction work on Nord Stream (half the gas pipeline – 699 km – has been laid to date), the volume of gas supplies to Germany and the EU (France, Denmark and the Netherlands are already discussing an increase), Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), a new EU-Russia partnership treaty and bringing the introduction of visa-free travel forward. Finally, the two leaders need to shed light on relations between the German energy giant, E.ON Ruhrgas and Russia’s Gazprom. E.ON Ruhrgas has a 15.5% stake in Nord Stream and owns 3.5% of the shares in Gazprom. There were reports that E.ON Ruhrgas was planning to sell its share for $4-4.4 billion. The European corridor into the WTO A couple of days before Putin’s visit, Moscow and the EU finally agreed the terms of Russia’s WTO entry. This is a goal Russia has spent 17 years pursuing: since 1993 when it officially applied for WTO accession. Merkel and Putin have yet to agree the details regarding the “the lines of conduct.” Officially, “the European corridor” will open at the EU-Russia summit in Brussels on December 7. Russia reached a similar agreement with the United States in September.
Any of the WTO’s 153 members have the right to veto the entry of a new applicant. Georgia has thus far withheld its signature. Berlin stands to gain by “persuading” Tbilisi to change its position because WTO membership simplifies trade and relations with the world’s energy and raw materials’ superpower. From Lisbon to Vladivostok: Europe’s Economy These blueprints contain five major points: 1. Forming a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok; 2. A common industrial policy based on the integration of Russia’s and the EU’s technological and resource potentials; 3. Developing equitable and balanced relations between energy suppliers, consumers and transit countries. This is in fact the gist of the new energy treaty that Russia proposed; 4. Putting European science and education in a leading position through close partnership; 5. Eliminating visa requirements as the first step towards the real integration of Russia and the EU, rather than leaving it till last. This plan is so immense and innovative that it will be some time before Europe embraces it. At any rate, Russia’s vision for how its cooperation with the EU should develop is now clear.more
Sunday, November 28, 2010
White Poverty Statistics in the U.S.
‘WE are to be family so F-ING ACT LIKE IT
if they are hungry feed them , if they are clothless cloth them , if they are jobless help them out’
thank you Hayden
Friday, November 26, 2010
Why are families made to live this way in the Once great USA.
Hulu - Harlan County USA - Watch the full feature film now.
Here we are in the United States of America and we have hard working families slaving to provide for their families and help provide for all of us in many ways.
The United States can give money hand over fist to lets say Haiti which looks basically the same as it always has or even Hurricane Katrina and these hard working white families are made to live like this. It's completely unforgivable. The video below is just part of what these as many greedy people will or would call them 'white trash', which they aren't.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
California Leads in Hate Crimes, Crimes against Whites not mentioned.
Funny how when a lone white is attacked by lets say a
group of Latinos or blacks that is not called a ‘hate crime’ basically
with all the alphabet groups and the Government it’s like Whites aren’t
considered an Ethnic Group or race.
In fact when a white is attacked or killed by said group etc, notice the ethnicity of the attacker is not mentioned or it’s not ‘head line news’ such as the mentioned stories had. Why is that? Whatever the answer is it’s not right. Shera~
California, New York and New Jersey continue to lead other states in hate crime statistics. According to figures from the annual FBI report released Monday, hate crimes have declined nationally, decreasing by 13 percent in 2009, but these three states continue to have the highest rates.
Fatal hate crime cases such as the beating of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pa., gained national attention. Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was walking with his white girlfriend when he was attacked and beaten to death by a group of white teenagers in 2008. Another case that made national headlines was that of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant who was beaten by a group of teenagers near a Long Island train station in 2008.
But national media attention does not seem to have changed the reality in areas with high Latino populations.
According to the FBI report, California had more reported hate crime incidents last year than any other state, with 1,015 cases. New York followed with 626 and New Jersey with 549 cases. Despite these figures, the states have seen declines in the numbers of hate crimes compared to 2008, when there were 1,381 cases in California, 744 cases in New York, and 570 in New Jersey.
Congress defines a hate crime as a criminal offense against a person or their property, motivated, in whole or part, by a bias against race, religion, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
In California, most of the hate crimes were racially motivated, with 453 cases. This was followed by hate crimes based on sexual orientation (222), religion (194), ethnicity (142) and disability (four cases).
However, the high number of reported cases in California could also be a sign that more people in the state are coming forward to report the crimes.
Ty Cobb, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign, told La OpiniĆ³n that the numbers are higher in California, New York and New Jersey because there is “higher awareness and education about what hate crimes are, as reported and investigated. There is a preparation to identify.”more
In fact when a white is attacked or killed by said group etc, notice the ethnicity of the attacker is not mentioned or it’s not ‘head line news’ such as the mentioned stories had. Why is that? Whatever the answer is it’s not right. Shera~
California, New York and New Jersey continue to lead other states in hate crime statistics. According to figures from the annual FBI report released Monday, hate crimes have declined nationally, decreasing by 13 percent in 2009, but these three states continue to have the highest rates.
Fatal hate crime cases such as the beating of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pa., gained national attention. Ramirez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was walking with his white girlfriend when he was attacked and beaten to death by a group of white teenagers in 2008. Another case that made national headlines was that of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant who was beaten by a group of teenagers near a Long Island train station in 2008.
But national media attention does not seem to have changed the reality in areas with high Latino populations.
According to the FBI report, California had more reported hate crime incidents last year than any other state, with 1,015 cases. New York followed with 626 and New Jersey with 549 cases. Despite these figures, the states have seen declines in the numbers of hate crimes compared to 2008, when there were 1,381 cases in California, 744 cases in New York, and 570 in New Jersey.
Congress defines a hate crime as a criminal offense against a person or their property, motivated, in whole or part, by a bias against race, religion, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
In California, most of the hate crimes were racially motivated, with 453 cases. This was followed by hate crimes based on sexual orientation (222), religion (194), ethnicity (142) and disability (four cases).
However, the high number of reported cases in California could also be a sign that more people in the state are coming forward to report the crimes.
Ty Cobb, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign, told La OpiniĆ³n that the numbers are higher in California, New York and New Jersey because there is “higher awareness and education about what hate crimes are, as reported and investigated. There is a preparation to identify.”more
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Asylum seekers harm Zimbabwe’s image
by Wadzanai Mhombera
FOR the last 10 or so years, many Zimbabweans have sought asylum in the United Kingdom.
Reasons put forward being that their lives were in danger, politically that is. That Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe were persecuting them. That if they return to Zimbabwe they will be maimed, tortured, raped, persecuted, killed and murdered by the Zanu-PF government.
Some have even appeared on international news agencies like CNN, BBC and Sky News claiming that Zimbabwe, their motherland where their relatives remained, was a no-go area for them.
I remember one former ZBC sports journalist who was quoted saying there was genocide in Zimbabwe. Some even went to the extent of engaging lawyers to ensure they got asylum status in the UK.
The right of asylum or political asylum, is an ancient judicial notion, under which a person persecuted for political opinions or religious beliefs in his or her own country may be protected by another sovereign authority, a foreign country or church sanctuaries.
The question I wish to put forward is: was it ever necessary for Zimbabweans to seek asylum? Was there ever genocide in Zimbabwe in the last 10 years? Was Zimbabwe ever on fire that it was uninhabitable?
If one says yes to these questions, why is that most of us remained here without seeking asylum and refugee status elsewhere? Why is that those who sought and got asylum in the UK left their parents, loved ones and relatives in Zimbabwe?
Why is it that they continued to communicate with them and some sent them money which indeed would arrive safely in a nation with ‘genocide’? Some even sent money which was used by those who remained to build houses. Would this had been possible in a country where there was chaos and people were being maimed as the asylum seekers portray in their applications for asylum in the UK?
I wish to put it forward that asylum seekers have to some extent destroyed this country through blatant lies. These people should not have the privilege of being called Zimbabweans. They lied against this country so as to get residence in the UK and other European countries.
What baffles the mind is that most of these asylum seekers left their parents in Zimbabwe. Why would they turn their backs on their parents and leave them to be ‘maimed’ by Zanu PF? I have had the opportunity of meeting one asylum seeker and I discovered something very disturbing. When one gets asylum status in the UK, he or she is not allowed to visit or return to Zimbabwe. If he visits Zimbabwe, his status will be revoked with the UK Home Office arguing that such a visit would mean it is safe for the asylum seeker to return to Zimbabwe.
So what these brothers and sisters of us do when they visit Zimbabwe is they touch down in South Africa, say at OR Tambo International Airport where their passports will be stamped, they will then enter Zimbabwe illegally through bribing officials at ports of entry.MORE
FOR the last 10 or so years, many Zimbabweans have sought asylum in the United Kingdom.
Reasons put forward being that their lives were in danger, politically that is. That Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe were persecuting them. That if they return to Zimbabwe they will be maimed, tortured, raped, persecuted, killed and murdered by the Zanu-PF government.
Some have even appeared on international news agencies like CNN, BBC and Sky News claiming that Zimbabwe, their motherland where their relatives remained, was a no-go area for them.
I remember one former ZBC sports journalist who was quoted saying there was genocide in Zimbabwe. Some even went to the extent of engaging lawyers to ensure they got asylum status in the UK.
The right of asylum or political asylum, is an ancient judicial notion, under which a person persecuted for political opinions or religious beliefs in his or her own country may be protected by another sovereign authority, a foreign country or church sanctuaries.
The question I wish to put forward is: was it ever necessary for Zimbabweans to seek asylum? Was there ever genocide in Zimbabwe in the last 10 years? Was Zimbabwe ever on fire that it was uninhabitable?
If one says yes to these questions, why is that most of us remained here without seeking asylum and refugee status elsewhere? Why is that those who sought and got asylum in the UK left their parents, loved ones and relatives in Zimbabwe?
Why is it that they continued to communicate with them and some sent them money which indeed would arrive safely in a nation with ‘genocide’? Some even sent money which was used by those who remained to build houses. Would this had been possible in a country where there was chaos and people were being maimed as the asylum seekers portray in their applications for asylum in the UK?
I wish to put it forward that asylum seekers have to some extent destroyed this country through blatant lies. These people should not have the privilege of being called Zimbabweans. They lied against this country so as to get residence in the UK and other European countries.
What baffles the mind is that most of these asylum seekers left their parents in Zimbabwe. Why would they turn their backs on their parents and leave them to be ‘maimed’ by Zanu PF? I have had the opportunity of meeting one asylum seeker and I discovered something very disturbing. When one gets asylum status in the UK, he or she is not allowed to visit or return to Zimbabwe. If he visits Zimbabwe, his status will be revoked with the UK Home Office arguing that such a visit would mean it is safe for the asylum seeker to return to Zimbabwe.
So what these brothers and sisters of us do when they visit Zimbabwe is they touch down in South Africa, say at OR Tambo International Airport where their passports will be stamped, they will then enter Zimbabwe illegally through bribing officials at ports of entry.MORE
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
“I am a racist,” Kuaygong yelled. “I hate white people,”
“I am a racist,” Kuaygong yelled. “I hate white people,”
A man accused of declaring himself a racist and punching a neighbor was charged Tuesday with committing a hate crime — more than three weeks after he was arrested.
Thod T. Kuaygong surrendered early Oct. 23 after screaming anti-white sentiments from behind a locked door for 30 minutes, according to a police report.
He continued his tirade on the drive to jail and while being booked.
Officers at the time cited Kuaygong on suspicion of committing a hate crime on top of the assault — turning what would have been a misdemeanor into a felony.
But the hate crime accusation disappeared when he was formally charged Oct. 25.
It reappeared Tuesday.
Kuaygong is the second suspect to face a hate crime charge in 2010, despite more than 30 reported hate crimes recorded by Lincoln police so far this year.He faces a felony punishable by as many as five years in prison.
Lancaster County Chief Deputy Attorney Joe Kelly said his office restored the charge after he asked his prosecutor and the investigator to take a closer look at the case.
“It’s filed the way it is now because the investigation supports those charges,” Kelly said. “The facts we know of support those charges.”
Last month, Police Chief Tom Casady — addressing the gap between reported hate crimes and formal charges — acknowledged they’re hard to prove in court. The 35-year-old man in the other unit told police he reached out to shake hands, but Kuaygong called him a “white bastard” and punched him in the left eye, knocking him back into his apartment.
“I am a racist,” Kuaygong yelled.
“I hate white people,” he told police.more
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
With a tear in the Hunters eye they are searching for those that helped build Americas science and technology
The subjects of their life’s work — people with Nazi ties who lied on
citizenship forms to enter the United States after World War II — are
dead or dying. Current and former OSI employees say the unit is racing
to extradite the few elderly Nazis still residing on American soil.
Jonathan Drimmer, the lead trial lawyer in the government’s case against
Demjanjuk, said that Demjanjuk’s expulsion is “a coda on a generation
of work to bring major Nazi war criminals to justice.”
Since the OSI began operations in 1979, it has won deportation orders against 107 people and prevented 180 more from entering the United States through its watch list. Yet it remains to be seen how the close-knit group of lawyers and historians, accustomed to combing document-rich archives in the Eastern Bloc for clues, will recast its mission from capturing Nazis to catching criminals who fled murderous conflicts in such diverse places as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. The OSI focuses on revoking the citizenship of Americans who entered the country on false pretenses by lying about their involvement in war crimes, rather than targeting wrongdoers based overseas. more
“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became in some small measure a safe haven for persecutors as well,” says the 600-page document. The New York Times obtained a copy of the report, which the National Security Archive, a private group, posted on its website. Earlier, the Justice Department had declared dozens of pages from the document off-limits to the public after the archive sued to get it.
The long-secret report provided new details of many of the major cases handled by Justice’s Office of Special Investigations. The report reflects the ways in which American officials, who were assigned to recruit foreign scientists after World War II, circumvented President Harry S. Truman’s order that they not bring in Nazi Party members or people who had actively supported Nazi militarism.
Arthur Rudolph, one of hundreds of scientists brought to the United States after the war, told investigators in 1947 of attending a hanging during the war of inmates accused of sabotage at a plant near Nordhausen, Germany, where Rudolph was operations director. The plant he ran manufactured V-2 rockets using slave labor. U.S. immigration officials knew Rudolph had been a Nazi party member.
The report also details a discussion at the CIA over whether former Nazi party member Otto Von Bolschwing should acknowledge his Nazi past if confronted about it when applying for U.S. citizenship. Reversing earlier CIA advice, the agency concluded that Bolschwing should tell the truth. The agency hired Bolschwing during the Cold War for his contacts among ethnic Germans and Romanians.
According to portions of the report that were deleted by the Justice Department:
_The department established in 1997 that Switzerland had bought gold from the Nazis that had been taken from Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
_Meetings in 2000 in which U.S. officials pressured Latvian officials to pursue Nazis were “a hideous failure.”
_In hopes of establishing whether Dr. Joseph Mengele, known as the Angel of Death at Auschwitz, was dead, a director of the Office of Special Investigations kept in his desk a piece of scalp thought to belong to Mengele. OSI was the Justice Department entity created in 1979 to deport Nazis.
Also deleted was a portion of a 1993 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that raised ethics accusations against Justice Department officials.more
thank you for your help Battleskin
Since the OSI began operations in 1979, it has won deportation orders against 107 people and prevented 180 more from entering the United States through its watch list. Yet it remains to be seen how the close-knit group of lawyers and historians, accustomed to combing document-rich archives in the Eastern Bloc for clues, will recast its mission from capturing Nazis to catching criminals who fled murderous conflicts in such diverse places as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. The OSI focuses on revoking the citizenship of Americans who entered the country on false pretenses by lying about their involvement in war crimes, rather than targeting wrongdoers based overseas. more
“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became in some small measure a safe haven for persecutors as well,” says the 600-page document. The New York Times obtained a copy of the report, which the National Security Archive, a private group, posted on its website. Earlier, the Justice Department had declared dozens of pages from the document off-limits to the public after the archive sued to get it.
The long-secret report provided new details of many of the major cases handled by Justice’s Office of Special Investigations. The report reflects the ways in which American officials, who were assigned to recruit foreign scientists after World War II, circumvented President Harry S. Truman’s order that they not bring in Nazi Party members or people who had actively supported Nazi militarism.
Arthur Rudolph, one of hundreds of scientists brought to the United States after the war, told investigators in 1947 of attending a hanging during the war of inmates accused of sabotage at a plant near Nordhausen, Germany, where Rudolph was operations director. The plant he ran manufactured V-2 rockets using slave labor. U.S. immigration officials knew Rudolph had been a Nazi party member.
The report also details a discussion at the CIA over whether former Nazi party member Otto Von Bolschwing should acknowledge his Nazi past if confronted about it when applying for U.S. citizenship. Reversing earlier CIA advice, the agency concluded that Bolschwing should tell the truth. The agency hired Bolschwing during the Cold War for his contacts among ethnic Germans and Romanians.
According to portions of the report that were deleted by the Justice Department:
_The department established in 1997 that Switzerland had bought gold from the Nazis that had been taken from Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
_Meetings in 2000 in which U.S. officials pressured Latvian officials to pursue Nazis were “a hideous failure.”
_In hopes of establishing whether Dr. Joseph Mengele, known as the Angel of Death at Auschwitz, was dead, a director of the Office of Special Investigations kept in his desk a piece of scalp thought to belong to Mengele. OSI was the Justice Department entity created in 1979 to deport Nazis.
Also deleted was a portion of a 1993 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that raised ethics accusations against Justice Department officials.more
thank you for your help Battleskin
Alleged ringleader in horrific racially motivated torture/slayings gets only 18 years.
Christian and Newsom murders are one of the most gruesome slayings in
US history. The young white couple was abducted by a group of black
thugs. They were both gang raped and tortured. The female victim was
kept alive for days so she could be gang raped over and over. One
initial report on the local Knoxville news even stated that the perps
took viagra so the gang rapes would last longer.
The mutilated bodies were found barely recognizable. One had been set on fire and one mutilated. The so-called “mainstream” media initially tried to censor the story. However, it gained major traction on websites like CofCC.org, Amren.com, and sites that picked it up from the local Knoxville news. Then the “mainstream” media claimed that “racist websites” were lying about the details of the case. Many “mainstream” media sources insulted the victims of the crime by claiming it was a “carjacking gone bad.” Some “mainstream” sources even blamed the victims for “being in a bad neighborhood.”
However all of the sickening details originally reported by so-called “racist websites” were proven true when the trial started. There can be no doubt that had the races been reversed in this case, it would have been the biggest news story in the United States for weeks. There would have been huge marches and memorials for the victims. Politicians would have been making public statements about it. Instead, everything was done to keep it quiet.
The perpetrators were motivated by hatred of white people and simply wanted to do horrible things to two promising young white youths.
The trials have finally ended, and parents say the ringleader got the lightest sentence.
From WATE Knoxville…
The parents of murder victims Channon Christian and Chris Newsom will always hold on to the memories of their children, but they’re also seeking more justice in court.
The couple was carjacked at gunpoint, robbed, tortured, raped and killed in January 2007.
Christian, a 5’7″ student at the University of Tennessee, was bound, put in garbage bags and stuffed in a trash can where she suffocated.
Newsom was bound, taken to a set of railroad tracks, shot three times and then set on fire.
A massive investigation eventually brought four defendants to trial. Vanessa Coleman was sentenced to 53 years on lesser charges in the case.
Coleman’s boyfriend, Letalvis Cobbins, and his friend, George Thomas, will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
And Cobbins’ half-brother, LeMaricus Davidson, received the death penalty.
Still the parents of the victims say they have unfinished business.
“They kept saying Davidson was the ringleader. Well he may have been the ringleader, but he wasn’t the most evil of them all. He may have been the ringleader, but he did everything Eric Boyd said,” Deena and Gary Christian said.
Boyd is serving an 18 year prison sentence in this case. He was convicted in federal court as an accessory after the fact for helping Davidson hide from authorities.
However, Boyd was never charged with rape or murder. “I will always feel like Boyd is getting away with murder,” said Chris’ mother, Mary Newsom.
Cobbins told investigators it was Boyd and Davidson who launched the crime spree that started with the couple’s carjacking.
“They jump out of the car and run to a white SUV and, um, there was two people, a man and a woman at the SUV. They jump in, pointing guns at them and, and um, they carjacked them I guess,” Cobbins said during one interview by authorities.more
The mutilated bodies were found barely recognizable. One had been set on fire and one mutilated. The so-called “mainstream” media initially tried to censor the story. However, it gained major traction on websites like CofCC.org, Amren.com, and sites that picked it up from the local Knoxville news. Then the “mainstream” media claimed that “racist websites” were lying about the details of the case. Many “mainstream” media sources insulted the victims of the crime by claiming it was a “carjacking gone bad.” Some “mainstream” sources even blamed the victims for “being in a bad neighborhood.”
However all of the sickening details originally reported by so-called “racist websites” were proven true when the trial started. There can be no doubt that had the races been reversed in this case, it would have been the biggest news story in the United States for weeks. There would have been huge marches and memorials for the victims. Politicians would have been making public statements about it. Instead, everything was done to keep it quiet.
The perpetrators were motivated by hatred of white people and simply wanted to do horrible things to two promising young white youths.
The trials have finally ended, and parents say the ringleader got the lightest sentence.
From WATE Knoxville…
The parents of murder victims Channon Christian and Chris Newsom will always hold on to the memories of their children, but they’re also seeking more justice in court.
The couple was carjacked at gunpoint, robbed, tortured, raped and killed in January 2007.
Christian, a 5’7″ student at the University of Tennessee, was bound, put in garbage bags and stuffed in a trash can where she suffocated.
Newsom was bound, taken to a set of railroad tracks, shot three times and then set on fire.
A massive investigation eventually brought four defendants to trial. Vanessa Coleman was sentenced to 53 years on lesser charges in the case.
Coleman’s boyfriend, Letalvis Cobbins, and his friend, George Thomas, will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
And Cobbins’ half-brother, LeMaricus Davidson, received the death penalty.
Still the parents of the victims say they have unfinished business.
“They kept saying Davidson was the ringleader. Well he may have been the ringleader, but he wasn’t the most evil of them all. He may have been the ringleader, but he did everything Eric Boyd said,” Deena and Gary Christian said.
Boyd is serving an 18 year prison sentence in this case. He was convicted in federal court as an accessory after the fact for helping Davidson hide from authorities.
However, Boyd was never charged with rape or murder. “I will always feel like Boyd is getting away with murder,” said Chris’ mother, Mary Newsom.
Cobbins told investigators it was Boyd and Davidson who launched the crime spree that started with the couple’s carjacking.
“They jump out of the car and run to a white SUV and, um, there was two people, a man and a woman at the SUV. They jump in, pointing guns at them and, and um, they carjacked them I guess,” Cobbins said during one interview by authorities.more
Monday, November 15, 2010
US funds Israels circumcision plan to fight AIDS in Zimbabwe
US funds Israels circumcision plan to fight AIDS in Zimbabwe
Muslims are not isolated from the rest of the non-Muslim societies. Notably, however, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in predominantly Muslim countries is significantly less than among the countries where Christians or Jews are in majority. For example, in Morocco with a 98% Muslim population three out of 10,000 people have HIV/AIDS. On the other hand, in Botswana with 2% Muslim population, 3,580 out of 10,000 have HIV/AIDS, while in Zionist-state with 80% Jewish population 858 out of 10,000 people have HIV/AIDS. Last year, over 2.4 million Africans died from AIDS related illnesses. more
The U.S. ranks high on President Robert Mugabe’s enemies list, but at ground level it is leading a war on AIDS that may help save the life of 32-year-old Tineyi Marokwe and hundreds of thousands of other Zimbabweans.
The weapon is cheap and simple: male circumcision, considered a significant reducer of AIDS transmission.
In a 10-minute surgical operation, Marokwe recently became one of more than a million Zimbabwean men in the most sexually active age group who are being targeted for circumcision during the next seven years.
Dr. Bill Jansen, a senior American adviser with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Zimbabwe, says trials and circumcision pilot programs in South Africa and East Africa have shown a reduction in HIV infection by 60 percent.
The Zimbabwe program, begun in May 2009, has carried out 12,000 circumcisions. The U.S. spent $6.6 million on it in the first year and more money is promised as the program scales up.
So vilified are Western nations by Mugabe that few Zimbabweans realize their continuing aid programs are the mainstay of humanitarian assistance to the troubled nation.
The U.S. is Zimbabwe’s biggest aid donor — more than $1 billion since 2002 — and the biggest contributor to nationwide modern AIDS clinics that have tested and counseled 2 million people. This month it pledged another $50 million to its wider AIDS programs that include supplies of AIDS drugs.
While Mugabe has done nothing to hinder the program, some volunteers assigned to explain sexual health issues to the poor have been accused by Mugabe’s supporters of abetting a U.S. political agenda and working for the opposition in next year’s election.more
Israeli doctors have been training their counterparts in male
circumcision, hoping expertise in the ancient technique will help in
the battle against the modern scourge of AIDS.
The United Nations announced last year that the procedure could
reduce the rate of HIV transmission by up to 60 percent. It was in
Israel, with its experience performing adult male circumcision on a
wide scale, that the international medical community found an unlikely
partner in the global fight against AIDS.
“Israeli medicine and public health are positioned as a real asset in African countries,” said Dr. Inon Schenker, a director of Operation Abraham, the consortium that sent the doctors to Swaziland and plans to send more training teams to Africa.
“Israeli medicine and public health are positioned as a real asset in African countries,” said Dr. Inon Schenker, a director of Operation Abraham, the consortium that sent the doctors to Swaziland and plans to send more training teams to Africa.
It’s a model organizations such as the World Health Organization
and the United Nations would like to see replicated in Africa as a tool
for combating the spread of HIV.more
thank you Battleskin for helping me put this together~
Friday, November 12, 2010
TN Rep. Curry Todd Likens Illegal Immigrants To Rats
Tennessee legislator likened the boom in illegal immigrant births to that of rats multiplying out of control.
Rep. Curry Todd, who represents part of Shelby County, was asking why a state funded medical program called had Cover Kids required proof of citizenship before enrolling children.
Rep. Todd was told the program isn’t allowed to check because any child born in the U.S. is a citizen.
Todd told WREG-TV, “It Probably wasn’t the most perfect choice of words that come out of my mouth at that time. But to say the least I was frustrated with our state system in healthcare, the Tenncare system. Folks coming in to our state knowing they can get free healthcare, not only with our Tenncare system but also when they go in to have a baby…”
There are many who say illegal immigrants purposely come to the United States already pregnant or get pregnant to get instant citizenship for their children and to assure the parents will not be deported. It’s rare for illegal parents to be separated from their citizen children.
Todd has been trying to require proof of citizenship for participants in any state-run health programs
.more from wreg
Thank you Jason
Rep. Curry Todd, who represents part of Shelby County, was asking why a state funded medical program called had Cover Kids required proof of citizenship before enrolling children.
Rep. Todd was told the program isn’t allowed to check because any child born in the U.S. is a citizen.
Todd told WREG-TV, “It Probably wasn’t the most perfect choice of words that come out of my mouth at that time. But to say the least I was frustrated with our state system in healthcare, the Tenncare system. Folks coming in to our state knowing they can get free healthcare, not only with our Tenncare system but also when they go in to have a baby…”
There are many who say illegal immigrants purposely come to the United States already pregnant or get pregnant to get instant citizenship for their children and to assure the parents will not be deported. It’s rare for illegal parents to be separated from their citizen children.
Todd has been trying to require proof of citizenship for participants in any state-run health programs
.more from wreg
Thank you Jason
Sunday, November 7, 2010
5 year-old killed over Halloween costume, in South L.A. over gang colors
I’m sure I’ll get plenty of static for saying this, but no child’s life should be taken over ‘gang colors’ in a costume. What a kid can’t be a kid trying to trick or treat without being killed over wearing a ‘Spider-man’ {red/blue}costume.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Arms flexed in a muscleman pose, Aaron Shannon Jr. was getting ready for a Halloween party while his grandfather snapped photos of him in a Spiderman costume.
Suddenly, the click of the camera lens was replaced by the pop, pop of gunfire and the 5-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed.
The Oct. 31 attack — blamed on misdirected gunfire from suspected Crips gang members raiding Bloods turf — harkened back to the carnage of the 1980s and early ’90s when brazen young men patrolled the streets of the area once called South Central and gave little thought to living or dying.
Then, Aaron’s death likely would have flared the Crips-Blood rivalry even further and been followed by a retaliation shooting, then another and so on.“In the old days, this would have been a massive bloodbath,” said Guillermo Cespedes, head of the city’s gang reduction program.
Residents incensed by the killing of a child were quick to provide details to police, who on Friday announced the arrest of Marcus Denson, 18, and Leonard Hall, 21. Both are alleged members of the Kitchen Crips, which for years has been warring with a subset of the Bloods known as the Swans.
Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon estimated as many as 15 additional shootings were stopped.
The boy’s shooting and the days that followed have served as both a reminder of the strife that is all too common in the hardscrabble neighbourhoods of South Los Angeles, and a sign of how much has changed.
Aaron was standing with friends and relatives in the neatly kept yard of his family’s yellow stucco duplex when the shooting occurred. The bungalow is in the heart of gangland but no one in the family is connected to a gang.
One block from the house is South Central Avenue, a busy corridor leading to downtown that cuts through industrial areas and impoverished communities of auto-repair shops and low-slung food marts. In Aaron’s neighbourhood, the road bisects Crip and Blood territories.more
Thursday, November 4, 2010
US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama’s ‘big ticket’ Mumbai visit
US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama’s ‘big ticket’ Mumbai visit
Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama’s visit to the city. “The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit,” a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
Now here is the cost of let’s say a(U.S. Citizen) visitor/tourist to India:
Preparing for Your Trip to India
A Short Guide
CURRENCY EXCHANGE
If you are traveling with a group tour, they will often make arrangements for your currency exchange. They will probably provide arrangements for your travel from the airport to the hotel, so you wouldn’t need to have money for taxi or the hotel to start off with. However, if traveling alone or with a few friends, things will be different. So this is what I do.
When I arrive at the airport in Dehli, I will first stop at the bank exchange window that one of the banks will have not far from the luggage pick up area and exchange $100 or $200 of cash or traveler’s checks into rupees. It is better to do it there than at the hotel, where exchange rates are not as good, although this is not the problem that it used to be. After I’m in town, later I’ll go to a bank where I can exchange more money if I need to. You can go to the American Express office for America Express Traveler’s Checks, or to the Thomas Cook Travel Agency, or one of the prominent banks.
Another consideration is that I usually bring about $1000 for every month I’ll be traveling in India. Now I don’t spend that much on travel,
About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.
“Except for personnel providing immediate security to the President, the US officials may not be allowed to carry weapons. The state police is competent to take care of the security measures and they would be piloting the Presidential convoy,” the official said on condition of anonymity.more
New Black Panther At Philly Polls Nothing Happening, NBPP In Houston, That Is Another Story.
New Black Panther At Philly Polls Nothing Happening, NBPP In Houston, That Is Another Story.
A member of the New Black Panther Party was spotted by a local Fox station today at the same polling location at which he was videotaped two years ago. His presence at that facility in 2008, along with a nightstick-wielding colleague, led to a controversial voter intimidation case that has dogged the Obama administration for over a year and a half.Fox provided a photo of the individual and reported that he was seen outside the polling place “wearing a pin that indicated his party affiliation, along with a black hat, sunglasses and leather coat.”
The individual appears to be Jerry Jackson, who had a poll-watching certificate back in 2008 and was originally named in the civil voter intimidation case bought in the waning days of the Bush administration. The Obama administration did not pursue the case against Jackson or the national party, but did obtain an injunction against fellow NBPP member King Samir Shabazz, who carried a nightstick.
Charles Mirarchi of the City of Philadelphia confirmed to TPMMuckraker on Tuesday that Jackson holds a poll-watching certificate for 2010. The Philadelphia Republican Party was not yet aware of Jackson’s presence at the polling location when contacted by TPMMuckraker.
The man who appears to be Jackson was not holding a weapon today, and there are no reports thus far that he was doing anything illegal. Shabazz, who was carrying the nightstick in 2008, did not appear to be with Jackson at the polling location. The injunction bans Shabazz from coming within 100 feet of a polling location with a weapon. But the fact that the member of the fringe extremist group is back at a poll watcher at the same location that sparked such controversy in 2008 could add fuel to the investigation by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the broader investigation into the enforcement of voting laws by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. Republicans are expected to launch an investigation as well if they take back the House of Representatives.more TPM
Philadelphia wasn’t the only American city graced by the presence of New Black Panthers today. They were also active in Houston. Texas law prohibited the New Black Panthers from bursting into a polling place. They are not allowed within 100 feet of the polls for any reason except to vote or if they are credentialed poll watchers, which they weren’t. This illegal behavior was repeated at multiple polling places in Houston.
Quanell X is the Houston version of King Samir Shabazz, the chairman of the local New Black Panthers. His legal name is Quanell Abdul Farrakhan. Before that, it was Ralph Evans.
Mr. X led a squad of at least five New Black Panthers, including members in New Black Panther uniforms, into Houston polling places, including precinct 202, illegally.more
Ohio Congressional Candidate, (R) Rich Iott, Loses To U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo)
Iott |
So this is all coming down to Iott, being involved in WWII re-enactments. . . Voters want to use that as a reason for not voting for Iott. I'd say the Democratic Party and Media made Mr. Iott's love and passion for History his downfall.
'He claims it is just a pure love of history and amazement at the success of the Third Reich.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that here was a
relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view
accomplished incredible things. I mean, they took over most of Europe
and Russia, and it really took the combined effort of the free world
to defeat them. From a purely historical military point of view,
that’s incredible,” said Iott.
History is a great thing. Iott should not be criticized for
his passion for it, but some people think his interest is misdirected.'
Kaptur led Iott with 110,542 votes, or 59 percent. Iott had received 78,150, or 41 percent. Kaptur's win will send her to Washington to serve a 15th term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Kaptur |
During her campaign, Kaptur railed against Iott's participation in historical Nazi military re-enactments and his selling of an Ohio company his father founded to a large retailer who later closed the business.
Many republicans, including Eric Cantor, of Virginia, the No. 2 Republican in the House, criticized Iott for the military re-enactments.
Many republicans, including Eric Cantor, of Virginia, the No. 2 Republican in the House, criticized Iott for the military re-enactments.
Kaptur also hammered the big banks, which she said have really hurt middle America during the last several years.
"I have no sympathy for them," she said last week.
In Ottawa County, Kaptur received only 48.1 percent of the votes, with 7,705, while Iott garnered 7,964, or 49.7 percent. But in Erie County, Kaptur took 52.6 percent with 14,347 votes. Iott took 47.38 percent with 47.3 percent.more
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Fed. Appeals court talks of axing part of Arizona law
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) enforces the nation’s immigration laws in a fair and effective manner. It identifies and apprehends removable aliens, detains these individuals when necessary and removes illegal aliens from the U.S. This unit prioritizes the apprehension, arrest and removal of convicted criminals, those who pose a threat to national security, fugitives and recent border entrants.
– Arizona’s immigration law faced tough scrutiny from a federal appeals panel Monday as the state’s governor appeared in person to support the controversial provision on the day before the election in which she’s seeking her first full term.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals signaled it was ready to toss out the provision of Arizona’s law that criminalizes the failure to carry immigration papers showing lawful residency in the United States.
But the three-judge panel didn’t tip its hand over which way it was leaning on other provisions of the state law that touched off a national furor
U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler argued Monday that the provisions in question violate laws making immigration enforcement the exclusive domain of the federal government.
Among the provisions at issue is the requirement that police — when enforcing other laws — must question the immigration status of people they have reason to suspect are in the country illegally.
“It’s how the state wants to use its people,” said Judge Carlos Bea, appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush. “The state can turn over an illegal to federal officials.”
Perhaps Governor Brewer, Arizona Law enforcement could turn
over the ‘illegals’ to I.C.E. if they would stand by there motto/creed:
“United States
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a component of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Our mission is to protect
national security by enforcing our nation’s customs and immigration
laws”I.C.E. should be at home doing the job that the American Tax Payers Pay them for by protecting the borders or deporting those that have been detained instead of helping Earthquake Victims of Haiti? shera~
Kneedler responded that requiring local law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of everyone they suspect as being an illegal immigrant takes away from their investigatory discretion. He also said the law intrudes upon foreign policy and diplomacy, areas that are left for the federal government.
“If every state did this, we would have a patchwork of law,” Kneedler said.
Arizona’s legislature passed the law after years of complaints that the federal government hasn’t done enough to lessen the state’s role as the nation’s busiest illegal entry point.
Less than a day before the law was to take effect, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked key provisions, including a requirement that immigrants carry immigration papers. On Monday, Bea told Kneedler “I don’t think you have to spend a whole lot of time” arguing the unconstitutionality of that provision.
Hundreds of protesters gathers outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco before the hour-long hearing. Opponents of the law in this politically liberal city outnumbered supporters.
Afterward, Arizona’s governor said she intended to appeal any adverse ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Illegal immigrants are overwhelming Arizona’s health care systems, schools and prisons, she said.
Brewer said the Obama administration’s lawsuit was misguided because the state law seeks only to address a growing problem in Arizona.
“We are not the enemy — we are part of the United States,” she said. “We need more help and support.”More
thank you for article Battleskin
Monday, November 1, 2010
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