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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Avaaz – Stand with the Maasai

Urgent update: Tanzania’s government is tearing up the promise we helped the Maasai win. Before they meet their Prime Minister to defend their sacred land, let’s hit 2 million signers!

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards. The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals and tell everyone, before it is too late. This is our last hope.

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

via Avaaz – Stand with the Maasai.

Axeman Boehner Says Obama’s Immigration Action Damages Presidency – NYTimes.com

The one who has damaged reputation of US Democracy is Speaker Boehner! – Sounding more like Caliph Erdogon every day!

Speaker John A. Boehner said Friday that President Obama was “damaging the presidency itself” by using his executive authority to prevent the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.

Mr. Boehner said that the House would act to counter the president, but he declined to be specific.

via Boehner Says Obama’s Immigration Action Damages Presidency – NYTimes.com.

Political Islam and Erdogan’s Wonderland

Erdogon claims remind me of old claims by Russians to have been first or invented everything to support their version of Communism.

Nervana

Erdogan photo

(Photo via Reuters)

Muslim sailors reached the American continent 314 years before Columbus.” The recent remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have left many surprised and baffled, but the Turkish president’s controversial comments are not new. Just a month ago, Erdogan caused another uproar when he told students at Istanbul’s Marmara University that new “Lawrence of Arabias” are tearing up the Middle East. These two incidents have offered some interesting insights not only on how the Turkish president views the world, but also on how intellectual shallowness is used by political Islam to cover the weakness of its core ideology.

 There is a tendency among political Islamists to hype up past glories and evade critical reviews of historical failures. Islamists have used such shallow views of the past to cover up the weaker aspects of their ideology.

 Although the Turkish president has certainly been the first politician to…

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Dental Health, not health – Huh? Health Insurance Enrollment for Exchanges Was Overcounted – NYTimes.com

When your teeth and/or gums are not in good shape or you are in pain – duh? This is a big health issue!

 

The Obama administration acknowledged on Thursday that it overcounted the total number of people signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Marilyn B. Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in September that 7.3 million people were enrolled. But Bloomberg News reported Thursday that the figure included nearly 400,000 people with stand-alone dental plans, prompting the administration to revise the enrollment figure to 6.7 million as of Oct. 15.

via Health Insurance Enrollment for Exchanges Was Overcounted – NYTimes.com.

Here’s What the President Is Doing to Fix Our Broken Immigration System: | The White House

As everyone knows, our immigration system has been broken for decades, and the President is doing his job to address the problems that he can with his executive authority. He will continue to work with Congress to pass comprehensive and common-sense immigration reform that will offer a long-term and much-needed solution.

So what exactly is the President’s plan for immigration? Take a look at what the President plans to do:

via Here’s What the President Is Doing to Fix Our Broken Immigration System: | The White House.