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

Miami Police Clash with Man with Down Syndrome, Mistook Colostomy Bag for “Threatening Bulge”

Think, then act – not act on prejudice then think of a way to justify the unjustifiable.

Tess Powell Out Loud

What is it going to take to get these sell out HOUSE NEGROS to step & lead a new Civil Rights Movement- You all have the resources and only because many people laid down their lives and limbs for you- then all POS Like #SeanCarter & #Shaq can do is defend these racists vicious MFer’s???
Another minority police brutality case of an unarmed person.  23yr old, 5ft tall man with Downs Syndrome, Gilbert Powell viciously beaten for “threatening bulge in pants” which was a colostomy bag in MIAMI, FLORIDA. WE NEED TO STEP UP THE GAME. See story below.Image
Gilbert Powell

And as far as you regular African Americans that still support Florida’ economy, you either have a death wish or are functionally retarded. #BoycottFlorida before they come and get yo black azz or your brother’s, or father’s.

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Thousands of women on Sudan reviving the tradition of gum harvesting (IFAD)

DESERTIFICATION

Read at :

http://ifad-un.blogspot.be/2013/10/empowering-rural-women-gum-arabic.html

Empowering rural women: the Gum Arabic Project in Sudan

by Ibrahim Hamad

42 year-old Halima Agib lives in the remote Sudanese village of Demira, some 900 km from the capital, Khartoum. Demira’s climate is harsh, and in recent years, the area has been affected by drastically falling prices of gum, one of its natural products. As a result, farmers began cutting down the acacia trees that provide the gum, which is used in the food industry. Women, in particular, suffered: While harvesting gum is traditionally a man’s job, the drop in local incomes affected women disproportionately.

But Sudan’s women decided to take matters into their own hands. Now, Mrs Agib is one of thousands of women reviving the tradition of gum harvesting, thanks to funding and training provided by The Women’s Gum Association, founded in 2009 and sponsored by the Sudan Multi-Donor Trust Fund and IFAD-funded…

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“All it takes is one good guy with a gun….” – ‘Study: U.S. Hospitals Admit 7,500 Kids A Year With Gunshot Wounds’

Has to end – thousands wounded every year and we are headed toward 10,000 gun deaths this year.

The Last Of The Millenniums

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‘A new study says that each year approximately 7,500 children are admitted to U.S. hospitals with gunshot wounds and more than 500 children die during hospital admission from these injuries’.

“Handguns account for the majority of childhood gunshot wounds and this number appears to be increasing over the last decade,” Arin Madenci, MD, MPH, the author’s lead study, said in a statement issued by the AAP. “Furthermore, states with higher percentages of household firearm ownership also tended to have higher proportions of childhood gunshot wounds, especially those occurring in the home.”
From : http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/study-u-s-hospitals-admit-7-500-kids-with-gunshot-wounds-each-year

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European spy services shared phone data with US: NSA | News , International | THE DAILY STAR

European spy services have shared phone data with America\’s National Security Agency and media reports alleging otherwise are \”completely false,\” the NSA\’s chief told lawmakers on Tuesday.

\”To be perfectly clear, this is not information that we collected on European citizens,\” General Keith Alexander told lawmakers when asked about recent newspaper reports based on disclosures from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

via European spy services shared phone data with US: NSA | News , International | THE DAILY STAR.

Free range ‘not responsible’ for bird flu – ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Federal Agriculture Minister has been asked to retract his statement that an increase in free range egg production would lead to more outbreaks of avian influenza.

Lee McCosker, from Humane Choice, Humane Society International\’s farm accreditation system, says factory farming spreads the disease, not free range.

She wants Barnaby Joyce take a closer look at how the birds on the free range farm near Young were housed and reassess the situation.

via Free range ‘not responsible’ for bird flu – ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | November 1 SNAP Cut Will Hit Veterans in Every State

Count low-income veterans — thousands in every state, according to a new Center analysis — among the nearly 48 million people whose nutrition benefits will be cut later this week. As we’ve previously explained, the 2009 Recovery Act’s temporary boost in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits ends on November 1, which will result in a benefit cut for each of the program’s recipients.

The 2009 Recovery Act temporarily boosted SNAP benefits as a form of effective economic stimulus and to reduce the hardship that low-income families faced during the recession. This benefit increase is set to expire on November 1. The coming benefit cut will reduce SNAP benefits, which are already modest, for all households by 7 percent on average, or about $10 per person per month. Without the Recovery Act’s boost, SNAP benefits in fiscal year 2014 will average less than $1.40 per person per meal.

For low-income veterans, who may be unemployed, working in low-wage jobs, or disabled, SNAP provides an essential support that enables them to purchase nutritious food for their families.

Our new analysis, which uses data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, finds that thousands of veterans lived in SNAP households in every state between 2009 and 2011. For instance, more than 100,000 veterans lived in SNAP households in two states: Florida (109,500) and Texas (105,700).

This benefit cut hits as the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are beginning their conference committee negotiations on the Farm Bill, which includes a reauthorization of — and proposed cuts to — SNAP. The House version of the bill would cut SNAP by nearly $40 billion over the next 10 years, denying benefits to about 3.8 million people in 2014 and an average of 3 million people each year over the coming decade.

via Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | November 1 SNAP Cut Will Hit Veterans in Every State.

WHO reports millions of TB/MDR-TB patients missed by health care system | Vaccine News Daily

WHO reports millions of TB/MDR-TB patients missed by health care system | Vaccine News Daily. The report estimates that roughly three million people are currently infected with TB without access to quality medical care; it is believed 75 percent of this population is concentrated in 12 countries. The WHO also reports that treatment for those with MDR-TB infections must be improved, as the disease continues to gain strength.

“The WHO Global TB report highlights the very big gains the global community has made in the fight against tuberculosis,” Osamu Kunii, head of the Strategy, Investment and Impact Division of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said. “We are now at a crucial moment where we cannot afford to let these gains go into reverse. We need the commitment of the international community to address the significant funding gap to fight this disease.”

WHO reports millions of TB/MDR-TB patients missed by health care system | Vaccine News Daily

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BBC News – Syria hands in chemical weapons destruction plan

Syria has handed in a plan for the destruction of its chemical weapons to the watchdog monitoring the process.

In a statement, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) said the declaration was submitted three days ahead of schedule.

OPCW inspectors are also due to complete visiting the last four of 23 weapons sites declared by Syria.

The OPCW\’s mission was set up following outrage at a chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital in August.

Sixty inspectors have been in Syria since 1 October. The OPCW, which is based in The Hague, said on Friday that its team in Syria had visited 19 of the 23 sites disclosed by Syria.

via BBC News – Syria hands in chemical weapons destruction plan.