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Clemente family publishes loving tribute of ‘Undying Hero’
Lack of Money Can Cost One Year Old Elie Sadaqa His Life
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
One year old Elie Sadaqa is suffering from a form of vasculitis – inflammation that affects blood vessels – and his parents, like so many others in Lebanon, cannot afford the medical measures required to save their son’s life.
I don’t have more information on the child’s diagnosis to explain it. LBC had listed it as temporal arteritis – a condition that affects one of the arteries reaching the head – but I notified them that such a diagnosis is unlikely given its age of onset is usually above 50. But exceptions in medicine do exist. They have since changed their wording on their news link.
According to the child’s father, the lack of a medical code for the procedures required to help Elie – a pure bureaucratic measure – means the ministry of public health in the country won’t cover it. I guess they need any excuse not…
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Critically Acclaimed Book “Dreaming in Cuban” Banned in Arizona Public Schools
The last Anglo elite is fighting to hang on but as they die off, Arizona will be a Mexican-American state and indigenous American state – and that scares the bejabbers out of them – cause they think they will somehow be oppressed.
Hanging out in Havana
This be the answer
Bedbugs Found In City’s Department Of Health Building: Gothamist
“The Department of Health is infested with bed bugs.” No, not a discarded lyric from an Alanis Morrissette tune—a real life occurrence happening right now!
Reports of the pests have surfaced over the past several weeks, and lo and behold, “live bug colonies” were found on the Long Island City building’s 11th floor, the Daily News reports. Though the colonies themselves are centralized on one floor, the tiny beasts have been found on at least three floors.
via Bedbugs Found In City’s Department Of Health Building: Gothamist.
Aid Organizations Confront Child Slavery in India – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Anne Backhaus/ DER SPIEGEL
Millions of Indian children work as slaves in factories, brothels or in the homes of families. Out of poverty and desperation, parents sell their daughters, and human traffickers wait at train stations for runaways and scour for orphans in monsoon-ravaged villages.
On the day that Durga Mala was rescued, she lay crying on the stone floor, where she was attempting to cool her back. She was 11 years old and her skin was covered with blisters, from her shoulder blades to her buttocks. A few days earlier, her owners had poured hot oil over her because they thought she was working too slowly.
via Aid Organizations Confront Child Slavery in India – SPIEGEL ONLINE.
Lawmakers “Representing” Most of the Hungriest Counties Voted to Cut SNAP | Environmental Working Group
Lawmakers “Representing” Most of the Hungriest Counties Voted to Cut SNAP
By: Mary Ellen Kustin, Legislative/Policy Analyst
Friday, September 20, 2013
If you live in one of America’s 100 hungriest counties, there is a one-in-three chance that you rely on food stamps.
There is also a pretty good chance that your member of Congress just voted to kick you off food stamps.
And, if you live in Haywood County, Tennessee, or Shannon County, South Dakota, you can be sure your representative not only voted to kick you off food stamps but also voted to give him- or herself more farm subsidies.
Sadly, two-thirds of the 39 legislators who represent America’s 100 hungriest counties voted yesterday to cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, by $40 billion over the next ten years.
What’s more, the same legislators voted last month to increase unlimited subsidies for the largest farm businesses at a time of record farm income.
Two of the members with the hungriest counties in their districts not only voted to increase farm subsidies for their wealthy neighbors. They also voted to increase subsidies for themselves.
As EWG has reported, at least 15 members of Congress or their spouses received a total of $237,921 in farm subsidies in 2012. Ten of the 11 representatives who personally received farm subsidies voted yesterday (Sept. 19) to cut food stamps after voting to extend farm subsidies earlier this summer.
Members of Congress with one or more of the 100 hungriest counties in their districts
Vote on “SNAP only” H.R. 3102
(passed 217-210)
Vote on “farm only” H.R. 2642
(passed 216-208)
Vote on crop insurance reform amendment to H.R. 1947
(failed 208-217)
Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.)
Yea
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Nay
Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.)
Yea
Yea
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Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.)
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Nay
Rep. Sanford Bishop, Jr. (D-Ga.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Yea
Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)
Yea
no vote
Yea
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.)
Nay
Yea
Nay
Rep. William “Lacy” Clay, Jr. (D-Mo.)
Nay
Nay
Yea
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)
Nay
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Nay
Rep. Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. William Enyart (D-Ill.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Yea
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.)
Nay
Yea
Nay
Rep. Pete Gallego (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Ben Lujan (D-N.M.)
Nay
Nay
Yea
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.V.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Reid Ribble (R-Wis.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.)
Yea
Yea
Nay
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas)
Nay
Nay
Nay
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
Nay
Yea
Nay
13 people, including 3-year-old, shot at South Side park – chicagotribune.com
Relatives said the boys uncle, Jerome Wood, was fatally shot in the Woodlawn neighborhood over the Labor Day weekend. The Rev. Corey Brooks, who presided over Woods funeral, urged the shooter or shooters to surrender or face justice on the streets.There are people who know exactly who the shooter is,” he said, standing next to Nunn. “And Im sure he will not be safe shooting 13 people.”
via 13 people, including 3-year-old, shot at South Side park – chicagotribune.com.

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