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Hail also to Ken Loach who slams BBC's pro-Israel coverage of Gaza war


Press TV
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:40 UTC
Ken Loach
Internationally-renowned filmmaker Ken Loach
Internationally-renowned filmmaker, Ken Loach, has slammed the state-run BBC for its pro-Israel bias in the coverage of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.

Loach, who has participated in an ongoing occupation campaign in front of the BBC headquarters in the British southwestern city of Bristol, slammed BBC policies, saying, "We should note that many at the BBC, including senior staff, are embarrassed by the broadcaster's coverage that has an obvious pro-Israel bias."
"They don't put the views of Palestinians to the Israelis during interviews, while the use of language about Gazans is pejorative and the war crimes being committed against them ignored.... They're not 'militants' or 'terrorists,' they're 'resistance fighters,'" he said, adding, "It's the BBC, we own it, so it should be answerable."

Comment: It is past time we took the media back from the psychopathic enablers and apologists who call themselves "journalists"!

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Footprints

Over 400 Ukrainian troops abandon Kiev's war to cross into Russia for refuge


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:26 UTC
Kiev troops
© RIA Novosti/Yulia Nasulina
More than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia after requesting sanctuary. It's the largest, but not the first, case of desertion into Russia by Ukrainian soldiers involved in Kiev's military crackdown in the east of the country.

According to the Rostov Region's border guard spokesman Vasily Malaev, a total of 438 soldiers, including 164 Ukrainian border guards, have been allowed into Russia on Sunday night.

One of the Ukrainians was seriously injured on his arrival in Russia. He was taken to the hospital for surgery, the officials added.

The other Ukrainian soldiers have been housed in a tent camp deployed near the checkpoint via which they entered Russian territory. The Russian border guards are providing them with food and bedding.
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Life Preserver

Ferry with 250 on board sinks in river in Bangladesh


Press TV
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:11 UTC
Bangladesh ferry sinks
Bangladeshi rescue workers search for dead bodies inside a sunken ferry on the river Meghna in Munshiganj district, some 50 kilometers south of Dhaka, May 17, 2014.
A passenger ferry with about 250 passengers on board has capsized on a river in central Bangladesh, officials say.

The incident took place on Monday when the overloaded M.V. Pinak was crossing the River Padma in Munshiganj district around 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of the capital Dhaka, said Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority Chairman Samsuddoha Khondaker.

Officials say 12 bodies have been recovered so far. They added that 50 passengers had been rescued as well but many were feared trapped or drowned.
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Pistol

"No baby deserves to die like that": Community mourns 3-year-old baby killed by stray bullet - What about Palestinian babies?


Associated Press
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:48 UTC
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3-year-old Tynirah Borum
A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of a 3-year-old girl who was sitting on a front porch when an argument broke out, police said Saturday.

Douglas Woods, of Philadelphia, has been charged with murder, three counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault and other charges, according to Officer Tanya Little.

Three-year-old Tynirah Borum was shot in the chest by a stray bullet while getting her hair braided at about 9:40 p.m. Friday in the Grays Ferry section of the city, according to police. Officers put her in their patrol car and rushed her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead less than an hour later.

Three adults were injured, one critically.

"She was everything to us," Renee Bradford, a friend of Tynirah's mother, told WCAU-TV. "She didn't deserve this. She was simply trying to get her hair done. For her to get shot in the chest? She's a baby. No baby deserves to die like that."

Comment: "She didn't deserve this. She was simply trying to get her hair done. For her to get shot in the chest? She's a baby. No baby deserves to die like that."

The same can be said about more than 300 Palestinian babies who died since the start of the latest genocide by Israel in Gaza. They were not just killed by stray bullets. They were wilfully murdered in cold blood and then completely forgotten by the mainstream media. What about them?

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USA

Why does the U.S. government have an 'Office of Population Affairs'?

Michael Snyder
endoftheamericandream.com
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:17 UTC
Population Control
© Public DomainPopulation Control.

Did you know that the federal government has an "Office of Population Affairs"? I didn't realize this either until someone sent me a link to their website. The Office of Population Affairs operates under the umbrella of the Department of Health & Human Services, and it might as well be called "The Office of Population Control" because almost everything on the website is about controlling or reducing the size of the population.

On the site you can find information and resources about abortion, female sterilization, male sterilization and a vast array of contraceptive choices. There is even a search engine where you can find a local "family planning clinic" where you can get rid of any "unintended pregnancy" that may be bothering you. Frankly, it sickens me to think that my tax dollars are being used to fund all of this.

But the Office of Population Affairs is not just pro-abortion and pro-sterilization. On the page describing their "purpose and mission", they actually admit that "population research" and studying "population growth" are part of their core work. The following is an excerpt from the official OPA website...

Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to the provision of family planning and related preventive services. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) administers the Title X program and serves as the focal point to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of reproductive health topics, including family planning, adolescent pregnancy, sterilization and other population issues.
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Calculator

11,472,000 Americans have left the workforce since Obama was elected

Ali Meyer
CNSNews.com
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:18 UTC
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© APJob seekers wait in line at a job fair in South Los Angeles.
11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as "not in the labor force," meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn't actively seek one in the last four weeks.

This number has increased by 11,472,000 since January 2009, when the number of Americans not in the labor force was 80,529,000.

The number of Americans not in the labor force dropped slightly in July, down 119,000 from the 92,120,000 Americans not in the labor force in June.

The participation rate, which measures the percentage of the civilian non-institutional population that participated in the labor force by either having a job or actively seeking one, increased from 62.8 percent in June to 62.9 percent in July.
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Stop

Essential items you had no idea the world was running out of

Dina Rickman
Independent.co.uk
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:26 UTC
In news that will chill you to your very core, the world is running out of antibiotics - meaning that going into hospital for a simple procedure could soon become deadly. England's chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has warned of the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, noting there is only one drug left which effectively treats gonorrhea. "There is a broken market model for making new antibiotics, so it's an empty pipeline", she said. "There will not be new antibiotics to come."
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© Mercola
The world will run out of seafood by 2048 if we continue to fish at current rates, according to a 2006 study. Greenpeace estimates that 63 per cent of global fish stocks are currently over-fished and has called for "urgent action" to replenish our oceans.
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Gear

San Francisco: Forty people injured in two separate transit accidents minutes apart

Eric M. Johnson
Rawstory.com
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:07 UTC
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© Reuters
Forty people were injured in two separate transit accidents minutes apart in San Francisco on Friday, police said.

In one accident, a bus swerving to avoid a dump truck that had stopped suddenly struck a second dump truck at about 1:30 p.m. local time, the San Francisco Police Department said.

Twenty people were injured and 12 sent to hospital. None was thought to have life-threatening injuries, police said.

Minutes later, a municipal light-rail train and a truck collided after the truck made an illegal turn, police said. The train was knocked several feet off the tracks.

Passenger Robert Williams said the packed train had been slowing as it pulled into the stop, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Quenelle

Russell Brand dismantles Hasbara (precious)

Gilad Atzmon
Gilad.co.uk
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:29 UTC
Propoganda Art
© by dementeddesign


Comment: You might want to check out, Miko Peled in this SoTT article 'Jewish Man Exposes Israel's Lies' or this recent SoTT Talk show. The Author, Gilad Atzmon, also has a book worth reading 'The Wandering Who'.
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Health

UK's top public doctor shames western society: Drug firms not trying to find Ebola vaccine 'because virus is only killing Africans'

Jane Merrick
Independent.co.uk
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:50 UTC
Ebola docs 2007
© IndependentDoctors from Médecins Sans Frontières treat a patient suspected to have the Ebola virus in 2007 in Congo
Britain's leading public health doctor today blames the failure to find a vaccine against the Ebola virus on the "moral bankruptcy" of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in a disease because it has so far only affected people in Africa - despite hundreds of deaths.

Professor John Ashton, the president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, says the West needs to treat the deadly virus as if it were taking hold in the wealthiest parts of London rather than just Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Writing in The Independent on Sunday, Professor Ashton compares the international response to Ebola to that of Aids, which was killing people in Africa for years before treatments were developed once it had spread to the US and UK in the 1980s.

He writes: "In both cases [Aids and Ebola], it seems that the involvement of powerless minority groups has contributed to a tardiness of response and a failure to mobilise an adequately resourced international medical response.

"In the case of Aids, it took years for proper research funding to be put in place and it was only when so-called 'innocent' groups were involved (women and children, haemophiliac patients and straight men) that the media, politicians, scientific community and funding bodies stood up and took notice."

Comment: See also:
Ebola - What you're not being told
New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection
Ebola epidemic: Now taking toll on doctors

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