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

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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?


USA

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

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

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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.

Stop

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

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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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.

Gear

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

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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.

Quenelle

Russell Brand dismantles Hasbara (precious)

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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'.

Health

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

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© 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


People

In Rafah, hospital morgues cannot hold all the bodies

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© APPalestinians look for their belongings in the rubble of houses destroyed in an Israeli strike, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, August 2, 2014
In the 24 hours after the collapse of the cease-fire, 123 civilians were killed in Rafah alone, including 30 children and 14 women, Palestinians say.


After more than 24 hours of Israeli aerial bombardments, at an average of five an hour, and heavy artillery fire on Rafah, the city's medical facilities have had to place the bodies of the dead in cold storage designed for fruits and vegetables. This step had to be taken not only because of the high number of casualties, but because Rafah's Yusuf al-Najar Hospital had to be evacuated after bombardments and artillery fire that endangered the lives of patients and staff. Because cemeteries and funeral processions are also being bombarded, people are afraid to bury their dead.

After the collapse of the cease-fire Friday, about two hours after it began, Rafah residents said the Israel Defense Forces bombarded and fired on houses indiscriminately, with the inhabitants still inside. They reported that when they tried to flee they were bombarded in the street. "All the houses shook like in an earthquake, "residents told Haaretz.

A few thousand people living in neighborhoods on the edge of Rafah fled to the Shabura refugee camp, considered "protected" from ground invasion. But at 3 A.M. Saturday a bomb dropped by an Israeli fighter jet on a number of asbestos dwellings in the camp killed eight people from three families, including three girls and three boys, a woman and a man of about 50. Fighter jets and gun boats also bombarded civilian neighborhoods in the west of the city, killing at least 20 civilians, most of them mainly children.

Between 10 A.M. Friday and 10 A.M. Saturday about 100 air strikes and a few hundred artillery strikes were counted. In Rafah alone 123 civilians were killed, including 30 children and 14 women, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Altogether throughout the Gaza Strip in that 24-hour period, 143 Palestinians were killed - including 39 children and 16 women, according to the center.

Palestinian Health Ministry figures on Saturday afternoon put the number of Palestinians killed throughout the Gaza Strip Friday and Saturday at 256, and 813 wounded. Since the operation began, some 1,680 Palestinians have been killed and more than 9,000 have been injured.

Arrow Down

Government tears down New Jersey man's makeshift tent in the woods, leaves him homeless

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© YouTube“Sam” watches as his home is demolished in Tent City of Lakewood, NJ.
Lakewood - An impoverished man learned the true nature of government as he watched tearfully as bureaucrats demolished his ramshackle home in the woods. He was bothering no one except the government.

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This was the reality that was presented to "Sam," a 70-year-old homeless man living in the forest in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. Sam was a part of "Tent City," a homeless encampment where between 80-120 individuals have stayed at any given time over the past decade, on so-called public land in Lakewood.

These individuals were making the best of their situation by erecting tents and shelters in the woods instead of sleeping on park benches and relying on welfare housing and government subsidies.

After years of threats, the local authorities of Lakewood Township finally had Tent City closed down, and all residents evicted from the forest. The homes that existed there - some for years - were ripped to the ground using heavy machinery.

"Can I watch?" asked Sam, when his home - a wood-framed shelter covered with tarps - was destroyed. Sam's lip trembled as he stood next to the public servants overseeing the demolition. It was an emotional sight.

Mars

California: Extreme drought will cause massive migration and real estate collapse

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A shocking 58 percent of the state of California is now in a state of "exceptional drought," according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. (1)

"The drought's incredible three-year duration has nearly depleted both the state's topsoil moisture and subsoil moisture reserves, according to Brad Rippey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who wrote the Drought Monitor report," reports the Washington Post. (2)

All the usual measures are being taken to try to soften the impact of the drought: The Governor has declared a state of emergency, strict water conservation efforts are already in force, neighborhood "water cops" hand out stiff fines for excessive water usage, and people are scrambling to cut water consumption in every way possible.