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gwydion* 24 hours before the UN ordered cease fire in Syria, government forces were still gunning down unarmed refugees fleeing across the Turkish border and fired across the border into a refugee camp within Turkey. Assad is demanding that the protesters put in writing that they will no longer resist whatever he does and for the international community to sign saying they will provide no help to the civilians he is slaughtering before he will stop slaughtering them. Raise your hand if you think he will stop slaughtering people even if the whole world surrenders unconditionally. No one? The Russians are now pretending to e surprised that Kofi Annan's peace plan looks to be failing. Sigh. I am saying pretending as it was obvious to everyone that it wasn't going to work from the moment they appointed Mr. Annan to negotiate it and Russia is providing Assad money and weapons in order to worsen the genocide.
* %5 of the Haitian population have died so far in Haiti's first cholera outbreak. The cause is very likely UN pace keepers who accidentally brought the pathogen with them. (The Nepalese cholera strain matched a point of origin at a UN camp with Nepalese soldiers and crappy sanitation. IE: dumping waste in open pits next to houses where people lived). The rainy season is about to start. I suspect you can do the math. It's a horrible way to die.
Partners in Health: (They have Haitians in charge on the ground in Haiti and are providing health care including cholera vaccine): http://www.pih.org/?source=GoogleGrants&subsource=Site_Site%20-%20Not%20Donate_Partners%20in%20Health%20Haiti_7884932236&gclid=COm-_cfEp68CFSoGRQodkGEhZg
Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
Doctors without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/overview.cfm?&gclid=CO_F6dbDp68CFUUZQgodxxXRZA
Between the cholera and peacekeepers videotaping themselves raping women, approximately 3/4 of Haitians want the peacekeepers out. I can't blame them. (The Peacekeepers have been their 8 years and the fair elections they were there to ensure happened in 2006. They are not there to help in anyway with the onging epidemic they caused through carelessness).
* It's looking like MI6 may have partnered with the CIA in "rendition" which is a euphemism for kidnapping and torturing people abroad. It will be an interesting lawsuit.
* Two white men went on a shooting spree in Oklahoma on Good Friday. They murdered three people and wounded two more. The victims are all black. One of them posted virulently racist things on facebook, but there are also signs of a personal motive.
* Doing the numbers on Food Desserts: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46987679
* The related discussion: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46987679
* On a personal note, in high school I actually had a lover who had rickets. Weirdly, he wasn't one of my tough boys from crappy neighborhoods, but a rich kid who just happened to have extremely shitty parents. The list of all the ways they were shitty was quite long and not limited to crap nutrition when he was young. On top of giving him rickets, they routinely mocked him because of the shape his body grew into because of vitamin deficiency. Seriously, who the fuck does that?
* RIP newsman Mike Wallace at 93.
* %5 of the Haitian population have died so far in Haiti's first cholera outbreak. The cause is very likely UN pace keepers who accidentally brought the pathogen with them. (The Nepalese cholera strain matched a point of origin at a UN camp with Nepalese soldiers and crappy sanitation. IE: dumping waste in open pits next to houses where people lived). The rainy season is about to start. I suspect you can do the math. It's a horrible way to die.
Partners in Health: (They have Haitians in charge on the ground in Haiti and are providing health care including cholera vaccine): http://www.pih.org/?source=GoogleGrants&subsource=Site_Site%20-%20Not%20Donate_Partners%20in%20Health%20Haiti_7884932236&gclid=COm-_cfEp68CFSoGRQodkGEhZg
Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
Doctors without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/overview.cfm?&gclid=CO_F6dbDp68CFUUZQgodxxXRZA
Between the cholera and peacekeepers videotaping themselves raping women, approximately 3/4 of Haitians want the peacekeepers out. I can't blame them. (The Peacekeepers have been their 8 years and the fair elections they were there to ensure happened in 2006. They are not there to help in anyway with the onging epidemic they caused through carelessness).
* It's looking like MI6 may have partnered with the CIA in "rendition" which is a euphemism for kidnapping and torturing people abroad. It will be an interesting lawsuit.
* Two white men went on a shooting spree in Oklahoma on Good Friday. They murdered three people and wounded two more. The victims are all black. One of them posted virulently racist things on facebook, but there are also signs of a personal motive.
* Doing the numbers on Food Desserts: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46987679
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* The related discussion: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46987679
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* On a personal note, in high school I actually had a lover who had rickets. Weirdly, he wasn't one of my tough boys from crappy neighborhoods, but a rich kid who just happened to have extremely shitty parents. The list of all the ways they were shitty was quite long and not limited to crap nutrition when he was young. On top of giving him rickets, they routinely mocked him because of the shape his body grew into because of vitamin deficiency. Seriously, who the fuck does that?
* RIP newsman Mike Wallace at 93.