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Stupidity Reacts and the Stupid Respond

Observing the underhanded tactics of the right.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Earlier this week, the highly paid on-air bunglers and hatchet persons of FOX NEWS and their bastard child, Tea Party), covered the illegitimate charge, by cunningly stupid con artist Andrew Breitbart, of racism on the part of Shirley Sherrod (Now former USDA employee).

This charge was, as most who follow real news know, based on a selectively edited video of a speech Ms Sherrod made in March of this year in which she recounted her own awakening, years before her employ at USDA, of what poor independent farmers faced in terms of keeping and maintaining the viability of their farms in America and her part in helping these farmers.

Darfuri Refugee Voices Asking to be Heard Inside Chad

Al-Bashir has reacted to The Goodwill and Confidence building agreement signed February 2009 with complete disregard and disrespect; an all too familiar pattern.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Struggling to survive, hour by hour is difficult as security threats continue to grow for the refugees inside the Chad, Darfur border.

Buyer Beware Of Prayer

Do your research, don't waste money on religious facilities or materials that are needless.

(LOS ANGELES) - There is no question that western religion and money go hand in hand. For many the church is represented by the passing of the plate; the expectation that you more or less have to pay to be there.

This is not the plan of God, this is the plan of man. Of course there are reasons to support a religious institution that you know turns around and helps others with those funds.

19 Organizations Tell Obama: Share Goldman Sachs Settlement With Struggling Homeowners

Letter Calls For Treasury’s Share of Settlement to Go to Principal Reduction, Mortgage Counseling, Reclaiming Foreclosed Homes as Affordable Housing.

(BERKELEY, Calif.) - In a letter sent Friday to President Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, a coalition of 19 organizations led by the Greenlining Institute call the just-announced settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Goldman Sachs “disappointing,” arguing that it “does nothing for struggling homeowners.”

The settlement as announced contains no aid for homeowners struggling to avert foreclosure.

Hungry Children

One out of 7 children born in underdeveloped countries is sentenced to die before reaching the age of 5.

(MADRID) - Every 6 seconds a child of less than 5 years dies of hunger. Every 3 minutes 30 children die from pauperization.

According to a report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 6 million children of less than 5 years suffer from malnutrition every year. More than 180 million children of less than 10 years suffer from hunger, because they do not have anything to eat.

There`s No Future Without Learning From the Past

Starvation so severe that bodies were piled onto trucks every day and people resorted to cannibalism: a family story of the Soviet Famine that began in 1932.

(SACRAMENTO) - 1933 was the year of the worst nightmare from which so many didn’t wake up. My father was a talented man. He could fix anything, build anything.

Today you would probably call him a jack of all trades. Before 1933 came, he had already lost his first wife and a son. Left with 2 kids, he married my mother and had a big family.

Innovation of the Week: Slow and Steady Irrigation Wins the Race

Since installing her own drip kit, Elizabeth has seen her income rise to between Z$1 million (US$10) and Z$4 million (US$40) per week.

(ZIMBABWE) - After Elizabeth Samhembere’s husband passed away in 2004, she struggled to feed her family. A small-scale farmer in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth had trouble getting water to her crops, and her children were too young to help with the labor-intensive task of irrigating the vegetables and strawberries she grew.

Improving Farmer Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation

The latest good news from West Africa.

(OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso) - Earlier this month, we highlighted Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed in the New York Times about Gabon, a country in West-Central Africa where the rights of farmers are frequently in conflict with wildlife conservation efforts.

One young village chief and farmer, Evelyn Kinga explained that she doesn’t like elephants because they eat her cassava plants—a crop her livelihood depends on—because she doesn’t benefit from rich foreigners who come to Gabon for eco-tourism.

Innovations that Nourish the Planet

Feeding Communities by Focusing on Women‏.

(DAKAR, Senegal) - Revolutionary conspiracy theorists within the southwest hemisphere could be getting closer to connecting the graphic dots of murder and violence with impunity, narcotics trafficking as revenue, and an ideology that seeks to go beyond just financial enrichment and wealth.

Mexico's Los Zetas movement is becoming clearly more violent, using direct military confrontation and intimidation in attempts at neutralizing government and taking control of national territory.

Lives Lived and Lost in Time- Remembering Chatila

When will the time come when justice is addressed for this outrage against humanity?

(TRIPOLI) - As I walked the alleyways of Chatila yesterday, I could not help but reflect on the consequences of the mentality that justified it or the consequences caused by those devastated by it.

As I wait here 30 years later to board a boat to defy the Israeli’s continuing occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people in Gaza, I cannot avoid the reality on the ground that Israel has created.