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Q&A: History of Sudan’s Darfur conflict

The United Nations Security Council has approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to replace the 7,000 African Union (AU) observer mission struggling to protect civilians in Sudan’s western province of Darfur.
The exact make-up and deployment date for this beefed up force is still to be determined.
In the meantime, [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 13th, 2008 | Tags: Africa, catastrophe, Darfur, humanitarian, Janjaweed, refugees, Sudan, United Nations | Category: Africa, Darfur, Sudan, United Nations, genocide, rebels, refugees | Leave a comment

It used to be oil for food. Now, its oil substitute OR food. Super Powers are focusing on a dying concept. Cheap energy the old fashioned way is no longer viable.

Posted by bosskitty April 13th, 2008 | Category: Corporate Corruption, Environment, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, Global Power, Global Warming, Health, Human Rights, Mismanagement, Oil, Oversight, Planet, Politics, Power Shift, Public Health, Statistics, War Cost, Waste, World Health, World Order, contradictions, critical resources, economics, energy, fiscal responsibility, food, global community, hunger, jobless, negligence, oil-for-food, poverty, recession, refugees, renewable energy, unemployment | Leave a comment

Bush ordered the Pentagon to set up a new Africa Command last year but left its headquarters in Germany amid anxiety over an expanding military presence in Africa.
The issue has shadowed Bush’s six-day journey across the continent, as demonstrated by a Tanzanian newspaper headline declaring that he came to “militarize” Africa.
“The purpose [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 24th, 2008 | Category: Accountability, Africa, Africom, Bush, Casualties, Condoleezza Rice, Darfur, Human Rights, Kenya, Oil, President John Kufuor, Promises, Sudan, ethnic cleansing, refugees | Leave a comment

UNICEF:
– An estimated 2 million children in Iraq continue to face threats including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education.
- Many of the 220,000 displaced children of primary school age had their education interrupted.
- An estimated 760,000 children (17 per cent) did not go to primary schools in 2006.
- An average 25,000 [...]

Posted by bosskitty January 5th, 2008 | Category: Children, Christians, Collateral, European Union, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Human Traffiking, Iraqi Children, Islam, Legacy, Middle East, Time Bomb, US State Department, United Nations, adoption, displaced persons, innocents, negligence, orphans, refugees, slavery, survivors, victims | Comments (13)

Ignoring Darfur crisis
· African and European MPs attack summit agenda
· British boycott criticised by EC president Barroso
A worker hoists Italy’s flag and others who are participating in the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon. Photograph: Armando Franca/AP
European and African leaders arriving for today’s summit in Lisbon were accused by parliamentarians and human [...]

Posted by bosskitty December 8th, 2007 | Category: Africa, Amnesty International, Angela Merkel, Darfur, EU, Human Rights, Lisbon, Portugal, Robert Mugabe, genocide, refugees, summit | Comments (4)

Immigration Contractor Trims Wages
Workers who help process millions of visa and citizenship applications for a federal immigration agency are getting pay reductions just as the agency is facing an enormous surge in those applications.
The workers whose wage rate will be cut are contract employees in document processing centers in St. Albans, Vt., and Laguna [...]

Posted by bosskitty December 3rd, 2007 | Category: Citizenship, Contractors, Homeland Security, Illegals, Immigration, Mismanagement, Outsource, Oversight, Social Security, Tax Dollars, USCIS, aliens, immigrants, refugees, taxpayers | Comments (2)

 
GAO Hands FEMA Another Katrina Blow
FEMA officials must be wondering if Hurricane Katrina will ever blow over. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that FEMA lost another $30 million taxpayer dollars through “ineffective oversight” of contracts to maintain and deactivate those mobile homes and travel trailers use for emergency housing. The loss, reports the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 28th, 2007 | Category: Excess, FEMA, GAO, Katrina, Mismanagement, Oversight, Public Health, Tax Dollars, arrogance, catastrophe, consequences, emergency, fraud, profiteers, refugees | Comments (3)

Naturalization paperwork jam hits Texas hard
Backlog may keep some from casting votes for president
WASHINGTON — Millions of people who applied for naturalization and other immigration benefits to beat a midsummer fee increase are caught in a paperwork pileup that threatens the chance for some to become U.S. citizens in [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 21st, 2007 | Category: America, Border, Border Wall, Citizenship, Corruption, DHS, Democracy In Action, Eddie Lucio III, Founding Fathers, HHS, Homeland Security, Human Rights, Human Traffiking, Hypocracy, Immigration, Mexican, Middle East, Narcotics, No Border Wall, Politics, Public Health, Rio Grande, Roma Texas, Tax Dollars, Texas, Texas Politics, Ugly American, aliens, arrogance, asylum, betrayal, candidates, civil liberties, consequences, contradictions, criminal, deportation, displaced persons, drug war, drugs, equality, extortion, illegal arms, immigrants, policy, poverty, prejudice, profiteers, refugees, scams, slavery, taxpayers, victims | Comments (1)

“We will give our lives but not our land!”
“This is a new beginning for the Tibetan struggle against Chinese occupation,” said Kalsang Phuntsok Godrukpa, president of the congress.
Thousands of Tibetans rallied in the Indian capital yesterday in the first protest of an aggressive new campaign to highlight Chinese abuses in Tibet in the run-up [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 16th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Defiance, Democide, Exile, Foreign Minister Liu, Human Rights, India, Olympics, Propaganda, Tibet, Time Bomb, deportation, displaced persons, genocide, humanitarian, monks, protesters, refugees | Comments (13)