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Keeping Firearms from the Mentally Ill

Once on any government "list," it is not always easy to get off. At the very least, the restoration of such individuals' right to buy or own firearms should come after a qualified clinician has determined the person is unlikely to relapse or become a danger to himself or others.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Obama administration announced January 3, 2014 executive actions intended to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing a rule whereby states can submit information on such people to the National Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

A Moral Agenda for NC Democratic Party: State Executive Committee

Vote to replace the Voller Agenda for Defeat with this Alternate Agenda for Victory.

(RALEIGH) - Radical changes must be made if there is any chance of returning NC Democrats to Majority Party status in the NC House & Senate, which was held for a century, until given away due to the political silliness begun by fmr State Chair Jerry Meek 9 years ago this meeting.

Meek was elected by a 14 vote Progressive plurality of the 600+ SEC members voting; current Chair Randy Voller was elected by an 11 vote Progressive plurality out of 607 ballots cast one year ago.

The Silent Massacre of Rohingya

To date, three million Muslims have been forced to migrate to neighboring countries, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been martyred, tens of thousands of settlement units have been burned and destroyed, tens of thousands of women have been raped...

(ISTANBUL Burma Times) - The Rohingya Muslims in the Rakhine province of Myanmar are going through a brutal ethnic slaughter campaign of an unimaginable size. The scale of the killings, persecution, torture and savagery are beyond comprehension.

The systematic slaughter policy waged towards Muslims since 1942 left only 70,000 out of the initial four million owing to mass murder and displacement.

Breast Cancer is the Second Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

A team developed a public health study of women in the state of New Mexico , attended by 692 women with breast cancer. The study explored the differences in impact among non-Hispanic and Hispanic women.

(MADRID) - The Spanish Association Against Cancer - AECC - has launched an advertising campaign requesting assistance under the slogan "With your help we will overcome cancer."

Previous investigations showed a trend of lower survival in breast cancer in Hispanic women affected by socioeconomic factors, as lack of means to reach the healthcare and screening scores.

Village Destruction in the Jordan Valley

Israel is aided and abetted by every U.S. President and Congress and every American tax payer who elects pro-Israel governments. We are all guilty because we tolerate or encourage the permanent intimidation of our public officials by Israel and its American allies.

(CHICAGO) - British journalist and author Victoria Brittain traveled to the Jordan Valley to see the actual conditions and latest developments in one of the areas under discussion in the peace negotiations John Kerry is conducting between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

A people under military occupation, prisoners in their own land, controlled by outside forces, live in the area in which Victoria Brittain traveled.

Misplaced Lessons of Tahrir

The lesson I take away from The Square is that we must prevent the operation of business as usual until the institution itself, not its face, is fixed.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - I still want Dirty Wars to win the Oscar, but The Square is a documentary worth serious discussion as we hit the three-year point since the famous occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo that overthrew Mubarak -- in particular because a lot of people seem to get a lot of the lessons wrong.

I suppose some people will leave Dirty Wars imagining that we need clean wars, whatever those would be. But too many people seem to be drawing from The Square lessons they brought with them to it...

Women`s/Human Rights News: A Break in a Dutch Tourist`s Murder

Movement in the murder case was reported Friday, January 24, when Mexican authorities announced they had van Nierop’s probable killer in custody.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - For more than 15 years, the family of Hester van Nierop has struggled across oceans and continents for justice.

An architecture school graduate, van Nierop was traveling through Mexico when she decided to make a stop in Ciudad Juarez back in 1998. The Mexican border city was the last place the young woman would visit on earth.

Jerusalem Post: Circumcision - Defending the Indefensible

By screening my TV documentary 'It’s a Boy!' for European parliamentarians I aim to help shore up their commitment to protection of children’s right to physical integrity.

(TEL AVIV Jerusalem Post) - I am a Jewish filmmaker and I have been invited by the Council of Europe to its Parliamentary Assembly next week.

By screening my television documentary It’s a Boy! for European parliamentarians I aim to help shore up their commitment to protection of children’s right to physical integrity – a key step toward ending ritual circumcision of boys. Yet there is a struggle underway.

Snowden Reveals More Info, if tried: Analyst

The US “convinced us all that Russia was spying on us and that America was the kind gentle pussy cat, now it turns out it’s the other way around,” - Anna O'Leary (Video is set to auto play)

(TEHRAN / DUBLIN) - Political Commentator Anna O’Leary believes that Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency’s whistleblower, is revealing more confidential information if he is put on trial.

“If he ever goes to trial, and his legal experts say that if he does go to trial, he will expose even more classified information,” O’Leary told Press TV on Sunday.

INCREDIBLE VIDEO! Child Saved from Under the Rubble Using Bare Hands

A neighborhood was shelled by explosives leaving a toddler buried alive beneath suffocating rocks and dirt.

(SALEM / Syria) - A baby buried alive was rescued from the rubble after an explosion in Syria. The video was first published by Nour.Media.Center activists in Syria's second city of Aleppo on January 22, 2014 showing dramatic scenes as a miracle unfolds before the camera.

Many are accusing the Assad army of destroying the building in which the child's family lived, in the Almasranih Neighborhood of Aleppo in Syria.