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Female Medical Student Gang Raped in India Dies from Injuries

India's Parliament better strap their seat belts on, angry crowds are sick of government silence over sexual violence.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Friends and family were forced to say goodbye to the 23-year-old girl who was gang-raped in Delhi and brutally assaulted by six male suspects nearly a fortnight ago. She passed away at a Singapore hospital early Saturday. This is bad news in a country known for ignoring the rape and sex assault of its own citizens.

The girl, a physiotherapy student, was beaten with an iron rod, raped by six men for over an hour by some accounts, and then both she and her friend were thrown from the moving bus.

Of Benghazi and the Liberty

Only the orders of the President of the USA could have put that nuclear air unit on high level alert.

(ST AUGUSTINE, FL) - A Texas writer, Robert Morrow, sent me the following:

There is an extremely important book that came out in 2003 and was published by Vision. It is "Operation Cyanide-Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III " by Peter Hounam and it is about Israel's attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967.

Private Investigator Says He Has Evidence Of Foul Play in Whitney Houston`s Death

‘Whitney’s body shows classic defense wounds that would have occurred while she was battling for her life’ - Investigator Paul Huebl

(NEW YORK YBW) - Mega-star Whitney Houston’s cause of death has been officially ruled as a drowning, with heart disease being the suspected cause of that drowning.

According to the medical examiner, Houston, who said she’d gotten clean, had cocaine and marijuana in her system.

Does Congress Represent US Citizens or Israeli Citizens?

First, readers should know we spend more on defense and security than all of the nations of the world put together.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Congress passed the 2013 Defense Bill which calls for $633 billion dollars of spending without any controversy, the bill sailing through Congress by an almost a 3-1 margin.

While the media predicts doomsday with the fiscal cliff approaching, Congress saw no emergency, or even a reason to cut the latest defense bill; as a matter of fact, they gave the pentagon more than the pentagon wanted.

Sri Lanka`s Terrorist Investigation Division Summons Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam

Summons were also sent to the Bishop of Mannaar and Jaffna students.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Colombo TamilNet) - Sri Lanka’s Terrorist Investigation Division has sent summons to Tamil National People’s Front President.

The summon note, entirely in Sinhala language, was served at Gajendrakumar’s residence in Colombo by a TID officer.

2013 is Start of a New Financial Era

Yes, we may fall off fiscal cliffs, and yes we will have currency crises. Yes, interest rate moves and QEs will shake and stir, but nonetheless, like the Mayan calendar, the bear market started by the credit crunch has run its course. The world will go on.

(LONDON) - The recession is dead and the “great reflation” is about to begin.

In January, I wrote an article declaring the euro crisis dead. You might now be thinking I was way too early on that one.

We Cannot Let Bad Apples Spoil the Bunch!

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - In my last article I spoke about unity in our community.

Then I was asked, what about people who take from our community, and cause damage?

Drought Response Workshop Held In Orange County CA

Are Water Supplies in California Headed For A Resource Cliff?

(LAGUNA BEACH, CA) - The all day Drought Response Workshop (DRW) was organized by the California Department of Water Resources and National Water Research Institute.

It was held on November 6, 2012 in Fountain Valley at the offices of OCWD.

Does the U.S. Support Destabilization in the DR Congo?

The assassinations of three Presidents in the Central African region are linked to President Paul Kagame.

(WASHINGTON DC) - One of the most profound and saddening statements I have read recently was made by Kambale Musuvuli, a Congolese activist and spokesperson for Friends of the Congo; he said:

“Congo is a test for humanity. Future generations will ask why it took two decades to stop killing of Congolese reaching 6 million dead.”

Coerced Conscription of Tamil Women by Sri Lankan Security Forces - Sexual Abuse reported: TGTE

• Several women admitted to hospitals.
• Family members barred from meeting their daughters.
• 90,000 Tamil war widows facing abuses by the Security forces.

(LONDON) - The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) condemned the coerced conscription of over 140 young Tamil women by the Sri Lankan Security forces.

TGTE also raised concerns about the behavior of the Security forces, when they entered women’s hostels of the Jaffna University on November 27th.