Sometimes words are insufficient.  Thanks for the post, Sabila.

Patricia  

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As per Rabia's request. I am posting a link to my article that was published in the OpEdNews.com and I am just beginning an all out assualt with all news media. They all mention the seniors as having to be in this cruel and complex plan, but not the disabled, and I am one at 48 and I also run a disability group here at Care2. The article was written me, Dreama Runyon on January 1, 2006  and the title is, "Disabled of all Ages on Medicaid Abandoned by New Repulican Drug Plan."

To read my article go to: http://www.opednews.com. Thank you all and especially you, dear Rabia, Dreama R. 

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Thank you Rabia and you have a really nice group here. One person can begin to make a difference to try to change the world for the better. On my OpEd News article, it is now in the Artcile Archives for the date of January 1, 2006.

I will see what other links I might be able to add so that we can try to help the poor, needy, elderly, disabled and all in much need of medical care around the world.

Many blessings my friend,

Dreama

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LETTER FROM ONE ORGANIZATION

Dear Members,  Here is a letter sent to Rabia and I bring it to share with you.

In 2005, we saw how American commitment to the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty can change the world.  Because of you, the U.S. made historic promises at the July G8 summit, agreeing to cancel crushing debts, double aid to Africa and even provide access to AIDS drugs for all who need them.   2006 is all about keeping our promises so these solutions become a reality for those most in need.  If kept, we could save over 4.5 million lives a year by 2010—all we need is your voice.

Sign a letter today and ask President Bush to keep the promise and fully fund the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.  In the next three weeks, the President will make crucial decisions about next year’s budget, including how America will best use our resources to help educate, feed and treat those most in need.    As ONE, we’re asking that the U.S. give an additional 1% of our budget over the next five years so we can keep our life-saving promises to fight AIDS and poverty. What could just one more penny of every dollar do?  By giving an additional 1%, the U.S. would be able to help prevent 10 million children from becoming AIDS orphans and send 100 million children to grade school.

FROM THE ONE ORGANIZATION

As told to the GRANDE WAZIR

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Please everyone sign and forward the plan that can stop hunger worldwide!

http://www.thegoldenlotus.com/vote.php

Spread the word please.

Greet Narsingh

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CARE Calls on International Community to Act Now in Haiti

Port au Prince, Haiti (February 16, 2006) — "The country's new president and parliament need to join forces and promote national reconciliation in order to rebuild Haiti," says Abby Maxman, Country Director for CARE in Haiti. "At the same time, the international community must deliver on its promises of long-term, active support for this process without delay." CARE, a leading poverty–fighting organization, has worked in Haiti for the past 50 years.

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CARE is one of the world's largest private humanitarian organizations. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're part of an international confederation of 11 member organizations committed to helping communities in the developing world achieve lasting victories over poverty.

The scope of our mission has changed considerably since our founding in 1945, when 22 American organizations came together to rush lifesaving CARE Packages to survivors of World War II. Thousands of Americans, including President Harry S. Truman contributed to the effort.  On May 11, 1946, the first 20,000 packages reached the battered port of Le Havre, France. Some 100 million more CARE Packages reached people in need during the next two decades, first in Europe and later in Asia and other parts of the developing world.

Over the years, our work has expanded as we've addressed the world's most threatening problems. In the 1950s, we expanded into emerging nations and used U.S. surplus food to feed the hungry. In the 1960s, we pioneered primary health care programs. In the 1970s, CARE responded to massive famines in Africa with both emergency relief and long-term agroforestry projects, integrating environmentally sound tree- and land-management practices with farming programs.

Today, our staff of more than 12,000 -- most of whom are citizens of the countries where we work-- help strengthen communities through an array of programs that work to create lasting solutions to root causes of poverty.

Our Name

We've always been known by the acronym "CARE," but the meaning behind the letters has changed as our mission has broadened. When we were founded in 1945, CARE stood for "Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe." Today, with projects in more than 60 countries around the world, CARE stands for "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc."

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Primates possess many qualities which
were once considered solely human attributes. The central nervous system of Primates and humans is organized in almost the same way, and there are similarities between the social behavior, emotional needs and intellectual capabilities of humans and other Primates. Primates demonstrate the ability to reason, to exhibit friendship and altruism, to suffer fear and stress.

UK and EU legislation has been partially expanded to supposedly protect their specific requirements in the laboratory and afford them a 'higher' status than other animal species under Directive 86/609/EEC.  The reality is, however, that this legal provision does not prevent thousands of primates each year enduring terrible pain, suffering and death in the laboratory.  . Experiments that would be unthinkable if performed on human subjects should also be considered morally unacceptable when carried out on our genetic cousins.

Researchers use primates as 'models' of human diseases on which the development and progression of such diseases can be monitored and treated. However primates, like other animals, make poor 'models' and attempting to extrapolate test results from one species to another is a fundamentally flawed research methodology. Despite their similarities, there are also many significant differences between humans and others Primates.

The fundamental flaw underlying the research of human diseases in primates is that researchers can only attempt to artificially induce similar superficial symptoms of human diseases in Primates, which is very different from studying a naturally occurring disease in a biologically relevant animal i.e. a human patient.

Primates who are removed from their normal habitat, deprived of environmental stimulants and social interaction, make poor 'models' on which to record the 'natural' development of disease or infection. Like human beings, primates react very differently to disease or illness depending on their physical and psychological states.

The reality is, despite what the research industry would have us believe, primates do not provide a reliable 'model' of the human being. After decades of research on primates, scientists have repeatedly failed to make significant breakthroughs in fully understanding the onset and progression of HIV or AIDS, cot death, epilepsy, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, or cancer - all human conditions which have been thoroughly, though pointlessly, explored through research on Primates.

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Homeless Youth Initiative

Congress should take the following actions related to runaway and homeless youth:
 

Congress and the Executive Branch should take the following steps to ensure an appropriate response to the needs of runaway and homeless youth:
 

Expand funding for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, which establishes three national programs:
 

The Basic Center Program which provides temporary shelter for youth in crisis and counseling for those youths and their families.
 

The Transitional Living Program which assists older homeless youth to move successfully toward independence.
 

The Street Outreach Program which connects youth on the streets to services and prevents sexual abuse and exploitation of these youths.
 

Ensure that services, supports and opportunities for young people are part of the local continuum of care and efforts.
 

Enhance funding for the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program and enforce the requirement that all barriers to public school enrollment, attendance and success of homeless children and youth are eliminated.
 

Ensure that, for short periods of time, alternatives to mainstreaming are available to homeless youth under the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program, to provide supplementary services to meet the unique needs of these youth.
 

Provide federal leadership to encourage cooperation at all levels of government and to involve leaders in state and local government and nonprofit organizations to better address the problems of runaway and homeless youth.
 

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Civilians bear the brunt of Mid-East Violence.

Baalbek, Lebanon: Residents inspect the damage following an Israeli air raid on July 22, 2006. Joseph Barrak/AFP/Getty Images.

Dear Friend,

As the conflict in Israel, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip continues to escalate, civilians have borne the brunt of the casualties. Write to your representatives to ask that they urge the Bush administration to work to protect all civilians in the conflict. 

Hizbullah and Hamas continue to launch attacks on Israeli civilians. Israel continues to launch attacks against civilians and against civilian infrastructure. Over 350 Lebanese, 80 Palestinian and 15 Israeli civilians have been killed during the current escalation of the crisis. Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure have also targeted roads, bridges, electrical generating plants and other facilities.

Write to your representatives urging them help insure respect of international law and the protection of civilians.

Amnesty International is one of the only grassroots groups addressing violations by all parties to the conflict. Your help is both needed and appreciated.

Sincerely,
Alexandra Arriaga
Director, Government Relations
Amnesty International USA

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Please continue to speak out about the injustice to which young Delara has been subjected. Please sign the petition objecting to her execution and ask your family, friends, co-workers, members of your church, school, and community to do the same. Please keep young Delara Darabi in your thoughts and prayers. Please keep Delara in your hearts.

Lily Mazahery, Esq.

President

Legal Rights Institute

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