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Twenty months after a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti's capital and surrounding areas, hundreds of thousands of residents don't know where their next meal is coming from. Women and young girls are routinely exposed to rape, abuse and assaults and cholera continues to plague the capital, claiming thousands of victims and infecting more than 400,000 Haitians.
About 700,000 men, women and children still live in tents cities which lack electricity and running water, and only 40 percent of the 19 million cubic meters of rubble has been removed from the streets of Port au Prince.
This despite the country having so far received $3.5 billion from international donors to rebuild the city from the ruins.
London police officers arrest a young man following the Tottenham riots. / Courtesy photo(FinalCall.com) - Black youth are still being unfairly blamed and targeted in the aftermath of the civil unrest and rebellion that gripped the streets of London and other cities in early August, charge UK activists. Despite media footage that proves youth of all races participated in the violence that erupted, Black youth have been subject to increased racial profiling by police in light of Prime Minister David Cameron's vow to identify, prosecute and jail all those involved.
Heightened racial profiling of Black youth stemming from the unrest is the result and is the biggest issue that needs to be discussed, said Hilary Muhammad, UK representative for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
Written by By Starla Muhammad-Special to the Informer from The Final Call
Peter E. WaldronA political organizer who helped send Congresswoman Michele Bachmann to victory in the recent Ames Iowa straw poll faced a life sentence in Uganda in 2006 on a gun-running charge.
Peter E. Waldron was held for 37 days, along with six Congolese and Ugandan nationals, in Luriza Prison, outside of Kampala. They were charged with possession of assault rifles and ammunition. Waldron was deported back to the U.S. reportedly after intervention from the Bush Administration.
Waldron, originally from Wyoming, spent several years in the East African country. The Kampala Monitor reported he was working with a Congo group to set up a Christian political party in Uganda. He also reportedly told a friend he has worked for the CIA.
He was also rumored to have been working with Congolese rebel militia members to capture Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group the Lord's Resistance Army, and claim a $1.7 million bounty on his head but that planning for the operation went awry, leading police to Waldron's house and the guns.
Waldron's East African ordeal is detailed in The Ultimate Price: The Peter E. Waldron Story, a film whose trailer was abruptly removed from YouTube after The Atlantic online magazine carried a piece on it. A synopsis of the film reads as follows:
"Lebanon. Iraq. Syria. Afghanistan. Pakistan. Uganda. India. For over 30 years, his family never knew where he went -- never knew what he did. Based on a true story, Dr. Peter Waldron was on a mission. Was he a businessman, a preacher, a spy? Tortured and facing a firing squad, he never broke his oath of silence. What secret was worth the ultimate price?"
For now, presidential hopeful Bachmann is standing behind her man.
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