Sunday, August 21, 2016
"Clear the Air" by Off With Their Heads (click here for their web store - thank you)
I wanted to tell you, I wanted to share,
Some important details that you're unaware of
I want you to listen, I want you to care,
I'll choke to death if I don't clear the air
It's not a secret that I obsess,
And then I get angry, and then I get stressed
And you can't imagine and you can't compare,
You have no frame of reference and then you get scared
I'm doing my best to help make you see,
That it's not your fault, when I'll beg and I'll plead
It's much easier just to go back to sleep,
But we gotta find a place to start because I'm falling apart
I never feel happy, I never feel safe,
I can't let myself ever stay in one place
I look in the mirror and I see the face
Of a failure who will never be significant
The face that you see from the morning to night
Is the mask that I put on to hide what's inside
I don't take it off until you fall asleep,
I don't want you to see what live inside of me
I thought I'd get older and it'd go away,
But it only gets worse and causes more pain
And being alone is getting so hard,
I just got to tell you
God damnit, I'm falling apart
I'm down on my knees in the dark
Feeling for whatever is left
But the pieces are falling too far
God damnit, I'm falling apart
I'm down on my knees in the dark (I'm falling apart)
Feeling for whatever is left (I'm falling apart)
But the pieces are falling too far
Don't leave yet, I haven't got to the part that explains at all
Don't leave yet, I need somebody there to catch me before I fall
To catch me before I fall
God damnit, I'm falling apart
I wanted to tell you, I wanted to share,
Some important details that you're unaware
I want you to listen, I want you to care,
I'll choke to death if I don't clear the air right now
I wanted to tell you, I wanted to share,
Some important details that you're unaware of
I want you to listen, I want you to care,
I'll choke to death if I don't clear the air
It's not a secret that I obsess,
And then I get angry, and then I get stressed
And you can't imagine and you can't compare,
You have no frame of reference and then you get scared
I'm doing my best to help make you see,
That it's not your fault, when I'll beg and I'll plead
It's much easier just to go back to sleep,
But we gotta find a place to start because I'm falling apart
I never feel happy, I never feel safe,
I can't let myself ever stay in one place
I look in the mirror and I see the face
Of a failure who will never be significant
The face that you see from the morning to night
Is the mask that I put on to hide what's inside
I don't take it off until you fall asleep,
I don't want you to see what live inside of me
I thought I'd get older and it'd go away,
But it only gets worse and causes more pain
And being alone is getting so hard,
I just got to tell you
God damnit, I'm falling apart
I'm down on my knees in the dark
Feeling for whatever is left
But the pieces are falling too far
God damnit, I'm falling apart
I'm down on my knees in the dark (I'm falling apart)
Feeling for whatever is left (I'm falling apart)
But the pieces are falling too far
Don't leave yet, I haven't got to the part that explains at all
Don't leave yet, I need somebody there to catch me before I fall
To catch me before I fall
God damnit, I'm falling apart
I wanted to tell you, I wanted to share,
Some important details that you're unaware
I want you to listen, I want you to care,
I'll choke to death if I don't clear the air right now
I'd like to say this is a resurgence of racism in the USA, but, I think it was always there. It is just more fashionable now.
A customer left a nasty note for Sadie Karina Elledge saying "we only tip citizens." Photo / Courtesy of John Elledge via Washington Post
The message (click here) on the receipt rattled Sadie Karina Elledge, but it made her grandfather see red.
Instead of leaving a gratuity on Monday, a couple eating at the Harrisonburg, Virginia, restaurant where Sadie works scrawled: "We only tip citizens."
The dig was aimed at Sadie, 18, who was born in America, but is of Honduran and Mexican descent. So, John Elledge took a photo of the grease-stained receipt left for his granddaughter and posted it on Facebook.
Beneath the photo he typed: "You are a complete and total piece of dung."
Earlier on Facebook, the lawyer had written some other harsh words:
"I'd happily do the jail time if I could get just one solid punch in to the face of the son of a bitch who paid for his meal at the luncheonette where my granddaughter works and left the receipt for her with a note saying, 'Sorry, we only tip citizens.'"
I have stated from the first demand for the governor's resignation, he can't afford to resign.
August 19, 2016
By Ron Fonger
Lansing, MI -- Criminal cases against state employees (click here) charged with wrongdoing in the Flint water crisis are just beginning, but legal fees have already risen to more than $5 million for Gov. Rick Snyder and two departments in state government.
Snyder will tell the State Administrative Board on Aug. 30 that he is raising the spending caps on contracts for two law firms representing his office against civil lawsuits related to Flint water — enough to cover $3.4 million in billings so far, the governor's press secretary said.
In addition, Department of Environmental Quality and Department of Health and Human Services representatives said they have spent an additional $1.6 million for lawyer fees related to Flint as of Aug. 1....
Some would say Dr. Edwards bites the hand that feeds him. It is easy to classify a real hero to the common man or woman a troublemaker. But, the trouble would not exist to find if government was not so corrupt and disinterested in the people that elected them. To me, I envy his lab and consider him a revolutionary. He is the only scientist frustrated with the spill over politics into science; global warming is only part of that reality.
Troublemaker brings images of "Dennis the Menace" or a scientist that creates their own absurd ideas. Dr. Edwards is none of those. He is a PhD scientist prepared to address real issues of real people. To think his work is only beginning and not following in the foot steps of those before him would indicate those before him were corrupted by the same politics that has tossed out establishment politicians.
Dr. Edwards is a hero and nothing short of it. I doubt he sees himself as anything more than a scientist conducting necessary work. What is surprising is that his necessary work would not be required IF the governance was not so corrupt to allow poisoning of the people of the electorate. An odd thought, isn't it? People are elected to office and instead of protecting the electorate and afraid of being removed from office or defeated in the next election; they hunker down with cronies and plan against the very people that should be protected by their government.
No. Dr. Edwards is not a troublemaker, he is one who discovers the trouble instilled by the corrupt and uncaring. He is definitely a revolutionary, carrying out the moral path that will add quality of life and longevity to American lives.
August 16, 2016
By Donovon Hohn
'''In the history of political graffiti, (click here) “We want Va. Tech” may sound like one of the least stirring demands ever spray-painted on a wall, but in the context of Flint, it was charged with the emotion and meaning of a rallying cry.
By “Va. Tech,” the message’s author meant a Virginia Tech professor of civil and environmental engineering, Marc Edwards. Edwards has spent most of his career studying the aging waterworks of America, publishing the sort of papers that specialists admire and the rest of us ignore, on subjects like “ozone-induced particle destabilization” or the “role of temperature and pH in Cu(OH)₂ solubility.” Explaining his research to laypeople, he sometimes describes it as “the C.S.I. of plumbing.” Edwards is a detective with a research lab and a Ph.D. In 2000, after homeowners in suburban Maryland began reporting “pinhole leaks” in their copper pipes, the water authority there brought in Edwards. In 2002, after receiving a report that water in a Maui neighborhood had mysteriously turned blue and was giving people rashes, Edwards took on the case.
Until last year, the most famous case Edwards investigated was the lead contamination of the water supply in the nation’s capital — still the worst such event in modern American history, in magnitude and duration. In Washington, lead levels shot up in 2001, and in some neighborhoods they remained dangerously elevated until 2010. Edwards maintains, and spent years working to prove, that scientific misconduct at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exacerbated the D.C. crisis....
If DC isn't even interested in it's own water, why would anyone expect anyone else to be? It is corruption through and through and it needs to be flushed out at every turn. Dr. Edwards is not an idealist, he is a realist.
May 20, 2010
Some would say Dr. Edwards bites the hand that feeds him. It is easy to classify a real hero to the common man or woman a troublemaker. But, the trouble would not exist to find if government was not so corrupt and disinterested in the people that elected them. To me, I envy his lab and consider him a revolutionary. He is the only scientist frustrated with the spill over politics into science; global warming is only part of that reality.
Troublemaker brings images of "Dennis the Menace" or a scientist that creates their own absurd ideas. Dr. Edwards is none of those. He is a PhD scientist prepared to address real issues of real people. To think his work is only beginning and not following in the foot steps of those before him would indicate those before him were corrupted by the same politics that has tossed out establishment politicians.
Dr. Edwards is a hero and nothing short of it. I doubt he sees himself as anything more than a scientist conducting necessary work. What is surprising is that his necessary work would not be required IF the governance was not so corrupt to allow poisoning of the people of the electorate. An odd thought, isn't it? People are elected to office and instead of protecting the electorate and afraid of being removed from office or defeated in the next election; they hunker down with cronies and plan against the very people that should be protected by their government.
No. Dr. Edwards is not a troublemaker, he is one who discovers the trouble instilled by the corrupt and uncaring. He is definitely a revolutionary, carrying out the moral path that will add quality of life and longevity to American lives.
August 16, 2016
By Donovon Hohn
'''In the history of political graffiti, (click here) “We want Va. Tech” may sound like one of the least stirring demands ever spray-painted on a wall, but in the context of Flint, it was charged with the emotion and meaning of a rallying cry.
By “Va. Tech,” the message’s author meant a Virginia Tech professor of civil and environmental engineering, Marc Edwards. Edwards has spent most of his career studying the aging waterworks of America, publishing the sort of papers that specialists admire and the rest of us ignore, on subjects like “ozone-induced particle destabilization” or the “role of temperature and pH in Cu(OH)₂ solubility.” Explaining his research to laypeople, he sometimes describes it as “the C.S.I. of plumbing.” Edwards is a detective with a research lab and a Ph.D. In 2000, after homeowners in suburban Maryland began reporting “pinhole leaks” in their copper pipes, the water authority there brought in Edwards. In 2002, after receiving a report that water in a Maui neighborhood had mysteriously turned blue and was giving people rashes, Edwards took on the case.
Until last year, the most famous case Edwards investigated was the lead contamination of the water supply in the nation’s capital — still the worst such event in modern American history, in magnitude and duration. In Washington, lead levels shot up in 2001, and in some neighborhoods they remained dangerously elevated until 2010. Edwards maintains, and spent years working to prove, that scientific misconduct at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exacerbated the D.C. crisis....
If DC isn't even interested in it's own water, why would anyone expect anyone else to be? It is corruption through and through and it needs to be flushed out at every turn. Dr. Edwards is not an idealist, he is a realist.
May 20, 2010
...CDC has yet to Inform the Public Health Community of its Faulty Analysis...
Saving lives, delivering a better quality of life and adding longevity to Americans can hardly be called trouble making.
Let's just call Dr. Edwards a new breed of scientist and for them the world is grossly flawed. Dr. Edward's view of the world increases opportunity for new scientists that actually don't want to surrender their careers to corruption.
Let's just call Dr. Edwards a new breed of scientist and for them the world is grossly flawed. Dr. Edward's view of the world increases opportunity for new scientists that actually don't want to surrender their careers to corruption.
Saturday, August 20, 2016
A mosque did not replace a church.
By Rachel Revesz
Ms Long (right) pledging her allegiance to Donald Trump at the Republican convention
A Republican nominee (click here) for the New York senate has been criticised for linking a new mosque to “crime, prostitution and money laundering”.
Wendy Long posted a series of tweets about the Syracuse mosque, which was converted from a Catholic church last year, and suggesting that the mosque was related to a rise in crime.
Ms Long posted a picture of a boarded up house near the Masjid Isa Ibn Maryam mosque, and wrote: “Neighbourhood where the mosque displaced the church. Crime, prostitution, money laundering.”...
Church closings have been realized for more than two decades.
...What is Going on with the Church in America? (click here)
The United States Census Bureau Records give some startling statistics, backed up by denominational reports and the Assemblies of God U.S. Missions:
· Every year more than 4000 churches close their doors compared to just over 1000 new church starts!
· There were about 4,500 new churches started between 1990 and 2000, with a twenty year average of nearly 1000 a year.
· Every year, 2.7 million church members fall into inactivity. This translates into the realization that people are leaving the church. From our research, we have found that they are leaving as hurting and wounded victims-of some kind of abuse, disillusionment, or just plain neglect!...
Ms. Wendy Long is seeking to develop scare tactics to enhance her election to the New York State Senate. I find the last little bit of tolerance for her bizarre analogies intolerable. She needs to be defeated.
Friday, August 19, 2016
The Flint River Water Project
It is important to have an ally that breaths fire.
I am letting this go for another week or two. The outcomes are far too important.
At that time or sometime sooner if I get too impatient; I will write a specific outline to my need for information and how I can find it quicker than anyone else with a written certification letter giving me access.
Have a great weekend.
It is important to have an ally that breaths fire.
I am letting this go for another week or two. The outcomes are far too important.
At that time or sometime sooner if I get too impatient; I will write a specific outline to my need for information and how I can find it quicker than anyone else with a written certification letter giving me access.
Have a great weekend.
To some countries falsifying government records IS the style of government.
By Casey Michle
...Saparmamed Nepeskuliyev (click here) was picked up, according to Turkmenistan’s authorities, for possession of banned medications. Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov, if we’re to believe officials in Uzbekistan, was arrested for transporting over 100 grams of marijuana. And Muhammad Bekjanov, said Tashkent, not only failed to keep his slippers “in the proper place,” but was guilty of “incorrectly peeling carrots.” All of them – all of these Central Asian journalists – were, as a result of these spurious charges, jailed or had existing sentences extended....
Protecting journalists from a government inquiry saves lives.
What is to stop any country from impinging on the journalistic right to protecting sources? What will prevent Russia and China or Iran from indicting American journalists for information. Cutting deeper into the right to protect sources is removing a vital right to the journalist's practice. Journalism is a profession, no different than the law and in many ways needs the same professional standard as lawyers.
August 19, 2016
By NYT Editorial Board
...The legal questions (click here) raised in Mr. Bonie’s case have received less attention. But that case represents a more imminent threat to freedom of the press. In that proceeding, a Manhattan appeals court backed a trial judge who ordered a reporter for News 12 the Bronx, a cable channel, to turn over unaired segments of an interview with Mr. Bonie. Unless that decision is overturned by the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, prosecutors will have greater authority to compel journalists to produce information gathered during the reporting process that was not published or broadcast.
That would put a dent in New York’s shield law for journalists, one of the strongest in the nation. It would have a chilling effect on news gathering, by routinely burdening journalists with subpoena requests. And it could create the damaging perception that news organizations are an investigative arm of the criminal justice system....
The American journalist is invaluable in providing the truth and chronically speaks truth to power. Let us not forget the US Senate pays attention to the number of Pinocchios awarded the false face of politics.
More importantly, journalism is the one place where information and the people interface. It is extremely important. The fact a journalist can be tapped as if a spy weakens the profession and removes the 'best truth' from access to the public.
Let us not forget "the source" takes on great risk and inevitably will suffer when discovered even under the best Whistleblower laws. A sources right to speak without infringement is important.
The USA has made remarkable gains in public awareness through journalists and their practice; it should not be tampered with.
Forgotten from our memories are the journalists wrongly charged and imprisoned in Egypt.
August 17, 2016
By Bill Kaufman
...Fahmy, (click here) who was imprisoned for 438 days in Egypt on trumped-up terrorism charges while a reporter for Al Jazeera English, said his experience led him to draft a charter that would ensure Ottawa to aid journalists detained abroad.
August 19, 2016
By NYT Editorial Board
...The legal questions (click here) raised in Mr. Bonie’s case have received less attention. But that case represents a more imminent threat to freedom of the press. In that proceeding, a Manhattan appeals court backed a trial judge who ordered a reporter for News 12 the Bronx, a cable channel, to turn over unaired segments of an interview with Mr. Bonie. Unless that decision is overturned by the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, prosecutors will have greater authority to compel journalists to produce information gathered during the reporting process that was not published or broadcast.
That would put a dent in New York’s shield law for journalists, one of the strongest in the nation. It would have a chilling effect on news gathering, by routinely burdening journalists with subpoena requests. And it could create the damaging perception that news organizations are an investigative arm of the criminal justice system....
The American journalist is invaluable in providing the truth and chronically speaks truth to power. Let us not forget the US Senate pays attention to the number of Pinocchios awarded the false face of politics.
More importantly, journalism is the one place where information and the people interface. It is extremely important. The fact a journalist can be tapped as if a spy weakens the profession and removes the 'best truth' from access to the public.
Let us not forget "the source" takes on great risk and inevitably will suffer when discovered even under the best Whistleblower laws. A sources right to speak without infringement is important.
The USA has made remarkable gains in public awareness through journalists and their practice; it should not be tampered with.
Forgotten from our memories are the journalists wrongly charged and imprisoned in Egypt.
By Bill Kaufman
...Fahmy, (click here) who was imprisoned for 438 days in Egypt on trumped-up terrorism charges while a reporter for Al Jazeera English, said his experience led him to draft a charter that would ensure Ottawa to aid journalists detained abroad.
“We wrote up a protection charter partnering with Amnesty International and one of the main points was the need for a new law obligating the government to help journalists imprisoned,” Fahmy, 42, told a Globalfest Human Rights Forum audience.
“I’m hoping the government will respond.”...
The USA sets the standard. Journalists globally know what a dream come true "Freedom of the Press," is cherished. For journalists in the USA and abroad the highest professional standard should be allowed their discretion, except, perhaps when they hack into a person's mobile phone.
The need for confidential sources is a long lived necessity for newspapers and their journalists. Today, there is a far greater danger and that is the invasiveness of computer hacking of electronic media.
These court cases are minor compared to the larger need for protecting sources. I am sure the judges involved have not yet explored other methods of truth telling like asking to have detectives placed on their need to know. The law is best when it works without getting lazy. If a journalist has information, it is easy to demand their cooperation. That is not professionalism of the court, it is the laziness of law enforcement.
The USA sets the standard. Journalists globally know what a dream come true "Freedom of the Press," is cherished. For journalists in the USA and abroad the highest professional standard should be allowed their discretion, except, perhaps when they hack into a person's mobile phone.
The need for confidential sources is a long lived necessity for newspapers and their journalists. Today, there is a far greater danger and that is the invasiveness of computer hacking of electronic media.
These court cases are minor compared to the larger need for protecting sources. I am sure the judges involved have not yet explored other methods of truth telling like asking to have detectives placed on their need to know. The law is best when it works without getting lazy. If a journalist has information, it is easy to demand their cooperation. That is not professionalism of the court, it is the laziness of law enforcement.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
The game of "Justice for personal politics" is the USA's favorite national blood sport.
This is one for the US State Department. I think we owe the gas station owner a door.
By Ben Rohrbach
...During multiple interviews (click here) with members of NBC’s Today show, Lochte has stood by the robbery story.
“We got pulled over in our taxi and these guys came out with a badge, a police badge,'” Lochte told the Today show’s Billy Bush in a taped interview Sunday. “No lights, no nothing, just a police badge. They pulled us over, they pulled out their guns. They told the other swimmers to get down on the ground. They got down on the ground. I refused. I was like, ‘We didn’t do anything wrong,’ so I’m not getting down on the ground. And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and said ‘get down. I put my hands up. I was like ‘whatever.’ He took our money, he took my wallet.”
Speaking with Today host Matt Lauer Wednesday, Lochte reiterated, “We wouldn’t make this story up. We’re victims in this and we’re happy that we’re safe.” However, the six-time Olympic gold medalist altered details about his original story during Wednesday’s conversation with Lauer, saying the they stopped at the gas station to use the men’s room and the gun was pointed in his “general direction.”
Gutman’s report on Thursday morning appears to contradict Lochte’s account of the alleged robbery.
Bentz, Conger and Feigen are all cooperating with Brazilian police, according to the USOC. Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mario Andrada issued the following strange statement:
Official statement (click here) from IOC #Rio2016 spokesman Mario Andrada on #LochteGate. It's amazing.
"I do not regret for having apologized. No apologize for him or the other athletes are needed. We have to understand these kids came here to have fun. Let's give these kids a break. Sometimes you make decisions you later regret. They had fun, they made a mistake, life goes on."
Counting the dead and finding genocidal killers can be accomplished enough to reign in such aggression at the Hague.
London — In barely a generation, air power has shifted from indiscriminate to discriminating. Thanks to advances in precision guidance, American bombs and missiles now generally get to where they’re intended. But human or machine error, bad luck or faulty military math still lead to unforeseen civilian deaths. And as the United States and its allies continue their bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, many more noncombatants are perishing than they seem prepared to admit.
During July, the number of reported civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes reached the highest level since the air war began in August 2014. On July 19, 78 or more civilians were reported killed near the Islamic State-occupied city of Manbij, Syria, many of them women and children. In the successful battle for Manbij alone, at least 200 civilians were reportedly killed.
The United States and its allies have taken care to mitigate harm to civilians, and the United States Central Command is investigating the July 19 incident. But with the fight moving deeper into the towns and cities of Iraq and Syria — where millions remain under the Islamic State’s thumb — the risk is rising. Denmark, a member of the coalition, recently warned that civilian deaths might be “unavoidable” in this new phase of the war. Yet the allies appear poorly equipped to properly assess the numbers already being killed....
War is not a mistake or accident, it is a deliberate act. The militaries involved should do everything possible to prevent and end the deaths of civilians, but, war requires only reparations after the surrender.
The invasion into Iraq never had an accurate body count of the civilians involved. There never will be one. If there are still official records of birth certificates before the invasion, those lost before their time could be discerned, but, it is my guess the official birth records were housed in a building that would be destroyed early on in the invasion.
The Geneva Conventions (click here) do not spell out a formula for war and counting the dead to the first decimal (1.0), but, it allows for a country to have assistance returning from the conflict. A peace treaty must be signed and honored. The USA is directly responsible for the issues that exist today in Iraq and Syria, but, not in it's entirety. The Iraqi people have to maintain their own defense forces and deploy them when needed.
I have stated this before. If the coalition of countries bombing Daesh's strongholds, training facilities and oil tankers expect to be able to prevent civilian causalities, they are delusional. There is no turning back. Every person should be given every affordable chance to leave the war zone, but, where there are people acting as human shields there is no good way to avoid those deaths.
The clock can't be turned back. The danger of Daesh is being felt everywhere. It has to be destroyed. There is no alternative. If there was an alternative the global community has already tried it. When someone enters a home with intent of killing the occupants they have already determined their own fate.
The body count in Syria and Iraq will be known only when civilization takes on the effort after the war ends.
There was a time when the USA did not issue birth certificates to all Americans and the family kept track of their family members inside a bible. There are ways of finding the truth. Population trends in Iraq and Syria before the wars began can be discerned and the actual trajectory known. The difference between the two numbers will begin the knowledge the global community may seek. In both these countries the ethnicity populations were known as well.
The question sincerely is, "Was there genocide?" And, who is being held responsible? The Hague has the capacity to decide in absentia.
Money isn't going to solve the problem, a resolve to the cholera to save lives is the first priority.
Case management (click here)
Efficient treatment resides in prompt rehydration through the administration of oral rehydration salts (ORS) or intravenous fluids, depending of the severity of cases. Up to 80% of patients can be treated adequately through the administration of ORS (WHO/UNICEF ORS standard sachet). Very severely dehydrated patients are treated through the administration of intravenous fluids, preferably Ringer lactate. Appropriate antibiotics can be given to severe cases to diminish the duration of diarrhoea, reduce the volume of rehydration fluids needed and shorten the duration of V. cholerae excretion. For children up to five years, supplementary administration of zinc2 has a proven effective in reducing duration of diarrhoea as well as reduction in successive diarrhoea episodes. In order to ensure timely access to treatment, cholera treatment centres should be set up among the affected populations whenever feasible.
I take it this occurred through contaminated food. Was there a crime committed here by intentional contamination? I am surprised the United Nations would be so remiss to allow contaminated food into any mission in the world, yet alone Haiti.
I suggest strongly the United Nations have transparency of this occurrence. The cholera first needs to be contained through quarantine and victims administered treatment.
The WHO and the UN know what to do. I suggest they carry out a mission to end the spread of cholera. The families with lost members need to be recognized and compensated to allow their well being to continue. The sad issue here is the fact there may be entire families effected with many dead. The Haiti government needs support in ending this and to bring resolve to the people.
If this is an oversight failure, it has to be dealt with in a way that eliminates those most responsible.
Compensation to the families that have lost cholera victims is required. The United Nations will maintain it's mission and purpose only by allowing itself to recognize this tragedy and rightful compensation to the victims. The 10,000 dead have to be recognized financially, but, the treatment of the cholera is the primary focus.
I suggest strongly the United Nations have transparency of this occurrence. The cholera first needs to be contained through quarantine and victims administered treatment.
The WHO and the UN know what to do. I suggest they carry out a mission to end the spread of cholera. The families with lost members need to be recognized and compensated to allow their well being to continue. The sad issue here is the fact there may be entire families effected with many dead. The Haiti government needs support in ending this and to bring resolve to the people.
If this is an oversight failure, it has to be dealt with in a way that eliminates those most responsible.
Compensation to the families that have lost cholera victims is required. The United Nations will maintain it's mission and purpose only by allowing itself to recognize this tragedy and rightful compensation to the victims. The 10,000 dead have to be recognized financially, but, the treatment of the cholera is the primary focus.
New formulation of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) with reduced osmolarity (click here)
Background: Two decades ago diarrhoea was responsible for around 5 million deaths annually. Through major public health efforts primarily aimed at preventing and treating dehydration this figure has decreased to around 2 million deaths. Prevention of dehydration is primarily achieved by ensuring that children with diarrhoea are provided with more fluids than usual, and/or increased frequency of breastfeeding, during the acute episode. The combination of increased home fluids and the use of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) for the treatment of dehydration have proven to be a very powerful intervention for the prevention of childhood deaths from diarrhoea.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Some of the most sensitive areas in the world are facing drought and faminine.
Low water levels (click here) on Mozambique’s Lago de Cahora Bassa betrayed signs of stress in late July 2016....
...Roughly 18 million people there urgently need food assistance, leading the United Nations World Food Programme to declare the region its highest-level emergency. Plunging water levels also threaten the area’s key power source: its hydroelectric dams.
Images from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 satellite show water levels dropping in the Lago de Cahora Bassa between July 2014 and August 2016. The lake is part of the Zambezi River Basin, which also supplies water to Zimbabwe and Zambia. Water levels on Lago de Cahora Bassa have dropped more than than five meters below capacity.
The light-colored “bathtub ring” around the reservoir’s shores and islands in 2016 indicates exposed sediments that were underwater in 2014 before the water receded. Pronounced changes in water depth also show up in the lake’s color, with deep, emerald shades turning milkier as the reservoir empties. Some features have emerged from the lake as water levels has receded; in the second image, a former island has filled out into a peninsula.
There is no bathtub ring visible around Lake Kariba (to the west) because the lake is much narrower and deeper. But that reservoir now stands just 31 percent full. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aquasatellite captured a wide view (below) of Kariba and Cahora Bassa on August 1, 2016. Both reservoirs are home tomassive hydropower dams that supply the region with electricity....
Mozambique police have come under scrutiny (click here) in the past two days for killing six civilians. The media is under attack as well.
August 13, 2016
Mozambique’s National Union of Journalists (SNJ) (click here) has condemned an attack on a group of journalists who were ambushed by gunmen from the opposition party Renamo on Friday.
The victims of the ambush were a team of reporters travelling to Macossa, in the central province of Manica, to cover President Filipe Nyusi’s visit to the district. Two cars belonging to Radio Mozambique and public television broadcaster TVM were fired upon as they drove through Chiuala, in Barue district, resulting in a journalist receiving a minor injury from shards of glass.
The union’s General Secretary, Eduardo Constantino, condemned the attack as a war crime on the grounds that it broke the third Geneva Convention on press freedom....
Africa's rebel groups are famous for surviving and hostilities for natural resources. Water is quickly taking on the characteristic as being a natural resource to covet.
August 14, 2016
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi (click here) on Sunday expressed his solidarity with the journalists who were attacked by gunmen from the opposition party Renamo on Friday.
The victims of the ambush were a team of journalist travelling to Macossa, in the central province of Manica, to cover the President's visit to the district. Two cars belonging to Radio Mozambique and TVM were fired upon as they drove through Chiuala, in Barue district, resulting in a journalist receiving a minor injury from shards of glass.
Speaking to reporters, President Nyusi said that this type of incident, which has also targeted women and children, must end....
August 16, 2016
Maputo - Six people have been killed in an attack (click here) by Renamo rebels in Mozambique, police said on Monday, the latest in a string of violent skirmishes between opposition fighters and government forces.
Two unidentified survivors claimed that government troops had staged the attack, but police laid the blame squarely on rebels.
"Armed men from Renamo ambushed a vehicle on Friday, firing at it until it caught fire," police spokesperson Daniel Macuacua told AFP.
"Six people were burnt to death." All the victims were civilians, though their identities have not been released.
"We are still looking for any potential survivors who may have escaped," Macuacua added.
'Lined up and shot'
But two survivors told the country's independent television channel STV on condition of anonymity, that the government troops were behind the attack....
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Really, Roger? I don't have to comment, the affiliation is simply obvious.
August 16, 2016
By John Santucci and Candane Smith
By John Santucci and Candane Smith
Former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes (click here) is advising Donald Trump on his debate preparation, but does not have a formal role in the campaign, sources told ABC News.
The two men, who are longtime friends, met last Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminister, New Jersey, according to senior level campaign sources. Trump has also gone to Ailes for advice on debates and the two have continued their relationship through phone calls.
Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied any connection between Ailes and the Trump campaign.
"He is not advising Mr. Trump or helping with debate prep. They are longtime friends, but he has no formal or informal role in the campaign," Hicks told ABC News in a statement....
Turkey needs to stand down from bombing near it's border. The global coalition remains strong.
It is called ending the Daesh power bases. Russia can accomplish what the Syrian military cannot. Russia is an ally to both Iran and Syria. There is nothing to worry about. Russia is acting in the best interest of all countries to end the genocide of Daesh.
August 16, 2016
The Associated Press
Beirut — Iran allowed Russian warplanes (click here) to take off from its territory to bomb targets in Syria on Tuesday, an unprecedented move that underscores the deepening cooperation between two powerhouses heavily invested in the Syrian civil war.
The Iranian deployment increases Russia's foothold in the Middle East and widens Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria, bolstering President Bashar Assad's government ahead of a new round of peace talks the United Nations hopes to convene in coming weeks.
The long-range bombers took off early Tuesday near the Iranian city of Hamedan, 280 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of the Iranian capital, and struck targets in three provinces in northern and eastern Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said....
The beauty of the USA and its athletes.
By the AP
Simone Biles put the finishing touches on one of the greatest Olympics by a gymnast, capturing her fourth gold of the games with an electric performance in the floor exercise on Tuesday....
28 Golds
16 Swimming
4 Gymnastics
3 Track and Field
1 Tennis
1 Judo
28 Silver
8 Swimming
6 Gymnastics
4 Track and Field
1 Tennis
1 Judo
27 Bronze
9 Swimming
2 Gymnastics
4 Track and Field
1 Tennis
They did us all proud!
28 Golds
16 Swimming
4 Gymnastics
3 Track and Field
1 Tennis
1 Judo
28 Silver
8 Swimming
6 Gymnastics
4 Track and Field
1 Tennis
1 Judo
27 Bronze
9 Swimming
2 Gymnastics
4 Track and Field
1 Tennis
They did us all proud!
The Hillary Clinton e-mail story is over !
She is not responsible for mistakes made by lawyers.
The FBI over stated it's JUDGEMENT of the handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mails.
Hillary Clinton did not lie when she stated, "There was no marked classified information on my emails." She had an understanding about the emails when her attorneys handled the emails to ready them for submission to the US State Department.
There were FOUR. ONLY FOUR. There were four emails out of tens of thousands that had PARTIAL. That was PARTIAL. There were partials portions of FOUR emails that were marked with a (c) for classified. The lawyers were viewing tens of thousands of emails that had absolutely no notation about any classification. The four partial emails marked with a (c) were scanned and never read by the lawyers preparing the Hillary Clinton emails for submission to the US State Department.
THE FOUR PARTIAL EMAILS MARKED AS CLASSIFIED WAS MISSED BY THE ATTORNEYS INVOLVED.
Clients, be they you or me or Hillary Clinton has a fiduciary relationship with lawyers. It is called trust. Hillary Clinton trusted her attorneys to prepare her emails for submission to the US State Department. The attorneys believed they acted 'IN GOOD FAITH' to the directives of the Hillary Clinton emails to the US State Department.
The attorneys acted in good faith to the US State Department. Hillary Clinton acted in good faith when asking attorneys to prepare her emails for the US State Department. The US State Department acted in good faith when they released the emails they could to the public.
THERE ARE NO LAWS BROKEN. THERE IS NO PERJURY. THERE IS NO LAW THAT COMES INTO PLAY WHEN discussing the Hillary Clinton emails.
End of discussion.
Does anyone really want me to state what I think of the STUPID Republicans right now that are practicing politics and not congressional oversight. Maybe those reading about the Hillary Clinton emails can draw their own conclusions for once in the history of Hillary Clinton servicing this country.
Write your House of Representative member and tell them exactly what a voter thinks of wasting millions upon millions of US Treasury dollars on politics and not governance.
The FBI over stated it's JUDGEMENT of the handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mails.
Hillary Clinton did not lie when she stated, "There was no marked classified information on my emails." She had an understanding about the emails when her attorneys handled the emails to ready them for submission to the US State Department.
There were FOUR. ONLY FOUR. There were four emails out of tens of thousands that had PARTIAL. That was PARTIAL. There were partials portions of FOUR emails that were marked with a (c) for classified. The lawyers were viewing tens of thousands of emails that had absolutely no notation about any classification. The four partial emails marked with a (c) were scanned and never read by the lawyers preparing the Hillary Clinton emails for submission to the US State Department.
THE FOUR PARTIAL EMAILS MARKED AS CLASSIFIED WAS MISSED BY THE ATTORNEYS INVOLVED.
Clients, be they you or me or Hillary Clinton has a fiduciary relationship with lawyers. It is called trust. Hillary Clinton trusted her attorneys to prepare her emails for submission to the US State Department. The attorneys believed they acted 'IN GOOD FAITH' to the directives of the Hillary Clinton emails to the US State Department.
The attorneys acted in good faith to the US State Department. Hillary Clinton acted in good faith when asking attorneys to prepare her emails for the US State Department. The US State Department acted in good faith when they released the emails they could to the public.
THERE ARE NO LAWS BROKEN. THERE IS NO PERJURY. THERE IS NO LAW THAT COMES INTO PLAY WHEN discussing the Hillary Clinton emails.
End of discussion.
Does anyone really want me to state what I think of the STUPID Republicans right now that are practicing politics and not congressional oversight. Maybe those reading about the Hillary Clinton emails can draw their own conclusions for once in the history of Hillary Clinton servicing this country.
Write your House of Representative member and tell them exactly what a voter thinks of wasting millions upon millions of US Treasury dollars on politics and not governance.
Rudy Giuliani should be a better historian. The media should not really nurture this path of hate.
The first attack by extremist AMERICAN Muslims was in 1972 in New York City. Richard Nixon was president at the time. The Nation of Islam carried out killings until 1980 when the first foreign Muslim student killed his neighbors in Sioux City, Iowa.
May 11, 2012
By Anne Barnard
Stirring emotions (click here) that date back 40 years to days of violent tension between African-American Muslims and the police, a Harlem community board is weighing whether to name a street after a police officer who was shot in 1972 inside a renowned Harlem mosque. People in the neighborhood wonder whether the gesture will reopen old wounds or help heal them.
On April 14, 1972, Officer Phillip W. Cardillo was one of five officers who entered the mosque, at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue — then the New York headquarters of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam — responding to a report of a police officer in trouble inside.
It was a particularly incendiary alarm at a time of high-profile murders of police officers by radical groups around the country and crackling tension between the police and residents of black neighborhoods after riots had convulsed many cities in the preceding years....
The point is there have been violent attacks throughout the USA's history, including domestic terrorists that are anti-abortion terrorist and racist of several varieties of the KKK.
In 1989, in St. Louis, Missouri a married couple committed an honor killing when their daughter dated an American.
The list is long and does not deserve the attention Americans will give it due to the propaganda of Rudy Guilani. He says many things that will never take shape because they are unconstitutional. He has the right to freedom of speech, but, his inflammatory dialogue with the right wing in the USA does cater to racists and hate mongers.
This is exactly what Guilani wanted and it works:
...Giuliani also (click here) offered a heavy dose of criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and called Trump "our only hope for change in the way in which we approach radical Islamic terrorism."...
Rudy Guiliani has an agenda when he comes before the media and it is hate mongering. Why reward that by recognizing his mess of political dogma. Rudy Guilani does not deserve the attention he gets as the 911 Mayor. His emergency responders died because they never received the updates to their hand held radios.
May 11, 2012
By Anne Barnard
Stirring emotions (click here) that date back 40 years to days of violent tension between African-American Muslims and the police, a Harlem community board is weighing whether to name a street after a police officer who was shot in 1972 inside a renowned Harlem mosque. People in the neighborhood wonder whether the gesture will reopen old wounds or help heal them.
On April 14, 1972, Officer Phillip W. Cardillo was one of five officers who entered the mosque, at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue — then the New York headquarters of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam — responding to a report of a police officer in trouble inside.
It was a particularly incendiary alarm at a time of high-profile murders of police officers by radical groups around the country and crackling tension between the police and residents of black neighborhoods after riots had convulsed many cities in the preceding years....
The point is there have been violent attacks throughout the USA's history, including domestic terrorists that are anti-abortion terrorist and racist of several varieties of the KKK.
In 1989, in St. Louis, Missouri a married couple committed an honor killing when their daughter dated an American.
The list is long and does not deserve the attention Americans will give it due to the propaganda of Rudy Guilani. He says many things that will never take shape because they are unconstitutional. He has the right to freedom of speech, but, his inflammatory dialogue with the right wing in the USA does cater to racists and hate mongers.
This is exactly what Guilani wanted and it works:
...Giuliani also (click here) offered a heavy dose of criticism of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and called Trump "our only hope for change in the way in which we approach radical Islamic terrorism."...
Rudy Guiliani has an agenda when he comes before the media and it is hate mongering. Why reward that by recognizing his mess of political dogma. Rudy Guilani does not deserve the attention he gets as the 911 Mayor. His emergency responders died because they never received the updates to their hand held radios.
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