Daily Archives: February 28, 2015

Fail!, Gun-violence, Hispanic, terrorism

Tim’s El Salvador Blog: El Mozote and Bill O’Reilly

El Mozote and Bill O’Reilly

Recent stories in The Nation and Huffington Post have criticized Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly, then a young TV reporter for CBS News, for his role when the US government and US mass media turned a blind eye to the 1981 massacre at El Mozote.

via Tim’s El Salvador Blog: El Mozote and Bill O’Reilly.

Fascism, Global Politics, racism

Wannabe Il Duce II – Italy anti-immigrant Northern League rallies against Renzi | Reuters

As well as immigrants and the EU, his attacks have also been directed against Italy’s business establishment, ranging from the head of Fiat Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne to employers lobby group Confindustria and business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.

“Italy isn’t Marchionne and it isn’t Renzi. Italy is millions of tradesmen and small businessmen,” he said.

via Italy anti-immigrant Northern League rallies against Renzi | Reuters.

ebola, environment, Fail!, healthcare, pandemic

Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea – NYTimes.com

Sick fishermen came ashore in early February to the packed wharf-side slums that surround the country’s fanciest hotels, which were filled with public health workers. Volunteers fanned out to contain the outbreak, but the virus jumped quarantine lines and cascaded into the countryside, bringing dozens of new infections and deaths.

“We worked so hard,” said Emmanuel Conteh, an Ebola response coordinator in a rural district. “It is a shame to all of us.”

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Leaders of Ebola Fight at U.N. Express Worry About EradicationFEB. 20, 2015

Public health experts preparing for an international conference on Ebola on Tuesday seem to have no doubt that the disease can be vanquished in the West African countries ravaged by it in the last year. But the steep downward trajectory of new cases late last year and into January did not lead to the end of the epidemic.

via Nearly Beaten in Sierra Leone, Ebola Makes a Comeback by Sea – NYTimes.com.