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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan | US news | The Guardian “Oops! History Channel did not check sources!

a Tokyo-based blogger unearthed the same photograph in the archives of the National Diet Library, Japan’s national library.The image was part of a Japanese-language travelogue about the South Seas that was published almost two years before Earhart disappeared. Page 113 states the book was published in Japanese-held Palau on 10 October 1935.

Source: Blogger discredits claim Amelia Earhart was taken prisoner by Japan | US news | The Guardian

Total solar eclipse 2017: How rare is the Aug. 21 eclipse path? – Washington Post

On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the contiguous United States. It’ll be the first to traverse coast to coast in nearly a century. There will be 69 total solar eclipses visible from somewhere on the planet in the next 100 years, but only a few will be visible from North America. See how many total solar eclipses are left in your lifetime:

Source: Total solar eclipse 2017: How rare is the Aug. 21 eclipse path? – Washington Post

New York State Trooper Is Shot Dead – The New York Times – “RIP Nichole V. Walters and Trooper Joel Davis”

His wife, Nichole V. Walters, 27, was found dead at the scene, the police said.“ The entire New York family grieves today for Trooper Joel Davis,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement Monday morning.

“Neither the New York Times nor New York’s Governor grieves for Nichole V. Walters?”

News Scan for Jul 10, 2017 | CIDRAP Cholera in Yemen 300,000 and 5,000 new cases a day – Saudi slow genocide for Yemen?

Cholera outbreaks expand; Yemen’s total nears 300,000Cholera outbreaks in countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean region have reached a critical point, and the WHO and its partners are scaling up efforts to reduce the risk of spread to unaffected areas and neighboring countries, the agency said in a statement today.Mahmoud Fikri, the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean office director, said the number of cholera and acute watery diarrhea cases in the region so far this year has exceeded the global total for all of 2016. The WHO said cholera has spread to Somalia’s northern region, which had been free of the disease for more than a decade. In Sudan, acute watery diarrhea was recently reported in a refugee camp in Darfur. The agency warned that an increasing number of people are at risk for the disease, due to worsening humanitarian conditions and lack of access to safe water and sanitation.The WHO and UNICEF hosted a meeting in Lebanon on Jul 8 and 9 that focused on scaling up preparedness and response to the outbreaks in the region. They adopted a regional roadmap that focused on strengthening coordination, enhancing multisector response teams, decentralizing and expanding lab testing, reinforcing guidelines for case management and infection control, scaling up water and sanitation activities at the household level, and beefing up risk communication at the community level.As of Jul 7 the cholera total in Yemen, the region’s worst-hit country, rose to 297,438 cases, 1,706 of them fatal, the WHO said in a Jul 8 epidemiologic update. Cases have been reported in all but one of Yemen’s 23 governorates. About 5,000 new suspected cases have been reported each day in the conflict-affected country.

Source: News Scan for Jul 10, 2017 | CIDRAP

Tracking Trump’s Conflicts of Interest : Sunlight Foundation – Tracking Trump’s Conflicts of Interest : 621 and counting

TRUMP’S CONFLICTS OF INTERESTOur questions about what open government would mean in the White House of President Donald J. Trump have been answered: this is a secretive administration, allergic to transparency and hostile to the essential role journalism plays in a democracy.In the days an

Source: Tracking Trump’s Conflicts of Interest : Sunlight Foundation

This Week in Egypt. Week 27 ( July 3-9)

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Top Headlines

  • At least 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed when two suicide car bombs tore through army checkpoints in North Sinai
  • Egypt, Gulf countries say Qatar displaying ‘lack of seriousness’ in response to their demands
  • Supreme Constitutional Court forces government to reveal captive doctor’s whereabouts
  • Egypt arrests daughter, son-in-law of slamist leader al-Qaradawi
  • Number of tourists in Egypt up by 32.9 percent
  • Egypt refers 292 suspects to military court for plotting Sisi assassination

Main Headlines

Monday 

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Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri – The New York Times

When she heard that a swastika had been smeared in feces on a dormitory bathroom at Missouri, she decided not to apply. She enrolled instead at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo., where she will be a sophomore this coming year. “Looking for colleges is intimidating just by itself,” she said. “Adding anti-Semitism on top of that was just too much.”

Chris Uhlmann Australia’s Political Editor: Trump ‘has no desire and no capacity to lead the world’ | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Speaking on Sunday from the G20 conference in Hamburg, Uhlmann said Trump had shown “no desire and no capacity to lead the world” and was himself “the biggest threat to the values of the west”.“He was an uneasy, lonely, awkward figure at this gathering and you got the strong sense that some of the leaders are trying to find the best way to work around him,” Uhlmann said.“Where was the G20 statement condemning North Korea which would have put pressure on China and Russia? Other leaders expected it, they were prepared to back it, but it never came.”

Source: Chris Uhlmann Australia’s Political Editor: Trump ‘has no desire and no capacity to lead the world’ | 3CHICSPOLITICO