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

MELANIE SAFKA Dust in the Wind – YouTube

Live peace, love and understanding – no time to put it off for later!

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment’s gone

All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea

All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind,

All we are is dust in the wind

Don’t hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

It slips away, and all your money won’t another minute buy

Dust in the wind,

All we are is dust in the wind

Dust in the wind,

Everything is dust in the wind

via MELANIE SAFKA Dust in the Wind – YouTube.

“Ebola-bandwagon” Spinning gone wild! Shelton drug-development lab targets Ebola cure – San Antonio Express-News

SHELTON, Conn. (AP) — A company that is developing new anti-viral drugs hopes it will have a cure for Ebola, which is still in the research phase, put on the fast track for development in the fight against the disease.

NanoViricides, whose headquarters are in West Haven, opened its research and development lab in July. The company, with a net worth of $250 million, employs more than 20 and expects to double that in the next two years.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., recently toured the newly renovated plant. He’s helping the company have its research evaluated by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and, once a drug is developed, to move into clinical trials on an emergency basis.

AMRIID evaluates “different approaches to cures for various kind of diseases and they focus very intently on Ebola,” Blumenthal said. “We have expedited their attention on the work being done here.”

via Shelton drug-development lab targets Ebola cure – San Antonio Express-News.

Treating Africans with an untested Ebola drug – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Treating Africans with an untested Ebola drug – Opinion – Al Jazeera English.

Written to inflame and published to reap profits from increased readers. The articles should have been flying three or four months ago noting the drug companies new found interest in ramping up testing and local government’s saying little but they were not or were not given much play. Now citing now so much evidence from today but from generations ago – clear that the writer ad news service have their own reputations in mind rather reporting news or current research.

Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Heart of a Warrior

We Afghans, we are a zealous people,

stronger than a stone but delicate,

the most self-contained, but hot blooded,

the most kind, but vengeful,

the most peace loving, but warriors.

Here, this Afghan girl, she is a grown girl,

she burns to learn, to lead.

She dreams of being president

as she works each day to feed her brothers

and pay their school fees.

She looks out at you, abroad, in your newspapers,

from your websites, and she knows you are looking

and she wants to say to you

You see my face framed with my rough blue scarf,

streaked with mud from the fields,

but you can’t see my zealous, warrior’s heart,

How much it is hurt!

You see my glancing eyes,

but you can’t see my tears

How much they rain!

You see my laugh,

but you can’t see my pains

How much I have suffered!

You see my words,

but you cannot read my thoughts

How much power they have!

You see my steps,

but you cannot feel my intention

How it is solid and strong like our mountains.

You see my poverty,

but you cannot imagine my zeal

How it gives me strength!

You see my hard life,

but you cannot feel my confidence,

you do not know how deeply

it dwells and feeds me.

By Rabia A.

via Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Heart of a Warrior.

Israeli settlers uproot 5000 olive tree saplings near Turmusayya | Maan News Agency

Jewish settlers have uprooted more than 5,000 olive tree saplings in agricultural lands east of the town of Turmusayya in the central West Bank north of Ramallah, locals said Thursday.

One of the owners of the lands targeted, Awad Abu Samra, told Ma’an that in the last week settlers have repeatedly raided the area to attack the olive tree saplings.

via Israeli settlers uproot 5000 olive tree saplings near Turmusayya | Maan News Agency.

This just sucks – such terroristic children backed by childish Israeli government!