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

Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 52 ( Dec 22- 28 )

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Yara Salem

(Activist Sanaa Seif, and rights activist and lawyer Yara Sallam (Photo: Courtesy of Free Sanaa Facebook page)

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13 Lebanese That Made It Big In 2014 | A Separate State of Mind | A Lebanese Blog

2014 has been a pretty messed up year on the Lebanese scale, but amidst all of it, there were a few Lebanese whose news served as a diversion from all the mayhem. Their accomplishments made us happy, even if they didn’t pertain to us directly. As we saw some of them make it big on an international level, we were maybe reminded of our own hidden potential over here. Others caused ripples right at home. To those Lebanese, I came up with this to salute them.

via 13 Lebanese That Made It Big In 2014 | A Separate State of Mind | A Lebanese Blog.

FrontPageAfrica – ‘Alarm’: 49 New Ebola Cases in Cape Mount, Travelers Warned

{Denial by political leaders of community kills!} “We even noticed secret burials are still ongoing in Grand Cape Mount County,” he averred. He said people are no longer washing hands with chlorinated water or the use of sanitizers or other items. He said in the wake of this grave health alert, the government and its partners are holding an emergency meeting in Sinje, Grand Cape Mount County, something that coincides with the opening of the first Ebola Treatment Unit of 100-bed in Grand Cape Mount County.

via FrontPageAfrica – ‘Alarm’: 49 New Ebola Cases in Cape Mount, Travelers Warned.

The Crazy New Weapon LRAD – The Military Gave the Police to Disperse Protestors – attn:

they are popping up more and more in civilian settings. From Pittsburgh’s G20 protests in 2009, to Zuccotti Park protests during Occupy Wall Street in 2011, to the protests over Detroit’s water shut-off earlier this year, LRAD deployment has played either a practical, innocuous role as a loudspeaker like in Zuccotti Park, or a more malevolent role, as it has in recent months.

Earlier this summer in Ferguson, MO., when a shrill, piercing siren split the tense night air, demonstrators at first didn’t know what to make of the ear-splitting ringing. “What was THAT?” a VOX headline read. But it wasn’t necessarily surprising. The use of LRADs as a dispersal technique fit neatly into place in the larger trend of an absurdly militaristic police response to protests there that, in many ways, has since shaped the larger national conversation emerging around appropriate police responses both on the sidewalk and in the street.

Nevertheless, it is alarming that the tactics and tools that carry such malicious potential as permanent hearing loss are, on the one hand, available for local police departments, but also treated lightly enough that they can be used to chase off otherwise harmless rabble-rousers blocking Midtown traffic in the middle of the night.

via The Crazy New Weapon The Military Gave the Police to Disperse Protestors – attn:.

Pennie – LOOK: National pole-dancing team performs in China’s northernmost village at – 50°C!: Shanghaiist

The team is composed of 16 dancers selected from the Chinese National Pole Dance Championships in which contestants participated from all over the country. The team then goes on to take part in world-class pole dancing events.

via LOOK: National pole-dancing team performs in China’s northernmost village at – 50°C!: Shanghaiist.

Welcome to ‘Great’ Britain?

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I’ve just finished a visit to Burma – Myanmar – a place I last visited in 1991. That visit was one of the most important of my life – a truly cathartic experience, one from which I emerged in many ways transformed. Even now, more than twenty years later, it remains one of the most important times of my life.

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Many things have changed in Burma since 1991: the rapid political and economic changes in the last few years have seen to that. There was nothing like the high-rise buildings that are sprouting all around the centre of Yangon back then – nor the almost overwhelming levels of traffic. The stultifying bureaucracy and feeling that almost anything would be blocked or forbidden has also mostly gone – arriving at Yangon airport was just like arriving at almost any other international airport.

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Some things, thankfully, have not changed. The gorgeous light…

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Hong Kong reports 11th imported H7N9 avian influenza case, Influenza pandemic alert raised | Outbreak News Today

What we know about the case is the confirmed H7N9 bird flu case is a 68-year-old local woman who has been admitted to Tuen Mun Hospital. She is currently described to be in critical condition  with fever and pneumonia symptoms.

Although the exact source of the infection has yet to be determined, it is reported that she ate chicken and was at the home of a friend who had chickens; however, it is believed she had no direct contact with the birds.

This has prompted Hong Kong authorities to raise the influenza pandemic alert. Read more the government’s response plan HERE.

Prior to this case, Hong Kong has seen 10 imported H7N9 avian flu cases, all from Guangdong Province.

via Hong Kong reports 11th imported H7N9 avian influenza case, Influenza pandemic alert raised | Outbreak News Today.