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

The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It | WIRED

We need someone to take over the position of “command and control.” The United Nations is the only international organization that can direct the immense amount of medical, public health and humanitarian aid that must come from many different countries and nongovernmental groups to smother this epidemic. Thus far it has played at best a collaborating role, and with everyone in charge, no one is in charge.

A Security Council resolution could give the United Nations total responsibility for controlling the outbreak, while respecting West African nations’ sovereignty as much as possible. The United Nations could, for instance, secure aircraft and landing rights…

The United Nations should provide whatever number of beds are needed; the World Health Organization has recommended 1,500, but we may need thousands more. It should also coordinate the recruitment and training around the world of medical and nursing staff, in particular by bringing in local residents who have survived Ebola, and are no longer at risk of infection. Many countries are pledging medical resources, but donations will not result in an effective treatment system if no single group is responsible for coordinating them.

I’ve spent enough time around public health people, in the US and in the field, to understand that they prefer to express themselves conservatively. So when they indulge in apocalyptic language, it is unusual, and notable.

via The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It | WIRED.

Neil Young Keep On Rockin In The Free World + Lyrics – YouTube

Neil Young Keep On Rockin In The Free World

Lyrics:

There’s colors on the street

Red, white and blue

People shufflin’ their feet

People sleepin’ in their shoes

But there’s a warnin’ sign

on the road ahead

There’s a lot of people sayin’

we’d be better off dead

Don’t feel like Satan,

but I am to them

So I try to forget it,

any way I can.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Keep on rockin’ in the free world

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

I see a woman in the night

With a baby in her hand

Under an old street light

Near a garbage can

Now she puts the kid away,

and she’s gone to get a hit

She hates her life,

and what she’s done to it

There’s one more kid

that will never go to school

Never get to fall in love,

never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Keep on rockin’ in the free world

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light

For the homeless man

We got a kinder, gentler,

Machine gun hand

We got department stores

and toilet paper

Got styrofoam boxes

for the ozone layer

Got a man of the people,

says keep hope alive

Got fuel to burn,

got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Keep on rockin’ in the free world

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,

Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

via Neil Young Keep On Rockin In The Free World + Lyrics – YouTube.

French minister ‘first from Europe’ to visit Africa’s Ebola-hit region – France 24

“I’m the first European minister to set foot” in the region since the start of the epidemic, Girardin told FRANCE 24’s sister station RFI in an interview ahead of the trip. “France can be proud,” she exclaimed.

Girardin’s visit follows a call from the World Health Organization (WHO), urging the international community to respond more quickly to stop the epidemic from spiraling out of control.

“I’m going to Guinea first to say that France is with them. And that’s not an insignificant message,” she told a news conference in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Friday.

“It’s also an important message to say that there are behaviours to adopt, that there are health systems that are resilient and that can take on this Ebola virus,” Girardin said.

“This is the case here in Senegal, it is the case in Ivory Coast and, unfortunately, not the case in Guinea, where health systems have proved less resilient to this virus, this epidemic,” she said, adding that Guinea desperately needs an overhaul of its health infrastructure, but noted “for that we need resources”.

via Africa – French minister ‘first from Europe’ to visit Africa’s Ebola-hit region – France 24.

“All it takes is one good guy with a gun…..” – ‘Colorado GOP Candidate Questions Whether Sandy Hook Occurred’

Self-delusion, not Ebola, Dengue, or Malaria is the greatest threat to the USA and the globe!

The Last Of The Millenniums

sandy hook

If you’re a Republican and a gun nut, just create a ‘reality’
where mass murders like Sandy Hook just didn’t happen……

This guy?

A complete, low life, scum bag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9AUcRvDf8Q

ready gun nut

‘Pueblo County Commissioner Candidate Dr. Tom Ready (R)
questions if the Sandy Hook Shootings actually occurred’.

‘His Quote’:

“There is some question whether it really happened Sal (Pace),
(booing taking place) some people in the videos, thank you very
much, if you recall there was a picture of a man walking in who
was smiling and joking when he walked into the room he turned
around and suddenly had tears. I question that.”
From : http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2014/09/colorado-gop-
candidate-questions

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Global response to Ebola marked by lack of coordination and leadership, experts say – The Washington Post

Global response to Ebola marked by lack of coordination and leadership, experts say – The Washington Post.

An accurate account finally. Problem is that the World Health Organization is expected to lead in this area, dropped the ball big time, I think, by being too sensitive to the behind the scenes expressed need by leaders of the nations impacted to downplay the problem, so income from trade and tourism would not be effected. Then August happened – game changed.

′Islamic State′ ′seeking foothold′ in South Asia through social media | Asia | DW.DE | 12.09.2014

Jihadist social media sites have swapped “core” al Qaeda content for ‘Islamic State’ messages, according to an IHS report. Analyst Omar Hamid tells DW how this may help the militant group gain a foothold in South Asia.

Al Qaeda-affiliated websites, such as the Global Islamic Media Front, the Ansarullah Media and Bab-ul-Islam, have been increasingly replacing messages of the terror network with content from the Syria and Iraq-based Sunni extremist group “Islamic State” (IS), according to a new report by IHS, a global analytics firm. The jihadist forums have reportedly even failed to cover al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri’s recent announcement of the formation of an al Qaeda branch in South Asia and Myanmar.

via ′Islamic State′ ′seeking foothold′ in South Asia through social media | Asia | DW.DE | 12.09.2014.

Air Bag Flaw, Long Known to Honda and Takata, Led to Recalls – NYTimes.com

Air Bag Flaw, Long Known to Honda and Takata, Led to Recalls – NYTimes.com.

The scariest kind of quality fail – random

In June, a low-speed accident involving a 2005 Honda Accord in Los Angeles caused the car’s driver air bag “to ‘detonate,’ sending hot metal and plastic shrapnel into the cabin,” according to a complaint filed with the safety agency. That car had not been recalled, but Honda has since expanded its recall to include vehicles registered in California.

Officials at Honda and Takata, and regulators in the United States and Japan, say they cannot explain why the ruptures continue.