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

WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Saudi Arabia has announced two additional laboratory-confirmed cases and a death in a previously confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

One case is a 41 year-old female from Riyadh who had contact with a confirmed case. The other case is a 32 year-old male from the Eastern Region with underlying medical conditions who is in critical condition.

In addition, the MoH has announced the death of a previously reported confirmed case from the Eastern Region who had been admitted to hospital on 26 April 2013.

Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 70 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 39 deaths.

via WHO | Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update.

Raw Milk Bill Brought Back in America’s Dairy State | Food Safety News

Wisconsin state senator is going to try again to make it legal to sell unpasteurized milk and milk products in the Diary State.

West Bend Republican Sen. Glenn Grothman has dropped a bill into the Wisconsin Legislature that would allow limited sales of raw milk and raw milk products, which he claims are recommended by nutritionists and chiropractors for health benefits.

via Raw Milk Bill Brought Back in America's Dairy State | Food Safety News.

“Ideology and pseudo-science tries again to risk the lives of children and adults with unpasteurized milk.”

When I Decided To Become a Lebanese Expat

A sad day for Lebanon when one of its sons decides that he will leave it to make his way in the world. Bon voyage when the time comes and pray in meantime that Lebanon finally wakes up to its greatness before that time.

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

“The last time I was this scared was 2006,” she told me this afternoon, moments after she crossed into the Northern part of a city ravaged with battles. I guess that’s saying something given that the person in question spent a good part of the war that year in a 3×2 ditch that her family calls a shelter.

The matter to immigrate out of Lebanon was always a matter of if with me. Today, becoming an expat is no longer a matter of if. It’s simply matter of when. And with each passing day, that “when” doesn’t seem to get here soon enough.

I tried as much as I can to disassociate myself from what was happening in my country lately. It was time not to be constantly negative, I said. I’m better off than most people in this country, I convinced myself. But then I realized that the standard of…

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Egyptian Shiites Massacred in Giza

The worst kind of sectarianism – encouraging violence and mob psychology for political benefit and to distract from inability to actually run Egypt effectively.

Egyptian Streets

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In an unparalleled event, four Shiite Muslims were killed by angry Salafists in Giza. At least 3000 angry locals attacked the houses of Shiites, killing four and injuring 32. Five houses owned by Shiites were also completely torched.

The deaths came on the 15th night of Mid-Shaaban, a holy Islamic night for both Sunnis and Shiites. A top Shiite leader, Hassan Shehata, had been visiting the local village of Abu Muslam in Giza, when angry locals stormed the house he was visiting, throwing Molotov Cocktails and dragging each family member out onto the streets.

Sheikh Hassan Shehata was dragged in the streets after being stabbed and killed. Images showed Shehata being beaten and kicked as his lifeless body was being dragged for show.

The other victims have been identified as the 55-year-old brother of Sheikh Shehata and 45-year-old Abd Al-Kader Hassanein Amr. The fourth victim has…

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Egyptian Aak: Week 25. Will The Brotherhood Survive June30?

No real unity among opposition or clear alternative makes it doubtful that a new revolution will take place but relying on Egypt’s past to foretell future is a real mistake for Brotherhood – all the rules can be changed now, it depends if the young can come together for freedom. jobs, end corruption, competency and security…

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Artists and Cultural Workers Stage Massive Protests in Serbia

1968 deja vu

ArtLeaks

On Saturday, June 22nd 2013, over 800 cultural workers and artists went out to protest in the Square of the Republic in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, as well as in Novi Sad, Niš and Vršac. Such a protest on a massive scale is almost unprecedented in the country. These protests did not come out of thin air. A lot of accumulated anger and dissatisfaction with many socio-economic and political issues in recent years culminated yesterday.

The most important structural, social and political causes for the protest are: corruption and nepotism in the field of culture and non-transparent redistribution of the resources; poverty of workers in the field of culture; the change of the government from democrats to conservatives on in the Republic of Serbia and the cutting the funds for so called “non-patriotic” art; the fact that freelance artists and cultural workers are not able to renew their health…

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