Category Archives: Fail!

Israeli security forces briefly detained Washington Post bureau chief in Jerusalem

A passerby in Jerusalem accused the journalist of inciting violence, and police took him in to custody even though he showed them is press credentials. The US-based daily called the incident “extremely troubling.”

Source: Israeli security forces briefly detained Washington Post bureau chief in Jerusalem

Mitch McConnell Says the Next President Should Appoint Scalia’s Successor – So much for supporting the US Constitution!

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader and Republican of Kentucky, said in a statement that the next president, not President Obama, should appoint a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia.

Source: Mitch McConnell Says the Next President Should Appoint Scalia’s Successor

Man given two weeks to live after taking popular weight-loss product purchased online – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A Western Australian man has told how he lost his liver after taking popular weight-loss products widely available in protein powders and supplements.

Source: Man given two weeks to live after taking popular weight-loss product purchased online – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Netanyahu: Israel needs walls to defend itself against wild beasts – PNN

Biggest Fail Yet?

“Will we surround all of the State of Israel with fences and barriers? The answer is yes. In the area that we live in, we must defend ourselves against the wild beasts,” he added.Netanyahu’s comments came during a visit to the southern Israeli border with Jordan, where he was viewing the first stage of the planned “security barrier” that will stretch across the entirety of Israel’s eastern border.

Source: Netanyahu: Israel needs walls to defend itself against wild beasts – PNN

FAO – News Article: FAO calls for international action on antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging public health threat requiring a globally coordinated effort to counter the risks it poses to food security, FAO Deputy Director-General Helena Semedo said Wednesday.Overuse and misuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents foster increasing resistance among the very microbes that cause the infections and disease they were designed to quell, threatening to reverse a century of progress in human and animal health, she said.”We have to help save live-saving drugs,” she told European ministers of health and agriculture at a conference on antimicrobial resistance in Amsterdam.Aside from the human health considerations, the emergence of microbes resistant to antibiotics and other pharmaceutical agents puts animal health at risk and consequently has an impact on rural livelihoods and food security. “AMR is a global threat that in this inter-connected world cannot be solved in Europe alone,” Semedo said.

Source: FAO – News Article: FAO calls for international action on antimicrobial resistance

Tortured Italian student died ‘slow death’: Egypt official

The Egyptian Association for Rights and Freedoms documented 314 cases of forced disappearances in 2015, said lawyer Halem Henish. Most later turned up in prison, but at least five were found at the morgue, including one with signs of torture like burns and electric shocks.He said the group has documented 35 disappearances so far in 2016, including at least two of whom died.Meanwhile, in Regeni’s hometown of Fiumicello in northeastern Italy, townspeople were “destroyed” by the news of his death, said Mayor Ennio Scridel. The town of 5,000 declared Sunday a day of mourning.”If you go into a bar, you see dark faces, silences, looks that let escape all the sadness of a small community like ours,” Scridel told Sky Tg24. He described Regeni as “an extraordinary person, who comes from a good family.”News of Regeni’s death prompted Italy’s economic development minister, Federica Guidi, to cut short a visit to Cairo and head home. Guidi had been heading a delegation of 60 business people to help companies set up business in Egypt.Italian Premier Matteo Renzi spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi by telephone and pledged to coordinate efforts with Italian authorities to “unravel the mystery” surrounding Regini’s death, el-Sissi’s office said.The Italian news agency ANSA said a seven-person team of Italian and Interpol investigators was heading to Cairo on Friday to participate in the inquiry.Egyptian authorities have come under criticism for lack of transparency in several investigations, particularly the Oct. 31 crash of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula and the September killing of eight Mexican tourists and four Egyptian guides by a security forces helicopter that opened fire on their desert safari. In both cases, authorities banned media reports on the investigations.

Source: Tortured Italian student died ‘slow death’: Egypt official

AMERICA/MEXICO – Children missing in Veracruz: people do not report them for fear of organized crime

Veracruz – “There are many cases of kidnapping. First there was talk of 50 but it seems that at least 400 have disappeared: But most of their families have not reported the kidnappings for fear”, said the father of one of the missing children, victims of drug trafficking and organized crime, who was present yesterday at the Tierra Blanca celebration. Relatives of victims of the missing children gathered at the Virgen del Carmen Parish and then took part in the Mass celebrated by the Bishop of Veracruz, His Exc. Mgr. Luis Felipe Gallardo Martín del Campo, S.D.B.. The Church has become the only point of reference for many families in search of faith and hope.Mgr. Gallardo Martín del Campo read the list of the 23 missing persons in Tierra Blanca in recent weeks. “Some time ago it was known that the armed gang of guerrillas in Sierra Guerrero enlisted people by force. Now the fact that drug trafficking and organized crime have entered in our society there is no control, the justice system has been destroyed, there is violence everywhere. And now the authorities do not know how to stop the problem”, reported the Bishop. “Not even the Church is free of this violence” continued the Bishop. “We have had more than 5 cases of abductions: priests kidnapped and then released in the middle of the fields, simply to steal their car. Two seminarians were kidnapped but luckily found: our parishes have to deal with robberies and extortions on a daily basis”.

Source: AMERICA/MEXICO – Children missing in Veracruz: people do not report them for fear of organized crime