Category Archives: Fail!

If ever a just cause for censorship existed – the Daily Mail would be first on the list! Ebola could hit UK ‘within three weeks’, scientists warn | Daily Mail Online

Total plop and scare the bejabbers to sell papers and ads! The deadly Ebola virus could spread across the world infecting people from the U.S. to China within three weeks, scientists have warned.

There is a 50 per cent chance a traveller carrying the disease could touch down in the UK by October 24, a team of U.S. researchers have predicted.

Using Ebola spread patterns and airline traffic data they have calculated the odds of the virus spreading across the world.

They estimate there is a 75 per cent chance Ebola will reach French shores by October 24.

And Belgium has a 40 per cent chance of seeing the disease arrive on its territory, while Spain and Switzerland have lower risks of 14 per cent each.

The virus is spreading rapidly across West Africa, with more than 3,400 people known to have died and 7,500 infected.

via Ebola could hit UK ‘within three weeks’, scientists warn | Daily Mail Online.

Human Rights in India? No more? The marriage between a Christian and a Hindu annulled due to extremist group protest – Fides News Agency

Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) – Police in Madhya Pradesh have annulled the marriage between a young Christian and a Hindu woman, after protests by extremist groups. As Fides learns, the Christian Joseph Pawar, 20 years old, and the 19-year-old Hindu girl Ayushi Wani, got married in Bhopal, a Hindu temple, on September 28 and then fled to Gujarat. They were traced by the police of Gujarat, after the girl’s parents had filed a complaint and after several radical Hindu groups had threatened to launch a general protest.

According to one version, the girl is in love with Joseph and the two got married freely, refusing to go back to their parents. According to the Hindu activists, Joseph lured the girl and forced her to get married. They were found by the police where Joseph was escorted to ensure his safety. Police met with the families of the two separately. The local superintendent declared the nullity of the marriage, saying that Joseph is not a Hindu and in order to marry Ayushi he should have converted to Hinduism, following a procedure prescribed by the Freedom of Religion Act, the text of the law in force in the state of Madhya Pradesh. According to the law, a person who intends to convert or marry must notify it to the District Magistrate with a month in advance. The decision to annul the act, the police said, was nevertheless taken immediately to avert the danger of a mass uprising.

In a report published in recent days, more than 90 religious leaders and representatives of civil society organizations in India have asked the Indian Premier Narendra Modi to protect the rights of minorities and to take measures to stop extremist groups that create tension in the Indian society. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 06/10/2014)

via The marriage between a Christian and a Hindu annulled due to extremist group protest – Fides News Agency.

Forbes trying to out Fox Fox with fear-mongering? How To Stop Ebola: Ban Air Travel From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea

{So, the next fear-mongering line will be: blockade the three stricken countries – let no one in or out and let them die or survive on their own!}

So much as I hate to admit it, Bobby Jindal is right: we need a travel ban if we want to keep the Ebola virus out of the U.S.

via How To Stop Ebola: Ban Air Travel From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea.

So, I step across the border, buy a passport from another nation and take my vacation to Miami or Dallas/Ft. Worth…

Help then improve screening there and help to end outbreak – better than trying to erect a false border in our mind.

Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to ISIS and global jihad | News , World | THE DAILY STAR

not good – In a message marking the Muslim holy festival of Eid al-Adha, the Pakistani Taliban said they fully supported ISIS goals.

“Oh our brothers, we are proud of you in your victories. We are with you in your happiness and your sorrow,” Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement sent to Reuters by email from an unknown location.

“In these troubled days, we call for your patience and stability, especially now that all your enemies are united against you. Please put all your rivalries behind you …

“All Muslims in the world have great expectations of you … We are with you, we will provide you with Mujahideen [fighters] and with every possible support.”

The statement, released in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic, was sent after ISIS militants beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning in a video posted Friday, triggering condemnation by the British and U.S. governments.

via Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to ISIS and global jihad | News , World | THE DAILY STAR.

Liars for profit! Not the nurses but the headline writers! U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients

{Really!?! – all the nurses in the United States told “un-news” reporters that they are unprepared! Bull! But meant to sell ads, scare people and shame on them for such lies! There are 2,724,570 Registered Nurses in US and they all said this? Not! http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-registered-nurses/}

Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.

via U.S. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients.

Israel to allow exports of fish, vegetables from Gaza to West Bank | Maan News Agency

Can you imagine the US having to ask Canada or Mexico for permission to export your goods?

Israel has agreed to allow Palestinians to export vegetables and fresh fish from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank for the first time since 2007, the head of the Palestinian crossings authority said Wednesday.

Nathmi Mhanna told Ma’an that Israel also agreed to let 450 units of heavy equipment including trucks, tractors, forklifts, buses, diggers, cement pumps, and rollers into the Gaza Strip.

Israel had prevented allowing most exports out of the Gaza Strip since deadly violence left a Hamas-run government in charge of Gaza and a Fatah-led authority operating the West Bank.

via Israel to allow exports of fish, vegetables from Gaza to West Bank | Maan News Agency.

Why healthcare is so expensive? Look here for starters! Press release: CMS makes first wave of drug & device company payments to teaching hospitals and physicians public

consulting fees, research grants, travel reimbursements, and other gifts the health care industry – such as medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies – provided to physicians and teaching hospitals during the last five months of 2013. The data contains 4.4 million payments valued at nearly $3.5 billion attributable to 546,000 individual physicians and almost 1,360 teaching hospitals. Future reports will be published annually and will include a full 12 months of payment data, beginning in June 2015.

via Press release: CMS makes first wave of drug & device company payments to teaching hospitals and physicians public.

Regeneron, AngioDynamics among drug and medical device makers paying doctors and teaching hospitals – Albany Business Review

Just during the last five months of 2013, about $3.5 billion worth of total payments were made nationally. That money went to 546,000 individual physicians and almost 1,360 teaching hospitals.

via Regeneron, AngioDynamics among drug and medical device makers paying doctors and teaching hospitals – Albany Business Review.

16 total months for sex abuse? Brooklyn Cantor Released From Prison 3 Months After Admitting To Child Molestation: Gothamist

Though Lebovits has admitted to forcing one teenager to engage in oral sex with him on eight different occasions in 2004 and 2005, community members say there are likely many other victims. He has been designated a level-2 sex offender.

via Brooklyn Cantor Released From Prison 3 Months After Admitting To Child Molestation: Gothamist.