Category Archives: Fail!

Saudi king: World silence on Israel ‘war crimes’ ‘inexcusable’ | Maan News Agency

Saudi King Abdullah said Friday that world silence over Israeli “war crimes” in the Gaza Strip was “inexcusable” and would only breed more violence in the future.

“We see the blood of out brothers in Palestine being shed in collective massacres that have spared nobody, and in war crimes against humanity,” the king said in a speech carried by state news agency SPA.

via Saudi king: World silence on Israel ‘war crimes’ ‘inexcusable’ | Maan News Agency.

All true but will he denounce his allowing Saudi’s to fund ISIS?

90 Palestinians injured by live fire in Hebron clashes | Maan News Agency

More than 90 Palestinians were injured by live fire during clashes with Israeli forces in Hebron on Friday, medics said.

Wilid Zaloum, director of Hebron Governmental Hospital, told Ma’an more 90 Palestinians arrived at the hospital with bullet wounds after being shot by Israeli forces.

Three of the Palestinians were critically injured, Zaloum told Ma’an. Many others were in moderate condition after being shot in the lower extremities.

via 90 Palestinians injured by live fire in Hebron clashes | Maan News Agency.

My thalidomide family: Every time I went home I was a stranger | Lifeandstyle | The Guardian

Why does it take so long for new drugs to get approved? Thalidomide from the late 1950s and early 1960s and its unexpected effects is the best reason and reason not to give up regulations!

‘I can’t imagine what my dad thought or felt when a grim-faced doctor led him to a delivery room an hour after my birth,” says Louise Medus. “All I know is that he almost fainted with shock when I was fully revealed and blurted out: ‘Surely you’re not going to allow a child in this state to live.’”

Louise was born at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, Hertfordshire, on 23 June 1962 to David and Vicki Mason. Her mother had been prescribed thalidomide to prevent morning sickness.

“Like the other parents of thalidomide babies, I’m sure they were expecting a fully formed baby and some of us didn’t have arms, some of us didn’t have legs, some of us didn’t have arms or legs. Some of us had facial disfigurements and some were so deformed that they couldn’t survive.”

via My thalidomide family: Every time I went home I was a stranger | Lifeandstyle | The Guardian.

Israel attacks Rafah: at least 70 killed and over 300 injured

Local sources report at least 70 Palestinians have been killed during violent Israeli attacks on Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. There is over 300 injuries and the attacks are ongoing at the moment of writing.

The Ministry of Health of Gaza has informed that the Israeli army is targeting civilian homes and bombing people in the streets. Dozens are trying to flee the area.

There were clashes during the night in Rafah between the Palestinian resistance and the IOF, and they intensified after Israel killed 4 Palestinians in the area.

Shortly afterwards the Israeli media reported a ‘serious security incident’ in Kerem Shalom, a few kilometers south of Rafah and the Israeli army declared it a ‘close military zone’. Minutes later Israel announced the end of the 72-hour ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ that started at 8 a.m. this morning, amid unconfirmed reports of an Israeli soldier being captured by Palestinian factions in Kerem Shalom.

The capturing of the soldier has not been confirmed by the Palestinian resistance or Israel at this moment.

via Israel attacks Rafah: at least 70 killed and over 300 injured.

Over 100 Faith Leaders Arrested in Protest Against Record Deportations : Immigration Impact

Nuns, pastors, rabbis and other faith leaders were arrested outside the White House on Thursday in a massive act of civil disobedience to press the Obama administration to end the 1,100 deportations that occur every day. “Too many families have been separated. Too many tears have been shed because of our unjust laws,” Reverend John McCullough, CEO and president of Church World Service, said before a crowd of 500 supporters congregated in Lafayette Park.

via Over 100 Faith Leaders Arrested in Protest Against Record Deportations : Immigration Impact.

Eat Drink Better | Healthy recipes, good food: sustainable eats for a healthy lifestyle!

The workers who harvest cocoa crops can’t afford the luxury of buying a chocolate bar. Watch this bittersweet video where cocoa farmers try chocolate for the first time.

We talk a lot about the chocolate industry in this space. It’s easy to forget that chocolate is a first-world luxury. Workers on cocoa farms make pennies an hour and can’t even afford the chocolate they help produce.

via Eat Drink Better | Healthy recipes, good food: sustainable eats for a healthy lifestyle!.

Threat from drug-resistant malaria is ‘immense’ | Asia | DW.DE | 31.07.2014

The study, carried out by the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, concluded that the strand of the disease that is resistant to the world’s most effective antimalarial drug – artemisinin – is now firmly established in border regions in four Southeast Asian countries. The scientists analyzed blood samples from over 1,200 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa and found that Plasmodium falciparum, which is the most deadly form of the malaria-causing parasite and resistant to the treatment drug, is now common in parts of Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos.

via Threat from drug-resistant malaria is ‘immense’ | Asia | DW.DE | 31.07.2014.

JUST STOP! RETURN SOLDIER! HONOR CEASE FIRE EVERYONE! Israeli army threatens to call up 80,000 reservists, re-occupy Rafah | Maan News Agency

The Israeli response to the capture of a soldier in Rafah will be “crushing,” Israeli media quoted the army as saying on Friday.

Israeli news website Walla said on Friday that the Israeli army threatened to call up to 80,000 reservists and to “re-occupy” Rafah.

Earlier on Friday, Hamas captured an Israeli soldier in an attack on a post east of Rafah inside the Gaza Strip.

Hamas said that Israeli forces had used the announcement of the ceasefire earlier in the evening to expand operations into the area, and the group carried out the attack before a planned ceasefire came into effect at 8 a.m.

Israel, however, said that the attack began after the ceasefire began at 9:30 a.m.

Israel has killed more than 1,500 Palestinians in its assault on Gaza over the last 25 days.

The Gaza Strip was directly occupied by Israel for nearly 40 years beginning in 1967, but in 2005 Israeli forces pulled out and a year later imposed an economic blockade after Hamas was elected in democratic elections.

Israel maintains effective control over Gaza’s airspace, borders, and sea, meaning that under international law it is still considered to be occupied.

via Israeli army threatens to call up 80,000 reservists, re-occupy Rafah | Maan News Agency.

Training session for Tamil journalists disrupted – Reporters Without Borders

Crackdown stepped up in response to demands for an investigation into war crimes

The crackdown on Tamil news organizations was stepped up after the UN Human Rights Council called in March this year for an investigation into allegations of human rights abuses between 2002 and 2009. At that time, Tamil journalists were understood to have begun investigating cases of child rape by troops in the north of the country.

An earlier training session on investigative journalism for Tamil journalists, organized by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) on 7 June, was interrupted on the orders of the defence ministry with the aim of preventing the journalists from assisting the UN investigators in their work. Thirteen Tamil journalists were forced to leave the hotel where the session was being held.

via Training session for Tamil journalists disrupted – Reporters Without Borders.