Category Archives: Fail!

Polluting of Lake Okeechobee Must End, Court Rules | Earthjustice

Why you should not trust Big Ag about anything but their desire for big profits!

Our case was 11 years in the making—we first filed it in 2002 to challenge the practice of “backpumping.” Backpumping works like this: South Florida sugar and vegetable growers pump the public’s waters out of Lake Okeechobee to irrigate fields. They wash the water over their industrial-sized crops, where it gets contaminated with fertilizers and other pollutants. Then, the agribusinesses get taxpayers in the South Florida Water Management District to pay to pump the contaminated water—along with some polluted run-off from industrial areas and city streets—back into Lake Okeechobee, where it pollutes public drinking water supplies for West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and the entire Lower East Coast metropolitan area.

via Polluting of Lake Okeechobee Must End, Court Rules | Earthjustice.

Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future — Medium

In 2009, three New York physicians cared for a sixty-seven-year-old man who had major surgery and then picked up a hospital infection that was “pan-resistant” — that is, responsive to no antibiotics at all. He died fourteen days later. When his doctors related his case in a medical journal months afterward, they still sounded stunned. “It is a rarity for a physician in the developed world to have a patient die of an overwhelming infection for which there are no therapeutic options,” they said, calling the man’s death “the first instance in our clinical experience in which we had no effective treatment to offer.”

via Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future — Medium.

Congressman Busted on First Base Asks for FBI Review of Video – The Wire

No shame and wannabe Teflon Religious Representative has similar supporters and one of the no-shamers is a local minister!

To help McAllister try to change focus from his indiscretion to the identity of the leaker, a local pastor came forward to the News-Star to say that he knows who the leaker was: McAllister’s current office manager. Christian Life Church pastor Danny Chance also claimed that there’s a “conspiracy” to remove McAllister from office:

“I’m not taking up for the congressman; what he did was wrong…But I just feel like there is a conspiracy to bring Vance down and destroy him. For someone on his staff to do that is wrong.”

Although the staffer in question didn’t speak to the paper, Terry did tell the News-Star that he was aware of the allegation and has spoken to the staffer. She denied involvement, he added, and she remained employed by the congressman as of Tuesday.

via Congressman Busted on First Base Asks for FBI Review of Video – The Wire.

Soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian school girls | Maan News Agency

Israeli settlers on Wednesday assaulted Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank, a school official said.

A school principal told Ma’an that a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at school girls in the village of al-Tuwani, leaving them bruised.

Israeli soldiers stood by and watched without taking action as the settlers threw rocks, the principal said.

The girls who sustained injuries were identified as Kifah Omar Abu Jundiyya and Dalal Awad Zein, both seventh graders.

In al-Tuwani and other areas in the southern Hebron district, school children on a daily basis wait at checkpoints for Israeli soldiers to let them through locked gates.

Regardless of Israeli military presence, settler attacks on children en route to and from school remain commonplace, the principal said.

via Soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian school girls | Maan News Agency.

To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require periodic review of listings of endangered species and threatened species under that Act, to support protection and conservation measures for endangered or threatened species under that Act and to alleviate the need to list a species as an endangered or threatened species, to convey small parcels of National Forest System land and Department of the Interior land to generate revenues for such protection and conservation measures, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4419) – GovTrack.us

Teddy Roosevelt turning over in grave – GOP Rep. wants to sell off National Forests to pay for less species protection while pretending to be doing a good thing!

H.R. 4419: To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require periodic review of listings of endangered species and threatened …

… species under that Act, to support protection and conservation measures for endangered or threatened species under that Act and to alleviate the need to list a species as an endangered or threatened species, to convey small parcels of National Forest System land and Department of the Interior land to generate revenues for such protection and conservation measures, and for other purposes.

via To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require periodic review of listings of endangered species and threatened species under that Act, to support protection and conservation measures for endangered or threatened species under that Act and to alleviate the need to list a species as an endangered or threatened species, to convey small parcels of National Forest System land and Department of the Interior land to generate revenues for such protection and conservation measures, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4419) – GovTrack.us.

Ain al-Hilweh refugees want to emigrate – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

This is what the idea of ​​the migration project is: “Either we live with dignity and they leave us alone or we leave. We do not have the right to travel to any Arab country, and we do not hold any passport. All we have is a travel document that no one recognizes. The idea of ​​claiming the right to emigrate is not aimed at giving up the right to return, but at living a decent life and staking a future for the Palestinian people,” Ghuzai added.

via Ain al-Hilweh refugees want to emigrate – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

This is really important!

Austrian rightist withdraws candidacy for EU parliament after pro-Nazi, anti-black comments.

After Germany, itself, Austria was Hitler’s biggest supporter  – Fascism in the EU is still a danger – a growing one – old patterns can be revived and there never seems to be any shortage of cowards ready to bully their way to power!

Moelzer is on the far-right fringe of his party, which has made huge gains over recent years with a stridently Euroskeptic, anti-corruption and anti-foreigner message. It now regularly polls as the most popular of all Austrian parties.

via Austrian rightist withdraws candidacy for EU parliament after pro-Nazi, anti-black comments..

MERS fears prompt ER closure at Saudi hospital | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

Realities, not fears

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The main public hospital in the Saudi city of Jeddah has closed its emergency room after a rise in cases of the MERS virus among medical staff, medics said Tuesday.

A Jeddah paramedic was among two more people Saudi health authorities reported on Sunday had died from the SARS-like disease, bringing the nationwide death toll to 66.

On Monday, the health ministry reported four more MERS cases in Jeddah, two of them among health workers, prompting authorities to close the emergency department at the city’s King Fahd Hospital.

A medical source told AFP it was a “precautionary measure” and the Sabq.org news website reported that patients were being transferred to other hospitals in the city.

But the move caused widespread public concern in the city, fuelled by rumours on social networks.

“I’m afraid to send my children to school,” said Jeddah resident Bassem Ben Ali, 33.

The total number of cases in Saudi Arabia has reached 175 since Middle East Respiratory Syndrome first appeared in the kingdom in September 2012.

The MERS virus is considered a deadlier but less-transmissible cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine percent of whom died.

via MERS fears prompt ER closure at Saudi hospital | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR.

Vance McAllister, the ‘Values’ Congressman Caught Kissing a Staffer, Has No Plans to Resign – The Wire

Ego = 100 Shame = 0 Ethics = -10 Double Standard = 100

Republican Rep. Vance McAllister of Louisiana won’t resign from office after admitting to kissing a staffer who is not his wife. McAllister, who successfully ran a Christian values-based campaign for a special election last November, gave an interview to the Monroe News-Star late on Monday to apologize for his indiscretion. “Unless there is an outcry for me not to serve,” McAllister told the paper, he would run again. He added that “so far there has been an outpouring of support, not for my actions, but for me to continue to represent the people.”

via Vance McAllister, the ‘Values’ Congressman Caught Kissing a Staffer, Has No Plans to Resign – The Wire.