Death toll rises as wildfire wipes out Chilean town of Santa Olga | News | DW.COM | 27.01.2017

Chile requests international aid

Forest fires are common in Chile’s parched, wooded areas during the hot summer months. However, serious drought has made the fires this year particularly difficult to contain. Chile’s president, Michelle Bachelet, has called the fires “the greatest forest disaster” in the Chile’s history. The country has turned to the international community, requesting aid to tackle the wildfires. Heraldo Munoz, Chile’s foreign minister, said the United States, Canada and various other countries have offered help. Meanwhile, Bachelet tweeted on Thursday that the country had accepted additional super tanker planes and helicopters from Russia.

Source: Death toll rises as wildfire wipes out Chilean town of Santa Olga | News | DW.COM | 27.01.2017

Studies show spread of MCR-1 gene in China | CIDRAP Potential global killer spread – another fact to be denied by…?

The gene, known as MCR-1, was first identified in China in November 2015 in Escherichia coli samples from pigs, pork products, and a handful of human cases. It has since been detected in more than 30 countries, including the United States. The emergence of the resistance gene was believed to be connected to widespread use of colistin in Chinese agriculture. China banned use of the drug in animal feed in 2016, based in part on the findings of that study.Though there have been few cases so far of human infections involving the gene—which has mostly been found in animals—MCR-1 has become a significant public health concern because colistin is one of the few antibiotics left that can be used to treat multidrug-resistant infections. And because the gene is carried on mobile pieces of DNA called plasmids, it can be passed not only to different strains within a single family of bacteria—such as E coli—but also to different types of bacteria.Among the most worrisome scenarios is the emergence of bacteria that harbors the MCR-1 gene along with other antibiotic-resistance genes. If the superbug carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) were to acquire the gene, for example, it could present clinicians with infections that are nearly impossible to treat with current antibiotics.

Source: Studies show spread of MCR-1 gene in China | CIDRAP

Germany to take US place in defending Europe and West

Europe’s Engine

The German government has reiterated its appeal to EU members to “stick together” – not only in the power struggle against Russia, but now also against the new US administration.[12] The common foreign and military policy is the means of choice to not only assure a leading position for the EU in world policymaking, but also to weld the alliance together against internal criticism. In early 2010, Germany’s Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, declared that the “European project of a common security and defense policy could be an engine for Europe’s continuous consolidation.”[13] This was at the beginning of the Euro crisis, with its multiplying centrifugal forces escalating.

Source: www.german-foreign-policy.com

ABC says Trump claimed 2 were shot dead in Chicago during Obama’s speech. But it never happened. – Chicago Tribune

“So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech,” Trump said, according to the transcript of the interview. “Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can’t have that. They weren’t shot at the speech. But they were shot in the city of Chicago during his speech. What — what’s going on?”The city had no slayings for about 24 hours before and after Obama’s speech, which lasted from 8:02 to 8:53 p.m. A man was shot about 20 minutes after the speech about eight miles away in the West Side’s Lawndale neighborhood, but that victim survived, according to Police Department data.

Source: ABC says Trump claimed 2 were shot dead in Chicago during Obama’s speech. But it never happened. – Chicago Tribune

PS, We Have NAFTA To Thank For Plentiful Coronas And Modelos In American Bars: SFist Get ready for 20% price rise in everything from Mexico. Or will this turn out to be just more fake Twitter news

In 2013 alone, we apparently bought some two million tons of Coronas, Modelos, and Tecates from Mexico, and beer is now Mexico’s biggest agricultural export to the US.

Source: PS, We Have NAFTA To Thank For Plentiful Coronas And Modelos In American Bars: SFist

Activist faces prison for saying journalists are banned from Bahrain | Media | The Guardian – Press regulation that Trump Admires?

He also says: “The UK is setting a dangerous precedent in providing arms and political support to Bahrain, worth millions, while watching in silence as rights campaigners are harshly punished.”Rajab has also been prosecuted in a separate case for “spreading rumours in wartime”, for “insulting a neighbouring country” and for “insulting a statutory body”.One set of charges relate to Rajab’s criticism on Twitter of the Saudi war in Yemen. The other refers to his exposure of torture in a Bahraini prison.He faces up to 17 years in prison between both cases. He has been held in pre-trial detention without bail since his June arrest, largely in solitary confinement. Rajab’s next court appearance is set for 8 February.

Source: Activist faces prison for saying journalists are banned from Bahrain | Media | The Guardian

Death Valley National Park Joins Resistance And Starts Tweeting About Japanese Internment Camps: LAist

surrogate for President Donald Trump actually said that World War II-era Japanese-American internment camps could be seen as a “precedent” for the potential creation of a Muslim immigrant registry. This is despite the, um, slightly awkward fact that the U.S.’s Japanese internment camps are pretty much universally considered a black mark on our country’s history. In fact, it was no less a conservative icon than Ronald Reagan who signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which issued a formal apology to the more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated, and paid out $20,000 in compensation to all surviving victims.

Source: Death Valley National Park Joins Resistance And Starts Tweeting About Japanese Internment Camps: LAist

First Light from GOES-16 : Image of the Day – Better photos of earth climate – Will they be banned from public view if Trump thinks they support climate change facts?

Later this year, NOAA will announce a final location for GOES-16, as it will be moved into orbit to replace either the GOES-East or GOES-West satellite by the end of 2017. In addition to observing weather on Earth, GOES-16 carries instruments for monitoring solar activity and space weather.

Source: First Light from GOES-16 : Image of the Day

A settler living in an illegal outpost issues orders to demolish Palestinian homes – PNN

The racism in Israel is mostly reflected in every aspect of their life, the last of which came within the context of disclosing that Head of the Regional Unit to enforce the laws of planning and building at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, Adv. Avi Cohen, who is in charge of implementing the law of demolishing Palestinian homes, is living in an unlicensed building in the illegal Bilgi Mime outpost, built in 1984, on lands belonging to Qaryout, Saweiya and Al-Luban in Nablus Governorate, under a government resolution. Cohen was appointed 2 years ago as a Head of the Regional Unit to enforce the laws of planning and building, also called Regional Unit for Monitoring the Building.  Moreover, the Unit has the powers and authority to follow-up everything related to construction in cooperation with all planning institutions.

Source: A settler living in an illegal outpost issues orders to demolish Palestinian homes – PNN

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