Good try at nearly impossible task today – what to keep and how to keep it for future generations.
brasov – the black church
Israeli occupation {just because they can} damages 25 dunums to the west of Bethlehem
This morning Israeli Bulldozers damaged around 25 dunums of agricultural land in Wad Fokeen, west of Bethlehem.
Local sources told PNN that a group of Israeli bulldozers raided the village this morning and damaged around 25 dunums of agricultural land that was planted with olive trees. The sources added that the bulldozers destroyed several tents used to collect the harvest.
via Israeli occupation damages 25 dunums to the west of Bethlehem.
Israeli settlers continue their raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque
The chairman of the Higher Islamic Authority and preacher for Jerusalem, Ekrema Sabri, told PNN that Israeli settlers and Rabbis, accompanied by the Israeli police, continue raiding Al-Aqsa mosque under the pretext of celebrating the Jewish holidays for three days.
He mentioned that the settlers raid that mosque in groups headed by Rabbis or Israeli political leaders. The Israeli police has been preventing Palestinian women from entering the mosque for three days. He confirmed that he will not give up and rejected the entire Israeli plan of temporarily dividing Al-Aqsa mosque.
Mahmoud abu al-Atta, a media official at Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage, said that some of the settlers tried to reach the dome of the rock, a sacred place for Muslims, but Palestinian worshippers confronted them and forced them to leave the mosque.
{China sized oops!} 90 million pill capsules laced with toxic metal are sold in China; 11 arrested | South China Morning Post
Police in China are trying to trace 90 million drug capsules laced with the toxic metal chromium that have been sold on the open market, in the latest product safety scandal to hit the country.
Eleven people in Zhejiang province were arrested following the discovery that the capsules – which pharmaceutical companies use for their drugs – were tainted with the poison.
Police, along with food and drug authorities in Ninghai county, seized more than 440,000 chromium-laced capsules from an illegal workshop on July 22.
They also confiscated more than 100kg of semi-finished capsules and more than 700kg of capsule material made from industrial gelatin containing the toxin, according to a Zhejiang newspaper hosted by official news agency Xinhua.
An investigation by police found that from February to July the workshop produced about 90 million capsules which contained chromium far exceeding safety levels for edible gelatin.
The entire stock was sold.
CVS Stores Stop Selling All Tobacco Products – NYTimes.com
{Pretty radical step – wonder in what similar areas companies may try to look better by not selling harmful products – grin – guess we won’t see Mickey D not selling fries and double baconburgers or mystery meat McRibs}
At a CVS store near Times Square, the shelves are notable for what they no longer display: cigarettes. Now the only smoking products to be found are those that could help customers quit.
As of midnight on Tuesday, all 7,700 CVS locations nationwide will no longer sell tobacco products, fulfilling a pledge the company made in February, as it seeks to reposition itself as a health care destination.
via CVS Stores Stop Selling All Tobacco Products – NYTimes.com.
IRIN Africa | Mistrust of government spurs Ebola spread | DRC | Liberia | Nigeria | Sierra Leone | Senegal | Aid Policy | Conflict | Governance | Health & Nutrition | Human Rights
(Government needs to connect with the informal communications network rather than go over it or around it)
Susan Shepler, an associate professor at American University and a specialist on education and conflict in Sierra Leone and Liberia, said it is easy to understand why many Liberians tend to doubt government information.
“People are not acting out of ignorance, they’re acting out of experience,” she told IRIN. “In Liberia people have historically used community information and rumours as a way of getting information at times when they weren’t sure whether to trust the government,” she said.
“Information was vital during Liberia’s conflict but official sources were often so unreliable that people relied on informal networks instead,” Shepler added. “At times the media and authorities reported one thing and the rumour network said something else, and it turned out that the rumours were right.”
As the Ebola crisis escalates throughout West Africa, the Sirleaf administration is now faced with plugging an information gap that grew from such a legacy.
Establishing stronger channels of communication is vital, say observers. But Russell Geekie, chief of public information for the UN Mission to Liberia (UNMIL), said the nature of Ebola has made many communication methods difficult.
No a la guerra Paz en el mundo – YouTube
The Problem with Systemic Racism…
The problem with systemic racism is that it is like a heat source that keeps a pot of water simmering at a constant 211 degrees. Extremely hot, but not quite boiling. Every once in a while the heat gets turned up just a tad. Like when a frightened white police officer in Ferguson MO shoots a young unarmed black man while his hands are in the air. Or a group of ignorant, overzealous college students from Oklahoma State University create a banner for a football game that makes light of an act of genocide committed against Native Americans by the United States government.
And then water starts to boil.
Protests are organized. Twitter goes ablaze. Op-Eds are written. And civil rights leaders are given the microphone.
And the temperature is brought back down to 211 degrees.
Even the dominant culture gets caught up in the frenzy. However, their fight is vastly different from the fight of the Native American, African American, Latino or other minority cultures.
For while the minority culture is angry because of the entire system of racism they are surrounded by, the dominant culture is protesting because a single individual committed one offensive act that caused the equilibrium to be thrown off.
MSF: World is ′losing the battle′ to contain Ebola | News | DW.DE | 02.09.2014
“Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat,” said Joanne Liu, MSF’s international president.
“Ebola treatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone, where little more than palliative care is offered,” she said, calling on international community to fund more beds for a regional network of field hospitals. She also urged countries with biological disaster response capacity to dispatch trained medical personnel to the hardest-hit areas.
via MSF: World is ′losing the battle′ to contain Ebola | News | DW.DE | 02.09.2014.


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