Death toll grows as Israel and Hamas militants exchange fire | News | DW.DE | 09.07.2014

Power for leaders of Hamas and Israeli government tied to fighting each other to show how “strong” they are!?!

The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose above 25 early Wednesday morning, as Israeli warplanes struck “terror targets.” Local residents in the Palestinian territory awaited continued bombings and feared a possible ground invasion, after the Israeli government authorized the military to call up some 40,000 reservists for the aerial offensive.

The exact number of casualties varied across sources on Wednesday. Overnight, Israel reportedly struck the home of a Hamas commander in the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanoun, killing both him and several members of his family, according to the news agency AFP. An airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah claimed another life early Wednesday.

The worst attack on Tuesday occurred in the town of Khan Yunis, where six people, including children, were killed. Hamas responded by vowing that “all Israelis have now become legitimate targets for the resistance.”

via Death toll grows as Israel and Hamas militants exchange fire | News | DW.DE | 09.07.2014.

Bill Hillmann, author of How to Survive the Running of the Bulls, gored at Pamplona in Spain – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dummy and Bull Meet

An American who co-wrote a book called How to Survive the Running of the Bulls has been badly gored in the morning bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival.

via Bill Hillmann, author of How to Survive the Running of the Bulls, gored at Pamplona in Spain – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Religious groups want right to hate, fear, and discriminate against gay people and friends of gay people! Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule – NYTimes.com

Some religious folks (not) believe they have a right to hate who they want to hate! What’s next a claim of a right to discriminate according to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, national origin because of your corporate, family, or individually professed “religious” belief! Turn off the lights of democracy USA – we are done!

After a setback in the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case, President Obama is facing mounting pressure from religious groups demanding to be excluded from his long-promised executive order that would bar discrimination against gay men and lesbians by companies that do government work.

The president has yet to sign the executive order, but last week a group of major faith organizations, including some of Mr. Obama’s allies, said he should consider adding an exemption for groups whose religious beliefs oppose homosexuality. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, the court ruled that family-run corporations with religious objections could be exempted from providing employees with insurance coverage for contraception.

via Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule – NYTimes.com.

Blood feuds based on religious affiliation spread like grass fires! In Apparent Mass Killing, Bodies Found in Region South of Baghdad – NYTimes.com

At least 50 bodies, blindfolded, bound and shot, were found Wednesday in Babil Province, a region that lies directly south of Baghdad, according to the chairman of the provincial council.

The bodies were found at dawn but appeared to have been killed Tuesday night, said Raad al-Jubori, the council chairman, who gave a brief news conference in Hillah, the provincial capital.

The bodies were found in a farming area less than a mile from a road. Although no one has said whether the men who were killed were Sunni or Shiite, many in the area assume they were Sunnis. The region is majority Shiite with a significant Sunni population.

In another incident in Hillah on June 23, about 70 Sunni prisoners who were being transported to the south by the police were killed in apparent retaliation for the killing of 1,700 people, largely Shiites, whom the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria boasted they had killed in Tikrit. It is not clear how many people ISIS had actually killed, as only 200 bodies have been found.

In a separate incident on June 18 in Diyala Province, 44 Sunni prisoners were killed in Baquba, the provincial capital.

via In Apparent Mass Killing, Bodies Found in Region South of Baghdad – NYTimes.com.

Nyaho Clinic suspected Ebola virus patient dies | General News 2014-07-08

The initial tests run on the American, now deceased, according to the source, was inconclusive because the officials used the wrong reagent.

The sources, who are medical practitioners, told Joy News “the test should have taken Noguchi not more than five hours.”

via Nyaho Clinic suspected Ebola virus patient dies | General News 2014-07-08.

Ebola outbreak not right for testing experimental vaccines, drugs: experts – Squamish Chief

The largest Ebola outbreak in history is defying the containment efforts of affected countries and international response teams, leading to calls from some quarters to use experimental drugs or vaccines to try to stop the deadly virus.

But a number of experts — including the scientist who led the work on a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine — say deploying untested tools in the current West African outbreak could be disastrous.

They say taking such a risky gamble could further erode local trust in the response teams, undermine their efforts and even endanger them. And if anyone were to have a bad reaction to one of the experimental therapies, it could jeopardize years of expensive and painstaking work spent developing tools with which to fight Ebola and its cousin, the Marburg virus.

“I get emails basically every second day from someone either asking ‘Is there something that you’re planning?’ or ‘Shouldn’t you?’ And I know I’m not the only one getting those emails,” says Dr. Heinz Feldmann, an Ebola expert who heads the laboratory of virology at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Mont.

via Ebola outbreak not right for testing experimental vaccines, drugs: experts – Squamish Chief.

Head of paedophile inquiry’s own brother accused of protecting VIP paedophiles

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today)

There has been some criticism of Theresa May’s decision to appoint Lady Butler-Sloss as chair of the VIP paedophile inquiry.

Most of the criticism has centred around the fact Lady Butler-Sloss sits in the House of Lords and may have to criticise her fellow peers in the inquiry.

Personally, I think much more worrying is the little mentioned fact that Butler-Sloss will most certainly have to investigate a close member of her own family.

Her brother is former Tory MP and Attorney General Sir Michael Havers – who also happened to be one of the establishment figures alleged to have argued for the protection of the identities of VIPs accused of child abuse.

But don’t just take my word for it.

Just 4 days ago – before it was announced Butler-Sloss would head the inquiry – the pro-establishment Daily Mail had this to say about Havers:

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Iranian reporter sentenced to two years in prison and fifty lashes | World | The Guardian

An Iranian journalist has been sentenced to 50 lashes and two years in prison over charges of spreading anti-government propaganda in the latest incident of Iran’s crackdown on the independent media.

Marzieh Rasouli reported to Evin prison in Tehran on Tuesday, where she became the latest of dozens of journalists imprisoned by the Islamic republic, which has been branded as one of the world’s worst jailer of journalists by the New York Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

via Iranian reporter sentenced to two years in prison and fifty lashes | World | The Guardian.

Hamas: All Israelis are targets | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

Horrible deaths but an Hamas all out attack is just what political leaders of Israel want just now – Hamas said Tuesday that “all

Israelis” would be targeted after a deadly strike on a house in the southern city of Khan Younis killed seven people, among them two teenagers.

“The Khan Yunis massacre… of children is a horrendous war crime, and all Israelis have now become legitimate targets for the resistance,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement, without elaborating.

Medics said another 25 people were wounded in the strike.

via Hamas: All Israelis are targets | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR.

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