Lawmakers: PA risks US aid freeze if Hamas joins government | Maan News Agency

“No US governmental money will go into any government that includes Hamas until Hamas accepts the Quartet conditions. And that’s renouncing violence, recognizing previous agreements and most explicitly recognizing Israel’s right to exist.”

via Lawmakers: PA risks US aid freeze if Hamas joins government | Maan News Agency.

I think that Hamas will find a way to accept those conditions and put ball back in Israel’s court.

Saudi Wahhabi leaders see Turkish threat over caliphate – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

There is nothing new in al-Khayil’s attack on the Turkish leadership. Since the mid-18th century, Saudi Wahhabi clerics have excelled in denouncing Turkish Islam as innovation amounting to blasphemy and fought the Ottoman empire. They were willing to ally themselves during the First World War with the British, obviously an infidel power in their classification, to expel the Ottomans from Arabia. Their main differences with the Ottomans were not only religious, but also grounded in local, pre-modern nationalism. Wahhabis aspired to control the Hijaz, where the holy cities of Mecca and Medina are. The Ottoman caliphate had nominal suzerainty over the region and indirectly ruled through the Sherifs of Mecca. Wahhabis wanted to control this city not only to shape Islam for all Muslims, but also to increase their revenues from the pilgrimage season.

This history of animosity has not faded with the vanishing Ottoman caliphate. It remains alive in the Wahhabi imagination but is rooted in a new political context. The university director considers Turkey’s support for the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood a direct threat not only to Saudi Salafist hegemony, but also to the status of the Saudi state in the Muslim world. Perhaps al-Khayil sensed the danger in an alternative politics endorsed by Erdogan that may be attractive to contemporary Saudis seeking a way out of the Saudi version of Salafist thought and practices. He denounces the secret Muslim Brotherhood cells that allegedly corrupt the creed of Muslims and contaminate their tradition, and perhaps encourage them to rise against unelected rulers like Al-Saud.

via Saudi Wahhabi leaders see Turkish threat over caliphate – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East.

Jewish extremists spray anti-Muslim graffiti on mosque | Maan News Agency

Vandals left anti-Muslim graffiti on a mosque in northern Israel, police said on Tuesday, the latest in a string of racist and religious attacks against Palestinians.

“Unidentified people drew a Star of David and wrote ‘close the mosques and open yeshivas’ (Jewish seminaries) on the outer wall” of the mosque in Fureidis, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.

“The tires of several cars parked nearby were slashed,” he said, adding that “crimes committed for nationalist motives are extremely serious.”

On April 18, suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a mosque and sprayed racist graffiti in the town of Umm al-Fahm.

A week earlier, Jewish extremists sprayed anti-Christian graffiti on the walls of a convent west of Jerusalem and damaged vehicles parked nearby.

Slogans including “Mary is a cow,” “price tag,” and “America (is) Nazi Germany” were sprayed in Hebrew on the walls of the Roman Catholic sanctuary.

In March, vandals slashed the tyres of more than 40 cars in East Jerusalem, spraying a slogan reading: “Gentiles in the land are enemies.”

via Jewish extremists spray anti-Muslim graffiti on mosque | Maan News Agency.

Gunman Shoots Six at FedEx Center Near Atlanta – NYTimes.com

“People in Georgia feel safer now that the Legislature passed a law that allows people to carry guns almost everywhere in the state!”

Police in northern Georgia said Tuesday that six people had been hospitalized after a gunman opened fire in a FedEx facility in an Atlanta suburb. The gunman then apparently took his own life.

Sgt. Dana Pierce of the Cobb County police said in a telephone interview that reports of the shooting in Kennesaw, Ga., came in shortly before 6 a.m. The police then quickly locked down the sorting facility, which is just south of the runway at the Cobb County Airport-McCollum Field. The airport, northwest of Atlanta, does not offer passenger service.

via Gunman Shoots Six at FedEx Center Near Atlanta – NYTimes.com.

Avian Flu Diary: MERS: The Limitations Of Airport Screening

As the graphic above illustrates, airline traffic is a very effective conduit for infectious disease, able to transport someone to nearly anyplace in the world in less than 24 hours.  The world’s airlines carry 2.6 billion passengers each year, on more than 17 million flights.

 

In 2003, we saw the SARS virus hop the Pacific on a flight taken by a 78-year-old woman who fell ill in Toronto after visiting Hong Kong, and before that outbreak was contained, 251 people in Canada had been infected, and 44 died (see SARS And Remembrance).

via Avian Flu Diary: MERS: The Limitations Of Airport Screening.

MERS: Impact of comorbidity on mortality

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UPDATED: 4.27.14, 2215 EST

In my last series of posts, it became quickly apparent that MERS cases who have pre-existing conditions (or “comorbidities”, such as diabetes, heart disease, etc.) are more likely to die than those who are otherwise healthy. I wanted to take a closer look at this finding by conducting some risk analyses on the data I have available to me currently. I looked at three different time frames: from March 2012 (when MERS was first documented) to present; before 3/20/2014 (the onset of the current outbreak in the Middle East); and after 3/20/2014. This is what I found:
RR_alltimeOverall, cases with comorbidities are +80% (p = .0001) more likely to die than those who are otherwise healthy.
RR_preoutbreakPrior to the current outbreak, cases with comorbidities were +70% (p = .0016) more likely to die than otherwise healthy cases – about the same as what we saw above…

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The Rescue

Poetry for Palestine

 

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Deep… deep inside…

In the land of sorrow… where I reside

Where only pain reigns

Passion becomes resistance

Love grows rebellious

And hope stands tall

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Grief runs deep

Cutting through hills and mountains

In the caves and underground

Far beyond my reach

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It was raining agony… that day

Restless… agitated… weighed down

Haunted by my nightmare

You’re never coming home

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Looking up… into sky

Yelling for help

My soul whispers

Here I am God… exhausted… give me your hand… come to my aid

Here I am God… full of sorrow… and anguish…ease my pain

Here I am God… hurt and tired… help me…hold me… heal me

Here I am God… lonely… be my friend and companion

Here I am God… lost… guide me… show me the way

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And like a dazzling morning at the crack of dawn, dispelling all darkness

Like gentle rain drops drizzling over a parched piece of land

Like…

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“All it takes is one good guy with a gun…..” – ‘Georgia man flaunts gun at local Little League field intimidating parents and children’

The Last Of The Millenniums

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Yeah!!! That’s showing ’em.

Protecting his 2nd Amendment Rights!!

‘A Georgia man panicked parents and children at a local park and baseball field by randomly walking around and displaying his gun to anyone he encountered in the parking lot’.

‘According to witnesses who spoke with WSB-TV, the man wandered around the Forsythe County park last Tuesday night showing his gun to strangers, telling them “there’s nothing you can do about it.”

“Anyone who was just walking by – you had parents and children coming in for the game – and he’s just standing here, walking around [saying] ‘You want to see my gun? Look, I got a gun and there’s nothing you can do about it.

He knew he was frightening people. He knew exactly what he was doing,” said parent Karen Rabb’.
From :http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/26/georgia-man-flaunts-gun-at-local-little-league-field-intimidating-parents-and-children/

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MAYDAY: Art Workers’ Pride Visual Archive

ArtLeaks

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This Thursday is May Day, international workers’ day. 

Across the globe workers will celebrate May Day in various ways, organizing street demonstrations and protest marches in their communities, demanding justice and freedom for all oppressed people. 

With this occasion, ArtLeaks will inaugurate a visual archive dedicated to art workers’ pride, which will continue to gather material throughout the year. 

We invite you to submit visual documentation of protests/performances/comics/banners/short texts related to art and cultural struggles. Please send the material to artsleaks@gmail.com or @Art_Leaks, including the credit information and a title or very short description. Both signed and anonymous entries welcome. 

Our aim is to create a visual archive of different actors and movements around the globe focused on art labour. We think this is will grow into a great resource and encourage all persons working in art and culture to submit their materials to this public archive.

Happy May Day International…

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