WHO | Ebola virus disease: background and summary

Just saying… WHO – formerly known as a helpful agency – seems to have become trapped in a protect our budget and behinds mode. There is a major outbreak but they will not say so or warn people from traveling to the effected area because supporters of the governments in the effected areas are more afraid of losing business in the short run, than having people die.

WHO encourages countries to strengthen surveillance, including surveillance for illness compatible with EVD, and to carefully review any unusual patterns, in order to ensure identification and reporting of human infections under the IHR (2005), and encourages countries to continue national health preparedness actions.

WHO does not recommend that any travel or trade restrictions be applied with respect to this event.

via WHO | Ebola virus disease: background and summary.

OKR: Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : Facts and Perceptions across People, Time, and Space

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This book joins four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper prepared by Sherine Al-Shawarby reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such a comprehensive review is carried. The second paper prepared by Branko Milanovic turns to the global and spatial dimensions of inequality. The objective here is to put Egypt inequality in the global context and better understand the origin and size of spatial inequalities within Egypt using different forms of measurement across regions and urban and rural areas. The Egyptian society remains deeply divided across space and in terms of welfare and this study unveils some of the hidden features of this inequality. The third paper prepared by Paolo Verme studies facts and perceptions of inequality during the period 2000-2009, the period that preceded the Egyptian revolution. The objective of this part is to provide some initial elements that could explain the apparent mismatch between inequality measured with household surveys and inequality aversion measured by values surveys. No such study has been carried out before in the Middle-East and North-Africa (MENA) region and this seemed a particular important and timely topic to address in the light of the unfolding developments in the Arab region. The fourth paper prepared by Sahar El Tawila, May Gadallah and Enas Ali A. El-Majeed assesses the state of poverty and inequality among the poorest villages of Egypt. The paper attempts to explain the level of inequality in an effort to disentangle those factors that derive from household abilities from those factors that derive from local opportunities. This is the first time that such study is conducted in Egypt. The book should be of interest to any observer of the political and economic evolution of the Arab region in the past few years and to poverty and inequality specialists that wish to have a deeper understanding of the distribution of incomes in Egypt and other countries in the MENA region.

via OKR: Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt : Facts and Perceptions across People, Time, and Space.

Widespread Contamination of Drinking Water from the East Poplar Oil Field in Montana | Briana Mordick’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) documents serious drinking water contamination caused by oil production in Montana. This is the latest report from the USGS in an ongoing investigation of groundwater contamination in and near the East Poplar oil field.

Researchers found that almost 18 square miles of the shallow aquifer in the study area is contaminated with brine (also known as “produced water”) that is co-produced with oil. Produced water can be many times saltier than seawater and may also contain hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and naturally occurring radioactive material.

These shallow aquifers are the only source of drinking water in the area. The contamination has impacted both private drinking water wells and public water supply wells for the city of Poplar. All told, the USGS estimates that anywhere from 15-37 billion gallons of groundwater is contaminated with brine, compromising the groundwater supplies of about 3,000 people. As a result, the city of Poplar, headquarters of the Fort Peck Tribal government, had to build a pipeline to bring in drinking water from the Missouri River.

via Widespread Contamination of Drinking Water from the East Poplar Oil Field in Montana | Briana Mordick’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC.

CENSORED NEWS: US Senators push to terminate portion of Arapaho’s Wind River land

A new push by U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., to

terminate a portion of the Wind River Reservation should appall and worry Native

American people everywhere, Northern Arapaho leaders said Tuesday.

Draft legislation by Enzi, and supported by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., would eliminate

the reservation status of a significant portion of Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone

homeland in central Wyoming.

“It’s chilling to see this kind of attack on Indian Country in 2014,” said Northern Arapaho

Business Council Chairman Darrell O’Neal.

The bill is a response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to treat the

Wind River tribes as a state under the Clean Air Act. A detailed legal analysis in the EPA

decision concluded that the town of Riverton is part of the Wind River Reservation, a

position the tribes have always held.

via CENSORED NEWS: US Senators push to terminate portion of Arapaho’s Wind River land.

Canada: Monsanto fund supports the future of agriculture

Pretty cheap pass-go free and greenwashing fee for academic pats of back???

$210,000 grant, the Monsanto Fund is supporting the recruitment of future agri-food leaders into programs at the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC). The grant will support OAC’s Student Liaison Program over the next three years to engage and excite high school students by showing them the educational and career opportunities in agriculture, food and the environment.

via Canada: Monsanto fund supports the future of agriculture.

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2575) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 30-hour threshold for classification as a full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replace it with 40 hours. (H.Res. 530) – GovTrack.us

AKA – Pimping for fast food and quickie retail outlets who don’t want to cover the more than 50% of their regularly scheduled 30 hour a week employees!

…threshold for classification as a full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replace it with 40 hours.

via Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2575) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 30-hour threshold for classification as a full-time employee for purposes of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and replace it with 40 hours. (H.Res. 530) – GovTrack.us.

Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection

According to the Green family, interfering with an already fertilized egg is tantamount to abortion—an act unacceptable to the family and one they refuse to participate in no matter what the Affordable Care Act may require .

However, it turns out that the owners of Hobby Lobby do not appear to have any problem with profiting from the companies that manufacture the very products that so grievously offend their religious principles.

The following is a summation of the companies manufacturing these products that are held by the Hobby Lobby employee retirement plan, as set forth by Ms. Redden’s remarkable reporting:

These companies include Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which makes Plan B and ParaGard, a copper IUD, and Actavis ACT +1.64%, which makes a generic version of Plan B and distributes Ella. Other holdings in the mutual funds selected by Hobby Lobby include Pfizer PFE -0.53%, the maker of Cytotec and Prostin E2, which are used to induce abortions; Bayer , which manufactures the hormonal IUDs Skyla and Mirena; AstraZeneca AZN +0.77%, which has an Indian subsidiary that manufactures Prostodin, Cerviprime, and Partocin, three drugs commonly used in abortions; and Forest Laboratories, which makes Cervidil, a drug used to induce abortions. Several funds in the Hobby Lobby retirement plan also invested in Aetna AET +0.11% and Humana, two health insurance companies that cover surgical abortions, abortion drugs, and emergency contraception in many of the health care policies they sell.

via Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection.

Whirlpool pledges $5 million to Habitat for Humanity – Atlanta Business Chronicle

Whirlpool Corp. renewed its partnership with Atlanta-based Habitat for Humanity International, promising to give $5 million for a range and refrigerator in every new Habitat home built in 2014 and to build six new Habitat homes.

Since the partnership began in 1999, more than 81,000 families have received a Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR) refrigerator and range and more than 150 houses have been built around the world with the help of thousands of Whirlpool employee volunteers.

via Whirlpool pledges $5 million to Habitat for Humanity – Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Hobby Lobby’s retirement plan invests in contraception companies

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, which makes Plan B and ParaGard, a copper IUD, and Actavis, which makes a generic version of Plan B and distributes Ella. Other holdings in the mutual funds selected by Hobby Lobby include Pfizer, the maker of Cytotec and Prostin E2, which are used to induce abortions; Bayer, which manufactures the hormonal IUDs Skyla andMirena; AstraZeneca, which has an Indian subsidiary that manufactures Prostodin, Cerviprime, and Partocin, three drugs commonly used in abortions; and Forest Laboratories, which makes Cervidil, a drug used to induce abortions. Several funds in the Hobby Lobby retirement plan also invested in Aetna and Humana, two health insurance companies that cover surgical abortions, abortion drugs, and emergency contraception in many of the health care policies they sell.

via Hobby Lobby’s retirement plan invests in contraception companies.

Recalled Fish Products May Cause Botulism

Lao Thai Nam Corp. of Dallas, Texas is recalling Number One Sompa Salted Fish because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium that can cause life-threatening illness or death. Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled.

via Recalled Fish Products May Cause Botulism.

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