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why to discuss about me?
Am I a "news from the world"?
Indeed, why discuss me?? Here you go again with your 'don't do this' and right away do the exact same thing yourself.
And 'real democratic and liberal' aren't synonyms for someone who think it is okay everyone can say whatever they like whenever they like, also if it are obvious lies and other clear immoral behaviour. In my world someone like that is simply called a prick, and prick is a very friendly word for such a person, but posting the right name for such a person would break all forum rules.
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Am I a "news from the world"?
Indeed, why discuss me?? Here you go again with your 'don't do this' and right away do the exact same thing yourself.
And 'real democratic and liberal' aren't synonyms for someone who think it is okay everyone can say whatever they like whenever they like, also if it are obvious lies and other clear immoral behaviour. In my world someone like that is simply called a prick, and prick is a very friendly word for such a person, but posting the right name for such a person would break all forum rules.
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Euh, no comment for Don Enzo he is making it personal and not about news?? What happened with your claims 'inherent to the topic' and 'not attacking the person' and 'discuss the arguments', etc etc?
I already knew it as you have shown it many times in the past and again in almost all your last posts, so it is even for you impossible to miss: you are a smartass hypocrite. You and everyone you agree with can make it personal and then it's okay, you and everyone you agree with can post offtopic and then it's okay, but if those you don't like do the same then it is all wrong ...... disgusting!! Just look in the mirror before you start posting.
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I already knew it as you have shown it many times in the past and again in almost all your last posts, so it is even for you impossible to miss: you are a smartass hypocrite. You and everyone you agree with can make it personal and then it's okay, you and everyone you agree with can post offtopic and then it's okay, but if those you don't like do the same then it is all wrong ...... disgusting!! Just look in the mirror before you start posting.
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I think he was just kidding..
you are a smartass hypocrite.
as you prefer.
But why to write it?
I stop my OT (because I'm off topic too and you are right when you say it), until the next time you'll aggress someone for somthing he writes in a discussion. Waiting for mods to do what their role ask.
you are a smartass hypocrite.
as you prefer.
But why to write it?
I stop my OT (because I'm off topic too and you are right when you say it), until the next time you'll aggress someone for somthing he writes in a discussion. Waiting for mods to do what their role ask.
Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king. (T. Lannister)
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I just wonder what kind of a person would posts a photo of Kim Jong-un as a comment to someone who says: everyone know what is morally wrong behaviour, like lying, and a discussion with a liar is completely useless as shown in this topic for many months now; because someone can post everything he likes doesn't mean he should, there is a difference between an opinion and a well-informed stance on a subject, etc. But it was very predictable you also had to post something, never too far away to put some wood on the fire :/
I'm glad you are showing your true face so clearly. You should read your own posts again with all those 'great advices' of yours, including that last quote!
Didier Reynders condemns destruction of Belgian project in West Bank and demands compensation
Published By MILNZ Publisher / October 3, 2014
Source: Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Press Release/Statement
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders condemns the destruction of a Belgian cooperation project in the Palestinian Territories. Israeli forces destroyed on 29 September part an electrical network financed by Belgium and implemented by the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC), in the village of Khirbet Al Taweel in the West Bank. The Minister summoned the Israeli Ambassador in Brussels today to ask for explanations. A demarche by the Belgian Ambassador will also take place in Tel Aviv after the Yom Kippur holiday.
This destruction of a humanitarian project has a direct impact on the population, complicating their access to water and economic activities, and is thus contrary to international humanitarian law. This gesture is all the more regrettable since Belgium had made several demarches to the Israeli authorities to prevent the demolition.
This is the first time a Belgian cooperation project is destroyed in the West Bank. However, other cooperation projects of our European partners and the European Commission have been -or are threatened by- similar acts. Belgium intends to discuss at European level the issue of compensation to be paid by Israel in such cases. Belgium will also seek assurances from Israel that such a destruction will not reoccur.
foreignaffairs.co.nz
Published By MILNZ Publisher / October 3, 2014
Source: Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Press Release/Statement
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders condemns the destruction of a Belgian cooperation project in the Palestinian Territories. Israeli forces destroyed on 29 September part an electrical network financed by Belgium and implemented by the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC), in the village of Khirbet Al Taweel in the West Bank. The Minister summoned the Israeli Ambassador in Brussels today to ask for explanations. A demarche by the Belgian Ambassador will also take place in Tel Aviv after the Yom Kippur holiday.
This destruction of a humanitarian project has a direct impact on the population, complicating their access to water and economic activities, and is thus contrary to international humanitarian law. This gesture is all the more regrettable since Belgium had made several demarches to the Israeli authorities to prevent the demolition.
This is the first time a Belgian cooperation project is destroyed in the West Bank. However, other cooperation projects of our European partners and the European Commission have been -or are threatened by- similar acts. Belgium intends to discuss at European level the issue of compensation to be paid by Israel in such cases. Belgium will also seek assurances from Israel that such a destruction will not reoccur.
foreignaffairs.co.nz
Texas Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, may have had contact with up to 100 people
By Abby Phillip, Amy Ellis Nutt and Mark Berman October 2
The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. (AP)
Texas health officials said Thursday that there are “about 100” people who may have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the man being treated in a Dallas-area hospital for Ebola.
“We are working from a list of about 100 potential or possible contacts and will soon have an official contact tracing number that will be lower,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Carrie Williams said in a statement.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we’re starting with this very wide net, including people who have had even brief encounters with the patient or the patient’s home. The number will drop as we focus in on those whose contact may represent a potential risk of infection.”
Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said none of those people have shown symptoms of the illness thus far. Only the immediate family members of the victim are being regularly monitored for Ebola symptoms; they’ve been ordered to stay at home and avoid contact with others.
On Wednesday, health officials said 12-18 people, including five children who attend four different Dallas-area schools, may have had contact with Duncan.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached the United States, as officials confirm one case in Dallas. Here's how U.S. health officials plan to stop the virus. (Gillian Brockell and Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)
“Now the number has increased in terms of number of contacts,” Thompson said in a phone interview on Thursday.
The man, who was identified by family members on Wednesday, is the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States.
He traveled from Liberia to the United States changing planes at the Brussels airport and at the Dulles International Airport in the Washington, D.C. area, before arriving in Dallas on Sept. 20. But it was not until four days later, on Sept. 24, that he began experiencing abdominal pain and a fever.
The next night, Sept. 25, Duncan sought care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, but was sent home with antibiotics, his sister Mai Wureh told the Associated Press. A hospital official acknowledged on Wednesday that nurses and doctors should have isolated Duncan based on his symptoms and his recent travel to Liberia, where the Ebola outbreak is widespread.
“Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team,” said Mark C. Lester, executive vice president of the health-care system that includes Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. “As a result, the full import of that information wasn’t factored into the clinical decision-making.”
Days later on Sept. 28, an ambulance was called to a residence in The Ivy Apartments community in Dallas. Duncan, by then, was seriously ill, and according to Reuters, was seen vomiting multiple times outside the complex.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Texas state health officials confirmed in separate tests that Duncan had Ebola. He was isolated at the Texas hospital.
Health officials are working rapidly to track down anyone who may have come into contact with Duncan, particularly after he began showing symptoms and was contagious.
A friend of the family said there was a cookout “for a lot of people” on Sept. 20 that Duncan attended. “That’s what we do when someone comes. We had a welcoming for him,” the friend said, who asked not to be identified.
Aaron Yah, 40, who saw Duncan on Sept. 20, the day he arrived in Dallas, said he seemed fine. But when Yah saw him on Sunday at the Ivy Apartments, “he was lying down in bed,” Yah said. “He told me he was sick. He said he was weak and had diarrhea.”
From the list of 100 potential contacts, health workers will determine who had direct contact with the Ebola patient’s fluids, said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner. That list may be established by the end of the day, he added.
People confirmed as contacts have their temperatures taken and are asked about their health twice daily for 21 days.
There is no risk to passengers on any of the three flights Duncan took before arriving in Dallas because at that time he was not contagious.
Ebola can only be transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person.
washingtonpost.com
Oops! Before we know it we have Outbreak and 12 Monkeys for real :/ Maybe all of the sudden those Doomsday Preppers aren't so crazy after all ...
As stated in the article, Ebola can only be transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person .... only??? As if that isn't worse enough :/ The videos show very clearly how serious this problem can become in a very short time.
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By Abby Phillip, Amy Ellis Nutt and Mark Berman October 2
The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa. (AP)
Texas health officials said Thursday that there are “about 100” people who may have had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the man being treated in a Dallas-area hospital for Ebola.
“We are working from a list of about 100 potential or possible contacts and will soon have an official contact tracing number that will be lower,” Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Carrie Williams said in a statement.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we’re starting with this very wide net, including people who have had even brief encounters with the patient or the patient’s home. The number will drop as we focus in on those whose contact may represent a potential risk of infection.”
Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said none of those people have shown symptoms of the illness thus far. Only the immediate family members of the victim are being regularly monitored for Ebola symptoms; they’ve been ordered to stay at home and avoid contact with others.
On Wednesday, health officials said 12-18 people, including five children who attend four different Dallas-area schools, may have had contact with Duncan.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached the United States, as officials confirm one case in Dallas. Here's how U.S. health officials plan to stop the virus. (Gillian Brockell and Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post)
“Now the number has increased in terms of number of contacts,” Thompson said in a phone interview on Thursday.
The man, who was identified by family members on Wednesday, is the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States.
He traveled from Liberia to the United States changing planes at the Brussels airport and at the Dulles International Airport in the Washington, D.C. area, before arriving in Dallas on Sept. 20. But it was not until four days later, on Sept. 24, that he began experiencing abdominal pain and a fever.
The next night, Sept. 25, Duncan sought care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, but was sent home with antibiotics, his sister Mai Wureh told the Associated Press. A hospital official acknowledged on Wednesday that nurses and doctors should have isolated Duncan based on his symptoms and his recent travel to Liberia, where the Ebola outbreak is widespread.
“Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team,” said Mark C. Lester, executive vice president of the health-care system that includes Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. “As a result, the full import of that information wasn’t factored into the clinical decision-making.”
Days later on Sept. 28, an ambulance was called to a residence in The Ivy Apartments community in Dallas. Duncan, by then, was seriously ill, and according to Reuters, was seen vomiting multiple times outside the complex.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Texas state health officials confirmed in separate tests that Duncan had Ebola. He was isolated at the Texas hospital.
Health officials are working rapidly to track down anyone who may have come into contact with Duncan, particularly after he began showing symptoms and was contagious.
A friend of the family said there was a cookout “for a lot of people” on Sept. 20 that Duncan attended. “That’s what we do when someone comes. We had a welcoming for him,” the friend said, who asked not to be identified.
Aaron Yah, 40, who saw Duncan on Sept. 20, the day he arrived in Dallas, said he seemed fine. But when Yah saw him on Sunday at the Ivy Apartments, “he was lying down in bed,” Yah said. “He told me he was sick. He said he was weak and had diarrhea.”
From the list of 100 potential contacts, health workers will determine who had direct contact with the Ebola patient’s fluids, said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner. That list may be established by the end of the day, he added.
People confirmed as contacts have their temperatures taken and are asked about their health twice daily for 21 days.
There is no risk to passengers on any of the three flights Duncan took before arriving in Dallas because at that time he was not contagious.
Ebola can only be transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person.
washingtonpost.com
Oops! Before we know it we have Outbreak and 12 Monkeys for real :/ Maybe all of the sudden those Doomsday Preppers aren't so crazy after all ...
As stated in the article, Ebola can only be transmitted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person .... only??? As if that isn't worse enough :/ The videos show very clearly how serious this problem can become in a very short time.
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Robert Iger, on Success Streak, Gets 2nd Contract Extension at Disney
By BROOKS BARNESOCT. OCT. 2, 2014
LOS ANGELES — Robert A. Iger will remain Disney’s chief executive and chairman until June 2018, an extension of two years beyond his previously extended retirement date, which reflects a continuing streak of success at the world’s largest entertainment company.
Under Mr. Iger’s nine-year leadership, Disney’s market capitalization has risen to $153 billion from $48.4 billion. Disney shares have recently traded a little below $90, an increase of 40 percent compared with a year ago. Disney reported profit of $6.14 billion last year, an 8 percent increase from the year before.
nytimes.com
Those damn download sites like Pirate Bay are ruining the movie and game industry ................................................. Yeh right :/
By BROOKS BARNESOCT. OCT. 2, 2014
LOS ANGELES — Robert A. Iger will remain Disney’s chief executive and chairman until June 2018, an extension of two years beyond his previously extended retirement date, which reflects a continuing streak of success at the world’s largest entertainment company.
Under Mr. Iger’s nine-year leadership, Disney’s market capitalization has risen to $153 billion from $48.4 billion. Disney shares have recently traded a little below $90, an increase of 40 percent compared with a year ago. Disney reported profit of $6.14 billion last year, an 8 percent increase from the year before.
nytimes.com
Those damn download sites like Pirate Bay are ruining the movie and game industry ................................................. Yeh right :/
two very big and important news, that have gone almost unnoticed, or without an echo... :-]
1 Oct 2014 Profile: Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg
Nato's new secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, says the alliance wants constructive ties with Russia - but Russian policy in Ukraine must change.
2 Oct 2014 Turkish MPs back Iraq-Syria deployment
Turkey's parliament has backed a motion that could allow its military to enter Iraq and Syria to join the campaign against Islamic State (IS) militants.
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1 Oct 2014 Profile: Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg
Nato's new secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, says the alliance wants constructive ties with Russia - but Russian policy in Ukraine must change.
2 Oct 2014 Turkish MPs back Iraq-Syria deployment
Turkey's parliament has backed a motion that could allow its military to enter Iraq and Syria to join the campaign against Islamic State (IS) militants.
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Ebola crisis: Five ways to avoid the deadly virus
Ebola is one of the world's most deadly viruses but is not airborne, so cannot be caught like flu. Medical experts say avoiding it should be quite easy if you follow these tips:
1. Soap and water
Wash your hands often with soap and clean water - and use clean towels to dry them. This can be difficult in slum and rural areas where there is not always direct access to clean water - but it is an effective way to kill the virus. Ordinary soap is all that's needed.
Shaking hands should also generally be avoided, Dr Unni Krishnan of Plan International told BBC Africa, because Ebola spreads quickly when people come into contact with an infected person's body fluids and symptoms can take a while to show. Other forms of greeting are being encouraged, he says.
2. No touching
So if you suspect someone of having Ebola, do not touch them. This may seem cruel when you see a loved one in pain and you want to hug and nurse them, but body fluids - urine and stools, vomit, blood, nasal mucus, saliva, tears, sperm and vaginal secretion - can all pass on the virus.
An infected person's symptoms include fever, muscle and joint pain, sore throat, headache and fatigue - followed by nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, which may include blood.
Encourage them to seek help from a medical professional or health centre as soon as possible. It is also advisable not to touch the clothes or bedclothes of Ebola patients - and Medecins Sans Frontieres advises that such sheets and even mattresses be burnt.
3. Avoid dead bodies
If you think someone has died from Ebola, do not touch their body, even as part of a burial ceremony. When someone has died, you can still catch Ebola from their body as it ejects fluids that make it even more contagious than that of a sick person.
Organise for a specialised team to deal with the body as quickly as possible as it is risky to leave a dead body for any length of time in a cramped living area.
4. No bushmeat
Avoid hunting, touching and eating bushmeat such as bats, monkeys and chimpanzees, as scientists believe this is how the virus was first transmitted to humans.
Even if a certain wild animal is a delicacy in your region, avoid it as its meat or blood may be contaminated. Make sure all food is cooked properly.
5. Don't panic
Spreading rumours increases fear. Do not be scared of health workers - they are there to help and a clinic is the best place for a person to recover - they will be rehydrated and receive pain relief.
About half of the people infected in the current outbreak have died. There have been cases of medics being attacked and people being abandoned when they are suspected of having Ebola - even when they are suffering from something else.
A belief in irrational traditional remedies has also exacerbated the spread of the virus.
"Prevention is the best way to deal with Ebola, so stop rumours and do not panic; it is possible to reduce the suffering and save lives," Dr Krishnan says.
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD):
- Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
- Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 55%
- Incubation period is two to 21 days
- There is no proven vaccine or cure
- Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
- Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host
BBC.com
Ebola is one of the world's most deadly viruses but is not airborne, so cannot be caught like flu. Medical experts say avoiding it should be quite easy if you follow these tips:
1. Soap and water
Wash your hands often with soap and clean water - and use clean towels to dry them. This can be difficult in slum and rural areas where there is not always direct access to clean water - but it is an effective way to kill the virus. Ordinary soap is all that's needed.
Shaking hands should also generally be avoided, Dr Unni Krishnan of Plan International told BBC Africa, because Ebola spreads quickly when people come into contact with an infected person's body fluids and symptoms can take a while to show. Other forms of greeting are being encouraged, he says.
2. No touching
So if you suspect someone of having Ebola, do not touch them. This may seem cruel when you see a loved one in pain and you want to hug and nurse them, but body fluids - urine and stools, vomit, blood, nasal mucus, saliva, tears, sperm and vaginal secretion - can all pass on the virus.
An infected person's symptoms include fever, muscle and joint pain, sore throat, headache and fatigue - followed by nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, which may include blood.
Encourage them to seek help from a medical professional or health centre as soon as possible. It is also advisable not to touch the clothes or bedclothes of Ebola patients - and Medecins Sans Frontieres advises that such sheets and even mattresses be burnt.
3. Avoid dead bodies
If you think someone has died from Ebola, do not touch their body, even as part of a burial ceremony. When someone has died, you can still catch Ebola from their body as it ejects fluids that make it even more contagious than that of a sick person.
Organise for a specialised team to deal with the body as quickly as possible as it is risky to leave a dead body for any length of time in a cramped living area.
4. No bushmeat
Avoid hunting, touching and eating bushmeat such as bats, monkeys and chimpanzees, as scientists believe this is how the virus was first transmitted to humans.
Even if a certain wild animal is a delicacy in your region, avoid it as its meat or blood may be contaminated. Make sure all food is cooked properly.
5. Don't panic
Spreading rumours increases fear. Do not be scared of health workers - they are there to help and a clinic is the best place for a person to recover - they will be rehydrated and receive pain relief.
About half of the people infected in the current outbreak have died. There have been cases of medics being attacked and people being abandoned when they are suspected of having Ebola - even when they are suffering from something else.
A belief in irrational traditional remedies has also exacerbated the spread of the virus.
"Prevention is the best way to deal with Ebola, so stop rumours and do not panic; it is possible to reduce the suffering and save lives," Dr Krishnan says.
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD):
- Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
- Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 55%
- Incubation period is two to 21 days
- There is no proven vaccine or cure
- Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
- Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host
BBC.com