[BBC] Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says. Well, I'm certainly panicked. I'll give them all my money now.
The global review sets out a plan for preventing medicine "being cast back into the dark ages" that requires billions of dollars of investment. It also calls for a revolution in the way antibiotics are used and a massive campaign to educate people.
The report has received a mixed response with some concerned that it does not go far enough. No, it never does for these people, does it...
The battle against infections that are resistant to drugs is one the world is losing rapidly and has been described as "as big a risk as terrorism".
The problem is that we are simply not developing enough new antibiotics and we are wasting the ones we have.
Since the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance started in mid-2014, more than one million people have died from such infections. And in that time doctors also discovered bacteria that can shrug off the drug of last resort - colistin - leading to warnings that the world was teetering on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era".
The review says the situation will get only worse with 10 million people predicted to die every year from resistant infections by 2050.
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Before there were modern pharmaceuticals, were people dying every three seconds from 'bugs'? Modern medicine didn't evolve till about 200 years ago, how did the species survive till then?
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That was before the global village, P2K. Superbugs were burning themselves out.
On the other hand, IT IS time to stop jerking off in immunology research.
[FRANCE24] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday he was prepared to escalate a state of emergency imposed this week after opposition-led protests in the capital and other cities.
Maduro told supporters he would give the order -- which implies suspending laws and rights to maintain public order -- if "violent" anti-government acts occurred.
In that event, "I will not hesitate if necessary to make such a decree to fight for the peace and security of this country," he said.
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My advice is keep your booger hook off of the boom stick.
[IBT] One of Nato's most senior retired generals has warned that the West risks a nuclear war with Russia within a year if it does not boost its defences in the Baltic states amid increasing tension between Moscow and the alliance.
General Sir Richard Shirreff, who served as Nato's deputy supreme allied commander in Europe until 2014, said that the West should act to avert a "potential catastrophe" should Moscow target Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
He told the BBC Radio 4 programme Today on Wednesday (18 May): "The chilling fact is that because Russia hardwires nuclear thinking and capability to every aspect of their defence capability, this would be nuclear war.
"We need to judge President [Vladimir] Putin by his deeds not his words," he added. "He has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it."
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"He has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine
Savage scorched earth nuclear conflicts, all of them. The thing missing from these fevered pieces is why exactly would the Rooshuns invade the Baltics. Crimea, I understand. Estonia, not so much.
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Putin thinks that if there are Russians living in a country like Latvia it's an excuse for him to extend Russia's borders. I could understand the Crimea because that's been Russian for centuries. I could understand Ukraine because Russians and Ukrainians are helplessly intertwined. Latvia not so much. Putin needs know where the limits are and a NATO tank division or thirty might be required.
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Some might ask:
Where was NATO when "He has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it."
Two Chinese military aircraft intercepted a U.S. military reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea Tuesday.
Defense Department spokesperson Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza said that the U.S. maritime patrol reconnaissance aircraft was flying in a "routine patrol" in international airspace on May 17 when "two tactical aircraft from the People's Republic of China" intercepted the U.S. plane.
The two Chinese fighter jets were J-11s and flew approximately 50 feet from the U.S. aircraft, a Navy E-P3.
"Initial reports characterized the incident as unsafe," Baldanza said in a written statement, adding, "Over the past year, DoD has seen improvements in PRC actions, flying in a safe and professional manner."
The incident is under investigation by U.S. Pacific Command.
The U.S. has photos but they are classified.
China has increasingly asserted its territorial claims over most of the South China Sea which is thought to have large oil and gas deposits. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims to parts of the waters, through which about $5 trillion in trade is shipped every year.
China has said the U.S. is "militarizing" the South China Sea. The U.S. had conducted "freedom of navigation" patrols and sailed within 12-nautical mile territorial limits around disputed islands.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Pakistain Ulema Council (PUC) has decided that holy mans affiliated with it will dedicate their sermons at Ramazan mosque gatherings to "changing the mindset".
The decision was finalised by the council’s central leadership on Tuesday. On the first Friday of Ramazan, holy mans at over 2,000 mosques affiliated with PUC will give sermons on the rights of women.
"This is one of the most serious issues ‐ we Learned Elders of Islam have opposed the objectionable women protection law, passed by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Assembly, but we do not spare time imparting knowledge about the rights of women in Islam," PUC chairman Hafiz Mohammad Tahir Ashrafi said after the meeting.
He said people listen to sermons during Ramazan, but most of these speeches are monotonous.
"There is a need to change the mindset of the public and that does not specify in reference to ISIS or TTP only but this also includes social behaviour as well," Mr Ashrafi said. "We want to spread the idea that all the mosques should focus on changing the mindset of citizens against social ills, and this should be part of lectures and discussions, especially among participants of Aiteqaf."
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[DAWN] LARKANA: Larkana police on Tuesday recovered a 12-year-old girl (a student of class-V) who was found chained and detained in a room of her house.
The police carried out the raid after receiving information that parents of Shazia Chandio had chained her and confined to the room for her refusal to marry a 40-year-old man.
According to the headmistress of the Govt Primary School, Wapda Scarp Colony, Nayab Sarkash Sindhi, she visited Shazia’s home to inquire about her long absence after her class teacher, who lived next door, informed her that she had heard Shazia crying foul on Monday night. Ms Sindhi said Shazia’s parents admitted that they were punishing her for defying them over the marriage proposal.
She said she warned the couple against meting out such a treatment to their daughter and also posted her plight along with her picture on social media.
In the meantime, police also received the information and DSP Yar Mohammed along with his team raided the house at Mirokhan Chown to recover the girl. The girl’s mother was detained but father managed to escape.
SSP Kamran Nawaz Panjotha told Dawn that initial investigation suggested that the couple had promised to accept Karim Bukhsh Chandio’s proposal for their daughter against a payment of Rs100,000 and had already received Rs70,000 in advance. He said Ms Shazia and her mother Ms Sakina were kept at the women cop shoppe and would be produced in court on Wednesday.
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[DAWN] MANSEHRA: A grand jirga having representation of Harban tribe of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) and Thor tribe of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has agreed to a permanent ceasefire on the disputed land, while the Harban elders also pardoned the blood of their three people killed in 2014.
...Asked to what extent they define themselves as Zionists, with 10 being the most and one the least, about half (51 percent) of the poll’s respondents gave themselves a nine or 10 and 39% ranked themselves from five to eight. Only 11% of Israeli Jews gave themselves a score of one to four. And Zionism IS racism!
[NPR] A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal.
The researchers hope these embryos, known as chimeras, could eventually help save the lives of people with a wide range of diseases.
One way would be to use chimera embryos to create better animal models to study how human diseases happen and how they progress.
Perhaps the boldest hope is to create farm animals that have human organs that could be transplanted into terminally ill patients.
But some scientists and bioethicists worry the creation of these interspecies embryos crosses the line. "You're getting into unsettling ground that I think is damaging to our sense of humanity," says Stuart Newman, a professor of cell biology and anatomy at the New York Medical College.
The experiments are so sensitive that the National Institutes of Health has imposed a moratorium on funding them while officials explore the ethical issues they raise.
Nevertheless, a small number of researchers are pursuing the work with private funding. They hope the results will persuade the NIH to lift the moratorium.
"We're not trying to make a chimera just because we want to see some kind of monstrous creature," says Pablo Ross, a reproductive biologist at the University of California, Davis. "We're doing this for a biomedical purpose."
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Paging Dr. Moreau to the white courtesy phone.....
The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature.
At the time of the novel's publication in 1896, there was growing discussion in Europe regarding degeneration and animals
The "coincidence" of the beginnings of the modern Eugenics movement and the modern Progressive political movement and the publication of "The Island of Dr. Moreau" was not a coincidence, but part of a general philosophical movement/atmosphere that at heart was anti-individual and pro-collective.
The similarity to the current state of society is more than a trifle concerning.
How soon before people start desiring animal characteristics for their children? Say a girl-cat mix or a boy-bull (for the father who wants a football star son...)
[EW] When CBS ordered six new shows last week, fans on Twitter pointed out the one thing they all had in common: The top-billed actor in each was white and male.
Soon observers began to accuse the broadcaster of not doing enough to cast women and actors of color at a time when the rest of the industry was making strides in that direction.
On Wednesday, CBS unveiled its fall schedule to reporters and network executives were asked about the network's "male-centered" lineup.
"We are the network that has Madam Secretary and Two Broke Girls and Mom - we have lots of female leads, we have a great balance," said CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller. "Actually our new series are more diverse this year than last year. When Doubt premieres, I'm happy to say it's the first broadcast series to feature a transgender series regular played by a transgender actor. I think that's phenomenal. We are definitely moving in the right direction."
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However the next 'Dodd-Frank' bill from Congress will require networks to field special interest programming that will not appeal to significant audiences to draw sponsors. I recommend the Trunks go along with the legislation in the hope that it will do to the networks what the first iteration in the mortgage world did to the general economy.
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However the next 'Dodd-Frank' bill from Congress will require networks to field special interest programming that will not appeal to significant audiences to draw sponsors.
Does this mean 'Lassie' re-runs will reappear in Atlanta area programming ?
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BTW, Lassie was the first featured transgender on TV.
All the dogs portraying Lassie have been male. A female collie was hired to play the lead in Lassie Come Home, but when an opportunity came to film "Lassie" negotiating some rapids, the female reportedly would have nothing to do with the rushing water. Rudd Weatherwax's collie "Pal" was substituted, and not only stole the stunt but won the role. Weatherwax continued to use male collies in the role for a good reason: both sexes shed in the summer (when most movies and television shows traditionally film most of their episodes), an event called "blowing coat," but since the male has thicker fur, he wouldn't look so scrawny during filming. Also, fans tend to think of Lassie as a "big heroic dog." Female collies are usually 10-15 pounds lighter than their male counterparts, therefore a male dog playing Lassie would look more impressive. Female collies were not ignored because they are any less intelligent; in fact, some of Lassie's stunt doubles have been females. - cite
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[IBT] One of Nato's most senior retired generals has warned that the West risks a nuclear war with Russia within a year if it does not boost its defences in the Baltic states amid increasing tension between Moscow and the alliance.
Two Chinese military aircraft intercepted a U.S. military reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea Tuesday.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The Pakistain Ulema Council (PUC) has decided that 
[DAWN] LARKANA: Larkana police on Tuesday recovered a 12-year-old girl (a student of class-V) who was found chained and detained in a room of her house.
Man and horse become one! Nyquist bound for Pimlico. 
