With Health Minister Abbott speaking of vaccinating all Australians [really? - some 20 million people] against the bird flu virus perhaps it is timely to determine what this whole bird flu "thing" is all about. Lots is being written and spoken about the issue - most probably misguided and scare-mongering. The Mayo Clinic has, I believe, issued a sober and easily read assessment of bird flu. By the way, it is well worth subscribing, for free, to the Clinic's weekly email bulletin / newsletter.
From Mondoweiss - Israel's supposed "most moral army in the world", the IDF, engaged in immoral, and according to international law, illegal action.... "Israeli forces have demolished every home in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Taha in the northern West Bank district of Nablus during three separate demolitions since the start of the year. Unlike most Bedouin villages, the residents in Khirbet Taha own their own land. However that land falls in Area C, territory in the occupied West Bank under full Israeli control. The village’s only school was also destroyed, leaving children to study in a dilapidated 100-year-old mosque — the only structure left standing in the village. According the United Nations, Israel has demolished half as many Palestinian buildings in the first few months of 2016, as they had in all of 2015. In February alone, the UN found that more Palestinians homes were destroyed than any other month since 2009, when the organization began its docum...
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