AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

        Muslims protesting Israel’s repairs to a centuries old ramp leading up to the Muslims holy site and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem today. The ramp was damaged in a 2004 snowstorm. The Muslims claim that the work on the ramp will damage the site about 60 yards away. As is usual behavior for the Muslims the people are being stirred up all over the Middle East and spreading around the globe with no understanding of the situation and no compromises. Although this site is also sacred to the Israelis as the site of the Biblical temples and called the Temple Mount by them all that is left of the last temple is s the Wailing Wall which is below the hill, so repairing the ramp was to the benefit of the visitors to the Muslim shrine.

      Two hundred Israeli riot police were sent in to stop the rioting which then spread to the streets and small alleyways around the mount and went on for hours before some semblance of peace was achieved.

     Much ado about nothing, but the rioting has spread and could possibly start another round of terrorist activities.

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        Italy, Britain, Canada, Norway and Russia announced their funding commitments at a ceremony in Rome and led by Italy to launched a $1.5 billion project to help develop vaccines they said could save millions of lives in poor nations, and called on others to join them.

        Currently there is little financial incentive for drug companies to develop vaccines for poor countries that cannot afford them. It is hoped these committed funds will spur the development of needed drugs sooner than is currently the case which takes 15-20 year to reach poorer countries.

        The first target diseases will be pneumococcal diseases pneumonia and meningitis, which kill 1.6 million people per year in poor countries, more than half of whom are children under five.

       The pilot project aims to provide pneumococcus vaccines for 70 to 100 million people and can save up to 5.4 million lives by 2030, a statement said.

      The dream is that, in time, AMCs will also be used to fight other diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

       Italy is the lead contributor to the pilot scheme, committing $635 million dollars between 2010 and 2020. Britain has committed $485 million, Canada $200 million, Russia $80 million and Norway $50 million. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has guaranteed a further $50 million.

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Unbelievable! Dear Lord how stupid is mankind? Read on:

Greenhouse gas ocean burial can start Feb 10

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent Fri Feb 9, 11:32 AM ET

OSLO (Reuters) - International rules allowing burial of greenhouse gases beneath the seabed enter into force on Saturday in what will be a step toward fighting global warming, if storage costs are cut and leaks can be averted.

 Carbon dioxide is not toxic but can lead to acidification of sea water, making it hard for creatures from shrimp to oysters to build shells. In heavy concentrations above ground it can displace air and so asphyxiate animals and plants.

        This will pave the way for carbon storage in sub-seabed geological formations however the rules say gases injected must consist overwhelmingly of carbon dioxide with no added waste.

         There is however much uncertainty about what "overwhelmingly" meant  emissions from a coal-fired power plant, for instance, might include some toxic sulphur dioxide.

       Statoil Corporation has injected about nine million tons of carbon dioxide in rocks far below its Sleipner gas field in the past decade, with no signs of leaks. The company claims. Two other big carbon storage sites are in operation in Canada and Algeria and more are planned.

        It seems we are determined to make the wrong choices to curb global warming when there are so many safe and clean alternatives available. I cry for our children.

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