Baby foot dipped into hot water by midwives

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002954/Stafford-Hospital-6-day-old-baby-left-horrific-burns-midwives-carlessness.html

Summary

A six-day-old baby was injured after two midwives dipped the baby’s foot into hot water. The baby’s foot had to be warmth before the midwives could conduct blood tests on baby Katie. They asked for a bowl of hot water, but they did not say it was for a heel prick test. When Katie’s mother came back with the bowl of water, she warned the midwives that it was hot. The midwives, however, dipped the baby’s foot into the water before checking the temperature. Mother saw how the skin was hanging off her baby’s foot and so she started screaming. The midwives left and never came back. Katie was brought to hospital and she is doing fine.

Comment

Wow, what a disaster. It must have been horrible to see how the baby was in so much pain. Ridiculous that the midwives left and didn’t come back to apologize at least. Quite strange actually, since the baby’s mother should know the names of the midwives and she could charge them for it. The baby will forever keep the  burnmark (or whatever it’s called) and it might have problems with walking later on, so if you ask me, the mother doesn’t seem too worried. She might have set it all up, because she did it herself, accidentally. 

Racism in the fashion industry

Source

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2002798/James-Brown-John-Galliano-Fashion-industry-racist-goes-right-core.html

Summary

There are very few black models on the catwalks. It has been nearly four years since there was a black model on the cover of the Brittish Vogue. Besides Vogue, it seems that other fashion magazines prefer white models on the covers as well. If a black model finally appears on the cover, her hair is ironed and her skin is bleached, which makes her look almost white. It is said the problem stems from the influence of the biggest fashion capitals of Milan and Paris. They are fine with brown skinned girls, but they absolutely don’t want very black girls, unless they are already stars like Naomi Campbell – Although it is also said that they never wanted to pay Naomi as much as other white models.

Comment

I don’t know much about the fashion industry and I never read (watch) fashion magazines. I don’t know many models, since I don’t take notice of them. However, I do know some pretty black models (waris dirie, Liya Kebede. But indeed, they are not very black) which I thought were quite popular. I’ve never noticed that there were VERY few black models. Fewer, yes. But there are not many Asian models either. You know what the problem is? The media is creating a certain image of what would be perfect. It changes every now and then, just like hairstyles. Who knows, in a couple of months afro is totally cool… and all white models are getting an afro!

Go for genetically modified vegetables

Source

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/06/e-coli-bean-sprouts-not-cause

Summary

It is not cucumbers, tomatoes or bean sprouts that contain E coli. A number of laboratory tests showed that these vegetables are not to blame for the 22 dead- and over 2,200 infected people. Problems In hospitals are stacking up; They are running out of blood supplies. Also the staff is getting exhausted from working round the clock. Doctors work on the weekends on voluntary basis and even sleep in the hospital. It is now the organic farms in the Northern of Germany that are to blame. E coli is a very aggressive bacterium, which can be found in animal manure (is what we’re being told). The bacterium was not found in the sprouts that were not fertilsed.  

Comment

How funny that the whole world believes this. Organic grown vegetables dangerous? And now we should go for genetically modified huh? Well, isn’t it strange that people get sick(er) and that more and more weird epidemics are breaking loose since the use of chemical products (genetically modified shit) in our food? And half of those that are announced are not even real.  Have you ever seen that someone died of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad-cow disease) in your environment? No, because they are all lies! This is all made up by the government who is planning to spread nanoparticles through massive vaccinations! Why? To control us like big brother.

Father has gone mad with a gun

Source

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394790/Mother-year-old-daughter-dead-shooting-police-guard-injured-suspect-hospital.html

Summary

A ten-year-old girl fled from death when her stepfather went mad with a gun. The father of her sister was about to shoot the family hours before a family court hearing. Before the man could shoot, the girl was being told to “run save herself”, and so she went to her father who is living about 500 yards away. Neighbors had only heard recently that the relationship between the mother  and her husband did not go to well and they thought the mother exaggerated. Only when they heard the police shouting that they were surrounded, they understood that it was serious. However, it was too late.

Comment

Sad story. It is unbelievable that a man could murder his own daughter (and wife). A shame that neighbors did not take the matter too seriously at first. I don’t get, however, why the mother stayed with the man if she knew that their relationship was only growing worse. She warned her neighbors about it, but she stayed in an environment unsafe for her and her children. Very irresponsible. The good thing is that she could at least save one child from the massacre. 

Google has become political tool between the US and China.

Source

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8558665/China-threatens-Google-over-hacking-claims.html

Summary

Google is seen as a “political tool” between the US and China. This was announced on the front page of a Chinese newspaper. Google discovered that hundreds of passwords of Gmail holders had been stolen, including the US government officials. Chinese journalists claim that Google blamed the Chinese government and they think it is unacceptable. China wants Google to stop suggesting that Chinese spies have been hacking the emails of the United States’ officials. If Google refuses to do so, its businesses could suffer, is what the Chinese newspaper said. As a result of this, Google closed down its servers based in China.

Comment

I have no idea what to think of this. Hacking of Google email has been happening for ages. Apparently, Google accounts are very easy to get into. I wonder if there’s more going on except for ‘blaming’ each other and blah-blah. The Chinese government seems to be very serious about it, and I wonder what the threatening is good for. No one cares about the accounts of ‘ordinary’ people, it’s probably once again about government secrets, money and power. I’d say: whatever.

Terrorism in the UK begins at universities

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8558499/Universities-complacent-over-Islamic-radicals-Theresa-May-warns.html

Summary

It is said that British universities do not do enough to prevent radicalization on their campuses. Mrs May think that the conspiracy among Islamic groups within the campuses are not controlled good enough. According to her, the problem is that universities don’t take the consequences too seriously. Extreme organizations or organizations that support extremism within universities should not be part of the grouping.  The head of universities UK claimed that extremist speakers did not encourage violence and therefore there was no problem. However, Mrs May still believes that everyone who is part of the British society should help to prevent the radicalization before a terrorist activity occurs. She encourages people to actively talk to the police.

Comment

Hahaha. Mrs May probably thinks that a group of Islamic students spending time together means that they are preparing to place a bomb on the British dynasty. I do understand her in some way, since the news keeps on telling us what we should be afraid of. There has a lot been going on regarding Islamic extremism and terrorism, but May is obviously making a fuss for no reason. It is somewhat rude towards Islamic students to suspect them from being extremists, whether they do form groups with Islamic students only or not, it doesn’t mean anything. Should we suspect a group of British students of being skinheads? If we have to suspect every ‘threatening’ group that has appeared in the news, we could better give up on our own lives.