* "Swine flu: 100 deaths in 3 days take toll to 585, masks and medicines in short supply:" http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/100-more-deaths-in-3-days-swine-flu-toll-jumps-to-585/Read more... )

* "Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre': 2,000 feared dead in Nigeria:" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeriaRead more... )

* Protests are getting more violent over the police turning 43 students over to a cartel to be dismembered in Iguala. In Chilpancingo de los Bravo, the Guerrero state capital, they have attacked the Capital building and are understandably furious at police. Police have been retreating in the face of crowds having none of their crap ( Read more... )

* It is a human rights abuse to force cis folk to have SRS. Body disphoria is a terrible thing to inflict on anybody. It can kill people born with it. "The gay people pushed to change their gender:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690Read more... )

* The UK has opened a pop up hospital in Sierra Leone and is already triaging ebola vs. Malaria patients. (Malaria and ebola can look alike especially early on, but treatments are not the same and you don't want cross contamination). Several more are in the offing ( Read more... )

* So it's looking like the Syrian government has been yanking men and boys out of the supposedly safe refugee routes out of Homs for "questioning." After all, why not take advantage of the "cease fire" to disappear people. Given the government's history of torturing children to death to punish their relatives for peaceful protests at the ( Read more... )

* Congratulations to Rhode Island for passing Marriage Equality ( Read more... )