Month: September 2011

Ban will fight for the Pacific countries threatened by climate change

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Sydney (Australia), 5 sep (EFE).-the Secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, acknowledged today, before the inhabitants of the islands of the Pacific that will disappear under the sea by climate change, there is no short term solutions but promised to continue the fight for them in the forums international.

“It is unfortunate to say, but perhaps correct that any breakthrough in negotiations in the short term is unlikely,” he said in Kiribati, during a visit to the region, according to the Australian news agency AAP.

Ban said the people of Kiribati, Solomon Islands and other Pacific countries which will be its voice in the negotiations on climate change to be held at the end of year in Durban, South Africa, and in other fora international.

“These Pacific island developing countries are in the frontline of climate change.” “Are those who are suffering the impact, are those who have their threatened existence”, stressed Ban

“the international community must do something now”, added the head of the UN.

“We must protect our world so that our children and grandchildren never have to wonder how could be so irresponsible.” “Our only chance is to do something now”, concluded.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations arrived Saturday in Australia, was on Sunday in the Solomon Islands and today moved to Kiribati before traveling to New Zealand, where morning opens the islands of the Pacific Forum in Auckland, with the participation of 16 Nations.

Kiribati, an archipelago made up of 33 atolls and a volcanic island is populated by some 105,000 people in less than half a century, if adhered to the forecasts of the scientists, will have to find a new homeland because his restless under the ocean.

Other Pacific Island Nations, such as the Solomon, Fiji, Nauru, Tonga and Vanuatu, will lose all or part of its territory when the sea level rises due to climate change.

The Secretary general of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, attends a joint press conference with Prime Minister Australian, Julia Gillard, on September 3, 2011, in Canberra (Australia). Ban Ban will fight for the Pacific countries threatened by climate change. EFE

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The UN will ask aid to Pacific States threatened by climate change

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Sydney (Australia), 5 sep (EFE).-the Secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, pledged today to exhibit at international forums the need to help the inhabitants of the whole of the Pacific island States threatened by the disappearance under water due to climate change.

“Keep the pressure to be achieved progress until we get real results”, he told Ban the President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, according to the digital edition of the newspaper “Salomon Times”.

The UN Secretary-General also noted that “for the Pacific island countries are at the frontline of climate change” and “are those who are suffering the impact”, because “they are those who have their threatened existence”.

“The international community must do something now”, added Ban.

For its part, the President of Kiribati, a country that according to estimates by experts may disappear under the ocean this century, was skeptical before a positive response to the concerns of SIDS in the region.

“It is unfortunate to say, but perhaps correct that any breakthrough in negotiations in the short term is unlikely,” said Tong and not the Secretary general of the United Nations, to the Australian agency AAP who principle he attributed these words.

Ban assured that it will be the voice of the people of Kiribati, Solomon Islands and other Pacific countries in the negotiations on climate change to be held at the end of this year in Durban, South Africa, and other events international.

“We must help them.” “I hope the Member States to achieve rapid progress in Durban this December,” said the head of the United Nations in another speech during his tour of the Pacific, according to Australian radio ABC.

“But the first and most important is that we do something, even if it takes some time getting the global agreement.” “The Governments of each of the Nations must act (…) without necessarily expecting to achieve the global compact”, added Ban.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations on Saturday reached Australia, the day following it moved to Solomon Islands and today arrived in Kiribati, where tomorrow travel to the New Zealand city of Auckland to inaugurate the Pacific Islands Forum, involving 16 Nations.

Kiribati, an archipelago made up of 33 atolls and a volcanic island is populated by some 105,000 people in less than half a century, if met forecasts of scientists, will have to abandon their land following the rise in the level of the water.

Other nations of the Pacific, such as Salomón, Fiji, Nauru, Tonga and Vanuatu, will lose all or part of its territory when the sea level rises due to climate change.

The Secretary general of the UN, Ban Ki-Moon, attends a joint press conference with Prime Minister Australian, Julia Gillard, on September 3, 2011, in Canberra (Australia). Ban Ban will fight for the Pacific countries threatened by climate change. EFE

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Even by phone, listen to the voice of the mother calms the nerves of their children

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(www.neomundo.com.ar) A simple telephone call could calm the nerves of children. Listen to the voice of the mother would be sufficient if a girl eager to feel relieved, he concluded a new Studio.

The scientists of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States) explained that the key could be in oxytocin, a hormone related to emotional contact between people. “It was believed that the release of oxytocin in a social context required physical contact, but our results clearly show that the mother’s voice may have the same effect as a hug,” said Leslie Seltzer, the lead author.

A voice for the anxiety

Seltzer worked with children from 7 to 12 years and asked them to do a series of tests against a panel full of strangers. Faced with this situation of evaluation, the girls felt a strong anxiety and as a result increased in their blood levels of cortisol, a hormone strongly associated with stress.

A third of girls received the comfort of their mothers, who came to embrace them and to alleviate them. Another third looked for 75 minutes a video without emotional content, while a group received a call from MOM phone.

“Girls who interacted with their mothers had virtually the same hormonal response, either with physical contact in person or by listening to the voice on the phone,” said Seltzer. In both cases, the level of oxytocin increased while that of cortisol decreased.

The authors stressed that this effect lasted longer than expected. “The benefits continued even after the stressful task was completed.” “When the boys went to their homes still felt relieved and cortisol levels were still low,” argued.

Seth Pollak, another author, commented that “for many years I watched as the students call from their cell phones as soon as they finish a review.” “For a long time I wondered how parents can encourage such behaviour, but I see that I might be a quick way to make young people feel better.”

The specialist concluded: “It is difficult to climb the oxytocin.” “A simple telephone call to have this physiological effect on levels of this hormone is very exciting.”

More information at www.neomundo.com.ar

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Robert Mugabe is suffering cancer and may die before 2013, according to Wikileaks

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Harare, 4 sep (EFE).-the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, suffers from prostate cancer that could cost their lives by 2013, according to a diplomatic cable from U.S. filtered by the Wikileaks website and disclosed today by the Zimbabwean state Sunday “Sunday Mail”.

Transcription of the document reveals a conversation held in 2008 the Governor of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono, and the then US Ambassador in Harare, James McGee.

“El President Robert Mugabe has a prostate cancer that has spread by metastasis and which, according to doctors, will cause his death within three to five years”, he told Gono McGee, according to the cable.

“Mugabe doctor recommended him to reduce his activities,” adds the document.

However, the Governor of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe has denied ever having made those comments.

Mugabe, at the age of 87, has traveled this year at least five times to Asia accompanied by his wife, Grace, for reasons doctors.

According to presidential spokesman George Charamba, the marriage made those trips by an operation of cataract that Mugabe underwent last January, and by some back problems of his wife following a fall in his mansion in Harare.

To date, the Party of Mugabe, the African national Zimbabwe Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), has refused to admit that the octogenarian head of State has problems of health.

Mugabe ruled the country solo and authoritatively since the independence of the United Kingdom, in 1980, to the Alliance in a coalition Government with the movement for democratic change of the Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, in 2009.

From November 2010, daily influential in several countries have had access to hundreds of thousands of the US State Department cables leaked by WikiLeaks.

This web devoted to disclose secret official documents, published in late August 134,000 cables of American diplomacy in that, instead of made in previous disclosures, it lays bare the identity of protected sources. EFE

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Australian scientists link leukemia with new type of genetic defect

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Sydney (Australia), 5 sep (EFE).-A group of Australian scientists discovered that a new type of hereditary genetic defect is present in the people who are prone to suffer preleucemia and acute leukemia, reported today means premises.

This flaw – that predisposes people to develop mielodisplásticos syndromes (MDS), known as preleucemias, and acute myeloid leukemia – consists of a mutation in the gene GATA2.

This gene regulates the activities of others involved in the production of cell white.

“The discovery of this gene allows to identify, monitor and treat people that are very likely (to suffer acute leukemia) in advance,” said the local agency AAP Hamish Scott, of the Centre for biology and pathology of cancer Australia of South.

Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, characterized by the inability of the bone marrow to produce healthy, cells usually develop severe anemia and require constant of blood transfusions

About a third of those affected with the SMD develop acute leukemia, a disease that if it is not detected in time can kill the life of the patient in a few weeks or months.

But with the discovery of the genetic defect scientists can develop new tests to diagnose both diseases and seek new forms of treatment.

Biology and pathology of Cancer Center already developed tests to detect the gene, while in United States is developing clinical trials related to these diseases.

This discovery was made possible by genetic testing of a family of the city of Adelaide which had blood disorder and that it is the largest related with this genetic defect known to date, added AAP.

Research, which was published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics, was funded by the National Council of health and medical research, the Council of the South Australia cancer, Leukemia Foundation and the University of Adelaide. EFE

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips