Saturday, 11 October 2014

Paltrow hos Obama Pendana: Anda begitu KACAK yang SAYA tidak boleh BERCAKAP dengan BETUL . . .

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow.(Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)

tvR - Bintang filem Gwyneth Paltrow menganjurkan kutipan derma untuk Presiden Barack Obama pada dia Los Angeles rumah Khamis yang menaikkan beberapa kening, mencipta beberapa kontroversi dan membawa kepada beberapa masalah itu besar.

Pelakon, penyanyi dan penulis makanan gushed lebih komander-in-chief kerana dia memperkenalkannya di penerimaan Jawatankuasa Kebangsaan Demokrat dan makan malam diadakan di belakang rumah beliau - apabila dia dapat perkataan langsung.

Dalam pengenalan ringkas diselang dengan "ums," Paltrow diisytiharkan, "Saya salah satu daripada peminat yang paling besar, jika bukan yang terbesar, dan telah sejak permulaan kempen," menurut Associated Press. Sepanjang ucapan, dia menghujani beliau dengan pujian, berakhir dengan, "Kamu begitu kacak yang saya tidak boleh bercakap dengan baik."

Sebagai Hot Air berkata, wanita terkemuka tidak asing dengan lelaki tampan: "Berkenaan dengan bahagian mengenai O begitu kacak bahawa dia diberikan dumbstruck dia, ingatkan diri anda bahawa ini adalah seorang wanita yang pernah terlibat dengan Brad Pitt muda . "Beliau juga bertarikh Ben Affleck dan baru-baru ini telah melalui" uncoupling sedar "(baca: perceraian) dengan Coldplay penyanyi Chris Martin.

Paltrow hosting Obama fundraiser: ‘You’re so handsome that I can’t speak properly’ . . .

Movie star Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a fundraiser for President Barack Obama at her Los Angeles home Thursday that raised some eyebrows, created some controversy and led to some major traffic snarls.

The actress, singer and food writer gushed over the commander-in-chief as she introduced him at the Democratic National Committee reception and dinner held in her backyard ‒ when she could form words at all.

In a brief introduction punctuated by "ums," Paltrow declared, "I am one of your biggest fans, if not the biggest, and have been since the inception of your campaign," according to the Associated Press. Throughout her remarks, she showered him with compliments, ending with, "You're so handsome that I can't speak properly.”

As Hot Air pointed out, the leading lady is no stranger to good-looking men: “As regards the part about O being so handsome that he rendered her dumbstruck, remind yourself that this is a woman who was once engaged to a young Brad Pitt.” She also dated Ben Affleck and recently went through a “conscious uncoupling” (read: divorce) with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.

United States President Barack Obama.(Reuters/Gary Cameron)

Tetapi di antara sanjungan berlimpah-limpah Paltrow, dia ditangani beberapa topik politik. Pelakon itu berkata menghampiri pilihan raya separuh penggal November ini di mana kawalan Demokratik Senat berisiko.

Dia menyebutnya sebagai "masa kritikal" untuk Demokrat. "Ia akan menjadi indah jika kita dapat memberikan lelaki ini semua kuasa yang dia perlu lulus perkara yang dia perlukan untuk lulus," katanya.

But in between Paltrow’s effusive adulation, she tackled several political topics. The actress noted November’s approaching midterm elections in which Democratic control of the Senate is at risk. She called it a "critical time" for Democrats. "It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass," she said.


L.A., you are in for a Goop-tastic evening. @BarackObama to headline high-$$ DNC #fundraiser at @GwynethPaltrow's pad 4:46 AM - 10 Oct 2014

Wanita yg dianggarkan memperoleh $ 19 juta dari lakonannya tahun lepas dipang-gil push Obama untuk gaji yang sama "sangat penting untuk saya sebagai seorang ibu yg bekerja." Beliau juga memuji usaha Presiden ke arah pelaburan dlm tenaga lestari dan "semua hijau."

Obama ditangani lebih banyak masalah politik yg begitu lantang dlm ucapannya, termasuk Timur Tengah & Negara Islam, wabak Ebola di Afrika Barat & hubungan dengan Rusia ke atas Ukraine.

Beliau juga mengenang kejayaan Demokratik dalam hampir 6 tahun beliau di pejabat: pemulihan ekonomi daripada Kemelesetan Besar, menyelamatkan industri automotif di Amerika, laluan & pelaksanaan Akta Penjagaan Mampu (lebih dikenali sebagai Obamacare), meningkatkan pengeluaran tenaga bersih dan meningkat skor ujian dan kadar tamat pengajian di sekolah-sekolah di negara ini.

Presiden telah menggariskan dasar2 beliau ingin menangani selepas pilihan raya 4 November. Beliau bercakap daripada menaikkan gaji minimum dan merapatkan jurang gaji di antara lelaki dan wanita; membina semula infrastruktur di seluruh negara; dan melabur dalam pendidikan, penyelidikan dan pembangunan.

Beliau menyebut tindakan dia dapat mengambil tanpa bantuan Kongres - termasuk percubaan untuk memberikan wanita hak yang sama di tempat kerja dan untuk membantu kanak2 DREAM tinggal di negara ini. Kemudian dia meminta sokongan daripada hadirin.

The woman who earned an estimated $19 million from her acting last year called Obama’s push for equal pay “very important to me as a working mother.” She also praised the president’s efforts towards investments in sustainable energy and "everything green."

Obama tackled more hard-hitting political problems in his speech, including the Middle East and the Islamic State, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and relations with Russia over Ukraine. He also reminisced about Democratic successes during his nearly six years in office: economic recovery from the Great Recession, rescuing the auto industry in America, the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare), increasing production of clean energy and rising test scores and graduation rates in the country’s schools.

The president then outlined policies he would like to tackle after the November 4 elections. He spoke of raising the minimum wage and closing the pay gap between men and women; rebuilding infrastructure throughout the country; and investing in education, research and development. He mentioned actions he’s been able to take without help from Congress ‒ including attempts to give women equal rights in the workplace and to help DREAM kids stay in the country. Then he asked for support from the attendees.

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.(Reuters/Steve Marcus)

"Jadi, kita bertindak walaupun Kongres. Tetapi bayangkan apa yang boleh kita lakukan dengan Kongres yang beroperasi di beberapa akal. Bayangkan. 

Bayangkan apa yang kita tidak boleh berbuat apa-apa isu tertentu - walaupun ia akan mem-buat perbezaan yg besar utk kita segera dapat meluluskan reformasi imigresen menyeluruh, atau meluluskan undang2 gaji minimum, atau meluluskan undang-undang gaji yang adil - tetapi hanya dalam segi mood negara; dari segi orang mempercayai bahawa sekali lagi kita boleh melakukan sesuatu yang sama, "kata Obama. "Percaya bahawa kita boleh mengatasi yang sempit, kepentingan ideologi. 

Percaya bahawa kita boleh sepadan dengan kesopanan dan rasa bersama rakyat Amerika dengan politik kita."

Kira2 200 penyokong, termasuk Julia Roberts dan Bradley Whitford, menghabiskan sekurang-kurangnya $ 1000 setiap menghadiri Pendana Demokratik, dengan 50 jatuh sekurang-kurangnya $ 15,000 untuk menghadiri majlis makan malam dengan Presiden.

“So we’re acting despite Congress. But imagine what we could do with a Congress that operated on some common sense. Imagine that. 

Imagine what we could do not just on any particular issue ‒ although it would make a huge difference for us right away to be able to pass comprehensive immigration reform, or to pass a minimum wage law, or pass a fair pay law ‒ but just in terms of the mood of the country; in terms of people believing that once again we can do something in common,” Obama said. “Believing that we can rise above narrow, ideological interests. 

Believing that we can match the decency and common sense of the American people with our politics.”

About 200 supporters, including Julia Roberts and Bradley Whitford, spent at least $1,000 each to attend the Democratic fundraiser, with 50 dropping at least $15,000 to attend a dinner with the president.

@OriginalFresca MY NAME IS SABO. I POSTED THE PHOTOS AROUND PALTROW'S HOUSE LAST NIGHT. I LIKE YOUR VERSION BETTER. 9:00 AM - 7 Oct 2014

Malah di luar rumah Paltrow dalam kejiranan Brentwood Los Angeles ', kesan dari-pada lawatan 3 hari Presiden utk kawasan yg dapat dilihat. Seorang pelukis sayap kanan yang hanya dikenali sebagai Sabo mula gantung poster di sekitar kawasan yg menggambarkan pelakon sebagai "Obama berdengung (Drone)," dilaporkan dibendung LA.

Dalam metropolis yang lebih besar, ketibaan komander-in-chief ini snarled lalu lintas di bandar ini lebih daripada biasa keadaan asal iaitu kesesakan. Obama memulakan hari di Cross Campus di Santa Monica, kira2 3 batu dari Brentwood. 

Tarikh akhir melaporkan "penutupan keras" dan bergolek penutupan jalan antara 8 pagi pada hari Khamis dan 4 petang Jumaat "untuk membuat semua keseronokan ini mungkin" untuk Angelenos "hanya suka awal minggu ini apabila VPOTUS Joe Biden adalah dalam kehidupan menjadikan bandar neraka sempurna untuk penumpang. "

Even outside Paltrow’s home in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood, the effects of the president’s three-day visit to the area were visible. A right-wing artist known only as Sabo began hanging posters around the area depicting the actress as an “Obama Drone,” Curbed LA reported.

In the greater metropolis, the commander-in-chief’s arrival snarled the city’s traffic even more than usual its usual state of gridlock. Obama began the day at Cross Campus in Santa Monica, about three miles away from Brentwood. Deadline reported a “hard closure” and rolling street closures between 8 a.m. on Thursday and 4 p.m. Friday “to make all this fun possible” for Angelenos “just like earlier in the week when VPOTUS Joe Biden was in town making life a perfect hell for commuters.”


LA traffic right now #THANKSOBAMA #mydayinla

Pada hari Jumaat, Obama bersarapan di acara DNC di kediaman West Side sebelum menuju ke Taman Wilayah Frank G. Bonelli mengumumkan penetapan Pergunun-gan San Gabriel sebagai monumen negara. Dia akan terbang keluar dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Los Angeles pada tengah hari waktu tempatan.

On Friday, Obama had breakfast at a DNC event at a West Side residence before heading to the Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park to announce the designation of the San Gabriel Mountains as a national monument. He will fly out of Los Angeles International Airport in mid-afternoon local time.


KEMALANGAN MH17 'Ketua KESELAMATAN UKRAINE berkata peluru berpandu hanya Kiev boleh yang telah jumpai di lokasi KEMALANGAN'

Anggota Kementerian Kecemasan berjalan di lokasi yang Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 nahas kapal terbang, MH17, berhampiran penyelesaian Grabovo di rantau Donetsk, 17 Julai 2014 (Emergencies Ministry members walk at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014 (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

tvR - Ketua Majlis Keselamatan Ukraine mungkin secara tidak sengaja tertumpah kacang, berkata serpihan peluru berpandu Buk-M boleh didapati dengan MH17 serpihan kemalangan. Walau bagaimanapun, peluru berpandu yang tepat beliau menyebut hanya dimiliki oleh Ukraine, pegawai-pegawai tentera Rusia berkata.

Penyiasatan kemalangan MH17 Boeing-777-200 pd Julai akan siap apabila mayat Buk-M pertahanan udara peluru berpandu yg ditemui, Valentin Nalivaichenko, ketua Perkhidmatan Keselamatan Ukraine (SBU), memberitahu TV Ukraine.

Ukraine akan memenuhi obligasinya dan mengenal pasti penjenayah, yang akan menanggung tanggungjawab dan pampasan bagi kerosakan ke bawah untuk mengambil penerbangan MH17 dgn 298 penumpang & anak kapal di atas kapal, kata Nalivaichenko.

"Ia akan menjadi anggota perkhidmatan Rusia yang menggunakan peluru berpandu Buk-M " untuk mengambil jet penumpang, katanya.

Satu sumber di Rusia Kakitangan Bersama tlh membuat komen mengenai isu itu kepada agensi berita RIA Novosti, berkata bahawa kebocoran yang tidak sukarela Nalivaichenko tlh mendedahkan bahawa Ukraine mempunyai versi moden komp-leks pertahanan udara dibuat.-Soviet.

MH17 crash: Ukraine security chief says missile only Kiev has may be found at crash site . . .

Ukraine’s Security Council chief may have inadvertently spilled the beans, saying fragments of a Buk-M missile may be found with MH17 crash debris. However, the exact missile he mentioned is only possessed by Ukraine, Russian army officials say.

Investigation of the MH17 Boeing-777-200 crash in July will be completed when the remains of the Buk-M air defense missile are found, Valentin Nalivaichenko, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), told Ukrainian TV.

Ukraine will fulfill its obligations and identify the perpetrators, who will bear responsibility and compensate for the damage for taking down the MH17 flight with 298 passengers and crew on board, Nalivaichenko said.

“It will be Russian servicemen who used the Buk-M missile” to take down the passenger jet, he said.

A source in Russia’s Joint Staff has commented on the issue to RIA Novosti news agency, saying that Nalivaichenko’s involuntary leak has revealed that Ukraine possesses a modernized version of the Soviet-made air defense complex.

krainian Security Service Chairman Valentin Nalivaichenko (RIA Novosti/Alexandr Maksimenko)

Pada awal tahun 1980, industri pertahanan Kesatuan Soviet mula pengeluaran Buk-M1, yang amat berkesan, jarak sederhana sistem pertahanan peluru berpandu.

Banyak Buk-M1s ditempatkan di sempadan barat negara itu, di wilayah 3 kawasan di Ukraine Republik Sosialis Soviet.

Selepas kejatuhan Kesatuan Soviet, semua sistem mereka kekal di Ukraine dan Kiev hari ini mempunyai tidak kurang daripada 70 sistem tersebut, sumber RIA Novosti berkata.

Menurut sumber-sumber terbuka, tentera Rusia beroperasi lebih 350 Buk-M1-2 dan sistem peluru berpandu Buk-M2, dgn hanya versi terkini diubahsuai dibangunkan selepas Ukraine mencapai kemerdekaan pada tahun 1991 dengan kejatuhan USSR. Versi diubahsuai Rusia mula beroperasi pada akhir 1990-an, dan kini telah benar-benar menggantikan yang lebih tua, sistem peluru berpandu Soviet.

Pakar tentera Rusia menegaskan bahawa Rusia tidak mempunyai "dimodenkan" Buk sistem pertahanan udara.

Rusia beroperasi lebih 350 sistem peluru berpandu Buk, semua dari mereka dengan versi terbaru Buk M1-2 dan Buk M2, katanya.

"Apabila Encik Nalivaichenko menyebut 'dimodenkan Buk sistem, dia mungkin bermakna sistem pertahanan udara yang siap dinaiktaraf oleh industri pertahanan Ukraine. Kita tahu bahawa Ukraine telah bekerja ke arah ini, "kata sumber itu, sambil menambah bahawa maklumat mengenai pemodenan Ukraine sistem Buk disahkan pd lewat Jun di laman web Kementerian Pertahanan Ukraine, yg dilapor-kan telah diubahsuai sistem peluru berpandu menjadi operasi.

Ini berlaku hanya beberapa minggu sebelum Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777-200 telah ditembak jatuh di ruang udara Ukraine pada 17 Julai.

Menurut sumber dalam Rusia Staf Bersama, apa-apa pengubahsuaian tanpa kuasa elektronik kelengkapan ketenteraan rumit akan berbuat tidak baik, kerana ia akan merendahkan ketepatan senjata.

Pada asalnya, semua Buk sistem pertahanan udara yg beroperasi di Ukraine telah dihasilkan tinggi keselamatan Institut Penyelidikan tumbuhan Instrumentasi di Wilayah Moscow.

"Kekeliruan dan tidak konsisten tindak balas Nalivaichenko ini tidak meninggalkan keraguan bahawa beliau menyebut pelan yang pasti tidak dibangunkan oleh SBU, tetapi dibawa pada hari yang lain dari mentor mereka di luar negara," kata sumber Kakitangan Bersama. "Ini adalah kesilapan Nalivaichenko dan mulut yang besar."

Bahawa pd hari MH17 ditembak ke bawah, 156 SAM rejimen Ukraine menjalankan satu pelancaran peluru berpandu yang tidak dibenarkan, keadaan kecemasan yang sedang disiasat oleh SBU & jelas yang hushed oleh pihak berkuasa Kiev, kata ‘said’ pegawai itu.

"Anda tidak perlu menjadi seorang genius untuk meletakkan bersama-sama unsur-unsur teka-teki ini dan memahami apa jenis gambar Encik Nalivaichnko cuba untuk menjual kami," berkata Kakitangan Bersama sumber di Rusia.

In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union’s defense industry began production of the Buk-M1, an extremely effective, medium-range missile defense system.

Many of the Buk-M1s were stationed on the country’s western borders, on the territory of three regions in the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, all those systems remained in Ukraine and today Kiev possesses no less than 70 such systems, RIA Novosti’s source said.

According to open sources, the Russian army operates over 350 Buk-M1-2 and Buk-M2 missile systems, with only the latest modified versions developed after Ukraine became independent in 1991 with the fall of the USSR. Russia’s modified versions came into operation in the late 1990s, and now have completely replaced the older, Soviet missile systems.

The Russian military expert stressed that Russia has no “modernized” Buk air defense systems.

Russia operates over 350 Buk missile systems, all of them of the latest versions of the Buk M1-2 and Buk M2, he said.

“When Mr Nalivaichenko mentions a ‘modernized Buk’ system, he probably means an air defense system that was upgraded by the Ukrainian defense industry. We know that Ukraine has been working in this direction,” the source said, adding that the information about the modernization of Ukrainian Buk systems was confirmed in late June on the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s website, which reported renovated missile systems becoming operational.

This happened just a few weeks before the Malaysian Airlines Boeing-777-200 was shot down in Ukrainian airspace on July 17.

According to the source in Russia’s Joint Staff, any unauthorized modification of the electronics of complicated military hardware would do no good, as it would degrade the accuracy of the weapon.

Originally, all Buk air defense systems operated in Ukraine were produced at the high-security Research Institute of Instrumentation plant in the Moscow Region.

“The confusion and inconsistency of Nalivaichenko’s responses leaves no doubt that he mentioned a plan that definitely had not been developed by the SBU, but rather brought in the other day from their overseas mentors,” the Joint Staff source said. “This is Nalivaichenko and his big mouth blunder.”

On the day that the MH17 was shot down, Ukraine’s 156th SAM regiment carried out an unauthorized missile launch, an emergency situation that is being investigated by the SBU and obviously being hushed up by Kiev authorities, the official said.

“You don’t need to be a genius to put together the elements of this puzzle and understand what kind of a picture Mr Nalivaichnko is attempting to sell us,” the source at Russia’s Joint Staff said.


Friday, 10 October 2014

BRITON mati disyaki Ebola di MACEDONIA, hotelnya DITUTUP . . .

Reuters/Mariana Bazo

tvR - BRITON dengan gejala Ebola telah mati di Macedonia, kata pihak berkuasa tempa-tan. Hotel di Skopje di mana beliau tinggal telah ditutup, manakala Britain dan kakitangan hotel yang dikurung di dalam untuk mengelakkan kemungkinan jangkitan merebak.

Menurut pihak berkuasa Macedonia lelaki itu datang ke Skopje dari London pada 2 Oktober dan dibawa ke hospital pada hari Khamis di mana beliau mati beberapa jam kemudian.

Lelaki itu dilaporkan mengalami demam, muntah-muntah dan pendarahan dala-man. Keadaan yang semakin teruk dengan cepat, Dr Jovanka Kostovska suruhan-jaya kementerian untuk penyakit berjangkit berkata.

"Ini semua adalah tanda-tanda Ebola, yang menimbulkan syak wasangka dengan pesakit ini," Kostovska pada sidang akhbar.

Ujian telah dijalankan untuk melihat jika dia mempunyai Ebola dan telah dihantar ke Frankfurt Jerman untuk mengesahkan penyakit ini.

Jurucakap kerajaan Macedonia memberitahu BBC bahawa seorang sahabat BRI-TON lewat diberitahu pihak berkuasa tempatan bahawa mereka telah mengembara lurus dari UK dan tidak melawat negara yang terjejas akibat Ebola

Krew ambulans dan kakitangan hotel telah diasingkan untuk mengelakkan penyebaran jangkitan, dan bangunan hotel itu juga ditutup.

Jurucakap Kementerian Luar Macedonia berkata: "Saya boleh mengesahkan baha-wa orang British telah mati dan dia di hospital kerajaan di Skopje," Laporan bebas.

Jika diagnosis itu disahkan ia akan menjadi kes pertama seorang warganegara UK mati daripada Ebola.

"Kami menyedari laporan dan kami sedang mencari ke dalam mereka dengan segera," kata seorang jurucakap Pejabat Luar Negeri.

Keputusan akhir bedah siasat dan punca kematian akan diketahui dalam 48 jam.

Sehingga baru-baru ini, semua mangsa Ebola sama ada hidup atau melawat Afrika. Jururawat Sepanyol Teresa Romero adalah orang yg pertama di Eropah mengun-cup Ebola di luar Afrika.

BACA lagi: penyusutan sebalik kegagalan hospital Sepanyol untuk mengasingkan Ebola vicitim READ MORE: Underfunding behind Spanish hospital failure to isolate Ebola vicitim

BRITON  dies Of Suspected Ebola in MACEDONIA, 
his hotel Sealed OFF . . .

A Briton with symptoms of Ebola has died in Macedonia, local authorities said. The hotel in Skopje where he was staying has been sealed off, while another Briton and hotel staff are being kept inside to prevent possible spreading of infection.

According to Macedonian authorities the man came to Skopje from London on October 2 and was taken to hospital on Thursday where he died several hours later.

The man reportedly suffered from fever, vomiting and internal bleeding. His condition deteriorated rapidly, Dr. Jovanka Kostovska of the ministry's commission for infectious diseases said.

“These are all symptoms of Ebola, which raises suspicions with this patient," Kostovska told a news conference.

The tests have been carried out to see if he had Ebola and have been sent to Germany's Frankfurt to confirm the disease.

A Macedonian government spokesman told the BBC that a companion of the late Briton told the local authorities that they had travelled straight from the UK and had not visited countries affected by Ebola

The ambulance crew and the hotel staff were isolated to prevent spreading of infection, and the hotel building was also sealed off.

A spokesman from the Macedonian Foreign Ministry said: "I can confirm that a British person has died and he is in the state hospital in Skopje,” The independent reports.

If the diagnosis is confirmed it will be the first case of a UK citizen dying of Ebola.

“We are aware of reports and we are looking into them urgently,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said.

The final results of the autopsy and the cause of death will be known in 48 hours.

Until recently, all Ebola victims either lived or visited Africa. Spanish nurse Teresa Romero was the first person in Europe to contract Ebola outside Africa.



EBOLA menakutkan ‘pekerja LaGuardia mogok, 58% rakyat Amerika mahu MENGHARAMKAN penerbangan dari Afrika BARAT’ . . .

Reuters/Keith Bedford

tvR - Pesawat pembersihan kabin krew di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa New York LaGuardia memulakan mogok 24 jam pada Rabu, memetik, sebahagian, pendedahan mungkin untuk virus Ebola yang. Sementara itu, tinjauan pendapat menda-pati kebanyakan rakyat Amerika mahu penerbangan diharamkan dari kawasan Ebola dilanda.

Sekitar 200 pekerja Air Serv yang bekerja dalam penerbangan domestik untuk LaGuardia mula mogok mereka pada petang Rabu. Kumpulan itu memohon penubuhan kesatuan sekerja, dan mereka berkata, isu kesihatan dan keselamatan di tempat kerja - termasuk pendedahan kpd darah, najis, & muntah tanpa pakaian perlindungan - adalah sebab2 utama. Mereka juga bimbang mengenai pendedahan mungkin untuk virus Ebola, yg mendakwa mangsa yang pertama ‘first victim’ di Amerika Syarikat pada Rabu.

"Seluruh negara menggigil, bimbang mengenai masalah Ebola," kata Hector Figueroa, Presiden 32BJ Pekerja Perkhidmatan Kesatuan Antarabangsa, menurut CBS New York.

"Pekerja lapangan terbang di barisan hadapan untuk melindungi orang awam, untuk melindungi orang ramai kita perlu melindungi para pekerja."

Ebola scare: LaGuardia workers strike, 58% of Americans want to ban flights from W. Africa . . .

Airplane cabin cleaning crews at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport began a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, citing, in part, possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, a poll found most Americans want flights banned from Ebola-ravaged areas.

Around 200 Air Serv employees who work on domestic flights to LaGuardia began their strike on Wednesday evening. The group is seeking to unionize, and they said health and safety issues on the job - including exposure to blood, feces, and vomit without protective gear - are the main reasons. They are also concerned about possible exposure to the Ebola virus, which claimed its first victim in the United States on Wednesday.

“The whole country is shivering, worried about the problems of Ebola,” said Hector Figueroa, President of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, according to CBS New York.

“Airport workers are on the front line of protecting the public, to protect the public we have to protect the workers.”

Pekerja airserv bercakap keluar terhadap keadaan kerja yang tidak selamat (airserv worker speaking out against unsafe working conditions) #strikeairports #povertydoesntfly

Pembersih kabin kapal terbang bagi setiap di LaGuardia tlh dikurangkan sehingga separuh, dan masa untuk membersihkan pesawat telah dipotong ke serendah 5 minit, kata pekerja, seperti yang dilaporkan oleh CBS New York.

"Pekerja-pekerja ini pada dasarnya dilayan seperti sampah yang mereka perlu menangani setiap hari," kata Figueroa. "Mereka tidak diberi kelengkapan, tiada alat, tidak mempunyai latihan yang sesuai untuk jenis cabaran yang kita perlu untuk lapangan terbang kami adalah selamat untuk penumpang dan pekerja sama-sama."

Pembersih kabin kapal terbang bagi setiap di LaGuardia tlh dikurangkan sehingga separuh, dan masa untuk membersihkan pesawat telah dipotong ke serendah lima minit, kata pekerja, seperti yang dilaporkan oleh CBS New York.

"Pekerja2 ini pd dasarnya dilayan seperti sampah yg mereka perlu menangani setiap hari," kata Figueroa. "Mereka tidak diberi kelengkapan, tiada alat, tidak mempunyai latihan yg sesuai utk jenis cabaran yang kita perlu untuk lapangan terbang kami adalah selamat untuk penumpang dan pekerja sama-sama."

Cabin cleaners per plane at LaGuardia have been reduced by up to half, and the time to clean planes has been cut down to as little as five minutes, workers said, as reported by CBS New York.

“These workers are essentially treated like the garbage that they have to handle every day,” Figueroa said. “They’re given no equipment, no tools, no training that is appropriate for the kind of challenges that we need for our airport to be safe for passengers and workers alike.”

Cabin cleaners per plane at LaGuardia have been reduced by up to half, and the time to clean planes has been cut down to as little as five minutes, workers said, as reported by CBS New York.

“These workers are essentially treated like the garbage that they have to handle every day,” Figueroa said. “They’re given no equipment, no tools, no training that is appropriate for the kind of challenges that we need for our airport to be safe for passengers and workers alike.”

terminal LaGuardia mogok d kabin pembersih! (laguardia terminal d cabin cleaners on strike)! #povertydoesntfly 7:12 PM - 9 Oct 2014

Air Sev tidak bertindak balas terhadap permintaan untuk mendapatkan komen. Syarikat itu membawa pekerja gantian semasa mogok, CBS New York dilaporkan.

Dalam satu kenyataan, Pihak Berkuasa Pelabuhan New York dan New Jersey, yang mengendalikan lapangan terbang, hanya berkata semua syarikat ia berfungsi dengan mesti mengikut undang-undang.

"Para pekerja bukan pekerja Lembaga Pelabuhan kami, mereka adalah pekerja kontrak syarikat penerbangan. Walau bagaimanapun, syarikat2penerbangan dan syarikat-syarikat lain yang menggunakan mereka perlu memenuhi semua undang-undang OSHA undang, dan juga terma-terma pajakan mereka dengan Lembaga Pelabuhan.

Permit kami juga memerlukan semua syarikat-syarikat yg melakukan perniagaan di lapangan terbang untuk mematuhi semua, negeri dan persekutuan undang-undang dan peraturan-peraturan bandar.

 Selain itu, CDC telah menyediakan lapangan terbang dan syarikat penerbangan petunjuk bagi membersihkan kakitangan yg bekerja di kapal terbang & kemudahan lapangan terbang."

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Air Sev did not respond to a request for comment. The company brought in replacement workers during the strike, CBS New York reported.

In a statement, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, simply said all companies it works with must follow applicable laws.

“The workers are not our Port Authority employees, they are airline contract employees. However, the airlines and other companies that employ them are required to meet all applicable OSHA laws, as well as the terms of their leases with the Port Authority.

Our permits also require all companies that do business at the airport to comply with all city, state and federal laws and regulations. Additionally, the CDC has provided airports and airlines guidance for cleaning personnel working on planes and airport facilities.”


Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kennedy (Kennedy International Airport (AFP Photo/Stan Honda)

Mulai Sabtu, pelancong dari negara-negara Afrika Barat Guinea, Liberia dan Sierra Leone akan berhenti dan menyiasat tanda-tanda Ebola di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa New York John F. Kennedy.

4  yg lain lapangan terbang utama Amerika Syarikat - termasuk Lapangan Terbang Newark Liberty International, Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Chicago O'Hare, Hartsfield-Jackson Lapangan Terbang di Atlanta, & Lapangan Terbang Antara-bangsa Dulles di Washington, DC - akan melaksanakan pemeriksaan kesihatan dan perjalanan yang dikendalikan oleh Pusat Amerika Syarikat bagi Penyakit kawalan dan Pencegahan (CDC), dan Kastam Amerika Syarikat dan Perlindungan Sempadan.

Satu tinjauan baru ‘new poll’ mendapati majoriti rakyat Amerika mahu pener-bangan dilarang daripada negara-negara Afrika Barat, di mana wabak Ebola terkini berpusat.

58 % peratus rakyat Amerika menyokong larangan penerbangan, menurut undian yang dijalankan dalam kerjasama antara NBC News dan SurveyMonkey. 20 % peratus daripada responden tidak menyokong larangan perjalanan dari orang-orang seperti dari Guinea, Liberia dan Sierra Leone.

Sehingga awal minggu ini ‘earlier this week’, baik Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia serta White House mengesahkan semua-keluar larangan perjalanan ke Amerika Syarikat dari negara-negara yang terjejas.

Beginning Saturday, travelers from West African countries Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone will be stopped and probed for signs of Ebola at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Four other major US airports - including Newark Liberty International Airport, Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, and Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC - will follow with the health and travel screenings run by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and US Customs and Border Protection.

A new poll found a majority of Americans want flights banned from West African nations, where the latest Ebola outbreak is centered.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans supported the flight ban, according to a poll conducted in a collaboration between NBC News and SurveyMonkey. Twenty percent of respondents did not support a travel ban from the likes of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

As of earlier this week, neither the World Health Organization nor the White House endorsed an all-out travel ban to the US from affected nations.

(White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

"Satu larangan perjalanan adalah sesuatu yang kita tidak sedang mempertim-bangkan," kata Setiausaha Akhbar Rumah Putih Josh Earnest.

Menyalakan kebimbangan terhadap Ebola merebak tidak dapat dielakkan, Marine Corps Jeneral John F. Kelly, komander US Southern Command, berkata minggu ini ‘said this week’ bahawa "tidak ada cara kita boleh menyimpan Ebola [terkandung] di Afrika Barat."

Beliau menambah bahawa walaupun banyak negara-negara Hemisfera Barat boleh mengendalikan wabak Ebola, jika virus itu muncul di negara2 Amerika Tengah seperti Honduras atau El Salvador, beliau menjangka ramai orang untuk mengetuai utara untuk Amerika Syarikat.

"Jika ia meletus, ia secara literal, 'Katie bar pintu, dan akan ada penghijrahan besar-besaran ke Amerika Syarikat," kata Kelly. "Mereka akan lari daripada Ebola, atau jika mereka mengesyaki mereka dijangkiti, mereka akan cuba utk menda-patkan ke Amerika Syarikat untuk rawatan."

Menariknya, dgn margin 2-untuk-1, responden kaji selidik NBC itu berkata mereka terhadap menawarkan anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat utk membantu mengu-rangkan penyebaran dan tahap Ebola di luar negara.

"A travel ban is something that we’re not currently considering,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.

Stoking fears of an inevitable Ebola spread, Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command, said this week that “the there is no way we can keep Ebola [contained] in West Africa.”

He added that while many Western Hemisphere nations can handle an Ebola outbreak, if the virus appears in Central American countries like Honduras or El Salvador, he expects many people to head north for the US.

“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said. “They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.”

Interestingly, by a 2-to-1 margin, respondents to the NBC survey said they were against offering US military personnel to help mitigate the spread and severity Ebola overseas.

General John F. Kelly (AFP Photo/Norberto Duarten)

Pentagon merancang untuk menghantar ‘planning to send’ beribu-ribu tentera Afrika Barat dalam beberapa minggu akan datang untuk membantu usaha-usaha bantuan di rantau ini.

Kaji selidik NBC juga mendapati bahawa 51 % peratus daripada responden takut wabak di Amerika Syarikat, dan 30 % peratus bimbang mereka atau ahli keluarga akan terdedah kepada Ebola.

72 %  peratus responden tepat dapat mengenal pasti bagaimana Ebola merebak melalui cecair badan.

46 %  peratus daripada mereka yg ditinjau berkata mereka mempunyai keyakinan bahawa CDC boleh mencegah wabak di Amerika Syarikat; 62 % peratus menga-takan yang sama mengenai jabatan kesihatan kawasan mereka mengenai wabak di peringkat negeri.

Wabak Ebola telah membunuh lebih 3,000 orang di Afrika Barat, menurut Pertu-buhan Kesihatan SeDUNIA. Walaupun WHO juga mengatakan bahawa adalah ang-garan konservatif kematian setakat ini. Beberapa ribu lagi telah dijangkiti virus itu, kata agensi itu.

The Pentagon is planning to send thousands of troops to West Africa in the coming weeks to aid relief efforts in the region.

The NBC survey also found that 51 percent of respondents feared an outbreak in the US, and 30 percent were concerned they or a family member would be exposed to Ebola.

Seventy-two percent of respondents could accurately identify how Ebola is spread, through body fluids.

Sixty-six percent of those surveyed said they had confidence that the CDC could prevent an outbreak in the US; 62 percent said the same about their area health departments regarding an outbreak on the state level.

The Ebola outbreak has killed well over 3,000 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Though the WHO also says that is a conservative estimate of the fatalities so far. Several thousand more have been infected by the virus, the agency says.

Khusus pasukan Ebola disemadikan membawa mayat seorang mangsa Ebola baru-baru ini untuk dikebumikan, pada 6 Oktober 2014 di Magbonkoh (A specialized Ebola inhumation team carry the body of a recent Ebola victim to be buried, on October 6, 2014 in Magbonkoh (AFP Photo/Florian Plaucheur)