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Gulf War Illness is Real

An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf... more

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Fire destroys 80 homes, injures 4 in Santa Barbara, CA

Firefighters were racing early Friday to push back a wind-whipped wildfire that destroyed about 80 homes and a college dormitory,... more

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Second school collapse in Haiti

At least nine people were injured when a school building partially collapsed in Haiti - days after a similar incident killed more... more

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Haiti school collapse toll rises

The number of people who died from the collapse of a school in Haiti has risen to 75, after 17 bodies were found inside a... more

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Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested

"Haitian police say they have arrested the owner of a school that collapsed and killed at least 88. Police spokesman Garry... more

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Obama's grandmother passes away

Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender,... more

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Amber Alert For Jennifer Hudson's Nephew

The mother and brother of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found murdered yesterday in their Chicago home. A suspect is... more

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Four Killed in Aurora Helicopter owned by Air Angels

CHICAGO - More details are emerging about the company that owned the medical helicopter in the fatal overnight crash in Aurora. ... more

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In Sierra Leone, every pregnancy is a 'chance of dying'

Saio Marah, nine months pregnant and two days into labor, lay on a hospital bed and groaned loudly with each contraction.

She had arrived at the rural hospital earlier on the back of a motorcycle, about the only public transport available in this muddy little town in the distant back-country bush of one of Africa's poorest nations.

Now, in a dark and hot labor ward with rain blowing in the open windows and puddling on the floor, Marah grimaced as James Konteh slapped on rubber gloves and examined her.

Konteh, an ophthalmologist by training, is one of only two doctors who serve 300,000 people in this remote district, so he has become a de-facto obstetrician.

He placed a plastic Pinard stethoscope -- a cheaper, funnel-shaped alternative to a standard stethoscope--to Marah's massive belly and listened.

"The fetal heart rate is very rapid," he said. "The labor is obstructed. The baby is in distress so we must operate right away."

Konteh pulled out his cellphone and began dialing his four surgical nurses. It was 6:30 p.m., and they had all gone home when their 10-hour shifts ended a half-hour earlier.

Marah had waited too long to come to the hospital, and now the baby, her first, was in trouble. The surgery was urgent, but it would take time to get the operating room team back.

"What can I do?" Konteh said. "There's nobody here."

The nurses hooked up an IV to increase Marah's fluids, hoisted her onto a gurney and rolled her into an empty waiting room. She lay there naked, covered loosely by a small cloth, and waited for her caesarian section.

"I haven't been able to sleep for three days," she said. "The pain is too much."

It was a Monday evening, and her husband, Mohamed Barrie, said she had gone into labor on Saturday. Both of them were worried about the expense of going to the hospital, he said, and were sure she could deliver easily enough without assistance from hospital doctors. So they had gone to a neighborhood clinic where a nurse examined her and sent her home.

************CONTINUESSaio Marah, nine months pregnant and two days into labor, lay on a hospital bed and groaned loudly with each contraction. She... more

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Woman in Limbo After Tragedy

Jissela Cabello's future is uncertain after her husband killed their four-year-old daughter, before killing himself. Cabello... more

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Honeymooners die in tragic plane crash

What should have been a dream honeymoon ended in tragedy for a newly-wed couple who were killed in the Nepal plane crash. ... more

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Tanzanians killed in disco stampede

At least 19 youths have died and several others wounded in a stampede inside a disco in central Tanzania, police have told... more

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LA TRAGEDIA DEL 911 ANTICIPATA SEI MESI DA UNA SERIE TV!

LA TRAGEDIA DEL 911 ANTICIPATA SEI MESI DA UNA SERIE TV! Il 4 Marzo 2001 (potete verificare la data ovunque) andò in... more

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Man dragged 6km by bus after being knocked down

Advice of the day: "if you plan on getting killed in public and having your body identified later on, this is not the way to... more

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Police express "disgust" at crowd encouraging Shaun Dykes to jump

Trained police negotiators were trying to talk 17-year-old Shaun Dykes into coming down from the side of a multi storey car park... more

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They Gave Your Mortgage to a Less Qualified Minority

On MSNBC this week, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter tried to connect John McCain to the current financial disaster, saying: "If you remember the Keating Five scandal that (McCain) was a part of. ... He's really getting a free ride on the fact that he was in the middle of the last great financial scandal in our country."

McCain was "in the middle of" the Keating Five case in the sense that he was "exonerated." The lawyer for the Senate Ethics Committee wanted McCain removed from the investigation altogether, but, as The New York Times reported: "Sen. McCain was the only Republican embroiled in the affair, and Democrats on the panel would not release him."

So John McCain has been held hostage by both the Viet Cong and the Democrats.

Alter couldn't be expected to know that: As usual, he was lifting material directly from Kausfiles. What is unusual was that he was stealing a random thought sent in by Kausfiles' mother, who, the day before, had e-mailed: "It's time to bring up the Keating Five. Let McCain explain that scandal away."

The Senate Ethics Committee lawyer who investigated McCain already had explained that scandal away -- repeatedly. It was celebrated lawyer Robert Bennett, most famous for defending a certain horny hick president a few years ago.

In February this year, on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes," Bennett said, for the eight billionth time:

"First, I should tell your listeners I'm a registered Democrat, so I'm not on (McCain's) side of a lot of issues. But I investigated John McCain for a year and a half, at least, when I was special counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee in the Keating Five. ... And if there is one thing I am absolutely confident of, it is John McCain is an honest man. I recommended to the Senate Ethics Committee that he be cut out of the case, that there was no evidence against him."

It's bad enough for Alter to be constantly ripping off Kausfiles. Now he's so devoid of his own ideas, he's ripping off the idle musings of Kausfiles' mother.

Even if McCain had been implicated in the Keating Five scandal -- and he wasn't -- that would still have absolutely nothing to do with the subprime mortgage crisis currently roiling the financial markets. This crisis was caused by political correctness being forced on the mortgage lending industry in the Clinton era.

Read more at: http://www.shakabarack.comOn MSNBC this week, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter tried to connect John McCain to the current financial disaster, saying:... more

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At least 160 dead in India temple crush

At least 160 worshippers are feared dead after a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern India state of Rajasthan. Local... more

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Syrian bombing: A jihadi attack?

This article brings us back to the age old question: How do you best go about fighting terrorism? And if you can find an answer to that one, the next question is to you go after the terrorist organizations when they attack others, or wait till they come to you?

The weekend bombing that killed at least 17 people was the worst of its kind since Syria's battle with the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s and 80s.

As the Syrian authorities begin investigating a bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus Saturday, initial suspicion points to Islamist militants, either home-grown or foreign.

A car bomb, packed with an estimated 440 pounds of explosives, blew up close to a building reportedly housing the Palestine Branch of Syrian military intelligence. It was the worst of its kind since the violent confrontation between the Syrian regime and Islamist militants of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1970s and early 80s.

There was no claim of responsibility, and in Syria, one of the most opaque countries in the Middle East, there are plenty of potential perpetrators.

"As usual in the Middle East, there are three or four credible culprits and this is what is so frustrating. The region is chronically and increasingly violent," says Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Center for Lebanon, a think tank. "Who knows who did it, but in a way it's surprising that no one has tried to do this stuff before because so many people are angry with Syria."

The London-based Ash-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper claimed Sunday that a brigadier general who was a senior Syrian intelligence officer was among the 17 people killed in the explosion. While the Syrian authorities have said only civilians were killed in the attack, the general's death, if true, could indicate that the bombing was a targeted assassination rather than a random mass-casualty attack.

Still, initial speculation suggests that those responsible for the bomb attack were Sunni jihadists reacting to a possible crackdown by the Syrian authorities.
This article brings us back to the age old question: How do you best go about fighting terrorism? And if you can find an answer to... more