PARIS (AP) – A Frenchman who underwent the world’s first face and double-hand transplant in April after being horribly disfigured in an accident has died, hospital officials said Monday. The 30-year-old man died of cardiac arrest while undergoing a follow-up operation on June 8, according to Laurent Lantieri, the surgeon who performed the ground-breaking transplant [...]
Why do all of the crazy, horrible diseases come from Africa? There’s Ebola, HIV/AIDS, Obama’s father, and now this, “Ug99″ The LA Times: The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world’s wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before [...]
Palestinian officials sought U.S and European help to salvage foundering peacemaking on Monday after tough terms laid out by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but they stopped short of refusing to resume negotiations. Palestinian disappointment was echoed in capitals across the Arab world, where leaders accused Netanyahu of setting more obstacles in the path of [...]
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FOX News: Dick Cheney says he wants to know if he heard Leon Panetta correctly. After the CIA director apparently told The New Yorker that he thinks the former vice president is crossing his fingers for another attack on America, Cheney said Monday he hopes his “old friend” didn’t really say those words. “I hope [...]
Slate Magazine: I’m one of those guys that the conspiracy theorists love to hate. I not only believe that we need stronger global governance mechanisms, I believe that the reinvention of our global governance system is one of the great shared missions of the world for the century ahead. Whether it is strengthening institutions that [...]
Cross-posted by MarkH of the Snooper Report. I am watching the Liar In Chief at this moment lying to the American People trying to take on more powers unto himself and the federal government as a whole. Fox News is carrying the drivel and I cannot help but recalling our history. As in FDR and [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea’s communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions. The North’s defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South [...]
Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures. Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago. “We’re [...]
Related: Obama’s Health Care Racketeering Plan In Trouble Politico: President Barack Obama will attempt to convince a skeptical American Medical Association Monday to drop its resistance to the most controversial element of his health reform effort, a government insurance plan. In an address to the group’s annual meeting in Chicago, Obama will pitch the public [...]
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The Capital By BRUCE FLEMING The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced in Annapolis recently that “diversity is the number one priority” at the Naval Academy. Advertisement The Naval Academy superintendent, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, echoed him. Everyone understands that “diversity” here means nonwhite skins. Fowler insisted recently that we needed to have [...]
Breitbart President Barack Obama Monday warned America would go broke if it rejected healthcare reform, cranking up a hard sell on an issue crucial to his ambitious domestic plans and personal political prestige. Obama made a quick trip to his home city of Chicago to try to convince skeptical doctors of the merits of his [...]
Breitbart TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Gunmen have fired on opposition protesters at a massive march over alleged election fraud, killing at least one person. An Associated Press photographer saw one person shot dead and several others who appear seriously wounded in Tehran’s Azadi Square. The shooting came from a compound for volunteer militia linked to [...]
Telegraph UK By Louise Armitstead Banking group drops American customers in UK ahead of costly proposals to stamp out tax evasion Lloyds Banking Group is ditching American customers based in Britain pending a crackdown on international tax evasion planned by President Barack Obama. This week American private client account-holders at Lloyds’s received letters informing them [...]
Times Online Philippe Naughton The British Government responded with ill-disguised fury tonight to the news that four Chinese Uighurs freed from Guantanamo Bay had been flown for resettlement on the Atlantic tourist paradise of Bermuda. The four arrived on Bermuda in the early hours, celebrating the end of seven years of detention after learning that [...]
Chicago Sun Times As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The Illinois senator’s 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 [...]
New York Times: TEHRAN — The Iranian authorities denied permission Monday for the opposition to hold a major rally to protest the outcome of Friday’s presidential vote, according to news reports and an opposition Web site, deepening a mood of confrontation as violence and acrimony over the disputed election intensified. Word spread on Sunday that [...]
