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Four dead: wife given tea not an orange

An Ohio sheriff says an argument over what a terminally ill woman should be given to eat apparently triggered a shooting that left four people dead. A dispute over whether a terminally ill woman should have been given tea and toast or an orange apparently upset her husband so much that he...

Ron Paul Takes Second Place in New Hampshire

Link: http://www.infowars.com/early-nh-results-show-ron-paul-in-strong-second/

Infowars
January 10, 2012

As precincts in New Hampshire report in the nation’s first primary vote, Texas Congressman Ron Paul shows a strong second, well ahead of...

Sabbath-observant Jew named Obama's new White House chief of staff

Jacob Lew, who last served as budget director, to replace William Daley.
By Natasha Mozgovaya and Barak Ravid

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Once Derided as an Expensive Folly, China’s Three Gorges Dam Goes From Strength to Strength

Written by John Daly

Link: http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Ene...orges-Dam-Goes-From-Strength-to-Strength.html

Monday, 09...

Well, this is a bad way to start the year. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in India of the existence of at least 12 patients infected with tuberculosis that has become resistant to all the drugs used against the disease. Physicians in Mumbai are calling the strain TDR, for Totally Drug-Resistant. In other words, it is untreatable as...