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posted November 22, 2007 08:14 AM |
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Doctor offers 'tree man' hope of a new life, warts and all
Dede shows the warty "roots" growing out of his arms and feet.
A FISHERMAN who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope by an American doctor — and vitamin A.
Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in an accident as a teenager.
The welts spread unchecked, making everyday household tasks impossible. Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children — now in their late teens — in poverty, resigned to the fact that local doctors had no cure.
After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari, of the University of Maryland, concluded that his affliction is caused by the human papilloma virus, a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop. Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system. The virus was therefore able to "hijack" the cellular machinery of his skin cells ordering them to produce huge amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his hands and feet.
Dede's condition was something far more mysterious. Warts aside, he had enjoyed remarkable good health throughout his life.Dr Gaspari, who became involved through a Discovery Channel documentary, believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of vitamin A, which has been shown to arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of human papilloma virus.
"He won't have a perfectly normal body, but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari said.
"Over the course of three to six months the warts should become smaller and fewer in number. He will be living a more normal life."
After that, the most resilient warts could be frozen off, and the growths on his hands and feet surgically removed.
"I've never seen anything like this in my entire career," Dr Gaspari said.
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posted November 23, 2007 07:43 PM |
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November 23, 2007:
A canadian toutist ship, crushed into a glacier, on its way from Canada to Argentina. The glacier was southwards to Argentina's shore line, one of Antartica's floating glaciers. The crushing made in the ship a fist-size hole, that made the ship drowning. Fourtanately, the crew sent sign of distress and all the people on the ship were rescued safely.
Source: Ynet News
Taleban militans in Afghanistan choped seven cops' heads, after they had raid a police office in the centre of the state, near to the city of Arjandab. 6 other cops are missing. A several weeks ago, the Afghan military with the assistance of foreign forces, forced the Taleban to leave Arjandab. There's an estimation that the raid and the killing are a reaction to that.
Source: Ynet News
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posted November 24, 2007 09:07 PM |
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Twin storms batter south Asia
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2007
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in the Philippines and Vietnam as two major storms batter the region.
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''Ghost Chili'' Scares Off Elephants
Wildlife experts in Assam are experimenting with the world's hottest pepper to prevent wild elephants from destroying homes and crops and attacking people who live close to the pachyderm's habitat, the Associated Press reported.
National-Geo.
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posted November 30, 2007 08:16 PM |
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Turkey plane crash kills all 57 on board
YESILYURT, Turkey - An Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey on Friday, killing all 57 people on board, including a 6-week-old baby going to see her grandparents for the first time.
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Turkey: Military ready to move on rebels
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's prime minister said Friday the government had granted authorization to the military to launch a cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq at any time.
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China seals $12bn deal for Areva uranium
November 26 2007 22:47
China’s global quest to secure uranium supplies received a boost on Monday when Areva, the French nuclear company, agreed to supply African uranium for at least the next 14 years.
Financial Times
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posted December 03, 2007 02:47 PM |
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I'm sorry that I couldn't update for the last few days, I was very busy.
December 3, 2007:
Putin officially won the elections in Russia. 61% of the votes were for his party "United Russia". It wasn't surprising - everyone knew that Putin would win. The government gave presents for people to vote; from cellephones up to new houses for villages with high prcent of voting for the party.
Besides, the votes threshold in Russia have become so high, that most of the other parties didn't really a chance. Only 3 other parties except of "United Russia" have managed to pass it; the Communistic party, and two other parties that support the Kremlin.
However, 61% is not the ultimate winning that Putin and his people wanted. If they got 70%, Putin would be able to chance completely the Russian regime and probably to destroy the democracy.
Source: Ynet News
A british teacher that came to teach in Sudan allowed to call a teddy bear in the class "Muhamad". The parents of the chilren heard that and told that to the government, that immeditely imprisoned her. She was judges and was found guilty for desecration of the Islam. Her punishment was 15 days in prison, 40 whippings and banishment back to UK after them.
Thousands of Sudanese protested to execute her, walking in the streets, armed with knives and clubs.
Yesterday, the government decided to release her, after a heavy international pressure from many countries in the world.
Source: Ynet News
An american street cat, named Wild Oats, survived for 19 days with a jar on her head. The peanut butter jar got stuck on the cat's head 19 days ago, and the people on the neighborhood were had tried to get it, but the cat was running and hiding. They were amazed to see that she survived 19 days, when the jar was removed.
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posted December 03, 2007 07:16 PM |
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Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called the election "the most irresponsible and dirty" in the post-Soviet era.
I love it when a communist accuses someone of not being democratic 
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posted December 04, 2007 10:55 PM |
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Tweety, Donald Duck summoned to court
Tue Dec 4, 1:04 PM ET
ROME - Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.
Y-news
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posted December 05, 2007 12:19 PM |
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Edited by Minion at 12:22, 05 Dec 2007.
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Monday, 3 December 2007, 20:33 GMT
US report plays down Iran threat
The declassified summary of the report, which draws together information from the US's 16 intelligence agencies, says with "high confidence" that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 "in response to international pressure".
This is a turnaround from previous assessments, when US intelligence agencies believed Iran was trying to develop a nuclear weapon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7125701.stm
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posted December 05, 2007 10:05 PM |
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December 5, 2007:
Ahmadi Nejad had a responde speech for the American intelligence report that says that Iran has stopped its nuclear program on 2003. Ahmadi Nejad mainly said that this report was written to help the American government problems. He also said it's a win of Iran - the world thinks that Iran would stop its program and Iran has no problem to continue.
Source: Ynet News
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posted December 05, 2007 10:25 PM |
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Very interesting take of this you have on Y-net... According to BBC [Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 13:24 GMT ]the program was not ended on 2007 but on 2003.
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The US intelligence assessment released on Monday said that Iran had halted a nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
Also, no mention of Iran "continuing" their program... what Ahmadinejad said was
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He said in a televised speech that the report had been a "fatal blow" to those who had filled the world for several years with threats, stress and anxiety. "I see this report as a window of opportunity. It's a window of opportunity because it gives diplomacy a new chance"
Also IAEA (International Atomic Energy Association) commented the report:
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Mr ElBaradei told reporters in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, that the assessment had also been a "sigh of relief" for the IAEA because the conclusions were similar to its own.
Source: BBC
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posted December 05, 2007 10:50 PM |
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It's written 2003 there as well. I'm sorry, it's my mistake. 
I'm probably just used to type 2007 and I didn't notice.
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posted December 08, 2007 07:39 PM |
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December 8, 2007:
Iran is not satisfied with the way the that USA got the information for their report that said that Iran has stopped its nuclear program. The Iranian minister of foreign affairs claims that USA has been spying after Iran.
Source: Ynet News
A submarine, full of cocaine, was drown by its crew today, after it had been spotted by the Columbian army. The Columbian airforce, navy and the USA coast guard were chasing after it, when the crew opened the submarine's wicket, to allow the water to come in. In the submarine there was enough room to store 12 tones of cocaine. The submarine was probably supposed to get to USA. The submarine is now 3 kilometers below sea level.
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An oil spill, which was caused by a damaged supertanker, oozes onto a ecologically sensitive shoreline in South Korea's western coast. About 6.5 kilometers of the shoreline are being damaged by this disaster. The area is important ecologically; it's site of fish farms, a national maritime park and an important rest stop for migrating birds. Besides, it's a popular turistic site, for it's beutiful beaches.
Source: CNN
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posted December 08, 2007 10:48 PM |
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Africa, EU battle over trade rules at landmark summit
LISBON (AFP) - Tensions over proposed new trade rules surfaced Saturday at a landmark summit hosted by the European Union, with Africa telling its former colonial masters it would resist pressure for a hasty agreement.
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Record-size spitting cobra found in Kenya
"A new species of giant spitting cobra is exciting and reinforces the obvious -- that there have to be many other unreported species but hundreds are being lost as their habitats disappear under the continued mismanagement of our planet," said the group's chairman, Kenyan environmentalist Richard Leakey.
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Time to shut down reactor
Published: 07.31.07
The earthquake in Japan this month and the Japanese government’s quick decision to shut down the world’s largest nuclear reactor, damaged as a result of the quake, are neither a local Japanese affair nor a regional one only. Once again, more than sixty years since it was bombed, the warning concerning the nuclear danger is coming from Japan.
Yet the warning bells regarding the danger of a horrific nuclear leak must resonate here in Israel too, before it’s too late.
The old reactor in Dimona is located on the Syrian-African rift. An earthquake similar to the one that hit Japan or the one that hit Turkey eight years ago may crack the reactor and leave Israel and its neighbors shrouded in a nuclear cloud. Then we will be left to die in great suffering along with our neighbors.
Ynet
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posted December 18, 2007 02:29 PM |
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December 18, 2007:
Kilograms of uranium were transmitted from Russia to Iran, to its nuclear reactor in Bushar. Many countries in the world responded angrily, but Russia and Iran said that it's only for peaceful purposes.
George W. Bush, USA president, said that he supports this move. He said that it's better that the uranium will reach to Iran, than Iran will enrich uranium by itself. Reffering to the report that says Iran stopped its nuclear program, bush added: I still think that Iran has been dangerous, it is dangerous, and it will be dangerous, if we don't stop it from enriching uranium.
Source: Ynet News
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posted December 22, 2007 01:13 AM |
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Native American independence?
The native American tribe Lakota yesterday proclaimed INDEPENDENCE from the United States of America.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the Federal Government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.
A rather personal addition:
The irony of the US strongly lobbying for Kosovo independence while this happens is so sweet that it's one of those moments worth living for
Plus I always liked native Americans.
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posted December 22, 2007 09:54 PM |
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The native American tribe Lakota yesterday proclaimed INDEPENDENCE from the United States of America.
A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the Federal Government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old.
A rather personal addition:
The irony of the US strongly lobbying for Kosovo independence while this happens is so sweet that it's one of those moments worth living for
Plus I always liked native Americans.
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"Yes,I was asking my self a question for many times,Would the Americans give Kosovo their own independence if it was a state within the USA?Or it is something else...?"
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Asteroid may hit Mars in next month
"These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory."
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CIA says it cooperated with 9/11 panel
WASHINGTON - The CIA on Saturday rebutted suggestions the spy agency was uncooperative and hid from the Sept. 11 commission the videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists, saying it waited until the panel went out of business before destroying the material now in question.
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China raises 800-year-old sunken ship
BEIJING - After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.
Y-news
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posted December 29, 2007 02:59 PM |
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It's unfortunate that I didn't get to update the thread such of a long time.
December 29, 2007:
Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, arranged an operation to pick up a several hostages in Colombia forests, after they have been released on a deal between Hugo Chavez and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The hostages were prisoned for a several years, and now, their kidnappers are supposed to leave them on an agreed place in a Colombian forest. Helicopters from Venezuela will pick them up.
Source: CNN
For the last 40 years, The area code of a small religious town in Louisiana had been 666, a number that represents the devil for some believers. The civillans of the town have struggled with the authorities through all those years, but only now the number was changed to 749.
Source: Ynet News
The house that George W. Bush lived in 58 years ago when he was 2 years old, was lit. The house is in Odesa, Texas. The city's police still investigates the case and it is a part of presidential musium today. The city's police investigates the case. The investigators can tell it was a directed igniting, but they don't know who did that.
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posted December 29, 2007 04:41 PM |
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"Benazir Bhutto died Thursday after a suicide bombing at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan."
"Conflicting reports about what caused the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are fueling questions about the circumstances of her assassination
"Bhutto's political party disputed official versions of the incident, accusing the government of lying. Video footage of Thursday's attack on Bhutto contains a murky shot of a hand firing a pistol three times, but the Pakistani government said Bhutto -- who was standing through her vehicle's sunroof -- was not hit."
Source: CNN
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posted December 29, 2007 09:32 PM |
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Yea, my heart sank when I saw the news about Bhutto on TV. I've been kind of a fan of her since she was first Prime Minister in the late 80s. She would have been good for the country and the entire region.
She knew what she was getting into when she returned. That took a lot of bravery to do that. She put her life at risk for her country and people, and she lost it.
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posted December 29, 2007 09:42 PM |
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"Benazir Bhutto died Thursday after a suicide bombing at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan."
"Conflicting reports about what caused the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are fueling questions about the circumstances of her assassination
"Bhutto's political party disputed official versions of the incident, accusing the government of lying. Video footage of Thursday's attack on Bhutto contains a murky shot of a hand firing a pistol three times, but the Pakistani government said Bhutto -- who was standing through her vehicle's sunroof -- was not hit."
Source: CNN
Who killed Madam Benazir?
That is a dramatic question, now they are accusing Al Qaida(which means in Arabic “The base”),first Al Qaida was constructed by Azzam then led Bu Osama Bin Laden, the second one has been having support by the US Intelligence and others to fight the Soviet Union Army in Afghanistan during The Cold War, when the Soviet union diminished and their threat was null, they( the US Intelligence) has had to create a new “enemy” to protect their people the Americans(here they are Tax payers not human-beings) and the world from the new “Evil” and “the Base” was born.
After that Al Qaida attacks began in many countries till we had the massacre of 11 September, the new evil was then accused, and the CIA (see my previous post) denied a report of hiding evidences of the attack.
Nevertheless the US president declared the War On Terror, and now many nations are living in Chaos, therefore we are blessed to be under their protection…
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