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BREAKING: ‘IRON LADY’ DEAD AT 87

Baroness Thatcher, Britain’s first woman prime minster, has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 87.

Her children Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness had died peacefully following a stroke this morning.

Speaking to Sky News, Baroness Thatcher’s spokesman and friend Lord Bell said: “We’ll never see the like of her again. She was one of the great prime ministers of all time and transformed people’s lives.”

He [...]

Obama Asks Congress For $100M To Map Brain

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.

He asked Congress to spend $100 million next year to start a project that will explore details of the brain, which contains 100 billion cells and trillions of connections.

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/04/02/obama-calls-on-congress-to-spend-100m-next-year-to-map-brain/

DHS Insider update: It has begun

“What happens when the middle class loses much of their wealth, or it is confiscated, by the stroke of a pen or a keyboard? What will the stores look like when people, unprepared due to the damn lies of the corporate media and the shills for the ruling elite, run to empty out everything they can get their hands on as the world, as they know it, collapses around them?”

It [...]

It’s official: Women ARE grumpier than men in the mornings

Women are more angry and hostile if they get insufficient sleep, say North Carolina scientists
Sleep deprivation also increases women’s risk of heart disease, stroke and depression

But a man’s health is barely affected by lack of sleep

If the woman in your life woke up grumpy this morning, don’t be too hard on her. It is, apparently, only natural.

Scientists have discovered  that women need more sleep than men. And chances are, she’s [...]

‘Catastrophic’ EU exit would leave City defenceless against regulatory attack

European regulators have the means to shut down key parts of London’s financial centre at a stroke if Britain left the European Union and would not hesitate to do so, leading central bank experts have warned.

by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph:

Membership of the EU single market is the UK’s only legal defence against an onslaught of regulations aimed at forcing banks and fund managers to decamp to the eurozone, they say.

“It would [...]

High school student, 18, auctions her virginity to pay for sick mother’s medical bills – and bids are reaching $35,000

After a 20-year-old Brazilian auctioned off her virginity three months ago for $780,000, high school student Rebecca Bernardo made the decision she would also offer her deflowering to the highest bidder.

The 18-year-old says she is auctioning off her virginity in an effort to raise money for her ailing mother, who recently suffered a stroke.

After announcing the auction on YouTube, the Sapeacu native, who has so far received three bids, the highest at $35,000, told CNN: ’I [...]

NYT: Clinton Blood Clot Between Brain and Skull

from NYT:

Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday said that she suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but predicted that she would make a full recovery.

Mrs. Clinton was hospitalized on Sunday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month, a State Department spokesman said.

Her doctors said in a statement [...]

Englishman wakes up speaking Welsh after stroke

Englishman wakes up speaking Welsh after stroke 

Doctors have diagnosed patient with aphasia

An Englishman has woken up after a stroke and started speaking Welsh.

Alun Morgan, 81, was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War and during his time there he never picked up the native tongue.

His wife Yvonne was the only person who could understand him and had to translate for doctors.

Mr Morgan, from Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, told the Bath [...]

Ten all-natural ways to reduce one of the biggest threat to your health today

From LewRockwell.com:

On the most basic level, inflammation is the way in which the body reacts to a disturbance, be it infection, irritation, or other injury. More specifically, however, the inflammatory response – which in addition to swelling can also include redness, warmth, and pain – occurs when blood, antibodies, and other immune system components rush to the scene of the crime to attempt to repair the damage.

In most areas of [...]

Can Central Banks Just Cancel Sovereign Debt?

On Saturday, we wrote that more and more people are starting to wonder if central banks like the Bank of England and The Fed can just “rip up” the debt that they’ve bought via Quantitative Easing, and reduce the national debt of these countries with the stroke of a key.

Asking this question, and thinking about the implications of it, is the equivalent of taking the ‘Red Pill’ of economics. The Red Pill, of course, is [...]

A week after losing his appeal for the right-to-die with assistance from a doctor, Tony Nicklinson, who was paralysed from the neck down and described his life as a “living nightmare”, dies after refusing food for a week.

Tony Nicklinson, the man with
locked-in syndrome who fought for the right for doctors to legally end his
life, has died.

The 58-year-old passed away at 10am this morning at his Wiltshire home, less than a week after losing a legal challenge for the right to end the life he described as “pure torture”. He was left paralysed following a stroke in 2005.

Family solicitor Saimo Chahal said: “I am extremely sad to tell [...]

UK court to rule in ‘right to die’ case

cnn.com
August 16, 2012

A British man left paralyzed by a catastrophic stroke seven years ago is awaiting a High Court ruling in London Thursday on whether he has a legal right to end his life when he chooses.

Tony Nicklinson’s condition means it is impossible for him to take his own life — and he wants the legal right to have a doctor take his life without fear of prosecution.

But this would [...]

Seven simple tips to reduce your risk of a deadly stroke

From Newsmax:

Stroke is the third-leading cause of death and also America’s biggest crippler. Every 45 seconds, someone in the U.S. is stricken.

How can you make sure stroke doesn’t happen to you? By taking action today, you can dramatically cut your risk of stroke, say top doctors.

“The bottom line is that stroke is preventable…

Read full article…

This Pill Could Add 11 Years To Your Life

A new multipurpose pill that reduces blood pressure and cholesterol while lowering a person’s risk of heart attack and stroke could ostensibly save thousands of lives a year, according to a new British study. The “polypill” is intended to make life remarkably easier for adults over age 50, and some doctors predict it could even be a game changer. Here’s what you need to know:

How does it work?
The “four-in-one pill,” [...]

Entire industry put out of business by stroke of Obama’s pen

A tiny amendment buried in the federal transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at midnight.

Robert Weissen, with his brothers and other partners, own nine Sin City Cigarette Factory locations in Southern Nevada, including six in Las Vegas, and one in Hawaii. He said when the bill is signed their only choice [...]

Totally sick and disgusting!! Son on the run after ‘getting his own MOTHER pregnant for the second time’

Hunt: Village chief Chinamhora is searching for the missing incestuous mother and son

A man is on the run in Zimbabwe after allegedly making his own mother pregnant for the second time.

Simon Matsvara and his mother Ethel Vhangare fled their home in Pote Village, Mashonaland Central province when members of their church group discovered she was expecting another child.

Just four years ago the pair, whose ages are unknown, were fined by village [...]

Saturated Fats Make People Dumber

Brian Fung
The Atlantic
May 22, 2012

Eating foods that are high in saturated fat — red meat, butter, and other animal products — clog your arteries and increase your risk for heart disease and stroke. Until now, that’s all we thought they did. Now it seems that saturated fats may also be linked to how efficiently our brains work.

In a paper published today in Annals of Neurology, a team of scientists analyzed [...]

Gerald Celente: It’s Absolutely Terrifying Where Society Is Headed

kingworldnews.com

KWN is giving readers and listeners globally an exclusive sneak peak into Gerald Celente’s Spring Trends Journal.  Gerald Celente is founder of Trends Research, and the man many consider to be the top trends forecaster in the world.  Celente also discussed some extraordinary firsthand accounts from the Nazi era during World War II.  Here is what Celente had to say:  “In this Trends Journal we outline, step by step, how our [...]

Top Ten States with the Highest Obesity Rates

1. West Virginia: 34.3 percent
2. Delaware: 33.6 percent
3. Mississippi: 32.1 percent
4. Louisiana: 31.2 percent
5. South Carolina: 30.6 percent
6. Indiana: 30.5 percent
7. North Dakota: 30.2 percent
8. Oklahoma: 30.2 percent
9. Kentucky: 29.9 percent
10. Ohio: 29.0 percent

http://www.naturalhomeandgarden.com/natural-health/top-10-least-and-most…

 

Researchers predict that, if current trends continue, more than half of all Americans will be obese by 2030, leading to a $66 billion increase in health care costs, 7.8 million new cases of diabetes and 6.8 million new [...]

BOOK: QUEEN VOWS TO HOLD CROWN — UNTIL DEATH

 

Sure, why not. Let’s have yet another biography of Elizabeth II, this one as she’s about to mark 60 years on the throne.

So what is new to justify Sally Bedell Smith’s massive “Elizabeth the Queen”? What is left to uncover, and what should be left uncovered and unknown in the life of this exemplary lady whose predetermined existence of regal obligation is yawningly unenviable, however bejeweled the box it comes in?

Smith’s [...]

BREAKING: NKorean leader Kim dead

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69.

Kim’s death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.

Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.

The leader, reputed [...]

REMINDER: The World Will End Tomorrow, October 21 – Harold Camping

Image: AP

In case you had forgotten (or made other plans), the world is supposed to end tomorrow.

 

The prognosticator who predicted that the world would end this spring, Harold Camping, has updated his forecast, and the new End Date is October 21.

In May, the world was supposed to end with a series of rolling earthquakes that began at 6PM in New Zealand (and then rolled through all the world’s time zones).

This time, Harold [...]

Latest Barrage Of Headlines From Europe: MERKEL SAYS NEXT EU SUMMIT IS `NOT THE END POINT’ FOR CRISIS

by ZH

Time for European headlines. Because we haven’t had any in about 3 minutes or so. Courtesy of Bloomberg, here is Angela Merkel doing her best channeling of Hank Paulson.

MERKEL SPEAKS AT TRICHET FAREWELL IN FRANKFURT

MERKEL SAYS EURO IS STABLE, HAS PROVED ITSELF IN TURBULENT TIME
MERKEL SAYS IF THE EURO FAILS, EUROPE FAILS
MERKEL SAYS EUROPE STANDS BEFORE SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES
MERKEL SAYS EUROPE MUST BE READY TO USE UNCONVENTIONAL TOOLS
MERKEL SAYS ‘WE [...]

No. 3 Dem Compares Debt Increase to Emancipation Proclamation

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC): “I’ve said time and time again, if the President gets up to August 2nd, without a piece of legislation, he should not allow this country to go into default. He should sign an Executive Order invoking the 14th Amendment and send that to all the governmental agencies for us to continue to pay our bills. He could do that with a [...]

Hosni Mubarak’s lawyer says ousted Egyptian president has suffered a stroke, is in a coma – AP

Report: Diabetes rate ‘double that of 1980?

Rates of diabetes have exploded in the past three decades, meaning an estimated 350 million people in the world now have the disease.

In almost every region of the planet diabetes prevalence has risen or at best remained unchanged, according to a major international study published in a special online report by The Lancet medical journal.

The condition, caused by poor blood sugar control, can lead to heart [...]

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – by Adam Curtis

It has been far too long since Adam Curtis’ last impressive instalment of his thought provoking three part series, that to many of his growing plethora of fans, Including myself, is a fascinating rabbit hole of innovative ideas and opinion pieces.

Plausible and creative, in the four years since his creation of that earlier three part series, The Trap, which you can view here at Chris Martenson.com, with [...]

The anti-social network: avoiding online darkness

“A 75-year-old Georgian woman who says she has never even heard of the internet is facing a possible prison sentence for single-handedly cutting off the web to an entire country… With one stroke, the pensioner plunged 90% of internet users in Armenia into online darkness for nearly 12 hours…

How fragile is the Internet? How vulnerable are the world’s businesses? Very much indeed…

“Research carried out in October [...]

WILD SUNDAY: Charl Schwartzel wins the Masters

via AP:

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods has shot a 5-under 67 in the final round of the Masters, going to the clubhouse trailing leader Adam Scott by one stroke.

Scott took the outright lead Sunday with a birdie at the 14th. All Woods could do was hope the others still on the course gave away strokes down the stretch.

It was [...]

Nice statistic: $3 trillion / 1.3 million jobs = 2.3 million per job created.

by Buzzbomb

Any stat that can actually improve without actually curing the problem it measures is fatally flawed.
Honestly we could actually add 0 jobs but, by subtracting millions from the workforce, the unemployment rate could appear we were all working.

This of course is why they have the statistic, so they can show how well they are doing when the rate drops.

I love how some on the board are [...]