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Purified water is now a reality to local Iraqis with the opening of a new water treatment plant Feb 5. Capt. Brian McCarthy, commander, Troop B, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and Hussein Jabor, mayor of Al Muhawil, listen to Numan Dahr describe the plant's capabilities. Pfc. Michael Molinaro • Printer-friendly version • E-mail this article • New water treatment plant brings hope to Iraqi villageBy Pfc. Michael Molinaro February 7, 2006 AL MUHAWIL, Iraq (Army News Service, Feb. 7, 2006) – In the Al Muhawil muhallah, located about 54 miles south...

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican clinic where Coretta Scott King died has been closed, U.S. Embassy officials said Friday. Mexican officials were not immediately available to explain why the Santa Monica Health Institute in the Mexican beach resort of Rosarito, 16 miles south of San Diego, was shut. Judith Bryan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, said the U.S. consulate in Tijuana was helping patients find new facilities. King last week traveled to the beachside clinic. She was seeking treatment for advanced stage ovarian cancer and a stroke she suffered several months ago. The clinic specializes...

JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon's doctors faced new criticism Thursday for failing to divulge a brain disease discovered after the prime minister's initial stroke and for prescribing blood thinners that may have contributed to a massive second stroke. The criticism added to a growing chorus of questions about Sharon's treatment. Some experts, however, said there was no clear-cut answer. As Sharon lay comatose for an eighth day Thursday, a brain scan showed the remnants of the blood in his brain from a Jan. 4 stroke have been absorbed, hospital officials said in a statement. In response, doctors removed a tube they...

WASHINGTON – Congress sent President Bush a ban on harsh treatment of foreign terrorism suspects in U.S. custody and directed him to send lawmakers quarterly reports on Iraq as it completed a voluminous bill Wednesday that rebuffed some of his war policies. The Senate approved the measure on a voice vote and Bush was considered certain to sign it. That would be a reversal for a White House that initially threatened to veto any bill limiting how the United States detains, interrogates or prosecutes terror suspects. Bush reluctantly endorsed the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign detainees...

Has anyone ever seen CAIR telling the American Muslims to document instances of extremism and exhortation to mass murder happening in their own communities? Is it just me or CAIR's efforts in defending 'Civil Rights' seem to work only one way?WASHINGTON - Muslim-Americans trying to re-enter the United States after international travel should record instances in which they're singled out as security risks, a civil rights group said Tuesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked traveling Muslims to record any examples of excessive security checks or fingerprinting when returning from a religious conference in Canada this weekend or from the...

WASHINGTON - Muslim-Americans trying to re-enter the United States after international travel should record instances in which they're singled out as security risks, a civil rights group said Tuesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked traveling Muslims to record any examples of excessive security checks or fingerprinting when returning from a religious conference in Canada this weekend or from the annual hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, next month. Last year, three dozen Muslim-American men and women were searched, questioned, fingerprinted and photographed without explanation at two western New York border crossings after returning from a from an Islamic conference in...

This describes it typically, the "payback" of a 'Palestinian' patient, From Patient to Suicide Bomber When she's also using that sick excuse of the notorious Arab boy, which -- as turned out -- was only a "Palestinian" stunt & was in fact murdered by Arabs! - The Israeli Crime That Wasn’t) Video - Palestinian patient tried to blow up in the Israeli hospital where she was treated. "Palestinian" woman that wanted to blow up the very hospital was treated in. SUICIDE BOMBER WANNABE: Wafa al-Biri, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, attempted to kill the doctor who had saved her life. But...

NEW ORLEANS (NNS) -- Medical staff on board USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) and local New Orleans physicians began treating trauma patients aboard the hospital ship Oct. 3 in a landmark partnership between the Navy and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Defense and the supervisory health government organization within the state of Louisiana is a resource-sharing partnership to conduct humanitarian assistance/disaster relief operations. The agreement is designed to help smooth the transition going from shipboard health care to civilian health care in local hospitals throughout the city of New Orleans....

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2005 – Most Americans take running water for granted. Not so for some residents near Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk. Before January 2005, they had never had running water. The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence didn't start out on a humanitarian mission when it contracted with Environmental Chemical Corporation International to renovate and construct Kirkuk Military Base, also referred to as "K1." Officials with Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq set out to supply 40 company, brigade and battalion headquarters facilities and 30 barracks for the new Iraqi army. The base included auditoriums, classrooms, firing ranges,...

ELLINGTON FIELD, Texas -- The Texas Air National Guard stood up Task Force Compassion here to provide Hurricane Rita evacuees medical support and to evacuate non-critical patients from overburdened local hospitals. Task force Airmen and Soldiers began setting up a 10-bed medical treatment facility overnight in Ellington’s abandoned base exchange and opened for business Sept. 26. The treatment facility has 47 medics from the 147th Medical Group here, the 149th MG at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, the 136th MG at Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth and the Army National Guard Support Medical Battalion in San Antonio. “If...

Doctors reverse historic right-to-life rulingBy Times Online and agencies The General Medical Council won its appeal today against a court ruling which enabled terminally-ill patients to force doctors to give them life-saving nutrition where there is a disagreement over treatment. Leslie Burke, 45, who has a degenerative brain condition, won a ruling last year in the High Court to stop doctors withdrawing food and drink. But today a panel of three judges headed by Master of the Rolls Lord Phillips set aside the decision of Mr Justice Munby, which was hailed as a landmark for terminally-ill patients at the time....

I want to tell you about Private Stephen Tschiderer, a 20-year-old Army medic of the 265th Brigade Combat team. While on patrol in Baghdad on July 2, insurgent snipers stalked the soldier by videotaping him from a nearby van. This footage would later prove Tschiderer's valor. Within seconds of walking away from his Hummer, he was shot in the chest above the heart. Tschiderer goes down — but immediately pops back up, fires back, and runs back behind the Hummer. From behind the Hummer, he signals the snipers' hiding spot to his unit. The 265th disabled the insurgents — including...

Maggot Treatment Saves Mich. Woman's Foot Sun Jul 24, 9:38 AM ET BAY CITY, Mich. - Barbara Enser wasn't very comfortable at first with the idea of using maggots to clean the wound on her right foot. But if it meant saving it from amputation, she was willing to give it a try. The 57-year-old Bay City woman was diagnosed with diabetes 40 years ago and subsequently lost her left leg to the disease. She also suffers from neuropathy, meaning she has no feeling in her foot or leg, and ulcers or wounds can develop from constantly putting pressure on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Guantanamo Bay interrogators degraded and abused a key prisoner but did not torture him when they told him he was gay, forced him to dance with another man and made him wear a bra and perform dog tricks, military investigators said on Wednesday. The general who heads Southern Command, responsible for the jail for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, also said he rejected his investigators' recommendation to punish a former commander of the prison. A military report presented before the Senate Armed Services Committee stated a Saudi man, described as...

It is perhaps not as widely known as it ought to be—in light of the hyperventilating criticism of our alleged treatment of detainees at the U.S. military’s detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba—that there has never been a single death recorded at the center known by the military as “GTMO” (pronounced gitmo). It is perhaps also not as widely known that many of the detainees at GTMO do not complain of their treatment. In fact, many detainees report that conditions at GTMO are better than those they suffered fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq prior to their being captured:...

or all the grief America is suffering over Guantanamo Bay, U.S. soldiers there might as well have flushed 1,001 Korans down 1,001 toilets — live on Al-Jazeera TV. Newsweek's May 15 retraction of its false and deadly Koran-in-the-can story has worked as well as a severed brake line in slowing calls by Democrats (and some wobbly Republicans) to padlock the terrorist detention facility. Illinois's Dick Durbin, the U.S. Senate's No. 2 Democrat, infamously compared Gitmo to the Soviet Gulag, Nazi concentration camps, and the Khmer Rouge's killing fields, despite the base's paucity of firing squads, gas chambers, or neatly stacked...

After speaking with soldiers, sailors, and civilians who collectively staff the Joint Task Force - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on my recent visit to that base, I left convinced that abuse definitely exists at the detention facilities. But not the slander and hyperbole about alleged mistreatment of the unlawful combatants confined there that we've all heard. There is far more serious abuse: the relentless, merciless attacks on American servicemen and women by these same terrorist thugs. Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity. They attack guards whenever the soldiers enter their cells, trying to reach up...

We worry a lot about image here in the United States. The old adage, “Keeping up with the Joneses” has exploded into the absurd. I suppose we – as a society – stepped through the doorway marked “shallow and innocuous” in the early Eighties when our gullibility only depleted our pocket books. Then we believed that blue jeans could actually be some sort of status symbol. The price for vanity in 1980-something was $65 for a pair of fake French designer jeans and $120 for a counterfeit Rolex. Today, the price for being “shallow and innocuous” may be a bit...

There is no doubt that the Internet has opened up a whole new way of communication for everyone who can access it. Email, websites, digital downloads; what used to take days if not weeks to communicate through letters and photographs can now be done in less that thirty seconds. So, it is curious how anyone can still be “played” by the disingenuous when it comes to ideological propaganda. Last week, Amnesty International went to great pains to orchestrate a few well-attended press conferences. At each of these media events they repeated the same baseless allegation: The United States of America...

Amnesty International's latest report didn't denounce conditions for U.S. troops captured and held in detention facilities in Iraq. That's because, as far as anyone knows, there are no camps for American prisoners of war in Iraq. According to Pentagon sources, there is only one U.S. soldier listed as missing-captured in Iraq. Sgt. Keith Maupin, 21, has been missing since April 2004. Terrorists in Iraq don't take prisoners. They fight to kill. Larry Greer, spokesman for the Pentagon's POW/MIA office, noted that while there is no way of knowing how the terrorists would treat U.S. detainees, it is clear how they...

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret. PETA kills animals. By the thousands. From July 1998 through the end of 2003, PETA killed over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals" -- at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. That's more than five defenseless animals every day. Not counting the dogs and cats PETA spayed and neutered, the group put...

If you’re an "undocumented" illegal immigrant, and you need medical attention–well, get on the "gravy train" for free healthcare compliments of our government, and struggling taxpayers to the tune of $1 billion smackeroos, set aside for your medical costs in six states. There’s only one small hurdle, but I’m sure you’ve already had a lot of practice in getting past the hurdle before. It is quite simple: just don’t admit that you’re an illegal immigrant. And to help you beat the system, and get by with your illegal activity–congress has ordered the "don’t ask" policy to hospital staffs throughout the...

Multibillionaire philanthropist George Soros is seeking $20 million from the city of Baltimore, Md., to continue his Open Society Institute (OSI) project in the city, the Balitimore Sun reported April 27. If the city delivers the full $20 million, Soros has offered to put up the remaining $10 million needed to keep the program alive for five more years. The Baltimore branch of OSI focuses primarily on addiction treatment, criminal justice, workforce development, education and youth development, and justice access. It opened in 1998 and has raised the number of addicts being treated from 16,000 in 1999 to 24,000 in...

In reading Letters to the Editor in many newspapers, I find that there are many people who try to compare the Terrorist war with WWII and want us to treat captured terrorists the same way we treated German POWs in the 40s. As a WWII combat veteran, I can state that with all previous wars, we had national, uniformed nations fighting each other. Even with bombings, civilians had sufficient warnings so that they could escape to bomb shelters whether in London or Berlin. Prisoners of war were treated with the Geneva accords in mind. Today none of this “gentlemen’s war”...

Hundreds more heroin addicts will be able to get the drug free on the National Health Service under a Government programme. Pilot schemes starting in June will expand the number of long-term addicts given injectable heroin if they fail to respond to other treatments such as methadone. Ministers have been advised by drug treatment specialists that the introduction of "heroin clinics" in Switzerland and Holland during the 1990s significantly reduced drug-related crime and other social problems. But members of communities in south London and Manchester, where the pilot schemes will be conducted, are unhappy at the prospect of up to...

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Please see: http://www.jasonlvandyke.com/liberal1.htm This is an article I wrote on PETA for all who are interested. Its public domain; feel free to distribute it or publish it anywhere.

Here we go again... According to Matt Drudge (who scoops the bastards every time) 60 Minutes is planning a hatchet job on Tom Delay. Let's be prepared for the bogus story even before it comes out this time. Remember, the (Dem) Travis County DA said he has no intention of indicting Tom Delay for anything. Reported by CBS News, no less: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is about to get the full 60 MINUTES treatment. CBSNEWS Lesley Stahl and her crew crashed a tsunami-relief photo op that Republican DeLay held last week. Stahl hit DeLay with questions about Ronnie Earle,...

To people who have struggled for a lifetime to lose weight, the new drug called rimonabant sounds like a dream come true. It will make a person uninterested in fattening foods, they have heard from news reports and word of mouth. Weight will just melt away, and fat accumulating around the waist and abdomen will be the first to go. And by the way, those who take it will end up with higher levels of H.D.L., the good cholesterol. If they smoke, they will find it easier to quit. If they are heavy drinkers, they will no longer crave alcohol.

Your Old Inkjet Printer Could Aid Burn Victims Susannah Patton, CIO Dec. 2, 2004 Looking for a place to toss your old inkjet printers? A team of scientists working to create human tissue may have a good use for them. Inkjets that are ten years old, they say, are perfectly suited to create sheets of human skin and other tissue that one day may help burn victims and even manufacture organs. Vladimir Mironov, director of the Shared Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, is one of the scientists who has rigged Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet printers...

I've just returned from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Naval Air Station base where we did three shows for the troops and toured several locations around the post visiting with some of the finest military personnel on planet earth. The kids seemed to really enjoy the shows and especially liked "This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag" and "In America". We had a great time with them. We saw Camp X-Ray, where the Taliban detainees are being held only from a distance, but I picked up a lot of what's going on there from talking with a lot of different people....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A day after hundreds of protesters objected to closing the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, the county released findings that treatment at the center is "poor to marginal." The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, which runs King/Drew, released a one-page executive summary Tuesday that described the findings by two trauma experts. A full report is due in about two weeks. The timing of the findings was questioned by some supporters of the trauma center, which serves a poor stretch of South Los Angeles and serves victims of gunshot wounds, stabbings...

Favorable Treatment: Let’s Get The Facts Straight Claim: Some of have charged that George W. Bush “leaped ahead” of 100,000 other people on waiting lists to join the National Guard. They say this proves he used influence and received favorable treatment as a result. Truth: This is fallacious at best. There may have been 100,000 on waiting lists across the whole country in all 50 states at the time, but not in the Texas Air National Guard, which is where Bush signed up. It is like walking into a grocery store and finding an empty line, but someone says...

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/5/123346.shtml Clinton in Hospital's Luxury Wing Ex-President Bill Clinton is living in the lap of luxury while awaiting a quadruple heart bypass operation scheduled for early next week. The ex-prez is holed up inside a special wing inside New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, where red carpert treatment is the order of the day for VIP patients. Citizen Clinton is whiling away the hours in a posh private room at the hospital's exclusive McKeen Pavilion, the New York Post reported Sunday, where patients enjoy carpeted suites and sitting rooms, along with complimentary high tea, food prepared by a gourmet chef...

Controversial study suggests treatment should factor in the patient's ethnic group. A heart drug being tested in black patients is on course to become the first medicine approved for use in a specific ethnic group, challenging those scientists who believe that race is a bad basis for prescriptions. The drug, made by Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company NitroMed, was abandoned after a trial in the 1980s produced unimpressive results. But, because the data hinted at differences between white and black patients' responses, in 2001 NitroMed decided to carry out a further clinical trial using only African Americans. This week NitroMed announced that...

BANGKOK, Thailand -- France accused the United States of "blackmail" tactics to pressure poor countries into ceding rights to make cheap generic HIV drugs, while the AIDS Conference issued a stirring call Monday to get more medicine to millions of needy in the developing world. "A vicious terrorist is out there. It is not Osama bin Laden, it is AIDS," Hollywood actor Richard Gere told the conference. "The biggest threat to our livelihood, our happiness is AIDS." A U.S. official denied the French allegation as "nonsense," while conference delegates lamented World Health Organization figures that show only about 7 percent...

COLUMBUS, Ohio Getting an 8-month-old Iraqi girl to Ohio for free medical treatment for a possibly fatal growth in her neck required a maze of phone calls, paperwork and e-mails that one Army doctor described as an "octopus." After arriving with her mother by military cargo plane, doctors were examining Fatemah Hassan on Thursday to confirm a diagnosis and decide on treatment, said Pam Barber, spokeswoman for Children's Hospital in Columbus. Army doctors believed the baby has a cavernous hemangioma, an abnormally dense group of blood vessels that in her case has become so large that it could restrict her...

The events of February 28, 1969 that lead to Senator John F. Kerry being awarded the Silver Star is analyzed. Action by Lt.(jg) Kerry on the 28th of February can be broken into two distinct combat engagements, which I will refer to as events A and B.Event A consisted of a three swift boats whose mission was to insert some 70 VN Marines (Kerry tells of 70 VN's, while Zumwalt mentions 30 VN troops per boat in the first Silver Star citation) for the purpose of sweeping an area where small arms fire were encountered by the same three...

Soldiers' Warnings Ignored Failures: The blame for what happened at Abu Ghraib goes far beyond the military police, intelligence soldiers say. "May 9, 2004 WIESBADEN, Germany - The two military intelligence soldiers, assigned interrogation duties at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, were young, relatively new to the Army and had only one day of training on how to pry information from high-value prisoners. But almost immediately on their arrival in Iraq, say the two members of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, they recognized that what was happening around them was wrong, morally and legally..."

<p>The future of heart disease treatment is coming into focus with a growing emphasis on potent drug cocktails that fight obesity, help smokers quit, ease inflammation and restore a healthy blood-cholesterol balance.</p> <p>The shift may arrive in time for many aging baby boomers, doctors say, with several promising drugs undergoing pivotal tests in humans.</p>

Starting sometime in June, Pinellas County residents will, for all intents and purposes, be compelled to ingest a product used in rat poison which will be added to their domestic water supply. The addition of fluoride to the water supply is not meant to make the water supply safe to drink, but rather, will be added to the water supply because some folks in government have taken it upon themselves to make a medical decision ... This forced ingestion of an identifiable substance for its alleged health benefits would appear to violate what Michael Schiavo’s lawyer might claim is a...

Educating Whitney Determined mother saves her youngest child from a dismal diagnosis Monday, January 19, 2004 Dennis Fiely THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The heart of a mother coupled with the mind of a scientist made a miracle. Speech-language pathologist Cheri L. Florance waged a years-long war against selfdoubt, exhaustion and school administrators to conquer her toughest case: that of her severely mentally retarded son, John Whitney Conway. ''There were many nights when I fell asleep crying and woke up crying," said Florance, 55, during an interview from her Worthington home. ''I was worried, scared and not sure what the next step...

The nation's drug czar spent Tuesday touring a Reno drug treatment facility that's a model for others nationwide. John Walters is the Director of National Drug Control Policy. He visited the "Step Two" Lighthouse of the Sierra drug program. "Step Two" provides shelter, food and clothing to women recovering from drug problems. The program could receive more funding under President Bush's "Access to Recovery" treatment initiative. The federal plan would let abusers choose their treatment program. Walters commended Lighthouse staff, executives and clients. In his words, "For those who believe the drug problem just gets worse, it's time to look...

Bayan, a Kurdish-Iraqi week-old infant with a deadly heart defect, will be brought to Israel in the coming days for an operation, thanks to the help of Israeli doctors, international human rights workers, Foreign Ministry officials, and their American and Iraqi counterparts, The Jerusalem Post learned Monday. Until the American army liberated Iraq in April, Israel was technically at war with Iraq – a country whose former leader, Saddam Hussein, rarely missed an opportunity to call for the destruction of the Jewish state. The move could be a harbinger of future informal contacts between Israel and the fledgling democratic Iraq....

<p>VaxGen's experimental AIDS vaccine couldn't block HIV infection among volunteers in Thailand, the Brisbane company said Wednesday, in another blow for the closely scrutinized drug.</p> <p>The vaccine, dubbed AIDSVAX, had no noticeable effect on infection rates among the 2,546 intravenous drug users in Bangkok who volunteered for the study. Nor did it slow the disease's progress among volunteers who took the vaccine and later contracted HIV.</p>

Just heard on Linda Vester's show a bit of "breaking news". She stated that they had just heard in that Rush Limbaugh will be back on the air starting next week. Nothing further at this time...

The word's out on the street. People addicted to heroin or prescription painkillers are passing the word. There's a new treatment where you don't have to go through such a miserable withdrawal. It sounds too good to be true. Some are calling it a "miracle drug."...(snip) "The vast majority of patients - especially if they've been through withdrawal before - expect four days of hell," says Dr. Rick Caesar, Serenity Lane's medical co-director. Over the last two months, he has treated close to 30 patients using the new drug. After going through withdrawal with it, he says, most "can't believe...

GOING TOO FAR by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher September 22, 2003 For some, it's love of the game. For others, it's an opportunity to get away for two or three hours to watch athletes at the top of their game doing what they do best. For players, it's a dream come true, getting paid to do what they did in the playground as a kid. For fans, it's a chance to relive their childhood as they take their children or just some friends to whatever game they're watching.However, in the last couple of years, I've had to ask myself...

Daily Affirmation Sunday, September 14, 2003 First, my prayer allows my good today. Then, my mind rests in prayer over time. Ultimately, I gently build my awareness of the glory of God as me, one simple prayer at a time. -- Connee Chandler, RScP

Source: Penn State Date: 2003-09-01 Discovery Of 'Hot Pepper' Receptor In Heart May Explain Chest Pain, Lead To New TreatmentsThe secret to heart attack chest pain may be on the tip of your tongue. Although they may seem unlikely bedfellows, Penn State College of Medicine researchers found evidence to suggest that the same type of nerve receptors that register the burning sensation from hot peppers in the mouth may cause the sensation of chest pain from a heart attack. "Our study is the first to demonstrate that the 'hot pepper' receptor exists on the heart and may be responsible for...