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Suicide top cause of death among 15-34 years old (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2009-09-04 10:57 Suicide has become the primary death cause among people 15-34 years old in China, Deng Xiaohong, vice director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Health, said on Thursday, the Chongqing Evening News reported Friday. Deng announced the finding a few days before World Suicide Prevention Day which falls on September 10. Deng said suicide has become the fifth cause of death for Chinese people, with a suicide rate of 22.2 per 100,000 people. Roughly 2.25 million people attempt suicide in China each year, while 250,000 die from...

Jones quoted in 1995 book: "As scary as people thought gangsta rap was, it's nothing compared to young people using hip-hop to express what they're going through and targeting the people who are really responsible." "I don't believe the power of the people can be confined to the ballot box. We need to be about the whup-ass. Somebody's f***ing up somewhere. They have names and job descriptions. You have to be creative about how you engage the enemy..."

President Barack Obama and the U. S. Department of Education’s plan to address school children nationwide in the classroom has sparked an incredible amount of impassioned controversy and sent those who support the President’s classroom invasion to the internet scrambling to find examples of Republican’s who may have committed the same onerous act. The presumptive reason for the frenzy being the ability for Obama’s supporters to say, “You did it now we can, too” or “Hey, it was okay then, but it’s not now”, or look “Two wrongs do make a right.” Which will most certainly be followed by cries...

With each passing day we see mounting proof that President Obama and his White House really haven't a clue about modern medicine. Doctors all across the nation are finally starting to realize this, too. Cardiologists and Oncologists, for instance, are beginning to understand that President Obama and his takeover of our healthcare system is based on power and not service to patients. Bloomberg is reporting that a group of Cardiologists and Oncologists are protesting the planed Medicare cuts in their services. The "Medicare proposal, announced July 1, slashes projected spending for care by cardiologists and oncologists by more than 10...

The Obama administration says it will release names of most visitors to the White House, starting at the end of this year. Information on visitors in the first eight months of his administration will remain secret — unless you know which names to ask for. The White House called the release of information "voluntary," continuing to argue the Bush administration's position that full disclosure is not required by the Freedom of Information Act. After being sued twice by a nonprofit organization seeking the records, the Obama administration said Friday it will post the visitor logs online. The release will be...

The United Farm Workers union wants to enshrine in law a new way for potential members to vote in representation. For years now, the UFW has tried to push Sacramento to OK a plan to allow potential union members to cast their vote away from their workplace. The union claims that if union representatives can visit possible members at their homes to gather their vote it will prevent farm owners from “intimidating” their workers out of casting a yes vote. But, the truth is that this will give the union representatives full reign to themselves be the intimidators. Not only...

While an administration official told ABC News that controversial White House official Van Jones signature on a 2004 petition suggesting that the Bush administration let 9/11 happen in order to justify war was because he did not carefully review the language in the petition, another link between Jones and the Truther Movement has emerged... ... in March 2002, a march in San Francisco was called to demand a congressional inquiry into 9/11. Jones was on the "organizing committee." ...

Annual Second Amendment Tax Free Holiday Posted: Sep 3, 2009 06:44 PM Updated: Sep 3, 2009 06:47 PM Second Amendment Tax Holiday A state senator is trying to boost the Louisiana economy by giving hunting and outdoor enthusiasts, a tax break. Louisiana state senator Robert Marinneaux is calling it the "Second Amendment Weekend Holiday," it's a tax break the senator created to allow families to save money, boost retailers sales, and help the economy of this sportsman's paradise. Sasha Lambert is no stranger to firearms. "My dad and I come every time I'm in town to practice for personal protection...

Well, since we're heading into a 3 day weekend (for most), I thought I'd give you options for fun.... Sept 3rd is Skyscraper Day Sept 4th is Newspaper Carrier Day"I want my $2 dollars!! Sept 5 is Be Late for Something Day Or Cheese Pizza Day Sept 6th is Fight Procrastination Day Or Read a Book Day And of course, Sept 7th is Labor Day ENJOY!!!!

The magazine Vanity Fair opted to open up the fall season featuring another groundbreaking interview with Levi Johnston, a young man whose previous claims to fame included a decisive slap shot in hockey, the ability to navigate a snow machine over rough terrain, and sufficient spermatozoa to impregnate the daughter of a vice presidential candidate. The punditocracy and their associated acolytes across the web immediately fell into predictable patterns of applause and outrage. You may recall that during the Battle of Ought Eight, Levi was held up — albeit somewhat reluctantly — as a hero of traditional American values. Rather...

What looks like CPU-Z data on one of AMD’s Magny-Cours 12-core server processors has popped up on the internet today.

"Most of the people who die in police custody die not from drugs or some mysterious syndrome but from police abuse," says Van Jones, executive director of the Ella Baker Human Rights Center in San Francisco. "Officers choose to escalate confrontations and use force when dealing with disturbed and excited people." Jones points out that many of the cases cited as prime examples of excited delirium or sudden in-custody death syndrome involve gross police misconduct and extreme violence....it’s just very, very hard for white people to hear the pain of the subjugated people in this country......But white supremacy, to use...

Walt Williams subs.

Churches and whole dioceses have left the Episcopal Church since the 2003 consecretation of an openly gay bishop brought a lonstanding divide over homosexuality within the nation's sixth-largest Protestant denomination out into the open. But on Thursday, 10 Episcopal nuns from a Catonsville convent took what scholars say is the unprecedented step of joining the Catholic Church. At a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, each vowed to continue their tradition of consecrated life, now as a religious institute within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. "We know our beliefs and where we are," Mother Christina Christie, superior of All Saints...

Here’s a conundrum for ya, America needs consumers to spend in order to support this consumer based economy everyone knows that right? Also people need jobs in order to earn money to spend which in turn supports this consumer driven economy. Ironically American jobs are what is needed to stimulate this consumer based economy. (see related story) Now that idea must be a surprise to someone in American because for decades corporations (that went international) outsourced American jobs to foreign countries because the American worker was too costly to their bottom lines. Understand, the American worker was just not allowing...

One can see a grassroots revolution in America in three places: The "tea parties" in the public square, the noisy "town hall" meetings between congressmen, senators and their constituents, and the abandonment of evangelical churches by the teens. These three represent most extraordinary developments, the like of which I have never seen during my lifetime. One might see an obvious connection between the tea parties and town halls but what has that to do with the teen walk-out? Many think there is no connection. I think there is a connection. This may be the most daring leap of pattern recognition...

Job Market Competition Unemployed per Job Posting How hard is it to find a job in your city? Here's the number of unemployed per job posting for the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the U.S.

Interest groups on both sides of the issue are buying ads linked to popular Google search terms. Type in "death panels," and you're likely to see an ad by Obama's team debunking the claim. Reporting from Washington - Liberals were disgusted when Sarah Palin warned that President Obama wanted "death panels" in his healthcare overhaul. They called it a deliberate deception and a despicable tactic. But the term went viral. And now two groups that favor the legislation, including Obama's own grass-roots organizing network, are trying to turn the phrase to their benefit. Search Google for "death panels," and often...

A week after the 9/11 attacks, a young Muslim at South Alabama University told the school's newspaper it was "difficult to believe a Muslim could have done this." Now, eight years later, he is professing to launch attacks himself and calling on others to join the fight, as terror-related charges await him at home in Alabama, FOX News has learned exclusively.

As the health care debate rages, many conservatives have correctly argued that government-run “universal care” will lead to medical rationing. To control costs, the socialized health systems of Canada and Great Britain routinely restrict patients’ access to expensive services. A Canadian with a possible brain tumor might wait months for his government-approved MRI scan, whereas an American can receive one within days. Liberals will typically counter that a free market is just “another form of rationing” — but by price rather than government decree. It is unjust, they say, that patients with money (or good insurance) can receive MRI scans...