52 days ago by Sean Ecker

Assistance from around the world is arriving in the western city of Padang, Sumatra in Indonesia as time runs out for the thousands of people believed still trapped underneath buildings and houses after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck 30 September. The official death toll exceeds 1,100 according t ...

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53 days ago by goinhome

The city morgue. CNN Money today ran a report on a Detroit morgue where bodies were beginning to pile up from various results of the recession. Without jobs, people cannot afford a cremation, let alone the cost of a traditional burial. So, they leave the bodies at the city morgue, where - eventually ...

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53 days ago by Linda Luke

As I turned on the TV this afternoon, CNN was tuned in and I just listened for a second before I turned it off again. It was a story about the unclaimed dead people laying in morgues across this country.

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90 days ago by sakerfa

Authorities are preparing to seize children from schools, set up quarantines and morgues, conduct mass vaccinations, and deal with riots and unrest, according to an international swine flu summit recently held in Washington DC which was attended by distinguished scientists, industry leaders and top ...

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118 days ago by goodtimepolitics

The county morgue, which is responsible for the indigent and others who go unclaimed, saw a 25% increase in cremations in the first half of this year over the same period a year ago, rising to 680 from 545. The demands on the county crematorium have been so high that earlier this year, officials the ...

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121 days ago by blumun

Dice el presidente de la CEOE : "El Gobierno miente", se refiere a Zapatero, pues vaya novedad señor Díaz Ferrán. Para llegar a esa conclusión no hacía falta ir a esas reuniones tan pesadas. Nosotros desde casa hace tiempo que lo sabemos. Cada vez más nos parecemos a esos países bananeros, pero a ve ...

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130 days ago by Verndewd

Day 31 Iranian Revolution: "hundreds of unidentified dead bodies are piling up in Tehran’s morgues" Repeatedly on twitter: Today, tomorrow and even on Friday the answer is democracy and not theocracy "Iran can set off a bomb within six months" Stern magazine A nuke in the hands of brutal savages. Th ...

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136 days ago by Ben Lando

By reporters for the Institute for War & Peace Reporting Iraqi gays are being targeted and killed in what rights campaigners say is some of the worst violence against the community in recent years. At least 68 gay and transgendered men have been killed over the last four months, according to the Lon ...

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187 days ago by itsmrlexx2you

Lately, I’ve been listening to the pulse of Americans, knowing that as citizens stir restlessly in their beds, they are trying to come to grips with the “falling of America.” How do I know this? Because… (and I’m not ashamed to admit it) it’s what I’m doing, too… If you believe everything you see on ...

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200 days ago by itsmrlexx2you

There’s an ugly rumor going around… That those screw-ups at FEMA (with some help from DHS) are slowly sneaking “hidden” confinement buildings into your town. In fact, if you believe the rumor, it’s been done 3,000 times already. 3,000 times! Now, because I’m such a nice guy, and I’m worried about yo ...

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