* Four more people have been hospitalized in the Madrid outbreak including the nurse who cared for two now dead infected missionaries. It is not known if the four are infected or merely exposed as of this writing ( Read more... )

* "How India's sanitation crisis affects women:"

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* Today Congress voted to kick 1.3 million people off unemployment three days after Christmas causing massive human misery and doing even more damage to the economy as Republicans believe that we need to punish the people who lost their jobs because of the Bush economic crash and anyway, that money is better spent on keeping payments to Doctors ( Read more... )

* I know I haven't said anything abut the serious stuff happening in Iraq, Egypt, and Israel, but I'm really not doing well physically and am not up to the research involved in untangling competing claims and versions of events let alone formulating an intelligent opinion. My apologies.

* Marriage equality spreads, GOP goes anti-gay:

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* "Comment: Et tu Maldives?:" http://minivannews.com/politics/comment-et-tu-maldives-72021Read more... )

* Best of luck to the people of Maldives on the occasion of their much delayed election ( Read more... )

* A devastating super typhoon hit the Philippines. They think 10,000 are missing from one town alone. Six Islands were hit and as of Sunday morning they had no clear idea of the number of dead and missing, given the area still flooded and a whole lot of places are cut off entirely ( Read more... )

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* Republicans proud of their plan to literally starve children:

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* In Kenya there are protests because the men who ganged raped a teenaged girl so brutally that she is now in a wheel chair got a sentence of having to mow the police station grass: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24755318Read more... )