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Umbertino...thank you. Not sure how many folks here know what Chick Corea is. Love his music. And for you others...no it's not a chick.

He won't be controlling anything in the coming days once the new Cabinet is formed. What a joke this man is. Remember, he owns the television and news media so he can print what he wants. I'm sure...his body will end up on an aircraft carrier...similar to Bin Laden. I have no doubt. He will be taken out...or not really. Taken to a place where the PTB want him to be there forever.

Well they can remove it if they don't want it here. I was just posting the details because most of us don't like to click on a link. We just want to read. Thanks Umbertino.

You make no sense. HCL was a part of what the Kurds were fighting for with Mailki. Nothing is dropped. Have you lost your marbles?

Thuggie. I smell it.

Oh Tlar....not more pumping...

I thought the HCL had to do with the Kurds receiving their portion of the oil sales? The Kurds have fought the HCL proposed by Maliki for years. What makes this guy decide what the HCL is going to be? I'm not sure this is part of the HCL.

DT what is that? The link took me to the telegraph.

Like every other medic trying to fight the spread of west Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak, Dr Melvin Korkor knows the importance of reassuring a panicking public. Despite its high fatality rate, and the belief that it is the work of witchcraft, his message is that victims may well pull through if they are treated early enough. Yet when he tells that to fellow Liberians these days, one thing gives him a unique credibility in winning them over. For not only did Dr Korkor come down with Ebola himself recently, he lived to tell the tale. He revealed his remarkable story of survival in an interview with The Telegraph at Phebe Hospital in Liberia's remote Bong County, where an outbreak of the virus last month saw him and five nurses rushed to an isolation unit in the capital, Monrovia. The virus had hit the hospital after a woman suffering diarrhoea came in for treatment, lying to staff about the fact that she was from neighbouring Lofa County, where the Ebola outbreak has been at its worst. By the time she died three days later, it was already too late. Dr Melvin Korkor (Will Wintercross/The Telegraph) Related Articles Ebola patients flee as armed men raid Liberia clinic 17 Aug 2014 Suspected Ebola patient from Nigeria tested in Spain hospital 17 Aug 2014 One patient in a 200-bed hospital: how Ebola has devastated Liberia's health system 15 Aug 2014 Ebola outbreak: WHO go-ahead for untested vaccine 13 Aug 2014 Ebola outbreak is 'overwhelming Liberia's health services' 12 Aug 2014 Spanish missionary priest with the virus dies 12 Aug 2014 "By then, some of the nurses who had treated her had come down with a very high fever," said Dr Korkor, 42, who is now on three month's leave. "They were tested for Ebola and confirmed positive. I knew I had had interaction with the patient and the nurses myself, and so I asked for one of my blood samples to be sent for testing too. "I also started having unusual feelings myself – low grade fever, nausea, and loss of appetite. It felt a bit like malaria, but I knew that within myself that something was not normal." When he was summonsed to the offices of Phebe's medical director to be told the results, his worst fears were confirmed. But Dr Korkor knew that while the virus has a mortality rate of 60-90 per cent, those who treat the symptoms early – a matter of keeping the body well-watered and nourished – improve their survival chances. "I asked the hospital to get an ambulance to take me to Monrovia," he said. "Then I told my wife get me a Bible and nothing else. She started to cry, but I told her 'no crying, I am coming back'." Phebe Hospital (Will Wintercross/The Telegraph) On arrival at Monrovia's Elwa Hospital, Dr Korkor was assessed again at a hermetically sealed unit where patients are treated by medics in boiler suits, goggles and masks. He was checked into the bed of a patient that had just died. What followed was a lonely, frightening experience. While each patient had their own private cubicle, Dr Korkor knew his colleagues were losing the fight. It was then that he began putting his faith in ancient scripture as well as modern medicine, reading Psalm 91 from his Bible, which refers to how God will protect his followers from "noisome pestilence" and "any plague come nigh thy dwelling". Four days in, he was tested again. This time it was negative. "It was like being reborn," he said. The ordeal was not quite over, however. Upon his discharge, he returned to Bong County, where he found other people quite literally avoiding him "like the plague". As he told a local radio station: "Thanks to God, I am cured. But now I have a new disease: the stigmatisation that I am a victims of." It is precisely that sort of public misunderstanding that Dr Korkor is now trying to correct, aware that the more the fear and ignorance surrounding Ebola, the more it will spread unchecked. It has already claimed more than 1,000 lives across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Hence Dr Korkor's visit to his local church last Sunday, where he gave a speech about how he survived his ordeal. In a country of devout Christians, the tale of a man who all but risen from the dead has no shortage of resonance. But while he delivered "special thanks to God for saving my life", he stressed to the congregation that it was down to science, not miracles. "The only reason I survived is because I went to get help earlier," he said. "I want to tell the whole world that Ebola is real, and if you start to feel ill, please get tested straightaway."

Have they stated this is per month? I didn't see that anywhere.

I have. I know all about Colloidal silver. I have used it for treatment on my dog for years. It's in my cabinet with all my other homeopathic and herbal remeides. My point is that it's not a cure. It's a "natural" antibiotic". That's it. Ebola is a virus. Antibiotics don't work on viruses. Ebola's only recourse requires your immune system to fight it (if you can live through it) and I would bet that anyone in Africa and half of North America have a poor immune system at best. It won't save you. I doubt very much that's what they were using to treat those 2 Americans that came back with that disease. For some reason they aren't sharing that with anyone. Colloidal silver has been around a long time. I would say that the American doctors who were over there as missionaries would have known about this. They took precautions and still got it. What does that tell you? I read the people kissing the dead who died from this can contract the virus even days after they die. One man was on a plane and died from it 2 days after he landed. He infected 7 others who were on the plane. I doubt he was pushing his body fluids onto them. So how did they get it. It was not a long flight.

Chess colloidal silver wont' help us much if it becomes pandemic. Wear a mask like they do in Asia. Don't touch anything in the grocery store that someone has either touched or sneezed on without gloves. Wash everything before it goes into your fridge or cupboard. Cans of food, veggies. I do. I wash my hands the minute I come through my front door after being out in the public. I don't shake hands with anyone anymore unless I can wash my hands immediately. Body fluids they say, but how long does it stay out of the body before it's destroyed? Do they really know or are they guessing? It's not like they've every had the Ebola here in North America where it can be tested. UNTIL NOW. You have no idea how many times in one visit to the grocery store I see the "immigrants sniff the veggies, fruit and everything else then put it back. They take the strawberries out from the plastic container they don't like open another container and replace then all. Sometimes sniffing them to see if they like it and then when they don't they put it back in the container they don't want. I"m not kidding. They do the same thing with the bags of sweet cherries or grapes. Smelling the kale, romaine letter or even onions. What do they think onions smell like? They spread their nose germs all over the fruit and veggies. One other thing I read. The buggy carts are full of germs. People touch those handle bars sneeze cough and then touch them again. Kids a$$es are on the seats and we put food in them. The conveyor belt is full of germs. Then you put your groceries into the "bring it yourself bag" lovely looking "being green for the environment" colorful reuseable bag to take it home, then stick that back in your closet somewhere, only to have it grow more bacteria and who knows what else, then you use it again next time you shop and have those germs contaminate your new food. These people fly all over the world to go back home and then back to my city. Bringing their germs with them. You watch. It will come to North America. Someone will bring it here on purpose just like Aids. Two African Muslim women each with 2 children were at the pizza place Thursday night. No men just them, shoveling the pizza into their mouths faster than they could swallow it. All the while talking in whatever language they were talking. Giving me dirty looks as to why I was starring at them. Ha...really. This is my country I wanted to tell her. Then again we have to be careful as to who could pull a gun or knife. That's the "new world" in my country. I am outnumbered anymore. They breed like rats. Most likely not a citizenship but come here to breed while who knows where their men have gone. Back to Africa to have more children I assume then bring more of their nasty germs back here with them. Am I paranoid. Nope, just got a little too much knowledge about how things are contracted anymore and nobody washes their hands and has respect for the open fruit and vegetables openly exposed in the stores anymore. I just saw a commercial sponsored by Walmart, helping schools help teachers how to teach children to wash their hands...WTF are the parents doing. Parents are most likely pigs and didn't grow up in a clean country. Now it's up to the teachers to tell a kid to wash their hands???? Today's news: Ebola Virus: For Want of Gloves, Doctors Die Health Workers Believe Ebola's Toll on Staff Could Be Mitigated With More Basic Hospital Supplies In the Liberian capital of Monrovia, the city's main hospital has very little staff and few patients — an exodus triggered by several Ebola-related deaths at the facility. SERGEANT KOLLIE TOWN, Liberia—Rubber gloves were nearly as scarce as doctors in this part of rural Liberia, so Melvin Korkor would swaddle his hands in plastic grocery bags to deliver babies. His staff didn't bother even with those when a woman in her 30s stopped by complaining of a headache. Five nurses, a lab technician—then a local woman who was helping out—cared for her with their bare hands. Within weeks, all of them died. The woman with a headache, they learned too late, had Ebola. Somewhere in the workplace exchange of handshakes and sweat, Dr. Korkor caught the virus, too. For five days, he read the Bible on a cot in an Ebola ward, watching his colleagues bleed to death from a disease they weren't equipped or trained to treat. Across the room, a nurse pregnant with what would have been her third child slipped away. "She told me 'Doc, I'm dying,' " he recalled Kou Gbanjah saying. View Slideshow In a school building used to quarantine Ebola patients in Monrovia, Liberia, Umu Fambulle stands over her infected husband after he fell. Getty Images Though Dr. Korkor survived, his hospital has closed, as have dozens of other health centers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. It is a devastating setback for countries facing a range of deadly diseases in addition to Ebola. The World Health Organization estimates the region's Ebola outbreak has killed 1,145 people, roughly half the 2,127 believed to have been infected. West African countries that had only begun to climb out from civil war and poverty have slipped into economic disarray. Much of this toll could have been avoided or at least mitigated, hospital workers on the front lines say, if they had been provided with medical basics, starting with one of the simplest: disposable rubber gloves. MoreLiberia Expands Ebola Treatment Centers American Patient Hopes for Discharge Soon Outbreak Could Last Six Months Instead, health workers have been treating many patients with unprotected hands, greatly increasing the risk the Ebola virus will kill the very professionals trying to fight it. As of Tuesday, at least 36 health workers in Liberia had died from the disease, according to health ministry records. Many who have caught but survived the virus are traumatized, as are colleagues, and may prove difficult to coax back to work. Their absence is deeply felt. Even before Ebola, Liberia—with just 51 doctors for four million people—had the second-fewest physicians per person on Earth, after Tanzania, according to the WHO. Hospital staff members throughout Liberia, including at Dr. Korkor's Phebe Hospital, have gone on strike until the government meets their demands. They want rubber gloves, safety goggles, protective suits, life insurance and a fivefold pay increase for the hazardous work. The government has said it plans to meet those requests. In the meantime, because doctors aren't at work, other diseases besides Ebola are going untreated. As a result, those ailments—chiefly typhoid and dysentery—may be killing more West Africans than Ebola, according to the United Nations Children's Fund. A health-care worker worked at a Monrovia, Liberia, school housing people suspected of having Ebola. Morgana Wingard for The Wall Street Journal Hospitals across the region have closed at the peak of malaria season. Meningitis, measles and polio vaccinations are on hold, said Liberia's information minister, Lewis Brown. In countries with some of the world's highest rates of death during childbirth, women are having babies at home. They aren't bringing in children for check-ups in Liberia, a nation where nearly half of children are malnourished, according to Unicef. It is an unprecedented toll for a viral illness first identified in 1976, which cropped up eight months ago in Guinea and quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The virus is spread chiefly through contact with bodily fluids. It begins with vague feverish symptoms that could be due to any number of ailments, until patients worsen and often begin bleeding from their eyes, nose and mouth. There is no approved vaccine or treatment, although two American health-care workers infected in Liberia have been treated with an experimental drug. The Liberian government ordered three courses of the drug to give to some ill doctors. A Liberian clinic called Dolo Town Health Center shut down last month when it ran out of gloves and left staff members to choose between treating Ebola patients bare-handed or leaving, said MacFarland Keraulah, a physician's assistant. The clinic had received only one glove delivery since April, and it was a single box of 50 pairs. Since the staff walked off, 37 people have died of Ebola in that area, two hours outside the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Seven were health workers at another now-closed health center, according to workers. http://online.wsj.com/articles/ebola-doctors-with-no-rubber-gloves-1408142137

Shouldn't the environmental tax already cover this?

Good posts and analogy's Trinity. BTW...I grew up with a "group B" dad, so my thoughts follow along that line.

I hope they get 20%. ISIS is they because it's the most beautiful and richest area all of Iraq. It's the paradise. North Kurdistan Don't worry your pretty little head LGD...sit back and have a Mint Julep.

Right Machine...!!! Do you remember the hype back in September 2010? They thought it would happen before the end of the year. Dinar sales were through the roof. That's almost 4 years ago and they were saying back then, they need to RV because they can't survive with that currency. Can you believe how fast that 4 years has gone by? Could it RV next month? Perhaps. Mostly like not. There is a strong possibility we will be reading here again next year at this time, and I for one have put that mindset into my life planning for the moment. Living for tomorrow just doesn't work. They have a long way to go to clean up the mess that Maliki has created. Just getting the parties to work and trust one another (somewhat) is a huge task for the new PM. They need to get this ISIS terrorist group under control as well. I believe the next month will show just how much this new guy can move mountains in a short period of time. He knows he's working against a clock and has to prove himself. That will give more clues as to where this investment is going. Until then, I guess I should just sit back and sip my Mint Julep as suggested on another thread.

She said Iraq would emerge from Chapter VII of the UN Charter allowed greater freedom for the Iraqi funds move I wonder what she means by this. Good article all the same. Thanks Yota.

At least the Tribe Leaders like him. They can't say that about Maliki. One positive set of news this month. :D

Ah yes....this is what I was looking for. Barzani's comment. He added that "the three deputies to the prime minister will be from the basic components in the country," In a related context, the President of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, full support for the prime minister-designate to form a new Iraqi government, Haider al-Abadi with mortgaged bloc united to reform its participation in the government of Prime Minister-designate, the program that submitted for the next four years, pointing to prepare a bargaining chip to form a new government. Kurdish support A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Shahe Wan Abdullah: The Kurdish blocs will vote with full force, to the government of Prime Minister-designate to form a government Haider Alebadi.obin Abdullah's "Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network," We are part of Iraq, and we have to go back to build it up again after the terrorist attacks that befell him, and our differences with the characters, which manages the political process, not with the political process as a whole. "pointing out that" we as Kurds will vote for the prime minister Cab government, which will come out by Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi, and with all our strength. "He continued," We will engage the next government, and we will support the political process and government trends to hit Daash terrorist gangs. " Limbering and negotiations

You mean you aren't coming back for another round of human life?

And leave the silver. They always take the silver. Thanks Thuggie.

I haven't seen much from the Kurds on this new PM. Unless I have missed it in some of the news articles. Just wondering what Barzani and Talabani think of him.

You could "live" with a 1:1??? Really, you mean anything less you might die?

I negged you back for negging me. Bring your relatives on the site for a discussion why don't you? And a chest.

Well said Billio0