SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s health ministry reported five new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Monday, taking the total to 150 in an outbreak that is the largest outside Saudi Arabia.

The ministry also said a patient infected with the MERS virus had died, the 16th fatality in an outbreak that began in May.

(Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Paul Tait)

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Labor’s Demise As A Countervailing Power

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Infowars.com

Sunday, September 4, 2011

 

It is Labor Day weekend, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone away. Corporations in pursuit of near-term profits have moved labor’s jobs to China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea and Eastern…

Bolivian President Evo Morales has threatened “measures” against European countries in response to the grounding of his plane in Vienna last week, demanding they reveal the source of false information that Edward Snowden was on board.

“We are expecting European countries that forced me to land to explain what made them think I was transporting the fugitive US citizen. Where did this information come from, and why are they breaking international laws? If we in South America are not…

BREAKING: Plane Crash Reported at San Francisco International Airport

UPDATE: The Associated Press says that  ”Federal aviation officials say an Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South…

'Chavez was killed by historical enemies of our homeland': Extraordinary claim by Venezuela's vice-president as he kicks out two U.S. diplomats

By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 22:35 GMT, 5 March 2013 | …

Chavez's pal or US-backed rich kid: Who will inherit Venezuela?

Published time: March 06, 2013 16:29

An election to be held in Venezuela in 30 days will likely see a tough stand-off between “the Chavez man” Nicolas Maduro and the late president’s main opponent, US-supported Henrique Capriles Radonski.

Three months prior to death, Hugo Chavez made it clear to his loyalists he…

Why was she freed to kill again? Woman released after stabbing her own mother is jailed for 37 years for decapitating a grandmother in the street

• Nicola Edgington killed Sally Hodkin in Bexleyheath, south east London 
  
  
• She also attacked 22-year-old Sally Clark who managed to fight her off
• She had made five 999 calls asking to be sectioned earlier that…

South Dakota approves guns in the classroom

Published time: March 02, 2013 01:29

Lawmakers in South Dakota have passed a bill that would allow school districts to arm staff and teachers with guns to make their schools “safer”.

State Senators on Wednesday voted 21-14 to pass the measure, despite large-scale opposition from school administrators and personnel, who are largely…

PICTURED: The grisly photo of smirking son showing off his mother's head after 'he chopped up her corpse with a power saw'

• Bahsid McLean, 23, is charged with murdering his mother Tanya Byrd, 45, and chopping up her body into pieces
• Cops found gruesome pictures of the man and his mother's body on his cell phone
  
  
• Byrd's head, torso, hands, and leg were found in at least…

Check this out -- if this is a common occurrence  why did their station get flooded with calls?

Check out the discussion here:  http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=weather&id=8884499#&cmp=fb-kgo-article-8884499

And there Facebook post and comments here.  Someone actually blamed this on Global…

The New Black Panther Party opened its radio program last week with audio calling for the murder of all white people in South Africa,

In the organization’s radio opening for August 13, they play a shocking segment from Khalid Muhammad, a former spokesman for Louis Farrakhan’s Channel. In it, he…

'End of capitalism': Bolivia to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'

Published: 01 August, 2012, 17:16

In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. This will mark the end of capitalism and usher in a new era of equality, the…

Hong Kong customs officers claim their biggest ever single drug bust after uncovering  $98m worth of cocaine

• Huge 649kg haul beats previous largest in city by nearly 100kg
• Record-breaking shipment came from Ecuador and was bound for Southeast Asia or China…

Another warming myth busted: Climate change ISN'T to blame for melting glacier in Bolivia - but our aerosols are

• Particles settle in glaciers, increasing capacity to absorb solar radiation
• Glaciers in Bolivia melting faster than expected - in contrast to others in Himalayas which are melting slower than estimates
• Industry…

Brazil oil platform evacuated as precaution

Published April 29, 2012 Associated Press

BRASILIA, Brazil –  Rio de Janeiro's port  captain says about 100 workers have been evacuated from a tilting oil platform  in that city's…

U.S. has a history of preventing democracy in Central America, not promoting it. Over 100 years ago, the U.S. took advantage of the Cuban revolution against colonial Spain and intervened on behalf of the revolutionaries only to betray an initial promise not to “exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island,” and instead President McKinley announced that the U.S. would rule Cuba under “the law of belligerent right…

'Saakashvili readying for new war with Russia'

Published: 09 April, 2012, 13:23

President Mikhail Saakashvili is getting ready for a war with Russia, says Georgi Gugava, political secretary of the Georgian opposition Labor Party.

“The gang that is holding power is ready to continue the [August] 2008…