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Controversial MS treatment works for Island woman

Despite lack of support from Health Canada and medical establishment Donna Farrell feels better

Donna Farrell feels better after Zamboni treatments (photo Eastern Graphic)

A Peters Road woman traveled to Poland to get the controversial treatment for MS and says she feels better. The trip and treatment cost her more than $9,000 but she doesn’t regret it.

The MS Society, Health Canada and Health PEI did not support her operation.

“I just know I feel great. I’m a lot happier.” Mrs Farrell told the Eastern Graphic

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Donna Farrell contracted MS in 1997 and the disease made her fatigued, often in pain and created a walking disability.

She now feels energized a month after the treatment, walks without a cane and has less pain. She is taking physiotherapy to make her leg muscles and tendons more flexible after years of little use.

“I could feel the blood pumping through my body,” Mrs Farrell said about the operation’s effects.
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Economist Predicts G20 Austerity will deepen third depression

Plan to cut deficits in half in three years means austerity or higher taxes which will drive the economy into a depression

Irish housing project abandoned when real estate market colllapsed image: Eoin O'Conaill for the International Herald Tribune.

The ink is barely dry on the last minute agreement of President Obama to reduce the US deficit by $750 billion dollars in three years. Driven by the desperation of the European Union and Canada’s posturing on fiscal restraint, Obama is already backtracking on the promise with good reason.

The US is still in a depression from the bank collapse of 2008 and things are only marginally better. Unemployment is a historic highs. Housing sales tanked after the Federal grants ended. Other than high-profile iPhones and gadgets, consumption of consumer goods is not improving.

The New York Times is carrying an op-ed piece by economist Paul Krugman who believes we are already slipping into a “third depression.”

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Billionaire murderess wants out of jail

She murdered her billionaire lover then said he abused her the jury agreed in halves

Cecile Brossard shot ultra rich banker Edouard Stern during rough sex

A year ago, the jury accepted Cecile’s story that she had been abused and humiliated her. While convicted, she was given a lesser sentence of 8 years, and could be out of jail in 18 months. See Lover admits to kinky sex killing.

Edouard Stern was one of the richest bankers in Europe, a billionaire friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. He hobnobbed around the rich and powerful until his lover shot him in a Swiss hotel room. Bound and wearing a latex suit, she sat at the trial he had humiliated her by calling her a “whore” and paying $1 million for her love.

On June 18th, 2010, Brossard’s lawyers were back in court arguing her health was suffering in jail and she should be released.
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Stock traders and strippers

Why panic spreads through the stock market

Lunch at the strip club

The sleep deprived, drug and adrenalin fueled stock market is about to turn from greed to fear over the Greek and EU debt crisis. Things could get ugly very quickly. Yesterday the Dow Jones dropped 900 points before recovering.

When I was living in Toronto in the 1990s, the Financial Post profiled stock brokers and traders during the dot.com boom. The report said many of them used drugs like cocaine to keep up their energy level.

Stock market types from Bay Street would descend on the Zanzibar strip club just up the street from the stock exchange. Lunch with naked dancers got their adrenalin pumped up to make it through the afternoon.

Stock traders also worked long exhausting hours, many drinking their evenings away in bars searching for market rumors and relief from the stress.

Having met traders in Toronto, it made sense. They were a sleep deprived, nervous bunch constantly switching from greed to fear. The story in the paper made sense and several brokers confirmed it was true.

The attention span of a stock broker or trader is today, this afternoon, now. Stocks are up stocks are down. Buy! Sell!

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Helium Balloon amazing space photo

Cheapest satellite launch costs $50 million but he only spent £4000

Pictures from space with a digital camera worth a few hundred quid

A father-of-three from Huddersfield has captured images of earth from space using a weather balloon.

Starting in October 2008, 38-year-old Robert Harrison filled 12 High Altitude Balloons with helium and launched them 35 kilometres into the atmosphere.

Having wrapped a digital camera and Global Positioning System device in loft insulation and linked it to computer software on the ground, he was able to track the balloons’ progress.

He said: “The first time I saw the pictures, I couldn’t believe it.”

The rare images caught the attention of experts in the field and it wasn’t long before Harrison received a telephone call from NASA. Continue reading →

Autumn 1939 Hitler enlists doctors in disabled euthanasia

Phase 2 of Hitler’s euthanasia attacked adults with disabilities with secret gassing and cremation

This photo originates from a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. It shows two doctors in a ward in an unidentified asylum. The existence of the patients in the ward is described as "life only as a burden." Such propaganda images were intended to develop public sympathy for the Euthanasia Program.

Part 2 in a series of 4 articles previously Hitler’s euthanasia program murdered disabled first

Euthanasia planners quickly envisioned extending the killing program to adult disabled patients living in institutional settings. In the autumn of 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a secret authorization in order to protect participating physicians, medical staff, and administrators from prosecution; this authorization was backdated to September 1, 1939, to suggest that the effort was related to wartime measures.

Because the Führer Chancellery was insular, compact, and separate from state, government, or Nazi Party apparatuses, Hitler chose this, his private chancellery, to serve as the engine for the “euthanasia” campaign. Its functionaries called their secret enterprise “T4.” The operation took its code-name from the street address of the program’s coordinating office in Berlin: Tiergartenstrasse 4.
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Google Street View gets EU warning

Sober second thought says Street View can be privacy disaster

EU privacy concerns have Google on the defensive over Street View. The new feature of Google Maps provides street level views of people, houses and buildings with photographs linked to Google Maps.

The EU wants people warned when Google is in town taking photographs, faces and license plates blurred, and the photographs destroyed in 6 months.

In Germany, house numbers are blurred and people can have their houses opted out.

A local realtor thought the service would be helpful to people planning to move to an area. Did he consider the photographs are dated and may not show the property at its best? What if it was garbage day or the yard needed landscaping. Warts and all real estate selling doesn’t sound like a value enhancing proposition.

With story from the Washington Post

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