more reasons to avoid the US

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Nov 13, 2009
H1N1 killed 4,000 in US

Hundreds of residents line up to receive H1N1 vaccinations. A total of about 3,900 people have been killed by the flu in the US. -- PHOTO: AFP

WASHINGTON - H1N1 flu is thought to have killed nearly 4,000 people in the United States, including more than 500 children, health officials said after a new counting method yielded an estimate six times higher than the last.

The new system is based on more precise figures provided by 10 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The previous estimated death toll from H1N1 was 672.

While still imprecise, the new numbers provide 'a bigger picture of what has been going on in the first six months of the pandemic', Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told a press conference.......

 

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Dad, sons in sex-abuse case appear in court
Officials still searching property for bodies, jars with evidence



LEXINGTON, Mo. - Five family members charged in a child sex abuse case on Thursday made their first court appearance.

A 77-year-old father and his four adult sons are charged with several felonies, including sodomy and rape involving children under 12......



if you have kids, will you feel safe in US?

 

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how the Mexican drug cartels is infiltrating US

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32049643/ns/world_news-americas/

 

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Teacher shortage has given way to teacher glut
Schools are downsizing and crush of applicants have entered profession


LAWRENCE, Kan. - When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out.

Now, six months after graduating, she considers herself lucky just to find work as a substitute.

Across the country, droves of people like Lackey are unable to find teaching jobs, in large part because the economy is forcing school systems to slash positions. The teacher shortage that many feared just a few years ago has turned into a teacher glut........

 

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Housing agency's financial cushion sinks
FHA faces mounting concerns that it will eventually need a taxpayer bailout


WASHINGTON - The Federal Housing Administration says its financial cushion has dipped to a dangerously low level ...........

 

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Half of U.S. lakes have high mercury, EPA finds
Study follows similar findings in streams by U.S. Geological Survey




WASHINGTON - Nearly half of U.S. lakes and reservoirs contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, according to a federal study released Tuesday.

The Environmental Protection Agency found mercury — a pollutant primarily released from coal-fired power plants — and polychlorinated biphenyls in all fish samples it collected from 500 lakes and reservoirs from 2000-2003. At 49 percent of those lakes and reservoirs, mercury concentrations exceeded levels that the EPA says are safe for people eating average amounts of fish.......

 

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More soldiers bringing home war wounds
Troops return to deal with amputations, brain injuries, shrapnel wounds

WASHINGTON - Far from winding down, the numbers of wounded U.S. soldiers coming home have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those who fought in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago.

Amputations, burns, brain injuries and shrapnel wounds proliferate in Afghanistan, due mostly to crude, increasingly potent improvised bombs targeting U.S. forces. Others are hit by snipers' bullets or mortar rounds.....


Draft coming?

 

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N.C. man charged with kidnap of missing girl, 5
Girl still missing two days after she disappeared from her home

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A North Carolina man has been charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl, but police were still searching for the child Thursday — two days after she was reported missing.

 

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I used to live in the US in the 90s. Now the country has became a shit hole.

 

[Ash007]

Thanks for the info, lets now wait for the trolls to attack.

 

[chewed]

Thanks for the info, lets now wait for the trolls to attack.

my point for this thread is there's no perfect place for everyone.

if you dig deep enough, there's always shit.

 

[Ash007]

my point for this thread is there's no perfect place for everyone.

if you dig deep enough, there's always shit.

Indeed, and I agree with you, but you don't blow the situation out of proportion like what the trolls do.

 

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Indeed, and I agree with you, but you don't blow the situation out of proportion like what the trolls do.

Ash,

those jokers probably never even lived in the US b4...

 

[axe168]

how the Mexican drug cartels is infiltrating US

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32049643/ns/world_news-americas/

You forget the looters !

 

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Nuclear scars: Tainted water runs beneath Nevada desert


The state faces a water crisis and population boom, but radioactive waste from the Nevada Test Site has polluted aquifers.

 

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Homicides in Boston during 2008
The information for this list comes from the Boston Police Department, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, and The Boston Globe.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2008_murders_in_boston/