Sean Paul music causes seizures for woman
This is an interesting and peculiar one. A lady who suffered from epilepsy and from a rare condition known as musicogenic epilepsy, has been operated on. She began to suspect Sean Paul's tunes while at a barbecue with his music playing, she collapsed. This was confirmed later on while visiting a doctor's office, she played Sean Paul's 'Temperature' on her iPod and soon after, suffered three seizures. Now that the surgery has been completed, there have been no reported seizures.
"“THE world’s most vulnerable who spend 60% of their income on food have been priced out of the food market,” is the alarming warning from Josette Sheeran, head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP). As the price of wheat, maize, corn and other commodities that make up the world’s basic foodstuffs is soaring the poorest people in the poorest countries are the hardest hit." [via Economist.com]
"BACK in 2005, in an apparent flight of fancy, analysts at Goldman Sachs predicted a “super-spike” in the oil price to $105 a barrel. On Wednesday October 31st, the prediction came as close as it ever has to fulfilment, when the price of West Texas Intermediate reached $94.74 during the New York day and breached $96 after hours." [via Economist.com]
World Drinking Map
Planning a trip with your chums? Wondering how old you have to be in order to purchase "spirits?" Have a look at the World Drinking Map before you head out the door and be sure to read the DISCLAIMER at the bottom of their page.
6 Million People, 117 Degrees And No Water"For the past 24 hours, Baghdad has had virtually no running water. Major parts of the city of six million people have lacked running water for six days, while daily high temperatures have ranged from 115 to 120 degrees. The tiny amount of water dripping through the pipes is causing many of those who must drink it to suffer acute intestinal illness. According to reports, not enough electricity is available to run Baghdad's water pumps. This in a country with vast energy resources."
"When Vodka is your poison." LITERALLY."Thousands of Russians may have been poisoned by bootleg alcohol containing medical disinfectant causing drinkers' skin to turn yellow before they fall dangerously ill or die."
Sweeney notices something about the light, or lack of it, that eats the soul in Russia, that makes you drink. Apparently one in six Russians is an alcoholic. As a result, President Putin introduced laws that seem to have had the effect of tripling the price of vodka, as well as threatening dire penalties if people drank moonshine a.k.a samogon in Russian.
But what else is there to do if your fellow countrymen (and countrywomen) love the stuff and can't afford the store-bought vodka? No problem. You bootleg it or you moonshine it and let the black market take care of the rest.
You also run the risk of drinking the stuff and ending up in the hospital a short while later. With yellow skin. And yellow eyes. Not the normal, healthy looking white. But yellow. I saw Sweeney on the TV, in Pskov, visiting a hospital filled with people who are suffering from drinking this liquid. These people were yellow and have died from this.
Sweeney ends his article by stating that when 'Extrasept,' a medical disinfectant and an additive to the moonshine, was tested on human liver cells, it killed every single one.
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