05/28/2012 03:07meanderingsearcher

How many Syrian protesters will be killed before Assad is gone?
BEIRUT - More than 13,000 people have been killed in Syria since an anti-regime revolt broke out in March 2011, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP on Sunday.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/More+than+killed+Syria+since+March+2011/6686552/story.html

   03/02/2011 05:03meanderingsearcher

Where did the illness originate that sickened 170+ people in California?
Bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was found at the Playboy Mansion, after 200 revellers fell ill following a party there last month, health officials said Tuesday.

Los Angeles County health officials said investigators discovered the bacteria in a water source at Hugh Hefner's California estate.

But other possible causes of illness, which broke out after a Feb. 3 bash, are still being considered, said Public Health director Jonathan Fielding in a statement.

   02/03/2011 21:23meanderingsearcher

Will Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resign?
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he wants to step down but fears chaos if he does.

"I am fed up. After 62 years in public service, I have had enough. I want to go," Mubarak said in a 20-minute interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour Thursday at the presidential palace in Cairo.

In a phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this week, Mubarak said, "I told Obama, 'You don’t understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now?'”

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=27527636

   02/01/2011 08:45meanderingsearcher

Will Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resign?
a stunning CNN moment

shot of CNN'S Anderson Cooper working his way throught the crowd in liberation square in Cairo and he shows his hand to the camera to show that a man , in true Egyptian hospitality, has handed him four dried dates to eat. you can see that Anderson is humbled by the gesture.
break away to commercial
I.H.O.P. (international house of pancakes) has returned to it's all you can eat pancakes for five dollars. (roughly 2.5 days wages for 40% of Egyptians) yep any kind,any time all you can eat
now threre's food for thought eh
could have come the old john fogerty tune "i saw it on T.V."