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I'm really sick and tired of all the individual threads about celebraties deaths, about random stuff that's currently on the news in the US, about somewhat special events that only a few users here might care about...
On the other hand, it's sometimes quite interesting to read about this stuff, so, let's collect it in this thread.

Please post about things that are big on the news in your country, stuff that moves the people and communities, big events of any sorts. Put some sort of headline in your post, summarize the event and add a link to an actual article, please follow this simple guideline.

Some dutch person might want to start with Laura Dekker? I'm pretty certain no one outside of the Netherlands (and surprisingly Germany) really knows about this case.

Lol, uh okay. SWINE FLU. How's that for a start?

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_08_21/en/index.html

"Pandemic" guys. But I don't see it much in the news plus it sounds like 99% chance of getting it. I want to know who actually cares about this and any thoughts about getting a vaccine soon. I mean we could all just die, for all I know. I don't think our vaccine thing will be here for a little while too. -.-'""""" --// Don't get me wrong I WANT a vaccine.

Swine flu is past news. Conspiracy theorists are going to claim that its the pharmaceutical companies who created the disease so they can create vaccines, but I call BS on that.

Basically it's a stronger type of flu, and very easily cured as long as you get to the doctor as soon as you get flu type symptoms. Swine Flu has a mortality rate of less than 1%. There are other more worrisome diseases to worry about like dengue, with mortality rates in 5%, and also not that rare.

first mad cow, then bird flu, and now swine flu. whats next, fish flu?

Special thanks to GM Zidane for creating this long needed section


Missing Girl (woman) found, 18 years later. - 08-27-2009, 08:18 PM
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-ki...,2704352.story

Eighteen years after she was abducted, the young girl (now 29yrs) has been found. What a MAD MAD world.

At least she wasn't killed. Why is this remarkable? How many abductees turn out alive after this amount of time?

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Special thanks to GM Zidane for creating this long needed section


Missing Girl (woman) found, 18 years later. - 08-27-2009, 08:18 PM
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-ki...,2704352.story

Eighteen years after she was abducted, the young girl (now 29yrs) has been found. What a MAD MAD world.

At least she wasn't killed. Why is this remarkable? How many abductees turn out alive after this amount of time?

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read this on yahoo, its pretty crazy and quite shocking to me how she can still be alive, im guessing that the kidnappers were actually good people

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read this on yahoo, its pretty crazy and quite shocking to me how she can still be alive, im guessing that the kidnappers were actually good people

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Looks like the kidnapper was is a known sex offender, and he had two other children with him who it seems he had with the woman he'd kidnapped, if I got it right.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08....missing.girl/

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Originally Posted by paulbee

Looks like the kidnapper was is a known sex offender, and he had two other children with him who it seems he had with the woman he'd kidnapped, if I got it right.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08....missing.girl/

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Were the german/austrian cases on the news in the US? Of kidnapped girls who were kept as sex slaves, for decades and more. A very disgusting case in austria where the father kept his daughter as a sex slave, had kids with her (some died, others NEVER saw the sunlight). It was just last year, the process was this year... Joseph Fritzl. In case you want to read more about it: link

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Originally Posted by paulbee

Looks like the kidnapper was is a known sex offender, and he had two other children with him who it seems he had with the woman he'd kidnapped, if I got it right.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08....missing.girl/

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yeah, after posting what i put, i watched the news and they talked about it..craaazy stuff man..

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Originally Posted by paulbee

Special thanks to GM Zidane for creating this long needed section


Missing Girl (woman) found, 18 years later. - 08-27-2009, 08:18 PM
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-ki...,2704352.story

Eighteen years after she was abducted, the young girl (now 29yrs) has been found. What a MAD MAD world.

At least she wasn't killed. Why is this remarkable? How many abductees turn out alive after this amount of time?

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I was disgusted when I heard that story man! That's why I say they should chemically castrate all those sex offenders who go after little kids. But your right paul thank God she didn't die, I hate hearing stories about little kids who go missing and someone finds them dead somewhere and it turns out some sex offender did it.

But check this out, it might get even worse for the guy turns out that the police is searching his house for evidence that he may have killed several prostitutes. Kidnapper eyed for murder links

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Were the german/austrian cases on the news in the US? Of kidnapped girls who were kept as sex slaves, for decades and more. A very disgusting case in austria where the father kept his daughter as a sex slave, had kids with her (some died, others NEVER saw the sunlight). It was just last year, the process was this year... Joseph Fritzl. In case you want to read more about it: link

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Yeah that story was in the US! Because I remembered that he would tell people that his daughter would drop of the baby he she had at his front door and leave. When actually he had her in the basement somewhere. Some people are so sick.