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Drew – Best Natural Herbs for Anxiety and Depression – 2December2012

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The Golden Age Daily December 2, 2012

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Natural herbs for anxiety and depression

St. Johns Wart – This is easily among the most common herbs for depression and anxiety treatment. There are people who have had success with this herb for anxiety, so it would be something that you should consider if you have never tried it. It has been clinically tested in comparison to popular antidepressants and has actually been found to be just as effective, if not more effective than some (e.g. Paxil).

Sam-E – This is an over-the-counter herb that you can buy in order to help with anxiety and depression. There isn’t as much support for its effectiveness as there is for St. Johns Wart, but some people swear by it to help reduce their symptoms.

Could a Syria-style Internet blackout happen in the US?

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Devin Coldewey , NBC News

Syria

A graph showing of Syrian Telecom's outgoing traffic dropping to zero.

The ongoing Internet blackout in Syria this week, like the one that occurred in Egypt early in 2011, prompts curiosity as to whether such an event could happen in one's own country. Here's one measure that gives a rough idea of how difficult it would be for your government to legally shut down the Internet.

First, it should be explained that the cutoffs in Syria and Egypt weren't the result of a physical disconnection, like bombing the cables or cutting the power to servers or relay stations. A country can take itself off the map largely by removing itself from the Domain Name System and Border Gateway Patrol, the software and databases that tell computers and servers how to contact one another.

German banks asked to facilitate medicine sales to Iran

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PressTV Sun Dec 2, 2012 2:7PM GMT

Germany has called on its banks to authorize financial transactions with Iranian banks in a bid to ease restrictions on the sale of much-needed medicines to Iran.

In a letter carried in the Sunday issue of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German Foreign Ministry called on German banks to stop blocking transactions with Iranian banks for medicine sales.

The letter has been sent by German Foreign Ministry diplomat Emily Haber to President of the Federal Association of German Cooperative Banks (BVR) Uwe Frohlich.

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Hundreds of Malians hold demo to support government

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PressTV Sun Dec 2, 2012 3:39PM GMT

People in Mali march against rebels, in the capital Bamako (file photo).

People in Mali march against rebels, in the capital Bamako (file photo).
Hundreds of Malians have taken to the streets in the capital Bamako to support the government which encounters a rebellion in the northern part of the crisis-hit West African country.


The demonstration took place near Kwame Nkrumah Square on Saturday where protesters carried banners that read, “Do not touch my government.”

“We need to support them instead of criticizing them. Mali needs to unite its efforts to liberate the occupied areas,” said a protester during the rally.

 

Commentary: The World wants Unity and Oneness

 

Congo sees rebels pull out of key town, boosting hopes for peace

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NBC World News By Pascal Fletcher, Reuters, December 1, 2012

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A M23 fighter walks with his rifle as he and other rebels withdraw from Goma, Congo, on Saturday.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Rebel fighters, singing and brandishing weapons, pulled out of Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border city of Goma on Saturday, raising hopes regional peace efforts could advance negotiations to end the insurgency.

The rebel withdrawal from Goma on Lake Kivu, a strategic hub in the country's war-scarred eastern borderlands, was agreed in a deal brokered by presidents of the Great Lakes states under Uganda's leadership a week ago.

Syria crisis: Damascus internet back after blackout

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BBC News Middle East 1 December 2012 Last updated at 10:34 ET

 

A view of buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria"s President Bashar al-Assad in Daria, near Damascus, 30 November 2012

Helicopters and MiG warplanes could be heard overhead, reportedly bombarding rebel-held areas

Internet services around Damascus have resumed after a two-day blackout, as violence intensifies.

While Syria's capital seemed to be back online, it was not clear how much internet access there was elsewhere.

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Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Puts Military On Trial In WikiLeaks Case

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Matt Sledge, Huffington Post Posted: Updated: 12/01/2012 9:36 am EST

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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, being shown a bedsheet as he testified in his pretrial Wikileaks hearing in Fort Meade, Md., Friday. (AP Photo/William Hennessy)

Bradley Manning is finally getting his day in court. The Army private accused of giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks took the witness stand on Thursday and Friday in a pretrial hearing. Manning and his defense lawyer are in essence putting the military on trial, arguing that Manning's treatment in the Marine Corps brig at Quantico was so harsh that his court martial charges should be dropped.

Detained Sudan ex-spy chief taken to hospital, brother says

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Reuters Edition US

KHARTOUM | Thu Nov 29, 2012 3:35pm EST

Salah Gosh | Salah Abdallah "Gosh"

Reuters) - Sudan's former spy chief has been admitted to hospital with heart problems, days after he was arrested and accused of fomenting a plot to undermine the country's stability, his brother said on Thursday.

Salah Gosh, who led Sudan's powerful intelligence and security agency until 2009, was detained on November 22 along with 12 others suspected of fomenting a plot to "incite chaos" in Sudan, according to government officials.

Egypt protests intensify after passage of draft constitution

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By Jeffrey Fleishman and Reem Abdellatif, Los Angeles Times

November 30, 2012, 3:43 p.m.

Protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square

A protester shouts in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where demonstrators denounced the expanded powers of President Mohamed Morsi and the passage of a draft constitution they say doesn't represent all Egyptians. (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP/Getty Images / November 30, 2012)

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