Berlusconi battles back from brink in Italy

Ex-President Carter in hospital with virus
Cleveland | Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:50pm EDT Cleveland (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter is in "good spirits" a day after being rushed to a Hospital in Ohio with an upset stomach but will remain under observation a second night, the Hospital said on Wednesday. "Former President Jimmy Carter is continuing to recover from the stomach distress that was reported earlier," MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio said in a joint statement with the Atlanta-based Carter Center. Carter's...

Former President Carter Remains Hospitalized
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter complained of an upset stomach on a flight from Atlanta to Cleveland Tuesday and vomited on the plane. Two scheduled appearances were canceled and he was immediately transported to MetroHealth Medical Center, according to the NY Times . The former U.S. President has notified members of medical personnel that he is feeling normal, but doctors have advised additional observation. As a result, Carter stayed overnight at the Cleveland Hospital. The...

Jimmy Carter OK after hospitalization
C LEVELAND — Former President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was staying at a Hospital overnight at his doctor’s recommendation. Carter’s grandson, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, said his 85-year-old grandfather was doing fine. "He’s definitely resting comfortably and expected to continue his book tour this week," Jason Carter said. "I haven’t talked to him, but nobody in the...

Grandson: Carter 'Doing Fine' at Ohio Hospital
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 By Meghan Barr, Associated Press In an Aug. 31, 2010 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter leaves the State Department in Washington. An Airport spokeswoman in Cleveland says former President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Cleveland (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was taken to a Hospital, officials said. Carter's...

Jimmy Carter discharged from hospital
AFP Former US president Jimmy Carter was released from Hospital on Thursday, two days after he was sidelined by a gastric viral infection during a hectic book tour, officials said. Carter was rushed to a Cleveland, Ohio Hospital on Tuesday morning after falling ill with an upset stomach during his flight from Atlanta, Georgia. He was discharged at 1.15pm on Thursday (0315 AEST Friday) and plans to shortly resume his schedule with a long-planned meeting in Washington related to Carter Centre...

Jimmy Carter released from hospital
Former president Jimmy Carter has been released from a Cleveland Hospital after falling ill on a plane. A statement from the Carter Center in Atlanta: President Carter was discharged from MetroHealth Medical Center today at 1:15 p.m., after recovering from a gastric viral infection. He will resume his schedule with a meeting this week in Washington, D.C. This long-planned event is related to Carter Center work. He thanked his medical team at MetroHealth for the attentive and comprehensive care...

Carter resting after falling ill
Former US President Jimmy Carter is resting after being taken to Hospital for an upset stomach after a flight to Cleveland. "He is resting comfortably and is expected to resume his Book tour this week," the Carter Center said. The 86-year-old was travelling to promote his new Book White House Diary, which was released last week. Mr Carter was elected as the 39th US president in 1976 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. According to the website for Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Mr Carter...

Israeli doctors win 'other Nobel'
An Israeli doctors' group has been named as one of the four winners of this year's Right Livelihood award - dubbed the alternative Nobel Prize. Physicians for Human Rights Israel was recognised for operating mobile clinics in occupied Palestinian territories and campaigning for patients' Rights. The Rights Livelihood awards honour the power of Grassroots change, the Sweden-based foundation said in a statement. Four recipients will share the 200,000 euro (172,000; $273,000)...

Jimmy Carter hospitalizedThis Just In
President Jimmy Carter, seen here last month, was hospitalized Tuesday. [Updated at 2:03 p.m.] Josesph-Beth Booksellers has told about 400 attendees that President Jimmy Carter will not be attending the scheduled Tuesday Book Signing. The event has not yet been rescheduled, but a Carter Center statement said earlier that the president would resume his Book tour next week. Read CNN's full coverage [Updated at 1:48 p.m.] An employee at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lyndhurst, Ohio, says...

Viral infection likely led to Carter stomach upset
"President Carter thanks all those who have expressed concern and sent greetings to him," the statement says. The 85-year-old ex-president became ill Tuesday during the Delta Air Lines flight, causing rescue crews to rush him to the Hospital after the plane landed. He was whisked from an airplane to the facility's Emergency Room, and was placed under round-the-clock monitoring by a team of doctors. "President Carter is in very good spirits, appreciates all the good wishes being sent his way,...

Carter hospitalized after air sickness
Former President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized in Cleveland after developing an upset stomach while on a plane. President Obama spoke by phone this afternoon with Carter, who reported that he will resume his book tour tomorrow. "It sounded like he was doing great," said White House spokesman Bill Burton. Carter, 85, is promoting his newly released White House diary, and was heading to an event in the Cleveland area today when he took ill. According to a statement released by The Carter...

Avigdor Lieberman's Dose of Truth
Not surprisingly, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Speech to the UN General Assembly this week drew condemnations, with Palestinian delegates walking out on the Speech. Israel's Left-wing daily Haaretz ran an article claiming U.S. Jews were "outraged." It quotes extreme-dovish Activist Seymour Reich as saying, "If Lieberman can't keep his personal opinions to himself, he ought to resign from the cabinet," and an unnamed "leader" as saying, "Every timeLieberman voices his...

Carter Recovers From Stomach Ailment, Leaves Hospital
President Jimmy Carter was discharged from a Cleveland Hospital Thursday afternoon and would resume traveling, according to a statement by the Carter Center.

OBAMA OR NETANYAHU ~~ WHICH ONE WOULD YOU BELIEVE?
Shaath added that the Palestinians would not return to the negotiating table unless Israel extends a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank and that the Arab League would support that position at its meeting next week. An article published on Wednesday on the website for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy by David Makovsky, a researcher with ties to Dennis Ross, Barack Obama’s chief advisor on the Middle East, reported that Obama had written a letter Netanyahu...

Weekly Podcast - Episode 34
Weekly Podcast - Episode 34 Click on the title above or click here to listen to my Weekly Podcast. This week's topics include: 1. President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

Mr. President: Welcome Their Hatred
It is great to be reasonable, it is great to be willing to engage in dialog those with whom you disagree when ideology is at issue. But "government by organized money" has no patience with reasonable dialog. House Minority Leader John Boehner is not going to work with you, he's not going to reach out across the aisle in a spirit of Bipartisanship. Boehner is going to do what his benefactors expect of him: push through an agenda favorable to their interests. Boehner is a Lobbyist with a...

Statement on Jimmy Carter From The Carter Center
  The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and Health worldwide. A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, the Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 70 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing Democracy, Human Rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; improving Mental Health Care; and teaching farmers to increase crop production.  

Rights activists share Alternative Nobel
Stockholm — Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday of this year's Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for work that includes fighting to save the Amazon rain forest and bringing Health Care to Palestinians cut off from services. The recipients will split the euro200,000 ($270,000) cash award founded by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull in 1980 to recognize work he felt was being ignored by the Nobel...

The dumbing down of Georgia voters
My Home state of Georgia is Home to this country's most successful businesses, such as Home Depot, The Weather Channel, UPS, Coca-Cola, etc. It's the ninth largest state by population, Home to former President Jimmy Carter and other notable politicians and Activists and its capital city of Atlanta in 1996 hosted the Olympics.  People over the past decade have flocked to the Peach State in search of lower taxes, lower cost of living and a diverse offering of single- and multi-family Homes....

Carter 'Doing Fine' After Hospital Visit for Upset Stomach
President Jimmy Carter is “resting comfortably” in a Cleveland Hospital after having an upset stomach on a plane, The Carter Center said Tuesday in a statement.

Former president Carter treated in hospital
CLEVELAND - Former President Jimmy Carter was rushed to Hospital Tuesday after developing an upset stomach during a flight to Cleveland but should continue his Book-signing tour this week, the Carter Center said. Carter, who turns 86 Friday, has been active in international Diplomacy since serving as president from 1977 to 1981, particularly in intervening on behalf of Americans detained abroad and as an observer of foreign Elections. “He is resting comfortably and is expected to resume...

Former US President Jimmy Carter hospitalized in Cleveland
Former President Jimmy Carter was hospitalized Tuesday after falling ill on a plane to Cleveland. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, whose 86th birthday is Friday, was taken from the Delta flight after it landed around 11:30 a.m. He was rushed by Paramedics and Secret Service agents to Metro Health Hospital, officials said. The Carter Center in Atlanta said he suffered only "an upset stomach" and was taken to the Hospital as a precaution. "He is resting comfortably and is expected to resume his book...

"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion"
" The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data ; when scientists tried to confirm it they failed repeatedly," writes John Tierney [via Bird Dog at Maggies Farm] in the NYT Science Times. " It may seem bizarre that a Surgeon General could go so wrong. After all, wasnt it his job to express the scientific consensus? But that was the problem. Dr. Koop was expressing the consensus . . . He was caught in what social...

Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate resists deportation from Israel
Mairead Maguire has been barred from entering Israel as a result of her participation in the Rachel Corrie Gaza-bound Aid Ship in June.

Nobel Peace Prize Concert
Nobel Peace Prize Concert