"I Was Born to Rape" - Josef Fritzl

In a confidential psychiatric report leaked to the Austrian media, incest dad Josef Fritzl disclosed to a psychiatrist that he was "born to rape". Read more...





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King of Thai: World’s Wealthiest Royal

According to a Forbes magazine list, 80-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world's longest-reigning monarch, is the richest royal in the world with an estimated fortune of 35 billion dollars. Read more...













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UPDATE: World's Oldest Mum Burdened by Baby Daughter

Omkari Panwar and her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77, from Uttar Pradesh, North India, underwent IVF in a bid to produce a male heir to carry on the family name and to take over the family plot of land. Though they already have two daughters who are in their thirties, the elderly couple still desired for a son as daughters are not allowed to inherit property in the country.

They were so elated when in June, Mrs Panwar gave birth to twins - one a boy. She even made it to the world records for being the oldest mother.

However she quoted: "We paid all this money to the doctors for a son, but now we have the extra burden of another daughter as well." Read full report...


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China Beijing Olympics 2008

The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics took place in the Chinese capital in front of a global audience of billions. The Games began at exactly 8.08pm on the 8th day of the 8th month (August) in 2008.




More than 10,000 athletes will be competing in 302 events across 28 separate sports. Read on...




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Man's Severed Finger Grows Back (part3 of 3)

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Human Tissue Regeneration – Junk Science or a Novel Prize Breakthrough?


Another critic of Spievack’s story said that the claims were merely “junk science”. Professor Simon Kay, a leading plastic surgeon and professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds had dismissed the claims of pixie dust causing finger re-growth. Kay studied the before and after photos of Spievack’s finger injury and said that the injury in the first place did not look serious. To his observations, it was an ordinary fingertip injury with unremarkable healing. He added that all wounds go through a repair process and this is what might have happened to Spievack’s. Because there is a lack of clinical evidences to support the claims of the Spievack brothers and Badylack, Kay had called their story as “absurd and over-egged in the extreme”.

Despite these criticisms, the case of tissue regeneration has reached the US Army’s interest and they are not automatically dismissing this possibility. In fact, the US Army is presently pursuing this line of research and is investing millions of dollars on it. Just recently a wounded American soldier by the name of Harris underwent a history-making procedure that could help him re-grow a finger that he had lost during a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq. This surgery is part of a $250 million dollar research pursued by the Pentagon and other national top medical facilities like the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Steven Wolf, the lead research surgeon of Brook Army Medical Center, stated that although the technique of using this collagen dust in regenerating tissues seems to be science fiction, it also appears to be incredibly promising. Wolf further said that if they could pull it off with Harris’ surgery and growing back missing body parts, the next step they would probably do is growing back body organs such as the pancreas and the heart. With a final comment, the surgeon added that in the future, this science fiction discovery may not only benefit the military but also the civilians.



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Man's Severed Finger Grows Back (part2 of 3)

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Human Tissue Regeneration – Junk Science or a Novel Prize Breakthrough?

A number of doctors however had criticized the extraordinary story of a regenerated finger. Dr. Stephen Minger, an expert on tissue regeneration and stem cells in Kings College in London, said that re-growing a finger by sprinkling it with powdered pig bladder, although theoretically possible, is definitely unlikely. He had explained that a finger is a very complex structure consisting of skin, fat, tendon, connective tissue, bone and blood vessels. All these complex tissues would have to grow in the right order and the right proportion and positions in relation to each other. The collagen dust would have to persuade the healing stump not to simply form a stump from a scar but to behave as it would have done in a baby growing inside a mother’s womb. He said that salamanders can do this because they have the mechanism to reprogram cells in the body enabling them to form tissues. Humans simply cannot do the same unless an artificial scaffold would be provided in a severed tissue to allow the cells of the tissue to grow into – just like heart valves being grown in laboratories. (part 3 up next...)


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UPDATE: Fritzl Wife Packs Her Belongings

Rosemarie,69, wife of Austrian Incest Dad Josef Fritzl came back to the house of horrors to pack her belongings. Read more…





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Man's Severed Finger Grows Back (part1 of 3)

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Human Tissue Regeneration – Junk Science or a Novel Prize Breakthrough?

Unlike salamanders and sponges, humans, or any mammal for that matter are incapable of growing back limbs or organs lost in accidents or similar events. However, there have been claims made recently regarding the possibility of tissue regeneration. Lee Spievack, a model aircraft enthusiast from Cincinnati Ohio, and his brother Alan, a former surgeon from Harvard and a physician doing research on tissue growth, had said that severed tissues can regenerate when sprinkled with “pixie dust.” Lee who had lost a finger due to a model aircraft propeller in 2005 was convinced by his brother to sprinkle pixie dust on the stump of his lost finger. To Spievack’s amazement, his finger grew back within four weeks of sprinkling the substance.

At the University of Pittsburgh, this pixie dust is referred to as extra cellular matrix from the cells of a pig’s bladders. After the matrix is scraped from the bladder it is dried out and the tissues are formed into sheets or powder. This collagen powder provides a suitable framework for stimulating tissue re-growth and cell division if sprinkled on a wound. According to Dr. Stephen Badylack, the original developer of the pixie dust, the substance consists of a mixture of protein and connective tissues already used by surgeons in repairing tendons. It forms microscopic scaffolding for human cells to occupy and emit chemical signals that encourage other cells to regenerate tissue instead of forming scars. (to be continued)


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Million-to-One Black and White Twins Born from Interracial Couple

Florence Addo-Gerth, a Ghanaian, gave birth to black and white twins named Ryan and Leo, at a hospital in Lichtenberg, Germany. Florence is married to German-born Stephan Gerth. Medical experts say that the odds for one twin to be black and the other to be white occurring are one in a million.



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Apollo 14 Astronaut says ETs are Real

Scientist Edgar Dean Mitchell (born September 17, 1930) is an American pilot and astronaut who reached the Moon in 1971 on Apollo 14. As the lunar module pilot of the latter, he spent nine hours and 17 minutes moonwalking making him the sixth man to walk on the Moon and a record holder for the longest moonwalk.

Just recently, Dr Mitchell has revealed that aliens do exist and that the pictures available to us depicting these "little people" pretty much resembles them accurately. Dr Mitchell described the aliens as "friendly with small bodies, a large head and big eyes."

Dr Mitchell also declared that the aliens are not hostile and that "The UFO phenomena is real."

More revelations from Dr Edgar Mitchell and NASA's reaction to his statements.



DR. EDGAR MITCHELL INTERVIEW ABOUT ALIENS, UFO DISCLOSER

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Prince William Added Princess Diana’s family logo to his Crest

For the first time in Royal history the ceremonial symbol on the Knight of the Garter crest has incorporated the mother’s family logo.

Prince William, 26, and brother Harry, 23, requested a scallop shell on their crests and Coat of Arms as tribute to their late mother, Princess Diana.

The scallop is the logo of the Spencer Coat of Arms, which is for Diana’s family and hers as well.

Mail Online has the full story.

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World Youth Day Celebration Ends with a Mass

Throngs of pilgrims attended the open-air mass conducted by Pope Benedict XVI in Sydney on Sunday. In the final service, which marks the close of the World Youth Day celebration, the pontiff urged the flocks of young Catholics who were present to fight the globally spreading “spiritual desert.” A day before that, the Pope made a historic public apology to all the Australian victims of paedophile priests.

Full story from MSN News.

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70 year-old Grandmother Gives Birth to Twins

Omkari Singh Panwar, a 70-year-old grandmother from India gave birth to twins - a boy and girl - via Caesarean section, setting the world record for the oldest mother.

Omraki and her 77-year-old husband Charan Singh Panwar, a retired farmer, were desperate to have a son and heir to the family's smallholdings. In order to pay for an IVF treatment needed by his wife to conceive, Charan sold his buffalos, mortgaged his land, spent his life savings and took out a loan.

The couple already has two grown-up daughters, and five grandchildren, but needed a son to fulfill certain religious functions as mandated by Hindu tradition. Per Hindu practice and belief, only sons are allowed to kindle the funeral pyre of their late parents and to assist in the soul salvation.

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The previous oldest ever mother was Romanian Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth to a daughter through IVF aged 66 in 2005.

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Incest Dad Josef Fritzl Asks for Anti-Aging Cream

Brace yourselves. Josef Fritzl is requesting for a supply of anti-aging face cream from prison doctors.

Wow! Wrinkles and lines are definitely everyone's enemy...

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Josef Fritzl: Austrian Incest Dad

Josef Fritzl (left) and his daughter Elisabeth



(Blogger's Note: This was written by a new found friend on June 11,2008. It essays the gist of the Josef Fritzl Incest story)


19-year old Kerstin Fritzl, the eldest of the seven children who were incestuously born to Austrian Josef Fritzl and his daughter Elisabeth, finally came out of a seven week coma. Kerstin reportedly became very ill due to a lifelong lack of fresh air, light, exercise, and proper food. When she fell unconscious on April 19, Elisabeth begged Fritzl to seek medical help for her and the latter was forced to deliver Kerstin to the hospital on the same day.

Doctors at Amstetten General Hospital discovered that Kerstin suffered from a multiple organ failure and thus was put into a medically induced coma as part of her treatment. Aside from the said discovery, they also found a letter that was written and hidden by Elisabeth in Kerstin’s pocket. In the letter, Elisabeth asked whoever would read it to help her alleviate her and her family’s situation. Having read the note, the doctors called the police.

Police investigations then revealed that Elisabeth, 43, was raped by Fritzl since she was 11 years old. When she was 18, he lured her to the basement of their house, locked her up and made her his personal sex slave for over 24 years, beginning in 1984. To explain Elisabeth’s disappearance, he made his legal wife Rosemarie, 68, with whom he also has seven children, believe that Elisabeth ran away from home to join a religious cult. Thus, during the recent police investigation, Rosemarie claimed that she was not aware of Elisabeth’s cellar predicaments.

Fritzl continued to rape and physically assault Elisabeth which resulted to her becoming pregnant and giving birth to Kerstin in 1989. This was followed by six more incestuously born children. Like Kerstin, all of them were borne by Elisabeth inside the dimly-lit chamber, aided only by the medical books that Fritzl provided her. Three of the children, Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12 -- live normal lives with Fritzl and Rosemarie. Fritzl brought them out of the cellar when they were infants and made it appear as if Elisabeth had left the babies to his and his wife’s care. He did this by staging the "discovery" of the babies outside the entrance of their residence on different occasions. The other three children, Kerstin 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, 5, and Elisabeth remained imprisoned in the small, purpose-built, sound-proofed and windowless dungeon beneath the upstairs home. Fritzl, who was an engineer and property developer, designed and built the dungeon himself for this particular purpose.

Michael, who was Alexander’s twin brother, died in the cellar due to breathing complications three days after Elisabeth gave birth to him and Alex in 1996. The place was damp and moldy and had very little oxygen. One of the investigators handling the case said that, “There is so little oxygen that the victims would have had to spend nearly all their time lying or sitting down.”

In his April 28 confession following his arrest, Fritzl admitted to having thrown Michael’s corpse to his heating furnace to "get rid of it".

Kerstin is now reunited with Elisabeth and her brothers Stefan and Felix who, after living in the darkness of the cellar, have finally seen the light of the day when the police revealed the case on April 26.



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Pope Benedict XVI To Apologize for Sexual Abuse by Priest in Australia

Pope Benedict XVI is in Australia for the World Youth Day. Foremost on his agenda is to apologize for the sexual abuse committed by a member of the clergy. MSN News has the full report.


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