Some foster kids have disorder

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(TULSA, Okla.) March 18 - A judge is deciding whether a lawsuit against
DHS can be filed as a class action lawsuit. If so, it will include all
10,000 foster care children in the state.

Now, four moms who have adopted some of these children are trying to
help other parents out there. These moms are forming a support group.

More than half of the foster children in Oklahoma bounce from foster
home to foster home at least four times. Moms we talked to say, not
only is that hard on the kids, but they believe it also causes a brain
disorder that can tear families apart.

These four moms found each other out of sheer desperation. They all
adopted children who have the same problem.

One Tina Cox never saw coming. “When we met her, she dazzled us, she
was bubbly and cute, melted our hearts.”

But within the first month, her 3-year-old daughter started acting
strangely. “There was urinating on the floors, some issues with feces,
lying, crazy lying, hoarding food.”

Shanghai Index Down More Than 6 Percent
Wednesday March 19, 11:11 pm ET

China's Main Stock Index Down More Than 6 Percent; Hang Seng, Kospi
Also Lower in Early Trade

HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stock indexes are falling in early trade as
investors take a cue from overnight losses on Wall Street.
China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is down 6.5 percent to
3,516.33 amid mounting worries over the likely impact of a U.S.
recession on China's own booming economy.
Hong Kong's blue chip Hang Seng index fell 4.4 percent to 20,896.14
after the market opened Thursday.
Elsewhere in Asia, South Korea's Kospi Composite Index fell about 1.6
percent. Japanese markets are closed for the Vernal Equinox holiday.
The Asian markets tracked weakness on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones
industrial average fell 2.4 percent to 12,099.66 Wednesday.

Whistle blower Investigation: DSHS Worker Failed to do His Job

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YAKIMA -- A whistle blower investigation by the state auditor's office
found a Yakima Department of Social and Health Services supervisor
failed to properly investigate a handful of allegations of child abuse
and neglect.

A Yakima state worker failed to do his job when he didn't properly
investigate a handful of allegations of child abuse and neglect. That's
the finding from a whistle blower investigation by the state auditor's
office.

Here are those allegations a Yakima Department of Social and Health
services supervisor failed to properly look into: babies were given
medication to make them stop crying, children allegedly sexually abused,
a possible convicted sex offender lived in a licensed daycare provider's
home, more children than the state allowed at one daycare and a provider
accused of slapping kids.

The state says the DSHS worker is no longer a supervisor.

An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and
the Child Protection "INDUSTRY"

US military deaths in Iraq near 4,000

by Jay Deshmukh

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military's death toll in Iraq is nearing the 4,000
mark as the conflict launched in March 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein's
iron-fisted regime enters its sixth year.

The latest casualty in the five-year-old conflict was a soldier who died
north of Baghdad on Wednesday.

His death brings to 3,991 the number of US service members killed over the
past five years. More than 29,000 others have been wounded, according to an
AFP tally based on independent website www.icasualties.org

What is the real death toll in Iraq?
The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian
dead. As a result, no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed in the five
years since the invasion. Estimates put the toll at between 100,000 and one
million, and now a bitter war of numbers is raging. Jonathan Steele and
Suzanne Goldenberg report
a.. Jonathan Steele and Suzanne Goldenberg
b.. The Guardian,
c.. Wednesday March 19 2008
This article appeared in the Guardian on Wednesday March 19 2008 on p6 of
the Comment & features section. It was last updated at 03:08 on March 19
2008.

Ex-chief weapons inspector slams Iraq war as 'tragedy'

LONDON (AFP) - Hans Blix, the former chief UN weapons inspector, slammed the
Iraq war as a "tragedy" and blamed it on leaders ignoring the facts, in a
comment piece published Thursday.

Writing in The Guardian on the five-year anniversary of the US-led invasion
of Iraq, Blix, who clashed with Washington in the run-up to the Iraq war,
described the war as "a tragedy -- for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for
truth and human dignity."

In the sub-headline to the comment piece, Blix, who headed the UN
Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, wrote that
responsibility for the war "must lie with those who ignored the facts five
years ago".

At the time of the Iraq war, Blix accused the US and Britain of exaggerating
the threat from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's alleged "weapons of mass
destruction"

inflation and margin calls will cause investors to burn thru their
cash, thus forcing commodities prices ever lower, its called
deflation. is this the beginning of the cycle, no one knows yet. but
with margins calls spreading, there may be a route right around the
corner

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Oil prices continue to fall in Asian trade
1 hour, 7 minutes ago

SINGAPORE (AFP) - World oil prices continued to fall in Asian trade
Thursday, with more volatility expected as investors continue to
assess the US economy, dealers said.
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In early morning trade, New York's main contract, light sweet crude
for May fell 60 cents to 101.94 dollars per barrel from its close of
102.54 dollars during floor trading in the US Wednesday.
The April...

Bush is handling his job, according to a poll released Wednesday, the fifth
anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

disapprove of President Bush.

Corporation survey disapprove of the president's performance.

40 points lower than the president's number at the start of the Iraq war.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

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China tightens grip in Tibetan areas
By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 1 minute ago

BEIJING - China acknowledged for the first time Thursday that anti-
government riots that rocked Tibet last week have spread to other
provinces, while communist authorities announced the first group of
arrests in connection with the violence.

The moves came as the government sent armed police into far-flung
towns and villages to reassert control in the Tibetan areas of western
China as sporadic demonstrations against Chinese rule in Tibet
continued...

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Abortionist Tiller Admits to Performing Abortions the Day Before
Delivery

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/19/08 | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 03/19/2008 3:42:14 PM PDT by wagglebee

ARLINGTON, VA, March 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Notorious partial-
birth abortion specialist Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, KS, was caught
on hidden video admitting to aborting babies a day before the mother's
due date. Students for Life of America (SFLA) today released the
video which was made at the Feminist Majority Foundation's annual
Women's Leadership Conference held at the National Education
Association (NEA) on March 9.