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Jason Becker, the guitarist/composer who has had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for over 27 years, has taken to Facebook to speak out against the Senate health care bill.

For the last two days, Turkey has been talking about the heroic move by Fethi Sekin, a police officer who prevented a disaster from happening in the western city of İzmir on Jan. 5.

Turkish gendarmerie forces have intervened in a sit-in being held by a group of locals to hinder the construction of a road project in an upland area of the Black Sea province of Rize, with an elderly local woman standing out by saying the road should not be built as the citizens, who constitute the state, did not want it.