*Search *Finds any story linked  on Margot  B World  News News by Category »Sc./Health/Environment »Mail »Jokes »Yesterday's News SPECIAL FEATURES »Archives »civillibertarian.blogspot »Contributors »Hot Links »Links »News Sources »Articles, by Margot B »Flowers of Galilee, by I.Shamir » Health »Online store [Margot B] »Margot's Writers' Forum »Photography, by Larryb Click on the link below. »THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BILL FISHER Health/Sc./Environment --Does He Love You So? Maybe It Really Is In His Face--- Severe Space Storm Headed to Earth -- "---very strong, severe geomagnetic storming" to begin probably around mid­day today--- -- E.P.A IS CLOSING ITS NATIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEM... Doesn't want you to find out about pollution in your neighborhood »More Health News Tech --HP knocks out boardroom spying case in $14.5m settlement.--- spying case that resulted in the computer giant's chair Patricia Dunn's resignation--- -- Wi­fi health concerns: should we be worried?»Tech News Archives Humor -- Nuckin_Futs...Funny video animation by JibJab --Just checking in on you! »Archives

TOP STORIES -- Pinochet's grandson fired -- INTERVIEW: MORDECHAI VANUNU, ISRAEL NUKE WHISTLEBLOWER... "Of course it's not fair, says Vanunu now. As far as he is concerned, he spent almost half of his life in jail for revealing something that, as he says, everyone knew already -- and which now seems to have been confirmed at the highest of levels. "But what can I do? The last 20 years belong to the past," he says. --- Bush's Torture Ticking Time Bomb: Sins of Commission... The MCA awarded Bush the power to label anyone on earth an enemy combatant and lock then up in perpetuity,---Americans accused of being enemy combatants can be detained indefinitely without charges and without appeal. »More Top Stories...»Yesterday's News...» Archive IRAQ --Saudis to back Sunnis if U.S. leaves Iraq --Poll: New low in war confidence -- U.S. troops raid hospital again Insurgents attack Iraqi president's convoy --Unknown gunmen opened fire at the convoy of Iraqi President Adel Abdul Mehdi in western Baghdad on Thursday, said an interior ministry official. --CRAZY JOHN MCCAIN: SEND 30,000 MORE TROOPS »More Iraq News Asia | M.E. | Africa --Israeli PM: Military Strike on Iran a Possibility : Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, visiting Berlin on Tuesday, said he did not rule out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program -- Court overturns Israel's intifada law:  Israel's Supreme Court has overturned a controversial Israeli law banning Palestinians from claiming compensation for harm suffered at the hands of soldiers. -- General foresees ‘generational war’ against terrorism:  The American people need to prepare for a long­duration war against radical Muslims who are set to fight for 50 to 100 years to create an Islamist state in the region, a top Pentagon strategist in the war on terror says. Why Withdrawal Is Unmentionable ... Pulling out of Iraq would be an imperially momentous decision. It would mean the abandonment of more than two decades of American foreign policy in the Middle East. If Israel has Nuclear Weapons, then why is Vanunu still under "Administrative Detention"?? More Asia/M.E./Africa news

Other --Former CNN News Chief To Launch ‘IraqSlogger’ Site ...Eason Jordan defended CNN's use of US Army PsyOps to prepare war news. Now he's starting a blog, no doubt using US Army PsyOps to provide content. -- FATHEAD ROSIE O’DONNELL MOCKS CHINESE --Lawyers: DNA Not Linked to Duke Athletes... More   Business WalMart recalls 56,000 stuffed toys --Analysts: Dollar collapse would result in ‘amero’... Think deep recession likely regardless of Fed's actions --Rogers: Sell U.S. dollar, buy real and yuan: - It's only a matter of time before the beleaguered U.S. dollar loses its status as the world's reserve currency and medium of exchange---" »More Business News

The Americas

--Pinochet is gone, but his methods are still with us:.. A new report collating first­hand accounts gives us the clearest view yet of the torture going on in the US’s secret prisons

--Inquest hears astrophysicist may have been poisoned... A coroner's inquest has heard the investigations have been frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the US agency that operated the base.

--Freedom of the what?   BUSH GOES AFTER ACLU FOR PROTECTING SOURCES

--Is the USA the Center of the World?... Rumor has it our world domination is in jeopardy. Can politicians take the ego­beating?

A Healthy Dose of Anarchy-- After Katrina, nontraditional, decentralized relief steps in where big
government and big charity failed.

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International

--Irked Russia cancels UN Iran talks...

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Canada

--Canadian troops accidentally kill Afghan civilian...

--Five soldiers charged in drug probe at a New Brunswick army base have been charged with drug trafficking.They are accused of trafficking in cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.

-- Dion says Liberals ready for election if necessary...He took the opportunity to criticize the Tories for their cuts to the social programs, their "failure" on the environment, and their flip­flop on income trusts, saying the moves had put the government at odds with the Canadian people. The Liberal leader said he didn­t know when the "dysfunctional situation" in the House would lead to an election, but that his duty as leader was to have his troops ready.

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Mail

-- An Open Letter to Drug Warriors Thomas Van Wyk, Strike the Root... A literal maelstrom of debate over police tactics, use of paramilitary forces for raids, no­knock warrants, and other issues has erupted.  As is often the case in America, the wrong sorts of questions are being asked.  In this case, the concern is not whether the cops exercised their powers correctly, or whether they broke into the home under sufficient evidence, but whether they had the right in the first place to break into the private home of a citizen, and whether the drug war is a valid basis for such a usurpation of rights.  Few seem to be using the affair to question the underlying drug war that gives rise to so many tragic cases like that of Kathryn Johnston – cases that happen all too often in the United States.
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Opinion–Editorials

-- Nigeria: The China Threat

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