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HEALTH / SC./ ENVIRONMENT
--"Green Energy" Panacea or Just the Latest Hype?... The biofuels industry -- typically making ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soy -- is big business and getting bigger fast. New research shows that biofuels are far from environmentally friendly.
--Well–Being of Black Middle Class Affected by Ties to Poor Siblings
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--Internet worm drops in New Year e–mail...A worm attached to an e-mail with the subject line "Happy New Year!" is the latest spam to threaten computer users, a security expert warns.
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TOP STORIES

--Bush’s Nightmare May Be Only Just Beginning... "After Saddam’s execution, the U.S. is bracing for blowback that could last days, months or even decades."

--Hanging Saddam ‘barbaric’ says top EU official   and may turn him into a martyr, the European Union’s aid and development Commissioner said.

--And The Empire Mourned...‘I present and briefly examine several examples of the corporate media’s white–wash eulogies of Gerald Ford. I go on to document and comment upon his crimes, concluding that had Ford been judged by the same standards as Hussein, he would have swung from the gallows too. My underlying theme, which I cultivate throughout the piece, is the "Big Lie" (or collective delusion) which the mainstream media sustains in the United States.’ –by Jason Miller
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IRAQ

--77 killed as carnage grips occupied Iraq : Carnage has gripped Iraq after Saddam Hussein has been executed when 77 people died in bomb attacks and December became the deadliest month for American forces in more than two years.
--New poll: U.S. troops turn on Bush; say Iraq war a mistake...Joshua Holland: 9 out of 10 Iraqis say life was better before invasion

--3 Minute Video: Ramsey Clark reacts to the execution of Saddam Hussein:  "A tragic assault on truth and justice"

-- Saddam: The questions that will live on : "It takes remarkable obedience to authority to believe that the US would have ‘liberated’ Iraq – or taken revenge – if its main exports were lettuce and pickles, and the major petroleum resources were in the South Pacific."

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Middle East

-- Libya declares national mourning for Saddam:  LIBYA declared three days of national mourning today after the execution of Iraqi ex–president Saddam Hussein who had been a "prisoner of war," official media said.

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OTHER
--‘Good’ films offer a less–than–romanticized side after WWII

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BUSINESS

--Leadership becoming more conspiratorial

--Will Gulf countries follow UAE in dollar drop?

--CAPITALISM 3.0, PART 2...Capitalism 2.0 or "surplus capitalism," because its main problem is finding buyers for the gushing fire hydrant of goods that the system so easily produces.

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Africa | Asia

-- This ‘victory’ could mean a return to anarchy:.. Ethiopian troops, with Washington’s tacit approval, have routed the Islamists who seized power in Somalia last June. The official Government forged by the international community in 2004 can take power. Good news, surely?

-- This ‘victory’ could mean a return to anarchy:  Ethiopian troops, with Washington’s tacit approval, have routed the Islamists who seized power in Somalia last June. The official Government forged by the international community in 2004 can take power. Good news, surely?
5,000 families displaced by floods in central Philippines (17:25, December 29, 2006)


Philippine police tightens security ahead of anniversary of Rizal Day bombing (18:12, December 29, 2006)
--U.S. Embassy Is Warning Beijing on Iran Gas Deal:   The Bush administration and Congress are warning that a proposed $16 billion deal between a Chinese company and Iran could trigger economic penalties under an American law aimed at starving Iran of funding for "terrorism and nuclear weapons"
The Americas
Canada

--Affluent freeze out homeless:  A Toronto church’s plan to feed and house 12 homeless people one night a week during the worst of the winter has been put on hold after residents of a tony Beach enclave threatened it with a legal injunction.
--Taxpayers get fuzzy PM speech for their money

--Harper boots out environment adviser

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Opinion–Editorials
--The Criminality of the State  By Albert Jay Nock  "The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical." No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self–preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity.

--Saddam: Handling the Dead, and The Shift In Group Behavior... "You all know that I was very opposed to the lynching of Saddam Hussein, because I am opposed to murder in all of its forms. But, if you’ve been listening to reports hours before and after his death, you know there’s much more Black folk in particular should be worried about---" – Terryhowcott.com
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--The murder of Saddam Hussein
--How I Was Kidnapped by the CIA:   Letter from Abu Omar al Masri Imprisoned in Egypt
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