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Health/Sc./Environment

Will the organic dream turn sour?  Sales of organic food are booming. Once it was the preserve of specialist shops but now every major supermarket wants a slice of the action. To meet demand superstores are air freighting organics into the UK and encouraging the type of industrial scale production it was meant to replace. Is organics still green?
»Early Results Indicate  Radiofrequency Ablation Useful in  Treating Ovarian Cancer Metastasis.: Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that uses a high frequency electric current to kill tumor cells, is effective in achieving local control in selected patients with metastasis fr ovarian cancer, according to a preliminary study conducted by the department of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
»Criminalising HIV Transmission Is a  Threat to Public Health.: The Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales has issued, for public consultation, new guidance on criminal prosecution for the "sexual transmission of infections which cause grievous bodily harm." It is likely to be used mostly in relation to HIV.
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Most Democrats Voting For Bush Torture Bill Silent : The 12 Democrats who checked their consciences at the Senate cloakroom and voted in favor of the Bush Administration's torture bill, have almost nothing to say about their votes. In case you haven't seen the roster of who voted with Republicans on this, here they are…
Losing a War, Winning a Police State:  The New York Times disclosure of an official National Intelligence Estimate, which states that the Iraq invasion has worsened the global terrorist threat, carries an unspoken subtext ­ that the Bush administration is either woefully ignorant of how to combat terrorism or finds the terrorist threat a useful tool for managing the American public.
A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?  By Mike Whitney   Next week, President Bush will sign the "Military Commissions Act of 2006" into law. ­ The law will allow Bush to imprison anyone he chooses and abuse them as he sees fit. It places Bush above the law, our first American monarch.
America goes too far:  Historian Paul Kennedy tells Ezzat Ibrahim that the great wheel of history is turning against the United States

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Iraq

Insurgents spreading Iraq coup rumors:  Anti­government insurgents are spreading false rumors about an attempted coup in Baghdad, the government said Saturday, as the city was placed under curfew.
Ex­ Prez Carter: Bush has brought U.S. "international disgrace":  Former President Carter is urging northern Nevadans to elect his son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought "international disgrace" to the country.
Iraq situation dire, says Straw : The current situation in Iraq is "dire" according to former foreign secretary Jack Straw.
Rory McCarthy: A meeting of realities:  It is a mark of how disastrous the Iraq war was that only now, three years on, our governments are beginning to admit to the chaos they and, of course, the Iraqis are facing.
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Asia  |  Middle East  |  Africa

Lebanon accuses Israel of stealing Wazzani river water : ­ Mohammad Ghamlush, the engineer heading the Wazzani river pumping systems, told AFP the Israeli army sabotaged the water pumps on the river last week and installed a pipe to pump hundreds of cubic meters to Israel.
British troops in secret truce with the Taliban  BRITISH troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people.
»An Unexpected AIDS Boom in Sudan  By Hana Baba, New America Media  Sudan has the highest HIV infection rate in the Middle East and North
Afghanistan: The Wild East:  Sheer desperation is driving many Afghans back into the arms of the fanatical Taliban movement. Once again, the holy warriors have taken control of entire regions and are seeking to ensnare the Western allies in a bloody guerilla war.

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Other

»Anna Nicole Smith: Report Shows Son Didn't Commit Suicide
» Anna Nicole Smith ‘Deeply In Love’.:Anna Nicole Smith and her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, boarded a boat early Thursday morning with close family for a "commitment ceremony."
» Singing Praises Of Karaoke  Machines.:David Gregg Of BestStuff.com showcases some of the best new ones, on The Early Show. They have different features, formats, and prices.

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Business

»Risky Mortgages Come Home To Roost  Adjustable Rate Mortgages That Helped Boost Housing Boom Have Homeowners In Foreclosure Limbo.
»Post election Recession ­ More Republican Chicanery   Right now you are being fed a load of economic propaganda by both the Bush administration and most mainstream media. The goal of the establishment is to keep American consumers happy about the economy so that they keep doing the patriotic thing ­ SPENDING AND BORROWING. In reality, many sharp people see a likelihood of serious economic recession coming soon. When will you hear the truth? After the coming elections!

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Tech

»HP and Apple: Toxic Laptops Exposed  Greenpeace  Major toxic chemicals ­ ­ from lead to PVC ­ ­ have been found in brand­new laptops from…

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Americas

US violated world's privacy with secret SWIFT checks:  The US Treasury's Terrorist Finance Tracking programme had violated the privacy of up to 7,800 international financial institutions in its secret trawl through financial records held by the Belgian firm SWIFT.
Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism  By Bob Woodward  Instead of a "long retreat," the report forecast a more violent 2007: "Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year."
By Maxim Kniazkov in Washington   STUNG by criticism, US President George W. Bush has called for fighting America's enemies "across the world" as he stepped up his counter­offensive following charges that his policies were breeding a new generation of Islamic terrorists.
»Bush and Republican Congress Erase 800 Years of Human Rights "Congress has given Bush, and whoever he designates, the power to deny the centuries old right of Habeas Corpus to anyone he wants. What the granted him is clearly in conflict with the fourth through eighth amendment to the US Constitution. Let's see how his hand picked Supreme Court handles this one and they will be asked to rule."…Marlow B
»Sayonara to Checks and Balances?  By Aziz Huq, HuffingtonPost.com  You ­ ­ citizen or non-citizen, resident of Topeka or Timbuktu ­ ­ can become an "unlawful enemy combatant."
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International

»Russia And China ‘Cooking Something Up’
»Russian Daily Says U.S. Interfering in Russia­Georgia Relations   A Russian newspaper has voiced indignation at a U.S. government statement on tensions in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, saying it amounted to "active interference" in the country, which has become a bone of contention between Moscow and Washington, AFP reports.

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Canada

Four men haunted by torture:  Almalki is one of four Arab­Canadian men who suspect Canadian security officials were complicit in their arrest and torture overseas.
»Vegetation obscures markers on U.S.­Canada border
»Quebec: 5 injured in collapse of highway overpass
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Op­Editorials

  Why I'm Banned in the USA  By Tariq Ramadan  My experience reveals how U.S. authorities seek to suppress dissenting voices and ­ ­ by excluding people such as me from their country ­ ­ manipulate political debate in America. Unfortunately, the U.S. government's paranoia has evolved far beyond a fear of particular individuals and taken on a much more insidious form: the fear of ideas.
 Craig Murray on Manufacturing Terror : Oil, Lily Pad Bases and Torture : Why is the Bush administration so attached to torturing people that it would pressure a supine Congress into raping the US constitution by explicitly permitting some torture techniques and abolishing habeas corpus for certain categories of prisoners?
»Justice for A Genocide, in Book Form  A decade after the ‘lessons learned’ of World War II, British colonizers slaughtered at least 300,000 in Kenya. Only now has the first serious history been published detailing the crimes.
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