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| Updated: 6:31pm pt Tuesday December 18
US Army loses another 12,000 guns and trucks The US military in Iraq has lost track of another 12,000 weapons, including more than 800 machine–guns, and everything from 2100 new electricity generators to half a dozen garbage trucks Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran Bush supports Russia sending enriched uranium to Iran: "If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich", Bush said. "If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian nuclear power plant, then there’s no need for them to learn how to enrich". Russian general says missiles could target US shield: report The commander of Russia’s strategic missile forces said Monday that he would not rule out aiming intercontinental missiles at a planned US missile–defence shield in central Europe, Interfax reported Russia Makes 1st Nuke Shipment to Iran… MORE Top Stories TOP 10 – News Roundup WORLD NEWS U.S. Pentagon giving Turkey intelligence on
PKK
The United States has given Turkey intelligence to track Kurdish fighters hiding in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday, but he would not say whether Washington gave Ankara precise targets used in weekend raids. Can we trust the Mounties? He also failed to address the whole issue of how the RCMP tried to cover up the Taser attack in Vancouver, which is very disappointing. … Winnipeg Police shoot and kill suspect 5 million Iraqi orphans Iraq’s anti–corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to be in constant contact with Iraq’s parentless children Blackwater in Baghdad: "It was a horror movie" New testimony from witnesses and victims provides the most in–depth, harrowing account to date of the U.S. security firm’s deadly rampage in Iraq MORE News BUSINESSfrom Eric G Central Banks look to financial ‘nuclear option’ from Eric G Is Harper killing the Canadian electric car? There are two electric car manufacturers in Canada – and the government is killing them both. The one in BC has already shut down operations and is moving elsewhere, and the one in Quebec says they may soon go, too from Eric G The Rainwater Prophecy Richard Rainwater made billions by knowing how to PROFIT FROM A CRISIS. Now he foresees the biggest one yet MORE Business News MARKETS Triple–digit oil prices expected after 2007 records After a record–smashing year with oil peaking at $99 a barrel in 2007, a triple–digit world of crude oil awaits in the coming year, energy experts say from Eric G Hyperinflation! Global food prices are out of control Deepcaster Letter details how U.S. govt. manipulates major markets MORE Market News ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE/TECH
from Eric G The Food Revolution A Biological Apocalypse Averted (For Now) from Larry B Corn boom could expand ‘dead zone’ in Gulf Farmers say crop too profitable to stop, despite problems downstream More Tech/Environment/Science news HEALTH Study Shows Toxins In
Marijuana Smoke
 Some toxins may be more abundant in marijuana cigarettes than in tobacco cigarettes, a Canadian study
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In case you missed it: WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq An expert report warning that the long–term health of Iraq’s civilian population would be endangered by British and US depleted uranium (DU) weapons has been kept secret NATUREDeadly US snow storm sparks chaos Up to 12in (30cm) of snow was expected to fall in some parts – The latest deadly US winter storm of the season has wreaked chaos at one of America’s busiest airports, sparked mass power cuts and claimed two lives Oil spill in North Sea off Norway The oil spill is Norway’s second largest ever – Thousands of tonnes of oil have spilled into the North Sea during the loading of a tanker off Norway, the oil company StatoilHydro has said MORE Nature news VIDEO/AUDIOfrom Eric G Election 08: An Unwelcome Endorsement MORE NEWS VIDEOS OP–EDby Gaither Stewart Taser Jolts along the road to mutiny – hope is not enough A Violent Cartography, By Howard Zinn Bomb After Bomb I am stunned by the thought that we, the "civilized" nations, have bombed cities and countrysides and islands for a hundred years. Yet, here in the United States, which is responsible for most of that, the public, as was true of me, does not understand--I mean really understand--what bombs do to people Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. Fallacy of Terrorism Role of Canadian Intelligence Agencies to Terrorize Citizens The myth of international terrorism is a misleading political phenomenon to embark on American ambitions of global hegemony By Seumas Milne Poisonous and Dangerous The constant regurgitation by the media of Muslim–baiting ‘research’ by right–wing think tanks misleads the public and is driven by a neocon political agenda Eric G The President’s Coming–Out Party – by Scott Horton Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy MORE OP–ED news BACK |
