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NATO Strike Kills Six Children in East Afghanistan.

 

PAPER: CIA secretly paying Afghan officials...

 

Police can secretly track you with GPS

 

Taliban attack U.S. base in Afghanistan’s east

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U.N. fears for children as Pakistan floods threaten town KARACHI (Reuters) - Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.

1M more displaced in Pakistan

 

US combat troops still flowing into Iraq...

 

One million Gmail calls on first day

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Many Killed or Injured in Bus Crash in Philippines
 

Reding criticises France, Italy over Roma treatment . EU Commissioner Viviane Reding, responsible for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, yesterday (25 August) criticised the French authorities for seeking solutions to immigration problems and tackling the Roma issue outside of an EU context. She also indirectly condemned Italy for its ‘discriminatory’ and ‘inflammatory’ rhetoric.

 

Ireland Leads Europe in ‘Courageous’ Decisions, Canada’s Flaherty Says.

 
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Obama to escalate slaughter in Yemen 

August 28, 2010 - With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone "targeted killing" program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated. "The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA’s armed Predator drones to the fight," reported the Associated Press on Thursday, citing senior Washington officials. "The US military’s Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia" in preparation for the stepped-up killing spree, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday…

 

Too little, too late for Niger

 

Markets/Economics

 

Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job. Class of 2010 told to consider flipping burgers or shelf stacking to build skills as they also compete with last year’s graduates

 

Americas

Specieism

 

The Ghost of Oreo: A dead dog continues to haunt New York City and the no–kill movement.

 
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Fort Carson soldiers' killing spree after Iraq combat: Seventeen US soldiers from a Colorado military base who mostly served in Iraq have been linked to violent killings and attempted killings since their return to US soil.

 

ACLU: ‘Pain ray’ in California prison amounts to ‘torture’ of US prisoners: ‘The idea that a military weapon designed to cause intolerable pain should be used against county jail inmates is staggeringly wrongheaded’,

 

Castro: Osama bin Laden is US spy...

 

Bush’d again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go. by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post.
 
Why Philadelphia’s Licensing and Taxing of Blogs is Creeping Fascism. Once the precedent is established that blogs can be licensed the government's control of the blogosphere will grow in small increments until it can shut us all down by simply requiring and then denying said license.
 

Science/Environment 

 

Secrets to keeping food past its expiration date
 
Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists. "By our estimates there were thousands - and I'm talking about 5,000 to 15,000 - dead fish," St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro told reporters. "Different species were found dead, including crabs, sting rays, eel, drum, speckled trout, red fish, you name it, included in that kill."
 
   

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Health

 

Turn Off Your Obesity Gene

 

Supplements Under Attack
 

More than a year after becoming the first person to receive a double hand transplant in the United States, Jeff Kepner tries to regain use of his hands and rebuild his life. FULL STORY

 

Finland Suspends H1N1 Vaccine. H1N1 vaccine suspended due to suspected links to increased narcolepsy in children and adolescents.
     

 

Op–Ed

 

 
Our Bloody Valentine. How 'bout that Iraq war, eh? How many ways can you say 'disaster'?
 

 

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