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dead Afghan child
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

Indonesion Volcano Erupts
Indonesian Volcano: A volcano erupted on the Indonesia island of Sumatra on Sunday for the first time in four centuries, sending smoke 1,500 metres into the air and prompting the evaucation of thousands of residents.
 
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.
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Ivanova on the Greek crisis: the true face of neoliberalism:

 

Many Killed or Injured in Bus Crash in Philippines
 

Reding criticises France, Italy over Roma treatment

 

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

 
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Oilsands increase mercury downstream: Study. Oil sands operations are polluting the Athabasca River system, researchers said Monday, contradicting the Alberta government's assertions that toxins in the watershed are naturally occurring.
Africa
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

 

Economies in Latin America Race Ahead

Specieism

 

A gluttonous and obscene spectacle that glorified ‘bacon’
 
The Ghost of Oreo: A dead dog continues to haunt New York City and the no–kill movement.

 
U.S.

 

 

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.
  

Science/Environment 

 

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The sheen is from the oil
 
Despite ‘All Clear’, Mississippi Sound Tests Positive for Oil
 
Still Toxic After All These Years. Submitted by Luc Majno
 
Secrets to keeping food past its expiration date
    

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Health

 

PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
 

Body Mass Index (BMI) and Thrombogenic Factors In Newly Menopausal Women
A study of a subset of women in the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS), suggests that as BMI increases, so do platelet reactivity and thrombogenic microvesicles and activated protein C in the blood—all of which contribute to the formation of atherothrombosis and associated cardiovascular events.


Irish-made medicine a life-saver for heart patients

 
Turn Off Your Obesity Gene

 

Supplements Under Attack
 

 

Op–Ed

 

Comparisons ~ Luc Majno

 

Oil Addiction & Identity. By Carolyn Baker

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

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