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  • Bird flu drug probe after 18 teenage deaths in Japan
    3 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Justin Norrie in Tokyo March 1, 2007
    JAPANESE health authorities are investigating a flu medicine that is also available in Australia after a teenager jumped 11 storeys to his death after taking the drug. It was the 18th juvenile fatality linked to Tamiflu in 17 months.
    The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has asked the Japanese importer of Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug regarded as the most important shield against bird flu in humans, to collect information about the conditions of (…)

  • Asian Stocks Post Worst Weekly Drop in 7 Months; China Slumps
    3 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chen Shiyin
    March 3 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks fell from records, posting the biggest weekly slump in seven months, amid a global rout that erased more than $1.5 trillion of stock-market value.
    ``Market gains had been very fast up until now, when in fact, there were plenty of things to be cautious about such as the slowdown in the U.S. and a correction in Chinese stocks,’’ said Masayuki Kubota, who oversees $2.1 billion in assets at Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. in Tokyo.
    Industrial (…)

  • Mysterious alga threatens rivers
    2 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Didymo’ is perplexing scientists as invasive, ruglike blooms of the stuff snarl waterways in both hemispheres. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
    March 01, 2007 In the late 1980s, a freshwater alga began mysteriously blooming in the rivers of Vancouver, British Columbia, covering once-pristine riverbeds with a thick, woolly mat. Dubbed "rock snot" for its yellowish color and globular form, the sudden dominance by a previously benign alga (…)

  • Taliban ’knew of Cheney visit’
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taliban ’knew of Cheney visit’ 27/02/2007 12:07 - (SA)
    Islamabad - A suicide attack at an Afghan air base where US vice-president Dick Cheney was staying shows that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have penetrated local intelligence agencies, analysts and officials said.
    The blast early on Tuesday at Bagram air base near Kabul also highlights the increasing sophistication of the extremist outfits as they prepare for a feared spring offensive against Western troops, they said.
    The day (…)

  • Kucinich Introduces HR 1234 To Immediately End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
    1 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich Introduces HR 1234 To Immediately End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
    WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 28) - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced HR 1234, a bill to immediately end the United States occupation of Iraq, in the House of Representatives today.
    "This is the plan that will get our troops home the fastest. It is workable and achieves the goals of ending the war and enabling our troops to come home," Kucinich said.
    HR 1234 is a plan for the United States to use existing (…)

  • U.S. Tactics of Containing Regional Roles in Middle East
    28 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    Two-pronged U.S. tactics of confrontation and engagement unfolded last week and described by some media as “turnabouts” in the strategy of containment of what Washington perceives as adverse regional roles in the Middle East, but in the Iraqi context and in historical perspective these tactics are revealed only as old diplomatic manoeuvres in the drawers of the State Department.
    In remarks before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday Secretary of State (…)

  • Arroyo Regime Under International Scrutiny
    25 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    As Hernani Pastolero was sipping his cup of coffee in front of his home early last Monday morning he was shot twice in the head by an unidentified gunman. Pastolero was the editor of the Lightning Courier, a weekly newspaper in the southern Philippines. He was the 50th journalist killed since Gloria Macapagal Arroyo became president in 2001 and the first in 2007. This number is part of the greater number of leftists that have been murdered in the same time period, now (…)

  • Who is Really Behind all the Terror Attacks around the world?
    25 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A recent survey by University of Maryland’s prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified." Reported (here )
    Nearly all Muslims including children know that majority of the acts of terror, especially 9/11, East Africa, London, Madrid, Bali, Bombay and Jakarta are not the work (…)

  • Xenomentalists: Why soldiers continue the fight in Iraq
    23 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many wonder why so many U.S.soldiers continue to tell the Press that "we must continue fighting as long as it takes, and we’ll eventually win".
    The answer has a lot to do with what we "are" as citizens of the US of A.
    I think there are three distinct reasons why it’s easy to persuade US troops to continue "the good fight" in Iraq.
    1. Xenophobia. Many ignorant (read: ill educated) young Americans have a basic distrust,even hatred, of anyone who isn’t Christian, has dark skin, wears (…)

  • No One Here Gets Out Alive: Americans’ refusal to look in the mirror presages our own demise
    22 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Synopsis: US writer Daniel Patrick Welch argues that it is not just the neocon crazies in Washington, but ingrained aspects of US culture and politcs, most of all Americans’ unshakable belief in our own nobility, that drives us toward the newest chapter in global war.
    by Daniel Patrick Welch http://danielpwelch.com translators please visit website to volunteer
    I often have the dubious pleasure of listening to smug liberals whining about their "discomfort" with what they refer to as (…)