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Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More? By Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street Posted on July 6, 2007, Printed on July 6, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/56124/
A state-of-the-art research study published in October 12, 2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal) concluded that — as of a year ago — 600,000 Iraqis had died violently due to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39 months of the war was (…)

Published on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 by The Guardian/UK
Global Warming: A Sudden Change of State
by George Monbiot
Reading a scientific paper on the train this weekend, I found, to my amazement, that my hands were shaking. This has never happened to me before, but nor have I ever read anything like it. Published by a team led by James Hansen at NASA, it suggests that the grim reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could be absurdly optimistic(1).
The IPCC (…)

Published on Thursday, July 5, 2007 by the Los Angeles Times
Critics Say Species List is Endangered
by Margaret Roosevelt
The bald eagle may be soaring back from near-extinction, but hundreds of other imperiled species are foundering, as the federal agency charged with protecting them has sunk into legal, bureaucratic and political turmoil.
In the last six years, the Bush administration has added fewer species to the endangered list than any other since the law was enacted in 1973. (…)

Published on Thursday, July 5, 2007 by Associated Press
Fed Up With War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes
by John Christoffersen
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut, enough so he wouldn’t have to pay taxes to support the war.
“I was having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror,” Gross said. “I knew the bombs falling were in part paid with my tax dollars. I had to actually do (…)

The Facts Or The "Con" In Con-Game:
In 2005, Stephen King, managing director of economics at HSBC and also a columnist for the Independent.uk news site stated that there was a crisis of faith among central bankers. Two years later, we can see why this confession should have read as: central bankers must stick to their pseudo-religious tones to proliferate public delusions of invincibility.
On the American front, the worst is yet to come for the housing market declared a quite famous (…)

Collateral Damages
Many Wall St.’s top deal makers must have butterflies are starting to float around the stomachs as we write this update: all our fears are coming true. All of them… this week there was an avalanche of dire warnings like ever seen before. As of June 28 BofA Analyst said that mortgage correction just ‘tip of the iceberg’ :
_scheduled to reset in ’07, followed by approximately $680 billion in ’08. Furthermore, of these ARMs, we estimate that subprime loans consist of $400 (…)

Spanish customs officers uncovered more than 1,000 weapons aboard a ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine cargo inspection, the governor of the southern Andalusia region said Wednesday.
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MADRID
Posted 07/04/07 11:13
Spanish customs officers uncovered more than 1,000 weapons aboard a ship en route from Israel to Nicaragua during a routine cargo inspection, the governor of the southern Andalusia region said Wednesday.
Gov. Juan Jose Lopez (…)

By Mary MacElveen
A few years ago, I remember seeing a commercial to help stop drunk driving which said, “Friends do not let friends drive drunk” and the act of a good friend would have been to take away the keys to the car so that no one would get hurt. Most likely that commercial did save countless lives.
So when I read this statement coming from Senator Gordon Smith (R) of Oregon in which he said of President Bush, "President Bush is my friend, and I don’t always agree with my (…)

July 4th, 2007 - Apparently, those who have already chosen a candidate, are not willing to discuss the parameters of their involvement in their candidates’ stand on certain issues.
The number one, with me is to be : against war. Against all war. And, against the U.S. led, and U.N. approved decimation of Lebanon last August.
As I said, at the time, every day "WE" the U.S., supported Israel, in it’s illegal bombing of Lebanon, would surmount rage and aggression on U.S. forces, (…)

Technical progress and spiritual development
Human beings are using technological progress to benefit their greed, with the risk of destroying the very basis of their existence on earth. This is why technological progress is not truly progress. Of course it is really quite something to be able to send craft into space and to other planets. But at the end of the day, what is the purpose of all this? To exploit the resources and cause the same damage as here on earth? To fight in space? To (…)