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Common Bush. common, You can do it!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:20:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Common, Bush common, you can do it! Don't allow any country to survive and don't allow any one to be happy in the world! Just go ahead and do it! There are more countries to ruin and you need to hurry up to finish off the destructive job you had started!

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush will urge Cubans on Wednesday to "shape their destiny" by pushing for peaceful democratic change, in his latest effort to boost pressure on ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Bush, in a speech on Cuba at the State Department, will describe the communist-run Cuban government as a dying regime and suggest conditions on the island are ripe for democratic change, according to a U.S. official who previewed Bush's remarks on Tuesday night.

The official added Bush was not calling for armed rebellion but for a transition he likened to the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

In recent remarks, Bush has suggested he thinks Castro's demise is near, telling an audience earlier this month in Miami that "the long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing an end."

The Bush administration official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said, "There's a restive element to the Cuban people."

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Muslim scholars calls for peace with Christians...

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:09:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: peace is always welcome...

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 130 Muslim scholars called on Thursday for peace and understanding between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake".

In a letter to Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders, Muslim scholars from around the world said finding common ground between the world's biggest religions was not simply a matter for polite dialogue between religious leaders.

"If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace. With the terrible weaponry of the modern world; with Muslims and Christians intertwined everywhere as never before, no side can unilaterally win a conflict between more than half of the world's inhabitants," the scholars wrote.

Relations between Muslims and Christians have been under strain as al Qaeda has struck around the world

Tags: muslim, christians, usa, world, peace.

Bush orders strategy to deal with catastrophes

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:47:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: who will order strategy to deal with the biggest catastrophy of all? Prz Bush!

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday directed the Health and Human Services Department to establish a task force to plan for potential catastrophes like a terrorist attack, pandemic influenza or a natural disaster where there would be a large number of casualties, the White House said on Thursday.

Bush, whose administration was sharply criticized for a slow government response to Hurricane Katrina, issued a directive to establish a National Strategy for Public Health and Medical Preparedness.

Within four months, the task force must submit a plan outlining how to improve government response to a catastrophic public health event to Fran Townsend, White House homeland security adviser.

The directive orders 24 steps to be taken, including requiring the Health and Human Services Department to work with state and local governments and the private sector to develop plans for responding to a mass-casualty event.

Tags: president, bush, usa, catastrophes, terrorist attack, influenza, natural disaster.

Student kills four before killing himself...

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:13:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How this happens, of all the incidents that happens, how this happens?
what makes a kid to drive himself to death and to kill others?
what is wrong with the US itself?

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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A 14-year-old student shot and wounded two adults and two students at a high school near downtown Cleveland before killing himself, authorities said on Wednesday.

The reason for the rampage remained unclear but Eugene Sanders, chief executive officer of the Cleveland public schools, said the boy was not supposed to be in the building Wednesday and local media reports said he had been suspended.

The wounded were two men aged 42 and 57, both of whom were in stable condition, Mayor Frank Jackson said. He said two male students ages 17 and 14 suffered minor gunshot wounds and that a 14-year-old girl, also a student, injured her knee trying to flee the chaos.

The shootings took place in the early afternoon at SuccessTech Academy, a 250-student specialized school that concentrates on math and technology.

The incident was the latest in a string of shootings in recent years in schools that have shaken the United States.

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70% of the grocery store food is genetically modified...

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:30:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: in USA...you need to go thro the entire article...

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People around the world pro-actively reject Genetically Modified (GM) products and crops. But in the United States, few people are even aware of what GM foods are -- and labeling is not required.

Yet some 70% of the foods in your grocery store contain GM foods.

Genetically Engineered Foods -- A Source of Rising Food Allergies?

The huge jump in childhood food allergies in the US is in the news often¹. But most reports fail to consider a link to a recent radical change in America's diet.

Beginning in 1996, bacteria, virus and other genes have been artificially inserted to the DNA of soy, corn, cottonseed and canola plants.

These unlabeled genetically modified (GM) foods carry a risk of triggering life-threatening allergic reactions.

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Drug-resistant bacteria infecting people outside hosp.

Tue, 29 May 2007 04:48:41 GMT

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drug-resistant bacteria are infecting more people in community settings such as prisons and public housing, and not just in hospitals where such "superbugs" can run rampant, researchers said on Monday.

Over a five-year period, researchers at a Chicago hospital found a seven-fold increase in drug-resistant staph infections that had been contracted outside of any hospital.

They projected the rate of infection rose to 164 cases per 100,000 people in 2005, up from 24 cases per 100,000 in 2000.

The stubborn infections -- known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- do not respond to standard antibiotic treatment, said the report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Drug-resistant infections caught in U.S. hospitals kill 90,000 people annually and cost $4.5 billion, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The problem has also been documented in Canada and Britain.

overuse of antibiotics for creating drug-resistant bacteria,

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Japan anger at US sex slave bill.

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:44:43 GMT

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Japan anger at US sex slave bill

An estimated 200,000 women were forced to become sex slaves

Japan has expressed its displeasure at a resolution before the US Congress calling on Tokyo to apologise for the country's use of sex slaves in wartime.

Foreign Minister Taro Aso said the resolution was not based on facts.

Sponsored by several members of the US House of Representatives, the proposed text urges Tokyo to formally resolve the issue of so-called "comfort women".

Japan admits its army forced women to be sex slaves during World War II but has rejected compensation claims.

Historians believe at least 200,000 young women captured during World War II were forced to serve in Japanese army brothels.

A large number of the victims - who were known as comfort women - were Korean, but they also included Chinese, Philippine and Indonesian women.

Private fund

Mr Aso described the non-binding resolution, which was introduced in Congress earlier this month, as "extremely regrettable".

"It was not based on objective facts," he told a parliamentary committee meeting.

The resolution calls on Japan's prime minister to "formally acknowledge, apologise and accept historical responsibility" for the comfort women.

The House of Representatives heard last week from three former comfort women who described the rape and torture they endured at the hands of the Japanese soldiers.

Japan acknowledged in 1993 that the imperial army set up and ran brothels for its troops during the war.

The government set up a special fund in 1995, which relies on private donations to provide compensation.

But many former comfort women reject the fund and want formal compensation from the government.

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Newyork may ban ipods/mobile while crossing road.

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:08:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: how this can be implemented?

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New York may ban iPods while crossing street

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers who blithely cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine.

New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic device. In one case bystanders screamed "watch out" to no avail.

Kruger says he will introduce legislation on Wednesday to ban the use of gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street.

"Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry," Kruger said in a telephone interview from Albany, the state capital. "This electronic gadgetry is reaching the point where it's becoming not only endemic but it's creating an atmosphere where we have a major public safety crisis at hand."

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Tech-consuming New Yorkers trudge to work on sidewalks and subways like an army of drones, appearing to talk to themselves on wireless devices or swaying to seemingly silent tunes.

"I'm not trying to intrude on that," Kruger said. "But what's happening is when they're tuning into their iPod or Blackberry or cell phone or video game, they're walking into speeding buses and moving automobiles. It's becoming a nationwide problem."

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Bush, the Empire Slayer!

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:27:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: excerpts from a nice featured views!

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Published on Sunday, January 21, 2007 by Pierre Tristam/Candide's Notebook

Bush the Empire Slayer

“We're winning! ” exulted Bush last October. Well... actually, “We're not winning,” he clarified a few weeks later, but “We're not losing” either. So “We're wosing,” quipped the Guardian's cartoonist Steve Bell. Indeed, we are; and for you, Mr President, I shall count the wosing ways.

Somewhere, deep in the cold, worm-infested soil that a mother will keep watered by tears, lies one of 3,000 young Americans. Dispersed across the land, thousands more will forever carry the scars of war in their battered bodies and hollowed souls, mutants battling hellish shadows and silent phantoms. And the Iraqis, yes those, Mr President, see them spiral into Dante's lower rings of hell, as they join the fastest-growing sect in the land: the dead—hundreds of thousands strong. Watch the White Man's Burden devolve into an orgy of torture and mayhem. (Has it ever devolved into anything else?)

“We can't keep asking Americans to sacrifice their children for people who hate each other more than they love their own children.”

But hippies don't fight wars. The Pentagon does. It did, and it lost. One reason—not even the most important—is the military's endemic inability to win hearts and minds. Early in the war, the Guardian sounded the alarm:

“US troops have the attitude of shoot first and ask questions later. They simply won't take any risk... Unfortunately, when we explained our rules of engagement which are based around the principle of minimum force, the US troops just laughed.”

“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

Renault: And what in Heaven's name brought you to Baghdad?

Bush: The sweets and the flowers. I came to Baghdad for love.

Renault: Love! What love? We're in the Middle East.

Bush: I was misinformed.

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