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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 47

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “You might as well adapt the living wage for the entire city.” — Lawyer Goerge Kieffer, on frustration with a new living wage law that only targets hotels near the Los Angeles airport (story #07, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Slave descendant pushes Aetna boycott”
[o2] “Texas city OKs anti-immigration measures”
[o3] “Adding insult to injury”
WORLD
[o4] “Afghan judiciary failing to keep women from suicide”
[o5] “Families of Chechen rebels still targeted”
[o6] “Sikh body condemns teenager’s hair shearing in Edinburgh”
LIVING WAGE
[o7] “Airport hotels ordered to pay a ‘living wage'”
[o8] “St. Paul officials propose living-wage ordinance”
FREIGHT POLLUTION
[o9] “Report chides revenue-rich freight industry’s pollution”
[10] “U.S. group aims to help shipping industry go ‘green'”
SPYING LAWS
[11] “Supreme Court asked to rule on secret law”
[12] “Republicans propose last-minute spy bill”
BUYING GREEN
[13] “Minister appeals for a counter revolution to curb packaging”
[14] “Group accuses Wal-Mart of illegal organic labeling”
NEWS & COMMENTARY
[15] “No moksha for Ganga in Varanasi”
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“Slave descendant pushes Aetna boycott”
New York Sun, November 15, 2006
An activist is targeting Aetna and other companies that underwrote insurance policies on slaves, enabling abuse by owners.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 46

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “On three occasions I have been diagnosed with lumps in my chest, which doctors say are due to lead poisoning … but no one has ever given me any money to do something else.” — Christine Mupika, a resident of Kabwe, Zambia, who digs through lead-laced soil for coal to sell in Africa’s most polluted city (story #14, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Air marshal’s firing prompts whistleblower suit”
[o2] “Not knowing what lies beneath”
[o3] “Investigation finds votes cast by people listed as dead”
WORLD
[o4] “1,500 Baathists killed in south”
[o5] “Analysts outraged over U.S. adjustments of employment data”
[o6] “Howard to defy U.S. on nuclear plant”
TOXIC WASTE
[o7] “British firm faces 100m-pound claim for ‘dumping toxic waste'”
[o8] “Trade pact with Japan ‘will turn country into a toxic waste dumpsite'”
WAL-MART
[o9] “Wal-Mart foes file suit against city”
[10] “Wal-Mart fights grocery ruling”
INDUSTRY & ENVIRONMENT
[11] “New ethanol plants spark concerns of ‘factory farm'”
[12] “India’s ship-breaking industry under scrutiny”
[13] “Dilovasi, symbol of savage industrialization”
[14] “Kabwe in Zambia, Africa’s most toxic city”
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“Air marshal’s firing prompts whistleblower suit”
Federal Times, November 7, 2006
An Air Marshal who exposed lax airplane security was the first government official fired for disclosing sensitive, but not classified, information.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 45

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “The fat bastard who kept taking off his hood and escaping from his plasticuffs got put in another room. He resisted and he stopped breathing, then we could not revive him. What a shame.” — From the diary of Stuart Mackenzie, a former British private on trial with several colleagues for torture at a prison is Basra (story #o9, below).

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 44

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “We will be exploring the potential for new equipment such as water cannons.” — London police commissioner Tarique Ghaffur says potentially violent
sectarian protests require new crowd-control tactics(story #o8, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Romania harvests trouble with its GM crops”
[o2] “Cuba examining socialism for flaws”
[o3] “Democrats wait in the wings, with subpoenas”
ELECTIONS & DEMOCRACY
[o4] “Seven Indians run for SD legislature”
[o5] “Riots after Congo elections bring fears of fresh fighting”
[o6] “Bangladesh braces for new violence”
RELIGION & POLITICS
[o7] “A radical idea: How Muslims can be European, too”
[o8] “Police want water cannons to douse religious riot threat”
[o9] “Radical sheik blasts judges on rape”
PETROLEUM
[10] “Oil flow stations seized”
[11] “Oil companies decide to stay — on Morales’ terms”
WORLD
[12] “Iran president’s decentralization plan sparks wide domestic opposition”
[13] “Aoun ups the ante”
[14] “Stop LRA food supply, government tells Machar:
VIEWPOINT
[15] “Brad Will: Final moments captured by slain journalist’s camera”
[16] “Illusions in Belgrade”
 
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“Romania harvests trouble with its GM crops”
Environment News Service, October 30, 2006
Europe’s biggest producer of genetically modified soybeans may be banned from E.U. markets over poorly enforced regulations. [o2]
“Cuba examining socialism for flaws”
Miami Herald, October 26, 2006
Cuba has permitted journalists to report on widespread fraud by public employees, raising questions about potential reforms.

[o3]
“Democrats wait in the wings, with subpoenas”
The Washington Times, October 31, 2006
Anticipating a return to power, House Democrats are gunning for “fraud and waste” at the Department of Homeland Security.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 43

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “Every young man wishes to have a job and have a life. But when he sees what we have here: occupation, siege, a low standard of living, security crisis — all of this creates a desire to leave. I want to get out of this crisis.” — Ahmed Hushiyeh one of many young Palestinians seeking to flee surging violence under the Hamas government(story #o8, below).

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 42

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “You can be a passive target and wait to get shot, or you can decide that life is worth fighting for.” — Texas high school teacher and former police officer Greg Crane says school gun massacres can be prevented if students and teachers are taught to fight armed intruders (story #7, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “The long arm of China’s secret police reaches into the U.S.” [o2] “Immigrants are victims as ‘apartheid’ returns to South Africa”
[o3] “Mass conversion to Buddhism in India”
NATION
[o4] “Heat’s on ‘profile’ cop”
[o5] “Anti-abortion campaign waves feminist flag”
[o6] “Many taking military shortcut to U.S. citizenship”
GUNS IN SCHOOL
[o7] “Students are taught to fight intruders”
[o8] “Gun class for Utah teachers”
WORLD
[o9] “Iraqi Kurdistan offers safe haven for fleeing Arabs”
[10] “Palestinian diplomatic staff in dire straits”
[11] “Police ‘exaggerated evidence’ against British 9/11 suspect”
HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
[12] “Scientists find farm link to breast cancer”
[13] “Alaskan lakes dry up”
[14] “Toxic cloud engulfs Santiago, Chile”
VIEWPOINT
[15] “What happens when blacks suppress white votes?”

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News You Might Have Missed, * Vol. 5, No. 41

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “In the schools the children now say that a Christian is a kaffir, that he is different from the Muslims. And that means he can be treated differently. In 20 years there will be no more Christians in Iraq.” — Wijdan Mikha’il, the Iraqi Minister for Human Rights and the only Christian in the new government, says she will take her family out of the country due to sectarian violence (story #11, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Mexico police ‘hushed up rapes'”
[o2] “Pregnant Palestinians give birth at Israeli checkpoints”
[o3] “SOS to U.S., U.N. as Chinese army kills Tibetan nun”
WORLD
[o4] “Female genital mutilation banned in Indonesia”
[o5] “Turkey warns of sanctions against France”
NIGERIA: NEWS & PERSPECTIVES
[o6] “Renewed war in Niger Delta: The 9-day peace wonder in Niger Delta”
[o7] “Niger Delta – turning spears into plows”
CORPORATE LAWSUITS
[o8] “Hit squad lawsuit against Coke bottlers dismissed”
[o9] “Lead-paint legal battle heats up”
LIFE IN IRAQ
[10] “Baghdad kidnappers target easy prey”
[11] “‘In 20 years, there will be no more Christians in Iraq'”
[12] “Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib”
[13] “Death squads In Iraqi hospitals”
VIEWPOINT
[14] “The enemy?”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 40

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “These are men used to running their trap lines, people who know the area well, yet they are literally falling through, they are just gone. The ice conditions are just so drastically different from all of their hunting lifetimes.” — Patricia Cochran, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, on the dangers of climate change and thinning Arctic ice (story #o7, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “U.S. uses Great Lakes for weapons training”
[o2] “Probe finds Saddam wanted cash to bury Kurds”
[o3] “U.N. rights body hears raps vs.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 39

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “Water is seen increasingly as a saleable commodity, as opposed to our perspective of it being an element of life and good for all creation.” — United Church of Canada official David Hallman is part of a movement to get churchgoers to boycott bottle water (story #12, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “A Silence in the Afghan Mountains”
[o2] “Egyptian-Israeli marriages ‘must be blocked'”
[o3] “Pentagon Iran office mimics former Iraq office”
WORLD
[o4] “Flu, war hem in Nukak indigenous nomads”
[o5] “‘Aids’ medics’ trial delayed”
[o6] “Security agency goes after Moonies, Jehovah’s Witnesses”
ISRAEL
[o7] “Israelis ‘train Kurdish forces'”
[o8] “Israeli policy divides Palestinian families”
[o9] “Israeli troops raid West Bank money changers, saying cash destined for militants”
ENVIRONMENT
[10] “Africa’s environment under siege”
[11] “Food for chickens, poison for man”
[12] “The religious war on bottled water”
CHINESE PUBLIC
[13] “Experts: 100 mln Chinese suffer from mental illness”
[14] “Rising incidence of birth defects in China rings alarm”
NEWS & PERSPECTIVE
[15] “America’s Africa corps”
[16] “Enduring an endless wait”
 
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“A Silence in the Afghan Mountains”
Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2006
A coverup of two Afghani civilian deaths fooled Army officials, and ultimately revealed kidnappings and abuse by Special Forces. [o2]
“Egyptian-Israeli marriages ‘must be blocked'”
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates), September 24, 2006
A leading Egyptian politician said interfaith nuptials should be banned to prevent children from being “fed on hatred of the Arabs.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 38

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “I had warned the government this might happen. I told them Taliban was taking over. Why can’t they stop them?” — Saleh Gul, a former Afghan governor, resigned after the Taliban kidnapped his son, whom he fears is now dead (story #o8, below).