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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 27

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “We get the freaks that come up here every once in a while, ‘You’re ruining mother earth.’ Well, go back to your school bus and smoke some dope and go on your way.” — Richard Secord, Jr., owns a mining claim on Oregon’s Bohemia Mountain under an 1872 law that makes the state liable for millions of dollars in pollution cleanup costs (story #10, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Afghan media rail against censorship plan”
[o2] “War taking its toll on Iraqis”
[o3] “Congo’s jungle terrorists disband”
 
WORLD
[o4] “Museveni gives Kony amnesty”
[o5] “Displaced face uncertain return”
 
NATION
[o6] “Sandwich targets businesses hiring illegal aliens”
[o7] “One-man train crew plan raises security fears”
[o8] “Spy agency sought U.S. call records before 9/11, lawyers say”
[o9] “Torture teachers”
 
ENVIRONMENT
[10] “Bohemia: A mountain of pollution”
[11] “Landfill is not toxic, say city and La.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 27

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “We get the freaks that come up here every once in a while, ‘You’re ruining mother earth.’ Well, go back to your school bus and smoke some dope and go on your way.” — Richard Secord, Jr., owns a mining claim on Oregon’s Bohemia Mountain under an 1872 law that makes the state liable for millions of dollars in pollution cleanup costs (story #10, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Afghan media rail against censorship plan”
[o2] “War taking its toll on Iraqis”
[o3] “Congo’s jungle terrorists disband”
 
WORLD
[o4] “Museveni gives Kony amnesty”
[o5] “Displaced face uncertain return”
 
NATION
[o6] “Sandwich targets businesses hiring illegal aliens”
[o7] “One-man train crew plan raises security fears”
[o8] “Spy agency sought U.S. call records before 9/11, lawyers say”
[o9] “Torture teachers”
 
ENVIRONMENT
[10] “Bohemia: A mountain of pollution”
[11] “Landfill is not toxic, say city and La.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 26

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “I’m a young black man from the ghetto but this was culture shock. This is not what I fought for, what I almost died for. This is not what I was supposed to come home to.” — 26-year-old Iraq veteran Herold Noel, who was injured in Iraq and left homeless and without disability pay until recently (story #15, below).

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 26

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “I’m a young black man from the ghetto but this was culture shock. This is not what I fought for, what I almost died for. This is not what I was supposed to come home to.” — 26-year-old Iraq veteran Herold Noel, who was injured in Iraq and left homeless and without disability pay until recently (story #15, below).

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 25

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “If there’s something you want very badly, and you’re willing to pay money to get in line, you’re ripe to be exploited.” — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Sharon Rummery says fraud schemes are cheating immigrants while promising legal residency (story #13, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Revealed: the lax laws that could allow assembly of deadly virus DNA”
[o2] “U.S. mum on strength of Iraqi troops”
[o3] “U.N. accused over Congo village massacre”
 
SUPERFUND SITES
[o4] “Democrats say key Superfund data is being withheld from the public”
[o5] “Bad report for Dover Chemical”
[o6] “EPA says two polluted sites are no longer threats”
 
NATION
[o7] “EPA under fire for Gay Pride events”
[o8] “2 charged with altering water quality reports”
[o9] “Pentagon sued for surveillance info”
[10] “Ohio high court restricts class actions”
 
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
[11] “Selling illegal immigrants the American dream”
[12] “A fifth of U.S. visa applicants reportedly unchecked”
[13] “Immigrants ripe for fraud”
 
WORLD
[14] “France tags a Nazi collaborator: the railway”
[15] “Sao Paulo authorities quell prison riots that stirred fresh fears”
[16] “Alkatiri’s order: arm these comrades”
 
VIEWPOINT
[17] “Will Al Zarqawi’s death change anything in Iraq?”  
TOP STORIES | top
[o1]
“Revealed: the lax laws that could allow assembly of deadly virus DNA”
Guardian (U.K.), June 14, 2006
A newspaper had a smallpox DNA sequence delivered to a London home, illustrating a lack of safeguards against bioterrorism.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 24

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “Nobody is safe, either onshore or offshore.” — An anonymous security official on the massively increased ambition and capacity of petro-rebels targeting oil production around the delta of the Niger River (story #15, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Mexico pressed to respond to pesticide deaths”
[o2] “Madrassas set up trusts in face of investigations into income”
[o3] “CIA Nazi Files Released”
 
ENVIRONMENT
[o4] “Scientists seek causes of stress for fish dying in Va., W.Va.” [o5] “Outrage over infill in suburban areas”
[o6] “How melting glaciers alter Earth, spur quakes, volcanoes”
 
HEALTH
[o7] “Chemical firms ‘using workers as guinea pigs'”
[o8] “Out of sight and out of control”
[o9] “Carcinogen discovered in soft drinks”
[10] “Makerere Scientists Okay DDT”
 
THE WORLD CUP
[11] “World Cup ban in Mogadishu denied”
[12] “Rubbing Out Racism”
[13] “Green Goals for World Cup Nets”
 
WORLD
[14] “Long Distance Revolutionary”
[15] “ANALYSIS: Nigeria’s oil delta faces escalation of violence”
[16] “Sudan: Govt Agrees to Arrest Kony — ICC”
[17] “A Village in Yemen: A Day in the Life of a Failing State”
 
VIEWPOINT
[18] “Young people’s protests are easy to mock.

Democracy

For Gypsies, Eugenics is a Modern Problem / Czech Practice Dates to Soviet Era

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By Mindy Kay Bricker
PRAGUE (Newsdesk.org) — Gypsy women who say they were sterilized against their will by Czech doctors were heartened last December when a government investigator released a study that largely vindicated their claims.
Six months later, however, advocates for Gypsies — known more formally as Roma — say the practice is continuing, and are dismayed by what they consider only token steps by Czech officials to stop it. “There’s been basically dead silence at the level of elites,” said Claude Cahn, program director of the European Roma Rights Center, an advocacy group based in Budapest. Officials at the Health Ministry acknowledge the problem, but have not taken responsibility. “[Sterilization] was by no means a national policy, but errors [were] committed by individual medical facilities,” said Jaroslav Strof, the Health Ministry’s director of healthcare and pharmacy, in an e-mailed statement. Yet the Czech government’s independent ombudsman, Otakar Motejl, released a detailed report last year charging that “potentially problematic” sterilizations of Roma women have been public knowledge for more than 15 years.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 23

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “Our children are forever falling sick and most run very high temperatures and then die, mostly of cancer.” — A Baghalchur, Pakistan, resident who says officials are ignoring
sickness caused by uranium waste dumped nearby (story #15, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “Landless storm Brazilian Congress”
[o2] “Iraqi schools hit by insurgency”
[o3] “Sudan’s ‘genocide’ lands at Israel’s door”
 
CHEMICAL FEARS
[o4] “Journal adds fuel to growing fears of chromium risk”
[o5] “Supervisors to consider ban of certain plastics”
[o6] “Flavoring perils get harder look”
 
WAR & TERRORISM
[o7] “U.K. to get tough with deserters”
[o8] “Document shows Bay Area high terror risk, less terror funding”
[o9] “Their ‘9/11 plague'”
 
NATION
[10] “Wind farms in limbo”
[11] “Companies read employee e-mail”
[12] “Vets told biopsies may have brought viruses”
[13] “Law puts an end to boot camps”
 
WORLD
[14] “Sex splits nations at AIDS meeting”
[15] “Villagers pay the price of nuclear ambitions”
[16] “Rape victim was ‘too drunk when brought to van'”
[17] “Flouting Syria’s martial law, bold students advocate democracy”
 
TOP STORIES | top
[o1]
“Landless storm Brazilian Congress”
BBC News, June 7, 2006
Hundreds were arrested after protesting Brazil’s failure to redistribute “disused” land to 400,000 poor families. [o2]
“Iraqi schools hit by insurgency”
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, May 31, 2006
765 teachers and 1,750 students were killed in Baghdad schools this year, particularly in mixed neighborhoods.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 22

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “Man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” — James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who excluded the press and the public from a Senate roundtable on greenhouse gases last week (story #15, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “1,400 airport security badges and uniform items missing”
[o2] “EPA scientists pressured to allow use of dangerous pesticides”
[o3] “Large study finds no link between marijuana and lung cancer”
 
WAR ON TERROR
[o4] “Intelligence czar can waive SEC rules”
[o5] “American pressure threatens U.K. firms”
[o6] “FCC blocked from investigating NSA spying on Americans”
 
WORLD
[o7] “Racism claim gets under L’Oreal’s skin”
[o8] “Their animals are dead. These people are next”
[o9] “Syria launches crackdown on dissent”
[10] “Russia to sell air defense systems to Iran”
 
ENDANGERED SPECIES
[11] “Atlantic walrus in decline due to overhunting”
[12] “Latest research hunt catches 60 whales”
[13] “Governor defends wolf stance”
 
GLOBAL WARMING DENIAL
[14] “Oil industry in ‘deliberate move to mislead'”
[15] “Environment meeting closed to stop ‘rhetoric'”
 
VIEWPOINT
[16] “Western projects are bleeding Afghanistan dry, says minister”
 
TOP STORIES | top
[o1]
“1,400 airport security badges and uniform items missing”
WOAI.com (TX), May 25, 2006
Hundreds of lost and stolen TSA badges across the country could be giving terrorists access to airport security.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 5, No. 21

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Important but underreported news from around the world. QUOTED: “Everybody wants to clean it up, but nobody wants to pay for it.” — North Carolina Rep. Pryor Gibson, who is trying to get the state enough money to clean up thousands of leaking underground gas tanks (story #14, below). TOP STORIES
[o1] “U.S. in secret gun deal”
[o2] “U.S. accused of backing warlords in Somalia”
[o3] “The Pentagon’s ghost investigation”
 
ISRAEL
[o4] “Israeli ties impair U.S. sec. clearance”
[o5] “Israeli rules cripple life in West Bank”
[o6] “British professor confirms ‘silent’ boycott of Israel”
 
WORLD
[o7] “After peace, Darfur’s rebel forces turn on each other”
[o8] “Police accused of revenge attacks”
[o9] “German ‘CIA’ used reporters as informants”
[10] “It’s an ill wind…”