 Five bicycle bombs and a hail of mortar shells ripped apart a market south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 18 people in yet another sign that Iraq's government and U.S. forces were struggling to contain sectarian violence. Three U.S. Marines also were killed, making October the deadliest month for American forces this year.In Washington, President Bush met with his top military and security advisers to study new tactics to curb the staggering violence in Iraq, where more than 3 1/2 years of war have now taken more American lives _ at least 2,791 _ than the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.U.S. officials have blamed the skyrocketing violence on the holy month of Ramadan, which ends Sunday for Sunni Muslims, as well as the increased vulnerability of American forces during a major two-month security sweep in Baghdad and the approaching U.S. midterm election....
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Editor - 20:48:00 10-21-06
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 Aid agencies warn of food crisis |
An already dire humanitarian situation in North Korea is likely to worsen this winter after the impoverished country's nuclear brinkmanship resulted in sanctions and intensified scrutiny, aid workers warned.North Korea has still not recovered from famine in the 1990s that experts believe killed about 2.5 million people - 10 per cent of the population. UN sanctions imposed after North Korea's underground nuclear test this month do not cover aid supplies and charities have been assured the curbs won't bar them from operating in the country.'US NGOs have been allowed to conduct humanitarian assistance activities in North Korea, most of those at a modest scale,' said a senior private aid official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. 'Those have not been affected to date by the growing estrangement in the political relationship.'...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1928447,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
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Editor - 20:44:00 10-21-06
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| City chief quits amid reports of 20 child deaths |
The city's human services commissioner resigned and one of her top deputies was fired amid reports that at least 20 children died of abuse or neglect under the agency's watch."Children are dying and we're concerned about it," Mayor John Street said Friday. "We hold this department and ourselves to a high standard."Commissioner Cheryl Ransom-Garner stepped down and John McGee, who handled abuse investigations, was terminated, Street said.The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing state records, has reported that at least 20 children died from 2003 to 2005 after their families met with the city's Department of Human Services....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/21/child.deaths.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us
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Editor - 20:42:00 10-21-06
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| Pope warns scientists not to risk fate of Icarus |
Pope Benedict told scientists on Saturday that by believing only in "artificial intelligence" and technology they risked the fate of the mythical Icarus, whose home-made wings melted when he flew too close to the sun."Contemporary life gives pride of place to an artificial intelligence ever more enslaved to experimental tecnhiques, thereby forgetting that all science should safeguard mankind and promote his tendency to authentic goodness," the Pope said. The German-born Pope, a theology professor and an enforcer of Vatican dogma before his election as pontiff last year, has voiced his concerns about some areas of scientific research that clash with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2595766
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Editor - 20:37:00 10-21-06
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| Olbermann: the beginning of the end of America |
This is a video that everyone who claims to be an American has to watch. It’s not long but most likely the most important video you will see in a long time. If you don’t take the time to watch it you obviously couldn’t care less and are most likely the type of person that caused this. ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxmPjB0WSs
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Editor - 17:40:00 10-21-06
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| After Pat’s Birthday |
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out. Much has happened since we handed over our voice: Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. ...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday/
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Editor - 17:15:00 10-21-06
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