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A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes |
by Arjun Makhijani
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06 Oct 2005
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There are considerable uncertainties in the risk of cancer death from exposure to low levels of radiation, but all careful scientific evaluations, including the most recent ones, have concluded that every increment of exposure to radiation produces an incremental risk of cancer. The range of estimates of cancer deaths as a result of testing fallout, using the official U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cancer risk coefficients, is between about 200,000 to more than half a million. |
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outFarpress presents: The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/7/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! |
by Dan Roberts
outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (verified) |
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06 Oct 2005
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia. |
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News :: Children : Civil & Human Rights : Economy : Health : Housing : Labor : Political-Economy : Urban Development |
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US Poverty: Chronic Ill, Little Hope for Cure |
by Bernd Debusmann
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06 Oct 2005
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The black-equals-poor scenes from New Orleans do not portray the full picture. There are three times as many poor whites as blacks in the United States and the poverty rate for whites has risen faster than that for blacks and Hispanics.
Academic experts also say the government's figures minimize the true scale of poverty because they are outdated. The formula for the poverty level was set in 1963 on the assumption that one third of the average family's budget was spent on food.
This is no longer true. Housing has become the largest single expense and tens of thousands of the "working poor," the label for those who work at or near the minimum wage, are forced to sleep in cars, trailers, long-term motels or shelters. |
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BTL:Indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Adds to... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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06 Oct 2005
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...Growing Cloud of Corruption Charges Hanging Over GOP ~ Interview with Alex Knott, of the Center for Public Integrity, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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News :: Drugs : Education : Elections & Legislation : Environment |
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Viva New Mexico! Aspartame Finally Imperiled! |
by Dr. Betty Martini
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06 Oct 2005
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The Nation's eyes are on New Mexico. State Statutes on poisonous substances and adulteration can preempt federal. New Mexico set a precedent for the world to follow. Hearing to ban aspartame in July. |
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Announcement :: Iraq : Media |
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GHOST TROOP PRESS RELEASE |
by Captain Athena Z
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05 Oct 2005
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Ghost Troop, 3/7 Cavalry is unique to the Iraq War, and perhaps to military history. On April 5, 2003, unit founder former Eric May detected major glitches in the media pictures coming back from Baghdad, which US forces had just reached. The reporters had gone from April 4 announcements that the siege of Baghdad had begun to announcements that the fight of Baghdad had begun at the Baghdad Airport..., then from such large-scale, important announcements to the "human interest" story that Private Jessica Lynch had been saved. |
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CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM |
by O´ Ruairc
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05 Oct 2005
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Every year since 1990, the United Nations publishes its Human Development Report. It contains the most authoritative data on the state of the world. These reports are available online:
hdr.undp.org/reports/view_reports.cfm?type=1.
Based on those reports (referred to by year, followed by page), what does our world look like? |
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