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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 |
ThinkProgress: "Seven Members of Congress issued a letter this week charging that the Pentagon is systematically 'under-reporting casualties in Iraq by only reporting non-fatal casualties incurred in combat'. They asked for a full accounting of the accurate numbers.
The statistics seem to show that a lot of those health problems are war-related. For example, nearly 37,000 have mental disorders, including nearly 16,000 who have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. Over 46,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan receiving benefits from the V.A. have musculoskeletal problems. These are all veterans who within the last four years were considered by the military to be mentally and physically fit enough to fight."
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"Despite our differences, it's good to see we can come together over dinner."
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AlterNet: "The end is near. In the time it took to create the world, the global justice movement may herald in the demise the World Trade Organization (WTO). For six days, from December 13th to the 18th, the WTO will hold its sixth ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. All signs point to the strong possibility that once again, the ministerial will conclude in failure. After the collapse of negotiations in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun in 2003, the WTO has tried with only limited success to get back on to its feet. The combined efforts of determined developing country governments supported by social movements the world-over have successfully forced the WTO into a corner from which it seems unlikely to emerge."
What companies like Wal-Mart want is a minimum of regulations, low import and export tariffs, low production costs and low wages, which means the profits don't go to the relative countries and people but to the company.
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