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Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
Forbes: "Nearly a dozen people were killed in fresh clashes Friday between police and Taliban militants on Friday, while a human rights group estimated that 34 civilians died earlier this week in a U.S. airstrike on a southern village - double the official toll."
IHT: "Investigators believe that their criminal inquiry into the deaths of two dozen civilians in Iraq in November points toward a conclusion that U.S. marines committed unprovoked murders, a senior defense official said Friday. The Marine Corps initially reported that the deaths were caused by a roadside bomb and an ensuing firefight with insurgents."
LATimes: "Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them 'execution-style', in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November, officials close to the investigation said Friday.
The pictures are said to show wounds to the upper bodies of the victims, who included several women and six children. Some were shot in the head and some in the back, congressional and defense officials said.
The case may be the most serious incident of alleged war crimes in Iraq by U.S. troops."
Bush's crimes.
11:29:13 AM 
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FAIR: "The New York Post put on its front page a Canadian columnist's erroneous claim that a new Iranian law says 'religious minorities...will have to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public'. The Canadian National Post has since admitted it 'did not exercise sufficient caution and skepticism' in originally running the story. While many U.S. outlets retain enough skepticism to have passed on reprinting the column, the New York Post 'blared the story on Page 1 - and across two inside pages' with the inflammatory headline 'Fourth Reich: Iran Law Labels Jews'. To its credit, the National Post printed a report investigating the occurence, but the New York Post's reaction was to give further print space to the offending columnist."
10:58:12 AM
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SFBayView: "Venezuela's economic boom has continued into the first part of 2006, with consumer inflation and unemployment down and a 10 percent minimum wage hike."
The recipe for success is to break away from the stranglehold of the US and the IMF and World Bank and use the income from oil for the benefit of the people instead of the foreign exploiters.
And if this is true the future for Venezuela is bright (if the US does not start a revolution there): "A US DoE report shows that at today's prices Venezuela's oil reserves are bigger than those of the entire Middle East including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Iran and Iraq. The US DoE also identifies Canada as another future oil superpower. Venezuela's deposits alone could extend the oil age for another 100 years."
10:51:37 AM
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Explaining the postcode lottery in health care (marked variations in the provision of public services across the UK) as 'the result of a healthy market' is sheer nonsense.
If a 'healthy market' means unhealthy people, the market idea is wrong and should be abolished.
BBC: "The service provided by Britain's GPs is highly variable across the country and could get worse if recruitment problems intensify, a report says.
Inner city areas are more likely to have fewer GPs and poorer facilities, the study by the Audit Commission found."
10:43:22 AM
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