War: Even More Horrible Than Previously Estimated//The finding supports the notion of armed conflict as a 'public health problem' whose instability leads not only to violent deaths, but to indirect deaths from infectious disease and other causes, experts add.
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War: Even More Horrible Than Previously Estimated
http://gawker.com/tag/statistics/?i=5018570&t=war-even-more-horrible-than-previously-estimated
"Wars around the world have killed three times more people over the
past half-century than previously estimated, a new study suggests. The
finding supports the notion of armed conflict as a 'public health
problem' whose instability leads not only to violent deaths, but to
indirect deaths from infectious disease and other causes, experts add.
'War kills more people than we had previously thought,' said lead
researcher Ziad Obermeyer, a research scientist at Brigham & Women's
Hospital, in Boston. 'And that has to be taken into account when we're
looking historically, and it's important for people and policy makers
to know when they're looking at the consequences of the war. It's
important that there's an awareness of how many people actually die.'"
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'War kills more people than we had previously thought,' said lead
researcher Ziad Obermeyer, a research scientist at Brigham & Women's
Hospital, in Boston."
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Tony Platt on American Eugenics
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080620_tony_platt_on_american_eugenics/
Posted on Jun 20, 2008 By Tony Platt
The 1942 U.S. Supreme Court case of Skinner v. Oklahoma is remembered
for protecting “the right to have offspring,” and by implication the
right not to have offspring. Skinner, according to Victoria Nourse,
the author of an important new book on American eugenics, typically
“sits in the shadow of the abortion and gay marriage debates.”
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Secret Video Raises Questions About Journalist’s Murder
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080619_secret_video_raises_questions_about_journalists_murder/
Jun 19, 2008 Reported by The Center for Investigative Reporting
On August 2, 2007, journalist Chauncey Bailey was gunned down in
Oakland, California. Bailey was investigating Your Black Muslim
Bakery, a once prominent Oakland African-American organization. The
next day, Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV was arrested during a raid for a
separate kidnapping case. Police placed Bey and two associates
involved in the case, his brother Joshua Bey and Tamon Halfin, in a
San Leandro police department room, where they were secretly
videotaped.
Bey IV has repeatedly told police he knew nothing about Bailey’s
death. But, on the tape, Bey IV says he hid the gun used in the
attack, and brags of playing “hella dumb” when investigators asked him
about the killing.
Bey IV, 22, hasn’t been arrested or charged in connection with
Bailey’s Aug. 2 slaying. Oakland Police have charged only one of his
associates, Devaughndre Broussard, now 20, who claimed, at least
initially, that he acted alone. The secret video raises fresh
questions about Bey IV’s possible role in the crime and why police
haven’t brought charges against others in the high-profile slaying,
according to experts who viewed the tape at the request of the
Chauncey Bailey Project.
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Scott McClellan Testimony: Rove Is a Liar and Cheney an Oil-Hungry War-
Monger
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/06/20/scott-mcclellan-testimony-the-recap/
By: emptywheel Friday June 20, 2008
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It's Just Plame Impeachable
http://current.com/items/89029915_it_s_just_plame_impeachable
June 17, 2008
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Worse Than Any Impeachable Offense
http://current.com/items/89020854_worse_than_any_impeachable_offense
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Constitutional scholar on impeachment: 'It's time to pony up'
http://current.com/items/89015848_constitutional_scholar_on_impeachment_it_s_time_to_pony_up
June 11, 2008
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Iraq wants right to veto US operations
http://current.com/items/89031266_iraq_wants_right_to_veto_us_operations
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Media caught! Irrefutable evidence of US media deception, bias &
coverup
http://current.com/items/89015630_media_caught_irrefutable_evidence_of_us_media_deception_bias_coverup
June 11, 2008
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U.S. Sergeant refuses to go to Iraq: "This occupation is
unconstitutional and illegal"
http://current.com/items/89029610_u_s_sergeant_refuses_to_go_to_iraq_this_occupation_is_unconstitutional_and_illegal
June 17, 2008