Fired Cop Beats 48-Year-Old Woman, Has Her Arrested & Kills Her DogWOODBRIDGE — What began as a quick Sunday night drive to the grocery store with her beloved dog turned into a "nightmare" for a 48-year-old township woman after an altercation with a former Woodbridge police officer who was apparently concerned that she had left her dog unattended in her vehicle.
Before it was over, the woman, Maura Ciardiello, was handcuffed and taken to the Woodbridge Police Department, though she was not charged with a crime. She spent yesterday in pain f... (more)
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World slow to face bird flu threatPlans for a global response to a mass outbreak of bird flu in humans are taking shape, but are far from complete.
Public health experts and epidemiologists are issuing shrill warnings about the dangers a pandemic would pose to human health around the world.
Any confirmation that the H5N1 bird flu virus has become capable of human-to-human transmission will send the World Health Organisation's pandemic alert level, currently at Level 3, soaring towards the highest st... (more)
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Hunger strike restarts amid abuse claimsNew tensions between Guantanamo Bay detainees and the US military have prompted 89 prisoners to resume a hunger strike that so far has left seven in hospital.
The prisoners, protesting against their living conditions and their continued detention without trial, had gone on a widespread hunger strike that ended in July. Word that the hunger strike had resumed was disclosed on Thursday by Clive Stafford Smith, a British human rights lawyer who returned from visiting clients at the b... (more)
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Don't let the settlers fool youA stranger from Mars who read the newspapers, listened to the radio and saw the television could conclude that the pullout from Gaza had been carried out under unconceivable duress by a heartless army of conquest that fell on an innocent group of people and dragged them from their homes - without preparation, without warning, without compensation, without assistance - and sentenced them to cruel exile with only the shirts on their backs.
The settlers have the knack of turning them... (more)
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Iraq: The Democrats Are Just As Bad (If not worse than the Republicans)Terry Michael, the founder-director of the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, bemoans the "nondebate" over the Iraq war that takes place in the "mainstream" media:
"The most influential interpreters of our public affairs are accepting, rather than expanding, a noose-tight frame the Washington political culture is enforcing to limit permissible discourse on the war in Iraq…. Look at almost any major daily op-ed page, watch the Sunday shows or listen to nightly ca... (more)
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Radioactive Wounds of WarGerard Matthew thought he was lucky. He returned from his Iraq tour a year and a half ago alive and in one piece. But after the New York State National Guardsman got home, he learned that a bunkmate, Sgt. Ray Ramos, and a group of N.Y. Guard members from another unit had accepted an offer by the New York Daily News and reporter Juan Gonzalez to be tested for depleted uranium (DU) contamination, and had tested positive.
Matthew, 31, decided that since he’d spent much of his t... (more)
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Gouging in the Name of Peak OilOil companies posting huge profits, taking advantage of the perception of scarcity from Hubert's Peak theory that may actually be mostly hype, considering the known existence of renewable magma oil.
At a time when the price per barrel of oil is reaching record highs, why is it that the large oil companies are also posting near record profits?
Why aren't they using their proceeds to lower the price or address the shortfalls? Why are these companies allowed to get awa... (more)
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Finding solace in $3-a-gallon gasHigh gas prices are a doomsayer's delight. Trips to the mall are fewer, vacations shrink, heating bills rise, inflation rises, the economy slumps. Those harmful effects need to be addressed, but in the long term, such prices can actually serve consumers.
If oil prices manage to stay above $40 a barrel for years, which many experts now say is possible, then the alternatives to oil, from solar cells to liquefied coal, look very attractive to energy investors. (Current oil prices see... (more)
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Lethal hospital bug cases rocketThe number of cases of a potentially lethal hospital infection has rocketed since the 1990s, figures show.
The Department of Health has revealed there were 44,488 cases of C. difficile in over 65s in England last year.
It was the first time mandatory surveillance of the diarrhoea-causing infection has been undertaken.
In the early 1990s there were about 1,000 cases a year, but by 2003 the total rose to 35,536, England, Wales and Northern Ireland data ... (more)
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Deal ends Ecuadorian oil crisisA crippling strike in Ecuador's oil industry has come to an end after protesters reached an agreement with the government and oil companies.
The oil firms promised to invest more money in local communities in the two provinces most affected by the action.
The protesters had paralysed the oil industry and cost the government some $400 million in lost revenue.
The protesters sought an increase the amount of oil revenue invested in the region surrounding... (more)
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Colombia lawmakers 'use cocaine'Some of Colombia's elected politicians have used cocaine within Congress itself, the vice-president of the country's Senate has alleged.
The drug is also being sold there, Senator Edgar Artunduaga said.
"I know names of people who distribute cocaine here in Congress," he said, revealing the results of an investigation ordered by his office.
"There are important officials who distribute, and senators and representatives who consume," he said.
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Oregon poised for unlikely military draftThere is no military draft and federal officials say there are no plans to restart one, but if that changed suddenly, Oregon's system could spring to life quickly, board members say.
"There's a system in place, ready to go," said Mike Weatherby, the mayor of Fairview and a member of the statewide Selective Service appeals board. If a national draft was suddenly instituted, he said, "it would have some hiccups, some stumbling, but it would work."
While the U.S. milit... (more)
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