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  • BJP attacks soft drink ads, singles out Aamir

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    MOHUA CHATTERJEE, ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK, AUGUST 4, 2006 NEW DELHI: With Coke and Pepsi coming under the pesticide scanner again and Parliament debating the issue with full steam, BJP on Thursday used the opportunity to attack actor Aamir Khan for appearing as the brand ambassador for Coca Cola. The opposition party also demanded that ad…

  • Blood on his hands: John Kampfner talks about Blair's record on Lebanon, Iraq and Halabja

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    JOHN KAMPFNER, NEW STATESMAN, AUGUST 7, 2006 Blair knew the attack on Lebanon was coming but he didn’t try to stop it, because he didn’t want to. He has made this country an accomplice, destroying what remained of our influence abroad while putting us all at greater risk of attack. By John Kampfner At a…

  • Two more Swedish reactors close

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    ADAM EWING, THE LOCAL, SWEDEN, AUGUST 3, 2006 Some 20 years after Chernobyl’s devastating nuclear meltdown, possible faults at two Swedish facilities have led four of the nation’s 10 reactors to go offline. Late on Wednesday night, OKG, the company operating the boiling water reactors in Oskarshamn, in southeast Sweden, decided to shutdown two of…

  • Greenpeace: close all Swedish nuclear plants now

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    THE LOCAL, SWEDEN, AUGUST 2, 2006 Greenpeace has called for all Swedish nuclear reactors to be shut down immediately, after a serious fault at the Forsmark nuclear plant. The environmental campaigning organization said that there is a risk that other nuclear plants in Sweden have the same problem. The Forsmark incident, which one Swedish nuclear…

  • Nuclear plant faced possible meltdown

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    UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, August 1, 2006 The nuclear complex at Forsmark, Sweden FORSMARK, Sweden, Aug. 1 (UPI) — Last week’s shutdown of the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden, north of Stockholm, reportedly could have resulted in a meltdown. The emergency — called by some the most dangerous international nuclear incident since the destruction of…

  • Dead fish found in Piscataway’s New Market Lake

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    RICHARD KHAVKINE, NEWS TRIBUNE, JULY 31, 2006 PISCATAWAY — Thousands of fish have perished in New Market Lake in recent days. The carcasses of bass, carp, sunfish, catfish and other species began washing to the shore on Saturday, according to residents. While county and local health officials have not yet determined a cause for the…

  • Investigative Report: Flavoring agent destroys lungs

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    CHRIS BOWMAN, SACRAMENTO BEE, JULY 30, 2006 By the time Irma Ortiz discovered she had been breathing toxic fumes on her job as a mixer at Carmi Flavors near Los Angeles, she had lost at least 70 percent of her lung capacity. Ortiz, 44, a nonsmoker who used to lift 50-pound bags routinely, now finds…

  • Study reinforces Agent Orange worries

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    NZ CITY NEWS, JULY 30, 2006 Veterans lobby group urges Government to consider new evidence of damage caused by Agent Orange 28 July 2006 A new study reinforces concerns about the defoliant Agent Orange for New Zealand veterans of the Vietnam War. The Massey University report claims there is strong evidence they have suffered genetic…

  • Federal investigators begin probe of latest BP explosion:

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    DINA CAPPIELLO, PEGGY O’HARE and THAYER EVANS, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, JULY 29, 2006 TEXAS CITY – Federal investigators expect to be on the scene by midday today to begin a probe into Thursday’s explosion at BP’s Texas City plant, the second such incident this year. Smoke and flames again erupted there early Thursday evening, shaking windows…

  • Environmentalists: Lawmakers weak on dioxin cleanup

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    JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 28, 2006 Environmental groups lashed out at mid-Michigan lawmakers this week for advocating dioxin cleanup standards much higher than federal regulators intended. Armed with a letter from the head of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, environmentalists chastised lawmakers who have…

  • Study confirms Agent Orange caused genetic damage

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    STUFF.CO.NZ, JULY 28, 2006 Significant genetic damage to the DNA of Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange has been found in a study by Massey molecular scientists. Analysis of blood samples from 25 New Zealand veterans exposed to the toxic defoliant showed that the group had suffered genetic damage. Report author Al Rowland acknowledged the…

  • Barzani: Foreign companies who sold chemicals to Saddam will be chased

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    THE GLOBE, JULY 25, 2006 Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan-Iraq, –The President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, said on last Saturday that Kurdish government will pursue the foreign companies who sold chemical materials to the former Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein. Addressing a mass gathering of people from Halabja, President Barzani added “we will legally go…

  • More pro-nuclear bullshit from the industry of paid liars

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    BHOPAL.NET OPINON “Scared of nuclear power? Worried that another Chernobyl is around the corner? Well think again,” says author Ralph Andrews, environmentalist turned nuclear lobbyist. He claims that nuclear power is clean, safe, economical, environmentally sound, could end our dependence on oil, stop terrorism and reverse global warming. Forget the obligatory invocation of the “terrorism”…

  • Battle almost over for war veterans

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    JENNY MACINTYRE, NEW ZEALAND STAR TIMES, JULY 23, 2006 Vietnam war veterans are expected to be told on Friday that their exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides might have damaged their DNA. The vets have been waiting 35 years to learn if they have suffered long-term genetic damage as the result of their service…

  • Gorby's warning: avoid nuclear power

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    ANNABELLE MCDONALD, THE AUSTRALIAN – THE NATION, JULY 22, 2006 “Don’t do it! Mikhail Gorbachev, right, at a press conference with Peter Beattie in Brisbane yesterday. PICTURE: LYNDON MECHIELSEN FORMER Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has warned Australia to avoid nuclear power, urging the Howard Government to pursue it only as “a lesser evil” than coal.…