Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.51.MISMATCH!tmp-post01.iad!news.highwinds-media.com!news.cv.net!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:03:38 -0400 From: Reggie User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.activism.peacefire,alt.peace,fj.soc.war-and-peace,humanityquest.peace Subject: Army suicides reported at 2-decade high Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 245 Message-ID: <483ed3fd$0$15177$607ed4bc@cv.net> Organization: Optimum Online NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.185.3.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.soc.war-and-peace:723 Latest News-at-a-Glance - Courtesy of TvNewsLIES.org http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/latest-news-at-a-glance ____________________________________________________________________________ Army suicides reported at 2-decade high Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:38 WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Army suicides increased again last year, amid the most violent year yet in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Two defense officials said Thursday that 108 troops committed suicide in 2007, six more than the previous year. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the full report on the deaths wasn't being released until later Thursday. ______________________________________________________________________________ More... Suicide bomber kills 16 people in northwestern Iraq Thursday, 29 May 2008 11:28 BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a crowd of police recruits in northwestern Iraq, killing at least 16 men and wounding 14 others, an official said. The blast occurred in Sinjar, a town near the Syrian border that was the site of the deadliest attack of the war - a series of suicide truck bombings that killed an estimated 500 people. More... ______________________________________________________________________________ Royal flag comes down at Nepal palace Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:23 KATHMANDU (AFP) — The royal flag was taken down from Nepal's royal palace Thursday as the Himalayan nation celebrated a vote consigning its centuries-old monarchy to the history books and declaring a republic. The country was marking late Wednesday's decision by a Maoist-dominated constitutional assembly with a two-day public holiday, and King Gyanendra -- facing a two-week deadline to leave -- was said to be packing his bags. "The royal flag was replaced by Nepal's national flag inside the palace," a palace source said. "The flag has been changed as part of the government decision to implement a republic." More... TVNL Comment: An example of regime change that did NOT require an invasion by the US! ______________________________________________________________________________ Nature loss 'to hurt global poor' Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:17 Damage to forests, rivers, marine life and other aspects of nature could halve living standards for the world's poor, a major report has concluded. Current rates of natural decline might reduce global GDP by about 7% by 2050. More... ______________________________________________________________________________ New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere Thursday, 29 May 2008 00:11 ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada. In a directive issued on May 14, the governor’s legal counsel, David Nocenti, instructed the agencies that gay couples married elsewhere “should be afforded the same recognition as any other legally performed union.” More... ______________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Experts Bemoan Nation's Loss of Stature in the World of Science Thursday, 29 May 2008 00:06 NEW YORK, May 28 -- Some of the nation's leading scientists, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top science adviser, today sharply criticized the diminished role of science in the United States and the shortage of federal funding for research, even as science becomes increasingly important to combating problems such as climate change and the global food shortage. Speaking at a science summit that opens this week's first World Science Festival, the expert panel of scientists, and audience members, agreed that the United States is losing stature because of a perceived high-level disdain for science. More... _____________________________________________________________________________ Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A Scarf That Looks Too Arab Wednesday, 28 May 2008 22:31 Dunkin Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring pitchwoman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf because Michelle Malkin and other conservative observers thought the scarf looked too much like a keffiyeh, what Malkin describes as "the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad." More... TVNL Comment: Racism at its best in Fascist America! Malkin and her ilk decide that Palestinians are murderous, and Dunkin Donuts agrees! ______________________________________________________________________________ Military insurance falls short on mental health care Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:01 WASHINGTON — Across America, soldiers, veterans and their families are running into red tape and roadblocks when they try to use their military insurance to get treatment for ailments such as post traumatic stress disorder. Since 2003, some 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with PTSD. The number of cases rose by roughly 50 percent in 2007, according to Pentagon statistics released Tuesday. The deployment of hundreds of doctors and therapists to Iraq and Afghanistan and the shortage of military health care providers has forced patients at U.S. installations to wait for months for appointments — and longer if they need to see a specialist, according to advocacy groups for members of the military and their families. More... _____________________________________________________________________________ Marines pass out Gospel verse to Iraqi Muslims, Iraqis say Wednesday, 28 May 2008 20:31 FALLUJAH, Iraq — At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah Tuesday, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure that he was a city resident, and when they were done, Anad said, a Marine slipped a coin out of his pocket and put it in his hand. Out of fear, he accepted it, Anad said. When he was inside the city, the college student said, he looked at one side of the coin. "Where will you spend eternity?" it asked. He flipped it over, and on the other side it read, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16." 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