Cheney Calls New Ukraine President Ally
Wednesday January 26, 2005 11:16 PM
AP Photo JF108
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney voiced his support Wednesday for Ukraine's new president, and his bright orange tie - symbolic of Viktor Yushchenko's ``Orange Revolution'' - drove home the message.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4758443,00.html
SO, Yushchenko is Dick’s personal ally. How nice. It will be far more interesting to find The Ukraine as part of NATO than on Dick’s Christmas Card List.
Rein in Cheney
by Ray McGovern
Quick! Anyone! Who can put the brakes on Vice President Dick Cheney before we have another war on our hands? Current and former intelligence analysts are reacting with wonderment and apprehension to his remarks last week in an interview with Don Imus. Cheney made questionable claims about Iran's nuclear program and resuscitated his spinning on why attacking Iraq was the prudent thing to do.
http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=4588
Question to Bush on reform recalls '97 Texas property tax vote
BY G. ROBERT HILLMANThe Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - President Bush was drawn back to Texas for a moment Wednesday during his White House news conference.
A Texas reporter, recalling Bush's battle as governor to cut property taxes, told him: "You tried to get out front and tell people it's not a crisis now, it's going to be a crisis down the line, you went down in flames."
Responding quickly, Bush replied: "I don't think a billion-dollar tax relief (plan) that permanently reduced property taxes on senior citizens was flames.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/10742289.htm?1c
America suffers bloodiest day as Bush calls on Iraqis to defy the insurgents
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad and Kim Sengupta in Shaiba
27 January 2005
Just four days before Iraq's historic elections, 36 US soldiers were killed yesterday in the deadliest single day for American forces since they invaded Iraq almost two years ago.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=604944
Hi-Noon Petroleum to Sell Seven Convenience Stores to CHS
Wednesday January 26, 10:28 am ET
MISSOULA, Mont., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hi-Noon Petroleum, Inc., owner and operator of Noon's Food Stores, announced today it will sell seven convenience stores in Montana to CHS Inc. (Nasdaq: CHSCP - News), a diversified Fortune 500 company in energy, grains and foods that markets and distributes Cenex® brand energy products.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050126/cgw036_1.html
Petroleum lobby squeezes state to end ethanol rule
Air quality is only one factor in a push to ax a requirement for the costly, cleaner burning additive
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
MICHELLE COLE
Stephanie Hallock's warning was blunt. If the petroleum industry didn't get relief from a rule requiring Portland-area service stations to blend gasoline with a cleaner burning additive during winter, there would be consequences.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1106744473309131.xml
Key Dig files missingBy Casey RossWednesday, January 26, 2005
Critical Big Dig documents have disappeared from computer files maintained by Massachusetts Turnpike officials and private managers who have impeded efforts to investigate construction blunders, according to a state judge and sources.
One investigator told the Herald that Massachusetts Turnpike officials have denied requests for e-mail messages, saying they could not be extracted from the agency's computer system.
``They told us the data couldn't be recovered,'' said the source. A Big Dig cost-recovery judge has issued a report saying access to other records has been ``closed down'' by Bechtel/Parsons
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=65323
OPEC May Postpone Production Cuts as Oil Nears $50 a Barrel
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which agreed to reduce output by 4 percent last month, may postpone further reduction plans at a meeting in Vienna as prices return close to $50 a barrel.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aQyJ3uWBrIAk&refer=home
Broken pipeline spills 63,000 gallons of oil into Kentucky River; could affect drinking water
BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
(01-26) 18:23 PST CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP)
A pipeline broke and spilled an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kentucky River early Wednesday, creating a 12-mile-long slick that crews were racing to contain to keep it from contaminating drinking water.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/26/national1822EST0772.DTL
Oil curse stalks Africa's new petro-state
By Michael Peel Published: January 27 2005 00:17 Last updated: January 27 2005 00:17
In the dilapidated Portuguese cocoa plantation houses at Agua Ize, São Tomé and Principe, residents gather under a rotting roof to avoid the rain. Above their heads, offering a tantalising glimpse of a world beyond the surrounding dank disrepair, an old election campaign poster hints at the country's anticipated oil boom. “It is now!” says the propaganda of the opposition Party of Democratic Convergence, pledging “better sharing of resources”.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8d39dd48-6ff5-11d9-850d-00000e2511c8.html
Global warming may be twice as bad as feared
By Mark Henderson
THE impact of global warming could be twice as severe as the worst scenario feared by United Nations scientists, the world’s largest climate-modelling experiment has shown. Average temperatures could rise by 11C (20F) to reach highs that would change the face of the globe, researchers who have run 60,000 computer simulations of climate change said yesterday.
The conclusions suggest that forecasts by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be much too conservative. In the worst case, the world would eventually heat up by almost double the maximum increase envisaged by the panel. The IPCC’s latest report predicted that temperatures will rise by between 1.4C (2.5F) and 5.8C (10.4F) by 2100.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1458347,00.html
Devil demands pride of place on Wal-Mart shelf
VIVEK SINHATIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2005 01:13:17 AM
NEW DELHI: Mirc Electronics — the second largest Indian manufacturer of colour televisions— has initiated the first step towards a deal with Wal-Mart for putting made-in-India televisions on the shelves of the largest retailer in the world.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1001992.cms
Halliburton Completes Funding Asbestos Settlements
NEW YORK - Halliburton Co. Tuesday said it completed funding its asbestos liability settlements, marking the end of a long-running legal tussle in the oilfield service company's history.
The Houston-based company's asbestos liabilities had long been a drag on its share price and forced two of its units -- Kellogg Brown & Root and DII Industries -- to file for bankruptcy in December 2003.
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29211/story.htm
Corporations & securities brief ~ SEC reconsiders Sarbanes-Oxley impact on foreign corporations Amit Patel at 2:26 PM
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, SEC Chairman William Donaldson [SEC biography] stated in a speech today that the agency is considering changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act [text, PDF] to ease burden on foreign companies. Companies in both Europe and the US have complained of the costs to meet the act's requirements. European companies also contend that some of the regulations conflict with EU practices. Donaldson has asked the SEC staff to "consider whether to recommend that we delay the effective date of the internal control on financial reporting requirements for non-US companies" in wake of the complaints. Read the text of Donaldson's speech. AP has more.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/01/corporations-securities-brief-sec_25.php
AFL-CIO targets Bush Social Security plan
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff January 26, 2005
With rallies today in the financial districts of Boston and San Francisco, the AFL-CIO will launch a nationwide grass-roots campaign against President Bush's Social Security plan, arguing that scandal-ridden financial services firms in Boston and other cities should not be entrusted with private retirement accounts.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/26/afl_cio_targets_bush_social_security_plan/
The Drums of War, Again
Re "U.S. Adds Israel to the Iran Equation," Jan. 21: I believe the time has come for sober Americans to seriously begin to question whether the obsession of Vice President Dick Cheney (among others) with spreading further war in the Middle East has slipped past mere hawkishness and crossed the boundary into genuine mental illness. He has become this administration's very definition of warmonger.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-iran25jan25,1,1683502.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters&ctrack=1&cset=true
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