Morning Papers
Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-Do."
The Los Angeles Times
SOUTHLAND'S RECORD RAINFALL
Skies Clear, but Storms' Toll MountsThe number of dead hits 15 -- six of them at La Conchita, where a dozen are still missing. Damage in L.A. County is pegged at nearly $30 million
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rain12jan12,0,3764222.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Bush's New Nominee Is a Surprise
Michael Chertoff would inherit a massive and relatively new agency struggling with multiple missions, high turnover and sagging morale.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chertoff12jan12,0,5700793.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Rain Overwhelms Sewage System
Massive amounts of runoff cause wastewater to overflow from pipes and treatment plants, fouling Southland waterways and beaches.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sewage12jan12,0,5898174.story?coll=la-home-local
Social Security Debate Gets Personal
In talk-show-style chats and phone interviews, Bush and Democratic foes seek to win public support in the battle over a restructuring.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-social12jan12,0,7815231.story?coll=la-home-nation
THE MAJORITY OF the world's population does subsist on approximately $1.00 per day as this editorial points out. That has been true for a very long time. As a matter of fact this issue has been embraced by The Women's Movement in the USA for decades.
The Silent Disaster of World Poverty
By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge work for the Economist. They are the co-authors of "The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America" (Penguin, 2004).
January 10, 2005
Could 2005 be the year in which mankind finally conquers extreme poverty?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-micklethwait10jan10,0,3263485,print.story
The Jakarta Post
Majority of tsunami victims fishermen
BANDA ACEH, Aceh (Antara): Of the more than 105,000 people who perished in the Dec. 26 disaster in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, at least 90,500 are believed to have been fishermen and their families.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050112154544&irec=0
Paris Club meets to discuss moratorium on debt of tsunami-hit nations
PARIS (AP): Officials from the world's top creditor nations met in Paris on Wednesday to discuss a proposed moratorium on debt repayments by countries hit by the Asian tsunami.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050112125032&irec=4
The Wisdom of the United Nations shown through again as they guide the Relief Effort to command security for The Effort as well as the survivors.
UN says new Aceh rules not hampering aid work
UNITED NATIONS (AFP): A senior UN official on Tuesday downplayed new restrictions on tsunami relief workers imposed by the Indonesian military in the restive province of Aceh.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050112125032&irec=5
Foreign aid workers must register: TNI
The Jakarta Post, Banda Aceh, Jakarta
The government on Tuesday slapped tough restrictions on foreign aid workers currently in Aceh, citing security fears, and creating yet another setback in relief operations.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20050112.@01&irec=0
Survivors shaken by trauma
Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan
Since his arrival early last week at a social agency-sponsored shelter in Medan, North Sumatra, Sandi Chandra Putra, 15, a native of Banda Aceh, has frequently burst into tears or screamed for no particular reason.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20050112.@02&irec=1
Michael Moore Today
Appropriately Celebrating his Winning Film. First Cannes and now and not surprising The People's Choice.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Inauguration to Get Unprecedented Security
By Katherine Pfleger Shrader / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Security for President Bush's inauguration — the first swearing-in since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — will be unprecedented with some 6,000 law enforcement personnel, canine bomb teams and close monitoring of transportation.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=921
Williams' Conduct Raises Questions About Whole Cadre of Rightwing Pundits
Armstrong Williams: I Am Not Alone
By David Corn / The Nation
It was a rare moment of talk-show unanimity. On the set of the Fox News Washington bureau, host Tony Snow, fellow guest Linda Chavez (a conservative pundit), and I were slamming Armstrong Williams, a rightwing columnist and talk show host. USA Today had reported--as you probably know--that Williams had been paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars by the Bush administration to promote its No Child Left Behind education bill. And Williams, who supported the legislation in his column and as a cable news talking head, had not bothered to inform his audiences or the folks who book him at CNN, Fox, and MSNBC that he was a shill on the Bush payroll.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=918
Prime minister says it may not be safe to vote in some areas of Iraq
By Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Prime Minister Ayad Allawi publicly acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that parts of Iraq probably won't be safe enough for people to vote in the Jan. 30 elections, and he announced plans to boost the size of the country's army from 100,000 to 150,000 men by year's end.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=916
Schumer sours on nominee after answers
By Ken Fireman / Newsday
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer is now uncertain whether he can vote to confirm Alberto Gonzales as attorney general because of what Schumer calls Gonzales' "lack of candor" at his confirmation hearing.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=915
Ukraine Announces Pullout of Iraq Force; Statement Follows Blast That Killed 8
By Jackie Spinner / Washington Post
BAGHDAD, Jan. 10 -- The government of Ukraine, acting a day after an explosion killed eight of its soldiers in Iraq, announced Monday that it would withdraw its 1,650-member force by the middle of 2005.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=914
The Daily (Sri Lanka)
Germany will help rebuild Lanka: Fischer
Berlin is ready to promote tourism and push for debt relief and free access to European markets to help tsunami-battered Sri Lanka get back on its feet, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said yesterday.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new01.html
US marines arrive on rescue mission
by Chandani Jayatillake
The Southern coastline near Koggala Airbase was a hive of activity on Monday evening as a group of US marines were bringing ashore a range of heavy engineering equipment from a US ship.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new02.html
Uncle seeks niece aged four lost in tsunami, offers over Rs. 100,000 cash reward
A loving uncle is desperately searching for his four-year-old niece Sachini Vithana Seneviratne missing since the December 26 tsunami disaster.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new03.html
Shell donates Rs. 50 m for disaster relief
The Shell Group has pledged Rs. 50 million disaster relief in Sri Lanka.
Country Chairman Hassan Madani who called on President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on Monday handed over a cheque for Rs. 25 million as a preliminary donation for immediate relief which will be credited to the President's Disaster Relief Fund, the Office of the President said in a release yesterday.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new12.html
Good attendance in schools not hit by tsunami
The first term for the new year commenced on Monday with a very good attendance in schools not affected by the tsunami, the Education Ministry said in a release yesterday.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new11.html
Pakistan Naval ships arrive here with relief
Two Pakistan Naval ships carrying relief goods containing tents, medicines, rice and other dry ration arrived in Colombo, a Pakistan High Commission release said yesterday.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new14.html
Clinton's visit New York Buddhist Viharaya
by Manjula Fernando
Former US President Bill Clinton and Wife Hillary at the New York Buddhist Temple where they appealed Americans to contribute tsunami victims of Sri Lanka to rebuild their lives. Chief Incumbent Ven.Kuranegoda Piyatissa Maha Nayaka thera is also in the picture.
Former American President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton visited the New York Buddhist Viharaya recently where a fund raising campaign has been initiated to look after the tsunami children of Sri Lanka.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new16.html
Canadian response to Sri Lanka tsunami crisis
The Canadian High Commission today announced a number of measures to assist Sri Lanka following the tragic tsunami which struck South and South-East Asia on December 26, 2004.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new15.html
Ramsay medicare for tsunami relief
by Panduka Senanayake
Australia's largest owner and operator of private hospitals, Ramsay Health Care has contributed to the tsunami relief effort by coordinating the donation of over A $ 100,000 in cash and medical supplies to Sri Lanka.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new13.html
More Tsunami aid from Saudi Arabia
In a series of International efforts to assist affected people in countries hit by tidal waves after an earthquake shook the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has assigned US$ 30 million until now, to assist those countries and accordingly four aircraft have arrived carrying 300 tons of various relief supplies to Sri Lanka and two aircraft with 150 tons to the Maldives in addition to a large quantity of relief items delivered to other affected countries.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new18.html
Over 600 children in South destitute in Tsunami aftermath - Survey
by Nadira Gunatilleke
Over 600 children in the Southern Province are destitute. They have lost one or both parents or dependents to the tsunami tidal wave according to a report based on a survey carried out in Welfare Centres of the South.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/01/12/new22.html
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