World's Highet Tennis Court
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Still yet another example of the world that left the USA behind when Bush/Cheney 'took' the Executive Branch
On Top of the World :: World No 1 Roger Federer (foreground) and tennis great Andre Agassi could not resist the temptation of hitting some balls on the world’s highest tennis court, the helipad of the Burj Al Arab. :: http://www.gulfnews.com/news/2005/0224/home2.asp
The Gimp Returns Home
There is no reason for Bush to travel to Russia. In his words to the troops he has recanted every promise he made in Europe stating, 'Terrorists don't recognize negotiations...' He has little to no intention to resolve any issue without war. The only legitimate words he spoke was regarding the Afghanistan invasion. We had allies. We were supported by the world and it has a new government for the first time in it's history. However, Afghanistan has a province of Kabul, the national seat where democracy is practiced, the rest of the country is still under the dominance of warlords with an poppy culture.
The troops of which I saw many did not necessarily applaud waiting patiently to hear that would be going home. Waiting to hear how their National Guard service hadn't turned into a lifetime of hell at the mercy of a Commander and Chief bent on hegemony.
Russia will not hold any new concessions, especially after these words to the troops, if anything there will be less and less. Bush hopes to stir the willing resistance of the populous wherever he goes but offers them nothing but a promise to war to join his coalition of the unwilling. The USA has become an example of how a democracy can be trapped into facism to serve undeserving 'megalomaniacs' that would see their profiteering a manifestation of a call to democracy.
He meant not a word that was spoken in corridors and meeting halls in Europe in the attendance of diplomats or German students. He sees the world as a populous as at home, to 'manage' and 'manipulate' to 'cower' to 'intimidate' to the same or different gods of this world or the world of mysticism makes no difference. As long as he can find a way to keep every audience 'believing' he is still worthy of their 'distant belief and consideration' that glimmer of doubt of his aggressive intent buys him leverage, time, money and influence into his agenda of hegemony.
Bush is a fraud, it is just to wonder which face he puts forward is actually fraudulent if not both or all.
The troops of which I saw many did not necessarily applaud waiting patiently to hear that would be going home. Waiting to hear how their National Guard service hadn't turned into a lifetime of hell at the mercy of a Commander and Chief bent on hegemony.
Russia will not hold any new concessions, especially after these words to the troops, if anything there will be less and less. Bush hopes to stir the willing resistance of the populous wherever he goes but offers them nothing but a promise to war to join his coalition of the unwilling. The USA has become an example of how a democracy can be trapped into facism to serve undeserving 'megalomaniacs' that would see their profiteering a manifestation of a call to democracy.
He meant not a word that was spoken in corridors and meeting halls in Europe in the attendance of diplomats or German students. He sees the world as a populous as at home, to 'manage' and 'manipulate' to 'cower' to 'intimidate' to the same or different gods of this world or the world of mysticism makes no difference. As long as he can find a way to keep every audience 'believing' he is still worthy of their 'distant belief and consideration' that glimmer of doubt of his aggressive intent buys him leverage, time, money and influence into his agenda of hegemony.
Bush is a fraud, it is just to wonder which face he puts forward is actually fraudulent if not both or all.
The Gimp Game
Bush first sent his only begotten Daughter, Condi Rice, to blaze a trail and report back on the fact finding mission including 'the mood' the world finds the USA.
The USA is bankrupt in everyway, international relations, fiscally, morally, legally and diplomatically. Bush can hardly find personnel to fill the vacancies at the top of the administration and the world is watching. Bush's philosophies are old world.
Bush is being brought in line by the world's finest.
He will find no warm welcome in the Russian 'chill' that still exists from it's winter, but, will be brought in line.
In doing so, Bush will return with his dignity but not his 'inauguration rhetoric.' Whether he accepts that 'gift' of dignity being afforded him now, is his choice. But. If he rejects it, then it will be return to the 'gimp game' as before his whirlwind tour of 'containment' of the 'disabled.'
Bush is not returning with allies a many willing to plunge into a war to end all wars. They all were there before.
The USA is bankrupt in everyway, international relations, fiscally, morally, legally and diplomatically. Bush can hardly find personnel to fill the vacancies at the top of the administration and the world is watching. Bush's philosophies are old world.
Bush is being brought in line by the world's finest.
He will find no warm welcome in the Russian 'chill' that still exists from it's winter, but, will be brought in line.
In doing so, Bush will return with his dignity but not his 'inauguration rhetoric.' Whether he accepts that 'gift' of dignity being afforded him now, is his choice. But. If he rejects it, then it will be return to the 'gimp game' as before his whirlwind tour of 'containment' of the 'disabled.'
Bush is not returning with allies a many willing to plunge into a war to end all wars. They all were there before.
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-Do"
"Okeydoke"
History, February 22….
1349, Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1732, George Washington, first president of the United States (1789-1797) and one of the most important leaders in United States history. His role in gaining independence for the American colonies and later in unifying them under the new U.S. federal government cannot be overestimated. Laboring against great difficulties, he created the Continental Army, which fought and won the American Revolution (1775-1783), out of what was little more than an armed mob. After an eight-year struggle, his design for victory brought final defeat to the British at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced Great Britain to grant independence to its overseas possession.
1784, The Empress of China, the first United States merchant ship to trade with China, sets sail from New York.
1819, After long negotiations, Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States.
1879, F.W. Woolworth opens up his first five and dime store in Utica, New York.
1865, Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1865, Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1872, 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
1872, Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
1876, Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
1879, Nothing Over Five Cents
On this day in 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth kicked off a retail revolution by opening the Great 5 Cents Store in Utica, New York. Pledging to sell "nothing" that cost more than a nickel, Woolworth packed his store with a smorgasbord of goods, ranging from items for the kitchen to beauty products.
1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (1892)
1924, President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first presidential radio address from the White House.
1932, born, Edward Kennedy, member of the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
1945, Arab League forms (Cairo)
1981, Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
Missing in Action
1969 MACKO CHARLES ENDICOTT NY
1969 PAXTON DONALD E. CEDAR RAPIDS IA
1969 PEARSON WAYNE E. WESTERN SPRINGS IL REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 JULY 1993
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February 23rd …
1743, Birth of a Banking Dynasty
1787, Emma Willard, American educator, who lectured and counseled on public and female education. She was born Emma Hart in Berlin, Connecticut, and was largely self-educated. She entered the teaching profession in 1803 and was principal of the Female Academy, Middlebury, Vermont, from 1807 to 1809.
1861, Lincoln arrives in Washington
1868, WEB DuBois, author and historian
1870, Mississippi is formally readmitted to the Union.
1934, Casey Stengel, who had previously been the team's coach, becomes the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940, The Walt Disney animated motion picture Pinocchio, about a wooden puppet who longs to become human, is released.
1945, U.S. Marines capture the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima and raise the American flag for the second time that day.
1955, First council meeting of SEATO
1971 South Vietnamese advance stalls
1997, First movie shown on TV without interruption
1997, Scottish scientists announce what they have kept secret for seven months: that they have cloned adult sheep DNA and produced a healthy sheep who they have named Dolly.
Cloning Special Report
On this day in 1997 researchers in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep named Dolly, produced from a cell of an adult female sheep. The magazine New Scientist presents a report on recent developments in cloning.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
Gay genetics
IF homosexuality is an inherited trait, why do genes for it survive? Because these genes may make women more likely to reproduce.
Andrea Camperio-Ciani's team at the University of Padua, Italy, asked 98 gay and 100 straight men to fill in questionnaires about their families. They found mothers and aunts had more children if related to a gay rather than a straight man. Mothers of gay men averaged 2.7 babies, compared with 2.3 born to mothers of straight men. Aunts on the mother's side had 2 babies compared with 1.5 for maternal aunts of straight men (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004).
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/mg18424690.80
By Nada Raad Daily Star staff
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BEIRUT: The pro-government Ain al-Tineh gathering launched Tuesday an attempt to approach the opposition through a visit to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12906
Syria is doing well in a diplomatic minefield
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The U.S. and French positions regarding Lebanon, expressed in the joint statement released following the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac, increased the pressure on Damascus by calling for the immediate implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12908
Bush or Bushehr? Russia puts its money on Iran
Gulf atomic plant back on track
By Paul de Zardain
Special to The Daily Star
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
MOSCOW: With a firm handshake from the Kremlin chief, Hassan Rohani concluded his visit to Moscow last Friday. As head of Iran's National Security Council, Rohani made no secret that his meetings were timed ahead of a U.S.-Russia summit in Bratislava this week.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12884
Bahrain sees growing role for euro
International currency reserves could diversify away from Dollar
Bahrain sees a growing role for the euro in international currency reserves but is not in a hurry to diversify away from the falling dollar, the country's Central Bank governor said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12885
Arab world in Wonderland, or how to face a realigning West
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Editorial
In the uncertain world of politic relations, one of the few certainties is that alliances will shift. Leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the world saw the U.S.-European relations suffer significant stress. Now, we see the divide between the two narrowing. Of course, there is a long way to go before the two see eye-to-eye on many issues, but the juggernaut of U.S.-EU relations is changing course.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=12894&categ_id=17
Hariri sought the dignity of a businessman's peace
By Fouad Ajami
Commentary by
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Rafik Hariri, who was struck down just over a week ago by a huge car bomb on Beirut's seafront, was the unlikeliest of martyrs for the cause of Lebanon's independence. He had risen from the obscurity and poverty of Sidon to the upper reaches of Lebanese and Arab society, largely through the patronage of the House of Saud and the inner dealings of Arab rulers and courtiers. A former prime minister of Lebanon, he wasn't particularly articulate, or given to the call of political causes. He believed in the power of wealth and of pragmatism, and saw Lebanon's mission in the time-honored way of Sidon's Phoenician heritage: commerce and trade, banking and tourism. Over two long decades in the political game, he had made his accommodation with Syrian power. He no doubt paid off Syrian intelligence operatives and officers, cut their sons and daughters and wives into business deals, did what he could for the restoration of his battered country, while staying on
the safe side of Syria's hegemony
in Lebanon.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=12892
The Philadelphia Inquirer has buried it's head in the sand with local scandal and sports coverage.
Editorial Culture Funding
Seek new ideas for old problem
A few weeks ago, Mayor Street pledged to work toward creating a stable arts and culture fund for the region.
Now, the William Penn Foundation has joined with the region's leading arts coalition to launch a study of concrete ways to boost the arts.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/10966199.htm
The Philadelphia Daily News
Ready for battle
BEBASHI prez & AIDS activist fights myths about disease
By JENICE M. ARMSTRONG
armstrj@phillynews.com
EVERY TIME he goes on the radio, the executive director of BEBASHI gets another lesson in conspiracy theories about AIDS.
Listeners always call whatever show he's on, ranting that the U.S. government officials created AIDS in a test tube as a form of germ warfare.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/10959364.htm
It makes me laugh to here some of the biggest opponents of the illegal invasion into Iraq run to the arms of 'correctness' when the Free and Fair Elections in Iraq never took place realizing the entire Sunni population was displaced in protest and the only leader in Iraq with any influence, The Grand Ayatollah al Sistani, was the one that insisted the elections go forward. He insisted the elections to go forward after having to leave his surgical bed in London to rescue them from the USA invading force who was seeking to al Sadr. PLEASE don't try and crown Bush with a success he never owned. Not even close !! The Shi'ites could have just as easily boycotted the elections except the Grand Ayatollah sees the light at the end of the tunnel. It has nothing to do with Bush/Cheney. Absolutely nothing. The Grand Ayatollah was faced with an unstable country and he acted.
Shiite party taps al-Jaafari as PM choice
By TOM LASSETER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The dominant Shiite Muslim political ticket on Tuesday picked its candidate for prime minister: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a man who some fear could lead the nation toward theocracy.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/10964511.htm
The Gulf News
Powerful earthquake hits southeast Iran
Reuters
Tehran: A strong earthquake hit southeast Iran today, killing almost 400 people, injuring hundreds and destroying villages, a local official told Reuters.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153133
500 killed in Iran earthquake
AP
Sarbagh: A powerful earthquake shook central Iran yesterday, destroying villages, killing at least 500 people and injuring hundreds.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153178
Soros sounds dollar warning
Staff Report
Jeddah: George Soros is warning all oil-producing countries about pegging their currencies and oil revenues to the dollar.
"The US dollar is weak, and is expected to deteriorate more," said Soros.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153162
Syria hints at Lebanon pullout
Agencies
Beirut: Syria indicated yesterday it would start pulling out some of its troops from Lebanon soon.
It came as US President George W. Bush in Brussels called on Damascus to end its occupation of its neighbour. The announcement on the Syrian step was made by Arab League chief Amr Mousa who met the Syrian President in Damascus yesterday.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153018
... but it is being made a scapegoat
By Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News
Nobody has concrete evidence against Syria. Many want to believe, however, that Syria was responsible for the brutal death of its former ally Rafik Hariri on February 14, to justify getting international support to force it to withdraw its remaining 15,000 troops from Lebanon.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152979
Israel seeks to improve ties with Arab countries
Agencies
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel is seeking to develop diplomatic relations with its Arab neighbours.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153019
Ideological divide over disengagement
By Linda S. Heard
Religious extremists threaten to derail the Israeli Prime Minister's strategy of permanently pulling out of Gaza and dismantling a few small northern West Bank Jewish colonies.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152989
Darfur should not be a failure
International community is also to be blamed for the ills of the Dark Continent
Africa can do without any more famines. Blighted by more wars than most parts of the planet, the continent has been known to perpetually put its potential for growth on hold.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152981
The Boston Globe
Prelude to War with a supposed support of Europe by his 'trip precense'
Bush admonishes Russia to commit to democracy
In Europe, seeks to heal rift in relations
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
BRUSSELS -- President Bush publicly urged Russia yesterday to adopt "a commitment to democracy and the rule of law," delivering an unusually blunt admonishment to Russian President Vladimir Putin three days before the two leaders are set to meet in Slovakia.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/22/bush_admonishes_russia_to_commit_to/
Abuses demand justice, Afghans tell leaders
Kabul sees risk in trying warlords
By Victoria Burnett, Globe Correspondent February 22, 2005
KABUL -- S. M. Saidi's voice cracked as he began to recall the six weeks he spent as a prisoner of the Taliban intelligence service. An elegant man in a cravat and neatly pressed trousers, he lowered his gaze and let out a long, shuddering sigh.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/02/22/abuses_demand_justice_afghans_tell/
This will only serve to do without. The USA is a third world nation and moving more quickly to disenfranchised Civilization all the time. The USA vs. the underground USA.
US sees insurers as possible tool in terror fight
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security officials in the Bush administration are considering ways to use the insurance industry as a free-market-friendly vehicle to drive chemical facilities, food companies, utilities, and other businesses to take greater precautions against terrorist attacks without heavy-handed new regulations.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/22/us_sees_insurers_as_possible_tool_in_terror_fight/
FRONTING AS A LEGITIMATE GOVERNOR, the speech reeks of bigotry, bias and war. Romney is desperately trying to 'shake' the Massachusetts icon image as 'liberal' even declining the positive results of stem cell research condemning his own spouse to an illness that in time will kill her. Can anyone state Romney is not another Neocon with promises to more and more dangerous aggressions against humanity here domestically and abroad? No. By this speech alone is he guilty on all counts. It took a long time to get the Confederate Flag to be removed from The State House as well. This is the kind of president we continue to want? Can Bob Jones be far away?
Confederate flag summit ends deadlocked in South Carolina
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/US/01/14/sc.flag.legislature/
South Carolina takes Confederate flag down from Capitol dome
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/US/07/01/scflag.01/
Romney talks 'right' on social issues in S.C.
By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Governor Mitt Romney, addressing 350 Republicans in a speech here last night, decried efforts by Massachusetts Democrats to legalize certain cloning for stem cell research, blasted the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that legalized gay marriage, and praised Ronald Reagan and President Bush for their struggles against worldwide tyranny and higher taxes.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/22/romney_talks_right_on_social_issues_in_sc/
Romney's stance on civil unions draws fire
Activists accuse governor of 'flip-flopping' on issue
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff February 23, 2005
A national gay and lesbian Republican organization yesterday accused Governor Mitt Romney of "flip-flopping" on civil unions for same-sex couples, and other gay activists and Democrats complained that Romney was reinventing himself as a conservative to run for president.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2005/02/23/romneys_stance_on_civil_unions_draws_fire/
Summers vows new tone with faculty
Pledges to temper his words, actions
By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff February 23, 2005
CAMBRIDGE -- Lawrence H. Summers yesterday offered conciliatory remarks to his critics, pledging at a meeting attended by several hundred Harvard professors to "set a different tone" in his relationship with the faculty and acknowledging widespread complaints that his leadership style has frozen out critical voices on campus.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/02/23/summers_vows_new_tone_with_faculty/
Harvard seeks to test ecstasy drug on the dying
By Raja Mishra
Globe Staff February 23, 2005
BELMONT -- Harvard researchers are preparing for the first time in three decades to conduct human experiments using a psychedelic drug, a study that would seek to harness the mind-altering effects of the drug ecstasy to help ease the crushing psychic burdens faced by dying cancer patients.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/23/harvard_seeks_to_test_ecstasy_drug_on_the_dying/
The Chicago Tribune
O, you lucky dogs, this is Bark Ave.
By Hal Dardick, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Brendan McCarthy contributed to this report
Published February 22, 2005
It is designed to be the biggest and best bark park in Chicago.
The canine play area at the south end of Grant Park will stretch more than 13,000 square feet and include a doggie drinking fountain. Plumbing will also be installed for a future decorative fountain for warm-weather frolicking.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0502220326feb22,1,4809120.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Peace activists sue city over march permit
By Hal Dardick
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 22, 2005, 3:29 PM CST
Peace activists, twice denied Chicago city permits to march along Michigan Avenue on the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion, filed suit today in U.S. District Court seeking to overturn the city's decision.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050222protest,1,152879.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Fear arises that virus will mutate
CDC sounds alarm of likely pandemic over bird flu strain
By Paul Recer
Associated Press
Published February 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday that bird flu in Asia is highly likely to mutate into a virus transmittable from person to person, raising the prospect of a global epidemic.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502220309feb22,1,5137027.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The Moscow News
Bush to Talk Security, Not Scold
U.S. President George W. Bush will probably keep a promise to prod President Vladimir Putin over concerns that Russia is backsliding on democracy when the two meet in Slovakia on Thursday. However, while seeking explanations, Bush is unlikely to tie his administration's Russia policy to Putin's record on democracy because Moscow remains too valuable as a partner in security and oil and would become too troublesome as a spoiler if antagonized.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/001.html
IT'S CALLED TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH.
Bush Seeks Thaw While Talking Tough
By Tom Raum
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS -- U.S. President George W. Bush, on a trip to thaw relations with Europe, prodded Russia not turn its back on democratic advances. He also demanded that Iran give up its nuclear ambitions and told Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/251.html
WHAT is there to talk about? Bush trashed to ABM Treaty years ago?
Proliferation of the Bigwigs
The summit between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush this Thursday in Bratislava will address proliferation. There are serious disagreements between Moscow and Washington in almost every other area. Russia believes the West is bent on isolating it from other countries in the CIS. The West in turn believes the Kremlin is trying to reestablish control over former Soviet republics. The Yukos affair and Putin's dismantling of democracy have poisoned U.S.-Russia relations. The war on terrorism is no longer a unifying factor: The American campaign to install democracy in Iraq and the Russian war to enforce its will in the North Caucasus are as far apart ideologically as the United States and Russia are geographically.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/009.html
Putin Calls for Tougher Action in the Caucasus
President Vladimir Putin ordered the Interior Ministry on Monday to toughen efforts to eliminate militants in the restive North Caucasus region.
His order followed special operations over the past several weeks to kill alleged Islamic extremists and their accomplices in several southern cities.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/011.html
Indians Arrive Seeking Landmark Energy Deals
Top Indian officials held discussions in Moscow on buying a stake in Yuganskneftegaz and attracting major Russian investors to the Indian oil and gas sector, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said in an interview Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/041.html
Global Eye
Sword Play
By Chris Floyd
Published: February 18, 2005
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/18/120.html
Michael Moore Today
February 22nd, 2005 4:15 pm
For Some, a Loss in Iraq Turns Into Antiwar Activism; Gold Star Families Band Together to 'Make People Care'
By Evelyn Nieves / Washington Post
VACAVILLE, Calif. -- Five minutes after President Bush began his State of the Union address, Cindy Sheehan clicked off her television set.
She would read the transcript, watch the salute to the parents of a Marine killed in Fallujah, chew over such words as "ultimate sacrifice" and "fight against tyranny" -- the next morning.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1517
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM
Three soldiers killed in Baghdad.
Washington's waning influence in Iraq.
In the nearly two years since the war began in Iraq, at least 232 civilians working on U.S. military and reconstruction contracts have been killed there, many in largely overlooked slayings.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Poll Shows Doubts Over Bush Democracy Push
By Will Lester / Associated Press
President Bush is calling on European leaders to support his campaign to spread democracy abroad at a time people in many of those countries have doubts whether that should be the U.S. role in the world, Associated Press polling found.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1516
Panelists Decry Bush Science Policies
By Paul Recer / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1513
The Los Angeles Times
Toll Mounts as Storms Continue
Southern California braced for another round of rain, snow and even tornadoes this afternoon as a lethal and destructive storm system slowly moved across the region in what could be the wettest year on record.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-022205rain_lat,0,111437.story?coll=la-home-headlines
continued...
"Okeydoke"
History, February 22….
1349, Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1732, George Washington, first president of the United States (1789-1797) and one of the most important leaders in United States history. His role in gaining independence for the American colonies and later in unifying them under the new U.S. federal government cannot be overestimated. Laboring against great difficulties, he created the Continental Army, which fought and won the American Revolution (1775-1783), out of what was little more than an armed mob. After an eight-year struggle, his design for victory brought final defeat to the British at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced Great Britain to grant independence to its overseas possession.
1784, The Empress of China, the first United States merchant ship to trade with China, sets sail from New York.
1819, After long negotiations, Spain agrees to cede Florida to the United States.
1879, F.W. Woolworth opens up his first five and dime store in Utica, New York.
1865, Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1865, Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1872, 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
1872, Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
1876, Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
1879, Nothing Over Five Cents
On this day in 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth kicked off a retail revolution by opening the Great 5 Cents Store in Utica, New York. Pledging to sell "nothing" that cost more than a nickel, Woolworth packed his store with a smorgasbord of goods, ranging from items for the kitchen to beauty products.
1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (1892)
1924, President Calvin Coolidge delivers the first presidential radio address from the White House.
1932, born, Edward Kennedy, member of the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
1945, Arab League forms (Cairo)
1981, Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
Missing in Action
1969 MACKO CHARLES ENDICOTT NY
1969 PAXTON DONALD E. CEDAR RAPIDS IA
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February 23rd …
1743, Birth of a Banking Dynasty
1787, Emma Willard, American educator, who lectured and counseled on public and female education. She was born Emma Hart in Berlin, Connecticut, and was largely self-educated. She entered the teaching profession in 1803 and was principal of the Female Academy, Middlebury, Vermont, from 1807 to 1809.
1861, Lincoln arrives in Washington
1868, WEB DuBois, author and historian
1870, Mississippi is formally readmitted to the Union.
1934, Casey Stengel, who had previously been the team's coach, becomes the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940, The Walt Disney animated motion picture Pinocchio, about a wooden puppet who longs to become human, is released.
1945, U.S. Marines capture the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima and raise the American flag for the second time that day.
1955, First council meeting of SEATO
1971 South Vietnamese advance stalls
1997, First movie shown on TV without interruption
1997, Scottish scientists announce what they have kept secret for seven months: that they have cloned adult sheep DNA and produced a healthy sheep who they have named Dolly.
Cloning Special Report
On this day in 1997 researchers in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep named Dolly, produced from a cell of an adult female sheep. The magazine New Scientist presents a report on recent developments in cloning.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
Gay genetics
IF homosexuality is an inherited trait, why do genes for it survive? Because these genes may make women more likely to reproduce.
Andrea Camperio-Ciani's team at the University of Padua, Italy, asked 98 gay and 100 straight men to fill in questionnaires about their families. They found mothers and aunts had more children if related to a gay rather than a straight man. Mothers of gay men averaged 2.7 babies, compared with 2.3 born to mothers of straight men. Aunts on the mother's side had 2 babies compared with 1.5 for maternal aunts of straight men (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004).
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/mg18424690.80
THERE WILL NO LONGER be Missing in Action as the Website has been mysteriously shutdown.
February 23, 2005
The Daily Star - Lebanon
Beirut demonstration sends clear message
Arab league chief: syrian president 'determined' to withdraw troops
By Nayla Assaf
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
BEIRUT: One week after the brutal slaying of former Premier Rafik Hariri, as tens of thousands of protesters chanted "Syria out" as they marched from the scene of Hariri's death to Martyrs Square in central Beirut, Syrian President Bashar Assad was indicating his willingness to withdraw his troops from Lebanon, in line with the Taif Accord.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12868
Lebanese government dismisses U.S. and EU calls for prompt Syrian pullout
FM says transatlantic call for immediate withdrawal 'nothing new'
By Linda Dahdah
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BEIRUT: Lebanon's government has dismissed American and European Union calls for Syrian troops to leave the country immediately in the latest escalation of tension between the two sides. The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush and European Union leaders ratcheted up pressure on Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon in the wake of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=12912
By Nada Raad Daily Star staff
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
BEIRUT: The pro-government Ain al-Tineh gathering launched Tuesday an attempt to approach the opposition through a visit to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12906
Syria is doing well in a diplomatic minefield
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The U.S. and French positions regarding Lebanon, expressed in the joint statement released following the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac, increased the pressure on Damascus by calling for the immediate implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=12908
Bush or Bushehr? Russia puts its money on Iran
Gulf atomic plant back on track
By Paul de Zardain
Special to The Daily Star
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
MOSCOW: With a firm handshake from the Kremlin chief, Hassan Rohani concluded his visit to Moscow last Friday. As head of Iran's National Security Council, Rohani made no secret that his meetings were timed ahead of a U.S.-Russia summit in Bratislava this week.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12884
Bahrain sees growing role for euro
International currency reserves could diversify away from Dollar
Bahrain sees a growing role for the euro in international currency reserves but is not in a hurry to diversify away from the falling dollar, the country's Central Bank governor said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=12885
Arab world in Wonderland, or how to face a realigning West
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Editorial
In the uncertain world of politic relations, one of the few certainties is that alliances will shift. Leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the world saw the U.S.-European relations suffer significant stress. Now, we see the divide between the two narrowing. Of course, there is a long way to go before the two see eye-to-eye on many issues, but the juggernaut of U.S.-EU relations is changing course.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&article_id=12894&categ_id=17
Hariri sought the dignity of a businessman's peace
By Fouad Ajami
Commentary by
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Rafik Hariri, who was struck down just over a week ago by a huge car bomb on Beirut's seafront, was the unlikeliest of martyrs for the cause of Lebanon's independence. He had risen from the obscurity and poverty of Sidon to the upper reaches of Lebanese and Arab society, largely through the patronage of the House of Saud and the inner dealings of Arab rulers and courtiers. A former prime minister of Lebanon, he wasn't particularly articulate, or given to the call of political causes. He believed in the power of wealth and of pragmatism, and saw Lebanon's mission in the time-honored way of Sidon's Phoenician heritage: commerce and trade, banking and tourism. Over two long decades in the political game, he had made his accommodation with Syrian power. He no doubt paid off Syrian intelligence operatives and officers, cut their sons and daughters and wives into business deals, did what he could for the restoration of his battered country, while staying on
the safe side of Syria's hegemony
in Lebanon.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=12892
The Philadelphia Inquirer has buried it's head in the sand with local scandal and sports coverage.
Editorial Culture Funding
Seek new ideas for old problem
A few weeks ago, Mayor Street pledged to work toward creating a stable arts and culture fund for the region.
Now, the William Penn Foundation has joined with the region's leading arts coalition to launch a study of concrete ways to boost the arts.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/10966199.htm
The Philadelphia Daily News
Ready for battle
BEBASHI prez & AIDS activist fights myths about disease
By JENICE M. ARMSTRONG
armstrj@phillynews.com
EVERY TIME he goes on the radio, the executive director of BEBASHI gets another lesson in conspiracy theories about AIDS.
Listeners always call whatever show he's on, ranting that the U.S. government officials created AIDS in a test tube as a form of germ warfare.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/10959364.htm
It makes me laugh to here some of the biggest opponents of the illegal invasion into Iraq run to the arms of 'correctness' when the Free and Fair Elections in Iraq never took place realizing the entire Sunni population was displaced in protest and the only leader in Iraq with any influence, The Grand Ayatollah al Sistani, was the one that insisted the elections go forward. He insisted the elections to go forward after having to leave his surgical bed in London to rescue them from the USA invading force who was seeking to al Sadr. PLEASE don't try and crown Bush with a success he never owned. Not even close !! The Shi'ites could have just as easily boycotted the elections except the Grand Ayatollah sees the light at the end of the tunnel. It has nothing to do with Bush/Cheney. Absolutely nothing. The Grand Ayatollah was faced with an unstable country and he acted.
Shiite party taps al-Jaafari as PM choice
By TOM LASSETER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The dominant Shiite Muslim political ticket on Tuesday picked its candidate for prime minister: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a man who some fear could lead the nation toward theocracy.
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/10964511.htm
The Gulf News
Powerful earthquake hits southeast Iran
Reuters
Tehran: A strong earthquake hit southeast Iran today, killing almost 400 people, injuring hundreds and destroying villages, a local official told Reuters.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153133
500 killed in Iran earthquake
AP
Sarbagh: A powerful earthquake shook central Iran yesterday, destroying villages, killing at least 500 people and injuring hundreds.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153178
Soros sounds dollar warning
Staff Report
Jeddah: George Soros is warning all oil-producing countries about pegging their currencies and oil revenues to the dollar.
"The US dollar is weak, and is expected to deteriorate more," said Soros.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153162
Syria hints at Lebanon pullout
Agencies
Beirut: Syria indicated yesterday it would start pulling out some of its troops from Lebanon soon.
It came as US President George W. Bush in Brussels called on Damascus to end its occupation of its neighbour. The announcement on the Syrian step was made by Arab League chief Amr Mousa who met the Syrian President in Damascus yesterday.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153018
... but it is being made a scapegoat
By Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News
Nobody has concrete evidence against Syria. Many want to believe, however, that Syria was responsible for the brutal death of its former ally Rafik Hariri on February 14, to justify getting international support to force it to withdraw its remaining 15,000 troops from Lebanon.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152979
Israel seeks to improve ties with Arab countries
Agencies
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel is seeking to develop diplomatic relations with its Arab neighbours.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153019
Ideological divide over disengagement
By Linda S. Heard
Religious extremists threaten to derail the Israeli Prime Minister's strategy of permanently pulling out of Gaza and dismantling a few small northern West Bank Jewish colonies.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152989
Darfur should not be a failure
International community is also to be blamed for the ills of the Dark Continent
Africa can do without any more famines. Blighted by more wars than most parts of the planet, the continent has been known to perpetually put its potential for growth on hold.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=152981
The Boston Globe
Prelude to War with a supposed support of Europe by his 'trip precense'
Bush admonishes Russia to commit to democracy
In Europe, seeks to heal rift in relations
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
BRUSSELS -- President Bush publicly urged Russia yesterday to adopt "a commitment to democracy and the rule of law," delivering an unusually blunt admonishment to Russian President Vladimir Putin three days before the two leaders are set to meet in Slovakia.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/22/bush_admonishes_russia_to_commit_to/
Abuses demand justice, Afghans tell leaders
Kabul sees risk in trying warlords
By Victoria Burnett, Globe Correspondent February 22, 2005
KABUL -- S. M. Saidi's voice cracked as he began to recall the six weeks he spent as a prisoner of the Taliban intelligence service. An elegant man in a cravat and neatly pressed trousers, he lowered his gaze and let out a long, shuddering sigh.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/02/22/abuses_demand_justice_afghans_tell/
This will only serve to do without. The USA is a third world nation and moving more quickly to disenfranchised Civilization all the time. The USA vs. the underground USA.
US sees insurers as possible tool in terror fight
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security officials in the Bush administration are considering ways to use the insurance industry as a free-market-friendly vehicle to drive chemical facilities, food companies, utilities, and other businesses to take greater precautions against terrorist attacks without heavy-handed new regulations.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/22/us_sees_insurers_as_possible_tool_in_terror_fight/
FRONTING AS A LEGITIMATE GOVERNOR, the speech reeks of bigotry, bias and war. Romney is desperately trying to 'shake' the Massachusetts icon image as 'liberal' even declining the positive results of stem cell research condemning his own spouse to an illness that in time will kill her. Can anyone state Romney is not another Neocon with promises to more and more dangerous aggressions against humanity here domestically and abroad? No. By this speech alone is he guilty on all counts. It took a long time to get the Confederate Flag to be removed from The State House as well. This is the kind of president we continue to want? Can Bob Jones be far away?
Confederate flag summit ends deadlocked in South Carolina
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/US/01/14/sc.flag.legislature/
South Carolina takes Confederate flag down from Capitol dome
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/US/07/01/scflag.01/
Romney talks 'right' on social issues in S.C.
By Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff February 22, 2005
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Governor Mitt Romney, addressing 350 Republicans in a speech here last night, decried efforts by Massachusetts Democrats to legalize certain cloning for stem cell research, blasted the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that legalized gay marriage, and praised Ronald Reagan and President Bush for their struggles against worldwide tyranny and higher taxes.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/22/romney_talks_right_on_social_issues_in_sc/
Romney's stance on civil unions draws fire
Activists accuse governor of 'flip-flopping' on issue
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff February 23, 2005
A national gay and lesbian Republican organization yesterday accused Governor Mitt Romney of "flip-flopping" on civil unions for same-sex couples, and other gay activists and Democrats complained that Romney was reinventing himself as a conservative to run for president.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2005/02/23/romneys_stance_on_civil_unions_draws_fire/
Summers vows new tone with faculty
Pledges to temper his words, actions
By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff February 23, 2005
CAMBRIDGE -- Lawrence H. Summers yesterday offered conciliatory remarks to his critics, pledging at a meeting attended by several hundred Harvard professors to "set a different tone" in his relationship with the faculty and acknowledging widespread complaints that his leadership style has frozen out critical voices on campus.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/02/23/summers_vows_new_tone_with_faculty/
Harvard seeks to test ecstasy drug on the dying
By Raja Mishra
Globe Staff February 23, 2005
BELMONT -- Harvard researchers are preparing for the first time in three decades to conduct human experiments using a psychedelic drug, a study that would seek to harness the mind-altering effects of the drug ecstasy to help ease the crushing psychic burdens faced by dying cancer patients.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/23/harvard_seeks_to_test_ecstasy_drug_on_the_dying/
The Chicago Tribune
O, you lucky dogs, this is Bark Ave.
By Hal Dardick, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Brendan McCarthy contributed to this report
Published February 22, 2005
It is designed to be the biggest and best bark park in Chicago.
The canine play area at the south end of Grant Park will stretch more than 13,000 square feet and include a doggie drinking fountain. Plumbing will also be installed for a future decorative fountain for warm-weather frolicking.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0502220326feb22,1,4809120.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Peace activists sue city over march permit
By Hal Dardick
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 22, 2005, 3:29 PM CST
Peace activists, twice denied Chicago city permits to march along Michigan Avenue on the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion, filed suit today in U.S. District Court seeking to overturn the city's decision.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050222protest,1,152879.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Fear arises that virus will mutate
CDC sounds alarm of likely pandemic over bird flu strain
By Paul Recer
Associated Press
Published February 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday that bird flu in Asia is highly likely to mutate into a virus transmittable from person to person, raising the prospect of a global epidemic.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502220309feb22,1,5137027.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The Moscow News
Bush to Talk Security, Not Scold
U.S. President George W. Bush will probably keep a promise to prod President Vladimir Putin over concerns that Russia is backsliding on democracy when the two meet in Slovakia on Thursday. However, while seeking explanations, Bush is unlikely to tie his administration's Russia policy to Putin's record on democracy because Moscow remains too valuable as a partner in security and oil and would become too troublesome as a spoiler if antagonized.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/001.html
IT'S CALLED TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH.
Bush Seeks Thaw While Talking Tough
By Tom Raum
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS -- U.S. President George W. Bush, on a trip to thaw relations with Europe, prodded Russia not turn its back on democratic advances. He also demanded that Iran give up its nuclear ambitions and told Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/251.html
WHAT is there to talk about? Bush trashed to ABM Treaty years ago?
Proliferation of the Bigwigs
The summit between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush this Thursday in Bratislava will address proliferation. There are serious disagreements between Moscow and Washington in almost every other area. Russia believes the West is bent on isolating it from other countries in the CIS. The West in turn believes the Kremlin is trying to reestablish control over former Soviet republics. The Yukos affair and Putin's dismantling of democracy have poisoned U.S.-Russia relations. The war on terrorism is no longer a unifying factor: The American campaign to install democracy in Iraq and the Russian war to enforce its will in the North Caucasus are as far apart ideologically as the United States and Russia are geographically.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/009.html
Putin Calls for Tougher Action in the Caucasus
President Vladimir Putin ordered the Interior Ministry on Monday to toughen efforts to eliminate militants in the restive North Caucasus region.
His order followed special operations over the past several weeks to kill alleged Islamic extremists and their accomplices in several southern cities.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/011.html
Indians Arrive Seeking Landmark Energy Deals
Top Indian officials held discussions in Moscow on buying a stake in Yuganskneftegaz and attracting major Russian investors to the Indian oil and gas sector, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said in an interview Monday.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/22/041.html
Global Eye
Sword Play
By Chris Floyd
Published: February 18, 2005
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/18/120.html
Michael Moore Today
February 22nd, 2005 4:15 pm
For Some, a Loss in Iraq Turns Into Antiwar Activism; Gold Star Families Band Together to 'Make People Care'
By Evelyn Nieves / Washington Post
VACAVILLE, Calif. -- Five minutes after President Bush began his State of the Union address, Cindy Sheehan clicked off her television set.
She would read the transcript, watch the salute to the parents of a Marine killed in Fallujah, chew over such words as "ultimate sacrifice" and "fight against tyranny" -- the next morning.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1517
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM
Three soldiers killed in Baghdad.
Washington's waning influence in Iraq.
In the nearly two years since the war began in Iraq, at least 232 civilians working on U.S. military and reconstruction contracts have been killed there, many in largely overlooked slayings.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Poll Shows Doubts Over Bush Democracy Push
By Will Lester / Associated Press
President Bush is calling on European leaders to support his campaign to spread democracy abroad at a time people in many of those countries have doubts whether that should be the U.S. role in the world, Associated Press polling found.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1516
Panelists Decry Bush Science Policies
By Paul Recer / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1513
The Los Angeles Times
Toll Mounts as Storms Continue
Southern California braced for another round of rain, snow and even tornadoes this afternoon as a lethal and destructive storm system slowly moved across the region in what could be the wettest year on record.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-022205rain_lat,0,111437.story?coll=la-home-headlines
continued...
I HAVE ONLY been stating the effects of Global Warming has to be reversed for over two years, actually it's been over three years, but, scientists have predicted this for decades. This is the destiny of those that ignored it. Bye, bye, California, bye, bye. And everyone has always waited for 'The Big One,' the earthquake that would divide the southern most of California from the northern most. You can't take it back now.
This is testimony to American Arrogance. The problem is Earth doesn't recognize arrogance.
This is testimony to American Arrogance. The problem is Earth doesn't recognize arrogance.
Morning Papers - concluding
The Guardian
February 22 2005: Much of Britain woke to a blanket of snow today as blizzards swept across the country at the beginning of a prolonged cold snap.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1420030,00.html
Clarke announces anti-terror laws concession
Simon Jeffery
Tuesday February 22, 2005
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, today announced compromises to controversial proposals to put British terrorism suspects under de facto house arrest in the hope of winning support for their swift passage through parliament.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1420046,00.html
Revealed: the rush to war
Richard Norton-Taylor
Wednesday February 23, 2005
The Guardian
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal.
The government was so concerned that it might be prosecuted it set up a team of lawyers to prepare for legal action in an international court.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1423304,00.html
World 'facing bird flu pandemic'
Associated Press
Wednesday February 23, 2005
The world is facing the "gravest possible danger" of a bird flu pandemic that could kill millions of people, a leading health official warned today.
Dr Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organisation's Western Pacific regional director, said governments must take rapid action to stop bird flu spreading if it mutated into a form that was highly contagious among humans.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1423472,00.html
Gumfounded
As councils call for chewing gum to be taxed to help meet the annual £150m cost of clearing it up, Simon Busch traces a history of bursting bubbles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1420222,00.html
Sinn Féin faces 'symbolic' financial sanctions
Staff and agencies
Tuesday February 22, 2005
The Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, today threatened to impose "symbolic" financial sanctions against Sinn Féin for its alleged knowledge of the £26.5m Northern Bank raid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1420085,00.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sunny winter days spur drought concerns
State's snowpack is at 30% of average; air pollution climbs
By KYLE ARNOLD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The unseasonably sunny weather is drawing shoppers into the Seattle Sunglass Co., looking to escape the glare of the bright sun, which usually doesn't make an appearance in these parts until spring.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213225_drought23.html
Who won illegal votes of felons?
Republicans' challenge to Gregoire win raises question
By NEIL MODIE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire won more votes from urbanites in the 2004 election while Dino Rossi, her Republican opponent, got more rural votes. Gregoire had probably more women's votes and Rossi more from men.
OK, but which candidate captured the hearts of the convicted felons who broke the law by voting?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213202_governor23.html
Fate of four cases filed by voters rests with justices
By LEWIS KAMB
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
It's characterized by high-powered lawyering, scrutinized by the media, observed by packed courtrooms and subject to the spinnings of partisan pundits.
Pasted from <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213211_contests23.html
More Fla. workers open AIDS/HIV list
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Six more county health workers said they opened an e-mail containing a confidential list of thousands of AIDS and HIV patients, bringing to 16 the total number of employees known to have opened the e-mail.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=BRF%20AIDS%20List%20E%20mail
Forensics at ground zero ends
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK -- The medical examiner's office has ended its effort to identify the remains of those killed at the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11, 2001, leaving more than a thousand victims unidentified.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Sept%2011%20Victim%20Identification
Top nuclear negotiators to meet in Seoul
By BO-MI LIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, poses with Wang Jiarui, second from left, head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, for photos in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Feb. 21, 2005. Kim told the visiting Chinese envoy that his government will return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks if the United States shows sincerity and if certain conditions are met, the North's official news agency reported Tuesday. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency)
SEOUL, South Korea -- Negotiators from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul this weekend to discuss resuming nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea after the communist country's leader hinted at a possible compromise, officials said Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Koreas%20Nuclear
China's oldest WWII sex slave dies at 94
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SHANGHAI, China -- Zhu Qiaomei, China's oldest surviving sex slave from World War II who had fought for compensation from the Japanese government, has died at age 94, state media reported Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Obit%20Sex%20Slave
NIH researchers cleared in ethics probe
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- National Institutes of Health investigators have cleared up to 80 percent of its researchers suspected of secret deals with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, officials say.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=NIH%20Ethics
Russia said looking for dialogue with U.S.
By JUDITH INGRAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
U.S. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during a joint news conference at Catherine Palace in Pushkin, Russia, in this Nov. 22, 2002 file photo. President Bush has said the United States and Russia stand shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism and weapons proliferation, but a series of recent statements on both sides makes it seem more like they're butting heads. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
MOSCOW -- A top Russian official, speaking one day before President Bush meets with President Vladimir Putin in Slovakia, said Moscow wants to develop an intensive and frank dialogue with the United States, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20US
Australian airport terminal evacuated
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Passengers were evacuated from an airport terminal in the southern city of Melbourne on Monday after dozens of staff fell ill following a possible chemical or gas leak, officials said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Airport%20Evacuated
The Daily Mail and Guardian
'Nessie's offspring' terrorises Aussie trout farm
An Australian trout farm announced a Aus$1 000 dollar (R4 600) reward on Monday for the capture of a giant eel baptised "Nessie's offspring" that has suddenly appeared in breeding ponds and begun eating up the fish.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198091&area=/breaking_news/other_news/
Bush: Thanks for Iraq, but watch out for China
United States President George Bush on Tuesday thanked Nato leaders for helping to train Iraqi security forces, but made clear that plans to lift a European arms embargo on China still trouble transatlantic ties.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198101&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Mandela wanted to help with Zuma's debt
Former president Nelson Mandela offered to help to "extinguish" the debt of Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday.
Testifying at his fraud and corruption trial, Durban businessman Schabir Shaik said Mandela felt that Zuma's financial problems were "distracting him from his duties at the African National Congress".
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198054&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
Mbeki scoffs at US stance on Zimbabwe
South African President Thabo Mbeki criticised the United States for calling Zimbabwe an "outpost of tyranny" saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it went against Washington's efforts to promote democracy worldwide.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=198029
Dawa leader poised to become Iraq premier
Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the Dawa religious party that has links to Iran, was on Tuesday poised to become Iraq's next prime minister after winning the support of Shi'ite leaders.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198095&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Indonesia searches for landslide survivors
Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday continued sifting through tonnes of garbage and debris but hopes were faint of finding anyone alive after a devastating landslide that left 150 people feared dead.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=198051
Pneumonic plague kills 43 in DRC
Forty-three people have died and 13 others have been infected following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the mining area of Zobia, in the region of Bas-Uele in Oriental province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an official in the ministry of health said on Monday.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=198094
HIV/Aids barometer - December 2004
One Ethiopian child in 10 is an orphan, according to a report by the United Nations, the government and the Save the Children NGO. The HIV/Aids pandemic, appalling poverty and dire health conditions had left 4,6-million youngsters without parents.
http://www.mg.co.za/articleList.aspx?area=/insight/hiv__aids_barometer/
The New York Times
Justices Accept Oregon Case Weighing Assisted Suicide
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: February 23, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 - In an action likely to reopen a national debate over whether doctors should be able to help terminally ill patients end their lives, the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear the Bush administration's challenge to the only state law in the country that authorizes physician-assisted suicide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/politics/23scotus.html?hp&ex=1109221200&en=67e25ea88137e2b8&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The Secret Genocide Archive
Photos don't normally appear on this page. But it's time for all of us to look squarely at the victims of our indifference.
These are just four photos in a secret archive of thousands of photos and reports that document the genocide under way in Darfur. The materials were gathered by African Union monitors, who are just about the only people able to travel widely in that part of Sudan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23kristof.html?oref=login
Al Jazeera
Bush: a scattered Palestinian state wont work
2/22/2005 12:00:00 PM GMT
President Bush pushes for more illegal Jewish settlements to be dismantled.
In an effort to drum up European support and to get the post-Iraq relations back on track, George Bush's speech in Brussels signalled a shift, albeit a small one, in U.S. policy towards Israel.
During his speech in Brussels, President Bush placed emphasis on the Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement being top of NATO's list of priorities.
On his fence-mending whirlwind tour of European states, Bush called for the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state with territorial contiguity in the West Bank.
"A state on scattered territories will not work," he said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=7168
Hariri killing plays into U.S. hawks plans
It seems it doesn't really matter whether or not Syria was behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
The fact of the matter is Hariri's death plays right into the hands of the hawks within President Bush's administration who have long argued for 'regime change' in Damascus.
Before the bomb blast that killed Hariri and 12 others, the balance of power between anti-Assad hardliners and the more flexible forces within the Bush administration was roughly even.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_id=6999
Haaretz
Halutz tapped as next IDF chief; Ya'alon to retire early
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz was named Tuesday by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz as the next chief of staff, the first ever to advance from the ranks of the air force. The appointment must first be approved by the cabinet, where it is expected to pass without a hitch.
Halutz, 57, will be the 18th chief of staff.
Mofaz selected Halutz ahead of Maj. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, who is now expected to retire from active service.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543608.html
Jordanian envoy: Peace deal between Israel, PA close
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies
Jordan's new Ambassador to Israel, Marouf al-Bakhit, believes an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty is within reach.
"I followed the talks in 2000 and 2001 closely. At the Taba talks the positions were only centimeters apart," he told reporters Tuesday in a first interview with Israeli media.
Al-Bakhit, who since 1999 monitored the peace talks on Jordan's behalf, believes that gambling on interim agreements failed and it is now time to negotiate a permanent agreement under the road map framework.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543589.html
Police want NIS 61 million to counter Temple Mount threats
By Zvi Zrahiya, Haaretz Correspondent
The police is demanding an additional NIS 61 million to counter increasingly grave threats of an attack on the Temple Mount.
Speaking Tueday at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on police and Public Security Ministry budgets, Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi added that an additional 187 job slots will need to be created to contend with the alerts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543574.html
Jewish money, non-Jewish causes
By Avi Beker
There is a growing unease among the leadership of the American Jewish community regarding the new framework uniting all the communities - the United Jewish Communities umbrella organization of the Jewish Federations - that went through a dramatic structural change in 1991. The changes in the organization are linked to changes in the pattern of philanthropy in the Jewish community in the U.S., and that has an impact on donations to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543145.html
President Bush: A Palestinian state on scattered territory cannot work
By Aluf Benn
U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday placed achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement at the top of NATO's list of priorities.
Bush, speaking in Brussels on the first day of a fence-mending trip to Europe, called for the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state with territorial contiguity in the West Bank. "A state on scattered territories will not work," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543136.html
The hardest decision of all?
By Uzi Benziman
Ariel Sharon's words must be taken at face value: The decision to evacuate settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria is the hardest he has ever had to make. That is what he said to the nation in clear Hebrew, during his Sunday night appearance at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543645.html
BRUSSELS is also the place where Franks and Rumsfeld were indicted. Bush as his new Secretary of State uses 'shock' to achieve change. It is mostly ineffective. As a unilateral war monger the interventionists of Diplomats seeks 'containment' and not prevention. Containment is the only measure to work with a president that is unreasonable.
The context is the message
At first glance, there was nothing new in President George W. Bush's comments in Brussels on Monday on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bush reiterated his vision of two states, Palestine alongside Israel, which he first espoused in June 2002, and which senior members of his administration, none more so than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have often repeated.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543667.html
Israel may not demolish settler homes during pullout
By Nir Hasson and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel will reconsider its decision to demolish homes in Gaza Strip and West Bank settlements evacuated during the disengagement, Cabinet Secretary General Yisrael Maimon told Army Radio on Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543106&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The Cheney Observer
Where is the outrage?
Monday, February 21, 2005 Posted: 12:07 PM EST (1707 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Either we are losing our capacity for moral outrage, or George W. Bush is presiding over the ultimate Teflon Administration.
On the evening of January 20, Rich Little, the impressionist-comedian, was emceeing the inaugural ball at the Washington Hilton hotel. Little did this impersonation Ronald Reagan: "You know somebody asked me, 'Do you think the War on Poverty is over?' I said: 'Yes. The poor lost.'"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/21/outrage/
Chad: Oil Transparency Loopholes
February 20, 2005
Posted to the web February 21, 2005
Washington, DC
Oil revenues for Chad are now beginning to increase rapidly from the long-debated "model project" involving World Bank financing, a pipeline through Cameroon, and a consortium of major oil companies.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502210675.html
Bush warns Russia on the rule of law
BRUSSELS President George W. Bush warned Russia on Monday that it "must renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law," but he said he believed its future lay "within the family of Europe and the trans-Atlantic community."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/21/news/bush.html
Building company tight-lipped on safety concerns
Monday, 21 February 2005
The company building the LNG plant at Darwin's Wickham Point has refused to discuss safety issues raised by striking workers today.
Four hundred Australian Workers Union members picketed the building site this morning.
http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/news/200502/s1307814.htm
Indian petroleum minister to discuss Yuganskneftegaz acquisition
RBC, 21.02.2005, Moscow 10:29:28.Indian petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is expected to arrive in Russia today for a two-day visit. The visit has been designed to offer Russian fuel and energy companies the opportunity to take part in the development of new gas and oil fields in India. The Indian minister will take part in the presentation of development plans for the fields. Aiyar also proposes to hold meetings with Russian senior deputy PM Alexander Zhukov, industry and energy minister Viktor Khristenko, as well as with the heads of a number of energy and finance companies. Indian government representatives have repeatedly mentioned that the Indian ONGC was still interested in purchasing YUKOS assets, and the authorities were expected to negotiate over the issue in February.
http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20050221102928.shtml
Merger, he said
Business Standard / New Delhi February 22, 2005
There is a lot to be said in favour of the proposal mooted by public sector oil giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) that it take over the downstream or marketing assets of either Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) or Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), as the synergies are obvious.
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu5&leftindx=5&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=181440
The China Daily
Bush takes charm campaign to NATO, EU
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-22 09:31
BRUSSELS - US President Bush takes his drive for a new transatlantic partnership to summits with NATO and the European Union on Tuesday, anxious to draw a line under two years of bitter rifts over Iraq.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/22/content_418284.htm
Beijing pushes for charter cargo flights across Straits
By Xing Zhigang and Cao Desheng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-02-23 02:07
Beijing is expected to announce a new policy about cross-Straits cargo charter flights on Friday in a major effort to push for direct air links with Taiwan, China Daily learned yesterday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418479.htm
FM: Lifting arms ban by EU hurts nobody
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-23 08:47
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan maintained that the European Union's plan to lift its arms embargo on China won't infringe upon the interest of third parties, and that the lifting of the embargo is "irrelevant" to "the present situation of the Asia Pacific region."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418605.htm
N. Korea willing to return to nuclear talks
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-23 02:16
BEIJING- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has said his country is willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks despite an earlier threat to withdraw from negotiations, Chinese officials reported.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418484.htm
Does SARS virus still exist in the wild?
By Zhang Feng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-02-23 02:07
Does the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus still exist in the wild? Where will it come from if an epidemic breaks out again?
Experts are still arguing these questions.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418481.htm
China Daily - Taiwan Edition
Flights to Taiwan first in decades
By Xing Zhigang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-31 06:23
After a half-century without non-stop airline links between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, nine charter flights took place on Saturday under a cross-Straits agreement for Spring Festival travel.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/31/content_413641.htm
China Daily - Hong Kong Edition
Goliaths compete for nuclear plant pact
Fu Jing
2005-02-23 06:07
Three global nuclear power heavyweights now competing for designing and building four nuclear units in China will submit their proposals next Monday, a national nuclear technology company said yesterday.
US-based Westinghouse, France's Areva and Russia's AtomStroyExport (ASE) are busy with finishing touches on their plans for four nuclear reactors in Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418490.htm
Check mates
By Hu Yan and Wang Xu
Shanghai Star. 2005-02-17
THE abolition of the national system of compulsory premarital medical checkups about one year ago has led to a rapid increase in the rate of birth defects, and if the government fails to take effective measures, it could lead to a still more serious pubic health problem within three to five years, medical experts have warned.
On October 1, 2003, the revised Regulations Governing Marriage Registration abolished compulsory pre-marital checkups. At the time, this step received general applause as an indication of social progress and increased respect for citizens?privacy.
Prior to that, the 1994 Law of the People's Republic of China Concerning the Mother and Infant Care made pre-marital checkups mandatory. The proportion of new couples receiving premarital medical checkups increased steadily nationwide. By 2002, the national premarital checkup rate reached 68 per cent. In some developed areas, especially prosperous cities, the figure reached 95 per cent.
Each year about 8-10 per cent of couples were found to have serious hereditary or infectious diseases ?including diseases of the reproductive system, among which sexually transmitted diseases (STD) accounted for a large proportion of cases.
http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2005/0217/fo4-1.html
Protecting farmers' interests
Han Jun
2005-02-23 06:24
More effort should be made to stabilize grain prices and further increase farmers' incomes this year. And a long-term mechanism is needed to better protect farmers' interests and rights.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418518.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Danger warning on pain medicine
23.02.05
by Martin Johnston
The Health Ministry has warned that thousands of people using any of five pain-relief medicines should see a doctor about stopping the treatment because of risks to the heart and brain.
The anti-inflammatory "cox-2 inhibitor" drugs, used particularly by arthritis sufferers, have been linked to possible increases in the risk of heart disease or stroke.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10112267>
US citizen accused of discussing to kill Bush
23.02.05 3.00pm
WASHINGTON - A Virginia man, arrested and held in Saudi Arabia, has been returned to the United States to face charges of supporting al Qaeda, and was accused of plotting in 2002 and 2003 to kill President George W Bush, court documents made public on Tuesday said.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10112287>
Australian government forces ISPs to join child porn crackdown
23.02.05 12.30pm
CANBERRA - Internet service providers (ISPs) will face fines of up to A$55,000 ($60,500) if they can be used to access child pornography and do not refer the information to the police.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10112277>
The weather in Antarctica (crystal ice chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-19.0°
Updated Wednesday 23 Feb 9:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
39 °F / 4 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
31 °F / 0 °C
Humidity:
75%
Dew Point:
32 °F / 0 °C
Wind:
14 mph / 22 km/h from the SSE
Pressure:
29.91 in / 1013 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 2300 ft / 701 m
February 22 2005: Much of Britain woke to a blanket of snow today as blizzards swept across the country at the beginning of a prolonged cold snap.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1420030,00.html
Clarke announces anti-terror laws concession
Simon Jeffery
Tuesday February 22, 2005
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, today announced compromises to controversial proposals to put British terrorism suspects under de facto house arrest in the hope of winning support for their swift passage through parliament.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1420046,00.html
Revealed: the rush to war
Richard Norton-Taylor
Wednesday February 23, 2005
The Guardian
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal.
The government was so concerned that it might be prosecuted it set up a team of lawyers to prepare for legal action in an international court.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1423304,00.html
World 'facing bird flu pandemic'
Associated Press
Wednesday February 23, 2005
The world is facing the "gravest possible danger" of a bird flu pandemic that could kill millions of people, a leading health official warned today.
Dr Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organisation's Western Pacific regional director, said governments must take rapid action to stop bird flu spreading if it mutated into a form that was highly contagious among humans.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1423472,00.html
Gumfounded
As councils call for chewing gum to be taxed to help meet the annual £150m cost of clearing it up, Simon Busch traces a history of bursting bubbles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1420222,00.html
Sinn Féin faces 'symbolic' financial sanctions
Staff and agencies
Tuesday February 22, 2005
The Northern Ireland secretary, Paul Murphy, today threatened to impose "symbolic" financial sanctions against Sinn Féin for its alleged knowledge of the £26.5m Northern Bank raid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1420085,00.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Sunny winter days spur drought concerns
State's snowpack is at 30% of average; air pollution climbs
By KYLE ARNOLD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The unseasonably sunny weather is drawing shoppers into the Seattle Sunglass Co., looking to escape the glare of the bright sun, which usually doesn't make an appearance in these parts until spring.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213225_drought23.html
Who won illegal votes of felons?
Republicans' challenge to Gregoire win raises question
By NEIL MODIE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire won more votes from urbanites in the 2004 election while Dino Rossi, her Republican opponent, got more rural votes. Gregoire had probably more women's votes and Rossi more from men.
OK, but which candidate captured the hearts of the convicted felons who broke the law by voting?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213202_governor23.html
Fate of four cases filed by voters rests with justices
By LEWIS KAMB
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
It's characterized by high-powered lawyering, scrutinized by the media, observed by packed courtrooms and subject to the spinnings of partisan pundits.
Pasted from <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213211_contests23.html
More Fla. workers open AIDS/HIV list
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Six more county health workers said they opened an e-mail containing a confidential list of thousands of AIDS and HIV patients, bringing to 16 the total number of employees known to have opened the e-mail.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=BRF%20AIDS%20List%20E%20mail
Forensics at ground zero ends
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK -- The medical examiner's office has ended its effort to identify the remains of those killed at the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11, 2001, leaving more than a thousand victims unidentified.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Sept%2011%20Victim%20Identification
Top nuclear negotiators to meet in Seoul
By BO-MI LIM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, poses with Wang Jiarui, second from left, head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, for photos in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Feb. 21, 2005. Kim told the visiting Chinese envoy that his government will return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks if the United States shows sincerity and if certain conditions are met, the North's official news agency reported Tuesday. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency)
SEOUL, South Korea -- Negotiators from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul this weekend to discuss resuming nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea after the communist country's leader hinted at a possible compromise, officials said Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Koreas%20Nuclear
China's oldest WWII sex slave dies at 94
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SHANGHAI, China -- Zhu Qiaomei, China's oldest surviving sex slave from World War II who had fought for compensation from the Japanese government, has died at age 94, state media reported Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Obit%20Sex%20Slave
NIH researchers cleared in ethics probe
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- National Institutes of Health investigators have cleared up to 80 percent of its researchers suspected of secret deals with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, officials say.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=NIH%20Ethics
Russia said looking for dialogue with U.S.
By JUDITH INGRAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
U.S. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during a joint news conference at Catherine Palace in Pushkin, Russia, in this Nov. 22, 2002 file photo. President Bush has said the United States and Russia stand shoulder-to-shoulder against terrorism and weapons proliferation, but a series of recent statements on both sides makes it seem more like they're butting heads. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
MOSCOW -- A top Russian official, speaking one day before President Bush meets with President Vladimir Putin in Slovakia, said Moscow wants to develop an intensive and frank dialogue with the United States, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20US
Australian airport terminal evacuated
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Passengers were evacuated from an airport terminal in the southern city of Melbourne on Monday after dozens of staff fell ill following a possible chemical or gas leak, officials said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Airport%20Evacuated
The Daily Mail and Guardian
'Nessie's offspring' terrorises Aussie trout farm
An Australian trout farm announced a Aus$1 000 dollar (R4 600) reward on Monday for the capture of a giant eel baptised "Nessie's offspring" that has suddenly appeared in breeding ponds and begun eating up the fish.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198091&area=/breaking_news/other_news/
Bush: Thanks for Iraq, but watch out for China
United States President George Bush on Tuesday thanked Nato leaders for helping to train Iraqi security forces, but made clear that plans to lift a European arms embargo on China still trouble transatlantic ties.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198101&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Mandela wanted to help with Zuma's debt
Former president Nelson Mandela offered to help to "extinguish" the debt of Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday.
Testifying at his fraud and corruption trial, Durban businessman Schabir Shaik said Mandela felt that Zuma's financial problems were "distracting him from his duties at the African National Congress".
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198054&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
Mbeki scoffs at US stance on Zimbabwe
South African President Thabo Mbeki criticised the United States for calling Zimbabwe an "outpost of tyranny" saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it went against Washington's efforts to promote democracy worldwide.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=198029
Dawa leader poised to become Iraq premier
Ibrahim Jaafari, leader of the Dawa religious party that has links to Iran, was on Tuesday poised to become Iraq's next prime minister after winning the support of Shi'ite leaders.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198095&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Indonesia searches for landslide survivors
Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday continued sifting through tonnes of garbage and debris but hopes were faint of finding anyone alive after a devastating landslide that left 150 people feared dead.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/&articleid=198051
Pneumonic plague kills 43 in DRC
Forty-three people have died and 13 others have been infected following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the mining area of Zobia, in the region of Bas-Uele in Oriental province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an official in the ministry of health said on Monday.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=198094
HIV/Aids barometer - December 2004
One Ethiopian child in 10 is an orphan, according to a report by the United Nations, the government and the Save the Children NGO. The HIV/Aids pandemic, appalling poverty and dire health conditions had left 4,6-million youngsters without parents.
http://www.mg.co.za/articleList.aspx?area=/insight/hiv__aids_barometer/
The New York Times
Justices Accept Oregon Case Weighing Assisted Suicide
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: February 23, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 - In an action likely to reopen a national debate over whether doctors should be able to help terminally ill patients end their lives, the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear the Bush administration's challenge to the only state law in the country that authorizes physician-assisted suicide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/politics/23scotus.html?hp&ex=1109221200&en=67e25ea88137e2b8&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The Secret Genocide Archive
Photos don't normally appear on this page. But it's time for all of us to look squarely at the victims of our indifference.
These are just four photos in a secret archive of thousands of photos and reports that document the genocide under way in Darfur. The materials were gathered by African Union monitors, who are just about the only people able to travel widely in that part of Sudan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23kristof.html?oref=login
Al Jazeera
Bush: a scattered Palestinian state wont work
2/22/2005 12:00:00 PM GMT
President Bush pushes for more illegal Jewish settlements to be dismantled.
In an effort to drum up European support and to get the post-Iraq relations back on track, George Bush's speech in Brussels signalled a shift, albeit a small one, in U.S. policy towards Israel.
During his speech in Brussels, President Bush placed emphasis on the Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement being top of NATO's list of priorities.
On his fence-mending whirlwind tour of European states, Bush called for the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state with territorial contiguity in the West Bank.
"A state on scattered territories will not work," he said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=7168
Hariri killing plays into U.S. hawks plans
It seems it doesn't really matter whether or not Syria was behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri.
The fact of the matter is Hariri's death plays right into the hands of the hawks within President Bush's administration who have long argued for 'regime change' in Damascus.
Before the bomb blast that killed Hariri and 12 others, the balance of power between anti-Assad hardliners and the more flexible forces within the Bush administration was roughly even.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_id=6999
Haaretz
Halutz tapped as next IDF chief; Ya'alon to retire early
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz was named Tuesday by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz as the next chief of staff, the first ever to advance from the ranks of the air force. The appointment must first be approved by the cabinet, where it is expected to pass without a hitch.
Halutz, 57, will be the 18th chief of staff.
Mofaz selected Halutz ahead of Maj. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, who is now expected to retire from active service.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543608.html
Jordanian envoy: Peace deal between Israel, PA close
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies
Jordan's new Ambassador to Israel, Marouf al-Bakhit, believes an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty is within reach.
"I followed the talks in 2000 and 2001 closely. At the Taba talks the positions were only centimeters apart," he told reporters Tuesday in a first interview with Israeli media.
Al-Bakhit, who since 1999 monitored the peace talks on Jordan's behalf, believes that gambling on interim agreements failed and it is now time to negotiate a permanent agreement under the road map framework.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543589.html
Police want NIS 61 million to counter Temple Mount threats
By Zvi Zrahiya, Haaretz Correspondent
The police is demanding an additional NIS 61 million to counter increasingly grave threats of an attack on the Temple Mount.
Speaking Tueday at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on police and Public Security Ministry budgets, Police Commissioner Moshe Karadi added that an additional 187 job slots will need to be created to contend with the alerts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543574.html
Jewish money, non-Jewish causes
By Avi Beker
There is a growing unease among the leadership of the American Jewish community regarding the new framework uniting all the communities - the United Jewish Communities umbrella organization of the Jewish Federations - that went through a dramatic structural change in 1991. The changes in the organization are linked to changes in the pattern of philanthropy in the Jewish community in the U.S., and that has an impact on donations to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543145.html
President Bush: A Palestinian state on scattered territory cannot work
By Aluf Benn
U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday placed achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement at the top of NATO's list of priorities.
Bush, speaking in Brussels on the first day of a fence-mending trip to Europe, called for the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state with territorial contiguity in the West Bank. "A state on scattered territories will not work," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543136.html
The hardest decision of all?
By Uzi Benziman
Ariel Sharon's words must be taken at face value: The decision to evacuate settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria is the hardest he has ever had to make. That is what he said to the nation in clear Hebrew, during his Sunday night appearance at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543645.html
BRUSSELS is also the place where Franks and Rumsfeld were indicted. Bush as his new Secretary of State uses 'shock' to achieve change. It is mostly ineffective. As a unilateral war monger the interventionists of Diplomats seeks 'containment' and not prevention. Containment is the only measure to work with a president that is unreasonable.
The context is the message
At first glance, there was nothing new in President George W. Bush's comments in Brussels on Monday on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bush reiterated his vision of two states, Palestine alongside Israel, which he first espoused in June 2002, and which senior members of his administration, none more so than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have often repeated.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/543667.html
Israel may not demolish settler homes during pullout
By Nir Hasson and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel will reconsider its decision to demolish homes in Gaza Strip and West Bank settlements evacuated during the disengagement, Cabinet Secretary General Yisrael Maimon told Army Radio on Tuesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543106&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
The Cheney Observer
Where is the outrage?
Monday, February 21, 2005 Posted: 12:07 PM EST (1707 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Either we are losing our capacity for moral outrage, or George W. Bush is presiding over the ultimate Teflon Administration.
On the evening of January 20, Rich Little, the impressionist-comedian, was emceeing the inaugural ball at the Washington Hilton hotel. Little did this impersonation Ronald Reagan: "You know somebody asked me, 'Do you think the War on Poverty is over?' I said: 'Yes. The poor lost.'"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/21/outrage/
Chad: Oil Transparency Loopholes
February 20, 2005
Posted to the web February 21, 2005
Washington, DC
Oil revenues for Chad are now beginning to increase rapidly from the long-debated "model project" involving World Bank financing, a pipeline through Cameroon, and a consortium of major oil companies.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200502210675.html
Bush warns Russia on the rule of law
BRUSSELS President George W. Bush warned Russia on Monday that it "must renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law," but he said he believed its future lay "within the family of Europe and the trans-Atlantic community."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/21/news/bush.html
Building company tight-lipped on safety concerns
Monday, 21 February 2005
The company building the LNG plant at Darwin's Wickham Point has refused to discuss safety issues raised by striking workers today.
Four hundred Australian Workers Union members picketed the building site this morning.
http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/news/200502/s1307814.htm
Indian petroleum minister to discuss Yuganskneftegaz acquisition
RBC, 21.02.2005, Moscow 10:29:28.Indian petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is expected to arrive in Russia today for a two-day visit. The visit has been designed to offer Russian fuel and energy companies the opportunity to take part in the development of new gas and oil fields in India. The Indian minister will take part in the presentation of development plans for the fields. Aiyar also proposes to hold meetings with Russian senior deputy PM Alexander Zhukov, industry and energy minister Viktor Khristenko, as well as with the heads of a number of energy and finance companies. Indian government representatives have repeatedly mentioned that the Indian ONGC was still interested in purchasing YUKOS assets, and the authorities were expected to negotiate over the issue in February.
http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20050221102928.shtml
Merger, he said
Business Standard / New Delhi February 22, 2005
There is a lot to be said in favour of the proposal mooted by public sector oil giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) that it take over the downstream or marketing assets of either Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) or Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), as the synergies are obvious.
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu5&leftindx=5&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=181440
The China Daily
Bush takes charm campaign to NATO, EU
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-22 09:31
BRUSSELS - US President Bush takes his drive for a new transatlantic partnership to summits with NATO and the European Union on Tuesday, anxious to draw a line under two years of bitter rifts over Iraq.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/22/content_418284.htm
Beijing pushes for charter cargo flights across Straits
By Xing Zhigang and Cao Desheng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-02-23 02:07
Beijing is expected to announce a new policy about cross-Straits cargo charter flights on Friday in a major effort to push for direct air links with Taiwan, China Daily learned yesterday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418479.htm
FM: Lifting arms ban by EU hurts nobody
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-23 08:47
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan maintained that the European Union's plan to lift its arms embargo on China won't infringe upon the interest of third parties, and that the lifting of the embargo is "irrelevant" to "the present situation of the Asia Pacific region."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418605.htm
N. Korea willing to return to nuclear talks
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-23 02:16
BEIJING- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has said his country is willing to return to nuclear disarmament talks despite an earlier threat to withdraw from negotiations, Chinese officials reported.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418484.htm
Does SARS virus still exist in the wild?
By Zhang Feng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-02-23 02:07
Does the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus still exist in the wild? Where will it come from if an epidemic breaks out again?
Experts are still arguing these questions.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418481.htm
China Daily - Taiwan Edition
Flights to Taiwan first in decades
By Xing Zhigang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-01-31 06:23
After a half-century without non-stop airline links between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, nine charter flights took place on Saturday under a cross-Straits agreement for Spring Festival travel.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/31/content_413641.htm
China Daily - Hong Kong Edition
Goliaths compete for nuclear plant pact
Fu Jing
2005-02-23 06:07
Three global nuclear power heavyweights now competing for designing and building four nuclear units in China will submit their proposals next Monday, a national nuclear technology company said yesterday.
US-based Westinghouse, France's Areva and Russia's AtomStroyExport (ASE) are busy with finishing touches on their plans for four nuclear reactors in Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418490.htm
Check mates
By Hu Yan and Wang Xu
Shanghai Star. 2005-02-17
THE abolition of the national system of compulsory premarital medical checkups about one year ago has led to a rapid increase in the rate of birth defects, and if the government fails to take effective measures, it could lead to a still more serious pubic health problem within three to five years, medical experts have warned.
On October 1, 2003, the revised Regulations Governing Marriage Registration abolished compulsory pre-marital checkups. At the time, this step received general applause as an indication of social progress and increased respect for citizens?privacy.
Prior to that, the 1994 Law of the People's Republic of China Concerning the Mother and Infant Care made pre-marital checkups mandatory. The proportion of new couples receiving premarital medical checkups increased steadily nationwide. By 2002, the national premarital checkup rate reached 68 per cent. In some developed areas, especially prosperous cities, the figure reached 95 per cent.
Each year about 8-10 per cent of couples were found to have serious hereditary or infectious diseases ?including diseases of the reproductive system, among which sexually transmitted diseases (STD) accounted for a large proportion of cases.
http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2005/0217/fo4-1.html
Protecting farmers' interests
Han Jun
2005-02-23 06:24
More effort should be made to stabilize grain prices and further increase farmers' incomes this year. And a long-term mechanism is needed to better protect farmers' interests and rights.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/23/content_418518.htm
The New Zealand Herald
Danger warning on pain medicine
23.02.05
by Martin Johnston
The Health Ministry has warned that thousands of people using any of five pain-relief medicines should see a doctor about stopping the treatment because of risks to the heart and brain.
The anti-inflammatory "cox-2 inhibitor" drugs, used particularly by arthritis sufferers, have been linked to possible increases in the risk of heart disease or stroke.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10112267>
US citizen accused of discussing to kill Bush
23.02.05 3.00pm
WASHINGTON - A Virginia man, arrested and held in Saudi Arabia, has been returned to the United States to face charges of supporting al Qaeda, and was accused of plotting in 2002 and 2003 to kill President George W Bush, court documents made public on Tuesday said.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10112287>
Australian government forces ISPs to join child porn crackdown
23.02.05 12.30pm
CANBERRA - Internet service providers (ISPs) will face fines of up to A$55,000 ($60,500) if they can be used to access child pornography and do not refer the information to the police.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10112277>
The weather in Antarctica (crystal ice chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-19.0°
Updated Wednesday 23 Feb 9:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
39 °F / 4 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
31 °F / 0 °C
Humidity:
75%
Dew Point:
32 °F / 0 °C
Wind:
14 mph / 22 km/h from the SSE
Pressure:
29.91 in / 1013 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 2300 ft / 701 m
GOES West by UNISYS - Water Vaport 23.20.2005
Set in motion it is easy to see southern California is under a vortex. Texas is getting some heavy duty weather as well.
Current Texas Weather in Affected Area
The weather observed at TEMPLE/MILLER, TX (KTPL) at 05:55 AM CST was:
The skies were cloudy. The weather reported was a thunderstorm.
Temperature: 57F ( 14C)
Dewpoint: 55F ( 13C)
Relative Humidity: 94% Winds from the CLM(CLM degs) at 0 mph.
Altimeter:29.99 inches of mercury.
The prevailing visibility was 2.5 miles.
The maximum temperature in the past 6 hours was 64F.
The minimum temperature in the past 6 hours was 57F.
There was 2.02 inches of precipitation in the past 6 hours.
The weather observed at TEMPLE/MILLER, TX (KTPL) at 06:15 AM CST was:
The skies were cloudy.
The weather reported was a thunderstorm.
Temperature: 57F ( 14C)
Dewpoint: 55F ( 13C)
Relative Humidity: 94% Winds were not reported.
Altimeter:30.00 inches of mercury.
The prevailing visibility was 3 miles.
There was 0.13 inches of precipitation in the past 6 hours.
The weather observed at TEMPLE/MILLER, TX (KTPL) at 06:35 AM CST was:
The skies were cloudy.
The weather reported was a thunderstorm.
Temperature: 57F ( 14C)
Dewpoint: 55F ( 13C)
Relative Humidity: 94%
Winds from the CLM(CLM degs) at 0 mph.
Altimeter:30.00 inches of mercury.
The prevailing visibility was 5 miles.
There was 0.23 inches of precipitation in the past 6 hours.
The skies were cloudy. The weather reported was a thunderstorm.
Temperature: 57F ( 14C)
Dewpoint: 55F ( 13C)
Relative Humidity: 94% Winds from the CLM(CLM degs) at 0 mph.
Altimeter:29.99 inches of mercury.
The prevailing visibility was 2.5 miles.
The maximum temperature in the past 6 hours was 64F.
The minimum temperature in the past 6 hours was 57F.
There was 2.02 inches of precipitation in the past 6 hours.
The weather observed at TEMPLE/MILLER, TX (KTPL) at 06:15 AM CST was:
The skies were cloudy.
The weather reported was a thunderstorm.
Temperature: 57F ( 14C)
Dewpoint: 55F ( 13C)
Relative Humidity: 94% Winds were not reported.
Altimeter:30.00 inches of mercury.
The prevailing visibility was 3 miles.
There was 0.13 inches of precipitation in the past 6 hours.
The weather observed at TEMPLE/MILLER, TX (KTPL) at 06:35 AM CST was:
The skies were cloudy.
The weather reported was a thunderstorm.
Temperature: 57F ( 14C)
Dewpoint: 55F ( 13C)
Relative Humidity: 94%
Winds from the CLM(CLM degs) at 0 mph.
Altimeter:30.00 inches of mercury.
The prevailing visibility was 5 miles.
There was 0.23 inches of precipitation in the past 6 hours.
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