Friday, March 11, 2005
This is the current UNISYS satellite, GOES West 11.3.2005. That is the European notation for date. USA 3.11.2005. The neglect of this issue is an outrage. This is a water vapor satellite and an all new Hemispheric Maximum. It encompasses the entire nation. I put up a regular radar view. You can tell from that. This is Earth grossly imbalanced.
Morning Papers - concluding from postings below. Thank you
The Hindustan Times
Russia will not sell arms to Pak: Defence Minister
Press Trust of India
Moscow,
March 11, 2005
Russia has made it clear that it has not supplied arms to Pakistan in the past and will not do so in the future.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1275678,0005.htm
Two rapes, four murders every hour in India
Murali Krishnan (IANS)
New Delhi,
How crime prone is India? Every hour, 25 violent crimes take place in the country while 59 housewives commit suicide every day.
And two accidental deaths occur every two minutes across this vast country of a billion people.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1275401,0000.htm
Unwanted Pregnancy
Judge Recommends Pharmacist Be Reprimanded for Withholding Birth Control
A judge has ruled that a pharmacist who refused to fill a woman's prescription for birth control on religious grounds should be reprimanded. In July 2002, Neil Noesen, a pharmacist at Kmart, refused to fill a University of Wisconsin student’s oral contraceptive prescription, arguing that it would be a sin under his religion, reports Medical News Today. The patient missed a day of her prescription when Noesen, a Roman Catholic, also refused to transfer the prescription to another pharmacy, reports the Capital Times. Noesen testified that he believes birth control to be "intrinsically evil," and argued that his faith leads him to believe filling such prescriptions would lead to his own personal suffering, according to the Dunn County News.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8937
After baby - A look at birth control options
Betsy Gartrell-Judd
After nine months or more of thinking of little but pregnancy, your new baby is born. You may be surprised to find that pregnancy is suddenly the furthest thing from your mind. But even while you honeymoon as a newly expanded family, you need to make some important decisions about when you might get pregnant again, if ever.
Knowing what's available
While there are many contraceptives available -- with yet more in development, such as the male birth control pill -- most of the current ones are not 100 percent effective, and all of them have both advantages and drawbacks. In the accompanying table, we've offered a comparison of the most popular methods to assist you in your research and decision-making.
http://pregnancyandbaby.com/read/articles/1015.htm
US bankruptcy overhaul clears abortion vote hurdle
Tue Mar 8, 2005 01:20 PM ET
WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - An overhaul of U.S. bankruptcy laws survived a major threat on Tuesday as the Senate rejected an abortion-related amendment that had doomed the legislation in the last Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=7841995
Summary Box: GOP wins first abortion test
Associated Press
THE NEWS: In the first abortion-related test of the new Congress, the Senate rejected a Democratic effort to bar anti-abortion protesters from using bankruptcy to avoid payment of court judgment.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/11083556.htm
NO DOUBT RU-486 needs to be reviewed by the NEW Drug Task Force that turned COX2 back on the market.
`Holly's Law' reintroduced to halt FDA approval of abortion pill
BY BONITA BREWER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - (KRT) - The controversial RU-486 abortion pill, which 18-year-old Holly Patterson of Livermore, Calif., took a week before dying of a massive infection in September 2003, would be at least temporarily pulled from U.S. markets under federal legislation reintroduced last week.
Republican lawmakers have reintroduced "Holly's Law," which would suspend Food and Drug Administration approval of RU-486 until the federal Government Accountability Office scrutinizes the process by which the drug came to U.S. markets in 2000.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11076398.htm
Rights commission's call for abortion law to be ignored
Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent
The Government plans to ignore a key recommendation of the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) concerning abortion legislation.
In its submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination, published yesterday on the eve of International Women's Day, the IHRC recommended "that the Government should introduce legislation to define the circumstances in which abortion can currently be legally carried out in Ireland".
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0308/3818828085HM1ABORTION.html
MY VIEW: KLINE CORRECT IN SEEKING ABORTION CLINIC RECORDS
BY CHERYL SULLENGER
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline requested about 90 medical records from two abortion clinics, including those of underage girls who had abortions beyond 22 weeks' gestation. Kline said that he is investigating the matter in order to capture and prosecute sexual predators who may be victimizing young girls. In fact, he is duty sworn to do this.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/editorial/11075159.htm
Carlson moves to center on abortion
By David Kranz
dkranz@argusleader.com
published: 03/8/05
During the 2004 political campaigns, abortion became a central theme for sermons by some Catholic priests in the Sioux Falls Diocese as they discussed what their congregation’s responsibility should be as they voted.
Some heard the stern warning: Under no circumstances could anyone vote for a pro-choice candidate. Penalty for the violation would be a mortal sin.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050308/COLUMNISTS02/50308002/1001/NEWS
Arkansas parental consent abortion law signed
Little Rock, Arkansas, Mar. 08 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee signed a new law into effect last Thursday that requires parental consent for girls under 18 years of age before having an abortion.
Pasted from <http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=35735>
Wise choices in pregnancy
Women don't need reproductive propaganda from state
Last update: March 03, 2005
Abortion can be a heart-wrenching decision. It is rarely made lightly. Women facing unwanted pregnancies should know that they have other choices, and be offered support to make the right decision.
But the state should not be spending money specifically to dissuade women from abortion -- especially if leaders choose a campaign that incorporates misinformation and ignores the best and most effective ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN13030305.htm
Don't fund abortion propaganda
• The state of Florida should not use taxpayer money to support organizations that try to persuade women not to get abortions. The state should work to ensure that women get professional counseling on all their legal choices, not propaganda.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050308/OPINION/503080375/1015
Adoption vs. abortion
State should provide whole story
Imagine a student at a public high school who goes to a guidance counselor seeking advice about her future. Should she attend a university? Try community college first? Join the military? Opt for technological training, or jump into the working world right after graduation?
If the guidance counselor does justice to the student's inquiry, he will provide information about the pros and cons of each option - possibly providing advice, but sending the clear message that the decision belongs to the student and her family.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/11033324.htm
Bush plan proposes abortion counseling
Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings is promoting the program, which is modeled after one in Pennsylvania.
By STEVE BOUSQUET, Times Staff Writer
Published March 1, 2005
TALLAHASSEE - Seeking to reduce abortions in Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush wants to spend $4-million in tax money to counsel pregnant women and promote alternatives, such as adoption.
The proposal was unveiled Monday by Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings, the most visible woman in the Bush administration and a likely candidate for governor in a 2006 Republican contest in which abortion could play a big role.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/01/State/Bush_plan_proposes_ab.shtml
THIS IS VIOLATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. IT IS INVASION OF A WOMAN'S PRIVACY. The government wants to deny funding for clinics but not entrapment motivations into pregnancy. Reverend Jeb Bush is overstepping his boundaries again. This is a decision between a woman and he doctor. $4 million is nothing to the cost of this program unless it is being limited to a selected population if they are going to be finding housing, clothing and the like.This is a give away program to churches. Some congregations already have housing projects for the elderly. Those same housing projects could be turned into parenting centers and a trap for women for the rest of their child bearing years with an adoption center on the grounds when the women are ready to give up their babies. This could literally become a self supporting maternal money making franchise for any church that is willing to turn a profit. All they have to do is recruit pregnant women, give them dorm housing until they are ready to deliver or sign the papers which ever comes first or last and then send them on their way to do it all over again. This is not a healthy way of handling issues of abortion decisions.
The organizations -- which would receive state grants and could include religious organizations -- would provide services for pregnant women, including helping to find shelter, maternity clothing and infant supplies and providing information about adoption. The program also would provide pregnancy support services, state-funded individual counseling for women up to one year after giving birth and parental skill development classes. In addition, the program would promote abstinence as the best way to prevent unplanned pregnancies (Kerr, Florida Times-Union, 3/1). Program funding, which Bush included in his proposed 2005 budget, must be approved by the state Legislature, which reconvenes next week. Jennings -- who was joined by several Republican lawmakers and leaders of Florida Right to Life, the Florida Catholic Conference, Interfaith of Northeast Florida and the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville -- said, "We must create as many avenues as possible for pregnant women to be informed of their options other than abortion because we know that these decisions have a profound impact on their families and our community as a whole" (Mussenden, Orlando Sentinel, 3/1). The Florida program is modeled after a similar Pennsylvania program, known as Real Alternatives (St. Petersburg Times, 3/1).
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=28409
Calls for cultural training for foreign doctors
By PM's Matt Henger
There are calls for better medical and cultural training for foreign doctors coming in to Australia to reduce the problem of unwanted teenage pregnancies.
As Australia struggles to fill doctor vacancies in regional and rural areas, there has been a concerted effort in recent years to attract overseas GPs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s1320410.htm
Campus groups divided over free condoms
By Keith Joseph Zukas/The Daily Cardinal
Today sex is everywhere, and with it follow methods of disease protection and birth control. Turning on the television, one can "Talk Sex" with an old, but perky, Sue Johanson. Walk into a local store and one might find a bowl of free condoms on the counter. On the radio are depressing advertisements from girls who unwisely relied on the pull-out method.
http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/2005/03/10/News/Campus.Groups.Divided.Over.Free.Condoms-890835.shtml
House approves tighter restrictions on abortion clinics
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The House passed legislation Thursday that would tighten restrictions on abortion clinics despite the objections of some who contend it could force some clinics to close.
The abortion bill, sent to the Senate on a 122-31 vote, would heighten standards for Missouri abortion clinics by requiring physicians to have clinical privileges at a hospital within 30 miles from where they perform abortions in Missouri.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11101991.htm>
US: Abortion collides with bankruptcy in Senate
11 Hours,3 minutes Ago
[US News]: Schumer fails at effort to pass provision aimed at violent protesters
The ultimate values issue, abortion, collided Tuesday in the United States Senate with one of the ultimate money issues, bankruptcy.
On Tuesday the Senate voted 53-46 to reject a proposal, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y., that would have stopped violent protesters, whether at abortion clinics or any other lawful business or service, from using bankruptcy law to avoid paying court-ordered fines.
In this, the first battle over abortion in the new Congress, two Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, joined with 51 Republicans in voting to scuttle the Schumer amendment.
http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=144792
Kan. AG emerges as leading abortion foe
JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - Phill Kline added another L to his first name years ago so that people would not confuse him with another politician with the same name. But no one is likely to make that mistake anymore.
The Kansas attorney general has emerged as one of the nation's staunchest foes of abortion.
In the latest move in a career that has generated both loyalty and loathing, the conservative Republican is demanding two abortion clinics turn over the medical files of about 90 women and girls, saying he needs the material for an investigation into child rape and potentially illegal late-term abortions.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/11101630.htm
New Hampshire State House Rejects Abortion Information
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2005
Concord, NH (LifeNews.com) -- New Hampshire state legislators have rejected legislation that would have provided women considering abortions with information about abortion's risks and alternatives. The measure would also allow women to receive information depicting the development of their unborn children at the time of the abortion.
Opponents of the bill claimed it placed an undue burden on women by giving them 24 hours to take a look at the information given to them.
http://www.lifenews.com/state947.html
New Jersey Bill Would Force Pharmacists to Dispense Abortion Pill
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2005
Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Legislation in the state of New Jersey would force pharmacists there to dispense all drugs available at the pharmacy -- including drugs that act as abortion agents. The measure is backed by abortion advocates who say pharmacists should not be allowed to opt out of drugs that violate their moral beliefs.
http://www.lifenews.com/state946.html
House rejects 24-hour wait for women seeking abortion
Bill would require a 'reflection period'
By DANIEL BARRICK
Monitor staff
March 10. 2005 8:00AM
The House overwhelmingly rejected a bill yesterday that would have required women seeking abortions to wait 24 hours before having the procedure. The bill would have also required doctors to provide such women with facts on fetal development and a series of medically disputed information, such as claims of a link between abortions and increased risks of breast cancer.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050310/REPOSITORY/503100324/1001/NEWS01
Michigan Bill Would Require Ultrasound for Women Considering Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 9, 2005
Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- When women who visit a pregnancy center see an ultrasound image of their unborn child, more than 90 percent decide against an abortion. Michigan lawmakers are hoping the same thing will happen if women visiting abortion facilities are shown one.
State Rep. Dave Robertson, a Republican, sponsored legislation he says is similar to an Alabama law that requires abortion businesses to provide women with an opportunity to see the development of their unborn child through an ultrasound.
http://www.lifenews.com/state943.html
Abortion consent bill fails in House
By Chris Dornin
Special to the Herald
CONCORD - The House voted 133-77 to defeat a bill requiring the informed consent of a woman and a 24-hour waiting period before she could get an abortion.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/03102005/news/69037.htm
House denies 24-hour waiting period for abortion
By Colin Manning
N.H. Statehouse Writer
cmanning@fosters.com
CONCORD — Lawmakers plowed through dozens of bills on Wednesday, but the issues of abortion and audiotaping children on school buses received the most debate.
The House killed a bill which would have required women who seek an abortion to wait 24 hours as well as receive information regarding alternatives to the procedure first.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050310/NEWS0202/50310121
From Cambodia to Sudan: Breaking Down Wall of Apathy
By ELIE WIESEL
March 11, 2005
The international community had just learned the cruel truth about the large-scale massacres of innocent people by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The press had done its job: No one could say we didn't know about it.
I was invited by the International Rescue Committee as part of a delegation to go on site. We spent some time at the Thai border in an enormous refugee camp. One day during the journey, I needed to observe yahrzeit for my father. Where, I wondered, was I going to find nine men to recite the Kaddish? By some miracle, I was able to gather a minyan. I was not, however, the only one saying a prayer for the dead: A young Jewish doctor from Toulouse joined me and repeated it word for word.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=wiesel200503091025
The Washington Times
Bill Clinton on occassion has visited the Pandas at The National Zoo. What I am wondering, is it possible China has frozen sperm for insemination? Perhaps that method is out of the question with species Panda?
Pandas 'Out of Sync' In Attempts to Mate
Artificial Insemination Planned Today
By . Karlyn Barker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page B03
The National Zoo's giant pandas made several attempts to mate yesterday, even as animal care staff prepared to turn to artificial means to try to achieve a panda cub birth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25057-2005Mar10.html?sub=AR
Blogging Clicks With Colleges
Interactive Web Pages Changing Class Participation
By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page B01
First the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html
U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko
Secret Team Helped Find Dioxin Poisoning
By Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A01
A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html
U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko
Secret Team Helped Find Dioxin Poisoning
By Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A01
A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html
BUSH IS PREMATURE IN THE SEVERITY OF HIS ULTIMATUM. Bush fails in his International Agenda because he is 'Here and Now' and that is far too confrontation for effective communication. Israel has more insight into the Syrian issue and needs to be verbal regarding it's position in this situation.
U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko
Secret Team Helped Find Dioxin Poisoning
By Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A01
A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html
The Moscow Times
Cleric Is Picked as Rebel Leader
By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer Reuters
Anzor Maskhadov in Baku on Thursday
Little-known Chechen cleric Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev will take over as interim rebel leader after Aslan Maskhadov's death earlier this week, rebel envoy Akhmed Zakayev said Thursday. Analysts said, however, that the announcement was probably an attempt by radical warlord Shamil Basayev to buy time as he figures out his next move.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/001.html
Kremlin Mulls Ditching United Russia
By Francesca Mereu
Staff Writer
Worried about United Russia's falling popularity after its approval of controversial social reforms, senior Kremlin officials are planning to create a new party of power and ditch the Kremlin-controlled party ahead of the 2007 parliamentary elections, two sources familiar with the situation said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/002.html
'Stem Cell' Treatment Arrives, But at a Price
By Maria Danilova
The Associated Press
A nurse preparing to perform an injection at the Cellulait clinic, one of dozens of clinics and beauty salons in Moscow that claim to offer a range of "stem cell" treatments.
When Svetlana Galiyeva found a clinic offering to treat her multiple sclerosis with embryonic stem cells, she grabbed the opportunity. Five hundred and sixty thousand rubles ($20,000) later she is still in a wheelchair and desperate.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/003.html
Kozak Says Regions to Have New Powers
By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer
Presidential envoy Dmitry Kozak has proposed that regional leaders be given oversight of social and environmental issues, as well as some control over natural resources currently held by federal government bodies.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/011.html
The Night Shift
Raisa Belousova met assorted freaks and criminals while driving her taxi -- and turned the discussions into a book.
By Anna Malpas
Published: March 11, 2005
Picking up passengers on Moscow's streets night after night, Raisa Belousova wasn't just earning money. She was gathering material. From prostitutes to hired killers to government officials, the people who hailed her gypsy cab told her stories that she has now turned into an anecdote-filled book titled "The Night Taxi Driver" (Nochnaya Taksistka).
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/101.html
For City, Spring Is on Hold
The Moscow Times
A man clearing snow off a sidewalk near the Aeroport metro station Thursday.
This spring had a much frostier start than usual, and snow will not begin melting before the end of next week, Moscow's weather bureau said Thursday.
Daytime air temperatures are on average 3.6 degrees Celsius lower than the standard for this time of year -- a new record, the bureau said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/012.html
The Chicago Tribune
Did Ross know Hail? Did they meet in a court waiting room? Is this a sympathy killing for Hale? Or was this man so desperate to make a statement about his life this was the chosen way to it?
Decade of despair boiled over to paranoia
By Hal Dardick and Carlos Sadovi
Tribune staff reporters.
Published March 11, 2005
Bart Ross spent nearly a decade waiting to be heard, living with a face disfigured by cancer surgery, in constant pain, sinking deeper and deeper into a state of paranoia and growing ever more convinced the medical and judicial systems were out to get him.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110282mar11,1,1068984.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
No. The Hale Supporters are wrong. It was reasonable speculation. Hale is a nasty man. What was Hale doing calling the judges home? The entire White Supremist Movement is a blight on this country. No way. No apologies. Live good lives and stay out of prison, integrate and people won't think about them in this way. No way.
Hale's parents relieved; his backers seek apology
By Ray Long and Brett McNeil
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 11, 2005
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- White supremacist Matthew Hale's parents on Thursday expressed a mixture of relief and anger about news that a disgruntled Chicago man with no apparent ties to their son has been identified as the likely killer of a federal judge's husband and mother.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110238mar11,1,1134521.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
Illinois cuts testing on 1 of 3 R's
ISAT drops writing, plus social studies
By Diane Rado
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 11, 2005
For the first time in more than a decade, Illinois students no longer have to take substantive writing exams or tests measuring their knowledge of fundamental principles of U.S. government and history--the result of some of the most severe state testing cutbacks in the nation.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110251mar11,1,7299501.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true
Obama slams Bush for linking accounts to blacks' life span
Social Security pitch `stunning,' he says
By Jeff Zeleny, Washington Bureau. Tribune news services contributed to this report
Published March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday called President Bush's suggestion that African-Americans could reap greater rewards from overhauling Social Security a "stunning" argument that ignored the true health issues facing blacks in this country.
As the president launched a two-day tour through the South to build support for his controversial plan to revamp Social Security, Democrats challenged a White House assertion that blacks would particularly gain from Bush's proposed private retirement accounts because they have fewer years to collect benefits considering they die younger.
"It is puzzling to me that we are even having this debate about whether Social Security is good or not for African-Americans," said Obama, an Illinois Democrat. "I frankly found the statement that the president made somewhat offensive."
While Bush argued his case that the future of the Social Security program was in peril without substantial changes like creating private investment accounts, Senate Democratic leaders tapped Obama to rebut the argument about overhauling Social Security.
Before the president arrived in Montgomery, Ala., Obama, the only black member of the Senate, conducted satellite interviews there from Washington.
"There is no doubt a disparity in the lifetime opportunities between white America and black America," Obama said. "The notion that we would cynically use those disparities as a rationale for dismantling Social Security as opposed to talking about how are we going to close the health disparities gap that exists, and make sure that African-American life expectancy is as long as the rest of this nation ... is stunning to me."
The administration and conservative scholars have quietly suggested that blacks may be more inclined to support the Social Security changes because, on average, whites live to age 78 and blacks to 72. So blacks, after contributing to Social Security their whole lives, are more likely to die before collecting their fair share.
"African-American males die sooner than other males do, which means the system is inherently unfair to a certain group of people," Bush said this year at a forum on Social Security. "And that needs to be fixed."
The president campaigned in Louisville and Montgomery to try to ease anxiety among retirees and give political cover to Republican lawmakers facing voters in midterm elections. Bush did not use the African-American argument in either stop on Thursday.
Bush repeatedly has reassured those age 55 and over that the Social Security checks they receive, or look forward to getting, won't be touched.
Still, seniors--a group that votes in greater numbers than the nation's youth--are wary about what will happen to the 70-year-old government retirement system if lawmakers tinker with it.
Facing an uphill battle to enact changes, Republicans in Congress recently have begun to emphasize the solvency problems of Social Security over the controversial private retirement accounts.
On his road trip, Bush did too. But while he is focusing on solvency, the president is not letting up on his push for private accounts.
"I'm saying to members of the United States Congress, `Let's fix this system permanently--no Band-Aids,'" Bush said in Montgomery. "Woe be to the politician who doesn't come to the table and try to come up with a solution."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110180mar11,1,7758254.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The New Zealand Herald
Spain marks train bombings with bells and tributes
A commuter train speeds by candles and flowers placed near a Madrid railway station. Picture / Reuters
11.03.05 10.35pm
By Elisabeth O'Leary
MADRID - Spain solemnly commemorated the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings today with church bells and silent tributes to the 191 people who died in al Qaeda's worst attack in Europe.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114901
Tourist drowns in kayaking accident
11.03.05 8.50pm
A tourist has died after his kayak capsized at Lake Te Anau in Fiordland.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10114866
Surplus grows and grows
Michael Cullen
11.03.05 11.00am
The latest crown accounts today confirmed the Government's surplus continues to exceed expectations, swelling to $5.27 billion just seven months into the financial year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10114779
Britain to free terror detainees, Blair bill deadlocked
11.03.05 1.00pm
LONDON - A British judge said today he would free all terrorism suspects held under emergency post-Sept. 11 powers, even as Prime Minister Tony Blair battled to replace the laws before they expire next week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114802
The New Zealanders have upheld their veteran's claims regarding not only Agent Orange but also the other chemical exposure of the military. This is incomprehensible a nation like the USA allows rejection of a service man or woman's claim. It is an outrage. The documentation of this chemical from the Vietnam era is more than substantiated.
Federal judge dismisses Agent Orange case in New York
11.03.05 1.00pm
NEW YORK - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused chemical companies of committing war crimes by supplying the US military with Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, saying they did not violate US or international law.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114781
Kosovo leader Haradinaj charged with murder, rape
Ramush Haradinaj
11.03.05 1.00pm
AMSTERDAM - Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj faces charges of murder, rape and the deportation of Serb civilians from his time as a leader of ethnic Albanian rebels, the UN tribunal said today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114777
On our Treasury Money. So mush for Drip Trickle.
Forbes list shows the rich get richer
11.03.05 1.00pm
By Rupert Cornwell
WASHINGTON - The rich, they say, just get richer - and the new list of the world's near-700 billionaires compiled by the financial magazine Forbes indicates the old adage is truer than ever.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114765
Homes Of The Billionaires 2005
http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/10/cx_sc_bill05_0310home.html?partner=lifestyle_newsletter
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
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Updated Saturday 12 Mar 2:59AM
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/tools/weather/international.cfm?intlareaID=10
Global Warming/Climate Change
Global climate change campaign hits the city streets
Catherine Brahic
08-03-2005 / 2 March 2005 / The British Council announced the launch yesterday (1 March) of a global campaign to raise public awareness of climate change. The campaign will focus on cities — their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and practical ways they can reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change.
http://www.newbrainframes.org/journal/art.php?dis_id=1567
Overfishing and climate change are biggest threats to UK marine life (published on 4-Mar-2005)
Fishing and climate change have been identified as the biggest threats to marine life in a new report published this week.
Charting Progress - an integrated assessment of the state of UK seas found that, while much of the open sea is not affected by pollution from monitored contaminants, in some areas fishing, diffuse pollution and the invasion of non-native species is having an effect. Rising sea temperatures and increased acidification caused by climate change are compounding these problems.
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=9619&channel=0
NPA calls for improvements to climate change scheme
UK - NPA has called for a top-to-bottom overhaul of the climate change scheme for pig producers.
NPA is active on members' behalf in Brussels & Whitehall, and with processors, supermarkets & caterers - fighting for the growth and pros-perity of the UK pig industry.
It deplores the way Milestone One carbon allowances were retired, even though pig producers in the scheme had passed their Milestone One target. And it condemns government for inadequate management and communication of the scheme, which has disincentivised producers from increasing their efforts to save energy.
http://www.thepigsite.com/LatestNews/Default.asp?AREA=LatestNews&Display=9046
More Councils fighting Climate Change
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:39 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
9 March 2005
More Councils fighting Climate Change
Increasing numbers of City, Regional and District Councils are signing up to a programme that should help them protect our environment at the same time as delivering efficiency and financial gains from taking action on climate change.
The Communities for Climate Protection programme helps councils audit their energy use, transport provisions and waste management arrangements. It then helps them draw up and implement a plan to improve efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00190.htm
ENVIRONMENT:
Climate Change Dealt a New Wild Card
Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Mar 8 (IPS) - New Canadian research shows that forest fires are becoming larger and more intense due to the effects of climate change and are adding enormous amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Fires in the northern hemisphere's boreal forest and peatlands are of particular concern because the region holds 40 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon. That's almost twice the amount in the world's tropical forests.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27778
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D r. Robert Kates' attack (BDN, March 8) on proposed legislation to require that the benefits and costs of regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions be clearly stated is a sign that the battle for an
honest, prudent and bipartisan climate change
policy is at least under way.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=110249&z=35
Nobel Prize winner warns severe global climate change
www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-10 13:30:13
BANGKOK, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A visiting Nobel Prize winner has warned people of the increasing severity of global climate change and called on governments to reinforce the efforts to cut fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emission.
The earth is still under grave threat of global warning caused by intensified fossil fuel use although the chlorofluoro carbons level in atmosphere had been dropping for the past 30 years, MarioJ. Molina, Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry was quoted by BangkokPost newspaper as saying here on Thursday.
Mario won the prestigious prize in 1995 for the development of "CFC-ozone depletion theory," which found that continued release of CFCs into the atmosphere could lead to significant depletion ofozone layer, which shields the earth's surface from the damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
He said the best way to cope with global warning is a shift of energy sources from fossil fuels to renewable energy, installationof carbon-capture technology in coal-fired power plants and development of energy-saving transport system.
Fossil fuel and greenhouse gases are two main causes of global warming.
Mario urged industrialized countries to work closely with developing countries in transferring energy-efficiency and greenhouse gas-capture technologies.
He also called on the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters such as the United States to commit themselves to cut their emission to help protect atmosphere. Enditem
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/10/content_2677895.htm
Climate change forum
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Clean Water Action, Clean Power Now and Cape Clean Air are sponsoring a public forum entitled "Climate Change, What it Means for Massachusetts and What is Being Done About It," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at St. Mary's Church in Barnstable.
The panelists are John Anderson of the New England Aquarium, Dr. Richard Clapp of the Boston University School of Public Health, and David Cash of the Massachusetts Executive Office for Environmental Affairs.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jed Thorpe at Clean Water Action 617-338-8131 or Matt Palmer at Clean Power Now 508- 775-7796.
http://www2.townonline.com/barnstable/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=200663
Oh. Wait. People have gone to divinity school and knows there is a limit to how ON YOUR SIDE God actually is? Amazing. People who believe in STEWARDSHIP. Well, I'll be.
Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort to Combat Global Warming
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: March 10, 2005
A core group of influential evangelical leaders has put its considerable political power behind a cause that has barely registered on the evangelical agenda, fighting global warming.
These church leaders, scientists, writers and heads of international aid agencies argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian issue because the Bible mandates stewardship of God's creation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/national/10evangelical.html?ex=1111122000&en=9320be60ebb6e427&ei=5070
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
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Russia will not sell arms to Pak: Defence Minister
Press Trust of India
Moscow,
March 11, 2005
Russia has made it clear that it has not supplied arms to Pakistan in the past and will not do so in the future.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1275678,0005.htm
Two rapes, four murders every hour in India
Murali Krishnan (IANS)
New Delhi,
How crime prone is India? Every hour, 25 violent crimes take place in the country while 59 housewives commit suicide every day.
And two accidental deaths occur every two minutes across this vast country of a billion people.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1275401,0000.htm
Unwanted Pregnancy
Judge Recommends Pharmacist Be Reprimanded for Withholding Birth Control
A judge has ruled that a pharmacist who refused to fill a woman's prescription for birth control on religious grounds should be reprimanded. In July 2002, Neil Noesen, a pharmacist at Kmart, refused to fill a University of Wisconsin student’s oral contraceptive prescription, arguing that it would be a sin under his religion, reports Medical News Today. The patient missed a day of her prescription when Noesen, a Roman Catholic, also refused to transfer the prescription to another pharmacy, reports the Capital Times. Noesen testified that he believes birth control to be "intrinsically evil," and argued that his faith leads him to believe filling such prescriptions would lead to his own personal suffering, according to the Dunn County News.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8937
After baby - A look at birth control options
Betsy Gartrell-Judd
After nine months or more of thinking of little but pregnancy, your new baby is born. You may be surprised to find that pregnancy is suddenly the furthest thing from your mind. But even while you honeymoon as a newly expanded family, you need to make some important decisions about when you might get pregnant again, if ever.
Knowing what's available
While there are many contraceptives available -- with yet more in development, such as the male birth control pill -- most of the current ones are not 100 percent effective, and all of them have both advantages and drawbacks. In the accompanying table, we've offered a comparison of the most popular methods to assist you in your research and decision-making.
http://pregnancyandbaby.com/read/articles/1015.htm
US bankruptcy overhaul clears abortion vote hurdle
Tue Mar 8, 2005 01:20 PM ET
WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - An overhaul of U.S. bankruptcy laws survived a major threat on Tuesday as the Senate rejected an abortion-related amendment that had doomed the legislation in the last Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=7841995
Summary Box: GOP wins first abortion test
Associated Press
THE NEWS: In the first abortion-related test of the new Congress, the Senate rejected a Democratic effort to bar anti-abortion protesters from using bankruptcy to avoid payment of court judgment.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/11083556.htm
NO DOUBT RU-486 needs to be reviewed by the NEW Drug Task Force that turned COX2 back on the market.
`Holly's Law' reintroduced to halt FDA approval of abortion pill
BY BONITA BREWER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - (KRT) - The controversial RU-486 abortion pill, which 18-year-old Holly Patterson of Livermore, Calif., took a week before dying of a massive infection in September 2003, would be at least temporarily pulled from U.S. markets under federal legislation reintroduced last week.
Republican lawmakers have reintroduced "Holly's Law," which would suspend Food and Drug Administration approval of RU-486 until the federal Government Accountability Office scrutinizes the process by which the drug came to U.S. markets in 2000.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11076398.htm
Rights commission's call for abortion law to be ignored
Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent
The Government plans to ignore a key recommendation of the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) concerning abortion legislation.
In its submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination, published yesterday on the eve of International Women's Day, the IHRC recommended "that the Government should introduce legislation to define the circumstances in which abortion can currently be legally carried out in Ireland".
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0308/3818828085HM1ABORTION.html
MY VIEW: KLINE CORRECT IN SEEKING ABORTION CLINIC RECORDS
BY CHERYL SULLENGER
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline requested about 90 medical records from two abortion clinics, including those of underage girls who had abortions beyond 22 weeks' gestation. Kline said that he is investigating the matter in order to capture and prosecute sexual predators who may be victimizing young girls. In fact, he is duty sworn to do this.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/editorial/11075159.htm
Carlson moves to center on abortion
By David Kranz
dkranz@argusleader.com
published: 03/8/05
During the 2004 political campaigns, abortion became a central theme for sermons by some Catholic priests in the Sioux Falls Diocese as they discussed what their congregation’s responsibility should be as they voted.
Some heard the stern warning: Under no circumstances could anyone vote for a pro-choice candidate. Penalty for the violation would be a mortal sin.
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050308/COLUMNISTS02/50308002/1001/NEWS
Arkansas parental consent abortion law signed
Little Rock, Arkansas, Mar. 08 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee signed a new law into effect last Thursday that requires parental consent for girls under 18 years of age before having an abortion.
Pasted from <http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=35735>
Wise choices in pregnancy
Women don't need reproductive propaganda from state
Last update: March 03, 2005
Abortion can be a heart-wrenching decision. It is rarely made lightly. Women facing unwanted pregnancies should know that they have other choices, and be offered support to make the right decision.
But the state should not be spending money specifically to dissuade women from abortion -- especially if leaders choose a campaign that incorporates misinformation and ignores the best and most effective ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN13030305.htm
Don't fund abortion propaganda
• The state of Florida should not use taxpayer money to support organizations that try to persuade women not to get abortions. The state should work to ensure that women get professional counseling on all their legal choices, not propaganda.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050308/OPINION/503080375/1015
Adoption vs. abortion
State should provide whole story
Imagine a student at a public high school who goes to a guidance counselor seeking advice about her future. Should she attend a university? Try community college first? Join the military? Opt for technological training, or jump into the working world right after graduation?
If the guidance counselor does justice to the student's inquiry, he will provide information about the pros and cons of each option - possibly providing advice, but sending the clear message that the decision belongs to the student and her family.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/11033324.htm
Bush plan proposes abortion counseling
Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings is promoting the program, which is modeled after one in Pennsylvania.
By STEVE BOUSQUET, Times Staff Writer
Published March 1, 2005
TALLAHASSEE - Seeking to reduce abortions in Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush wants to spend $4-million in tax money to counsel pregnant women and promote alternatives, such as adoption.
The proposal was unveiled Monday by Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings, the most visible woman in the Bush administration and a likely candidate for governor in a 2006 Republican contest in which abortion could play a big role.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/01/State/Bush_plan_proposes_ab.shtml
THIS IS VIOLATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. IT IS INVASION OF A WOMAN'S PRIVACY. The government wants to deny funding for clinics but not entrapment motivations into pregnancy. Reverend Jeb Bush is overstepping his boundaries again. This is a decision between a woman and he doctor. $4 million is nothing to the cost of this program unless it is being limited to a selected population if they are going to be finding housing, clothing and the like.This is a give away program to churches. Some congregations already have housing projects for the elderly. Those same housing projects could be turned into parenting centers and a trap for women for the rest of their child bearing years with an adoption center on the grounds when the women are ready to give up their babies. This could literally become a self supporting maternal money making franchise for any church that is willing to turn a profit. All they have to do is recruit pregnant women, give them dorm housing until they are ready to deliver or sign the papers which ever comes first or last and then send them on their way to do it all over again. This is not a healthy way of handling issues of abortion decisions.
The organizations -- which would receive state grants and could include religious organizations -- would provide services for pregnant women, including helping to find shelter, maternity clothing and infant supplies and providing information about adoption. The program also would provide pregnancy support services, state-funded individual counseling for women up to one year after giving birth and parental skill development classes. In addition, the program would promote abstinence as the best way to prevent unplanned pregnancies (Kerr, Florida Times-Union, 3/1). Program funding, which Bush included in his proposed 2005 budget, must be approved by the state Legislature, which reconvenes next week. Jennings -- who was joined by several Republican lawmakers and leaders of Florida Right to Life, the Florida Catholic Conference, Interfaith of Northeast Florida and the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville -- said, "We must create as many avenues as possible for pregnant women to be informed of their options other than abortion because we know that these decisions have a profound impact on their families and our community as a whole" (Mussenden, Orlando Sentinel, 3/1). The Florida program is modeled after a similar Pennsylvania program, known as Real Alternatives (St. Petersburg Times, 3/1).
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=28409
Calls for cultural training for foreign doctors
By PM's Matt Henger
There are calls for better medical and cultural training for foreign doctors coming in to Australia to reduce the problem of unwanted teenage pregnancies.
As Australia struggles to fill doctor vacancies in regional and rural areas, there has been a concerted effort in recent years to attract overseas GPs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/indepth/featureitems/s1320410.htm
Campus groups divided over free condoms
By Keith Joseph Zukas/The Daily Cardinal
Today sex is everywhere, and with it follow methods of disease protection and birth control. Turning on the television, one can "Talk Sex" with an old, but perky, Sue Johanson. Walk into a local store and one might find a bowl of free condoms on the counter. On the radio are depressing advertisements from girls who unwisely relied on the pull-out method.
http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/2005/03/10/News/Campus.Groups.Divided.Over.Free.Condoms-890835.shtml
House approves tighter restrictions on abortion clinics
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The House passed legislation Thursday that would tighten restrictions on abortion clinics despite the objections of some who contend it could force some clinics to close.
The abortion bill, sent to the Senate on a 122-31 vote, would heighten standards for Missouri abortion clinics by requiring physicians to have clinical privileges at a hospital within 30 miles from where they perform abortions in Missouri.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11101991.htm>
US: Abortion collides with bankruptcy in Senate
11 Hours,3 minutes Ago
[US News]: Schumer fails at effort to pass provision aimed at violent protesters
The ultimate values issue, abortion, collided Tuesday in the United States Senate with one of the ultimate money issues, bankruptcy.
On Tuesday the Senate voted 53-46 to reject a proposal, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y., that would have stopped violent protesters, whether at abortion clinics or any other lawful business or service, from using bankruptcy law to avoid paying court-ordered fines.
In this, the first battle over abortion in the new Congress, two Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, joined with 51 Republicans in voting to scuttle the Schumer amendment.
http://www.keralanext.com/news/indexread.asp?id=144792
Kan. AG emerges as leading abortion foe
JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - Phill Kline added another L to his first name years ago so that people would not confuse him with another politician with the same name. But no one is likely to make that mistake anymore.
The Kansas attorney general has emerged as one of the nation's staunchest foes of abortion.
In the latest move in a career that has generated both loyalty and loathing, the conservative Republican is demanding two abortion clinics turn over the medical files of about 90 women and girls, saying he needs the material for an investigation into child rape and potentially illegal late-term abortions.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/11101630.htm
New Hampshire State House Rejects Abortion Information
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2005
Concord, NH (LifeNews.com) -- New Hampshire state legislators have rejected legislation that would have provided women considering abortions with information about abortion's risks and alternatives. The measure would also allow women to receive information depicting the development of their unborn children at the time of the abortion.
Opponents of the bill claimed it placed an undue burden on women by giving them 24 hours to take a look at the information given to them.
http://www.lifenews.com/state947.html
New Jersey Bill Would Force Pharmacists to Dispense Abortion Pill
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2005
Trenton, NJ (LifeNews.com) -- Legislation in the state of New Jersey would force pharmacists there to dispense all drugs available at the pharmacy -- including drugs that act as abortion agents. The measure is backed by abortion advocates who say pharmacists should not be allowed to opt out of drugs that violate their moral beliefs.
http://www.lifenews.com/state946.html
House rejects 24-hour wait for women seeking abortion
Bill would require a 'reflection period'
By DANIEL BARRICK
Monitor staff
March 10. 2005 8:00AM
The House overwhelmingly rejected a bill yesterday that would have required women seeking abortions to wait 24 hours before having the procedure. The bill would have also required doctors to provide such women with facts on fetal development and a series of medically disputed information, such as claims of a link between abortions and increased risks of breast cancer.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050310/REPOSITORY/503100324/1001/NEWS01
Michigan Bill Would Require Ultrasound for Women Considering Abortion
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 9, 2005
Lansing, MI (LifeNews.com) -- When women who visit a pregnancy center see an ultrasound image of their unborn child, more than 90 percent decide against an abortion. Michigan lawmakers are hoping the same thing will happen if women visiting abortion facilities are shown one.
State Rep. Dave Robertson, a Republican, sponsored legislation he says is similar to an Alabama law that requires abortion businesses to provide women with an opportunity to see the development of their unborn child through an ultrasound.
http://www.lifenews.com/state943.html
Abortion consent bill fails in House
By Chris Dornin
Special to the Herald
CONCORD - The House voted 133-77 to defeat a bill requiring the informed consent of a woman and a 24-hour waiting period before she could get an abortion.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/03102005/news/69037.htm
House denies 24-hour waiting period for abortion
By Colin Manning
N.H. Statehouse Writer
cmanning@fosters.com
CONCORD — Lawmakers plowed through dozens of bills on Wednesday, but the issues of abortion and audiotaping children on school buses received the most debate.
The House killed a bill which would have required women who seek an abortion to wait 24 hours as well as receive information regarding alternatives to the procedure first.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050310/NEWS0202/50310121
From Cambodia to Sudan: Breaking Down Wall of Apathy
By ELIE WIESEL
March 11, 2005
The international community had just learned the cruel truth about the large-scale massacres of innocent people by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The press had done its job: No one could say we didn't know about it.
I was invited by the International Rescue Committee as part of a delegation to go on site. We spent some time at the Thai border in an enormous refugee camp. One day during the journey, I needed to observe yahrzeit for my father. Where, I wondered, was I going to find nine men to recite the Kaddish? By some miracle, I was able to gather a minyan. I was not, however, the only one saying a prayer for the dead: A young Jewish doctor from Toulouse joined me and repeated it word for word.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=wiesel200503091025
The Washington Times
Bill Clinton on occassion has visited the Pandas at The National Zoo. What I am wondering, is it possible China has frozen sperm for insemination? Perhaps that method is out of the question with species Panda?
Pandas 'Out of Sync' In Attempts to Mate
Artificial Insemination Planned Today
By . Karlyn Barker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page B03
The National Zoo's giant pandas made several attempts to mate yesterday, even as animal care staff prepared to turn to artificial means to try to achieve a panda cub birth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25057-2005Mar10.html?sub=AR
Blogging Clicks With Colleges
Interactive Web Pages Changing Class Participation
By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page B01
First the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html
U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko
Secret Team Helped Find Dioxin Poisoning
By Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A01
A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html
U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko
Secret Team Helped Find Dioxin Poisoning
By Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A01
A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html
BUSH IS PREMATURE IN THE SEVERITY OF HIS ULTIMATUM. Bush fails in his International Agenda because he is 'Here and Now' and that is far too confrontation for effective communication. Israel has more insight into the Syrian issue and needs to be verbal regarding it's position in this situation.
U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko
Secret Team Helped Find Dioxin Poisoning
By Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 11, 2005; Page A01
A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html
The Moscow Times
Cleric Is Picked as Rebel Leader
By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer Reuters
Anzor Maskhadov in Baku on Thursday
Little-known Chechen cleric Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev will take over as interim rebel leader after Aslan Maskhadov's death earlier this week, rebel envoy Akhmed Zakayev said Thursday. Analysts said, however, that the announcement was probably an attempt by radical warlord Shamil Basayev to buy time as he figures out his next move.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/001.html
Kremlin Mulls Ditching United Russia
By Francesca Mereu
Staff Writer
Worried about United Russia's falling popularity after its approval of controversial social reforms, senior Kremlin officials are planning to create a new party of power and ditch the Kremlin-controlled party ahead of the 2007 parliamentary elections, two sources familiar with the situation said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/002.html
'Stem Cell' Treatment Arrives, But at a Price
By Maria Danilova
The Associated Press
A nurse preparing to perform an injection at the Cellulait clinic, one of dozens of clinics and beauty salons in Moscow that claim to offer a range of "stem cell" treatments.
When Svetlana Galiyeva found a clinic offering to treat her multiple sclerosis with embryonic stem cells, she grabbed the opportunity. Five hundred and sixty thousand rubles ($20,000) later she is still in a wheelchair and desperate.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/003.html
Kozak Says Regions to Have New Powers
By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer
Presidential envoy Dmitry Kozak has proposed that regional leaders be given oversight of social and environmental issues, as well as some control over natural resources currently held by federal government bodies.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/011.html
The Night Shift
Raisa Belousova met assorted freaks and criminals while driving her taxi -- and turned the discussions into a book.
By Anna Malpas
Published: March 11, 2005
Picking up passengers on Moscow's streets night after night, Raisa Belousova wasn't just earning money. She was gathering material. From prostitutes to hired killers to government officials, the people who hailed her gypsy cab told her stories that she has now turned into an anecdote-filled book titled "The Night Taxi Driver" (Nochnaya Taksistka).
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/101.html
For City, Spring Is on Hold
The Moscow Times
A man clearing snow off a sidewalk near the Aeroport metro station Thursday.
This spring had a much frostier start than usual, and snow will not begin melting before the end of next week, Moscow's weather bureau said Thursday.
Daytime air temperatures are on average 3.6 degrees Celsius lower than the standard for this time of year -- a new record, the bureau said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/03/11/012.html
The Chicago Tribune
Did Ross know Hail? Did they meet in a court waiting room? Is this a sympathy killing for Hale? Or was this man so desperate to make a statement about his life this was the chosen way to it?
Decade of despair boiled over to paranoia
By Hal Dardick and Carlos Sadovi
Tribune staff reporters.
Published March 11, 2005
Bart Ross spent nearly a decade waiting to be heard, living with a face disfigured by cancer surgery, in constant pain, sinking deeper and deeper into a state of paranoia and growing ever more convinced the medical and judicial systems were out to get him.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110282mar11,1,1068984.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
No. The Hale Supporters are wrong. It was reasonable speculation. Hale is a nasty man. What was Hale doing calling the judges home? The entire White Supremist Movement is a blight on this country. No way. No apologies. Live good lives and stay out of prison, integrate and people won't think about them in this way. No way.
Hale's parents relieved; his backers seek apology
By Ray Long and Brett McNeil
Tribune staff reporters
Published March 11, 2005
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- White supremacist Matthew Hale's parents on Thursday expressed a mixture of relief and anger about news that a disgruntled Chicago man with no apparent ties to their son has been identified as the likely killer of a federal judge's husband and mother.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110238mar11,1,1134521.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
Illinois cuts testing on 1 of 3 R's
ISAT drops writing, plus social studies
By Diane Rado
Tribune staff reporter
Published March 11, 2005
For the first time in more than a decade, Illinois students no longer have to take substantive writing exams or tests measuring their knowledge of fundamental principles of U.S. government and history--the result of some of the most severe state testing cutbacks in the nation.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110251mar11,1,7299501.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true
Obama slams Bush for linking accounts to blacks' life span
Social Security pitch `stunning,' he says
By Jeff Zeleny, Washington Bureau. Tribune news services contributed to this report
Published March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday called President Bush's suggestion that African-Americans could reap greater rewards from overhauling Social Security a "stunning" argument that ignored the true health issues facing blacks in this country.
As the president launched a two-day tour through the South to build support for his controversial plan to revamp Social Security, Democrats challenged a White House assertion that blacks would particularly gain from Bush's proposed private retirement accounts because they have fewer years to collect benefits considering they die younger.
"It is puzzling to me that we are even having this debate about whether Social Security is good or not for African-Americans," said Obama, an Illinois Democrat. "I frankly found the statement that the president made somewhat offensive."
While Bush argued his case that the future of the Social Security program was in peril without substantial changes like creating private investment accounts, Senate Democratic leaders tapped Obama to rebut the argument about overhauling Social Security.
Before the president arrived in Montgomery, Ala., Obama, the only black member of the Senate, conducted satellite interviews there from Washington.
"There is no doubt a disparity in the lifetime opportunities between white America and black America," Obama said. "The notion that we would cynically use those disparities as a rationale for dismantling Social Security as opposed to talking about how are we going to close the health disparities gap that exists, and make sure that African-American life expectancy is as long as the rest of this nation ... is stunning to me."
The administration and conservative scholars have quietly suggested that blacks may be more inclined to support the Social Security changes because, on average, whites live to age 78 and blacks to 72. So blacks, after contributing to Social Security their whole lives, are more likely to die before collecting their fair share.
"African-American males die sooner than other males do, which means the system is inherently unfair to a certain group of people," Bush said this year at a forum on Social Security. "And that needs to be fixed."
The president campaigned in Louisville and Montgomery to try to ease anxiety among retirees and give political cover to Republican lawmakers facing voters in midterm elections. Bush did not use the African-American argument in either stop on Thursday.
Bush repeatedly has reassured those age 55 and over that the Social Security checks they receive, or look forward to getting, won't be touched.
Still, seniors--a group that votes in greater numbers than the nation's youth--are wary about what will happen to the 70-year-old government retirement system if lawmakers tinker with it.
Facing an uphill battle to enact changes, Republicans in Congress recently have begun to emphasize the solvency problems of Social Security over the controversial private retirement accounts.
On his road trip, Bush did too. But while he is focusing on solvency, the president is not letting up on his push for private accounts.
"I'm saying to members of the United States Congress, `Let's fix this system permanently--no Band-Aids,'" Bush said in Montgomery. "Woe be to the politician who doesn't come to the table and try to come up with a solution."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0503110180mar11,1,7758254.story?coll=chi-news-hed
The New Zealand Herald
Spain marks train bombings with bells and tributes
A commuter train speeds by candles and flowers placed near a Madrid railway station. Picture / Reuters
11.03.05 10.35pm
By Elisabeth O'Leary
MADRID - Spain solemnly commemorated the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings today with church bells and silent tributes to the 191 people who died in al Qaeda's worst attack in Europe.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114901
Tourist drowns in kayaking accident
11.03.05 8.50pm
A tourist has died after his kayak capsized at Lake Te Anau in Fiordland.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10114866
Surplus grows and grows
Michael Cullen
11.03.05 11.00am
The latest crown accounts today confirmed the Government's surplus continues to exceed expectations, swelling to $5.27 billion just seven months into the financial year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10114779
Britain to free terror detainees, Blair bill deadlocked
11.03.05 1.00pm
LONDON - A British judge said today he would free all terrorism suspects held under emergency post-Sept. 11 powers, even as Prime Minister Tony Blair battled to replace the laws before they expire next week.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114802
The New Zealanders have upheld their veteran's claims regarding not only Agent Orange but also the other chemical exposure of the military. This is incomprehensible a nation like the USA allows rejection of a service man or woman's claim. It is an outrage. The documentation of this chemical from the Vietnam era is more than substantiated.
Federal judge dismisses Agent Orange case in New York
11.03.05 1.00pm
NEW YORK - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused chemical companies of committing war crimes by supplying the US military with Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, saying they did not violate US or international law.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114781
Kosovo leader Haradinaj charged with murder, rape
Ramush Haradinaj
11.03.05 1.00pm
AMSTERDAM - Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj faces charges of murder, rape and the deportation of Serb civilians from his time as a leader of ethnic Albanian rebels, the UN tribunal said today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114777
On our Treasury Money. So mush for Drip Trickle.
Forbes list shows the rich get richer
11.03.05 1.00pm
By Rupert Cornwell
WASHINGTON - The rich, they say, just get richer - and the new list of the world's near-700 billionaires compiled by the financial magazine Forbes indicates the old adage is truer than ever.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10114765
Homes Of The Billionaires 2005
http://www.forbes.com/2005/03/10/cx_sc_bill05_0310home.html?partner=lifestyle_newsletter
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Some cloud
-18.0°
Updated Saturday 12 Mar 2:59AM
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/tools/weather/international.cfm?intlareaID=10
Global Warming/Climate Change
Global climate change campaign hits the city streets
Catherine Brahic
08-03-2005 / 2 March 2005 / The British Council announced the launch yesterday (1 March) of a global campaign to raise public awareness of climate change. The campaign will focus on cities — their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and practical ways they can reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of climate change.
http://www.newbrainframes.org/journal/art.php?dis_id=1567
Overfishing and climate change are biggest threats to UK marine life (published on 4-Mar-2005)
Fishing and climate change have been identified as the biggest threats to marine life in a new report published this week.
Charting Progress - an integrated assessment of the state of UK seas found that, while much of the open sea is not affected by pollution from monitored contaminants, in some areas fishing, diffuse pollution and the invasion of non-native species is having an effect. Rising sea temperatures and increased acidification caused by climate change are compounding these problems.
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=9619&channel=0
NPA calls for improvements to climate change scheme
UK - NPA has called for a top-to-bottom overhaul of the climate change scheme for pig producers.
NPA is active on members' behalf in Brussels & Whitehall, and with processors, supermarkets & caterers - fighting for the growth and pros-perity of the UK pig industry.
It deplores the way Milestone One carbon allowances were retired, even though pig producers in the scheme had passed their Milestone One target. And it condemns government for inadequate management and communication of the scheme, which has disincentivised producers from increasing their efforts to save energy.
http://www.thepigsite.com/LatestNews/Default.asp?AREA=LatestNews&Display=9046
More Councils fighting Climate Change
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:39 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government
9 March 2005
More Councils fighting Climate Change
Increasing numbers of City, Regional and District Councils are signing up to a programme that should help them protect our environment at the same time as delivering efficiency and financial gains from taking action on climate change.
The Communities for Climate Protection programme helps councils audit their energy use, transport provisions and waste management arrangements. It then helps them draw up and implement a plan to improve efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0503/S00190.htm
ENVIRONMENT:
Climate Change Dealt a New Wild Card
Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, Mar 8 (IPS) - New Canadian research shows that forest fires are becoming larger and more intense due to the effects of climate change and are adding enormous amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Fires in the northern hemisphere's boreal forest and peatlands are of particular concern because the region holds 40 percent of the planet's terrestrial carbon. That's almost twice the amount in the world's tropical forests.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27778
Searching for sustainable climate change policy
Thursday, March 10, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
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D r. Robert Kates' attack (BDN, March 8) on proposed legislation to require that the benefits and costs of regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions be clearly stated is a sign that the battle for an
honest, prudent and bipartisan climate change
policy is at least under way.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=110249&z=35
Nobel Prize winner warns severe global climate change
www.chinaview.cn 2005-03-10 13:30:13
BANGKOK, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A visiting Nobel Prize winner has warned people of the increasing severity of global climate change and called on governments to reinforce the efforts to cut fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emission.
The earth is still under grave threat of global warning caused by intensified fossil fuel use although the chlorofluoro carbons level in atmosphere had been dropping for the past 30 years, MarioJ. Molina, Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry was quoted by BangkokPost newspaper as saying here on Thursday.
Mario won the prestigious prize in 1995 for the development of "CFC-ozone depletion theory," which found that continued release of CFCs into the atmosphere could lead to significant depletion ofozone layer, which shields the earth's surface from the damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
He said the best way to cope with global warning is a shift of energy sources from fossil fuels to renewable energy, installationof carbon-capture technology in coal-fired power plants and development of energy-saving transport system.
Fossil fuel and greenhouse gases are two main causes of global warming.
Mario urged industrialized countries to work closely with developing countries in transferring energy-efficiency and greenhouse gas-capture technologies.
He also called on the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters such as the United States to commit themselves to cut their emission to help protect atmosphere. Enditem
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/10/content_2677895.htm
Climate change forum
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Clean Water Action, Clean Power Now and Cape Clean Air are sponsoring a public forum entitled "Climate Change, What it Means for Massachusetts and What is Being Done About It," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at St. Mary's Church in Barnstable.
The panelists are John Anderson of the New England Aquarium, Dr. Richard Clapp of the Boston University School of Public Health, and David Cash of the Massachusetts Executive Office for Environmental Affairs.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Jed Thorpe at Clean Water Action 617-338-8131 or Matt Palmer at Clean Power Now 508- 775-7796.
http://www2.townonline.com/barnstable/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=200663
Oh. Wait. People have gone to divinity school and knows there is a limit to how ON YOUR SIDE God actually is? Amazing. People who believe in STEWARDSHIP. Well, I'll be.
Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence Behind Effort to Combat Global Warming
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: March 10, 2005
A core group of influential evangelical leaders has put its considerable political power behind a cause that has barely registered on the evangelical agenda, fighting global warming.
These church leaders, scientists, writers and heads of international aid agencies argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian issue because the Bible mandates stewardship of God's creation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/national/10evangelical.html?ex=1111122000&en=9320be60ebb6e427&ei=5070
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
37 °F / 3 °C
Overcast
Windchill:
34 °F / 1 °C
Humidity:
87%
Dew Point:
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Wind:
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Pressure:
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Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 1600 ft / 487 m
Mostly Cloudy 2500 ft / 762 m
Overcast 6500 ft / 1981 m
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Qatar plans US$100 billion investment on infrastructure projects
Qatar is a civilized nation. It sees the Western Nations as allies. Qatar is of Allah. How do the Arab Nations lead and to what end?
Qatar plans US$100 billion investment on infrastructure projects
Qatar hopes to spend US$100 billion on investment and infrastructure projects by 2012. Al Sharq newspaper quoted the Qatari Minister of Economy and Commerce, Sheikh Mohamed bin Ahmed bin Jassem Al Thani, as saying that the state had revised upwards allocations for investment and infrastructure projects to $100 billion by 2012.
Sheik, a Major Collector, Loses Art Post in Qatar
By ALAN RIDING
Published: March 9, 2005
PARIS, March 8 - A wealthy sheik from Qatar who has emerged over the past three years as the world's single biggest buyer of art has been dismissed as his country's art acquisitions chief after a disagreement with the emir of Qatar over his spending habits, art world figures familiar with the case said.
Els resurrects his chances at Qatar Masters
Doha - Ernie Els, in danger of missing the cut after the first round, staged a solid comeback in the second to resurrect his chances in the $1,5-million Qatar Masters on Friday.
Qatar plans US$100 billion investment on infrastructure projects
Qatar hopes to spend US$100 billion on investment and infrastructure projects by 2012. Al Sharq newspaper quoted the Qatari Minister of Economy and Commerce, Sheikh Mohamed bin Ahmed bin Jassem Al Thani, as saying that the state had revised upwards allocations for investment and infrastructure projects to $100 billion by 2012.
Sheik, a Major Collector, Loses Art Post in Qatar
By ALAN RIDING
Published: March 9, 2005
PARIS, March 8 - A wealthy sheik from Qatar who has emerged over the past three years as the world's single biggest buyer of art has been dismissed as his country's art acquisitions chief after a disagreement with the emir of Qatar over his spending habits, art world figures familiar with the case said.
Els resurrects his chances at Qatar Masters
Doha - Ernie Els, in danger of missing the cut after the first round, staged a solid comeback in the second to resurrect his chances in the $1,5-million Qatar Masters on Friday.
Morning Papers - Concluding
The above pictures are more than tragic. It is an example of the hatred that still lingers in a land where reverence to God is the lifestyle of the day. Sunnis killing Shi'ites. Hezbollah Shi'ites killiing Israelis. Israelis afraid to remove barriers. And the sad truth of the region continues to play out in a way that dictates nothing but saddness for an eternity. Can Arabia stop this? Can they find the fortitude in it's people to love peace? Is the USA a stimulus to all this violence and if so how much of our presence in any country including little Qater?
The Shi'ites and Kurds of Iraq have signed a power sharing agreement. They long for their brothers of the Sunnis to join them. The Sunnis anger and aggression is understood as Fallujah was the last straw to the occupation there. Will Arabia be able to secure Islam and find peace with Israel?
Haaretz
Livnat slams proposal to rush through outpost removal
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Education Minister Limor Livnat rejected Friday a proposal to rush legislation on dismantling illegal outposts and called on the government to explicitly distinguish between outposts built before March 2001 and those built afterwards.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/550988.html
IDF may evacuate Philadelphi route after pullout
By Amos Harel and Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondents
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt - The Israel Defense Forces will evacuate the Philadelphi route, along the Gaza-Egyptian border, sometime after the disengagement from Gaza is completed, according to a tentative understanding reached by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at a meeting here Thursday, Israeli security sources said.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/550769.html
Police cancel security alert in Jerusalem
By Jonathan Lis and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
Jerusalem police cancelled a security alert Friday morning that was called a short time earlier due to a terror threat.
Security forces had received intelligence information that a Palestinian planned to infiltrate the city to carry out a terror attack.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/551006.html
Analysis / Report highlights the ugly occupation
By Ze'ev Schiff
The recently released report on the unauthorized settlement outposts in the territories exposes the occupation in all its ugliness.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550786.html
Analysis / Mubarak pushing forward on all fronts
By Zvi Bar'el
Cairo's efforts to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will continue today with a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. This meeting appears to be more than just a "strengthening of ties" with Israel, but rather a prelude to an internal dialogue among the various Palestinian factions that is scheduled to begin Tuesday and run through Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550151.html
IDF kit helps officers explain disengagement
By Amnon Barzilai
All settlements in the territories are part of the historic continuum of Zionist settlement in the Land of Israel, which has enjoyed the support of all Israeli governments, according to an explanatory kit on the disengagement plan prepared by the Israel Defense Forces' Education Corps.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550780.html
Probing dubious money
Following the enactment of the Anti-Money Laundering Law and the establishment of an authority of the same name, the international Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) removed Israel, in June 2003, from its blacklist of countries that do not cooperate in this field. In September 2003, it halted supervision of Israel in the money-laundering field. Israel's presence on the blacklist, which included countries of dubious reputation, was a mark of shame for the state, and its removal from the list improved its position in international capital markets and among international rating agencies.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/550817.html
The Boston Globe
Crowd-control gun's accuracy is questioned
Type that killed Hub student in melee was tested in Israel
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff March 11, 2005
Federal officials are urging the manufacturer of the pepper-pellet gun that took the life of 21-year-old Victoria Snelgrove last fall to respond to assertions by the Israel Police that raise questions about the weapon's accuracy.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/crowd_control_guns_accuracy_is_questioned/
Governor issues $31b transit plan
Initiative sets blueprint for next 20 years
By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff March 11, 2005
Governor Mitt Romney yesterday issued his transportation to-do list for the next 20 years, a $31 billion plan that promises to spend $1.2 billion to repair 600 of the state's worst bridges over the next five years and, for the first time, commits state money to help the MBTA expand its commuter rail and transit system.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/11/governor_issues_31b_transit_plan/
Kurds, Shi'ites agree on power-sharing deal
Jockeying is seen for ministry posts
By Anne Barnard and Thanassis Cambanis, Globe Staff March 11, 2005
BAGHDAD -- Leaders of the Kurdish and Shi'ite blocs that won the largest shares of the vote in January's elections said yesterday that they have surmounted major disagreements and plan to form a government together -- a move that would formalize a historic shift of power from the long-ruling Sunni minority to two ethnic groups oppressed for decades by Saddam Hussein.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/11/kurds_shiites_agree_on_power_sharing_deal/
Majority of those asked say governor should not run for president
March 11, 2005
BOSTON -- A majority of Massachusetts adults don't think Gov. Mitt Romney should run for president in 2008, according to a poll, and about half of those asked feel the state's top Republican would not make a good president if elected.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/majority_of_those_asked_say_governor_should_not_run_for_president/
Conservation Law Foundation suing over mercury pollution
March 11, 2005
CONCORD, N.H. -- The Conservation Law Foundation says it will sue "New Hampshire's dirtiest power plant" and one in Massachusetts to enforce federally mandated mercury pollution controls.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/03/11/conservation_law_foundation_suing_over_mercury_pollution/
Barge responsible for Buzzards Bay oil spill taken out of commission
March 11, 2005
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- The single-hulled barge that spilled about 98,000 gallons of oil into Buzzards Bay nearly two years ago was taken out of commission at the start of this year after its license expired under federal law.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/11/barge_responsible_for_buzzards_bay_oil_spill_taken_out_of_commission/
500,000 Black & Decker blenders recalled
March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- About 500,000 Black & Decker blenders are being recalled because the blades can weaken or break while in use, the government said Friday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/500000_black__decker_blenders_recalled/
Judge nixes Schiavo intervention by agency
By Mitch Stacy, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
TAMPA, Fla. -- Hours after a judge refused to delay the removal of a feeding tube from a brain-damaged woman, a California businessman offered her husband $1 million if he would give up his right to decide her medical treatment.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/judge_nixes_schiavo_intervention_by_agency/
Democratic nations meet at U.N.
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
UNITED NATIONS -- Many of the world's democracies met at the United Nations to examine an issue close to President Bush's heart -- how to advance democracy, freedom and human rights around the world.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/democratic_nations_meet_at_un/
Clinton in good spirits after surgery
By Sam Dolnick, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
NEW YORK -- Former President Clinton was in good spirits and looking forward to getting on his feet after surgery to remove scar tissue and fluid from his left lung, his wife said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/11/clinton_in_good_spirits_after_surgery/
EU3 Say Iran Faces U.N. if Resumes Nuke Enrichment
March 11, 2005
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, France and Germany told their European Union partners on Friday they would support referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council if it resumes uranium enrichment or breaches nuclear commitments.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/11/eu3_say_iran_faces_un_if_resumes_nuke_enrichment/
Americans in Indonesia warned of bombing
March 11, 2005
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The U.S. Embassy on Friday warned American citizens of a possible bomb attack on a shopping mall in the Indonesian capital over the next three days.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/03/11/americans_in_indonesia_warned_of_bombing/
Blair challenges world to help aid Africa
By Karen Sloan, Associated Press Writer March 11, 2005
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday challenged the world to help end the poverty, conflict and disease plaguing Africa as he launched a major international report on how to ease the continent's woes.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/11/blair_challenges_world_to_help_aid_africa/
'Last Supper' Fashion Poster Banned in Paris
March 11, 2005
PARIS (Reuters) - A French fashion poster showing women imitating Jesus Christ and his apostles in the Leonardo da Vinci painting "The Last Supper" has been banned in Paris, the second time in a month it has been outlawed.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/03/11/last_supper_fashion_poster_banned_in_paris/
The Arab News
Bomber Kills Mourners
Naseer Al-Nahr, Arab News
The shattered windshield of the pickup truck Col. Ahmed Abeis was traveling in. (EPA)
BAGHDAD, 11 March 2005 — Insurgents in Iraq yesterday targeted a Shiite funeral service, killing at least 47 people as the country’s main political alliance struck a power-sharing deal with a Kurdish coalition.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=60256&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Qadeer Gave Iran Centrifuges
Huma Aamir Malik, Arab News
Abdul Qadeer Khan
ISLAMABAD, 11 March 2005 — Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan gave Iran centrifuges, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed admitted yesterday, but insisted the government had nothing to do with this.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=60259&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Terrorist Website Drops Dirty Bomb
Saad Al-Matrafi, Arab News
JEDDAH, 11 March 2005 — A terrorist group has published a do-it-yourself plan to make a dirty bomb on its Internet site. Named Alma’sadah Al-Jihadiah, the site is run by a group whose aim is to promote and propagate terror activities in the region.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=60255&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Israeli Withdrawal Must Precede Syrian Pullout
Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali, Arab News
Syrian President Bashar Assad has announced full withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon, to be carried out in stages in accordance with the Taif agreement and UN Resolution 1559. His announcement came in the wake of sustained pressure from the Lebanese opposition and international community after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=60250&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Abdullah Greets Separated Polish Twins
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
Crown Prince Abdullah with the separated Polish twins, their mother Wieslawa Dabrowska and Dr. Jolanta Jezewska, at left. Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah is seen at extreme right and Polish Ambassador Adam Kulach at extreme left. (Photo by SPA)
RIYADH, 11 March 2005 — Crown Prince Abdullah gave a special audience on Wednesday to the separated Polish conjoined twins, Daria and Olga, along with their mother and a 50-member medical team headed by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah at the National Guard headquarters here.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=60252&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Rescuing Our Values of Compassion Before It's Too Late
Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, Arab News
The sad story of domestic helper Blondie Colot Jumawan, a 29-year-old from Zamboanga del Sur who worked for a Saudi family in Dammam, made headlines in several newspapers around the world.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=60288&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Is It Forbidden for Women to Wear Jeans?
Lubna Hussain, lubna@arabnews.com
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=60265&d=11&m=3&y=2005
Critical Vs. Passive Mindset: Does It Really Matter?
Dr. Khalid Al-Seghayer, alseghayer@yahoo.com
When I thought of writing an essay on this subject, I felt that I was trying to say why I should have a critical mind and thus analyze and examine closely whatever I come across on a daily basis. Then as I started to write down some notes, I reached the conclusion that this is indeed a crucial characteristic which one needs to have and here is why.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=60266&d=11&m=3&y=2005&pix=community.jpg&category=Features
The Los Angeles Times
Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture Strategy
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-milwar11mar11,0,4526900.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture Strategy
Dan Gillespie never thought he'd have to look so hard for work.
When the Seattle-area resident left the Air Force in 1980, he earned a computer science degree and enjoyed 20 years of steady work. He saved enough money to buy his wife's childhood home last year.
Three months later, he was laid off.
Gillespie, 53, hasn't found a job since. Even the corner store won't hire him. He and his wife sold the house last month.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-milwar11mar11,0,4526900.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Fugitive Kept Low Profile in Quiet Brazilian Beach Town
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-james11mar11,0,812852.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Angels of Mercy and Death
They scour a vast landscape of debris, looking for victims of the tsunami. Helping families find closure is all in a day's work.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bodyhunt11mar11,0,637286.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Mercy Killing of Newborns
An ethics expert urges us to think twice before decrying Dutch doctors' report.
By Peter Singer, Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and the author of "Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics" (St. Martin's Press, 1994).
In Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, two doctors from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands outline the circumstances in which doctors in their hospital have, in 22 cases over seven years, carried out euthanasia on newborn infants. All of these cases were reported to a district attorney's office in the Netherlands. None of the doctors were prosecuted.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-singer11mar11,0,1523799.story
Antisemitism
Peace at What Price?
By Dr. Alex Grobman
IHC Abstract
Jews went to Israel to escape antisemitism and when they arrived, discovered it was everywhere. Israelis have been reluctant to acknowledge antisemitism in Arab media and try to ignore the virulent plague of hatred that surrounds them. At the same time, Israeli Left-wing intellectuals do not want to admit that Arab antisemitism has poisoned the psyches of the Palestinians, because it justifies those who question Arab sincerity in peace talks.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/iii/080320052
Do Jews Dominate World Politics and Finance?
By Jock L. Falkson
IHC Abstract
A group of Russian nationalist MPs recently called for a ban on all Jewish groups, blaming them for provoking antisemitism and ethnic hatred. A letter, signed by 20 members of the Duma, called on the prosecutor-general to punish all Jewish groups in Russia because Jews dominate politics and finance abroad!
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/090320053
The Conquest of ‘Eurabia’
By Jonathan Tobin
IHC Abstract
Twenty-five years ago, author Bat Ye'or set out to debunk the myth that Jews and other non-Muslims enjoyed a golden age of freedom while living in Muslim-ruled lands. Her book, Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam, focused on the plight of those who lived as legal inferiors. Now she has expanded her focus. Her main concern today is how contemporary Europe is being transformed into a dhimmi nation. The result is her new book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/090320053
Sex Ed Revisions Blasted for Alleged Pro-Homosexual Bias
By Kathleen Rhodes
CNSNews.com Correspondent
March 10, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - A new sex education program for 8th and 10th graders in Montgomery County, Md., public schools is being attacked by conservatives for allegedly advancing a homosexual agenda. The chairman of the advisory committee that drew up the sex education curriculum is a homosexual activist whose writings on a religious website include, "Gay Marriage, A Jewish Perspective."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200503%5CCUL20050310a.html
A Holocaust Memoir, Minus the Holocaust
By Jo-Ann Mort
March 11, 2005
Nine Suitcases: A Memoir
By Bela Zsolt
Schocken Books, 336 pages, $25.
Irving Howe wrote that after reading Italian writer Primo Levi, he wanted "to start having a conversation with him." Bela Zsolt's memoir of his time spent as a member of a Hungarian labor brigade in the Ukraine and later in the Nagyvarad Ghetto near the Romanian border during World War II gave me the same feeling. I felt that I knew Zsolt — and he would have fit in well at a meeting of Dissent, the social democratic journal founded by Howe. Here is an unsparing memoir of a leftist journalist and politician, Jewish by birth but largely assimilated and without any religious sentiment — "my parents had inherited Christmas from their parents as a folk custom" — that exposes a despairing intellectual in a world where all touchstones have failed him. Zsolt didn't edit his own memoir, but his sensibility comes through as powerful and unyielding.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=mort20050309938
concluding...
Morning Papers - It's origin
Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-Do"
"Okeydoke"
March 10...
0418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1452 Ferdinand II the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
1629, England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he did not call it back for 11 years.
1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith US, poet laureate of California
1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so
1862: The first paper money in the United States is issued.
1867, Lillian Wald, nurse and social worker
1876, Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first message by voice over wire using his newly invented telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”
1892, Arthur Honegger, composer
1903, Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer
1927, Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1941, Sandra Palmer Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1986 Mayflower Classic)
1952, Oupa J Gqozo South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei)
1956, Janet Anderson West Sunbury PA, LPGA golfer (1982 US Women's Open)
1963, Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1965, Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway.
1966, 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1971, Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins a landslide victory in the Indian general election.
1975 "Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1977, Shannon Miller, gymnast
1987, Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1991, Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1995, Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
1996, 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win
March 11…
1302, According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day. Star-crossed lovers.
1812, Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823, 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT
1824, US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1835, HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1850, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)
1903, born Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and orchestra leader, noted for his immensely popular musical variety television (TV) program, “The Lawrence Welk Show” (1955-1982). Welk's so-called champagne music featured the accordion and organ and was distinctive for its lively style. Lawrence was Gay but few new it.
Influenza 1918
On March 11 the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 arrived in the United States. PBS Online presents a feature on the pandemic as well as information about how scientific discoveries made during that outbreak will help prevent future epidemics.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
1926 Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) The link states Abernathy was born on March 15th but it turned up on the 11th here. The 15th is the "Ides of March" It doesn't matter terribly much what is important is that Ralph Abernathy was vital to the Civil Rights Movement. He along with King and Rustin organized The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They then organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White guy. Plenty of violence was caused by this initial organizing resistence. People were jailed. King was assassinted. Abernathy never gave in. He became President of "The Conference" after King died. Awesome stuff all based on The First Amendment Right to Freedom to Assemble. It moved mountains.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAabernathy.htm
1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. It gives the president authority to aid any nation whose defense is regarded as vital to the United States and to accept repayment. ONE OF Georgie's favorite documents. If not THE FAVORITE of the Neocons. It is one of the few orders of Congress Bush/Cheney has left alone. Imagine that. It probably should be repealed to secure better relations between countries.
1959, The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is first performed in New York City. It stars Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil and goes on to win a New York Drama Critics Circle award.
1977, more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
1985, Mikhail Gorbachev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
Missing in Action
1965 SMITH RICHARD D. WICHITA KS CRASH W/2 PILOT REM - REMAINS ID'D 9/94
1967 GREENE CHARLES E. SCHENECTADY NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 HITESHEW JAMES E. WESTON WV 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 KARINS JOSEPH J. JR. SYRACUSE NY POSS DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 04/88
1967 MOORE ERNEST M. MILLBRAE CA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 BOND RONALD DALE FARGO ND
1968 BLANTON CLARENCE F. EL RENO OK PROB KILLED
1968 CALLOWAY PORTER E. BERNICE LA
1968 CALFEE HAMES HENRY NEWGULF TX NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 DAVIS THOMAS J. EUFALFA AL 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 DAVIS JAMES WOODROW WAYNESBORO MS NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 GISH HENRY G. LANCASTER PA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 HOLLAND MELVIN A. TOLEDO WA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 HALL WILLIS ROSELLE BELLEVUE NE NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 KIRK HERBERT A. PHILADELPHIA PA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 MC MILLAN ISIAH GRETNA FL 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 OLDS ERNEST A. SALISBURY MD "CRASH SITE OBS NO PARA,BEEP" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 96
1968 PRICE DAVID STANLEY CENTRALIA WA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 RODRIGUEZ ALBERT E. FRANKLINVILLE NY "CRASH SITE OBS NO PARA,BEEP, REMAINS RET 12/15/88" ID 7/25/89
1968 SHANNON PATRICK LEE CORDELL OK NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 SPRINGSTEADAH DONALD K. MILLVILLE NJ NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 WORLEY DON F. AUGUSTA AR NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
The Belfast Telegraph
IRA disband now
60% of nationalists say Provos should go, but not convinced that IRA robbed bank
By Chris Thornton
10 March 2005
Six out of ten nationalists - including almost half of Sinn Fein voters - believe the IRA should disband now, according to a Belfast Telegraph-BBC Newsnight poll published today.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=618535
What Ulster thinks now
10 March 2005
From the Northern Bank raid to the murder of Robert McCartney, the political process in Northern Ireland has been rocked by a series of crises. An exclusive Belfast Telegraph/BBC Newsnight poll reveals what people here really think
Almost half of Sinn Fein supporters today told the IRA: 'disband now'. Is it a message Sinn Fein can ignore? Political Correspondent Noel McAdam reports.
A startling 44% of Sinn Fein voters believe the time has come for the IRA to disband, according to today's Belfast Telegraph/BBC Newsnight poll.
And - broadly in line with a number of polls over recent years - almost 60% of Sinn Fein supporters say the IRA should decommission all of its weapons.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=618621
World must wake up to reality of Sinn Fein/IRA
10 March 2005
The McCartney family, understandably, are seeking justice and right-thinking people around the world have joined them in their quest.
But what of the thousands of families in Northern Ireland who are also seeking justice, their loved one having fallen victim to the Provos' wrath?
It would appear that there is selectivity in pointing the finger. Other victims of the IRA, one of the most effective killing machines in modern times, do not count.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/letters/story.jsp?story=618620
Two held as police seek Lisa's killer
By Debra Douglas
10 March 2005
Police investigating the disappearance of Bangor woman Lisa Dorrian today confirmed a murder investigation had begun.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=618536
Renewed hope for reduction in power bills
By Robin Morton, Business Correspondent
rmorton@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
10 March 2005
Enterprise Minister Barry Gardiner said today he remained optimistic that European approval would soon be secured for a move to cut electricity bills for business.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/business/story.jsp?story=618611
The New York Times
Pentagon Seeks to Transfer More Detainees From Base in Cuba
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: March 11, 2005
Doug Mills/The New York Times
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is said to have sought broader support from other governmental agencies for transfers of detainees.
WASHINGTON, March 10 - The Pentagon is seeking to enlist help from the State Department and other agencies in a plan to cut by more than half the population at its detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in part by transferring hundreds of suspected terrorists to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to senior administration officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/politics/11detain.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=312f0dddf79181fc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
U.S. and European Allies Agree on Steps in Iran Dispute
By DAVID E. SANGER and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 10 - Europe and the United States have agreed on a joint approach to negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program after months of dispute, with the Bush administration agreeing to offer modest economic incentives and the Europeans agreeing to take the issue to the United Nations Security Council if negotiations fail, senior American officials said Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/politics/11iran.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=9a66512056c24a80&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Detectives Used Badges to Kill for the Mob, Indictments Say
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: March 11, 2005
Two retired New York City police detectives, onetime partners who had long been suspected of ties to organized crime, were charged by federal prosecutors yesterday with taking part in eight murders on behalf of the Mafia - most while one or both were still active members of the police force.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/nyregion/11mob.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=f0a5c918f4bdf793&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Spain Is Riven by the Sorrows of March
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
A monument to the victims of the terrorist bombings in Spain on March 11, 2004, was unveiled Wednesday.
MADRID, March 10 - If Sept. 11 drew America together, at least temporarily, March 11 has pulled Spain apart.
Certainly, a year after the deadliest terrorist attack on European soil since World War II, Spain is poised to remember - with "sobriety and simplicity," as the official theme.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/international/europe/11letter.html?hp
E.P.A. Sets Rules to Cut Pollution
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 10 - The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules on Thursday to cut air pollution in the eastern half of the United States, in one of its most ambitious efforts to control soot and ground-level ozone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/politics/11enviro.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=14a0fc241b345086&ei=5094&partner=homepage
All Africa
Nnenyin Attah: a Passion for Poor Children
Lagos, Nigeria
Mrs. Nneyin Allison Attah, the wife of the Akwa Ibom State Governor is a woman known for her uncommon love for little children and women as well as the physically challenged in the state. Her pet project CDT, is the acronym for the Child Development Trust, a non-governmental organization initiated by her to solve the problem of malnutrition among little children in the state.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503100285.html
Of Interest
Filmmaker from Huntsville asks tough questions in documentary about Sept. 11, war in Iraq
By Stewart Smith/Staff Writer
Like everyone else in America, independent filmmaker Christine Rose was distressed by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. However, she felt the government and the media weren't giving the whole story. She had questions, but no one was giving answers.
So she made a movie.
Rose, a graduate of both Huntsville High School and Sam Houston State University, said her documentary, "Liberty Bound," takes a candid look at the country and the many questions surrounding Sept. 11, and the war in Iraq that continue to go unanswered by both the media and the government.
"I made a citizen's journey into the lies and deception that has gripped the country since 9/11," she said. "The film addresses the violations of civil liberties because of the Patriot Act, impending war with Iraq as well as the unanswered questions of 9/11," Rose said.
Rose feels the country has yet to receive a definitive answer from the American government regarding why the country was attacked on Sept. 11 and hopes "Liberty Bound" will help to jump-start people into asking the questions she believes continue to go unanswered.
http://itemonline.com/articles/2005/03/10/news/local/news3.txt
I Always Loved Horses as a Girl
Zobel can reclaim confiscated horses, judge rules
By Wes Johnson
News-Leader
William Zobel can get all 112 of his confiscated horses back if he posts a $65,000 bond, a Greene County circuit judge ruled this morning.
In his seven-page order, Circuit Judge Don Burrell also wrote that he couldn't find "clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Zobel was intentionally abusing the horses at issue."
http://springfield.news-leader.com/news/today/20050308-Zobelcanreclaim.html
Of fools and horses
By Bruce Anderson
IN THE Fool’s Alphabet, “A” is for horses. Last week equine matters moved beyond jesting foolery. We now have fool legislation, fool ministers and a fool department.
A few years ago, the EU decided that horses should have passports if they were taken across national borders. The idea was to help breeders to reduce the risk of fraud.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1517133,00.html
Racing ban sought for risky horses
WebPosted Mar 8 2005 12:32 PM AST
CBC News
SAINT JOHN — The Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission wants racetrack managers to help control the spread of equine herpes.
The commission's director, Paul Hogan, is telling the tracks to only allow horses that have been vaccinated against the disease to race.
http://nb.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nb-herpes20050308
'Horses for courses' in Queensland
Tuesday March 08 2005
Reds make three changes for Canterbury trip
Reds coach Jeff Miller has made three changes to the team for their Super 12 trip to Nelson, where they will face the Crusaders in a Round Three match on Saturday.
Promising lock Hugh McMeniman has been dropped with Rudi Vedelago taking his place in the side.
http://www.planet-rugby.com/News/story_42077.shtml
Valdez Horses
Date Posted: Tuesday 08th of March 2005
Author: Tom Housley
In Valdez’ Horses, Charles Bronson plays Chino Valdez, a tough horse-breaker from out-of-town with a fiery temper and a love of all things equine. The film is based upon the novel The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman.
http://www.concrete-online.com/viewstory.php?issueId=175&topicId=9&storyId=187
Horse Racing Bridles at Trainer's Remarks
The racing community reacted angrily and with puzzlement Monday in the aftermath of inflammatory statements made Saturday by trainer Jeff Mullins, who denigrated fans for betting on horses.
"He said the entire betting public was stupid," trainer Laura de Seroux said. "The betting money is where our purse money comes from. Without that, there'd be no game. The things [Mullins] said are so far-reaching. I wish they'd run him out of town. Take his stalls away and send him back to Arizona."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/horseracing/la-sp-horse8mar08,1,7927866.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-horse_raci
Michael Moore Today
Activists protest military on campus
Group opposes recruiters at S.F. State University career fair
By Erin Pursell / Oakland Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO — A student protest almost shut down a career fair at San Francisco State University on Wednesday as students rallied as part of a national movement to permanently ban military recruiters from all school levels.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1773
Students Protest Military Recruitment
By Lachlan Maclean and William Roller / SFSU Golden Gate XPress
U.S. military recruiters left a campus career fair an hour early on March 9 after extensive student demonstrations for and against military recruitment.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1775
ONE BIG THUMBS UP
GIVE THIS MAN HIS JOB BACK
Yesterday we told you about Principal Roger Howard of Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio. He was fired after an evaluation marked him with a "needs improvement" rating. Mr. Howard says that in his 20 years in education, he has never received an evaluation citing dissatisfaction or concern. After learning the news, 600 students marched out of school and walked to the offices of the Board of Education to protest the decision.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Bush promotes Social Security overhaul; protesters ridicule plan
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- President Bush chatted up two grandfathers and their granddaughters Thursday in seeking multigenerational support to overhaul Social Security.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1772
Pentagon misses deadline on soldier reimbursement guidelines
By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department hasn't developed a plan to reimburse soldiers for equipment they've bought to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite requirements in a law passed last year, a senator says.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1766
Remembering all those arguments made 1,500 deaths ago
By Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - Something about anniversaries prods us to pause and reflect on what's transpired in the intervening time. March 20 is the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and it's a good time to consider what's happened since then.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1771
Pentagon Clears Senior Officials in Prison Abuse
By Vicki Allen / Reuters
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military failed to react to early signs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and missed opportunities to correct lapses that caused prisoner abuse elsewhere but its own policies and top officials were not directly to blame, a Pentagon report said on Thursday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1768
Shamed US to hand over Abu Ghraib prison to Iraqis
By Michael Howard / Guardian
American forces have agreed to hand over control of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to the newly elected Iraqi authorities in an attempt to draw a line under one of the most shameful episodes of the Iraq war.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1762
New Interrogation Rules Set for Detainees in Iraq
By Eric Schmitt / New York Times
After clashing with Afghan rebels at the village of Miam Do one year ago, American soldiers detained the village's entire population for four days, and an officer beat and choked several residents while screening them and trying to identify local militants, according to a new Pentagon report that was given to Congress late Monday night.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1770
continued...
"Okeydoke"
March 10...
0418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1452 Ferdinand II the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
1629, England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he did not call it back for 11 years.
1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith US, poet laureate of California
1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so
1862: The first paper money in the United States is issued.
1867, Lillian Wald, nurse and social worker
1876, Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first message by voice over wire using his newly invented telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”
1892, Arthur Honegger, composer
1903, Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer
1927, Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1941, Sandra Palmer Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1986 Mayflower Classic)
1952, Oupa J Gqozo South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei)
1956, Janet Anderson West Sunbury PA, LPGA golfer (1982 US Women's Open)
1963, Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1965, Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway.
1966, 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1971, Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins a landslide victory in the Indian general election.
1975 "Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1977, Shannon Miller, gymnast
1987, Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1991, Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1995, Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
1996, 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win
March 11…
1302, According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day. Star-crossed lovers.
1812, Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823, 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT
1824, US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
1835, HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1850, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school)
1903, born Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and orchestra leader, noted for his immensely popular musical variety television (TV) program, “The Lawrence Welk Show” (1955-1982). Welk's so-called champagne music featured the accordion and organ and was distinctive for its lively style. Lawrence was Gay but few new it.
Influenza 1918
On March 11 the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 arrived in the United States. PBS Online presents a feature on the pandemic as well as information about how scientific discoveries made during that outbreak will help prevent future epidemics.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
1926 Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) The link states Abernathy was born on March 15th but it turned up on the 11th here. The 15th is the "Ides of March" It doesn't matter terribly much what is important is that Ralph Abernathy was vital to the Civil Rights Movement. He along with King and Rustin organized The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They then organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White guy. Plenty of violence was caused by this initial organizing resistence. People were jailed. King was assassinted. Abernathy never gave in. He became President of "The Conference" after King died. Awesome stuff all based on The First Amendment Right to Freedom to Assemble. It moved mountains.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAabernathy.htm
1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. It gives the president authority to aid any nation whose defense is regarded as vital to the United States and to accept repayment. ONE OF Georgie's favorite documents. If not THE FAVORITE of the Neocons. It is one of the few orders of Congress Bush/Cheney has left alone. Imagine that. It probably should be repealed to secure better relations between countries.
1959, The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is first performed in New York City. It stars Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil and goes on to win a New York Drama Critics Circle award.
1977, more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims were freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
1985, Mikhail Gorbachev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
Missing in Action
1965 SMITH RICHARD D. WICHITA KS CRASH W/2 PILOT REM - REMAINS ID'D 9/94
1967 GREENE CHARLES E. SCHENECTADY NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 HITESHEW JAMES E. WESTON WV 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 KARINS JOSEPH J. JR. SYRACUSE NY POSS DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 04/88
1967 MOORE ERNEST M. MILLBRAE CA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 BOND RONALD DALE FARGO ND
1968 BLANTON CLARENCE F. EL RENO OK PROB KILLED
1968 CALLOWAY PORTER E. BERNICE LA
1968 CALFEE HAMES HENRY NEWGULF TX NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 DAVIS THOMAS J. EUFALFA AL 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 DAVIS JAMES WOODROW WAYNESBORO MS NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 GISH HENRY G. LANCASTER PA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 HOLLAND MELVIN A. TOLEDO WA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 HALL WILLIS ROSELLE BELLEVUE NE NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 KIRK HERBERT A. PHILADELPHIA PA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 MC MILLAN ISIAH GRETNA FL 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 OLDS ERNEST A. SALISBURY MD "CRASH SITE OBS NO PARA,BEEP" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 96
1968 PRICE DAVID STANLEY CENTRALIA WA NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 RODRIGUEZ ALBERT E. FRANKLINVILLE NY "CRASH SITE OBS NO PARA,BEEP, REMAINS RET 12/15/88" ID 7/25/89
1968 SHANNON PATRICK LEE CORDELL OK NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 SPRINGSTEADAH DONALD K. MILLVILLE NJ NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
1968 WORLEY DON F. AUGUSTA AR NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST. TDY CIV/LOCKHEED
The Belfast Telegraph
IRA disband now
60% of nationalists say Provos should go, but not convinced that IRA robbed bank
By Chris Thornton
10 March 2005
Six out of ten nationalists - including almost half of Sinn Fein voters - believe the IRA should disband now, according to a Belfast Telegraph-BBC Newsnight poll published today.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=618535
What Ulster thinks now
10 March 2005
From the Northern Bank raid to the murder of Robert McCartney, the political process in Northern Ireland has been rocked by a series of crises. An exclusive Belfast Telegraph/BBC Newsnight poll reveals what people here really think
Almost half of Sinn Fein supporters today told the IRA: 'disband now'. Is it a message Sinn Fein can ignore? Political Correspondent Noel McAdam reports.
A startling 44% of Sinn Fein voters believe the time has come for the IRA to disband, according to today's Belfast Telegraph/BBC Newsnight poll.
And - broadly in line with a number of polls over recent years - almost 60% of Sinn Fein supporters say the IRA should decommission all of its weapons.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=618621
World must wake up to reality of Sinn Fein/IRA
10 March 2005
The McCartney family, understandably, are seeking justice and right-thinking people around the world have joined them in their quest.
But what of the thousands of families in Northern Ireland who are also seeking justice, their loved one having fallen victim to the Provos' wrath?
It would appear that there is selectivity in pointing the finger. Other victims of the IRA, one of the most effective killing machines in modern times, do not count.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/letters/story.jsp?story=618620
Two held as police seek Lisa's killer
By Debra Douglas
10 March 2005
Police investigating the disappearance of Bangor woman Lisa Dorrian today confirmed a murder investigation had begun.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=618536
Renewed hope for reduction in power bills
By Robin Morton, Business Correspondent
rmorton@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
10 March 2005
Enterprise Minister Barry Gardiner said today he remained optimistic that European approval would soon be secured for a move to cut electricity bills for business.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/business/story.jsp?story=618611
The New York Times
Pentagon Seeks to Transfer More Detainees From Base in Cuba
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: March 11, 2005
Doug Mills/The New York Times
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is said to have sought broader support from other governmental agencies for transfers of detainees.
WASHINGTON, March 10 - The Pentagon is seeking to enlist help from the State Department and other agencies in a plan to cut by more than half the population at its detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in part by transferring hundreds of suspected terrorists to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to senior administration officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/politics/11detain.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=312f0dddf79181fc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
U.S. and European Allies Agree on Steps in Iran Dispute
By DAVID E. SANGER and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 10 - Europe and the United States have agreed on a joint approach to negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program after months of dispute, with the Bush administration agreeing to offer modest economic incentives and the Europeans agreeing to take the issue to the United Nations Security Council if negotiations fail, senior American officials said Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/politics/11iran.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=9a66512056c24a80&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Detectives Used Badges to Kill for the Mob, Indictments Say
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: March 11, 2005
Two retired New York City police detectives, onetime partners who had long been suspected of ties to organized crime, were charged by federal prosecutors yesterday with taking part in eight murders on behalf of the Mafia - most while one or both were still active members of the police force.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/nyregion/11mob.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=f0a5c918f4bdf793&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Spain Is Riven by the Sorrows of March
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
A monument to the victims of the terrorist bombings in Spain on March 11, 2004, was unveiled Wednesday.
MADRID, March 10 - If Sept. 11 drew America together, at least temporarily, March 11 has pulled Spain apart.
Certainly, a year after the deadliest terrorist attack on European soil since World War II, Spain is poised to remember - with "sobriety and simplicity," as the official theme.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/international/europe/11letter.html?hp
E.P.A. Sets Rules to Cut Pollution
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: March 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 10 - The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules on Thursday to cut air pollution in the eastern half of the United States, in one of its most ambitious efforts to control soot and ground-level ozone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/politics/11enviro.html?hp&ex=1110603600&en=14a0fc241b345086&ei=5094&partner=homepage
All Africa
Nnenyin Attah: a Passion for Poor Children
Lagos, Nigeria
Mrs. Nneyin Allison Attah, the wife of the Akwa Ibom State Governor is a woman known for her uncommon love for little children and women as well as the physically challenged in the state. Her pet project CDT, is the acronym for the Child Development Trust, a non-governmental organization initiated by her to solve the problem of malnutrition among little children in the state.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503100285.html
Of Interest
Filmmaker from Huntsville asks tough questions in documentary about Sept. 11, war in Iraq
By Stewart Smith/Staff Writer
Like everyone else in America, independent filmmaker Christine Rose was distressed by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. However, she felt the government and the media weren't giving the whole story. She had questions, but no one was giving answers.
So she made a movie.
Rose, a graduate of both Huntsville High School and Sam Houston State University, said her documentary, "Liberty Bound," takes a candid look at the country and the many questions surrounding Sept. 11, and the war in Iraq that continue to go unanswered by both the media and the government.
"I made a citizen's journey into the lies and deception that has gripped the country since 9/11," she said. "The film addresses the violations of civil liberties because of the Patriot Act, impending war with Iraq as well as the unanswered questions of 9/11," Rose said.
Rose feels the country has yet to receive a definitive answer from the American government regarding why the country was attacked on Sept. 11 and hopes "Liberty Bound" will help to jump-start people into asking the questions she believes continue to go unanswered.
http://itemonline.com/articles/2005/03/10/news/local/news3.txt
I Always Loved Horses as a Girl
Zobel can reclaim confiscated horses, judge rules
By Wes Johnson
News-Leader
William Zobel can get all 112 of his confiscated horses back if he posts a $65,000 bond, a Greene County circuit judge ruled this morning.
In his seven-page order, Circuit Judge Don Burrell also wrote that he couldn't find "clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Zobel was intentionally abusing the horses at issue."
http://springfield.news-leader.com/news/today/20050308-Zobelcanreclaim.html
Of fools and horses
By Bruce Anderson
IN THE Fool’s Alphabet, “A” is for horses. Last week equine matters moved beyond jesting foolery. We now have fool legislation, fool ministers and a fool department.
A few years ago, the EU decided that horses should have passports if they were taken across national borders. The idea was to help breeders to reduce the risk of fraud.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1517133,00.html
Racing ban sought for risky horses
WebPosted Mar 8 2005 12:32 PM AST
CBC News
SAINT JOHN — The Maritime Provinces Harness Racing Commission wants racetrack managers to help control the spread of equine herpes.
The commission's director, Paul Hogan, is telling the tracks to only allow horses that have been vaccinated against the disease to race.
http://nb.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nb-herpes20050308
'Horses for courses' in Queensland
Tuesday March 08 2005
Reds make three changes for Canterbury trip
Reds coach Jeff Miller has made three changes to the team for their Super 12 trip to Nelson, where they will face the Crusaders in a Round Three match on Saturday.
Promising lock Hugh McMeniman has been dropped with Rudi Vedelago taking his place in the side.
http://www.planet-rugby.com/News/story_42077.shtml
Valdez Horses
Date Posted: Tuesday 08th of March 2005
Author: Tom Housley
In Valdez’ Horses, Charles Bronson plays Chino Valdez, a tough horse-breaker from out-of-town with a fiery temper and a love of all things equine. The film is based upon the novel The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman.
http://www.concrete-online.com/viewstory.php?issueId=175&topicId=9&storyId=187
Horse Racing Bridles at Trainer's Remarks
The racing community reacted angrily and with puzzlement Monday in the aftermath of inflammatory statements made Saturday by trainer Jeff Mullins, who denigrated fans for betting on horses.
"He said the entire betting public was stupid," trainer Laura de Seroux said. "The betting money is where our purse money comes from. Without that, there'd be no game. The things [Mullins] said are so far-reaching. I wish they'd run him out of town. Take his stalls away and send him back to Arizona."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/horseracing/la-sp-horse8mar08,1,7927866.story?coll=la-headlines-sports-horse_raci
Michael Moore Today
Activists protest military on campus
Group opposes recruiters at S.F. State University career fair
By Erin Pursell / Oakland Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO — A student protest almost shut down a career fair at San Francisco State University on Wednesday as students rallied as part of a national movement to permanently ban military recruiters from all school levels.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1773
Students Protest Military Recruitment
By Lachlan Maclean and William Roller / SFSU Golden Gate XPress
U.S. military recruiters left a campus career fair an hour early on March 9 after extensive student demonstrations for and against military recruitment.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1775
ONE BIG THUMBS UP
GIVE THIS MAN HIS JOB BACK
Yesterday we told you about Principal Roger Howard of Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio. He was fired after an evaluation marked him with a "needs improvement" rating. Mr. Howard says that in his 20 years in education, he has never received an evaluation citing dissatisfaction or concern. After learning the news, 600 students marched out of school and walked to the offices of the Board of Education to protest the decision.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Bush promotes Social Security overhaul; protesters ridicule plan
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- President Bush chatted up two grandfathers and their granddaughters Thursday in seeking multigenerational support to overhaul Social Security.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1772
Pentagon misses deadline on soldier reimbursement guidelines
By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department hasn't developed a plan to reimburse soldiers for equipment they've bought to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan despite requirements in a law passed last year, a senator says.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1766
Remembering all those arguments made 1,500 deaths ago
By Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - Something about anniversaries prods us to pause and reflect on what's transpired in the intervening time. March 20 is the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and it's a good time to consider what's happened since then.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1771
Pentagon Clears Senior Officials in Prison Abuse
By Vicki Allen / Reuters
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military failed to react to early signs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and missed opportunities to correct lapses that caused prisoner abuse elsewhere but its own policies and top officials were not directly to blame, a Pentagon report said on Thursday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1768
Shamed US to hand over Abu Ghraib prison to Iraqis
By Michael Howard / Guardian
American forces have agreed to hand over control of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to the newly elected Iraqi authorities in an attempt to draw a line under one of the most shameful episodes of the Iraq war.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1762
New Interrogation Rules Set for Detainees in Iraq
By Eric Schmitt / New York Times
After clashing with Afghan rebels at the village of Miam Do one year ago, American soldiers detained the village's entire population for four days, and an officer beat and choked several residents while screening them and trying to identify local militants, according to a new Pentagon report that was given to Congress late Monday night.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1770
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