"Bird On a Wire"
The Wichita Eagle
Park City man held in 17-year killing spree
BY HURST LAVIANA AND TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
Police have booked Dennis Rader, 59, on 10 counts of suspicion of first-degree murder
A man suspected of being Wichita's BTK serial killer has been arrested and is now tied to 10 killings dating to 1974, Wichita police said Saturday. Dennis Rader, 59, has been booked on 10 counts of suspicion of first-degree murder, authorities said. He is expected to be charged this week.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11002959.htm
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BTK arrest, justice long in coming
Wichita slept easier last night, thanks to the diligence of law enforcement and the teamwork of multiple agencies. Three decades after the BTK strangler began his series of terrible crimes, and 11 months after he resumed his cat-and-mouse communications with media and police, the authorities believe they have caught BTK.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/editorial/11001646.htm
The Chicago Tribune
Gang-busting Chicago cop now hunts for insurgents
Jim Roussell finds that cracking the case as a Marine in Iraq isn't much different from tracking hometown crooks
By Mike Dorning, Tribune correspondent. Staff reporter David Heinzmann contributed from Chicago
Published February 27, 2005
MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq -- Jim Roussell and the Marines he works with broke the Abu Ali cell of the Iraqi insurgency in much the same way he caught gang leaders on Chicago's West Side.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270538feb27,1,2773144.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Wichita police arrest suspected `BTK' killer
By Jon Yates, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune news services contributed to this report. "Chilling words from a killer" sidebar by the Associated Press. "BTK Strangler timeline of events" sidebar from
Published February 27, 2005
WICHITA, Kan. -- Decades after he terrorized residents of this Midwestern city and days after his last letter taunting investigators, the serial killer known as the BTK Strangler has been arrested, police said Saturday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270509feb27,1,1790102.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Can Vatican run with an ill pope?
If he's incapacitated, pontiff can delegate authority to aides
By Tom Hundley, Tribune foreign correspondent. Tribune staff reporter Steve Kloehn contributed from Chicago
Published February 27, 2005
ROME -- For at least a decade, the Roman Catholic Church has learned to live with the physical limitations of its ailing leader, but Pope John Paul II's latest health crisis will undoubtedly intensify concerns about who runs the church when the pontiff is so obviously enfeebled.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270525feb27,1,1134740.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Bringing justice to Darfur
Published February 27, 2005
Diplomats at the UN are haggling over what set of judges will hear a war crimes case out of the tragedy in Darfur, which has taken some 70,000 lives. While the diplomats negotiate in New York, the presumed war criminals in Sudan go on with a program of rape and murder and the forced exodus of some 2 million people.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0502270439feb27,1,3476660.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed
The World According to Wal-Mart
By BARRIE MCKENNA AND PETER KENNEDY
Thursday, February 24, 2005 Updated at 8:57 PM EST
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Wal-Mart's customer-sucking suburban superstores have long been blamed for wrecking small towns.
But suddenly the company has run smack into a new and more formidable foe: Big City North America.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050224.wwalmart0224/BNStory/Business/
Wal-Mart Loses $7.5 Million Discrimination Suit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jury awarded a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employee who suffers from cerebral palsy $7.5 million in a discrimination lawsuit, the worker's lawyer said on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7731983
Wal-Mart executive in LA to promise more stores in California
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - After losing campaigns to build massive stores in Southern California last year, Wal-Mart officials were back in Los Angeles - vowing to continue their efforts to expand Supercenters in its most important growth market.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/10980193.htm
Labor: No deals for Wal-Mart
Diane Stafford's Feb. 17 Business Monday At Work column, Wal-Mart dances around law, could not be more wrong in suggesting that the U.S. Department of Labor's enforcement settlement against Wal-Mart was somehow a ''sweetheart deal'' for the company.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10976431.htm
Japan Isn't Buying The Wal-Mart Idea
Its Seiyu affiliate is struggling to put Everyday Low Prices into practice
Time was, Japan had a well-deserved reputation as a black hole for foreign retailers. Its close-knit webs of suppliers, customers raised on high-cost department stores and mom-and-pop shops, and a Byzantine distribution system made Japan nearly impenetrable to outsiders. Three years ago, though, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT ) bought a stake in struggling Seiyu Ltd. as relaxed restrictions on retailers and changing consumer attitudes appeared to create an opening for its big box stores.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_09/b3922073.htm
Winn-Dixie files for Chapter 11; Wal-Mart effect blamed for woes
Southern icon must scale back, become nimbler, analysts say
By ELLIS MNYANDU
Reuters News Agency
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - Page B8
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050223/IBWINN23/TPBusiness/International
Developer Drops Plan for City's First Wal-Mart
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: February 24, 2005
Facing intense opposition, a large real estate developer has dropped its plans to include a Wal-Mart store in a Queens shopping complex, thwarting Wal-Mart's plan to open its first store in New York City, city officials and real estate executives said yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/nyregion/24walmart.html?oref=login
Wal-Mart CEO Takes Offensive to Counter Critics
By Nichola Groom
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. went on the offensive on Wednesday against critics who say the world's largest retailer pays its workers too little and does not provide adequate health benefits.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7719928
Wal-Mart fun: College kids play football, more in aisles
Ann Zimmerman and Laura Stevens
Wall Street Journal
Feb. 23, 2005 02:34 PM
FLAGSTAFF - On a snowy Monday night recently, Northern Arizona University freshman Natalie Eickmeyer finished her studying and decided to go out and have some fun. So at 10 o'clock, after scouring a dormitory for participants, she and five friends headed to the Wal-Mart discount center.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0223Wal-Mart-Games-ON.html
Union supporters to rally at Colorado Wal-Mart
08:58 PM EST Feb 25
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - Supporters of an effort to unionize part of a Wal-Mart store in Loveland, Colo., planned a demonstration outside the store Wednesday.
The 17 employees of the Wal-Mart's Tire and Lube Express section will vote Friday morning on whether to form a union. Wal-Mart opposed the vote, but the regional office of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board ruled last month in favour of the workers.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050223/w022346.html
The Wal-Mart Manifesto
The retail giant's CEO says his company pays workers handsomely. He doesn't want you to believe him.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, at 9:14 AM PT
H. Lee Scott Jr., the chief executive officer of Wal-Mart, argued in a speech yesterday in Los Angeles (click here to listen to it) that Wal-Mart is a force for good in the economy. Scott is hardly the first corporate chairman to echo "Engine" Charlie Wilson's claim that what's good for General Motors is good for America. And many independent observers have noted that Wal-Mart's relentless downward pressure on overhead has been a boon to American consumers. (In a recent New Yorker column, James Surowiecki took this further, arguing that the retail economy has become a sort of dictatorship of the consumer, and that Wal-Mart, which earns only pennies on each dollar of sales, is merely doing what it must to stay alive.)
http://slate.msn.com/id/2113954/
The Daily Mail and Guardian
Israel and Palestine condemn bombing
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a "third party" on Saturday of sabotaging the Middle East peace process by orchestrating the suicide bombing on Friday night, as Israel threatened a resumption of targeted killings of militants.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198412&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Millions spent to grab Oscar glory
South Africa's eyes will be on Yesterday, Darrell Roodt's film nominated in the best foreign film category.
Sunday night's Oscar ceremony will be the most expensive privately funded bonanza of all time. The prize-giving event itself has been both remodelled and drastically cut in length in an attempt to shore up falling television ratings, but the promotional expenditure surrounding the annual awards has spiralled out of control.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198413&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
A city's gay activists defy conservatives
The Odyssey youth centre is hidden behind an unmarked door on an anonymous site near downtown Spokane. Nothing betrays its purpose to the outside world.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198414&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Police arrest 90 after Limpopo 'witch-hunt'
Ninety youths have been arrested in Giyani and one boy is dead after 39 houses were torched in what appeared to be a witch-hunt, Limpopo police said.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=198361
Jailed Journalists
Iranian blogger jailed for 14 years
By Lester Haines
Published Thursday 24th February 2005 09:30 GMT
An Iranian blogger accused of spying and counter-revolutionary activities has been jailed for 14 years. Newspaper editor Arash Sigarchi - whose blog criticised an Iranian crackdown on similar websites which has resulted in around 20 arrests - was himself cuffed in January on charges of "espionage, insulting the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei", the BBC reports.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/iranian_blogger_jailed/
Journalist is jailed for 14 years after 'insulting' authority
By Daniel Howden
25 February 2005
A prominent Iranian journalist and blogger has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges ranging from spying to aiding counter-revolutionaries. His sentence comes as part of the latest clerical crackdown on freedom of speech.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=614531
Tehran — A journalist has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for criticizing Iran's clerical rulers and working with a U.S.-funded radio station, his lawyer and a colleague said Thursday.
Charges against Arash Sigarchi include provoking people to riot through his writings, co-operating with hostile governments and counterrevolutionary groups and insulting the authorities, lawyer Mohammad Saifzadeh said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050224.wiran24/BNStory/International/
Turkish Prime Minister's Lawsuits Draw Cartoonists' Ire
Some fear an erosion of free speech after two artists are fined for satirical drawings.
By Amberin Zaman, Special to The Times
ANKARA, Turkey — This nation's best-known political cartoonists gathered in Istanbul on Wednesday to protest legal action taken by the prime minister against artists who criticized him through their work.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cartoon24feb24,1,5215576.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Jailed journalist faces new threats
The wife of jailed Sierra Leonean journalist Paul Kamara, Isatu Kamara, has received reports that her husband has been violently threatened by army officers, and fears that he may be killed.
http://www.indexonline.org/en/indexindex/articles/2005/1/sierra-leone-jailed-journalist-faces-new-thr.shtml
Iran jails blogger for 14 years
Millions of Iranians view the internet as a place to express themselves
An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries.
Arash Sigarchi was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists.
Mr Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was sentenced by a revolutionary court in the Gilan area.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292399.stm
IFJ Calls on Egypt to Free Jailed Journalists
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 11:11 am
Press Release: International Federation of Journalists
IFJ Calls on Egypt to Free Jailed Journalists After Book Fair Censorship Sparks Free Expression Fears
The International Federation of Journalists today accused the Egyptian authorities of censorship and intimidation of independent journalism after a crackdown on activists working at the Cairo International Book Fair.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0502/S00238.htm
Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from Iran on the reaction of democratic reformers to the U.S. government’s pressure on the ruling regime.
JIM LEHRER: Now, the second of Elizabeth Farnsworth's reports from Iran. This covers the reaction of democratic reformers to the U.S. Government's pressures on the ruling regime.
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Dr. Mohammed Reza Khatami is a man of many talents. He's a physician, a kidney specialist, at a hospital in Tehran, and a key leader of what's left of Iran's reformist political movement. He founded the political party that brought his brother, also named Mohammed Khatami, to the presidency for two terms, promising reforms which would open Iran up to political debate and more democracy. Then, in 2000, Dr. Khatami received the most votes of anyone in parliamentary elections. With other reformists, he passed laws limiting key powers of the hard-line conservative clerics who oversee and often overrule elected officials here. But those clerics struck back. They vetoed the reformist laws and then, last year, banned Dr. Khatami and almost all the reformists from standing for election again.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june05/iran_2-25.html
F.C.C. to Review Decision on Sale of 4 Stations
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: February 26, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 - The Federal Communications Commission, in an abrupt about-face, has decided to reconsider a staff decision that allowed a prominent Oklahoma politician convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice to sell a group of radio stations, officials said on Friday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/business/media/26radios.html?
The Washington Post
Children Going Hungry
By David K. Shipler
Sunday, February 27, 2005; Page B07
If you spend a day in a malnutrition clinic, you will see a dismal parade of babies and toddlers who look much younger than they are. Underweight and developmentally delayed, they cannot perform normally for their ages. Some are so weak that when you hold them in a standing position, their knees buckle. When they lie on their stomachs, they cannot push themselves up. Long after they should be able to roll over, they can only flop around listlessly.
Doctors describe these conditions as "failure to thrive." If President Bush's budget is enacted, there will be many more children in America who fail to thrive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54744-2005Feb25.html
A Plot Thickens
Three Decades After Chile's Right-Wing Coup, Historians Have Yet to Dot All the i's. But One Thinks He May Have Crossed a K.
By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 27, 2005; Page D01
What a dream. So bizarre. How strange to see himself shrunken, like a pocket-size person. But there he was, Kenneth Maxwell, renowned scholar, rendered a tiny creature trembling at the windswept ramparts of his dream. Gargantuan figures loomed above, gazing down on this mere morsel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56719-2005Feb26.html
The Cheney Observer
Halliburton has successful field trial
Halliburton's Sperry Drilling Services announced the completion of two field trials of its third generation Geo-Pilot 5200 Series system.
The 5200 Series Geo-Pilot system completed its first field test for an operator in Canada, drilling the entire section (2,445 ft / 745 m) in 51 drilling hours, the company says. By choosing to use rotary steerable technology versus a conventional mud motor in the slimhole section of the well, the customer was able to eliminate the additional trip and rig time required to rearrange heavy-weight pipe, as is common in conventionally drilled horizontal wells.
http://ogj.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=TOPST&ARTICLE_ID=221948&p=9
Home > HALLIBURTON ADDS SMARTSECTION® SOFTWARE TO GEOGRAPHIX® TOOLKIT
HOUSTON, Texas – Halliburton Digital and Consulting Solutions, a division of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), announced today that it has acquired the smartSECTION® geologic software business from A2D Technologies, a TGS-NOPEC Company. SmartSECTION software provides the industry's leading raster image cross-section application and pioneered the use of depth-calibrated well log images for a faster, more affordable approach to high volume well log correlation and geologic interpretation.
i-Newswire, 2005-02-24 - "The acquisition of smartSECTION computer programs significantly expands the well log correlation and subsurface interpretation capabilities in our GeoGraphix® suite of software," said Jonathan Lewis, vice president, Innovation and Marketing, Halliburton Digital and Consulting Solutions. "Our customers, who are analyzing increasingly large volumes of log data, will significantly benefit from the ability of smartSECTION software to quickly identify unconformable and structural relationships."
http://i-newswire.com/pr7959.html
Home > HALLIBURTON COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL FIELD TRIAL OF GEO-PILOT® 5200 SERIES SLIMHOLE ROTARY STEERABLE SYSTEM
AMSTERDAM & HOUSTON, Texas – Sperry Drilling Services, a product service line of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), announced today the successful completion of two field trials of its third generation Geo-Pilot® 5200 Series system. With the addition of the 5200 Series system to the FullDrift® drilling suite, Sperry can offer a slim hole point-the-bit rotary steerable solution capable of significantly extending horizontal production sections and reaching small targets from existing structures. This can eliminate huge capital investments and extend the useful life of production facilities by restoring production levels.
i-Newswire, 2005-02-24 - The 5200 Series Geo-Pilot system completed its first field test for an operator in Canada, drilling the entire section ( 2,445 ft / 745m ) in 51 drilling hours. The system performed flawlessly over a wide range of deflection settings. By choosing to use rotary steerable technology versus a conventional mud motor in the slimhole section of the well, the customer was able to eliminate the additional trip and rig time required to rearrange heavy-weight pipe, as is common in conventionally drilled horizontal wells.
http://i-newswire.com/pr7960.html
Halliburton division acquires A2D software business
Monica Perin
Houston Business Journal
Halliburton Digital and Consulting Solutions, a division of Halliburton Co., said Wednesday it has acquired the geologic software business of A2D Technologies.
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/02/21/daily34.html?jst=b_ln_hl
Bush looks for Russian soulmate of his first term
By Neil Buckley and James Harding
Published: February 23 2005 00:05 Last updated: February 23 2005 00:05
When President George W.Bush of the US sits down with Vladimir Putin on Thursday at a castle in Bratislava for their 12th meeting, he may once again be trying to peer into the soul of his Russian counterpart.
The relationship has cooled since Mr Bush first met Mr Putin in 2001 and declared he had looked into the Russian leader's eyes and seen the soul of someone he could trust.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f4a56126-852d-11d9-a172-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=d4f2ab60-c98e-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html
MPDCL to spell out Dabhol equity plan in HC today
SANJAY JOG
Posted online: Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 0000 hours IST
MUMBAI, FEB 23: The Maharashtra Power Development Corporation Ltd (MPDCL) on Thursday would spell out in the Bombay High Court its strategy on making payment of $9 million for picking up equity of the bankrupt Enron Corp in the now-fallen Dabhol Power Company (DPC).
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=83439
Alba commends last batch of 134 'Training for Bahrain' graduates
Under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil and Chairman of Alba, Aluminium Bahrain honored the final batch of 'Training for Bahrain' graduates at a grand ceremony held in the Gulf International Convention & Conference Centre – Gulf Hotel.
http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/54555.html
WAM: Gasco, Bechtel sign $ 1.46 billion EPC agreement
Publication Date: Feb 23,2005, 15:08
SUMMARY: Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (GASCO) and Bechtel Corporation, USA signed the EPC Agreement for Onshore Gas Development Phase III (OGD III) Project on Feb 20 in ADNOC.
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UAE steps up gas drive with $1.4b Bechtel deal
Khaleej Times - 23/02/2005
ABU DHABI — Abu Dhabi Company for Gas Industries (Gasco) yesterday concluded an agreement with US Company Bachtel to design, execute and operate the third phase of developing offshore Habshan Gas project costing $1.4 billion.
Others who bid for the contract included Paris-based Technip, Chiyoda Corporation JGC both from Japan.
The project would be completed in a maximum of 40 months time from conclusion of the contract, adding that production will commence in the first quarter of 2008.
The project targets the production of 125,000 barrels per day of crude oil and 12,000 tons of liquid natural gas and 3200 tons of Ethane gas.
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=81349
Safety concerns raised at Darwin gas plant
Four hundred workers are gathered at the gates of Darwin's LNG project at Wickham Point because of safety concerns.
The workers have been gathering at the main entrance of the power operation since 7:30am.
Talks have started between the safety committee and Bechtel management.
Workers say there have been too many incidents putting their safety at risk.
The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union says its members are not involved, and the dispute is strictly between the Australian Workers Union and Bechtel.
A spokeswoman for Bechtel says site managers are meeting with the AWU's senior organiser Francis Chambers to discuss the situation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1307300.htm
Main Event: American Energy Policy
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
ENVIRONMENT 11.1.2001
The smoke was still thick over Manhattan when the first jackals appeared. The world in shock, a motley crew of lobbyists and pundits crept toward the carcass of atrocity to pick at the meat and claim a piece of the spoils. With reality seemingly turned upside down, it was a fair assumption that there would be much up for grabs.
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=164
Haiti's jailed ex-PM on hunger strike
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haiti's imprisoned former prime minister, Yvon Neptune, says he has started a hunger
strike to protest his detention.
Neptune, who was arrested eight months ago, said in a letter to several foreign ambassadors that he began the hunger
strike on Sunday and would continue it until he is freed by Haiti's interim government, which he said jailed him for political
reasons.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5564816
Schiavo debate taps into faith, fear
At issue: Quality of life and the manner of death.
By Sandy Bauers
Inquirer Staff Writer
Tens of thousands of e-mails and phone calls have surged into Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office - 35,000 since Monday alone.
Hundreds of bloggers have weighed in.
Vigils have been held, talk-show guests have pontificated, politicians have weighed in.
The Vatican has launched an appeal. One advocacy group is raising money for newspaper advertisements.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/11000663.htm
RIGHT WING POLTICS AND THE LUDICROUS USE OF THE SCHIVO CASE. They are Anti-Constitutionalists. It is all too obvious. They don't believe in separation of Church and State seeking 'moralists' in office to dominate the politics removing rights from all others, using tactics that undermine the integrity of the USA Constitution while playing on human emotion of sympathy and fear. YOU COULD BE NEXT !!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HOW CAN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD STAND BY AND WAIT FOR TERRI TO BE STARVED TO DEATH WITH OUT HEARING HER CASE?
Terri, America's Daughter....
By Kenneth Lewis, Publisher of ChristianNewsToday.com
Who is Terri?
Theresa Marie Schindler was born in Pennsylvania on December 3, 1963 to Mary and Robert Schindler. (Terri's baby picture)
Her parents tell stories of Terri's devotion to family pets and to animals of every sort. Her sister and brother label Terri a lover of music - especially piano.
http://www.christiannewstoday.com/CWN_140.html
Jeb Bush could save Terri's life ... if he wanted to
Posted: February 22, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Doc Washburn
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for the execution of Terri Schiavo, beginning today. She is the brain-damaged woman whose husband has been trying to starve and dehydrate her to death for years.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42971
100,000 PETITIONERS ASK
GOV. BUSH TO SAVE TERRI SCHIAVO
Dr. Gary Cass, executive director of the Center for Reclaiming America, will deliver to a representative of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush a petition containing
the names of over 100,000 people who have signed an online petition on behalf of Terri Schiavo at a press conference today at 2 p.m. (Feb. 25) on the Plaza Level of the State Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Fl.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/0225054_100.htm
Why JEB, if you take a look at the above article by siding with Anti-Constitutionalists and Religious Bigots you can pick up another 100 thousand votes !!
In Florida, Jeb Bush Down Slightly
CREDIT: Flag courtesy of ITA’s Flags of All Countries used with permission.
(Angus Reid Consultants - CPOD Global Scan) – Support for Jeb Bush fell this month in Florida, according to a poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. 52 per cent of respondents in the Sunshine State approve of the governor’s performance, a three per cent drop since December.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6097
Delay, Delay, Delay, Muddle, Muddle, Muddle
DANIEL RUTH
Published: Feb 27, 2005
It's merely a guess - and an admittedly presumptuous one, too - but here's some unsolicited advice for attorney George Felos - as long as Jeb Bush reigns over Florida, your client Michael Schiavo will never be permitted to allow his brain-damaged wife Terri to die.
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGB3HGSGO5E.html
Richmond Times Dispatch
House wants to lift ban, seek natural gas offshore
BY GREG EDWARDS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Feb 24, 2005
Virginia's House of Delegates agreed yesterday to seek the opening of waters off Virginia's Atlantic coast for natural-gas exploration and production.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781208842&path=%21news%21politics&s=1045855935264&tacodalogin=no
ABC
Democrats urge more assistance for Corby
The Federal Government has again been accused of not doing enough to help a Gold Coast woman who is standing trial in Indonesia on drugs charges.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1310942.htm
Life News
Arlen Specter Wants Deal With Pro-Abortion Democrats on Pro-Life Judges
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Arlen Specter wants to strike a deal with pro-abortion Democrats who oppose a slate of 20 pro-life judges President Bush recently gave to the Senate for confirmation. Specter is also concerned about the effects of the so-called "nuclear option" and instead wants to try his hand at dealmaking first.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat1205.html
Keeping the Democracy in Democrat
Once reliably Republican, New England now backs Democrats
BY STEVENSON SWANSON
Chicago Tribune
BOSTON - (KRT) - In the coloring-book view of American politics, where Republican states are red and Democratic states are blue, the map of New England has undergone a shade shift.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10538254.htm
Democrats call Smith no-show on assisted suicide
02:27 PM PST on Thursday, February 24, 2005
By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The lack of comment from Republican Sen. Gordon Smith on a Supreme Court decision this week to take up the Bush administration challenge of Oregon's landmark assisted suicide law is drawing criticism from Democrats and advocates of the law.
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_022405_politics_assisted_suicide.ddeaf2b4.html
Democrats ask DA to investigate Kline's meetings with board
JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - Two Democratic legislators asked Shawnee County's district attorney Thursday to investigate private meetings between Attorney General Phill Kline and State Board of Education members.
Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, of Topeka, and Rep. Paul Davis, of Lawrence, said Kline hasn't provided enough information to show the gatherings were allowed under the Kansas Open Meetings Act.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10984181.htm
Some Democrats Not Pleased With Easley's Budget
Many Upset Over Certain Suggested Tax Increases
POSTED: 4:54 pm EST February 24, 2005
UPDATED: 5:17 pm EST February 24, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. -- With nearly $1 billion in new spending and millions of dollars in higher taxes, it is not surprising Republicans are critical of Gov. Mike Easley's budget plan. However, the criticism is coming across party lines from Democrats as well.
http://www.wral.com/news/4230120/detail.html
Hollywood Bets on Chris Rock's 'Indecency'
Published: February 27, 2005
THE total box office for all five best-picture nominees on Sunday's Oscars is so small that their collective niche in the national cultural marketplace falls somewhere between square dancing and non-Grisham fiction.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/arts/27RICH.html
Sydney Morning Herald
West Bank curfew after four killed in club blast
By Jonathan Saul and AP
February 27, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Israeli troops imposed a curfew on a West Bank village yesterday, arresting five people and telling a family that their son was the suicide bomber who earlier killed four people in an attack on a Tel Aviv nightclub, Palestinian security officials said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/West-Bank-curfew-after-four-killed-in-club-blast/2005/02/26/1109180165018.html
New AIDS-type virus in Africa
February 27, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Two new retroviruses never before seen in humans have turned up among people who regularly hunt monkeys in Cameroon, researchers say.
As with AIDS, these viruses insert their genetic material directly into cells and perhaps even into a person's or animal's chromosomes.
Closely related versions of the viruses cause leukaemia and inflammatory and neurological diseases.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University plan to focus on Central Africa.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/New-AIDStype-virus-in-Africa/2005/02/26/1109180166837.html
RA expels 3 over killing
February 27, 2005
The Sun-Herald
The Irish Republican Army has expelled three members accused of last month's murder of a fellow Catholic in a bar in Belfast.
The rare, if not unprecedented, expulsions followed a high-profile campaign by the family of the victim, Robert McCartney, 33, to bring the killers to justice.
Two of the three were high-ranking. However, the IRA army council said it had not ordered the killing and warned against anyone trying to intimidate his family.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/IRA-expels-3-over-killing/2005/02/26/1109180166834.html
Unwanted Pregnancies
Free condoms Monday to Sunday
John Nowakowski
For the Kaimin
Condoms in the morning, condoms in the evening, students can get condoms anytime. There is no reason for students living in the dorms to have unprotected sex, thanks to the efforts of volunteers with Condom Access for Responsible Encounters.
http://www.kaimin.org/viewarticle.php?id=4050
Self-abortion kills woman
February 25, 2005
A 23-year-old woman from Talisay City died in an apparent unsuccessful attempt to abort the child she had been carrying in her womb by herself.
The woman, Claudeth Aviles, was found by relatives in a pool of blood in her own home in barangay Lagtang , a fetus still lodged in her sex organ.
http://www.thefreeman.com/local/index.php?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20050225&id=27934
Contraceptive coverage gaining in Legislature
By David Steves
The Register-Guard
SALEM - The Oregon Legislature renewed one of its most long-running debates Thursday, when a Senate committee passed a bill that would require health insurers to cover contraceptives.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/25/c1.cr.contraceptives.0225.html
Consumers rally for birth control
Champaign group holds meeting to raise awareness of emergency contraception
The Champaign County Health Care Consumers are holding a community meeting today at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, 610 E. Springfield Ave ., from 7 to 9 p.m. in support of improved access for women to emergency contraception.
Destiny Lopez, director of the Emergency Contraception (E.C.) Access Campaign, will be the night's keynote speaker. Lopez has been instrumental in helping to raise awareness about E.C. and to pass several bills in the New York legislature dealing with E.C. access.
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2005/02/24/News/Consumers.Rally.For.Birth.Control-875819.shtml
Sex & GOP 'Values'
Thu Feb 24, 2:49 PM ET
Op/Ed - The Nation
The Editors
Mourning the loss of "moral values" voters, Democratic leaders have been softening the party's language on reproductive rights. In a recent speech, Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) called abortion "a sad, even tragic choice for many," praised faith-based programs and said, "the jury is still out" on abstinence-only education. New DNC chair Howard Dean (news - web sites), meanwhile, said the party ought to make space for "pro-life" Democrats and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has actively courted at least two of them for key Senate races in 2006. These gestures, along with the ascension of antichoice Senate minority leader Harry Reid, have prochoice groups rightly concerned about the party's will and ability to defend reproductive rights.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=1&u=/thenation/20050224/cm_thenation/20050314editors
Seeing both sides in ‘Vera Drake'
By ROBERT W. BUTLER
The Kansas City Star
Conventional wisdom holds that the Oscar-nominated “Vera Drake,” now entering its third week at the Tivoli in Westport, is an “abortion-rights” movie.
Mike Leigh's drama is about a cheery London housewife circa 1950 who has a secret life as a back-alley abortionist. And certainly many of those who have purchased tickets to “Vera” fall into the abortion-rights camp.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/columnists/robert_w_butler/10972246.htm
Sex education policy at LISD remains controversial
By Katherine Amerson/The University Daily
February 24, 2005
Teaching an abstinence-only education policy in the Lubbock Independent School System, as well as across Texas, has proved to have an adverse effect on teenagers, said Planned Parenthood Development Officer Tina Brogan.
The unwanted pregnancy rate and the sexually transmitted disease rate in Lubbock is disturbing, Brogan said.
http://www.universitydaily.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/24/421d634a374e6
Consumers rally for birth control
Champaign group holds meeting to raise awareness of emergency contraception
By Nick Escobar
Published: Thursday, February 24, 2005
The Champaign County Health Care Consumers are holding a community meeting today at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, 610 E. Springfield Ave ., from 7 to 9 p.m. in support of improved access for women to emergency contraception.
Destiny Lopez, director of the Emergency Contraception (E.C.) Access Campaign, will be the night's keynote speaker. Lopez has been instrumental in helping to raise awareness about E.C. and to pass several bills in the New York legislature dealing with E.C. access.
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2005/02/24/News/Consumers.Rally.For.Birth.Control-875819.shtml
Abortion rights under attack:
Why are the Democrats giving up?
February 25, 2005 Page 12
ELIZABETH SCHULTE looks at the Democrats’ retreat on a woman’s right to choose.
A WOMAN’S right to abortion is one of the few issues where the Democrats can still claim that they look different from the Republicans. But for how much longer?
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/532/532_12_AbortionRights.shtml
I was appalled to say the least by this article. Everything is black and white with no shades of gray. People always want to pigeon hole sexuality and control it. Do women have brains? Do they have self directed will? Do they hide their 'birth control' pills in the back of the underwear draw as they put on their Catholic School Girl Uniform at the age of seventeen years old? Yes, they do.
I went to a public school system. I did well. I was social. Good heavens I participated in underage drinking, had a date for the prom and went to the gynecologist at the age of seventeen years old for my first birth control pills. I dated the same young man from then on. He was in college and we were married the summer he was entering his Senior year. My mother always thought I was a perfect child and a virgin when I got married. I don't why? Denial I guess. I used to stay overnight at the college. I mean where did she think I slept? In the car? I used birth control until the age of 23 when we 'cognitively' decided to have our first child.
You know, I had a friend who lived across the road from me. She attended a Catholic School all her life. She used to 'moon' guys out the window of her school bus. I never did that. She knew what condoms were and how to use them long before I did. She was always willing to entertain my imagination with her stories a many to improve my competency. She was sexually active at the age of sixteen and had a 'little black book' that was not at all little. She wore uniforms to school everyday to classes. I didn't. I wore underwear everyday with my clothes. She didn't. She went on weekend trips with the competition band. I didn't. I went to college. She didn't.
This article is so bad for the imagine a woman has of herself that it should be outlawed. It stereotypes and seeks control where the control never existed in the first place. When women grow up with healthy ideas of sexuality and sensuality they turn out to be responsible for their sexual activity and their sexual health to the point where their mother's actually believe they are virgins to the day they get wed. Young women mature at different rates and in different ways. When a young woman feels ready, safe and secure in herself she should have the choice of keeping her virginity or not. They needs to make their own moral decision regarding the feelings they are having with burgeoning needs and desires. Sexuality does not wait for a calendar date to manifest. A woman is her own person and that is why a society has a responsibility to provide her a safety net.
This is irresponsible stereotyping of women that never works but only serves to cause self-esteem issues resulting in behaviors that are not necessarily healthy.
A Man's Debate: Nice Lucy vs. Sexy Sally
By Christian Savage
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
"When a young man walks the streets of life, there are two types of women that he must choose from in deciding which one to court: Nice Lucy over here and Sexy Sally over there; the Christian gentlemen will choose Nice Lucy, while the unbeliever would choose the latter," are the fiery words of the immortal sermon delivered by Pastor Jack Raeside of Beacon Bible Church in the Bronx. First and foremost, based on Pastor Raeside's sermon, what is the fundamental difference between Nice Lucy and Sexy Sally?
http://www.mcquadrangle.org/news/2005/02/23/Perspectives/A.Mans.Debate.Nice.Lucy.Vs.Sexy.Sally-874784.shtml
This is manipulative government. Mr. Kline is playing politics with women's privacy. You'll excuse me but most physicians are directed by their state licensing agencies to come forward to protect minors in abuse situations. Any of the 90 cases he is seeking invasion of privacy fell under 'Reporting Laws.' These are standard laws and the citation below is specific for Kansas. If a physician performs abortions it does not mean he breaks the law. Quite the contrary. They practice under rights allowed them. They obey all laws and would not think twice to of reporting any and all child abuse. The Kansas State Attorney General Mr. Kline is abusing his power of office to make a false case for invasion of privacy.
State-Specific Information Search Results: Kansas
http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/general/statespecific/results.cfm?state=%27KS%27&Laws=1&phonenums=1&calendar=1&submit=Submit
Kan. AG seeks late-term abortion records
By JOHN MILBURN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline speaks during a news conference in his office, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, in Topeka, Kan. Kline is seeking the complete medical records of nearly 90 women who received late-term abortions to search for evidence of crimes, according to court documents. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital-Journal, NIck Krug)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Kansas attorney general, a staunch opponent of abortion, has demanded the medical records of nearly 90 woman and girls who had late-term abortions, saying he needs the material to investigate crimes.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Abortion%20Investigation
`Pro-life' Romney rankles anti-abortion activists
By David R. Guarino
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Anti-abortion activists chided Gov. Mitt Romney [related, bio] yesterday for his new, self-attached ``pro-life'' label, saying efforts to appeal to conservatives are in vain because his position mirrors that of liberal Democrat Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio].
http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=70103
Feminist Daily News Wire
February 24, 2005
Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Abortion Rights Decision
On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Norma McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, to overturn the landmark case she won in 1973 that legalized abortion. The justices rejected McCorvey’s bid to reopen Roe v. Wade without comment or recorded dissent, reports Reuters. The move is not surprising, according to the Los Angeles Times, as the reopening of a case due to “changed circumstances” rarely occurs. McCorvey’s case is based on anecdotal “evidence” that abortion harms women.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8918
The law is the law.
Jesuit Gonzaga University Favours Gay and Pro-Abortion Campus Clubs, Persecutes Christians
SPOKANE, February 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gonzaga University, the Catholic college in Spokane, Washington, owned and run by the Jesuit order, has made its stand on the side of abortion supporters and homosexual activists against Catholic and pro-life groups on campus.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022403.html
Pure politics.
Abortion foes hail House vote
Measure requring 24-hour waiting period passes and proceeds to Senate
By CARLOS CAMPOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/24/05
Legislation aimed at reducing abortion in Georgia easily passed the House on Wednesday and will head to the Senate for consideration.
House Bill 197 had bipartisan support in a 139-35 vote, though all 35 dissenters were Democrats.
The bill would require women seeking an abortion to wait 24 hours after being informed by a doctor of the medical risks of the procedure, gestational development of a fetus, fetal pain and alternatives including adoption.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/legis05/0205/24legabortion.html
Anti-abortion bills advance in S.D. Legislature
Lawmakers hear from both sides of issue
By Joe Kafka
Associated Press Writer
PIERRE - A trio of anti-abortion bills drew impassioned but polite testimony Wednesday in the Legislature from those on sharply opposite sides of the highly emotional issue.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10979170.htm
Late-abortion ban defeated
Committee cites harm to doctor-patient confidentiality
By Melissa Cassutt
Denver Post Staff Writer
The House Judiciary Committee defeated a proposed bill criminalizing late-term abortions Thursday, saying the bill penalized doctors and interfered with the doctor-patient relationship.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~61~2731160,00.html
Bill would augment abortion instruction
Women who want an abortion in Indiana would be told they can view an ultrasound of the fetus and hear the heartbeat, if there is one, before going ahead with the procedure, under a bill approved Thursday by the Indiana Senate.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/224903-5822-009.html
I THINK MOST 'MEN' are personally opposed to abortion. They don't have the investment.
Howard Dean says “Personally Opposed” to Abortion is Pro-Choice, not Pro-Life
NEW YORK, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Howard Dean, immortalized by the yell that ended his run at the Democratic nomination, has inadvertently put his finger on a long-standing controversy between pro-lifers and nominally Catholic politicians. Dean, now the Democratic National Committee chairman, was speaking to students at Cornell University when he let slip that politicians know perfectly well that one of their most cherished sound bites is a gross deception.
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022504.html
Abortion tops 1st talk with public by Swann
Friday, February 25, 2005
BY PETER L. DeCOURSEY
Of The Patriot-News
GREENSBURG - Former football star Lynn Swann said last night that he was a conservative who opposed abortion, but that he was still forming his campaign positions.
On most issues, Swann said he was planning to "talk to the people across this state to find out what they want" from a Republican candidate for governor.
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/110932682014210.xml
Abortion a 30-something choice
Feb 25 2005
Aled Blake, Western Mail
THE number of women having abortions in their 30s has doubled in the past three decades.
The trend for women to get married later and to be more career focused is believed to have had an impact in persuading women that abortions are an option, even when they may be more financially settled.
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15229280&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=abortion-a-30-something-choice-name_page.html
Abortion Law Filed, Poll Results
by Jessica Cervantez
We now have the final results of our web poll about the newly filed abortion bill being considered by Texas lawmakers.
http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=2995873&nav=2FH5WnGC
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