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
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:
34 °F / 1 °C
Wind:
5 mph / 7 km/h from the ESE
Pressure:
30.06 in / 1018 hPa (Rising)
Visibility:
9.0 miles / 14.5 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 1600 ft / 487 m
Mostly Cloudy 2500 ft / 762 m
Overcast 6500 ft / 1981 m
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