The Age
Adler sentence a warning
By Staff reporters
April 14, 2005 - 5:10PM
Rodney Adler speaks to the media on his way to the NSW Supreme Court.
Photo: Nick Moir
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Adler's sentence: Vote now
The Government has welcomed today's jail sentence handed down to disgraced former insurance chief Rodney Adler.
Adler will go to jail for four years and six months for his role in the HIH insurance collapse, with a non-parole period of two and a half years.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Adler-jailed-for-four-years/2005/04/14/1113251718481.html
Bush mulls
Multiplex mulls $1 billion US deal
April 14, 2005 - 12:39PM
Multiplex Group today confirmed it was in discussions to buy a portfolio of retail assets in the United States, believed to be worth as much as $1 billion.
In a separate deal, Multiplex said it was negotiating the sale of some of the properties within the Multiplex Property Trust, rumoured to be key buildings in Sydney and Melbourne worth a total of more than $465 million.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Multiplex-mulls-1-billion-US-deal/2005/04/14/1113251723121.html
Confidence stays at low
By Clay Lucas
April 14, 2005
Interest rates are tipped to stay on hold next month, with a survey showing consumer confidence at its second-lowest level in two years.
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment Index, released yesterday, shows consumer confidence has stayed almost flat since plunging 17 per cent in March, the biggest fall in the survey's 30-year history.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Confidence-stays-at-low/2005/04/13/1113251681298.html
Bush's UN nominee a 'kiss-up' bully
By Michael Gawenda
United States correspondent
Washington
April 14, 2005
John Bolton, President George Bush's choice as US ambassador to the United Nations, has been described as a classic "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy" by a former head of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
In blunt testimony that surprised members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Carl Ford, who describes himself as a committed Republican, said Mr Bolton's behaviour "brings real question to my mind about his suitability for high office".
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Bushs-UN-nominee-a-kissup-bully/2005/04/13/1113251680804.html
…isms
Lawrence defends job discrimination lawsuit by teacher
By Clyde L. Stancil
DAILY Staff Writer
cstancil@decaturdaily.com · 340-2443
MOULTON — One of the administrative positions a Hazlewood High School teacher is suing for in federal court is vacant again.
Alexander McElroy, a Ph.D. and special education teacher, filed a discrimination suit in December that claims the Lawrence County School Board did not promote him because he is black.
He claims the eight administrative positions were given to white males who were either equally qualified or less qualified than he is.
In its response, the school system denied the claims.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050410/job.shtml
Jews suffer discrimination at Temple Mount
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
April 10th, 2005
JERUSALEM - Several Israeli Jews, including members of Knesset, who attempted to ascend Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Sunday to hold prayers were prevented from doing so by police for fear of widespread Muslim violence.
Hundreds more were kept from entering the capital itself.
http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=483
Simon Wiesenthal Center : Zundel deported to Germany: 'Canada struck a blow against hate today'
TORONTO, March 1 /CNW/ - "Canada struck a blow against Hate andProfessional bigots today by finally deporting Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel,"said Rabbi Abraham Cooper Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center."This long-delayed move comes as the civilized world commemorates the60th anniversary of the liberation of Europe from the genocidal grip of NaziGermany. It also comes at a time when, as a result of the efforts ofprofessional Holocaust deniers and antisemites, too many young people havecome to doubt the horrific brutal reality of the Nazi's Final Solution thatsystematically murdered 6 million innocent Jews," he added."We hope Canada's move and Zundel's impending arrest will give pauseamong those in the Arab and Moslem world who have rushed to embrace the 'biglie', that Zundel and his ilk continue to peddle," he added.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/01/c0015.html
Iraqi Progressive Columnist on His Childhood Experience with the Blood Libel
In an article in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, progressive Iraqi columnist Khalid Al-Kishtayni recorded his childhood recollections of an encounter with an elderly Jew in Iraq. As a child, Al-Kishtayni had heard stories that the Jews would slaughter non-Jewish children in order to use their blood for their rituals, and the encounter therefore left a strong impression on him. The following are excerpts from the article: [1]
"Antisemitism was rife in Europe, and almost non-existent in the Islamic world until Zionism appeared on the scene, of course... One of its manifestations was the belief that the Jews would kidnap and murder [non-Jewish] children during their holidays in order to use their blood in their rituals. The Arabs did not know about this [European belief], but during the 19th century a Muslim boy disappeared in Damascus, and there was a rumor that the Jews had kidnapped him for this purpose. As a result, [some] people did the unforgivable and attacked the Jewish quarter, until the investigation found that one of the European missionaries had circulated the rumor. At that time, when we were children, traces [of this libel] continued to be heard among us, and gained footing even though it had been found to be false.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP89505
Mormon man gets $159,000 settlement in religious discrimination case
Associated Press
DALLAS — A Canadian aerospace company has agreed to pay a Mormon man $159,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced today.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3140645
Shopper says curry-smell claim is discrimination
19.04.05
A Tauranga woman is accusing a local branch of The Warehouse of racial discrimination after she was denied the right to return purchases because they "smell like curry".
Julie Ali and her family say they were "traumatised and humiliated" on Thursday evening when staff at The Warehouse in Fraser Cove refused to exchange items of clothing.
The Fijian Indian, who moved to Tauranga with her family three years ago, said she felt her family and culture were being discriminated against.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10121187
If It's Not Full Equality For Gays, It's Bigotry
Published on 4/18/2005
Letters To The Editor:
Having read the letter on civil unions titled “Civil union passage not the will of voters,” published April 15, I am appalled anyone could be so homophobic in today's world.
It is so very pompous for someone or some group to even try and decide what is “right, acceptable, ethical or virtuous” for another group of people. The writer might try and count all the gay people she knows (and really does not know) at work, church and socially. Are they really bad, horrible or evil folks?
Anything other than full equality for people of an alternative lifestyle is 100-percent, pure–and-simple discrimination. This should never be tolerated in any matter.
Mike Hawkins
Griswold
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=ea0c0efb-e9bb-4d26-8bd6-249b16f32941
Radio Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To Heaven
POSTED: 7:44 am EDT April 14, 2005
PITTSBURGH -- An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/4378405/detail.html
Re-energized Interfaith Council plans for future
By BOB REEVES / Lincoln Journal Star
At one time, it was popular to talk about America as a cultural "melting pot," an image of many different cultures being blended into a sort of bland homogeneity.
Then it became more in vogue to compare the nation's diversity to a salad bowl, in which cultures co-exist but keep their distinctions.
Neither image, however, captures the ideal of diverse faiths and cultures living and sharing together, said Rabbi Stanley Rosenbaum of Lincoln's Tifereth Israel Synagogue.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/04/18/local/doc4262ffe82c6ca672837373.txt
Religious intolerance betrays namesake
by Letter to the Editor
I am so sick of the ongoing religious debate against the practice of homosexuality. It seems that throughout the history of Christianity, we have been committing horrific acts against our fellow human beings under the guise of Christ. The Crusades were waged under the pretense of reclaiming the holy land. European colonization subjugated and decimated entire populations of people under the canopy of "saving" them through conversion to Christianity. The practice continues today with Christian condemnation of homosexuals as "sinful" and "destructive."
http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/E.php?article=E3&date=041805
The New York Times
Benedict XVI, 78, Was John Paul II's Strict Defender of the Faith
By IAN FISHER
VATICAN CITY, April 19 - Roman Catholic cardinals reached to the church's conservative wing on Tuesday and chose as the 265th pope Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a seasoned and hard-line German theologian who served as John Paul II's defender of the faith.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/international/worldspecial2/20pope.html?ei=5094&en=76e16da2555154ea&hp=&ex=1113969600&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1113991352-pQDRerzgVWaBD75wRdddWA
A Theological Visionary With Roots in Wartime Germany
ROME, April 19 - The man who has become Pope Benedict XVI was a product of wartime Germany, but also of a deeply Roman Catholic region, Bavaria.
As the Nazis strengthened their stranglehold on Germany in the 1930's, the strongly Catholic family of Joseph Ratzinger moved frequently among villages in rural Bavaria.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/international/worldspecial2/20profile.html?hp&ex=1114056000&en=cd711bfb0e79d225&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Facing Global Sanctions, Iran Uses Oil Fields to Seek Alliances
TEHRAN, Iran - As it faces the threat of global sanctions from the United States and Europe because of suspicions that it is turning its nuclear program to weapons production, Iran is fighting back with a powerful weapon of its own: its vast oil and gas resources.
Iran's ruling clerics are meticulously arranging energy sales and building partnerships with influential countries, including China and India, as a way to win stronger friendships around the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/business/worldbusiness/19tehran.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1113908953-WGAZ2mtqP9vjYGwAjywrGw
Europeans Fast Falling Away From Church
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: April 19, 2005
PARIS, April 18 - To understand the crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, visit the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Issy-Les-Moulineaux outside Paris.
The vast 100-year-old structure, built on the ruins of a 17th-century chateau, contains vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows and hundreds of rooms. Pope John Paul II visited here in 1980 on a trip in which he chastised the French for abandoning the church.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/international/worldspecial2/19europe.html?hp
Israel, on Its Own, Is Shaping the Borders of the West Bank
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times
A new neighborhood is under construction in Maale Adumim, the largest Jewish settlement on the West Bank, to Washington's chagrin.
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: April 19, 2005
In the face of the withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank, other settlements may be built up.
MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank, April 16 - They're building away here in Israel's largest settlement, with Palestinian workers laboring on new apartment houses overlooking the red-brown hills of the West Bank.
Israel's intentions to keep building next to this suburb about three miles from Jerusalem have set off a small furor with the Bush administration, which is putting pressure on Israel to keep a commitment to freeze settlement growth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/international/middleeast/19westbank.html?hp&ex=1113969600&en=96559707e50cfabd&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Chinese Official Orders End to Anti-Japanese Demonstrations
By JOSEPH KAHN
Published: April 20, 2005
BEIJING, April 19 - China's foreign minister called Tuesday for an end to anti-Japanese protests, the first signal that the leadership may no longer welcome the sometimes violent demonstrations that have underpinned a new and more confrontational approach to Japan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/international/asia/20china.html
The Boston Globe
A 'humble worker'
Ratzinger elected pope, becomes Benedict XVI
By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff April 20, 2005
VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a conservative German theologian who served for two decades as Pope John Paul II's chief enforcer of doctrinal orthodoxy, yesterday was elected the 265th pope and chose the name Benedict XVI.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/20/a_humble_worker/
In U.S., pope greeted with mixed feelings
By David Crary, AP National Writer April 20, 2005
Bells rang out the news at Roman Catholic churches nationwide, heralding the election of the first new pope in 26 years. People on their lunch breaks and students in classes paused to watch the pontiff emerge onto his Vatican balcony.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/20/in_us_pope_greeted_with_mixed_feelings/
Cheese should be used as a condiment, not a meal
By Lawrence Lindner April 19, 2005
While Americans have clearly gotten the message to go easier on beef -- we eat about 25 pounds less per person a year than in the mid-1970s -- cheese consumption is way up.
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/fitness/articles/2005/04/19/cheese_should_be_used_as_a_condiment_not_a_meal/
Amtrak halts its backup service
Can't fill Acela's Boston-N.Y. gap
By Mac Daniel and Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff April 19, 2005
Amtrak said yesterday it will stop providing substitute service between Boston and New York for its Acela Express trains starting today, a decision that cuts its rail service out of Boston nearly in half.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/19/amtrak_halts_its_backup_service/
Man held in killing of Rhode Island police detective
By Elizabeth Zuckerman, Associated Press Writer April 19, 2005
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A suspect accused of killing a detective with the officer's own gun appeared in court with a white mask covering the lower half of his face, which was bruised and swollen.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/04/19/man_held_in_killing_of_rhode_island_police_detective/
Veteran journalist dies at 76
April 19, 2005
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Charles McCorkle Hauser, a writer, teacher and columnist whose career spanned 35 years and several newspapers, has died at age 76.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/04/19/veteran_journalist_dies_at_76/
The Jakarta Post
Muslim Indonesia hopes new pope will work for religious unity
JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated state, welcomed Wednesday the appointment of the new pope and aired hopes that he would build on his predecessor's work to unite Islam and Christianity.
Ali Machsan Musa, a senior leader of Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama, the world's largest Muslim movement, said he hoped the new pontiff would allow "relations between the various religions to become even better".
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050420164525&irec=1
Asian-African Ministerial Meeting kicks off
JAKARTA (Antara): Indonesia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirayuda and his South African counterpart Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma jointly opened on Wednesday Asian-African Ministerial Meeting.
"We have to continue cooperation between Asia and Africa in both state development and state capacity improvement, especially through solid social integration," Hassan said in his speech.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050420164525&irec=0
S. African President Thabo Mbeki visits tsunami-hit Aceh
JAKARTA (Antara): South Africa President Thabo Mbeki and First Lady Zanele Mbeki left Jakarta for Aceh on the second day of their state visit to have a closer look at the aftermath of the tsunami disaster on Dec. 26, 2004.
Mbeki, and his entourage, took off from Halim Perdanakusuma airport at 11 a.m. bound for Banda Aceh to visit devastated areas and temporary shelters for the displaced people, before returning back to Jakarta in the evening before the Asian-African Summit.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050420160014&irec=2
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