China Daily
Hu calls for a harmonious world at summit
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-09-16 05:59
NEW YORK: Multilateralism, mutually beneficial co-operation and the sprit of inclusiveness should be upheld in realizing common security and prosperity and in building a harmonious world, President Hu Jintao said yesterday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478349.htm
US envoy: Nuke talks still 'in business'
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-16 17:03
BEIJING - The chief U.S. envoy to talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program met Friday with his North Korean counterpart in an effort to break a stalemate. Afterward he declared the negotiations still "in business."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478554.htm
China offers revised disarmament proposal
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-16 18:47
The chief U.S. envoy to talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program met Friday with his North Korean counterpart as host China proposed a compromise aimed at ending a stalemate, the Associated Press reported.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478565.htm
More commitment for poverty alleviation
China Daily Updated: 2005-09-16 06:00
President Hu Jintao on Wednesday announced China's five-component package to aid less-developed nations at the summit on the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations.
The package, which included tariff-free trade, debt relief, preferential credits as well as medical support and personnel training, is much bigger and more comprehensive than the programmes China had allocated itself for the same purposes.
As a developing country, China, despite declining numbers, still has a large population living in poverty, and it is therefore offering what it can in this regard.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478373.htm
China's economic miracle will continue - OECD
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-09-16 15:49
China's 25-year economic miracle is likely to be sustained for "some time" and its booming economy should grow by 9.0 percent this year and 9.2 percent in 2006, an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report says.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478536.htm
Concord Monitor
Family, friends mourn EEE victim
She's first in state to die this year
By JOELLE FARRELL
Monitor staff
September 13. 2005 4:15PM
Kelly Labell, 20, a receptionist at a Stratham Honda dealership, called in sick on Sept. 2, but she ended up coming in anyway to cover for an ill coworker. Her body ached with what she thought was the flu, and her head hurt so much that she cried a little, said Jim Lurvey, the general manager of the dealership, the Honda Barn and Nissan of Stratham.
A week later, Labell was dead. The Newton woman was the first person in the state to die this year from Eastern equine encephalitis, or Triple E, a mosquito-borne illness that kills about a third of the people it infects. Four other people contracted the disease this summer, but all, including a Concord man and a 4-year-old Goffstown boy, recovered.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/REPOSITORY/509130370/1221
Curb appeal? Not exactly
City admits gaffe in Mountain Road work
By ERIC MOSKOWITZ
Monitor staff
September 15. 2005 8:00AM
fter the paving crew departed Mountain Road this summer, the residents on the stretch south of Concord Country Club found that the gravel shoulders had been eliminated, with asphalt curbing left in their place. The curbs cut off passage for the pedestrians and bicyclists who had long relied on the shoulder for safety. They also ran across driveways, prohibited on-street parking and forced residents to step into the roadway to reach their mailboxes, which the city had moved close to the curb. Suffice it to say, people were upset.
But after surprising residents with the project, officials have mended relations with them. A series of front-lawn meetings led to a proposal to remove the curbs and extend the sidewalk on Mountain Road as far as Concord Country Club. The $120,000 plan, endorsed by the city administration, is awaiting approval by the city council.
http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050915/REPOSITORY/509150366/1031
British Authorities Detain Seven Men
By ED JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) -- British authorities detained seven foreigners Thursday for deportation as threats to national security, and the government backed a police proposal to hold terror suspects for up to three months without charge.
Civil rights activists condemned the idea of increasing detentions from the current 14 days, which was in legislation unveiled by Home Secretary Charles Clarke to toughen anti-terrorism laws after the deadly July 7 bombing attacks on London commuters.
If approved by Parliament, the Counter-Terrorism Bill also would outlaw "indirect incitement" of terrorism and "glorifying" violence - provisions aimed at extremist Islamic clerics accused of seducing youths into militant activities.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_TERROR_LAWS?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
FBI Experts Testify at Trial in Ireland
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
Associated Press Writer
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Arabic-language plans for a bomb hidden in a baby's milk bottle could produce an explosion strong enough to destroy an airliner, U.S. experts testified Wednesday in the trial of an Algerian man accused of links to al-Qaida.
Abbas Boutrab, 32, was arrested near Belfast in 2003 with 25 computer disks filled with instructions on building compact bombs and other weapons and on smuggling them onto a plane. He denies any terrorism links, insisting he downloaded the material from the Internet out of curiosity.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NIRELAND_AL_QAIDA_SUSPECT?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
World Leaders Sign Nuke Terrorism Treaty
By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- World leaders began signing a global treaty Wednesday making it a crime to possess radioactive material or weapons with the intention of committing a terrorist act or to damage a nuclear facility.
The Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism was the 13th anti-terrorism treaty to be adopted by the U.N. General Assembly but the first since the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country sponsored the seven-year effort leading to the treaty's adoption by consensus in April, was the first leader to sign the document Wednesday morning at a desk in a makeshift hall on the sidelines of the U.N. summit.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_NUCLEAR_TERRORISM?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Main Points of Nuclear Terrorism Treaty
Main points of International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism:
-Outlaws possession of radioactive material with the intent of killing or seriously injuring someone or of causing substantial damage property or the environment.
-Makes it illegal to use or damage a nuclear facility with the intent of killing or seriously injuring someone, substantially damaging the environment, or coercing a person, organization or a state to do something.
-Does not cover nuclear attacks committed within a single state by citizens of that nation and no victim is from another country. Also excludes activities of military forces during armed conflict.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_NUCLEAR_TERRORISM_GLANCE?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Ice Cream Shop Terror Suspect Trial Starts
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Yemeni immigrant ice cream shop owner accused of illegally funneling $21.9 million overseas successfully fought to keep prosecutors from introducing evidence allegedly linking him to terrorist groups as his trial began Tuesday.
Abad Elfgeeh, 50, is accused of transmitting money around the world without a license from a dozen bank accounts linked to his Brooklyn storefront. Prosecutors have said his business was used by a Yemeni cleric convicted earlier this year of a scheme to fund al-Qaida and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERROR_WAR_ICE_CREAM_SHOP?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Two Plead Not Guilty to Terrorism Charges
By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
Associated Press Writer
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Two men pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges alleging they planned terrorist attacks against military facilities, the Israeli Consulate and other targets in the Los Angeles area.
Levar Haley Washington, 25, and Gregory Vernon Patterson, 21, were ordered held without bail after their pleas in U.S. District Court.
"In the name of Allah, I plead not guilty," Washington said before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Nakazato.
Prosecutors contend the plot was orchestrated by Washington, Patterson and Hammad Riaz Samana, 21, at the behest of Kevin James, an inmate of the California State Prison, Sacramento. James, 29, founded the radical group Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, or JIS.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERRORISM_PROBE?SITE=NHCON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
International Herald Tribune
Democrats question Roberts on his candor
WASHINGTON Judge John Roberts Jr., the prospective chief justice of the United States, tried Thursday to win over wary Senate Democrats who questioned his candor and the depth of his commitment to minority rights.
Judge Roberts told one of the Democrats, a skeptical Senator Edward Kennedy, at his confirmation hearing that he did indeed believe in affirmative action, as demonstrated in part by his work as a private lawyer to guide minority students through the rigors of law school
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/15/news/scotus.php
Schröder assails his foe's tax proposals
NUREMBERG Chancellor Gerhard Schröder lit into his conservative opponents on Thursday as Germany's national campaign entered its final days, promising to balance the need to continue economic reform with the attention to equality and social justice that is popular among his Social Democrats.
In a wide-ranging stump speech that garnered the heartiest cheers when he promised to keep Germany out of war, Schröder hammered away at a proposal by the conservative Christian Democrats to sweep away deductions in favor of a simplified tax system.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/15/news/schroder.php
Bush Takes Responsibility; Evacuees Claim They Were Shot At
By Kevin Harris
Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
President Bush will address the nation from Louisiana on Thursday and offer a public already unsatisfied with the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, an updated assessment on recovery efforts in the region, the White House announced yesterday.
The announcement came one day after Mike Brown, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), resigned from his post amid a flurry of accusations from lawmakers and the public who said he and other state and local government officials were to slow in responding to the hurricane.
President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that some of the blame should fall on his shoulders. "Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government," Bush said at a news conference from the White House. "To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."
http://www.thehilltoponline.com/media/paper590/news/2005/09/14/NationWorld/Bush-Takes.Responsibility.Evacuees.Claim.They.Were.Shot.At-984156.shtml
My Rebuttal
"THE PRESIDENCY OF CONS"
Mr. Bush in New Orleans
Time enough has gone by and the natives have complained enough. It is time to set down the 'acceptable' ground rules that fuels "The Party" and not the nation.
A huge spending program in the very place that is so confused whom is on their side they keep voting RED.
Governor Haley Barbour is the worst person to oversee any reconstruction effort of Mississippi as he is a PRACTICED BUBBA who will feed the 'Good Ole Boy' network without caring for the very people who were neglected in the first place.
Senator Obama has proposed an Oversight Committee to INSURE the best outcome for the people and not "The Party." Senator Vitter knows all too well how a corrupt system within a state can cause and enforce poverty and he has already spoken out against it. I applaud both of them to realize the country who cares has to work with the very government that DIDN'T act in the best interest of the people of the Gulf Coast.
Bush is a horrible president. Ophelia is a Global Warming Storm and one of the reasons he is dumping huge amounts of money into the PRIVATE sector is that the oil companies of the Lousiana Gulf needs to rebuild. Little of interest is the people EXCEPT from the selling point of the politics.
The USA is between a rock and a hard place. It has placed in leadership THE MOST EXPLOITIVE government it could have elected on the basis of fear. The fear they feel is nurtured and harvested by Bush on a regular basis. This is one of those times.
The people of the Gulf Coast does not need people who walk all over their polluted Mississippi Mud they need people who will rebuild the wetlands and levees as well as a 'shining' new 'gold plated' city fit for a Neocon King !
"Turning the funds over to state and local governments isn't the answer, either. F.D.R. actually made a point of taking control away from local politicians; then as now, patronage played a big role in local politics."
The Red States are among the most corrupt. This gives a chance for preceding Democrats to come to the forefront to take charge and any program that comes the way of the victims work in their favor. By making the governments 'toe the line' doing what is best for the people of the Gulf Coast including rebuilding the wetlands and levees they will make friends all along the way.
The Democrats have had to find ways of working with Red State Corruption and this is finally their chance to purge these states of it. It is what sends 'shivers' down the spine of the president and his veep and is what caused 'the staging' to 'His Base' yesterday evening. Every Southern Bubba loves the look of a Plantation house !
In developing a new economy for The Gulf Coast realizing the oil industry drilling sunk New Orleans in the first place they can firt contemplate the new 'idea' DC is circulating; what does one do with all that refuse? I can't get it out of my mind that the first plans anyone has for these areas is to first create a foundation for a huge landfill by bulldozing the ruins and filling in atop of all that.
It's a scary thought when one realizes Alabama already has the largest toxic landfills in the country while also realizing Bush has no respect for the environment at all. Literally what could happen here is to turn the Gulf Coast into a huge landfill to benefit the fifty states and providing an income trucking in tons upon tons of refuse only to leach to the Gulf Coast waters.
Realizing this is Bush compliments of every Southern and Bigoted Bubba via Rove anything is possible and probably will be.
The Moscow Times
Putin Calls Terror a Threat to Rights
Combined Reports
Rick Wilking / Reuters
President Vladimir Putin addressing the UN Assembly in New York on Thursday. He said the UN Security Council should focus on counter-terrorism efforts.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Terrorism is the main threat to human rights and development, and the UN Security Council must be at the center of global efforts to fight it, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday in his address to a United Nations summit.
But governments alone are not enough to counter the threat, Putin said. Religious and civic groups as well as media, cultural and humanitarian organizations must all play a role, he said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/001.html
Russia Today Television Misses Launch Date
By Stephen Boykewich
Staff Writer
Sergey Ponomarev / AP
Yury Novosyolov, left, Margarita Simonyan and Michael Alexander speaking at Russia Today's offices on Thursday.
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Russia Today, the state-funded English-language satellite television station, missed its planned launch date Thursday, and the station's directors worked to put a positive spin on what was instead the start of a round-the-clock technical rehearsal.
"Today, we're beginning the technical broadcast, but we don't want to give a definite date for the full launch now because of problems we may still encounter," Margarita Simonyan, Russia Today's 25-year-old editor, told reporters during a tour of the station's headquarters at the RIA-Novosti state news agency.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/002.html
Moscow will help Afghanistan whatever the election outcome - parliamentarian
RIA NOVOSTI. September 16, 2005, 8:43 PM
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will continue its assistance to Afghanistan regardless of the outcome of the September 18 parliamentary election, a member of Russia's upper house of parliament said Friday.
Mikhail Margelov, head of the foreign relations committee in the Federation Council, said the elections would legitimize democratic processes in Afghanistan, but would not bring "absolute stability."
It is unlikely that terrorist groups will stop operating in the country anytime soon, and its highland areas will remain a threat to regional security, Margelov said. This is why "the need for Russian involvement in Afghan internal processes will remain" in the years to come.
Margelov said Russia's objectives included hunting down remnants of the Taliban, preventing drug trafficking, and restoring stability to the country and the surrounding region
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/HotNews.html
Ex-President Yeltsin to have sutures removed Monday
RIA NOVOSTI. September 16, 2005, 8:05 PM
MOSCOW, September 16 (RIA Novosti) - First Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who underwent surgery for a hip fracture last week, will have sutures removed Monday, Valery Zolotov, chief physician at the Kremlin hospital, said Friday.
Yeltsin is expected to be discharged from the hospital early next week.
Zolotov said the former president was in "quite a satisfactory condition" and in "good spirits."
The doctor said Yeltsin was exercising and could walk with the help of crutches several times a day.
Yeltsin broke his hip while on vacation in Italy September 7
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/HotNews.html
Yukos Gets Bankruptcy Notification
By Catherine Belton
Staff Writer
Judit Polner / Bloomberg
Cars lining up for gas in Samara in August 2004. Yukos received a letter from a Gazprom unit declaring it bankrupt.
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Lawyers for Yukos were scrambling on Thursday to confirm whether a Gazprom subsidiary had filed a bankruptcy suit against the embattled oil major.
Gazprom subsidiary Orenburggeofizika said that Yukos had been declared bankrupt for nonpayment of debts, according to a letter to Yukos dated Sept. 14, a copy of which was obtained by The Moscow Times.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/041.html
Challenging Taboos
The first Russian staging of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" prompts some strong reactions from the audience.
By John Freedman
Published: September 16, 2005
I am of two sharply conflicted minds about Joel Lehtonen's production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues." On one hand it strikes me as one of the lamest pieces of theater I have seen in some time; on the other I was appalled, even indignant, about the reception many afforded it on opening night last week.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/109.html
Field of Dreams
The organizers of a Kremlin-backed exhibition devoted to contemporary Russian sculpture hope to see more such works in Moscow's public places.
By Brian Droitcour
Published: September 16, 2005
Don't let the horses out to graze: There's contemporary art in that there field. For "ArtPole," an exhibition organized by Aidan Gallery, two dozen sculptures have been arranged in a grassy 500-square-meter field belonging to the First Stud Farm, 25 kilometers outside of Moscow along the Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Shosse. Kremlin support for the exhibition has given hope to its organizers and sympathizers, who lament the lack of contemporary art in Moscow's public places and want their city to have something like the sculpture-filled fountain in front of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/102.html
Training Girls for Victory
A U.S.-made documentary profiles the dilapidated club that gave rise to Russia's reigning female tennis stars.
By Anna Malpas
Published: September 16, 2005
When Philip Johnston made his documentary "Anna's Army: Behind the Rise of Russian Women's Tennis," he geared it to appeal to viewers in his native United States. But the film, which traces the careers of players such as Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova, has now been picked up by a Russian television channel and will be shown this weekend.
The 51-minute film is due to air on Ren-TV Saturday, the same day that the national team begins playing in the final of the international women's team competition, the Fed Cup. In his documentary, Johnston focuses on the fact that three team members -- Anastasia Myskina, Yelena Dementyeva and Dinara Safina -- trained together with Kournikova as children at the same dilapidated Moscow club, Spartak.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/107.html
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