The Heat Transfer System of the Antarctica Vortex over Africa and South America.

The Summer is hot in the Southern Hemisphere. The Antarctica Vortex is carrying a lot of heat from the Equator to the South Polar Ice. This is the Equator of the West Pacific.

The continued view of the Southern Hemisphere heat transfer.

The weather in Antarctica is (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Antarctica

Scott Base

Fine

-5.0°

Updated Friday 28 Jan 9:59AM

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chimes) is:

34 °F / 1 °C Overcast

Windchill:
30 °F / -1 °C

Humidity:
87%

Dew Point:
30 °F / -1 °C

Wind:
5 mph / 7 km/h from the North

Pressure:
29.56 in / 1001 hPa

Visibility:
1.8 miles / 2.8 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 12

Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 397 ft / 121 m Overcast 1300 ft / 396 m

...HEAVY SNOW WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTH CENTRALPANHANDLE THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING...

Heat Vortex over Glacier Bay National Park.

Collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf due to Global Warming 

"Without Halliburton I don't know how the folks of the Caspian Sea ever turn a profit?" states Dick Cheney. 

Global Christianity is the ONLY way. No one else can get along with us otherwise ! Oil, without the world's oil we can never maintain the peace ! 

Polish soldiers crossing railroad tracks at Auschwitz as they prepare for commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Thursday.

 

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History, January 26 …

1302, Dante becomes a Florentine political exile

1556, born Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia

1593, Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno

1756, born in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer

1895, born Joseph Rosenstock Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra

1823 President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America

1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford VA

1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee

1880, The electric light bulb is patented by Thomas Edison.

1888, The National Geographic Society is established for the purpose of increasing and diffusing geographical knowledge.

1914, born Anna Larina revolutionary

1940, born Brian T O'Leary Boston MA, astronaut

1973 the United States, South Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government, and North Vietnam signed the Treaty of Paris, signaling an end to the Vietnam War.

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/

1945, born Mairead Corrigan-Maguire North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)

1945, The Soviet army marches into the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, liberating about 7600 prisoners abandoned there and Birkenau in Poland.

1948, born Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov, Soviet-born dancer, noted for his technical prowess and engaging stage personality.

1951, US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site; starting an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a 1-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.

1957, born Karen Kondazian Boston MA, actress (Irene-Shannon, Mortal Sins)

1967, Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

1967, more than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.

1969, 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria

1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris, creating a US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & military draft. Vietnam declared "Peace Day."

1977, President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)

1977, 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV

1985, the secret three-day military- satellite mission of the space shuttle Discovery ended with a landing in Florida.

1994, Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites

2000, President Clinton proposed a $350 billion tax cut in his final State of the Union address.

2004, John Kerry won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary.

2004, former "Tonight Show" host Jack Paar died at age 85.

The Moscow Times

Putin calls for fight against ethnic intolerance

Interfax. Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005, 2:55 PM Moscow Time

KRAKOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on world politicians to do whatever is necessary prevent a replay of the Holocaust tragedy and pledged that Russia will fight manifestations of ethnic intolerance.

"The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, but also a universal tragedy of humankind. The Holocaust showed how easy it is to break the safety catches that defend us from aggression," Putin said in Krakow on Thursday, speaking at an international forum marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops.

Survivors, State Leaders Gather at Auschwitz
By David McHugh
The Associated Press
Herbert Knosowski / AP

Polish soldiers crossing railroad tracks at Auschwitz as they prepare for commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Thursday.

OSWIECIM, Poland -- A spate of vandalism on Jewish graves in western Europe. Far-right legislators walking out of an Auschwitz remembrance in Germany. Comments by France's main rightist leader downplaying the evils of the Nazi occupation.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/27/003.html

PACE, Ustinov Face Off on Yukos
By Guy Faulconbridge
Staff Writer
Europe's top human rights watchdog harshly criticized Moscow's handling of the Yukos affair, prompting Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov on Wednesday to issue a sharp rebuttal and suggest that Yukos executives might face new charges.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/01/27/001.html

Russia won't send observers to Iraq

Interfax. Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005, 1:45 PM Moscow Time

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Russia is not planning to send observers to monitor the elections to the Iraqi Transitional National Assembly, because elementary security for foreign citizens cannot be guaranteed, the Foreign Ministry's press department told Interfax on Thursday.
"There are no conditions for Russian observers to take part in.

Tskhinvali, Tbilisi should discuss president's offer - Moscow

Interfax. Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005, 2:35 PM Moscow Time

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Tbilisi's new initiative on settling the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, which Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili voiced in Strasbourg on Wednesday, should first be discussed between the parties involved in existing settlement mechanisms, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

"It is obvious that, taking into account the continued tension in South Ossetia, where the situation dramatically worsened last summer following Tbilisi's attempt to solve the problem by force, it would be more efficient and correct to work out such far-reaching proposals together with the parties involved within the framework of the existing settlement mechanisms," it said

The Boston Globe

Two die in Braintree collapse
Crane structure falls on building at shipyard site
By and Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff January 27, 2005
BRAINTREE -- Two workers were killed and at least four others were injured yesterday when a portion of a 180-foot-tall craneway collapsed, sending tons of steel crashing onto an adjacent building that was being cleared of asbestos at the former Fore River Shipyard.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/27/two_die_in_braintree_collapse/

Fear clouding election in Sunni areas
By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff January 27, 2005
SAMARRA, Iraq -- Four months ago, insurgents operated with impunity in this ancient city along the Tigris, prompting US troops to storm it last October in a preview of the larger invasion of Fallujah in November.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/27/fear_clouding_election_in_sunni_areas/

1-month snowfall a 113-year high
$28m more asked to clear streets
By Glen Johnson and Michael Levenson, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent January 27, 2005
The dazzling oceanside setting that makes Cape Cod a tourist destination contributed yesterday to another furious onslaught of snow that fell from Falmouth to Provincetown, as Massachusetts endured a winter storm that helped set a record for the highest monthly snowfall in 113 years -- and left everyone from public-works crews to shop owners and motorists frazzled and fatigued.

http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/01/27/1_month_snowfall_a_113_year_high/

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Morning Papers - continued...

Despair. Don't you all recognize a miliary force in disarray? Fallujah was a failure. It destroyed a city, caused the withdrawal of Sunnis from the political arena in Iraq and then the USA military realized the people returning to Fallujah could easily be the people they wanted to defeat. There is 380 tonnes of high grade explosives on loose on Earth now. That is a direct result of Bush's Blundering. Enough of stupidity. Bring them home. Their purpose is too confused to continue.


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Darfur: Never again?

As the world prepares to commemorate Holocaust Day, crimes against humanity are still being committed in Darfur while diplomats bicker

By Anne Penketh / Independent

The attackers, as they have done so often, rampaged through terrified people, shouting "kill the slaves". They cried: "We have orders to kill all the blacks". Eight more villages in Darfur were torched in a single day by armed men in a concerted operation. No one knows how many were killed, but it is the latest evidence that inaction by the international community has emboldened the Janjaweed Arab militias and their backers in the Islamist government in Khartoum.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1161

("I can't believe the Republicans are campaigning against legislators elected by the people of this country.")

RNC Seeks Donations to Push Bush Agenda
"Past the Liberal Media Filter"

RNC Seeks Donations to Push Bush Agenda

By Sharon Theimer / Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Republican Party is following up record fund raising for President Bush's re-election effort by asking donors to finance its efforts to get Bush's message "past the liberal media filter" to the public.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1158

"But all our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying, you know, commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet," Bush said.

Bush Says Won't Pay Commentators to Promote Agenda

By Adam Entous / Reuters

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday ordered his Cabinet secretaries not to pay media commentators to promote his legislative agenda, saying payments by the Education Department were improper and new leadership was now in place.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1151

Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change

By David Adam / Guardian

Lobby groups funded by the US oil industry are targeting Britain in a bid to play down the threat of climate change and derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, leading scientists have warned.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1154

Blair Calls on U.S. to Take Climate Change Seriously

By Sean Maguire / Reuters

DAVOS, Switzerland - The United States, realizing it cannot defeat global threats like terrorism alone, must cooperate to fight other planetary challenges like climate change, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1159

Appeals Court to Revisit Cheney Lawsuit

By Sam Hananel / Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The legal fight over access to the records of Vice President Dick Cheney's 2001 energy task force is back before a federal appeals court, seven months after the Supreme Court sidestepped the issue.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1160

Rumsfeld's Top Policy Adviser to Quit

By Robert Burns / Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's top policy adviser said Wednesday he has informed Rumsfeld that he will leave his Pentagon position sometime this summer.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1152

The Washington Post

Civil Service System on Way Out at DHS

White House Wants All Agencies to Have Option of Setting Own Personnel Policies

By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01
The Bush administration unveiled a new personnel system for the Department of Homeland Security yesterday that will dramatically change the way workers are paid, promoted, deployed and disciplined -- and soon the White House will ask Congress to grant all federal agencies similar authority to rewrite civil service rules governing their employees.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39934-2005Jan26.html

Bush Describes 'Ending Tyranny' As Ideal, Not Shift

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01

President Bush yesterday characterized his Inauguration Day goal of "ending tyranny in our world" as a long-term ideal rather than a new policy redefining U.S. relations with repressive governments, as he ratcheted back expectations of a more muscular approach to spreading freedom abroad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37761-2005Jan26.html

Iraqi Sheik Struggles for Votes, And Against Religious Tradition

By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01

YUSUFAN, Iraq -- In the tribal meeting hall known as a diwan, on the edge of a forest of irrigated date palms in southern Iraq, Sheik Adnan Aidani grasped a stack of leaflets touting his underdog campaign. He had printed 2,000 of them. On any day, he extols the virtues of voting for him to dozens of skeptical followers, as they sip tea under portraits of his ancestors who led the tribe. His six sons said they corral anyone they meet. Their plea: Choose our father's list.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39853-2005Jan26.html

THIS IS BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION - Lasers are light. I am confident cockpit pilots can be fit with reflective eyewear to prevent laser blindness. I mean when I am on an icefield or snow field I have 'Category 4 Polarized' eyewear to prevent 'white blindness,' there isn't anything of that nature or better to bounce laser light off eyeglasses or cockpit windshield. Come on, who is kidding who here? NASA !!!

Laser Pointer Abuse Threatens Air Safety

By David A. Fahrenthold and Timothy Dwyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01

To astronomers, the new breed of hand-held laser pointer is a way to write in the sky, its two-mile-long beam allowing them to trace constellations and point out individual stars. To a lost hiker, the laser is a lifeline to a search and rescue team overhead. To a "Star Wars" fan, it is a prop for playing a lightsaber-wielding Jedi knight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39961-2005Jan26.html

11 Iraqis, One Marine Killed in Pre-Election Violence

By Sameer N. Yacoub
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; 6:40 AM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Eleven Iraqis and one U.S. Marine were killed Thursday as insurgents clashed with U.S. troops and blew up a school slated to serve as a polling center. The pre-election violence followed the deadliest day for U.S. troops since the war's start. Another U.S. soldier died in an accident.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40777-2005Jan27.html

30 Marines, Sailor Die In Copter Crash in Iraq
Six Other Troops Killed in Deadliest Day for U.S.

By Cameron W. Barr and Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A01

BAGHDAD, Jan. 26 -- A Marine Corps transport helicopter crashed during a sandstorm in western Iraq early Wednesday, killing 30 Marines and a sailor in the deadliest single event for U.S. forces since they invaded Iraq nearly two years ago. Four more Marines and two soldiers died in attacks, bringing to 37 the U.S. toll for the day.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36938-2005Jan26.html

In Hawaii, Time to Grieve Yet Again
Crash in Iraq Is Latest Setback for Military Town

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2005; Page A12

The helicopter crash in the western Iraqi desert yesterday was the deadliest single event in the Iraq war for U.S. troops, and officials said it dealt a particularly hard blow to a small military community in Hawaii, which had already seen 18 Marines die in Iraq since late October.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40002-2005Jan26.html

The Gulf News

UN is finally asserting itself

Although it is early days yet, this could well turn out to be the year of the UN. Not generally known for standing up to American pressure, and sometimes, even outright bullying, the United Nations has been giving some encouraging signs of asserting itself. One of the clearest of these came last October in Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statement that the United States had invaded Iraq in the absence of a second Security Council resolution.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149441

State of the Union speech will hint at Bush agenda

By George S. Hishmeh, Special to Gulf News

United States President George W. Bush was denied smooth sailing on the otherwise festive Inauguration Day last Thursday. This was because his trusted aide, Condoleezza Rice, was not quickly confirmed, as was expected, as the country's 66th Secretary of State.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149439

Sudanese air force bombs people in Darfur

AP
Cairo: The Sudanese air force bombed villagers in South Darfur yesterday, the African Union reported. An international aid organization said casualties were inflicted.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149552

US wants Syria's support

Reuters
Cairo: Washington wants Syria and others in the Middle East to support peace moves between Palestinians and Israelis, which would help move the region closer to a comprehensive deal, US envoy William Burns said yesterday.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149475

Extremists held in Oman sweep, say diplomats

AP
Muscat: Omani authorities have arrested more than 100 suspected extremists across the country following unconfirmed reports they were planning to target a shopping and cultural festival, diplomats said yesterday.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149449

"THIS IS A REALITY CHECK. I Think he's right to point a finger at the USA. We are the aggressors. Pre-emption is a lie to freedom and democracy. There can be no freedom, peace or democracy with occupying Pre-Emptive war. Bush is a liar."

Khatami says US tops list of countries that are endangering world peace

Reuters
Tehran: President Mohammad Khatami, responding to comments by a senior US official that Iran tops the list of world trouble spots, said yesterday that the United States was the country which most endangered global peace.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149469

Fear of militants and attacks mar poll hopes for women

Reuters
Baghdad: Doctor Samira stopped driving her car to the clinic months ago.
Each time she steps onto the streets of Baghdad to see patients, she covers her hair with a scarf to avoid abuse or even violence.

Pasted from <http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149478>

Kuwaiti mosques free of extremists, says minister

By Nirmala Janssen, Correspondent
Kuwait City: Kuwait's Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has lambasted extremism as an imported phenomenon and said religious fundamentalism has no place in country's moderate society.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149465

Palestinian forces to take over five West Bank cities

Agencies
Ramallah, West Bank/Gaza: Palestinian security forces will take over control in five towns and cities in the West Bank from the Israeli army within the next 10 days, a senior Palestinian security official said yesterday.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149474

Qatar study warns against marriage among cousins

By Barbara Bibbo', Correspondent
Doha: Children whose parents are cousins are more likely to suffer from asthma, diabetes and other severe diseases, a study has found. More than half of all marriages among Qataris are between cousins.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149466

Yemen trial set for 14 Al Qaida suspects

Reuters
Sanaa: A Yemeni court is to hear a case next month involving 14 Al Qaida suspects accused of involvement in attacks in the Arab country, a government party website said.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=149553

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The Cheney Observer of Morning Papers - continued.

Cheney Calls New Ukraine President Ally

Wednesday January 26, 2005 11:16 PM
AP Photo JF108
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney voiced his support Wednesday for Ukraine's new president, and his bright orange tie - symbolic of Viktor Yushchenko's ``Orange Revolution'' - drove home the message.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4758443,00.html


SO, Yushchenko is Dick’s personal ally. How nice. It will be far more interesting to find The Ukraine as part of NATO than on Dick’s Christmas Card List.


Rein in Cheney

by Ray McGovern

Quick! Anyone! Who can put the brakes on Vice President Dick Cheney before we have another war on our hands? Current and former intelligence analysts are reacting with wonderment and apprehension to his remarks last week in an interview with Don Imus. Cheney made questionable claims about Iran's nuclear program and resuscitated his spinning on why attacking Iraq was the prudent thing to do.

http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=4588


Question to Bush on reform recalls '97 Texas property tax vote

BY G. ROBERT HILLMANThe Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - President Bush was drawn back to Texas for a moment Wednesday during his White House news conference.

A Texas reporter, recalling Bush's battle as governor to cut property taxes, told him: "You tried to get out front and tell people it's not a crisis now, it's going to be a crisis down the line, you went down in flames."

Responding quickly, Bush replied: "I don't think a billion-dollar tax relief (plan) that permanently reduced property taxes on senior citizens was flames.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/10742289.htm?1c


America suffers bloodiest day as Bush calls on Iraqis to defy the insurgents

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad and Kim Sengupta in Shaiba
27 January 2005

Just four days before Iraq's historic elections, 36 US soldiers were killed yesterday in the deadliest single day for American forces since they invaded Iraq almost two years ago.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=604944


Hi-Noon Petroleum to Sell Seven Convenience Stores to CHS

Wednesday January 26, 10:28 am ET

MISSOULA, Mont., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hi-Noon Petroleum, Inc., owner and operator of Noon's Food Stores, announced today it will sell seven convenience stores in Montana to CHS Inc. (Nasdaq: CHSCP - News), a diversified Fortune 500 company in energy, grains and foods that markets and distributes Cenex® brand energy products.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050126/cgw036_1.html


Petroleum lobby squeezes state to end ethanol rule

Air quality is only one factor in a push to ax a requirement for the costly, cleaner burning additive

Wednesday, January 26, 2005
MICHELLE COLE

Stephanie Hallock's warning was blunt. If the petroleum industry didn't get relief from a rule requiring Portland-area service stations to blend gasoline with a cleaner burning additive during winter, there would be consequences.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1106744473309131.xml


Key Dig files missingBy Casey RossWednesday, January 26, 2005

Critical Big Dig documents have disappeared from computer files maintained by Massachusetts Turnpike officials and private managers who have impeded efforts to investigate construction blunders, according to a state judge and sources.

One investigator told the Herald that Massachusetts Turnpike officials have denied requests for e-mail messages, saying they could not be extracted from the agency's computer system.

``They told us the data couldn't be recovered,'' said the source. A Big Dig cost-recovery judge has issued a report saying access to other records has been ``closed down'' by Bechtel/Parsons

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=65323


OPEC May Postpone Production Cuts as Oil Nears $50 a Barrel

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which agreed to reduce output by 4 percent last month, may postpone further reduction plans at a meeting in Vienna as prices return close to $50 a barrel.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aQyJ3uWBrIAk&refer=home

Broken pipeline spills 63,000 gallons of oil into Kentucky River; could affect drinking water
BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
(01-26) 18:23 PST CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP)

A pipeline broke and spilled an estimated 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kentucky River early Wednesday, creating a 12-mile-long slick that crews were racing to contain to keep it from contaminating drinking water.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/01/26/national1822EST0772.DTL

Oil curse stalks Africa's new petro-state
By Michael Peel Published: January 27 2005 00:17 Last updated: January 27 2005 00:17

In the dilapidated Portuguese cocoa plantation houses at Agua Ize, São Tomé and Principe, residents gather under a rotting roof to avoid the rain. Above their heads, offering a tantalising glimpse of a world beyond the surrounding dank disrepair, an old election campaign poster hints at the country's anticipated oil boom. “It is now!” says the propaganda of the opposition Party of Democratic Convergence, pledging “better sharing of resources”.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8d39dd48-6ff5-11d9-850d-00000e2511c8.html

Global warming may be twice as bad as feared

By Mark Henderson

THE impact of global warming could be twice as severe as the worst scenario feared by United Nations scientists, the world’s largest climate-modelling experiment has shown. Average temperatures could rise by 11C (20F) to reach highs that would change the face of the globe, researchers who have run 60,000 computer simulations of climate change said yesterday.
The conclusions suggest that forecasts by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be much too conservative. In the worst case, the world would eventually heat up by almost double the maximum increase envisaged by the panel. The IPCC’s latest report predicted that temperatures will rise by between 1.4C (2.5F) and 5.8C (10.4F) by 2100.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1458347,00.html


Devil demands pride of place on Wal-Mart shelf

VIVEK SINHATIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2005 01:13:17 AM

NEW DELHI: Mirc Electronics — the second largest Indian manufacturer of colour televisions— has initiated the first step towards a deal with Wal-Mart for putting made-in-India televisions on the shelves of the largest retailer in the world.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1001992.cms

Halliburton Completes Funding Asbestos Settlements

NEW YORK - Halliburton Co. Tuesday said it completed funding its asbestos liability settlements, marking the end of a long-running legal tussle in the oilfield service company's history.

The Houston-based company's asbestos liabilities had long been a drag on its share price and forced two of its units -- Kellogg Brown & Root and DII Industries -- to file for bankruptcy in December 2003.

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29211/story.htm

Corporations & securities brief ~ SEC reconsiders Sarbanes-Oxley impact on foreign corporations Amit Patel at 2:26 PM

[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, SEC Chairman William Donaldson [SEC biography] stated in a speech today that the agency is considering changes to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act [text, PDF] to ease burden on foreign companies. Companies in both Europe and the US have complained of the costs to meet the act's requirements. European companies also contend that some of the regulations conflict with EU practices. Donaldson has asked the SEC staff to "consider whether to recommend that we delay the effective date of the internal control on financial reporting requirements for non-US companies" in wake of the complaints. Read the text of Donaldson's speech. AP has more.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/01/corporations-securities-brief-sec_25.php

AFL-CIO targets Bush Social Security plan

By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff January 26, 2005

With rallies today in the financial districts of Boston and San Francisco, the AFL-CIO will launch a nationwide grass-roots campaign against President Bush's Social Security plan, arguing that scandal-ridden financial services firms in Boston and other cities should not be entrusted with private retirement accounts.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/26/afl_cio_targets_bush_social_security_plan/

The Drums of War, Again

Re "U.S. Adds Israel to the Iran Equation," Jan. 21: I believe the time has come for sober Americans to seriously begin to question whether the obsession of Vice President Dick Cheney (among others) with spreading further war in the Middle East has slipped past mere hawkishness and crossed the boundary into genuine mental illness. He has become this administration's very definition of warmonger.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-iran25jan25,1,1683502.story?coll=la-news-comment-letters&ctrack=1&cset=true

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They didn't know they were being taken to an internment camp to die.

People lighting candles along the train tracks leading to Auschwitz to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation Thursday.

Haaretz

World leaders gather in Auschwitz, 60 years after liberation

By Aviva Lori, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service, and the Associated Press

Referring to Auschwitz as "the capital of the kingdom of death," President Moshe Katsav asked at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation Thursday whether the memory of the Holocaust had lost its power to deter further acts of anti-Semitism.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/532497.html

Sharon to meet Abbas, present goodwill gestures

By Aluf Benn and Arnon Regular

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia in about two weeks and present a package of steps and goodwill gestures to help strengthen the new leadership and encourage them to continue efforts to prevent terror.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/532448.html

WHAT KIND OF DEMANDS will the USA make on Israel next? Reasonable ones? And if Israel doesn’t DO what the USA ‘demands’ what then? I thought the settlements and the withdrawals were between Palestine and Israel not the USA and Israel. I think Bush’s White House takes to high a tone for a country so off track in their political policies.

U.S. gov't official: Israel must stop building in the settlements

By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters

WASHINGTON - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield on Thursday called on Israel to stop all construction and development in the settlements, saying such activity damages Israel's own interests.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/533003.html

The legacy of Auschwitz

By Samuel Pisar

Sixty years ago today the Russians liberated Auschwitz, as the Americans approached Dachau. The Allied advance revealed to a stunned world the horrors of the greatest catastrophe ever to befall our civilization. For a survivor of both death factories, where Hitler's gruesome reality eclipsed Dante's imaginary inferno, being alive and well so many years later feels unreal.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/532464.html

The Seattle Post Intelligencer

Boeing wins key 7E7 order from China

By JAMES WALLACESEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

The Boeing Co. has finally won a key 7E7 order from a group of Chinese airlines for as many as 60 planes.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/209652_boe27ww.html

GOP says 300 voted illegally

By NEIL MODIESEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Republicans have confirmed that 240 convicted felons and 60 other people voted illegally in the election that Democrat Christine Gregoire won by 129 votes, state GOP Chairman Chris Vance said yesterday.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/209591_revote27.html


State had 'big file' on child who diedCase of 4-year-old in Lake Stevens is investigated

By CLAUDIA ROWE AND CHRISTINE FREYSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS

A 4-year-old who died last week at her Lake Stevens home had repeatedly come to the attention of state child welfare workers as an alleged victim of abuse or neglect and spent time in foster care before being returned to live with her family, authorities said yesterday.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/209596_childdeath27.html

Golf courses opening because of unusual weather

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The lack of snow in the Spokane area may have skiers teed off, but it has golfers teeing off - at least six golf courses have opened in recent days.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=GLF%20Winter%20Golf&searchdiff=0&searchpagefrom=1

Body of NYC cabbie found after blizzard

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK -- The body of a 70-year-old cab driver lay undiscovered for three days after snow from a blizzard encased his car, blocking the view inside, police said.
Rich countries poach doctors from Africa

Rich countries poach doctors from Africa

By DULUE MBACHUASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Lagos Island Hospital lost two of its best surgeons and several nurses to Gulf nations, Europe and America last year, leaving it in a dire situation shared by hospitals across the developing world.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Africa%20Migration

White House won't appeal media ruling

By GENARO C. ARMASASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will not ask the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that struck down the Federal Communication Commission's sweeping changes of media ownership rules.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Media%20Ownership

London explains arrest of Gitmo detainees

By ROBERT BARRASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LONDON -- Police arrested four British citizens freed from Guantanamo Bay based on available intelligence, though they were released without charge a day later, London's police chief said Thursday.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Britain%20Guantanamo

The Jerusalem Post

Sharon: 'We are on verge of historic breakthrough'

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday that Israel and the Palestinians were on a verge of an historic breakthrough in relations.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106796049396

Speaking at a conference of the Contractors' Association in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, the prime minister said, "If the Palestinians act forcefully to disband terror groups and put an end to violence and incitement, we could move forward in our contacts to implement the Road Map."

Mubarak phones Sharon, praises positive atmosphere

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak telephoned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday in order to congratulate him on the positive atmosphere that has been created in the region in thewake of the dialogue with the Palestinians, the Prime Minister's Office said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106848122494

The Russian Missiles in the Area is due to Bush’s aggression against Iran. Bush is making the USA a permanent fixture in the region and Russia feels every country should be armed to protect their sovereignty. Those missiles are most likely not for aggression against Israel so much as defense from the USA. In placing the missile sales to Syria on hold following a phone conversation between Putin and Sharon, would Israel be willing to provide a treaty with an understanding an alliance between Israel and Syria also include a defense of Syria if needed? Are these two countries capable of that level trust and compassion? I think Israel is capable of providing missile defense for Syria is the need arose through an alliance. Why can’t that happen? The two countries need to settle border disputes and be better neighbors. It is upto Israel to resolve it’s security issues. I know the Prime Minister is capable.

Putin to 'Post': Missile deal possible

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post, Thursday, refused to rule out his country's sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, insisting that such missiles served defensive purposes only and would not affect the balance of forces in the region.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1106796048843

The Los Angeles Times

Murder Counts Filed in Metrolink Derailment

The man whose apparently aborted suicide attempt caused a commuter train to derail, leading to a crash that killed at least 11 people, has been charged with murder, the district attorney said today.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-012705train_lat,0,6934146.story?coll=la-home-headlines

The Auschwitz Imperative

The mass slaughter of Germany's Jews, 1.5 million at Auschwitz alone, was not incidental to Hitler's war aims, but their purest expression. This has long been an accepted historical truth, except in the strange world of the United Nations. This hole in history gave extra significance to a special General Assembly session Monday in which Secretary-General Kofi Annan broke with decades of disgraceful U.N. silence, enforced by anti- Semitic Arab states, about the murder of the Jews: "The United Nations must never forget that it was created as a response to the evil of Nazism, or that the horror of the Holocaust helped to shape its mission." Those words are true and overdue.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-auschwitz27jan27,0,646355.story

concluding at the beginning with satellites.