Bush Exit Strategy
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Morning Papers - continued...
The China Daily
South Korea ready for 'diplomatic war' with Japan
(CRI)
Updated: 2005-03-24 17:08
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun says his country is ready for a "diplomatic war" with Japan as tensions flared between the neighbours over a territorial row and a Japanese textbook critics say whitewashes Japan's militarism.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427897.htm
Cross-Straits ties threatened by protest
By Xing Zhigang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-24 23:41
Cross-Straits relations may worsen if secessionist forces in Taiwan challenge the newly-passed Anti-Secession Law, leading mainland researchers warned Thursday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427916.htm
Kim invites Chinese president for a visit
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-24 23:41
China and the DPRK are working on a schedule for a visit by President Hu Jintao.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with North Korean Premier Pak Pong-ju at the Fujian Hall in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing March 23, 2005. [Reuters]
The invitation from the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong-il, was conveyed by Premier Pak Bong-ju, who is now visiting China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427917.htm
Beijing unveils security plan for Olympics
By Li Jing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-23 23:14
Beijing, the host city for the 2008 Olympic Games, yesterday gave details of its Olympic security scheme, which will play an over-arching role in preparations for the sports gathering.
Chinese security personnel listen to a speech on security issues affecting the 2008 Olympics, in Beijing, March 23, 2005. The construction of the 2008 Olympic venues is in progress as the National Olympic Stadium, dubbed the "birds nest" because of its unusual design, will begin construction this week. [Reuters]
The massive scheme involves the participation of almost all the security organizations around the city.
This includes public security, national security and the armed police.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/23/content_427550.htm
EU official calls China embargo 'unfair'
(Agencies/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-03-24 07:38
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Maintaining the European Union's 15-year arms embargo against China is "unfair," and European leaders are leaning toward lifting it, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Wednesday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427647.htm
The Cheney Observer
The biggest robberies
John Dillinger was a tough bank robber to catch. The F.B.I. ended his career ambushing him in Chicago. But the biggest bank heist ever resulted from Reagan deregulating the savings and loan industry. White collar crooks stuck taxpayers for $1.4 trillion through unsecured insider loans. Neil and Jeb Bush were implicated but never investigated along with many others. Savings and loan crimes were buried by Desert Storm hysteria. The latest White House scam is "reforming" Social Security which is basically a public trust bank account. But both parties of Congress have already "borrowed" $180 billion from Social Security for general fund spending. Now "conservatives" are increasing spending and creating record debt with radical tax breaks for the elite along with the cost of occupying Iraq. WMD lies started an unholy war of mass deception handing out a billion dollars per week to no-bid war profiteers. The public is being robbed. Privatizing S.S. will only fatten stock market sharks and cost trillions in bureaucratic overhead while draining retirement funds. We need a responsible democracy in America instead of colonizing Iraq for oil corporations. Too bad Hoover's not around to nab the new breed of bank robbers in Washington.
John Smart
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/03/13/opinions/a04031305_02.txt
E. Pringle: Labeling Kids Mentally Ill For Profit
Monday, 14 March 2005, 12:19 pm
Opinion: Evelyn Pringle
Bush - Labeling Kids Mentally Ill For Profit
By Evelyn Pringle
Miamisburg Ohio
Citing recommendations by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC), Bush wants to launch a nationwide mental illness screening program in government institutions, including the public school system, for all students from kindergarten up to the 12th grade.
The New Freedom Commission was established by an Executive Order Bush issued on April 29, 2002. According to a July 22, 2003, press release, the Commission recommends transforming America’s mental health care system.
“Achieving this goal will require greater engagement and education of first line health care providers - primary care practitioners - and a greater focus on mental health care in institutions such as schools, child welfare programs, and the criminal and juvenile justice systems. The goal is integrated care that can screen, identify, and respond to problems early,” the Commission’s press release stated.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00111.htm
This was when CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown was still a Global Program as well as domestic. It no longer ventures outside the USA very much for a Well Rounded Citizenry. At any rate this was when David Bohrman was the Executive Producer and you can't get better than that. His 'RESCUE' of the nation was classic to his ability to deliver timely coverage when he moved Aaron Brown to the rooftop across the river from the burning and fallen World Trade Towers. That level of expertise no longer exists at NewsNight and the show seeks only manipulation of the public through the political Christian Agenda of the Religious Right.
I used to love that show. Now, it's a news hour for pansies.
The Anthrax Thing
Kindly remember prior to this was September 11, 2001.
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 10, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: When it was one person, it seemed possible it was an innocent if bizarre coincidence. When a second person was exposed to anthrax, innocent explanations were a stretch for even the optimists among us. Now there are three and a criminal investigation. And while all the responsible parties say, be calm, who can honestly say there isn't a knot in the pit of your stomach when you think about this anthrax case?
So we see this building in South Florida differently tonight. This is a crime, scene pure and simple. The killer remains unknown and the weapon, anthrax, remains invisible. It is the fear that is palpable.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/asb.00.html
America Strikes Back: Anthrax Alert
Aired October 12, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. Truth be told, my favorite part of the day comes about an hour before this program, where I sit and write this page. It's a chance to pretty much say what I want, in the way I want to say it. And the fact is I don't know what to say tonight, because in many ways, I am as confused, as anxious, as angry as anyone. Not exactly the frame of mind a reporter likes to find himself in.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/12/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 16, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. If you're keeping track, it has been five weeks now. There are too many numbers to keep track of. The thousands who died on September 11th, the tens of thousands who have lost their jobs since. There are the thousands of military men and women involved in the war effort, thousands of reservists waiting. There are the number of bombing runs, the number of missiles fired, numbers all.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/16/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 17, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone.
At one point today, we were told some members of Congress, some members in the leadership sat down and discussed whether they might need another place to meet, a place that wasn't the floor of the House or Senate, a place that wasn't the Capitol. This is not a dream: This is a the United States as we have never known it and it is unsettling.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/17/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 23, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. Here is a straight lead -- we don't do many straight leads. But this is the way the big time newspapers would write it: The President of the United States, George W. Bush, had to say today -- quote -- "I don't have anthrax." And I thought some of the questions asked of President Clinton were a little strange.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/23/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 24, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. One of our writers, Linda Keenan, observed today one of those things that is a potent reminder of how quickly we humans adapt. When word came today that another employee at the "New York Post," whose offices are not far from here, had the skin form of anthrax, nobody paid much attention. Believe me, a week ago we would have paid a lot of attention.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/24/asb.00.html
America's New War: The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 29, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, again, everyone.
Well, another week, another threat. It's almost as if the terrorists were worried we would be bored by anthrax by now. You probably heard that Attorney General John Ashcroft stepped before the microphones today to say the government has received credible threats of yet another possible terrorist attack. No details offered, because he said no details known. And he added he hoped all Americans would carry on their lives normally.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/29/asb.00.html
Ex-official of Halliburton is charged with fraud
Bid-rigging scheme, kickback alleged
By Ray Long and Andrew Zajac, Tribune staff reporters. Ray Long reported from Springfield and Andrew Zajac from Washington; national correspondent Dahleen Glanton contributed from Atlanta
Published March 18, 2005
SPRINGFIELD -- A former manager of a Halliburton Inc. subsidiary and a Kuwaiti businessman have been charged with bilking taxpayers out of more than $3.5 million in a bid-rigging scheme involving fuel trucks for U.S. military operations in the Middle East.
The 10-count indictment alleged that the worker, Jeff Alex Mazon, joined Ali Hijazi, a top official with a Kuwaiti-based contractor, in a 2003 plan to alter bids so that Hijazi's company would win fuel tanker business.
Mazon allegedly received a $1 million kickback from Hijazi for changing bids to ensure that LaNouvelle General Trading and Contracting Co. received the contract. That allowed the firm to supply the tankers for KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary doing much of the firm's Iraqi reconstruction work.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503180221mar18,1,3035297.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Haliburton Bahamian Style
Does it disturb anyone that Kerr Mc Gee’s legal representation is none other than Philip “Brave” Davis of Davis and Co., formerly Christie Davis and Co., the Prime Minister’s former partner and firm?
Not unlike the contracts awarded the Bush administrations cronies in the rebuilding of Iraq like the one awarded Haliburton, it seems we have our own Haliburton – Bahamian style. Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States, who served as Haliburton Energy’s, CEO until 2000, did $73 million business with Iraq between 1998 and 2000. “Today he draws compensation of up to a million dollars a year from the company, although his spokesperson denies that the White House helped the company win the contract”. (Corpwatch)
Kerr Mc Gee’s legal representation is none other than Philip “Brave” Davis of Davis and Co., formerly Christie Davis and Co., the Prime Minister’s former partner and firm. Does this disturb anyone? The Tribune’s June 16 2003 Government notice of application for licenses for oil exploration for Kerr Mc Gee is dated 1987.
Last week David Christian Vice President of Kerr McGee led us down the garden path, saying that because they have done this kind of exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, that an EIA is not a necessity in the Blake Plateau in the northern Bahamas. Doesn’t it bother anyone that we are now taking developers/investors word regarding the necessity of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)? Since when does the developer/investor dictate to the Bahamas what is needed for a development to proceed? In today’s world given all that has been learned regarding human impact on the environment there is NO reason for Kerr Mc Gee’s not to conduct an EIA for seismic testing.
If we follow Mr. Christians’ logic then we could virtually do away with harassing developers for an EIA, since to have performed an EIA for a development in New Providence should mean that we would not have to have one done for a development in Exuma. This is completely absurd and utter hogwash. One would think that a global corporation that boasts environmental responsibility, Kerr Mc Gee would demonstrate the same high standards of environmental review that its company claims to practice at home.
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=2084
Rebuilding Iraq a big, slow job
Under constant threat of sabotage, up to 200 U.S. companies are hard at work patching a nation together
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/20/BUGMGBS0MB1.DTL
Cheney again emerges from the shadows
By BILL STRAUB
Scripps Howard News Service
March 23, 2005
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney, who has avoided the spotlight since taking the oath of office for a second term more than two months ago, is once again stepping from the shadows to tout President Bush's Social Security plan and boost White House foreign policy goals.
Cheney is in the midst of a tour that will carry him to Bakersfield, Calif.; Reno, Nev.; and McCandless, Pa., to promote the administration's plan for a national retirement program, a package that polls show hasn't caught on with the voting public.
And he's speaking with reporters again, telling the Washington Post on Tuesday that recent diplomatic appointments, like the nomination of John R. Bolton to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will bring about needed changes in the world body.
The 64-year-old Cheney emerged during the first Bush term as the president's top adviser, especially in the area of foreign affairs where he is considered a hawk on the war on terror and Iraq. He also devised the president's energy policy, which recently received support when the Senate voted to approve drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a key component.
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=CHENEY-03-23-05&cat=PP
Cheney attacks Powell, says U.S. diplomacy very weak until now
Big News Network.com Wednesday 23rd March, 2005
U.S. diplomacy has been very weak up until now says Vice President Dick Cheney.
Commenting on proposed appointments of hard-liners John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz Cheney said, "If we are going to be successful long-term in the war on terror and in the broader objective of promoting freedom and democracy in (Arab and Muslim parts) of the world, we have to get the public diplomacy piece of it right. Up until now, that has been a very weak part of our arsenal."
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=680a5e06ff7ea5c0
The Jordan Times
Mustafa Mahmoud sets off on Mount Everest expedition
By Reem Halasa
Mahmoud with fellow mountaineers on the road to Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, earlier this year (Photo courtesy Mustafa Mahmoud)
AMMAN — With six summits behind him, the biggest challenge now remaining for Jordan's sole mountaineer Mustafa Mahmoud, is Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews4.htm
Lebanon's blast stokes fears of communal violence
Lebanese internal security forces on Wednesday inspect a ruined commercial centre following an explosion in the coastal nightlife and shopping district of Kaslik, 20 km north of Beirut (AFP photo by Ramzi Haidar)
BEIRUT (Reuters) — A powerful bomb tore through a shopping mall in the anti-Syrian Christian heartland north of Beirut on Wednesday, killing three Asian workers and bringing Lebanon closer to chaos weeks before general elections.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news1.htm
Hariri investigation may be needed — Annan
ALGIERS (Reuters) — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday a more in-depth investigation may be needed into the killing of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri than a UN report due to be released shortly.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news5.htm
Sharon overcomes key hurdle to Gaza pullout
A Gazan woman living in an old cemetery wash her laundry next to a grave on Wedensday (AFP photo by Mahmud Hams)
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a key vote on Wednesday over a state budget he must push through parliament by the end of the month or face a snap election that would threaten his plan to pull out of Gaza.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news11.htm
Gov't crisis deepens as warlords want impeachment
NAIROBI (AFP) — The crisis over the relocation from exile of Somalia's transitional government deepened Wednesday as powerful warlords said they would move to impeach President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
Warlords controlling Somalia's bullet-scarred capital of Mogadishu said they would introduce a no-confidence motion against Yusuf in parliament and seek his removal for allegedly violating the lawless country's transitional charter.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news8.htm
Forgotten Sudanese forced out to desert camp
By Opheera McDoom
Reuters
AL FATHA — Amna Kody holds up her infected leg and pleads for some pills to stop the pain. But there are no doctors in Al Fatha where Sudanese authorities have forcibly relocated thousands of people taking refuge near Khartoum.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news9.htm
Navy Seals sue AP, reporter over Iraq photos
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Five US Navy SEALs and the wife of one of the men have sued The Associated Press and a San Diego-based reporter, claiming the news organisation endangered their lives and invaded their privacy by publishing photos of the elite unit apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news10.htm
The mirage of state building
Rima Merriman
In occupied Palestine, you hear the mantra of “capacity building” over and over again, wherever you go. There is high unemployment, but there is also a rising demand for skilled workers, and those workers are in short supply.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion5.htm
'Kingdom has lowest percentage of TB cases in region'
AMMAN (Petra) — Recent Health Ministry statistics indicate that the Kingdom has the least number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the region.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews10.htm
World Bank to extend $15 million loan for Public Sector Reform Programme
AMMAN (JT) — The World Bank board of executive directors agreed on Tuesday to extend a $15 million loan to help Jordan execute the third stage of its Public Sector Reform Programme, a senior official announced yesterday.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews9.htm
Witness testifies that Jayyousi bought laboratory equipment, sulphuric acid
AMMAN (JT) — An employee of a laboratory supply company testified on Wednesday in the case of nine men standing trial at the State Security Court (SSC) accused of attempting to carry out the first ever Al Qaeda chemical attack in the Kingdom.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews5.htm
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South Korea ready for 'diplomatic war' with Japan
(CRI)
Updated: 2005-03-24 17:08
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun says his country is ready for a "diplomatic war" with Japan as tensions flared between the neighbours over a territorial row and a Japanese textbook critics say whitewashes Japan's militarism.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427897.htm
Cross-Straits ties threatened by protest
By Xing Zhigang (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-24 23:41
Cross-Straits relations may worsen if secessionist forces in Taiwan challenge the newly-passed Anti-Secession Law, leading mainland researchers warned Thursday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427916.htm
Kim invites Chinese president for a visit
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-24 23:41
China and the DPRK are working on a schedule for a visit by President Hu Jintao.
Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with North Korean Premier Pak Pong-ju at the Fujian Hall in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing March 23, 2005. [Reuters]
The invitation from the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong-il, was conveyed by Premier Pak Bong-ju, who is now visiting China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427917.htm
Beijing unveils security plan for Olympics
By Li Jing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-03-23 23:14
Beijing, the host city for the 2008 Olympic Games, yesterday gave details of its Olympic security scheme, which will play an over-arching role in preparations for the sports gathering.
Chinese security personnel listen to a speech on security issues affecting the 2008 Olympics, in Beijing, March 23, 2005. The construction of the 2008 Olympic venues is in progress as the National Olympic Stadium, dubbed the "birds nest" because of its unusual design, will begin construction this week. [Reuters]
The massive scheme involves the participation of almost all the security organizations around the city.
This includes public security, national security and the armed police.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/23/content_427550.htm
EU official calls China embargo 'unfair'
(Agencies/chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2005-03-24 07:38
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Maintaining the European Union's 15-year arms embargo against China is "unfair," and European leaders are leaning toward lifting it, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Wednesday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/24/content_427647.htm
The Cheney Observer
The biggest robberies
John Dillinger was a tough bank robber to catch. The F.B.I. ended his career ambushing him in Chicago. But the biggest bank heist ever resulted from Reagan deregulating the savings and loan industry. White collar crooks stuck taxpayers for $1.4 trillion through unsecured insider loans. Neil and Jeb Bush were implicated but never investigated along with many others. Savings and loan crimes were buried by Desert Storm hysteria. The latest White House scam is "reforming" Social Security which is basically a public trust bank account. But both parties of Congress have already "borrowed" $180 billion from Social Security for general fund spending. Now "conservatives" are increasing spending and creating record debt with radical tax breaks for the elite along with the cost of occupying Iraq. WMD lies started an unholy war of mass deception handing out a billion dollars per week to no-bid war profiteers. The public is being robbed. Privatizing S.S. will only fatten stock market sharks and cost trillions in bureaucratic overhead while draining retirement funds. We need a responsible democracy in America instead of colonizing Iraq for oil corporations. Too bad Hoover's not around to nab the new breed of bank robbers in Washington.
John Smart
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/03/13/opinions/a04031305_02.txt
E. Pringle: Labeling Kids Mentally Ill For Profit
Monday, 14 March 2005, 12:19 pm
Opinion: Evelyn Pringle
Bush - Labeling Kids Mentally Ill For Profit
By Evelyn Pringle
Miamisburg Ohio
Citing recommendations by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC), Bush wants to launch a nationwide mental illness screening program in government institutions, including the public school system, for all students from kindergarten up to the 12th grade.
The New Freedom Commission was established by an Executive Order Bush issued on April 29, 2002. According to a July 22, 2003, press release, the Commission recommends transforming America’s mental health care system.
“Achieving this goal will require greater engagement and education of first line health care providers - primary care practitioners - and a greater focus on mental health care in institutions such as schools, child welfare programs, and the criminal and juvenile justice systems. The goal is integrated care that can screen, identify, and respond to problems early,” the Commission’s press release stated.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0503/S00111.htm
This was when CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown was still a Global Program as well as domestic. It no longer ventures outside the USA very much for a Well Rounded Citizenry. At any rate this was when David Bohrman was the Executive Producer and you can't get better than that. His 'RESCUE' of the nation was classic to his ability to deliver timely coverage when he moved Aaron Brown to the rooftop across the river from the burning and fallen World Trade Towers. That level of expertise no longer exists at NewsNight and the show seeks only manipulation of the public through the political Christian Agenda of the Religious Right.
I used to love that show. Now, it's a news hour for pansies.
The Anthrax Thing
Kindly remember prior to this was September 11, 2001.
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 10, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: When it was one person, it seemed possible it was an innocent if bizarre coincidence. When a second person was exposed to anthrax, innocent explanations were a stretch for even the optimists among us. Now there are three and a criminal investigation. And while all the responsible parties say, be calm, who can honestly say there isn't a knot in the pit of your stomach when you think about this anthrax case?
So we see this building in South Florida differently tonight. This is a crime, scene pure and simple. The killer remains unknown and the weapon, anthrax, remains invisible. It is the fear that is palpable.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/asb.00.html
America Strikes Back: Anthrax Alert
Aired October 12, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. Truth be told, my favorite part of the day comes about an hour before this program, where I sit and write this page. It's a chance to pretty much say what I want, in the way I want to say it. And the fact is I don't know what to say tonight, because in many ways, I am as confused, as anxious, as angry as anyone. Not exactly the frame of mind a reporter likes to find himself in.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/12/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 16, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. If you're keeping track, it has been five weeks now. There are too many numbers to keep track of. The thousands who died on September 11th, the tens of thousands who have lost their jobs since. There are the thousands of military men and women involved in the war effort, thousands of reservists waiting. There are the number of bombing runs, the number of missiles fired, numbers all.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/16/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 17, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone.
At one point today, we were told some members of Congress, some members in the leadership sat down and discussed whether they might need another place to meet, a place that wasn't the floor of the House or Senate, a place that wasn't the Capitol. This is not a dream: This is a the United States as we have never known it and it is unsettling.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/17/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 23, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. Here is a straight lead -- we don't do many straight leads. But this is the way the big time newspapers would write it: The President of the United States, George W. Bush, had to say today -- quote -- "I don't have anthrax." And I thought some of the questions asked of President Clinton were a little strange.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/23/asb.00.html
The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 24, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again, everyone. One of our writers, Linda Keenan, observed today one of those things that is a potent reminder of how quickly we humans adapt. When word came today that another employee at the "New York Post," whose offices are not far from here, had the skin form of anthrax, nobody paid much attention. Believe me, a week ago we would have paid a lot of attention.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/24/asb.00.html
America's New War: The Anthrax Investigation
Aired October 29, 2001 - 22:00 ET
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, again, everyone.
Well, another week, another threat. It's almost as if the terrorists were worried we would be bored by anthrax by now. You probably heard that Attorney General John Ashcroft stepped before the microphones today to say the government has received credible threats of yet another possible terrorist attack. No details offered, because he said no details known. And he added he hoped all Americans would carry on their lives normally.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/29/asb.00.html
Ex-official of Halliburton is charged with fraud
Bid-rigging scheme, kickback alleged
By Ray Long and Andrew Zajac, Tribune staff reporters. Ray Long reported from Springfield and Andrew Zajac from Washington; national correspondent Dahleen Glanton contributed from Atlanta
Published March 18, 2005
SPRINGFIELD -- A former manager of a Halliburton Inc. subsidiary and a Kuwaiti businessman have been charged with bilking taxpayers out of more than $3.5 million in a bid-rigging scheme involving fuel trucks for U.S. military operations in the Middle East.
The 10-count indictment alleged that the worker, Jeff Alex Mazon, joined Ali Hijazi, a top official with a Kuwaiti-based contractor, in a 2003 plan to alter bids so that Hijazi's company would win fuel tanker business.
Mazon allegedly received a $1 million kickback from Hijazi for changing bids to ensure that LaNouvelle General Trading and Contracting Co. received the contract. That allowed the firm to supply the tankers for KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary doing much of the firm's Iraqi reconstruction work.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0503180221mar18,1,3035297.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Haliburton Bahamian Style
Does it disturb anyone that Kerr Mc Gee’s legal representation is none other than Philip “Brave” Davis of Davis and Co., formerly Christie Davis and Co., the Prime Minister’s former partner and firm?
Not unlike the contracts awarded the Bush administrations cronies in the rebuilding of Iraq like the one awarded Haliburton, it seems we have our own Haliburton – Bahamian style. Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States, who served as Haliburton Energy’s, CEO until 2000, did $73 million business with Iraq between 1998 and 2000. “Today he draws compensation of up to a million dollars a year from the company, although his spokesperson denies that the White House helped the company win the contract”. (Corpwatch)
Kerr Mc Gee’s legal representation is none other than Philip “Brave” Davis of Davis and Co., formerly Christie Davis and Co., the Prime Minister’s former partner and firm. Does this disturb anyone? The Tribune’s June 16 2003 Government notice of application for licenses for oil exploration for Kerr Mc Gee is dated 1987.
Last week David Christian Vice President of Kerr McGee led us down the garden path, saying that because they have done this kind of exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, that an EIA is not a necessity in the Blake Plateau in the northern Bahamas. Doesn’t it bother anyone that we are now taking developers/investors word regarding the necessity of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)? Since when does the developer/investor dictate to the Bahamas what is needed for a development to proceed? In today’s world given all that has been learned regarding human impact on the environment there is NO reason for Kerr Mc Gee’s not to conduct an EIA for seismic testing.
If we follow Mr. Christians’ logic then we could virtually do away with harassing developers for an EIA, since to have performed an EIA for a development in New Providence should mean that we would not have to have one done for a development in Exuma. This is completely absurd and utter hogwash. One would think that a global corporation that boasts environmental responsibility, Kerr Mc Gee would demonstrate the same high standards of environmental review that its company claims to practice at home.
http://www.bahamasb2b.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=2084
Rebuilding Iraq a big, slow job
Under constant threat of sabotage, up to 200 U.S. companies are hard at work patching a nation together
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/20/BUGMGBS0MB1.DTL
Cheney again emerges from the shadows
By BILL STRAUB
Scripps Howard News Service
March 23, 2005
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney, who has avoided the spotlight since taking the oath of office for a second term more than two months ago, is once again stepping from the shadows to tout President Bush's Social Security plan and boost White House foreign policy goals.
Cheney is in the midst of a tour that will carry him to Bakersfield, Calif.; Reno, Nev.; and McCandless, Pa., to promote the administration's plan for a national retirement program, a package that polls show hasn't caught on with the voting public.
And he's speaking with reporters again, telling the Washington Post on Tuesday that recent diplomatic appointments, like the nomination of John R. Bolton to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will bring about needed changes in the world body.
The 64-year-old Cheney emerged during the first Bush term as the president's top adviser, especially in the area of foreign affairs where he is considered a hawk on the war on terror and Iraq. He also devised the president's energy policy, which recently received support when the Senate voted to approve drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a key component.
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=CHENEY-03-23-05&cat=PP
Cheney attacks Powell, says U.S. diplomacy very weak until now
Big News Network.com Wednesday 23rd March, 2005
U.S. diplomacy has been very weak up until now says Vice President Dick Cheney.
Commenting on proposed appointments of hard-liners John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz Cheney said, "If we are going to be successful long-term in the war on terror and in the broader objective of promoting freedom and democracy in (Arab and Muslim parts) of the world, we have to get the public diplomacy piece of it right. Up until now, that has been a very weak part of our arsenal."
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=680a5e06ff7ea5c0
The Jordan Times
Mustafa Mahmoud sets off on Mount Everest expedition
By Reem Halasa
Mahmoud with fellow mountaineers on the road to Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica, earlier this year (Photo courtesy Mustafa Mahmoud)
AMMAN — With six summits behind him, the biggest challenge now remaining for Jordan's sole mountaineer Mustafa Mahmoud, is Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews4.htm
Lebanon's blast stokes fears of communal violence
Lebanese internal security forces on Wednesday inspect a ruined commercial centre following an explosion in the coastal nightlife and shopping district of Kaslik, 20 km north of Beirut (AFP photo by Ramzi Haidar)
BEIRUT (Reuters) — A powerful bomb tore through a shopping mall in the anti-Syrian Christian heartland north of Beirut on Wednesday, killing three Asian workers and bringing Lebanon closer to chaos weeks before general elections.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news1.htm
Hariri investigation may be needed — Annan
ALGIERS (Reuters) — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday a more in-depth investigation may be needed into the killing of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri than a UN report due to be released shortly.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news5.htm
Sharon overcomes key hurdle to Gaza pullout
A Gazan woman living in an old cemetery wash her laundry next to a grave on Wedensday (AFP photo by Mahmud Hams)
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a key vote on Wednesday over a state budget he must push through parliament by the end of the month or face a snap election that would threaten his plan to pull out of Gaza.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news11.htm
Gov't crisis deepens as warlords want impeachment
NAIROBI (AFP) — The crisis over the relocation from exile of Somalia's transitional government deepened Wednesday as powerful warlords said they would move to impeach President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
Warlords controlling Somalia's bullet-scarred capital of Mogadishu said they would introduce a no-confidence motion against Yusuf in parliament and seek his removal for allegedly violating the lawless country's transitional charter.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news8.htm
Forgotten Sudanese forced out to desert camp
By Opheera McDoom
Reuters
AL FATHA — Amna Kody holds up her infected leg and pleads for some pills to stop the pain. But there are no doctors in Al Fatha where Sudanese authorities have forcibly relocated thousands of people taking refuge near Khartoum.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news9.htm
Navy Seals sue AP, reporter over Iraq photos
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Five US Navy SEALs and the wife of one of the men have sued The Associated Press and a San Diego-based reporter, claiming the news organisation endangered their lives and invaded their privacy by publishing photos of the elite unit apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news10.htm
The mirage of state building
Rima Merriman
In occupied Palestine, you hear the mantra of “capacity building” over and over again, wherever you go. There is high unemployment, but there is also a rising demand for skilled workers, and those workers are in short supply.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion5.htm
'Kingdom has lowest percentage of TB cases in region'
AMMAN (Petra) — Recent Health Ministry statistics indicate that the Kingdom has the least number of tuberculosis (TB) cases in the region.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews10.htm
World Bank to extend $15 million loan for Public Sector Reform Programme
AMMAN (JT) — The World Bank board of executive directors agreed on Tuesday to extend a $15 million loan to help Jordan execute the third stage of its Public Sector Reform Programme, a senior official announced yesterday.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews9.htm
Witness testifies that Jayyousi bought laboratory equipment, sulphuric acid
AMMAN (JT) — An employee of a laboratory supply company testified on Wednesday in the case of nine men standing trial at the State Security Court (SSC) accused of attempting to carry out the first ever Al Qaeda chemical attack in the Kingdom.
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/homenews/homenews5.htm
continued...
This is a mountain on March 20, 2005. It is missing much snow at the peak. The interesting aspect of this picture are the clouds. Those clouds, especially those to your right that are rippled, is a Heat Transfer System that has come all the way from the Pacific Equator to cool Earth. This is a Global Warming phenomena.
Morning Papers - concluding
New Zealand Herald
UN wants new rules on sex abuse by peacekeepers
25.03.05 5.00am
UNITED NATIONS - UN peacekeepers accused of sexual and other abuse should be court-martialed in the country where the offense is said to have taken place, a UN report is recommending.
The report comes from Jordan's UN ambassador, Prince Zeid al-Hussein, who once served as a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia. He was asked by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to look into abuse allegations in the Congo and to recommend changes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10117036
Human tests of avian flu vaccine underway
25.03.05 5.00am
WASHINGTON - United States health officials said this week they have started human tests of a vaccine against avian flu, which experts believe could kill tens of millions of people if it becomes easily passed from person to person.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10117033
More chemicals scrutinised in sick port workers inquiry
25.03.05 5.00am
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is investigating whether chemicals other than methyl bromide are causing port workers to become sick following a review of fumigation processes at Port Nelson.
OSH says it is generally satisfied the methyl bromide fumigation process is safe, but Labour Department communications adviser Dionne Barton said chemicals used as solvents and preservatives in timber were now under the spotlight to see if they were harmful.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10117076
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Overcast
-17.0°
Updated Friday 25 Mar 7:59AM
Global Warming/Global Climate Change
25 Million Makeovers Would Reach Global Warming Targets
A massive cut in carbon dioxide pollution from British homes can meet Government emissions targets if the necessary polices are applied now, says a comprehensive research report by Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The 40% House report sets-out a far-reaching policy agenda that prescribes cuts in energy and carbon dioxide pollution from existing and future housing.
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/newbuilder/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=595
Get serious about global warming
Web Posted - Fri Mar 11 2005
The March 8 public lecture by Dr. Leonard Nurse on climate change made it clear that the threat to Barbados of sea level rise due to global warming is now beyond doubt and imminent. Within the next few decades we will see increasingly frequent flooding of coastal areas and its consequential catastrophic effect on the tourist industry, as well as increased shortage of drinking water due to contamination of the aquifer by sea water.
http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=20713
Yeo pledges action on global warming
Tim Yeo
Tim Yeo has set out the Conservative "road map" to a low carbon economy.
In a keynote speech on Monday, the shadow environment secretary pledged to put Britain back on track to meet its Kyoto protocol targets.
A second priority would be securing international agreement on the way forward beyond Kyoto, he said.
Yeo said he was personally committed to protecting the environment, and was becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of global warming.
http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200503/98e378e8-edea-4a9a-b874-1b93316f90d3.htm
STATE FORESTS FACE CHANGES WITH GLOBAL WARMING
By Steven Stycos - Special to The Sun
Rhode Island forests will experience large changes in the next hundred years unless global warming is abated, a research landscape ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service has told state environmentalists and others.
Louis Iverson, speaking at a R.I. Natural History Survey conference in Cranston last week, said that, if carbon dioxide levels continue to increase and average temperatures rise, Rhode Island will be suitable for oak, pine and hickory forests commonly seen in the southern US, according to a forest service study. Meanwhile, the state will no longer be suitable for the now common tree species of black ash, red pine, quaking aspen and big tooth aspen. Rising temperatures will push their habitat northward, Iverson predicts.
http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2005/03/14/news/news5.txt
Himalaya glaciers receding fast due to warming-WWF
14 Mar 2005 09:37:53 GMT
Source: Reuters
GENEVA, March 14 (Reuters) - Himalayan glaciers are receding at among the fastest rates in the world due to global warming, threatening water shortages for millions of people in China, India and Nepal, a leading conservation group said on Monday.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a new study that Himalayan glaciers were receding 10-15 metres per year on average and that the rate was accelerating as global warming increases.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14156827.htm
UK seeks to become leader on climate change
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:12:33 PM
http://www.afxpress.com
LONDON (AFX) -- In an effort to be seen as a leader on climate change issues, the British government announced Wednesday a package of environmental measures aimed at further reducing the country's greenhouse gas emissions
The government said the proposals, included in the 2005 budget report released by the Treasury, will increase funding for energy research, provide fiscal incentives for the purchase of more environmentally friendly medium- and small-size cars, and encourage the development of the biofuels market
http://futures.fxstreet.com/Futures/news/afx/singleNew.asp?menu=latestnews&pv_noticia=1110996749-30410f08-44277
Hurricane scares energy markets
By Brad Foss The Associated Press
Posted September 14, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Oil prices shot up more than $1 a barrel Monday as traders focused on the changing path of Hurricane Ivan, which prompted several large oil and natural gas producers to evacuate rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bizhoil14091404sep14,0,580315.story
Pollution Litigation Review - June 2002
USA/Canada
On June 4, 2002, it was reported that the Potomac Electric Power Co. (PEPCO) has spent more than $65 million in cleanup and resource restoration costs after an April 2000 pipeline rupture spilled 126,000 gallons of oil into Swanson Creek and the Patuxent River. The company has agreed to spend an additional $2.7 million on additional natural resource restoration. BNA Chemical Regulation Daily 6/4/02
http://www.facworld.com/FACworld.nsf/doc/Pollitrev0602
This is an older article but still relivant.
Greenpeace protests Malaysia's 'laundering' of ramin in RI forests
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20041006125030&irec=7
BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Activists from the Greenpeace environmentalist group on Wednesday handcuffed themselves to the gates of the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok to protest Malaysia's "laundering" of ramin, a protected hardwood found primarily in Indonesian forests.
"Malaysia is turning a blind eye to the rampant trade in this endangered species and the only way to stop it is to take a position against this criminal destructive trade," said Alex Ryan of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Indonesia is scheduled on Friday to propose that ramin be listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), which is holding its 13th conference of signatory nations in Bangkok this week and next.
"Malaysia needs to vote for the listing of Rambling on Appendix II of CITES and the future of over 125 other CITES species that are dependent of the Rambling swamp forest for their survival," said Ryan.
The dozen Greenpeace activists hoisted a giant inflatable Orang-utan bearing the banner, "Malaysia, don't steal my forest."
The protesters released their own handcuffs after the short demonstration and departed without incident.
Malaysia and Singapore have been pinpointed by conservationists as major re-export markets for ramin illegally cut from Indonesian forest reserves and smuggled abroad. Ramin is a protected hardwood under Indonesia's Appendix III CITES's list, but is not protected under Malaysia's country list.
Indonesia hopes to place ramin on Appendix II, which if approved my two-thirds of CITES's 166 members, would increase international monitoring of all trade in ramin, a tropical hardwood that is made into pool queues and other products sold in Europe and the U.S.
The European Union's 25 members have already expressed their support for Indonesia's ramin proposal. (*)
Global Warming: Sierra Club Statement On Historic Clean Cars Deal
Dan Becker, Washington Director, Sierra Club's Global Warming Program
WASHINGTON -- March 23 -- "Today, automobile manufacturers reached an historic agreement with the Canadian government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5.3 million tons by 2010. In meeting these greenhouse gas limits, these vehicles will achieve approximately a 25% increase in fuel efficiency. This improvement will be made by using existing, cost effective technologies - like more efficient engines, smarter transmissions, and better aerodynamics - to make all their vehicles go farther on a gallon of gas. This agreement is similar to the Pavley Clean Car Law adopted by California and other states.
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0323-06.htm
Report: Global warming could make many rivers too warm for salmon
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE
Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE (AP) -- If current warming trends continue unchecked, more than 20 percent of the Pacific Northwest's rivers could become too warm for salmon, steelhead and trout by 2040, a new Northwest Wildlife Federation report says.
The report predicts that rising regional temperatures could disturb the delicate balance of seasonal stream flows -- making spring flows happen earlier, reducing summer flows to a trickle, or rendering winter flows so high that gravel beds used as nesting sites could get scoured away.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/03/23/news/regional/767169b5f3f0174b87256fcd003f8a83.txt
UK plc getting to grips with climate change (published on 25-Mar-2005)
So it's official then - the Government has finally acknowledged what has been widely talked about for months - it will fail to meet its self-imposed targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels. Some will argue that even though the Government is on course to meet its Kyoto targets, this has largely been achieved via the decline in coal-burning power stations from the previous Conservative government's commitment to gas. Couple that with the request in October for the European Commission to approve an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide that British industry would be allowed to emit under the EU emissions trading scheme to lower carbon emissions due to start in January and the Government's efforts to position itself as leading the way internationally on climate change are looking seriously compromised.
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=9686&channel=0
Prepare For Climate Change
IT is always interesting to get news from Namibia via your website.
Your articles are balanced and objective.
Thank you very much! In response to your article "Farmers to bear brunt of climate change" (February 10, 2005), and because of World Water Day.
http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/March/letters/05A21E8A02.html
The Weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
45 °F / 7 °C
Clear
Humidity:
57%
Dew Point:
30 °F / -1 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.00 in / 1016 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
4 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
Better late than never
end
UN wants new rules on sex abuse by peacekeepers
25.03.05 5.00am
UNITED NATIONS - UN peacekeepers accused of sexual and other abuse should be court-martialed in the country where the offense is said to have taken place, a UN report is recommending.
The report comes from Jordan's UN ambassador, Prince Zeid al-Hussein, who once served as a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia. He was asked by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to look into abuse allegations in the Congo and to recommend changes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10117036
Human tests of avian flu vaccine underway
25.03.05 5.00am
WASHINGTON - United States health officials said this week they have started human tests of a vaccine against avian flu, which experts believe could kill tens of millions of people if it becomes easily passed from person to person.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10117033
More chemicals scrutinised in sick port workers inquiry
25.03.05 5.00am
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is investigating whether chemicals other than methyl bromide are causing port workers to become sick following a review of fumigation processes at Port Nelson.
OSH says it is generally satisfied the methyl bromide fumigation process is safe, but Labour Department communications adviser Dionne Barton said chemicals used as solvents and preservatives in timber were now under the spotlight to see if they were harmful.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10117076
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Overcast
-17.0°
Updated Friday 25 Mar 7:59AM
Global Warming/Global Climate Change
25 Million Makeovers Would Reach Global Warming Targets
A massive cut in carbon dioxide pollution from British homes can meet Government emissions targets if the necessary polices are applied now, says a comprehensive research report by Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The 40% House report sets-out a far-reaching policy agenda that prescribes cuts in energy and carbon dioxide pollution from existing and future housing.
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/newbuilder/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=595
Get serious about global warming
Web Posted - Fri Mar 11 2005
The March 8 public lecture by Dr. Leonard Nurse on climate change made it clear that the threat to Barbados of sea level rise due to global warming is now beyond doubt and imminent. Within the next few decades we will see increasingly frequent flooding of coastal areas and its consequential catastrophic effect on the tourist industry, as well as increased shortage of drinking water due to contamination of the aquifer by sea water.
http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=20713
Yeo pledges action on global warming
Tim Yeo
Tim Yeo has set out the Conservative "road map" to a low carbon economy.
In a keynote speech on Monday, the shadow environment secretary pledged to put Britain back on track to meet its Kyoto protocol targets.
A second priority would be securing international agreement on the way forward beyond Kyoto, he said.
Yeo said he was personally committed to protecting the environment, and was becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of global warming.
http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200503/98e378e8-edea-4a9a-b874-1b93316f90d3.htm
STATE FORESTS FACE CHANGES WITH GLOBAL WARMING
By Steven Stycos - Special to The Sun
Rhode Island forests will experience large changes in the next hundred years unless global warming is abated, a research landscape ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service has told state environmentalists and others.
Louis Iverson, speaking at a R.I. Natural History Survey conference in Cranston last week, said that, if carbon dioxide levels continue to increase and average temperatures rise, Rhode Island will be suitable for oak, pine and hickory forests commonly seen in the southern US, according to a forest service study. Meanwhile, the state will no longer be suitable for the now common tree species of black ash, red pine, quaking aspen and big tooth aspen. Rising temperatures will push their habitat northward, Iverson predicts.
http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2005/03/14/news/news5.txt
Himalaya glaciers receding fast due to warming-WWF
14 Mar 2005 09:37:53 GMT
Source: Reuters
GENEVA, March 14 (Reuters) - Himalayan glaciers are receding at among the fastest rates in the world due to global warming, threatening water shortages for millions of people in China, India and Nepal, a leading conservation group said on Monday.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a new study that Himalayan glaciers were receding 10-15 metres per year on average and that the rate was accelerating as global warming increases.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14156827.htm
UK seeks to become leader on climate change
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:12:33 PM
http://www.afxpress.com
LONDON (AFX) -- In an effort to be seen as a leader on climate change issues, the British government announced Wednesday a package of environmental measures aimed at further reducing the country's greenhouse gas emissions
The government said the proposals, included in the 2005 budget report released by the Treasury, will increase funding for energy research, provide fiscal incentives for the purchase of more environmentally friendly medium- and small-size cars, and encourage the development of the biofuels market
http://futures.fxstreet.com/Futures/news/afx/singleNew.asp?menu=latestnews&pv_noticia=1110996749-30410f08-44277
Hurricane scares energy markets
By Brad Foss The Associated Press
Posted September 14, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Oil prices shot up more than $1 a barrel Monday as traders focused on the changing path of Hurricane Ivan, which prompted several large oil and natural gas producers to evacuate rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bizhoil14091404sep14,0,580315.story
Pollution Litigation Review - June 2002
USA/Canada
On June 4, 2002, it was reported that the Potomac Electric Power Co. (PEPCO) has spent more than $65 million in cleanup and resource restoration costs after an April 2000 pipeline rupture spilled 126,000 gallons of oil into Swanson Creek and the Patuxent River. The company has agreed to spend an additional $2.7 million on additional natural resource restoration. BNA Chemical Regulation Daily 6/4/02
http://www.facworld.com/FACworld.nsf/doc/Pollitrev0602
This is an older article but still relivant.
Greenpeace protests Malaysia's 'laundering' of ramin in RI forests
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20041006125030&irec=7
BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Activists from the Greenpeace environmentalist group on Wednesday handcuffed themselves to the gates of the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok to protest Malaysia's "laundering" of ramin, a protected hardwood found primarily in Indonesian forests.
"Malaysia is turning a blind eye to the rampant trade in this endangered species and the only way to stop it is to take a position against this criminal destructive trade," said Alex Ryan of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
Indonesia is scheduled on Friday to propose that ramin be listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), which is holding its 13th conference of signatory nations in Bangkok this week and next.
"Malaysia needs to vote for the listing of Rambling on Appendix II of CITES and the future of over 125 other CITES species that are dependent of the Rambling swamp forest for their survival," said Ryan.
The dozen Greenpeace activists hoisted a giant inflatable Orang-utan bearing the banner, "Malaysia, don't steal my forest."
The protesters released their own handcuffs after the short demonstration and departed without incident.
Malaysia and Singapore have been pinpointed by conservationists as major re-export markets for ramin illegally cut from Indonesian forest reserves and smuggled abroad. Ramin is a protected hardwood under Indonesia's Appendix III CITES's list, but is not protected under Malaysia's country list.
Indonesia hopes to place ramin on Appendix II, which if approved my two-thirds of CITES's 166 members, would increase international monitoring of all trade in ramin, a tropical hardwood that is made into pool queues and other products sold in Europe and the U.S.
The European Union's 25 members have already expressed their support for Indonesia's ramin proposal. (*)
Global Warming: Sierra Club Statement On Historic Clean Cars Deal
Dan Becker, Washington Director, Sierra Club's Global Warming Program
WASHINGTON -- March 23 -- "Today, automobile manufacturers reached an historic agreement with the Canadian government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5.3 million tons by 2010. In meeting these greenhouse gas limits, these vehicles will achieve approximately a 25% increase in fuel efficiency. This improvement will be made by using existing, cost effective technologies - like more efficient engines, smarter transmissions, and better aerodynamics - to make all their vehicles go farther on a gallon of gas. This agreement is similar to the Pavley Clean Car Law adopted by California and other states.
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0323-06.htm
Report: Global warming could make many rivers too warm for salmon
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE
Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE (AP) -- If current warming trends continue unchecked, more than 20 percent of the Pacific Northwest's rivers could become too warm for salmon, steelhead and trout by 2040, a new Northwest Wildlife Federation report says.
The report predicts that rising regional temperatures could disturb the delicate balance of seasonal stream flows -- making spring flows happen earlier, reducing summer flows to a trickle, or rendering winter flows so high that gravel beds used as nesting sites could get scoured away.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/03/23/news/regional/767169b5f3f0174b87256fcd003f8a83.txt
UK plc getting to grips with climate change (published on 25-Mar-2005)
So it's official then - the Government has finally acknowledged what has been widely talked about for months - it will fail to meet its self-imposed targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels. Some will argue that even though the Government is on course to meet its Kyoto targets, this has largely been achieved via the decline in coal-burning power stations from the previous Conservative government's commitment to gas. Couple that with the request in October for the European Commission to approve an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide that British industry would be allowed to emit under the EU emissions trading scheme to lower carbon emissions due to start in January and the Government's efforts to position itself as leading the way internationally on climate change are looking seriously compromised.
http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=9686&channel=0
Prepare For Climate Change
IT is always interesting to get news from Namibia via your website.
Your articles are balanced and objective.
Thank you very much! In response to your article "Farmers to bear brunt of climate change" (February 10, 2005), and because of World Water Day.
http://www.namibian.com.na/2005/March/letters/05A21E8A02.html
The Weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
45 °F / 7 °C
Clear
Humidity:
57%
Dew Point:
30 °F / -1 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.00 in / 1016 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
4 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
Better late than never
end
Vortex over New Zealand. Current Satellite. March 24, 2005.For Northland Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula:
Rain this morning with heavy falls and thunderstorms, then easing to showers and fine periods.
From Waikato to Taranaki and Taihape, and across to Bay of Plenty:
Rain or showers, with some heavy falls and thunderstorms. Easing to a few showers this evening.
From Wanganui to Wellington:
Rain, easing to showers and fine periods this afternoon.
From Gisborne to Wairarapa:
Occasional rain clearing by evening, apart from showers in the ranges.
For Nelson, Buller and Westland:
Periods of rain. Heavy falls and thunderstorms in Nelson this morning.
For Marlborough and Canterbury:
Widespread rain this morning. Clearing this afternoon apart from showers in the Alps and about the Sounds.
Otago, Southland and Fiordland:
Rain with some heavy falls in eastern parts of Otago and in Southland. Southeast gales developing about Foveaux Strait and the fiords.
For the Chatham Islands:
Showers turning to rain later.
Ocean Blooms in the Wake of Cyclone Willy
The link to the information regarding the satellite pictures below is very interesting. It reveals water MADE cool by a minor hurricane. Without the hurricane the waters remain to warm to produce algae.
Coastal and Marine Ecosystems & Global Climate Change
Since life began on earth, changes in the global climate have affected the distribution of organisms as well as their interactions. However, human-induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are expected to cause much more rapid changes in the earth’s climate than have been experienced for millennia. If this happens, such high rates of change will probably result in local if not total extinction of some species, the alteration of species distributions in ways that may lead to major changes in their interactions with other species, and modifications in the flow of energy and cycling of materials within ecosystems.
THIS study is interesting but still doesn't address the FACT algae provide 60% of the breathable oxygen on Earth. If they die. We die.
In addition to all this bad news is the fact many of what is mentioned about sea level rise in regard to choking off coral reefs is in regard to PRESERVING out 'Carbon Sinks.'
The carbon sinks include algae, diatoms, coral reefs and terrestrially the primary producers of trees, grasslands and rainforests, both tropical as the Amazon and temperate as The Tongas.
THIS study is interesting but still doesn't address the FACT algae provide 60% of the breathable oxygen on Earth. If they die. We die.
In addition to all this bad news is the fact many of what is mentioned about sea level rise in regard to choking off coral reefs is in regard to PRESERVING out 'Carbon Sinks.'
The carbon sinks include algae, diatoms, coral reefs and terrestrially the primary producers of trees, grasslands and rainforests, both tropical as the Amazon and temperate as The Tongas.
Iraq war: The smoking gun? - THE COVER UP. Bush's Smoking Gun was right in front of us all the time.
Iraq war: The smoking gun?
Foreign Office official's resignation letter reveals that Attorney General did change his mind on legality of Iraq war
By Colin Brown24 March 2005
Documentary evidence has emerged showing that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq war just before the conflict began. The damning revelation is contained in the resignation letter of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, in which she said the war would be a "crime of aggression". She quit the day after Lord Goldsmith's ruling was made public, three days before the war began in March 2003.
The critical paragraph of her letter, published yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act, was blanked out by the Government on the grounds that it was in the public interest to protect the privacy of the advice given by the Attorney General. But last night the contents of the paragraph were leaked, and Tony Blair was facing fresh allegations of a cover-up. There has long been speculation that Lord Goldsmith was leant on to switch his view, and to sanction the war - and confirmation of that would be devastating for the Prime Minister. The Wilmhurst letter stops short of explaining what caused Lord Goldsmith to change his mind.
The revelations come two weeks after it emerged that there had never been a detailed dossier from the Attorney General setting out the case for military action before troops were committed, and that Britain went to war on the basis of nine paragraphs on a single sheet of A4 paper.
Last night's revelations - broadcast on Channel 4 News - showed that Ms Wilmshurst said the Attorney General had initially agreed with the Foreign Office legal team that a war on Iraq would be illegal without a second UN resolution.
In the blanked-out paragraph from her letter of resignation on 18 March 2003, she wrote: "My views accord with the advice that has been given consistently in this office before and after the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1441 and with what the Attorney General gave us to understand was his view prior to his letter of 7 March. (The view expressed in that letter has of course changed again into what is now the official line)."
The revelations were seized upon by critics of the Iraq conflict. Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: "The Government blacked out that section not in the public interest but in the government interest. The Government is severely embarrassed by the fact that there is continuing controversy about the legal advice given by the Attorney General and the way in which he arrived at his final opinion."
Clare Short, who resigned from the Cabinet after the invasion, said last night: "I think the Government had to try and cover it up because it's so devastating. The bit that was blocked out shows that the Attorney General changed his mind twice in a matter of days before he gave his advice to the Cabinet when he just said, unequivocally, 'My view is the legal authority for war' and kept from the Cabinet any suggestion that he had had doubts about it." She added: "I didn't think there was anything left that would shock me but to have that in black and white and to know that is what he did is really shocking. He said he wasn't leant on, but he certainly turned head over heels a couple of times."
As efforts to get a second UN resolution were stalling in the approach to the 2003 conflict, Lord Goldsmith produced a lengthy legal opinion arguing that a case could be made for war without a second UN resolution, but it could be open to legal challenge.
On 13 March, he told ministers that war without a UN second resolution was legal. But there have been claims that six days earlier, on 7 March, he presented Tony Blair with a legal opinion in which he warned that military action could be challenged in the courts.
The emergence of Ms Wilms-hurst's allegation is likely to prove to be embarrassing for ministers in the run-up to an expected general election in May.
The Commons is due to rise today for the Easter recess and Mr Blair is due to go to Buckingham Palace to ask for the dissolution of Parliament as soon as MPs finish their holiday, around 4 or 5 April, clearing the way for a general election on 5 May. However, the fresh evidence is certain to lead to calls for Mr Blair and the Attorney General to answer the claims that they have sought to cover up the most damaging claim - that they took Britain to war knowing it to be illegal.
The controversy wrecked an attempt yesterday by Mr Blair to limit the damage from the war in the general election campaign. The Government announced changes to Mr Blair's "sofa style" of government which was heavily criticised in the Butler inquiry into the intelligence failures on the Iraq war and the weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blair unveiled a series of new intelligence safeguards which are being put in place following the intelligence failures that led Britain to go to war on a false prospectus. But many of the changes were attacked as "too little, too late" by the Government's critics. Intelligence officers were sceptical that Mr Blair would be able to change his style of "government by sofa", based on informal meetings without records being kept.
Labour strategists are hoping that the damage to trust in Mr Blair can be repaired in time to stop the memory of the Iraq war driving Labour voters into the arms of the Liberal Democrats in Labour marginal seats in the general election.
Accepting the recommendations of the Butler report, Mr Blair promised there would be no more ad-hoc meetings with ministers and officials. They will be replaced by proper meetings with notes taken and records kept in the future. Ministers are also to be given a guide on how to assess intelligence, including information on the limitations of reports.If ministers had known the "45-minute" claim had come from an uncorroborated single source, it may not have got into the dossier published in September 2002.
The Prime Minister has also accepted the recommendation that a senior intelligence officer should chair the Joint Intelligence Committee, overseeing reports to ministers, at the end of his or her career. It amounts to a rebuke for Mr Blair, who promoted John Scarlett, the former head of the JIC who approved the "dodgy dossier", to be the head of MI6.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER: AN 'EXCELLENT AND ABLE' LAWYER
For nearly three decades, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, worked diligently and competently in the legal department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
She became a civil servant in the department in her mid-twenties and colleagues described her as an "excellent and able" lawyer, with a notably steady character.
Her efforts and expertise in international law were rewarded in 1997 when she was promoted to the position of deputy head of legal affairs for the FCO. The promotion cemented her position as one of Britain's leading experts on international criminal and diplomatic law. The next year, she received further recognition - she was made a Companion of St Michael and St George, one of the highest honours for diplomats.
During her tenure, Ms Wilmshurst led the UK delegation to set up the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, served as legal counsellor to the UK's mission to the UN, and gave evidence for the Foreign Office to the House of Commons International Development Committee on the legality of sanctions.
However, as her resignation letter has revealed, she was as impassioned a defender of her beliefs as she was knowledgeable and successful in her arena.
She resigned in March 2003 after defying her political superiors in the Foreign Office by stating her belief that joining the US invasion of Iraq would constitute a violation of international law.
It was a move that would have considerable political reverberations as well as an impact on her professional position.
She was thought to have been prepared to appear as a witness for Katharine Gun, the former GCHQ translator, who was to stand trial for leaking an e-mail concerning a UK-US spying operation. However, the case collapsed last year without her participation.
Ms Wilmshurst, 56, is now using her expertise as head of the international law programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the London think-tank at Chatham House. She is also a visiting professor at University College, London.
Her areas of international law expertise include the use of force, international criminal law and courts, the law of the United Nations and State and sovereign immunity.
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
'Culture of Life' Rings Hollow
In Texas, Critics Question Bush's 'Life' Culture
By Jeff Franks / Reuters
President Bush's intervention for Terri Schiavo has opened old wounds in Texas where death penalty opponents say his words of support for a "culture of life" ring hollow after so many executions during his time as governor of the state.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1922
'Not a Conservative Viewpoint'
Bush Role in Schiavo Case Bothers 'Right'
By Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Not all conservatives are happy with the decision by Congress and President Bush to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. Some leaders said Tuesday the new law allowing a federal court review of the case is an example of the big government they have always opposed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1921
"The mother down in Texas must be reading the Schiavo case and scratching her head."
Law Bush signed as Texas governor prompts cries of hypocrisy
By William Douglas / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - The federal law that President Bush signed early Monday in an effort to prolong Terri Schiavo's life appears to contradict a right-to-die law that he signed as Texas governor, prompting cries of hypocrisy from congressional Democrats and some bioethicists.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1920
"Next question."
Scott McClellan just doesn't like some questions w/video
From The Press Briefing February 1, 2005
Q Scott, last night, in an amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department came down in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses and statehouses around the country. The question is, does the President believe in commandment number six, "Thou shalt not kill," as it applies to the U.S. invasion in Iraq?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/02/02.html#a1476
Foreign Office official's resignation letter reveals that Attorney General did change his mind on legality of Iraq war
By Colin Brown24 March 2005
Documentary evidence has emerged showing that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq war just before the conflict began. The damning revelation is contained in the resignation letter of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a legal adviser at the Foreign Office, in which she said the war would be a "crime of aggression". She quit the day after Lord Goldsmith's ruling was made public, three days before the war began in March 2003.
The critical paragraph of her letter, published yesterday under the Freedom of Information Act, was blanked out by the Government on the grounds that it was in the public interest to protect the privacy of the advice given by the Attorney General. But last night the contents of the paragraph were leaked, and Tony Blair was facing fresh allegations of a cover-up. There has long been speculation that Lord Goldsmith was leant on to switch his view, and to sanction the war - and confirmation of that would be devastating for the Prime Minister. The Wilmhurst letter stops short of explaining what caused Lord Goldsmith to change his mind.
The revelations come two weeks after it emerged that there had never been a detailed dossier from the Attorney General setting out the case for military action before troops were committed, and that Britain went to war on the basis of nine paragraphs on a single sheet of A4 paper.
Last night's revelations - broadcast on Channel 4 News - showed that Ms Wilmshurst said the Attorney General had initially agreed with the Foreign Office legal team that a war on Iraq would be illegal without a second UN resolution.
In the blanked-out paragraph from her letter of resignation on 18 March 2003, she wrote: "My views accord with the advice that has been given consistently in this office before and after the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1441 and with what the Attorney General gave us to understand was his view prior to his letter of 7 March. (The view expressed in that letter has of course changed again into what is now the official line)."
The revelations were seized upon by critics of the Iraq conflict. Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: "The Government blacked out that section not in the public interest but in the government interest. The Government is severely embarrassed by the fact that there is continuing controversy about the legal advice given by the Attorney General and the way in which he arrived at his final opinion."
Clare Short, who resigned from the Cabinet after the invasion, said last night: "I think the Government had to try and cover it up because it's so devastating. The bit that was blocked out shows that the Attorney General changed his mind twice in a matter of days before he gave his advice to the Cabinet when he just said, unequivocally, 'My view is the legal authority for war' and kept from the Cabinet any suggestion that he had had doubts about it." She added: "I didn't think there was anything left that would shock me but to have that in black and white and to know that is what he did is really shocking. He said he wasn't leant on, but he certainly turned head over heels a couple of times."
As efforts to get a second UN resolution were stalling in the approach to the 2003 conflict, Lord Goldsmith produced a lengthy legal opinion arguing that a case could be made for war without a second UN resolution, but it could be open to legal challenge.
On 13 March, he told ministers that war without a UN second resolution was legal. But there have been claims that six days earlier, on 7 March, he presented Tony Blair with a legal opinion in which he warned that military action could be challenged in the courts.
The emergence of Ms Wilms-hurst's allegation is likely to prove to be embarrassing for ministers in the run-up to an expected general election in May.
The Commons is due to rise today for the Easter recess and Mr Blair is due to go to Buckingham Palace to ask for the dissolution of Parliament as soon as MPs finish their holiday, around 4 or 5 April, clearing the way for a general election on 5 May. However, the fresh evidence is certain to lead to calls for Mr Blair and the Attorney General to answer the claims that they have sought to cover up the most damaging claim - that they took Britain to war knowing it to be illegal.
The controversy wrecked an attempt yesterday by Mr Blair to limit the damage from the war in the general election campaign. The Government announced changes to Mr Blair's "sofa style" of government which was heavily criticised in the Butler inquiry into the intelligence failures on the Iraq war and the weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blair unveiled a series of new intelligence safeguards which are being put in place following the intelligence failures that led Britain to go to war on a false prospectus. But many of the changes were attacked as "too little, too late" by the Government's critics. Intelligence officers were sceptical that Mr Blair would be able to change his style of "government by sofa", based on informal meetings without records being kept.
Labour strategists are hoping that the damage to trust in Mr Blair can be repaired in time to stop the memory of the Iraq war driving Labour voters into the arms of the Liberal Democrats in Labour marginal seats in the general election.
Accepting the recommendations of the Butler report, Mr Blair promised there would be no more ad-hoc meetings with ministers and officials. They will be replaced by proper meetings with notes taken and records kept in the future. Ministers are also to be given a guide on how to assess intelligence, including information on the limitations of reports.If ministers had known the "45-minute" claim had come from an uncorroborated single source, it may not have got into the dossier published in September 2002.
The Prime Minister has also accepted the recommendation that a senior intelligence officer should chair the Joint Intelligence Committee, overseeing reports to ministers, at the end of his or her career. It amounts to a rebuke for Mr Blair, who promoted John Scarlett, the former head of the JIC who approved the "dodgy dossier", to be the head of MI6.
THE WHISTLEBLOWER: AN 'EXCELLENT AND ABLE' LAWYER
For nearly three decades, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, worked diligently and competently in the legal department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
She became a civil servant in the department in her mid-twenties and colleagues described her as an "excellent and able" lawyer, with a notably steady character.
Her efforts and expertise in international law were rewarded in 1997 when she was promoted to the position of deputy head of legal affairs for the FCO. The promotion cemented her position as one of Britain's leading experts on international criminal and diplomatic law. The next year, she received further recognition - she was made a Companion of St Michael and St George, one of the highest honours for diplomats.
During her tenure, Ms Wilmshurst led the UK delegation to set up the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, served as legal counsellor to the UK's mission to the UN, and gave evidence for the Foreign Office to the House of Commons International Development Committee on the legality of sanctions.
However, as her resignation letter has revealed, she was as impassioned a defender of her beliefs as she was knowledgeable and successful in her arena.
She resigned in March 2003 after defying her political superiors in the Foreign Office by stating her belief that joining the US invasion of Iraq would constitute a violation of international law.
It was a move that would have considerable political reverberations as well as an impact on her professional position.
She was thought to have been prepared to appear as a witness for Katharine Gun, the former GCHQ translator, who was to stand trial for leaking an e-mail concerning a UK-US spying operation. However, the case collapsed last year without her participation.
Ms Wilmshurst, 56, is now using her expertise as head of the international law programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the London think-tank at Chatham House. She is also a visiting professor at University College, London.
Her areas of international law expertise include the use of force, international criminal law and courts, the law of the United Nations and State and sovereign immunity.
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
'Culture of Life' Rings Hollow
In Texas, Critics Question Bush's 'Life' Culture
By Jeff Franks / Reuters
President Bush's intervention for Terri Schiavo has opened old wounds in Texas where death penalty opponents say his words of support for a "culture of life" ring hollow after so many executions during his time as governor of the state.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1922
'Not a Conservative Viewpoint'
Bush Role in Schiavo Case Bothers 'Right'
By Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Not all conservatives are happy with the decision by Congress and President Bush to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. Some leaders said Tuesday the new law allowing a federal court review of the case is an example of the big government they have always opposed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1921
"The mother down in Texas must be reading the Schiavo case and scratching her head."
Law Bush signed as Texas governor prompts cries of hypocrisy
By William Douglas / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - The federal law that President Bush signed early Monday in an effort to prolong Terri Schiavo's life appears to contradict a right-to-die law that he signed as Texas governor, prompting cries of hypocrisy from congressional Democrats and some bioethicists.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1920
"Next question."
Scott McClellan just doesn't like some questions w/video
From The Press Briefing February 1, 2005
Q Scott, last night, in an amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department came down in favor of displaying the Ten Commandments in courthouses and statehouses around the country. The question is, does the President believe in commandment number six, "Thou shalt not kill," as it applies to the U.S. invasion in Iraq?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/02/02.html#a1476
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