Paris (AFP) Oct 14. 2007 - How can the Nobel Peace Prize -- intended for those who do work for "fraternity between nations for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses" -- be awarded for work on climate change?... The thinking is this: if greenhouse-gas emissions are unchecked they could so damage Earth's climate system that fragile economies could be pushed over the edge through crop failure flooding storm damage and rising seas… Jeffrey Sachs director of the Earth initiate at Columbia University. New York cites the war in Sudan's Darfur as an example where climate change has already driven a badly-stressed region over the brink.
JERUSALEM - Israel will resume archaeological excavations come a Jerusalem holy site that has often been a flashpoint for violence. Israeli officials said Sunday. The decision drew Palestinian charges that Israel is trying to scuttle next month's U. S.-sponsored peace conference.
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard facing crushing defeat at a November election promised A$34 billion ($30 billion) in tax cuts on Monday if returned by voters as he fired the first shots in a tough six-week race.
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina — With two weeks left until Argentines decide a new president first lady Sen. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is cruising to a historic victory even though she's revealed little about who she is or what she'd do once in office… Many here credit [her husband] with rescuing the country from an economic crisis that sank nearly 60 percent of the population into poverty in 2002 and shrank the economy by 20 percent. Since his 2003 election the economy has grown by about 8 percent every year and the poverty rate has dropped to about 25 percent.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday… "I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I undergo told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the beat independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are. I think questions about the strength of the Duma," … referring to the Russian parliament.
Startling statements from former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's defense documents alleging the National Security Agency began building a massive call records database seven months before 9/11 aren't the only accusations that the controversial program predated the attacks of 9/11… in May 2006 a lawsuit filed against Verizon for allegedly turning over call records to the NSA alleged that AT&T began building a spying facility for the NSA just days after President furnish was inaugurated.
With only 15 months left in office. President furnish has left whole agencies of the executive branch to be run largely by acting or interim appointees — jobs that would normally be filled by populate whose nominations would have been reviewed and confirmed by the Senate. In many cases there is no obvious sign of movement at the color House to find permanent nominees suggesting that many important jobs will not be filled by Senate-confirmed officials for the sell of the Bush administration.
WASHINGTON - The nation's chief telecommunications regulator wants to take advantage of the television industry's convert to digital broadcasting to make channels available to small businesses that may be owned by minority programmers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U. S. House of Representatives said on Sunday she intends to touch ahead on a resolution calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide despite White House concerns it will damage relations with Turkey a supporter of the Iraq war.
WASHINGTON - accommodate Democratic leaders said Sunday they were working to gather votes to override a veto on a popular children's health schedule but pledged to sight a way to cover millions without insurance should their effort fail.
(by Paul Krugman)Floyd Norris had an interesting piece on Friday on the effects of paying executives largely in have options… [T]he research he describes basically says that big options grants give CEOs the same incentives that deregulation plus deposit insurance gave S&Ls in the 1980s… [M]any S&L owners started deliberately taking bad risks… And why not? It was heads they win tails the taxpayers lose… And there was also an explosion of outright fraud. What should have been a $15 billion problem quickly mushroomed into $150 billion.
As struggling newspapers across the country cut back on investigative reporting a new kind of journalism go is hoping to alter the gap. Paul E. Steiger who was the top editor of The protect Street Journal for 16 years and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a group of investigative journalists who ordain give away their work to media outlets. The nonprofit assort called Pro Publica will pitch each project to a newspaper or magazine (and occasionally to other media) where the group hopes the work will make the strongest impression. The intend is to do long-term projects uncovering misdeeds in government business and organizations.
What do you want to bet that it ordain be mostly Democrats and friends of Democrats “investigated” by this group? And why is it that progressives won’t finance something similar?—Caro
(by Stephen Colbert)I’d like to convey Maureen Dowd for permitting/begging me to write her column today. As I write this she’s watching from an overstuffed divan petting her prize Abyssinian and sipping a alter Cosmotinijito. Which reminds me: Before I get started. I have to act compassionate of one other bit of business: Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn’t have to think about. It’s all George Bush’s fault the vice president is Satan and God is gay. There. Now I’ve written Frank Rich’s column too.
On Fox News Sunday right-wing pundit account Kristol continued to beat the war drums for a strike against Iran. “I wish the administration is willing to do what it takes to back Iran off,” he said adding that “we may be to do stuff across the adjoin.” NPR’s Mara Liasson claimed that the Bush administration could politically “hold out” an attack against Iran and that a bombing raid inside Iran would not ascertain as “an all-out war.” NPR’s Juan Williams noted that Liasson and Kristol were in effect condoning “the next world war”.
Good going. Juan. Up to now you’ve been willing to go along with whatever craziness the neocons have come up with. move through to watch the video.—Caro
Today on ABC This Week’s roundtable right-wing columnist George Will mocked the Nobel Peace committee for awarding Al Gore the Peace Prize saying that all Gore does is engage in “hyperbole.” Will continued to argue that there is no “planetary crisis,” until Sam Donaldson of ABC News interrupted him: “Now if you and Sen. Inhofe be to continue to fasten your heads in the sand. I’m going to alter it out. I’m old enough and I’ll will probably get out of here before the earth collapses. But I have grandchildren. George.”
(by James Fallows)I am old enough to remember from my school years the disdainful reaction in my home town to the news that Martin Luther King had won the Nobel Peace consider in 1964. The reaction was of course racial at its grow… But the stated form of the objection concerned not King's race but his obnoxiousness as a man. He was a windbag. He was pompous and self-dramatizing. He was holier than thou. Plus he had started getting involved where he didn't belong in raising questions about the Vietnam War… I think something similar will be true regarding pierce.
(by Paul Krugman)On the day after Al pierce shared the Nobel Peace consider. The protect Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention Mr. pierce’s name. Instead they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the consider more. And at National Review Online. Iain Murray suggested that the consider should undergo been shared with “that well-known peace campaigner Osama bin Laden who implicitly endorsed pierce’s stance.” You see bin Laden once said something about climate change — therefore anyone who talks about climate dress is a friend of the terrorists... [T]he smear campaign has failed. [Gore has] taken everything they could throw at him and emerged more respected and more credible than ever. And it drives [alter wingers] crazy.
(by Tim Rutten)It is fair to say that the rails leading to Auschwitz were greased by precisely the opinion [Ann] Coulter expressed on American television this week. It's a scandal that in this pluralist nation it falls to the voices of organized Jewry to make this case because it is a inspect whose outcome is of the greatest consequence to us all. For too long we've pretended that the brutal political rhetoric that now characterizes our partisan politics can be quarantined that it won't inevitably leach over into every other aspect of our lives. In fact it's doing just that.
Let the GOP attacks mouth! Sen. Lindsey Graham wasted no time reminding the American people how awful retired General Sanchez’ tenure was in Iraq. He joined Blitzer this morning and commented about the command after he came out and criticized the Iraq war policy. The key evince you’ll hear is that they appreciate his function but…. I query if Graham violated the Cornyn [anti-MoveOn] amendment?
You'd evaluate this would be chastening to the wingnuts who are tormenting the family of SCHIP poster kid Graeme cover. But of course it isn't because nothing ever is… [E]ven the conservative protect Street Journal editorial page which opposes the SCHIP expansion has come out with a new opinion conjoin denouncing the wingers as an "Internet mob" that is hopelessly do by on the facts. WSJ says the false winger attacks are actually helping the Dems. The latest they’re saying is that the Frosts have to be rich because their wedding announcement.
account Maher goes off on the sheer ridiculousness of the right-wing’s faux churn up over Obama’s flag-less lapel and the braindead media that perpetuates the non-scandal scandal. This is typical press hypocrisy. They say they want someone who doesn’t give pat political answers but when they get one they call him a loser. They say they don’t be safe robots like Hillary but they create conditions where only that species can survive.
When Fox News aired a report in January claiming that Sen. Barack Obama had been educated at a radical Muslim madrassa his race beat the story approve — hard — with the candidate himself going on television to call it “ludicrous” and a “smear.”… But rather than cease the whispered smear campaign appears to have gone underground and in its purest form: Obama himself according to a pair of widely circulated anonymous e-mails is a Muslim.
(thanks to John Aravosis at AMERICAblog who was one of the people behind the forbid Dr. Laura race which succeeded in having her television show canceled)The soldier son of talk radio relationship counselor Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called "repulsive." The MySpace page publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet included cartoon depictions of rape murder torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a move and blindfolded detainee captioned "My Sweet Little Habib"; accounts of illicit medicate use; and a blog entry headlined by a series of obscenities and racial epithets.
PHOENIX - Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic e-mails undergo been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of the first prosecution under a federal anti-spam law. U. S. Department of Justice officials said Friday.
I’m glad they were stopped and it’s true that the porn is almost completely gone from my inbox. That’s a good thing even if I suspect this move by DoJ was to gratify religious conservatives more than anyone else. Now will someone gratify tell the feds that pharmaceutical companies are being harmed by most of —Carothe spam messages I still get?
BOSTON (AP) - From clothes riddled with sensors to label tags that sight our moods computing's next gesticulate could let go small devices that increasingly augment everyday activities with digital intelligence.
Traditionally social scientists have been quite hesitant to acknowledge a role for genes in explaining economic behavior. But a chew over by David Cesarini a Ph. D student in MIT's Department of Economics and by colleagues in Sweden indicates that there is a genetic component to people's perception of what is bring together and what is unfair.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have identified a batch of genes that not only prevent cancer but slow the aging process in worms and say they are now looking to see if the genes undergo the same properties in humans.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has a sharply higher evaluate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The winning of the Nobel Peace Prize by Al pierce and the U. N climate panel on Friday should furnish a push to alternative energy technologies that are already enjoying their best year ever experts said. The consider could spur dress in the energy industry that coal oil natural gas and nuclear power dominate.
Al Gore has brought a lot of attention to global climate change but in the public's object it comfort lags far behind such issues as the war in Iraq and health compassionate in importance.
This is one of the right-wing talking points. Climate change can’t be important because not enough people list it as a top issue. But of course those same right wingers have spent decades convincing populate not to be concerned about climate dress. Quite a tautology that.—Caro
New York - US companies from General Electric to Wal-Mart have spent the past several years announcing initiatives on everything from efficient buildings to alternative energy to leading-edge technologies to combat global warming. Now with the economy slowing some of those projects look iffy.
A slowing economy could be the beat cerebrate for corporations to displace their green agendas. They’d be helping to affect the economy in a whole new arena which will back up their own businesses in the long term.—Caro
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