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November 17, 2009
New York: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging countries to seize the opportunity presented by next month´s climate change conference in Copenhagen to clinch a political agreement that will help chart the way forward on a new legally binding pact to combat global warming.
"Opportunity is knock...
November 07, 2009
by Nick Thomas
If you think animated music videos aren´t cool, you probably haven´t caught Yannick Puig´s I lived on the Moon, yet. Blogger´s around the world are raving over this ethereal, black and white fantasy video, set to the music of new French band, Kwoon. The vid...
October 30, 2009
By Adam Gonn
The Egyptian capital Cairo is among the world´s top destinations for outsourced labor.
A report released by global management firms Global Services and Tholons ranked Cairo seventh among cities all over the world playing host to outsourced work.
The report ...
October 30, 2009
By Richard Blankenburg
What Americans have learned from the Republican Party opposition to a Government option health care entity is that the most important factor in health care in America, is PROFIT; yet, Kaiser Permanente is the most highly regarded of health plans by consumer advocates and K...
October 30, 2009
The Sierra Club has endorsed Nadia Holober for Millbrae City Council. Election Day is this Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
In its announcement, John Cordes, spokesperson for Sierra Club Loma Preita Chapter, outlined Nadia Holober´s leadership in making environmental issues a priority as a Mill...
October 28, 2009
Businesses avoid nearly $400,000 in penalties by self-reporting violations.
SAN FRANCISCO – Six California companies that voluntarily disclosed and corrected environmental violations have seen penalties waived by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It´s the result of an EPA policy ...
October 13, 2009
By Peter Maier, PhD, PE
When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, with its goal to eliminate all water pollution by 1985 and as interim goal ´swimmable and fishable´ waters by 1983, Congress specifically demanded a "technology-based" implementation program, whereby all nation...
October 13, 2009
By Angie Walters
With the passage of Assembly Bill 590 by Governor Schwarzenneger this week, Californians are waking up not only to our increasingly overburdened court systems, but to the high costs of legal fees that clearly warrant such legislation.
Assembly Bill 590 makes California t...
October 09, 2009
Barely nine months into office, President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize, substantially boosting his prestige and standing in the United States and internationally.
The Nobel Committee said the President won the award for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diploma...
October 03, 2009
by Staff Sgt. LuCelia Ball, Pacific Air Forces Public Affairs
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii - Two C-17 Globemaster IIIs departed here Sept. 30 with approximately 100 military personnel to provide humanitarian assistance to the island of American Samoa.
The island nation was struck Sept. 29 by...
October 03, 2009
by Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young, Defense Media Activity - Hawaii.
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - Hawaii Guardsmen from the U.S. Army National Guard and U.S. Air National Guard Assessed damages in the Pago Pago and Leone villages of American Samoa Oct. 1.
More than 30 active-duty Guardsmen and tra...
September 22, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed suit against San Leandro based VF Corporation for the alleged sale and distribution of unregistered pesticides through their retail company, The North Face.
The EPA maintains that The North Face made unsubstantiated public heal...
September 18, 2009
More than 400 of the nation's most respected health care leaders issued a joint Open Letter to Congress declaring that the health care system is in crisis and is unsustainable and calling on Congress to act now on meaningful reforms. They state that Congress has a moral and ethical obligation to imp...
September 11, 2009
GOP lawmaker's salacious sex-bragging caught on tape.
Assemblyman Michael Duvall, (R-Yorba Linda) resigned in disgrace this week after he was caught on tape bragging about extramarital affairs with two women, one of whom is a lobbyist. The conversation took place during a lull in business at a ...
September 10, 2009
Speaking to a joint session of Congress last night, President Obama gave a clear, inspiring and unusually detailed explanation of our nation´s health care crisis and his plan to address it.
The President outlined the two key goals of health care reform: safety and security for those already insu...
September 09, 2009
Stay in school and take personal responsibility are two messages President Barack Obama delivered to U.S. school children.
Obama's speech to the nation's school children Tuesday encouraged them to do the best they can.
"(At) the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most...
September 08, 2009
Hindus have applauded Catholic Archdiocese of Malta for documenting that students should "learn from the beauty and goodness of other faith traditions".
According to Constitution of Malta (Chapter I, Article 2, Item 3): "Religious teaching of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Faith shall be provi...
September 08, 2009
By Cindy Von Quednow
As I start my last year of college, I´ve come to realize that "student" has become synonymous with "broke." Instead of saving up money and paying off debts, we are left working three jobs to make ends meet and owing thousands of dollars in the future.
While this migh...
September 05, 2009
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is sending a team to the north of the country where an overnight air strike by NATO forces against stolen trucks has reportedly led to dozens of civilian deaths.
Peter Galbraith, the Deputy UN Special Representative in Afghanistan, said ...
September 05, 2009
California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) Acting Secretary Matthew Bettenhausen, Secretary of Service and Volunteering Karen Baker, Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Director Brian Stiger and CAL FIRE Deputy Director of Fire Protection Ken Pimlott updated the latest actions taken by the Ad...
September 05, 2009
GENEVA -- Monitoring of outbreaks from different parts of the world provides sufficient information to make some tentative conclusions about how the influenza pandemic might evolve in the coming months.
WHO is advising countries in the northern hemisphere to prepare for a second wave of pandemic ...
September 02, 2009
A strong earthquake struck Indonesia Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, injuring 18 others and damaging several older buildings, witnesses said.
The earthquake, centered about 150 miles from Jakarta, initially was categorized at 7.4 magnitude before being downgraded to 7 by geological official...
August 31, 2009
By William M. Welch
LOS ANGELES -- Two firefighters died in a wildfire Sunday in the San Gabriel Mountains that threatened more than 10,000 homes and the century-old Mount Wilson Observatory.
Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief Mike Bryant said the two firefighters died in the Angeles Nationa...
August 31, 2009
Joliet, Illinois - A never give up attitude awarded Patrick Sheltra and the Sheltra Motorsports team with a solid top-10 finish Friday night at Chicagoland Speedway and further propelled the Indiantown, Florida native forward in his quest of finishing inside the top-five in the ARCA RE/MAX Series ch...
August 26, 2009
Praise for the long political career of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., began coming in early Wednesday as word of his death was reported.
The Kennedy family released a brief statement announcing the death and thanking those who cared for the senator in his last months.
"He loved this count...
August 24, 2009
By Cindy Von Quednow
As I start my last year of college, I´ve come to realize that "student" has become synonymous with "broke." Instead of saving up money and paying off debts, we are left working three jobs to make ends meet and owing thousands of dollars in the future.
While this migh...
August 21, 2009
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told assembled bankers and policymakers in Wyoming Friday to expect the U.S. economy to grow soon.
"Fears of financial collapse have receded substantially," Bernanke said at the Fed's annual retreat in Jackson Hole.
"After contracting sharply over the...
August 20, 2009
By Carmen Yarrusso
Health care is special
Health care services are in a special category of "services". Unlike almost all other services in our "free market" economy, most health care services (just like police and fire services) are necessary for all residents—often a matter o...
August 17, 2009
Long-time California Democratic Party Rules Committee and Executive Board member Laurence Zakson announced his candidacy August 12 for the vacant male seat in the California delegation to the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The DNC operates as a steering committee for the National Democratic Pa...
August 16, 2009
Two California wildfires were about 30 percent contained as firefighters anticipated even drier conditions Sunday, authorities said.
As of late Saturday, the Lockheed fire in Santa Cruz County covered 10 square miles while a fire burning in the Los Padres National Forest had burned more than 84,00...
August 16, 2009
A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for Florida and Alabama as a tropical depression organized off the Gulf Coast, meteorologists said.
The depression, on the brink of becoming Tropical Storm Claudette, was located about 125 miles south-southeast of Apalachicola and moving toward the Florid...
August 11, 2009
By Karen Jeffrey, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.
HYANNIS -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, an internationally acclaimed advocate for people with physical and development disabilities, died early this morning at Cape Cod Hospital, according to a statement from the family.
Born into the privilege...
August 05, 2009
Former Democratic President achieves diplomatic coup.
By Matt Williams
Two American reporters were freed from North Korea's notorious labour camps after former President Bill Clinton flew in for talks. Clinton met Kim Jong-il yesterday during a surprise visit to the secretive Asian state.
...
August 03, 2009
By Karen Mills and Christina Romer
Health care is the No. 1 concern for small businesses today. The current system places a heavy burden on many small-business owners because it does not provide access to affordable coverage for them and their employees. Small businesses pay up to 18 percen...
August 02, 2009
At Cleveland´s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
By Gary Jordan
Why is it, on any given day, any number of us can´t find our car keys or tell you what we had for breakfast, find that our ears perk up hearing a song on the radio, reminding us of some past experience? Suddenly we´re transported back...
August 02, 2009
By Gary Jordan
Football season will be kicking off soon and I must confess: I know absolutely nothing about football. It´s a game whose premise, much like algebra, eludes me to this day. Oh sure, my father sat me down as a young boy and tried to explain the rudimentary theory behind the ...
July 29, 2009
Critics charge that Governor does not care if children die from AIDS.
Speaker Karen Bass: The Governor "is so eager to tear down the safety net that he appears willing to break the law to do it." She faults Schwarzenegger for attacking, "the sick, the young, the elderly and battered women."
...
July 11, 2009
Inspectors General fault Bush-Era surveillance tactics for questionable effectiveness and circumvention of legal safeguards.
Top federal investigators from the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, CIA, Directorate of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency issued a detai...
July 09, 2009
From Bevan Springer, New York Amsterdam News
NEW YORK - With summer airfares to the Eastern Caribbean out of the reach of many travelers in today's recession, Bajans are smiling all the way to Barbados, their island home, thanks in large measure to Jamaica's state-run carrier. Or maybe not all o...
July 07, 2009
AVE MARIAH FOR MICHAEL; STARS FLOCK TO MEMORIAL AS 17,000 FANS FIND OUT OF THEY'VE GOT A TICKET
By Keith McLeod
Mariah Carey will sing the Jackson Five's classic I'll Be There as Tinseltown pays tribute to the King of Pop today.
Maria, who had a hit with the haunting ballad in 1992, is o...
June 17, 2009
Protesters hit the streets of Tehran again Tuesday to express anger over election results they say were manipulated to keep Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power.
The government has begun cracking down harder on the demonstrations that have turned deadly, while reaction from world leaders remains subdued, ...
June 12, 2009
By Marie McCullough, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The tobacco-control movement celebrated another milestone yesterday as the U.S. Senate easily passed a bill giving the government unprecedented power over the making and marketing of tobacco products.
Supporters say the law will enable the Food ...
June 04, 2009
By PAUL KANE; JOBY WARRICK
FORMER US vice-president Dick Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about controversial interrogation programmes, part of a secretive and forceful defence he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the hars...
May 30, 2009
By Frank Davies, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.
WASHINGTON -- Californians can expect "drastic cuts" in education, health care and law enforcement, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday after voters rejected a series of ballot measures designed to reduce those cuts.
"We heard the voice of...
May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has nominated federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York for the U.S. Supreme Court positioning the longtime federal jurist to become the first Hispanic member of the nation's high court.
Sotomayor, a former federal prosecutor who first was appointed to the fed...
May 25, 2009
North Korea claimed Monday it had "successfully" conducted a nuclear test, its second since October 2006, to "bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense."
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the testing comes in the wake of the Communist country's warning last month about its nuclear pla...
May 22, 2009
Poor weather conditions prevented the the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis from landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said Friday.
The landing was rescheduled for Saturday.
Two landings were waved off at the center because weather conditions wouldn't permit a safe landing, the space agen...
May 20, 2009
Los Angeles - Kobe Bryant scored 40 points, sank six free throws in the final 30.5 seconds and came up with the game-sealing rebound in the final seconds, as the Lakers rallied to beat Denver, 105-103, in the opener of the Western Conference finals.
Bryant had 18 of his points in the fourth quarte...
May 18, 2009
Jammu University to launch Energy Efficiency Campaign for Kashmiri children at Srinagar Kashmiri children to get a feel of global warming, energy efficiency.
BY VIVEKS SURI
SRINAGAR - In a major event, first of its kind in Kashmir valley, the University of Jammu in collaboration with Maghreb P...
May 18, 2009
By Tom Troy, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Notre Dame University gave a thunderous welcome during Sunday's graduation ceremony to President Obama and cheered him throughout the program despite stark differences on abortion that prompted protests on the Catholic campus.
Mr. Obama w...
May 11, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI, in Israel on his Middle East tour, called for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would lead to a homeland for both sides.
The pontiff said, "I plead with all those responsible to explore every possible avenue in the search for a just resolution of the outstandin...
May 06, 2009
By Bangor Daily News, Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine - Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday signed a gay marriage bill passed just hours before by the Maine Legislature.
Baldacci made his announcement within an hour of the Maine Senate giving its final approval to LD 1020. The Senate voted 21-13 in favor o...
May 02, 2009
By DENIS STAUNTON
US SUPREME court justice David Souter is set to retire this summer, offering President Barack Obama his first opportunity to shape the court after almost a decade of conservative government.
Mr Obama yesterday declined to comment on Mr Souter's decision, which had yet to be m...
April 27, 2009
By ADAM THOMSON
Governments and health authorities worldwide went on the alert over the weekend for a possible influenza pandemic as the death toll from a new strain of swine flu in Mexico reached 81.
Janet Napolitano, US homeland security secretary, yesterday declared a "public health emergen...
April 18, 2009
By Sandy Bauers and John Shiffman, The Philadelphia Inquirer
WASHINGTON -- In a landmark move that countered eight years of inaction by the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency determined yesterday that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare because they contribu...
April 14, 2009
By Rachel Stassen-Berger, Pioneer Press
Democrat Al Franken won last year's U.S. Senate race, three judges decided Monday.
The decision comes after a tough and testy two-year campaign, a two-month statewide hand recount and a detailed seven-week trial.
In the cool spring evening Monday, F...
April 12, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI began the Easter Vigil late Saturday at St. Peter's in Rome, celebrating the mass that opens the holiest day of the Christian calendar.
The service began in darkness, the BBC reported. After Benedict lit a candle to mark the resurrection of Jesus Christ, he was joined by thousand...
April 10, 2009
Democrat Al Franken has expanded his lead over former Senator Norm Coleman to 312 votes.
So will Coleman finally give it up and let the people of Minnesota get the full and fair representation they deserve? No. Coleman's lawyers have already sworn more and more court appeals.
Enough is enough...
April 08, 2009
In This Tough Economy, People in NY-20 Deserve Representation in Congress as Quickly as Possible.
Glens Falls, NY — The State Supreme Court in New York sided with the congressional campaign of Scott Murphy Monday and agreed that absentee ballots should start to be counted on Wednesday, Apri...
April 07, 2009
Vote to override Governor's veto makes Vermont first state to recognize marriage for lesbian and gay couples through legislative process. Vermont becomes the fourth state to recognize gay marriage.
Momentum in favor of same-sex marriages increases following similar victory for marriage equality ...
April 03, 2009
By Rod Boshart, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
In a precedent-setting ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court Friday upheld a lower court decision legalizing same-sex marriages in Iowa.
The unanimous landmark decision is expected to carry national implications as Iowa becomes the first Midwest state...
April 02, 2009
Paras Shah is a well known figure not just because he has been a Crown Prince of Nepal but also for being an icon of the juveniles who tried to copy his city juvenile´s extravaganza life styles. The Former Crown Prince Paras Shah and his copycats while leading an extravaganza life style had to...
April 02, 2009
By Marc Laitin, AFL-CIO Online Mobilization Coordinator
Congress is about to vote on a budget resolution for fiscal year 2010. This budget delivers on the principles laid out by President Obama and includes:
- A down payment on national health care reform.
- Investments in increasing green ...
April 02, 2009
By Erica Werner, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The House is poised to thrust tobacco companies under government control after years of attempts in legislatures and the courts to tame one of the country's signature industries.
"We cannot and we must not wait a moment longer to protect our...
March 29, 2009
By Vanessa Gera, The Associated Press
BONN, Germany - From an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and beyond, the world switched off the lights Saturday for Earth Hour, dimming skyscrapers, city streets and some of the world's most recognizable monuments for 60 minutes to high...
March 02, 2009
San Francisco - In advance of the historic California Supreme Court oral arguments on the validity of Proposition 8 and whether the initiative process can be used to take away fundamental freedoms from minorities, community organizations and thousands of Californians are coming together for candlel...
March 02, 2009
On March 5th, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case to repeal Proposition 8 and confirm that fundamental freedoms cannot be stripped from minorities by a popular vote. You can show your support for the repeal of Proposition 8 in three ways:
1. Get to San Francisco. Th...
February 28, 2009
By Ben Feller, Associated Press
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- President Barack Obama consigned the Iraq war to history Friday, declaring he will end combat operations within 18 months and open a new era of diplomacy in the Middle East.
"Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our comb...
February 21, 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Beijing Saturday amid calls for closer ties between the nations, officials said.
Hu and Clinton said the need to deepen and develop ties between China and the United States is becoming ever more important, Xinhua, the ...
February 17, 2009
By Brian Grow, Keith Epstein and Robert Berner
The bad mortgages that got the current financial crisis started have produced a terrifying wave of home foreclosures. Unless the foreclosure surge eases, even the most extravagant federal stimulus spending won't spur an economic recovery.
The Obam...
January 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, a confident young leader ushering in a new era with a promise of bold action to lift the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Taking the oath on the steps of a Capitol built...
January 19, 2009
At 12:00 noon today, Barack Obama takes the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States of America.
With the economy in a shambles, a war raging in Iraq, and another war in Afghanistan, the newly minted President faces challenges unlike any newly inaugurated President since Frankli...
January 16, 2009
By David Jackson
WASHINGTON -- President Bush used his farewell address Thursday to stress that the nation has not suffered a major terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001. But the threat remains, he said, and will be President-elect Barack Obama's biggest challenge.
"Our enemies are patient and...
January 13, 2009
By Panos Mourdoukoutas and Yuko Arayama
Everyone who follows the press headlines in recent months cannot help but get the impression that the current financial crisis is American made, driven by the burst of the real estate bubble, the failure of risk management models, and the collapse of large...
January 13, 2009
Hillary Clinton's foreign policy views and her husband's business dealings provide food for questioning during her confirmation hearing as secretary of State.
Clinton, President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for the top U.S. diplomatic post, was scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Foreig...
January 08, 2009
By Sam H. Clauder II
The California Democratic Party will hold biennial elections for state Central Committee members from seven Assembly Districts throughout San Bernardino County on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 10 and 11.
Individual Democrats are elected to become California Democratic...
January 06, 2009
By Dhruva Thapa
English New year is just gone and holidays fever is still in mind, body, and soul of every individual. Similarly, every country and culture has their own traditional holidays and even New Year day. Nepal also celebrates different New Year days in different ethnic groups. Among the...
December 29, 2008
Shijiazhuang (Xinhua) - Four more people in China's tainted dairy scandal went on trial Monday in a local court in Shijiazhuang, capital of northern Hebei Province.
The Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court began the hearing for Gao Junjie, Xue Jianzhong and two others at 8 a.m.. The charges ...
December 15, 2008
By Stephen P. Halbrook, The Independent Institute
Today is the United States´ Bill of Rights Day, but District of Columbia residents are second-class citizens when it comes to the Second Amendment. President-elect Barack Obama certainly does not support it. When I filed an amicus brief wit...
December 05, 2008
United Press International
The U.S. employment picture eroded sharply in November with unemployment jumping from 6.5 percent to 6.7 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
Nonfarm jobs employment dropped a precipitous 533,000 jobs in the month in a report that included revised figures f...
November 27, 2008
The Scotsman - By Brian Ferguson
A SERIES of co-ordinated terror attacks - seemingly targeting Britons and Americans - left at least 78 people dead and more than 200 injured in the Indian city of Mumbai last night.
Heavily armed gunmen opened fire on the city's crowded main railway station, as...
November 19, 2008
By William F. Shughart II
Those wearing green eyeshades in Sacramento seem to think that by taxing and spending more they can "create" jobs and reverse the current economic downturn. Yet California has been in the doldrums and state revenues have been flat or shrinking over the past few years not...
November 17, 2008
SACRAMENTO -- Equality California has called on leaders of the Yes on 8 campaign to end their attacks on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for saying he believes Proposition 8 should be overturned. Prop 8 eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.
In an interview with CNN earlier t...
November 17, 2008
Millions worldwide march peacefully to end bigotry and discrimination.
The narrow passage of California Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban, has led to world-wide protests demanding an end to intolerance and unfairness against lesbians and gays. During Saturday´s "National Day of Protest" ...
November 17, 2008
UC Berkeley Department of Public Science Chairman Emeritus Eugene C. Lee: "Specific changes to the California constitution may be proposed by amendment. Substantial changes may be proposed by a constitutional convention or by the legislature as constitutional revisions."
With the misinformed an...
November 17, 2008
United Press International
Ferocious wildfires aided by blasting winds and high temperatures forced 30,000 Southern California residents to flee their homes, officials said Sunday.
Eleven people were injured, including four firefighters, and at least 600 homes were destroyed in fires that struc...
November 14, 2008
Small and medium companies supported discriminatory amendment against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality; No Fortune 500 companies on the list.
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation´s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization,...
November 11, 2008
Discriminatory Proposition 8 was supported by hate groups and out-of-state religious extremists. California voters were lied to about same-sex marriage.
In a recent CNN interview, conservative Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that Proposition 8 should be invalidated because the Sup...
November 11, 2008
By JS GANDETO
Since the late eighties we have witnessed the creation of so-called "Macedonian" organizations throughout the world whose main objectives is to neutralize and or diffuse attention from the real Macedonians and their cause. In fact, they not only diffuse and distort the plight of the...
November 05, 2008
By Alex Epstein and Yaron Brook
Alan Greenspan claims that the free market failed to prevent the financial crisis, and that he is "shocked" that his professed "free-market ideology" turned out to contain a "flaw."
But why should we take him seriously? Greenspan, while once associated with la...
November 05, 2008
How the Race Was Decided
Independent, The; London (UK)
As the polls closed and the parties began, the early results showed how the new President was set for victory
Pennsylvania: Obama
One of three crucial swing states that has played a decisive role in presidential elections for the past ...
November 03, 2008
by Dan Bacher.
The ripping away of public trust access to our waterways and ocean waters by extreme property rights folks and the Bush and Schwarzenegger administrations is something that many sportsmen don't seem to understand. I get sick and tired of some ill-informed sportsmen who point to ...
November 03, 2008
La meta de la Proposición 8 es redefinir la constitución de California para eliminar los derechos humanos fundamentales de parejas del mismo sexo. Se les negaría las responsabilidades, la dignidad y el respeto que una pareja casada disfruta siendo parte de un matrimonio.
La campaña "Vote No a la ...
November 03, 2008
DOVER — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen zeroed in on education Friday during a campaign stop at Measured Progress.
Shaheen's speech to a crowd of about 50 employees included a wide range of policy positions, but all of the questions directed to Shaheen, a former Dover High S...
November 03, 2008
Third Alaska newspaper to endorse Begich.
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Begich today received the endorsement of the Peninsula Clarion. In today´s edition of the newspaper, Begich was the only Democrat to receive the backing of the newspaper.
"The overriding factor in endorsing any candid...
November 03, 2008
Bruce Lunsford is a candidate for the United States Senate in Kentucky.
Bruce Lunsford is a successful entrepreneur, business leader and health care executive. While he´s not a professional politician, he´s a professional problem-solver who has earned a reputation for getting things done everyw...
November 03, 2008
Just days before the Nov. 4 election, Congressman Jerry McNerney completed his sweep of newspaper endorsements in the 11th Congressional District with this morning's endorsement from the Contra Costa Times/Bay Area News Group. Every newspaper that circulates in the 11th Congressional District and ma...
November 03, 2008
A fourth generation Nebraskan, Scott Kleeb's great-grandfather started the Kleeb family homestead just outside of Broken Bow in 1884. For over 100 years, the Kleebs maintained a mixed farm in the Sandhills. Scott grew up listening to his grandparent's stories of homesteading, of neighbors coming tog...
November 03, 2008
By Rachel Kau-Taylor, Young Democrats of America
With just a few hours until the polls close in California, many people in the state-our friends, our coworkers, members of our family-all need our help. We have to beat Proposition 8 or our rights will be taken away. Some people in our state hav...
November 03, 2008
By Larry Struck
Normally I´m not a politically active animal. Aside from voting in national elections or joining an occasional local cause, I keep a distance from the political process. Maybe this is my response to the sad spectacle of progressively atavistic and loutish administrations from Nix...
November 03, 2008
Gorillas from the Prague Zoo are on their way to Africa. They are the main heroes of a book of gorilla stories which will be available for free to school children in Cameroon. This unique project was made possible thanks to the cooperation between The Revealed project team and the Limbe Wildlife Cen...
November 03, 2008
Independent, The; London (UK)
By Leonard Doyle
Barack Obama is entering the home stretch of the race for the White House with an aggressive foray into traditionally Republican states, a sure indication that his campaign is in far better shape than the doomed efforts of his Democratic predecessors...
October 29, 2008
Republican Candidate Elizabeth Dole's last-minute commercial called a pathetic, desperate lie.
Kay Hagan: "The North Carolina I was raised in would NEVER condone this kind of personal slander."
GREENSBORO, NC - Kay Hagan, her three children and husband, her pastor of 17 years, Dr. Joe Mulli...
October 29, 2008
Verdict is in: 59 Constitutional and Family Law Professors from 14 California Law Schools Analyze and Reject Prop. 8 Claims.
SACRAMENTO – Today the NO on Prop 8 campaign released a rare joint statement signed by 59 distinguished law professors concluding that the Prop. 8 campaign´s legal ...
October 29, 2008
By Bryan Farha
I´m registered as an independent, so I have no democratic or republican affiliation, affinity, or preference. You are invited to shoot holes in this very unrealistic proposal/call to stop rampant lying, negative campaigning, and smear tactics by presidential candidates. We c...
October 29, 2008
Temperance and the Psychology of thoughtful Choice
By William J. O´Mara PhD, Organizational Psychologist and EthicianThe Center for Ethical Global Enlightenment
November 4, 2008; a date that will live in history. The most important election on record is before us. What are we to...
October 28, 2008
Independent, The; London (UK); By Leonard Doyle
The US Senate's longest-serving Republican, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, was convicted yesterday of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy contractor who was close to the state's lucrative and powerful oil indu...
October 27, 2008
By Gandeto
Here, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the American Chronicle for allowing me to respond to the above published letter on October 21, 2008. The Chronicle should be commended for the opportunities afforded to readers to be able to air their differences of opinion in an op...
October 27, 2008
Pyrros Lagos
The internet as a technology has enabled humanity to expand its boundaries of knowledge and has also provided modern man with an easily accessible source of entertainment. It has also provided modern man with a convenient and functional method to propagate racial hatred and propagand...
October 25, 2008
Paid slate-mailer "endorsements" are not worth the paper they're printed on.
Every election cycle, voters receive many so-called endorsement slates in their mailboxes. Sometimes, it's hard for the average voter to determine how to evaluate the endorsements on these sleek guides that appear to co...
October 25, 2008
by: Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
On the eve of the 2008 election, the Department leaks an FBI probe of ACORN but remains silent on widespread voter intimidation tactics.
Partisan considerations still appear to be contributing to the Department of Justice's actions when it comes to enforcing the...
October 25, 2008
The following letter is in response to the theories put forward by Mr. Risto Stefov, who disseminates his own ignorance as a matter of historical fact. First, with regard to his absurd allegations about the lack of Greek spoken during the period of the Greek War of Independence, Mr. Stefov sho...
IRS Seeks to Return $266 Million in Undeliverable Refunds And Economic Stimulus Payments to Taxpayer
October 25, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is looking for taxpayers who are missing more than 279,000 economic stimulus checks totaling about $163 million and more than 104,000 regular refund checks totaling about $103 million that were returned by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address...
October 22, 2008
By John Scripsick
My son died in Iraq one year ago and it has made me study the reasons we went to war, as any parent would do looking into the loss of their child.
President George W. Bush came to Oklahoma City Friday, September 12, to raise money for Sen. John McCain. I think for a don...
October 22, 2008
By Bevan Springer
NEW YORK - While tourism operators at home and in the marketplace bemoan the current difficult economic times and the typical challenges they associate with the summer and fall seasons, others are "improving, renovating, expanding and exposing" their product in anticipation of...
October 20, 2008
43,000 Fans Attend Jazz-Filled 3-Day Party.
Monterey, CA - The Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon wrapped up its 51st edition Sunday night with a weekend that was as mellow and laid back as it was filled with inspired, passionate and visionary performances by some 500 world-renowned ...
October 20, 2008
By Christi Parsons, Chicago Tribune
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- Democrat Barack Obama raised a staggering $150 million in September, shattering all previous fundraising records and dwarfing the amount raised by Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
Obama made campaign finance history Sunday a...
October 16, 2008
By Georgios Gialtouridis
Part II
The term clone is derived from κλών (klon), the Greek word for twig or branch, referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.
According to Herodotus´ The Histories, during the 8th century B.C. the Argeads ( ...
October 12, 2008
Virginian - Pilot
By James V. Grimaldi and Kimberly Kindy, The Washington Post
WASHINGTON: An Alaska state legislative investigator found Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her executive power when she and her husband engaged in a campaign to oust her former brother-in-law from the state polic...
October 11, 2008
BBC Monitoring Newsfile
Kyodo - The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven economies vowed Friday to use all available tools, including public capital injection, to fight the worldwide credit crunch and prevent "systemically important financial institutions" from failing...
October 08, 2008
International Herald Tribune - From news reports
Russia will pull back Wednesday from the southern edge of a buffer zone inside Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia, a senior Russian officer said, ahead of a deadline Friday.
Russia has until Friday to withdraw its troops from so-called security z...
October 06, 2008
The Sacramento Bee
By Andy Furillo and Sam Stanton
WILLIAMS -- At least 10 people were killed and dozens others injured Sunday night when a privately owned tour bus headed from Sacramento to a Colusa-area casino flipped over on a two-lane road, officials said.
The single-vehicle accident spa...
October 03, 2008
USA TODAY - By William M. Welch
LAS VEGAS -- A prosecutor showed jurors the mug shot of O.J. Simpson with the word "guilty" stamped across it in red ink Thursday as he said in closing arguments that the former actor and football player instigated the armed robbery and kidnappings of two sports dea...
October 02, 2008
By Larry Eichel, The Philadelphia Inquirer
This is the night that political junkies -- and there are millions and millions of you out there this year -- have been waiting for.
At 9 p.m., Sarah Palin and Joseph R. Biden Jr. meet in their one and only debate of the campaign season, at Washingt...
September 29, 2008
Alexandria, Va. – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Executive Director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo pled guilty this morning to count one of an indictment charging that he defrauded the United States and its citizens of their right to his honest services, Karen P. Hewitt, United States Attorney for the...
September 29, 2008
Washington - The U.S. Treasury Department today opened its Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds. The U.S. Treasury will guarantee the share price of any publicly offered eligible money market mutual fund – both retail and institutional – that applies for and pays a fee to participate i...
September 29, 2008
How does an investor sign up to participate in the Treasury's Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds?
While the program protects the shares of all money market fund investors as of September 19, 2008, each money market fund makes the decision to sign up for the program. Investors can...
September 28, 2008
North Hollywood, CA - Festival-goers at the second annual "NoHo Scene" on Sunday, October 5 can help build an imaginary "Little NoHo" of parks, bridges, bike paths, plazas, streetcar lines, public art or anything one can imagine using recycled materials.
The " Little NoHo" art installation, brou...
September 28, 2008
It was 75 years ago Friday, September 26, 1933 — that wanted gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly and three others were captured by Bureau agents and local police.
That date might not have meant much to history except for the reporting that followed. As the legend goes, the surrounded and fr...
September 23, 2008
Canada´s capital city Ottawa has decided to have a Mahatma Gandhi statue.
Ottawa Mayor Larry O´Brien, in a communiqué to Gandhi Monument Council (GMC) headed by Rajan Zed and Right Reverend Gene Savoy Jr., informed, "Ottawa City Council just passed a resolution that I fully su...
September 22, 2008
United Press International
The number of babies sickened by tainted milk products in China totals more than 50,000, with four dead and another 104 seriously ill.
The Chinese Health Ministry said of those sickened, about 12,900 had been hospitalized, among whom 104 were seriously ill, the China ...
September 22, 2008
By Chuck Baldwin
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave her first exclusive interview as John McCain's Vice Presidential running mate to ABC's Charles Gibson last week.
Her answers were very troubling, especially to those of us who believe in constitutional government. On foreign policy, especially, P...
September 21, 2008
By Aman Loona
Hemant Goswami, a social activist from India, and Thailand's Health minister have been selected for the prestigious international "Global Smokefree Partnership Award" in recognition of their work in controlling the menace of tobacco. The honour is awarded every year by "The Global S...
September 20, 2008
By Edgar K. Browning
No, it´s not the War in Iraq—it´s the War on Poverty. Incredible as it may seem, Americans transfer more than a trillion dollars each year to low-income families through a bewildering variety of programs, all in the name of fighting poverty and inequality. ...
September 20, 2008
by Sam H. Clauder II
Democrats in San Bernardino County have made dramatic gains in registering new voters during the past few years.
In 2002 there were 60,000 more Republicans than Democrats in the county. By 2006, the difference was less than 30,000, and in May of this year it was down ...
September 17, 2008
USA TODAY - By Sue Kirchhoff, Kathy Chu, Barbara Hagenbaugh and Edward Iwata
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday night it will lend up to $85 billion to American International Group, effectively putting the government in control of the flailing insurance giant, saying the move was necessary to protec...
September 15, 2008
Peter Camejo, social justice activist and Green Party gubernatorial candidate, dies at his Folsom home Saturday after long bout with cancer.
FOLSOM, CA – Peter Camejo, three-time Green Party candidate for Governor and 2004 running mate with Ralph Nader in his independent run for President, die...
September 15, 2008
"Mr. Showtime´s Never Give Up Attitude Yields Point Climb Saturday Night."
SALEM, Indiana - In a day that was full of obstacles, sophomore ARCA RE/MAX Series driver Patrick Sheltra never gave up underneath the Salem lights to post an 11th place finish in Saturday night´s Eddie Gilstrap Moto...
September 10, 2008
By Mike Dorning, Chicago Tribune
RIVERSIDE, Ohio -- Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday charged rival Sen. John McCain with "three decades of indifference on education" as the Illinois Democrat sought to sharpen distinctions with the Republican ticket on a topic of special resonance to the white women vo...
September 05, 2008
The Independent; London (UK) By Sadie Gray
Residents of Haiti were last night clearing up the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Hanna, as officials in the US prepared for the storm to hit.
Hanna caused major flooding in Haiti this week, leaving at least 61 people dead and thousands more str...
September 02, 2008
USA TODAY
By Del Jones
Hurricane Gustav took a direct hit on the Gulf of Mexico, temporarily suspending 100% of oil production in the Gulf, yet gasoline prices appear lower.
It seems improbable, but energy prices are often driven more by psychology than by high winds. And unless inspections ...
August 29, 2008
Obama's Speech Capped a Convention Aimed at Unifying Democratic Party.
The Dallas Morning News
DENVER - For all the glitz and the grand finale, Barack Obama's appeal Thursday night was fundamentally a call for the Democratic family to come home.
Obama presented himself as a unifying figure t...
August 22, 2008
Highlighting the gravity of the situation of Roma people of Europe, Hindus have strongly urged His Holiness Pope Benedictus XVI Joseph A. Ratzinger to immediately come up with a White Paper on their plight.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu and Indo-American leader, in a statement in Nevada (USA) t...
August 24, 2008
By Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star, Mo.
Now we know what to expect from Joe Biden.
Fire, passion (he yells at times), boiling-over frustration with the Bush administration, deep-seated foreign-policy experience and the occasional verbal flub.
In his first public appearance Saturday as...
August 14, 2008
The International Nepali Literary Society (INLS) has organized the first Nepali Women Poetry Competition on August 9, 2008, at the University of Connecticut. The INLS was provided a forum by the Global Nepali Women's Network. The Poetry Competition was organized to help promote Nepali language and l...
August 14, 2008
Cinema has always been interested in God but has not done a very good job in the depiction of religion in general, acclaimed religious leader Rajan Zed stated in Nevada (USA) today.
Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, says that the idea of meeting concurrently the req...
August 14, 2008
Acclaimed Indo-American leader Rajan Zed was honored by world famous Malibu Hindu Temple in Southern California (USA) on Saturday for his works and services for the Hindu and Indo-American community and interfaith dialogue.
Temple president, Nadadur Varadan, presented Zed with a shawl and a ...
August 14, 2008
NOW Applauds Decision to Place Her Name into Nomination at Democratic National Convention.
The National Organization for Women applauds the presidential campaigns of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama for their announcement today that Clinton's name will be placed into nomination at the...
August 14, 2008
ROSEMEAD, CA — University of the West President Dr. Allen Huang announced on Thursday the interim approval of its Buddhist Chaplaincy Program by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
UWest will immediately begin recruiting students to the three-year program for the training ...
August 13, 2008
Complete With Rising Political Stars, Inside Access from Key Campaign Officials, Exclusive Programming Details You Won't See or Hear Anywhere Else During Convention Week. Airing Daily Starting Sunday, August 24th on DemConvention.com and Comcast's Video On-Demand. Check Out Special 'Countdown' Sneak...
August 13, 2008
Emblematic of the Democratic Party´s New Generation of Western Leaders, Hometown Governor and Mayor to ´Bookend´ Convention Program.
DENVER – The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) and the Obama for America Campaign announced today that Colorado Governor Bill Ritt...
August 13, 2008
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senator Claire McCaskill & Craig Robinson to Speak
Tribute to Senator Kennedy.
DENVER – The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) and the Obama for America Campaign announced today that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Permanent Chair of the 2008 ...
August 13, 2008
By Brenda West
His country wants to hang him, and this could happen within the next few months. Sallah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is a Bangladeshi journalist, publisher and peace activist who has left the fold of Jew hatred and Muslim supremacy that is infecting his country in recent years. For...
August 08, 2008
By Candace Rondeaux, The Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's ruling coalition parties agreed Thursday to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, setting up a major showdown between the former military chief and the newly elected civilian government.
Leaders of the ruling Pakistan Peo...
August 06, 2008
BBC Monitoring NewsfileThe Olympic torch relay began its final leg in Beijing from the landmark Forbidden City Wednesday morning.
At the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, the torch was handed over to the first bearer, Yang Liwei, the country's first astronaut, by Liu Qi, president of the Beij...
August 01, 2008
United Press International - A U.S. government scientist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland of an apparent suicide, colleagues said.
Bruce Ivins, 62, died as the U.S. Justice Department was preparing to file criminal charges against him in the attacks, the Los Angeles Tim...
July 25, 2008
BERLIN - In a highly unusual move for an American presidential candidate, Barack Obama staged a foreign policy speech Thursday before a huge overseas audience, calling for renewed trans-Atlantic cooperation to rein in Iran, fight religious extremism and terrorism, and address global warming and pove...
July 17, 2008
By Gregory Bonnell
OTTAWA (CP) - Same-sex unions are growing at five times the rate of opposite-sex ones according to census numbers that also reveal, for the first time, the number of homosexual marriages in Canada.
Some 45,300 couples, both common law and married, reported as same-sex in t...
July 15, 2008
Rocky Mountain News - By Associated Press
Scrambling to bolster eroding investor confidence, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced unprecedented steps to brace slumping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The plan, unveiled Sunday, is intended to signal that the gov...
June 21, 2008
Several Airlines Likely to Fail; Affordable, Frequent Air Travel and Jobs at Risk.
WASHINGTON and RADNOR, Pa. -- At current oil prices, several large and small U.S. airlines will default on their obligations to creditors beginning at the end of 2008 and early 2009, according to a study issued...
June 18, 2008
1. China's Olympic Committee President was found liable for torture.
2. To prepare for the Olympics, Chinese security ordered a "strike hard" against Falun Gong.
3. Falun Gong practitioners are being killed in custody faster and more frequently than before.
4. Thousands of Falun Gong pract...
June 18, 2008
Dr. Sandeep Pandey
Two local residents of Miyaganj block, Unnao district (UP, India) Virendra Singh and Yashwant Rao, had written to Block Development Officer (BDO) of Miyaganj seeking support to conduct the social audit of NREGS. The BDO wrote to every pradhan in this block seeking their coopera...
June 18, 2008
By Royce Radcliffe
Imagine this scenario: you are watching the news and they go to a protest rally in China. Students are protesting for women's rights and start burning the flag. Immediatly armed military men come into the scene and grab the protestors. The reporter then says that this was done ...
June 18, 2008
In Bangladesh constitution, it is said that every one is equal in the eyes of the law. Bangladesh has been ruled by two democratically elected women for last 15 years. However, both of the former prime ministers have accused the other one for serious corruption. In every meeting they attended, in ev...
June 18, 2008
Ogaden Online
In 1994, the minority Tigrian People's Liberation Front (TPLF) dishonored its days old, carefully crafted constitution whose article 39 allowed each community, within the Ethiopian community of nations, to hold a referendum. Instead of allowing the ethnic Somalis in Ogaden to exerc...
June 18, 2008
By Bevan Springer
NEW YORK - While the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup may have helped economic expansion, boosted infrastructure investment and furthered functional cooperation across the region, many in the tourism circles did not reap the kind of dividends they expected from the sporting spectacle...
June 18, 2008
By Nadia Nascimento
Talk to any marketer about the latest creative ideas for User Generated Video (UGV) and the conversation will lead to the ´me too´ generation of UGV ads. Doritos paved the way with fan commercials being shown during the Super Bowl and was quickly followed by ...
June 18, 2008
By Bevan Springer
NEW YORK (April 19, 2008) - Who knew that for a third successive week I would be writing another article about the strategic importance of the Caribbean Diaspora to tourism promotion efforts?
That's because the reaction from Caribbean people at home and abroad to the power ...
June 18, 2008
By Habte Dafa
It is a public secret to know that Africa is one of the oldest continent with abundant natural resources. Without going in depth, History and Scientific researches verifies that the oldest human remains to be found in the valleys of Oromia in Africa. Therefore, one can not deny abso...
June 18, 2008
By Simma Lieberman
I've been writing and speaking about work/life balance for over 18 years. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken workshops on work/life balance and tried to make changes in their lives. Senior leaders have supported wellness programs for their employees and lent words of e...
June 18, 2008
Ogaden Online
For 17 years, the current Tigrian People's Liberation Front (TPLF) regime in Addis Ababa succeeded in denying Western reporters or human rights activists from setting foot in Ogaden. The objective was to prevent the outside world from getting a glimpse of the state sanctioned human...
June 18, 2008
By Roberta Chinsky Matuson
For many companies, who have experienced rapid growth, Human Resources is an after thought. You start out with two employees and before you know it, you've grown to over 25. Life in the office goes from being fairly simple to highly complex.
When you are a small co...
June 18, 2008
By Roberta Chinsky Matuson
Think age diversity doesn't affect your workplace? Before you respond, read the following situations and check off those that you've observed in your organization:
* Younger workers who move on without a moment's notice (or in your case two week's notice).
* Baby...
June 18, 2008
By Nicola Nasser
Addouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy, Tactics of Resistance.
For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, ...
June 18, 2008
Deepak Tripathi
Serious claims need serious thinking before they are made. The recent claim by the CIA Director, Michael Hayden, that Al-Qaeda had essentially been defeated in Iraq is astonishing. 'Near strategic defeat of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, near strategic defeat in Saudi Arabia and significant s...
June 18, 2008
by Liz Tahir
How often have you felt you were communicating clearly, only to find you have sent the wrong message? This can happen because we are concentrating on what we say (verbal) instead of how we are saying it (nonverbal).
The delivery of a message is as integral as the words in a mes...
June 18, 2008
By Deb Snyder
Sleep wasn't coming easy.
Getting appropriate rest on a firm bench in a hospital room was always a challenge. The room was sterile and cool with bright light and noise filtered in from the nurse's station just outside our door. My young daughter, Raegan Aria, laid motionless a few...