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Morning headlines brought to you by Carolyn Kay MakeThemAccountable.com Top StoryBush aides face contempt vote Wednesday
WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Monday targeted two of President Bush's longtime aides for criminal contempt against Congress, escalating a legal fight over executive privilege and access to White House deliberations on the firings of federal prosecutors. The Radical Fringe
The WorldU.S. and Iran to discuss Iraq only
BAGHDAD - The United States said ambassador-level talks with Iran in Baghdad on Tuesday will focus solely on the situation in Iraq despite rising tensions over American-Iranians detained by Tehran and Iranians held in U.S. custody in Iraq.
Hezbollah: Rockets can reach all Israel
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Monday his group possesses an arsenal of rockets that can reach all of Israel, including Tel Aviv.
Iran launches new crackdown on unIslamic dress
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Monday launched a new wave of a moral crackdown against women who "dress like models" and men whose hairstyles are deemed unIslamic, police said.
6 Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan killed four American soldiers on Monday, while two NATO soldiers died elsewhere and a battle in the country's poppy-growing heartland killed more than 50 suspected militants.
US targets 2008 for full implementation of NKorean nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has set 2008 as the target for full implementation of an accord to end North Korea's nuclear weapons drive, including a final peace deal for the Korean peninsula, top US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.
Medics jailed in Libya arrive home
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were pardoned by President Georgi Parvanov upon their arrival in Sofia on Tuesday after spending 8 1/2 years in prison in Libya. The medics, who were sentenced to life in prison for allegedly contaminating children with the AIDS virus, arrived on a plane with French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy and the EU's commissioner for foreign affairs, Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
They were recently sentenced to be executed before their sentences were reduced to life in prison. Congratulations, Mme. Sarkozy, you’re a credit to your country and to the world.—Caro The NationBush Hits 25% Approval
According to a new American Research Group poll, just 25% of Americans approve of the way President Bush is handling his job as president and 71% disapprove. These are record lows for the survey. When it comes to Bush's handling of the economy, 23% approve and 73% disapprove.
Access denied
If the Bush administration wanted to fuel conspiracy theories about its classified plan for maintaining governmental control in the wake of an apocalyptic terror attack, it could not have come up with a better strategy than refusing to let Congressman Peter DeFazio examine it… If the White House doesn't do so, the American public is left with this unsettling thought from Congressman DeFazio: "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right."
U.S. Is Seen in Iraq Until at Least ’09
BAGHDAD, July 23 — While Washington is mired in political debate over the future of Iraq, the American command here has prepared a detailed plan that foresees a significant American role for the next two years.
“Who cares what you think?” – George W. Bush, July 4, 2001—Caro
Injured Iraq war veterans sue VA head
WASHINGTON - Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment.
Justice Dept. drops massive fraud case
Two years into a fraud investigation, veteran federal prosecutor David Maguire told colleagues he'd uncovered one of the biggest cases of his career. Maguire described crimes "far worse" than those of Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant that collapsed in the wake of the Enron scandal. But Maguire never brought charges… Months after preparing the draft, he was removed as the lead prosecutor on the case and reassigned.
U.S. Attorney Touted Work For Bush Campaign To Get Nominated
Greg White is currently serving as the U.S. attorney in Cleveland. New documents reveal that in 2002, White campaigned heavily for the position, touting his loyalty to the Bush campaign in 2000.
Gonzales vows to fix Justice's image
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he's staying at the Justice Department to try to repair its broken image, telling Congress in a statement released Monday he's troubled that politics may have played a part in hiring career federal prosecutors.
He vows, not to fix the problems, but to repair the image.—Caro
Senate Considers Banning "Deceptive Practices" in Elections
This Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007, a bill which would prohibit lying to voters in order to discourage them from showing up at the polls. According to the bill's findings, it was introduced in response to a history of such practices.
Why isn’t this kind of behavior already against the law?—Caro MediaPermanent link to MTA daily media news
If you are coming to YearlyKos and want to get together, let me know. I won’t be attending the convention, but I live in downtown Chicago, and would love to meet you.
YouTube presidential debate blazes trail
Embracing the Internet in all its brashness and irreverence, eight Democratic presidential hopefuls differed over Iraq, Darfur, same-sex marriage and more offbeat issues in a lively Monday-night debate driven by dozens of amateur inquisitors… The unusual format drew the candidates out on matters rarely discussed at the presidential level, such as their children's sex education and the willingness of at least some to work in the White House for minimum wage.
XM, SIRIUS to Offer A La Carte Programming
SIRIUS Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio said today that the merged company will offer American consumers for the first time the opportunity to choose programming on an a la carte basis. This unprecedented offering will provide subscribers with more choices and lower prices and pave the way for a unique form of competition in the entertainment industry — one based on the individual programming preferences of listeners.
Programming based on listener preferences? It’s a revolutionary concept.—Caro
Goodbye to Newspapers?
(Neil) Henry (in American Carnival, describes an) assemblage of self-servers, frauds, political double-dippers, gasbags, mountebanks, spoiled reporters, and unprincipled swine (who) make up that vague organism called "media." How the press and journalism became entwined in this squalor is a long and complicated tale, but there seems to be no escape… Nobody phones the paper expecting to find a hero anymore.
Paul Krugman: The French Connections
French consumers get to choose from a variety of service providers who offer reasonably priced Internet access that’s much faster than anything I can get, and comes with free voice calls, TV and Wi-Fi. It’s too early to say how much harm the broadband lag will do to the U.S. economy as a whole. But it’s interesting to learn that health care isn’t the only area in which the French, who can take a pragmatic approach because they aren’t prisoners of free-market ideology, simply do things better.
Oh, so the US has a shortage of medical doctors, just like UK
It sounds like the brilliant US health care system that is in place today is not much different from the system in the UK that was being attacked because there have been doctor shortages which were - according to Fox (News) - encouraging sneaky terrorists to slip into the country as bureaucrats struggled to locate new doctors… Something tells me that Faux News won't be updating their viewers on this story.
Harry Reid on calling liars, like Bush, what they are: Liars
The Washington press corps just can't believe that Harry Reid called Bush a "liar." Reid is still getting questioned about it… (It’s) not very complicated, but the media can't grasp it. Bush lies to them regularly -- and they report what he says anyway. The Bush team knows the media won't call them liars. It's just not done. So, Bush and his crew have lied without repercussions for years. Fortunately, Harry Reid doesn't hold back. Technology & ScienceOne Laptop Per Child Sends PCs to Production
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Monday moved a step closer to providing low-cost laptops to children in developing nations by giving the go-ahead to the mass production of its XO laptop. However, the computers are expected to be out in October, one month later than originally planned.
New processors present problems, payoff
Chip makers are no longer racing to have the fastest microprocessor and have shifted their focus away from building chips with a single, super-fast calculating core. Instead, to save energy and reduce heat, they're putting multiple cores on the same chip — the equivalent of several computers on the same slice of silicon. The problem is that many software applications weren't written for chips with multiple cores, and the hardware is advancing so fast that the software runs the risk of being left behind.
Ultra-flexible fiber optics on the way
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Corning Inc. is finding its way around very tight corners to help high-speed Internet service reach high-rise apartments and condominiums.
Better Grasp of Health Info May Boost Life Span
But a quarter of older adults have 'poor health literacy,' U.S. study finds
Enlightened Medicine Found in Dark Ages
People living in Europe during early Medieval times (400—1200 A.D.) actually had a progressive view of illness because disease was so common and out in the open, according to the research presented at a recent historical conference. Instead of being isolated or shunned, the sick were integrated into society and taken care of by the community, the evidence suggests.
Clues Found in Mystery of Antarctic Mountain Formation
The origins of the highest peaks in Antarctica have long been shrouded in mystery. Now researchers suggest they are remnants of a gigantic high plateau that collapsed as the earth tore apart. EnvironmentWarm Water Creatures May Soon Rule the Oceans
Warm-water sea creatures may one day rule the oceans as their cold-water competitors fail to adapt to climate change.
Cornfields May Affect Weather Patterns
Corn - an ingredient in some 600 products from food to fuel, and for centuries an inspiration to American artists ? is now being viewed in yet another way: as a crop which may add water to the atmosphere, cool temperatures and more.
Global warming has already changed world's rainfall patterns: study
PARIS (AFP) - A study has yielded the first confirmation that global warming is already affecting world's rainfall patterns, bringing more precipitation to northern Europe, Canada and northern Russia but less to swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, southern India and Southeast Asia.
Australia to push global satellite forest fire tracking system
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia said Monday it planned to lead the development of a global satellite system to monitor forest fires in a bid to help stop deforestation. For more headlines, visit MakeThemAccountable.com. |
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