| Is Bush Stopped in His Tracks on Iran?
Bush and Cheney do not need a rational excuse for invading another country. Why are we in Iraq? Again, why are we in Iraq? More pertinent is: Will Halliburton and other private contractors make big money by invading Iran. Will invading Iran give the oil companies more control over Iranian oil or shipping routes? It's that simple. Blood for oil and money. Congress cannot stop Bush. No more than Hitler could have been stopped. The neo-cons and Israel (with its own little concentration camp of 1.4 million) are out of control. Ironic isn't it? .
2 Sun reporters, WBAL-TV win Headliner awards
Tucker, 27, a features reporter at The Sun since November 2004, won in the category of feature writing. Her articles included one on Dr. Heather Cereste, a Texas physician treating the wounded in Iraq, who honed her skills during an intensive three-week training session at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Other articles included visits with Ocean City lifeguards reuniting misplaced children with their parents, and with George, a Cockeysville mastiff competing in New York's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
"To win not one but two awards in one of America's most prestigious journalism contests makes this a truly special honor," Franklin said.
Baltimore's WBAL-TV, Channel 11, won the competition's grand award for television broadcasting, for Africa's Maryland. The 30-minute documentary, which aired in February last year, documented reporter Tim Tooten and a WBAL crew's visit to Maryland County, Liberia, an area colonized in the 19th century by freed slaves from Maryland.
Google Israel head rejects censor role
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Student groups resent plan for assimilation
The committee began formally hearing cases in January. If dissolved, the UPUA Board of Arbitration will assume its duties. The committee's co-chairman Joshua Peles (junior-crime, law and justice) said he didn't know about the plan until it was passed, adding that his organization felt "almost disrespected." Waddell said the Student Organization Conduct Committee's duties are "traditionally ... part of the elected student government." While UPUA recognizes UPAC, which controls funding allocation of the student activity fee, as an independent organization, UPUA is seeking to oversee its policies and approve its elected members. UPAC Overall Chairman Dan Green (senior-supply chain and information systems) said UPUA is already involved with his organization.
World Markets See-Saw As Dollar Hits Record Low And Oil Prices Soar
News on Thursday showed that foreclosures, or repossessions, had hit a record high in the fourth quarter of last year while house prices look to be in freefall.
Analysts said the latest numbers were as good as confirmation that the U.S. economy was already in recession as a result of the housing market collapse and sub-prime mortgage crisis, which has already claimed victims across the globe, including Northern Rock.
'The debate should no longer be about whether there is or is not a recession, only about how deep it will be. Private employment has now fallen for three months in a row,' said Nigel Gault, economist at Global Insight. 'The Fed has to be more aggressive,' said Richard DeKaser, chief economist for National City Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Early morning update: Rock rising at Joslin
Closed streets include: 60th Street south of Green Valley Park; North Shore Drive between 16th and 26th streets; South Shore Drive, both east and west of 27th Street. In addition, the following parks are closed due to flooding Harold’s Landing, Old Green Valley Park and Veteran’s Park.Attention now focuses on the Rock River at Joslin where the Rock was over its banks at 17.17 feet at 3:30 a.m. Flood stage is 12 feet. The river is predicted to rise to near 17.8 feet by Saturday afternoon, then begin falling, according the to the weather service. Ice jams could lead to local fluctuations of 1 to 3 feet. At 17.7 feet, water affects the railroad tracks south of Prophetstown and rural farm fields.On the Iowa side, the Wapsipinicon River near DeWitt dropped below flood stage this morning.
Going Out Guide: Find something to do this weekend
Techno Tuesdays, 11 p.m. Tuesdays, free. 36 E. High St., Oxford, (513) 523-1335, brickstreetbar.com. BURBANK'S: Open jam 7 to 11 p.m. every Thursday with Sonny Moorman Group. 11167 Dowlin Drive, Sharonville, (513) 771-1440. BUSTERS BAR: Ladies nite every Tuesday, all ladies drinks half price 6 to 9 p.m.; customer appreciation nite, drinks half price 7 to 9 p.m.; super Sundays all beverages half price 3 to 5 p.m.; jukebox, outside patio with tail gate partying area, pool tables and dart machines, 112 Charles St., Middletown, (513) 424-3861. C&C LOUNGE: No Limit Band, 9:30 p.m., Dec. 8, free; beer specials Tuesdays and Sundays, 2518 Cincinnati-Brookville Road, Ross, (513) 738-9931. CACTUS PEAR NORTH: CincyLatino's Latin Night, Latin music by DJ Aikon, Tex-Mex menu.
Around Montana: Ash hires receivers coach
Rob Ash completed his Montana State football coaching staff on Wednesday, hiring former Kansas State quarterback Jonathan Beasley as the Bobcats' receivers coach. Beasley played quarterback at Kansas State from 1996-2000, serving as team captain as a junior and senior. He was third-team All-Big 12 in 2000, and he earned MVP honors in the 2001 Cotton Bowl and 2000 Holiday Bowl. He was the Wildcats; team captain and MVP of the 2001 Hula Bowl, and he was a team captain for the 2001 East-West Shrine Game.“(Jonathan) has extensive experience in the Big 12 and in professional football, and brings a great knowledge of offensive football and the passing game to our program," Ash said. “He earned the reputation as a great leader as a player, and is known for his class, character and integrity."Most recently a graduate assistant at Emporia State, Beasley served as quarterbacks and running backs coach at Wichita North High last fall and coached JV and freshman quarterbacks at Cactus High in Glendale, Ariz., in 2003-04.Beasley had tryouts with the Wichita Aviators in the APFL (2005), the Wichita Stealth in Arena II (2004), the NFL Jacksonville Jaguars (2003), the NFL Detroit Lions (2003), and NFL Green Bay Packers (2001).
Julie Bishop says attacks on Brendan Nelson 'unfair'
ATTACKS on Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson are "unfair and unnecessary" and he should be given a fair go, his deputy leader says. In a further blow to Dr Nelson, the latest Galaxy Poll published today by News Ltd gives him only nine per cent support as preferred Liberal leader. Opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull, former treasurer Peter Costello and Deputy Liberal Leader Julie Bishop are all preferred over Dr Nelson. Ms Bishop today thanked the people who voted for her in the poll but said she was focused on the deputy leadership. She conceded the coalition was going through "difficult times". "But Brendan is a decent, caring, competent politician, and I think he should be given a go," Ms Bishop told ABC television. "I think people should get off his back and let him get on with the job that he has been elected to do, and that's leader of the opposition, holding the government to account.
Xenophobe: Warrior Princess
We need to teach this vein of sentiment as an antidote to the ubiquitous provincialism being deplored in these comments, but nobody seems to be advocating this point of view. Shortly after WWII presidential candidate Wendell Willkie wrote "One World," and a movement arose. Whatever happened to it? A few declared people declared themselves 'citizens of the world.' We have not moved forward since. .
Analysis: Nabucco gets boost
The company that's building the pipeline applied for exemption from the general rule of regulated third-party access in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria, though which the pipeline would pass. EU laws permit such exemptions.
"The safeguards to which the exemption is subject include a capacity cap preventing a dominant undertaking from booking more than half of the Nabucco exit capacity in Austria and rules to ensure a transparent and non-discriminatory capacity allocation to third parties," the EC said in a statement.
This is the latest good news for the pipeline, which announced last week that German utility RWE would join the project.
"Nabucco clearly has strong political support but it's been missing a heavyweight downstream component and it has that in RWE," Simon Blakey, a senior director at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told United Press International in a telephone interview last week.
Protest of huge IT services contract upheld
Bjorklund added that the decision also could put Alliant Small Business at risk if the same selection process were used. Alliant is a $50 billion, 10-year governmentwide acquisition contract that federal agencies were supposed to begin using in 2007 to buy an array of IT services. Sixty-two companies submitted bids and 29 were selected as service providers on July 31. Following the contract award, eight companies filed protests arguing that the process used to evaluate them was arbitrary and contrary to the law. The protests were then combined under the protest filed by Serco Inc. in federal claims court. According to the ruling, GSA assigned adjectival (verbal) ratings to each bidder on the basis of numerous technical factors and then converted those descriptive evaluations into whole numbers (3, 4, 5 etc.) that were used to calculate a technical score for each bidder.
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