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20080516
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 Barack
Obama -  Hillary
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York
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Dakota -  Illinois
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-  Israel
-  Iran
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- 2008
Election - "Bush
Assails ‘Appeasement,’ Touching Off Storm." ... "[Republican]
President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to liken
those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of
the Nazis — a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate and Illinois] Senator Barack Obama, who has advocated
greater engagement with countries like Iran and Syria." ... "The comments
created an angry tussle back home, as Democrats accused Mr. Bush of breaching
protocol by playing partisan politics overseas." ... "Mr. Obama delivered
a quick and pointed response, saying in an e-mail statement to reporters
that he had no intention of dealing with terrorists and accusing Mr. Bush
of using his visit, timed for the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence,
to “launch a false political attack.”" ... "On Thursday, other Democrats
leapt to the Illinois senator’s defense. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada,
the Democratic leader, called Mr. Bush’s remarks “reckless and irresponsible.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said Mr. Bush had behaved in a manner
“beneath the dignity of the office of president.” Representative Rahm Emanuel
of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, accused Mr. Bush
of violating the unwritten rule against playing politics overseas." ...
"[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and New York] Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama’s rival for the Democratic presidential
nomination, joined him in taking issue with Mr. Bush. Weighing in from
South Dakota, Mrs. Clinton said: “President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat
to Nazi appeasers is offensive and outrageous, especially in the light
of his failures in foreign policy. This is the kind of statement that has
no place in any presidential address.”" -By Sheryl
Gay Stolberg and Jim
Rutenberg -NYTimes
 WATCH
Pelosi's comment on Bush's criticism of Democrats while in Israel,
"What the President did in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office
of the President and unworthy of our representation at that observance
in Israel. And I would hope that any serious person would disassociate
themselves from the President's remarks who aspires to leadership in our
country."
-
 John
McCain - Marketing
-  Law
- Politics
- History
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election - "McCain
adviser ousted in conflict uproar." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's campaign asked a prominent
Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role
Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley's dual role consulting
for the campaign and for an independent "527" group opposing the Democratic
presidential candidates." ... "Shirley, a conservative public relations
veteran, doubled as a consultant to McCain and to the group Stop Her Now,
a 527 group barred from coordinating its activities with presidential campaigns."
... "Shirley’s firm, Shirley & Bannister Associates, was paid more
than $22,000 by McCain for work this February and March to win conservative
support. Stop Her Now has paid the firm more than $155,000 since 2007 for
public relations work." ... "He [Craig Shirley] was reportedly a member
of the team that tarred [former Democratic Presidential Candidate] Michael
Dukakis with the “Willie Horton” ads in 1988, and later he helped organize
the first press conference with Paula Jones, who had sued [former Democratic
President] Clinton for sexual harassment. In 2004, his company did public
relations work for a mov[i]e attacking [former 2004 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] John Kerry for undermining the treatment of Vietnam
Veterans, “Stolen Honor.”" -By Ben Smith
-Politico.com
20080514
-
US
- Military
-
 Families
-  Iraq
-  Afghanistan
- Israel
- Consumer
-  Business
- Terrorism
- Politics
- History
- "Bush
Says He's Not A Golfer In Wartime." ... "[Republican]
President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 "in solidarity"
with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it
was "just not worth it anymore" to play the sport in a time of war." ...
"Democrats have criticized Bush for allegedly not requiring Americans to
sacrifice enough while waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for urging
people to keep shopping as a way to fight terrorism after the [September]
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bush was also widely criticized in August 2002
when he decried terrorist bombings in Israel while golfing and then told
reporters: "Now watch this drive."" ... "... [Presidential historian Robert]
Dallek, who is critical of the current president's legacy, said Bush's
remarks about Iraq "speak to his shallowness." Dallek added: "That's his
idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?"" -By Dan Eggen
-WashingtonPost
 WATCH:
"Now watch this drive," video of Republican President Bush golfing
immediately after explaining that "We must stop the terror. I call upon
all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers,
thank you. Now watch this drive."
20080509
John
McCain - Money
- Politics
-2008
Election -  Environment
- History
-  Arizona
- Nevada
-  Federal
-  Real
Estate -  Land
- "McCain
Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer." ... "[2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John
McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote
grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally
owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands
to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers]."
... "Initially reluctant to support the swap, the Arizona Republican became
a key figure in pushing the deal through Congress after the rancher and
his partners hired lobbyists that included McCain's 1992 Senate campaign
manager, two of his former Senate staff members (one of whom has returned
as his chief of staff), and an Arizona insider who was a major McCain donor
and is now bundling campaign checks." ... "When McCain's legislation passed
in November 2005, the ranch owner gave the job of building as many as 12,000
homes to SunCor Development, a firm in Tempe, Ariz. [Arizona], run by Steven
A. Betts, a longtime McCain supporter who has raised more than $100,000
for the presumptive Republican nominee. Betts said he and McCain never
discussed the deal." ... "The Audubon Society described the exchange as
the largest in Arizona history. The swap involved more than 55,000 acres
of land in all, including rare expanses of desert woodland and pronghorn
antelope habitat. The deal had support from many local officials and the
Arizona Republic newspaper for its expansion of the Prescott National Forest.
But it brought an outcry from some Arizona environmentalists when it was
proposed in 2002, partly because it went through Congress rather than a
process that allowed more citizen input." ... "Although the bill called
for the two parcels to be of equal value, a federal forestry official told
a congressional committee that he was concerned that "the public would
not receive fair value" for its land. A formal appraisal has not yet begun.
A town official opposed to the swap said other Yavapai Ranch land sold
nine years ago for about $2,000 per acre, while some of the prime commercial
land near a parcel that the developers will get has brought as much as
$120,000 per acre." ... "In an interview, Betts said there is "absolutely
no" connection between his contributions to McCain's presidential bids
and the deal involving rancher Fred Ruskin and the Yavapai Ranch Limited
Partnership." ... "Betts is among a string of donors who have benefited
from McCain-engineered land swaps. In 1994, the senator helped a lobbyist
for land developer Del Webb Corp. pursue an exchange in the Las Vegas [Nevada]
area, according to the Center for Public Integrity. McCain sponsored two
bills, in 1991 and 1994, sought by donor Donald R. Diamond that yielded
the developer thousands of acres in trade for national parkland." ... "In
the late 1990s, McCain promoted a deal in Arizona's Tonto National Forest
involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance, a company
run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a prolific contributor to national
political parties and presidential candidates." ... "In Arizona, SunCor
is a subsidiary of Pinnacle West, the state's largest power company. Betts,
as Ruskin described him, "politically is a very powerful guy in the state.""
... "Officials from the company and its subsidiaries have accounted for
$100,000 in contributions to McCain's political campaigns over the years,
records show." (1, 2)
-By Matthew Mosk with contributions by Alice Crites
-WashingtonPost
-
 Oil
- Government
- New
York
-  Missouri
- US
-  Euro
- History
- "Oil
Climbs Above $126 to Record as Dollar Weakens Against Euro."
... "Crude oil for June delivery rose $2.27, or 1.8 percent, to a record
closing price of $125.96 a barrel at 2:55 p.m. on the New York Mercantile
Exchange. The contract surged to $126.27 today, the highest since futures
began trading in 1983. Prices are up 8.3 percent this week, the biggest
weekly gain in more than a year. Futures have more than doubled in the
past year." ... "The dollar fell 9.6 percent since Sept. 18, when the Federal
Reserve began cutting rates to ease financial-market strains and stave
off a recession. The U.S. [United States] central bank cut rates seven
times while the ECB [European Central Bank] has left rates unchanged. The
dollar fell 0.6 percent to $1.5483 per euro at 3:27 p.m. in New York."
... "``Fed policy is accommodating the rise in energy prices,'' said Bill
O'Grady, director of fundamental futures research at Wachovia Securities
in St. Louis [Missouri]. ``The Fed and federal government are putting more
liquidity in people's pockets, which is being spent on expensive oil.''"
... "The U.S. government started sending $117 billion in tax rebate checks
last week as part of its fiscal stimulus plan." ... "Heating oil for June
delivery climbed 12.62 cents, or 3.6 percent, to close at a record $3.636
a gallon in New York." ... "Gasoline futures for June delivery rose 6.34
cents, or 2 percent, to $3.2012 a gallon in New York after reaching a record
$3.2038 today." ... "Regular gasoline, averaged nationwide, rose 2.6 cents
to a record $3.671 a gallon, AAA, the nation's largest motorist organization,
said today." -By Mark Shenk
-Bloomberg
20080508
-
Israel
- Racism
- Palestine
- Families
- Human
Rights - Law
-
 People
- History
- "Arabs
say racism on rise as Israel turns 60." ... "Salwa
Abu Jaber believes her story shows Israel discriminating against its Arab
citizens, 60 years after the state was established as a haven for Jews."
... "The 32-year-old mother of four from northern Israel said her five-year-old
daughter has never seen her father, who lives in the Israeli-occupied West
Bank. Separated from the man for five years, she says she has been forced
to divorce him." ... "Thousands of families have been similarly split by
a 2003 ban on Palestinians in the West Bank from reuniting with their families
inside Israel, imposed citing security reasons after the Palestinian uprising
or intifada began in 2000." ... ""In practical terms, Israel forced the
divorce on us," Abu Jaber said. "We could not continue to live like this
any longer. If this is not racism, then what is it?"" ... "This week, as
Israel celebrates the anniversary of its foundation, its supreme court
has said it found merit in the position of numerous petitions filed by
rights groups against the law that keeps the families apart." ... "But
Israeli Arabs -- those Palestinians who remained after hundreds of thousands
fled or were expelled from their homes when Israel was created -- say institutionalized
racism and illegal killings of Arabs have increased since the intifada
started." ... "After 1948, about 120,000 stayed and were granted Israeli
citizenship. Now about one in five Israelis is Arab, and many prefer to
be called Palestinians like their kin outside Israel." ... "About 1.5 million
Arabs reside in Israel with 5.5 million Jews, but 3.8 million Palestinians
live in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem." (1, 2,
3,
4,
5)
-By Mohammed Assadi with contributions by Samia Nakhoul,
Sara Ledwith and Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem
-Reuters
20080507
-
 Water-  Infrastructure
- Human
-  Health
-  Safety
-  Enforcement
- Environment
- Underground
- Money
- History
-  Weather
-  Animals
-  Plants
- "Aging
systems releasing sewage into rivers, streams." ...
"America's aging sewer systems continue to dump human waste into rivers
and streams, despite years of fines and penalties targeting publicly owned
agencies responsible for sewage overflows, a Gannett News Service analysis
shows." ... "The analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data
found that since 2003, hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been
fined for violations, including spills that make people sick, threaten
local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants." ... "DATABASE:
Sewer
treatment plant reports by state[.]" ... "Local governments across
the USA plan to spend billions modernizing failing wastewater systems —
some of which are more than 100 years old — over the next 10 to 20 years,
EPA, state and local sewer authority officials said." ... "Those improvement
efforts face a huge challenge mitigating problems in what the EPA estimates
to be 1.2 million miles of sewers snaking underground across the USA."
... "Waste gurgles from manholes and gushes down streams and rivers somewhere
in the USA almost every day, the EPA estimates." ... "Gannett News Service
analyzed enforcement and compliance records compiled by the EPA and state
regulators from January 2003 to February 2008." ... "The analysis found
that at least one-third of the nation's large, publicly owned sewage treatment
systems were the subject of formal enforcement actions by the EPA or state
regulators for sewage spills or other violations. Those enforcement actions
included fines as well as orders to fix problems or expand treatment capacity.
Fines totaling $35 million were assessed against 494 of the nation's 4,200
municipal facilities that treat at least 1 million gallons of sewage daily,
the analysis shows." ... "An EPA 2004 report to Congress estimated that
850 billion gallons of storm water mixed with raw sewage pour into U.S.
waters every year from older, combined sewer systems that were designed
to overflow in wet weather. These combined systems, built by cities in
the 19th and early 20th centuries, are now considered antiquated and a
threat to public health and the environment, according to the EPA and environmental
groups." ... "The EPA's 2002 Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure
Gap Analysis reported the nation's municipal sewer authorities' capital
needs to meet clean water requirements from 2000 to 2019 ranged from $331
billion to $450 billion. Based on that data, the National Association of
Clean Water Agencies now puts that range at $350 billion to $500 billion
for the next 20 years, association spokeswoman Susan Bruninga said." -By
Larry Wheeler and Grant Smith with contributions by Robert Benincasa and
Dan Klepal -USATODAY
-
 Scott
J Bloch
-  Karl
Rove - Criminal
- Government
-  Workers
- Politics
- Hatch
Act - History
-  Computer
- Data
- Censorship
- "FBI
Raids Special Counsel, Seizes Data." ... "Federal
agents raided the Office of Special Counsel, a government agency involved
in several high-profile and politically sensitive investigations. The agents
seized computer files and documents from its chief, Scott Bloch, and his
staff." ... "Mr. Bloch, who was appointed by [Republican] President Bush,
has been under investigation since 2005 by the Office of Personnel Management
for employee claims that he abused his agency's authority, retaliated against
its staff and dismissed whistleblower cases without adequate examination."
... "The Justice Department joined the case as the inquiry was widened
last year to include possible obstruction of justice, which is a criminal
offense. The Wall Street Journal reported [November] Nov. 28 that in the
midst of the inquiry Mr. Bloch used an agency credit card to hire a commercial
firm, Geeks on Call, to erase data from his computer and those of former
staff." ... "The Office of Special Counsel, created in the 1970s in the
wake of the Watergate scandal, probes sensitive personnel and whistleblower
claims by government workers. It also enforces the Hatch Act, which forbids
the use of federal resources for partisan political purposes." ... "Among
the office's recent inquiries was whether former [Republican President
Bush] White House political director Karl Rove and others improperly used
U.S. [United States] agencies to help elect Republicans." ... "Mr. Bloch's
investigation of the White House political operation began after a Rove
deputy gave a series of political presentations to government agencies
on Republican prospects in specific congressional races. Mr. Bloch's office
wanted to know whether such presentations violated the Hatch Act." -By
John R. Wilke -WSJ.com
20080505
-
 Bernard
Kerik - Corporate
- Police
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- History
-  Book
- "Former
Iraq Commander: Bernard Kerik was 'a waste of time' in Iraq."
... "The former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq took aim at Bernard Kerik
in an exclusive interview with the Daily News Sunday, calling his efforts
to train Iraqi police in 2003 "a waste of time and effort."" ... "Retired
[Lieutenant General] Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top military leader
in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, blasted the former police commissioner
for failing to produce results while Kerik was the interim minister of
interior in 2003." ... ""I would be hard-pressed to identify a major national-level
success that his organization accomplished in that time," Sanchez told
The News a day before his new memoir, "Wiser in Battle" hits bookstores
nationwide." ... "Sanchez, who was in charge during Saddam Hussein's capture
and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, said Kerik put U.S. [United States]
soldiers in danger many times by not telling the Army about his police
operations." ... "Sanchez said when Kerik left Iraq, after just 90 days,
he checked the Interior Ministry's inventory to see what equipment was
bought for the Iraqi police. Sanchez said he was "shocked" to find out
that the only thing on the books was 50,000 Glock pistols." ... ""When
I was informed of the exorbitant prices that were being paid for these
pistols, my first reaction was that there had to be some impropriety, but
I had no evidence to substantiate it," he wrote. " -By
Stephanie Gaskell -NYDailyNews.com
20080502
-
 Stephen
Johnson - Corporate
- Government
- Politics
- Fetal
- Human
- Health
-  Science
- Environmental
- Safety
- Enforcement
- Emergency
- Wildlife
- Soil
- Water
- Law
- Manufacturing
- History
-  Michigan
- Illinois
- "EPA's
top Midwest regulator forced out: Mary Gade, based
in Chicago [Illinois], says [Republican President] Bush administration
made her quit over Dow Chemical case." ... "The Bush administration forced
its top environmental regulator in the Midwest to quit Thursday after months
of internal bickering about dioxin contamination downstream from Dow Chemical's
world headquarters in Michigan." ... "In an interview with the [Chicago]
Tribune, Mary Gade said two top officials at the U.S. [United States] Environmental
Protection Agency headquarters in Washington stripped her of her powers
as regional administrator and told her to quit or be fired by June 1."
... "Gade said she had told the agency she would resign her position, based
in Chicago [Illinois]." ... "For the past year, Gade has been locked in
a heated dispute with Dow about long-delayed plans to clean up dioxin-saturated
soil and sediment that extends 50 miles beyond its Midland, Mich. [Michigan],
plant into Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron." ... "Gade, a former corporate attorney
appointed by Bush in September 2006, invoked emergency powers last year
to force Dow to clean up four hot spots of dioxin, including the largest
amount of the cancer-causing chemical ever recorded in the United States."
... "In January, Dow urged officials at the EPA's [Environmental Protection
Agency's] headquarters to intervene after Gade broke off negotiations intended
to renew the terms for a more comprehensive cleanup. Neither side would
reveal details, citing confidentiality agreements, but Gade said Dow resisted
taking steps needed to protect human health and wildlife." ... "Though
regional EPA administrators typically have wide latitude to enforce environmental
laws, Gade drew fire from officials in Washington last month after she
sent contractors to test soil in a Saginaw [Michigan] neighborhood where
Dow had found high dioxin levels." ... "She said top lieutenants to Stephen
Johnson, the national EPA administrator, repeatedly questioned her aggressive
action against Dow, which long ago acknowledged it is responsible for the
dioxin contamination but has resisted federal and state involvement in
cleanup plans." ... "Dow dumped dioxin-contaminated waste into the waterways
for most of the last century. The chemical, which is so toxic that it is
measured in trillionths of a gram, was a manufacturing byproduct of the
Vietnam-era herbicide Agent Orange and other chlorinated herbicides." ...
"Company documents show Dow knew by the mid-1960s that it could make people
sick or even kill them." ... "Citing years of independent studies, the
EPA says dioxin can cause cancer, disrupt the immune system and alter fetal
development." ... ""We have a responsibility to make sure people are living
in a healthy and safe environment," Gade said. "This problem has been out
there for more than 30 years, and it's unconscionable that action hasn't
been taken."" (1, 2)
-By Michael Hawthorne
-ChicagoTribune
20080501
-
Politician
- Poll
- "Poll:
Bush most unpopular in modern history." ... "A new
poll suggests that [Republican President] George W. Bush is the most unpopular
president in modern American history." ... "A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation
survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public
disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president." ... ""No president
has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in
fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has
cracked the 70 percent mark," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland."
... ""Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll,
remains better than the all-time lows set by [Democratic President] Harry
Truman and [Republican President] Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent,
respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating
in the 70s," Holland added. "The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup
polling was set by Truman, 66 percent disapproval in January 1952."" ...
"CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider adds, "He is more unpopular
than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August
1974." President Nixon's disapproval rating in August 1974 stood at 67
percent." -CNN
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