||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OUTLYING PRECINCTS
NY POST - In the past month, Hsu's checkered past and murky business
practices have come under increasing scrutiny. He not only swindled
investors but strong-armed them into donating thousands of dollars to
Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign and to other Democratic
candidates, authorities and lawsuits say. He wowed one investor in
Orange County, Calif., during a meeting in which he had Clinton join
them "live" via videoconference. From a huge screen, the New York
senator greeted Hsu warmly, and called him a "good friend and trusted
associate."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09232007/news/nationalnews/
slimy_trail_of_a_hsu_heel.htm
GROUP RANKS REPRESENTATIVES WHO REPRESENT BLACKS
http://www.blackagendareport.com/images/stories/050/cbc_sep2007_reportcard.pdf
CARL P. LEUBSDORF, DALLAS MORNING NEWS - So far, most Republicans have
bypassed three chances to woo the fastest-growing, most tempting
minority, Hispanics. They also turned down a chance to appear before a
leading group of gays and lesbians and have avoided some unions, where
Republicans poll a significant minority. And next week, the top GOP
hopefuls will pass up a debate designed to spotlight issues of special
interest to African-Americans. Their actions defy warnings that their
party needs to expand its share of minority votes or doom itself to
minority status. After 2000, President Bush's strategists said he'd lose
in 2004 unless he increased his share of the Hispanic vote to 40
percent. He did -- and he won.
BILL CLINTON'S FUNNY FRIENDSHIP OF THE DAY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119076741770539360.html?mod=todays_
us_nonsub_page_one
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MID EAST
UPI -= More than 20 retired U.S. generals have gone public with their
disapproval of how the United States has approached the war in Iraq.
Retired military leaders like Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton said that they chose
to openly voice their displeasure with the current U.S. administration's
approach to the war after finding their advice ignored by top-ranking
officials, the San Diego Union-Tribune said Sunday
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/23/retired_us_
generals_criticize_war_effort/3660/
DEAN BAKER, AMERICAN PROSPECT - The Post reports this morning that
President Bush is requesting an addition $42.3 billion to finance the
war in Iraq in the 2008 fiscal year, bringing the total funding request
for the year to $190 billion. . . The 2008 request is equal to
approximately 6.3 percent of projected spending for the year. It comes
to $630 for every person in the country. By comparison, Congress
proposed spending $7 billion a year more on the State Children's Heath
Insurance Program than President Bush requested. This difference is
approximately equal to what President Bush will spent on the war in Iraq
in two weeks.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=
09&year=2007&base_name=iraq_war_spending_context_plea
THE PHOTO OF AHMADINEJAD THE MEDIA FORGOT TO SHOW YOU
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_
all&address=389x1910146
LIEBERMAN SNEAKS IN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD PERMIT WAR ON IRAN
http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php
PETITION CALL IN SENATE TO FILIBUSTER FOR END OF WAR
http://filibusterforpeace.org/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECOLOGY & NATURE
NEWSDAY - The city plans to experiment with a heavily buffered bike lane
in one part of the Chelsea neighborhood, City Transportation
Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said. Bicycles will be separated from
auto traffic by both a strip of pavement and a lane of parked cars. The
design, which has been tried in Europe, will be installed within the
next month on Ninth Avenue between West 16th and West 23rd streets,
Sadik-Khan said. . . The project will condense cars from four lanes to
three, but Sadik-Khan said traffic in the area was light enough that the
change wouldn't be a problem. . . The city also is promoting bicycle
riding through helmet giveaways and other means, and one cycling
advocate said he thought the protected bike lane would prove a powerful
incentive.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--
bicyclelanes0923sep23,0,583200.story
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - Five nations are now racing to claim new
territory in the central Arctic Ocean, where climate change is expected
to open up valuable new shipping routes, oil fields, and mineral
deposits. The region's indigenous people, the Inuit, want a say in how
territorial claims unfold."We must develop, for the sake of my people
and the world at large, a formal international process focusing on the
Arctic that includes indigenous people having meaningful voices,"
Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Greenland chapter of the Inuit
Circumpolar Council told an international gathering of politicians,
scientists, and religious figures here earlier this month. "Or [else] we
might just get washed away in the melting ice."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0925/p04s01-woeu.html?s=hns
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HEALTH & SCIENCE
BBC - The vast majority of smokers in England have been respecting the
ban on lighting up in enclosed public places introduced in July, a
survey suggests. Some 97% of 2,500 adults polled for groups including
Asthma UK said they were either not smoking where it is banned or were
giving up completely. And 75% said the ban had been good for their
health. The survey also found that smokers with asthma were attempting
to quit faster than the general population.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7007202.stm
PR WATCH - In early September, "major newspapers reported the alarming
news that suicides among young people were on the rise because of a
precipitous drop in the use of antidepressants," writes Alison Bass [in
the Boston Globe]. The academic study the news articles were based on
concluded that new safety warnings for young people using antidepressant
drugs had discouraged doctors from writing prescriptions for depressed
youths. But there's a hole in that argument: "While there was indeed an
upturn in suicide rates among youths ... the number of prescriptions for
antidepressants in the same age group remained basically unchanged."
Bass points out that the pharmaceutical companies that make
antidepressants might "benefit from the latest alarm about an apparent
upturn in youth suicide rates. ... These companies have an enormous
stake in reversing the current FDA warnings." Pfizer, which makes the
antidepressant Zoloft, did provide $30,000 for the academic study, and
the study's lead authors have ties to Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals. "This isn't the first time that suicide rates have been
trotted out as a public relations weapon," Bass adds. "Proponents of
psychotropic drugs have long argued that suicide rates ... fell after"
such drugs were introduced, though the decline began well before the
drugs were widely prescribed.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/6489
REUTERS - A study of doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and
Oregon counters the argument that making it legal may lead to more of
these deaths among vulnerable groups like the disabled, although it did
find some evidence for this among people with AIDS. . . They analyzed
data from two leading places where assisted suicide is legal and tracked
10 "vulnerable" groups, including the physically disabled, chronically
ill, mentally ill, elderly, poor, racial and ethnic minorities, women
and others. . . "We found that there is no evidence of disproportionate
impact of these practices, when legal, on any of those groups, with the
exception of people with AIDS," University of Utah bioethicist Margaret
Battin, who led the study appearing in the Journal of Medical Ethics,
said in a telephone interview.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=
2007-09-26T230258Z_01_N26398170_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUICIDE-DOCTORS.xml
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CYBER NOTES
CNET - Despite the recent onslaught of bad press, citywide and regional
Wi-Fi networks are not dead. In fact, cities, such as Corpus Christi,
Texas; Minneapolis, Minn.; and Philadelphia, are actually seeing early
signs of success. And lessons learned from these deployments if applied
properly could help save bigger and more, ambitious projects such as
Silicon Valley's regional wireless network. . . "Cities that have seen
early success have been able to articulate very clearly to politicians
and citizens how the network will be used and how it will benefit
people," said Craig Settles, an independent wireless consultant. "And
they've also had clear business plans for paying for the networks."
http://www.news.com/Citywide-Wi-Fi-isnt-dead-yet/2100-7351_3-6209837.html?
part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MEDIA
GOOD FEATURE ON MATT DRUDGE
http://nymag.com/news/media/36617/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE. . .
CORPORADOS WANT TO RUIN GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
http://www.contracostatimes.com/bayandstate/ci_6983254?nclick_check=1
MISSILE BASE FOR SALE AS MCMANSION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7012020.stm
A BAR-TAILED GODWIT FLEW 7,145 IN NINE DAYS WITHOUT STOPPING
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070913-longest-flight.html
UGANDAN MOBILE PHONE
http://www.afrigadget.com/2007/09/10/the-bodaphone-in-uganda/
A WOODEN TABLE OF ELEMENTS
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/021/index.s7.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
NY POST - In the past month, Hsu's checkered past and murky business
practices have come under increasing scrutiny. He not only swindled
investors but strong-armed them into donating thousands of dollars to
Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign and to other Democratic
candidates, authorities and lawsuits say. He wowed one investor in
Orange County, Calif., during a meeting in which he had Clinton join
them "live" via videoconference. From a huge screen, the New York
senator greeted Hsu warmly, and called him a "good friend and trusted
associate."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09232007/news/nationalnews/
slimy_trail_of_a_hsu_heel.htm
GROUP RANKS REPRESENTATIVES WHO REPRESENT BLACKS
http://www.blackagendareport.com/images/stories/050/cbc_sep2007_reportcard.pdf
CARL P. LEUBSDORF, DALLAS MORNING NEWS - So far, most Republicans have
bypassed three chances to woo the fastest-growing, most tempting
minority, Hispanics. They also turned down a chance to appear before a
leading group of gays and lesbians and have avoided some unions, where
Republicans poll a significant minority. And next week, the top GOP
hopefuls will pass up a debate designed to spotlight issues of special
interest to African-Americans. Their actions defy warnings that their
party needs to expand its share of minority votes or doom itself to
minority status. After 2000, President Bush's strategists said he'd lose
in 2004 unless he increased his share of the Hispanic vote to 40
percent. He did -- and he won.
BILL CLINTON'S FUNNY FRIENDSHIP OF THE DAY
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119076741770539360.html?mod=todays_
us_nonsub_page_one
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MID EAST
UPI -= More than 20 retired U.S. generals have gone public with their
disapproval of how the United States has approached the war in Iraq.
Retired military leaders like Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton said that they chose
to openly voice their displeasure with the current U.S. administration's
approach to the war after finding their advice ignored by top-ranking
officials, the San Diego Union-Tribune said Sunday
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/23/retired_us_
generals_criticize_war_effort/3660/
DEAN BAKER, AMERICAN PROSPECT - The Post reports this morning that
President Bush is requesting an addition $42.3 billion to finance the
war in Iraq in the 2008 fiscal year, bringing the total funding request
for the year to $190 billion. . . The 2008 request is equal to
approximately 6.3 percent of projected spending for the year. It comes
to $630 for every person in the country. By comparison, Congress
proposed spending $7 billion a year more on the State Children's Heath
Insurance Program than President Bush requested. This difference is
approximately equal to what President Bush will spent on the war in Iraq
in two weeks.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=
09&year=2007&base_name=iraq_war_spending_context_plea
THE PHOTO OF AHMADINEJAD THE MEDIA FORGOT TO SHOW YOU
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_
all&address=389x1910146
LIEBERMAN SNEAKS IN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD PERMIT WAR ON IRAN
http://www.usalone.com/no_iran_war_declaration.php
PETITION CALL IN SENATE TO FILIBUSTER FOR END OF WAR
http://filibusterforpeace.org/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECOLOGY & NATURE
NEWSDAY - The city plans to experiment with a heavily buffered bike lane
in one part of the Chelsea neighborhood, City Transportation
Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan said. Bicycles will be separated from
auto traffic by both a strip of pavement and a lane of parked cars. The
design, which has been tried in Europe, will be installed within the
next month on Ninth Avenue between West 16th and West 23rd streets,
Sadik-Khan said. . . The project will condense cars from four lanes to
three, but Sadik-Khan said traffic in the area was light enough that the
change wouldn't be a problem. . . The city also is promoting bicycle
riding through helmet giveaways and other means, and one cycling
advocate said he thought the protected bike lane would prove a powerful
incentive.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--
bicyclelanes0923sep23,0,583200.story
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - Five nations are now racing to claim new
territory in the central Arctic Ocean, where climate change is expected
to open up valuable new shipping routes, oil fields, and mineral
deposits. The region's indigenous people, the Inuit, want a say in how
territorial claims unfold."We must develop, for the sake of my people
and the world at large, a formal international process focusing on the
Arctic that includes indigenous people having meaningful voices,"
Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Greenland chapter of the Inuit
Circumpolar Council told an international gathering of politicians,
scientists, and religious figures here earlier this month. "Or [else] we
might just get washed away in the melting ice."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0925/p04s01-woeu.html?s=hns
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HEALTH & SCIENCE
BBC - The vast majority of smokers in England have been respecting the
ban on lighting up in enclosed public places introduced in July, a
survey suggests. Some 97% of 2,500 adults polled for groups including
Asthma UK said they were either not smoking where it is banned or were
giving up completely. And 75% said the ban had been good for their
health. The survey also found that smokers with asthma were attempting
to quit faster than the general population.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7007202.stm
PR WATCH - In early September, "major newspapers reported the alarming
news that suicides among young people were on the rise because of a
precipitous drop in the use of antidepressants," writes Alison Bass [in
the Boston Globe]. The academic study the news articles were based on
concluded that new safety warnings for young people using antidepressant
drugs had discouraged doctors from writing prescriptions for depressed
youths. But there's a hole in that argument: "While there was indeed an
upturn in suicide rates among youths ... the number of prescriptions for
antidepressants in the same age group remained basically unchanged."
Bass points out that the pharmaceutical companies that make
antidepressants might "benefit from the latest alarm about an apparent
upturn in youth suicide rates. ... These companies have an enormous
stake in reversing the current FDA warnings." Pfizer, which makes the
antidepressant Zoloft, did provide $30,000 for the academic study, and
the study's lead authors have ties to Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals. "This isn't the first time that suicide rates have been
trotted out as a public relations weapon," Bass adds. "Proponents of
psychotropic drugs have long argued that suicide rates ... fell after"
such drugs were introduced, though the decline began well before the
drugs were widely prescribed.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/6489
REUTERS - A study of doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and
Oregon counters the argument that making it legal may lead to more of
these deaths among vulnerable groups like the disabled, although it did
find some evidence for this among people with AIDS. . . They analyzed
data from two leading places where assisted suicide is legal and tracked
10 "vulnerable" groups, including the physically disabled, chronically
ill, mentally ill, elderly, poor, racial and ethnic minorities, women
and others. . . "We found that there is no evidence of disproportionate
impact of these practices, when legal, on any of those groups, with the
exception of people with AIDS," University of Utah bioethicist Margaret
Battin, who led the study appearing in the Journal of Medical Ethics,
said in a telephone interview.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=
2007-09-26T230258Z_01_N26398170_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUICIDE-DOCTORS.xml
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CYBER NOTES
CNET - Despite the recent onslaught of bad press, citywide and regional
Wi-Fi networks are not dead. In fact, cities, such as Corpus Christi,
Texas; Minneapolis, Minn.; and Philadelphia, are actually seeing early
signs of success. And lessons learned from these deployments if applied
properly could help save bigger and more, ambitious projects such as
Silicon Valley's regional wireless network. . . "Cities that have seen
early success have been able to articulate very clearly to politicians
and citizens how the network will be used and how it will benefit
people," said Craig Settles, an independent wireless consultant. "And
they've also had clear business plans for paying for the networks."
http://www.news.com/Citywide-Wi-Fi-isnt-dead-yet/2100-7351_3-6209837.html?
part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MEDIA
GOOD FEATURE ON MATT DRUDGE
http://nymag.com/news/media/36617/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE. . .
CORPORADOS WANT TO RUIN GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
http://www.contracostatimes.com/bayandstate/ci_6983254?nclick_check=1
MISSILE BASE FOR SALE AS MCMANSION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7012020.stm
A BAR-TAILED GODWIT FLEW 7,145 IN NINE DAYS WITHOUT STOPPING
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070913-longest-flight.html
UGANDAN MOBILE PHONE
http://www.afrigadget.com/2007/09/10/the-bodaphone-in-uganda/
A WOODEN TABLE OF ELEMENTS
http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/021/index.s7.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
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Washington DC 20036 202-835-0770
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