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Bush Considers More Corporate Tax Cuts 2007-08-08 23:30:14 President Bush said Wednesday that he is considering a fresh plan to cut tax rates for U.S. corporations to make them more competitive around the world, an initiative that could further inflame a battle with the Democratic Congress over spending and taxes and help define the remainder of his tenure. Advisers presented Bush with a series of ideas to restructure corporate taxes, possibly eliminating narrowly targeted breaks to pay for a broader, across-the-board rate cut. In an interview with a small group of journalists afterward, Bush said he was "inclined" to send a corporate tax package to Congress, although he expressed uncertainty about its political viability. The president's comments came as he tried to calm volatile stock and mortgage markets and reassure the country that the economy is fundamentally strong. Despite mounting concern over the downturn in the housing market, he rejected proposals advanced by prominent Democrats to grant government-chartered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac more freedom to buy mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. And he ruled out any taxpayer bailout of lenders threatened by the subprime home-loan crisis. Read The Full Story Washington, D.C., Heat Wave Breaks 77-Year-Old Record 2007-08-08 23:29:44 While a dangerous heat wave hanging over the East Coast generated severe storms that delayed flights, flooded New York City subways and spawned a rare tornado in Brooklyn, Washington area residents languished Wednesday in oppressive heat and humidity. At 12:05 p.m., the temperature hit 102 degrees (Fahrenheit) at Reagan National Airport, according to the National Weath Service, breaking by one degree the record for Aug. 8, set in 1930. A few clouds moved in just before 2 p.m., lowering the temperature a bit, but it hovered in the high 90s all over the Washington area, said meteorologist James E. Lee. The temperature also soared at the other major area airports. At Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the temperature hit 102 at 3:13 p.m., breaking the record of 99, set in 1980. Dulles International Airport peaked at 101 degrees at 3:02 p.m., topping by three degrees the record set in 1980. Read The Full Story Commentary: The New Vision - The Speech I Want The Democratic Nominee To Give 2007-08-08 23:29:07 Intellpuke: The following speech was written by Theodore C. Sorenson at the request of the Washington Monthly magazine. It appears on that magazine's website for July/August. The introductory comments are by the Washington Monthly. On the 15th of July, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy accepted his party's presidential nomination at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. In his remarks, made at a moment of high tension in the cold war, Kennedy asserted that the United States was at "a turning point in history" and called on his listeners to be "pioneers" in a "New Frontier" of "uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus." Collaborating with Kennedy on the speech was a thirty-two-year-old aide named Theodore C. Sorensen, to whom Kennedy was known to refer as his "intellectual blood bank." With Sorensen's help, Kennedy would earn a reputation as one of American history's great orators and provide a bold new vision for the nation. Today, we are at another moment of high tension, the result of a disastrous war abroad and division and drift at home. Like Kennedy, the next Democratic nominee, whoever he or she might be, will have a similar opportunity to form a new vision for America and to reestablish its moral leadership in the world. To encourage such boldness of thinking, we, too, tapped Kennedy's intellectual blood bank. We called Theodore C. Sorensen and asked him to write the speech he would most want the next Democratic nominee to give at the party convention in Denver in August 2008. We requested that he proceed with no candidate in mind and that he give no consideration to expediency or tactics - in other words, that he write the speech of his dreams. Here is the speech he sent us. My fellow Democrats: With high resolve and deep gratitude, I accept your nomination. It has been a long campaign - too long, too expensive, with too much media attention on matters irrelevant to our nation's future. I salute each of my worthy opponents for conducting a clean fifty-state campaign focusing on the real issues facing our nation, including health care, the public debt burden, energy independence, and national security, a campaign testing not merely which of us could raise and spend the most money but who among us could best lead our country; a campaign not ignoring controversial issues like taxation, immigration, fuel conservation, and the Middle East, but conducting, in essence, a great debate-because our party, unlike our opposition, believes that a free country is strengthened by debate. There will be more debates this fall. I hereby notify my Republican opponent that I have purchased ninety minutes of national network television time for each of the six Sunday evenings preceding the presidential election, and here and now invite and challenge him to share that time with me to debate the most serious issues facing the country, under rules to be agreed upon by our respective designees meeting this week with a neutral jointly selected statesman. Let me assure all those who may disagree with my positions that I shall hear and respect their views, not denounce them as unpatriotic as has so often happened in recent years. I will wage a campaign that relies not on the usual fear, smear, and greed but on the hopes and pride of all our citizens in a nationwide effort to restore comity, common sense, and competence to the White House. Read The Full Story Montana Fire Crews In For The Long Haul 2007-08-08 23:28:25 A wildfire near the resort town of Seeley Lake, Montana, could continue into the fall unless it rains, even though work to restrain the blaze is showing results, fire managers said Wednesday. "We've got about a month and a half of this left," safety officer Scott Bates told fire crews at a Wednesday morning briefing. "You guys have got to pace yourselves," he told firefighters, urging them to get plenty of rest. Fire commander Glen McNitt said the area usually doesn't see substantial rainfall until mid-September and it was conceivable the fire could last until then. "This country will burn, and it will burn fast and furious," he said. The fire has charred more than 23 square miles since it started Friday about 50 miles northeast of Missoula. It was 10 percent contained. Read The Full Story Chavez Opens Venezuela's Wallet To Boost Latin America Influence 2007-08-08 23:27:48 President Hugo Chavez has launched an intensive tour of South America to shore up Venezuela's influence over the region and to loosen the grip of western creditors. The socialist leader promised to buy up to $1 billion (£500 million) of Argentinian bonds and to help fund a $400 million gas plant, bolstering his reputation as a benefactor of Buenos Aires' economic recovery. Chavez is expected to announce other economic and energy deals during visits to Uruguay, Ecuador and Bolivia, underlining his ambition to forge a common Latin American front under his leadership. "We need to unite and the north American empire doesn't want us to unite," the president told reporters in Buenos Aires. "It is a battle of interests, but we will win this battle." The four-nation tour, which started on Tuesday, is an attempt to flex Venezuela's muscle after a series of setbacks in South America, including stalled or diluted initiatives by Caracas for a pan-regional bank and a gas pipeline. Read The Full Story Thunderstorm Floods New York City's Transit System, Subways Cancelled, Flights Delayed 2007-08-08 15:14:02 Powerful thunderstorms swept through the New York metropolitan area Wednesday morning, tearing up trees and damaging cars and homes, and creating havoc during the morning commute. Subway stations were flooded, forcing commuters out onto the streets and into taxis and buses, and bringing traffic in many areas to a standstill. The region’s three major airports - La Guardia, Kennedy and Newark - all reported flight cancellations and delays. No subway line was unaffected by the heavy rains and winds, according to the Metropolitan Transit Authority  (M.T.A.) For the time being, the M.T.A. was advising commuters to stay at home. Read The Full Story U.S. Raid In Baghdad Shiite Stronghold Kills 32 2007-08-08 15:13:15 An American raid and airstrike killed 32 people in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City Wednesday, in what American military officials described as the latest assault on a network linking Iraqi militants with money and deadly roadside bombs from Iran. The American attack coincided with an expanded curfew across Baghdad for a Shiite religious festival welcoming tens of thousands to the capital, and a trip to Iran by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for discussions about security. Hospital officials in Sadr City said the airstrike killed or wounded several civilians, including a child, an account disputed by the Americans. Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an American military spokesman here, said the attack was aimed at a cluster of suspected gunmen surrounding a vehicle, moving toward American troops who were taking fire during a raid. He said that 30 people around the vehicle were killed and that two more died during the raid, all of them combatants. “They called in an airstrike on a tactical formation of individuals, on people who were operating as a tactical unit,” Colonel Garver said. “Those are the ones who were hit.” Read The Full Story States Angered By Bush Administration's Disaster Planning 2007-08-08 02:21:09 A decision by the Bush administration to rewrite in secret the nation's emergency response blueprint has angered state and local emergency officials, who worry that Washington is repeating a series of mistakes that contributed to its bungled response to Hurricane Katrina nearly two years ago. State and local officials in charge of responding to disasters say that their input in shaping the National Response Plan was ignored in recent months by senior White House and Department of Homeland Security officials, despite calls by congressional investigators for a shared overhaul of disaster planning in the United States. "In my 19 years in emergency management, I have never experienced a more polarized environment between state and federal government," said Albert Ashwood, Oklahoma's emergency management chief and president of a national association of state emergency managers. The national plan is supposed to guide how federal, state and local governments, along with private and nonprofit groups, work together during emergencies. Critics contend that a unilateral approach by Washington produced an ill-advised response plan at the end of 2004 - an unwieldy, 427-page document that emphasized stopping terrorism at the expense of safeguarding against natural disasters. Read The Full Story U.N. Agency Sees Unusual Weather And More To Come 2007-08-08 02:20:36 A monsoon dropped 14 inches of rain in one day across many parts of South Asia this month. Germany had its wettest May on record, and April was the driest there in a century. Temperatures in Bulgaria reached 113 degrees last month and 90 degrees in Moscow, Russia, in late May, shattering longtime records. The year still has almost five months to go, but it has already experienced a range of weather extremes that the Untied Nations'World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday is well outside the historical norm and is a precursor of much greater weather variability as global warming transforms the planet. The warming trend confirmed in February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - based on the finding that 11 of the past 12 years had higher average ground temperatures than any others since formal temperature recording began - appears to have continued with a vengeance into 2007. The WMO reported that January and April were the warmest worldwide ever recorded. Read The Full Story E.U. Threatens Tit-For-Tat Visa Limits On Americans After U.S. Tightens Law 2007-08-08 02:20:00 The European Union is threatening to impose tit-for-tat entry restrictions on all U.S. citizens travelling to Europe in response to new American laws designed to strengthen security at airports and prevent would-be terrorists entering the country. U.S. tourists can now travel to Europe without a visa. Franco Frattini, justice and home affairs commissioner, is drawing up plans for an E.U.-wide system of "electronic travel authorization" (ETA) similar to that written into U.S. law by President George Bush late last week as part of new homeland security rules proposed by the 9/11 commission and endorsed by Congress. The ETA requires tourists from 14 mostly west European states, including Britain, benefiting from the U.S. visa waiver program to register online and give details of their passport, travel plans and planned social and business meetings at least two days before departure. A similar scheme operates in Australia. The new system has heightened fears about privacy protection as the E.U. and U.S. already exchange information about transatlantic passengers and airline manifests, with several would-be travellers refused entry to planes at U.S. insistence. It is also seen as a deterrent to business travel to the U.S. and to tourism in general, which is down 10% in the U.S. since 2000 while it is up 13% in Britain and 20% in France. Read The Full Story Yangtze River Dolphin Declared Extinct 2007-08-08 02:19:25 The Yangtze river dolphin, until recently one of the most endangered species on the planet, has been declared officially extinct following an intensive survey of its natural habitat. The freshwater marine mammal, which could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a ton, is the first large vertebrate forced to extinction by human activity in 50 years, and only the fourth time an entire evolutionary line of mammals has vanished from the face of the Earth since the year 1500. Conservationists described the extinction as a "shocking tragedy" Tuesday, caused not by active persecution but accidentally and carelessly through a combination of factors including unsustainable fishing and mass shipping. In the 1950s, the Yangtze river and neighboring watercourses had a population of thousands of freshwater dolphins, also known as Baiji, but their numbers have declined dramatically since China industrialized and transformed the Yangtze into a crowded artery of mass shipping, fishing and power generation. A survey in 1999 estimated the population of river dolphins was close to just 13 animals. Read The Full Story Humans Blamed For Britain's Hoof And Mouth Cases 2007-08-08 02:18:55 Humans are to blame for carrying the foot and mouth virus from laboratories in Pirbright, investigators into the outbreak in Surrey believe. The initial, inconclusive report from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) says there is a "strong probability" that the origin was either the government-funded Institute of Animal Health (IAH) laboratory or the commercial Merial facility, which share the same site. Both were working on the strain involved in the farm outbreak, although Merial was producing it in large quantities while the IAH was using tiny amounts for research. "There are various routes for accidental or deliberate transfer of material from the site," the report says. "We have investigated site management systems and records and spoken to a number of employees. As a result we are pursuing lines of inquiry." It adds: "Release by human movement must ... be considered a real possibility." Read The Full Story Alaska Plane Crash Victims Identified 2007-08-08 02:18:01 A New Jersey family was identified Tuesday as the four people killed when their single-engine plane crashed into a home and set it ablaze in Sitka. No one was in the home when the plane plowed into it a block from a downtown street bustling with cruise ship tourists visiting the coastal town on Monday afternoon. Robert Hendrickson, 45, died along with his daughters, Julianne, 14, and Emily, 9, said Sitka police Lt. Barry Allen. Also killed was Hendrickson's fiancee, Linda Kundair, 34. All were living in different New Jersey towns, said Allen. Allen said it was too early to have any indication of why the plane crashed. Read The Full Story	China Threatens 'Nuclear Option' Of Dollar Sales 2007-08-08 23:29:58 The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of U.S. treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation. Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658 billion) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the U.S. Congress. Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies. Described as China's "nuclear option" in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the U.S. currency is already breaking down through historic support levels. Read The Full Story Musharraf Cancels Afghan Trip, May Impose Emergency Rules In Pakistan 2007-08-08 23:29:30 Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf may decide to impose emergency rule because of deteriorating security conditions and the growing threat of violence by Islamic extremists, a senior government official in Islamabad said Wednesday. Musharraf, meanwhile, abruptly canceled a long-planned visit to the Afghan capital, where he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai were to launch a four-day peace conference aimed at improving bilateral cooperation in the fight against Islamic extremism. Officials in Islamabad said at first that Musharraf could not attend because of other "engagements" at home, but rumors grew that the president had met with senior advisers to discuss the pros and cons of imposing a state of emergency. Late Wednesday, Tariq Azim, minister of state for information, told Pakistan's GEO television that the idea remained a possibility. "Given the external and internal threats we are facing, especially on the border areas, the possibility of emergency cannot be ruled out," said Azim. Rashid Qureshi, a spokesman for Musharraf, denied reports that the president planned to suspend citizens' rights. Read The Full Story Commentary: The Terror America Wrought 2007-08-08 23:28:40 Intellpuke: The following commentary was written by journalist and author Robert Scheer and was posted on the truthdig.com website on Wednesday, August 8, 2007. During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As noted in the Strategic Bombing Survey conducted at President Harry Truman's request, when the bomb hit Hiroshima on April 6, 1945, "nearly all the school children ... were at work in the open," to be exploded, irradiated or incinerated in the perfect firestorm that the planners back at the University of California-run Los Alamos lab had envisioned for the bomb's maximum psychological impact. The terror plot worked all too well, as Hiroshima's Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba recalled this week: "That fateful summer, 8:15 a.m. The roar of a B-29 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, an enormous blast-silence-hell on Earth. The eyes of young girls watching the parachute were melted. Their faces became giant charred blisters. The skin of people seeking help dangled from their fingernails. ... Others died when their eyeballs and internal organs burst from their bodies-Hiroshima was a hell where those who somehow survived envied the dead." Like most of the others killed by the two American bombs, neither the children nor the adults had any role in Japan's decision to go to war, but they were picked as the target instead of an isolated but fortified military base whose antiaircraft fire posed a higher risk. The target preferred by U.S. atomic scientists-a patch in the ocean or unpopulated terrain-was rejected, because the effect of hundreds of thousands of civilians dying would be all the more dramatic. Read The Full Story Security Council Staff Against Increased U.N. Presence In Iraq 2007-08-08 23:28:06 The United Nations Security Council is set to agree a resolution Thursday to expand its role in Iraq despite overwhelming opposition from its staff. Although the organization often goes into extremely dangerous situations, the U.N. staff association, which represents 6,000 people in New York and 18,000 involved in peacekeeping and other operations overseas, voted unanimously on Tuesday against deployment in Iraq because of the high risks. It also called for the removal of existing staff. The U.N. insisted Wednesday that it can go ahead in spite of staff opposition and would be able to find people to fill the new posts. The U.S. president, George Bush, is pressing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to beef up the U.N. operation in Iraq, which it scaled back in 2003 after a bomb killed its envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 other staff at its Baghdad headquarters. The security council resolution will widen the U.N. role to cover a range of issues from border security to political reconciliation and rehabilitation of former combatants. Although not mentioned in the text, it will open the way for an increase in its Iraq staff complement from 65 to 95 by October. The security council is also seeking $130 million  (£65 million) to build a fortified compound in Baghdad. The U.S. has offered to help with the costs. Read The Full Story Iraqi Translator Was Given Asylum By British Tribunal 2007-08-08 23:27:30 An Iraqi translator was granted asylum this year in a case that has significant implications for the government's refusal to give special treatment to people who say they could be killed if abandoned by British troops, the Guardian newspaper revealed. Prime Minister Gordon Brown agreed Wednesday to "look again" at the question of Iraqi interpreters working for the British armed forces. It followed reports that the Iraqis would not receive any favorable treatment for asylum in the U.K. despite pressure from army officers. The interpreters say they risk being killed if they are abandoned when British troops leave Iraq. There have been several reports of Iraqis being killed or intimidated for "collaborating" with foreign troops in Iraq. Britain's Ministry of Defense said Wednesday they could not confirm the reports. Read The Full Story 2 Fossils Found In Kenya Shake Human Family Tree 2007-08-08 15:13:44 Two fossils found in Kenya have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens. Scientists who dated and analyzed the specimens - a 1.44 million-year-old Homo habilis and a 1.55 million-year-old Homo erectus - said their findings challenged the conventional view that these species evolved one after the other. Instead, they apparently lived side by side in eastern Africa for almost half a million years. If this interpretation is correct, the early evolution of the genus Homo is left even more shrouded in mystery than before. It means that both habilis and erectus must have originated from a common ancestor between two million and three million years ago, a time when fossil hunters had drawn a virtual blank. Read The Full Story BREAKING NEWS: 7.5 Earthquake Hits Indonesia 2007-08-08 14:03:35 A powerful earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Java, shaking high-rise blocks in the capital of Jakarta and causing people to run from their homes in panic. There were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage from the quake which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at 7.5 on the Richter scale. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no danger of a tidal wave. The quake shortly after midnight was felt in west and central Java island, according to CNN's Kathy Quiano, who said many people took to the streets in panic. "I was just getting into bed on the second floor of my house. You rarely feel these things in Jakarta so I knew something was wrong immediately," John Aglionby of the Financial Times told CNN. Read The Full Story A.P.: Seafood From China Wasn't Screened 2007-08-08 02:20:52 At least 1 million pounds of suspect Chinese seafood landed on American store shelves and dinner plates despite a Food and Drug Administration order that the shipments first be screened for banned drugs or chemicals, an Associated Press investigation found. The frozen shrimp, catfish and eel arrived at U.S. ports under an "import alert," which meant the FDA was supposed to hold every shipment until it had passed a laboratory test. Yet that was not what happened, according to an A.P. check of shipments since last fall. One of every four shipments the A.P. reviewed got through without being stopped and tested. The seafood, valued at $2.5 million, was equal to the amount 66,000 Americans eat in a year. Read The Full Story Global Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmental Fold 2007-08-08 02:20:18 At 8 on a Saturday morning, just as the heat was permeating this sprawling Orlando suburb, Denise Kirsop donned a white plastic moon suit and began sorting through the trash produced by Northland Church. She and several fellow parishioners picked apart the garbage to analyze exactly how much and what kind of waste their megachurch produces, looking for ways to reduce the congregation's contribution to global warming. "I prayed about it, and God really revealed to me that I had a passion about creation," said Kirsop, who has since traded in her family's sport-utility vehicle for a hybrid Toyota Prius to help cut her greenhouse gas emissions. "Anything that draws me closer to God - and this does - increases my faith and helps my work for God." Her conversion to environmentalism is the result of a years-long international campaign by British bishops and leaders of major U.S. environmental groups to bridge a long-standing divide between global-warming activists and American evangelicals. Read The Full Story Toothpaste, Tuna Salad and Egg Salad Sandwiches Recalled 2007-08-08 02:19:39 The following recalls have been announced: -- Donnamax Inc. of Brooklyn, N.Y., is recalling DentaPro brand Cavity Fighting Fluoride Toothpaste Fresh Spearmint Flavor and Bright Max Toothpaste because the products, which were made in China, may contain diethylene glycol. The chemical is found in antifreeze and is toxic to the kidneys and liver. No illnesses have been reported to date, according to the company. The recalled Cavity Fighting Fluoride Toothpaste is identified by the item No. 9112 and the UPC code 8 71290 - 00062 5; Bright Max Toothpaste has the item no. 91111. The products were sold to retail stores in the following states: New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Idaho. Any reactions should be reported to the Food and Drug Administration's MedWatch adverse event reporting program at www.fda.gov/medwatch/report.htm. -- CFS Operating Ltd. of Longview, Texas, is recalling 4,219 units of Cloud's tuna salad sandwiches and egg salad sandwiches, both on white bread, because the food might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which can cause listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is an organism that can cause serious or fatal infections in children, the elderly or those with weakened immune systems. It can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. No illnesses have been reported, according to the company. Read The Full Story Rudy Giuliani's Daughter Comes Out For Obama 2007-08-08 02:19:11 The leading Republican for next year's presidential contest, Rudy Giuliani, is having to contend with the embarrassment of discovering his teenage daughter signed up as a supporter of Barack Obama, one of the Democratic frontrunners. Giuliani, whose family relationships are fraught after a messy divorce, is well ahead of his Republican rivals in spite of reports about his personal life. His children have already signalled they do not intend to campaign for him, but the Slate political website discovered that his daughter, Caroline, 17, had gone further and signed up to social networking group Facebook's "Barack Obama (1 Million Strong for Barack)" site. Read The Full Story Seismic Activity Stops Utah Mine Rescue Try 2007-08-08 02:18:32 Seismic activity has "totally shut down" efforts to reach six miners trapped below ground and has wiped out all the work done in the past day, a mine executive said Tuesday. "We are back to square one underground," said Robert E. Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp., owner of the Crandall Canyon mine. Still, "we should know within 48 to 72 hours the status of those trapped miners," said Murray. Crews are drilling two holes into the mountain in an effort to communicate with the miners - provided they are still alive. Unstable conditions below ground have thwarted rescuers' efforts to break through to the miners, who have been trapped 1,500 feet below the surface for nearly two days, said Murray. The seismic activity and other factors "have totally shut down our rescue efforts underground," he said. Read The Full Story
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