Bitch about Headline News on Health, Environment, Internet, Politics and other Issues
BBC News reports here: Internet users are being urged to stand up for online freedoms by backing a new campaign launched by human rights group Amnesty International. For more Info see Irrepressible here and the Amnesty International website here.
BBC News.com writes here: Renewables are the form of electricity generation favoured by users of the BBC News website’s Electricity Calculator. Your ideal mix of generation methods to meet demand in 2020, projected to be 381 billion kilowatt hours (bn kWh), is:
The Houston Chronicle writes here: Despite a considerable and very public loss in the Enron trial, the stock of the attorneys defending Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay may be higher than ever. And for the prosecutors, their near sweeping victory could be an absolute boon to their careers if they seek to jump ship to high-dollar jobs defending the kind of men they just convicted. And the Washington Post writes here adout: The Showdown With the Crooked ‘E’.
The Washington Post reports here: The Justice Department signaled to the White House this week that the nation’s top three law enforcement officials would resign or face firing rather than return documents seized from a Democratic congressman’s office in a bribery investigation, according to administration sources familiar with the discussions. The possibility of resignations by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales; his deputy, Paul J. McNulty; and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III was communicated to the White House by several Justice officials in tense negotiations over the fate of the materials taken from Rep. William J. Jefferson’s office, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Associated Press reports here via the WP website: Most states aren’t doing enough to protect children from the diesel exhaust many of them inhale while riding or waiting for school buses, an environmental advocacy group said in a report Wednesday. No state received an A grade in the Union of Concerned Scientists’ National School Bus Report Card, although it noted that many are working to cut school bus emissions, which can contribute to asthma and other respiratory ailments.
Spiegel Online writes here: With all the negative coverage, one could be forgiven for thinking that Germany is a country of human-trafficking pimps and shackled prostitutes. They do exist and one shouldn’t talk the problem down. But since 2002 the country has also had legalized prostitution — a world that is closely monitored by the government and where women pay taxes and receive benefits and regular health checks.
The Washington Post reports here: President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair last night acknowledged a series of errors in managing the occupation of Iraq that have made the conflict more difficult and more damaging to the U.S. image abroad, even as they insisted that enough progress has been made that other nations should support the nascent Iraqi government.
CNN News reports here: Capitol Police said Friday they were investigating reports of sounds of gunfire in the garage of the Rayburn Office Building, where members of the House have their offices.
Wonder if Vice President D. Cheney was hunting there?
Reuters reports here via CNN News: Researchers who picked up and analyzed wild chimp droppings said on Thursday they had shown how the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread in humans across Africa and eventually the world.