Tuesday - June 19, 2007YouTube video exposes Pittsburgh law firm advising businesses on how to avoid hiring AmericansInformation Week reported on a YouTube video that shows a Pittsburgh law firm,
Cohen & Grigsby, holding a conference in which they tell attendees how to
avoid having to hire American workers while minimally satisfying the
requirements of the law.
Wednesday - September 07, 2005Looking for a boy and his dogThe Associated Press reported that people are looking for a little
boy and his dog Snowball who were separated during the evacuation of New
Orleans.
Tuesday - September 06, 2005Thousands of pets are said to be stranded and starving to death in New OrleansThe
Telegraph
reported, "Hundreds [of pets] have drowned in
the flood waters, their carcasses littering the city, and the yelps and cries of
countless others echo through the deserted streets of New
Orleans."
Sunday - September 04, 2005Pets should not have been left behind; they have a right to life on the basis of the same principles as humansCNN reported that rescue workers were unnecessarily
forcing people to leave their pets behind in New Orleans where they will
probably starve to death. Those people had already lost everything; they
shouldn't have had to lose their pets too.
Friday - June 17, 2005Autopsy revealed that Terri Schiavo was beyond help, as impartial doctors knew all alongThe autopsy report on Terri Schiavo's brain were
released this week. It said, "The decedent's brain was grossly abnormal and
weighed [...] less than half of the expected tabular weight for a decedent of
her adult age." The New York
Times reported that the medical examiners said "No
amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of
neurons."
Sunday - April 24, 2005Lawyers claim Pope Benedict XVI obstructed justiceThe
Observer reported that while Pope Benedict XVI was head
of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he "issued an order [in May
2001] ensuring the church's investigations into child sex abuse claims be
carried out in secret." The order claimed the church had the right to keep
evidence confidential for up to 10 years after victims reached 18 years of age,
which meant that the guilty priests would likely not be
prosecuted.
Saturday - April 16, 2005DCF found no evidence that Terri Schiavo was abused or exploitedThe Associated Press reported that the Department of Children and
Families "found no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by
either side of her family after the legal battle surrounding her right-to-die
case intensified."
Thursday - March 31, 2005Tom DeLay agreed to pull the plug on his dad in 1988 and Terri's dad pulled the plug on his motherThe Los
Angeles Times reported that in 1988, Tom DeLay and his family
decided to remove DeLay's dad from life support after doctors advised them that
he would basically be a vegetable if kept alive after a tragic accident that
caused serious brain damage. The DeLay family made their decision "without
judges, emergency sessions of Congress or [a public] debate."
Sunday - March 27, 2005Georgetown University students win living wage for workersThe Georgetown Living Wage Coalition announced on
its website on Thursday that it has won its three-year fight for a living wage
for Georgetown University workers. The victory came after more than 20 students
held a nine-day hunger strike, during which some students were
hospitalized.
Wednesday - March 23, 2005What I think about the Terri Schiavo situationI think it is wrong for Terri Schiavo to be
allowed to die of dehydration and starvation, if that would cause her to suffer.
Once the decision to let her die has been finally made, she should be put to
sleep as painlessly as possible.
Monday - March 21, 2005Bush signs law to keep Terri Schiavo alive after having signed the law that allowed Sun Hudson to dieBush signed a law at 1:11 a.m. this morning
giving a federal court jurisdiction in the case of Terri Schiavo, presumably so
that it will order the reinsertion of a feeding tube to continue keeping her
alive while the court deliberates on her situation. She has no hope of recovery
and Florida courts have repeatedly agreed with her husband that she should be
allowed to die.
Sunday - March 13, 2005Report says Ivy League universities are failing in the mission of promoting social equalityThe Feminist Daily News Wire reported that "women
and minorities at Ivy League schools have made little progress breaking into the
tenure track faculty ranks, and are instead becoming a larger part of the
growing group of highly qualified but non tenure track faculty and staff,"
according to a new study by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization at
Yale University.
Saturday - March 12, 2005TV stations have been broadcasting government produced "news" without attributionThe New York
Times reported yesterday that "at least 20 federal
agencies [...] have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in
the past four years [...] Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations
across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their
production."
Sunday - February 27, 2005Bextra and Vioxx approved by FDA panel with ties to the drug industryThe New York
Times reported on Friday that 10 of the 32 advisors to
the F.D.A. who made recommendations about whether the drugs Celebrex, Bextra and
Vioxx should continue to be marketed to the public have financial ties to the
companies that make those drugs. The
Times
said, "If the 10 advisers had not cast their votes, the committee would have
voted 12 to 8 that Bextra should be withdrawn and 14 to 8 that Vioxx should not
return to the market [...] The votes of the 10 did not substantially influence
the committee's decision on Celebrex [...]"
Sunday - January 16, 2005Americans and French fall short in giving to tsunami reliefThe Guardian reported that "Western nations
lauded for their generosity following the south east Asian tsunami disaster are
failing to honour pledges of aid, leaving shortfalls of millions of pounds in
the recovery programme."
Saturday - January 15, 2005Christian group sought to use orphans in its missionary effortReports in the Washington Post suggest that the Virginia-based
missionary group World Help planned to take 300 Muslim orphans under the age of
12 from Banda Aceh, put them in a Christian children's home, indoctrinate them
in Christian mythology, and use them to spread Christianity among the Aceh
people.
Friday - January 07, 2005U.S. could have warned countries devastated by tsunamiThe Guardian reports that "a British-owned
American base on an island [Diego Garcia] in the Indian Ocean received prior
warning of the tsunami" from America's tsunami warning center in
Hawaii.
Thursday - January 06, 2005Doctors Without Borders has enough emergency aid money for Southeast Asia emergencyThe Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF) U.S. web site contains a prominent note saying that
they "have received sufficient funds for [their] currently foreseen emergency
response in South Asia."
Friday - December 31, 2004Help the survivors of the Asia Earthquake and TsunamiOxfam America, the Boston-based international
relief and development organization, announced a $5 million dollar appeal in
support of the Asia Earthquake Fund.
Tuesday - December 07, 2004Waxman's Report on the Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education ProgramsThe U. S. House of Representatives Committee on
Government Reform—Minority Staff Special Investigations Division prepared
a report for Rep. Henry
Waxman on "The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education
Programs". The report found "that over 80% of the abstinence-only
curricula...contains false, misleading, or distorted information about
reproductive health." Federal funding for the abstinence-only programs will
reach $167 million in 2005.
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