Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Global Warming

"I like Al Gore, he is a smart guy, but he sees things that don't exist."
- President Clinton to an aide about Gore badgering him on global warming during their first term.

"A tree is a tree, how many do you need to look at?"
- Ronal Reagan.

















In The News

The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers Foreign Affairs the post-Cold War rise of economically successful -- and nondemocratic -- China and Russia may represent a viable alternative path to modernity that leaves liberal democracy's ultimate victory and future dominance in doubt ....... Today's global liberal democratic order faces two challenges. The first is radical Islam -- the societies from which it arises are generally poor and stagnant. ........ nondemocratic great powers: the West's old Cold War rivals China and Russia, now operating under authoritarian capitalist, rather than communist, regimes ...... Authoritarian capitalist states, today exemplified by China and Russia, may represent a viable alternative path to modernity, which in turn suggests that there is nothing inevitable about liberal democracy's ultimate victory -- or future dominance. ........ The liberal democratic camp defeated its authoritarian, fascist, and communist rivals alike in all of the three major great-power struggles of the twentieth century -- the two world wars and the Cold War. ..... a greater ability to elicit international cooperation through the bonds and discipline of the global market system
A New Deal for Globalization earnings for most U.S. workers -- even those with college degrees -- have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years ..... Less than four percent of workers were in educational groups that enjoyed increases in mean real money earnings from 2000 to 2005; mean real money earnings rose for workers with doctorates and professional graduate degrees and fell for all others. ...... the two most commonly proposed responses -- more investment in education and more trade adjustment assistance for dislocated workers -- are nowhere near adequate. ...... instituting a New Deal for globalization -- one that links engagement with the world economy to a substantial redistribution of income. ..... This protectionist drift extends to much of the world. The Doha Development Round of trade negotiations, the centerpiece of global trade liberalization, is years behind schedule and now on the brink of collapse. ...... The economic gains from globalization are immense. .... trade and investment liberalization over the past decades has added between $500 billion and $1 trillion in annual income -- between $1,650 and $3,300 a year for every American. ....... information technology (IT) -- one of the United States' most globally engaged industries ..... Gains from globalization have been similarly large in the rest of the world. China and India have achieved stupendous rates of productivity growth, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Central to this success has been the introduction of market forces, in particular international market forces related to trade and FDI. ....... previous rounds of trade negotiations had treated poor nations unfairly by failing to open the very sectors -- such as agriculture -- whose openness would most likely help the world's poor. ....... globalization is good for both the U.S. economy and U.S. security interests ..... special-interest protectionists are facing a more receptive audience ...... its enjoyment of relatively affordable toys, DVD players, and other products depends on globalization. ..... security concerns strengthen rather than weaken the case for further trade and investment liberalization, as long as such liberalization is viewed as fair to the developing world. ...... the public is becoming more protectionist because incomes are stagnating or falling ...... from 1966 to 2001, the median pretax inflation-adjusted wage and salary income grew just 11 percent -- versus 58 percent for incomes in the 90th percentile and 121 percent for those in the 99th percentile ....... the many benefits of open borders -- lower prices, greater product diversity, a competitive spur to firms ..... What seems to matter most is what kind of worker you are in terms of skill level, rather than what industry you work in. ...... seven educational categories -- high school dropout, high school graduate, some college, college graduate, nonprofessional master's, Ph.D., and M.B.A./J.D./M.D. -- only those in the last two categories, with doctorates or professional graduate degrees, experienced any growth in mean real money earnings between 2000 and 2005. Workers in these two categories comprised only 3.4 percent of the labor force in 2005 ....... since 2000 even college graduates and those with nonprofessional master's degrees -- 29 percent of workers in 2005 -- suffered declines in mean real money earnings. ....... the share of national income accounted for by the top one percent of earners reached 21.8 percent in 2005 -- a level not seen since 1928 ...... the benefits of strong productivity growth in the past several years have gone largely to a small set of highly skilled, highly compensated workers. ..... upgrading skills is a process that takes generations ...... It took 60 years for the United States to boost the share of college graduates in the labor force from six percent (where it was at the end of World War II) to about 33 percent (where it is today). ....... Since 1988, 74 percent of American students at the 146 top U.S. colleges have come from the highest socioeconomic quartile, compared with just 3 percent from the lowest quartile. ........ At $760 billion in 2005, the regressive payroll tax was nearly as big as the progressive income tax ($1.1 trillion). ..... striking a delicate balance -- between allowing globally engaged companies to continue to generate large overall gains for the United States and using well-targeted fiscal mechanisms to spread the gains more widely
What Next For Palestine? Read Martin Indyk's new update Read 2003 essay unless an antidote was found to the fundamental weakness of Palestinian governing institutions .... Bush went back to his default position of disengagement from any serious effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with predictable results. ... a territory now teeming with armed gangs, warlords, and a well-equipped Hamas militia
Overhauling Intelligence crisis-driven necessity .... rationalized decision-making and integrated the intelligence and military establishments ..... a "stovepiping" of intelligence, arrested the growth of information sharing, collaboration, and integration -- patterns that still linger. .... an ever larger number of nonstate actors moving at increasing speeds across geographic and organizational boundaries ..... blur the traditional distinctions between foreign and domestic, intelligence-related and operational, strategic and tactical ...... the United States' 16 intelligence agencies .... integrate intelligence and law enforcement ..... enemies who seek to acquire and detonate weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil ..... unique mandates and competencies. They also have their own cultures and mythologies ..... Greater collaboration is vital because no single agency has the capacity to survey all the available information. The U.S. intelligence community collects more than one billion pieces of information every day.
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YouTube emerges as star of Democrats' debate CTV.ca fuelled solely by questions uploaded to YouTube by ordinary people - neither members of the press nor the debate's audience. .... a groundbreaking event, the first debate of its kind to enlist the Web as a tool to open politics up to the public. .... The Washington Post headline reads "Public Voice Ads Edge to Debate." .... sharp and sometimes witty video questions ..... The New York Times is a little less charitable, with the headline "Novel Debate, Same Old Candidates." Even with the new format, "candidates frequently lapsed into their talking points, and there was little actual debate among them" ..... candidates being "pelted" with "unapologetically blunt queries." ...... "What did we really learn? (former Alaska Senator) Mike Gravel is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore ... (Connecticut Senator) Chris Dodd knows even his Senate salary won't pay for his kids college education ... (Illinois Senator) Barack Obama will make a wonderful ambassador ... of hope ... and (Delaware Senator) Joe Biden is a widower ...who knew? ...... Edwards questioned Clinton's fashion sensibilities -- she had opted for a bright pink jacket over the darker hues donned by her male counterparts. ....... Biden said the thing he liked best about Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich was his wife. .... the growing role citizen journalism is playing in shaping public debate. ..... selecting the 39 questions that made it to air out of about 3,000 that were submitted.
Clinton and YouTube win South Carolina debate Chicago Tribune the debate was another encounter of the candidates that didn't scramble the Democratic race's dynamics. .... put in another strong performance. She was smooth, informed, unflappable and with a touch of humor. Anytime the leader in the polls comes out of a debate unscathed, she or he is the winner by definition. ........ Clinton gave a nuanced answer that was exactly right, downright presidential. ..... If they had been playing tennis, she would have just scored on him with a passing shot that caught him moving in the wrong direction ..... CNN said some focus group in New Hampshire gave the debate to Obama ...... as a trial lawyer in an earlier life he fought the industries that have so much power in Washington—the big insurance and drug companies for instance—and won. .... blacks of all incomes in Charleston, S.C. pay more for their mortgages than similarly situated whites. ...... Sen. Chris Dodd's people sent an e-mail out following the debate saying he had won it. The Richardson people sent out an e-mail claiming their man won. ......... Mike Gravel, the former Alaska senator, still channeling the angry Peter Finch character from the classic film "Network" seems to have it in for Obama, accusing him of being beholden to big money by taking money from "bundlers." It was another missed opportunity for Obama. He could have said his campaign has collected more money from smaller donors than Clinton's, underscoring the grassroots excitement he has created as he benefits from the hunger for change. He didn't. ....... The biggest winner of the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate in the end was probably YouTube. .... the summer's best reality show.
Obama’s Bad Night National Review Online “Of course” the president should talk to Ahmadinejad and other such leaders,” Kucinich said. “You can get on a cell phone and call somebody on the other side of the world right now. To me, it is almost unbelievable that someone running for president of the United States would say that they wouldn’t pursue a meeting with another person in the cause of building peace.” .... “You’re referring to Sen. Clinton?” .... “Of course I am.” .... that he would “use the science of human relations and diplomacy,” along with “international agreements and treaties” to settle differences without fighting ..... YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley ..... “You don’t have to be in New Hampshire, you don’t have to be in Iowa, to present a question,” Chen said. “You’re not restricted by where you live.”
Cuomo: Spitzer aides used State Police to try to damage Bruno The Journal News / Lohud.com
British postman defies floods for Harry Potter fans (Extra)
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Obama Targets Clinton At YouTube Debate
U.S. News & World Report attempts by other candidates, particularly Sen. Barack Obama, to directly challenge Sen. Hillary Clinton ..... 'The time for us to ask how we're going to get out of Iraq was before we went in.' ..... Obama and Edwards "targeted" Clinton. .... 'Do you believe that compromise, triangulation, will bring about big change?' Edwards said ..... a more aggressive and sure-footed performance from Obama, accused of being flat and long-winded in previous debates. ... Obama, who is beating Clinton in fundraising but trailing by an average of 15 points in national polls, seemed much more at ease than in previous debates ....... the best debate yet. .... In New Hampshire, reporter Mary Snow said the CNN focus group found that Obama "got the most favorable [response] in terms of the best performance from the 24 people who are here tonight. ...... something much more akin to a game show - complete with commercial breaks - than anything Lincoln or Douglas might have imagined." ...... Obama asserting that he never has to explain how black he is when trying to catch a cab. Clinton said she wouldn't use the word 'liberal' to describe her politics but rather prefers the term 'progressive ...... Debates are 'no longer a province of the elite, or the press,' said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. 'After tonight, I think it's going to be hard to go back to debates how they were, without user-generated comments,' added CNN host Anderson Cooper." ...... Most of the video questions posed in last night's Democratic debate were more memorable than the answers ..... a budget of $2.9 trillion Obama and Clinton clash on YouTube ITV.com The format was designed to force candidates to drop their rehearsed answers and sound bites and sparked lively exchanges between all eight Democratic candidates on Iraq and diplomacy, and an extended discussion of race and gender involving Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton.

SEN. OBAMA: I would. And the reason is this: That the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration, is ridiculous. (Applause.) Ronald Reagan and Democratic presidents like JFK constantly spoke to the Soviet Union at a time when Ronald Reagan called them an evil empire. And the reason is because they understood that we may not trust them, they may pose an extraordinary danger to this country, but we have the obligation to find areas where we can potentially move forward. And I think that it is a disgrace that we have not spoken to them. We've been talking about Iraq. One of the first things that I would do in terms of moving a diplomatic effort in the region forward is to send a signal that we need to talk to Iran and Syria, because they're going to have responsibilities if Iraq collapses. They have been acting irresponsibly up until this point. But if we tell them that we are not going to be a permanent occupying force, we are in a position to say that they are going to have to carry some weight in terms of stabilizing the region. SEN. CLINTON: While I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these during my first year, I will promise a very vigorous diplomatic effort, because I think it is not that you promise a meeting at that high a level before you know what the intentions are. I don't want to be used for propaganda purposes. I don't want to make a situation even worse. But I certainly agree that we need to get back to diplomacy, which has been turned into a bad word by this administration. And I will pursue very vigorous diplomacy, and I will use a lot of high-level presidential envoys to test the waters, to feel the way. But certainly we're not going to just have our president meet with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and, you know, the president of North Korea, Iran and Syria until we know better what the way forward would be. (Applause.)
Elton John stands behind Nepal's gay community Hindustan Times
Elton John AIDS Foundation Takes On Nepalese Politicos Queerty
Flood situation in Bihar grim
Hindu Nearly two million population spread over eight districts in Bihar continued to reel under the impact of floods as the overall situation remained unchanged with major rivers, including Punpun, Bagmati and Kosi in spate. ..... Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Saharsa, Madhubani, besides East Champaran and West Champaran .... In Sitamarhi, swollen Rato river breached the embankment in a stretch of 100 feet at Srikhandi under Sursand block in the district, inundating more than 200 villages.
Bihar flood situation gets grim Hindustan Times
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Analysis: Blair the believer Jerusalem Post Blair will be able to count himself lucky and probably pick up a Nobel Prize in the process .... What Rice didn't say, of course is that, no matter how close an ally Blair has been to the Bush administration, the real business of getting the two sides to talk to each other is still an American monopoly. ..... Wolfensohn explained that it's impossible to improve the Palestinians' financial situation and to promote internal political stability outside of the wider context of the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations. .... really believes that he can pull off something of the scale of the peace agreement his government brought about in Northern Ireland. ....... Israeli diplomatic sources might have said that he still has a lot to learn on the issues, but you can be sure that a policy wonk such as Blair has already put in the hours of study. ...... prepared to give a week out of every month of his valuable retirement time
UN Rejects Taiwan's Bid to Join, Citing `One China' Principle Bloomberg
Illinois Bans Smoking in Public Places Washington Post
Google Hits Back in Spectrum Battle (Again) PC Magazine
Don't go gaga over Google CNNMoney.com It has created more investor wealth in less time than any company in history. ( ....... only three companies have created more wealth: General Electric (Charts, Fortune 500), Exxon MobilCharts, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (Charts, Fortune 500). ....... Google has created all that staggering wealth using only $9 billion of capital. This is the info-based economy at its most dramatic and amazing. ...... When you buy a stock, after all, what you're paying for is the future. ..... But you can't invest $5.1 billion every year at 52.5 percent. .... Four years ago its return was 111 percent; the following year it was 82 percent. ..... it has been brilliantly run. .... Google is a terrific company that may one day deserve to sit beside GE, Exxon and Microsoft. But not yet.
Quanta mum on reported iPhone, Dell smartphone deals InfoWorld Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC maker, is reportedly gearing up to make iPhones for Apple and a new smartphone for Dell, but the company isn't talking. ...... Hon Hai, which operates under the name Foxconn, is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer. There has been speculation of a tie-up with Quanta for some time because pundits believe Hon Hai wants to enter the laptop PC manufacturing business
Wireless USB finds its way to Dell and Lenovo laptops engadget
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New Cable-Free Laptops Announced by Dell and Lenovo AHN
No safe haven: Diet sodas linked with health risks Reuters
Kids’ Health Gets Political New York Times
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Newsweek they're all pros who stayed reliably on message. .... the control was in Anderson Cooper's hands—a fact which rankled many dedicated YouTubers, who would have preferred that CNN air the most popular videos submitted ........ A pair of hammy hillbillies from Tennessee asked if all the will-he-or-won't-he over former vice president Al Gore's intention to run hurts the candidates' feelings ....... and then gazed longingly (and a little comically) into each others' eyes ...... In "every single question we've heard," Illinois Sen. Barack Obama said toward the end of the debate, "you see cynicism about the capacity to change this country." ...... In the spirit of the evening, we watched the debate streaming live on CNN.com. ...... Hillary further polishing her front runner posture .... Mike Gravel grew ever grumpier, complaining whenever he spoke that he was not getting enough time to talk. When asked to defend a previous statement he had made about Vietnam, he answered: "I like the question; I don't get many of them, thank you." Then he asked the audience, losing his cool, "Has it been fair?" ........ Edwards, who was slick throughout, apparently contracted foot-in-mouth disease immediately before the last question was asked. All the candidates were told to say one thing they like and one thing they dislike about the person standing to his or her left. Edwards looked at Clinton and said, "I don't know about your coat." Maybe it wasn't just the YouTube submitters who needed a filter last night.
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YouTube was the clear winner of the Democratic debate earlier. This is great news for Obama 2008 which is the movement candidacy, the grassroots candidacy. The YouTube way we can give voice to the traditionally voiceless. We have to make great use of online video to make our point.

http://www.youtube.com/debates

The best line of the evening perhaps came from John Edwards who said, "If there are people out there who will not vote for Barack because he is black, and who will not vote for Hillary because she is a woman, I don't want their vote either."








In The News

Hillary Outflanks Obama The Weekly Standard an especially silly one about whether the candidates would be willing to be paid the minimum wage as president. Most of them lied and said yes. ...... the first of six debates sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee .... Often, though, it was merely unserious, excessively cute, and frivolous. .... Obama, exciting on the stump, was dull in the debate. Mike Gravel seemed quite taken with himself, for no good reason. Dennis Kucinich also exuded enormous self-regard. Edwards oozed insincerity, especially when he said anyone who voted against Clinton because she's a woman or Obama because he's African-American shouldn't vote for him. ...... there's nothing inevitable about Clinton's winning the Democratic nomination .... Clinton has incredibly high negatives. One national poll found recently that 52 percent of Americans said they'd never vote for her for president.
Obama, Clinton clash in YouTube debate Scientific American Clinton pounced on rival Barack Obama on Monday for his willingness to meet with some troublesome world leaders .... The format was designed to force candidates to drop their rehearsed answers and sound bites. .... "I couldn't run as anything other than a woman," Clinton said. "I'm excited that I may be able finally to break that hardest of all glass ceilings."
Videos are stars of Democratic debate
Democrats take back seat to videos at debate
Nonprofit may launch $350 laptop by Christmas A nonprofit group that designs low-cost computers for poor children may start selling $350 laptops on the commercial market by Christmas
Clinton Touts Experience at Debate as Rivals Duck Confrontation
Bloomberg Clinton, Obama and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards largely refrained from attacks on each other and set out minor differences in how they would approach the war in Iraq, diplomacy and health care. .... ``The issue is, which of us is ready to lead on day one,'' New York Senator Clinton, 59, said. ``I have 35 years of being an instrument and agent of change, before I was ever a public official.'' ...... ``As I travel around the country, people have an urgent desire for change in Washington,'' said Obama, 45, a senator from Illinois. ``We are not going to fix health care, we're not going to fix energy, we are not going to do anything about our education system unless we change how business is done in Washington.'' ...... questions about health-care the single most frequently asked. ...... ``She is an extraordinarily disciplined candidate, and tonight was a reaffirmation of that discipline,'' Kersh said. ``She's very good at giving responses that are reasonably substantive without giving a lot of sharp angles which opponents can grab on to and get traction to attack her.''
Public Voice Adds Edge to Debate Washington Post underscored the arrival of the Internet as a force in politics. ..... The citizen-interrogators generated the most diverse set of questions in any of the presidential debates to date and challenged the candidates to break out of the rhetoric of their campaign speeches and to address sometimes uncomfortable issues, such as race, gender, religion and their own vulnerabilities. ..... they used the forum to challenge each other more directly than they have in past debates ..... Obama came close to directly criticizing Clinton's support for the Iraq war in 2002, and Clinton contradicted Obama on a question about whether, as president, they would meet with leaders of foreign governments hostile to the United States. ...... In one video, a man played guitar and sang a question about taxes (and then asked whether "one of y'all" could grant him a pardon for a recent speeding ticket). A lesbian couple asked the candidates whether they would allow them to marry. ...... Obama was asked whether he is "authentically black," and said he proved his racial bona fides whenever he tried to hail a cab in New York. ...... she is not "satisfactorily feminine." She responded to laughter, "I couldn't run as anything other than a woman." ..... I think I'm the most qualified and experienced person to hit the ground running in January 2009 .... if she were elected and served two terms, the country would go through 28 years with a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. ...... a man he had met who had waited 50 years to have surgery for a cleft palate. .... Mike Gravel (Alaska) once again played the role of scourge, attacking Obama for the way he has raised money -- a charge Obama quickly sought to rebut -- while complaining that he was being ignored through most of the debate
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Monday, July 23, 2007

20 Million Single Moms: Will Obama Go For Them?



20 million single moms stayed out of the 2000 and 2004 races. They are disenchanted. They don't bother. The question is, will Obama try and bring them into the process? It is not enough to talk of universal health care. These 20 million people have to be specifically targeted.

Barack Obama's mother was a single mom for parts of her life. But it is not enough to mention that. These 20 million people are a specific group with specific political needs. They have to be addressed as a group, like African Americans are, like Hispanics are.

This is key to Obama getting ahead of Hillary. If he refuses to address this crowd, he will continue to lag in the national polls.

The debate on single moms is necessary. Is this a case of family breakdown? Is this a case of men not managing to keep pace with liberated women in terms of their gender attitudes? Is it a case of economic pressures? Is it a case of unplanned pregnancies? Is it to do with weak family values? Why disproportionately women?

This is a very specific demographic. That has to be recognized.

Their primary political needs might be to do with child care facilities. Once the political will is mustered, details will follow.

On The Web

SingleMom.com - Single Mom's Resources for Single Mother, Single ...
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Single parent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the United States, the percentage of children with single parents rose from 23% in 1980 to 31% in 2002. .... 9% of single parents in the UK are fathers, and 86% of single parents are white ..... 47% of single parent families are below the Government-defined poverty line (after housing costs) .... those living with a sole parent were about three times more likely to either kill themselves or end up in the hospital after an attempted suicide by the age of 26 than children living with two parents
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Tonight voters will log on to watch landmark online debate 49abcnews.com
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Experience Trumps for Clinton; 'New Direction' Keeps Obama Going
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For Clinton, debate could turn into 7 against 1 SI.com
Poll shows Clinton leading Democratic rivals for presidency Xinhua Fifty-four Democrats said Clinton, who is from New York, has the best chance of winning the general election in November 2008, more than twice the percentage saying Senator Barack Obama of Illinois (22 percent), according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll. .... Among Democratic-leaning independents, 44 percent said Clinton, 25 percent Obama and 11 percent Edwards. .... Among independents, 35 percent cited Clinton as the Democrat with the best chance of beating the GOP nominee and 29 percent said Obama. Among Republicans, 37 percent said Clinton and 33 percent Obama. .... Overall, 45 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support Clinton to be the party's nominee, with Obama second at 30 percent. .... Clinton leads among both women and men in the new poll. Among whites, Clinton leads Obama by double digits, but the two run nearly neck-and-neck among African Americans: 46 percent would vote for Obama and 40 percent for Clinton. ..... Eight in 10 said they would be comfortable with a female head of state; 86 percent said so of an African American, as did 74 percent of a Hispanic. ..... But fewer said they would have no reservations: 54 percent would be "entirely comfortable" with a female president, 56 percent with an African American and 44 percent with a Latino.
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American Thinker Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard. .... "I didn't run away from the issue, and I didn't just talk about it in front of Latino audiences." .... The Illinois Democrat said the recent Senate immigration debate "was both ugly and racist in a way we haven't see since the struggle for civil rights."
Clinton, Obama address La Raza Miami Herald Clinton did not demand an end to federal raids on undocumented immigrants. Obama would not guarantee a visit to the immigrant-heavy agricultural area of California's Central Valley in between his fundraising trips to Los Angeles. ..... ''I'm proud to have not one, but two front-runners in the race for president of the United States,'' said Janet Murguia, La Raza's president. ``I think it says a lot about our power and our energy to shape this country.'' .... Obama also had a unique message: that the civil rights movements led by an African-American, Martin Luther King Jr., and a Mexican-American, Cesar Chavez, were inextricably linked. Both African-American and Hispanic children suffer disproportionately without health insurance and high-achieving public schools. ...... ''Our separate struggles are really one struggle,'' Obama said, echoing King. ``An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'' ....... Clinton looked tired, perhaps because she and other senators were up all night Tuesday trying to secure support for a bill withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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Microsoft, Yahoo! Going Google's Way?
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Mighty Microsoft's future hinges on beating Google The Age
HP opens wallet for software business CNET News.com enhance HP's standing as one of the world's leading software companies ...... The picked-up pace of software acquisitions at HP mirrors a well worn strategy at rival IBM, which has bought 54 companies since 2003, including 36 software outfits as it decreases its dependency on hardware sales.
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Africa, offline: Waiting for the Web what can happen when good intentions run into the technical, political and business realities of Africa. ...... Less than 4 percent of Africa's population is connected to the Web; most subscribers are in North African countries and the republic of South Africa. ..... E-mail messages and phone calls sent from some African countries have to be routed through Britain, or even the United States, increasing expenses and delivery times. About 75 percent of African Internet traffic is routed this way and costs African countries billions of extra dollars each year that they would not incur if their infrastructure was up to speed. ....... Prices remain high because the national telecommunications linked to the cable maintain a monopoly over access, squeezing out potential competitors. ..... Africa remains the least connected region in the world, and the digital gap between it and the developed world is widening rapidly. "Unless you can offer Internet access that is the same as the rest of the world, Africa can't be part of the global economy or academic environment" ..... "The benefits of the Internet age will bypass the continent." ..... Rwandan officials say the company seems more interested in tapping the more lucrative cellphone market than in being an Internet service provider. ...... The only way to do it is to buy bandwidth capacity on satellites, but there are not enough satellites to meet demand. ...... Terracom suffers from unrealistic expectations ..... Complicating the situation, Butare said, was that Wyler tried to run Terracom from the United States, visiting Rwanda just a few weeks at a time. He left day-to-day management to a poorly trained staff, Butare said. ...... Basic wireless Internet is about $63 a month. Those rich enough to pay the fees complain about poor service. ..... most of the satellites serving Africa were launched nearly 20 years ago and are aging or going out of commission. ...... Terracom is moving ahead with plans to give Rwanda the most advanced Internet infrastructure in Africa. A nationwide wireless connection should begin operating near year-end, he said, about the time a nonprofit group, One Laptop Per Child, based in Boston, is to introduce a $100 laptop in the country. ...... Bakuramutsa said he hopes to bring the price of Internet service down to about $10 a month.
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