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Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:23:39 -0700

 

 

 

 

FEMA Director Mike Brown resigns; Roberts faces new criticisms; UN

Ecology Chiefs call on this week's World Summit to give the

environment its

due priority as the key to human development; FDA issues yet another

delay on deadline regarding nonprescription sales of Plan B despite their

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Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns

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Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday

that he has resigned " in the best interest of the agency and best

interest

of the president, " three days after losing his onsite command of the

Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

 

 

Panel: Pharmaceutical Industry Should Shoulder Medicaid Cuts

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The Republican-led Congress is trying to decide by October 1 how to

trim the $330 billion Medicaid program. The pharmaceutical industry could

shoulder almost half of the $10 billion in anticipated cuts to

Medicaid, if Congress heeds the advice of a panel charged with finding

ways to

rein in spending on the joint federal-state program.

 

 

New Criticisms Aimed at Roberts

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Critics have begun to voice a new criticism of President Bush's nominee

after Katrina demolished parts of the Gulf Coast. Sen. Barack Obama, a

black Democrat, worries that the nominee has not taken racial issues

seriously in his judicial thinking. Speaking about the black residents of

New Orleans, who were the storm's most visible victims, Dean said that

Roberts' " entire legal career appears to be about making sure those

folks don't have the same rights everybody else does. "

 

 

UN Ecology Chiefs: Put Environment Front and Center

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Declaring that " the environment is not a luxury, not a Gucci accessory

bag or a fancy silk tie affordable only when all other issues have been

resolved, " the head of the United Nations ecological agency today

called on this week's World Summit to give the environment its due

priority

as the key to human development.

 

 

Nicholas D. Kristof | The Storm Next Time

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If the White House wants to move the debate about Hurricane Katrina

beyond what it calls the " blame game " for bodies decomposing in the

streets of New Orleans, then here's a constructive step that President

Bush

could take to protect people in the future: Tackle global warming.

 

 

Treaty Offers World's Last Chance to Save Great Apes

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An agreement to save our closest relatives, the great apes, was signed

in the Democratic Republic of Congo last weekend. The agreement ranks

in importance with the 1982 whaling moratorium and it offers a real

chance to halt the remorseless jungle slaughter of gorillas, chimpanzees,

bonobos [pygmy chimpanzees] and orangutans.

 

 

Diseases of Rich Deprive Poor of Drugs

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The world's poorest people are being denied access to drugs because

pharmaceutical companies are focusing their resources on medicines to

treat 'American diseases' such as high blood pressure, obesity, heart

disease and cancer, while drugs to tackle tuberculosis, malaria and

water-borne diseases prevalent in the poorest countries have been

neglected.

 

 

Severance Issue Breaks NWA-Mechanics Talks

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After three days of negotiations between Northwest Airlines Inc. and

its mechanics union, talks broke down Sunday over severance pay issues,

prompting the union to leave the bargaining table with no deal and no

talks scheduled. Northwest plans to start hiring permanent replacement

mechanics Tuesday.

 

 

Regional Labor Leader Slain in Honduras

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A regional labor leader was ambushed and shot to death in Honduras,

police said Monday. Gunmen hit Francisco Cruz Galeano with 25 bullets on

Sunday as he was driving away from a bar in the town of Ojo de Agua with

a friend, who also was seriously wounded.

 

 

Abby Bar-Lev | Putting Politics above Women's Well-Being

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/091205WA.shtml

Although the FDA had promised to make a decision regarding

nonprescription sales of Plan B by September 1 (a promise at the heart

of the

Senate confirming Bush's appointment of Lester Crawford as

commissioner of

the FDA), it instead issued yet another delay with no deadline. As

Senators Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Patty Murray, D-WA, put it, " A

delay is

not a decision, and no amount of semantics can change that. "

 

 

Gutting the World Summit: Bush Betrays Poor Women Again

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This week's United Nations World Summit is in danger of being derailed

by the United States. The US is working to ensure that its outcome will

do little to alleviate the suffering and human rights violations

experienced by the world's poorest people - most of them women and their

children.

 

 

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