What’s the best RSS aggregator?
I’m looking to change how I read blogs… right now I use Thunderbird on my PC but if I’m away, then I get backlogged…
Is there something better online, like feedster, except updated on a regular basis?
Related Posts:Friday Fax / Let’s Keep Trying the Same Failed Strategies til We Get Different Results
Despite the fact that these programs have no ability whatsoever to contain AIDS, they keep trying them anyway, expecting different results. The only difference is that want even MORE money with which to fail with. That’s the UN for you, the potential for so much good, but insists on being a big hole in the center of Manhattan you sink money into and never get any results.
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UN Calls for Closer Links Between AIDS Prevention Programs and Abortion
Yesterday the UN wrapped up a high-level conference to evaluate the progress achieved in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS since the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. While the UN acknowledged a failure to make significant progress and admitted that it was unlikely to reach its original goal of containing the disease by 2015, the blame was apportioned to insufficient funding rather than ineffective strategies. The UN called for more financial support for its current strategies, including the integration of HIV/AIDS prevention programs and “reproductive health services,” which in UN speak include abortion.
The UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitted that HIV/AIDS is still expanding at an accelerating rate, and last year saw more new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths than ever before. There are now 39.4 million people worldwide living with HIV. The hardest-hit region continues to be sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for 64 percent of all HIV infections. In Swaziland, the most affected country, 42.6 percent of pregnant women tested HIV-positive last year.
Jean Ping, the President of the General Assembly, also stated that the threat of HIV/AIDS today is far greater than four years ago. By the end of 2006, 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to lose more than 10 percent of their workforce due to AIDS.
Speakers focused on the shortfall of funding for current efforts rather than questioning the effectiveness of current UN strategies to battle HIV/AIDS. Peter Piot, the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), claimed that UN programs would succeed if the current amount of funding were doubled from $8 billion to $14-16 billion annually.
Access to conference proceedings was mostly restricted, and the final recommendations were not made public but were summarized at the closing session by Jean Ping, the President of the General Assembly. However, the proceedings merely reaffirmed the need for a scaling-up of current UN efforts, rather than recommending new strategies.
The preparatory document on HIV/AIDS prevention stressed the need for “linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.” According to Ping, the actual discussion recommended the breaking down of “taboos” regarding sexuality and high-risk behavior, and called for a closer link between “sex, hygiene and procreation” programs and HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.
Among the papers circulated at the conference was the Stockholm Call for Action, a radical manifesto created on April 12 at a conference sponsored by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Sweden. This Call declares that “access to reproductive and sexual health information and services is integral to efforts to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic” asks for young people to have “access to gender-sensitive reproductive and sexual health . . . education and services,” and supports the inclusion of “universal access to reproductive health by 2015 as a target for MDG 5″ at September’s Summit at the UN on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN’s current major initiative.
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Carnival of the Capitalists is Also Up
GalaTime has it at:
http://www.galatime.com/archives/2005/06/carnival_of_the.html
Next week’s edition will be at Byrne’s MarketView:
http://marketview.blogspot.com/
So I’m late…
Related Posts:Taking Doug Patton to the Woodshed
Ask Me if I Care About ‘Mishandling’ of Koran
The title pretty much sums up his point, and the point is stupid. It’s basically a tirade on how we are at war and it doesn’t matter. Did it matter when museums in New York were exhibiting crucifixes in jars of urine? You bet! What about pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared with manure? Your darn right!
No one takes serious (except Naomi Klein apparently) claims that Koran abuse was used to get the inmates to talk. (Picture an American soldier with his gun to the Koran saying talk or the book gets it). It’s inflammatory and it should be. I wouldn’t want people trashing a Bible and when people do it here there is a justified outpouring of anger about it. Maybe I take Sun Tzu’s opinion on treatment of prisoners, or maybe I just think that prisoners should be afforded some amount of respect. There is absolutely no reason to go trashing the Koran unless you WANT to piss off the Middle East.
At the end of the day, when one side complains about misuse of their book then turns around and not cares when another sides book gets trashed, that opens you up to calls of hypocrisy. (Though to be fair, far more Koran abuse occurred at the hands of the inmates and not the soldiers).
Related Posts:MoveOn Watch: Corruption Only Matters When its a Republican
You’d think by reading this e-mail that only Republicans are engaging in corruption in Congress. But with over 200 lawmakers filing late reports like Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif, reporting 21 trips and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., reporting 20 past trips, it comes as a surprise to learn there are just as many Democrats engaging in the time dishonored practice of junkets. The biggest traveler with privately funded trips is a Democrat also.
Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr., a Tennessee Democrat who is running for the Senate, holds first place as Congress’ most prolific traveler since 2000. While his travel reports have been trouble-free in recent years, that has not always been the case.
From 1998 to 2003, he took 61 privately funded trips. During that period, he failed to file a single travel-disclosure form with the House clerk, as required by the chamber’s ethics rules.
The tips DeLay took that were paid for on Abramoff’s credit card also include two other DemocratCongressmen, who are not under investigation for the exact same offense DeLay is accused of.
The point is, MoveOn isn’t concerned about corruption, they are concerned about getting people out of office who disagree with them despite the fact that they were elected by a majority of this country who want them there and support their agenda. That agenda may keep Hillary awake at night and she may think that is isn’t good for America, but the facts remain, that a majority of this country has rejected the Democrats because all they can do is spew racist hatred.
The latest MoveOn production shows that they aren’t even going to try to convince voters anymore, they’ll just try to get every Republican thrown out of office under any pretext they can. No agenda, no issues, no discussion and the US keeps on getting redder.
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Dear MoveOn member,
Last week, MoveOn members made the news when we took on Republican members of Congress who continue to back Republican leader Tom DeLay despite his numerous ethical and legal misdeeds. The Rocky Mountain News headline was, “MoveOn Targets Beauprez, Musgrave.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote, “PAC Targeting Hart with Anti-DeLay Radio Ads” and the Ventura County (CA) Star noted that “Gallegly Gets Anti-DeLay Petitions.”
In an impressive week:
* The “Fire Tom DeLay” petition topped out at more than 484,146 signers urging Republicans to fire DeLay as their leader.
* MoveOn volunteers organized 195 events to deliver these signatures to Republican members of Congress and others.
* Thousands of MoveOn volunteers attended or organized the petition deliveries and worked hard to alert the media. It paid off. We’ve seen news stories for about a third of the local events and heard about many more–meaning millions of people heard about their representative’s support for Tom DeLay through our efforts.
* We’ve been running ads against seven members of Congress who both come from vulnerable congressional districts and fundraise with DeLay’s help. Contribute to support the radio ads.
The goal of all of these actions was to drive home the public outrage over corruption and abuse of power among the Republican leadership and make it clear to Republicans that they should dump DeLay as their leader.
How well did it work? On the front page of today’s edition of The Washington Post, there’s a story with the headline, “GOP Worries Ethics Issue May Hurt Party in ‘06.”
The article opens:
After enlarging their majority in the past two elections, House Republicans have begun to fear that public attention to members’ travel and relations with lobbyists will make ethics a potent issue that could cost the party seats in next year’s midterm races.
That’s what MoveOn members have been working to make a reality. The
reporter adds:
In what Republican strategists call “the DeLay effect,” questions plaguing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) are starting to hurt his fellow party members, who are facing news coverage of their own trips and use of relatives on their campaign payrolls. Liberal interest groups have begun running advertising in districts where Republicans may be in trouble, trying to tie the incumbents to their leaders’ troubles.
This is one sure sign that we’ve made an impact over the last week. You helped create “the DeLay effect” that is making Republicans nervous by turning up the heat on the members of Congress who shield DeLay from accountability. The media has caught on to the fact that members of Congress who shield DeLay will face troubles of their own. That is helpful and why we have to keep the heat turned up.
We’re still running radio ads and we need your help to raise our budget.
Please make a contribution today.
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We’ve also heard from some MoveOn members who wrote us about their
experiences.
Tom from Gresham, Oregon wrote:
It was a huge success! What an empowering and rewarding experience to have this group of people, most of whom have never met, come together because they want to do something good. And what a great group of people–young and old, singles, kids and parents–people who really care about our country and are stepping up when it needs them. A common theme was, “I’ve never done anything like this before”, and an hour later we were all ready for another action. There’s no question we will be active again, and we are grateful to MoveOn for bringing us together–that’s what it’s all about, and that’s what it will take to win back our great country.
When we asked volunteers what the best moment of the petition delivery was, Susan from Coarsegold, California responded, “The stunned look on the staff member’s face when over 600 petitions were delivered to the office.”
These actions only happened because we all did our part. Some of us signed the “Fire Tom DeLay” petition. Others organized or helped out at petition delivery events. Still others contributed money to pay for the radio ads.
Some of us did all three. Still others did their part just by spreading the word about Tom DeLay.
Republican leaders in Congress seem to think they can get away with anything–that nobody could stop them. But you and 3 million other MoveOn members are helping to prove them wrong. Thanks so much for everything you do.
Every little bit makes a difference.
–Tom, Matt, Joan, James, Rosalyn and the MoveOn PAC Team
Monday, June 6th, 2005
P.S. Here are some links.
“GOP Worries Ethics Issue May Hurt Party in ‘06″ The Washington Post, June 6, 2005.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=736
Good research on the connections between Tom DeLay and other members of Congress.
http://www.indelayspocket.com/
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Who’s More Dangerous?
Who’s more danagerous, the paparazzi or the stars?
You decide…
Related Posts:Carnival of the Vanities is Up
Is up at The Conservative Edge; http://www.conservativeedge.
com/default.aspx?id=readarticle&AID=111
Thanks to Brian for hosting this week. Next week’s Carnival is due to
land at Mr Snitch, submission guidelines are here
