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If you're still online...
hang on, I'll respond here. -  Amgine | talk 00:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

The market bot images can, and should, be deleted as they age out. The bot is currently defunct over issues of copyright and data stream sources. The project is effectively on hold, and I don't think any but the last images are in use. I will volunteer to tag or categorize all the images if you'd like. -  Amgine | talk 00:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * IT'll be nice if you are able to mark the images actually used, maybe moving to a different cat, the others may then be marked for deletion by adding the category to deletion request (delete category and all images because they are not used anymore). If the project is to be restarted consider a way to use less images per day, maybe use the same name for newer images of the same data source.

You'll find me in the commons and de/en wikipedia if you have more questions. If there are copyright questions/problems of/with the data source then maybe all images have to be deleted. --Denniss 13:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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Violence cuts short visit of Dominican Republic president

December 15, 2005

Protests against the president of the Dominican Republic turned violent on Monday in Haiti, where tires were burned and thrown at the presidential palace in the capitol city of Port-au-Prince. Leonel Fernandez, leader of the neighboring Dominican Republic, was staying as a guest at the palace.

The police reacted violently, resulting in 3 people being shot and wounded. Protestors had tried to block the motorcade of the Dominican president, which resulted in Haitian police firing shots into the air. UN representative David Wimhurst said UN peacekeepers were at the protests, but only Haitian police and bodyguards of the Dominican president fired shots. President Fernandez cut short his visit and most of the diplomatic staff withdrew from the country. The Dominican ambassador in Haiti demanded an apology for the incident.

The protests were over alleged abuses of Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic, an issue of importance to the relationship of the two countries in the past several months. In May the Dominican government deported at least 2,000 Haitian in response to murder of a Dominican woman. Earlier in December several Dominican villagers burned down settlements of Haitians in response for the death of a business man.

Responding to the tensions that have arisen between citizens of the Dominican Republic and immigrants, President Fernandez said prior to his Haiti visit, "… we must understand that the countries that share borders, mainly if they have unequal economic and social levels of development, historically usually have relations of conflicts."

Provisional President Boniface Alexandre said that he hopes these talks could fuel better relations between the neighboring countries. Dominican President Fernandez says that he deplores any act of violence against Haitians in his country.


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Wikinews:Briefs/Business/December 15, 2005

December 15, 2005

These are short blurbs about current events in the business world.

US trade deficit grows to record levels in October
The US trade deficit grew to record levels in October. Imports have climbed faster than exports despite dropping oil prices. The deficit has widened by $3 billion to the record $68.9 billion for the month. The deficit was forecasted by Wall Street to narrow. The nations huge trade imbalance has not begun to stabilize. The gap will effect the nations overall growth. Morgan Stanley has reduced its forecast of the nations growth to 3% from 3.4%. Merrill Lynch is going further forecasting just 2.3% growth. The deficit with China hit $166.8 billion, $2.3 billion more than the deficit with China for the entire previous year.

Wal-Mart adds 140 outlets in Brazil
Wal-Mart has agreed to buy the Portuguese group Sonae SGPS SA's retail business in Brazil for about $757 million. Sonae's 140 stores with an annual revenue of $1.4 billion will double the amount of Wal-Mart stores in Brazil. The stores will continue to operate under their existing names. Wal-Mart has been expanding internationally and plans to open more than one-third of its stores overseas next year. This is the second acquisition for Wal-Mart in the last two years in the country. Last year the company bought Bompreco a 118 store supermarket chain for $300 million.

This new acquisition gives Wal-mart 295 outlets in the Brazil. Wal-Mart is the third biggest retailer in the country.

Canadian trade surplus stable through October
Exports rose a tick to C$40.2 billion, the eighth consecutive increase, but imports increased even more—1.2%—to $33 billion. The net $7.17 billion is effectively unchanged since September. Imports from China have reached $24.2 billion as of October, like China's imports to the United States, have surpassed the total amount imported the entire previous year.

Amgen buys Abgenix, retains full rights to profits
Biotech company Amgen announced today that it will purchase Abgenix for $2.2 billion. Amgen and Abgenix co-developed a late-stage cancer drug panitumumab. The drug shows promise as a low-side effect alternative to Erbitux (marketed by ImClone Systems and Bristol-Myers Squibb).

The takeover means that Amgen will no longer have to split profits from the drug 50/50 with Abgenix. Amgen paid $22.50/share, 53.6% greater than today's closing price, but analysts state that the stock has enough potential to justify the high expenditure.


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Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney not seeking second term

December 14, 2005 Earlier today at 6pm EST, Mitt Romney, the announced he would not seek a second-term for the highest office in the.

The announcement did not come as a surprise due to the fact Romney announced he would make an announcement on his political future last month. Romney has also been visiting key primary states for the 2008 presidential election and during the, Republicans told the press, "to keep an eye on Romney."

Romney was elected in 2003, replacing and his term ends in January 2007. If he does decide to run for the presidency, he will have ample time when the terms ends. So far, Romney has denied that he is running for President and may possibly change his mind and run for re-election. He also said that he would endorse his Lieutenant Governor, if she decides to run for governor.

Romney, born in Detroit, is the son of former. Becoming governor isn't Romney's first foray into politics; Romney ran against senior Massachusetts senator and Kennedy family member, Ted Kennedy. Romney won 41% percent of the vote against Kennedy in the closest election in Kennedy's entire tenure in the United States Senate. Romney was also CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee which was in charge of planning the from 1999 to 2002, he took charge after the. He also sat on the board of Massachusetts-based office supply giant,.


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Watched the press confrence on WHDH, local NBC affilate. Tossed in Globe article becuase I glanced at it and it makes a good source to fall back on. --TUFKAAP 03:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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White supremacist New Zealanders provoked by Sydney riots

December 15, 2005 Posters calling for "white power" have appeared at Wellington railway stations in New Zealand. The posters have been attributed to a group called "The White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War".

Unlike the usenet postings in Australia being made by an unknown organisation "Action for Australia", the White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War are well known. According to their website, they are "crusaders", and believe in the CREATIVITY religion - created for the "Survival, Expansion, and Advancement of the White Race."

The posters say "If Sydney can do it so can we... let's take back our land".

Leaders of the New Zealand National Party and United Future Party have condemned the posters. Don Brash leader of the New Zealand National Party said that the White Crusaders of the Racial Holy War are "a small, fascist underbelly, hell-bent on causing division and destroying New Zealand's egalitarian ethos ... they are thugs and bigots"


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Arias leads opinion polls in Costa Rica

December 2, 2005

A cid-gallup poll shows former head of state Óscar Arias Sánchez is currently atop in opinion polls as the likely next president with 45% in the poll. Arias declared his intention to run after the legislature decided to bring back presidential re-election in 2003. He will be running for the National Liberation Party. He has been outspoken in favor of the ratification of CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement).

Others receiving votes include Ottón Solís with 20% (Citizens Action Party, PAC), Ricardo Toledo with 10% (Social-Christian Unity Party, PUSC), Otto Guevara with 8% (Libertarian Movement, ML), and Antonio Álvarez Desanti with 6% (Union for Change, UPC).

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Talk:Violence cuts short visit of Dominican Republic president

Protests against the Dominican Republic?
Is this actually true? My impression is that the protests are against the Dominican Republic president, which is different from protests against the country. The president is considered responsible for a great deal of the problems, especially the deportation. Maybe the protests were directed at the country, I don't know.
 * I'm afraid my attempt to change the lead does create that impression. MateoP? is it now misleading? And please sign your comments using ~ four tildes. I'll look into the sources -Edbrown05 03:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, i just forget sometimes. We know for a fact that the protests were directly involving President Fernandez.  Look at the source i gave, the protestors were shouting about killing Haitians and such.  I didn't read any great anti-Dominican Republic thing into the protest and I think it should be assumed that the protest is limited to the president unless we can find more sources which say otherwise.  --MateoP 04:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Also the source you added is "Dominican Today." I saw another article on their website which claimed that the president's bodyguards did not fire shots, while the Associated Press article says they did. Not sure if that's a great source. --MateoP 04:27, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it was obviously a protest against Fernandez, so the wording I hope is better now. I added the Dominican Today source because I thought it had some interesting quotes which give a sense of the position the president has taken on incidents within the Dominican Republic. -Edbrown05 04:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


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User talk:203.173.49.67

Hi there! Welcome to Wikinews! I've read your article Stuart Highway refuses prison drug-test, and I think it's very good. There are just a couple of things to be sorted out before we can publish it. Everything published on Wikinews needs to be sourced. This means either a link to a website (see the "Sources" section of other articles for an example), or original reporting. If the information contained in this article is original reporting (i.e., you are the source), then you need to place a comment on the talk page explaining where the information came from, e.g. an interview, personal observation, etc). I hope that you take a little extra time to sort these issues out, because I think it's a very worthwhile topic to be reporting on. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them on my talk page. - Borofkin 03:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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Constitutional challenge to secret trials in Australian courts

December 15, 2005

Six media organisations, including Fairfax, are mounting a constitutional challenge to secret hearings in an upcoming terrorism trial in Australia.

The trial involves Sydney man Faheem Khalid Lodhi, who is charged with committing acts in preparation for a terrorist attack. Lodhi is accused of conspiring with French terror suspect Willie Brigitte to attack Sydney's military bases and electricity supply network.

Federal Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock will issue a certificate to prevent information judged to be sensitive from reaching the public at Lodhi's trial. The Federal Attorney-General has the powers to do this under the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act.

The grounds for the challenge are that National Security Information legislation violates the separation of executive and judical powers, required by the Australian constitution. Tom Blackburn, SC, counsel for the media groups mounting the challenge claims that the act allows for the federal executive to intrude into judicial matters by ordering parts of the trial are kept secret.

The challenge will be heard on 31st January 2006 by Justice Anthony Whealy of the Supreme Court of NSW.

In the course of Lodhi's trial, towards the end of December Justice Anthony Whealy ruled that evidence and pre-trial maters are to remain secret. This ruling is separate to the constitutional challenge.


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Talk:Constitutional challenge to secret trials in Australian courts

Do others think this is ready to publish? If so, I'll let you do the tag change as it seems a bit rude to self publish. Alternatively please flesh it out with your own sources.
 * I think this article could use at least four-five more sentenses giving background about some of the aspects:
 * Who is mounting the challenge?
 * What are these secret trials?
 * What is the constitutional challenge about (i.e. what does the constitution say that the challengers are asserting)
 * What is the government's position?
 * If you can add some of this information, it'll definitely be publishable. -- IlyaHaykinson 05:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll have to locate this info (Does anyone else know??). If I can find the info I'll expand as suggested.John Dalton 05:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... looks like the ABC are the only ones reporting it at the moment. - Borofkin 05:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I suggest just searching something like Google News for info on this by whatever info is around. If you can't find some info, just attribute the nebulous stuff to the ABC. -- IlyaHaykinson 05:47, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * So far I'm just sitting tight to see if any more comes out on it. Also doing some searching around press council websites etc. to find who is taking the action.  Can't see anything on the NSW supreme court's website.John Dalton 06:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * If it was me i would publish and add more if it came to hand.but mhh nice pick up --Whywhywhy 03:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

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I decided to publish the article after adding some more information to it and tiding it up. A great find from the original editor, it's a very interesting article. Shame there wasnt more information about it earlier - given it's media organisations launching the challenge you would have thought they would have publicised it a bit more - Cartman02au 03:22, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


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Mozilla, Internet Explorer adopt universal RSS symbol

December 15, 2005 Jane Kim, the program manager for RSS in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, announced recently that her team had chosen a graphical representation of Web syndication feeds — one popularized by its competitor. Microsoft employees have been posting variations of conceptual designs since earlier this year, but have now announced that they chose an icon used by the rival browser, Mozilla Firefox. The Microsoft team collaborated with Mozilla staff during the selection process.

"I'm excited to announce that we're adopting the icon used in Firefox," wrote Kim. "We'll be using the icon in the IE7 command bar whenever a page has a feed associated with it, and we'll also use it in other places in the browser whenever we need a visual to represent RSS and feeds."

Microsoft is poised to release IE7 with many of the new features popularized in Firefox, such as browser tabs, feed support, full PNG and CSS support, and other improvements.


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Data Retention Directive passed by EU Parliament

December 27, 2005

On December 14th, after a single reading, the EU Parliament passed the Data Retention directive. 378 parliamentarians voted in favour of the Directive, 30 abstained and 197 voted against.

The so-called "Big Brother" directive, highly controversial at least among those even aware of its existence, requires all internet and telecommunications service providers to log all traffic metadata (who called who, who visited what sites) in Europe for 6 to 24 months and turn the data over to police forces, secret services, and other organisations, as decided on by national governments. The law was drafted and passed in three months, an extraordinarily rapid process, and was heavily influenced by earlier UK legislation that failed to pass in Britain.

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Significant aspects of this law are the lack of special measures for security and privacy of the collected data, lack of any rule as to how costs are to be reimbursed. Such measures had been proposed as amendments, but the block vote in Parliament (following a deal between the leaders of the two largest parties, the Christian democrat-conservative European People's Party and the Party of European Socialists, and the European Commission) rejected these amendments.

All mention of "terrorism" was removed from the original text, so the approved law specifies these measures for "serious crime" only. The definition of "serious crime" is not specified.

Partially, the law harmonises existing practice, allowing police forces to rely on retention of data for their investigations. In certain countries, privacy laws that mandated the destruction of such data after six months have hindered investigations. Poland, following one such case, wanted a 15 year data retention period.

However, other influences have made the law much broader than this. Specifically, the requirement to log all subscriber information for Internet communications has raised serious concerns amongst ISPs, and technical analysts. The reason: the term "communication" is defined vaguely, as "all emails and Internet telephony". There exists no technical means of logging subscriber information for such communications, short of recording every TCP and UDP packet that is carried across a network connection. This would create such huge volumes of data that small to medium ISPs would be unable to operate, and large ISPs would have to increase their prices considerably. All provisions in the law for reimbursement were removed - this is up to each country to decide.

Thus the Data Retention directive, while cracking down on anonymous public communications tools such as open wifi, cybercafes, pre-paid phone cards (and possibly even public phone booths), has ignored the use of web-based email, self-hosted mail servers, chat systems, VPNs, VoIP technologies, and so on. The premise that criminals will restrict themselves to the few simple protocols that can be monitored to extract "subscriber information" is weak at best.

The technical inadequacy of this law is extreme, and is probably due to its rushed progress through the legislative system. The main driver for this rushed process appears to be a number of national governments that are keen to increase surveillance of their own citizens, and wish EU "backing" for such acts. Note that the Commission and Council do not represent an elected body but are composed of the national governments and professional civil service, and there is considerable tension between these bodies and the elected Parliament. It is plausible that the Data Retention directive was just the first of several laws that will pass through this new "fast track" process.

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The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a lobbying association, expects, early in 2006, to see a new attempt to "harmonise patent legislation", the so-called "Community Patent Directive", which will introduce software patents by the back door. Note that a previous attempt by the Commission and Council to impose software patents (the "Computer Implemented Inventions directive") was rejected by Parliament in June 2005.

Other commentators have noted that the EU produces vast numbers of directives, about ten per month, and most of these get passed into national law only very slowly. Ireland and Germany have stated that they will take this directive to the European Court of Justice. However, that will not prevent other countries from implementing it in a more or less severe form.

Italy has, in the last few months, been closing cybercafes that do not keep strict records of the identity of every user. It is such indicators that have convinced many privacy advocates that this law is not about terrorism at all, but about monitoring and controlling civil society.


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Someone changed the date to today, so I changed it back because this is an old piece of news. --MateoP 14:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


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English edition of Wikipedia is now larger than the Spanish Encyclopedia ESPASA

December 17, 2005

The English version of Wikipedia has reached 865,835 articles, 220 million words, 389,591 illustrations and pictures since January, 2001..

Compared to the Spanish language Encyclopedia ESPASA, which has 117 volumes, 175,000 pages, 200 million words, 197,000 black and white illustrations, 4,500 color illustrations, 5 million bibliographic references and 100,000 biographies, the English Wikipedia is now larger, in terms of number of articles and number of words, than the largest encyclopedia of the Spanish language. Note that this is just a quantitative comparison. No judgement is made about the quality of the above-mentioned encyclopedias.

The project to write ESPASA was founded in 1860 by José Espasa Anguera and continued in 1926 by Editorial Espasa-Calpe, which today belongs to Grupo Planeta. The main works were published in 1905 and consisted of 72 volumes. In 1931 a 10 volumes appendix was published which includes an update of the previous volumes.

The reference work has been periodically updated by the biannual Suplementos since 1935. The latest Suplemento was published in 2005. In 1997 the work included a World Atlas. It has taken ESPASA 145 years to get to the point where it is today. In less than 5 years Wikipedia has reached a similar point.

An average of 1500 new articles are created on Wikipedia every day with around 23.4 edits per article.


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Haitian priest Jean-Juste held in relation to the murder of a journalist

July 22, 2005

An angry mob attacked priest, and close political ally of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Gerard Jean-Juste at the funeral of a journalist Jacques Roche who was found shot dead last week. The body was found handcuffed in a slum district of Port-au-Prince. Journalist Jacques Roche had been the victim of an abduction, which have been an ongoing problem in Haiti for most of this year. At the mass Bishop Andre Dumas said "the death of this journalist must awaken our national consciousness against violence, and all the evils our society is going through."

Jean-Juste was arrested at the funeral and taken in for questioning. According to Michael Lucius, head of the judicial police, Jean-Juste has been detained awaiting instruction by prosecutors on what, if any, criminal charges he will face. The charges could be related to the murder of the journalist, or on possession of illegal weapons, obtained while Aristide was still president. Speaking to the associated press from the police station, Jean-Juste said "I'm a priest, I get beaten in a church, and now it's me they want to arrest."


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Officials of Fanmi Lavalas party threaten boycott

August 23, 2005

Officials of the Fanmi Lavalas party in Haiti threatened boycott of the upcoming general elections if one of their party leaders, Father Gerard Jean-Juste, is not released from jail. Jean-Juste is being jailed, arrested a month ago on July 21, in relation to the murder of journalist. The Fanmi Lavalas party is currently divided among moderate factions and those with closer ties to former President Aristide.

Jean-Juste is believed to be a favorite presidential candidate for the party. A representative of the party, Gerald Gilles, commented saying, "after several consultations, the masses that we represent and the base of the party claim Father Jean-Juste as their presidential candidate. So he will be our candidate," and "we say loud and clear (that) we'll boycott the elections if Jean-Juste, and many other political prisoners that are potential candidates for our party, are not released."


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User talk:84.146.233.95

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Peru-Chile rivalry erupts into Cyberspace

December 15, 2005

Chilean and Peruvian government websites have both experienced attacks by unknown suspects, according to BBC News.

The attacks are reported as being in connection with a dispute over fishing rights in the Pacific Ocean, and may have to also do with Alberto Fujimori's detention in Chile awaiting extradition to Peru.

The most recent messages (on the Peruvian Judiciary's web page) are believed to be the work of a Chilean hacker. According to Peru the attacks may be in response to an earlier incident in which the Chilean National Emergency Office's page was struck. (BBC News)

= Sources =
 * Hackers fuel Peru-Chile rivalry-BBC News
 * Peru-Chile rivalry spills into cyberspace- Sydney Morning Herald


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British scientists claim 2005 warmest yet in Northern Hemisphere

December 15, 2005

Scientists in the UK, have claimed that Summer 2005 has been the warmest in the Northern Hempisphere since reliable recording began in the 19th Century.

The claim comes from researchers at the University of East Anglia(UEA) working in conjunction with those of the (UK) Meteorological Office.

Dr David Viner of the UEA's Climatic Reasearch Unit is quoted (BBC News) as saying: "The data also show that the sea surface temperature in the northern hemisphere Atlantic is the highest since 1880,"


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Rebel leader says he will run for president in Haiti

July 12, 2005

One of the leaders of last year's overthrow of President Aristide in Haiti, Guy Philippe, now says that he will participate in the upcoming elections as a presidential candidate. The leader will run for the party of his guerilla army, the Front for National Reconstruction (FRN). He says that the elections are important for creating a legitimate democratic government in the state of Haiti, and that he believes he is the best leader to move the country forward. Philippe made the announcement via a Port-au-Prince radio station, the dominate form of media in the nation.

Giving an interview, Philippe spoke on several issues believed to be important to the upcoming elections. Philippe criticized the interim government of President Boniface Alexandre and Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, which he sees as illegitimate because it does not answer to anyone. He also criticized the electoral council, which is appointed by the government, as being a puppet department. The council, he says, has been too slow in setting up operating registration offices and that the mobile registration offices have not been arriving to districts with low registration. He also recommended that voters do not sell their consciousness. Philippe refers to the habit of political parties to send people to exchange money for a promise to vote for their candidate on election day.


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Talk:Wikipedia and Britannica about as accurate in science entries, reports Nature

i don't understand what means...

Actually, thats a quite an amuzing question. You could say that means the article was the victim of a tag&dash, which should occasionally get the tagger banned for a day. :) Nyarlathotep 19:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way in case the origional poster is still wondering, means that the person who tagged disn't fill out the reason. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:12, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Not news
Its clear that this webbased fourm (wikipedia) will never be as consise and factual as mainstream publications. Wikipedia has a basic flaw that makes submitted articles that rely on "other " published works ( often innacurate themselfs ) Until thats addressed wikipedia will allways be open to such remarks

- demarco

nah, you are wrong. ALL human knowledge is based on potentially flawed knowledge. As this shows even "mainstream publications" are frequently flawed. I knew this, just wish more people realised that errors in an encyclopedia are far more common than the think (and certainly are not never, like some believe!) 21:09, 18 November 2006 (UTC) Mathmo

Not a study
Nature self-titled it an 'investigation,' because neither they, nor anyone else in the scientific community, consider it a scientific study. 141.156.222.224 06:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


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User:65.54.154.45/Prognosis for Europe

December 15, 2005

A PROGNOSIS FOR EUROPE

The inauguration of a Grand Coalition government in Germany today inspired me to make a commentary on what I think is likely to happen to Europe in the next ten to twenty years and what that will mean for the rest of the world.

The old men who got together and fashioned Europe after World War II were an inspired bunch who had learned from Europe’s ghastly history from 1914 until 1945 that having a European civil war every generation was a recipe for disaster. So people like Robert Schumann, Conrad Adenauer, Alcide Di Gasperi, Ernest Bevin and Paul Henri Spaak got together and fashioned a Europe which could become economically strong and socially fair. With a bit of help from us in the form of Marshall Plan aid they created the “economic miracle” which remade Western Europe and took the wind out of the sails of the Communists. And it worked wonderfully for a bit more than thirty years. The deal was: you workers let us make money and we owners will cut you in on the ensuing prosperity. So all the countries of Western Europe created generous systems of social welfare which protected the working class and the owners got very wealthy.

A very curious thing happened starting in the late 1960’s. Good Catholic European women learned about the pill, disregarded the teachings of the Church on birth control and stopped having babies. This happened for a number of reasons. Newly emancipated women had better things to do than stay at home changing diapers. Young couples had ambitions for their children and were living in urban apartments which would not accommodate more than one or two children. A second rather nice thing happened. With good public health systems, better accommodations, better nutrition and a lot less angst, people started to live longer. So began a demographic change of revolutionary significance which politicians and all the rest of us took too long to recognize.

At the same time, first as a trickle, then as a flow and finally as a flood Europe lost a lot of high paying manufacturing jobs. Three things contributed to this development. The first was that countries in Asia recovered and competed with Europe for things like producing automobiles, ships and low tech things like textiles. The second was that we introduced improved production methods and tools which cut down on the amount of human labor which was necessary to produce a widget. Third was the fact that European producer costs were so high that they could not compete with first, the Asian Tigers and then China and India.

The result of all this is that most European countries now face an immediate problem of high unemployment and a longer range problem of not being able to pay for their generous social welfare systems unless they open the immigration gates to black and brown people who will be willing (1) to do the dirty work that is left in an economy in which most work is in services and (2) pay the taxes to support the social welfare system for the original settlers. It is a terrible “Hobson’s Choice” and all the European countries are going to be forced to make it at a time when they are terrified of Islamic terrorists.

One of the worst things about democratic governments is that, in times of peace, prosperity and relative tranquility they produce very mediocre political leaders. We live in such a time. There is no chance that M. Chirac and his people will be able to undertake the structural changes in the economy which might bring unemployment down to acceptable levels and they seem to have no clue how to deal with their minorities. Mr. Blair is on his way out and did not really do much when he was in. Berlusconi is a Mafiosi but the Italians never expect much from their governments and do not pay them much mind or pay their taxes if they can possibly avoid it. Germany has a Grand Coalition at a time when it needs a Margaret Thatcher to “kick ass and take names“.

At the present time I see little hope that the Europeans will get their act together. It is imperative that all the West European governments make fundamental changes in their social welfare systems and labor markets to make it more attractive for entrepreneurs to create jobs. This is a major tragedy because, as long as Europe sits immobile licking its wounds, it will not be willing to play a proper role in world governance. This leaves it up to my country and our record as top nation is decidedly mixed. Europe is missed.

BGM 22 Nov 05

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User talk:65.54.154.45

Hi!

I've moved your article to User:65.54.154.45/Prognosis for Europe because en.Wikinews does not publish editorials in the main article namespace. If you log in and register for an account you can move your editorial (quite well written, btw) to your username's space.

If there's anything I can help you with, please leave me a message! -  Amgine | talk 19:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I've also moved your article regarding Katrina to User:65.54.154.45/Lessons from Katrina. Thanks for your writing! -  Amgine | talk 19:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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User:65.54.154.45/Lessons from Katrina

December 15, 2005

LESSONS OF KATRINA

1. A WAKEUP CALL ON	--Dangers of global warming and climate change --Dangers of American and world dependence ob carbon based energy---especially petroleum

2. FAILED PUBLIC POLICIES--BOTH PARTIES GUILTY BUT BUSH REPUBLICANS MORE SO THAN DEMOCRATS AND PREVIOUS GOP ADMINISTRATIONS

--Failed environmental policies --Failed river transportation and flood control policies --Complete neglect of the urban poor --Failed energy policy made worse by recently passed energy act --policies which generally a favorable to business and punitive to working class and poor Americans --Failed approach to the “War on Terror” which increases terrorism, lands us in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan and is costing thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars and neglects the threat to homeland security posed by natural disasters --failed planning for response to disaster caused by a category 4 or 5 hurricane at all levels, Federal, state and local

FAILED EXECUTION OF DISASTER RESPONSE AND RELIEF --Slowness of Federal response --inadequacy of planning for evacuation of New Orleans (failure to consider the plight of poor, old, ill and very young, all without means to evacuate) --Failure to move quickly to secure the city from looters and thugs --failure to get food, water and medicines to refugees --failure to find adequate temporary housing in other places LIKELY OUTCOMES

--Realization that we must change direction on		--Global warming --Dependence on oil especially foreign oil --Mississippi River and Gulf Coast environmental and flood control management --Providing “homeland Security” against natural disasters

Profound general discontent with --Direction in which America is headed --All institutions but especially governmental institutions (possible exception: active armed forces) --Politicians of both parties --Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA --Diversion of manpower and funds caused by Iraq quagmire --Presidential leadership

Significant adverse economic consequences --Cost of clean up, support of refugees and rebuilding --Cost of gasoline and natural gas --impact on individuals --impact on energy intensive economic sectors (airlines, utilities, transport companies) --Impact on general economy --Impact on exports from Middle West of closure of Port of New Orleans (25% of American exports) --Impact on tourism on Gulf Coast and Florida during hurricane season which seems to become more extended year by year --general price inflation and competitiveness of American producers

A SILVER LINING ?

If Katrina and its aftermath bring Americans to their senses and convinces them that they are being led by cowardly and corrupt politicians and greedy businessmen it is just possible that we will gradually change course on environmental and energy policy and on what is the proper way of going about increasing homeland security. A less likely possibility is that we may focus more on the condition of poorer, particularly urban and black, Americans. A lot will depend on Democrats, Independents and moderate Republicans having the courage to risk being characterized as “unpatriotic” by speaking out forcefully against the general direction of American policy and against specific policies which are heading us to national economic disaster and failure as a society and as a nation.

BGM

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Talk:Deer and other animals found dead at Ball State University

lota?? 169.244.143.115 20:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Iota, eye-oat-uh. Greek letter. -  Amgine | talk 20:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

what does that have to do with this article it says lota?? 169.244.143.115 20:18, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Fraternities often use greek letters as their names. Usually the first two greek letters are the national organization for the fraternity, and the third is the number of their membership in that national group. The fraternity which was pranked is the Delta Gamma frat, Iota chapter. -  Amgine | talk 20:22, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

your smart.169.244.143.115 20:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC) thanks.


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User:85.250.73.89/A clash of civilizations

December 15, 2005

<!-Civilizations, like a butterfly have a life cycle. They get born, they have a teenage phase, where they develop their basic fundamental definitions and character. After some years they enter their mature phase, where things are relatively normal. The last two phases are the end, or decaying phase, and finally the death phase. As a new competing civilization begins to gather on the horizon, the elements of a clash of civilizations begin to affect both civilizations. Most clashes are armed /military envolvements. Hundreds of civilizations have existed in the Human past, but all eventually are surpassed by another competing and usually stronger civilization. The current major civilization on this planet is THE WEST. It has existed for some 250 years. (in fact 1756 was probably the birth of our current Western Civilization) Over the last 10 years, a new and stronger civilization has developed, that is "pressing" THE WEST. The NEW SUPER GLOBAL MOSLEM WORLD is the next civilization. THE WEST is in it's post-mature phase, and thus soon there will be a switch from the old civilization to the NEXT civilization. A period of anarchy usually fills the gap, until the next civilization begins to take over.--85.250.73.89 20:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Dr. Steve Sattler Historian Dec. 2005


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I've moved your article to User:85.250.73.89/A clash of civilizations because it is a commentary or editorial, which on Wikinews are not allowed in the main news article namespace. If you login (create a user account) you can rename the article to your user space. Thanks for your contribution! -  Amgine | talk 20:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Data Retention Directive passed by EU Parliament

This has serious storage implications. I work for an unnamed ISP that operates as a webhost provider.

In our active farm, we have approximately 130 systems. The average system generates 3G of logfiles per day for weblogs, and another 1G for email logs. I'm excluding FTP logs, as theyre primarly for account updates rather than end-user services.

At the rate of 4G/day, the systems generate 1.46T of logs per year. When you count this against a 130 server farm, which is relatively tiny on the scale of things (yahoo/geocities, aol, etc), it comes to 200T/year. The 24 month retention requirement comes to 200T of data, or approximately 120 400G hard drives, assuming reasonable lookup and indexing were necessary.

This means no ISP in their right mind in the EU would be willing to follow the law. This will result almost directly in a loss of webhosting businesses in the EU, and a sharp jump in non-EU webhosting (which is primarly US-based at the moment).

This law is a Bad Idea(TM). I used to think America sucked (I'm a US citizen), but suddenly the EU sucks more. Lawmakers that legislate for the EU need to be awakened regarding the impact theyre about to place on datacenters in the EU.

NPOV
Please add in more content (including, perhaps, a quote from one of the bill's supporters), as this article as it stands is biased against the ruling. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 20:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

(signed: jbevren)

No, I disagree about the need for a quote. It does clearly need "langauge sanitization", but a quote from supporters is unnecessary. Once the POV langauge turds are gone, it will fly fine. Nyarlathotep 18:58, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it would be nice to include, but if there isn't one readily available, don't worry about it too much (I could search for one). --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 23:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I have rewritten the article
The original article was empty of some vital information as to the technical specifications of what is recorded. It appears that most ISPs have not actually understood the text, which appears to leave the option open for authorities to require the logging of every single packet of data.

I've also tried to provide some more context for this directive, since it's not as important in itself as it is significant of a legislative process that seems (and this is a biased personal opinion) out of control.

There is a "democracy deficit" in Europe, and this law is a symptom of that. The "Big Brother" term was originally used for the UK data retention act. It was not my invention.

--Pieter Hintjens, FFII

 * Thanks,do you have any examples of pro-directive quotes? As such some balance to the article is needed as indicated previously?

There is no split of opinion that I'm aware of with respect to this directive except between the drafters of the law and civil society. I've not read a single article justifying or rationalising the law, and indeed it would be hard for a serious journalist to do so, given that the law has such basic flaws. Even if the principle of state surveillance of all citizens was accepted (and this is extremely sensitive), the directive cannot actually 'work'. -- PH

Reference to EP report on Echelon
I've added a reference to a report written by the EP in 2001 which documents some of the problems with state surveillance systems (the case was Echelon, the USUK surveillance system).

The EP report highlights industrial espionage as one of the major risks of such surveillance, and applauds the European Convention on Human Rights as specifically forbidding such types of surveillance.

The report states that "even if the intelligence service merely records data such as the time and duration of calls and the numbers dialled, this represents a violation of privacy", and "only in a 'police state' is the unrestricted interception of communications permitted by government authorities."

Ironically, the rapporteur, Gerhard Schmid voted in agreement with all of the most stringent aspects of the directive.

--PH

Source
Can someone add a link to the directive itself, I can't seem to find it in the article, and the one I've seen says that the goverments have to reimbruse the providers for the costs...

The only official document available for now is the amendments adopted by European Parliament in its first reading:

- List of ammendments adopted by European Parliament. Note that this does not show articles that were not ammended.

- Commission's original proposal

The final text will be the original proposal modified by the EP's amendments.

--Pieter Hintjens 14:51, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


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Sydney's newest motorway to open today

December 16, 2005

The Westlink M7 motorway is set to open today some eight months ahead of schedule.

The 40 km long motorway runs from the Hills Motorway (M2) at Baulkham Hills and ends at the South Western Motorway (M5) at Prestons. The motorway features 17 interchanges for access to and from Western Sydney suburbs.

The most complicated interchange along the motorway is the Lighthorse Interchange at Eastern Creek. This interchange links the Westlink M7 with the Western Motorway (M4). It is the largest interchange in the Southern Hemisphere.

The motorway will be officially opened by Prime Minister John Howard and will be opened in stages. Motorists will be able to tell if an interchange is open as it will be indicated by signs.

Westlink M7 claim that the road will take more than 200 people and 12 hours to open and is the longest section of motorway to ever be opened in one day in Sydney.

The Westlink M7 motorway has been funded by the Commonwealth Government and private enterprise and is owned by Westlink M7. It is Australia's first toll road to use distance based tolling, with tolls ranging from 40c to $5.97 depending on distance travelled. Tolling is fully electronic with motorists requiring an electronic tag or pass. There are no tollbooths as cash is not accepted.

The Westlink M7 motorway will be free to travel on until January 15, 2006.

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Talk:CPJ names and shames countries who jail journalists

The word 'communist' in the phrase "...is the communist state of Cuba," should be removed. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and the United States are capitalist states and they imprision journalist as well. The usage of the word 'communist' here is anti-communist bias.
 * As funny as the idea of a word meaning anti-word being I agree here; word removed (in the future, dear anonimous user, you can just click the Edit This Page button on top and make this change yourself, too!) -- IlyaHaykinson 22:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


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User talk:85.250.73.89/A clash of civilizations

What is this??

...the hell? -Engineer

 * A user's editorial. Should not have been published; apologies. -  Amgine | talk 22:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe this heralds a new page...
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Wikinews talk:Briefs/Business/December 15, 2005

I'm pretty sure this is wrong...
"Last year the company bought Bompreco a 118 store supermarket chain for $300." --24.64.223.203 00:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Needed to be $300 million. --Sfullenwider 00:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:White supremacist New Zealanders provoked by Sydney riots

Link to their website
I want to cite where the claims about their religion come from hence the link to that page on their website, but I do not wish to promote their site. This placed me at odds with what to do, but I feel for accuracy the link must be there. If someone feels it should be removed then I understand totally. Cartman02au 00:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it's entirely appropriate to link to the website, although possibly the link should be placed in the "sources" section rather than in the article, if it is the source of information about the organisation. Remember the principle of neutral point of view applies to all points of view, even the ones that we find offensive or dangerous. It isn't up to us to decide right from wrong, we just report. - Borofkin 01:16, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand that and that is why I made the link. I thought a link in the article was more appropriate because it was referencing statements made by the organisation on their website (unrelated to the actual news story). The reason it was provided was to provide information about the organisation - Cartman02au 01:19, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Background information on the organisation is definitely related to the news story. If you have put information into the article that came from the organisations website, then the organisations website is a source, the same as any other source. - Borofkin 02:20, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I would not add a link unless there was a release that you used as a source. If they have a Wikipedia entry, it could be linked - but just a link to their website is sketchy.  Mentioning their name should be enough.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 03:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * If we don't link to the website as a source, then we can't include the sentence These "crusaders" believe in the CREATIVITY religion - created for the "Survival, Expansion, and Advancement of the White Race". The website is the source for this sentence. - Borofkin 04:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Article title
The title of the article suggests that the white supremacism started in Australia (with the race riots). However the article seems to state that the group in question has been around for longer than the Sydney race riots. Further, many of the rioters in Sydney are not and were not white supremacists.

Wikinews should not be sensationalist, perhaps a title change is in order? --Croperz 05:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * A fair point - White supremacism obviously existed in New Zealand before the recent events in Australia. I suppose the article title reflects this quote from the posters found in New Zealand: "If Sydney can do it so can we... let's take back our land". Can you suggest an alternative title? - Borofkin 05:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps "White supremacist New Zealanders provoked by Sydney riots"? --Croperz 07:05, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * That title sounds good to me and I have changed the article's title to that - Cartman02au 20:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Define Irony
Irony == The offspring of foreign immigrants starting a "Let's take back our land" campaign in response to foreign immigration. Makes you proud, it does. --80.222.69.104 14:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yep, the same irony exists in Australia. I can't wait for an Aboriginal group to issue a press release declaring that the Anglo-Saxon, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Macedonian, Vietnamese, and Lebanese immigrants have failed to assimilate to the local way of life, and if they don't like Koori rules they should go back to where they came from. - Borofkin 08:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


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Wikinews:Briefs/Business/December 16, 2005

December 16, 2005

Layoffs continue but many employers say there is a worker shortage
General Motors and Ford are laying off workers by the thousands and analysts predict a decline in housing production yet according to a CNN Money article labor experts and executives say there is already a shortage of workers. Retiring baby boomers plus a growing economy expected in 2006 may move the labor market in favor of job seekers.

"I would say by the end of next year, it could take 12, 13, maybe 14 weeks to fill a spot, and that's when you'll see upward pressure on wages," said Jeff Joerres, chairman and CEO of Manpower.

Deloitte Consulting and the National Association of Manufacturers have conducted a survey finding that more than 80% of surveyed manufacturers say they are experiencing a shortage of qualified workers. 90% say they have a moderate to severe shrortage of qualified skilled workers. 83% say these shortages are affecting their production.

"They've been getting lean and pushing the efficiency envelope for a decade," Dick Kleinert, a principal with Deloitte who conducted the NAM survey, said "So in this latest survey, when we asked what was the most important factor in their success, being a low cost producer status ranked only No. 3 on the list. What ranked as No. 1 attribute was having a high performance work force."

GM offers $15 billion in tech contracts
Despite being in financial trouble General Motors is holding $15 billion in tech contracts. The five year contracts, planned to be awarded within weeks. The 40 contracts will be the largest group of contracts ever awarded at the same time.

EDS, spun off by GM in 1996, carried out $2 billion in business with GM last year 10% of EDS' revenue. EDS's contract will expire in June.

GM plans to break up it's tech outsourcing budget into smaller pieces and standardize its outsourcing operation so that it can remove a partner without effecting the entire operation. This will shake up the $300 billion tech outsourcing industry.

"This is revolutionary, If it works for both sides, in a couple of years you'll see a lot of other companies doing it." George F. Colony, president of Forrester Research said.

Ralph J. Szygenda, GM's CTO, said he decided that the whole outsourcing industry was broken when GMs Hermes web site, intended to sell cars in Brazil, kept crashing. The site was run by EDS, IBM, and a few others. When Szygenda held a meeting to find out why, "there was a lot of finger-pointing, and nobody would fess up to the problem," he said. "I realized this wasn't going to work. And I saw it wasn't just a GM problem. It was an industry problem."

So now Szygenda intends to implement his plan. Either GM's way, or the highway.

What about the little guys? Szygenda intends to place $2.5 billion to $3 billion aside on innovative technology. "We use hundreds of start-up companies," he says. "We're not closing out innovation."

Tobacco company Philip Morris wins big
Altria, parent company of Philip Morris is preparing for a major restructuring following a victory in Illinois with the state Supreme Court throwing out a $10 billion judgement. The 4-2 decision rule that "light" and "low tar" had been authorised by the FTC. The decision paves the way for Altria to spin off Kraft Foods, a long-expected move held up by major tobacco litigation cases.


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NYC transit strike looming

December 15, 2005 Around 8.1 million inner-city residents could be affected by a transit system strike in New York City.

NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference that there would be "no winners" if a transit system strike became a reality. Contract talks have not begun with the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and the Transit Workers Union Local 100.

Bloomberg also said that the city could lose $400 million a day from its economy during a strike, and City government could lose $22 million per day.

CNN reports that Bloomberg has planned to close several key streets in Manhattan to general traffic: Fifth and Madison avenues from 23rd to 96th streets; 26th, 29th, 49th and 50th streets from First to 12th avenues; and part of Church Street in the event of a complete transit system closure.

A strike, if it occures, would begin one minute after midnight EST when the Transit Workers' contract expires.

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Talk:NYC transit strike looming

I need a public domain picture for this. Anyone that has a good one feel free to add. Leofan7 02:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway and browse through the categories. There must be something there that you could use for the article. Sawran 02:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

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 * Fixed the template issue, and raised on WN:AAA as there seem to be a few of these. About to rename. Chris Mann (Say hi!|Stalk me!) 03:14, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Adding Category:Michael Bloomberg
This article is missing the Category:Michael Bloomberg tag, may someone with sufficient permission please add the tag. Cocoaguy (talk) 17:58, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

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US offers to eliminate duties on Cotton, Africa says it's not enough

December 16, 2005

"The United States is willing, under the duty-free, quota-free commitments we will make, to provide duty free access cotton for these West African countries" the US trade representative announced at the WTO talks in Hong Kong Thursday. The US is under heavy pressure to drop Cotton tariffs and subsidies.

Mali, Burkino Faso, Benin, Chad, and Senegal complain that the tariff free offer does not address the subsidies United States provides to domestic cotton growers. Some countries claim the subsidies against the WTO's anti-dumping policy.

"The real problem for African cotton producers is dumping on the world market, resulting from domestic and export subsidies. That is why we need to agree this week on additional disciplines on domestic support" EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said.

"They don't take in any cotton. They export cotton. Their textile industries have all moved abroad. Why would they import any of our cotton? What they need to do is halt the subsidies. Without subsidies they can't produce" Francois Traore, president of the African Cotton Producers Association, said.

Portman argued cutting global tariffs are as least as important as cutting subsidies.

India has a 10% tariff on cotton imports, under current WTO rules it could raise the tariff to 100% at any time. China imposes a 1% tariff on the first 4 million bales, after which a tariff of 5% to 40% is applied. By comparison the US allows a small amount of cotton at low duties and then applies a 20% on the remainder.

A bill in the US Congress this week contains a cotton program known as Step 2, which pays exporters and millers to buy US cotton. The WTO has declared the program illegal.

"We know with certainty that it's the US subsidies that are causing problems for our farmers." Mamadou Salissou Habi Niger's minister of trade said.

African cotton producers have said that they will not endorse any deals that emerge from the Hong Kong talks if rich countries do not reduce cotton subsidies to their own farmers.


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California class commemorates Holocaust

December 16, 2005

A junior high language arts class from Manteca, California in the US is commemorating the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust by collecting six million paperclips. During World War II, the Norwegians wore paperclips on their shirts to protest the Nazi slaughter of Jews and other ethnic groups.

Led by junior high language arts teacher Mrs. Aryel Saldate, the class has already collected over 7,000 paperclips. Mrs. Saldate had the idea when she saw a special on the television network HBO about another teacher who did the same thing and actually collected 6 million paperclips. Although it took the other class five years to achieve this feat, it helped her students realize just how widespread the Holocaust was.

Mrs. Saldate can be reached by e-mail at asaldate@sjcoe.net. The official website for the cause is listed below.

Please send your paperclip contribution to:
 * 8th Grade Language Arts
 * c/o Sequoia School
 * 710 Martha Street
 * Manteca CA 95336

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Talk:California class commemorates Holocaust

Hate to sound mean, but this article could use a lot more content in it. Right now, it seems more or less like an advertisement (even if it's not really applicable in the content's nature). To the originating author: please describe what Original Reporting methods were used to obtain information for this source, and please also consider adding more content to the article about the background of the Holocaust (amongst other things). I have moved this back into development to avoid confusion of readers who will see the information added over a period of time. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 03:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Yup, O.R. should have comments on the talk page; nothing too serious, but more than goes in the article. Nyarlathotep 19:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Expand story
Hello folk, this story can be expanded into something really fine. I saw the the documentary film Paper Clips on HBO a couple of weeks ago. I think it would very interesting to do a follow-up story about the project and how it continues to inspire other people. Wikipedia has a story about the original project at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee, USA. There is material on the internet about the project, including press material about the film, information about Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of AChildren's Holocaust Memorial, a book about the project. News media from around the world wrote about the projct as well. Is anyone interested in this story? It will take months to develop this story if we do it right. Include you ideas at the bottom of the list below and sign your name. --FloNight 19:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Tasks

 * Watch film and read background material such as Six Million Paper Clips.
 * Follow-up interviews with people associated with the project, including the Holocaust survivors and the schools that sent paper clips to the original projcet.
 * Locating other schools doing projects.

Background material
 * Paper Clips Project
 * Children's Holocaust Memorial & Paper Clip Project
 * Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of A Children's Holocaust Memorial
 * Press material about documentary film Paper Clips
 * Whitwell Middle School

People interested in researching or writing the story
Sign your name if interested in researching or writing article. If you have ideas about how you want to help, include them.

 * Whitwell, TN is located between my home and my children's colleges, so I can make several visits there. I will read the book and watch the film again.--FloNight 19:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


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Imprisoned Haitian priest may need US doctors

December 16, 2005

Supporters of jailed priest Jean-Juste say that he needs medical treatment in the United States. His attourney, Bill Quigley, told reporters that the priest, who was considered a potential presidential candidate before his arrest and long detainment, may have cancer and should be released so that he can seek medical attention in the United States. A doctor, Dr. John Carroll, who examined Jean-Juste said that an abnormal white blood cell count, as well as swelling in his neck and under his arms could be early signs of cancer. The government of interim President Alenxandre said that their doctors have examined the priest as well and said no signs of cancer exist.

Jean-Juste has been in jail since July when he was arrested at a funeral of a popular Haitian journalist and poet. He was originally detained for questioning related to the murder but also allegations of illegal weapons possessions have been brought up. He's yet to be charged in any crimes. The doctor who made the claim of possible cancer is a supporter of Jean-Juste and some might think that this is an exaggeration to allow Jean-Juste out of Haiti to plan his political future.


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Police warn Sydneysiders to stay away from Eastern beaches

December 16, 2005 New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has warned people to stay away from Cronulla, the Eastern suburbs beaches, Central Coast beaches, Wollongong and Newcastle this weekend, as more violence is expected. Police will be using new powers to set up roadblocks, implement alcohol bans, and search vehicles. There will be 1,500 extra police patrolling on Saturday, and 2,000 on Sunday.

"Our latest intelligence tells us that large numbers of people are planning to go to these areas on Sunday to cause riotous behaviour. In the interests of public safety it is my duty to warn the public that these areas have been identified as targets."

"Anyone who wants to travel to these identified areas is very likely to get caught up in long traffic delays and may well have their car searched by police if they want to enter these areas", Commissioner Moroney said. "Any unnecessary travel is almost certainly going to cause traffic gridlock and make it a much harder job for police."

There have been six days of violence in Sydney after riots in Cronulla on Sunday, sparked by an assault on a lifesaver the previous weekend. The police operation, dubbed Operation Seta, has been attempting to manage the problems. The number of police assigned to Operation Seta has gradually increased throughout the week, from a couple of hundred on Monday night, to the 2,000 expected this Sunday.


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Police Media Release
Media Release copied here for posterity. - Borofkin 06:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/recent_media_unit_information?sq_remote_page_action=fetch_url&sq_remote_page_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcustomscripts.police.nsw.gov.au%2Fnews%2Fdetails_media.php%3FMediaID%3D5395

 * ''Operation Seta - the weekend ahead

 * ''Friday 16 December

 * ''Police have assessed five major locations around Sydney, Central Coast, Wollongong and Newcastle as being areas of concern for outbreaks of riotous behaviour violence over the weekend, Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said today. Police are urging the public to avoid visiting Cronulla, the Eastern suburbs beaches, Central Coast beaches, Wollongong and Newcastle where possible. “I would urge people who do not live in these areas to stay away unless they have a good reason to be there,’ Commissioner Moroney said. “Our latest intelligence tells us that large numbers of people are planning to go to these areas on Sunday to cause riotous behaviour. “In the interests of public safety it is my duty to warn the public that these areas have been identified as targets.” Commissioner Ken Moroney said as a result of this intelligence additional police numbers have been further boosted as part of Operation Seta to 1500 on Saturday and 2000 on Sunday. The officers will be drawn from the OSG, the riot squad, SPG, and the marine operation support team (MOST), Dog Squad and Air Wing. These police would be part of Operation Seta’s flying squad response units. Commissioner Moroney said the large scale police operations underway across Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle throughout the weekend would include police security checks, roadblocks and alcohol free zones. Police security checkpoints would be established en-route to a number of beachside suburbs, to intercept and prevent potential troublemakers from entering those areas. Other measures expected to be taken under the new police powers included the confiscation of cars, mobile phones and other telecommunications devices from people who are deemed by police to be potential lawbreakers. Lockdown powers would also be invoked where necessary. “Anyone who wants to travel to these identified areas is very likely to get caught up in long traffic delays and may well have their car searched by police if they want to enter these areas”, Commissioner Moroney said. “Any unnecessary travel is almost certainly going to cause traffic gridlock and make it a much harder job for police.” RTA mobile signs will be used to warn the public of any delays due to the operation of the security checkpoints.

Rallies section added
I've added a section on the meetings held across Sydney in the last week. Or more exactly I have uploaded a photo I took at one of the meetings. I'm not sure if this should be a new article. Also it needs more material eg on the Wave of Reconciliation meeting at Coogee, I think. Please advise. M.e 10:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


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What do you think about the right floatin' toc? Bawolff ☺☻ 06:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It's cool. I think it helps make the page flow a lot better. I had hoped to work on a graphic this weekend but I have to work both days.  Thank you for the toc! --Sfullenwider 01:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Logo
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Typo
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Flooding in Nakhon Sri Thammarat

December 16, 2005 Moderate flooding has hit the province of Nakhon Sri Thammarat in southern Thailand. Moderate to heavy rain persists in the area, further exacerbating the flooding conditions. The northeast monsoon has intensified the flow of rainfall-laden air from the Gulf of Thailand. Torrential rains have been plaguing the nine southernmost provinces of the country for nearly two weeks and further downpours are forecast for later this week.

Thung Song District in Nakhon Sri Thammarat province is experiencing waist-high floodwaters in downtown shopping areas. Transportation has ground to a halt in affected areas. In Songkhla Province, the government has called for steps to be taken to prevent further flooding of the commerial district of Hat Yai. Rail tracks have been lifted in some areas to permit flood waters to leave the city, and the Thai Navy has been ordered to take part in relief efforts.

In Muang District of Nakhon Sri Thammarat, many roads have been closed and sandbags are being deployed to help affected businesses. Schools throughout the province have been closed because of flooding conditions. Other provinces, including Phattalung, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Trang, Sukhothai and Satun have experienced similar problems with high tides and heavy rain paralysing much of the region.

The Meteorological Department of the Thailand Ministry of Information and Communication Technology issued a weather advisory concerning the flooding, "People in the lower South and navigators in the Gulf of Thailand should exercise caution and small boats should stay from December 15 until December 18." It is reported that this has left some tourists stranded on smaller resort islands in the Gulf of Thailand.

Across the border in Malaysia, three are reported to have died and over 10,000 been evacuated as a result of the flooding.

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