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User:Bawolff/Sandbox/Column-test/U.S. Supreme Court: Death penalty for juveniles is unconstitutional

  March 1, 2005 In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled today, in Roper v. Simmons, that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment on those who committed crimes while juveniles. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion to overturn the death penalty for juveniles, which was also supported by Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Dissenting were Justices Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist, and Clarence Thomas, with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor providing a separate dissent.

Christopher Simmons received the death sentence for brutally kidnapping and murdering Shirley Crook as part of a burglary. The case worked its way up the court system, with the courts continuing to uphold the death sentence. However, in light of a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in Atkins v. Virginia, that overturned the death penalty for the mentally retarded, the Missouri Supreme Court reconsidered Mr. Simmon's case. It concluded that "a national consensus has developed against the execution of juvenile offenders" and sentenced Mr. Simmons to life imprisonment without parole.

The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where it was argued on October 13, 2004. The constitutionality of capital punishment for juveniles was put into question, citing the Eighth Amendment that protects individuals from cruel and unusual punishment.

Previously, a 1988 Supreme Court decision Thompson v. Oklahoma barred execution of offenders under the age of 16. In 1989 Stanford v. Kentucky brought into question the constitutionality of execution for those under age 18. At the time the Supreme Court upheld the possibility of capital punishment for offenders who are 16 or 17 years old when they committed the capital offense. The same day in 1989 the Supreme Court ruled it was permissible to execute the mentally retarded in Penry v. Lynaugh. However, in 2003, the decision was reconsidered in Atkins v. Virginia citing that decency standards had evolved and execution of the mentally retarded was now considered to be cruel and unusual punishment and thus unconstitutional.

Roper v. Simmons brought the age issue to the table again. In question is whether it is Constitutionally permissible to execute an offender who committed a capital crime while under the age of 18. As in the issue of executing the mentally retarded, the Supreme Court has now decided that society’s standards have evolved since the 1989 case and that it is indeed cruel and unusual punishment to execute a juvenile, under age 18.

Supporting this ‘’evolving standard’’, is the body of scientific and sociological research1 that finds juveniles have a lack of maturity and sense of responsibility, compared to adults. Adolescents are overrepresented statistically in virtually every category of reckless behavior. In recognition of the comparative immaturity and irresponsibility of juveniles, almost every State prohibits those under age 18 from voting, serving on juries, or marrying without parental consent. Juveniles are also more vulnerable to negative influences and outside pressures, including peer pressure. They have less control, or experience with control, over their own environment. They also lack the freedom that adults have, in escaping a criminogenic setting.

Another key basis to support the “national consensus” on the death penalty for juveniles, is the increasing infrequency that it is applied at the state level. While 20 states have the juvenile death penalty on the books, only six states have executed prisoners for crimes committed as juveniles, since 1989. And, just three states have done so in the past 10 years: Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. Furthermore, five of the states that allowed the juvenile death penalty at the time of the 1989 case have since abolished it. Thus, the execution of juveniles is indeed becoming increasingly unusual in the United States and a “national consensus” has developed.

In evaluating whether penalties violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court has taken guidance from the law of foreign countries and international bodies. Since 1990, only seven other countries – Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and China – have executed juveniles. Since then, however, each of those seven countries has either abolished the death penalty for juveniles or made public disavowal of the practice. Now, one finds the stark reality that the United States stand alone, as the only country in the world that continues to allow execution of juveniles. Furthermore, only the United States and Somalia have yet to ratify Article 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (September 2, 1990), expressly prohibits capital punishment for crimes committed by juveniles.

In drawing the line at 18 years of age for death eligibility, the Supreme Court considered that is also where society draws the line between childhood and adulthood for a multitude of other purposes.

Both the Scalia dissent, joined by Rehnquist and Thomas, and Justice O’Connor’s separate dissent put into question whether a “national consensus” had indeed formed among the state laws. In addition, Scalia also objects to taking guidance from foreighn law in interpreting the Constitution.

Implications of this ruling, are particularly felt in the State of Virginia, where it is now most certain that Lee Boyd Malvo will not face the death penalty. He is responsible in-part, along with John Allen Muhammad, for the DC Sniper Attacks that terrorized the Washington DC area in October 2002. He had already been spared the death penalty in his first trial, for the murder of FBI employee, Linda Franklin, outside a Home Depot store in Falls Church, Virginia. However, Mr. Malvo is also set to face trial in Prince William County, Virginia for another murder, and yet to face trial in Louisiana and elsewhere for other killings. In light of today's Supreme Court decision, the prosecutors in Prince William County may not pursue the charges against Mr. Malvo, after all. The primary reason for extraditing these two suspects from Maryland, where they were arrested, to Virginia, was in fact the differences in how the two states deal with the death penalty. While the death penalty is allowed in Maryland, it is only applied to adults, whereas Virginia had also allowed the death penalty for juvenile offenders.


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Business Briefs
Then I'm just gonna start :). Really nice job on the Business Briefs, I appreciate that. --Deprifry|+T+ 14:09, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe we should put them in a category as there is going to be more of them presumably. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Good Work, looking good! Maybe we should think of a cooler title. Business Brief for December 15, 2005 sounds kind of boaring. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * We could have some sort of logo specificly on bussiness briefs. (similiar to the aim of template:Issues that never caught on)
 * I struggled with the title when I decided to start Business Briefs. I'm open to suggestions.  "Events in Busines for x y, z"?  "The market in brief for x y, z"?  I don't know.  I hesitate to try various ones as it might cause confusion if I were to change the title constantly.  If something witty and clever is thought up I will use it though.  As for the graphic template, I'll work on it and see what I can think up. --Sfullenwider 23:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

My humble apologies to the community. At work my ultimate boss has decided that our project needs to be a few days ahead so the company can get a draw off of the contract. This means I had to work straight through the weekend. I'm far too tired to create any Business Briefs today 12-18-2005 (and was yesturday 12-17-2005). I'll make one for the 20th, I promise. --Sfullenwider 04:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Why the change from "Business Briefs" to "Business Brief"? Most of these contain more than one entry, so they are "briefs", ala http://www.techbriefs.com/ (refering to multi-entry technology issues, not hi-tech undergarments). Karen 00:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I changed the title because someone complained that Briefs refered to men's underwear. I havn't written any in that style since the creation of the  tag.  If article generation gets to the point where we have a "below the fold" I may make a template to generate briefs of articles for that purpose.  --Sfullenwider 01:54, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Interviews
How do you set out your e-mails (i.e. What info do you add about wikinews) when you request a interview? Thanks Brian New Zealand 08:19, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Depends on if I know them or not :) If I don't know them I tell them that I'm a citizen journalist who wants to interview them for an article that I intend to publish on Wikinews. I add citizen journalist in the, perhaps naive, hope that this will pique their interest as it's relatively rare.  It is against policy to say that you are from Wikinews directly but I still want to use the name to make it more of a household word.  --Sfullenwider 23:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I would like to get in contact with Frank Warren, do you have an email address?

Translation issues
Please, take a look now. - Carlosar 16:26, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Original reporting
Great stuff! Could you add some notes here? http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:O%27Reilly_begins_using_open_editing_of_its_books_before_publishing_them#Original_reporting_notes -  Amgine | talk en.WN 18:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Adminship?
Would you accept if I nominated you for adminship? -  Amgine | talk en.WN 03:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Say Yes :). You deserve it Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 04:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Admin
Congratulations, you are now an admin. Please review our policies before using your new powers, if you have not already done so. If you have any questions please feel free to ask me or any other admin. --Cspurrier 20:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, Congratulations Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 20:28, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Congrats from me as well! --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 21:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

perhaps its simple
pov is simply a slimey brain coating that is the result of cultural/parental/governmental brainwashing/programming; it begins with Santa Claus and pledges of allegiances and ends with $5,000. steel lined walnut caskets and it has nothing to do with reality whatsoever. Reality is like our dreams and nightmares; much more beautiful and evil than most of us can deal with in a conscious state. Perhaps the pov is like tv; something to just distract us from the things we should be doing in life. All we have to do is turn the fuckin thing off. Neutralizer 04:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * just bust into a hundred million pieces laughing ! :) -Edbrown05 05:36, 14 March 2006 (UTC) Actually, I thought it was a serious post (still laughing) !
 * By way of explanation, and I shouldn't probably venture here, your point on Neutralizer's talk page was well meaning and I am sure he took it so. His reply was ... well, that's Neut! -Edbrown05 05:54, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It didn't occur to me to take it any other way until you posted that. If I were drunk, or really pissed off, that's how I'd explain POV. --Sfullenwider 02:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

cat you may be intreasted in
Category:Interest in Economy and business (Assuming you not on the lets kill userboxes and similiar things bandwagon) Bawolff ☺☻ 05:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I just saw that you said you're intreasted in Bizz so I thought you might whish to add the category to your userpage. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 05:18, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm very sorry
There is not a policy prohibiting one from editing a userpage, but I consider it quite rude nonetheless, and am very sorry. It was a careless accident, I thought I was looking at a quiet talk page. I'll go read the rest of your post now. StrangerInParadise 00:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Rfda
This is a message to inform you that I have added every administrator to the Rfda section on WN:A. This is not personal and I feel as if the community, who did not have the option of voting for or against most of the administrators, should be able to choose who they want to be in charge. I also want to say that I value everyones work on this site and I know that everyone does their best. I hope that none of you will take this personally and I hope that all of us will continue to work together. Jason Safoutin 12:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

New Policy has users up in smoke
Hello. I am not sure if you check this page anymore, but I thought you might be interested as to what is going on here at Wikinews: Image use policy/New wikimedia policy action plan. I am outraged as well as others...do you have an opinion? DragonFire1024 09:54, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

RFDA
Please note i have put you up for de-admining at Administrators --Mark Talk to me 18:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

RFDA
Please note i have put you up for de-admining at Administrators --Mark Talk to me 16:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

too bad
Sorry to see yet another Wikinewsie go. Take care. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:20, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Accreditation Expiration
Greetings, I wanted to let you know that our policy regarding accreditation has recently changed slightly. Specifically we've enacted an automatic expiration of accreditation after 2 years. You can very easily "re-up" your accreditation should you choose to, but at this point in time you're on the Inactive list. As such your accreditation will automatically be revoked on March 15th unless you request otherwise. Currently, posting to the following thread will keep your accreditation. At a later date, all Accredited reporters will be put in for that "re-up", at which time you'll be notified. Thank you, and should you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 20:31, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

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U.S. Senate passes amendment stripping Guantanamo detainees' access to courts

November 11, 2005 The U.S. Senate has adopted an amendment, proposed by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to a defense bill limiting detainees' court privileges.

The amendment would make the Combat Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) statutory law, the Annual Review Board (ARB) statutory law, require the designated civilian officer to be a government official who is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, not allow the preponderance of evidence against a detainee be derived from undue coercion, and remove Guantanamo prisoners' right to file habeas corpus petitions in federal courts.

In regards to the habeas corpus provision, the amendment specifically states, "No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien outside the United States (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(38) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(38)) who is detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."

The amendment passed with a 49-42 vote. Five Democrats jumped party lines to vote for and four Republicans jumped party lines to vote against the amendment. Nine Senators, seven Republicans and two Democrats, did not vote on the amendment. Kent Conrad, Mary Landrieu, Joseph Lieberman, Ben Nelson, and Ron Wyden were the Democrats who voted for the amendment. Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, Gordon Smith, and John Sununu were the Republicans who voted against the measure.

Senator Graham is quoted as saying, “The president has established procedures to determine who is an enemy combatant and to annually review their status. It’s now time for Congress to sign-off on these procedures and turn them into a statute, a move the courts will give great deference to.”

It should be noted that under Graham's amendment, detainees would be able to challenge only the narrow question of whether the procedures established by the Secretary of Defense at the time the military determined their status as an enemy combatant were followed. The Court of Appeals for the DC circuit would still retain the ability to rule on that question.

Civil liberties groups as well as human rights groups issued statements opposing the amendment. "The Graham amendment will create a thousand points of darkness across the globe where the United States will be free to hold people indefinitely without a hearing and beyond the reach of U.S. law and the checks and balances of the courts enshrined in our Constitution," the Center for Constitutional Rights said in a statement.

"The Graham amendment would strip all courts, including the Supreme Court, of jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus petitions or any other action challenging any aspect of the detention of foreign detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, except for the narrow question of whether status review boards follow their own rules," said a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union.


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I want to wait for publishing until the amendment shows up in U.S. Senate records so we can quote directly from it, rather than relying on third parties.--Herda05 05:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Please remove all external links (most senators have their own WP article) that are badly placed (such as the senators'), and try not to italicize or bold any text (unless needed to show emphasis, such as showing a quote opposed to article text). --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 21:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * MrMiscellanious why can't we link directly to the Seantors' web sites? Is there a policy I'm not aware of, or is it just something we don't do? Thanks.--Herda05 23:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Just something that really isn't necessary, it's always better to point to an encyclopedia for the nature of these items. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 09:19, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


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Sony faces class action lawsuits for DRM

November 11, 2005

California, Italy and New York are the first to bring litigation against Sony BMG's digital rights management (DRM) software found in at least 20 music discs released by Sony. The software automatically installs after the user agrees to a end user license agreement (EULA) before the music disc can be played, and includes a rootkit that can create vulnerabilities in the user's Windows computer. One trojan horse exploiting the hole has already been discovered online.

The California lawsuit, filed on November 1, claims that the software violates the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, and the California Unfair Competition Law. The upcoming lawsuit in New York would seek restitution for consumers nationwide.

Mathew Gilliat-Smith, the CEO of First 4 Internet, the company that created the software, claims it is "benign content." Meanwhile, in an NPR interview, a Sony BMG Music Entertainment Vice President said, "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

Sony and First 4 Internet have released "patches" and uninstall kits, after programmer discovered the hidden files from the rootkit. However, these uninstall kits are only installable online through an ActiveX application, a technology many security experts advise users to deactivate due to its high execution privileges on host computers.

In addition to questions of legality, the DRM software has come under fire from media rights activists and even artists who unwittingly found their albums more stringently protected than they approved of. Furthermore, Sony's DRM software "phones home" each time one of their CDs is played. The license agreement does not reveal this behavior, nor does it acknowledge the existence of the rootkit itself.

Thomas Hesse of Sony BMG recently told the San Francisco Chronicle that 60 percent of Sony BMG CDs released in the United States currently have copy protection measures, and that they aim to hit 100 percent by early 2006.


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Talk:Sony faces class action lawsuits for DRM

Few NPOV issues with this:

 * Not the technical definition of a trojan, nor is even correct - trojan was masked with a filename that hides it from "infected" computers, doesn't come with CD.

 * Expand more.

Just a few issues that need to be cleared up, along with copyedits. --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 12:16, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The comment about a trojan was correct; a trojan has been discovered in the wild (will add this language) which uses the rootkit (on the CD) to open backdoors and maliciously spread themselves. See this article at the BBC.  I'm adding the link now.  As for the EULA, it is long, it is convoluted.  Most are.  No POV there. - McCart42 (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, still POV there. It may seem to be lengthly, but most EULA's are - so therefore, no need to include it in this article without explaining that tidbit.  And no, the terminology is incorrect - the trojan horse simply adds the string in front of the file to hide it, utilizing the rootkit's abilities - the wording above implies the trojan is installed upon CD insert, in which it is not.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 23:01, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The wording above was "One trojan (a virus that exploits such vulnerabilites and grants full access to the infected computer) has already been discovered in the wild." The trojan was not discovered on the CD, it was discovered in the wild, exploiting such vulnerabilities as those granted by the rootkit Sony installs.  The trojan does not just prefix $sys$ to its filename; if it did, it wouldn't be much of a trojan, as it wouldn't spread.  It does this, which completely obscures it from any antivirus program, making it undetectable (until the rootkit is dealt with), and then it acts like any other trojan, attempting to replicate itself to other computers.  As for EULA's, it is still important to emphasize that it is lengthy, because most people have never read a complete EULA, and in this case, the EULA is a major aspect of the lawsuit.  The fact that Sony attempted to force users to sign away their rights via a lengthy legal document, unlikely to be read, is part of the story; or rather, it should be.  It is part of the CA suit, which is discussed in more detail at the Washington Post article.  There are three CA statutes at issue: the "Consumer Legal Remedies Act," "Consumer Protection against Computer Spyware Act," and the "California Unfair Competition" law. - McCart42 (talk) 01:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

It looks ready for publication to me now. Any objections?--Eloquence 23:45, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm a bit confuesed by the use of "trojan". Trojan traditionally refers to any software which uses deception to get a user to install it, but traditionally connotated non replication. The "third party software" trojan is also a virus right? Shouldn't we be calling it an email virus, as it does replicate?

Also, If I give you a pprogram which clearly asks "May I format your harddrive?" before doing so, I am not guilty of ging you a trojan horse. OTOH, if I give you a program which has a long hard to read EULA, which includes a passage saying "By installing this software you agree to allow it to format your harddrive" and it does so, then I have given you a trojan horse. A priori, Sony's DRM software itself is not trojan, as it likely admits to being DRM software. However, the First 4 Internet rootkit part makes the whole package into a trojan, as the program does not clearly admit to being hard to uninstall. So we should call Sony's whole program a trojan really.


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November 15 protest
Hi there! I do want to meet before the protest... I emailed your cinduhrella address on Friday... not sure what happened there. You can call me on 0431 570 245 if you still want to arrange to meet. - Borofkin 06:13, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Nice photo
Hi Jasabella.... nice photo! - Borofkin 23:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Do some reporting if you like
If you were at the protest, you are welcome to add your observations to this article. Feel free to expand the "Australia" section with information about the protest, or if you like create a new "Sydney protest" section. Or even start a new article to deal solely with the Sydney protest, if you're feeling bold. - Borofkin 23:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

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Marcinkiewicz's cabinet given vote of confidence

November 11, 2005 Marcinkiewicz's cabinet has been given a vote of confidence by Polish parliament. Marcinkiewicz, from Law and Justice Party (PiS), has won the voting with vote distribution 272 for and 187 against. His minority government have gained the support of minor, pro-social parties - Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (Samoobrona RP), Polish Peasant Party (PSL) and League of Polish Families (LPR).

Civic Platform (PO) and The Alliance of the Democratic Left (SLD) voted against the cabinet.

Marcinkiewicz believes that his government will stop corruption and will help getting out of unemployment problem in Poland. His expose was praised by his party, LPR and PSL. Although Andrzej Lepper, the leader of Self-Defence Party, wasn't satisfied by the expose, he accepted it.

Leaders of both Civic Platform and The Alliance of the Democratic Left criticised the expose.

Conservative-national Peace and Justice Party won the September 25 voting, receiving 27% of votes (155 seats in 460 members Sejm), while their main opponent, conservative-liberal Civic Platform - 24.1% (133 seats). Winning parties were planning building up a strong, conservative-liberal coalition, but after the clinch between them, caused mainly by choosing Marek Jurek as a speaker of parliament, talks had been stopped.


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Blair could face inquiry into terror vote

November 11, 2005 British Prime Minister Tony Blair could face a House of Commons inquiry into claims that chief police officers were pressured to support a political agenda during Wednesday's vote to extend detention without charge.

Chief police officers were asked to lobby MPs wavering over the introduction of a controversial new law allowing police to detain a terror suspect for 90 days without charge. Although the proposal was rejected by the House of Commons, the lobbying has provoked criticism from senior members of the opposition Conservative Party, who are pushing for an inquiry into the behaviour of government ministers towards the police and for 'embroiling them in politics'.

Former Tory cabinet minister Peter Lilley said: "Every chief constable knows their job is up for re-selection in the next year or so. That puts great pressure on them."

Home Office minister Hazel Blears denied the claims: "It is entirely proper that the police were there to make their case and for Parliament to consider it."

"Certainly, as a Member of Parliament I would want to have the benefit of the best professional advice I could get before reaching my decision."


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Pirates hijack Thai merchant ship off Somali coast

November 12, 2005

The Somalian government called on Saturday for the international community to help stem the wave of recent seafaring pirate attacks off their coast in the Indian Ocean.

The London-based International Maritime Bureau (IMB) reported yesterday that a Thai merchant vessel and its crew of 26 have been hijacked by Somalian pirates off their coastline.

The predominantly Thai crew were kidnapped at gunpoint, and a ransom has been demanded for their release. The merchant ship was en-route from Brazil to Yemen with a cargo of sugar.

A letter to Somalia from the United Nations security council admonished the government. Somalia has largely disintegrated into fiefdoms since the former dictator Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.

Last weekend, a U.S.-owned cruise ship was attacked with rocket propelled grenades. It is the fourth ship to be attacked in the space of a week. According to the IMB, there have been 23 other pirating attacks in coastal waters off the east African nation since March 15.


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Paul McCartney to be "beamed up" in first live concert to be broadcast in space

November 12, 2005 Sir Paul McCartney is scheduled on Saturday, November 12, to perform the first concert broadcast live into space. Performing in Anaheim, CA, McCartney will awaken astronaut Bill McArther and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev on the International Space Station. Songs played will include "English Tea" from his newly-released album "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard." Also on the playlist is the Beatles classic "Good Day Sunshine".

The idea for the show originally came from a report McCartney received about "Good Day Sunshine" being used to wake astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery as it prepared to land in August. Said Sir Paul "I was extremely proud to find out that one of my songs was played for Discovery this summer. In our concert we hope to return the favor."

This event will mark the first time a live music show is broadcast into space. It should be noted that only his voice will be heard, as there is no video feed from the site. The former Beatle has seen interest in his work climb recently with the release of a critically-acclaimed album and a children's book, as well as a series of American commercials feature songs from his new album and a collage of video clips and photos detailing his life's work.


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Talk:US trade deficit hits new record

BTW, If you don't adjust for inflation, Bush v2.0 has racked up more federal debt than all previous presidnets combined. :)

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2005 a McCartney oddsey. :)
Nice article, although not a hard-and-fast rule a second source would be good. Brian McNeil / talk 15:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

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Research articles predict next earthquake

November 11, 2005

Two research articles published this week illustrate continuing efforts to predict earthquakes. The first article builds upon the idea that analysis of the first seismic waves from an earthquake can provide a way to generate a several second warning that an earthquake will hit. However, for such warnings to be useful, the early seismic waves should also allow prediction of the strength of the earthquake. An article published in this week's edition of Nature concludes that scientists might be able to distinguish small earthquakes from big ones by using the very first second of information contained in seismic waves. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, say the measurements of seismic waves soon after a trembler can signal whether it will be a minor or monster trembler. "Basically, a high-pitched squeal means that you'll get a smaller quake. A low-groan means something bigger," says the University of California's Richard Allen.

In the study, Allen and colleagues analyzed records of 71 major Pacific Rim quakes in the past decades including 24 events that were greater than a magnitude 6. Using a mathematical model, they were able to estimate a quake's size to within one magnitude unit from as little as four seconds of data of the frequency of the energy in the primary wave. These low-energy waves typically cause a jolt, signaling the occurrence of a quake.

According to a traditional theory, called the cascade model, we cannot know anything about an earthquake's ultimate magnitude until it is finished. This is because spread along a fault line depends on the stress in each individual part of the fault. Given that this information is not available to the initial rupture point, it should be impossible to tell from that first slip how far it will go or how long it will last.

The study by Berkeley's Allen and Erik L. Olson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison builds upon earlier work by Yutaka Nakamura in Japan. Nakamura's research indicated that the frequency of the P wave can allow prediction of which earthquakes will have a magnitude greater than 6 and distinguish them from small tremors that do not require warnings. Some fire stations use P wave detectors to automatically open doors in an effort to make sure that emergency vehicles are not trapped inside by doors that can be jammed shut by earthquake damage.

The goal of this research is to make the best possible use of the information from the earliest seismic waves emitted by an earthquake as part of an alert system to give seconds to tens of seconds of advance notice of an impending quake -- enough time for schoolchildren to take cover, power generators to trip off and valves to shut on pipelines. A major limitation of this work is that the greatest earthquake damage is near the epicenter where there is little time difference between the early P waves and the strongest damaging earthquake waves.

The second research paper, published this week in the scientific magazine Physical Review Letters, builds upon earlier research into patterns of earthquake activity at specific faults. The new research by scientists from Israel and Germany led by Prof. Shlomo Havlin, of Bar-Ilan University's Department of Physics in Israel, concerns prediction of the timing between earthquakes.

Prof. Havlin's research, in collaboration with Prof. Armin Bunde, of the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, and Bar-Ilan University graduate student Valerie Livina, involved a large number of past earthquakes at many different faults. The data used in this study were for earthquakes ranging from magnitude 2 to magnitude 5.5 on the Richter Scale. Data were from several areas of the world including California, Japan, and New Zealand. The new results are consistent with previous studies which have indicated that some faults have more frequent small earthquakes while other faults have less frequent and larger earthquakes.


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Talk:Thirtieth anniversary of Australia's constitutional crisis

I have just reverted an "NPOV" addition that in my opinion was the opposite of NPOV. On this subject few people take Pilger seriously. His comments and Boyce's alleged role were entirely neglected by the mainstream media yesterday. This article was about the anniversary, not the event itself. --AYArktos 20:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


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German Social and Christian Democrats agree on new government

November 11, 2005

Nearly two months after the German parliamentary election, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democrats (CDU) and their sister party, the Christian Socialists from Bavaria (CSU), have reached a hard-fought deal to form a grand coalition, paving the way for Angela Merkel to become Germany's first female chancellor.

When the result of the elections on 18th September prevented both parties from forming a coalition with their respective preferred partners, the Greens and the Free Democrats, they were forced to engage in coalition negotiations with each other.

The negotiations were long and difficult; in the process, Gerhard Schröder (SPD) gave up his ambitions for the chancellorship, SPD chair Franz Müntefering resigned over the refusal of the party leadership to approve his candidate for a high party office, and Edmund Stoiber (CSU) withdrew from federal politics and abstained from becoming Minister of economics.

"After 39 years of being political opponents on the federal level CDU, CSU and SPD want to move our country forward in common responsibility as the federal government", chancellor-designate Merkel said at a joint press conference. Outgoing SPD chair Müntefering added that "cooperation is good for the country". Under the new agreement the value added tax (VAT) will increase by 3% to 19% from the beginning of 2007, the legislative competence on the federal level and of the states will be modified, and further reforms of the job market will be implemented. Married persons with an income that exceeds 500,000 € will have to pay an extra 3% on their income, the same applies to unmarried persons with over 250,000 € income. Dismissal protection only kicks in after two years of employment. The agreement also includes several amendments, some of them define by the letter how the wording of the constitution will be changed.

The coalition agreement was criticised by trade unions, employers' federations, and industry organisations. A VAT increase would "stall the economy" said Klaus Wiesehügel, the head of a construction union. The chairman of Porsche, Wendelin Wiedeking, said that "we were only served lies. Everyone, whether low or high income, notices that."

Party conferences are expected to ratify the agreement next week; the election of Merkel as chancellor is scheduled for 22nd November.


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President Bush claims critics are rewriting Iraq war history

November 11, 2005

President Bush accused critics of the Iraq War of rewriting history and distorting the events that led to the U.S. invasion. In an effort to divert criticism of his administration's decision to go to war with Iraq, Bush said that some Democrats viewed the same intelligence and came to similar conclusions. "Some Democrats and anti-war critics are now claiming we manipulated the intelligence and misled the American people about why we went to war," Bush said. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat) responded "Attacking those patriotic Americans who have raised serious questions about the case the Bush administration made to take our country to war does not provide us a plan for success that will bring our troops home," Reid said.

At the same time, the Senate Intelligence Committee is making progress toward an agreement on how to implement 'phase two' of the Iraq WMD investigation set up to investigate how administration officials used the intelligence information available in the run-up of the Iraq war. The first phase of this investigation only focused on the quality of the intelligence information. Phase two was postponed until after the November 2004 elections.


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This user is a bot, all questions and concerns should be directed to its owner User:Cspurrier --Cspurrier 02:38, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

This bot has a bug where it will in a few rare cases replace the text of an article with the text of a different article. This happens in about 1 out of every 2-300 articles it edits. I have started monitoring it much more closely to prevent this from happening. --Cspurrier 19:07, 22 November 2005 (UTC) This looks to be ok now (it was related to Wikimedia server connection issues) --Cspurrier 03:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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United Airlines to hire 2,000 flight attendants

November 11, 2005

The besieged airline industry received some good news today, United Airlines plans to hire 2,000 flight attendants. This is the first time in four years United has increased the number of flight attendants it employs.

United Airlines, the second largest US carrier, furloughed many flight attendants as a result of decreased air travel after September 11th. At one time 5,500 flight attendants were on furlough. United finished recalling flight attendants on October 31st. The airline's problems were further aggravated by soaring fuel prices forcing the company to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy which it plans to emerge from in 2006.

The new hires are intended to replace retirees and flight attendants who decided not to return from furlough.

United stated that it will begin accepting applications November 13th at United flight attendant application page


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User:Neutralizer/Delay and obstruction to articles that report the misdeeds of the U.S. government et al.

== Thanks to Chiacomo and Amgine for the water cooler "flag" suggestion(Amgine) and creation (Chiacomo) == Neutralizer 15:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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ok..here is the running list Chiacomo referred to above of efforts to delay,sanitize( titles + content ) and prevent publishing of stories which the current U.S./UK/Aussie government administrations would likely want to see delayed,sanitized or go un-published; Most recent now at the bottom;

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 * http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Report:_Bush_authorized_NSA_surveillance_of_international_conversations&diff=177420&oldid=177418
 * http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=60th_anniversary_of_Nuremberg_trials_marked&diff=168894&oldid=168594
 * http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Indictment_of_Jose_Padilla_avoids_Supreme_Court_and_contains_none_of_original_charges&diff=168900&oldid=168031
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Warning in Colombia about possible volcanic eruption

November 12, 2005

The Galeras volcano could have an eruption at any moment according to Julian Villaruel, director of the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mines (Ingeominas).

The spokesman for the Volcanoes and Seismologic Observatory of Pasto, Colombia, explained that the Galeras volcano has registered a level two activity in a scale of 1 to 4, which means that an eruption is likely to happen in days or weeks.

He declared that some of the measurements taken have been analyzed by scientific institutions in the US that have confirmed the likelihood of an eruption.

The observatory and the local committee for the prevention and reduction of disasters (CREPAD) will continue to keep a watchful eye on the behavior of the volcano in order to instruct the residents about the risks and the evacuation routes in case of eruption.

The Galeras summit is 4276 meters (14,028 feet) above sea level. The last time it registered some activity was in 2004. Pasto, at its base, is a city of about 400 thousand people. There are 5 other towns around the Galeras skirts. 60,000 people live around the influence zone and about 9,000 live in the area of highest risk.


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Talk:Research articles predict next earthquake

Copyvio
There are major sections of this article lifted from the sources with minor alterations.

WN article:

 * Using the "scaling" approach from physics, Prof. Havlin and his team developed a mathematical function to characterize earthquakes of a wide range of magnitudes in order to learn from smaller magnitude earthquakes about larger magnitude earthquakes. Their findings reveal that the recurrence of earthquakes is strongly dependent on the recurrence times of previous earthquakes.  Two earthquakes separated by a short recurrence time, for example, are likely to be followed by a third earthquake which recurs close in time, whereas two earthquakes separated by a large recurrence time are likely to be followed by a third earthquake recurring further apart in time.  This memory effect not only provides a clue to understanding the observed clustering of earthquakes, but also suggests that apparrent regular gaps in earthquake occurrences, as seen in Tokyo and in San Francisco, are statistically significant.

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 * Using the "scaling" approach from physics, Prof. Havlin and his team developed a mathematical function to characterize earthquakes of a wide range of magnitudes in order to learn from smaller magnitude earthquakes about larger magnitude earthquakes. Their findings reveal that the recurrence of earthquakes is strongly dependent on the recurrence times of previous earthquakes.  Two earthquakes separated by a short recurrence time, for example, are likely to be followed by a third earthquake which recurs close in time, whereas two earthquakes separated by a large recurrence time are likely to be followed by a third earthquake recurring further apart in time.  This memory effect not only provides a clue to understanding the observed clustering of earthquakes, but also suggests that delays in earthquake occurrences, as seen today in Tokyo and in San Francisco, are a natural phenomenon.

I've not tagged it as there looks as if there is some original material in it, but this paragraph needs cut and revised. Brian McNeil / talk 08:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Some of the article has also been copied from the Nature news article, "Could we speed up quake warnings?"  I'm trying to clean this mess up. --JWSchmidt 14:42, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

It is better now. Does Wikinews have a good tool to compare two texts (check for copied text)? --JWSchmidt 16:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for picking up the "mess" I found, I'm unaware of any tools to detect copied text, this case was just a lucky eyeballing of the cut'n'paste. Brian McNeil / talk 16:37, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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Japan to hunt 950 whales for "scientific research"

November 21, 2005

The Japanese whaling fleet is reportedly heading into the seas around Antarctica, drawing widespread condemnation from campaigners. Japan's fleet of six ships left the port of Shimonoseki, western Japan with a quota of 940 minke whales and 10 fin whales.

Calls for the Australian government to intervene have been rejected by the environment minister,. Japan's whaling program, which is claimed to be for scientific purposes, is expected to kill nearly one thousand whales this season.

"Japan's attempt to dress up its commercial whaling as science is an insult to modern science," said International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Director of Wildlife and Habitat. "It's time for the Japanese Government to respect the rest of the world - It's time to stop whaling." A Greenpeace statement dismisses the assertion of the Japanese government that whales are contributing to the collapse of fish stocks.

Senator Rachel Siewrt, spokesperson on marine matters for the Green Party said, "Mr Campbell can't answer a simple question on whether or not the Government plans to take any one of a number of legal and diplomatic actions open to it."

Legal action open to the Australian government includes invoking provisional measures under the auspices of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. These measures would — in effect — be an injunction preventing whaling from being started within the 14 days following.

In December, the will engage the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. The Sea Shepherds say the Japanese whale kill is illegal. They will be acting in accordance with the United Nations World Charter for Nature in their intervention. The groups objective is to "hunt down the Japanese whaling fleet and harass, block, obstruct, and intervene against their illegal whaling operations."

According to Sea Shepherd: "The Japanese are violating the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. They are violating the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling. They are targeting endangered fin and humpback whales that are protected under the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna. They are also in violation of the Australian laws protecting the Australian Antarctic Territorial waters."

International Fund for Animal Welfare condemns what it calls a "mass killing program — a defiance of international criticism and a global ban on commercial whaling — as commercial whaling disguised as science." IFAW urges the Australian Government to take Japan to the international courts to bring this program to an immediate halt.

Japan plans to kill over 900 minke whales and ten fin whales during the next six months as part of its whaling program, JAPRA II, marking a sharp escalation in Japan's whaling activities. "It is a dark day for some of the world's most magnificent creatures. Let's be under no illusion—this is commercial whaling in disguise. The Australian Government must respond swiftly by taking legal action to stop the boats in their tracks," said IFAW Marine Campaigner Darren Kindleysides.

Leading international law expert, Professor Don Rothwell, has advised IFAW that the Japanese Government is breaching international laws with JARPA II. He has advised that the Australian Government has very strong grounds to take Japan to in the International Law of the Sea to stop "scientific" whaling. Japan is targeting whales that are listed as endangered.

He argues that Japan's plans to double its whale take are an abuse of its legal right. "The number of whales that Japan purports to take is not commensurate with the number of whales that would be necessary to engage in scientific research," he said. "There's also increasing evidence that non-lethal means can be used to take data from whales to obtain information about whaling stocks."


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Sony to suspend use of controversial CD software

November 13, 2005

Sony BMG has announced it will suspend production of CDs with their controversial "anti-piracy" software. The move follows litigation being brought against the company for the software which allegedly opens up Microsoft Windows to malicious attacks.

In an ironic turn of events, it now appears that Sony's software violates the copyright of the popular LAME mp3 player, which is distributed under a public license. In the past, German courts have forced companies to release their source code to the public when it was based upon software distributed under such a license.


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Fires at Baxter Immigration Detention Centre in South Australia

November 12, 2005

34 accommodation units have been destroyed by fire at the Baxter Detention Centre near Pt Augusta in South Australia today. The blaze also gutted a kitchen, laundry, recreational area and officers' station. The original blaze broke out around 4am ACST in the kitchen of the "White One" compound which houses single men. Fire units took almost three hours to put them out.

Fifty-eight detainees were evacuated from Baxter IDC. Six have been treated for smoke inhalation.

Immigration minister Amanda Vanstone says about 17 rooms have been ruined and others damaged. She says deliberate property damage will not be tolerated and the Australian Federal Police are questioning four detainees over the blazes and anyone found responsible will be charged.

"Anyone with no lawful right to be in Australia should leave irrespective of the behaviour that they've undertaken, but if someone with a visa or without a visa to be in Australia engages in criminal conduct that would be taken into account in terms of cancelling a visa," she said.

The Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) said four fires appeared to have been deliberately lit. "The first fire in the kitchen area was followed by three other separate fires within the complex," an MFS spokesman said.

Refugee rights advocate Pamela Curr said she had concerns about the safety of detainees in the event of a fire because of the electronic doors. She said detainees at a detention centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport had been killed during a fire last month because authorities had been unable to manually open the electronic doors. "Thank heavens nobody seems to have been hurt today," she said. "We're always on the alert that Baxter is not a safe detention centre".

Bernadette Wauchope from Rural Australians for Refugees says the destruction will continue until something is done. "They become so desperate that they attempt self-harm or attempt suicide or maybe resort to lighting fires," she said. "After being locked up for years and years the feeling that they're isolated and that nobody's listening to what their stories are, often that, well it does contribute to these kinds of acts," she said.


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Nice article
Yet another great article from Down Under. Good work. --Deprifry | +T+ 16:49, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Eliot_k and I collaborated (read: I nit-picked and he did edits) on IRC to get this up to publish, I'm delighted with the result. Brian McNeil / talk 17:16, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Please note that someone had changed the term "accomodation units" to "apartment buildings". I have changed it back to the original. These compounds are not apartment buildings.

--Elliot K 06:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC)