Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—May 10, 2010. INDEX: DEPARTMENT Afghan President Karzai and Delegation Arrive in Washington/ Roundtables Tomorrow Tomorrow we will host a series of roundtables with Afghan counterparts Secretary’s meeting with Zimbabwean Prime Minister Tsvangirai Asst. Sec. Kurt Campbell’s Meetings in Bangkok and Burma / NLD /[Read More…]
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Middle East: As Proximity Talks Start, Hopes for Progress Voiced at UN
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–10 May 2010 – Welcoming the proximity talks launched in an effort to overcome the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hopes the latest initiative will lead to direct negotiations between the two sides. Mr. Ban and his Middle East Quartet partners have long stressed that[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama at the Nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 10, 2010 – 10:02 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Everybody, please have a seat. Good morning, everybody. Of the many responsibilities accorded to a President by our Constitution, few are more weighty or consequential than that of appointing a[Read More…]
Obama Selects Kagan for Supreme Court
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– From the New York Times: President Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th justice, choosing his own chief advocate before the Supreme Court to join it in ruling on cases critical to his view of the country’s future, Democrats close to the White[Read More…]
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on April Jobs Report
Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)– The addition of 290,000 jobs in April, the fourth consecutive monthly gain, is a hopeful sign, if it can be sustained, that real employment growth is finally underway. Still, we face an enormous challenge to get out of the more than 11-million job hole that was opened by[Read More…]
Missouri SWAT Criticized for Killing Dogs. Finally. (With Video)
Commentary By Morgan Fox, MPP.ORG The brutal methods used by SWAT teams throughout the country are not news in the war on drugs. This steady militarization of our police forces in the pursuit of drug seizures has largely gone unnoticed in the press until recently, when some high-profile incidents highlighted[Read More…]
Free Press: FCC Proposal a Step Toward Correcting Powell-Era Mistakes
Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)– In an interview Thursday with CNBC, former FCC Chairman Michael Powell called Chairman Julius Genachowski’s decision to change the way broadband services are treated under law "the most massive expansion of regulatory authority over the Internet ever." But it was Powell himself in 2002 who categorized cable internet[Read More…]
POLITICO: Feds Trace 1,000 Point Dow Flash Crash to Chicago
From Politico.com: Federal investigators probing the “flash crash” that briefly sliced nearly 1,000 points off the Dow Thursday are zeroing in on a series of “unusually high-volume” trades in S&P futures that originated in Chicago, a government official told POLITICO. Those trades set off a chain reaction of trades that[Read More…]
Evoking Hiroshima and Nagasaki, UN Official Appeals for End to Use of Nuclear Weapons
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 May 2010 – Remembering the terrible toll of the nuclear attacks during World War II on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a senior United Nations official today appealed for an end to the use of the weapons, which remain an “apocalyptic” threat. The two cities were destroyed in August 1945,[Read More…]
Secretary General Ban Tells Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Restore International Trust in Nuclear Programme
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 May 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today personally urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to restore international trust in the peaceful nature of his country’s nuclear programme by adhering to the resolutions of the Security Council and the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency. At a meeting requested by Mr.[Read More…]
