PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011—One year since the onset of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, people all over the country are still threatened by the deadly disease, and healthcare services and measures to prevent its spread remain inadequate, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Since[Read More…]
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Herschel Detects Abundant Water in Planet-Forming Disc
Detection of water vapour in the spectrum of TW Hydrae’s protoplanetary disc EU–(ENEWSPF)–20 October 2011 ESA’s Herschel space observatory has found evidence of water vapour emanating from ice on dust grains in the disc around a young star, revealing a hidden ice reservoir the size of thousands of oceans. TW[Read More…]
Full-Time Wage and Salary Workers Have Median Weekly Earnings of $753 in 3rd Quarter 2011
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2011. Median weekly earnings of the nation’s 101.4 million full-time wage and salary workers were $753 in the third quarter of 2011 (not seasonally adjusted), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was 1.8 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of[Read More…]
USAID and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Join Forces to Help Small-Scale Coffee Growers
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011. The U.S. Agency for International Development and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR), a leader in specialty coffee and coffeemakers, announced that they will work together to strengthen social, economic and environmental development in coffee growing communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The new partnership[Read More…]
Durbin: Prairie State Energy Shows Job Creation Doesn’t Have to Come at the Expense of Clean Air
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday met with the President and CEO of Prairie State Energy Campus, Peter DeQuattro, who has been working closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the last several years to ensure that their new coal-fueled generation plant in southwestern[Read More…]
Durbin: Over 2 Million Illinois Social Security Recipients Will See Relief in 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday commended the announcement by the Social Security Administration that a 3.6% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will be issued in 2012. For over two million Illinois residents who receive Social Security, their average benefit will grow by $516. Social Security beneficiaries haven’t[Read More…]
CDC Study Shows Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior Vary Among U.S. Adults
Study looks at data from 2008 through 2009 Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011. Every 15 minutes, someone in the United States dies by suicide. And for every person who dies, there are many more who think about, plan or attempt suicide, according to a report released today by the Centers for[Read More…]
Statement by the NATO Secretary General on Libya, Oct. 20, 2011
BELGIUM–(ENEWSPF)–20 October 2011. The following statement is attributed to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: After 42 years, Colonel Qadhafi`s rule of fear has finally come to an end. Libya can draw a line under a long dark chapter in its history and turn over a new page. Now the[Read More…]
The Two Occupations of DC, Oct. 20, 2011
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011. The occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington DC was planned for several months to begin on the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. It was planned prior to and quickly endorsed and supported the planning for Occupy Wall St. In numerous blog posts through the summer[Read More…]
October2011 Movement Closes Citibank to Protest Record Profits Made at the Expense of Human Needs
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2011. A group of 40 protesters marched to the Citibank, a subsidiary of Citigroup, at 14th and G Streets NW this morning to protest the announcement of the seventh consecutive quarter of massive profits by Citigroup while the economy continues to collapse. Upon the arrival of the[Read More…]
