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United Nations
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News about United Nations, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Sep. 2, 2014
United Nations Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon adds his voice to criticism of Israel over its seizing of nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land in Jewish settlement bloc near Bethlehem. MORE
Sep. 2, 2014
United Nations Human Rights Council decides to send fact-finding team to Iraq to investigate possible war crimes by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants. MORE
Aug. 29, 2014
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says number of refugees from Syrian civil war has risen above three million, calling crisis 'biggest humanitarian emergency of our era;' says more than one million people have fled in last 12 months alone. MORE
Aug. 29, 2014
Fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have reportedly killed more than 150 captured soldiers in northern Syria in past two days; video images posted online appear to show men being marched through desert in their underwear by extremists and then lying dead in sand; other rebels seize United Nations peacekeepers in Golan Heights. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
Obama administration is working to forge sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress; Pres Obama's climate negotiators will sidestep constitutional requirement that Senate approve legally binding treaties by making agreement politically binding instead; treaty is to be signed at United Nations summit meeting in 2015. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
Major United Nations report finds that runaway growth in emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with problem; report finds that global warming is already having significant impact on grain production and weather, warning that effects may be irreversible. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
United Nations refugee agency reports record numbers of people from the Middle East and Africa are putting their lives in the hands of smugglers to get across the Mediterranean to Europe, and record numbers are dying in the effort; more than 300 asylum seekers and migrants died when three boats capsized or sank; UN is calling for urgent and concerted action by European governments. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
United Nations helicopter carrying cargo in South Sudan crashes, killing three of its four Russian crew members. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
Op-Ed article by Daneil S Mariaschin and David J Michaels of the B'nai B'rith International organization details how United Nations has mistreated Israel; notes that important UN events have repeatedly been scheduled on major Jewish holidays; calls on UN to add Yom Kippur to United Nations holiday calendar. MORE
Aug. 26, 2014
Mary McGowan Davis, former Supreme Court justice in New York State, will join a three-person United Nations Human Rights Council panel investigating possible international law violations by Israel and Hamas in Gaza conflict. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
Discussions at United Nations have intensified over possible Security Council resolution that would end fighting in Gaza and attract broad-based support, including from the United States. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
United Nations refugee agency sounds alarm over tens of thousands of people, many of them Muslim Rohingyas from Myanmar, who are fleeing by boat across Indian Ocean. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
Editorial contends that Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa should cooperate with the United Nations investigation into crimes committed during his country's civil war. MORE
Aug. 21, 2014
Top Unicef official says that United Nations drastically underestimated devastation that could result from possible assaults by Israel on Gaza; 350,000 people have been displaced from six-week-old conflict, seven times predicted 50,000 planned for in contingency plan. MORE
Aug. 20, 2014
United Nations refugee agency will coordinate effort to deliver aid to more than a half-million Iraqis who have been driven from their homes by conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria; operation is slated to be one of the largest the agency has undertaken in recent years. MORE
Aug. 15, 2014
United Nations Security Council seems poised to unanimously approve resolution aimed at severely weakening Islamist militants by choking their sources of money, weapons and foreign recruits; resolution places half-dozen of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria leaders on international blacklist that will ban them from travel and freeze their assets; also threatens sanctions against their recruiters and financiers. MORE
Aug. 14, 2014
United Nations' top human rights official Navi Pillay will end her tenure on Aug 31 after six years, longest term that anyone has served in the job since it was created in 1993. MORE
Aug. 14, 2014
Saudi Arabia donates $100 million to a fledgling United Nations counterterrorism agency and expresses hope that infusion will strengthen its abilities and set an example for other donor countries. MORE
Aug. 12, 2014
United Nations Human Rights Council appoints three legal experts to international commission to look into whether violations of international humanitarian and human rights law were committed by Israel and Hamas during conflict in Gaza. MORE
Aug. 6, 2014
Eduardo Porter Economic Scene column notes that concerns about population seem to have reemerged as fears over climate change increase; cites United Nations study showing that pace of population growth will have substantial impact on amount of greenhouse gases released into atmosphere. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Tensions escalate between the United Nations and Israel over Israeli attack in Gaza Strip that killed at least 19 people who were taking refuge at a UN school; strikes bring barrage of rebukes and warnings from senior UN officials as Israel, in turn, accuses the world of helping Hamas; behind-the-scene efforts by diplomats dealing with all parties in conflict lead to 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza Strip have been displaced during three-week Israeli offensive against Palestinian militants; many are packed into more than 80 schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which cares for Palestinian refugees; UN says five of its active shelters have been hit by Israeli forces, killing dozens of people. MORE
Jul. 31, 2014
Four Israeli artillery shells strike United Nations school at Jabaliya refugee camp, where 3,300 Palestinians had taken refuge from fierce fighting in their Gaza Strip neighborhoods; Palestinian heath officials say at least 20 people were killed by what witnesses and United Nations officials say is latest in series of strikes on UN facilities that are supposed to be safe zones. MORE
Jul. 28, 2014
Israel seeks to bolster its claim that its forces are not responsible for deaths of 16 Palestinians reportedly killed in attack on United Nations school; Palestinians say hundreds of people sought shelter in the school when a number of munitions fired by Israeli forces hit, killing and wounding scores of people; diplomatic push for cease-fire continues. MORE
Jul. 27, 2014
United Nations warns that more than 350,000 people in Mogadishu, Somalia, are in acute need of food aid, and blames funding shortages and a volatile security situation that has at times restricted delivery of food into refugee settlements. MORE
Jul. 27, 2014
News analysis; personal investment of individual nations in crises confronting the United Nations Security Council has sometimes led to lack of action when nations veto council resolutions; right of veto has long enabled permanent members to reject actions that threaten their strategic interests, and some nations support idea of limiting veto power in cases of mass atrocities. MORE
Jul. 25, 2014
United Nations convoy of trucks carrying aid, empowered by the Security Council, crosses border with Turkey for first time and enters rebel-held areas of Syria; defies what UN calls arbitrary aid blockade imposed by warring parties. MORE
Jul. 22, 2014
Unicef releases study that has found that more than 700 million women alive today were married as children, and about 250 million of them were wed before they reached 15; report is released on eve of Girl Summit, international meeting being held in London that aims to mobilize efforts to end female genital mutilation and child marriages. MORE
Jul. 15, 2014
United Nations Security Council votes 15 to 0 to authorize cross-border convoys of emergency aid for millions of deprived Syrians in rebel-held areas, without prior approval by Syrian authorities. MORE
Jul. 15, 2014
United Nations Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon visits Haiti and seeks to assure Haitians that he is committed to ending cholera epidemic; Ban does not acknowledge UN's possible complicity in causing epidemic. MORE
Jul. 14, 2014
Rival militias in Tripoli, Libya, fight for control of city's main airport, leaving at least six people dead and causing cancellation of international flights; United Nations mission in country accelerates withdrawal of staff members. MORE
Jul. 14, 2014
News analysis; potential showdown in United Nations Security Council over getting aid to millions of needy Syrians is measure of how difficult it is for world powers to agree on crisis in country, where Russia and West support opposing sides in the civil war. MORE
Jul. 13, 2014
News analysis; tensions over role and pay of United Nations peacekeepers have escalated, and illustrate deeper grievances about the peacekeeping force. MORE
Jul. 11, 2014
United Nations report finds more than half of world's population now lives in cities, as compared to 30 percent in 1950; full two-thirds of human-kind are expected to live in cities by 2050, raising new challenges for cholera, classrooms and food production.. MORE
Jul. 11, 2014
United Nations Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon appoints Staffan de Mistura to be new special envoy responsible for seeking end to Syrian conflict. MORE
Jul. 9, 2014
Eduardo Porter Economic Scene column calls attention to report by United Nations that explores technological paths available to world's 15 main economies to both maintain reasonable rates of growth and cut carbon emissions to prevent climate change; notes that report calls for overhaul of way energy is used, and for entirely different approach to international diplomacy on the issue. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
United Nations reports it has found that nearly one billion people worldwide defecate in the open, and that such bad sanitation practices can endanger health of children who live and play nearby; calls for more funding to redress inadequate sanitation. MORE
Jul. 8, 2014
United Nations Secretariat will recognize marriages of gay men and lesbians who work there if they have been wed in jurisdiction where such unions are legal; previously, secretariat deferred to laws of staff members' home countries. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
Diplomats resolve unusually bitter dispute over how much United Nations peacekeepers should be paid. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
United Nations High Commission for Refugees says that 70 percent of its $3.74 billion emergency budget for helping Syrian war refugees remains unfunded; warns of dramatic consequences in the Middle East if donors fail to provide needed aid. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
United Nations is using more and more drones in some of the toughest peacekeeping missions in world to improve intelligence-gathering capability; effort is also raising new issues about what to do with so much information and whether or not it translates into peace. MORE
Jun. 29, 2014
United Nations reports that more than a million Iraqis have been displaced in 2014, half of which have fled their homes in recent weeks amid renewed conflict; flight, in face of rapid incursion by ISIS militants, has reignited painful sense of fear and uncertainty that has been all too familiar for Iraqis in recent decades; humanitarian crisis has seemingly merged with that in Syria, creating broad zone of civil war and lawlessness. MORE
Jun. 27, 2014
United Nations' top aid official Valerie Amos tells Security Council new bureaucracy by Syrian government has kept food and medicine from reaching civilians trapped by war, keeping compliance with its resolution low. MORE
Jun. 25, 2014
Rachel Fraenkel, mother of one of three Israeli teenagers abducted in West Bank, appears before United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to ask for more international efforts to secure their release. MORE
Jun. 22, 2014
Serge Schmemann Quick History column reflects on events of past week, including United Nations report about refugees and crises in Iraq and Ukraine. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
United Nations Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon is personally served with court papers ordering him to appear in court regarding lawsuits from Haiti cholera victims who assert United Nations peacekeepers caused 2010 epidemic still ravaging the country; Ban's spokesman denies that he touched the papers; UN officials argue that organization is insulated from such legal entanglements. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
United Nations reports that civil war had forced 51 million people worldwide to leave home by the end of 2013; most of forcibly displaced are homeless in their own countries and are known as internally displaced persons; additional 16.7 million people are refugees. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
Afghan Pres Hamid Karzai, seeking to quell political crisis surrounding presidential election to choose his successor, reverses course and suggests that United Nations get involved in helping Afghanistan settle disputes over voting in runoff between candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani. MORE
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Articles About the United Nations
More Than a Million Ukrainians Have Been Displaced, U.N. Says
An estimated 260,000 people have fled to different regions of the country, and 814,000 have left the country to escape the fighting.
September 3, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Ukraine , Crimea (Ukraine) , Russia , United Nations , Refugees and Displaced Persons
Mali: U.N. Peacekeepers Die After Convoy Hits Mine
At least four United Nations peacekeepers were killed and 15 wounded when their convoy hit a mine in northern Mali on Tuesday, a spokesman said.
September 3, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Mali , United Nations , Deaths (Fatalities)
U.N. and Medical Group Make Appeals for Ebola Aid
United Nations officials urged diplomats to cable their capitals to send money, doctors and protective gear to the affected region, while Doctors Without Borders called for countries to send biohazard experts.
September 3, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Ebola Virus , United Nations , Doctors Without Borders
Israel: U.N. Chief Criticizes Seizing of West Bank Land
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations added his voice on Monday to the criticism of Israel over its seizing of nearly 1,000 acres of West Bank land in a Jewish settlement bloc near Bethlehem.
September 2, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Israeli Settlements , Israel , Ban Ki-moon , United Nations , Palestinians , Defense and Military Forces , West Bank , International Relations
U.N. to Send Team to Iraq for Inquiry on ISIS Acts
The council adopted a resolution without a vote, calling for a team to be sent to Iraq to look into killings and other atrocities.
September 2, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , United Nations , Iraq , War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity , United Nations Human Rights Council , Children and Childhood
Revisiting Life and Death in Africa
Yunghi Kim went to Somalia 20 years ago expecting to cover a famine. She found herself instead in a war zone.
September 1, 2014, Monday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Haygood, Wil , Africa , Australia , Boston (Mass) , France , Goma (Congo, Democratic Republic of) , Kenya , Nairobi (Kenya) , Rwanda , Somalia , Boston Globe , CARE , United Nations , Famine , Humanitarian Aid , Photography , Refugees and Displaced Persons , War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Affiliate of Al Qaeda Confirms Capture of U.N. Peacekeepers in Syria
The Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, said it had seized more than 40 peacekeepers because the United Nations failed to help the people of Syria during the country's civil war.
September 1, 2014, Monday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Al Nusra Front , Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ) , International Relations , Al Qaeda , Philippines , United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations , Kidnapping and Hostages , Syria , Terrorism , United Nations , Assad, Bashar al- , Golan Heights , Fiji , Israel
Palestinian May Push for Deadline to End Occupation
The president of the Palestinian Authority may use the annual United Nations General Assembly to publicly demand an end date for Israel's occupation.
August 31, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: Palestinians , Gaza Strip , Abbas, Mahmoud , International Relations , International Criminal Court , United Nations , Hamas , Palestinian Authority , Netanyahu, Benjamin , Defense and Military Forces , Israel
Syrian Rebels Trade Fire With Troops From U.N.
Gunfire broke out on Saturday between United Nations peacekeepers in southern Syria and the Islamist rebels who had been surrounding their base near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
August 31, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: United Nations , Al Qaeda , Defense and Military Forces , Terrorism , International Relations , Assad, Bashar al- , Golan Heights , Syria
Yemen: U.N. Body Condemns Instability
The United Nations Security Council on Friday called on Yemen's Shiite Muslim Houthis to end hostilities against the government and warned foreign countries not to interfere by encouraging instability in Yemen.
August 30, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON THE UNITED NATIONS AND: United Nations , Yemen , Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ) , Security Council (UN) , Sana (Yemen)
Abbas on Cease-Fire in Gaza Strip
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, declared that a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, brokered by Egypt, had been reached in the Gaza Strip.
The Displaced in Gaza
With 11,000 homes destroyed and many more damaged, a humanitarian crisis is just beginning.
After Flight, a Fight to Survive in Iraq
A refugee crisis has struck Iraqi Kurdistan, once the most stable part of the country, as Sunni militants have advanced.
Unicef on Iraq's Crisis in Sinjar
Will Parks, the United Nations Children's Fund chief field officer in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq, discussed the crisis in Sinjar, where tens of thousands of people are stuck in the mountains.
In Gaza, a Shelter Comes Under Fire
After a United Nations school sheltering displaced Palestinians was hit by Israeli shells last week, leaving 21 dead, many questions have emerged.
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With the news that Matt Schaub is a Houston Texan no more, Battle Red Blog reacts to the news, how it will affect the Texans going forward, and Schaub's legacy in Houston.
Could the Texans' former franchise quarterback find new life in Oakland next year? One report says the Raiders could be interested in Matt Schaub's services once the Texans release him.
Tim from Battle Red Blog brings back an old feature to opine on what happened at Reliant Stadium today when the Texans lost to the Rams and examines what it means for the organization going forward.
In a "Hair of the Dog" style post, peer into the Batte Red Blog's Debate Hall as we talk about the quagmire that is Houston's quarterback situation.
Gary Kubiak announced that embattled QB Matt Schaub will remain the Texans' starter under center for Sunday's game against the Rams. See what Kubiak, Rick Dennison, and Frank Drebin had to say.
Antonio Smith told the Texans' play-by-play man this evening that Gary Kubiak will address the entire team tomorrow morning. This is apparently a deviation from the normal schedule. What could it...
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'Rosewater' is based on Bahari's memoir 'Then They Came for Me' and stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari.
A quote misattributed to Blackman complained that there are 'too many white faces' in children's literature, subjecting her to 'hatred, threats, and vitriol'. The author says her intent was to express support for 'more books featuring kids/YA with disabilities, LGBT, people of colour, travellers, different cultures, religions.'
'The Bone Clocks' isn't out until early September, but the novel by 'Cloud Atlas' author Mitchell is already drawing almost universal praise.
Wondering what's real and what's fiction on 'Outlander'? The tourism organization Visit Scotland has explanations for Gaelic phrases and where to find real buildings featured in the show, among other trivia.
Scarry's son Richard Scarry Jr. recently found a manuscript by his father and completed the illustrations. The book will be released on Aug. 26.
Author Rick Riordan recently published the book 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' which is a compilation of traditional Greek myths as told by his character Percy.
Brown recently signed a law recommending that the state's Instructional Quality Commission 'consider including, and recommending for adoption by the state board, instruction on the election of President Barack Obama and the significance of the United States electing its first African-American president, as appropriate.'
Dave Itzkoff, who is also the author of 'Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies,' says he will publish a biography of the actor.
'Gone Girl' stars Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, a husband who comes under suspicion when his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) disappears.
An Indian laborer loads goods on a bike at Chawri Bazar, in New Delhi, India, Monday. Chawri Bazar, is a specialized wholesale hardware market said to have started in the late 19th Century, mostly selling brass, copper and paper products.
Scarry's son Richard Scarry Jr. recently found a manuscript by his father and completed the illustrations. The book will be released on Aug. 26.
Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, could well be the most significant forgotten figure of the 20th century. Author Tim Butcher discusses what he learned about Princip for his book 'The Trigger.'
Gregory's book will be released sometime in 2015, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.
Yates is reportedly in negotiations to direct 'Beasts,' a new story set in the world of 'Harry Potter.' Yates directed the well-received final four movies in the 'Potter' film series.
Michael R. Katz's forthcoming book 'The Kreutzer Sonata Variations' will include two previously untranslated works by Sophia Andreevna Tolstoy which she wrote in response to her husband's controversial story 'The Kreutzer Sonata.'
German culture and media minister Monika Gruetters recently addressed the campaign by European authors protesting Amazon's business tactics with Swedish publisher Bonnier Group. Gruetters said she 'supports' the effort.
'Inherent Vice' stars Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine Waterston, and Josh Brolin.
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text: Close 2010 World Cup: Day 22 0 0 0 More 0 0 0 View Gallery Next Previous Next 1|9 2|9 3|9 4|9 5|9 6|9 7|9 8|9 9|9 Next up Soccer Ribery's club team Bayern reportedly turned down an offer from Real Madrid last summer for $100 million, such was his value at the time. However, a poor club season, tinged with off-the-field scandal and an anonymous World Cup makes that price tag look laughable now. 15 WC Stars Who've Disappointed July 6, 2010 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More Recommended Galleries Soccer A former dare-to-dream-big kid who matured into the most decorated male player to ever don the United States uniform, Landon Donovan has been a mainstay in American soccer for over a decade. Despite his high-profile snub that will keep him out of the 2014 World Cup, Donovan was already the U.S. national team's all-time leading scorer. Now, at long last, he can add MLS All-Time Goal King to his loaded resume. On the heels of that news, here are some classic photos of Landon Donovan. 66 Landon Donovan Classic Photos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More Soccer Before taking over the U.S. Men's National Team, Jurgen Klinsmann managed his native Germany to a third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup. Here's a look back at his career before he leads the U.S. into the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Klinsmann (left) celebrates in 1996 after captaining Germany to the UEFA European Championship with a 2-1 win over Czech Republic and receiving the trophy from Queen Elizabeth II (center). Klinsmann was the first player ever to score in three different European Championships ('88, '92 and '96). 34 The Best of Jurgen Klinsmann 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More Soccer The U.S. will open its 2014 World Cup bid on June 16 against Ghana in Group G, followed by matches against Portugal and Germany. Here's a look at each of the U.S.'s qualifying matches, beginning with the June 8, 2012, game against Antigua and Barbuda. Midfielder Jermaine Jones battles for possession with midfielder Lawson Robinson in a match that the U.S ended up winning 3-1 in Tampa, Fla. 16 Road to the World Cup 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More


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Cool, John. I didn't have time to sharpen it up at work. I just belted out a little frame from a original .tif. It is a very cool perspective of this great rock wall. The company I work for... we flew and took pictures of most of the Boulder area this spring... have some good shots of the Flatirons as well and a lot of ground between and beyond. I got to see all of this in stereo pairs as well as part of my work flow on this project although trying to pull stereo on this much of a vertical drop is quite tough! Fun though... I was trying to determine if there were any climbers actually on The Naked Edge at the time of the exposure...at this pixel resolution, you could easily pick out a climber.
Weird how the rock doesn't seem very red, it almost looks like limestone!


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(WMC-TV) - Southaven Mayor Greg Davis announced he is no longer running for another term as mayor. In an exclusive interview with Action News 5, Davis cited legal troubles, his coming out, and his divorce as a few reasons for not running.
"It's one of the toughest decisions I've ever had to make in my life cause for the last 20 plus years that's all I've known," Southaven Mayor Greg Davis said.
After serving in the state legislature and 16 years as Mayor of Southaven, Davis said that he has decided not to run for another term as mayor.
"There comes a time when the best interests of the city and myself and my family, my daughters more particularly has to come into play," Davis said.
For more than one year Davis has been plagued by legal problems.
Just last month, a DeSoto County grand jury indicted Davis on charges that include embezzlement.
For the past year he has been under investigation by the state auditor for travel expenses and his ex-wife took him to court over child support and other issues. Davis said it didn't affect his job as mayor.
"Even if you look back at the last 12 months our record will prove nothing has slowed down," Davis said.
He said a lot of people still want him to run again for mayor. And during the interview, Davis even read a long list of his accomplishments as mayor.
"There comes a time I guess for 46 years I have done what other people wanted me to do," Davis said. "The new chapter I can say will be for myself, my partner and my family and we will do what we want to do regardless of the public's perception."
Davis also talked about the pain he endured keeping the secret that he is gay.
"I had a clear choice," Davis said. "It's a secret, I get reelected. I have the financial means to take care of my family."
Davis said he plans to write a book about politics and about being the only openly gay elected official in Mississippi.
"The internal struggles of being gay," Davis said. "Let's face it, problems that it may cause in your private and personal lives and business life."
Davis said he was fortunate to get help through counseling and financial support from his father.
"One of my biggest concerns is people without financial resources to get that professional help," Davis said.
He said his decision to not run for mayor does not mean he will stop working. He said he plans to work just as hard as mayor until his term is up in June and he will push forward projects he has already started.
Davis also talked more about what it all means for his family, his partner and his future.
Janice Broach will have that report, Thursday on Action News 5 at 5 p.m.
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Bowl games are usually played between teams that don't see each other very often, but in the wake of conference realignment the Oklahoma State Cowboys have been matched up with former Big 12 foe Missouri.
These two have played 51 times. The tigers lead the series, but the Cowboys have won the last three.
It's been two years since Mizzou bolted for the SEC and the pokes are excited to renew the rivalry. "Since I've been here we've played them twice." said OSU Senior Receiver Charlie Moore, "My redshirt year and the Fiesta Bowl year. It's got a little Big 12 rivalry to it. So it will be cool to play an old Big 12 team. They're a good team. We're going to play hard. They're going to play hard. It's going to be a big game."The Cowboys and the Tigers renew their rivalry in the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas at AT&T Stadium. The game is on Friday, January the 3rd at 7:00pm.
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Pregnant Man to Appear on Oprah
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Last week, I asked you if you thought the pregnant man was a hoax and you were split on the issue.
But, the mystery is solved since Thomas Beatie is set to appear on today's Oprah. So if you have to see it to believe it, tune in and watch as they perform an ultrasound and show off the nursery.
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caligirl101 6 years
I don't see what the hugs fuss is. There is nothing wrong with this!
Outspoken 6 years
Oprah wants the world to have sympathy for this sort of behavior?? For what?? These people have problems with the way life really is. They have life so confused, and so does she. You are supposed to love everyone, but this just takes the cake. You don't have to go along with the choices people make, and make it okay just because a celebrity endorses such behavior. This is just wrong. This is just asking for a freak show. I guess this woman and her woman got what they wanted to help pay for the medical bills. Now it really would be a medical event if a man really got pregnant. This has been happening to women since forever. Its nothing new, so get over it.
rgrl 6 years
Actually, you are Akirstin... maybe not the only one, but you are.
AKirstin 6 years
yeah, *I'm* the harsh one here.
ckeller825 6 years
I am absolutely disgusted by this subject matter. And to celebrate it is even more revolting. Come on Oprah. What the hell.
lstee3 6 years
This sick and twisted. Oprah what have u resulted to. U should have just hooked up with Jerry Spinger. In this case you are no different from the foolishness he has on his shows. This sick and unnatural. Men cannot have babies. He is a woman. Dont care how much drugs, injections,facial hair or mens clothing you put on this character. She is still a woman.
rgrl 6 years
Akirstin that's a pretty harsh comment. So when someone doesn't agree with you it's OK to be mean?
truth2008 6 years
Notice to the world, "Men do not get pregnant!" Having a surgery does not make a person a man. If you were born a woman, you are still a woman. How ignorant can we become as a society?
RockHouse 6 years
It's not freak of nature that a naturally "born woman" carry a child.He/She must have been very confused during gender re-assignment..."Oh I want a penis, but save my uterus".Talk about gender confusion.This one takes the cake!Come on Oprah give us a break!
mmb974 6 years
I saw it and it was actually quite sad. They seemed really lovely and not in it for the money, although you can never really tell. Nancy's 2 elder daughters were really supportive. I don't like the way it was all sensationalised though to make it seem like it was a man who was pregnant when he was physically still female just without the breasts. I agree with colormesticky regarding the inconsistency with the laws for gay couples and this couple who is essentially a lesbian couple.
AKirstin 6 years
DarkRayne I hope you never breed.
DarkRayne 6 years
And why doesn't he get some antennas transplanted into his head, he can then claim he is a martian also!
DarkRayne 6 years
It makes me ill to even look at this freak, passing on freak genes to a new generation. How very sad.
ufshutterbabe 6 years
I'm watching the show now - these people don't seem to be telling their story for financial reasons. I find their situation very moving and interesting. Particularly the part when Thomas said something to the effect of "I don't feel feminine for being pregnant. Reproduction is a human desire, and I have the right to have biological children." I feel very disappointed in the doctors who declined to treat this couple - a person is a person, doesn't matter what they look like on the outside, everyone is entitled to medical care. Those docs wouldn't turn down a patient for any other issue regarding looks (such as if a patient were "ugly" or "hairy" or "too skinny" etc.), the fact that Thomas looks like a man on the outside shouldn't matter to a medical professional.
ohjeeze 6 years
"Sorry. I don't need my kids thinking all of this is appropriate." Erthed, it's unfortunate you don't let your kids have a mind of their own. Hopefully one day they will realize being an individual means forming your own ideas of what is right or wrong.
myconscience 6 years
he stopped taking testosterone before trying to conceive, if i recall correctly from the article on advocate.com. people here sure are quick to judge! i think it's great to challenge gender roles, even if it is difficult for many people to wrap their minds around this. i also don't think he and his partner are doing this for the money. i think it's a good way to bring trans / & gender issues up for the general public that they typically don't think about. i think it's pretty awesome, myself.
rgrl 6 years
For some reason, I'm not interested in this person's story. My point was that I was annoyed with the media for making headlines such as "pregnant male"! I think anyone who has half a brain can figure out that no "normally" endowed male can possibly become pregnant. Why do things always have to get twisted and sensationalized?
AKirstin 6 years
romaniagrl, you need to read the whole story.
rgrl 6 years
I saw these headlines for a while and could have cared less. How stupid does one have to be to believe for even one second that a man, without ovaries and a uterus, can possibly be pregnant? I thought Oprah was above such sensational topics, this sounds more like a Maury episode to me. :oy: :OY: :OY:
AKirstin 6 years
All that really matters here is that they are a happy family. ;) Anyone who pooh-poohs love in any form can suck it.
bluesarahlou 6 years
Colormesticky-That's exactly what bothers me....more than the "holy crap a man becomes pregnant!" thing.
7kimba7 6 years
colormesticky- that's a really good point. and yes, I fail to understand the drama with this story. I was like whoa, man pregnant??? but as soon as I read the article I thought yeah, that's not a man. that's a woman who didn't finish surgery. So someone with an intact female reproductive system is having a baby? YOU DON'T SAY.
JennyJen2 6 years
I agree Lickety - This is obviously more for the financial gain of things. Why else are you on Oprah and telling your sotory to anyone who will listen.
colormesticky 6 years
I don't have a problem with it. My big issue is that the government recognizes him as a man when he's obviously not, and allowed the two of them to marry and receive all the benefits of married couples. Technically, Thomas is still a woman. That makes them a lesbian couple, which is illegal. It isn't fair to make exceptions. All or nothing, but getting rid of your boobs and taking testosterone shouldn't make you any more special than any other gay couple.
lickety-split 6 years
makes me feel sick. in addition to everything said above it occurs to me that the reason for the pregnancy is freak-show status. do it in private, for the joy of being a parent, for the love of your unborn children with your partner, not so you can go on oprah and dish the juicy details. blech.
JennyJen2 6 years
I hate that this is being sensationalized. I have a feeling that this won't be the last pregnant transgender individual we see walking around. I have no problem with people making this choice, but the whole hormone thing scares me for the baby's sake. I mean I didn't take a Tylenol or Cold meds for 10 months but Hormone injections are okay? Just don't get how it can be healthy for the baby.
CaterpillarGirl 6 years
okay, NOT A MAN, hello its not a MAN! yes on paper "he" is and "he" has had hormones, but we cant sincerely say "man pregnant!" and take it LITERALLY like some dude (with a bad 90's goatee) got knocked up! Plus, if "he" really thinks of himself as a man...than why is he pregnant, which is specifically a womans issue? seriously I need money too, but you dont see me eating cat treats, glueing fur on me, wearing ears and announcing that me, a cat, can drive a car. that poor child
elephantheart 6 years
I agree, erthed. If she/he really decided to become a man, then that is the choice. It seems hypocritical to then become pregnant. That is a completely female experience, and she decided womanhood was not for her.
erthed 6 years
I think it's disgusting. Sorry. I don't need my kids thinking all of this is appropriate. Women have kids. If you choose to become a man you choose to give up that. I truly believe it's just wrong.
blackjade 6 years
I believe he/she stopped taking testosterone before the pregnancy. I'm pretty much over the whole thing.
babysugar 6 years
j2e1n9, It's an interesting point and it's one of the things I'm most curious to learn about in the interview today. On GMA last week, Lisa Masterson, an OBGYN at Cedars Sinai, said that he should most definitely stop the testosterone injections because it could actually affect the reproductive parts of the growing fetus. She said the vaginal walls of the baby could become swollen and fold over. Crazy. I HOPE he/she is minding what is best for the baby. I wonder if he will end up looking like the formal "she" at time of delivery.
CJaneTyp 6 years
j2e, that is a good question. I assume he is being followed carefully by a medical team.
j2e1n9 6 years
Also, I am wondering if it is "safe", so to say, for a woman who has (or still is?) receiving testosterone hormones to have a baby. Hm. :?
CJaneTyp 6 years
I know, the whole thing is so sensationalized. It is a person who used to be a woman who is transitioning to being a man. It's not as if a person born with male anatomy is all of a sudden pregnant. I guess the reason why Oprah is interested is because SOCIETY-wise, this is a person walking around who sees themselves and other people see him as male, and is pregnant.
j2e1n9 6 years
Ok, so I see the little transgender tag there and I am assuming that it is really a woman. Wow, a pregnant woman dressed like a man. Surprised Oprah would care about this.
Imani33 6 years
I was really surprised when I saw this story yesterday, and I was actually going to make an effort to watch Oprah until I figured out the mystery of the pregnant "man". I feel a lot of people are going to be disappointed when they see the real story.
Shopaholichunny 6 years
Too bad I won't be able to watch it. This is kinda weird. Hmmm
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The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 48 announced the endorsement Friday, capping off a week that saw Cranley take the top spot in Tuesday's mayoral primary election .
"When Local 48 endorses a candidate for office, we keep the basic principle of 'support those who support us' in mind," said Matt Alter, Local 48 president.
A major factor behind the endorsement is recent city budgets that initially called for firefighter layoffs, although the layoffs were avoided by the time City Council passed the final spending plans.
Firefighter and police layoffs have been proposed every year from 2009 to 2013. City Council ultimately avoided layoffs each time by finding other cuts to avoid looming deficits.
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Police and firefighters have criticized the tactic, stating the threat of layoffs has been used to achieve political goals like getting public support for the city's controversial parking lease plan.
"It's definitely a factor," Alter said, referring to the role periodic layoff notices played in the endorsement.
An ex-city councilman, Cranley is running against Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls. Both are Democrats, and both have helped shape city budgets during the past decade.
Qualls has chaired City Council's budget and finance committee since 2010. Cranley chaired the committee from December 2001 to January 2009.
"When I was head of the finance committee for eight budget cycles, it was unthinkable to threaten layoffs of police and firefighters," Cranley said. "In fact, we added them."
Cranley referred to the hiring of 115 police officers in the years shortly after the 2001 riots. The hirings have become an issue in this year's mayoral campaign because, at the time, then-Police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr. said he hadn't requested them.
"We went through a recession while I was on council, but we didn't consider those departments for layoffs because that was at odds with our value system," Cranley said.
Jens Sutmoller, Qualls' campaign manager, is puzzled by the union's support for Cranley. It was Qualls who worked to find alternate cuts to avoid firefighter layoffs this year, he said.
"Roxanne has a track record of results creating clean and safe neighborhoods," Sutmoller said. "In the latest budget, Roxanne saved firefighters and police officers from layoffs and is proud of her long list of endorsements."
In recent years, the Cincinnati Fire Department has seen staffing shortages that have caused "brownouts." A brownout is when one truck in a firehouse is idled.
Cincinnati has experienced between one and five brownouts daily, Alter said. The department's ranks are stretched too thin, which jeopardizes public safety, he added.
The Cincinnati Fire Department currently has 786 personnel. But the number needed to end brownouts and become fully staffed is 879.
A recruit class will graduate in February that should bring the ranks up to 826 people, Alter said. Still, 35 people likely will retire in 2014, offsetting some of the increase.
"We're still about 50 short of our goal," Alter said.
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"They endorsed Pepper in 2005, Wenstrup in 2009," tweeted Craig Hochscheid, the blogger known as Cincy Cappel.
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Earlier this week, an update to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Trust Fund Ticker showed the highway trust fund will run dry by August 29. And as I write this, the nation's transportation bill, MAP-21, is set to expire in 167 days. Luckily, the urgency of this has not been lost on our nation's highest ranking transportation official.
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On Monday, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx began a bus tour across the country to showcase the importance of transportation investment. The tour will take Secretary Foxx through eight states, and will include visits to communities that have created jobs by investing in transportation, as well as communities with transportation projects that are waiting on funding. Why? Well, that trust fund isn't getting any bigger, and what better way to advocate for a robust, multi-year federal investment into infrastructure projects – in keeping with the Obama administration proposal to address both the immediate funding shortfall and the country's future transportation needs - then a good old-fashioned bus tour?
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Tuesday found Foxx in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was joined by Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear. The governor called on Congress to back a transportation bill, because transportation investment affects all Americans and will require a bipartisan solution.
Foxx's second stop Tuesday was in Nashville, Tennessee where the secretary stopped at a bridge in sore need of repair on I-40/1-65 that the state would like to fix … but lacks the funds to repair.
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Gold And Silver Strong In January—What Now?
By Patrick A. Heller – Liberty Coin Service
Commentary on Precious Metals Prepared for CoinWeek.com
Through the COMEX close on Monday, January 30, the prices of gold and silver had increased more than 10% and 20% over the course of the month. Had these results been realized by any of the major stock indices, you can be sure they would garner headline coverage. But strong markets in gold and silver continue to receive comparatively minimal reporting by the mainstream financial media.
Actually, the value of gold and silver haven't changed at all. Ounces of physical gold and silver are still worth the same today as they were a month ago. What has changed is that the values of paper currencies, stocks, and bonds have mostly fallen in January.
In mid-January, the US Dollar Index reached its highest level since September 2010. This temporary strength resulted from the weakness in the Euro. The falling value of the Euro was related to the financial problems in many European nations, where sovereign credit ratings were dropped for at least ten countries in that continent within the past month. Governments such as France, Italy, Spain, and Austria were among those hit by credit downgrades.
From its peak two weeks ago, the US Dollar Index has dropped 2%. Investors are now not only afraid of the Euro, they are also afraid to hold US dollars. Last week, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee announced that it was prepared to unleash new rounds of stimulus, also known as quantitative easing, which are just disguises for the inflation of the US money supply. In other words, the Fed promised to reduce the future value of the US dollar. People are figuring out that this is really what all the fancy words mean, and are already taking steps to find other safe haven assets.
The US and European governments have declared economic war on Iran, which is driving Iranian citizens to abandon their domestic currency in favor of dollars, gold, or other assets. In response, Iran's government has announced currency exchange controls on January 28. The head of Iran's central bank announced that all dollar exchange transactions must be conducted at the rate of 12,260 Iranian rials per dollar. At the time, the black market exchange rate was over 20,000 rials per dollar. The imposition of currency controls pushed down the black market rate to 17,000 rials per dollar.
In addition to waging economic war, the US is rapidly expanding army, navy, and air force personnel and equipment relatively near to Iran. France has also dispatched an aircraft carrier to the region. Fear of a major military conflict also hurts the value of paper assets and typically results in higher gold and silver prices.
The price of silver has been particularly supported by the announcement from Sprott Asset Management that its physical silver exchange traded fund (PSLV) will purchase 10 million ounces of physical silver. Analysts are divided whether there is sufficient physical silver readily available anywhere to make delivery on a timely basis. When Sprott purchased about 20 million ounces a year earlier, the company reported that about half of the physical silver it received was mined and fabricated after the date of the purchase. Simply, that means that physical silver inventories are much tighter than the "experts" claim.
This short list doesn't cover all the problems hurting the values of currencies, stocks, and bonds. However, the important point to realize is that none of these problems are being resolved. I would hope that war with Iran is avoided, but I doubt that any development would mean that military conflict will never happen. With the Greece and Portugal sovereign debt almost certain to default at some point, paper investments are likely to continue to deteriorate as 2012 progresses.
For the past few months I have forecasted that gold and silver prices will reach $2,000 and $60, respectively, by the end of May at the latest. I'm sure that gold would have difficulty holding $2,000 the first time it reaches that level. Silver will probably also experience extremely volatile markets as it approaches $50. So, even though I think gold and silver will shine over the next few months, I also expect prices to be quite volatile. In summary, I think what gold and silver prices did in January are just a taste of what is to come.
Patrick A. Heller owns Liberty Coin Service and Premier Coins & Collectibles in Lansing, Michigan and writes Liberty's Outlook, a monthly newsletter on rare coins and precious metals subjects. Past newsletter issues can be viewed at http://www.libertycoinservice.com. Other commentaries are available at Numismaster (http://www.numismaster.com under "News & Articles). His award-winning radio show "Things You 'Know' That Just Aren't So, And Important News You Need To Know" can be heard at 8:45 AM Wednesday and Friday mornings on 1320-AM WILS in Lansing (which streams live and becomes part of the audio and text archives posted at http://www.1320wils.com.
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Silver at $60 by May??? I'll revisit this page then with a big laugh ready.
I'd like to see that but if it takes until June that's fine too.
laughing about silver "SILV" is not the answer. Think about it this way, silver mining production is at its all-time-high and yet it is holding it's price in the $30′s to mid $30′s pretty stable.
The silver quantity is heavily inflating. It is like Crazy Ben printing his trillions of dollars and inflating the dollar. If silver production would have remained the same as a few years ago, the price would be considerably higher. And at some point the silver production has to slow down since it is used and consumed in industry and its mining production will become more costly. More costly because of its only association to copper mining and look where copper mining is, cost-wise, due to fuel cost. And secondly because of having to dig deeper and deeper (harder to find more and more)…
And this discussion does not even talk about the fact of the inflationary Crazy-Ben-aganda. Portfolios should include therefore physical seeds, ammo, guns, silver, gold, fuels, food, good neighborly relationships and community collaboration, … and much prayer!
Pat, It's good to have you as a colleague again.
Nice post! I sure hope you are right about gold and silver prices I will keep checking your website for more info!


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can just hear some Hollywood exec wondering if it has "series
potential" while watching the dramatic showdown in the latest episode of
the Elin Gonzlez tug-of-war. On April 22 federal agents in a long overdue
and overdrawn response "rescued" the six-year-old from a politically
driven soap opera and family feud. He was reunited with his father, a reunion
that enjoyed support from the majority of people living outside the
Castro-hating hothouse of Miami's Little Havana.
media was omnipresent, of course, live and in color, milking the drama for all
it was worth. On many networks "all Elin all the time" had months
ago become a programming staple — coverage that mostly failed to take a
critical look at the vicious 30-year U.S. embargo of Cuba that created the
conditions leading to Elin's mother's "escape" in the first place.
His first rescue, at sea, had long since been overshadowed by a hostage
situation created by his relatives and their fanatical supporters among
right-wing exile groups. The best interests of the child were not necessarily
considered in their best interest. (One unreported aside: A Cuba-expert friend
of mine who was shuttling between Havana, Miami and Washington to resolve this
crisis told me of an earlier encounter with Elin. He was asked if he wanted to
go home. His response was a question indicating the nature of this six-year-old's
fears. "Will I have to go back the way I came, on a raft?" he
reportedly asked.
major complaint in most TV newsrooms was undoubtedly with the timing of the
raid. Why couldn't Attorney General Reno have waited until primetime to act, so
that they could have enjoyed a bigger audience? Instead, the marshals moved with
militarized speed – and in inappropriate combat gear – just in time to assure
attention during Saturday morning children's TV shows, thus traumatizing a whole
nation of kids with images of heavily armed men pointing scary weapons at
unarmed civilians. I guess a Justice Department that brought us the Waco debacle
still doesn't know how to act in a less heavy-handed manner. One AP photo of a
gun pointed toward one kid effectively undercut their moral standing. They have
a way of blowing it even when they try to do right.
I thought about the child's rescue, in this month of Passover and Easter, with
biblical tales of a people's exodus to freedom and Christ's resurrection, my
mind drifted elsewhere. It took me back to another land and to tens of millions
of children without fathers or mothers, who have no federal marshals to rescue
them and far less media attention paid to their plight.
years ago this month, I was on the assignment of a lifetime, documenting Nelson
Mandela's presidential campaign in South Africa's first democratic elections. I
was there at his invitation, as a result of the body of TV work our company
Globalvision [LINK to Globalvision.org] had produced on the apartheid issue over
the years. Our South Africa Now public television series was still on the minds
and in the memory of many South Africans forced into exile during the long years
of their fight for liberation. They provided access to us, although our film,
"Countdown to Freedom: Ten Days That Changed South Africa," was
independent in its approach.
the euphoria of that moment, as a long-disenfranchised people lined up to vote
on April 27, 1994, sometimes standing for hours in queues snaking through the
townships, there was a sense that here at last the forces of democracy were
triumphing over the forces of racism and repression. Mandela was seen as the
rescuer of his people. The world's best-known political prisoner went on to
become president. For many South Africans, and for the people who marched for
them in many lands, it was like being in a dream state. The world had turned
upside down. White rule was finally over in South Africa. And the transition was
largely peaceful.
world media was out in force to cover that spectacle, but focused on
personalities, not the struggle that they led. Their "liberation," as
we can see now, was only partial. And the "victory," only one part of
a more complicated truth. "The issues were black and white, the 'baddies'
and 'goodies' easily distinguishable thanks to variations in melanin
deficiency," noted the veteran South Africa watcher, journalist David
Beresford in the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian. "When [Mandela] walked
out of the prison gates, the moment confirmed those certainties — the
anticipated moral victory offering a fitting climax to what seemed like a
morality tale enjoyed by millions watching television. In retrospect it was
something of a fake orgasm in fairyland, because truth is not so easy."
to say, there is never any one single truth, but certainly it is true that
journalists around then, including myself, were not as aware as we might have
been of the genocide about to be unleashed in Africa, in Rwanda. Most of the
media missed the buildup to that manmade calamity and the UN's mishandling of
it. That story went mostly unexplained until years later.
largely unreported was another holocaust in the making in South Africa itself,
the HIV-AIDS pandemic. While I was chronicling the country's hopeful political
transition, a tragedy of cataclysmic proportions was brewing out of global-media
at least 3.5 million South Africans infected by HIV, that epidemic can no longer
be ignored. Part of the beloved country is no longer crying; it is dying, and in
droves. When I started covering South Africa in 1967 a state of emergency was in
effect. Now, with the death toll from AIDS rising, it has returned — although
not formally — as a state of urgency. At its core are ten million young
children like Elin, only these have been orphaned by AIDS and for the most
part are still off the media radar screen. While Newsweek and CNN do deserve
credit for reporting the AIDS orphans story, far more is needed.
children are relegated to the back pages because "big" journalism has
an affinity for Big Medicine and its top-down way of seeing AIDS in Africa only
in medical terms, as a disease to be fought with prevention, high-tech medicines
and research oriented toward finding "the cure" a.k.a. "a magic
bullet." Yet in countries that lack an adequate healthcare infrastructure,
legitimate questions can be raised about whether treatments developed in the
West are equally suitable in Africa. The one African leader who is doing some of
that questioning has become a target for editorial denunciations of his motives
and judgment.
is South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela's chosen successor, who
is at the center of that controversy. Mbeki has been questioning the link
between HIV and AIDS, and consulting with dissident scientists who have been
virtually run out of the medical world for questioning orthodox understandings.
Last week, a letter he wrote to President Clinton and other world leaders
explaining his stance was leaked to the Washington Post [LINK to letter?]. A day
letter the newspaper denounced him editorially for questioning mainstream AIDS
thinking, calling it "a ludicrous waste of precious time and a cruel hoax
on his suffering people." The subtext is that African leaders are to blame
for the spread of AIDS by not doing enough – a perspective as popular in some
liberal media circles as the notion among racists that oversexed Africans have
brought the problem on themselves. It is always easier to blame the victim than
look more deeply into how an epidemic spread. It is significant that it was the
Village Voice, an independent news weekly, that won the Pulitzer Prize for its
reporting on AIDS, not the Post or the New York Times (which also took an
editoral swipe at Mbeki).
challenge here is for both the media and medical worlds to recognize how
complicated this fight is. Many African societies are still in denial about
AIDS, uncomfortable with even talking about sex within their families, trapped
in deeply ingrained cultural taboos. Some governments even contend that these
cultural traditions must be "respected" by outsiders and AIDS workers.
To this, South African AIDS activists like David R. Patient say: "You may
very well be right in your argument, but you will end up being DEAD right."
In an article in the Citizen newspaper out of Pretoria, he insists: "We
either dramatically change our cultures or we will end up burying them."
to the problem is the failure on the part of many media observers to recognize
that the rapid spread of AIDS in the world needs to be reframed as a global
public-health emergency, then anchored in a health and human rights framework.
As Joyce Pekane, a vice president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions
(COSATU), put it in a recent speech at a conference of South Africans living
with AIDS: "The rapid spread of the disease is related to poverty and the
lack of access to socioeconomic rights such as housing, clean water and health
care." This structural problem, in a country where 37.5 percent of the
population is unemployed, and where rape and social breakdown is widespread, is
a major factor that makes it hard for people to change behaviors that puts them
at risk The pandemic spreads in other countries for similar reasons, along with
wars and refugee crises.
connected to all this is the enormous spread of the number of children orphaned
by AIDS worldwide. These kids, unlike Elin, do not have families to fight over
them. But they desperately need rescuers too, as well as major media to tell
their stories. The scale and implications of this problem are huge and
frightening, as I learned by working with MediaChannel advisor Albina du
Boisouvray, whose FXB Association [LINK: www.fxb.org] is focusing on the plight
of these orphans. The organization funds research at Harvard's FXB Health and
Human Rights Center [LINK: ], mounts field projects in 13 countries and does
policy advocacy among governments and international agencies. Du Boisouvray's
own work began after she lost her only son, Franois, a helicopter rescue
pilot, in an air crash in Africa. Now she is trying to mobilize interest from a
media that for months seems to have time for only one child – the "raft
have had too much attention paid to one child for the wrong reasons, and too
little paid to millions of others for the right ones.
Schechter produced 10 documentaries with GlobalVision, where he serves as vice
president and executive producer. He is the executive editor of MediaChannel
and author of "News Dissector," a collection of his columns and
writings from Electronpress.com.


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Even the most casual of television viewers have probably noticed the glut of negative ads related to the Senate race between Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon. It might seem like civility is a thing of the past, but that's not necessarily true.
The Connecticut Mirror interviewed Susan Herbst, author of "Rude Democracy" and president of the University of Connecticut for some historical context.
While the Senate ads criticizing the character of the candidates might seem rude, they pale in comparison to one event Herbst called "rock-bottom."
According to the Connecticut Mirror:
And as the politics of sectionalism in the 1850s drove the United States toward the Civil War, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks viciously beat Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane on the Senate floor after the latter referred to Brooks' relative, Sen. Andrew Butler, as a pimp trying to introduce the whore of slavery to Kansas.
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Rosa DeLuaro (D) is leading a discussion on Saturday in Hartford titled "Connecticut Women: Change You Want to See." The talk begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building.
Wayne Winsley (R) is calling for the suspension of state and federal gas taxes in order to keep fuel prices down. "Whether a person has a full-time job that they must commute to; or, a person is out of work but actively seeking a job; or, commuting to a part-time job; or, commuting to school; or, going to the grocery store to purchase food for their family – we need gasoline in the tank. That's the reality," Winsley said.
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100!!! I've reached 100!!! 100 blog entries, that is! I started the blog back in September, and though I could be mistaken, I THINK I've posted an entry every day I've been working (physically here at the station). We all know how easy it is to skip something when we don't really feel like doing it (a la going to the gym), so I'm happy to report I've made it this far! :)
To celebrate, I went to the bar today while I was working. Leroy's Tavern on the West Side. Before you start worrying about my decision-making skills, let me say I wasn't there to imbibe, just to shoot an interview and some video. :)
Leroy's was one of the businesses on or near Franklin Street that participated in the big Mardi Gras Pub Crawl last Friday. The owner told me they had their single highest day of sales since the place opened—43 years ago!! Other places served so many people they ran out of beer!
Overall, businesses, it seems, were very happy with the crawl. Even at Paul's Menswear (which obviously doesn't have a liquor license!), they enjoyed the excitement. An employee there told me they're hoping some of those people who came down to eat and drink on Franklin Street will also come back to shop in the future.
It makes me happy to see local, family-owned businesses succeeding. Paul's will celebrate 50 years this summer! They're now on their third generation at the store. Congrats!!
Wellll, that's about all I've got on this Fat Tuesday.
Oh wait. Fat Tuesday. This reminds me of one other thing.
I bought some Girl Scout cookies from our Sports Director Joe Downs (well, really his daughters) and today was the magical day they appeared. I did not bring my cash with me, so I went back to the sports office prepared to weasel my way into getting just one (of my FOUR) boxes without payment. I wanted some chocolate, can you blame me??
Joe caved and let me have one box of peanut butter patties. I ate five cookies. THEY'RE LITTLE! Anyway, apparently that's about 325 calories. Well worth it, I say. Since tomorrow is Ash Wednesday (fasting), I guess I know the rest of the box will last at least until Thursday! Perhaps I should just have Joe keep my cookies back in his office even after I pay him. Then I can just go get a few at a time, since historically, anytime I open thin mints they disappear practically instantaneously!! :)
Ok, that's it for real now. :) Enjoy the evening!
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