http://www.wikio.com/search=Woodrow Wilson Wikio - Woodrow Wilson http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=63065450 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was greeted with cheers, folk dancers and banners clamoring for his re-election when he stepped off a helicopter for a community meeting in Colombia last month.After Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:49:16 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=63065450 2008-07-04T21:49:16Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=63021333 Enjoy a few links with your hot dogs and fireworks. Today's theme (yes, there's a theme today): They said what? The Idaho Press-Tribune offers perspectives on America from U.S. presidents.... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:38:06 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=63021333 2008-07-04T13:38:06Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=63049945 While these propagandas are going on against Bangladesh for so long, I don't see any end to this. While the citizens of other countries such as Israel and India are busy building the images of their countries at home and here in USA, despite having lousy human rights condition, people of Bangladesh are busy destroying the image of Bangladesh both in Bangladesh and USA. Bangladeshis are more interested in the two corrupted political parties and their two leaders (netries) than anything else. We need to know why Selig Harrison produced such an imaginary story, it is because he is a full time slave of Indian community of USA. Bangladesh communities in USA and Britain are burden for Bangladesh, because only thing they do for Bangladesh is destroy the image of their country under the umbrella of the two political parties. Now-a-days their full involvement is to free their leaders unconditionally and re-introduce the corruption. To attain this, they are ready to do anything including branding Bangladesh as anything. --- On Thu, 7/3/08, S A Hannan wrote: From: S A Hannan Subject: [Dahuk]: Fw: Get a grip on Dhaka : Outlandish Proposal To: sahannan@yahoogroups.com, "dahuk@yahoogroups" , "Shetubondhon@yahoogroups" , Islam-Science@yahoogroups.com, "mahdiunite@yahoogroup" Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 7:23 AM Get a grip on Dhaka : Outlandish Proposal Selig S. Harrison, director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has written in Los Angeles Times on July 2, 2008 and has made some outlandish claim Part of his article reads " while the CIA and the Pentagon search in vain for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of northwest Pakistan, an Al Qaeda affiliate has been quietly building up terrorist bases in the jungles of Bangladesh under the protective aegis of a new military regime in Dhaka allied with Islamist forces. Bush administration officials privately endorse mounting Indian evidence that Bangladeshi Harkat agents spearheaded a series of terrorist attacks in India -- in Mumbai and Banaras in 2006, in Hyderabad in 2007 and in Jaipur in May. But the United States has conspicuously failed to press Bangladesh 's military ruler, Gen. Moeen U Ahmed, for a crackdown on Harkat and for the removal of highly placed intelligence officials with Islamist ties.He says that Moeen Ahmed is maneuvering to break up the two biggest secular political parties and muzzling the media.but Harkat, Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh and other Islamist groups that support the military regime are operating unhindered. As the fourth-largest Muslim country in the world, with 150 million people, Bangladesh matters to the United States in security terms because Harkat and its allies have direct links to anti-U.S. Islamist forces in Pakistan . These links predate the secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971. When respected Bangladeshi journalists have attempted to write about Islamist sympathizers in the military regime and their links with Islamabad -- naming names -- they have faced death threats and assassination attempts. Western think tanks, their experts and journalists, most of them , are good in manufacturing stories full of lies, half-truths and imagination. The accusation about Bangladesh Army is totally groundless, this is a primarily Muslim army, and they believe in Islam and practice Islam This is just natural and what these Western writers want is de-Islamisation of the army. Their claim that Harkat is building up in Bangladesh with the assistance of the army is a hundred percent fabrication. There are terrorist groups of various kinds , mostly Maoists, and we do not know about the extent of Harkat but we can say that the government of Bangladesh is taking all possible actions against such groups. It is another big lie that the government is backing the Jamaate Islami and other Islamic forces. Another lie is that terrorist activities in India are the work of Bangladeshi outfits.We are sorry at such stories of so-called enlightened writers of the West. We know they will never change. Venom against Islam, Muslims and Islamic organizations is in the blood of most of them __._,_.___ [Disclaimer: ALOCHONA Management is not liable for information contained in this message. The author takes full responsibility.] To unsubscribe/subscribe, send request to alochona-owner@egroups.com Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:09:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=63049945 2008-07-04T07:09:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62980903 The new US embassy opens in Berlin Friday with a festive ceremony and George Bush, senior, one of the fathers of German reunification. DW's Uta Thofern says the occasion merits a positive look back at US-German ties. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:50:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62980903 2008-07-04T06:50:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62946939 The Freedom Writers Diary , is a non-fiction book written by students from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. The teacher involved in the project, Erin Gruwell, encouraged students to keep journals in which they could explore personal challenges in their past, present and future. Ms Gruwell was inspired to begin the project after discovering a racist drawing that had been circulated by one of her students. This prompted her to open a debate that included discussion of Nazi propaganda techniques. She gave students assignments that included reading books such as The Diary of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo . With Erin Gruwell's inspirational leadership, the students produced a body of work that is a testament to the power of the human spirit and the transformational ability of the word to transform thinking and attitudes. Connie Heermann, an Indiana teacher with 27 years experience, came across the book after attending a workshop held by the Freedom Writers Foundation . She told the UK based Guardian newspaper : "If you read the whole book you will see how these inner-city students grow and change and become articulate, compassionate, educated young people who want to do something good in their lives despite the environment in which they were raised. I thought my students would very much relate to those kids." Ms Heermann received permission from her head and 150 parents to go ahead and use the book. However the Perry Meridian High School Board still hadn't had its say on the matter. Board members were unable to see the wood for the trees. Instead of focusing on the positive and life affirming aspects of The Freedom Writers Diary, they got hung up on the small stuff, such as occasional swear words. Connie Heermann received an email advising her not to use the book. She refused to comply with the order and was suspended. Her union is deciding whether or not to take the case to court. The School Board have attempted to argue that this is a matter relating to insubordination on Ms Heermann's part. Nonsense. It's about a teacher who had the guts to rock the boat and try an original approach ... she aimed to inspire students to get involved in a creative learning and discovery process, and ended up getting penalized for it. Connie Heermann is one of those rare teachers who seeks to expand the learning experience by introducing new ideas and inspirational material. A teacher with this type of initiative ought to be valued by the education system, not penalized. Book banning and the repression of ideas hearkens back to an earlier era. This incident has made Perry school district look reactionary and out-of-touch. Education is about exposure to ideas, most especially ideas that challenge prevailing attitudes, so that students can arrive at a critical understanding of their own and get an insight into the lives and struggles of others. To ban a book such as the Freedom Diary for petty moral reasons shows a degree of small mindedness that undercuts the very purpose of education itself. Tags: Connie Heermann , Freedom Writers Diary , Perry Meridian High School , Indiana , Freedom Writers Foundation Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:33:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62946939 2008-07-03T21:33:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62933167 Source: Reuters By Patrick Markey NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was greeted with cheers, folk dancers and banners clamoring for his re-election when he stepped off a helicopter for a ... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:28:59 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62933167 2008-07-03T19:28:59Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62924168 What do we want? Fiscal prudence, property rights and lower taxes THE oft-quoted maxim that a man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart, whereas one who is still a socialist at 40 has no head, has been variously attributed to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson and Otto von Bismarck, among [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:14:46 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62924168 2008-07-03T18:14:46Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62965982 MEXICO CITY -- John McCain arrived in the Mexican capital Wednesday evening for a visit that is expected to touch on tough issues like immigration and drug trafficking and underscore the importance of the Hispanic vote in the November presidential election.... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:33:57 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62965982 2008-07-03T16:33:57Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62927371 What do we want? Fiscal prudence, property rights and lower taxes THE oft-quoted maxim that a man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart, whereas one who is still a socialist at 40 has no head, has been variously attributed to George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson and Otto von Bismarck, among others. Whatever its origins, the path that leads from the student view of property as theft to an appreciation of low taxes is well-trodden, often suspiciously soon after employment sets in. Now, it appears, many students are starting adulthood differently. A report published on June 26th by Opinionpanel, a research outfit that specialises in polling students, documents a big shift in political allegiances on campus since 2004 (see chart). In those days the Liberal Democrats were the students' favourite; support for the Tories hovered between a fifth and a quarter, and a third supported Labour. Now fewer than a quarter support Labour, and the Conservatives have soared to 45%. ... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:02:45 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62927371 2008-07-03T13:02:45Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62831013 Supporter of a moratorium on foreclosures in Michigan standing outside a home that exploded on Lee Place near Woodrow Wilson on Detrot's west side, May 5, 2008. The home had been foreclosed. (Photo: Alan Pollock). Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Vacant homes spread blight in suburb and city alike Amid housing bust, foreclosures vex communities trying to hold dereliction and crime in check By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor From the July 1, 2008 edition ATLANTA - In Mesa, Ariz., officials are trying to decide what to do about boarded-up McMansions that become party pads, trashed in raucous "raves" where invitations come by text message. In Atlanta, thieving from abandoned properties is so bad that police caught one man building a new house entirely of pilfered materials from empty homes. Flint, Mich., has had to add firefighters and ladder trucks recently even though its population has declined. Up to 90 percent of fires start in homes where no one lives. From Atlanta's urban core to leafy neighborhoods filled with chirping crickets in Charlotte, N.C., some 2.2 million homes are expected to go through foreclosure – and stand empty – by the time the mortgage meltdown ends, according to Global Insight, an economic research firm. As the housing dominoes fall far from Wall Street, growing urban "ghost towns" of vacant houses are resulting in a costly crush of weeds, trash, and dereliction on a scale unseen in American cities since the Great Depression, economists say. As a $4 billion package to help municipalities deal with foreclosure-related blight hangs fire in the US Senate, US mayors met last weekend in Miami to vent about the scourge of abandoned homes. Cash-strapped cities are now scrambling – often using on-the-fly ingenuity – to rescue neighborhoods suddenly vulnerable to crime and stunned by millions of dollars in lost equity wrought by loose credit, opportunistic speculators, and predatory lending. "Economists and folks from the lending industry will talk about it as a market correction, which doesn't adequately describe it," says Joseph Schilling, an urban affairs professor at Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute in Blacksburg. "This isn't just blight in the urban core; it's blight and abandonment in new suburban communities, and that's just never happened before." In some Sun Belt cities like Orlando, Fla., and Charlotte, officials have tripled or quadrupled the number of liens they've placed on vacant homes in the past year, hoping to recoup at some point the money cities are spending to try to keep the properties from going to ruin. In California and Arizona, neighborhoods of half-million-dollar homes stand nearly empty, with some lonely residents using their former neighbors' yards as driving ranges. Meanwhile, long foreclosure lag times and uncooperative note-holders mean swimming pools go green, rain gutters fall off, weeds grow high, and ne'er-do-wells move in. Some 44.5 million homes in the US now stand next to an empty house, resulting in a drop of at least $5,000 in property value per house. By that calculation, a total loss of home value of $220 billion across the US can be attributed to the vacancy problem. "This is a man-made disaster that's had more dramatic impacts on real estate markets than natural disasters [have]," says Bruce Katz, a housing analyst at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington. "In a way, we have a lot of mini-Katrinas across the country." Banks and other mortgage lenders acknowledge they've been overwhelmed by the sheer number of foreclosures, finding themselves ill-equipped to be long-term landlords of so many properties. But they say the problem is complex, and that a long foreclosure process and the fact that people walk away before trying to work with lenders to rescue their mortgages also play into the dereliction of many neighborhoods. Last year, mortgage lenders helped 889,000 families avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association website. "You can guarantee that none of our members wants to be a landlord," says John Mecham, a spokesman for the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington. "Of course, we can also see where local officials are coming from – abandoned and distressed properties are not only a blight, but they drive down property values for entire neighborhoods." On Drummond Street One such place is Drummond Street, in the shadow of Clark Atlanta University. On what was once a lively street, half the bungalows and shotgun-style houses are boarded up, with trash strewn about. Here, as elsewhere, the falling market has pierced holes in inflated appraisals used to write mortgage notes. Bobby Todd, who has lived here 35 years, now sweeps sidewalks and trims hedges around the empty homes next to his. The mostly young, college-educated speculators bought new pickup trucks with money that he says should have gone into fixing up the houses – and then left when the market tanked. Mr. Todd himself is out nearly $7,000 in carpentry work he did on the homes. "They thought they could come make a profit, but they didn't and they just left it," he says. "I'm an old man, and now I'm working for free." Farther down Drummond Street, a vagrant moved a bed, a bureau, and other furniture into a boarded-up bungalow, and eventually started a fire that nearly burned the house down, say Joe Strotter and Bernice Roberts, owners and managers of the property. They've now found a tenant but are waiting until move-in day to replace stolen appliances. "People watch, and when they see a house stand empty for a while, they either empty it out or move in," says Mr. Strotter. Boarded-up homes are an expensive problem for Atlanta, which has already posted "no trespass" signs at as many homes this year as in all of last year. Vandals break in and pilfer copper wire and kitchen fixtures. Then vice moves in, including prostitution and drug dealing. In Charlotte, the overall crime rate has remained flat, but crime in several new but mostly empty suburban areas rose by 33 percent from 2003 to 2006. In one Atlanta neighborhood, speculators who can't sell homes they'd hoped to "flip" pay homeless men to stay in the dwellings to watch over them. With 11 code enforcers laid off because of budget cuts, Atlanta police are working overtime to patrol blighted streets. "The responsibility is falling more heavily on our shoulders," says Atlanta Police Maj. Joseph Dallas. That has mayors like Jerry Abramson of Louisville, Ky., worried – and a bit mad. Mayor Abramson calculated that his crews, in one month, spent $102,000 to mow lawns, fix gutters, and empty green pools at foreclosed properties. But even after putting a lien on a property – which should be paid out when the place finally sells – cities seldom collect on those debts. Abramson picked up the phone and called lending executives at Wells Fargo and Countrywide himself to, only half-jokingly, demand repayment. "All of a sudden what dawned on me was that taxpayers were protecting the assets of banks and mortgage companies," Abramson says in a phone interview. How cities are coping Local ingenuity is offering some hope, says Jim Brooks of the National League of Cities (NLC) in Washington. In Trenton, N.J., city officials asked priests, imams, and rabbis to make congregations aware of new public and private efforts to help people stay in their homes rather than letting them slide into foreclosure. In Flint, Mich., a new land-banking program allowed the city and county to leverage $2 million worth of investments into $35 million worth of renovations on derelict foreclosed homes – an innovation other cities may replicate. Wilmington, Del., has started ticketing property owners quickly for code violations, instead of using the traditional code-enforcement ritual that can take months to complete. And Pembroke Pines, Fla., is weighing whether to assume mortgages on delinquent homes occupied by renters, so the home won't end up standing empty. In Washington last week, the Senate cleared the way for a mortgage-relief bill that includes $4 billion to help cities buy and refurbish foreclosed properties. The White House, however, has threatened to veto the bill over that provision, saying it's an expensive earmark that will primarily benefit the very lenders who loaned money rashly. The debate is expected go to into July, but experts agree that Washington will play a major role in how cities deal with growing inventories of dark-windowed homes. "It's fair to say there's a window of opportunity here, with the force of local grass-roots efforts coming from the bottom up and some assistance from Congress and states coming from top down," says Mr. Brooks at the NLC. "That's the policy you'd want, and when they meet, good things happen. We need them to meet now." Find this article at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0702/p01s01-usgn.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:46:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62831013 2008-07-03T04:46:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62829409 Sometimes you just want to take a bite out of communism or at least a little lick. Satisfy your sweet tooth and nutty desire to know what the former head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic tastes like with Vladimir Lenin head pops. The Lenin lollipop apparently tastes like cola, which would mean a Woodrow [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:32:28 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62829409 2008-07-03T04:32:28Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62808387 Days after pressing Congress to urgently approve the money, the White House said it would take months, and possibly longer, to deliver $400 million in emergency assistance to Mexico. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:54:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62808387 2008-07-02T07:54:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62694816 Safety worries bubble up as nanotechnology pushes more companies to revamp products. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62694816 2008-07-02T05:30:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62524454 Georgie Anne Geyer: Is ‘a Fidel Castro’ in Mexico’s future? The Iraq story makes the papers about once a day, although ever more unenthusiastically for the American reader. Afghanistan edges into newsprint occasionally. But our own hemisphere? Or our important, long-suffering neighbor, Mexico? There the coverage is even worse. Mexico has never been led by a strongman [...] Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:42:37 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62524454 2008-06-30T21:42:37Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62525313 Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique vegetation, is graphically documented by more than 300 satellite images in Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, a new publication from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Full release Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:32:38 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62525313 2008-06-30T21:32:38Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62525658 WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique vegetation, is graphically documented by more than 300 satellite images in Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, a new publication from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:02:34 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62525658 2008-06-30T20:02:34Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62511166 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:13:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62511166 2008-06-30T19:13:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62492084 GOP presidential candidate McCain pitches the idea, but it's not nearly as simple as it sounds. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:36:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62492084 2008-06-30T16:36:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62455413 Time for another straw poll. Which is dumber? Endorsing polio because it took polio to get us the cure Endorsing Barack Saddam Hussein Obama because it took James Earl Ray Carter to get us Ronald Woodrow Wilson Reagan Make that two more. Which of these is dumberer? Opponents of Barack Hussein Obama harping on the fact that [...] Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:21:44 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62455413 2008-06-30T11:21:44Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62414667 The Boulevard of the Allies was rededicated as a tribute to the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended "The War to End All Wars." Included in the ceremony were speakers, song and a church bell stuck once for each ally. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:31:43 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Woodrow+Wilson?rinfoid=62414667 2008-06-30T04:31:43Z