“Four decades ago, a group of gays and lesbians in New York pushed back against persecution. When my loved ones celebrate my birthday today, we will also be raising a glass to 40 years of progress on gay rights. Being in a quiet long-term relationship and having a disturbingly "respectable" professional life means that I'm basically boring. Gay marriage in New York is painfully just out of reach, but looking back on the 40 years since Stonewall, my staid domestic life is itself a major triumph.” Michael Hamill Remaley
Stonewall Baby, All Grown Up By Michael Hamill Remaley. Copyright by The Washington Post. Saturday, June 27, 2009. I was born on the day of the Stonewall riots, June 27, 1969, so my life is an individual history of the 40-year-old modern gay rights movement. What makes my story particularly representative is just how conventional my life has become. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/26/AR2009062602771.html
The Real Mob at Stonewall By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 25, 2009. I WAS perhaps the unlikeliest person in the world to cover the Stonewall riots for The Village Voice. It was June 27, 1969. I had graduated from West Point only three weeks earlier and was spending my summer leave in New York before reporting for duty at Fort Benning, in Georgia. After a late dinner in Chinatown, I was about to enter the Lion’s Head, a writers’ hangout on Christopher Street near the Voice’s offices, when I blundered straight into the first moments of the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar a couple of doors down the street. Even a newly minted second lieutenant of infantry could see that it was a story. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/opinion/26truscott.html?th&emc=th
Colbert Report June 25, 2009: Jim Fouratt http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/232017/june-25-2009/jim-fouratt
International
Japan records sharp fall in prices © Reuters Limited. June 26, 2009. TOKYO, June 26 - Japanese consumer prices fell a record 1.1 per cent in the year to May, with falling demand increasingly blamed as the country’s second bout of deflation in less than two years deepens. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/64e67bf4-6202-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Eurozone recovery loses momentum - PMI data weaker-than-expected By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 10:36 | Last updated: June 23 2009 10:36 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aad398c8-5fd6-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
IMF sees drag on Irish growth until 2014 - Ireland faces deeper recession than any advanced economy By John Murray Brown in Dublin. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 13:44 | Last updated: June 25 2009 13:44 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2d0d44c-616e-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
China
US and China set to resume military talks By Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 14:55 | Last updated: June 21 2009 14:55. The US expects its highest-level bilateral military meeting with China in 18 months to be dominated by discussions about containing North Korea. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32398f08-5e46-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
Financial Times Editorial Comment: China will not save the world economy. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 19:04 | Last updated: June 21 2009 19:04. Both too much and too little are expected of China’s response to the economic crisis: too much, because the Asian giant can play only a modest role in rescuing the world economy; too little, because few believe the economy will be radically changed. The stimulus programme is helpful, for China and the world. But the real challenge is structural transformation. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c02d6e28-5e8d-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
China repeats criticism of dollar dominance - People’s Bank hits at US monetary policy By Peter Garnham. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 26 2009 12:00 | Last updated: June 26 2009 12:00 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f2236be4-6239-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
US lodges China censorship complaint - Follows Beijing action against Google By Richard Waters and Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Daniel Dombey in Washington and Kathrin Hille in Beijing. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 22:31 | Last updated: June 21 2009 22:31 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/874ca00e-5e9e-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
China rejects US and EU trade charges - Says quotas meant to protect environment By Tom Braithwaite in Washington, Joshua Chaffin in Brussels, Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Elizabeth Fry in Sydney. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 17:12 | Last updated: June 24 2009 10:05 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d594245e-600a-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
Europe and U.S. Accuse China of Trade Restrictions By JACK HEALY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 23, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/business/global/24trade.html?ref=global-home
Mess-o-potamia
Violence May Hinder Talks With Iran, Obama Says By JEFF ZELENY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 26, 2009. WASHINGTON — President Obama, whose campaign for the White House included a pledge to open talks with Iran, said Friday that the prospects for such a dialogue had been dampened by the brutal crackdown in the wake of the nation’s disputed presidential election. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/world/middleeast/27prexy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Chicago Tribune Editorial - Obama's shrewd words. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 23, 2009. Read newspaper opinion pages and political Web sites and you can't miss the harsh verdict of many U.S. conservatives: They see Barack Obama as an appeaser, a timid president who needs to more forcefully align his government with the protesters now under bloody siege in Iran. Writing in Monday's Tribune, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer lacerated Obama for dithering as Iran's theocratic dictatorship crushes expressions of liberty: "The demonstrators are fighting on their own, but they await just a word that America is on their side. ... And where is our president? Afraid of 'meddling.' Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror -- and the people in the street yearning to breathe free." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0623edit2jun23,0,5726062.story
G8 foreign ministers signal cautious approach on Iran - Reiterate invitation to nuclear talks By Guy Dinmore in Trieste. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 26 2009 13:36 | Last updated: June 26 2009 13:36. Group of Eight foreign ministers meeting in Italy on Friday cautiously bridged their differences over how to deal with Iran by deploring the deaths of peaceful demonstrators but reiterating their invitation to Tehran to join direct talks over its nuclear programme. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5cdb0fe-624d-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
Britain expels two Iranian diplomats - Regime singles out Britain for censure By Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 06:08 | Last updated: June 23 2009 16:13. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5e80612-5fb3-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
Zakaria: 'Fatal wound' inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology By Fareed Zakaria. Copyright by CNN News. June 21, 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/19/zakaria.iran.elections/index.html
Reading Twitter in Tehran? - Why the real revolution is on the streets -- and offline. By John Palfrey, Bruce Etling and Robert Faris. Copyright by The Washington Post. Sunday, June 21, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/19/AR2009061901598.html
The End of the Beginning By ROGER COHEN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 23, 2009. TEHRAN — Iran’s 1979 revolution took a full year to gestate. The uprising of 2009 has now ended its first phase. But the volatility ushered in by the June 12 ballot-box putsch of Iran’s New Right is certain to endure over the coming year. The Islamic Republic has been weakened. During one of the violent clashes here in recent days, I saw a member of the riot police confront a protester holding a cell phone. “Don’t take a photograph of me!” he yelled at the young man. “Why?” the man shouted back. “You’re not naked.” But the Islamic Republic is. Everyone knows where everyone stands; it isn’t pretty. All the fudge that allowed a modern society to coexist with a theocracy inspired by an imam occulted in the 9th century has been swept away, leaving two Irans at war. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/opinion/24iht-edcohen.html?ref=global
Iran’s Second Sex By ROGER COHEN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 26, 2009. From Day 1, Iran’s women stood in the vanguard. Their voices from rooftops were loudest, and their defiance in the streets boldest. “Stand, don’t run,” Nazanine told me as the baton-wielding police charged up handsome Vali Asr avenue on the day after the fraudulent election. She stood. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/opinion/27cohen.html?ref=global
Arab States Aligned With U.S. Savor Turmoil in Iran By MICHAEL SLACKMAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 24, 2009. CAIRO — The rancorous dispute over Iran’s presidential election could turn into a win-win for Arab leaders aligned with Washington who in the past have complained bitterly that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was destabilizing the region and meddling in Arab affairs, political analysts and former officials around the region said. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/world/middleeast/25arabs.html?th&emc=th
Khamenei Vows Iran Will Not Yield ‘at Any Cost’ By NAZILA FATHI and ALAN COWELL. Copyright by The Associated Press. Published: June 24, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/world/middleeast/25iran.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Ahmadinejad Tells Obama Not to Interfere in Iran By Thomas Erdbrink, William Branigin and Debbi Wilgoren. Copyright by The Washington Post. Thursday, June 25, 2009; 11:17 AM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062500774.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Iran Establishes Special Court to Try Protesters By Thomas Erdbrink and William Branigin. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, June 23, 2009; 1:14 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062300155.html?hpid=topnews
Iran arrests foreign nationals in connection with protests. Copyright by CNN News. June 24, 2009 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.election/index.html
June 22, 2009: Crisis in Iran http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=230709&title=crisis-in-iran
U.S. Announces New Afghan Drug Policy. Copyright By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Published: June 27, 2009. TRIESTE, Italy (AP) -- The United States has announced a new drug policy for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication programs while significantly increasing its funding for alternate crop and drug interdiction efforts. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/27/world/AP-EU-Italy-US-Afghanistan.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Premier Casting U.S. Withdrawal as Victory for Iraq By STEVEN LEE MYERS and MARC SANTORA. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 25, 2009. BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has taken to calling the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq’s cities by next Tuesday a “great victory,” a repulsion of foreign occupiers he compares to the rebellion against British troops in 1920. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/middleeast/26maliki.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Iraq Struck by a Wave of Bombings By ALISSA J. RUBIN and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 25, 2009. BAGHDAD — At least seven bombs exploded around the country Thursday amid a uptick in violence as American troops prepare to withdraw from Iraqi cities on June 30. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Obama Will Send Envoy to Syria, Officials Say By MARK LANDLER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 24, 2009. WASHINGTON — President Obama has decided to send an ambassador to Syria after a four-year hiatus, two senior administration officials said on Tuesday evening, in a sign of the deepening engagement between the Obama administration and the Syrian government. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24syria.html?ref=global-home
U.S. Drone Strike Said to Kill 60 in Pakistan By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and SALMAN MASOOD. Copyright by tTe Associated Press. Published: June 23, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/asia/24pstan.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
National
Justices Let Stand a Central Provision of Voting Rights Act By DAVID STOUT. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 22, 2009. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, declaring that there was no need at the moment to decide whether that provision was still constitutional in light of the fundamental changes that have swept across the South in recent decades. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23scotus.html?hp
Supreme Court Says Child’s Rights Violated by Strip Search By DAVID STOUT. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 25, 2009. WASHINGTON — In a ruling of interest to educators, parents and students across the country, the Supreme Court ruled, 8 to 1, on Thursday that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl by school officials who were looking for prescription-strength drugs violated her constitutional rights. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/politics/26scotus.html?_r=1&hp
Occasional Smoker, 47, Signs Tobacco Bill By JEFF ZELENY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 22, 2009. WASHINGTON — President Obama does not discuss the fact that he still occasionally smokes, a habit he very publicly tried to kick during his race for the White House. But there he was on Monday, talking about cigarettes. As he signed legislation bringing tobacco products under federal control for the first time, the president conceded that the new law, aimed at keeping children from starting to smoke, could have helped him three decades ago. Mr. Obama noted that 90 percent of smokers began on or before their 18th birthday http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/politics/23obama.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
US House passes landmark climate change bill - Partisan vote ends 219-212 By Edward Luce in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 27 2009 00:51 | Last updated: June 27 2009 03:11. The United States took its first step towards reducing carbon emissions on Friday night when the House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would set the country’s first ever limits on its greenhouse gas production. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/53024b4e-62ab-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
Train Car in Rear-End Accident Was Overdue for Brake Work By Lena H. Sun, Lyndsey Layton and David A. Fahrenthold. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, June 23, 2009; 1:37 PM. The Metro train car that slammed into another on the Red Line yesterday evening was two months past due for scheduled maintenance on its brakes, and the car was an older model that federal officials had recommended be replaced because of concerns about its safety in a crash, officials said today. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062300653.html?hpid=topnews
Tug-of-war over ‘Buy American’ By Sarah O’Connor in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 16:56 | Last updated: June 23 2009 16:56. Business groups, trade unions and the US’s trading partners are fighting a tug-of-war over “Buy American” rules as the Obama administration ponders whether to toughen up or neuter the controversial provisions. The measures, which were in the $787bn US stimulus bill, require any project funded with stimulus money to use only US-made steel, iron and manufactured goods. As the money filters out, Buy American requirements are rippling through the private sector, maiming some US companies that cannot comply with them and enraging foreign ones that are altogether excluded. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/071d47ba-600d-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
A First Lady Who Demands Substance - Michelle Obama Wants to Be Part of Events That Have Purpose And a Message -- and That Parallel the President's Agenda. By Lois Romano. Copyright by The Washington Post. Thursday, June 25, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/24/AR2009062403676.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Madoff stripped of everything in $171B forfeiture order; prosecutor seeking 150-year sentence By TOM McELROY. Copyright 2009 Associated Press. 10:05 AM CDT, June 27, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-madoff-scandal,0,116635.story
GOP Bashing
The Repugnant Party when it comes to race By Leonard Pitts. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 23, 2009. The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of President Lyndon B. Johnson's pen. If that is an exaggeration, it is not much of one. When Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, he made a prediction: In committing the unpardonable sin of guaranteeing the ballot to all citizens regardless of race, he said, he would cause his party to lose the South "for a generation." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0623pittsjun23,0,1364962.story
Governor Used State’s Money to Visit Lover By JIM RUTENBERG and ROBBIE BROWN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 25, 2009. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina acknowledged Thursday that he visited his mistress in Argentina on a taxpayer-financed trade mission to South America early last summer, an admission adding another layer to a scandal that produced increasing calls for his resignation. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/26sanford.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1246024803-f32b4TW0GSAZX0SxLzoRGQ
Mysteries Remain After Governor Admits an Affair By ROBBIE BROWN and SHAILA DEWAN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 24, 2009. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said Wednesday that he had been having an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina for the last year, ending the mystery surrounding his disappearance over Father’s Day weekend and considerably dampening his prospects for a national political career. But his confession and apology, in a rambling, nationally televised news conference, left other mysteries unsolved, like whether he had lied to his staff members as late as Monday about his whereabouts, whether the affair had definitively ended, whether he would resign from the governorship and whether he would even have acknowledged the affair had he not been met at the airport in Atlanta by a reporter upon his return. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/us/25sanford.html?th&emc=th
Sanford Case a New Dose of Bad News for Republicans By JIM RUTENBERG. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 24, 2009. WASHINGTON — Republicans were just starting to breathe a little easier. The news that Senator John Ensign had had an affair with a former aide who was married to another former aide was fading. Polls showed some voter impatience with President Obama’s policies, if not with the president himself. And the Politico, the insidery Web site that is widely read in the capital’s political precincts, even featured an article exploring the possibility of a Republican Party comeback. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/us/25repubs.html?th&emc=th
Washington Post Editorial: That Other Affair - Sen. Ensign's infidelity merits further investigation. Copyright by The Washington Post. Friday, June 26, 2009. IT WAS JUST a week ago that Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) was in the spotlight for his admission of marital infidelity. Now comes fellow Republican and would-be presidential hopeful Mark Sanford's clumsy admission of adultery, and Mr. Ensign is, so political pundits judge, yesterday's news. That's too bad, because there is still a lot about Mr. Ensign's affair that the public has a right to know. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062503424.html
Chicagoland
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Deadline, schmedline. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 26, 2009. Next year starts Wednesday. That's the harsh reality for social services agencies throughout Illinois and the people who rely on them for help. With Gov. Pat Quinn and state lawmakers still unable to agree on a budget -- heck, they can't even agree on the size of the expected deficit -- those agencies face the almost certain prospect of beginning a new fiscal year with no idea how much funding they'll have. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0626edit1jun26,0,7692147.story
Chicago Sun Times Editorial: Mayor owes aldermen a voice in 2016 pledge. Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. June 22, 2009 http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1633048,CST-EDT-edit22.article
Daley flip-flops on Olympic contract explanation - Mayor offers contradictory accounts about pledging to guarantee funding in Chicago's bid for 2016 Olympics By David Heinzmann and Dan P. Blake. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 28, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-daley-olympicsjun28,0,5557047.story
Firing of Daley executive urged - Personnel chief lied, inspector general charges By Todd Lighty. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 27, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-090628exec-story,0,3022717.story
Cop gets probation for beating bartender By Matt Walberg. Copyright by The Associated Press. June 23, 2009 2:07 PM http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/06/cop-to-be-sentenced-for-beating-bartender.html?track=email-alert-breakingnews
Chicago Sun Times Editorial: Stiffer penalty could teach brutes a lesson. Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. June 25, 2009. We're loath to second-guess the decision of Judge John J. Fleming to let a thug of a cop, Anthony Abbate, walk away without doing prison time. Fleming works in the Cook County Criminal Courts Building, where every day he must decide the fate of the worst of the worst -- killers and rapists and armed robbers -- so maybe the going punishment in his grim world for beating up a woman is only a couple of years probation. http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1638638,CST-EDT-edit25a.article
Is Lisa Madigan Democrats' Senate savior? BY LAURA WASHINGTON. Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. June 22, 2009. It gives the Democrats the heebie-jeebies in the middle of the night. It's a sweet dream for Republicans. It's the tantalizing prospect of snagging Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat in 2010. http://www.suntimes.com/news/washington/1633004,CST-EDT-laura22.article
Your Lack of Money
OECD sees strongest outlook since 2007 - Expects modest growth in 2010 By Norma Cohen. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 24 2009 09:41 | Last updated: June 24 2009 09:41. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has revised its World Economic Outlook upwards for the first time in two years, as its latest review concludes that the global economic slide is nearing a bottom. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/115a3408-602c-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
U.S. Durable Goods Orders Unexpectedly Jumped in May (Update2) By Shobhana Chandra. Copyright by Bloomberg News. Last Updated: June 24, 2009 09:50 EDT. June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Orders for American-made durable goods unexpectedly jumped in May, adding to signs that the economic slump is easing. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apkAeuPJBaJw
US incomes surge as stimulus kicks in - Consumers boost spending in May By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 26 2009 14:16 | Last updated: June 26 2009 14:16. Personal income in the US surged in May as government stimulus funds began working their way through the economy and consumers upped their spending for the first time in three months. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f3c99d60-6248-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
US recovery scheme slowed by state fears By Sheila McNulty in Houston. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 20:16 | Last updated: June 21 2009 20:16. Some US states have been reluctant to take all the federal stimulus funds available to them, fearing they will get mired in red tape or create jobs they have no way of funding in the future. This hesitancy, along with bureaucratic disbursement policies, is limiting the impact of the billions in Recovery Act funding designated for states and localities, according to analysts. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/04d7e206-5e93-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
OECD warns on pensions crisis - Risk of decades of hardship By Chris Giles, Economics Editor. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 13:13 | Last updated: June 23 2009 13:13. Strains in pensions systems, in both private and public provision, threaten to turn the financial crisis over the past two years into a social crisis lasting decades, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4301d326-5feb-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
US economy contracts by revised 5.5% - Jobless claims dent recovery hopes By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 14:34 | Last updated: June 25 2009 14:34 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/453a5a72-618b-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Brands left to ponder price of loyalty - Customers defect in droves By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 22:31 | Last updated: June 21 2009 22:31 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/67cee29c-5e89-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
Bernanke defends Fed on Merrill deal - Fed chief grilled over BofA threat claims By Tom Braithwaite and Krishna Guha in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 15:51 | Last updated: June 25 2009 23:04. Ben Bernanke was on Thursday forced to make an unusual public defence of his actions as a bank regulator amid accusations he overstepped his authority during the frantic talks over Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5388664-6194-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Fed begins exit from emergency support measures - Trims programmes and scraps unused scheme By Krishna Guha in Washington and Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 17:14 | Last updated: June 25 2009 17:14. The Federal Reserve on Thursday made its first tiny steps towards an exit from emergency support for financial markets, trimming back a couple of its programmes and scrapping one unused scheme, the money market investor funding facility, even as it extended the bulk of its programmes beyond year end. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4a759a40-61a1-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Regulators shut down 2 banks in Ga, 2 in Calif and 1 in Minn; 45 bank failures this year By MARCY GORDON, STEPHEN BERNARD. Copyright 2009 Associated Press. 1:59 AM CDT, June 27, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-bank-closures,0,6104596.story
Bankers’ pay soars in attempt to halt exodus - Salaries running close to 2007 highs By Patrick Jenkins in London and Francesco Guerrera in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 23:31 | Last updated: June 21 2009 23:31 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d532086-5e9b-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
Citigroup revamps pay structure - Bank trying to retain best performers By Francesco Guerrera in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 24 2009 05:23 | Last updated: June 24 2009 05:23. Citigroup is revamping its compensation system – raising salaries and reducing bonuses for top bankers – in an effort to persuade its best performers to stay with the troubled bank. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/59accb78-6075-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
Citi ordered to suspend Japan units - Regulator faults internal controls By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 26 2009 10:09 | Last updated: June 26 2009 14:31. Japan’s financial regulator has ordered Citigroup to halt some of its businesses for a month and fundamentally improve its internal controls, after finding that the US group failed to implement sufficient measures aimed at preventing suspicious transactions, including money laundering. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/937a212a-622d-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
AIG spins off units to cut its NY Fed debt - Insurer to give bank AIA and Alico stakes By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 13:29 | Last updated: June 25 2009 14:01. AIG said on Thursday that it would give the Federal Reserve Bank of New York stakes in two of its life assurance units in order to cut the debt it owes to the bank by $25bn. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f945db44-6182-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Boeing warns of more Dreamliner delays - Problems discovered with aircraft body By Kevin Done in London and Hal Weitzman in Chicago. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 15:30 | Last updated: June 23 2009 15:44 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9e27b708-5ffe-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
Commodities
Oil smashes through $71 on economic optimism - Recovery hopes and Nigeria attacks boost price By Miles Johnson. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 26 2009 11:50 | Last updated: June 26 2009 11:50. Crude broke through $71 a barrel on continued optimism for a sharp upswing in world economic activity and a further rebel attacks on the petroleum industry in Nigeria. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/77996522-623e-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
Housing
US home resales rise 2.4% in May - Foreclosures continue to pressure prices By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 15:58 | Last updated: June 23 2009 15:58 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf080734-5fee-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
Chicago home sales show uptick, but still down 27.5% By Mary Ellen Podmolik. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. 9:00 AM CDT, June 23, 2009. Sales of existing homes in the Chicago area posted the fourth consecutive monthly improvement during May but the region is still trailing year-ago levels. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-chicago-home-sales-june23,0,7720981.story
GLBT
Has the Gay Media become irrelevant? By Carlos T Mock. June 27, 2009. Since the gay rags come only once a week. By the time we read these and other news, they are obsolete—it’s like last week Newsweek. The way that we as a community react to this will either make or break the livelihood of our own Newspapers. For those who choose to ONLY read the gay media—there is no issue. But for most of us, who read three or four newspapers everyday, it is becoming annoying. http://iretiredfromnewsletters.blogspot.com/2009/06/has-gay-media-become-irrelevant.html
Paterson Vows Vote on Gay Marriage Before Break By DANNY HAKIM and JEREMY W. PETERS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 21, 2009. ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson said in an interview Sunday night that he would make sure that the State Senate votes on same sex-marriage legislation before it breaks for the summer, hours after he and his administration had refused to commit to forcing a vote on the issue. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/nyregion/22albany.html?th&emc=th
Same-Sex Marriage Gains Traction - Council, Not Voters, Gets Say-So on Non-D.C. Unions By Tim Craig. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, June 16, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061502606.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Jim Madigan to run for state senate seat by Andrew Davis. Copyright by The Windy City Times. 2009-06-24. In an exclusive talk with Windy City Times, Equality Illinois Interim Executive Director Jim Madigan said that he plans to run for the 7th District Illinois Senate seat next February against incumbent Heather Steans. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=21526
Immigration
New York Times Editorial: A Way Forward on Immigration. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 26, 2009. President Obama and Congress members met privately at the White House on Thursday for their first major discussion of immigration reform. Immigration is just one unsolved national crisis among many, and it was hard not to suspect that the parties might use the meeting — which had already been twice postponed — to dampen expectations for a bill this year. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/opinion/27sat1.html?th&emc=th
Republicans Focus on Guest Workers in Immigration Debate By JEFF ZELENY and GINGER THOMPSON. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 26, 2009. WASHINGTON — President Obama told a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday that Congress should begin debating a comprehensive immigration plan by year’s end or early next year, but Republicans said they would support a measure only if it included an expansion of guest worker programs. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/politics/26immig.html?th&emc=th
Senate Democrats Address Immigration By Spencer S. Hsu. Copyright by The Washington Post. Thursday, June 25, 2009. Senate Democrats outlined plans yesterday to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, including a requirement that all U.S. workers verify their identity through fingerprints or an eye scan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/24/AR2009062402244.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Technical
Financial Times Editorial Comment: Cyber security risk. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 19:48 | Last updated: June 25 2009 19:48. When western leaders talk about national security, they tend to focus on issues such as the threat from jihadism or the need for capable armed forces. But the US and UK governments are increasingly concerned by what they deem to be one of the 21st century’s biggest security risks: the threat of cyber attacks. Both governments recognise that the digital revolution is one of the prime drivers of global economic growth. But they worry that the internet is becoming an increasingly powerful instrument in the hands of those who want to steal, terrorise and wage war using novel methods. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/449751a6-61b3-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Apple’s network helps prevent a fall By John Gapper. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 24 2009 18:54 | Last updated: June 24 2009 18:54. Steve Jobs is returning to his post as chief executive of Apple, following a liver transplant, to some good news. On Sunday, Apple’s iPhone 3GS, the latest version of its device, passed 1m sales in three days. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12c92e6e-60e7-11de-aa12-00144feabdc0.html
Apple’s Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger By BRAD STONE and ASHLEE VANCE. Copyright by the New York Times. Published: June 22, 2009. SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is one of the world’s coolest companies. But there is one cool-company trend it has rejected: chatting with the world through blogs and dropping tidbits of information about its inner workings. Few companies, indeed, are more secretive than Apple, or as punitive to those who dare violate the company’s rules on keeping tight control over information. Employees have been fired for leaking news tidbits to outsiders, and the company has been known to spread disinformation about product plans to its own workers. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?th&emc=th
Nokia and Intel strike research deal - Aim for new mobile computing device By Maija Palmer in London and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 23 2009 17:04 | Last updated: June 23 2009 17:04 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fb0e2128-6003-11de-a09b-00144feabdc0.html
Medical
New York Times Editorial: A Public Health Plan. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 20, 2009. As the debate on health care reform unfolds, no issue has caused such partisan rancor — and spawned such misleading rhetoric — as whether to create a new public insurance plan to compete with private plans. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/opinion/21sun1.html?th&emc=th
In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health By KEVIN SACK and MARJORIE CONNELLY. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: June 20, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/health/policy/21poll.html?th&emc=th
Obama health plan gets boost from drugmakers By Tom Braithwaite in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 21 2009 19:53 | Last updated: June 21 2009 19:53. President Barack Obama’s plans for health reform received a double boost over the weekend, with drugmakers agreeing to cut prescription charges and an opinion poll showing a significant majority of Americans want the option of public health insurance. Pharmaceuticals companies agreed to cut about $80bn over the next decade in charges for prescription drug users aged 65 and over, the Obama administration announced on Saturday. These users of the Medicare government-backed scheme currently have to pay the full price of medicines that cost between $2,700 and $6,153 a year. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/000052a4-5e93-11de-91ad-00144feabdc0.html
Unraveling debate on health care By Clarence Page. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. June 24, 2009. As debate over President Barack Obama's health-care proposals kicks off, his opponents are lining up in a predictable way. On one side, conservatives call Obama a "socialist." On the other side, left-progressives wish that he was. If he really were a socialist, in my view, Obama would propose something attractively simple like expanding Medicare, the government's health-insurance program for seniors, to cover everybody regardless of age. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0624pagejun24,0,1984715.column
Other
NY Times reaches deal with Boston unions - Deal removes obstacle to sale of the Globe By Kenneth Li in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 24 2009 08:02 | Last updated: June 24 2009 08:02 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b2626b78-608a-11de-aa12-00144feabdc0.html
Michael Jackson dies at 50 - Death comes on eve of comeback tour By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: June 25 2009 23:19 | Last updated: June 26 2009 01:42 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bad95d2e-61d5-11de-9e03-00144feabdc0.html
Humor
Jon Stewart, Daily Prophet? By David Waters. Copyright by The Washington Post. June 21, 2009. In the July issue of Sojourners magazine, the Rev. Jim Wallis calls the Daily Show's Jon Stewart a prophet. "The Hebrew prophets often use humor, satire, and truth-telling to get their message across, and I feel you do a combination of all three," Wallis told Stewart. "I think you are a little like a Hebrew prophet after all." Stewart, who deflates big egos for a living, would have none of it. "It may be true that the Hebrew prophets used humor in that regard, to create social change, but it was also used by Borscht Belt social directors. We've got a lot more in common with them than the prophets." Stewart is more than a comedian. He's the Will Rogers of our time, laughing with us as he sharply and satirically mocks the absurdities of politics, media and popular culture. But a prophet? Seems like quite a stretch, at least in the theological sense of the word. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2009/06/daily_prophet.html?hpid=talkbox1
Sweden got talent - Naked guys dancing! Video http://vodpod.com/watch/1548742-sweden-got-talent-naked-guys-dancing
Music Styles http://iretiredfromnewsletters.blogspot.com/2009/06/music-styles.html
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In Pride (orgullo),
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www.carlostmock.com
Author: Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey - Floricanto Press 2003.
Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT
Round Table.
Author: The Mosaic Virus – Floricanto Press 2007. Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table, and a Lammie from The Lambda Literary Foundation
Author: Author: Papi Chulo – Floricanto Press 2007. Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table, and a Lammie from The Lambda Literary Foundation
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