sounds like international welfare to me
godfuckindamnit - more taxpayers money - NUKE the UN - NOW!
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Leaders of developing nations called Wednesday for more foreign aid and freer trade to help poor countries develop, warning at a U.N. summit that chronic poverty could fuel regional conflict.
They complained that richer countries have failed to meet commitments to forgive the debts of poor nations and to lower trade barriers to their goods.
"The survival of small islands of prosperity surrounded by seas of destitution is not viable," Mexican President Vicente Fox said in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly. He said poverty "provokes conflicts which respect no borders, and it threatens peace and security at a regional and global level."
Fox and leaders from Jamaica, Nigeria and other countries said rich nations must make faster progress toward carrying out the Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed them to spend more on foreign aid and help to improve living standards for the poor.
They were speaking at a meeting on financing development held immediately after the opening of a summit marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
Jamaica's prime minister, Percival James Patterson, speaking for the Group of 77, which represents 132 mainly developing nations, complained that richer nations have failed to keep promises to stop the outflow of money from poor countries for debt payments and other transfers.
Patterson said poor countries are paying some US$230 billion (euro185 billion) a year to developed nations. He said there has been "no real initiative" to ease the debt burden of low- and middle-income countries.
"This burden is far too heavy for many of these countries," he said.
The event comes amid work on a plan to forgive US$40 billion (euro32 billion) in debts owed by 18 poor countries, mostly in Africa, to the World Bank and other international lenders. Some anti-poverty and other groups want the debt relief expanded to cover more than 60 poor countries.
Patterson also complained of a lack of progress on Millennium Declaration promises to eliminate tariffs on exports by the world's poorest economies and to ease trade in goods from others.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz echoed the appeal for freer trade, saying that fighting poverty "calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agriculture subsidies that hurt small farmers and the private sector."
U.N. goals set in response to the Millennium Declaration called on governments to cut extreme poverty by half, stop the spread of AIDS, ensure universal primary education, and expand access for the poor to clean water, all by 2015.
But only a handful have met a U.N. target set 35 years ago to raise annual foreign aid spending to 0.7 percent of their economic output.
"There remains an enormous backlog of deprivation," said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Chinese President Hu Jintao used the event to unveil initiatives including a promise of US$10 billion (euro8 billion) in low-interest loans for poor countries, as well as duty-free import status for 39 of the poorest of them.
Hu said Beijing would give to anti-malaria efforts in Africa and train 30,000 workers in a range of jobs.
"China is ready to work with all other countries to make the 21st century truly a century of development for all," Hu said.
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf pointed to his own country as an example of what he called the success of a mix of aid, foreign investment and economic reform.
Musharraf said Pakistan achieved 8.4 percent economic growth this year after freezing military spending, paying down government debt and giving land titles to the poor.
"Good policies can turn around the worst-performing economies," Musharraf said. However, he said, "rapid development cannot be achieved by domestic financing alone" and still requires foreign aid and investment.
everywhere you turn - someone wants my stuff - GET YOUR OWN
the spineless pansies at the UN - fuks
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iran's president has told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country is ready and willing to give peaceful nuclear technology to Islamic states, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.
"The Islamic Republic never seeks weapons of mass destruction and with respect to the needs of Islamic countries, we are ready to transfer nuclear know-how to these countries," said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Erdogan during this week's U.N. World Summit.
The United States, which has no direct ties with Iran, and the European Union fear the Islamic Republic will use its nuclear program to create weapons. The EU has been negotiating with Iran, but no agreement has been reached.
Iran insists that its program has nothing to do with weaponry and instead reflects its awareness of decreasing oil reserves.
"We have firmly decided to use this technology for peaceful purposes within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, international regulations and cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency," Ahmadinejad said.
The president again criticized nations, such as the United States, that have large nuclear weapons arsenals but oppose Iran's program.
Ahmadinejad and Erdogan discussed strengthening economic ties between Turkey and Iran, which the Iranian president said he prefers to direct contact with Europe. Erdogan invited the Iranian president to pay an official visit to Ankara, IRNA said.
who the hell do you think they will share it with TERRORISTS you IDIOTS
fuckin layers - this chic should've been dead LONG ago
she did it for the money- fuckin hobag
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Frances Newton was executed Wednesday for the fatal shootings of her husband and two children 18 years ago, becoming the third woman, and first black woman, to be put to death in Texas since executions resumed in 1982.
Strapped to the death chamber gurney and with her parents among the people watching, she declined to make a final statement, quietly saying "no" and shaking her head when the warden asked if she would like to speak.
Newton, 40, briefly turned her head to look at her family as the drugs began flowing. She appeared to try to mouth something to her relatives, but the drugs took effect and prevented her. She coughed once and gasped as her eyes closed. She was pronounced dead eight minutes later.
One of her sisters stood against a wall at the rear of the death house, her head buried in her arms. Her parents held hands and her mother brushed away a tear before they walked to the back of the chamber to console their other daughter.
About three dozen demonstrators chanted outside, but the crowd paled in comparison to the hundreds who gathered in 1998 to protest the execution of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War.
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution earlier Wednesday. Without dissent, the high court declined a pair of appeals about an hour before Newton was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber.
Newton was convicted of shooting to death her husband and their two children some 18 years ago. She was moved late Tuesday from death row at a prison in Gatesville to a prison south of Huntsville, where she spent the morning with relatives.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons described Newton as calm but emotional as officials moved her to the Huntsville Unit, where the punishment was carried out.
"She's doing pretty bad," said one of her lawyers, David Dow. "I think she was really expecting to win in the clemency board."
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which last year paved the way for Gov. Rick Perry to issue a reprieve about two hours before Newton was set to die, on Monday unanimously rejected a request that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison. Perry rejected another delay in the execution Wednesday afternoon.
She also lost appeals in state and federal courts. Her execution was the 13th this year in Texas, and she was the 11th woman executed in the United States since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed the death penalty to resume.
Newton didn't deny putting a gun in her 7-year-old son's knapsack and stashing the bag at an abandoned house. But she and her lawyers argued the .25-caliber blue steel revolver she hid was not the one used to fatally shoot her son, Alton; her 21-month-old daughter, Farrah; and her husband, Adrian, 23, at their Houston apartment.
Newton all along insisted she was innocent, and the claim about the gun was among several in her appeal to the Supreme Court. She also contended her trial attorneys were incompetent and evidence at her trial was improperly destroyed.
"I know I did not murder my kids and my family," she told The Associated Press in a death row interview. "It's frustrating. ... Nobody's had to answer for that."
Prosecutors called Newton's appeals meritless, noting that a second gun never was recovered, that repeated ballistics tests confirmed the gun she hid was the murder weapon, and that any destruction of evidence was not improper.
"The unbroken chain of custody directly links Newton to the murder weapon," the Texas Attorney General's Office said in its filing to the Supreme Court.
Three weeks before the slayings, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and said she signed her husband's name to prevent him from discovering she had set aside money to pay for the premiums.
Prosecutors said the insurance payoff was the motive for the slayings.
only in america
these bastards were broke BEFORE katrina!
now us taxpayers will be filling the fucking bill AGAIN - goddamnit
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) -- New Orleans teachers will not get paid for periods after Hurricane Katrina because there is almost no money left in the city's strapped school system, an executive of the outside firm that runs the schools said Wednesday.
But a team of experts was set to descend on the city on Wednesday to find schools that can be reopened as soon as possible, providing the system gets emergency funding from the government to operate.
The paycheck issued this week to teachers is for the last pay period before the storm hit, said Bill Roberti, a director with the restructuring firm of Alvarez & Marsal, which runs the school system.
"This is the last payroll we will be able to issue for the time being," Roberti said in a briefing. "We were not able to move forward with the $50 million financing we were pursuing to keep the district afloat. We are very low on cash at this time."
The 7,000-employee, 116-school system was already in dire financial shape before Katrina hit, which is why the firm was pursuing the $50 million finance package.
A total of $13 million in payroll is available at Western Union branches across the country for teachers to pick up, Roberti said.
The state's schools superintendent said Tuesday he will ask Congress for $2.4 billion in aid for teacher benefits and salaries, and Alvarez & Marsal sent a letter to President Bush as well, asking for help.
Sajan George, another managing director at Alvarez & Marsal, said the destruction Katrina caused was, in its own way, an opportunity to renew the beleaguered system.
"The rebuilding will afford a number of opportunities in not only rebuilding the physical environment but the educational environment students work in," he said. "The faster we can get back to reopening the school system the faster we can rebuild a world-class city."
fuckerz
