The push in states comes as a high-profile effort in Congress to blunt the court's January ruling has stalled in the Senate amid strong opposition by Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Senate inaction has cast doubts that any new federal disclosure rules will be in place before November's midterm House and Senate elections.
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Caracas, July 22.— President Hugo Chavez severed Venezuela's diplomatic relations with Colombia on Thursday over claims he harbors guerrillas, and he warned that his neighbor's leader could attempt to provoke a war.
Chavez said he was forced to break off all relations because Colombian officials claim he has failed to act against leftist rebels who allegedly have taken shelter in Venezuelan territory.
He acted moments after Colombian Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos presented a meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington with photos, videos, witness testimony and maps of what he said were rebel camps inside Venezuela and challenged Venezuelan officials to let independent observers visit them.
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Australia's first woman prime minister is expected to call an August 28 poll, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said, giving voters stark choices over a new mine tax and climate policy but little difference in economic management. "I'm not engaging in election speculation," she told reporters yesterday, but media pundits expect her to call anAugust 21 or 28 poll today or next weekend.
"But whenever the election is called, there will be a very clear choice about whether Australia moves forward or back," she said. Ms Gillard's office declined to comment on the ABC report, but news outlets said Labor staff had been told to man campaign headquarters this weekend.
Jul.8 (WMD).─ The Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD) posted its report “The Pretoria Roundtable on Democracy in Africa,” [←click here] online. The report is the result of a roundtable discussion with over 40 civil society democracy proponents from 15 African countries, held on February 24. The roundtable was organized with the support of IDASA, the World Movement for Democracy, and the African Democracy Forum (ADF), the African regional network of the World Movement. Discussants focused on the rights of women and minorities, elections, the free press, democracy and development, democracy education, and threats to civil society.
Raipur, Jul. 2.─ A doctor who performed autopsies of the 26 security personnel killed in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgargh on Tuesday, said that at least 10 men had their hands and legs chopped off and throats slit.
"All the 26 bodies were bullet-ridden, but we found some 10 bodies with heads smashed, legs and hands chopped off and throats slit. These extreme brutalities were surely committed after the men fell to Maoist bullets," one of the doctors who carried out the autopsy said yesterday.
At least 24 troopers of the 39th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), one state policeman and a special police officer (SPO) were massacred on Tuesday. Comentarios 80 hits
Berlin, Jul.1 (Reuters).─ At 12pm the delegates gathered in the Bundestag’s plenary room to begin voting to decide who would be the next President of Germany, a largely ceremonial but nonetheless important role. Previous incumbent Horst Köhler stepped down in May.
Annalena expressed absolute certainty in her father’s ability: “He’ll do it, and he’ll do it well.” Wulff himself was more carefully optimistic: “I’m rather confident that I will succeed in becoming the tenth President.”
But success came slower than expected.
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In a country where the concepts of democracy and freedom are limited, progress is not possible
Jul.2.─ Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insists that "Without normal democratic development Russia will have no future". We Russians are pleased to hear these enlightened words, yet Putin adds a "but" to his argument, which weakens it considerably. In fact, Putin's "but" renders his points senseless.
We have hated this "but," this coordinating conjunction, ever since the dawn of the Soviet era. Then we were told that freedom is good, but that one can't live in an individualist society without common concern for the communist state. Democracy is great, but only in the interests of the working class.
Now Russia's prime minister tells us that democracy is indeed great, but that public protests cannot take place in public places, say, around hospitals and the like. Never mind that the Russian Constitution does not list hospitals among places forbidden for public assembly, or that sick people need democracy, too.
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev does understand — with no "buts" — that "freedom is better than not freedom", that "legal nihilism" is bad and democracy is good. He understands that Stalin was a criminal, that his order to murder Polish officers in Katyn was an act of depravity that has no excuse or explanation.
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