| Anguish Over Iraq Shakes Public’s Faith in Military Solutions
"The public has come to the conclusion that military solutions aren't the answer, they're talking about the strategies they think would work and are feeling very frustrated that other methods aren't being employed more effectively."
Methodology
Public Agenda's study probes much deeper than typical polls, examining core strategies and beliefs about America's role in the world and how much the public holds the government accountable on specific issues. Supported with funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the index covers more than 25 different issues through more than 110 different survey questions and has been issued biannually. Public Agenda's foreign policy survey has been fielded four times, first in June 2005, again in January 2006 and Septebmer 2006, and most recently March 2007.
Analysis of Lib Dem policy
THE Scottish Liberal Democrats will go into the Holyrood elections committed to introducing what they call "a new system of fiscal federalism" for Scotland within the UK. Lib Dems will promise that if they win power they will "significantly increase the taxation powers of the Scottish Parliament" The party claims that fiscal federalism - which would give the Scottish parliament substantial power to raise its own taxes - will improve accountability, increase transparency and encourage more efficient allocation of resources. According to the Lib Dems the system - recommended by a commission chaired by Lord David Steel, their former UK party leader and the parliament's former Presiding Officer - would also allow Holyrood "to have its hands on the fiscal levers necessary to influence the direction of the Scottish economy".
Fighting for Armenia
Hence, fighting for Armenia will determine who controls the South Caucasus, and can exert certain influence on Asia Minor. For this reason, the West and Russia are equally interested in Robert Kocharian's successor. For us the best choice will be Serzh Sarkisian, defense minister and secretary of the Armenian Security Council. As a government official, he has climbed the career ladder starting from the bottom, and held key positions in security-related bodies of Nagorny Karabakh and Armenia. He knows the domestic situation well and has built a good working relationship with his Russian colleagues. All these factors should contribute to the consolidation of strategic partnership. There is no united opposition in Armenia, which does not mean that the presidential elections will be uneventful.
Words of Wisdom From Sista Souljah
In celebration of International Woman's History Month we went digging in the crates and pulled up some old yet timeless tapes of Sista Souljah. Many of y'all may know her as an author. She's given us two incredible books called 'No Disrespect' and the 'Coldest Winter Ever'. Others may know Souljah as an uncompromising activist/ Freedom Fighter who was the brunt of unsavory remarks from former President Bill Clinton back in 1992 after the Rodney King uprisings. Homeboy was definitely out of line as we later came to discover that Clinton took her remarks out of context and then dissed her as a way to show white America that he was willing and able to stand up to Black people and Black interests. She was the convenient scapegoat. His repudiation of her became known as a Sista Souljah moment.
Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter takes legal action against ...
INDIANAPOLIS | East Chicago Second Century, Inc. (Second Century) needs to provide an accounting of $16 million it has received over 10-years announced Attorney General Steve Carter today in a news release.Carter has filed a lawsuit seeking a court-ordered accounting from the for-profit organization and says a public charitable trust should be established to ensure gambling revenue is being utilized for the public’s benefit."Riverboat gambling in Indiana was established to help communities with economic growth," Carter said. "I want to know, and the public deserves to know, ‘Where did the $16 million go?’." Citizens living with a casino in their own back yard, promised to receive economic development from the casino by the legislature, have been denied an accounting or proof of these expenditures."Read more in Friday's edition of The Times.
Today in Clarksville
To have your event included in "Today in Clarksville" or our calendar listings, please e-mail calendar@theleafchronicle.com.Community 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. National Parkinson Foundation Outreach Program Support Group meeting at Clarksville-Montgomery County Library community meeting room, 350 Pageant Lane. 615-936-5517.
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Local American Red Cross blood donor center, 585 S. Riverside Drive, Suite L., open for donations. 800-448-3542.
1:30 p.m. The Clarksville Tree Board will plant a living legacy tree in memory of longtime city councilman R.E. Bobby Durrett at the Where Imagination Flows playground, Fairgrounds Park. 647-8339.
2 to 7 p.m. Blood Drive at Mount Zion United Methodist Church, 5875 Highway 48, Cunningham. 615-346-7810.
EU: Lunch with the FT: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Green MEP
Prague- The Czech government, which also comprises the Greens (SZ), should more focus on ways how to save energy instead of considering exceeding the limits for brown coal mining in north Bohemia and increasing nuclear power production, former Czech President Vaclav Havel told CTK. He hinted at the activities of current Industry and Trade Minister Martin Riman (senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS). "Arguments that we will need more and more energy are being constantly used, but the number of inhabitants [in the Czech Republic] is more or less the same. We should at first place solve the problem how to consume less energy," Havel told CTK being asked about Czech environment policy. He thereby sided with the opinions of Environment Minister and Greens chairman Martin Bursik who said that energy must be saved, mentioning the introduction of "negaWatts" instead of "Watts" to measure power consumption.
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