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| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 22:25 |
Obama shifts Position on Oil Drilling; At Odds with Democrats
Speaking in Michigan, home to the US carbon based car industry, Obama said new energy policy must depend on domestic resources. His plan: a combination of renewable, coal, oil and nuclear, costing 150 billion dollars in ten years.
"If I am President, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal – in ten years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela."
| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 17:48 |
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| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 16:01 |
| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 15:45 |
Presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama laid out a new energy plan full of
short term and long term goals. His long term goal: complete US energy
independence within ten years. In the meantime, Obama says he's open to
expanded offshore oil drilling, which marks a shift in his position.
Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.
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| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 14:55 |
Matt Curtis is one of several activists and bloggers posting their audio interviews, photos and videos on the conference at aids2008.com. He spoke with Konstantin Lezhentsev, director of the All Ukraine Network of People Living with HIV.
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| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 14:52 |
AIDS activists, organized by Act UP Paris, made their voices heard at a symposium sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb yesterday, coinciding with the launch of the 17th Annual AIDS Conference, being in held in Mexico City this week. Bristol-Myers Squibb announced in March that it would stop distribution of a vital HIV drug for children known as efavirenz – a move that activists denounced as they took the stage and microphone at the symposium. Worldwide, more than 300,000 children died from AIDS last year alone and an estimated 420,000 children contracted the virus.
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| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 14:45 |
Health professional students from the US, Kenya and Uganda have uploaded video postcards, adding their voices to the conversations about HIV/AIDS advocacy.
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| Mon, 08/04/2008 - 14:37 |
A diverse group calling itself the Free Gaza Movement is heading to Gaza from Cyprus to challenge Israeli control of the territory. They say that in 2005 when Israel removed its settlements, it did not surrender control of Gaza's borders, making the land what they call an "open air prison, with no way in and no way out". So they're trying a new approach to get through: by sea. Tanya Snyder has this report.
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