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February 3, 2011 (San Diego’s East County) -- ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about the most important issues globally and nationally. We include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views from around the world.
Top world and U.S. headlines recently include:
• Egyptian prime minister calls violence a ‘mistake’; Post journalists reported under arrest (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Pessimism over Egypt’s fate in Israel, abroad (Jerusalem Post)
• The battle for Cairo: 1,000 activists arrested (AlJazeera)
• Politician nominates Wikileaks for Nobel Prize (CNN)
• Yemen open fire to disperse protest; 3 hurt (Fox News)
• Australia’s worst cyclone in century follows Queensland floods (Reuters)
• Obama signs documents for new nuclear arms treaty (CNN)
• Protests raise hopes for women’s rights in Egypt (Los Angeles Times)
• EPA to regulate toxic chemicals in drinking water (Los Angeles Times)
• TEA Party –funding Koch brothers emerge from anonymity (U.S. News & World Reports)
• Media Watch: The pharaoh in the fuhrenbunker (Jewish Week)
• Abortion rights activists decry House bill they say attempts to redefine rape (CBS News)
• Jordan’s king appoints new PM after protests (Reuters)
• The real CSI: How America’s patchwork system of death investigations puts the living at Risk (ProPublica, a joint investigation with NPR and Frontline)
EGYPTIAN PRIME MINSTER CALLS VIOLENCE A ‘MISTAKE’; POST JOURNALISTS REPORTED UNDER ARREST
February 3, 2011 (Washington Post) CAIRO--At least five anti-government protesters were shot dead in Tahrir Square early Thursday and hundreds more were injured, demonstrators said, as the bloody clashes between demonstrators and government loyalists continued for a second day
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/03/AR201102...
ANALYSIS: PESSIMISM OVER EGYPT’S FATE IN ISRAEL, ABROAD
February 3, 2011 (Jerusalem Post) -- Egyptians continued to press for Hosni Mubarak’s immediate resignation as president on Wednesday, but Israeli and foreign commentators contacted by The Jerusalem Post sounded a unanimously pessimistic note over the future of Egypt’s relations with Israel in the post- Mubarak era.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=206475
THE BATTLE FOR CAIRO: 1,000 ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
Egyptian police arrested at least 1,000 people in two days of running street battles, an official said Thursday, as activists vowed to step up protests in the country's biggest uprising in 30 years.
February 3, 2011 (AlJazeera)-- Six people have died in the protests against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, which, inspired by the groundbreaking "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia, have sent shockwaves across the region and prompted Washington to prod its long-time ally on democratic reforms.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/The-battle-for-Cairo-1000-acti...
POLITICIAN NOMINATES WIKILEAKS FOR NOBEL PRIZE
February 3, 2011 (CNN) -- A Norwegian politician said he has nominated WikiLeaks for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing the website's contribution to "democracy and freedom of speech" worldwide.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/03/wikileaks.nobel.nomination/in...
YEMEN POLICE OPEN FIRE TO DISPERSE PROTEST; 3 HURT
February 3, 2011 (Fox News) – Witnesses say police have opened fire to break up an anti-government protest in Yemen, and security officials say one protester has been critically wounded.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/02/yemeni-president-says-wont-seek-...
AUSTRALIA’S WORST CYCLONE IN HISTORY FOLLOWS QUEENSLAND FLOODS
February 2, 2011 (Reuters) -- After the record-breaking flooding in Australia, now what has been described as the worst cyclone in the country's history has hit the state of Queensland.
Waves of over 14 meters (46 feet) and wind gusts above 260km/h (162 mph) are predicted from cyclone Yasi. Forecasters are saying that "phenomenal seas" are predicted - the actual technical term. It indicates that the specific wave heights predicted are the highest on the chart.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/02/idUS380823123420110202
OBAMA SIGNS DOCUMENTS FOR NEW NUCLEAR ARMS TREATY
February 2, 2011 (CNN)-- President Barack Obama signed ratification documents for America's new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia on Wednesday, clearing the way for the two powers to put the landmark accord into effect.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/02/obama.start/index.html?hpt=T2
PROTESTS RAISE HOPES FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN EGYPT
February 2, 2011 (Los Angeles Times)--Of all the astounding things that Rihab Assad has witnessed during these days of tumult, one stood out for her: the sight of a woman with a megaphone leading a crowd of demonstrators in chants.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-women-20110203...
EPA TO REGULATE TOXIC CHEMICALS IN DRINKING WATER
The EPA plans to set standards for perchlorate and 16 other substances, reversing a Bush-era decision.
February 2, 2011 (Los Angeles Times)--The Environmental Protection Agency took steps Wednesday to curb toxic substances in drinking water, including perchlorate, a chemical thought to threaten the thyroid gland that has contaminated hundreds of public water wells, mostly in California.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-na-water-epa-20110203,0,6547756.s...
TEA PARTY FUNDING KOCH BROTHERS EMERGE FROM ANONYMITY
February 2, 2011 (U.S. News & World Reports)--Few in America had heard about the third-richest Americans, brothers David and Charles Koch, until just recently. Aside from David Koch’s gifts to the Lincoln Center in New York and the naming of a theater after him, few outside a small, elite circle would recognize the name or know how to pronounce it. (“Koch” as in “coke”).
For decades, they were under the radar. They and their father had amassed an incredible fortune, mainly in the oil business. Their privately held company revenues last year were estimated at $100 billion. Each brother is worth $21.5 billion. That is a very big “B” in both cases.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Peter-Fenn/2011/02/02/tea-party-fund...
MEDIA WATCH: ‘THE PHAROAH IN THE FUHERERBUNKER’
German papers know that cheers can turn to chills.
February 1, 2011 (Jewish Week) The Jewish people weren’t born in Egypt, but our insecurity was. The first Jewish quote in the Bible was Abraham fearing he’d be murdered there. It was in Egypt that Joseph was framed on a rape charge and forgotten by a pharaoh. Jews were slaves and abused for 12 years under the Nazis, but were slaves and abused for 210 years in Egypt, only to be chased by chariots after being freed.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/media_watch_pharaoh_fuhrerbunker
ABORTION RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DECRY HOUSE BILL THEY SAY ATTEMPTS TO REDEFINE RAPE
February 1, 2011 (CBS News) -- Abortion rights activists are decrying the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," a House bill that seeks to expand prohibitions regarding federal funding for abortions - and which opponents say attempts to redefine rape.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030292-503544.html
JORDAN’S KING APPOINTS NEW PM AFTER PROTESTS
February 1, 2011 (Reuters)--King Abdullah of Jordan, a close U.S. ally, replaced his prime minister on Tuesday following protests inspired by mass demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt, but the opposition dismissed the move as insufficient. Abdullah asked Marouf Bakhit, a conservative former premier with a military background, to head the government after accepting the resignation of Samir Rifai, whose dismissal has been demanded in a series of protests across the country.
Islamists quickly expressed their anger with the appointment of Bakhit, whose government oversaw local and parliamentary elections in 2007 seen as marred by vote-rigging that left them with a handful of seats in a pro-government assembly.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/01/us-jordan-idUSTRE7103G720110201
THE REAL CSI: HOW AMERICA’S PATCHWORK SYSTEM OF DEATH INVESTIGATIONS PUTS THE LIVING AT RISK
February 1, 2011 (Pro Publica) -- In detective novels and television crime dramas like "CSI," the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality.
The reality, though, is far different. In a joint reporting effort, ProPublica, PBS "Frontline" and NPR spent a year looking at the nation's 2,300 coroner and medical examiner offices and found a deeply dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-real-csi-americas-patchwork-system...
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