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History…
1690, the first paper money in America was issued by the colony of Massachusetts. (The currency was used to pay soldiers fighting a war against Quebec.)
1783, Spain recognized U.S. independence.
1809, the territory of Illinois was created.
1820, born Elisha Kent Kane US arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
1823, born Spencer F Baird US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)
1874, born Gertrude Stein Pennsylvania, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
1870, The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing African American voting rights, becomes law.
1904, Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd FBI Most Wanted criminal
1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified.
1916, Canada's original Parliament Buildings, in Ottawa, burned down.
1917, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1940, born Jim Hartz newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations)
1969, Yasar Arafat is appointed chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1973, the Endangered Species Act, was signed into policy by President Richard M. Nixon. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers information on this law and statistics on endangered species.
1994, President Bill Clinton ends the trade embargo with Vietnam.
1994, The space shuttle Discovery lifted off, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.
Missing in Action
1966 BROWN WILBUR R. WILMINGTON NC NO RADIO CONTACT CRASH SITE UNCONFIRMED
1966 CARTER JAMES L. PASADENA CA NO RADIO CONTACT CRASH SITE UNCONF
1966 COFFEE GERALD L. (JERRY) LOS ANGELES CA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 HANSON ROBERT T. TOLEDO OH PROB RECOVERED BY NVN BOAT REMAINS RETURNED-IDENTIFIED 02/22/89
1966 PARSLEY EDWARD M. NAUGATUCK WV NO RADIO CONTACT CRASH SITE UNCONF
1966 WALLER THERMAN M. WYNNE AR NO RADIO CONTACT CRASH SITE UNCONF
1967 JOHNSON AUGUST D. HOUSTON TX BLOWN UP BY GRENADE IN BOAT
1968 ANDERSON JOHN T. NIAGARA FALLS NY 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG DECEASED
1968 CAYER MARC CANADA INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE RELEASED 13 FEB 1973 ALIVE 99
1968 DEERING JOHN A. NASHVILLE TN 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 DI BERNARDO JAMES V. FULTON NY 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 1998
1968 DIERLING EDWARD A. 02/23/68 ESCAPED
1968 DAVES GARY L. 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1968 ETTMUELLER HARRY L. PLEASANTVILLE NJ 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE AND WELL 99
1968 GOUIN DONAT J. FORT KNOX KY 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1968 HAYHURST ROBERT A. NEW RICHMOND WI 02/23/68 ESCAPED
1968 JOHNS VERNON Z. BALTIMORE MD LAST SEEN WITH APC 50C MGUN REMAINS RETURNED 890400 ID 910417
1968 WIGGINS WALLACE LUTTRELL WHITTIER CA 08/24/78 REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI
1968 WILSON MARION E. ZANESVILLE OH "HIT LAND MINE, SEEN BURNING IN CAB"
1971 GOTNER NORBERT A. KANSAS CITY KS 03/29/73 RELEASED BY PL ALIVE IN 98
1971 STANDERWICK ROBERT L. SR. MANKATO KS
1973 STRINGHAM WILLIAM STERLIN GARDEN GROVE CA
Haaretz
Israel, PA signal they may cap summit with cease-fire
By Aluf Benn, Arnon Regular and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies
Senior Israeli and Palestinian cabinet ministers said Thursday that Israelis and Palestinians could crown a regional summit next week by declaring a mutual cease-fire.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/535480.html
Gaza policemen head for training in Egypt
By Reuters
A group of Palestinian security officials left the Gaza Strip for Egypt on Thursday to be trained to ensure order in the Strip ahead of the planned Israeli pullout.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/535793.html
The indirect message of Mahmoud Abbas
By Ze'ev Schiff
In many respects it was surprising to see the hundreds of Palestinian policemen, armed and uniformed, some in red berets as if they were IDF Paratroopers, deployed throughout the northern Gaza Strip with the aim of preventing the launch of Qassam rockets at Israel.
… Through these steps, Mahmoud Abbas basically, if indirectly, sent another important message. The speed and the way in which the deployment of the large force was executed indicated that the force had always been ready, but that someone had prevented its deployment and involvement. In other words, Yasser Arafat did not want to do so because he had an interest in continuing the violent conflict. He did not give the order to prevent the shooting and when someone else, such as Mohammed Dahlan, wanted to do so, Arafat stopped him. When Dahlan showed steadfastness, Arafat dispatched his relative, Musa Arafat, to take action against him.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/535447.html
Ministers defend right to confiscate E. J'lem property
By Gideon Alon and Zvi Zrahiya, Haaretz Correspondents
Minister Natan Sharansky, who chairs the cabinet committee that adopted the controversial decision to apply the Absentee Property Law to East Jerusalem, on Wednesday indignantly rejected Attorney General Menachem Mazuz's charge that the Ministerial Committee on Jerusalem Affairs made its decision improperly.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/535735.html
Forward
In Watershed, Israel Deems Land-use Rules of Zionist Icon 'Discriminatory'
JNF Scored Over 'Jews-only' Sales
By naTHANIEL POPPER
February 4, 2005
In a landmark decision, Israel's attorney general ruled last week that one of the fundamental tenets upon which the Jewish state was built — acquiring and reserving land for Jews to live on — is discriminatory and should not continue with state assistance.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2643
PERHAPS now we can understand why BUSH is investigating Israeli charities for no reason. Yes? He wants to undermine the rights of private organizations who hold land in Israel. He is Anti-Semitic through and through.
BUSH CAN'T GO ON FOREVER apologizing.
U.S. Pick of Envoy To Kiev Ceremony Ignites a Furor
By e.J. KESSLER
February 4, 2005
Elation in Washington over Ukraine's so-called Orange Revolution gave way to red faces this week after the White House was forced to distance itself from a controversial Ukrainian American polemicist who was part of the American delegation to the inauguration of Ukraine's new president, Viktor Yushchenko.
The disputed envoy, Myron Kuropas, a longtime GOP activist from Illinois, has accused Jewish organizations repeatedly of exploiting the Holocaust and of waging a campaign of defamation against Ukrainians. He traveled to Kiev last month on a State Department plane as part of an official American delegation to the January 23 inauguration.
The White House now says it regrets the decision to tap Kuropas, 72, an adjunct professor of education at Northern Illinois University and a columnist in the New Jersey-based Ukrainian Weekly.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2646
Washington Post
BUSH'S SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN 'AIN'T ALL THAT' - In order to forfeit part of an account's profit one has to assume it will profit in the first place. AND IF IT DOESN'T?
Participants Would Forfeit Part of Accounts' Profits
Under the White House Social Security plan, workers who opt to divert some of their payroll taxes into individual accounts would ultimately get to keep only the investment returns that exceed the rate of return that the money would have accrued in the traditional system.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59136-2005Feb2.html
If The House is panicky about ethics, Tom DeLay must be guilty as sin.
House GOP Leaders Name Loyalist to Replace Ethics Chief
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page A01
House Republican leaders tightened their control over the ethics committee yesterday by ousting its independent-minded chairman, appointing a replacement who is close to them and adding two new members who donated to the legal defense fund of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58884-2005Feb2.html
THIS IS THE AGENCY Bush is funding at twice it's rate? Oh.
NIH Workers Angered by New Ethics Rules
Restrictions on Outside Income Meet With Derision at Meeting
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page A25
National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni stood before hundreds of NIH employees yesterday to explain why it had become necessary for him to impose, in his words, "drastic" restrictions on stock ownership and other forms of outside income, which take effect today for all agency employees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58845-2005Feb2.html
THE PATRIOT ACT. The document we didn't need in the first place.
Chertoff Denies Advising on Interrogation Tactics
In Cordial Senate Hearing, Homeland Security Nominee Says He Did Not Discuss 'Hypothetical' Cases
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page A02
Michael Chertoff, President Bush's nominee for secretary of homeland security, said at his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday that he did not give intelligence officials any specific advice in 2002 when they asked him which interrogation techniques used on alleged terrorists might someday be prosecuted as illegal torture.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57255-2005Feb2.html
Infighting Cited at Homeland Security
Squabbles Blamed for Reducing Effectiveness
By John Mintz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 2, 2005; Page A01
As its leadership changes for the first time, the Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by personality conflicts, bureaucratic bottlenecks and an atmosphere of demoralization, undermining its ability to protect the nation against terrorist attack, according to current and former administration officials and independent experts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55552-2005Feb1.html?nav=most_emailed_emailfriend
Army Considers Extending Reserve
Move Would Help Meet Iraq Demand
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; Page A22
Massing enough troops for another rotation in Iraq will be "painful" and may eventually require the Pentagon to adopt policies that would extend the two-year limit on the mobilization of reserves, a senior Army leader told Congress yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58913-2005Feb2.html
Michael Moore Today
From the People Who Brought You Purple Heart Band-Aids
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
February 3rd, 2005 3:37 am
Scant mention of benefit cuts, tax increases by president
By Marc Sandalow / San Francisco Chronicle
Washington -- President Bush's urgent call to permanently fix Social Security contained only a passing mention of an unpleasant truth: Americans soon will be asked to either pay more or receive less.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1277
SOTU Rapid Response Fact Check
Submitted by Bob Brigham on Thu, 2005-02-03 03:14.
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Bush Failed to Address Benefit Cuts:
Bush Failed to Address Increases in Debt:
Bush Failed to Address Social Security's Long-Term Solvency:
http://www.thereisnocrisis.com/
The New York Times
Marines Miss January Goal for Recruits
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: February 3, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 - For the first time in nearly a decade, the Marine Corps in January missed its monthly recruiting goal, in what military officials said was the latest troubling indicator of the Iraq war's impact on the armed services.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/politics/03marines.html?hp&ex=1107493200&en=6a57bc6b91c6e50b&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Apparent Gas Leak Kills Georgia's Prime Minister
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 3, 2005
Filed at 6:05 a.m. ET
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, was killed Thursday by an apparent natural gas leak, the ex-Soviet republic's interior minister said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Georgia-Prime-Minister.html?hp&ex=1107493200&en=979ac6197f7af6e6&ei=5094&partner=homepage
'Unfettered Authority' That Led to Overreaching at the Big Board
By FLOYD NORRIS
Published: February 3, 2005
Few people ever came to dominate a financial institution as Richard A. Grasso, now 58, did the New York Stock Exchange. He worked there for 35 years, starting as a 21-year-old clerk in the stock listing department, and was the exchange's No. 1 or No. 2 official for 20 years.
But the extent of his control of its board, as laid out in a report released yesterday by the exchange, still came as something of a surprise.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/business/03analysis.html
Turkish Daily News
Google surges to sevenfold improvement in fourth-quarter profit
Google Inc. says it earned $204.1 million in the final three months of 2004, compared to $27.3 million at the same time in 2003
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
SAN FRANCISCO - The Associated Press
Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine fueled a sevenfold increase in fourth-quarter profits to soar past analyst expectations.
The Mountain View-based company said Tuesday that it earned $204.1 million, or 71 cents per share, during the final three months of 2004. That compared to net income of $27.3 million, or 10 cents per share, for the same period in 2003.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?webcat=finance&enewsid=5019
Gül says no enmity between Turkey and China
On the second day of his visit to China, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gül says the problems related to textile quotas between the two countries and the trade imbalance in favor of China can be resolved through sincere discussion
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?webcat=finance&enewsid=5011
HOW ARE THINGS WITH THE EU COMING?
The Los Angeles Times
It's a lot of 'hot air' and everyone knows it. This just further plays to Bush's banking cronies. That's all. Social Security will be no better off for it. It doesn't make sense that it will. A portion of the benefits will be diverted into private accounts. If one is taking monies that normally go into Social Security out of Social Security then there is less money there to support the plan. The best answer to the issue still remains 'preparedness' in private accounts we have all gotten used to such as IRAs, 401s and Roth. Now, what Bush has proposed panders to a young voter that feels they want their entire retirement account privatized. That complete undermines Social Security. Bush's proposals aren't good ones and will cost more that the billions AND NOT TRILLIONS we need to spend in the future. My employer gives me 50 cents on every dollar I invest up to 2 percent of my earnings. Where are you going to get that elsewhere? No place. If I didn't do that I would be a fool.
President Plays Up Sunny Side of Plan
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Wednesday rolled out the centerpiece of his plan to overhaul the financially troubled Social Security system — an enticing vision of young workers building retirement nest eggs in their own personal accounts.
But senior White House officials acknowledged that private accounts would do nothing to keep the giant retirement system solvent.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-social3feb03,0,7072505.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Swept Into the World
HUT BAY, India — Nine days after giant waves struck Little Andaman island, a child was born in a soccer stadium and the Onge tribe of hunters and gatherers took a step away from extinction.
The rain forest that surrounds the tribe, along with traditional Onge wisdom, saved it in a catastrophe that killed more than 150,000 people across southern Asia. Now some experts fear that the tsunami's aftermath will prove more dangerous than the waves.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tribes3feb03,0,2790810.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Crowd Storms Hospital in Fight Over Tsunami Baby
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka — A court ordered a couple claiming to be the parents of a baby found alone in tsunami debris to have a DNA test, triggering a hospital intrusion that led to their arrest.
Eight women also have claimed the 4-month-old boy, called Baby 81 because he was the 81st admission to the hospital on Dec. 26, the day the tsunami hit. The battle has become a symbol of the anguish of thousands of families who lost children in the disaster.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-baby3feb03,0,1651327.story?coll=la-home-world
L.A. Jail Called Deadly, Outdated
Los Angeles County's largest jail is so outdated, understaffed and riddled with security flaws that it jeopardizes the lives of guards and inmates, the county's expert on the jail system concluded in a confidential report recommending that the facility be closed.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jail3feb03,0,4408066.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Prozac was the first of it's type. Seratonin uptake inhibitors. It was followed by Zoloft and then Celexa. Celexa is like the third generation SUI. Celexa is supposed to be the safest of all in that drug family. There was no treatment for low level depression until Prozac. It was used for personality disorder treatment as well including Borderline Personality Disorder which was almost impossible to treat before Prozac. This is not to say there were/are no problems with the drug, but, for the benefits society receives it is wrong to throw the baby out with the bath water. The APPLICATIONS of medications across the board is the issue. Bush's economic 'boom times' demands 'exploitation' of pharmaceuticals to provide higher incomes to companies and hopefully higher employment rates. It is the 'wrongful' applications of medications and the disregard for side effects for short term financial gains on corporate bottom lines that is the issue. 'The Process' by which medications are approved and applied in practice, including close patient monitoring, is the issue and not so much the medications themselves.
Suicide Rate Down in the Era of Prozac
Numbers have declined since a 1980s peak when such drugs came into use, a study finds. A skeptic says gun laws might be the cause.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-suicide3feb03,0,911851.story?coll=la-home-science
The Miami Herald
Sales surge 20 percent at CVS
Double-digit sales and earnings increases were driven in part by the early success from the CVS acquisition of Eckerd.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10800754.htm
IMMIGRATION
Cuban refugees take the long way out
Cuban refugees are using a longer and more dangerous route that takes them to the Cayman Islands, Honduras and the Mexico-U.S. border
BY NANCY SAN MARTIN
nsanmartin@herald.com
PUERTO CORTES, Honduras - Days after landing in this tiny Caribbean port following her trip from Cuba, Rosalva Benítez squinted with pain as sea water and pus oozed out of her ear.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10792038.htm
Defectors will bring show to S. Florida
Performers of the Havana Night Club show caught the world's attention by defecting from Cuba last year in Las Vegas. Their next stop will be South Florida.
BY DAVID OVALLE
dovalle@herald.com
Just months after its members defected from Cuba in dramatic fashion, the Havana Night Club show will finally perform in its first U.S. venue outside Las Vegas.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10801658.htm
Good. I think Chevaz is on the right track. Oil and gas aren't necessarily as secure a venture as some would like to think. I am not surprised South American countries are finding 'better friends and allies' in China. Not surprised at all. Look how far they have 'NOT COME' with allies of the West. In addition, the countries listed in this articles are the biggest Carbon Dioxide polluters on Earth. The less oil they receive the more they will be forced to select alternative fuels. I thank Mr. Chavez for taking 'the higher ground' while maintaining his economy at home. Very nice.
VENEZUELA
Chávez weighs sale of U.S. oil plants
Venezuela may sell its U.S. refineries as part of a strategy to wean itself from the American market, President Hugo Chávez said. The White House said it is concerned.
BY ALEX KENNEDY
Bloomberg News
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said his government may sell eight U.S. refineries as part of a strategy by the world's fifth-largest supplier of oil to reduce dependency on sales to the United States.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10800758.htm
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