This is the usual for St. George's Island as recent as a year or so ago. Snowy shorelines with seabirds.
Monday, May 09, 2005
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
Born…
1800, John Brown, abolitionist
1883, José Ortega y Gasset, writer and philosopher
1860, Sir James Barrie, dramatist and novelist
1949, Billy Joel, singer and songwriter
1502, Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1671, Irish adventurer Thomas Blood, known as Colonel Blood, is caught after stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London; he is ultimately pardoned by King Charles II.
In 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "Join or die."
In 1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified.
In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly over the North Pole.
In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was lifted.
In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill as safe for birth control use.
In 1961, Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon.
In 1980, 35 motorists were killed when a Liberian freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section to collapse.
Missing in Action
1965 KARDELL DAVID A. SONOMA CA NO PARA/BEEPER " REMAINS RETURNED 7/31/89, ID 11/08/89"
1965 WISTRAND ROBERT C. NEW YORK NY CRASH NO PARA BEEPER SEARCH NEG
1966 DEXTER BENNIE L. BEND OR CAPTURE WITNESSED JEEP FOUND
1967 TODD ROBERT JACY NORTH EASTON MA
1968 LEOPOLD STEPHEN R. OKLAHOMA CITY OK 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED ALIVE IN 98
1968 VAN ARTSDALEN CLIFFORD V. PLUMSTEADVILLE PA
1970 HAIGHT STEPHEN H. CAZENOVIA NY
1972 REEDER WILLIAM S. LAKE ARROWHEAD CA 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
MY HEADLINE TODAY
Russia does not have to have a democracy and neither does any other country. Human Rights violations are a crime in this world.
The Ukraine is an example of how Democracies are established.
The world's focus needs to be on struggles by people in a country to achiever higher levels of participation in their government.
The NAME of that process can take many forms including Socialism. If Russian sovereignty is threatened by a chaotic democratic process whereby potential exploitation of the people of Russia will ensue then it's leadership has an obligation to protect the populous of that country.
George Walker Bush is using 'the word' Democracy to victimize countries like Russia for the purpose of creating a 'character' as unsavory and "War Bait." Where there is oil in Bush's priority is a ruthless determination including war at any cost in the FALSE NAME of Democracy. Democracy in definition of Bush's vernacular is void of definition of human rights and safety as exhibited by Iraq and is better defined by CAPITALISM.
President Putin has been a Gentleman-Diplomat beyond any reason in most of the scenarios he has hosted including a recent visit to the Middle East. He has literally said in a news conference yesterday he accepts the difference between the USA and Russia and recognizes the ability to conduct international affairs with respect for that difference.
Bush on the other hand is intolerant of those differences and seeks to exploit them while reeking havoc with DEMOCRATIC principles in the USA that is currently undermining our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
"Okeydoke"
Born…
1800, John Brown, abolitionist
1883, José Ortega y Gasset, writer and philosopher
1860, Sir James Barrie, dramatist and novelist
1949, Billy Joel, singer and songwriter
1502, Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.
1671, Irish adventurer Thomas Blood, known as Colonel Blood, is caught after stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London; he is ultimately pardoned by King Charles II.
In 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "Join or die."
In 1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than selection by state legislatures, was ratified.
In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly over the North Pole.
In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was lifted.
In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill as safe for birth control use.
In 1961, Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Nixon.
In 1980, 35 motorists were killed when a Liberian freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section to collapse.
Missing in Action
1965 KARDELL DAVID A. SONOMA CA NO PARA/BEEPER " REMAINS RETURNED 7/31/89, ID 11/08/89"
1965 WISTRAND ROBERT C. NEW YORK NY CRASH NO PARA BEEPER SEARCH NEG
1966 DEXTER BENNIE L. BEND OR CAPTURE WITNESSED JEEP FOUND
1967 TODD ROBERT JACY NORTH EASTON MA
1968 LEOPOLD STEPHEN R. OKLAHOMA CITY OK 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED ALIVE IN 98
1968 VAN ARTSDALEN CLIFFORD V. PLUMSTEADVILLE PA
1970 HAIGHT STEPHEN H. CAZENOVIA NY
1972 REEDER WILLIAM S. LAKE ARROWHEAD CA 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
MY HEADLINE TODAY
Russia does not have to have a democracy and neither does any other country. Human Rights violations are a crime in this world.
The Ukraine is an example of how Democracies are established.
The world's focus needs to be on struggles by people in a country to achiever higher levels of participation in their government.
The NAME of that process can take many forms including Socialism. If Russian sovereignty is threatened by a chaotic democratic process whereby potential exploitation of the people of Russia will ensue then it's leadership has an obligation to protect the populous of that country.
George Walker Bush is using 'the word' Democracy to victimize countries like Russia for the purpose of creating a 'character' as unsavory and "War Bait." Where there is oil in Bush's priority is a ruthless determination including war at any cost in the FALSE NAME of Democracy. Democracy in definition of Bush's vernacular is void of definition of human rights and safety as exhibited by Iraq and is better defined by CAPITALISM.
President Putin has been a Gentleman-Diplomat beyond any reason in most of the scenarios he has hosted including a recent visit to the Middle East. He has literally said in a news conference yesterday he accepts the difference between the USA and Russia and recognizes the ability to conduct international affairs with respect for that difference.
Bush on the other hand is intolerant of those differences and seeks to exploit them while reeking havoc with DEMOCRATIC principles in the USA that is currently undermining our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
In actuality, the tight control of Russia by President Putin is understandable and reasonable when one considers the greatest strength of terrorists (As there is not such thing as 'terror' as an enemy. Terror is a descriptor and not a noun. Terror alone cannot attack World Trade Towers.) is the use of a country's infrastructure against itself. President Putin has literally taken control of the Russian infrastructure which is grossly different than that of the USA. The USA has a democracy aged by over 225 years whereas the Russian government change is far younger than that with destabilizing influence in their oligarches. President Putin is correct and Bush is completely wrong to compare apples to oranges. Bush's ONLY intention is war without any plans what-so-ever of peace.
I continue to wish the best for Russia and an outcome for it's representative government that will protect it from further issues as occurred in Beslan before the new initiations of national security as exhibited by recent changes by the Russian government. President Putin does have a Dumas to answer to and seek support from. Russia is not a dictatorship. Not even close.
The Los Angeles Times
High-Speed Train Plan May Move Forward
Vegas-to-border leg may get funding. But it's still a long way from there to its Anaheim goal.
By Dan Weikel, Times Staff Writer
A partnership of government and industry in southern Nevada plans to spend $1.3 billion to build the nation's first super-fast train.
Where do they want to put it after more than two decades of effort? From Las Vegas to Primm, a three-hotel sideshow on the Nevada-California border. It's best known for an outlet mall, the giant Desperado roller coaster and a bullet-riddled 1934 Ford that carried the infamous Bonnie and Clyde to their deaths.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-maglev9may09,1,5462507.story?coll=la-headlines-california
Bush, Putin Set Aside Feuds at Talks in Russia
Leaders focus on areas of agreement, such as backing Israel's Gaza pullout. Rapport is on display as they ready to mark victory over Nazis.
By Peter Wallsten and David Holley, Times Staff Writers
MOSCOW — After months of feuding, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin met Sunday and emphasized harmony and personal chemistry, a reflection of common policy goals as they prepared to mark the 60th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis.
The focus on good feelings underscored the belief of both governments that their recent bickering might be a distraction from far more pressing matters such as the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bushputin9may09,0,1990627.story?coll=la-home-headlines
AND WHAT ABOUT THE PRODUCTS OF THAT DRILLING? Do I want to be exposed to the OIL and ultimately GASOLINE laced with nuclear exposure? This is again the complete disregard to the public this administration carries with it all the time. This is the VIOXX of drilling opportunity. The USA is quickly becoming a society that cares little about itself due to economic hard times and is wiling to trade income of any kind for longevity of life bringing along with it danger to us all when we never consented to it. This is Bush's idea of profit behind deregulation. Even Regan wasn't that stupid.
Drilling Near Nuclear Blast Cavity Called Risky Business
Residue of '69 Colorado test is best left alone, say many in the area who benefit from oil and gas.
BATTLEMENT MESA, Colo. — On a bright fall afternoon 36 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission and a Texas oil company detonated a 40-kiloton nuclear device inside an 8,000-foot shaft on a high meadow, an effort to crack into a bounty of natural gas trapped in a dense subterranean rock formation.
Here on Colorado's energy-rich Western Slope, the nuclear experiment yielded mixed results. A rich lode of gas was indeed shaken out of its rock casing, but the gas that rushed to the surface was too radioactive to be commercially useful.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-blast9may09,0,3712937.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Bills Seek State Tax Breaks for a Select Few
Wealthy taxpayers push narrowly targeted changes in law that can save them millions.
By Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — A Wall Street tycoon accused in the 1980s of cheating thousands of investors out of their savings in one of the biggest financial scandals in history now says the state of California cheated him.
So he has launched a campaign to change the state tax code — retroactive to 1992 — in hopes of getting $5 million back.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taxcode9may09,0,7911472.story?coll=la-home-headlines
The Moscow Times
Victory Day Promises Pride and Pomp
By Simon Saradzhyan and Anatoly Medetsky
Staff Writers
Igor Tabakov / MT
Two war veterans who will participate in the Victory Day parade on Red Square raising a toast Thursday at a city-sponsored event at Yekaterininsky Park.
After the lavish May 9 celebrations are over and police barriers in central Moscow come down, President Vladimir Putin may be left with nothing more tangible than a sense of pride in having hosted dozens of the world's leaders.
While big on ceremony, the Victory Day celebrations will offer little of substance for Russia, as the key meeting of the occasion -- between Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush -- is not expected to produce any new agreements or policy breakthroughs. By comparison, the European Union-Russia summit on Tuesday could well see the signing of a roadmap agreement to advance economic, educational and security cooperation between Moscow and the 25-member bloc.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/002.html
Residents Advised to Stay at Home
By Francesca Mereu
Staff Writer
With official Victory Day celebrations off-limits for all but invited guests, police are advising those who decide to remain in Moscow over the long holiday weekend to stay at home.
Still, people who do not mind huge traffic delays, frequent document checks and other unprecedented security measures will have the opportunity to attend numerous concerts, firework displays and other entertainment in parks away from the city center.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/001.html
Uncensored Memories
In a searing new book, Soviet veterans challenge the official mythology of World War II.
By Kevin O'Flynn
Published: May 6, 2005
It was in the 1980s when the first letters arrived at the Izvestia office, bubbling up from the openness that had just started under perestroika, as the country began to re-examine its past.
The letters came from soldiers who felt betrayed by their country when they were left to fight without weapons at the start of the war, from relatives who were stigmatized for decades because their sons were labeled "missing in action," from prisoners scorned and punished for having been in concentration camps.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/101.html
Internet Helps Bring the War Home
By Stephen Boykewich
Staff Writer
With the city center facing a virtual lockdown for Victory Day celebrations, most people will not get near the memorials that are bringing world leaders to town. But some of the more ambitious World War II memorial projects are not only open to all, they can be visited at home -- thanks to the Internet.
First among the online projects in terms of scale and sophistication is a web site called "The Victors: Soldiers of the Great War" (www.pobediteli.ru), which has a searchable database of all living Russian veterans of World War II -- 1,009,600 by the site's current count -- and a multimedia history of the war from the Soviet point of view that puts some Hollywood films to shame.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/015.html
THE MEDIA will unilaterally criticise Putin for this type of tactic but Bush has The Patriot Act doing basically the same thing to American citizens with the exception of oil barrons who support his campaigns.
The Moscow Times no different from The New York Times will USE a context to ridicule to an end they choose but Bush is no savior for their cause. Bush in the USA panders to oil barrons where Putin seeks sovereignty over Russian assets by limiting them and jailing them where they won't pay taxes. This article as well as the NY Times USE of this issue chronically ignores, for convenience of finding local saviors, the fact Bush is worse than Putin could ever be by invoking The Patriot Act and prosecutor buddies like Gonzalez.
Sterile Journalism is the "Nero Fiddle" of journalism whereby arguements are made that should be for sake of lack of credible validity in modern day leadership.
If journalism wants to make example of invasion of privacy and/or abuse of power by government then do so but don't look for lame examples in other leadership. In the year 2005 it certainly does not exist in the government of The Bush Regime.
Khodorkovsky a Cloud Putin Can't Scare Away
Even as the Air Force prepares to prevent the clouds from raining on the Victory Day parade, there is one cloud that is likely to hang conspicuously over the head of President Vladimir Putin.
While the president plays host to world leaders on Monday, his country's most high-profile prisoner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, will be awaiting a verdict a week later in a case seen as a turning point toward greater Kremlin dominance over political and economic
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/010.html
Violence in Iraq Rages On Unabated
Reuters
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents killed at least 24 people in a wave of ambushes and bomb blasts in Baghdad on Thursday, the latest attacks in a surge of violence that has overshadowed the formation of a new Cabinet for Iraq.
In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army recruitment center at a former airfield in western Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 15.
Gunmen also ambushed a police convoy, shooting dead 10 policemen and then setting their vehicles ablaze, police said. And a car bomb was detonated as the deputy interior minister's convoy drove past, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding six people, police said. The official was unhurt.
Over the past week guerrillas have stepped up their campaign of violence, defying predictions that the insurgency would crumble following Jan. 30 parliamentary elections and the formation of a new Cabinet.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/253.html
Bush Will Raise Baltic Occupation
The Associated Press
VILNIUS, Lithuania -- U.S. President George W. Bush said he would remind President Vladimir Putin about the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states when they met in Moscow for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
In excerpts of an interview that was broadcast Thursday, Bush told Lithuanian state television that he would stress to Putin that the end of the war did not bring freedom for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/018.html
UN Urges Action on Afghan Slayings
Reuters
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United Nations urged Afghanistan on Thursday to spare no effort in the hunt for the killers of three women who were raped, strangled and dumped with a note warning women not to work for aid groups.
Aid workers in Afghanistan have been targeted by Taliban rebels, especially in the insurgency-plagued south and east of the country, but the three Afghan women were found this week in the northern province of Baghlan, where Taliban are not active.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/251.html
A Whole Lot of Fluffiness
Поперёк себя шире: wider than he is tall (said of an obese person)
Although today almost all the world's top models -- those tall, leggy beauties without an ounce of cellulite -- are Russians, historically in Russia, plump was beautiful and healthy. In fact, the verb поправиться can mean either "to become well" after an illness, or "to gain weight." There are dozens of verbs and adjectives in Russian for gaining weight and being overweight, and, bless their food-loving, indulgent souls, Russians use many of them in a positive sense.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/007.html
Gas Pipelines Need Investors: Sharonov
Russia should end Gazprom's monopoly on natural gas shipments and allow private investors to help finance new pipelines, which would increase supplies and lower prices, Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Andrei Sharonov said in an interview published Thursday.
"The problem is that Gazprom owns the pipelines," Sharonov said in Rossiiskaya Gazeta. "Gazprom doesn't need to develop the pipelines because it's not interested in the gas transport business and there is enough capacity for shipping its own gas."
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/042.html
Fish Out of Water
There's no bridging the divide between Westerners and Central Asians in Rob Ferguson's memoir of his crusade to save the shrinking Aral Sea.
By Kim Iskyan
Published: May 6, 2005
If you've spent much time in the former Soviet Union -- particularly as an aid worker in Central Asia -- you'll likely recognize elements of your own experience in Rob Ferguson's tale of his travails as a developmental consultant in Central Asia, in "The Devil and the Disappearing Sea."
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/106.html
Caucasus Legend
The exploits of the 19th-century warrior Shamil have already gained mythical status. A new encyclopedia tries to distinguish fact from fiction.
By Nabi Abdullaev
Published: May 6, 2005
A folk hero in the North Caucasus for more than 150 years, the rebel leader Imam Shamil is admired equally by anti-Russian insurgents and those seeking integration with Russia. The Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev is said to take pride in bearing his name, while President Vladimir Putin has publicly cited Shamil's appeal for the people of the Caucasus to live in peace with Russia.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/102.html
Global Eye
Ring Them Bells
By Chris Floyd
Published: May 6, 2005
An occupational hazard of dissidence in the Age of Bush is the unavoidable necessity of belaboring the obvious. Again and again, you must ring the same bell; over and over, you must repeat the same blatant fact: that George W. Bush and his minions are lying hypocrites with blood on their hands.
But what can you do? Each week -- each day -- brings fresh confirmation of this damning truth. And until the American people redeem their lost national honor by rising up in their millions -- taking to the streets with the patriotic cry, "These murderous jackals no longer represent us!" -- the Bush crimes will go on, and must be documented. So grab the bell-rope: Here we go again.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/06/120.html
The Washington Times
U.S. Officers In Iraq Put Priority on Extremists
Hussein Loyalists Not Seen as Greatest Threat
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 9, 2005; A01
BAGHDAD, May 8 -- Senior U.S. commanders say their view of the Iraqi insurgency has begun to shift, with higher priority being given to combating foreign fighters and Iraqi jihadists.
This shift comes in response to the recent upsurge in suicide attacks and other developments that indicate a more prominent role in the insurgency by these radical groups, the commanders say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800838_pf.html
Bush, Putin Put Sniping Aside for VE Day
By JENNIFER LOVEN
The Associated Press
Monday, May 9, 2005; 5:13 AM
MOSCOW -- It was awkward theater for President Bush, given a seat of honor Monday in a reviewing stand next to Lenin's tomb to watch goose-stepping soldiers and flags adorned with the Soviet hammer-and-sickle that recalled days of communist might.
Russia's 60th anniversary celebration of its World War II victory with other Allied forces over Nazi Germany offered only a one-sided, rosy picture of the U.S.S.R.'s war legacy, and has been accompanied by increased nostalgia for the Soviet Union's wartime tyrant, Josef Stalin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050900053_pf.html
Increasingly Embattled, DeLay Scales Back Usual Power Plays
By John F. Harris and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 9, 2005; A01
In the euphemism favored on Capitol Hill, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is "not staff driven." Translation: He is used to doing what he wants.
It happens all the time, DeLay friends and advisers say. An aide will suggest that the leader soften his tone, or back off just a bit from some inflammatory position. As often as not, the Texas Republican will respond with a snort, suggesting that the adviser is more worried about how a decision will play inside the Beltway than how it will be perceived -- if it is noticed at all -- by the rest of the country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800835_pf.html
GE Ecomagination
http://www.ge.com/ecomagination/
http://www.ge.com/en/
World Press Freedom Day
http://www.ge.com/stories/en/20353.html?category=Product_Business
Volcano Experts Seek Emergency Alert System
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 9, 2005; A07
Imagine living in a country where three volcanoes are erupting at the same time, two others could blow in the very near future and 169 others are capable of awakening -- including scores deemed worthy of constant monitoring.
Imagine living in a place where, in the past 25 years alone, communities have been wiped out by lava flows; eruptions have flattened huge expanses of land and killed people miles away; and avalanches of volcanic debris have swept people to their deaths.
If you live in America, you live in such a country.
The United States is among the most volcano-rich nations on Earth -- home to 45 eruptions and 15 cases of notable unrest at 33 volcanoes since 1980. But while a handful of hazardous mountains are relatively well-laden with monitoring equipment, many dozing giants are beyond scientists' electronic eyes and ears, posing a significant threat to thousands of people, according to the first comprehensive assessment of U.S. volcano risks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800635_pf.html
Along Potomac, an Ecological Mystery Surfaces
Md., River Groups Try To Determine Origins of Abundant Plastic Barrels
By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 9, 2005; B01
Olmsted Island, a forested median that splits the Potomac River upstream from the District, is a spot where the fast-moving current coughs up debris as it crashes through Great Falls.
For those interested in one of the river's oddest ecological mysteries, it is a great place to find clues.
"There are six right here," said Mac Thornton, a kayaker who paddled out to the island in Montgomery County one recent afternoon. He swiveled to count more, pointing his finger at each new sighting. "Seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, so far."
Thornton was counting barrels: waist-high plastic drums in shades of blue, black and white. They were jumbled at his feet and hidden in the woods behind him-- obvious aliens in the landscape.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800760_pf.html
The Pessivist
AIDS Activist Larry Kramer, Hoarse From Speaking Truth to Power
By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 9, 2005; C01
Who will be the next Larry Kramer?
The man himself -- AIDS activist, writer, provocateur -- doesn't know. Right now, Kramer is fighting all this noise: the cell phones going off, the cash register ringing, the 2-year-old who keeps crying whenever she drops her pink pacifier. Then there's the front door that won't shut, people trickling in and out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800988_pf.html
Aid to Christian School In Alaska Spurs Lawsuit
By Brian Faler
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, May 9, 2005; A21
There are those who complain that Congress does not care about the concerns of the little guy. But those people do not attend Alaska Christian College.
The school, founded five years ago and affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church, has 37 students. It is not accredited and does not grant degrees. It offers, instead, certificates in biblical studies at the end of a student's first year and certificates in biblical and general studies to those who complete a second. Over the past two years, Congress has given the school more than $1 million.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800780_pf.html
Roadless Rules
Monday, May 9, 2005; Page A22
ON ITS OWN, the Bush administration's rationale for radically amending the "roadless rule" sounds reasonable. The rule, a Clinton administration regulation designed to prevent logging, mineral extraction or road construction of any kind within some 56.5 million acres of pristine national forestland, has been contested by several states and has been overturned by two federal judges. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who is responsible for the Forest Service, says he wants to eliminate the one-size-fits-all federal rule in favor of a "state by state process." Mr. Rey says that this would give governors more say in how the rule is applied and therefore reduce the amount of "ill will" that the rule created.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050800731.html
N.C. Church Kicks Out Members Who Do Not Support Bush
Associated Press
Sunday, May 8, 2005; A12
WAYNESVILLE, N.C., May 7 -- Some in Pastor Chan Chandler's flock wish he had a little less zeal for the GOP.
Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who did not support President Bush. Nine members were voted out at a Monday church meeting in this mountain town about 120 miles west of Charlotte. Forty others in the 400-member congregation resigned in protest.
"He's the kind of pastor who says 'Do it my way or get out,' " said Selma Morris, the former church treasurer. "He's real negative all the time."
Chandler told WLOS-TV in Asheville on Friday that the actions were not politically motivated, but on Saturday he refused to comment, citing the advice of his attorney.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/07/AR2005050700972_pf.html
Filibuster Fray Lifts Profile of Minister
Scarborough Has Network and Allies
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 8, 2005; A01
In his home town of Pearland, Tex., Baptist minister Rick Scarborough was tireless in promoting his conservative Christian way of thinking.
He attacked high school sex education courses, experimental medical treatments and transsexuals trying to change their gender identification. He recruited like-minded candidates to run for the local school board and city council. He crisscrossed the country to protest the ousting of Roy S. Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, for installing a Ten Commandments tablet at his courthouse. And Scarborough created a network of "Patriot Pastors" to lead evangelicals to the polls in 2004.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/07/AR2005050701266_pf.html
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Morning Papers - continued...
Taipei Times
Moscow celebrates defeat of Nazis
REMEMBERING WAR: US President George Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao were some of the guests expected at an event to mark the end of World War II
Soldiers marched and medal-bedecked veterans waved from military trucks rolling down a main Moscow street yesterday, as Russia began a pomp-filled, high-security celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
About half a dozen tanks, including at least one World War II-era T-34, stood on a street near Red Square, awaiting today's military parade, which will be watched by the foreign guests. The pavement was marked by tank tracks.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/09/2003253786
MOFA, UN in talks on WHA access
LODGING PROTESTS: The ministry said it is lobbying the UN's Geneva office to grant access for Taiwanese journalists who have been banned from the summit
By Melody Chen
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, May 09, 2005,Page 1
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday it is working hard to persuade the UN Office in Geneva to issue press passes to Taiwanese journalists to cover the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA), which is scheduled to take place in Geneva from May 16 to May 25.
In a statement, the ministry "strongly protested" the Geneva office's rule that only journalists holding passports from states recognized by the UN General Assembly will get media accreditation for the WHA.
Taiwan will lodge its 9th application for observer status in the WHA next Monday. The WHA meets annually and is the highest decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/09/2003253783
US whistleblower details Guantanamo Bay abuses
INSIDE ACCOUNT: A former translator for interrogation sessions has gone public with damaging revelations about abuse at the key facility in the US war on terror
A US soldier has revealed shocking new details of abuse and sexual torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the first high-profile whistleblowing account to emerge from inside the top-secret base.
Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing first-hand account of working at Guantanamo. It will prove a damaging blow to a White House still struggling to recover from the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/09/2003253785
Living to 130 - is that what you really want to do?
Living to 130 world be fine if you felt like an 18-year-old. But the chances are you'll feel 130
A new study says that we could now end up living to the age of 130. The upbeat nature of these reports always amazes me as the final decades of such a long life could hardly be so much fun. I certainly wouldn't want to be sat on a commode sucking mint sweets for 30 years. Or would I? The "sitting down" bit holds a certain appeal, and indeed always has done. I've always had a fantasy of myself in one of those sanatoriums usually featured in war movies, where the brave soldier has lost his legs and plays his final scene being wheeled outside in a bath chair by a pretty nurse to "take the air." I can see myself sat in a bath chair at 130 years old, rug over my knees, wheezing like an old concertina, as I regale everyone with tales of Glastonbury festival 1996 ("Those were the days"). How happy I would be, hour after hour, day after day, reminiscing, pontificating; being "marvellous for my age," a "real character." Just before the pillow was placed gently -- and then not so gently -- over my face.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/05/09/2003253846
The Globe and Mail
World leaders join Russia in marking end of war
Moscow — World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of the Second World War paid tribute to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead, joining Russian President Vladimir Putin on Red Square for a lavish military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
Fighter jets screamed high over the square, streaming smoke in the white, blue and red colors of Russia's flag. Soldiers belted out patriotic wartime songs, and Mr. Putin emphasized the Soviet Union's enormous sacrifice — but also thanked its allies for their role and called for unity against new threats — in a speech during a parade redolent with Soviet imagery.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wrussia0509/BNStory/International/
U.S. launches Iraqi offensive near Syrian border
Baghdad — U.S. forces launched an offensive against insurgents in western Iraq near the Syrian border, and about 75 militants were killed in the first 24 hours, the military said Monday.
It said the offensive, being conducted with U.S. air support in a desert area of Anbar province north of the Euphrates River, was targeting a sanctuary for foreign insurgents and a smuggling route.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wiraq0509/BNStory/International
Natives fear election may derail initiatives
Conservatives prepared to follow through on negotiations, Calgary MP says
Ottawa — Native leaders are worried that a year's worth of negotiations with Ottawa, set to culminate in a host of policy announcements on May 31, will fall by the wayside if an election is called soon.
"That's a great concern," said Grand Council Chief John Beaucage, president of the Union of Ontario Indians. "A lot of work has gone into this round-table process."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wxnatives09/BNStory/National
Dutch love warms Canadian liberators
V-E Day celebrations: 'We have a free country and we owe it to them'
Apeldoorn, Netherlands — The day was miserable and cold, but nothing could chill the warmth of the greeting Canada's veterans received yesterday.
About 200,000 Dutch citizens endured persistent rain and occasional hailstorms to pay tribute to the aged men who liberated their country from Nazi tyranny 60 years ago. The 1,500 Canadian veterans who marched and rode through Apeldoorn's streets were greeted with waves of applause and unrestrained affection.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wxwarneth09/BNStory/International/
Canada's Steve Nash hits new height as NBA's MVP
Unlikely hero, crowned king of the NBA, says award is 'beyond my wildest dreams'
Phoenix —
The Phoenix Suns practice was over and Canadian Steve Nash was alone at one end of the floor, methodically hoisting up three-point shots as if it were just another day.
At the other end of the floor, however, Nash's Phoenix Suns teammates were reminding everyone that it was anything but — that Nash, a 31-year-old point guard from Victoria, was about to be crowned nothing less than king of the basketball universe.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wxnash0509/BNStory/Sports/
Canadian survivor recounts Mount Everest avalanche
Kathmandu, Nepal — Climber Pierre Bourdeau was sleeping on the slopes of Mount Everest when the massive avalanche struck, plowing through his tent with chunks of ice and throwing him 100 metres before burying him alive.
"I thought I was dead when I got hit on the head. All I could think was which piece will kill me," Mr. Bourdeau, an accountant from Montreal, told The Associated Press.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050508.waval0508/BNStory/International/
Israel detains extremist settler without trial
Jerusalem — Israeli authorities have jailed an extremist Jewish settler for five months without charges or a trial to head off violence aimed at stopping Israel's Gaza Strip pullout, and a newspaper reported Monday that senior army officers want dozens of other Jewish extremists arrested.
Israel frequently uses the practice, known as administrative detention, against Palestinians it considers as a security threat, but it rarely employs it against Jews. But with Jewish extremists planning to resist the summer pullout at all costs, security forces and politicians have discussed arresting activists to contain expected violence.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wisrael0509/BNStory/International/
The Boston Globe
When bold flying becomes reckless
Military confronts air crashes caused by hot-dogging
By Ted Bridis, Associated Press May 9, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Skimming low over hills in eastern Afghanistan, the 11 Marines packed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter asked for an exciting flight on an otherwise dull mission, demonstrating for visiting dignitaries how troops are sped into battle.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/09/when_bold_flying_becomes_reckless/
Day of commemoration, disruption
Holocaust recalled amid demonstrations
By Michael Levenson and Heather Allen, Globe Correspondents May 9, 2005
Frail Holocaust survivors, along with Jewish children and a German diplomat, marked 60 years since the liberation of Nazi death camps inside Faneuil Hall yesterday, while outside hundreds of demonstrators angrily confronted 20 white supremacists who protested inside a police barricade.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/09/day_of_commemoration_disruption/
Blaze damages North Carolina fire station
May 8, 2005
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Firefighters at a station here needed some help from their colleagues in unusual fashion.
Firefighters called for help when a fire started in one of their two trucks, engulfing the station's garage and making the station's gear inaccessible late Friday. Firefighters from a nearby station arrived and extinguished the blaze.
"It's just kind of a twist of fate thing," Fire Station No. 8 Capt. Dennis Williams said. "It's due to happen to some people."
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/05/08/blaze_damages_north_carolina_fire_station/
Monkey escapes from S.C. island laboratory
May 8, 2005
BEAUFORT, S.C. -- An escapee from Morgan Island has been captured in a tree in the backyard of a home on Lady's Island -- about 7 miles away from where he was supposed to be.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/05/08/monkey_escapes_from_sc_island_laboratory/
Conflict hits Indonesia hard
Extremists rock tolerant nation
By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
Second of three parts
PEMOGON, Indonesia -- The men were marked as outsiders and Islamic fundamentalists by their untrimmed beards and long, flowing robes. They arrived, one or two at a time, in the summer of 2002, preaching, trading, selling rolls and sandwiches in this quiet village on the working-class side of Bali, where Muslims coexist placidly with Hindus, Buddhists, and animists.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/09/conflict_hits_indonesia_hard_extremists_rock_tolerant_nation/
EXACTLY CORRECT. Nations like North Korea will not back down from nuclear proliferation as long as it's only respect from countries like the USA comes from being armed with nukes.
Nations say US shirks its arms vows
The spotlight shifts at nuclear conference
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States is seeking to use a major UN conference on nuclear nonproliferation to highlight the dangers of North Korea and Iran, but has been undermined by allegations from some developing countries that Washington itself has backtracked on commitments to reduce its nuclear arsenal, according to UN diplomats and delegates to the conference.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/09/nations_say_us_shirks_its_arms_vows/
Study is seen as clouding risks to the overweight
By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
Dr. Caroline Apovian's dieting patients wanted to know: Is it true? Is being overweight actually good for you?
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/fitness/articles/2005/05/09/study_is_seen_as_clouding_risks_to_the_overweight/
R.I. man faces charges after goose, goslings die
Police say birds chased, stomped
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
Before he left for work Saturday, John A. Sanders asked his mom what would make her Mother's Day. She said she wanted to visit the zoo.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/09/ri_man_faces_charges_after_goose_goslings_die/
7 US service members killed in insurgent violence in Iraq
Parliament OK's 6 Cabinet picks; Sunni rejects post
By Louise Roug and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times May 9, 2005
BAGHDAD -- Seven US troops were killed in action during a 48-hour period as insurgent violence raged in the Sunni Arab heartland of western and central Iraq, the US military reported yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/09/7_us_service_members_killed_in_insurgent_violence_in_iraq/
Afghan clash leaves 2 Marines dead
Kabul meeting gives backing to US partnership
By Stephen Graham, Associated Press May 9, 2005
KABUL, Afghanistan -- US forces tracked down a band of insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, setting off a battle in which two Marines were killed, the military said today.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/09/afghan_clash_leaves_2_marines_dead/
Europe marks Nazis' surrender
60th anniversary observed; Berlin seeks forgiveness
By Sarah Liebowitz and Charles M. Sennott, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff May 9, 2005
BERLIN -- Sixty years ago what was left of the German leadership surrendered to Allied forces, and the heavy burden of responsibility for a war that killed tens of millions of people in Europe has been shouldered by the German people ever since.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/09/europe_marks_nazis_surrender/
THERE is no such thing as Clean Coal Technology. This technology relies on injecting carbon dioxide into the ground where it is supposed to be sequestered forever. Forget it. We know through a study a couple years ago at Duke, Earth is saturated with carbon dioxide. There is no space for carbon dioxide in the ground anymore, hence, no such thing as Clean Coal Technology. I don't believe in Coal Fired Energy. It's dirty and environmentally dangerous including the chemicals that result as by-products of it. Burning Natural Gas is a better alternative than oil or coal but in my opinion it is still an issue with Global Warming.
A Reference:
Because carbon dioxide makes up such a high proportion of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, reducing carbon dioxide emissions can play a huge role in combating the greenhouse effect and global warming. The combustion of natural gas emits almost 30 percent less carbon dioxide than oil, and just under 45 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.
http://www.naturalgas.org/environment/naturalgas.asp
Why nuclear power is not the answer
By Philip Warburg May 9, 2005
PRESIDENT BUSH is once again playing word games that mask a deeply flawed energy policy. The chief proponent of ''clear skies," a legislative assault on essential pollution protections in the Clean Air Act, is now advocating for ''safe, clean nuclear power" as a way to curb our dependence on foreign oil.
Cleaning up coal-fired power plants also calls for creative measures to reduce those plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas targeted by the Kyoto Protocol. Faced with the Bush administration's refusal to ratify the protocol, the governors of 10 Northeast states have begun to advance their own Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This flexible ''cap-and-trade" program, if done right, will scale back carbon dioxide emissions through a flexible diet that will include retooling conventional power plants, investing in energy efficiency, and tapping renewable energy like wind and solar.
To ease our transition from fossil fuels over the coming decades, cleaner-burning natural gas is a vital resource. Ensuring a safe and adequate supply of this fuel is no small challenge, however. We need to advance a responsible process of gauging the actual need for new gas supplies and evaluating sites for import facilities. Offshore terminals as well as remote onshore sites need to be rigorously examined.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/09/why_nuclear_power_is_not_the_answer/
Secrets behind the largest art theft in history
By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff March 13, 2005
As they struggled to remove a heavy-framed Rembrandt from the silk-draped wall of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the two thieves abruptly stopped as a high-pitched alarm beeped from the baseboard.
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gardner_heist/heist/
Craigslist.org founder eyes journalism
By Rachel Konrad, AP Technology Writer May 9, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of people who use Craigslist.org is expanding at more than 100 percent per year -- a growth rate any venture capitalist would covet. But the people who run the 10-year-old community Web site, which gets 8 million unique users and more than 2 billion page views per month, seem to have little interest in exploiting new sources of revenue, going public or even adding to their 18-person staff.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/09/craigslistorg_founder_eyes_journalism/
concluding...
Moscow celebrates defeat of Nazis
REMEMBERING WAR: US President George Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao were some of the guests expected at an event to mark the end of World War II
Soldiers marched and medal-bedecked veterans waved from military trucks rolling down a main Moscow street yesterday, as Russia began a pomp-filled, high-security celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
About half a dozen tanks, including at least one World War II-era T-34, stood on a street near Red Square, awaiting today's military parade, which will be watched by the foreign guests. The pavement was marked by tank tracks.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/09/2003253786
MOFA, UN in talks on WHA access
LODGING PROTESTS: The ministry said it is lobbying the UN's Geneva office to grant access for Taiwanese journalists who have been banned from the summit
By Melody Chen
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, May 09, 2005,Page 1
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday it is working hard to persuade the UN Office in Geneva to issue press passes to Taiwanese journalists to cover the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA), which is scheduled to take place in Geneva from May 16 to May 25.
In a statement, the ministry "strongly protested" the Geneva office's rule that only journalists holding passports from states recognized by the UN General Assembly will get media accreditation for the WHA.
Taiwan will lodge its 9th application for observer status in the WHA next Monday. The WHA meets annually and is the highest decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/09/2003253783
US whistleblower details Guantanamo Bay abuses
INSIDE ACCOUNT: A former translator for interrogation sessions has gone public with damaging revelations about abuse at the key facility in the US war on terror
A US soldier has revealed shocking new details of abuse and sexual torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the first high-profile whistleblowing account to emerge from inside the top-secret base.
Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing first-hand account of working at Guantanamo. It will prove a damaging blow to a White House still struggling to recover from the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/05/09/2003253785
Living to 130 - is that what you really want to do?
Living to 130 world be fine if you felt like an 18-year-old. But the chances are you'll feel 130
A new study says that we could now end up living to the age of 130. The upbeat nature of these reports always amazes me as the final decades of such a long life could hardly be so much fun. I certainly wouldn't want to be sat on a commode sucking mint sweets for 30 years. Or would I? The "sitting down" bit holds a certain appeal, and indeed always has done. I've always had a fantasy of myself in one of those sanatoriums usually featured in war movies, where the brave soldier has lost his legs and plays his final scene being wheeled outside in a bath chair by a pretty nurse to "take the air." I can see myself sat in a bath chair at 130 years old, rug over my knees, wheezing like an old concertina, as I regale everyone with tales of Glastonbury festival 1996 ("Those were the days"). How happy I would be, hour after hour, day after day, reminiscing, pontificating; being "marvellous for my age," a "real character." Just before the pillow was placed gently -- and then not so gently -- over my face.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/05/09/2003253846
The Globe and Mail
World leaders join Russia in marking end of war
Moscow — World leaders whose countries faced off on the battlefields of the Second World War paid tribute to the fallen soldiers and millions of civilian dead, joining Russian President Vladimir Putin on Red Square for a lavish military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
Fighter jets screamed high over the square, streaming smoke in the white, blue and red colors of Russia's flag. Soldiers belted out patriotic wartime songs, and Mr. Putin emphasized the Soviet Union's enormous sacrifice — but also thanked its allies for their role and called for unity against new threats — in a speech during a parade redolent with Soviet imagery.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wrussia0509/BNStory/International/
U.S. launches Iraqi offensive near Syrian border
Baghdad — U.S. forces launched an offensive against insurgents in western Iraq near the Syrian border, and about 75 militants were killed in the first 24 hours, the military said Monday.
It said the offensive, being conducted with U.S. air support in a desert area of Anbar province north of the Euphrates River, was targeting a sanctuary for foreign insurgents and a smuggling route.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wiraq0509/BNStory/International
Natives fear election may derail initiatives
Conservatives prepared to follow through on negotiations, Calgary MP says
Ottawa — Native leaders are worried that a year's worth of negotiations with Ottawa, set to culminate in a host of policy announcements on May 31, will fall by the wayside if an election is called soon.
"That's a great concern," said Grand Council Chief John Beaucage, president of the Union of Ontario Indians. "A lot of work has gone into this round-table process."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wxnatives09/BNStory/National
Dutch love warms Canadian liberators
V-E Day celebrations: 'We have a free country and we owe it to them'
Apeldoorn, Netherlands — The day was miserable and cold, but nothing could chill the warmth of the greeting Canada's veterans received yesterday.
About 200,000 Dutch citizens endured persistent rain and occasional hailstorms to pay tribute to the aged men who liberated their country from Nazi tyranny 60 years ago. The 1,500 Canadian veterans who marched and rode through Apeldoorn's streets were greeted with waves of applause and unrestrained affection.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wxwarneth09/BNStory/International/
Canada's Steve Nash hits new height as NBA's MVP
Unlikely hero, crowned king of the NBA, says award is 'beyond my wildest dreams'
Phoenix —
The Phoenix Suns practice was over and Canadian Steve Nash was alone at one end of the floor, methodically hoisting up three-point shots as if it were just another day.
At the other end of the floor, however, Nash's Phoenix Suns teammates were reminding everyone that it was anything but — that Nash, a 31-year-old point guard from Victoria, was about to be crowned nothing less than king of the basketball universe.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wxnash0509/BNStory/Sports/
Canadian survivor recounts Mount Everest avalanche
Kathmandu, Nepal — Climber Pierre Bourdeau was sleeping on the slopes of Mount Everest when the massive avalanche struck, plowing through his tent with chunks of ice and throwing him 100 metres before burying him alive.
"I thought I was dead when I got hit on the head. All I could think was which piece will kill me," Mr. Bourdeau, an accountant from Montreal, told The Associated Press.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050508.waval0508/BNStory/International/
Israel detains extremist settler without trial
Jerusalem — Israeli authorities have jailed an extremist Jewish settler for five months without charges or a trial to head off violence aimed at stopping Israel's Gaza Strip pullout, and a newspaper reported Monday that senior army officers want dozens of other Jewish extremists arrested.
Israel frequently uses the practice, known as administrative detention, against Palestinians it considers as a security threat, but it rarely employs it against Jews. But with Jewish extremists planning to resist the summer pullout at all costs, security forces and politicians have discussed arresting activists to contain expected violence.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050509.wisrael0509/BNStory/International/
The Boston Globe
When bold flying becomes reckless
Military confronts air crashes caused by hot-dogging
By Ted Bridis, Associated Press May 9, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Skimming low over hills in eastern Afghanistan, the 11 Marines packed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter asked for an exciting flight on an otherwise dull mission, demonstrating for visiting dignitaries how troops are sped into battle.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/09/when_bold_flying_becomes_reckless/
Day of commemoration, disruption
Holocaust recalled amid demonstrations
By Michael Levenson and Heather Allen, Globe Correspondents May 9, 2005
Frail Holocaust survivors, along with Jewish children and a German diplomat, marked 60 years since the liberation of Nazi death camps inside Faneuil Hall yesterday, while outside hundreds of demonstrators angrily confronted 20 white supremacists who protested inside a police barricade.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/09/day_of_commemoration_disruption/
Blaze damages North Carolina fire station
May 8, 2005
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Firefighters at a station here needed some help from their colleagues in unusual fashion.
Firefighters called for help when a fire started in one of their two trucks, engulfing the station's garage and making the station's gear inaccessible late Friday. Firefighters from a nearby station arrived and extinguished the blaze.
"It's just kind of a twist of fate thing," Fire Station No. 8 Capt. Dennis Williams said. "It's due to happen to some people."
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/05/08/blaze_damages_north_carolina_fire_station/
Monkey escapes from S.C. island laboratory
May 8, 2005
BEAUFORT, S.C. -- An escapee from Morgan Island has been captured in a tree in the backyard of a home on Lady's Island -- about 7 miles away from where he was supposed to be.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/05/08/monkey_escapes_from_sc_island_laboratory/
Conflict hits Indonesia hard
Extremists rock tolerant nation
By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
Second of three parts
PEMOGON, Indonesia -- The men were marked as outsiders and Islamic fundamentalists by their untrimmed beards and long, flowing robes. They arrived, one or two at a time, in the summer of 2002, preaching, trading, selling rolls and sandwiches in this quiet village on the working-class side of Bali, where Muslims coexist placidly with Hindus, Buddhists, and animists.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/09/conflict_hits_indonesia_hard_extremists_rock_tolerant_nation/
EXACTLY CORRECT. Nations like North Korea will not back down from nuclear proliferation as long as it's only respect from countries like the USA comes from being armed with nukes.
Nations say US shirks its arms vows
The spotlight shifts at nuclear conference
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States is seeking to use a major UN conference on nuclear nonproliferation to highlight the dangers of North Korea and Iran, but has been undermined by allegations from some developing countries that Washington itself has backtracked on commitments to reduce its nuclear arsenal, according to UN diplomats and delegates to the conference.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/09/nations_say_us_shirks_its_arms_vows/
Study is seen as clouding risks to the overweight
By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
Dr. Caroline Apovian's dieting patients wanted to know: Is it true? Is being overweight actually good for you?
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/fitness/articles/2005/05/09/study_is_seen_as_clouding_risks_to_the_overweight/
R.I. man faces charges after goose, goslings die
Police say birds chased, stomped
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff May 9, 2005
Before he left for work Saturday, John A. Sanders asked his mom what would make her Mother's Day. She said she wanted to visit the zoo.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/09/ri_man_faces_charges_after_goose_goslings_die/
7 US service members killed in insurgent violence in Iraq
Parliament OK's 6 Cabinet picks; Sunni rejects post
By Louise Roug and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times May 9, 2005
BAGHDAD -- Seven US troops were killed in action during a 48-hour period as insurgent violence raged in the Sunni Arab heartland of western and central Iraq, the US military reported yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/09/7_us_service_members_killed_in_insurgent_violence_in_iraq/
Afghan clash leaves 2 Marines dead
Kabul meeting gives backing to US partnership
By Stephen Graham, Associated Press May 9, 2005
KABUL, Afghanistan -- US forces tracked down a band of insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, setting off a battle in which two Marines were killed, the military said today.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/09/afghan_clash_leaves_2_marines_dead/
Europe marks Nazis' surrender
60th anniversary observed; Berlin seeks forgiveness
By Sarah Liebowitz and Charles M. Sennott, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff May 9, 2005
BERLIN -- Sixty years ago what was left of the German leadership surrendered to Allied forces, and the heavy burden of responsibility for a war that killed tens of millions of people in Europe has been shouldered by the German people ever since.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/09/europe_marks_nazis_surrender/
THERE is no such thing as Clean Coal Technology. This technology relies on injecting carbon dioxide into the ground where it is supposed to be sequestered forever. Forget it. We know through a study a couple years ago at Duke, Earth is saturated with carbon dioxide. There is no space for carbon dioxide in the ground anymore, hence, no such thing as Clean Coal Technology. I don't believe in Coal Fired Energy. It's dirty and environmentally dangerous including the chemicals that result as by-products of it. Burning Natural Gas is a better alternative than oil or coal but in my opinion it is still an issue with Global Warming.
A Reference:
Because carbon dioxide makes up such a high proportion of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, reducing carbon dioxide emissions can play a huge role in combating the greenhouse effect and global warming. The combustion of natural gas emits almost 30 percent less carbon dioxide than oil, and just under 45 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.
http://www.naturalgas.org/environment/naturalgas.asp
Why nuclear power is not the answer
By Philip Warburg May 9, 2005
PRESIDENT BUSH is once again playing word games that mask a deeply flawed energy policy. The chief proponent of ''clear skies," a legislative assault on essential pollution protections in the Clean Air Act, is now advocating for ''safe, clean nuclear power" as a way to curb our dependence on foreign oil.
Cleaning up coal-fired power plants also calls for creative measures to reduce those plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas targeted by the Kyoto Protocol. Faced with the Bush administration's refusal to ratify the protocol, the governors of 10 Northeast states have begun to advance their own Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. This flexible ''cap-and-trade" program, if done right, will scale back carbon dioxide emissions through a flexible diet that will include retooling conventional power plants, investing in energy efficiency, and tapping renewable energy like wind and solar.
To ease our transition from fossil fuels over the coming decades, cleaner-burning natural gas is a vital resource. Ensuring a safe and adequate supply of this fuel is no small challenge, however. We need to advance a responsible process of gauging the actual need for new gas supplies and evaluating sites for import facilities. Offshore terminals as well as remote onshore sites need to be rigorously examined.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/09/why_nuclear_power_is_not_the_answer/
Secrets behind the largest art theft in history
By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff March 13, 2005
As they struggled to remove a heavy-framed Rembrandt from the silk-draped wall of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the two thieves abruptly stopped as a high-pitched alarm beeped from the baseboard.
http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gardner_heist/heist/
Craigslist.org founder eyes journalism
By Rachel Konrad, AP Technology Writer May 9, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of people who use Craigslist.org is expanding at more than 100 percent per year -- a growth rate any venture capitalist would covet. But the people who run the 10-year-old community Web site, which gets 8 million unique users and more than 2 billion page views per month, seem to have little interest in exploiting new sources of revenue, going public or even adding to their 18-person staff.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/09/craigslistorg_founder_eyes_journalism/
concluding...
May 9th
Yom Haatzmaut Message
The time between Pesach and Yom Ha’atzmaut is a time of remarkable contrasts for the Jewish people. On Pesach, as we celebrate our freedom, we remind ourselves that that liberty has never been fully complete. “In every generation,” we declare, “our enemies stand against us to annihilate us.”
That contrast was never more marked than on Pesach, a time when many pogroms were launched at the Jewish people throughout our history in Europe. On Pesach 1943, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto revolted against the Nazis. The uprising lasted two weeks, and was ultimately crushed on what is now Yom Hashoah – the day when we honor the memory of those killed in the Holocaust.
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Award medals and orders to World War II veterans in Moscow on May 5, President Putin also highly praised the contributions made by veterans and field soldiers in the second world war.
Le Nouvel Observateur, a French weekly newspaper, carried an article praising the courage of Soviet soldiers, which saved the world.
According to the newspaper, nearly 20 million Soviet, 540,000 French, 300,000 American and 400,000 British people were killed during the Second World War.
Interviewed by a local newspaper in Berlin, both German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President V. Putin reffered to the day when the WWII ended (May 8, 1945) as the day Germany was liberated from the terror of fascism.
The two leaders also emphasised the Germanys historical responsibilities and the duty of working together to build peaceful a future for Europe.-Enditem
The time between Pesach and Yom Ha’atzmaut is a time of remarkable contrasts for the Jewish people. On Pesach, as we celebrate our freedom, we remind ourselves that that liberty has never been fully complete. “In every generation,” we declare, “our enemies stand against us to annihilate us.”
That contrast was never more marked than on Pesach, a time when many pogroms were launched at the Jewish people throughout our history in Europe. On Pesach 1943, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto revolted against the Nazis. The uprising lasted two weeks, and was ultimately crushed on what is now Yom Hashoah – the day when we honor the memory of those killed in the Holocaust.
....................................
Award medals and orders to World War II veterans in Moscow on May 5, President Putin also highly praised the contributions made by veterans and field soldiers in the second world war.
Le Nouvel Observateur, a French weekly newspaper, carried an article praising the courage of Soviet soldiers, which saved the world.
According to the newspaper, nearly 20 million Soviet, 540,000 French, 300,000 American and 400,000 British people were killed during the Second World War.
Interviewed by a local newspaper in Berlin, both German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President V. Putin reffered to the day when the WWII ended (May 8, 1945) as the day Germany was liberated from the terror of fascism.
The two leaders also emphasised the Germanys historical responsibilities and the duty of working together to build peaceful a future for Europe.-Enditem
Morning Papers - concluding
Haaretz
7 police hurt in clashes near Temple Mount
By Yoav Stern and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Seven Jerusalem police officers, including district commander Ilan Franco, were lightly wounded Monday as dozens of Palestinian youths threw stones at police officers in East Jerusalem.
Police threw a stun grenade at the youths in response.
Police have clashed with hundreds of Muslim demonstrators since restricting Muslim entry to the Temple Mount on Sunday, in reaction to rumors that right-wing Jewish extremists belonging to the nationalist Revava organization plan to lead a group to the controversial holy site.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573800.html
Justice Barak: Parts of int'l fence ruling 'positive' for Israel
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
The July 2004 ruling of the International Court of Justice at The Hague on the West Bank separation fence does contain certain clauses that could be used in favor of Israel, the President of the High Court of Justice, Aharon Barak, said Monday.
Barak spoke during a hearing by an extended panel of nine justices of four appeals against the separation fence made by residents of the villages of Shukba and Budrus in the Samaria area and A-Ram north of Jerusalem.
Barak said that "we are always criticizing the [International Court of Justice] ruling, but we should also see the positive sides in it."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574144.html
Between God and the doorpost
By Michael Handelzalts
Like many Israelis, I'm not an observant Jew. And like in many Israeli houses, there is a mezuzah fixed to my right doorpost. For those few who don't know, a mezuzah is a small box containing verses from two chapters in Deuteronomy in which God instructs his chosen people to affix this token of their love and loyalty to him "upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates" (Deuteronomy, 6, 9). I did it as there are people for whom a mezuzah is essential for them to pass through a doorway, and because I wanted to enable a dear friend to perform a mitzvah by affixing a mezuzah to a new dwelling place.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=573841&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0
IDF, settler leaders formulate pullout 'code of conduct'
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israeli Defense Forces are collaborating with the leadership of Gush Katif settlements to formulate a Code of Conduct for the expected conflict during the evacuation of settlements in the Strip, the IDF announced on Monday in a press conference.
Colonel Erez Katz, commander of the GOC Southern Command training facility, said that the IDF has carefully gone over the mistakes made during the evacuation of Yamit in 1982 and several illegal outposts in the West Bank in the last few years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574210.html
IDF seeks arrest of dozens of far-rightists; Yitzhar settler held
By Amos Harel, Nadav Shragai, Yuval Yoaz and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent
Senior Israel Defense Forces officers from the Central Command have been recommending the preventive arrest of dozens of extremists from the right - high-profile activists who have been campaigning against the disengagement and organizing protests designed to obstruct the army's moves.
The targeted rightists are mostly residents of settlements in Samaria in the West Bank.
The first administrative detention order against a right-wing activist was issued Sunday. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz signed the order to detain Neria Ofen, a resident of Yitzhar, south of Nablus, and a well-known activist promoting Jewish control of the Temple Mount.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573858.html
THIS MISTAKE IS HAPPENING at the same time the USA is in Iraq shelling near Syrian borders. Does Israel actually expect me to believe this was a mistake? I wasn't born yesterday and Israel needs to behave and respect the sovereign borders of Syria.
IDF says it fired shell into Lebanon by mistake
By Reuters
Israel Defense Forces troops accidentally fired an artillery shell into Lebanese territory on Monday during an attempt to blow up mines planted by Hezbollah militants near an army border post, the IDF said.
The incident caused no casualties or damage, an IDF spokeswoman said.
She said the mines were laid two weeks ago and that given the danger of sending sappers out to the exposed border area, soldiers had been trying to neutralize the explosives by firing shells at them. Several rounds were fired on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574192.html
A victory as well as the Holocaust
By Lily Galili
Along with the events marking the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany today in Russia, Victory Day will be celebrated for the first time here in Israel, at a state ceremony in Latrun. It will not only be a great achievement for the immigration from the Commonwealth of Independent States, penetrating the Israeli ethos, but also a deep expression of a change that has taken place in the depths of Israeli perceptions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573844.html
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
MICHAEL IS STAYING "ON IT" - I like that idea.
"Facts Were Being Fixed"
Memo: Bush Made Intelligence
British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq policy
By Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2545
Fit Iraq Policy
Afraid to tell the truth
A secret memo publicized in Britain confirms the lies on which Bush based his Iraq policy. Why has it received so little notice in the U.S. press?
By Joe Conason / Salon
May 6, 2005 Are Americans so jaded about the deceptions perpetrated by our own government to lead us into war in Iraq that we are no longer interested in fresh and damning evidence of those lies? Or are the editors and producers who oversee the American news industry simply too timid to report that proof on the evening broadcasts and front pages?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2547
"The memo that has 'IMPEACH HIM' written all over it."
Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
By Greg Palast / BuzzFlash Guest News Analysis
Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2546
88 Members of Congress Call on Bush for Answers
SECRET PLANS
Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan
RAW STORY
Eighty-eight members of Congress have signed a letter authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) calling on President Bush to answer questions about a secret U.S.-UK agreement to attack Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.
http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502
Bracing for the Filibuster Fight and Preparing for Its Fallout
By Carl Hulse / New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 7 - With the Senate clock ticking toward a momentous procedural clash over judicial nominees, lawmakers and advocates on each side are readying a final push to win over the few uncommitted lawmakers and frame the fight to their best political advantage.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2553
Schumer Urges Bush to Rein in Judge Fight
By Devlin Barrett / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer, a leading Democrat in the fight over judicial nominees, urged President Bush to intervene and rein in the strongest conservative critics of Democratic opposition to some candidates.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2554
Dems Voted Out of Church Weigh Options
By Paul Nowell / Associated Press
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. - A pastor who led a charge to kick out nine church members who refused to support President Bush was the talk of the town Saturday in this mountain hamlet, with ousted congregants considering hiring a lawyer.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2561
CT man is part of Feds' terror investigation
CROMWELL (AP) -- A Cromwell man says he's being targeted in a federal terrorism probe because he's a Muslim.
Syed Maswood, 41, is denying allegations he offered support to a militant Islamic Web site.
Maswood confirms that he's he unnamed Connecticut resident mentioned last week in a federal affidavit charging a British national with supporting terrorism.
Maswood says that on March 17th, federal agents raided his home, seizing computer equipment and financial records.
According to the affidavit, investigators discovered Maswood's e-mail address among files used to maintain a Web site that funneled money and equipment to terrorists.
Maswood has not been charged in the case but said he has been detained and searched three times while traveling on business recently and said officials have told him he's on a U.S. no-fly list.
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2160563
Sydney Morning Herald
Police smash major drug syndicate
Police have smashed a major cocaine ring they allege has been smuggling the drug into Australia from South America for some time.
A former NSW detective and 10 other men have been arrested over what police say was the ring's latest plot - to smuggle $15 million worth of cocaine into Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-smash-major-drug-syndicate/2005/05/09/1115584899058.html
Bali nine linked to big drug syndicate
By Lindsay Murdoch in Denpasar
May 9, 2005
Police have identified one of the world's biggest drug syndicates as the supplier of heroin to the nine Australians arrested in Bali.
Investigators are targeting the Asian-based Crescent Moon, which has been smuggling heroin from Burma for years.
Australian Federal Police agents investigating the syndicate's link to the nine Australians being held in Bali are confident the criminals behind it will soon be caught. Bruce Hill, head of a six-member team of federal police agents in Bali, said the syndicate was "well organised and well structured".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bali-nine-linked-to-big-drug-syndicate/2005/05/08/1115491045932.html
Pizza delivery ends prison hostage ordeal
A late-night pizza delivery brought an end to a siege in Hobart's Risdon Prison, where inmates had held a number of prisoners and a prison warder captive for about 40 hours.
All captives have since been released unharmed, Tasmanian Prisons Director Graeme Barber said at an 11am press conference today.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Pizza-delivery-ends-prison-hostage-ordeal/2005/05/09/1115584887259.html
Children still awake during surgery
By Janelle Miles
May 9, 2005
Children are more likely to be awake during surgery than adults, groundbreaking research suggests.
More than 850 children were questioned after being anaesthetised, and 28 cases of suspected awareness were uncovered, the research team leader, Andrew Davidson, said. Four independent adjudicators all agreed that of those, seven children - almost 1 per cent - had been awake during their surgery.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Children-still-awake-during-surgery/2005/05/08/1115491047049.html
Beijing rejects US request to pressure North Korea
May 9, 2005
A senior US envoy asked Chinese officials to cut off North Korea's supply of oil as a way of pressuring Pyongyang to return to disarmament talks. But the Chinese rejected the idea, saying it would damage their pipeline.
After the US assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill suggested a "technical" interruption of fuel during a meeting in Beijing last week, a senior Chinese official, Yang Xiyu, complained that the Americans were focused on "too narrow a range of tools" for China to influence Pyongyang.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Beijing-rejects-US-request-to-pressure-North-Korea/2005/05/08/1115491045944.html
Pyongyang and Tehran ignore White House calls to halt nuclear programs
May 9, 2005
Washington: North Korea's suspected preparations for an underground nuclear test and Iran's assertion of an "inalienable right" to acquire nuclear technology are the latest signs that President George Bush's appeals are falling on deaf ears.
Analysts say that Pyongyang and Tehran will continue to defy Mr Bush's demands to halt their nuclear programs because:
The US cannot enlist help from the United Nations Security Council because US credibility was shattered by erroneous claims about Iraqi weapons.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Pyongyang-and-Tehran-ignore-White-House-calls-to-halt-nuclearprograms/2005/05/08/1115491045947.html
Vivid memories of Vietnam War still haunt
May 9, 2005
Kay Collett.
Photo: Natalie Boog
Women's stories throw a different light on the conflict, writes Sunanda Creagh.
She's the chief radiographer at Royal North Shore Hospital, a confident, no-nonsense woman at the head of a busy department.
But when Kay Collett casts her mind back almost 40 years, to when she was a young nurse in the Vietnam War, the memories surge back. She begins to cry gently as she describes treating a small boy with napalm burns.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Arts/Vivid-memories-of-Vietnam-War-still-haunt/2005/05/08/1115491043859.html
University changes may weaken role in global knowledge economy
May 9, 2005
There will be higher quality research in some institutions but less of it, writes Simon Marginson.
Australian universities are being jolted into another universe. It's the kind of epochal change that comes along every 10-15 years: Whitlam and free education in 1974; the Dawkins reforms in 1987-1989; Howard's budget cuts in 1996, which drove accelerated overseas marketing; and now the Nelson reforms.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/University-changes-may-weaken-role-in-global-knowledge-economy/2005/05/08/1115491044023.html
Ugandan peacemaker gives children a voice in merciless world
May 9, 2005
The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize wants action beyond denunciation, writes Mark Coultan.
Whenever Olara Otunnu gets depressed about the way children are conscripted, targeted and brutalised in conflicts around the world, he thinks about those who protest against such injustices.
Otunnu has been announced as this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. As the United Nations' Under Secretary-General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, his choice is likely to be less controversial than the last two recipients, the Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ugandan-peacemaker-gives-children-a-voice-in-merciless-world/2005/05/08/1115491045977.html
Ugandan peacemaker gives children a voice in merciless world
May 9, 2005
The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize wants action beyond denunciation, writes Mark Coultan.
Whenever Olara Otunnu gets depressed about the way children are conscripted, targeted and brutalised in conflicts around the world, he thinks about those who protest against such injustices.
Otunnu has been announced as this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. As the United Nations' Under Secretary-General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, his choice is likely to be less controversial than the last two recipients, the Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ugandan-peacemaker-gives-children-a-voice-in-merciless-world/2005/05/08/1115491045977.html
Don't just mention the war: talk about us now, German ambassador tells Britain
By Elizabeth Day
May 9, 2005
Europe, Britain is still "obsessed with the Nazi period" and "ignorant" about German history after 1945, Berlin's ambassador to London has declared ahead of VE day celebrations.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Dont-just-mention-the-war-talk-about-us-now-German-ambassadortells-Britain/2005/05/08/1115491045941.html
The Daily Star
Iraqi FM: Jordan can win Sunni support for new government
Two countries vow greater cooperation to fight terror
Jordan's close ties with influential Sunni Arabs in Iraq can help ensure greater political participation from Iraq's one-time most dominant community, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday. Zebari, who is accompanying new Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on his first state visit abroad, also called for greater security cooperation to battle anti-U.S. militants in Iraq, including arch Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14907
Christian neighborhood again targeted in fifth bomb attack
20-kilogram bomb destroys church and radio station
JOUNIEH: An explosion 9 p.m. Friday night in Jounieh has destroyed a radio station and church in the Christian heartland some 15 kilometers north of Beirut. A mix of old stone buildings housing shops and residential apartments, the town was shaken by a bomb planted near the main square, outside the headquarters of the Sawt al-Mahabba (Voice of Charity) Christian radio station and neighboring St. John's Maronite church.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=14900
Iran says U.S. blocked purchase of Basell
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, May 09, 2005
TEHRAN: Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh denounced Saturday U.S. pressures that blocked Iran's National Petrochemical Co. (NPC) of purchasing Basell, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell and BASF.
"We know that the American pressures seriously intervened in the decision," Zanganeh told reporters on the sidelines of a petrochemical conference in Tehran.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=14894
Mobil Lebanon hosts lunch at Metropolitan Palace Hotel
BEIRUT: Mobil Lebanon, the oil and gasoline company, held a lunch Wednesday at the Metropolitan Palace Hotel in Sin al-Fil to launch its 2005 marketing plan.
Guests made up of Mobil employees and executives enjoyed a delicious lunch at the luxury hotel, as the company forecast a productive and profitable year.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/starscene.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=6&article_id=14704
Developers move ahead with Lebanon's $1bn Sannine Zenith project
Company CEO expects crews to begin work this year on the first phase of what will be the country's largest tourism development
BEIRUT: Plans to build a billion dollar ski resort on Lebanon's Sannine mountain range have not been affected by the unraveling of Lebanon's delicate political fabric over recent months, with developers telling The Daily Star that excavation work on the mammoth project could begin as earlier as this summer.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=14901
Lecture sheds light on different uses of Great Temple of Petra
Functions include place of worship, fortress and market place
BEIRUT: During an illustrated lecture held on May 4 at the American University of Beirut Museum, AUB Trustee and Brown University Professor Emerita Martha Joukowsky highlighted some of the archaeological and historical characteristics of the Great Temple of Petra, which functioned in different capacities over the years.
Entitled "The Recent Discovery of the Petra Great Temple," the lecture spanned a period from the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.
Archaeologists believe that the Great Temple initially served as a place of worship, with its monumental entryway, or Propylaeum, and sacred enclosure.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=14830
The Belfast Telegraph
WAS McCarthy a Unionist?
UUP prepares for new leader
By Noel McAdam
09 May 2005
Northern Ireland political life was still reeling last night after the resignation of David Trimble as Ulster Unionist leader.
But with counting in the province's second election due to begin later today moves were already under way to elect his successor.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636910
Lords next for Trimble?
By Noel McAdam
09 May 2005
Speculation that David Trimble could be headed for the House of Lords mounted last night as the Ulster Unionist Party began the search for his successor.
Amid reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to make a fresh round of nominations for the Lords in July, there was an expectation Mr Trimble will be offered the same elevation as his predecessors - if he wants it.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636918
DUP 'only party to increase vote share'
By Chris Thornton
09 May 2005
The DUP and Sinn Fein got one thing completely wrong in their triumphant General Election campaigns.
Both parties had predicted that Sinn Fein could top the poll. In the end it wasn't even close.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636924
Geldof plans new Live Aid concert for Africa
09 May 2005
Sir Bob Geldof is planning to stage a new Live Aid concert this summer to coincide with Britain hosting the G8 summit of world leaders, it was confirmed yesterday.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/music/story.jsp?story=636981
Viewpoint: Unionists' frustration voiced at the ballot box
Fresh impetus: Republicans must signal end to criminal intent
09 May 2005
The new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain faces the daunting task of replacing direct rule with devolution. At first glance the election results provide no comfort for him, with the unionist community swinging behind the Democratic Unionists and nationalists divided between Sinn Fein and the SDLP.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/story.jsp?story=636938
Korean News - English version based in Japan
I THINK the word Reunification is the profound issue between these two countries.
It was with Vietnam. Evidently, the North doesn't see the South as autonomous and why any nuclear potential by the North is so divisive and dangerous.
The thing is that where the North Koreans are in their idea of negotiation and settlement is no where near where the American Public believes we are or intend to go. North Korea separated from it's assets in the south is a poor and destitute country. The 'chronic' aid the USA was sending North Korea was to 'pay off' the leadership to prevent conflict.
The Reunification the USA speaks of does not include leaving the North Korean's at the top of the country. It is safe to say the conflict between North and South Korea is alive and well and grossly misunderstood by the American Public. Allowing peace and mutual respect between North and South doesn't even come close to where the North Koreans are in any negotitations. I am quite confident all these years there has been no headway made with North Korea regarding separate and autonomous nations and why this escalation is so profound in it's definition of the intentions of a frustrated North Korea.
That is my estimation of it.
North Korea will become a nuclear nation and with that strength may come more respect and a different stature in negotiations. Once North Korea feels secure maybe the terms of a Peace Accord will follow more willingly but my best guess is that will not happen IF reunification will continue to be an issue. North Korea is fully aware by it's actions from time to time along the DMZ that the USA if not South Korea would like to dismantle that government and just allow one government under South Korean leadership. I think that is where we are.
Rodong Sinmun on North-South Joint Declaration
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The reunification era after the historic Pyongyang meeting and the adoption and publication of the north-south joint declaration on June 15, 2000, first of its kind, 55 years after Korea's division, is the era of independence and reunification and the era of "By our nation itself" when the idea of independence and reunification has become that of the whole nation and a new phase of reconciliation, cooperation and reunification has opened on the Korean Peninsula where an atmosphere of antagonism and confrontation prevailed. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
Leader Kim Jong Il, who has the firm idea of independence and reunification and noble ideal of patriotism, saw through the subjective and objective circumstances of the movement for national reunification and the trend of the situation with his outstanding wisdom, scientific insight and extraordinary leadership ability, provided the historic Pyongyang meeting and opened a new chapter in the history of national reunification. The meeting, first of its kind in the history of national division spanning over half a century, adopted the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration which calls for settling the issue of national reunification independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation itself.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Relocation of Japan-based U.S. forces Flailed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. bellicose forces fixed what they call north Korea's nuclear program danger line and are now spreading the "fiction of war crisis," frantically stepping up war preparations to invade the northern half of Korea, which indicates their intention to attack the DPRK any moment, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article. They move to bring the First Army Corps Command to Japan from the U.S. mainland, realize the merger of the U.S. 13th Air Force Command in Guam and the U.S. 5th Air Force Command in Yokoda, Japan, and turn the whole of Japan archipelago into a base of strategic importance for a preemptive attack of aggression, the article says, and goes on;
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Letter to Kim Jong Il Adopted in Peru
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at a meeting organized by the Peruvian national preparatory committee for the "meeting praising the great persons of Mt. Paektu" on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. President Kim Il Sung was the author of the Juche idea, the founder of the socialist Korea of Juche, the great revolutionary and the great sun of the 20th century, the letter said.
Kim Jong Il, it noted, has wisely led socialist construction of the DPRK, true to the intention of the President.
He is defending independence and peace of the Korean people and the world people by wisely leading the Korean people with his Songun policy, the letter said, adding that they extend full solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Termination of U.S. Military Presence Called for
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces present in south Korea have dropped at random bombs for actual fighting at the bombing range in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong City, Kyonggi Province, claiming heavy losses in lives of the residents of the nearby village and destroying hundreds of farm houses five years ago. Denouncing the thrice-cursed atrocities, the North Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres issued an appeal to the south Korean compatriots Saturday. The crimes committed by the U.S. imperialists in Maehyang-ri on May 8, 2000, are one more disgraceful record which brings into bolder relief the true colors of the Yankees who have committed mass killings, destruction and pillage, exercising the extraterritorial right in south Korea for decades, the document says.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
U.S. Assertion about DPRK's Call for DPRK-U.S. Talks Independent of Six-Way Talks Dismissed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) - A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave Sunday the following answer to the question put by KCNA in connection with the misinformation floated by the U.S. recently in a bid to create impression that the former is insisting only on the bilateral talks between the two countries instead of coming out for the six-party talks: We had already clarified our stand that we cannot have any form of talks with the U.S. nor can we deal with it as long as the DPRK is branded as "an outpost of tyranny." We have never requested the DPRK-U.S. talks independent of the six-way talks.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Iran Daily
Not to get North Korean issues confused with the Iranian situation. I really think Iran just wants autonomy and feels they need to defend against the USA occupied Iraq. I honestly don't see Iran as an aggressive nation seeking nuclear weapons in the way North Korea does. North Korea has a cause. That cause is to unite North and South Korea. To some extent, I really think North Korea is clueless about the USA through it's isolation and even more clueless about South Korea as the leadership of those two counties don't even trade Culture and Art exhibits. There is a huge void of understanding between these two nations and due to the insisted isolation by the USA of North Korea that will never resolve except in conflict.
Freedom, Independence Historical Demands
TEHRAN, May 8--President Mohammad Khatami said on Sunday independence, freedom and progress are the historical demands of the Iranian nation.
Speaking in the International Conference on Constitution Movement at Tehran University, Khatami said, “If those in power come to terms with this demand, they will be successful. Otherwise, they may rule over the minds and lives of the people for some time, but will eventually fail.“
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/index.htm
I FOUND THIS ENTIRE page of news fascinating from the "Iran Daily" - Heck, we don't even have sections of newspapers devoted to new Energy Technology.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/energy.htm
Galvanizing R&D for Alternatives to Oil
The oil shortage will come very soon relative to the lead times for solving the many technical and social problems of oft-mentioned alternatives.
Why is selecting and developing alternatives to oil so very important? Consider three reasons: Oil is a hydrocarbon whose natural product of combustion is carbon dioxide, which increases global warning. Oil is easily the number one source of energy, supplying 38.7 percent of the world’s supply, and 63 percent of oil reserves are located in the volatile Middle East. The world production of oil will peak and begin to decline in the next several years while demand continues to grow, leaving us with a permanently increasing oil shortage, energyplus.net reported.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/energy.htm
The Jerusalem Post
Dissolve the rabbinate
Is it too much to expect that our chief rabbis stay out of trouble? In January, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz suggested that Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger suspend himself in light of allegations that he illegally received free hotel stays. Now the wife, son and daughter of Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar were arrested for the kidnapping and beating of young man from Bnei Brak. The Amar family reportedly did not approve of the young man's relationship with Amar's daughter, whom he had met over the Internet.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519111896
Settlers, then and now
In the late 1920s several hundred devoted far-Left Zionist pioneers packed up and left Mandatory Palestine for good. They were members of an organization called Gdud Ha'avoda (Labor Battalions), founded in 1921. During the six years of its existence they reached a maximum number of 700, though over 2,000 passed through their ranks until their disbandment. All of this at a time when the entire nascent Yishuv numbered barely 100,000. During those years, they undertook extraordinary pioneering labor projects: paving roads, drying out swamps, and blasting stone quarries.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519111902
New Zealand Herald
UN’s ElBaradei warns of nuclear apocalypse
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. Picture / Reuters
07.05.05
UNITED NATIONS - If the world does not take steps to limit access to technology for making nuclear bomb fuel, we could be headed for a nuclear apocalypse, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog said today.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, has proposed a five-year moratorium on the enrichment of uranium and production of plutonium, but many countries have balked at the idea.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124346
Iraqi man says Peters put his life in danger
Winston Peters
09.05.05 4.00pm
One of the Iraqi men identified by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters as having links with Saddam Hussein, has applied for refugee status.
Amer Mahdi Al-Khshali, a former Iraqi government minister, said in a statement through his Auckland lawyer today his life had been put in danger after he was named by Mr Peters in Parliament in "an abuse of the New Zealand parliamentary process for political gain".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10124624
Berlin neo-Nazi march stopped
09.05.05 4.00pm
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN - A neo-Nazi march in Berlin was stopped by thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators on Sunday after a tense standoff that overshadowed Germany’s ceremonies marking the end of World War 2 in Europe 60 years ago.
Berlin police said 6000 demonstrators opposed to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) crowded into streets around Alexanderplatz square where 3300 right-wing extremists gathered to protest what they called a German "cult of guilt".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124608
Bush and Putin disagree over democracy
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and US President George W. Bush after their meeting at Putin's Presidential Residence near Moscow. Picture / Reuters
09.05.05 1.00pm
By Caren Bohan and Steve Holland
MOSCOW - US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin aired their differences on democracy and Moscow’s ties with its neighbours today but top aides insisted the talks were amicable and open.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124581
Iraq says aide to al Qaeda leader captured
09.05.05 1.00pm
BAGHDAD - Iraq has said that security forces have captured a key aide to the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A government statement said Amar al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Abbas, was captured three days ago in Baghdad.
It said he helped plan an attack on Abu Ghraib prison in April in which up to 60 insurgents attacked a US base with suicide car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, wounding at least 20 US troops and 12 detainees.
Zubaydi was also involved in a string of car bombings in Baghdad in April, the statement said.
- REUTERS
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124593
Israel jails soldier and Jewish militant
09.05.05 1.00pm
JERUSALEM - Israel has jailed its first reservist for refusing military duty in protest at plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and has detained a right-wing militant until after the pullout, officials said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124588
Winston Peters: Naive little country with a 'soft touch' reputation
Winston Peters
09.05.05
New Zealanders heard the most extraordinary concession when Immigration Minister Paul Swain said the former cabinet minister in Saddam Hussein's regime would never have been found had it not been for the information I had provided.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10124458
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
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7 police hurt in clashes near Temple Mount
By Yoav Stern and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Seven Jerusalem police officers, including district commander Ilan Franco, were lightly wounded Monday as dozens of Palestinian youths threw stones at police officers in East Jerusalem.
Police threw a stun grenade at the youths in response.
Police have clashed with hundreds of Muslim demonstrators since restricting Muslim entry to the Temple Mount on Sunday, in reaction to rumors that right-wing Jewish extremists belonging to the nationalist Revava organization plan to lead a group to the controversial holy site.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573800.html
Justice Barak: Parts of int'l fence ruling 'positive' for Israel
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
The July 2004 ruling of the International Court of Justice at The Hague on the West Bank separation fence does contain certain clauses that could be used in favor of Israel, the President of the High Court of Justice, Aharon Barak, said Monday.
Barak spoke during a hearing by an extended panel of nine justices of four appeals against the separation fence made by residents of the villages of Shukba and Budrus in the Samaria area and A-Ram north of Jerusalem.
Barak said that "we are always criticizing the [International Court of Justice] ruling, but we should also see the positive sides in it."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574144.html
Between God and the doorpost
By Michael Handelzalts
Like many Israelis, I'm not an observant Jew. And like in many Israeli houses, there is a mezuzah fixed to my right doorpost. For those few who don't know, a mezuzah is a small box containing verses from two chapters in Deuteronomy in which God instructs his chosen people to affix this token of their love and loyalty to him "upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates" (Deuteronomy, 6, 9). I did it as there are people for whom a mezuzah is essential for them to pass through a doorway, and because I wanted to enable a dear friend to perform a mitzvah by affixing a mezuzah to a new dwelling place.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=573841&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0
IDF, settler leaders formulate pullout 'code of conduct'
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israeli Defense Forces are collaborating with the leadership of Gush Katif settlements to formulate a Code of Conduct for the expected conflict during the evacuation of settlements in the Strip, the IDF announced on Monday in a press conference.
Colonel Erez Katz, commander of the GOC Southern Command training facility, said that the IDF has carefully gone over the mistakes made during the evacuation of Yamit in 1982 and several illegal outposts in the West Bank in the last few years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574210.html
IDF seeks arrest of dozens of far-rightists; Yitzhar settler held
By Amos Harel, Nadav Shragai, Yuval Yoaz and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent
Senior Israel Defense Forces officers from the Central Command have been recommending the preventive arrest of dozens of extremists from the right - high-profile activists who have been campaigning against the disengagement and organizing protests designed to obstruct the army's moves.
The targeted rightists are mostly residents of settlements in Samaria in the West Bank.
The first administrative detention order against a right-wing activist was issued Sunday. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz signed the order to detain Neria Ofen, a resident of Yitzhar, south of Nablus, and a well-known activist promoting Jewish control of the Temple Mount.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573858.html
THIS MISTAKE IS HAPPENING at the same time the USA is in Iraq shelling near Syrian borders. Does Israel actually expect me to believe this was a mistake? I wasn't born yesterday and Israel needs to behave and respect the sovereign borders of Syria.
IDF says it fired shell into Lebanon by mistake
By Reuters
Israel Defense Forces troops accidentally fired an artillery shell into Lebanese territory on Monday during an attempt to blow up mines planted by Hezbollah militants near an army border post, the IDF said.
The incident caused no casualties or damage, an IDF spokeswoman said.
She said the mines were laid two weeks ago and that given the danger of sending sappers out to the exposed border area, soldiers had been trying to neutralize the explosives by firing shells at them. Several rounds were fired on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574192.html
A victory as well as the Holocaust
By Lily Galili
Along with the events marking the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany today in Russia, Victory Day will be celebrated for the first time here in Israel, at a state ceremony in Latrun. It will not only be a great achievement for the immigration from the Commonwealth of Independent States, penetrating the Israeli ethos, but also a deep expression of a change that has taken place in the depths of Israeli perceptions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573844.html
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
MICHAEL IS STAYING "ON IT" - I like that idea.
"Facts Were Being Fixed"
Memo: Bush Made Intelligence
British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq policy
By Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2545
Fit Iraq Policy
Afraid to tell the truth
A secret memo publicized in Britain confirms the lies on which Bush based his Iraq policy. Why has it received so little notice in the U.S. press?
By Joe Conason / Salon
May 6, 2005 Are Americans so jaded about the deceptions perpetrated by our own government to lead us into war in Iraq that we are no longer interested in fresh and damning evidence of those lies? Or are the editors and producers who oversee the American news industry simply too timid to report that proof on the evening broadcasts and front pages?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2547
"The memo that has 'IMPEACH HIM' written all over it."
Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
By Greg Palast / BuzzFlash Guest News Analysis
Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2546
88 Members of Congress Call on Bush for Answers
SECRET PLANS
Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan
RAW STORY
Eighty-eight members of Congress have signed a letter authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) calling on President Bush to answer questions about a secret U.S.-UK agreement to attack Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.
http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502
Bracing for the Filibuster Fight and Preparing for Its Fallout
By Carl Hulse / New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 7 - With the Senate clock ticking toward a momentous procedural clash over judicial nominees, lawmakers and advocates on each side are readying a final push to win over the few uncommitted lawmakers and frame the fight to their best political advantage.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2553
Schumer Urges Bush to Rein in Judge Fight
By Devlin Barrett / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer, a leading Democrat in the fight over judicial nominees, urged President Bush to intervene and rein in the strongest conservative critics of Democratic opposition to some candidates.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2554
Dems Voted Out of Church Weigh Options
By Paul Nowell / Associated Press
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. - A pastor who led a charge to kick out nine church members who refused to support President Bush was the talk of the town Saturday in this mountain hamlet, with ousted congregants considering hiring a lawyer.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2561
CT man is part of Feds' terror investigation
CROMWELL (AP) -- A Cromwell man says he's being targeted in a federal terrorism probe because he's a Muslim.
Syed Maswood, 41, is denying allegations he offered support to a militant Islamic Web site.
Maswood confirms that he's he unnamed Connecticut resident mentioned last week in a federal affidavit charging a British national with supporting terrorism.
Maswood says that on March 17th, federal agents raided his home, seizing computer equipment and financial records.
According to the affidavit, investigators discovered Maswood's e-mail address among files used to maintain a Web site that funneled money and equipment to terrorists.
Maswood has not been charged in the case but said he has been detained and searched three times while traveling on business recently and said officials have told him he's on a U.S. no-fly list.
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2160563
Sydney Morning Herald
Police smash major drug syndicate
Police have smashed a major cocaine ring they allege has been smuggling the drug into Australia from South America for some time.
A former NSW detective and 10 other men have been arrested over what police say was the ring's latest plot - to smuggle $15 million worth of cocaine into Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-smash-major-drug-syndicate/2005/05/09/1115584899058.html
Bali nine linked to big drug syndicate
By Lindsay Murdoch in Denpasar
May 9, 2005
Police have identified one of the world's biggest drug syndicates as the supplier of heroin to the nine Australians arrested in Bali.
Investigators are targeting the Asian-based Crescent Moon, which has been smuggling heroin from Burma for years.
Australian Federal Police agents investigating the syndicate's link to the nine Australians being held in Bali are confident the criminals behind it will soon be caught. Bruce Hill, head of a six-member team of federal police agents in Bali, said the syndicate was "well organised and well structured".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bali-nine-linked-to-big-drug-syndicate/2005/05/08/1115491045932.html
Pizza delivery ends prison hostage ordeal
A late-night pizza delivery brought an end to a siege in Hobart's Risdon Prison, where inmates had held a number of prisoners and a prison warder captive for about 40 hours.
All captives have since been released unharmed, Tasmanian Prisons Director Graeme Barber said at an 11am press conference today.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Pizza-delivery-ends-prison-hostage-ordeal/2005/05/09/1115584887259.html
Children still awake during surgery
By Janelle Miles
May 9, 2005
Children are more likely to be awake during surgery than adults, groundbreaking research suggests.
More than 850 children were questioned after being anaesthetised, and 28 cases of suspected awareness were uncovered, the research team leader, Andrew Davidson, said. Four independent adjudicators all agreed that of those, seven children - almost 1 per cent - had been awake during their surgery.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Children-still-awake-during-surgery/2005/05/08/1115491047049.html
Beijing rejects US request to pressure North Korea
May 9, 2005
A senior US envoy asked Chinese officials to cut off North Korea's supply of oil as a way of pressuring Pyongyang to return to disarmament talks. But the Chinese rejected the idea, saying it would damage their pipeline.
After the US assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill suggested a "technical" interruption of fuel during a meeting in Beijing last week, a senior Chinese official, Yang Xiyu, complained that the Americans were focused on "too narrow a range of tools" for China to influence Pyongyang.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Beijing-rejects-US-request-to-pressure-North-Korea/2005/05/08/1115491045944.html
Pyongyang and Tehran ignore White House calls to halt nuclear programs
May 9, 2005
Washington: North Korea's suspected preparations for an underground nuclear test and Iran's assertion of an "inalienable right" to acquire nuclear technology are the latest signs that President George Bush's appeals are falling on deaf ears.
Analysts say that Pyongyang and Tehran will continue to defy Mr Bush's demands to halt their nuclear programs because:
The US cannot enlist help from the United Nations Security Council because US credibility was shattered by erroneous claims about Iraqi weapons.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Pyongyang-and-Tehran-ignore-White-House-calls-to-halt-nuclearprograms/2005/05/08/1115491045947.html
Vivid memories of Vietnam War still haunt
May 9, 2005
Kay Collett.
Photo: Natalie Boog
Women's stories throw a different light on the conflict, writes Sunanda Creagh.
She's the chief radiographer at Royal North Shore Hospital, a confident, no-nonsense woman at the head of a busy department.
But when Kay Collett casts her mind back almost 40 years, to when she was a young nurse in the Vietnam War, the memories surge back. She begins to cry gently as she describes treating a small boy with napalm burns.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Arts/Vivid-memories-of-Vietnam-War-still-haunt/2005/05/08/1115491043859.html
University changes may weaken role in global knowledge economy
May 9, 2005
There will be higher quality research in some institutions but less of it, writes Simon Marginson.
Australian universities are being jolted into another universe. It's the kind of epochal change that comes along every 10-15 years: Whitlam and free education in 1974; the Dawkins reforms in 1987-1989; Howard's budget cuts in 1996, which drove accelerated overseas marketing; and now the Nelson reforms.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/University-changes-may-weaken-role-in-global-knowledge-economy/2005/05/08/1115491044023.html
Ugandan peacemaker gives children a voice in merciless world
May 9, 2005
The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize wants action beyond denunciation, writes Mark Coultan.
Whenever Olara Otunnu gets depressed about the way children are conscripted, targeted and brutalised in conflicts around the world, he thinks about those who protest against such injustices.
Otunnu has been announced as this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. As the United Nations' Under Secretary-General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, his choice is likely to be less controversial than the last two recipients, the Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ugandan-peacemaker-gives-children-a-voice-in-merciless-world/2005/05/08/1115491045977.html
Ugandan peacemaker gives children a voice in merciless world
May 9, 2005
The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize wants action beyond denunciation, writes Mark Coultan.
Whenever Olara Otunnu gets depressed about the way children are conscripted, targeted and brutalised in conflicts around the world, he thinks about those who protest against such injustices.
Otunnu has been announced as this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. As the United Nations' Under Secretary-General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, his choice is likely to be less controversial than the last two recipients, the Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ugandan-peacemaker-gives-children-a-voice-in-merciless-world/2005/05/08/1115491045977.html
Don't just mention the war: talk about us now, German ambassador tells Britain
By Elizabeth Day
May 9, 2005
Europe, Britain is still "obsessed with the Nazi period" and "ignorant" about German history after 1945, Berlin's ambassador to London has declared ahead of VE day celebrations.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Dont-just-mention-the-war-talk-about-us-now-German-ambassadortells-Britain/2005/05/08/1115491045941.html
The Daily Star
Iraqi FM: Jordan can win Sunni support for new government
Two countries vow greater cooperation to fight terror
Jordan's close ties with influential Sunni Arabs in Iraq can help ensure greater political participation from Iraq's one-time most dominant community, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday. Zebari, who is accompanying new Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on his first state visit abroad, also called for greater security cooperation to battle anti-U.S. militants in Iraq, including arch Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14907
Christian neighborhood again targeted in fifth bomb attack
20-kilogram bomb destroys church and radio station
JOUNIEH: An explosion 9 p.m. Friday night in Jounieh has destroyed a radio station and church in the Christian heartland some 15 kilometers north of Beirut. A mix of old stone buildings housing shops and residential apartments, the town was shaken by a bomb planted near the main square, outside the headquarters of the Sawt al-Mahabba (Voice of Charity) Christian radio station and neighboring St. John's Maronite church.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=14900
Iran says U.S. blocked purchase of Basell
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, May 09, 2005
TEHRAN: Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh denounced Saturday U.S. pressures that blocked Iran's National Petrochemical Co. (NPC) of purchasing Basell, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell and BASF.
"We know that the American pressures seriously intervened in the decision," Zanganeh told reporters on the sidelines of a petrochemical conference in Tehran.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=14894
Mobil Lebanon hosts lunch at Metropolitan Palace Hotel
BEIRUT: Mobil Lebanon, the oil and gasoline company, held a lunch Wednesday at the Metropolitan Palace Hotel in Sin al-Fil to launch its 2005 marketing plan.
Guests made up of Mobil employees and executives enjoyed a delicious lunch at the luxury hotel, as the company forecast a productive and profitable year.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/starscene.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=6&article_id=14704
Developers move ahead with Lebanon's $1bn Sannine Zenith project
Company CEO expects crews to begin work this year on the first phase of what will be the country's largest tourism development
BEIRUT: Plans to build a billion dollar ski resort on Lebanon's Sannine mountain range have not been affected by the unraveling of Lebanon's delicate political fabric over recent months, with developers telling The Daily Star that excavation work on the mammoth project could begin as earlier as this summer.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=14901
Lecture sheds light on different uses of Great Temple of Petra
Functions include place of worship, fortress and market place
BEIRUT: During an illustrated lecture held on May 4 at the American University of Beirut Museum, AUB Trustee and Brown University Professor Emerita Martha Joukowsky highlighted some of the archaeological and historical characteristics of the Great Temple of Petra, which functioned in different capacities over the years.
Entitled "The Recent Discovery of the Petra Great Temple," the lecture spanned a period from the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.
Archaeologists believe that the Great Temple initially served as a place of worship, with its monumental entryway, or Propylaeum, and sacred enclosure.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=14830
The Belfast Telegraph
WAS McCarthy a Unionist?
UUP prepares for new leader
By Noel McAdam
09 May 2005
Northern Ireland political life was still reeling last night after the resignation of David Trimble as Ulster Unionist leader.
But with counting in the province's second election due to begin later today moves were already under way to elect his successor.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636910
Lords next for Trimble?
By Noel McAdam
09 May 2005
Speculation that David Trimble could be headed for the House of Lords mounted last night as the Ulster Unionist Party began the search for his successor.
Amid reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to make a fresh round of nominations for the Lords in July, there was an expectation Mr Trimble will be offered the same elevation as his predecessors - if he wants it.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636918
DUP 'only party to increase vote share'
By Chris Thornton
09 May 2005
The DUP and Sinn Fein got one thing completely wrong in their triumphant General Election campaigns.
Both parties had predicted that Sinn Fein could top the poll. In the end it wasn't even close.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636924
Geldof plans new Live Aid concert for Africa
09 May 2005
Sir Bob Geldof is planning to stage a new Live Aid concert this summer to coincide with Britain hosting the G8 summit of world leaders, it was confirmed yesterday.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/music/story.jsp?story=636981
Viewpoint: Unionists' frustration voiced at the ballot box
Fresh impetus: Republicans must signal end to criminal intent
09 May 2005
The new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain faces the daunting task of replacing direct rule with devolution. At first glance the election results provide no comfort for him, with the unionist community swinging behind the Democratic Unionists and nationalists divided between Sinn Fein and the SDLP.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/story.jsp?story=636938
Korean News - English version based in Japan
I THINK the word Reunification is the profound issue between these two countries.
It was with Vietnam. Evidently, the North doesn't see the South as autonomous and why any nuclear potential by the North is so divisive and dangerous.
The thing is that where the North Koreans are in their idea of negotiation and settlement is no where near where the American Public believes we are or intend to go. North Korea separated from it's assets in the south is a poor and destitute country. The 'chronic' aid the USA was sending North Korea was to 'pay off' the leadership to prevent conflict.
The Reunification the USA speaks of does not include leaving the North Korean's at the top of the country. It is safe to say the conflict between North and South Korea is alive and well and grossly misunderstood by the American Public. Allowing peace and mutual respect between North and South doesn't even come close to where the North Koreans are in any negotitations. I am quite confident all these years there has been no headway made with North Korea regarding separate and autonomous nations and why this escalation is so profound in it's definition of the intentions of a frustrated North Korea.
That is my estimation of it.
North Korea will become a nuclear nation and with that strength may come more respect and a different stature in negotiations. Once North Korea feels secure maybe the terms of a Peace Accord will follow more willingly but my best guess is that will not happen IF reunification will continue to be an issue. North Korea is fully aware by it's actions from time to time along the DMZ that the USA if not South Korea would like to dismantle that government and just allow one government under South Korean leadership. I think that is where we are.
Rodong Sinmun on North-South Joint Declaration
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The reunification era after the historic Pyongyang meeting and the adoption and publication of the north-south joint declaration on June 15, 2000, first of its kind, 55 years after Korea's division, is the era of independence and reunification and the era of "By our nation itself" when the idea of independence and reunification has become that of the whole nation and a new phase of reconciliation, cooperation and reunification has opened on the Korean Peninsula where an atmosphere of antagonism and confrontation prevailed. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
Leader Kim Jong Il, who has the firm idea of independence and reunification and noble ideal of patriotism, saw through the subjective and objective circumstances of the movement for national reunification and the trend of the situation with his outstanding wisdom, scientific insight and extraordinary leadership ability, provided the historic Pyongyang meeting and opened a new chapter in the history of national reunification. The meeting, first of its kind in the history of national division spanning over half a century, adopted the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration which calls for settling the issue of national reunification independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation itself.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Relocation of Japan-based U.S. forces Flailed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. bellicose forces fixed what they call north Korea's nuclear program danger line and are now spreading the "fiction of war crisis," frantically stepping up war preparations to invade the northern half of Korea, which indicates their intention to attack the DPRK any moment, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article. They move to bring the First Army Corps Command to Japan from the U.S. mainland, realize the merger of the U.S. 13th Air Force Command in Guam and the U.S. 5th Air Force Command in Yokoda, Japan, and turn the whole of Japan archipelago into a base of strategic importance for a preemptive attack of aggression, the article says, and goes on;
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Letter to Kim Jong Il Adopted in Peru
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at a meeting organized by the Peruvian national preparatory committee for the "meeting praising the great persons of Mt. Paektu" on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. President Kim Il Sung was the author of the Juche idea, the founder of the socialist Korea of Juche, the great revolutionary and the great sun of the 20th century, the letter said.
Kim Jong Il, it noted, has wisely led socialist construction of the DPRK, true to the intention of the President.
He is defending independence and peace of the Korean people and the world people by wisely leading the Korean people with his Songun policy, the letter said, adding that they extend full solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Termination of U.S. Military Presence Called for
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces present in south Korea have dropped at random bombs for actual fighting at the bombing range in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong City, Kyonggi Province, claiming heavy losses in lives of the residents of the nearby village and destroying hundreds of farm houses five years ago. Denouncing the thrice-cursed atrocities, the North Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres issued an appeal to the south Korean compatriots Saturday. The crimes committed by the U.S. imperialists in Maehyang-ri on May 8, 2000, are one more disgraceful record which brings into bolder relief the true colors of the Yankees who have committed mass killings, destruction and pillage, exercising the extraterritorial right in south Korea for decades, the document says.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
U.S. Assertion about DPRK's Call for DPRK-U.S. Talks Independent of Six-Way Talks Dismissed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) - A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave Sunday the following answer to the question put by KCNA in connection with the misinformation floated by the U.S. recently in a bid to create impression that the former is insisting only on the bilateral talks between the two countries instead of coming out for the six-party talks: We had already clarified our stand that we cannot have any form of talks with the U.S. nor can we deal with it as long as the DPRK is branded as "an outpost of tyranny." We have never requested the DPRK-U.S. talks independent of the six-way talks.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Iran Daily
Not to get North Korean issues confused with the Iranian situation. I really think Iran just wants autonomy and feels they need to defend against the USA occupied Iraq. I honestly don't see Iran as an aggressive nation seeking nuclear weapons in the way North Korea does. North Korea has a cause. That cause is to unite North and South Korea. To some extent, I really think North Korea is clueless about the USA through it's isolation and even more clueless about South Korea as the leadership of those two counties don't even trade Culture and Art exhibits. There is a huge void of understanding between these two nations and due to the insisted isolation by the USA of North Korea that will never resolve except in conflict.
Freedom, Independence Historical Demands
TEHRAN, May 8--President Mohammad Khatami said on Sunday independence, freedom and progress are the historical demands of the Iranian nation.
Speaking in the International Conference on Constitution Movement at Tehran University, Khatami said, “If those in power come to terms with this demand, they will be successful. Otherwise, they may rule over the minds and lives of the people for some time, but will eventually fail.“
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/index.htm
I FOUND THIS ENTIRE page of news fascinating from the "Iran Daily" - Heck, we don't even have sections of newspapers devoted to new Energy Technology.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/energy.htm
Galvanizing R&D for Alternatives to Oil
The oil shortage will come very soon relative to the lead times for solving the many technical and social problems of oft-mentioned alternatives.
Why is selecting and developing alternatives to oil so very important? Consider three reasons: Oil is a hydrocarbon whose natural product of combustion is carbon dioxide, which increases global warning. Oil is easily the number one source of energy, supplying 38.7 percent of the world’s supply, and 63 percent of oil reserves are located in the volatile Middle East. The world production of oil will peak and begin to decline in the next several years while demand continues to grow, leaving us with a permanently increasing oil shortage, energyplus.net reported.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/energy.htm
The Jerusalem Post
Dissolve the rabbinate
Is it too much to expect that our chief rabbis stay out of trouble? In January, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz suggested that Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger suspend himself in light of allegations that he illegally received free hotel stays. Now the wife, son and daughter of Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar were arrested for the kidnapping and beating of young man from Bnei Brak. The Amar family reportedly did not approve of the young man's relationship with Amar's daughter, whom he had met over the Internet.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519111896
Settlers, then and now
In the late 1920s several hundred devoted far-Left Zionist pioneers packed up and left Mandatory Palestine for good. They were members of an organization called Gdud Ha'avoda (Labor Battalions), founded in 1921. During the six years of its existence they reached a maximum number of 700, though over 2,000 passed through their ranks until their disbandment. All of this at a time when the entire nascent Yishuv numbered barely 100,000. During those years, they undertook extraordinary pioneering labor projects: paving roads, drying out swamps, and blasting stone quarries.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519111902
New Zealand Herald
UN’s ElBaradei warns of nuclear apocalypse
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. Picture / Reuters
07.05.05
UNITED NATIONS - If the world does not take steps to limit access to technology for making nuclear bomb fuel, we could be headed for a nuclear apocalypse, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog said today.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, has proposed a five-year moratorium on the enrichment of uranium and production of plutonium, but many countries have balked at the idea.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124346
Iraqi man says Peters put his life in danger
Winston Peters
09.05.05 4.00pm
One of the Iraqi men identified by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters as having links with Saddam Hussein, has applied for refugee status.
Amer Mahdi Al-Khshali, a former Iraqi government minister, said in a statement through his Auckland lawyer today his life had been put in danger after he was named by Mr Peters in Parliament in "an abuse of the New Zealand parliamentary process for political gain".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10124624
Berlin neo-Nazi march stopped
09.05.05 4.00pm
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN - A neo-Nazi march in Berlin was stopped by thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators on Sunday after a tense standoff that overshadowed Germany’s ceremonies marking the end of World War 2 in Europe 60 years ago.
Berlin police said 6000 demonstrators opposed to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) crowded into streets around Alexanderplatz square where 3300 right-wing extremists gathered to protest what they called a German "cult of guilt".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124608
Bush and Putin disagree over democracy
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and US President George W. Bush after their meeting at Putin's Presidential Residence near Moscow. Picture / Reuters
09.05.05 1.00pm
By Caren Bohan and Steve Holland
MOSCOW - US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin aired their differences on democracy and Moscow’s ties with its neighbours today but top aides insisted the talks were amicable and open.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124581
Iraq says aide to al Qaeda leader captured
09.05.05 1.00pm
BAGHDAD - Iraq has said that security forces have captured a key aide to the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A government statement said Amar al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Abbas, was captured three days ago in Baghdad.
It said he helped plan an attack on Abu Ghraib prison in April in which up to 60 insurgents attacked a US base with suicide car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, wounding at least 20 US troops and 12 detainees.
Zubaydi was also involved in a string of car bombings in Baghdad in April, the statement said.
- REUTERS
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124593
Israel jails soldier and Jewish militant
09.05.05 1.00pm
JERUSALEM - Israel has jailed its first reservist for refusing military duty in protest at plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and has detained a right-wing militant until after the pullout, officials said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124588
Winston Peters: Naive little country with a 'soft touch' reputation
Winston Peters
09.05.05
New Zealanders heard the most extraordinary concession when Immigration Minister Paul Swain said the former cabinet minister in Saddam Hussein's regime would never have been found had it not been for the information I had provided.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10124458
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