May 8, 2005, Farmland of Israel. These photos are unaltered unless stated. These are actual crops of Israel. The Greek photo is of a sea near the town of Perapetra.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Morning Papers - It's Origin
Rooster "Crowing"
"Oh"
History...
1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.
1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
1863: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War
1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet; marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.
1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
1940, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; at the request of King George VI, Winston Churchill agrees to take over as prime minister.
1941: Nazi deputy Rudolf Hess, apparently seeking a peace deal between Germany and Britain, steals a plane and crash lands in Scotland; he is arrested and imprisoned for the rest of the war.
1968, preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.
1978, Britain's Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announced they were divorcing after 18 years of marriage.
1994, the state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
1994: Nelson Mandela took the oath of office, in as the first native African president of South Africa; a new, multi-racial cabinet is formed the following day.
Born…
1838, John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
1850, Sir Thomas Lipton, merchant and yachtsman.
1886, Karl Barth, theologian.
1899, Fred Astaire, dancer and actor.
1902, David O. Selznick, American producer, whose motion pictures, meticulous in detail and commercially successful, were among the finest of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Selznick began working in the New York City office of his father, Lewis J. Selznick, an ambitious film mogul, when he was still a teenager. There he learned about film promotion, distribution, and production on a grand scale. Lewis Selznick, whose business was perennially overextended, went bankrupt in the early 1920s, and his son had to begin making his own way in the motion-picture industry. Selznick made two newsreel-style documentaries in 1923 and his first feature, Roulette, in 1924.
Judith Jamison—dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)—celebrates her birthday today. AAADT is an internationally renowned dance company.
http://www.alvinailey.org/
Missing in Action
1966 BAILEY JOHN EDWARD MINNEAPOLIS MN SURVIVAL UNLIKELY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 03/17/99
1966 ECKES WALTER W. NEW YORK NY 06/18/66 ESCAPED ALIVE AND WELL 1998
1967 AHLMEYER HEINZ JR. PEARL RIVER NY
1967 MILLER MALCOM T. TAMPA FL
1967 NETHERLAND ROGER M. BEAVER PA REMAINS IDENTIFIED 06/16/00
1967 SHARP SAMUEL A. JR. SAN JOSE CA
1967 TYCZ JAMES N. MILWAUKEE WI
1968 BLACKMAN THOMAS J. RACINE WI
1968 CZERWONKA PAUL S. SOUTHTON MA
1968 COOK JOSEPH F. FOXBORO MA
1968 FLEMING HORACE H. III PENSACOLA FL
1968 FRITSCH THOMAS W. CROMWELL CT
1968 HEMPEL BARRY L. GARDEN GROVE CA
1968 HEYNE RAYMOND T. MASON WI
1968 KING GERALD E. KNOXVILLE TN
1968 LOPEZ ROBERT C. ALBUQUERQUE NM
1968 MC GONIGLE WILLIAM D. WICHITA KS
1968 MITCHELL DONALD W. PRINCETON KY
1968 MILLER GLENN E. OAKLAND CA
1968 PERRY THOMAS H. CANTON CT
1968 SARGENT JAMES R. ANAWALT WV
1969 WALTERS WILLIAM PHILADELPHIA PA
1971 BINGHAM KLAUS Y. WAHIAWA HI
1971 LUTTRELL JAMES M. FAYETTEVILLE NC
1971 WALTON LEWIS C. CRANSTON RI
1972 BLACKBURN HARRY L. JR. HIGHLAND SPRINGS VA POSS DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86
1972 HARRIS JEFFREY L. CLINTON MD REMAINS RETURNED 05/97
1972 LODGE ROBERT A. LYNBROOK NY 09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1972 RUDLOFF STEPHEN A. NEW YORK NY 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 WILKINSON DENNIS E. WEST PALM BEACH FL 08/26/78 REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI
Journalism at Risk
Bad Wead
By Irwin N. Graulich
MichNews.com
Mar 2, 2005
There are times when God gives an individual a very appropriate name.
And it came to pass, that an Indiana preacher, Wead, brought forth a son who was a very bad weed (sic). And this son became an evangelical motivational speaker, even though he did not actually graduate from the Central Bible College. This man, known as Douglas, who had three brothers, kept close company with J. Douglas Cassidy, a Springfield businessman who wound up serving time for conspiracy and tax evasion, something The New York Times has conveniently forgotten to mention.
Furthermore, this holy man, Wead, has been associated with Jim Bakker, the televangelist whose name is synonymous with scandal. And the public continues to inhale Wead's vile smoke--and mirrors. How sick is The New York Times for publishing transcripts of "private" conversations between then Governor George Bush and a pseudo friend. Next stop on the Times hit list--shocking photos of the president relieving himself in a bathroom stall.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7081.shtml
Miami Herald
New poll: Floridians still unprepared for hurricanes
By MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@herald.com
Even in the wake of last year's catastrophic swarm of storms, many Floridians and other coastal residents are woefully apathetic about -- and unprepared for -- hurricanes, according to a poll released Monday.
The Mason-Dixon poll found that nearly half the residents of endangered areas from Texas to Maine, including Florida, still do not have a plan to react to an approaching hurricane, two out of three would choose the wrong destination if ordered to evacuate, and two in five erroneously believe that flooding is covered by standard homeowners insurance.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11603293.htm
Poll
http://www.hurricanesafety.org/mediakit/masonDixon_poll.pdf
Tubes hiss sweet smell of success
BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
''What the heck,'' Dr. Mike long wondered, ``are all those tubes?''
The tubes are black and thin and they run around the northern and western fences of the sewage plant on Virginia Key. There are two sets of them, one 15 feet above the ground and the other somewhat higher. They look like telephone lines, except every so often they hiss, and out comes a fine, sweet-smelling mist, which hangs in the air and drifts a short way before dissipating.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11598697.htm
Photos:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/slideshow.htm?content_id=11602287&pub_name=miamiherald&language=en&palette_name=miamiherald&site_name=miami&start=2&component_title=&component_desc=
Summit agenda: trade ties, shared resentment of U.S.
Ministers from 34 South American and Arab League countries are about to begin their first summit. On the table in Brazil is trade -- and perceptions of U.S. interventionism.
BY TAREK EL TABLAWY
Associated Press
BRASILIA - Ministers from 33 South American and Middle Eastern nations on Sunday began preparing the groundwork for the first-ever summit of leaders from the two regions.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11599077.htm
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Life-Threatening Flaws
Armor issued despite warnings
By Christian Lowe / USA Today
The Marine Corps issued to nearly 10,000 troops body armor that military
ballistic experts had urged the Marines to reject after tests revealed life-threatening flaws in the vests, an eight-month investigation by Marine Corps Times has found.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2562
Body Armor Recalled
US Marines recall body armor amid safety questions
By Will Dunham / Reuters
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Marine Corps has recalled body armor given to thousands of troops fighting in Iraq because of questions about whether it offers adequate protection, officials said on Monday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2577
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
Insurgent violence rages. The government fills five more Cabinet posts, three with Sunnis.
By Louise Roug and Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Eight U.S. 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 U.S. military reported Sunday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2567
Two U.S. Marines Killed in Afghan Clash
Two U.S. Marines killed in Afghan clash
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed in a battle with insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Monday, the latest casualties in a surge of rebel violence.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2568
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
Insurgent violence rages. The government fills five more Cabinet posts, three with Sunnis.
By Louise Roug and Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Eight U.S. 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 U.S. military reported Sunday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2567
Two U.S. Marines Killed in Afghan Clash
Two U.S. Marines killed in Afghan clash
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed in a battle with insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Monday, the latest casualties in a surge of rebel violence.
The Marines were hunting for a group of insurgents northwest of the eastern city of Jalalabad, on Sunday, when the clash with about 25 rebels erupted, the U.S. military said in a statement.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2568
Name Withheld Pending Notification
By Cindy Sheehan / LeeRockwell.com
When I woke up this morning, the "official" death count in Iraq was 1576. The first thing I do in the morning after I boot up my computer is to check the DoD website to see if any more of our nation’s precious children were killed in this horror of a nonsensical war. I was talking to another Gold Star Mom, Celeste Zappala, today and she sadly advised me that the count rose to 1579 (note: the official count is now 1594) while she was out to lunch.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2573
Name Withheld Pending Notification
By Cindy Sheehan / LeeRockwell.com
When I woke up this morning, the "official" death count in Iraq was 1576. The first thing I do in the morning after I boot up my computer is to check the DoD website to see if any more of our nation’s precious children were killed in this horror of a nonsensical war. I was talking to another Gold Star Mom, Celeste Zappala, today and she sadly advised me that the count rose to 1579 (note: the official count is now 1594) while she was out to lunch.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2573
The World Forum
Nuclear Fuel Leak At Sellafield Facility In England
By Drog (Canada), Section United Kingdom
Posted on Mon May 09, 2005 at 11:34:03 AM PST
By Wikinews
Enough nuclear waste"to half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool" has leaked from a cracked pipe into a "huge stainless steel chamber," at the Sellafield reprocessing plant, according to the Guardian. The leak is completely contained within the plant and poses no risk to the public nor workers at the site. The leak was discovered on April 19, when workers noticed a discrepancy in the amount of fuel entering pipes conducting the waste to a set of centrifuges and the amount of fuel actually arriving at the centrifuges. Workers used remote cameras to find the crack where the fuel was escaping; over twenty tonnes has leaked.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/9/11343/62251
CBC Attacks FOX News
By Drog (Canada), Section Blogs
Posted on Fri Apr 15, 2005 at 08:34:05 AM PST
CBC's investigative journalism show The Fifth Estate re-aired their recent documentary Sticks and Stones last night, in which they discuss how the U.S. is a nation of warring factions, where you're either Republican or Democrat, a red-stater or blue-stater, a conservative or a liberal, where political conversation has denigrated into a shouting match, and where conservatives have taken over the airwaves once ruled by the liberals.
The documentary took on FOX News, focusing on Ann Coulter (who embarasses herself by claiming that Canada sent troops to Vietnam) and on Bill O'Reilly, host of the show The O'Reilly Factor.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/4/15/83433/6883
USA Cannot Criticize Venezuela For Buying Arms
By Inside View America (USA), Section Venezuela
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 07:08:49 PM PST
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld heavily criticized Venezuela's decision to purchase arms from Russia during an interview while visiting Brazil.
Rumsfeld justifies his position with the fear that such arms could end up in the hands of the FARC, a guerilla group in Colombia seen as a terrorist threat by the American government.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/3/28/6513/16424
U.S. Begins Tests For Destroying VX Nerve Gas Stockpile
By Drog (Canada), Section United States of America
Posted on Sun May 08, 2005 at 10:28:06 AM PST
By Wikinews
Testing began on a chemical reactor at the Newport Chemical Depotnear Terra Haute, Indiana on Friday morning. If successful, the reactor will be put to use destroying the large VX nerve gas stockpiles stored at the facility over the course of the next two years.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/8/10287/46770
Satellite Imagery Shows Viewing Stand For North Korean Nuclear Test
By Drog (Canada), Section Korea, North
Posted on Sun May 08, 2005 at 07:03:09 PM PST
By Wikinews
According to American and foreign officials, Whit House and Pentagon officials are closely monitoring spy satellite'imagery of North Korea, also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Preparations seem to be made for testing a nuclear weapon, including the construction of a viewing stand, most likely for scientists or North Korean officials. It would be the first test of a nuclear weapon by North Korea.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/8/19320/49921
Israeli Withdrawal Halted Until Palestinians Disarm Militants
By Drog (Canada), Section Israel
Posted on Thu May 05, 2005 at 07:35:18 AM PST
By Wikinews
The Israeli government has announced that it has halted withdrawal from three additional West Bank towns until the Palestinian leadership begins disarming militants more effectively. The announcement comes in addition to the killing of two Palestinian youths by an Israeli army unit, an action that has been labeled a violation of their February 8 ceasefire.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/5/73526/75047
Sudan Preemptively Rejects Security Council Resolution On War Crimes Extradition
By Drog (Canada), Section Sudan
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 09:44:39 AM PST
Wikinews reports that in anticipation of a Security Council vote on trying alleged Darfur war criminals at the International Criminal Court, Sudan announced today it would reject any United Nations resolution that required war crimes suspects to be tried abroad. The resolution before the UNSC was drafted by the French delegation, and is expected to be voted on this week.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/3/30/94439/3519
2005 Afghan Opium Harvest Begins
By Drog (Canada), Section Afghanistan
Posted on Tue May 03, 2005 at 09:20:37 PM PST
By Wikinews
Most heroin sold in Europe comes from Afghanistan's poppies. This past week, the 2005 opium harvest was in full view and going full speed in Afghanistan. The cultivators gathering resin from the crop are operating even near the main road through Kandahar and the farmers are out gathering resin from opium poppies in full view.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/3/212038/0725
China Introduces New Jury Trial System
By Drog (Canada), Section China
Posted on Sun May 01, 2005 at 10:01:25 PM PST
By Wikinews
The People's Republic of China (PRC in recent years has begun an effort to reform its judicial system and make trials more fair and accountable, according to its state-run People's Daily. Those efforts came to a head today with the official May 1 start of jury duty by more than 27,000 newly qualified jurors. According to People's Daily, "It is the first time in Chinese history that the people's juries are appointed in a uniformed way by the people's congresses at all levels."
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/1/22127/8438
The Death Of Democracy In Mexico
By smathieson (Mexico), Section Mexico
Posted on Fri Apr 29, 2005 at 04:52:16 AM PST
So many news stories have been going around lately I thought it a good idea to put my two cents in.
As many may know; the Mayor of Mexico City, the city I live in, has been charged with some sort of crime.
What crime is this and why is it a very important case?
Well the story is actually quite complicated. I will try to explain it as best I can.
First a little background; Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (or AMLO as he is known) is a well known polititian and Mayor of Mexico City, by some standards the biggest city in the world. He is branded a populist by many. He organized marches and pacific civil resistance in the state of Tabasco in Mexico. He was elected to the second most important public office in Mexico, the Mayor of the "Federal District" of Mexico. The 'core' of Mexico City.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/4/26/191538/762
continued...
"Oh"
History...
1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne of France.
1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
1863: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War
1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet; marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
1924, J. Edgar Hoover was given the job of FBI director.
1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
1940, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; at the request of King George VI, Winston Churchill agrees to take over as prime minister.
1941: Nazi deputy Rudolf Hess, apparently seeking a peace deal between Germany and Britain, steals a plane and crash lands in Scotland; he is arrested and imprisoned for the rest of the war.
1968, preliminary Vietnam peace talks began in Paris.
1978, Britain's Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announced they were divorcing after 18 years of marriage.
1994, the state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murders of 33 young men and boys.
1994: Nelson Mandela took the oath of office, in as the first native African president of South Africa; a new, multi-racial cabinet is formed the following day.
Born…
1838, John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.
1850, Sir Thomas Lipton, merchant and yachtsman.
1886, Karl Barth, theologian.
1899, Fred Astaire, dancer and actor.
1902, David O. Selznick, American producer, whose motion pictures, meticulous in detail and commercially successful, were among the finest of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Selznick began working in the New York City office of his father, Lewis J. Selznick, an ambitious film mogul, when he was still a teenager. There he learned about film promotion, distribution, and production on a grand scale. Lewis Selznick, whose business was perennially overextended, went bankrupt in the early 1920s, and his son had to begin making his own way in the motion-picture industry. Selznick made two newsreel-style documentaries in 1923 and his first feature, Roulette, in 1924.
Judith Jamison—dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)—celebrates her birthday today. AAADT is an internationally renowned dance company.
http://www.alvinailey.org/
Missing in Action
1966 BAILEY JOHN EDWARD MINNEAPOLIS MN SURVIVAL UNLIKELY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 03/17/99
1966 ECKES WALTER W. NEW YORK NY 06/18/66 ESCAPED ALIVE AND WELL 1998
1967 AHLMEYER HEINZ JR. PEARL RIVER NY
1967 MILLER MALCOM T. TAMPA FL
1967 NETHERLAND ROGER M. BEAVER PA REMAINS IDENTIFIED 06/16/00
1967 SHARP SAMUEL A. JR. SAN JOSE CA
1967 TYCZ JAMES N. MILWAUKEE WI
1968 BLACKMAN THOMAS J. RACINE WI
1968 CZERWONKA PAUL S. SOUTHTON MA
1968 COOK JOSEPH F. FOXBORO MA
1968 FLEMING HORACE H. III PENSACOLA FL
1968 FRITSCH THOMAS W. CROMWELL CT
1968 HEMPEL BARRY L. GARDEN GROVE CA
1968 HEYNE RAYMOND T. MASON WI
1968 KING GERALD E. KNOXVILLE TN
1968 LOPEZ ROBERT C. ALBUQUERQUE NM
1968 MC GONIGLE WILLIAM D. WICHITA KS
1968 MITCHELL DONALD W. PRINCETON KY
1968 MILLER GLENN E. OAKLAND CA
1968 PERRY THOMAS H. CANTON CT
1968 SARGENT JAMES R. ANAWALT WV
1969 WALTERS WILLIAM PHILADELPHIA PA
1971 BINGHAM KLAUS Y. WAHIAWA HI
1971 LUTTRELL JAMES M. FAYETTEVILLE NC
1971 WALTON LEWIS C. CRANSTON RI
1972 BLACKBURN HARRY L. JR. HIGHLAND SPRINGS VA POSS DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86
1972 HARRIS JEFFREY L. CLINTON MD REMAINS RETURNED 05/97
1972 LODGE ROBERT A. LYNBROOK NY 09/30/77 REMAINS RETURNED BY SRV
1972 RUDLOFF STEPHEN A. NEW YORK NY 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 WILKINSON DENNIS E. WEST PALM BEACH FL 08/26/78 REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI
Journalism at Risk
Bad Wead
By Irwin N. Graulich
MichNews.com
Mar 2, 2005
There are times when God gives an individual a very appropriate name.
And it came to pass, that an Indiana preacher, Wead, brought forth a son who was a very bad weed (sic). And this son became an evangelical motivational speaker, even though he did not actually graduate from the Central Bible College. This man, known as Douglas, who had three brothers, kept close company with J. Douglas Cassidy, a Springfield businessman who wound up serving time for conspiracy and tax evasion, something The New York Times has conveniently forgotten to mention.
Furthermore, this holy man, Wead, has been associated with Jim Bakker, the televangelist whose name is synonymous with scandal. And the public continues to inhale Wead's vile smoke--and mirrors. How sick is The New York Times for publishing transcripts of "private" conversations between then Governor George Bush and a pseudo friend. Next stop on the Times hit list--shocking photos of the president relieving himself in a bathroom stall.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7081.shtml
Miami Herald
New poll: Floridians still unprepared for hurricanes
By MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@herald.com
Even in the wake of last year's catastrophic swarm of storms, many Floridians and other coastal residents are woefully apathetic about -- and unprepared for -- hurricanes, according to a poll released Monday.
The Mason-Dixon poll found that nearly half the residents of endangered areas from Texas to Maine, including Florida, still do not have a plan to react to an approaching hurricane, two out of three would choose the wrong destination if ordered to evacuate, and two in five erroneously believe that flooding is covered by standard homeowners insurance.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11603293.htm
Poll
http://www.hurricanesafety.org/mediakit/masonDixon_poll.pdf
Tubes hiss sweet smell of success
BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
''What the heck,'' Dr. Mike long wondered, ``are all those tubes?''
The tubes are black and thin and they run around the northern and western fences of the sewage plant on Virginia Key. There are two sets of them, one 15 feet above the ground and the other somewhat higher. They look like telephone lines, except every so often they hiss, and out comes a fine, sweet-smelling mist, which hangs in the air and drifts a short way before dissipating.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11598697.htm
Photos:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/slideshow.htm?content_id=11602287&pub_name=miamiherald&language=en&palette_name=miamiherald&site_name=miami&start=2&component_title=&component_desc=
Summit agenda: trade ties, shared resentment of U.S.
Ministers from 34 South American and Arab League countries are about to begin their first summit. On the table in Brazil is trade -- and perceptions of U.S. interventionism.
BY TAREK EL TABLAWY
Associated Press
BRASILIA - Ministers from 33 South American and Middle Eastern nations on Sunday began preparing the groundwork for the first-ever summit of leaders from the two regions.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11599077.htm
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Life-Threatening Flaws
Armor issued despite warnings
By Christian Lowe / USA Today
The Marine Corps issued to nearly 10,000 troops body armor that military
ballistic experts had urged the Marines to reject after tests revealed life-threatening flaws in the vests, an eight-month investigation by Marine Corps Times has found.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2562
Body Armor Recalled
US Marines recall body armor amid safety questions
By Will Dunham / Reuters
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Marine Corps has recalled body armor given to thousands of troops fighting in Iraq because of questions about whether it offers adequate protection, officials said on Monday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2577
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
Insurgent violence rages. The government fills five more Cabinet posts, three with Sunnis.
By Louise Roug and Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Eight U.S. 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 U.S. military reported Sunday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2567
Two U.S. Marines Killed in Afghan Clash
Two U.S. Marines killed in Afghan clash
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed in a battle with insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Monday, the latest casualties in a surge of rebel violence.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2568
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
8 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
Insurgent violence rages. The government fills five more Cabinet posts, three with Sunnis.
By Louise Roug and Patrick J. McDonnell / Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD — Eight U.S. 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 U.S. military reported Sunday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2567
Two U.S. Marines Killed in Afghan Clash
Two U.S. Marines killed in Afghan clash
KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed in a battle with insurgents in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Monday, the latest casualties in a surge of rebel violence.
The Marines were hunting for a group of insurgents northwest of the eastern city of Jalalabad, on Sunday, when the clash with about 25 rebels erupted, the U.S. military said in a statement.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2568
Name Withheld Pending Notification
By Cindy Sheehan / LeeRockwell.com
When I woke up this morning, the "official" death count in Iraq was 1576. The first thing I do in the morning after I boot up my computer is to check the DoD website to see if any more of our nation’s precious children were killed in this horror of a nonsensical war. I was talking to another Gold Star Mom, Celeste Zappala, today and she sadly advised me that the count rose to 1579 (note: the official count is now 1594) while she was out to lunch.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2573
Name Withheld Pending Notification
By Cindy Sheehan / LeeRockwell.com
When I woke up this morning, the "official" death count in Iraq was 1576. The first thing I do in the morning after I boot up my computer is to check the DoD website to see if any more of our nation’s precious children were killed in this horror of a nonsensical war. I was talking to another Gold Star Mom, Celeste Zappala, today and she sadly advised me that the count rose to 1579 (note: the official count is now 1594) while she was out to lunch.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2573
The World Forum
Nuclear Fuel Leak At Sellafield Facility In England
By Drog (Canada), Section United Kingdom
Posted on Mon May 09, 2005 at 11:34:03 AM PST
By Wikinews
Enough nuclear waste"to half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool" has leaked from a cracked pipe into a "huge stainless steel chamber," at the Sellafield reprocessing plant, according to the Guardian. The leak is completely contained within the plant and poses no risk to the public nor workers at the site. The leak was discovered on April 19, when workers noticed a discrepancy in the amount of fuel entering pipes conducting the waste to a set of centrifuges and the amount of fuel actually arriving at the centrifuges. Workers used remote cameras to find the crack where the fuel was escaping; over twenty tonnes has leaked.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/9/11343/62251
CBC Attacks FOX News
By Drog (Canada), Section Blogs
Posted on Fri Apr 15, 2005 at 08:34:05 AM PST
CBC's investigative journalism show The Fifth Estate re-aired their recent documentary Sticks and Stones last night, in which they discuss how the U.S. is a nation of warring factions, where you're either Republican or Democrat, a red-stater or blue-stater, a conservative or a liberal, where political conversation has denigrated into a shouting match, and where conservatives have taken over the airwaves once ruled by the liberals.
The documentary took on FOX News, focusing on Ann Coulter (who embarasses herself by claiming that Canada sent troops to Vietnam) and on Bill O'Reilly, host of the show The O'Reilly Factor.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/4/15/83433/6883
USA Cannot Criticize Venezuela For Buying Arms
By Inside View America (USA), Section Venezuela
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 07:08:49 PM PST
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld heavily criticized Venezuela's decision to purchase arms from Russia during an interview while visiting Brazil.
Rumsfeld justifies his position with the fear that such arms could end up in the hands of the FARC, a guerilla group in Colombia seen as a terrorist threat by the American government.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/3/28/6513/16424
U.S. Begins Tests For Destroying VX Nerve Gas Stockpile
By Drog (Canada), Section United States of America
Posted on Sun May 08, 2005 at 10:28:06 AM PST
By Wikinews
Testing began on a chemical reactor at the Newport Chemical Depotnear Terra Haute, Indiana on Friday morning. If successful, the reactor will be put to use destroying the large VX nerve gas stockpiles stored at the facility over the course of the next two years.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/8/10287/46770
Satellite Imagery Shows Viewing Stand For North Korean Nuclear Test
By Drog (Canada), Section Korea, North
Posted on Sun May 08, 2005 at 07:03:09 PM PST
By Wikinews
According to American and foreign officials, Whit House and Pentagon officials are closely monitoring spy satellite'imagery of North Korea, also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Preparations seem to be made for testing a nuclear weapon, including the construction of a viewing stand, most likely for scientists or North Korean officials. It would be the first test of a nuclear weapon by North Korea.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/8/19320/49921
Israeli Withdrawal Halted Until Palestinians Disarm Militants
By Drog (Canada), Section Israel
Posted on Thu May 05, 2005 at 07:35:18 AM PST
By Wikinews
The Israeli government has announced that it has halted withdrawal from three additional West Bank towns until the Palestinian leadership begins disarming militants more effectively. The announcement comes in addition to the killing of two Palestinian youths by an Israeli army unit, an action that has been labeled a violation of their February 8 ceasefire.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/5/73526/75047
Sudan Preemptively Rejects Security Council Resolution On War Crimes Extradition
By Drog (Canada), Section Sudan
Posted on Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 09:44:39 AM PST
Wikinews reports that in anticipation of a Security Council vote on trying alleged Darfur war criminals at the International Criminal Court, Sudan announced today it would reject any United Nations resolution that required war crimes suspects to be tried abroad. The resolution before the UNSC was drafted by the French delegation, and is expected to be voted on this week.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/3/30/94439/3519
2005 Afghan Opium Harvest Begins
By Drog (Canada), Section Afghanistan
Posted on Tue May 03, 2005 at 09:20:37 PM PST
By Wikinews
Most heroin sold in Europe comes from Afghanistan's poppies. This past week, the 2005 opium harvest was in full view and going full speed in Afghanistan. The cultivators gathering resin from the crop are operating even near the main road through Kandahar and the farmers are out gathering resin from opium poppies in full view.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/3/212038/0725
China Introduces New Jury Trial System
By Drog (Canada), Section China
Posted on Sun May 01, 2005 at 10:01:25 PM PST
By Wikinews
The People's Republic of China (PRC in recent years has begun an effort to reform its judicial system and make trials more fair and accountable, according to its state-run People's Daily. Those efforts came to a head today with the official May 1 start of jury duty by more than 27,000 newly qualified jurors. According to People's Daily, "It is the first time in Chinese history that the people's juries are appointed in a uniformed way by the people's congresses at all levels."
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/5/1/22127/8438
The Death Of Democracy In Mexico
By smathieson (Mexico), Section Mexico
Posted on Fri Apr 29, 2005 at 04:52:16 AM PST
So many news stories have been going around lately I thought it a good idea to put my two cents in.
As many may know; the Mayor of Mexico City, the city I live in, has been charged with some sort of crime.
What crime is this and why is it a very important case?
Well the story is actually quite complicated. I will try to explain it as best I can.
First a little background; Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (or AMLO as he is known) is a well known polititian and Mayor of Mexico City, by some standards the biggest city in the world. He is branded a populist by many. He organized marches and pacific civil resistance in the state of Tabasco in Mexico. He was elected to the second most important public office in Mexico, the Mayor of the "Federal District" of Mexico. The 'core' of Mexico City.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/4/26/191538/762
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Morning Papers - continued
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"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Group's Pact With Putin Friends Raises Eyebrows
By NATHANIEL POPPER and MARC PERELMAN
March 4, 2005
The American Jewish Congress, a group known for its historic role at the cutting edge of liberal Jewish activism, signed a strategic agreement this week with a Russian Jewish organization that has close ties to the Kremlin and that is dominated by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
The agreement, pledging to fight "religious and ethnic bigotry," was signed Tuesday at a ceremony in Moscow by the chairman of the American Jewish Congress's Council on World Jewry, Jack Rosen, and by the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the former Soviet Union, billionaire diamond dealer Lev Leviev.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2775
More than thirty Heads of State and Ministers to attend inauguration of new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem
11/03/2005
More than thirty (30) Heads of State and Ministers from around the world will attend the historic inauguration of Yad Vashem's new Holocaust History Museum on March 15, 2005. The inaugural event will take place over two days, on March 15 - 16th 2005 at Yad Vashem under the patronage of the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katzav and in the presence of world leaders.
According to Chairman of Yad Vashem Avner Shalev, the impressive array of high level foreign delegations attending the inauguration “illustrates the importance world leaders place on Holocaust remembrance, and highlights the vital role Yad Vashem plays in achieving the common goal of remembering the past, and shaping the future - by helping fight antisemitism and standing up for the values of human rights and democracy.”
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/printerfriendly.asp?id=36068
The Paper That Rewrote Catholic-Jewish Relations
By David Rosen
March 18, 2005
Forty years ago, the Catholic Church revolutionized attitudes within the Christian world toward Jews and Judaism with the declaration known as Nostra Aetate, a document that emerged from the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.
Prior to this document, the perception that had prevailed within the Christian world over the centuries was that Jews had been rejected by God not only for their failure to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the true messiah, but also for complicity in his execution. As a result, the Jewish people's Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and Jews were expelled from their land and condemned to wander the world as a despised and rejected people.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2842
Less Gory 'Passion' Still Raises Hackles
By Eric J. Greenberg
March 18, 2005
In an effort to make his bloody blockbuster about the death of Jesus more palatable, Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson has edited about six minutes of violent footage from his 2004 hit, "The Passion of the Christ."
The film, which some scholarly critics say ahistorically blames Jews for Jesus' death while promoting ancient anti-Jewish stereotypes, reopened in hundreds of theaters around the country this week.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2831
The Jews' Pope
By Micah Halpern
The Micah Report April 6, 2005
Some called him the "Jews' Pope" a title bestowed upon a much respected and admired religious leader.
On his visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall the Pope, as tradition dictates, placed a note between the centuries old stones of the Wall. The text of the note was later made public. This is what he wrote, please note that it was addressed to "God."
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17620
In the March 13-14 night , some people set fire to the Synagogue in Lugano, and to a shop owned by a Jewish family.
Below, the entry about the 2 demos of solidarity with the Jewish community, tomorrow night and on Saturday, I posted at the ADISI blog .
Elio Bollag, the chief of the Jewish community says he is shocked but also astonished as there is no antisemitism in Ticino. Maybe there's some wishful thinking in this statement. When we arrived here in 89, our daughter didn't dare say her dad was a Jew: the bus shelter near her school was full of swastikas and other nazi insigna. I remember conversations with so called educated people (some actually were teachers) who rehashed old cliches about Jewish plutocracy, ending up with the hallowed formula: "Some of my best friends are Jews". Xenophobia was rife in the vocational schools where I've taught.
OK, it's the first arson of a Synagogue here. Let's hope it will be the last. Let's hope it will mark the end of "party chat" and grafiti antisemitism and xenophobia.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=2646
Israel Unveils New Shoah Museum To a World Still Bent on Destruction
By Limor Livnat
March 18, 2005
World leaders and delegations from more than 30 nations arrived in Jerusalem Tuesday for the inauguration of the new museum at Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial. Rather than further focus on the documentary aspects of the Nazi genocide, the new Holocaust center, which is four times as large as the existing museum, will explore the unprecedented tragedy by stressing the personal stories of the murdered victims and eradicated communities.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=livnat200503161105
Rudy Giuliani to be honoured by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies
TORONTO, March 21 /CNW/ - Rudolph W. Giuliani will visit Toronto onThursday, May 26, 2005, as the keynote speaker at "The Spirit of HopeBenefit", presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies.The fundraiser, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, will honour theformer New York Mayor for his extraordinary efforts to promote peace andtolerance.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/21/c6988.html
The Kuropas Affair: Further Discussion
I was very disappointed to read Marco Levytsky's editorial "Dr. Kuropas Victimized by Hatchet Job" which was first published in Edmonton’s “Ukrainian News” and then distributed on March 7 in a private e-mail list.
As the editor of a major Ukrainian-Canadian newspaper and the head of the Ukrainian Ps & Bs in Edmonton, he is an influential person in our community. He should be encouraging divergent viewpoints, not trying to stifle them. Max Pyziur and others, I included, think that Dr. Myron Kuropas should give up his fixation with Jews and that his anti-Jewish writings continue to give our community a bad name.
http://www.brama.com/news/press/2005/03/050323himka-kuropas.html
Watchdogs: Zionist Charity Shortchanging Programs
By NATHANIEL POPPER
March 25, 2005
Philanthropy watchdogs are criticizing the percentage of funds that a venerable tree-planting charity is spending on its programs.
In the late 1990s, the American branch of the Israel-based Jewish National Fund was wracked by scandal over the small share of its revenue that was reaching the parent charity in Israel for land and water development programs. In 1997, a committee was established to help reform the American organization. It issued a report calling for 70% of JNF America's "gross receipts" to be "transmitted to Israel" by 2001, according to a copy of the report, shared with the Forward.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2883
Qatari Religious Scholar Calls for A Moderate and Modern Islam
In a two-part interview with the Qatari daily Al-Raya, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari [1], former dean of the Faculty of Shari'a and Law at the University of Qatar, expressed his unconventional views on a variety of religious topics. The interview is unique since Dr. Al-Ansari's point of departure in his call for change in Islam isreligious and not secularist.
Dr. Al-Ansari attempts to "remove the concept of sanctity" from Islamic history and from the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad so that Islamic history can be open to criticism and the Companions can be seen as fallible human beings. He attempts to find the golden means between Islam and modernity.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP88505
What Are Islamic Schools Teaching?
By Daniel Pipes (03/29/05)
“Shocked” is how Aisha Sherazi, principal of the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa, described the reaction of the school’s administration and board on learning last week that two of its teachers had incited hatred of Jews.
And “shocked” was how Mumtaz Akhtar, president of the Muslim-Community Council of Ottawa-Gatineau, described his own reaction to the front-page news about the Abraar school.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/7287
News Media Invitation - "Digital Terrorism and Hate 2005" CD-ROM to be released in Ottawa
OTTAWA, March 30 /CNW/ -WHO: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Los Angeles-based SimonWiesenthal Center, visits Ottawa, Tuesday April 5/05 to reviewDigital Terrorism and Hate 2005, a new CD-ROM Report of Internetterrorism and hate-related sites.Rabbi Cooper and Leo Adler, Director of National Affairs forToronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies will describe the CD-ROM.Tom Copeland, Chair, Canadian Association of Internet Providers(CAIP)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/30/c9852.html
Europe honors war dead on VE Day
President Bush: "Freedom is the birthright of all mankind"
Ceremonies have been held across Europe to mark the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
More than 40 million people had lost their lives by the time World War II ended in Europe on 8 May 1945.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4526351.stm
We should not forget the things that brought us together, that united us
Russian President Vladimir Putin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4526351.stm
Bush flies in to Russia tensions
As the US and Russian presidents prepare to stand shoulder to shoulder in Moscow to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, underlying tension over Russia's post-war legacy remains.
President George W Bush flew in to Moscow on Sunday for a private dinner with President Vladimir Putin ahead of the ceremony on Monday.
In front of the cameras, the two presidents seemed extremely relaxed.
But the talks were expected to be tense particularly following Mr Bush's comments in Latvia on Saturday that the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was "one of the greatest wrongs of history".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527727.stm
Thaw in Russia-Ukraine relations
Mr Yushchenko (left) wants to open a new chapter with Russia
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine have agreed in Moscow to set up a joint commission to examine sensitive issues between their countries.
Russian-Ukrainian ties were strained during Ukraine's December "orange revolution," which saw pro-western liberal Viktor Yushchenko triumph.
Mr Yushchenko's presidential rival Viktor Yanukovych was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527515.stm
Antisemitism Report Hailed
By Ori Nir
January 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -In a first-of-its-kind report on the global rise in antisemitism, the Bush administration is recommending several legislative and law-enforcement steps to countries in which the problem is rampant.
The report, issued this week by the State Department, describes the efforts of 61 governments to fight antisemitism. It concludes that although many governments - particularly in Europe - are increasingly speaking out against the threat of antisemitism, "most law enforcement officials are not specifically trained to deal with hate crimes, particularly anti-Semitic hate crimes."
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2509
Focus on antisemitism
Europe
The Board of Deputies has called on the European Union to allocate the task of combating antisemitism to a 'single focus' agency.
In a response to a proposal by the EU to create a single European body to address all forms of racism and discrimination, the Board expressed concern that such a panoramic mandate may result in a 'lowest common denominator' approach. By grouping all forms of racism and discrimination together, it risked neglecting individual problems specific to antisemitism.
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1308_focus_on_antisemitis.htm
Antisemitism in state schools on the rise
By Stacey Dresner
Dec 17, 2004 - Sharon Citrin, coordinator of the "Confronting Anti-Semitism" program for the Connecticut regional office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), tells the story of a middle-school-aged boy whose family recently contacted the ADL about troubling incidents at his school.
The boy, who comes from a Jewishly observant home and who had gone to a Jewish day school through elementary school, had begun tucking his Magen David necklace into his shirt when he headed for school. And on the first night of Chanukah, he refused to light the menorah. When his parents asked why, he said, "It's just too hard to be Jewish." After some prodding from his parents, the boy shared that a fellow student at his school had been calling him, "a stupid Jew." He had tried to stand up to the other child, but his attempts to stop the behavior didn't work. The morning after hearing their child's story, the parents called the ADL looking for a way to deal with the situation. Unfortunately, this family's experience is not isolated. According to the ADL, the number of antisemitic incidents in schools around Connecticut is growing.
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/15/news/news02.txt
YEAR IN REVIEW 5764 EUROPE: For European Jewry, year of expansion brings new challenges
By: RUTH ELLEN GRUBER Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom places wreath at bombing site in Istanbul. (PHOTO/BP IMAGES/JTA). Inset, Bloody tallit in Istanbul synagogue shortly after terrorist bombing. (PHOTO/YIGAL SCHLEIFER/JTA).
For European Jews, the impact of EU expansion - as well as the impact of continuing external threats such as terrorism and antisemitism - were constant and compelling issues throughout the Jewish year 5764.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2004/12/09/news/world/qayeare0924.txt
2004 in Contrast and Contradiction
By Jordy Cummings
2004 was a year in which just about everyone had to make intellectual compromises with evil.
Like 1939 and the Hitler/Stalin pact, we have seen many Third World countries conned into acting in America’s service, and the genuine notion that Lula may have been overthrown if he didn’t send his army to Haiti, Qadaffi had to accept responsibility for something in which he didn’t commit, Syria did the serious interrogations and torture, under threat of regime change and the Palestinian struggle was reduced to facile electioneering, as counterproductive as killing civilians—and Israeli arrests of progressive nonviolent candidates like Mustafa Barghouti.
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/cummings01042005/
Abbas and Hamas
Matthias Kuntzel
How can a group determined to destroy Israel be a partner in the peace process?
Seldom have the chances of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East been greater than today. Expectantly - with bated breath, one might even say - the world is hoping to see the end of the conflict which has engendered the cult of suicide bombing and spread it across the globe.
At the same time, the desire to see an end to this conflict may foster self-deception. In a climate of impetuous hope, it is all too easy to sweep aside anything which might dampen the good mood.
http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=10&Param_Red=2063
The New York Times
You have to love the guy. Putin is not caught up in 'Politics as usual' to satisfy opinion. He is strongly standing where no world leader has gone in a huge way to stop terrorism and prevent demise of a planet. He IS literally the Humanitarian of the 21st Century. Governments, according to President Putin, define their governments in Human Rights, Safety and Science that protects life. He opposed to Bush is seeking solutions on a short course to success whereby Bush is seeking war at every turn with complete disregard to the well being of the very planet we all live on. Putin is not in denial of any issue whereby Bush is seeking 'popular approval' through the propaganda of control and denial. Bush has failed on all counts to be a stateman whereby Putin has grasped it with vigor and returned Russia to function if not popular, it is protective on all counts.
Putin, Bush at His Side, Celebrates War's End and New Russian Pride
MOSCOW, May 9 - President Vladimir V. Putin, joined by President Bush and dozens of other leaders, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on Monday with a resplendent military parade in Red Square that was steeped in Soviet symbols and new Russian pride.
Standing in front of Lenin's Tomb, not on it as Soviet leaders once did, Mr. Putin expressed no contrition for the Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe that followed the end of World War II, as some leaders from that region had hoped he would. Instead, he said the war's legacy demonstrated the need for unity with Russia against new threats.
"The lessons of the war send us the warning that indifference, temporizing and playing accomplice to violence inevitably lead to terrible tragedies on a planetary scale," he said. "Faced with the real threat of terrorism today, we must therefore remain faithful to the memory of our fathers. It is our duty to defend a world order based on security and justice and on a new culture of relations among nations that will not allow a repeat of any war - neither cold nor hot."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/europe/10russia.html
DOES A WEEK in the USA go by anymore without still another death of at least one GIRL? And how tragic is Precious Doe? Bigotry can be so blinding it allows the masked killing of children with a police chase that ends at blind identity. I congratulate the community of Precious Doe to stop the insane allowance of murder of Black Children without resolve.
2 Girls Found Stabbed to Death in Illinois Park
By GRETCHEN RUETHLING and JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 10, 2005
ZION, Ill., May 9 -Two second-grade girls who spent Sunday riding bikes around this working-class town on the edge of Lake Michigan were found dead of stab wounds in a densely forested park early Monday, in a crime the authorities described as "heinous" and "heart-rending."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10girls.html
DOES Bush and his Favorite Saudi Prince pass the 'sniff test?'
Gay Men Are Found to Have Different Scent of Attraction
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: May 10, 2005
Using a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.
The new research may open the way to studying human pheromones, as well as the biological basis of sexual preference. Pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to evoke some behavior in another of the same species, are known to govern sexual activity in animals, but experts differ as to what role, if any, they play in making humans sexually attractive to one another.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/10smell.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=7e3443c31329c099&ei=5094&partner=homepage
100 Rebels Killed in U.S. Offensive in Western Iraq
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: May 10, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 9 - A Marine task force swept through a wide area of western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing 100 insurgents and raiding desert outposts and city safe houses belonging to insurgents who have used the area to import cars, money, weapons, and foreigners to fight United States and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities, American military officials said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/middleeast/10iraq.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=447e9e177e1df44d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
THE DYSFUNCTIONAL USA MILITARY. Where ordinary people otherwise not employable gather to be American's Finest. Right.
Behind Failed Abu Ghraib Plea, a Tale of Breakups and Betrayal
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: May 10, 2005
In a military courtroom in Texas last week was a spectacle worthy of "As the World Turns": Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the defendant, holding her 7-month-old baby; the imprisoned father, Pvt. Charles A. Graner Jr., giving testimony that ruined what lawyers said was her best shot at leniency; and waiting outside, another defendant from the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Megan M. Ambuhl, who had recently wed Private Graner - a marriage Private England learned about only days before.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10graner.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=3219fed0e3bb81c9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Challenging PROVEN Theorum in the Courts is like asking, "Do People Breath?" Darwin and Wallace are positive PROOF. There is no challenge to good science and proof that stands on it's own to be repeated in trial after trail. "The Origin of Species" has yet to be DISPROVEN. It was these exact religious under currents to society that kept Darwin's Proof at bay for years until Wallace came forward with a study that was a carbon copy of Darwin's when they both presented to the academy of sciences at the time. Even these 'religious' types cannot DISPROVE Darwin and Wallace. What their focus is stems from DENIAL and not proof that Darwin and Wallace was wrong. They are stating to the courts 'no such' science exists. But, it does, even though they would RATHER it didn't. Go ahead, knock yourselves out !!
In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More
By JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 6, 2005
TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 - Six years after Kansas ignited a national debate over the teaching of evolution, the state is poised to push through new science standards this summer requiring that Darwin's theory be challenged in the classroom.
...Darwin's defenders are refusing to testify at the hearings, which were called by the State Board of Education's conservative majority. But their lawyer forcefully cross-examined the other side's experts, pushing them to acknowledge that nothing in the current standards prevented discussion of challenges to evolution, and peppering them with queries both profound and personal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/education/06evolution.html
HELLLLOOOOOoooo………..
Case in point. Bad Bush Science is Bad Bush Science. They seek not to disprove anything so much as undermine it into denial. Bush is a fraud.
Climate Research Faulted Over Missing Components
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 22, 2005
The Bush administration's program to study climate change lacks a major component required by law, according to Congressional investigators. The program fails to include periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment.
The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, conclude in a report to be released today that none of the 21 studies of climate change that the administration plans to publish by September 2007 explicitly address the potential effects in eight areas specified by a 1990 law, the Global Change Research Act. The areas include agriculture, energy, water resources and biological diversity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/science/22warm.html?ex=1115870400&en=59032c2708c7b590&ei=5070
Cameroon vs. South Africa in the Battle of the Gorillas
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: May 10, 2005
PRETORIA, May 4 - Where does a 600-pound gorilla sleep?
Cameroon's government says South Africa's government knows the right answer. But for two years, South Africa seemed not to have heard the question. Since acknowledging it last December, South Africa's Science Ministry has offered one reply and its Environment Ministry another, and each contradicts the other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/africa/10gorilla.html
The Jerusalem Post
PM says Israel will pull out even if Hamas leads PA vote
By HERB KEINON AND JPOST STAFF
Anti-disengagement grafitti near Neve Dekalim (AP)
The disengagement plan will be implemented regardless of Hamas's showing in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council elections, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday, shortly before his foreign minister questioned the wisdom of withdrawing from Gaza if Hamas wins those elections.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519113272
Gaza farmers compensation okayed
Gaza farmers can get from 40 to 80 dunams depending on where they choose to live and work, based on an agricultural program approved Sunday by the cabinet.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519113278
Settlers fail to meet Nitzan deadline
A minority petition drive among Gush Katif settlers has not come close to collecting the 5,000 signatures requested by the government and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni by May 10 to start planning for the construction of four new communities in the area of Nitzan and north Ashkelon.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605170932
US Christians go from Auschwitz to J'lem
After visiting concentration camps in Poland and joining the March of the Living there last week, the two dozen Christian members of the ADL mission from the Atlanta, Georgia, area found the guided tour of Jerusalem's Old City on Monday a bit overwhelming.
"This," said Georgia State Attorney-General Thurbert Baker after stops at the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, "is something I will never forget."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605170961
Earthquake off Sumatra; causalities reported
A magnitude 6.4 quake shook the seabed southwest of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage.
The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred just after 8 a.m. local time, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coastline at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles).
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115691525558&p=1078397702269
Russia, EU to unveil partnership accord Tuesday
Russia and the European Union were expected to unveil a broad partnership accord at a summit that represents an attempt to reinvigorate relations after a troubled year.
As the EU swelled last year with 10 new members, most of them from the former Soviet bloc, the EU's policy has been seen as becoming more assertive toward Russia.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605172502&p=1078397702269
Unwanted Pregnancy
Abortion bills get whittled down
By KIT WAGAR and TIM HOOVER
The Kansas City Star
JEFFERSON CITY — Leaders of Missouri Right to Life learned last week that, in the words of Mick Jagger, you can't always get what you want.
Despite an anti-abortion governor and overwhelming majorities opposed to abortion in both the House and Senate, two of Right to Life's pet bills are going nowhere this legislative session, and a third is being significantly watered down.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11591561.htm
Loyola University Under Fire for Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 7, 2005
New Orleans, LA (LifeNews.com) -- Loyola University is coming under fire for offering an honorary degree to a pair of pro-abortion politicians.
The New Orleans university is bestowing a collective honorary doctorate on the Landrieu family, which includes pro-abortion U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and her brother Mitch, who is Louisiana's lieutenant governor and who also does not oppose legal abortion.
http://www.lifenews.com/state1027.html
Comment: Liam Fay: Let’s not hand abortion debate to Mrs Mertons
Let’s have a heated debate! Sounding uncannily like the spoof chat show host Mrs Merton, Dr Berry Kiely has invited the nation to indulge in yet another impassioned public discussion about abortion, culminating, she hopes, in yet another constitutional referendum.
The medical adviser to the self-styled pro-life campaign was careful to add that the debate must be conducted in a “calm and respectful” manner. At this point in the Mrs Merton Show, the audience would have erupted in laughter.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1602558,00.html
concluding...
"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Group's Pact With Putin Friends Raises Eyebrows
By NATHANIEL POPPER and MARC PERELMAN
March 4, 2005
The American Jewish Congress, a group known for its historic role at the cutting edge of liberal Jewish activism, signed a strategic agreement this week with a Russian Jewish organization that has close ties to the Kremlin and that is dominated by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
The agreement, pledging to fight "religious and ethnic bigotry," was signed Tuesday at a ceremony in Moscow by the chairman of the American Jewish Congress's Council on World Jewry, Jack Rosen, and by the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the former Soviet Union, billionaire diamond dealer Lev Leviev.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2775
More than thirty Heads of State and Ministers to attend inauguration of new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem
11/03/2005
More than thirty (30) Heads of State and Ministers from around the world will attend the historic inauguration of Yad Vashem's new Holocaust History Museum on March 15, 2005. The inaugural event will take place over two days, on March 15 - 16th 2005 at Yad Vashem under the patronage of the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Katzav and in the presence of world leaders.
According to Chairman of Yad Vashem Avner Shalev, the impressive array of high level foreign delegations attending the inauguration “illustrates the importance world leaders place on Holocaust remembrance, and highlights the vital role Yad Vashem plays in achieving the common goal of remembering the past, and shaping the future - by helping fight antisemitism and standing up for the values of human rights and democracy.”
http://www.etravelblackboard.com/printerfriendly.asp?id=36068
The Paper That Rewrote Catholic-Jewish Relations
By David Rosen
March 18, 2005
Forty years ago, the Catholic Church revolutionized attitudes within the Christian world toward Jews and Judaism with the declaration known as Nostra Aetate, a document that emerged from the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council.
Prior to this document, the perception that had prevailed within the Christian world over the centuries was that Jews had been rejected by God not only for their failure to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the true messiah, but also for complicity in his execution. As a result, the Jewish people's Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and Jews were expelled from their land and condemned to wander the world as a despised and rejected people.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2842
Less Gory 'Passion' Still Raises Hackles
By Eric J. Greenberg
March 18, 2005
In an effort to make his bloody blockbuster about the death of Jesus more palatable, Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson has edited about six minutes of violent footage from his 2004 hit, "The Passion of the Christ."
The film, which some scholarly critics say ahistorically blames Jews for Jesus' death while promoting ancient anti-Jewish stereotypes, reopened in hundreds of theaters around the country this week.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2831
The Jews' Pope
By Micah Halpern
The Micah Report April 6, 2005
Some called him the "Jews' Pope" a title bestowed upon a much respected and admired religious leader.
On his visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall the Pope, as tradition dictates, placed a note between the centuries old stones of the Wall. The text of the note was later made public. This is what he wrote, please note that it was addressed to "God."
God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by the behavior of those who in the course of history have caused these children of yours to suffer, and asking your forgiveness, we wish to commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood with the people of the Covenant.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17620
In the March 13-14 night , some people set fire to the Synagogue in Lugano, and to a shop owned by a Jewish family.
Below, the entry about the 2 demos of solidarity with the Jewish community, tomorrow night and on Saturday, I posted at the ADISI blog .
Elio Bollag, the chief of the Jewish community says he is shocked but also astonished as there is no antisemitism in Ticino. Maybe there's some wishful thinking in this statement. When we arrived here in 89, our daughter didn't dare say her dad was a Jew: the bus shelter near her school was full of swastikas and other nazi insigna. I remember conversations with so called educated people (some actually were teachers) who rehashed old cliches about Jewish plutocracy, ending up with the hallowed formula: "Some of my best friends are Jews". Xenophobia was rife in the vocational schools where I've taught.
OK, it's the first arson of a Synagogue here. Let's hope it will be the last. Let's hope it will mark the end of "party chat" and grafiti antisemitism and xenophobia.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=2646
Israel Unveils New Shoah Museum To a World Still Bent on Destruction
By Limor Livnat
March 18, 2005
World leaders and delegations from more than 30 nations arrived in Jerusalem Tuesday for the inauguration of the new museum at Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial. Rather than further focus on the documentary aspects of the Nazi genocide, the new Holocaust center, which is four times as large as the existing museum, will explore the unprecedented tragedy by stressing the personal stories of the murdered victims and eradicated communities.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=livnat200503161105
Rudy Giuliani to be honoured by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies
TORONTO, March 21 /CNW/ - Rudolph W. Giuliani will visit Toronto onThursday, May 26, 2005, as the keynote speaker at "The Spirit of HopeBenefit", presented by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies.The fundraiser, at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, will honour theformer New York Mayor for his extraordinary efforts to promote peace andtolerance.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/21/c6988.html
The Kuropas Affair: Further Discussion
I was very disappointed to read Marco Levytsky's editorial "Dr. Kuropas Victimized by Hatchet Job" which was first published in Edmonton’s “Ukrainian News” and then distributed on March 7 in a private e-mail list.
As the editor of a major Ukrainian-Canadian newspaper and the head of the Ukrainian Ps & Bs in Edmonton, he is an influential person in our community. He should be encouraging divergent viewpoints, not trying to stifle them. Max Pyziur and others, I included, think that Dr. Myron Kuropas should give up his fixation with Jews and that his anti-Jewish writings continue to give our community a bad name.
http://www.brama.com/news/press/2005/03/050323himka-kuropas.html
Watchdogs: Zionist Charity Shortchanging Programs
By NATHANIEL POPPER
March 25, 2005
Philanthropy watchdogs are criticizing the percentage of funds that a venerable tree-planting charity is spending on its programs.
In the late 1990s, the American branch of the Israel-based Jewish National Fund was wracked by scandal over the small share of its revenue that was reaching the parent charity in Israel for land and water development programs. In 1997, a committee was established to help reform the American organization. It issued a report calling for 70% of JNF America's "gross receipts" to be "transmitted to Israel" by 2001, according to a copy of the report, shared with the Forward.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2883
Qatari Religious Scholar Calls for A Moderate and Modern Islam
In a two-part interview with the Qatari daily Al-Raya, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari [1], former dean of the Faculty of Shari'a and Law at the University of Qatar, expressed his unconventional views on a variety of religious topics. The interview is unique since Dr. Al-Ansari's point of departure in his call for change in Islam isreligious and not secularist.
Dr. Al-Ansari attempts to "remove the concept of sanctity" from Islamic history and from the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad so that Islamic history can be open to criticism and the Companions can be seen as fallible human beings. He attempts to find the golden means between Islam and modernity.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP88505
What Are Islamic Schools Teaching?
By Daniel Pipes (03/29/05)
“Shocked” is how Aisha Sherazi, principal of the Abraar Islamic school in Ottawa, described the reaction of the school’s administration and board on learning last week that two of its teachers had incited hatred of Jews.
And “shocked” was how Mumtaz Akhtar, president of the Muslim-Community Council of Ottawa-Gatineau, described his own reaction to the front-page news about the Abraar school.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/7287
News Media Invitation - "Digital Terrorism and Hate 2005" CD-ROM to be released in Ottawa
OTTAWA, March 30 /CNW/ -WHO: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Los Angeles-based SimonWiesenthal Center, visits Ottawa, Tuesday April 5/05 to reviewDigital Terrorism and Hate 2005, a new CD-ROM Report of Internetterrorism and hate-related sites.Rabbi Cooper and Leo Adler, Director of National Affairs forToronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies will describe the CD-ROM.Tom Copeland, Chair, Canadian Association of Internet Providers(CAIP)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/30/c9852.html
Europe honors war dead on VE Day
President Bush: "Freedom is the birthright of all mankind"
Ceremonies have been held across Europe to mark the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
More than 40 million people had lost their lives by the time World War II ended in Europe on 8 May 1945.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4526351.stm
We should not forget the things that brought us together, that united us
Russian President Vladimir Putin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4526351.stm
Bush flies in to Russia tensions
As the US and Russian presidents prepare to stand shoulder to shoulder in Moscow to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, underlying tension over Russia's post-war legacy remains.
President George W Bush flew in to Moscow on Sunday for a private dinner with President Vladimir Putin ahead of the ceremony on Monday.
In front of the cameras, the two presidents seemed extremely relaxed.
But the talks were expected to be tense particularly following Mr Bush's comments in Latvia on Saturday that the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was "one of the greatest wrongs of history".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527727.stm
Thaw in Russia-Ukraine relations
Mr Yushchenko (left) wants to open a new chapter with Russia
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine have agreed in Moscow to set up a joint commission to examine sensitive issues between their countries.
Russian-Ukrainian ties were strained during Ukraine's December "orange revolution," which saw pro-western liberal Viktor Yushchenko triumph.
Mr Yushchenko's presidential rival Viktor Yanukovych was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4527515.stm
Antisemitism Report Hailed
By Ori Nir
January 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -In a first-of-its-kind report on the global rise in antisemitism, the Bush administration is recommending several legislative and law-enforcement steps to countries in which the problem is rampant.
The report, issued this week by the State Department, describes the efforts of 61 governments to fight antisemitism. It concludes that although many governments - particularly in Europe - are increasingly speaking out against the threat of antisemitism, "most law enforcement officials are not specifically trained to deal with hate crimes, particularly anti-Semitic hate crimes."
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2509
Focus on antisemitism
Europe
The Board of Deputies has called on the European Union to allocate the task of combating antisemitism to a 'single focus' agency.
In a response to a proposal by the EU to create a single European body to address all forms of racism and discrimination, the Board expressed concern that such a panoramic mandate may result in a 'lowest common denominator' approach. By grouping all forms of racism and discrimination together, it risked neglecting individual problems specific to antisemitism.
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1308_focus_on_antisemitis.htm
Antisemitism in state schools on the rise
By Stacey Dresner
Dec 17, 2004 - Sharon Citrin, coordinator of the "Confronting Anti-Semitism" program for the Connecticut regional office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), tells the story of a middle-school-aged boy whose family recently contacted the ADL about troubling incidents at his school.
The boy, who comes from a Jewishly observant home and who had gone to a Jewish day school through elementary school, had begun tucking his Magen David necklace into his shirt when he headed for school. And on the first night of Chanukah, he refused to light the menorah. When his parents asked why, he said, "It's just too hard to be Jewish." After some prodding from his parents, the boy shared that a fellow student at his school had been calling him, "a stupid Jew." He had tried to stand up to the other child, but his attempts to stop the behavior didn't work. The morning after hearing their child's story, the parents called the ADL looking for a way to deal with the situation. Unfortunately, this family's experience is not isolated. According to the ADL, the number of antisemitic incidents in schools around Connecticut is growing.
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2004/12/15/news/news02.txt
YEAR IN REVIEW 5764 EUROPE: For European Jewry, year of expansion brings new challenges
By: RUTH ELLEN GRUBER Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli foreign minister Silvan Shalom places wreath at bombing site in Istanbul. (PHOTO/BP IMAGES/JTA). Inset, Bloody tallit in Istanbul synagogue shortly after terrorist bombing. (PHOTO/YIGAL SCHLEIFER/JTA).
For European Jews, the impact of EU expansion - as well as the impact of continuing external threats such as terrorism and antisemitism - were constant and compelling issues throughout the Jewish year 5764.
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2004/12/09/news/world/qayeare0924.txt
2004 in Contrast and Contradiction
By Jordy Cummings
2004 was a year in which just about everyone had to make intellectual compromises with evil.
Like 1939 and the Hitler/Stalin pact, we have seen many Third World countries conned into acting in America’s service, and the genuine notion that Lula may have been overthrown if he didn’t send his army to Haiti, Qadaffi had to accept responsibility for something in which he didn’t commit, Syria did the serious interrogations and torture, under threat of regime change and the Palestinian struggle was reduced to facile electioneering, as counterproductive as killing civilians—and Israeli arrests of progressive nonviolent candidates like Mustafa Barghouti.
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/cummings01042005/
Abbas and Hamas
Matthias Kuntzel
How can a group determined to destroy Israel be a partner in the peace process?
Seldom have the chances of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East been greater than today. Expectantly - with bated breath, one might even say - the world is hoping to see the end of the conflict which has engendered the cult of suicide bombing and spread it across the globe.
At the same time, the desire to see an end to this conflict may foster self-deception. In a climate of impetuous hope, it is all too easy to sweep aside anything which might dampen the good mood.
http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=10&Param_Red=2063
The New York Times
You have to love the guy. Putin is not caught up in 'Politics as usual' to satisfy opinion. He is strongly standing where no world leader has gone in a huge way to stop terrorism and prevent demise of a planet. He IS literally the Humanitarian of the 21st Century. Governments, according to President Putin, define their governments in Human Rights, Safety and Science that protects life. He opposed to Bush is seeking solutions on a short course to success whereby Bush is seeking war at every turn with complete disregard to the well being of the very planet we all live on. Putin is not in denial of any issue whereby Bush is seeking 'popular approval' through the propaganda of control and denial. Bush has failed on all counts to be a stateman whereby Putin has grasped it with vigor and returned Russia to function if not popular, it is protective on all counts.
Putin, Bush at His Side, Celebrates War's End and New Russian Pride
MOSCOW, May 9 - President Vladimir V. Putin, joined by President Bush and dozens of other leaders, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany on Monday with a resplendent military parade in Red Square that was steeped in Soviet symbols and new Russian pride.
Standing in front of Lenin's Tomb, not on it as Soviet leaders once did, Mr. Putin expressed no contrition for the Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe that followed the end of World War II, as some leaders from that region had hoped he would. Instead, he said the war's legacy demonstrated the need for unity with Russia against new threats.
"The lessons of the war send us the warning that indifference, temporizing and playing accomplice to violence inevitably lead to terrible tragedies on a planetary scale," he said. "Faced with the real threat of terrorism today, we must therefore remain faithful to the memory of our fathers. It is our duty to defend a world order based on security and justice and on a new culture of relations among nations that will not allow a repeat of any war - neither cold nor hot."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/europe/10russia.html
DOES A WEEK in the USA go by anymore without still another death of at least one GIRL? And how tragic is Precious Doe? Bigotry can be so blinding it allows the masked killing of children with a police chase that ends at blind identity. I congratulate the community of Precious Doe to stop the insane allowance of murder of Black Children without resolve.
2 Girls Found Stabbed to Death in Illinois Park
By GRETCHEN RUETHLING and JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 10, 2005
ZION, Ill., May 9 -Two second-grade girls who spent Sunday riding bikes around this working-class town on the edge of Lake Michigan were found dead of stab wounds in a densely forested park early Monday, in a crime the authorities described as "heinous" and "heart-rending."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10girls.html
DOES Bush and his Favorite Saudi Prince pass the 'sniff test?'
Gay Men Are Found to Have Different Scent of Attraction
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: May 10, 2005
Using a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.
The new research may open the way to studying human pheromones, as well as the biological basis of sexual preference. Pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to evoke some behavior in another of the same species, are known to govern sexual activity in animals, but experts differ as to what role, if any, they play in making humans sexually attractive to one another.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/10smell.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=7e3443c31329c099&ei=5094&partner=homepage
100 Rebels Killed in U.S. Offensive in Western Iraq
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: May 10, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 9 - A Marine task force swept through a wide area of western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing 100 insurgents and raiding desert outposts and city safe houses belonging to insurgents who have used the area to import cars, money, weapons, and foreigners to fight United States and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities, American military officials said Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/middleeast/10iraq.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=447e9e177e1df44d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
THE DYSFUNCTIONAL USA MILITARY. Where ordinary people otherwise not employable gather to be American's Finest. Right.
Behind Failed Abu Ghraib Plea, a Tale of Breakups and Betrayal
By KATE ZERNIKE
Published: May 10, 2005
In a military courtroom in Texas last week was a spectacle worthy of "As the World Turns": Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the defendant, holding her 7-month-old baby; the imprisoned father, Pvt. Charles A. Graner Jr., giving testimony that ruined what lawyers said was her best shot at leniency; and waiting outside, another defendant from the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Megan M. Ambuhl, who had recently wed Private Graner - a marriage Private England learned about only days before.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/national/10graner.html?hp&ex=1115784000&en=3219fed0e3bb81c9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Challenging PROVEN Theorum in the Courts is like asking, "Do People Breath?" Darwin and Wallace are positive PROOF. There is no challenge to good science and proof that stands on it's own to be repeated in trial after trail. "The Origin of Species" has yet to be DISPROVEN. It was these exact religious under currents to society that kept Darwin's Proof at bay for years until Wallace came forward with a study that was a carbon copy of Darwin's when they both presented to the academy of sciences at the time. Even these 'religious' types cannot DISPROVE Darwin and Wallace. What their focus is stems from DENIAL and not proof that Darwin and Wallace was wrong. They are stating to the courts 'no such' science exists. But, it does, even though they would RATHER it didn't. Go ahead, knock yourselves out !!
In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More
By JODI WILGOREN
Published: May 6, 2005
TOPEKA, Kan., May 5 - Six years after Kansas ignited a national debate over the teaching of evolution, the state is poised to push through new science standards this summer requiring that Darwin's theory be challenged in the classroom.
...Darwin's defenders are refusing to testify at the hearings, which were called by the State Board of Education's conservative majority. But their lawyer forcefully cross-examined the other side's experts, pushing them to acknowledge that nothing in the current standards prevented discussion of challenges to evolution, and peppering them with queries both profound and personal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/education/06evolution.html
HELLLLOOOOOoooo………..
Case in point. Bad Bush Science is Bad Bush Science. They seek not to disprove anything so much as undermine it into denial. Bush is a fraud.
Climate Research Faulted Over Missing Components
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 22, 2005
The Bush administration's program to study climate change lacks a major component required by law, according to Congressional investigators. The program fails to include periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment.
The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, conclude in a report to be released today that none of the 21 studies of climate change that the administration plans to publish by September 2007 explicitly address the potential effects in eight areas specified by a 1990 law, the Global Change Research Act. The areas include agriculture, energy, water resources and biological diversity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/science/22warm.html?ex=1115870400&en=59032c2708c7b590&ei=5070
Cameroon vs. South Africa in the Battle of the Gorillas
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: May 10, 2005
PRETORIA, May 4 - Where does a 600-pound gorilla sleep?
Cameroon's government says South Africa's government knows the right answer. But for two years, South Africa seemed not to have heard the question. Since acknowledging it last December, South Africa's Science Ministry has offered one reply and its Environment Ministry another, and each contradicts the other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/africa/10gorilla.html
The Jerusalem Post
PM says Israel will pull out even if Hamas leads PA vote
By HERB KEINON AND JPOST STAFF
Anti-disengagement grafitti near Neve Dekalim (AP)
The disengagement plan will be implemented regardless of Hamas's showing in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative Council elections, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday, shortly before his foreign minister questioned the wisdom of withdrawing from Gaza if Hamas wins those elections.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519113272
Gaza farmers compensation okayed
Gaza farmers can get from 40 to 80 dunams depending on where they choose to live and work, based on an agricultural program approved Sunday by the cabinet.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519113278
Settlers fail to meet Nitzan deadline
A minority petition drive among Gush Katif settlers has not come close to collecting the 5,000 signatures requested by the government and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni by May 10 to start planning for the construction of four new communities in the area of Nitzan and north Ashkelon.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605170932
US Christians go from Auschwitz to J'lem
After visiting concentration camps in Poland and joining the March of the Living there last week, the two dozen Christian members of the ADL mission from the Atlanta, Georgia, area found the guided tour of Jerusalem's Old City on Monday a bit overwhelming.
"This," said Georgia State Attorney-General Thurbert Baker after stops at the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, "is something I will never forget."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605170961
Earthquake off Sumatra; causalities reported
A magnitude 6.4 quake shook the seabed southwest of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage.
The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred just after 8 a.m. local time, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) from the coastline at a depth of 30 kilometers (19 miles).
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115691525558&p=1078397702269
Russia, EU to unveil partnership accord Tuesday
Russia and the European Union were expected to unveil a broad partnership accord at a summit that represents an attempt to reinvigorate relations after a troubled year.
As the EU swelled last year with 10 new members, most of them from the former Soviet bloc, the EU's policy has been seen as becoming more assertive toward Russia.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115605172502&p=1078397702269
Unwanted Pregnancy
Abortion bills get whittled down
By KIT WAGAR and TIM HOOVER
The Kansas City Star
JEFFERSON CITY — Leaders of Missouri Right to Life learned last week that, in the words of Mick Jagger, you can't always get what you want.
Despite an anti-abortion governor and overwhelming majorities opposed to abortion in both the House and Senate, two of Right to Life's pet bills are going nowhere this legislative session, and a third is being significantly watered down.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11591561.htm
Loyola University Under Fire for Honoring Pro-Abortion Politicians
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 7, 2005
New Orleans, LA (LifeNews.com) -- Loyola University is coming under fire for offering an honorary degree to a pair of pro-abortion politicians.
The New Orleans university is bestowing a collective honorary doctorate on the Landrieu family, which includes pro-abortion U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and her brother Mitch, who is Louisiana's lieutenant governor and who also does not oppose legal abortion.
http://www.lifenews.com/state1027.html
Comment: Liam Fay: Let’s not hand abortion debate to Mrs Mertons
Let’s have a heated debate! Sounding uncannily like the spoof chat show host Mrs Merton, Dr Berry Kiely has invited the nation to indulge in yet another impassioned public discussion about abortion, culminating, she hopes, in yet another constitutional referendum.
The medical adviser to the self-styled pro-life campaign was careful to add that the debate must be conducted in a “calm and respectful” manner. At this point in the Mrs Merton Show, the audience would have erupted in laughter.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1602558,00.html
concluding...
May 6, 2005. Budapest, Hungary. The aspect of this picture is the insight of the photographer. NOTE: The uneven 'blueness' of the picture. In his opinion, the uneven color is due to a three minute long solar flare. I don't have information at hand regarding the record of such a flare according to NASA but this happened at 11:08 utc. If anyone wants to follow up, I doubt I'll have time to validate that soon. I thought it was interesting insight.
May 5, 2005. Glenn Highway, Matanuska Peak, Alaska. Clearly sparse snow. As a matter of fact look at the pattern of snow retention on those slopes. It is my estimation the snow that remains receives less solar radiation exposure than the 'flat' faced exposure. I doubt seriously the cliffs without snow are wind swept completely.
Morning Papers - concluding
The Boston Globe
2 bodies found in Hingham bunker
Identities said unknown; police seek public's help
By Donovan Slack and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff May 10, 2005
Authorities are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men whose bodies were discovered in Hingham yesterday at a disused military bunker, where items found near the men suggest they had been living or camping there, according to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/10/2_bodies_found_in_hingham_bunker/
I THOUGHT the Senators were forming a committee to find a way to satisfy minority opinion to be upheld as per the speech Bush made in Latvia while voting rather than filibustering the judges already once defeated. I have a solution. Bush should submit a new slate of judges not already decided from previous administrations and find out what the minority Democratic Senators think of them. THAT is democracy at work and not the undermining of minority Constitutional clout. Sound like a reasonable idea? I think so.
Filibuster ban gets White House nudge
Bush, Gonzales call for Senate to vote on all judicial nominees
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff May 10, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Turning up the pressure on Republican leaders, President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales yesterday called on the Senate to allow yes-or-no votes on all judicial nominees, a request that could help force a move to outlaw filibusters of judges.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/10/filibuster_ban_gets_white_house_nudge/
Free speech at Faneuil Hall
May 10, 2005
GOOD SPEECH overpowered bad Sunday in Boston when hundreds of demonstrators verbally outmaneuvered a group of about 20 white supremacists seeking to mar a Faneuil Hall service marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
It was a good day for the First Amendment. The band of haters connected to White Revolution, an Arkansas-based neo-Nazi group, marched down Congress Street unobstructed -- even though they had no parade permit --while displaying anti-Semitic signs denying the Holocaust. Later, at their demonstration site, one waved slabs of ham. The neo-Nazis were denied the victory that censorship might have provided them. They also failed to intrude upon Faneuil Hall, where 900 people, including Holocaust survivors, honored the 6 million Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/05/10/free_speech_at_faneuil_hall/
The Daily Star
OPEC president insists oil market oversupplied
Prices, demand growth to be considered
KUWAIT: OPEC's president said Monday the oil market is oversupplied and that any increase in output at the cartel's meeting next month must take into consideration prices and growth in demand. "The OPEC-10 real production now in the market based on our latest information from OPEC and other sources is 29.7 million barrels per day (bpd)," Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah told reporters.
"We believe there is two million bpd of overproduction in the market ... In the third quarter the required demand from OPEC-10 will be 28.5 million bpd," he added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=14927
South Americans and Arabs seek global voice
Leaders attend historic summit in bid to counter U.S. dominance
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
In a bid to counter the United States' global dominance, ministers from 34 South American and Arab League states are meeting in Brazil for the first-ever summit of leaders from the two regions.
Ministers meeting Monday focused on how to boost economic ties. But the summit, which brings together leaders from countries resentful of America's hand in everything from regime changes to rampant globalization, is also expected to be a platform for forging new political alliances.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14955
Egyptian judges reject Bush's call for international monitoring of elections
Judiciary wants local authorities to monitor poll
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Hundreds of Egyptian judges have rejected U.S. President George W. Bush's weekend call for international monitoring of Egypt's September presidential elections, saying they will do the job themselves, a senior court official said Monday.
Separately, 90 percent of Egypt's 2,000 judges charged with running the elections want local, not foreign, authorities to monitor the poll, according to a recent vote taken by the Justice Ministry.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14954
IS ANY TIME ever right or ripe for a USA pullout from Iraq?
Iraqi president says time not ripe for U.S. pullout
Talabani repeats pledge that he will not sign Saddam's death warrant
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
AMMAN: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in remarks published Monday that it was not yet possible to set a date for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from his country. He also reiterated that he would not sign a death warrant for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who is in U.S. custody awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14937
Between Baghdad and Islamabad, North Korea chooses
By David Ignatius
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Here's a chilling scenario from the CIA's former top Asia hand: Within a year, North Korea is likely to test a nuclear weapon, probably in a cave or mineshaft somewhere in the barren northeast of the country.
A small amount of radioactive fallout will leak from the test site and drift toward Japan. Financial markets in Tokyo and Seoul will be rocked by the news. Foreign companies in South Korea will weigh whether to pull out dependents or reduce their operations. And Washington will debate whether to impose a blockade or other tough measures to contain the North Korean nuclear breakout.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=14934
The DeLay Times
DeLay's worst: a dirty drama of bondage
May 10, 2005
Nothing has had the sex appeal of the St. Andrews junket.
News of a lobbyist-paid junket to the fabled Scottish golf resort finally made Tom DeLay a household name synonymous with scandal. The story that DeLay, his wife and a retinue of aides were treated to a 10-day, $120,000 trip to London and the fabled St. Andrews course in Scotland - with many expenses charged to lobbyists' credit cards - turned an insiders' furor over congressional ethics into a media frenzy.
There's nothing so devastating to smarmy politicians as a story that appeals to the great American instinct for resentment. If we can't get someone to pay our way to posh hotels and picturesque links, then why should he?
Yes, the St. Andrews caper is what finally inspired the public to follow DeLay's tribulations. It forced the House Republican leadership to switch the rules for ethics investigations back to what they'd been before DeLay ordered outlandish changes to protect himself.
...But the question arises: Is the pond hop to historic links the worst thing the Texas Republican has ever done? Hardly. There are many qualified candidates, but one stands out for its squalor. That's DeLay's personal campaign to ensure that garment industry sweatshop workers and sex slaves in the Northern Mariana Islands - a U.S. territory - were exploited in a system that resembled indentured servitude.
The story dates to the 1990s, when the Clinton administration tried to crack down on the importation of cheap Chinese labor to the islands and to ameliorate conditions under which the guest workers - mostly women - toiled. Brokers - traffickers, really, in human beings - brought thousands to work in sweatshops for as many as 70 hours per week. They lived in crowded barracks; some were locked behind guarded fences. And because the territory is a U.S. possession, garments bore this seal of approval: "Made in the U.S.A."
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opcoc104252506may10,0,3716040.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
I THOUGHT the nation was looking at base closings and not openings?
Ellington's usefulness stressed by DeLay
He suggests a homeland security office for the base
By RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
Congressman Tom DeLay toured Ellington Field on Monday, promising to do everything he can to secure a military presence there, including recommending the field for a regional homeland security office.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3174333
Records Show Lobbyist Abramoff's Influence
Monday May 9, 2005 7:46 PM
By SHARON THEIMER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - For lobbyist Jack Abramoff, no politician was too big to pursue and no detail too small to charge his clients for. Working to keep the Northern Marianas Islands free of new U.S. regulations, Abramoff sought help from Tom DeLay, other congressional leaders and high-level Bush administration officials.
At the same time, he charged the islands for such mundane tasks as securing tee times at the right golf courses for Washington visitors and obtaining an autographed copy of a book by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4993563,00.html
What happens next with Tom DeLay and the ethics committee?
The House ethics committee was able to open for business in the past few days after lawmakers resolved a dispute over its rules. Here are questions and answers about the committee's next steps regarding Majority Leader Tom DeLay and other ethics matters.
Q: Questions have been raised about whether a lobbyist _ Jack Abramoff _ or his firm paid for travel expenses of DeLay and his aides. What happens now?
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14484267&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=547111&rfi=6
Feeling Heat, DeLay Speaks of Humility
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: May 6, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 5 - Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, whose travel and ties to lobbyists have been under scrutiny, delivered a talk on the importance of humility on Thursday at the annual National Day of Prayer service, telling worshipers that God makes all things possible - "even greatness from lowly sinners like you and me - especially me."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/politics/06ethics.html
The Los Angeles Times
I really think this could be anyone of us. More outrageous law enforcement.
2 Hurt in Deputies' Crossfire
At least five Compton homes are left with bullet holes as officers fire 120 rounds at SUV.
By Tonya Alanez and Monte Morin, Times Staff Writers
Ten Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies opened fire early Monday on an SUV they were chasing, discharging 120 rounds in a frenzied crossfire that injured a deputy and the unarmed suspect while sending bullets into nearby homes.
The shooting on a narrow residential street in Compton sent residents diving for cover as bullets zipped over their heads and through their windows. In the aftermath, bullet holes pocked the walls of at least five homes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chase10may10,0,2324774.story?coll=la-home-headlines
For 3 GOP Senators, Vote Isn't Just About U.N. Pick
WASHINGTON — For the three Republican senators who have expressed reservations about John R. Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the committee vote set for Thursday is about much more than whether he is the best man for the job.
When they gather with their colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for their final consideration of Bolton, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and George V. Voinovich of Ohio will carry vastly different political calculations and ambitions that may factor as much in their decisions as anything revealed about the nominee by dozens of witnesses and hundreds of documents.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bolton10may10,0,2563178.story?coll=la-home-headlines
More public endangerment by this administration. Of children with complete disregard for their vulnerability. Children have no clout. They don't vote. Few have substantial money. Bush/Cheney forget children will be future voters.
EPA Puts Mandated Lead-Paint Rules on Hold
The agency is looking at voluntary standards to limit exposure instead. The revelation angers public health advocates and some lawmakers.
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly delayed work on completing required rules to protect children and construction workers from exposure to lead-based paint, exploring instead the possibility of using voluntary standards to govern building renovations and remodeling.
The EPA move, first disclosed in documents provided by an agency whistle-blower, has prompted angry questions from Democrats in Congress, the attorneys general of New York and Illinois, and public health advocates around the country.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-paint10may10,1,956868.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
THE REASON Bush wants International monitors in Egypt for elections. Also known as 'Is there an International Solution Bush can use for regime change rather than sending in the USA military?'
He May Lack Votes, but Not Ambition
Egypt's Ayman Nour has little chance to unseat Hosni Mubarak -- he might not even be allowed to run -- but he's laying a foundation.
CAIRO — The bespectacled lawmaker marched into his plush office and settled before the television cameras. He grimaced shyly, almost whispering as he tested the microphones. And then, without a pause, Ayman Nour ripped into Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party.
The night before, one of Nour's supporters had been killed and about a dozen more wounded when an armed mob ambushed their buses in the Nile Delta countryside, he said. According to Nour, ruling party officials paid thugs $10 each to block his party from opening a new office there.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nour10may10,0,1013244.story?coll=la-home-world
Let me get this right. This is Osama's Omar? This is the one eyed wonder? This is the Mullah of all Mullahs? This is the guy with a $25 million price tag on his head? We have Trade Towers fallen to the ground because of Omar and Osama. We launched a war retaliating against al Qaeda for this guy? Now, we are affording him amnesty so he can go right back to do what he has always done? I don't think so. See, Omar is Norsani. I knew he would be in Afghanistan. It is where his tribe is. Where the heck is Osama? He and Omar were joined at the hip.
Olive Branch Extended to Taliban Leader
A veteran Afghan official said Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar might be ready to make peace and that the government should welcome him.
Sibghatullah Mojaddidi, the head of a peace commission, said he would negotiate with any Afghans ready to lay down their arms and recognize the new government. Mojaddidi said Omar and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, both wanted as terrorists by the U.S., should be eligible for reconciliation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs10.1may10,0,3459898.story?coll=la-home-world
The Sydney Morning Herald
Microsoft hops off the fence to back gay rights legislation
May 10, 2005
New York: Microsoft has said it will support efforts to pass gay rights legislation in Washington State after changing its mind for the second time in two weeks.
Chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company would also support efforts to pass nationwide legislation after earlier being criticised for taking a neutral stance.
Supporters of the state legislation, which include other local corporations Nike, Boeing and brewer Molson Coors, were outraged last month when it became known that Microsoft had switched from being supportive to neutral.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Microsoft-hops-off-the-fence-to-back-gay-rights-legislation/2005/05/09/1115584909579.html
Global Warming/Climate Change
"The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army or advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner of the world, is an issue that must be addressed by the world." - President George W Bush, June 11, 2001.
A Cloudy Forecast For Clear Skies
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President George W. Bush's Clear Skies initiative faces a big test in the Senate today. The outlook? Cloudy.
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works could even deadlock nine-to-nine on whether to recommend the bill and its possible amendments to the full Senate. A vote on the Clear Skies Act, or a healthy debate that welcomes a compromise would "breathe life into the establishment of a comprehensive air emissions policy," notes Robert LaCount of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/16/cz_ms_0216beltway.html?partner=commentary_newsletter
Australians More Concerned With Global Warming Than Terrorism
By Drog (Canada), Section Australia
Posted on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 09:27:43 AM PST
According to Wikinews, a report released by Allan Gyngell of the Lowy Institute on Monday, has revealed that Australians view US foreign policy to be as dangerous as Islamic fundamentalism. It also found that only 58 percent of the population had a positive view of the United States.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/3/29/92746/1199
Al Jazeera
Former UN chief arms inspector proposes compromise on Iranian enrichment
Hans Blix, the former UN chief arms inspector called on Iran and Israel to support a ban on nuclear enrichment across the Middle East as a possible compromise on curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the meeting of the 188 signatories of the 1970 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Blix, now chairman of the Stockholm-based Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, said that having the Middle East as an enrichment-free zone is in the interests of both Iran and Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8508
The New Zealand Herald
Iran to resume uranium enrichment work 'within days'
10.05.05 1.00pm
TEHRAN - Iran said on Monday it would resume uranium enrichment-related activities within days, a move the United States and the European Union have warned would see its nuclear case escalated to the UN Security Council.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124752
Brothers face Belgian trial over Rwandan genocide
10.05.05 1.00pm
BRUSSELS - Belgium has begun prosecuting two Rwandan half-brothers charged under a controversial war crimes law with helping Hutu militias kill some 50,000 people in 1994 and rewarding them with beer after the slaughter.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124744
Cuba calls United States the 'Fourth Reich'
10.05.05 1.00pm
HAVANA - As world leaders celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow’s Red Square on Monday, Communist Cuba held its own parade and accused the United States of using "fascist" policies to dominate the world.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124742
Race for top WTO job enters last lap
Contender for the top job at the WTO, Pascal Lamy.
10.05.05 1.00pm
GENEVA - The race for the world's top trade job entered its last lap today, with former European Union trade chief Pascal Lamy's backers confident he can hold his lead over Uruguayan challenger Carlos Perez del Castillo.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124732
Blair ally takes over thankless Northern Ireland task
10.05.05
By Paul Majendie
LONDON - The man handed the most thankless task in British politics flew to Belfast on Monday with the goal of bringing a lasting peace to Northern Ireland seemingly further from reach than ever before.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124692
Heart team to operate in Samoa
10.05.05
by Angela Gregory
A New Zealand medical team is gearing up to perform the first heart operations in Samoa.
The historic surgery is planned for July if a visit next month assures the medical staff they can safely carry out the procedures in the public hospital in Apia, the capital.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124666>
The weather in Antarctica with Winter approaching (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
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Updated Tuesday 10 May 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
43 °F / 6 °C
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Dew Point:
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2 bodies found in Hingham bunker
Identities said unknown; police seek public's help
By Donovan Slack and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff May 10, 2005
Authorities are investigating the suspicious deaths of two men whose bodies were discovered in Hingham yesterday at a disused military bunker, where items found near the men suggest they had been living or camping there, according to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/10/2_bodies_found_in_hingham_bunker/
I THOUGHT the Senators were forming a committee to find a way to satisfy minority opinion to be upheld as per the speech Bush made in Latvia while voting rather than filibustering the judges already once defeated. I have a solution. Bush should submit a new slate of judges not already decided from previous administrations and find out what the minority Democratic Senators think of them. THAT is democracy at work and not the undermining of minority Constitutional clout. Sound like a reasonable idea? I think so.
Filibuster ban gets White House nudge
Bush, Gonzales call for Senate to vote on all judicial nominees
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff May 10, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Turning up the pressure on Republican leaders, President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales yesterday called on the Senate to allow yes-or-no votes on all judicial nominees, a request that could help force a move to outlaw filibusters of judges.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/10/filibuster_ban_gets_white_house_nudge/
Free speech at Faneuil Hall
May 10, 2005
GOOD SPEECH overpowered bad Sunday in Boston when hundreds of demonstrators verbally outmaneuvered a group of about 20 white supremacists seeking to mar a Faneuil Hall service marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
It was a good day for the First Amendment. The band of haters connected to White Revolution, an Arkansas-based neo-Nazi group, marched down Congress Street unobstructed -- even though they had no parade permit --while displaying anti-Semitic signs denying the Holocaust. Later, at their demonstration site, one waved slabs of ham. The neo-Nazis were denied the victory that censorship might have provided them. They also failed to intrude upon Faneuil Hall, where 900 people, including Holocaust survivors, honored the 6 million Jews who died in the Nazi death camps.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/05/10/free_speech_at_faneuil_hall/
The Daily Star
OPEC president insists oil market oversupplied
Prices, demand growth to be considered
KUWAIT: OPEC's president said Monday the oil market is oversupplied and that any increase in output at the cartel's meeting next month must take into consideration prices and growth in demand. "The OPEC-10 real production now in the market based on our latest information from OPEC and other sources is 29.7 million barrels per day (bpd)," Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah told reporters.
"We believe there is two million bpd of overproduction in the market ... In the third quarter the required demand from OPEC-10 will be 28.5 million bpd," he added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=14927
South Americans and Arabs seek global voice
Leaders attend historic summit in bid to counter U.S. dominance
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
In a bid to counter the United States' global dominance, ministers from 34 South American and Arab League states are meeting in Brazil for the first-ever summit of leaders from the two regions.
Ministers meeting Monday focused on how to boost economic ties. But the summit, which brings together leaders from countries resentful of America's hand in everything from regime changes to rampant globalization, is also expected to be a platform for forging new political alliances.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14955
Egyptian judges reject Bush's call for international monitoring of elections
Judiciary wants local authorities to monitor poll
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Hundreds of Egyptian judges have rejected U.S. President George W. Bush's weekend call for international monitoring of Egypt's September presidential elections, saying they will do the job themselves, a senior court official said Monday.
Separately, 90 percent of Egypt's 2,000 judges charged with running the elections want local, not foreign, authorities to monitor the poll, according to a recent vote taken by the Justice Ministry.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14954
IS ANY TIME ever right or ripe for a USA pullout from Iraq?
Iraqi president says time not ripe for U.S. pullout
Talabani repeats pledge that he will not sign Saddam's death warrant
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
AMMAN: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in remarks published Monday that it was not yet possible to set a date for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from his country. He also reiterated that he would not sign a death warrant for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who is in U.S. custody awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14937
Between Baghdad and Islamabad, North Korea chooses
By David Ignatius
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Here's a chilling scenario from the CIA's former top Asia hand: Within a year, North Korea is likely to test a nuclear weapon, probably in a cave or mineshaft somewhere in the barren northeast of the country.
A small amount of radioactive fallout will leak from the test site and drift toward Japan. Financial markets in Tokyo and Seoul will be rocked by the news. Foreign companies in South Korea will weigh whether to pull out dependents or reduce their operations. And Washington will debate whether to impose a blockade or other tough measures to contain the North Korean nuclear breakout.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=14934
The DeLay Times
DeLay's worst: a dirty drama of bondage
May 10, 2005
Nothing has had the sex appeal of the St. Andrews junket.
News of a lobbyist-paid junket to the fabled Scottish golf resort finally made Tom DeLay a household name synonymous with scandal. The story that DeLay, his wife and a retinue of aides were treated to a 10-day, $120,000 trip to London and the fabled St. Andrews course in Scotland - with many expenses charged to lobbyists' credit cards - turned an insiders' furor over congressional ethics into a media frenzy.
There's nothing so devastating to smarmy politicians as a story that appeals to the great American instinct for resentment. If we can't get someone to pay our way to posh hotels and picturesque links, then why should he?
Yes, the St. Andrews caper is what finally inspired the public to follow DeLay's tribulations. It forced the House Republican leadership to switch the rules for ethics investigations back to what they'd been before DeLay ordered outlandish changes to protect himself.
...But the question arises: Is the pond hop to historic links the worst thing the Texas Republican has ever done? Hardly. There are many qualified candidates, but one stands out for its squalor. That's DeLay's personal campaign to ensure that garment industry sweatshop workers and sex slaves in the Northern Mariana Islands - a U.S. territory - were exploited in a system that resembled indentured servitude.
The story dates to the 1990s, when the Clinton administration tried to crack down on the importation of cheap Chinese labor to the islands and to ameliorate conditions under which the guest workers - mostly women - toiled. Brokers - traffickers, really, in human beings - brought thousands to work in sweatshops for as many as 70 hours per week. They lived in crowded barracks; some were locked behind guarded fences. And because the territory is a U.S. possession, garments bore this seal of approval: "Made in the U.S.A."
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opcoc104252506may10,0,3716040.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
I THOUGHT the nation was looking at base closings and not openings?
Ellington's usefulness stressed by DeLay
He suggests a homeland security office for the base
By RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
Congressman Tom DeLay toured Ellington Field on Monday, promising to do everything he can to secure a military presence there, including recommending the field for a regional homeland security office.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3174333
Records Show Lobbyist Abramoff's Influence
Monday May 9, 2005 7:46 PM
By SHARON THEIMER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - For lobbyist Jack Abramoff, no politician was too big to pursue and no detail too small to charge his clients for. Working to keep the Northern Marianas Islands free of new U.S. regulations, Abramoff sought help from Tom DeLay, other congressional leaders and high-level Bush administration officials.
At the same time, he charged the islands for such mundane tasks as securing tee times at the right golf courses for Washington visitors and obtaining an autographed copy of a book by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4993563,00.html
What happens next with Tom DeLay and the ethics committee?
The House ethics committee was able to open for business in the past few days after lawmakers resolved a dispute over its rules. Here are questions and answers about the committee's next steps regarding Majority Leader Tom DeLay and other ethics matters.
Q: Questions have been raised about whether a lobbyist _ Jack Abramoff _ or his firm paid for travel expenses of DeLay and his aides. What happens now?
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14484267&BRD=2288&amp;PAG=461&dept_id=547111&rfi=6
Feeling Heat, DeLay Speaks of Humility
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: May 6, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 5 - Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, whose travel and ties to lobbyists have been under scrutiny, delivered a talk on the importance of humility on Thursday at the annual National Day of Prayer service, telling worshipers that God makes all things possible - "even greatness from lowly sinners like you and me - especially me."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/politics/06ethics.html
The Los Angeles Times
I really think this could be anyone of us. More outrageous law enforcement.
2 Hurt in Deputies' Crossfire
At least five Compton homes are left with bullet holes as officers fire 120 rounds at SUV.
By Tonya Alanez and Monte Morin, Times Staff Writers
Ten Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies opened fire early Monday on an SUV they were chasing, discharging 120 rounds in a frenzied crossfire that injured a deputy and the unarmed suspect while sending bullets into nearby homes.
The shooting on a narrow residential street in Compton sent residents diving for cover as bullets zipped over their heads and through their windows. In the aftermath, bullet holes pocked the walls of at least five homes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chase10may10,0,2324774.story?coll=la-home-headlines
For 3 GOP Senators, Vote Isn't Just About U.N. Pick
WASHINGTON — For the three Republican senators who have expressed reservations about John R. Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the committee vote set for Thursday is about much more than whether he is the best man for the job.
When they gather with their colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for their final consideration of Bolton, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and George V. Voinovich of Ohio will carry vastly different political calculations and ambitions that may factor as much in their decisions as anything revealed about the nominee by dozens of witnesses and hundreds of documents.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bolton10may10,0,2563178.story?coll=la-home-headlines
More public endangerment by this administration. Of children with complete disregard for their vulnerability. Children have no clout. They don't vote. Few have substantial money. Bush/Cheney forget children will be future voters.
EPA Puts Mandated Lead-Paint Rules on Hold
The agency is looking at voluntary standards to limit exposure instead. The revelation angers public health advocates and some lawmakers.
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly delayed work on completing required rules to protect children and construction workers from exposure to lead-based paint, exploring instead the possibility of using voluntary standards to govern building renovations and remodeling.
The EPA move, first disclosed in documents provided by an agency whistle-blower, has prompted angry questions from Democrats in Congress, the attorneys general of New York and Illinois, and public health advocates around the country.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-paint10may10,1,956868.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
THE REASON Bush wants International monitors in Egypt for elections. Also known as 'Is there an International Solution Bush can use for regime change rather than sending in the USA military?'
He May Lack Votes, but Not Ambition
Egypt's Ayman Nour has little chance to unseat Hosni Mubarak -- he might not even be allowed to run -- but he's laying a foundation.
CAIRO — The bespectacled lawmaker marched into his plush office and settled before the television cameras. He grimaced shyly, almost whispering as he tested the microphones. And then, without a pause, Ayman Nour ripped into Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party.
The night before, one of Nour's supporters had been killed and about a dozen more wounded when an armed mob ambushed their buses in the Nile Delta countryside, he said. According to Nour, ruling party officials paid thugs $10 each to block his party from opening a new office there.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-nour10may10,0,1013244.story?coll=la-home-world
Let me get this right. This is Osama's Omar? This is the one eyed wonder? This is the Mullah of all Mullahs? This is the guy with a $25 million price tag on his head? We have Trade Towers fallen to the ground because of Omar and Osama. We launched a war retaliating against al Qaeda for this guy? Now, we are affording him amnesty so he can go right back to do what he has always done? I don't think so. See, Omar is Norsani. I knew he would be in Afghanistan. It is where his tribe is. Where the heck is Osama? He and Omar were joined at the hip.
Olive Branch Extended to Taliban Leader
A veteran Afghan official said Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar might be ready to make peace and that the government should welcome him.
Sibghatullah Mojaddidi, the head of a peace commission, said he would negotiate with any Afghans ready to lay down their arms and recognize the new government. Mojaddidi said Omar and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, both wanted as terrorists by the U.S., should be eligible for reconciliation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs10.1may10,0,3459898.story?coll=la-home-world
The Sydney Morning Herald
Microsoft hops off the fence to back gay rights legislation
May 10, 2005
New York: Microsoft has said it will support efforts to pass gay rights legislation in Washington State after changing its mind for the second time in two weeks.
Chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company would also support efforts to pass nationwide legislation after earlier being criticised for taking a neutral stance.
Supporters of the state legislation, which include other local corporations Nike, Boeing and brewer Molson Coors, were outraged last month when it became known that Microsoft had switched from being supportive to neutral.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Microsoft-hops-off-the-fence-to-back-gay-rights-legislation/2005/05/09/1115584909579.html
Global Warming/Climate Change
"The issue of climate change respects no border. Its effects cannot be reined in by an army or advanced by any ideology. Climate change, with its potential to impact every corner of the world, is an issue that must be addressed by the world." - President George W Bush, June 11, 2001.
A Cloudy Forecast For Clear Skies
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President George W. Bush's Clear Skies initiative faces a big test in the Senate today. The outlook? Cloudy.
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works could even deadlock nine-to-nine on whether to recommend the bill and its possible amendments to the full Senate. A vote on the Clear Skies Act, or a healthy debate that welcomes a compromise would "breathe life into the establishment of a comprehensive air emissions policy," notes Robert LaCount of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/16/cz_ms_0216beltway.html?partner=commentary_newsletter
Australians More Concerned With Global Warming Than Terrorism
By Drog (Canada), Section Australia
Posted on Tue Mar 29, 2005 at 09:27:43 AM PST
According to Wikinews, a report released by Allan Gyngell of the Lowy Institute on Monday, has revealed that Australians view US foreign policy to be as dangerous as Islamic fundamentalism. It also found that only 58 percent of the population had a positive view of the United States.
http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2005/3/29/92746/1199
Al Jazeera
Former UN chief arms inspector proposes compromise on Iranian enrichment
Hans Blix, the former UN chief arms inspector called on Iran and Israel to support a ban on nuclear enrichment across the Middle East as a possible compromise on curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the meeting of the 188 signatories of the 1970 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Blix, now chairman of the Stockholm-based Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, said that having the Middle East as an enrichment-free zone is in the interests of both Iran and Israel.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8508
The New Zealand Herald
Iran to resume uranium enrichment work 'within days'
10.05.05 1.00pm
TEHRAN - Iran said on Monday it would resume uranium enrichment-related activities within days, a move the United States and the European Union have warned would see its nuclear case escalated to the UN Security Council.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124752
Brothers face Belgian trial over Rwandan genocide
10.05.05 1.00pm
BRUSSELS - Belgium has begun prosecuting two Rwandan half-brothers charged under a controversial war crimes law with helping Hutu militias kill some 50,000 people in 1994 and rewarding them with beer after the slaughter.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124744
Cuba calls United States the 'Fourth Reich'
10.05.05 1.00pm
HAVANA - As world leaders celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow’s Red Square on Monday, Communist Cuba held its own parade and accused the United States of using "fascist" policies to dominate the world.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124742
Race for top WTO job enters last lap
Contender for the top job at the WTO, Pascal Lamy.
10.05.05 1.00pm
GENEVA - The race for the world's top trade job entered its last lap today, with former European Union trade chief Pascal Lamy's backers confident he can hold his lead over Uruguayan challenger Carlos Perez del Castillo.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124732
Blair ally takes over thankless Northern Ireland task
10.05.05
By Paul Majendie
LONDON - The man handed the most thankless task in British politics flew to Belfast on Monday with the goal of bringing a lasting peace to Northern Ireland seemingly further from reach than ever before.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124692
Heart team to operate in Samoa
10.05.05
by Angela Gregory
A New Zealand medical team is gearing up to perform the first heart operations in Samoa.
The historic surgery is planned for July if a visit next month assures the medical staff they can safely carry out the procedures in the public hospital in Apia, the capital.
Pasted from <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124666>
The weather in Antarctica with Winter approaching (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
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