Finding a Profiteer for President was not difficult at all for the Neocons, now was it?

A silver lining to every Global Warming cloud.

The American people can pay for the wake of this administrations negligence and get down on bended knee it didn't happen to them !!!!

Bush the incompetent !!

Cheney's Halliburton gets another NO BIG Contract.

Morning Papers - continued

The Washington Times

If course he seeks quick approval. The two of them are maniacal. If Roberts isn't confirmed for Chief then they'll settle for Associate. They both know this nomination is a bunch of junk. They both know he is under qualified. They don't care they like to punt on the 'chance' their cronies will see it all through on the promise of being re-elected with the destruction of the Constitution. I would love to know what the other Justices think about now. It's unfortunate that Scalia will be second best when Roberts isn't accepted as Chief. I am sure the fear of Scalia is enough for many to RUSH the nomination through.

Bush Seeks Quick Approval

Bush Nominates Roberts as Chief Justice
President Seeks Quick Approval With Another Seat Left to Fill
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A01
President Bush nominated John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday as the 17th chief justice of the United States, promoting his nominee for associate justice to lead the Supreme Court and the rest of the federal judiciary even before Roberts was confirmed for the first assignment.
Moving swiftly as he copes with the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Bush announced his decision just two days after the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and 48 days after picking Roberts to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. In elevating Roberts, Bush chose the candidate most likely to be confirmed in short order by the Senate, which was poised to ratify the appeals court judge for O'Connor's seat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090500173.html


Democrats Pledge More Intense Scrutiny of Roberts
With His Confirmation Still Expected, the Real Battle Focuses on a Successor to O'Connor
By Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A06
Senate Democrats yesterday promised to subject John G. Roberts Jr. to an increased level of scrutiny in light of President Bush's decision to nominate the 50-year-old appeals court judge to replace the late William H. Rehnquist as chief justice.
But with conservatives and liberals alike saying that Roberts is on track to be confirmed, the focus was already shifting to what both sides believe will be the real battle: Bush's yet-to-be-named pick to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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Ride 'em, Convict!
At the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo, Inmates Bust Loose
By Paul Schwartzman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page C01
McALESTER, Okla.
The pink billowing sky fades to black over the rodeo arena as the Friday night crowd ambles in, women in slinky halter tops and dark red lipstick, men in cowboy hats and blue jeans, tins of tobacco pressed into their back pockets.
Along a back row of concrete benches, LaDonna Meadows, 63, lifts herself from a wheelchair and stands on an artificial leg, her hand over her heart. On white horses, a parade of riders, with sequined crosses stuck to the backs of their red-white-and-blue vests, circles the arena while a singer delivers a honey-smooth rendition of "God Bless America."

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INDEED. GOD BLESS IT !!!!

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REACTIONARY. These guys are stupid beyond any imagination. NO FORESIGHT what so ever.

GOP Agenda Shifts as Political Trials Grow
Katrina Puts Estate Tax Repeal on Ice
By Shailagh Murray and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A06
As Congress returns from its August recess today, Republicans face a far more troubling political landscape than the one they left a month ago, according to lawmakers in both parties.
Gasoline prices have skyrocketed, the Bush administration is being widely criticized for its handling of Hurricane Katrina, and as the war in Iraq grows increasingly unpopular, the president's approval ratings have sunk to an all-time low. Further complicating the picture is a rare double vacancy on the Supreme Court, which could trigger sniping between the GOP's center and right wing if not deftly handled.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501405.html


Toll Suspected to Soar as Body Recovery Begins
Two Temporary Morgues Set Up to Handle Thousands in What Could Be Deadliest U.S. Natural Disaster
By Jacqueline L. Salmon and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A10
ST. GABRIEL, La., Sept. 5 -- Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing floods along the Gulf Coast could mark one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, as the macabre task of locating and cataloguing its dead moves into its early stages. Officials estimate the death toll could rise to several thousand over coming days.
The search-and-rescue efforts in coastal communities of Louisiana and Mississippi are turning their focus to recovering the bodies, as workers attempt to reach isolated communities that were ravaged by high winds and flooding that reached rooftops. The more than 200 confirmed dead suggest a grimmer total, as rescuers break residential windows to find bodies floating in flooded houses, to discover victims under piles of tree limbs, wood planks and rocks, and to secure bodies found floating in the streets to fence posts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501635.html?nav=hcmodule


Guardian Unlimited

Bush team tries to pin blame on local officials
Julian Borger in Washington
Monday September 5, 2005
The Guardian
Bush administration officials yesterday blamed state and local officials for the delays in bringing relief to New Orleans, as the president struggled to fend off the most serious political crisis of his presidency.
His top officials continued to be pilloried on television talk shows by liberals and conservatives alike, but the White House began to show signs of an evolving strategy to prevent the relief fiasco from eclipsing the president's second term.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1562882,00.html


Network Rail convicted over Hatfield safety breach
Staff and agencies
Tuesday September 6, 2005
Network Rail was today convicted at the Old Bailey of breaking safety rules in the months before the Hatfield rail disaster.
Five railway bosses who had been accused alongside Network Rail, which was formerly known as Railtrack, were cleared of all charges.
Four people died and 102 were injured when the King's Cross to Leeds train came off the tracks at 115mph on October 17 2000.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/hatfieldtraincrash/story/0,7369,1563842,00.html


Draining begins amid levee repairs
David Fickling and agencies
Tuesday September 6, 2005
A large sandbag is lowered into a broken section of a levee in New Orleans. Photographer: Smiley N Pool/AP
United States army engineers have plugged one of the biggest gaps in the levee system surrounding New Orleans and started to pump water from the flooded city.
The US army corps of engineers strengthened the damaged barrier along the 17th Street canal in the west of the city using metal sheets, before dropping dozens of 1,200kg sandbags onto the 135 metre breach from helicopters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1563650,00.html


Binge thinking
Peter Haydon calls for a more rigorous debate about our drinking habits, and a return to our time-honoured passion for ale
Tuesday September 6, 2005
Women drink at a bar in central London. Photograph:Toby Melville /Reuters
Last month, Judge Charles Harris announced on the Today programme that "a very large proportion of domestic violence is committed by people who have been drinking - and if they hadn't been so drinking so much, they wouldn't be so violent".
'Twas ever thus. In 1751, novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding wrote: "Wretches are often brought before me, charged with theft and robbery, whom I am forced to confine before they are in a condition to be examined: and when they have afterwards become sober, I have plainly perceived from the state of case that the gin alone was the cause of the transgression."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1563777,00.html


'MI5 agent' conman jailed for life
Staff and agencies
Tuesday September 6, 2005
A conman who posed as an MI5 spy during a £1m "odyssey of deceit" was jailed for life today.
Robert Hendy-Freegard, a 34-year old semi-literate former car salesman nicknamed "The Puppetmaster", seduced and ruthlessly exploited his victims during a 10-year period, Blackfriars crown court heard.
The court, in London, was told he convinced some to go on the run from terrorists and swindled others out of huge sums of money.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1563738,00.html

Nine die as concrete block hits cable car line
Sam Jones
Tuesday September 6, 2005
The Guardian
Nine German tourists, including six children, were killed yesterday when a helicopter dropped a concrete block on a cable car line they were travelling on at a popular Austrian ski resort.
The helicopter was ferrying building materials to a construction site atop a nearby mountain when the 750kg (1,650lb) block tumbled free, knocking one car off the cable and leaving others swinging so violently that their passengers were thrown out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/austria/article/0,2763,1563593,00.html


Sands of Mars may hold vast reservoir of water
Research shows dunes could be 50% snow and ice, US scientist says
Tim Radford, science editor
Tuesday September 6, 2005
The Guardian
The sands of Mars, which hold the biggest dunes in the solar system, could contain up to 50% snow and ice, a US scientist told the British Association festival of science meeting in Dublin yesterday.
The discovery could be of enormous significance. President George Bush has named Mars as the destination for a manned mission in the next 30 years. Nasa and the European Space Agency both plan orbiter missions and robot landings in the next decade.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1563597,00.html


Eight hostages killed in airport battle
Thursday September 7, 1972
The Guardian
September 6
All eight Israeli hostages captured by Arab guerrillas at the Olympic village yesterday were killed this morning during an attempt to release them at an airport near Munich.
Four Arab guerrillas and a policeman also died in the battle at the airport.
After a day spent in negotiations the German authorities provided helicopters to take the Arabs and their captives to the airfield where a plane was said to be waiting to take them to an Arab capital. At one time it was reported that the hostages had been freed. But it is unofficially reported that an Arab guerrilla, finding himself surrounded, went back into one of the helicopters and exploded a grenade.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1298214,00.html


The Chicago Tribune

How deep does it run? All the way to the core of their value system !!!! THE SUNNY SIDE? ARE YOU ALL FOR REAL? A FORMER FIRST LADY SEES THIS AS A SUNNY SIDE? That is an outrage. The poor little nigers from the south get a break, huh? My, my, I should shut up and be grateful there was a hurricane at all !! It rather convenient that those in Texas are poor and happy for three squares a day. DEAR GOD, GET THEM OUT OF MY LIFE !!! AHHHHH !!!! That is a value system? That is no value system I recognize as benevolent. Those people lived in abject poverty. They suffered all their lives to come to what? To some hope at the end of death of many of their community at the negligence of their society. THAT'S A SUNNY SIDE? I'm appauled ! Who is the REAL WHITE TRASH here?

Barbara Bush sees sunny side
The president's mom says Astrodome evacuees "were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them."

Bush, Clinton Announce Katrina Relief Fund
By PAM EASTON
Associated Press Writer
Published September 6, 2005, 4:59 AM CDT
HOUSTON -- Former Presidents Bush and Clinton got smiles, hugs and requests for autographs when they met with refugees from Hurricane Katrina -- but it was Bush's wife who got attention for some of her comments.
Barbara Bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the Astrodome complex Monday, said the relocation to Houston is "working very well" for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program "Marketplace." "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-katrina-former-presidents,1,852548.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Katrina's Victims Poorer Than U.S. Average
By FRANK BASS
Associated Press Writer
Published September 4, 2005, 3:53 PM CDT
People living in the path of Hurricane Katrina's worst devastation were twice as likely as most Americans to be poor and without a car -- factors that may help explain why so many failed to evacuate as the storm approached.
An Associated Press analysis of Census data shows that the residents in the three dozen hardest-hit neighborhoods in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama also were disproportionately minority and had incomes $10,000 below the national average.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-katrina-demographics-of-destruction,1,6596581.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Paper to president: Feds blew it
Tribune staff reporters John Bebow, Lisa Black, Mary Ann Fergus, James Janega and John von Rhein contributed to this report. Tribune news services also contributed
Published September 6, 2005
The high winds of blame continued to circulate Monday around Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Echoing the frustration of local officials who have complained for days of slow federal response, the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper called for the removal of every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry," the paper said Sunday in an open letter to President Bush. "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509060173sep06,1,2637494.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Bush Now Spending Time on Hurricane-Relief
By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer
Published September 6, 2005, 1:29 AM CDT
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is spending much of his time these days on relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina after his administration was harshly criticized for an initial response to the storm called slow and inadequate.
Visiting the devastated region again Monday, Bush tried to repair tattered relations with Louisiana's Democratic governor, Kathleen Blanco, while also praising relief workers.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-katrina-washington,1,6658751.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Obama says hurricane victims will need long-term support
By Mike Colias
Associated Press Writer
Published September 5, 2005, 10:49 PM CDT
Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that Americans should prepare to support displaced Hurricane Katrina victims for months to come.
Obama returned to Chicago Monday after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston along with former Presidents Bush and Clinton. Obama said the 25,000 evacuees appear to be getting the necessary clothing, food and shelter after suffering in New Orleans last week.
"I think the bigger question is going to be 'How do we provide longer term housing and employment opportunities?"' Obama, D-Ill., said during a news conference at the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050905obama2,1,1483249.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Surveying the damage
By Paul Salopek and Lisa Anderson
Tribune staff reporters
Published September 5, 2005, 10:55 PM CDT
NEW ORLEANS -- Sobered by the suggestion that the death toll may rise to 10,000 people by the time the waters recede from this shattered and increasingly empty city, New Orleans-area residents finally found something to cheer them Monday: One of the city's ruptured levees was restored and several thousand people briefly returned home to assess their losses and to realistically consider their futures.
For hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents—jobless, homeless or both—Labor Day was a time for taking stock, as President Bush made his second visit to the region in three days, the military dramatically increased its presence in the striken region and the New Orleans Police Department announced a chilling decrease in the size of its force.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050905hurricane,1,6959718.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Chaos of Katrina Drives Cop to Suicide
By CAIN BURDEAU
Associated Press Writer
Published September 6, 2005, 5:41 AM CDT
NEW ORLEANS -- Life wasn't supposed to end this way for Sgt. Paul Accardo: alone in chaos.
He wrote a note telling anyone who found him who to contact -- a fellow officer. He was precise, and thoughtful, to the end. Then he stuck a gun into his mouth and killed himself.
Accardo was one of two city cops who committed suicide last week as New Orleans descended into an abyss of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. He was found in an unmarked patrol car on Saturday in a downtown parking lot.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-katrina-driven-to-suicide-hk1,1,2485000.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Lance Armstrong, Sheryl Crow Engaged
By Associated Press
Published September 6, 2005, 8:11 AM CDT
AUSTIN, Texas -- Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and rock star Sheryl Crow are engaged. The cyclist announced the engagement in a statement Monday, and said he asked Crow on Wednesday while they were in Sun Valley, Idaho.
No wedding date has been set, although it could be a spring wedding, Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins said.
Armstrong retired in July after winning his seventh straight Tour.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-people-armstrong-crowe,1,4200577.story?coll=chi-news-hed

continued …

September 6, 2005. The tragedy of the world doesn't end. This is the cable car that fell from a sky cable in Austria. The rescuers are responding by carrying a coffin to remove the dead. 

September 3, 2005. Alabama bayous. The Shrimp Boats. Most of these boats are fine. It is somewhat the equivalent of 'dry dock' with minor damage. Some are really destroyed but most are able to go back into service as soon as a crane on a barge shows up to rescue them. 

September 3, 2005. Bayou la Batre, Alabama. The "Sea Falcon" visits the Witzell Bridge.  

September 3, 2005. Bayou la Batre, Alabama. Car? There are cars on top of a freighter?  

September 3, 2005. Bayou la Batre, Alabama. Why didn't the cars fall off the top of the shipping containers? 

September 4, 2005. The Integrity. 

September 4, 2005. There interesting physics going on with this storm. The shrimp boats literally rode the waves to come to rest on land. The bayous are virtually empty of anything except wildlife. 

September 6, 2005. The Neonates of Katrina. 

Morning Papers - concluded

Sydney Morning Herald

Katrina rates as the costliest disaster
By Andrew Cave
September 6, 2005
Total losses from Hurricane Katrina in the United States are likely to make it the costliest natural disaster ever, according to analysts.
Consultancy firm Risk Management Solutions says the losses from flooding in New Orleans, wind damage, coastal surges, battered infrastructure and indirect economic effects could total more than $US100 billion ($131 billion).
Analysts also believe the crisis will prompt further increases in petrol prices. Oil refineries along the US's Gulf of Mexico coast and battered offshore oil and gas platforms were recovering slowly almost a week after Katrina devastated the largest energy hub in the world's top consumer of fuel.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/katrina-rates-as-the-costliest-disaster/2005/09/05/1125772465380.html


Two survivors return amid storm over ex-minister's remarks
September 6, 2005 - 10:39AM
As two Australians returned home today after five terrifying days, there were calls for former federal minister Wilson Tuckey to apologise for criticising of Australians trapped by the hurricane disaster.
Mr Tuckey had implied the troubles of Australians stranded by Hurricane Katrina were of their own making, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said today.
"What were a mob of Australians doing there? Were they local residents, were they tourists, were they tourists with travel insurance?," Mr Tuckey told parliament last night.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/survivors-land-amid-storm-over-mps-attack/2005/09/06/1125772499010.html


Nine killed in cable car crash
September 6, 2005 - 9:45AM
A coffin is carried to a crashed cable car cabin on a mountainside near Soelden, in Austria's western province of Tyrol.
Photo: Reuters
Nine Germans, including six children, were killed when a helicopter accidentally dropped a 750 kilogram concrete block on a ski-lift, plunging a cable car down a mountainside in Austria.
The helicopter was carrying material to a mountaintop construction site when it dropped the block, knocking the car in a string of gondolas off its wires and leaving others swinging so violently that their passengers were thrown out.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/nine-killed-in-cable-car-crash/2005/09/06/1125772489555.html


Bush tours stricken region as response probe urged
September 6, 2005 - 7:35AM
President Bush greets local officials and law enforcement personnel at the Pearl River Community College in Poplarville, Mississippi.
Rescuers went house to house in once-bustling New Orleans -- now reduced to a few thousand people -- searching for survivors of Hurricane Katrina, as mobile morgues stood by to collect the dead.
A week after Katrina walloped the Gulf Coast, leaving thousands feared dead, some residents headed back to relatively undamaged areas while President George Bush made his second tour of the devastation in three days.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bush-tours-stricken-region-as-response-probe-urged/2005/09/06/1125772491619.html


Deadly typhoon pounds Japan
September 6, 2005 - 10:57AM
A huge wave smashes a national highway as a powerful typhoon approaches Kagoshima yesterday.
A powerful typhoon hit Japan today, leaving one person dead and another missing, and prompting officials to order thousands to evacuate their homes for fear of landslides and storm damage.
At least nine people were injured on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu and the island chain of Okinawa, police said.
Nabi, meaning butterfly in Korean and packing winds of up to 144 kilometres per hour, was located near Makurazaki City on Kyushu's southern tip at 8am (0900 AEST), the Meteorological Agency said.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/deadly-typhoon-pounds-japan/2005/09/06/1125772499707.html


Chernobyl death toll 56 so far: UN
September 6, 2005 - 9:44AM
The number of people killed by radiation as a result of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear accident, is so far 56, much lower than previously thought, United Nations organisations said.
A report compiled by the Chernobyl Forum, which includes eight UN agencies, said the final death toll was expected to reach about 4,000 - much lower than some previous estimates - and that the greatest damage to human health was psychological.
The disaster occurred at 1.24am on April 26, 1986, when an explosion at Reactor 4 of the Ukrainian power plant spewed a cloud of radioactivity over Europe and the Soviet Union, particularly contaminating Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
"Claims have been made that tens or even hundreds of thousands of persons have died as a result of the accident. These claims are exaggerated," the Chernobyl Forum report said.
UN officials said the death toll was 47 emergency workers and nine children who had died of thyroid cancer.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Chernobyl-death-toll-56-so-far-UN/2005/09/06/1125772496264.html


North Korea wants talks to resume
September 6, 2005 - 9:50AM
North Korea has told China it wants to resume six-way talks on an international standoff over its nuclear development programs on September 13, Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported.
China, host of the talks which also involve the South Korea, the United States, Japan and Russia, is expected to announce the official date after discussion with all parties, Yonhap reported.
North Korea has said the talks could resume next week, but has not set a date.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/North-Korea-wants-talks-to-resume/2005/09/06/1125772496592.html


The hurricane babies who defied the odds
By Mark Coultan Herald Correspondent in New Orleans
September 6, 2005
Nine-day-old Symphony looks remarkably unfazed for a baby who has experienced premature birth, a hurricane, a flood, evacuation and separation from her mother.
By contrast, her 23-year-old mother, Sharia Spikes-Sotomayorcolon, looks as she has lived several lives in the last few days. Who could blame her? She underwent a caesarean section at New Orleans Methodist Hospital while Hurricane Katrina was heading up the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-hurricane-babies-who-defied-the-odds/2005/09/05/1125772465656.html


Katrina's big victim
September 6, 2005
The weather warning delivered to New Orleans on the morning of Sunday, August 28, was clear and precise: Hurricane Katrina would bring devastating damage. It would render large areas of the city uninhabitable for weeks. Half of all well-built houses would have roofs and walls fail. On and on it went. And yet, though warnings were issued and the city evacuated as far it could be, US authorities appear to have done little to be ready to help those left behind.
Exactly who is to blame for America's spectacular failure to look after its own will no doubt be determined by detailed inquiries in coming months, but without any doubt the political burden now falls heaviest on the shoulders of its President, George Bush. The sick, the elderly, the newborn left to die in squalor without food or water as armed gangs rape, loot and kill - these images from the world's richest nation are not quickly forgotten. The US, like the rest of the world, is shocked. But it is angry, too. Mr Bush has toured the devastation twice now. He has hugged the homeless and encouraged aid workers. But despite his attempts at Churchillian rhetoric, Mr Bush is looking less and less like the leader for a crisis.

http://www.smh.com.au/editorial/index.html


Petrol soars to $1.39 in Sydney
September 6, 2005 - 4:40PM
Petrol prices have hit a high of $1.39 a litre in Sydney and motorists are being warned to expect prices to continue rising.
Average prices in Sydney stood at $1.29 a litre today, up from an average of $1.25 last week, according to the Australian Institute of Petroleum and petrol tracking website Motormouth.
The state's most expensive petrol was in inner-city Redfern where standard unleaded was selling at $1.39 a litre, more than ten cents above last week's highest price of $1.28.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/petrol-soars-to-139-in-sydney/2005/09/06/1125772513741.html

The Times Picayune

Mayor says Katrina may have claimed more than 10,000 lives
Bodies found piled in freezer at Convention Center
By Brian Thevenot
Staff writer
Arkansas National Guardsman Mikel Brooks stepped through the food service entrance of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Monday, flipped on the light at the end of his machine gun, and started pointing out bodies.
"Don't step in that blood - it's contaminated," he said. "That one with his arm sticking up in the air, he's an old man."
Then he shined the light on the smaller human figure under the white sheet next to the elderly man.
"That's a kid," he said. "There's another one in the freezer, a 7-year-old with her throat cut."

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html

It's an excellent editorial about Rhenquist and his successor.

Editorial: Chief Justice Rehnquist
Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist's death adds more confusion to an already unsettled political scene. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court's key swing vote, announced her retirement earlier this summer. Hearings on John Roberts, President Bush's nominee to replace her, were at hand when Hurricane Katrina roared onto the Gulf Coast and caused death and havoc in New Orleans.
However unusual the circumstances, Justice Rehnquist's legacy is not in question. While his colleagues respected his sense of humor and his orderly management of the court's affairs, most Americans will remember him for pushing the nation's highest court in a more conservative direction -- and particularly for his efforts to limit federal power.
The authority of the federal government relative to that of the states and the private sector grew immensely during the New Deal and the civil rights movement, and Mr. Rehnquist sought in his legal work to reverse that trend. Early in his career, he criticized efforts to forbid racial discrimination, particularly in situations in which the federal government enforced such measures over the objections of states. His arguments back then, critics have long contended, provided legal cover for attempts to curtail African-Americans' fundamental liberties.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html

St. Tammany residents starting over in Midwest
By PAUL BARTELS
St. Tammany bureau
Almost 50 Slidell and Pearl River area residents made homeless by Hurricane Katrina’s devastation were evacuated over the weekend on two big tour buses with the promise of a new start in the Midwest.
The promise – guaranteed jobs and free apartments for up to six months – was made by Ed Blinn, a Marion, Ind., businessman who owns three used car lots and almost 100 apartments.
Some 47 people who had spent much of the week in five crowded, squalid school gymnasiums took him up on it the offer and boarded one of the buses Blinn hired to journey down the nation’s midsection and back.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html



'Stench of death' filled St. Bernard Parish
Violet family tells harrowing tale of survival
By Chris Kirkham
St. Tammany bureau
As Merlin Ruiz gathered the last of his family's belongings from their muddied 14-foot flat boat at the edge of Salt Bayou south of Slidell, the look of resignation on his face could only hint at the harrowing four-day escape he and others had been forced to make from flood-torn St. Bernard Parish.
A few packs of tuna fish and cases of bottled water crammed into a plastic bag were the only remnants of a Violet home inundated by floodwaters and a waterside camp devastated by powerful winds. Arriving in St. Tammany Parish Saturday morning was a welcome conclusion to a journey from a place filled with what Ruiz called "the stench of death."
His family's odyssey, which he recounted from a shelter in Slidell, began Aug. 28, hours before Katrina's strongest winds ripped through St. Bernard Parish. Realizing they would not be safe in their one-story home and lacking the money to evacuate, Ruiz, his wife, Sharon, and their daughter, Triniti, made their way in a pickup truck to meet a friend at a food processing warehouse near the old Kaiser aluminum plant at the Chalmette slip. Inside the warehouse, about 50 people endured the heart of the storm the next morning, which ripped apart the roof and gutted the walls of the building.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html

Editorial: Neighbors deliver in time of need
Neighbor is a casual kind of word. Most of the time we use it just to refer to someone who lives on our street or block, someone we greet in passing most of the time but also someone we'd call upon if there were an emergency, knowing full well that they will help.
We have an emergency. And, thank God, we also have neighbors. They are in places like Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. They've never clapped eyes on the men, women and children streaming out of the devastated New Orleans area. But they are opening their doors and their hearts to us.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html

Exclusive: Saints VP says team should stay
Fielkow source of off-the-record comments
By Mike Triplett
Staff writer
SAN ANTONIO - Arnold Fielkow, the Saints' executive vice president of administration, issued a statement to the Times-Picayune on Monday to explain the intent of off-the-record statements he made to the newspaper, as well as a handful of other media outlets on Saturday.
Fielkow's statements, which he said were made with "much personal frustration" following a meeting with the team's top executives earlier that day, expressed concern that team owner Tom Benson was leaning toward playing all of the Saints' home games in San Antonio this year.
Fielkow, who feels strongly that the team should play as many games as logistically possible in Baton Rouge, said that he now believes the organization will indeed attempt to play several games at LSU's Tiger Stadium, if possible.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/


The Sun Herald

Coroner insists death count is accurate

EAST BILOXI - The Katrina death toll is not being held back, the Harrison County coroner said as body recovery teams under his direction entered a new phase - searching with heavy equipment.
"There is no reason for me to deceive the public or the news media because that's not going to help the situation either," Coroner Gary Hargrove said. "Because if we start reporting low numbers and keep them low and then all of a sudden, 'bam,' we walk in and put high numbers on it, then you've created another problem. You've created deception."

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12567449.htm


It stinks to high heaven
Rotting chickens, pork foul Gulfport neighborhood
GULFPORT, Miss. - Like communities all along the Coast, the west beach neighborhood of this seaport town has block after block of leveled homes and businesses, and plenty of flood and wind damage to those that survived Hurricane Katrina's wrath.
But unlike those other communities, this one also has tons of rotting chickens and pork products strewn about like coconuts on a tropical beach, plus an assortment of other less offensive items, all swept from the nearby State Port at Gulfport.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12567540.htm


Finding beauty among the ruins
LONG BEACH, Miss. - My neighborhood looks like it was struck by a hurricane and a train wreck simultaneously. The tidal surge obliterated homes. Huge shipping containers shattered them.
Tons of poultry and other meats, bound for foreign destinations from the State Port at Gulfport, spilled between the railroad tracks and the beach all the way into Long Beach.
The few of us whose homes appear to be structurally sound worry that they will be condemned as biohazards.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12567520.htm


Shrimping industry faces many tough months ahead
D'IBERVILLE - Wee shrimp and giant storms are Gollott family traditions.
C.F. Gollott rebuilt his D'Iberville shrimp plant after the storm of '47. Arny Gollott Sr. rebuilt after Camille in '69. And Brian Gollott and the rest of the third generation intends to rebuild C.F. Gollott & Son Seafood after Katrina in '05.
Brian Gollott figures that the fourth generation will probably have to rebuild some day, too.
"And that's just the way it is, living down on this beautiful coast."
Capable of processing 75,000 tons of Gulf shrimp a day, his plant on the Back Bay was shredded by Katrina's gales and surge. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, fearing health and sanitation problems, has brought in earth-moving equipment and is hauling away the rotting shrimp and ruins of Gollott's facility and neighboring seafood distributors.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12567468.htm


The actual Newspaper

http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Daily/skins/SunHerald/navigator.asp?skin=SunHerald&BP=OK&AW=1126005372891

Editorial Thank you, thank you, thank you
We will never know all their names. We may not ever have a complete list of all the companies and churches and organizations and communities that have poured relief into South Mississippi.
But each and every individual, each and every business and company and corporation, each and every charitable and religious organization and every single individual and community that is sharing its time and treasure with us has our unending thanks and appreciation.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12555320.htm


The Advocate

Blanco coolly greets Bush
Friction between state, federal government shows in visit
By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON and MARK BALLARD
Capitol news bureau
Advocate staff photo by Patrick Dennis
President Bush, right, walks with Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, from right, Gov. Kathleen Blanco, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau at the state Office of Emergency Preparedness on Monday.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour got a hug. Gov. Kathleen Blanco was lucky to get a hello.
The friction between state and federal officials has been brewing for the past few days and bubbled to the surface with President Bush's visit to Baton Rouge on Monday.
In fact, Blanco did not learn Bush was coming to Louisiana for the second time in three days until informed by an Advocate reporter late Sunday night.

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090605/new_blanco001.shtml


Jefferson residents get look at damage
BY JESSICA FENDER
jfender@theadvocate.com
Capitol news bureau
Advocate staff photo by PAUL RUTHERFORD
Dagoberto Reyes carries items from his home in Kenner on Monday. Jefferson Parish officials allowed residents to go back to their homes for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.
METAIRIE -- Marlena Kristapovich's hands shake as she sits in a pickup truck at the flooded intersection of Labarre Road and San Carlos in Jefferson Parish. She tucks a photo of her teenage daughter back into her wallet and sighs.
Her fiancé has just disappeared down their street in a neighborhood called Old Jefferson, wading through the knee-high water and sewage that greeted the couple when they -- like many displaced residents -- returned home for the first time Monday afternoon.

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090605/new_residents001.shtml


Morgue ready for grim work with respect for Katrina dead
By DAVID J. MITCHELL
River parishes bureau
Advocate staff photos by Liz Condo
Disaster Mortuary Response team members prepare to process and identify the remains of Hurricane Katrina victims Monday. More than 100 DMORT members from a wide range of specialties - including forensic pathology, fingerprinting and funeral direction - will be involved in the 'dignified and respectful process,' a spokesman said.
ST. GABRIEL -- The sign written and hung by Dr. Corinne Stern bears a lesson worth remembering: "Mortui Vivis Praecipant," or "Let the dead teach the living."
The reminder hangs from the entrance to an assessment area for the thousands of dead expected from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090605/sub_morgue001.shtml


Flood waters recede in New Orleans
By DOUG SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The floodwaters that caused so much misery and death in New Orleans were being pumped back into Lake Pontchartrain as rescue crews from as far away as California trolled the evacuated city for stragglers and authorities braced for what the receding deluge would reveal.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began pumping water out the flooded city Monday after closing a major gap in the levee that burst during Hurricane Katrina, flooding 80 percent of the bowl-shaped city.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HURRICANE_KATRINA?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Cause of Indonesia jet crash investigated
By IRWAN FIRDAUS
Associated Press Writer
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) -- Investigators hunted for clues Tuesday that would help explain why an Indonesian jetliner crashed seconds after takeoff, sifting through body parts as they worked. Weeping families looked for loved ones among dozens of charred bodies lying outside a morgue.
At least 149 people were killed when the Boeing 737-200 crashed Monday in Indonesia's third largest city of Medan, including 47 people on the ground, a hospital official said Tuesday after tallying the corpses.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INDONESIA_PLANE_CRASH?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


Fire, stampede at Egypt theater kills 29
By PAUL GARWOOD
Associated Press Writer
BENI SUEF, Egypt (AP) -- A fire that began when an actor knocked over a candle on the set of a play ripped through a crowded theater in this central Egyptian city late Monday, sparking a stampede of audience members and killing at least 29 people, survivors and officials said.
The fire spread quickly across the set, which was made entirely of paper and had been ringed with candles. Panicked audience members trampled each other trying to get out the one available exit door, which at one point was partially blocked by a piece of wood that fell during the blaze, survivors said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EGYPT_FIRE?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


New Zealand Herald

New Zealand risks becoming globally uncompetitive
06.09.05
Among comments by the 80 per cent of CEOs who are concerned:
* "Look at the data. We are falling in terms of exports and also foreign direct investment as a percentage of GDP. Still too insular. Not willing to make capital investments offshore, probably due to the past track record of some bad investment decisions." (Brett Shepherd, CEO, Deutsche Bank NZ)
* "Labour has focused on social reform. Large part of labour force is uneducated. Investors reluctant to invest in NZ. No sense in having 5000 more apprentices and no manufacturers to employ them. Violence and crime is driving New Zealanders our of the country faster than tax relief or jobs will bring them back."(Energy sector CEO)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10344123


EU, China hail 'equitable' clothing deal
06.09.05 1.00pm
BEIJING - China and the European Union reached a deal today to release millions of Chinese garments blocked by EU customs officers because they exceed import ceilings, clearing up a mess that was souring two-way ties.
The search for a solution to release the 88 million sweaters, t-shirts, bras and other items had split the 25-member EU, embarrassed the EU's executive Commission and distracted diplomats from a China-EU summit taking place in Beijing.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10344280


Texas struggles to cope as refugees hit 250,000
06.09.05 4.00pm
By David Usborne
HOUSTON - The electronic traffic signs along route I-10, the Interstate highway that for days has been the prime artery for the bus caravans of evacuees fleeing southern Louisiana, flashed a new message that no one wanted to see: "ASTRODOME SHELTER CLOSED - I-45 TO DALLAS".
They might almost have said "TEXAS CLOSED", because the state which moved so quickly last week to open its arms to survivors of Hurricane Katrina, taking the brunt of the largest movement of evacuees in modern American history, by yesterday had reached saturation point.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10344259


The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Scott Base

Some cloud

-23.0°

Updated Tuesday 06 Sep 8:59AM

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

55 °F / 13 °C
Overcast

Humidity:
77%

Dew Point:
48 °F / 9 °C

Wind:
10 mph / 17 km/h from the SE

Pressure:
30.02 in / 1016 hPa

Visibility:
7.0 miles / 11.3 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 16

Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 3700 ft / 1127 m
Scattered Clouds 4600 ft / 1402 m
Overcast 5500 ft / 1676 m

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The Rooster 

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Rooster "Crowing"

"Okeydoke"

History

1774 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia

1795 US-Algiers sign peace treaty

1804 Absalom Jones is ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal
Church.

1846 John W. Cromwell is born. He will become the Secretary of the
American Negro Academy.

1859 "Our Nig" by Harriet E. Wilson is published. It is the first ovel published in the United States by an African American woman and will be lost to readers for years until reprinted with a critical essay by noted African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983.

1877 African Americans from the Post-Civil-War South, led by Benjamin'Pap' Singleton, settle in Kansas and establish towns like Nicodemus, to take advantage of free land offered by the United
States government through the Homestead Act of 1860.

1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC

1895 George Washington Murray is elected to Congress from South arolina.

1901 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed

1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War

1906 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider)

1908 Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0

1913 Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th

1916 Novelist Frank Yerby is born in Augusta, Georgia. A student at Fisk University and the University of Chicago, Yerby's early short story "Health Card" will win the O. Henry short story award. He will later turn to adventure novels and become a best-selling author in the 1940's and 1950's with "The Foxes of Harrow", "The Vixens" and many others. His later novels will include "Goat Song", "The Darkness at Ingraham's Crest-A Tale of the Slaveholding South", and "Devil Seed". In total, Yerby will publish over 30 novels that sell over 20 million copies.

1918 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early

1922 Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years

1927 Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings

1936 Red Sox turn a triple-play on the Yankees

1944 Allies liberate Brussels

1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game

1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC

1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US

1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC

1959 Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)

1960 Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President of
Senegal.

1960 Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky, wins the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay will later change his name to Muhammad Ali and become one of the great boxing champions in the world. In 1996, at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, Muhammad Ali will have the honor of lighting the Olympic flame.

1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan

1971 NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet

1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics

1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium

1972 Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway win a gold record -- for their duet, "Where is the Love". The song gets to number five on the pop music charts and is one of two songs for the duo to earn gold. The other will be "The Closer I Get To You" (1978).

1977 Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night"

1977 Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn

1978 Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md

1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB

1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB

1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms

1986 NASA launches DOD-1

1988 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113

1988 CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception

1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins

1995 O.J. Simpson jurors hear testimony that police detective Mark Fuhrman
had uttered a racist slur, and advocated the killing of Blacks.


Missing in Action

1963 INTORATAT PHISIT THAILAND EXCAPED 01/07/67
1963 DE BRUIN EUGENE H. ESC NFI-CREW PIC PUBD
1963 TIK CHUI TO THAILAND NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS (CIA) AIR AMERICA
1965 LA GRAND WILLIAM J. PORTLAND OR CRASH EXPLODE NO EJECT SEEN
1965 MARSHALL RICHARD C. CHICAGO IL CRASH EXPLODE NO EJECT SEEN
1965 SHAW EDWARD B. CRANSTON RI EXPLODE CRASH SEA NO PARA BEEP
1966 ABBOTT WILFRED K. AFTON WY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 99
1967 DOWNING DONALD W. JANESVILLE WI
1967 HANSON THOMAS P. MIAMI FL
1967 LAPORTE MICHAEL L. LOS ANGELES CA LOST IN HELICOPTER DROP
1967 MILLER CARL D. MARSHALL MO
1967 PRATHER MARTIN WILLIAM LOUISVILLE KY
1967 RAYMOND PAUL D. DEPOSIT NY
1968 POSEY GEORGE R. ANDERSON IN WASHED OVERBOARD
1970 HAUER ROBERT D. BROOKLINE MA
1974 SHARMAN NEIL AUSTRALIA

Haaretz

IDF tank commander killed in training accident
An Israel Defense Forces tank commander was killed and three others were injured when a Merkava-4 tank overturned during a training exercise Monday in Nebi Musa, in the Jordan Valley.
Staff Sergeant Ran Hendifer, 22, from Tel Aviv, will be buried Tuesday at 4 P.M. in Holon's military cemetery, Israel Radio reported.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621333.html

Four killed when blast destroys Gaza City weapons laboratory
At least four people were killed and 27 more were wounded when an explosion destroyed a weapons laboratory in the home of a senior Hamas figure after nightfall Monday in Gaza City, residents and hospital officials said.
Ten of the wounded people were listed in moderate condition. One of the dead was a woman.
The house belonged to Nidal Farhat, a senior member of Hamas' military wing.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621342.html

Israeli Arab jailed 10 years for driving bomber to restaurant
The Haifa District Court sentenced Jamal Mahajna on Monday to ten years in prison for driving a suicide bomber to her Haifa destination two years ago. Mahajna, 49, from Umm al-Fahm, was convicted of causing death by negligence and of transporting individuals illegal in Israel.
Mahajna drove suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat to the Maxim restaurant in Haifa in October 2003, where she blew herself up, killing 21 people and wounding dozens of others.
Mahajna admitted to picking up the suicide bomber in the village of Barata, in Wadi Ara. The two agreed that Mahajna would drive her to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, where she claimed her father was hospitalized. Her father, a cancer patient, was, in fact, denied an entry permit to Israel. It appears that this was the motive behind Jatadat's plan to blow herself up in the hospital.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621316.html

Planning body rejects greens' alternate plan for Jerusalem high-speed train
The planning body responsible for authorizing the high-speed rail line to Jerusalem rejected on Sunday the alternate plans proposed by environmental organizations and has given a green light to the plan set forth by Israel Railways.
The 17-kilometer section of the rail line between Latrun to the west and Mevasseret Zion to the east was under contention.
The railway's plan for this section includes three two-track tunnels and three bridges. But green organizations, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, the Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, the Jewish National Fund and area residents decided to consider alternate plans.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621335.html

Movement in Syria and Lebanon
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah delivered a surprise this weekend when he declared that his organization would agree to disarm if it received guarantees of security in Lebanon from an international party (other than the United States). Although it conditioned its disarmament on the end of Israel's occupation of "Lebanese territory," that is, the Shaba Farms, this is the first time that Nasrallah has made such a declaration.
This declaration is obviously very interesting to Israel, even though it was not meant primarily for Israel's ears: Hezbollah is one of the main focuses of the struggle now taking place in Lebanon. Granted, it maintained its strength in the recent parliamentary elections and even succeeded in placing ministers in the cabinet, but under the current dynamic in Lebanon, it can only lose.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/620904.html

FM Shalom: Egypt's Mubarak 'quite likely' to visit Israel in November
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday it is "quite likely" that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will come to Israel in November to participate in ceremonies marking ten years since the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Mubarak is also to meet with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should he come in November, Shalom told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Shalom said Monday that it was still unclear if King Abdullah would arrive in Israel on an official visit in the coming days, as was announced last week.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621246.html

IDF leads PA officers on tour of vacated Gaza Strip settlements
Israel Defense Forces troops drove Palestinian security commanders around demolished settlements in Gaza on Monday in preparation for handing over the enclaves next week.
The aim of the visit was to allow the Palestinians to plan for an orderly deployment of their security forces after the IDF pulls out of the settlements, and to give them a chance to familiarize themselves with the area, security sources said.
News media were barred from covering the visit.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621314.html

Israel

Why is Israel betraying India?
By MANOJ PUNDIT, NARESH RAGHUBEER AND AJIT SOMESHWAR
Dear Israeli friends: As you extend your hand of friendship to Pakistan, your friends in the Indian Diaspora are shaking their heads and wondering if Natan Sharansky was correct when he suggested that Israel has lost its moral compass.
Has Israel lost its moral clarity? We are wondering why your leaders, including those at the American Jewish Congress, are so ready to trade the Jewish people's new courtship with India's billion people, plus 25 million Diaspora Indians, for photo-ops and meaningless statements from Pakistan.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125831261289&p=1006953079865


Hezbollah pressing Israel to return body of fighter
By Ze'ev Schiff
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Hezbollah, which has on more than one occasion made Israel pay a heavy price for the return of the bodies of Israel Defense Forces soldiers, has recently been taking steps through international officials in an attempt to obtain the corpse of a Hezbollah member, reportedly from a prominent Lebanese family, who was killed two months ago in a clash with the IDF and buried in Israel.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/621174.html


No change in policy on recognising Israel: Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that there was no change in Pakistan’s policy on recognition of Israel and the recent meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries was only to promote the Palestinian cause and ensure peace in the Middle East.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-9-2005_pg7_3

Jordan urges Israel, Palestinians to resume peace negotiations
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By The Associated Press
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The United States and its peace partners must help the Palestinians and Israelis resume talks aimed at achieving Palestinian statehood, Jordan's prime minister told a top UN envoy on Sunday.
Jordanian premier Adnan Badran told Alvaro de Soto, the senior UN envoy for the Mideast peace process, that Palestinian leaders need the international community's support following Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Badran, who did not specify if the required support was political, military or financial, praised the role of the Quartet, a grouping of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/620849.html

U.S. asks allies to avoid new pressure on Israel
WASHINGTON The Bush administration, hoping to strengthen Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the Israeli turmoil after the Gaza withdrawal, is urging allies of the United States to refrain from pressing Israel to make new concessions to Palestinians, senior U.S. officials say.

Since the pullout, Palestinian leaders, with some support in Europe and elsewhere, have urged Israel to take further action to stop the growth of settlements in the West Bank and to make many other moves.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/04/news/israel.php


Pakistan-Israel talks irk Palestinians
By Khalid Amayreh
Sunday 04 September 2005, 1:19 Makka Time, 22:19 GMT
Palestinian officials have reacted angrily to the Pakistani government's decision to normalise relations with Israel.
On Thursday, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri met in Istanbul with his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom in what has been described as a breakthrough between the two countries.
They said the meeting was intended to help normalise bilateral relations.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2D57216E-D47F-4740-B2B8-BC6A99050254.htm

The Jerusalem Post

Jewish communities play big relief role
By SAM SER
American Jews are used to helping those in need by opening their wallets. Now, all over the South, they are opening their homes as well.
Jewish communities across the southern United States have taken in Jews from the Gulf Coast areas most affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Houston has taken in by far the highest number of New Orleans refugees, and the highest number of Jewish refugees also. But smaller communities have come through as well. Offers of help and refuge have come from as far east as Jacksonville, as far north as Memphis and as far west as Dallas.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886819185

Jew spits at Greek priests in J'lem
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
A young religious Jew spat at a procession of Greek Orthodox priests in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday, police said, in the third such incident in the mixed city in the last year.
The skullcap-wearing assailant, Amitai Shashar, 20, told police that he spat at the procession near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher because he saw the cross that participants in the ceremony were carrying, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886816885

Gaza unrest may spoil PA plans for calm
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
For the second day running, scores of Palestinian Authority policemen blocked a main road in the Gaza Strip to demand a raise in their salaries. Eyewitnesses said the policemen fired into the air as they closed the coastal road linking the northern Gaza Strip with the southern part of the area and brought traffic to a standstill.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886817820

On eve of hearings for Roberts, Jewish groups make voices heard
By MATTHEW E. BERGER/JTA
washington
As the Senate prepares for the first confirmation hearings of a Supreme Court justice in more than a decade, Jewish organizations are giving lawmakers an earful on the kinds of information they want gleaned from Judge John Roberts.
Jewish organizations from across the political spectrum have sent letters and met with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of the hearings, set to begin September 6. While few groups plan to endorse or oppose Roberts, many do want senators to ask specific questions about how he would rule on issues they care about, such as the separation of church and state.
Some groups, however, already have staked out strong positions.
The National Council of Jewish Women announced its opposition to Roberts the day he was nominated to the high court and has met with committee members throughout the summer, pushing them to reject Roberts.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125831262160

Our World: Our Pakistani pals
By CAROLINE GLICK
Last Thursday's "historic" meeting between Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri in Istanbul was immediately extolled by the local media as the "first fruits" of the disengagement from Gaza.
In his statement following the meeting Shalom said, "I wish to particularly thank President Musharraf for his courage in promoting peace and moderation in our region and in general."
In the midst of the hullabaloo about the the first public meeting between Israeli and Pakistani officials, it was hard to remember that Pakistan is the operational epicenter of the global jihad and a major proliferator of nuclear weapons technology and know-how to Iran.
Only recently, CIA director Porter Goss effectively said that US intelligence is certain that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan. Goss explained that the US is unable to apprehend the arch-terrorist due to "sovereignty issues," – that is, Pakistan isn't cooperating.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886818733

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