Haaretz
7 police hurt in clashes near Temple Mount
By Yoav Stern and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Seven Jerusalem police officers, including district commander Ilan Franco, were lightly wounded Monday as dozens of Palestinian youths threw stones at police officers in East Jerusalem.
Police threw a stun grenade at the youths in response.
Police have clashed with hundreds of Muslim demonstrators since restricting Muslim entry to the Temple Mount on Sunday, in reaction to rumors that right-wing Jewish extremists belonging to the nationalist Revava organization plan to lead a group to the controversial holy site.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573800.html
Justice Barak: Parts of int'l fence ruling 'positive' for Israel
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
The July 2004 ruling of the International Court of Justice at The Hague on the West Bank separation fence does contain certain clauses that could be used in favor of Israel, the President of the High Court of Justice, Aharon Barak, said Monday.
Barak spoke during a hearing by an extended panel of nine justices of four appeals against the separation fence made by residents of the villages of Shukba and Budrus in the Samaria area and A-Ram north of Jerusalem.
Barak said that "we are always criticizing the [International Court of Justice] ruling, but we should also see the positive sides in it."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574144.html
Between God and the doorpost
By Michael Handelzalts
Like many Israelis, I'm not an observant Jew. And like in many Israeli houses, there is a mezuzah fixed to my right doorpost. For those few who don't know, a mezuzah is a small box containing verses from two chapters in Deuteronomy in which God instructs his chosen people to affix this token of their love and loyalty to him "upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates" (Deuteronomy, 6, 9). I did it as there are people for whom a mezuzah is essential for them to pass through a doorway, and because I wanted to enable a dear friend to perform a mitzvah by affixing a mezuzah to a new dwelling place.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=573841&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0
IDF, settler leaders formulate pullout 'code of conduct'
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israeli Defense Forces are collaborating with the leadership of Gush Katif settlements to formulate a Code of Conduct for the expected conflict during the evacuation of settlements in the Strip, the IDF announced on Monday in a press conference.
Colonel Erez Katz, commander of the GOC Southern Command training facility, said that the IDF has carefully gone over the mistakes made during the evacuation of Yamit in 1982 and several illegal outposts in the West Bank in the last few years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574210.html
IDF seeks arrest of dozens of far-rightists; Yitzhar settler held
By Amos Harel, Nadav Shragai, Yuval Yoaz and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent
Senior Israel Defense Forces officers from the Central Command have been recommending the preventive arrest of dozens of extremists from the right - high-profile activists who have been campaigning against the disengagement and organizing protests designed to obstruct the army's moves.
The targeted rightists are mostly residents of settlements in Samaria in the West Bank.
The first administrative detention order against a right-wing activist was issued Sunday. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz signed the order to detain Neria Ofen, a resident of Yitzhar, south of Nablus, and a well-known activist promoting Jewish control of the Temple Mount.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573858.html
THIS MISTAKE IS HAPPENING at the same time the USA is in Iraq shelling near Syrian borders. Does Israel actually expect me to believe this was a mistake? I wasn't born yesterday and Israel needs to behave and respect the sovereign borders of Syria.
IDF says it fired shell into Lebanon by mistake
By Reuters
Israel Defense Forces troops accidentally fired an artillery shell into Lebanese territory on Monday during an attempt to blow up mines planted by Hezbollah militants near an army border post, the IDF said.
The incident caused no casualties or damage, an IDF spokeswoman said.
She said the mines were laid two weeks ago and that given the danger of sending sappers out to the exposed border area, soldiers had been trying to neutralize the explosives by firing shells at them. Several rounds were fired on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/574192.html
A victory as well as the Holocaust
By Lily Galili
Along with the events marking the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany today in Russia, Victory Day will be celebrated for the first time here in Israel, at a state ceremony in Latrun. It will not only be a great achievement for the immigration from the Commonwealth of Independent States, penetrating the Israeli ethos, but also a deep expression of a change that has taken place in the depths of Israeli perceptions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/573844.html
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
MICHAEL IS STAYING "ON IT" - I like that idea.
"Facts Were Being Fixed"
Memo: Bush Made Intelligence
British memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq policy
By Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2545
Fit Iraq Policy
Afraid to tell the truth
A secret memo publicized in Britain confirms the lies on which Bush based his Iraq policy. Why has it received so little notice in the U.S. press?
By Joe Conason / Salon
May 6, 2005 Are Americans so jaded about the deceptions perpetrated by our own government to lead us into war in Iraq that we are no longer interested in fresh and damning evidence of those lies? Or are the editors and producers who oversee the American news industry simply too timid to report that proof on the evening broadcasts and front pages?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2547
"The memo that has 'IMPEACH HIM' written all over it."
Impeachment Time: "Facts Were Fixed."
By Greg Palast / BuzzFlash Guest News Analysis
Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2546
88 Members of Congress Call on Bush for Answers
SECRET PLANS
Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan
RAW STORY
Eighty-eight members of Congress have signed a letter authored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) calling on President Bush to answer questions about a secret U.S.-UK agreement to attack Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.
http://www.rawstory.com/aexternal/conyers_iraq_letter_502
Bracing for the Filibuster Fight and Preparing for Its Fallout
By Carl Hulse / New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 7 - With the Senate clock ticking toward a momentous procedural clash over judicial nominees, lawmakers and advocates on each side are readying a final push to win over the few uncommitted lawmakers and frame the fight to their best political advantage.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2553
Schumer Urges Bush to Rein in Judge Fight
By Devlin Barrett / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Schumer, a leading Democrat in the fight over judicial nominees, urged President Bush to intervene and rein in the strongest conservative critics of Democratic opposition to some candidates.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2554
Dems Voted Out of Church Weigh Options
By Paul Nowell / Associated Press
WAYNESVILLE, N.C. - A pastor who led a charge to kick out nine church members who refused to support President Bush was the talk of the town Saturday in this mountain hamlet, with ousted congregants considering hiring a lawyer.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2561
CT man is part of Feds' terror investigation
CROMWELL (AP) -- A Cromwell man says he's being targeted in a federal terrorism probe because he's a Muslim.
Syed Maswood, 41, is denying allegations he offered support to a militant Islamic Web site.
Maswood confirms that he's he unnamed Connecticut resident mentioned last week in a federal affidavit charging a British national with supporting terrorism.
Maswood says that on March 17th, federal agents raided his home, seizing computer equipment and financial records.
According to the affidavit, investigators discovered Maswood's e-mail address among files used to maintain a Web site that funneled money and equipment to terrorists.
Maswood has not been charged in the case but said he has been detained and searched three times while traveling on business recently and said officials have told him he's on a U.S. no-fly list.
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2160563
Sydney Morning Herald
Police smash major drug syndicate
Police have smashed a major cocaine ring they allege has been smuggling the drug into Australia from South America for some time.
A former NSW detective and 10 other men have been arrested over what police say was the ring's latest plot - to smuggle $15 million worth of cocaine into Australia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Police-smash-major-drug-syndicate/2005/05/09/1115584899058.html
Bali nine linked to big drug syndicate
By Lindsay Murdoch in Denpasar
May 9, 2005
Police have identified one of the world's biggest drug syndicates as the supplier of heroin to the nine Australians arrested in Bali.
Investigators are targeting the Asian-based Crescent Moon, which has been smuggling heroin from Burma for years.
Australian Federal Police agents investigating the syndicate's link to the nine Australians being held in Bali are confident the criminals behind it will soon be caught. Bruce Hill, head of a six-member team of federal police agents in Bali, said the syndicate was "well organised and well structured".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bali-nine-linked-to-big-drug-syndicate/2005/05/08/1115491045932.html
Pizza delivery ends prison hostage ordeal
A late-night pizza delivery brought an end to a siege in Hobart's Risdon Prison, where inmates had held a number of prisoners and a prison warder captive for about 40 hours.
All captives have since been released unharmed, Tasmanian Prisons Director Graeme Barber said at an 11am press conference today.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Pizza-delivery-ends-prison-hostage-ordeal/2005/05/09/1115584887259.html
Children still awake during surgery
By Janelle Miles
May 9, 2005
Children are more likely to be awake during surgery than adults, groundbreaking research suggests.
More than 850 children were questioned after being anaesthetised, and 28 cases of suspected awareness were uncovered, the research team leader, Andrew Davidson, said. Four independent adjudicators all agreed that of those, seven children - almost 1 per cent - had been awake during their surgery.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Children-still-awake-during-surgery/2005/05/08/1115491047049.html
Beijing rejects US request to pressure North Korea
May 9, 2005
A senior US envoy asked Chinese officials to cut off North Korea's supply of oil as a way of pressuring Pyongyang to return to disarmament talks. But the Chinese rejected the idea, saying it would damage their pipeline.
After the US assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill suggested a "technical" interruption of fuel during a meeting in Beijing last week, a senior Chinese official, Yang Xiyu, complained that the Americans were focused on "too narrow a range of tools" for China to influence Pyongyang.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Beijing-rejects-US-request-to-pressure-North-Korea/2005/05/08/1115491045944.html
Pyongyang and Tehran ignore White House calls to halt nuclear programs
May 9, 2005
Washington: North Korea's suspected preparations for an underground nuclear test and Iran's assertion of an "inalienable right" to acquire nuclear technology are the latest signs that President George Bush's appeals are falling on deaf ears.
Analysts say that Pyongyang and Tehran will continue to defy Mr Bush's demands to halt their nuclear programs because:
The US cannot enlist help from the United Nations Security Council because US credibility was shattered by erroneous claims about Iraqi weapons.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Pyongyang-and-Tehran-ignore-White-House-calls-to-halt-nuclearprograms/2005/05/08/1115491045947.html
Vivid memories of Vietnam War still haunt
May 9, 2005
Kay Collett.
Photo: Natalie Boog
Women's stories throw a different light on the conflict, writes Sunanda Creagh.
She's the chief radiographer at Royal North Shore Hospital, a confident, no-nonsense woman at the head of a busy department.
But when Kay Collett casts her mind back almost 40 years, to when she was a young nurse in the Vietnam War, the memories surge back. She begins to cry gently as she describes treating a small boy with napalm burns.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Arts/Vivid-memories-of-Vietnam-War-still-haunt/2005/05/08/1115491043859.html
University changes may weaken role in global knowledge economy
May 9, 2005
There will be higher quality research in some institutions but less of it, writes Simon Marginson.
Australian universities are being jolted into another universe. It's the kind of epochal change that comes along every 10-15 years: Whitlam and free education in 1974; the Dawkins reforms in 1987-1989; Howard's budget cuts in 1996, which drove accelerated overseas marketing; and now the Nelson reforms.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/University-changes-may-weaken-role-in-global-knowledge-economy/2005/05/08/1115491044023.html
Ugandan peacemaker gives children a voice in merciless world
May 9, 2005
The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize wants action beyond denunciation, writes Mark Coultan.
Whenever Olara Otunnu gets depressed about the way children are conscripted, targeted and brutalised in conflicts around the world, he thinks about those who protest against such injustices.
Otunnu has been announced as this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. As the United Nations' Under Secretary-General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, his choice is likely to be less controversial than the last two recipients, the Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ugandan-peacemaker-gives-children-a-voice-in-merciless-world/2005/05/08/1115491045977.html
Ugandan peacemaker gives children a voice in merciless world
May 9, 2005
The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize wants action beyond denunciation, writes Mark Coultan.
Whenever Olara Otunnu gets depressed about the way children are conscripted, targeted and brutalised in conflicts around the world, he thinks about those who protest against such injustices.
Otunnu has been announced as this year's winner of the Sydney Peace Prize. As the United Nations' Under Secretary-General for the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict, his choice is likely to be less controversial than the last two recipients, the Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Ugandan-peacemaker-gives-children-a-voice-in-merciless-world/2005/05/08/1115491045977.html
Don't just mention the war: talk about us now, German ambassador tells Britain
By Elizabeth Day
May 9, 2005
Europe, Britain is still "obsessed with the Nazi period" and "ignorant" about German history after 1945, Berlin's ambassador to London has declared ahead of VE day celebrations.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Dont-just-mention-the-war-talk-about-us-now-German-ambassadortells-Britain/2005/05/08/1115491045941.html
The Daily Star
Iraqi FM: Jordan can win Sunni support for new government
Two countries vow greater cooperation to fight terror
Jordan's close ties with influential Sunni Arabs in Iraq can help ensure greater political participation from Iraq's one-time most dominant community, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday. Zebari, who is accompanying new Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on his first state visit abroad, also called for greater security cooperation to battle anti-U.S. militants in Iraq, including arch Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=14907
Christian neighborhood again targeted in fifth bomb attack
20-kilogram bomb destroys church and radio station
JOUNIEH: An explosion 9 p.m. Friday night in Jounieh has destroyed a radio station and church in the Christian heartland some 15 kilometers north of Beirut. A mix of old stone buildings housing shops and residential apartments, the town was shaken by a bomb planted near the main square, outside the headquarters of the Sawt al-Mahabba (Voice of Charity) Christian radio station and neighboring St. John's Maronite church.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=14900
Iran says U.S. blocked purchase of Basell
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, May 09, 2005
TEHRAN: Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh denounced Saturday U.S. pressures that blocked Iran's National Petrochemical Co. (NPC) of purchasing Basell, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell and BASF.
"We know that the American pressures seriously intervened in the decision," Zanganeh told reporters on the sidelines of a petrochemical conference in Tehran.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=14894
Mobil Lebanon hosts lunch at Metropolitan Palace Hotel
BEIRUT: Mobil Lebanon, the oil and gasoline company, held a lunch Wednesday at the Metropolitan Palace Hotel in Sin al-Fil to launch its 2005 marketing plan.
Guests made up of Mobil employees and executives enjoyed a delicious lunch at the luxury hotel, as the company forecast a productive and profitable year.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/starscene.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=6&article_id=14704
Developers move ahead with Lebanon's $1bn Sannine Zenith project
Company CEO expects crews to begin work this year on the first phase of what will be the country's largest tourism development
BEIRUT: Plans to build a billion dollar ski resort on Lebanon's Sannine mountain range have not been affected by the unraveling of Lebanon's delicate political fabric over recent months, with developers telling The Daily Star that excavation work on the mammoth project could begin as earlier as this summer.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=14901
Lecture sheds light on different uses of Great Temple of Petra
Functions include place of worship, fortress and market place
BEIRUT: During an illustrated lecture held on May 4 at the American University of Beirut Museum, AUB Trustee and Brown University Professor Emerita Martha Joukowsky highlighted some of the archaeological and historical characteristics of the Great Temple of Petra, which functioned in different capacities over the years.
Entitled "The Recent Discovery of the Petra Great Temple," the lecture spanned a period from the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.
Archaeologists believe that the Great Temple initially served as a place of worship, with its monumental entryway, or Propylaeum, and sacred enclosure.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=14830
The Belfast Telegraph
WAS McCarthy a Unionist?
UUP prepares for new leader
By Noel McAdam
09 May 2005
Northern Ireland political life was still reeling last night after the resignation of David Trimble as Ulster Unionist leader.
But with counting in the province's second election due to begin later today moves were already under way to elect his successor.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636910
Lords next for Trimble?
By Noel McAdam
09 May 2005
Speculation that David Trimble could be headed for the House of Lords mounted last night as the Ulster Unionist Party began the search for his successor.
Amid reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to make a fresh round of nominations for the Lords in July, there was an expectation Mr Trimble will be offered the same elevation as his predecessors - if he wants it.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636918
DUP 'only party to increase vote share'
By Chris Thornton
09 May 2005
The DUP and Sinn Fein got one thing completely wrong in their triumphant General Election campaigns.
Both parties had predicted that Sinn Fein could top the poll. In the end it wasn't even close.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=636924
Geldof plans new Live Aid concert for Africa
09 May 2005
Sir Bob Geldof is planning to stage a new Live Aid concert this summer to coincide with Britain hosting the G8 summit of world leaders, it was confirmed yesterday.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/music/story.jsp?story=636981
Viewpoint: Unionists' frustration voiced at the ballot box
Fresh impetus: Republicans must signal end to criminal intent
09 May 2005
The new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain faces the daunting task of replacing direct rule with devolution. At first glance the election results provide no comfort for him, with the unionist community swinging behind the Democratic Unionists and nationalists divided between Sinn Fein and the SDLP.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/story.jsp?story=636938
Korean News - English version based in Japan
I THINK the word Reunification is the profound issue between these two countries.
It was with Vietnam. Evidently, the North doesn't see the South as autonomous and why any nuclear potential by the North is so divisive and dangerous.
The thing is that where the North Koreans are in their idea of negotiation and settlement is no where near where the American Public believes we are or intend to go. North Korea separated from it's assets in the south is a poor and destitute country. The 'chronic' aid the USA was sending North Korea was to 'pay off' the leadership to prevent conflict.
The Reunification the USA speaks of does not include leaving the North Korean's at the top of the country. It is safe to say the conflict between North and South Korea is alive and well and grossly misunderstood by the American Public. Allowing peace and mutual respect between North and South doesn't even come close to where the North Koreans are in any negotitations. I am quite confident all these years there has been no headway made with North Korea regarding separate and autonomous nations and why this escalation is so profound in it's definition of the intentions of a frustrated North Korea.
That is my estimation of it.
North Korea will become a nuclear nation and with that strength may come more respect and a different stature in negotiations. Once North Korea feels secure maybe the terms of a Peace Accord will follow more willingly but my best guess is that will not happen IF reunification will continue to be an issue. North Korea is fully aware by it's actions from time to time along the DMZ that the USA if not South Korea would like to dismantle that government and just allow one government under South Korean leadership. I think that is where we are.
Rodong Sinmun on North-South Joint Declaration
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The reunification era after the historic Pyongyang meeting and the adoption and publication of the north-south joint declaration on June 15, 2000, first of its kind, 55 years after Korea's division, is the era of independence and reunification and the era of "By our nation itself" when the idea of independence and reunification has become that of the whole nation and a new phase of reconciliation, cooperation and reunification has opened on the Korean Peninsula where an atmosphere of antagonism and confrontation prevailed. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
Leader Kim Jong Il, who has the firm idea of independence and reunification and noble ideal of patriotism, saw through the subjective and objective circumstances of the movement for national reunification and the trend of the situation with his outstanding wisdom, scientific insight and extraordinary leadership ability, provided the historic Pyongyang meeting and opened a new chapter in the history of national reunification. The meeting, first of its kind in the history of national division spanning over half a century, adopted the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration which calls for settling the issue of national reunification independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation itself.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Relocation of Japan-based U.S. forces Flailed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. bellicose forces fixed what they call north Korea's nuclear program danger line and are now spreading the "fiction of war crisis," frantically stepping up war preparations to invade the northern half of Korea, which indicates their intention to attack the DPRK any moment, says Rodong Sinmun Sunday in a signed article. They move to bring the First Army Corps Command to Japan from the U.S. mainland, realize the merger of the U.S. 13th Air Force Command in Guam and the U.S. 5th Air Force Command in Yokoda, Japan, and turn the whole of Japan archipelago into a base of strategic importance for a preemptive attack of aggression, the article says, and goes on;
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Letter to Kim Jong Il Adopted in Peru
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at a meeting organized by the Peruvian national preparatory committee for the "meeting praising the great persons of Mt. Paektu" on the occasion of the Day of the Sun. President Kim Il Sung was the author of the Juche idea, the founder of the socialist Korea of Juche, the great revolutionary and the great sun of the 20th century, the letter said.
Kim Jong Il, it noted, has wisely led socialist construction of the DPRK, true to the intention of the President.
He is defending independence and peace of the Korean people and the world people by wisely leading the Korean people with his Songun policy, the letter said, adding that they extend full solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Termination of U.S. Military Presence Called for
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The U.S. forces present in south Korea have dropped at random bombs for actual fighting at the bombing range in Maehyang-ri, Hwasong City, Kyonggi Province, claiming heavy losses in lives of the residents of the nearby village and destroying hundreds of farm houses five years ago. Denouncing the thrice-cursed atrocities, the North Headquarters of the Nationwide Special Committee for Probing the Truth behind the GIs' Massacres issued an appeal to the south Korean compatriots Saturday. The crimes committed by the U.S. imperialists in Maehyang-ri on May 8, 2000, are one more disgraceful record which brings into bolder relief the true colors of the Yankees who have committed mass killings, destruction and pillage, exercising the extraterritorial right in south Korea for decades, the document says.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
U.S. Assertion about DPRK's Call for DPRK-U.S. Talks Independent of Six-Way Talks Dismissed
Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) - A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave Sunday the following answer to the question put by KCNA in connection with the misinformation floated by the U.S. recently in a bid to create impression that the former is insisting only on the bilateral talks between the two countries instead of coming out for the six-party talks: We had already clarified our stand that we cannot have any form of talks with the U.S. nor can we deal with it as long as the DPRK is branded as "an outpost of tyranny." We have never requested the DPRK-U.S. talks independent of the six-way talks.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2005/200505/news05/09.htm
Iran Daily
Not to get North Korean issues confused with the Iranian situation. I really think Iran just wants autonomy and feels they need to defend against the USA occupied Iraq. I honestly don't see Iran as an aggressive nation seeking nuclear weapons in the way North Korea does. North Korea has a cause. That cause is to unite North and South Korea. To some extent, I really think North Korea is clueless about the USA through it's isolation and even more clueless about South Korea as the leadership of those two counties don't even trade Culture and Art exhibits. There is a huge void of understanding between these two nations and due to the insisted isolation by the USA of North Korea that will never resolve except in conflict.
Freedom, Independence Historical Demands
TEHRAN, May 8--President Mohammad Khatami said on Sunday independence, freedom and progress are the historical demands of the Iranian nation.
Speaking in the International Conference on Constitution Movement at Tehran University, Khatami said, “If those in power come to terms with this demand, they will be successful. Otherwise, they may rule over the minds and lives of the people for some time, but will eventually fail.“
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/index.htm
I FOUND THIS ENTIRE page of news fascinating from the "Iran Daily" - Heck, we don't even have sections of newspapers devoted to new Energy Technology.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/energy.htm
Galvanizing R&D for Alternatives to Oil
The oil shortage will come very soon relative to the lead times for solving the many technical and social problems of oft-mentioned alternatives.
Why is selecting and developing alternatives to oil so very important? Consider three reasons: Oil is a hydrocarbon whose natural product of combustion is carbon dioxide, which increases global warning. Oil is easily the number one source of energy, supplying 38.7 percent of the world’s supply, and 63 percent of oil reserves are located in the volatile Middle East. The world production of oil will peak and begin to decline in the next several years while demand continues to grow, leaving us with a permanently increasing oil shortage, energyplus.net reported.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2269/html/energy.htm
The Jerusalem Post
Dissolve the rabbinate
Is it too much to expect that our chief rabbis stay out of trouble? In January, Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz suggested that Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger suspend himself in light of allegations that he illegally received free hotel stays. Now the wife, son and daughter of Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar were arrested for the kidnapping and beating of young man from Bnei Brak. The Amar family reportedly did not approve of the young man's relationship with Amar's daughter, whom he had met over the Internet.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519111896
Settlers, then and now
In the late 1920s several hundred devoted far-Left Zionist pioneers packed up and left Mandatory Palestine for good. They were members of an organization called Gdud Ha'avoda (Labor Battalions), founded in 1921. During the six years of its existence they reached a maximum number of 700, though over 2,000 passed through their ranks until their disbandment. All of this at a time when the entire nascent Yishuv numbered barely 100,000. During those years, they undertook extraordinary pioneering labor projects: paving roads, drying out swamps, and blasting stone quarries.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1115519111902
New Zealand Herald
UN’s ElBaradei warns of nuclear apocalypse
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. Picture / Reuters
07.05.05
UNITED NATIONS - If the world does not take steps to limit access to technology for making nuclear bomb fuel, we could be headed for a nuclear apocalypse, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog said today.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, has proposed a five-year moratorium on the enrichment of uranium and production of plutonium, but many countries have balked at the idea.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124346
Iraqi man says Peters put his life in danger
Winston Peters
09.05.05 4.00pm
One of the Iraqi men identified by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters as having links with Saddam Hussein, has applied for refugee status.
Amer Mahdi Al-Khshali, a former Iraqi government minister, said in a statement through his Auckland lawyer today his life had been put in danger after he was named by Mr Peters in Parliament in "an abuse of the New Zealand parliamentary process for political gain".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10124624
Berlin neo-Nazi march stopped
09.05.05 4.00pm
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN - A neo-Nazi march in Berlin was stopped by thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators on Sunday after a tense standoff that overshadowed Germany’s ceremonies marking the end of World War 2 in Europe 60 years ago.
Berlin police said 6000 demonstrators opposed to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) crowded into streets around Alexanderplatz square where 3300 right-wing extremists gathered to protest what they called a German "cult of guilt".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124608
Bush and Putin disagree over democracy
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and US President George W. Bush after their meeting at Putin's Presidential Residence near Moscow. Picture / Reuters
09.05.05 1.00pm
By Caren Bohan and Steve Holland
MOSCOW - US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin aired their differences on democracy and Moscow’s ties with its neighbours today but top aides insisted the talks were amicable and open.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124581
Iraq says aide to al Qaeda leader captured
09.05.05 1.00pm
BAGHDAD - Iraq has said that security forces have captured a key aide to the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A government statement said Amar al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Abbas, was captured three days ago in Baghdad.
It said he helped plan an attack on Abu Ghraib prison in April in which up to 60 insurgents attacked a US base with suicide car bombs and rocket-propelled grenades, wounding at least 20 US troops and 12 detainees.
Zubaydi was also involved in a string of car bombings in Baghdad in April, the statement said.
- REUTERS
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124593
Israel jails soldier and Jewish militant
09.05.05 1.00pm
JERUSALEM - Israel has jailed its first reservist for refusing military duty in protest at plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and has detained a right-wing militant until after the pullout, officials said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10124588
Winston Peters: Naive little country with a 'soft touch' reputation
Winston Peters
09.05.05
New Zealanders heard the most extraordinary concession when Immigration Minister Paul Swain said the former cabinet minister in Saddam Hussein's regime would never have been found had it not been for the information I had provided.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10124458
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