"Okeydoke"
History…
1812, Robert Browning, poet
1833, Johannes Brahms, composer
1840, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, Russian composer, the foremost of the 19th century.
1892, Archibald MacLeish, poet, social critic, public servant, and educator
1919, Eva Perón, political figure and wife of President Juan Perón of Argentina
1789, the first inaugural ball was held in New York, in honor of President and Mrs. Washington.
1847: The American Medical Association, a federation of state and territorial medical associations, is founded in Philadelphia.
In 1915, nearly 1,200 people died when a German torpedo sank the British liner Lusitania off the Irish coast.
In 1939, Germany and Italy announced a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
In 1945, German Nazi Forces signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, the European phase of World War II officially ends the next day.
In 1954, the 55-day Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam ended with Vietnamese insurgents over-running French forces.
1960: Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union.
In 1963, the United States launched the Telstar 2 communications satellite.
In 1975, President Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era." In Ho Chi Minh City -- formerly Saigon -- the Viet Cong celebrated its takeover.
In 1977, Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby, the first of his Triple Crown wins.
In 1984, a $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they'd suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant.
1994: The masterpiece The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, is recovered undamaged nearly three months after it was stolen.
In 2002, Seattle Slew died in Lexington, Ky., at age 28.
Missing in Action
May 5…
1966 DAWES JOHN J. MADERA CA
1966 HEILIG JOHN MIAMI FL 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 THOMAS KENNETH DEANE JR MT VERNON IL REMAINS RECOVERED 08/14/85
1967 HUGHES JAMES L. WATERLOO IA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL IN 96/98
1967 LARSON GORDON A. WINONA MN 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 SHIVELY JAMES R. SPOKANE WA 02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 MITCHELL HARRY E. MARION IN 09/79 POSSIBLY SEEN IN USA REFNO 2053
1968 NORRINGTON GILES R. SPRINGFILED OH 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 TANGEMAN RICHARD G. NEW YORK NY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
May 6…
1965 STUBBERFIELD ROBERT A. RICHMOND NC BEEP HEARD SEARCH NEG REMAINS RETURNED 06/89
1966 DODSON JAMES 06/18/66 ESCAPED DECEASED
1966 LAMAR JAMES L. EUDORA AR 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 WIDEMAN ROBERT EARL RAY VILLAGE OH 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 ALDRICH LAWRENCE L. FORT WORTH TX
1968 BAIRD WILLIAM A. WOOSTER OH 03/05/73 RELEASED BY PRG INJURED ALIVE IN 98
1968 BRANCH MICHAEL P. NEWPORT KY 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG COLLAB??
1969 BILLIPP NORMAN K. MILWAUKEE WI REMAINS IDENTIFIED 01 NOV 96
1969 HAGAN JOHN ROBERT SAVANNAH GA REMAINS RETURNED IDENTIFIED 01 NOV 96
1970 HERNANDEZ FRANK S. FRESNO CA
1970 KIER LARRY GENE OMAHA NE
1970 TERAN REFUGIO T. WESTLAND MI
1970 WORTHINGTON RICHARD C. BOTHELL WA
1972 WILES MARVIN B. SAN DIEGO CA POSSIBLE DEAD
May 7…
1970 DUDMAN RICHARD 06/15/70 RELEASED REFNO 0614
1970 MORROW MICHAEL 06/15/70 RELEASED USG SPELLS MOROW
1970 POND ELIZABETH 06/70 RELEASED REFNO 1614
1972 CONSOLVO JOHN W. FORT BELVOIR VA
1972 KERNAN JOSEPH E. WASHINGTON DC 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 2000
1972 POLFER CLARENCE INDEPENDENCE MO 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1973 KAY EMMET J. HONOLULU HI 09/18/74 RELEASED BY PL DECEASED
May 8…
1965 LA HAYE JAMES D. GREEN BAY WI GROUNDFIRE CRASH AT SEA NO PARA
1966 RAY JAMES E. LONGVIEW TX 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 MC CUISTION MICHAEL K. LINCOLN NE 03/08/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 STEIMER THOMAS JACK PIEDMONT CA
1968 CONDREY GEORGE T. III ATLANTA GA EXPLODE NO SIGN SUBJ NEAR CRASH
1968 DAYTON JAMES L. GRANITE CITY IL EXPLODE NO SIGN SUBJ NEAR CRASH
1968 JENNE ROBERT E. SALT LAKE CITY UT EXPLODE NO SIGNS SUBJ NEAR CRASH
1968 JURECKO DANIEL E. CORPUS CHRISTI TX EXPLODE NO SIGN SUBJ NEAR CRASH
1969 BRASHEAR WILLIAM J. CHULA VISTA CA
1969 MUNDT HENRY G. ABILENE TX
1972 LEAVER JOHN M. JR. ARLINGTON MA
1972 TAYLOR EDMUND B. JR. LIMA OH
Los Angeles Times
A Shiite Renewal
The Muslim sect, a majority in Iraq that was oppressed under Saddam Hussein, savors new religious freedoms and political clout.
BAGHDAD — The Shiite revolution in Iraq burst into public view barely 10 days after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Without his troops to forbid them, Shiite Muslim pilgrims began to throng Iraq's highways as the festival of Arbayeen neared, the women's black abayas flowing behind them in the breeze as if flocks of crows had taken to the roads.
At almost every hamlet along the route to the holy city of Karbala, volunteers scattered plastic chairs and tables and offered sweet tea, water, bread. The mood on the eve of the festival was one of exhilaration, exuberance — and resolution. Everyone seemed to know why he or she was there. This was celebration, but also a moment of solidarity.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-shiite8may08,0,3250707.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Analysis: Senate's Partisan Showdown Has Legs
WASHINGTON — Welcome to May Madness, Washington style.
The Senate is careening toward a showdown over federal judges that poses enormous political risks for both Republicans and Democrats. But neither side seems willing or able to stop it.
The fight over President Bush's controversial judicial nominees threatens to paralyze the Senate. Unless someone blinks, it could be a defining political moment on par with the 1995-1996 federal government shutdown.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-congress8may08,0,1676721.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Leader Who Restored Labor's Clout in L.A. Dies
By Matea Gold and Monte Morin, Times Staff Writers
Miguel Contreras, the son of migrant farmworkers who grew to be one of Los Angeles' most powerful labor leaders and a dominant force in city politics, died late Friday evening of an apparent heart attack. He was 52.
Contreras, who worked the arid fields of the Central Valley as a boy, re-energized a sputtering Southern California labor movement struggling to regain relevancy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-contreras7may07,0,4602581.story?coll=la-home-local
Iraq Blasts Kill 22, Including 2 Americans
By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two suicide car bombers plowed into a foreign security company convoy in the heart of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 22 people -- including two Americans -- in an attack that left a busy traffic circle strewn with burning vehicles, mutilated bodies and bloodied school children.
Nearly 300 people have been killed in insurgent violence since Iraq's democratically elected government was sworn in 10 days ago. Seven government posts remained undecided until Saturday when Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said he would submit nominations for six of them to the National Assembly for a vote Sunday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top10may07,0,6346979.story
ELEMENTAL HALL OF SHAME
Earth: Shabby Parklands
Laura Bush has been drawing laughs lately for her quips at her husband's expense. What's more of a joke, though, is that the first lady is embarking on a $10-million campaign to get more kids to visit the national parks while the president's budgets have resulted in cuts to the campfire talks and guided hikes that are geared to youths.
The national parks are suffering from years of presidential and congressional disregard that date back far earlier than this administration. President Bush has earmarked some new money to tackle a maintenance backlog of nearly $5 billion in the parks, though most of the funds are simply being shifted from existing parks programs, and Bush still isn't allocating as much for maintenance as he promised in 2000. Some of the progress has come at the expense of staffing for visitor centers and education. Congress doesn't help when it adds pork-barrel "parks" at a rapid pace — like the Rosie the Riveter park in the Bay Area — without considering the continuing operation and maintenance costs.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-earth7may07,0,2837610.story
San Francisco Chosen to Host Stem Cell Institute
By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer
FRESNO — California's new stem cell research agency today chose San Francisco as the site of its headquarters.
The 29-member committee that oversees the Institute for Regenerative Medicine made the decision, rebuffing San Diego and Sacramento.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-050605stemcell_lat,0,7895401.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Saving PBS From the GOP
Cut the strings of government funding before right-wingers can destroy public broadcasting.
Republican hacks are slowly strangling National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System. And the liberals who are complaining about it have nobody to blame but themselves.
Well, OK, maybe not "nobody." Surely some of the blame lies with the Republican hacks. Let's begin with them, and get to the liberals later.
The chief hack in question is Kenneth Tomlinson, the Republican-appointed head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which controls NPR and PBS. Tomlinson has carried out a low-grade ideological purge, reportedly discouraging journalists there from any projects considered too hostile to business or the GOP. He has proposed placing several fellow Republican loyalists in key positions at the corporation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-chait6may06,1,2894274.column?coll=la-home-world
Vioxx Risks Not Part of Sales Pitch, Files Reveal
Merck & Co. ordered its representatives not to talk to doctors about studies that showed the painkiller could cause heart attacks.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Four years ago, as evidence mounted that Merck's blockbuster painkiller Vioxx could cause heart attacks, the company ordered its sales force not to discuss the emerging data with doctors, but instead to paint a reassuring picture of minimal risks, according to documents released Thursday at a congressional hearing.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-vioxx6may06,0,1912023.story?coll=la-home-business
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Communications Criticism: Mark Crispin Miller Examines Mainstream Media's Blind Eye Towards the Gannongate Sex ScandalPosted by: DavidSwanson on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:25 AM
Mark Crispin Miller Examines Mainstream Media's Blind Eye Towards the Gannongate Sex Scandal
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
Clinton's sex life was fair game.... Although it wasn't all that interesting, let's face it--it was a consensual affair with Monica.... It made Mike Isikoff's career, gave Maureen Dowd innumerable columns, and pushed the likes of Matt Drudge and Lucianne Goldberg into prominence.
Now Bush's White House is embroiled in a sex scandal that is both more sordid and more serious.... This involves not just a huge security lapse, but what appears to be yet one more case of the Bush White House illegally deploying propaganda tactics through the institutions of the Fourth Estate.
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1894&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Florida Senate approves slot machine bill, sends to House
8:38 PM EDT,May 6, 2005
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE -- The state Senate passed a bill to regulate Broward County slot machines in the final hours of the legislative session Friday, after approving a higher tax rate that lawmakers said would raise about $450 million for schools.
The 28-10 vote sent the bill to the House, where its future was uncertain.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0507legislature,0,6893207.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Federal judge rules against demonstrators in raid to get Elian
6:09 PM EDT,May 6, 2005
The Associated Press
MIAMI -- A federal judge Friday ruled against awarding damages to 13 people who were tear-gassed during the raid to seize 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez five years ago.
U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore issued a 19-page decision saying that the demonstrators and bystanders failed to show enough credible evidence that federal officers' use of force during the raid was ``unreasonable under the circumstances.''
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0506elian,0,3831311.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Man dies in Miami-Dade jail after police stun him with Taser
4:25 PM EDT,May 6, 2005
Associated Press
MIAMI -- A man died Friday after struggling with police and being hit with a Taser stun gun, authorities said.
Stanley Wilson, 44, of Miami, was found unresponsive in a Miami-Dade County Jail cell and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, police Detective Nelda Fonticiella said.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-56stungun,0,6416114.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Party kicks off start of beach restoration
By Jerry Berrios
jberrios@herald.com
Broward County and city officials gathered at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa on Hollywood beach for a ''beach party'' to kick off a project to replace sand lost to erosion onSouth Broward beaches.
The ``beach renourishment''project, to start this month, will pump sand from an offshore site onto 6.2 miles of beach in Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Dania Beach and John U. Lloyd State Park.
The shoreline width will increase from 20 feet to 220 feet.
''Restoring our eroded beaches will protect sea turtles who nest and hatch their offspring right here on our beaches,'' said Broward County Mayor Kristin Jacobs. ``Eroded beaches don't provide the nesting areas that are needed by turtles.''
The project will take four to six months for the segment from Hallandale to Dania. Work on the state park portion will start in November, to avoid conflicting with sea turtle nesting.
The cost is estimated at more than $48 million.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11581639.htm
Unwanted Pregnancies
Abortion notification bill advances
State legislators approved a measure to require teens to notify parents if they want an abortion and to allow judges to create exceptions.
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
meklas@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Parents of pregnant teens will be notified by a doctor when their daughters seek an abortion, under a bill state lawmakers passed Friday and the governor is expected to sign.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11586013.htm
Suozzi to push abortion alternatives
Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi (Newsday Photo/Michael E. Ach)
BY MICHAEL ROTHFELD
STAFF WRITER
May 7, 2005
Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, wading into the contentious debate on women's reproductive health, intends in a speech Tuesday to propose spending $3 million in county funds over three years to reduce abortions, administration officials said.
Suozzi, who supports abortion rights, is following in the path of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats who say they are seeking common ground with those on the other side of the divisive issue. Political observers immediately said the address at Adelphi University indicates that Suozzi hopes to run for governor next year as a Catholic, moderate Democrat.
http://www.newsday.com/ny-lisuoz0507,0,7469216.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
Anti-abortion majority suffering division in the ranks
DAVID A. LIEB
Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The biggest majority in the Missouri Legislature is neither Republican nor Democrat, neither rural nor urban.
In fact, its members include most Republicans and rural lawmakers, many Democrats and some city lawmakers.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11583376.htm
Catholic judge's abortion ruling stirs debate
May 7, 2005
By Missy Stoddard, Staff Writer
A Diocese of Palm Beach employee's efforts to have Juvenile Court Judge Ronald Alvarez barred from receiving Holy Communion after issuing a ruling on a 13-year-old's abortion was an attempt to intimidate him, the judge said Friday.
The judge is troubled that jurists may be pressured by those who believe religion trumps state law. He said he has heard from many colleagues, who worry that religious groups are challenging judges' independence.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pabortion07may07,0,1109848.story?coll=sfla-news-palm
NOVEL …
Maverick academic explores 'freaky' side of economics
Offbeat claims stir controversy
By Sharon Cohen, Associated Press
CHICAGO — Steve Levitt's world is economics, but he has no patience for inflation charts or stock market tables. He'd much prefer to plunge into a scholarly study of ... cheating sumo wrestlers.
Or slippery real estate agents.
Or drug-dealing gang members.
Levitt is a maverick economist at the University of Chicago, a school known for esteemed scholars who've paved a path to Stockholm, Sweden: Five Nobel Prize winners in economics are on the faculty.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/businessnews/ci_2719984
Rules on abortion clinics head for Bush's signature
Palm Beach Post Staff and Wire Reports
Friday, May 06, 2005
TALLAHASSEE — A bill that will place new regulations on women's health centers providing second-trimester abortions cleared the Florida House Thursday and is headed to Gov. Jeb Bush for final approval.
The House voted 97-19 to approve the bill (HB 1041), after the Senate passed it 30-9 on Wednesday.
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Critics say the bill is an attack on people trying to give and receive abortions and could erode women's constitutional rights to an abortion by putting into state law what is usually administered by the state Board of Medicine.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2005/05/06/a13a_xgr_legbriefs_0506.html
Both sides of abortion debate deride 'gay-gene' bill
By PAUL CARRIER, Portland Press Herald Writer
Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
AUGUSTA — Activists on both sides of the abortion debate finally found something to agree on Thursday when they dismissed as trivial or irrelevant a bill that would outlaw abortion based on sexual orientation. Filed by Rep. Brian Duprey, R-Hampden, the high-profile bill would make it illegal to abort a fetus based on what the bill calls "the projected sexual orientation of the fetus after birth." That's if science ever identifies a so-called gay gene that could then be detected in a fetus.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/statehouse/050506abortion.shtml
New Birth Control Bill
Apr 25, 2005
Loni Blandford
WNCT - TV9
It's the so-called "conscience clause." It allows pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning after pill, if they have moral or religious objections. The current law is almost the same but requires pharmacists to find someone else who will. Opponents say pharmacists shouldn't be able to second-guess what a doctor has prescribed just because they disagree.
http://www.wnct.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WNCT/MGArticle/NCT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031782349187&path=
Patch up those birth-control woes
By Ayn Veronica L. de Jesus
While women have multiple roles in and outside the home—wife, mother, daughter, home manager, career woman, and friend—it’s still essential for them to stay healthy. Careful family planning and well-spaced births is one way for women to stay healthy and beautiful.
Contraceptive patches are slim and can be worn discretely under the clothes
But keeping the flames of romance alive and staying safe can be quite a challenge, with many contraceptives a hassle to administer and monitor. On top of her myriad tasks, contraception can often be overlooked.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/apr/26/yehey/life/20050426lif1.html
Abortion Advocates Launch Efforts to Keep Filibusters in Place
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 7, 2005
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- As the battle over whether to change the rules of the U.S. Senate to lower the number of votes needed to stop filibusters on President Bush's pro-life judicial picks, abortion advocates are stepping up their efforts. This past week the pro-abortion National Organization of Women announced a new campaign.
"NOW activists across the country are leading an emergency campaign to save our courts," said NOW President Kim Gandy. "We are targeting senators in fifteen states and sending the message that we will not allow the legacy of our courts to be dictated by religious and political extremists."
http://www.lifenews.com/nat1325.html
Putting the Control Back in Birth Control: Racism, Class and Reproductive Rights
Submitted by MaRK on Mon, 04/25/2005 - 15:26.
"Rape, racism, sexism, and capitalism have been consistent elements in a long history of documented assaults against the reproductive sovereignty of Black women." [1] -Theryn Kigvamasud’ Vashti, Communities Against Rape and Abuse
The Northeastern Anarchist: Repro Series
For working women, control of one's own body is constantly another turf battle in the class war. In this second article in our series on reproduction, we look at birth control and sterilization in the context of other attacks on the poor.
Putting the Control Back in Birth Control: Racism, Class and Reproductive Rights
by PJ Lilley and Jeff Shantz
As anarcha-feminists, when we think of "reproductive rights" we usually first think of a woman's right to choose when/where/how she has children in terms of her access to free, safe abortions and multiple birth control technologies.
We might think of Emma Goldman standing on a soapbox risking arrest to talk to women about condoms, or of our sisters currently standing on the front lines doing clinic defense actions. But on the flip side of the same coin is the right to choose to have a child, and the access to health care and a safe environment to enable that choice. Creeping liberalism and racism manifest when the equation that abortion equals "individual choice free from state interference", or the interests of white, middle class women become the dominant interpretation of reproductive liberty.
http://nefac.net/node/1701
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Rancher appeals fine imposed over rotting cattle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- A Skagit County rancher is appealing a fine imposed by health officials after the carcasses of 172 dead cattle were found rotting on his 120-acre spread.
Roger Pederson of Bay View was sent a notice of violation April 15, after the county health department and sheriff's office obtained a search warrant to inspect the property.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Dead%20Cattle
Internet privacy is limited in this state, experts sayConfidentiality rights unlikely in e-mail, chat rooms
By DAN RICHMANSEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Washington residents communicating over the Internet shouldn't expect much privacy.
That's the view of legal experts who commented yesterday after Spokane Mayor Jim West was accused of abusing his office, in part by using the Internet to develop sexual relationships with young men.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/223358_westpriv07.html
Man who led Nixon impeachment dies
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKIASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TRENTON, N.J. -- Peter W. Rodino Jr., a little-noticed Democratic congressman until he led the House impeachment investigation of President Nixon, died Saturday. He was 95. The raspy-voiced son of an Italian immigrant, Rodino died of congestive heart failure at his West Orange home, said Christine Bland, a spokeswoman for Seton Hall University Law School, where Rodino was a professor.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Obit%20RodinoAbout 300 mourn 'Precious Doe' at service
By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHERASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday for a memorial service to remember the little girl once known only as "Precious Doe," interrupting a pastor's remarks with applause and shouting the child's name in unison.
The girl remained unidentified for four years after her body was found in April 2001 near an intersection in Kansas City. Days later, her head turned up nearby, wrapped in a trash bag.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Precious%20Doe%20Memorial
Blast at Kabul cafe kills two Afghans
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan -- An explosion rocked an Internet cafe in the Afghan capital Saturday, killing two Afghans, police said. Officials were investigating whether the blast was caused by a suicide attacker.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20Explosion
Rebel bombings kill 11 people in Myanmar
By AYE AYE WINASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
YANGON, Myanmar -- Three explosions rocked Myanmar's capital on Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding 162 others in the latest bombings blamed on ethnic rebels in the military-ruled country. The blasts occurred in rapid succession at a convention center and two bustling supermarkets in neighborhoods across the city of 5 million people starting around mid-afternoon. It was not immediately known how many people died at each site.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Myanmar%20Blast
Putin questions NATO enlargement
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said NATO enlargement has not necessarily improved world security, and warned in a television interview broadcast Saturday that bringing Ukraine into the alliance could pose problems.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=France%20Putin
Austria leader urges nation to face past
By GEORGE JAHNASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- In ceremonies marking the end of World War II, President Heinz Fischer urged fellow Austrians on Saturday to face the truth about the Hitler era, alluding to recent pro-Nazi comments by some politicians, including one who questioned the existence of gas chambers.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Austria%20VE%20Day
Four charged in Buenos Aires club fire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Five former municipal officials have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the December 2004 nightclub fire here that claimed 193 lives.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Argentina%20Nightclub%20Blaze
U.S. Forest Service scales back burn plan
By SCOTT SONNERASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
RENO, Nev. -- Under fire from state wildlife biologists, the U.S. Forest Service agreed Friday to dramatically scale back plans to conduct a prescribed burn this month on northern Nevada rangeland that is home to a dwindling game bird.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1155&slug=Sage%20Grouse
To the end, Greenpeace founder Bob Hunter was hurling mindbombs
By DAVID USBORNEGUEST COLUMNIST
It was in the early '70s, when Bob Hunter was an iconoclastic columnist with the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia, that he found himself attending meetings with like-minded activists in a church basement in the city he had adopted and grown to love. The discussion at hand: how to put pressure on the United States, the rapacious neighbor to the south, to end its nuclear testing program in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It was the beginning of Greenpeace.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/223247_greenpeace08.html
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
"Facts Were Being Fixed"
Memo:
The secret Downing Street memo
Sunday Times
SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02
cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2548
Bush Made Intelligence Fit Iraq Policy
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.
The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2545
U.S. Press Afraid to Tell Truth?
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
In Pacific Islands, Mixed Feelings About a Lobbyist's Work
By James Brooke and Kate Zernike / New York Times
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands, May 5 - Jack Abramoff, the Washington lobbyist under criminal investigation, used to say that the government here needed his services because it was the only American territory without a nonvoting delegate to Congress.
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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
We urge you to join us in a "National Day of Action for GI Resisters" on Tuesday May 10, 2005. This is the day before the US military is planning to bring sailor Pablo Paredes and soldier Kevin Benderman before military court martial tribunals for their opposition to the Iraq War. They face forfeiture of pay and benefits, and military jail time.
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Thousands protest Bush Dutch visit
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (AP) -- Thousands of anti-war activists protested U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to the Netherlands on Saturday, saying the man who started the Iraq war should not pay tribute to those who died in World War II for Dutch freedom.
Bush will attend a ceremony Sunday marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe at the Margraten battlefield cemetery 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Maastricht, where the graves of 8,300 American servicemen are spread neatly over a grassy hill.
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