Rooster "Crowing"
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History . . .
1819, poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill, N.Y., American poet, whose work boldly asserts the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity. Whitman’s defiant break with traditional poetic concerns and style exerted a major influence on American thought and literature.
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
1923, Prince Rainier III, prince of Monaco
1930, Clint Eastwood, actor, director, and mayor
1943, Joe Namath, football player
1946, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, film director, writer, and actor
1709, President George Washington signs the first U.S. copyright act into law.
1889, more than 2,000 people perished when a dam break sent water rushing through Johnstown, Pa.
1910, the Union of South Africa was founded.
1913, the 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was declared in effect.
1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic and withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962, World War II Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel for his role in the Nazi Holocaust.
1977, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, three years in the making, was completed.
1985, 88 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured when 41 tornadoes swept through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Ontario, Canada, during an eight-hour period.
1994, the United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
Missing in Action
1965 PEEL ROBERT D. MEMPHIS TN "02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV (BROADLANDS, IL)" ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 ALBERTSON BOBBY J. ANAHEIM CA ALL CREW DEAD SP ALBERTON-WALL
1966 CASE THOMAS F. THOMSON GA ALL CREW DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 04/11/86
1966 EDMONDSON WILLIAM R. CASSVILLE MO ALL CREW DEAD
1966 HARWORTH ELROY E. ELIZABETH MN ALL CREW DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86
1966 HERROLD NED R. NEW BRUNSWICK NJ
1966 MC DONALD EMMETT R. BELLEVUE WA ALL CREW DEAD
1966 RAGLAND DAYTON W. KANSAS CITY MO
1966 SHINGLEDECKER ARMON D. LIMA OH ALL CREW DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 1986 REMAINS IDENTIFIED 04/30/98
1966 STEEN MARTIN W. GRAND FORKS ND GOOD CHUTE HARNESS EMPTY
1966 STICKNEY PHILLIP J. MANCHESTER NH ALL CREW DEAD
1966 ZOOK HAROLD J. NEW HOLLAND PA ALL CREW DEAD - REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86
1967 CHAUNCEY ARVIN R. GLENDALE CA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 FITZGERALD JOSEPH E. NORTHBRIDGE MA REMAINS RETURNED 02/97
1967 JAKOVAC JOHN A. DETRIOT MI REMAINS RETURNED 02/97
1967 MC GAR BRIAN K. CERES CA REMAINS RETURNED 02/97
1968 BERESIK EUGENE PAUL WEBSTER MA
1968 GATEWOOD CHARLES HUE CHICAGO IL
1968 LEONARD EDWARD W. WINLOCK WA 03/28/73 RELEASED BY PL ALIVE IN 98
1970 COLNE ROGER FRANCE NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST.
1970 HANGEN WELLES PROBABLY EXECUTED AFTER CAPTURE REMAINS RETURNED 01/93
1970 SAKAI KOJIRO JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS
1970 WAKU YOSHIHIKO JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS
1971 BRUNSON JACK W. SINCLAIRVILLE NY
1971 MUSIL CLINTON A. SR. MINNEAPOLIS MN
Journalism at Risk
Romanian Journalist Details Iraq Captivity
From Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian journalist held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months recalled how he and his fellow hostages were confined in a hot cellar, blindfolded and ordered not to speak.
Ovidiu Ohanesian, home after the hostages' release May 22, also said in an interview Sunday that they received new clothes as a parting gift from their captors.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-fg-romanian31may31,0,7580713.story?coll=la-iraq-complete
Journalist held for seeking truth on Tiananmen killings
From Jane Macartney in Beijing
A JOURNALIST considered the doyen of China correspondents has been held in Beijing and could be charged with stealing state secrets after he tried to obtain a copy of interviews with Zhao Ziyang, the Communist leader who was purged after the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1634586,00.html
Iran dissident calls for release of jailed activists
Web posted at: 5/31/2005 2:25:54
Source ::: Reuters
Iran’s most prominent jailed dissident journalist, Akbar Ganji flashes a victory sign next to his wife Masumeh Shafiei after a press conference at his home in Tehran yesterday. Ganji was temporarily released from jail for medical treatment. In 2001, Ganji was sentenced to six years in prison after being charged in relation to articles he wrote linking senior officials, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, to the serial murders of several intellectuals and writers.
TEHRAN: Iran's outspoken investigative journalist Akbar Ganji urged the Islamic republic yesterday to free jailed dissidents immediately.
Iran's hardline judiciary yesterday gave the maverick journalist a few weeks leave from prison on health grounds. Ganji was jailed for 10 years in 2001 on a variety of charges, including spreading lies and insulting top officials.
His sentence was reduced to six years on appeal. "All political prisoners and jailed dissidents should immediately be released," Ganji told journalists who gathered at his home a few hours after he was released.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=May2005&file=World_News2005053122535.xml
Maverick journalist Akbar Ganji granted leave from prison
Tehran, May 30, IRNA
Iran-Journalist-Release
Jailed journalist Akbar Ganji was granted a weeklong leave for medical reasons late Sunday night, subject to a probable extension depending on his medical report, judiciary officials announced Monday.
"If forensic medicine diagnoses Ganji as needing treatment and an operation, the issue of extending the period of his leave will be processed," the deputy head of the Tehran Justice Department, Mohammad Salarkia, said.
Ganji is reportedly suffering from asthma, with several internet news sites recently saying that he had gone on a hunger strike to protest alleged inattention of the jail wardens to his condition.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0505301122182107.htm
CPJ demands release of jailed journalists
(CPJ/IFEX) - In a 3 December 2001 letter to Eritrean President Asayas Afewerki, CPJ stated that it is deeply troubled by the government's ongoing crackdown on the independent press in Eritrea.
According to CPJ's research, all the country's independent newspapers have now been shut down. Eleven journalists are currently jailed without charges, while the whereabouts of three others are unknown.
On 18 September, Eritrean authorities abruptly banned all non-state print media outlets. According to CPJ sources in the capital, Asmara, security forces sealed off the newsrooms of these publications after removing computers, phones, fax machines, and other equipment.
http://www.ifex.org/fr/content/view/full/15180/
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Happy Birthday
Dear Friends,
26 years ago today, Casey was 6 hours and 49 minutes old. What a joyful day that day was. The birth of our firstborn. He was so wanted and his birth was so highly anticipated. A true bundle of joy.
One year, one month, and 25 days ago (almost to the minute) George Bush and his Crime Cabal killed Casey in Sadr City. One of them, perhaps Condi, Rummy, Bremer, or Cheney, might as well have pulled the trigger that blew off the back of Casey's sweet head.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2825
Moore scholarship winners tout accountability
By: JESSICA MUSICAR - For the North County Times
SAN MARCOS ----- When Cal State San Marcos junior Julie Bennington took a stand last fall backing the appearance of controversial filmmaker Michael Moore at the university, the only payoff she had in mind was accountability.
"I think that often as students, it's really easy to go along with whatever the administration tells us, because they are in a position of power and we are not," Bennington said last week. "The truth is when someone abuses their power and then thinks they can get away with it simply because they hold the position that they do, you have to hold them accountable."
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/05/30/news/inland/51905194159.txt
Unprovoked
RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war
By Michael Smith / Sunday Times
THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2818
Bush Calls Human Rights Report 'Absurd'
By Terence Hunt / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday dismissed a human rights report as "absurd" for its harsh criticism of U.S. treatment of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the allegations were made by prisoners "who hate America."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2830
Cheney Offended by Amnesty Int'l Report
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney says he's offended by a human rights group's report criticizing conditions at the prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
The report Amnesty International released last week said prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba had been mistreated and called for the prison to be shut down. Cheney derided the London-based group in an interview set to be broadcast Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2829
AP: Gitmo Detainees Say They Were Sold
By Michelle Faul / Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- They fed them well. The Pakistani tribesmen slaughtered a sheep in honor of their guests, Arabs and Chinese Muslims famished from fleeing U.S. bombing in the Afghan mountains. But their hosts had ulterior motives: to sell them to the Americans, said the men who are now prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2831
The Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court Unanimously Overturns Andersen Conviction
By David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court overturned the criminal conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm today, ruling unanimously that its shredding of 2 tons of Enron-related documents did not prove its intent to obstruct justice.
The memos, notes and drafts were destroyed in October 2001 as Enron was collapsing, but before the government triggered an official investigation of Enron or Andersen, its auditor.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-053105scotus_lat,0,5154732.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Wilderness Site May See Oil Drilling
By Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer
GULFPORT, Miss. — Tucked away in the 96-page emergency military spending bill signed by President Bush this month are four paragraphs that give energy companies the right to explore for oil and gas inside a sprawling national park.
The amendment written by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) codifies Mississippi's claim to mineral rights under federal lands and allows drilling for natural gas under the Gulf Islands National Seashore — a thin necklace of barrier islands that drapes the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gulf31may31,0,3792210.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Forest Service May Sell Some Staff Facilities
The agency proposes to put 20% or more of its buildings on the auction block to raise funds for new construction and deferred maintenance.
By Bettina Boxall, Times Staff Writer
TRUCKEE, Calif. — Wrestling with a long inadequate maintenance budget and facing the prospect of more funding cuts, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to sell a fifth or more of its staff buildings across the country, including hundreds in California.
A Bush administration plan would allow the Forest Service to go into the real estate business, auctioning staff facilities and the land they sit on to raise cash for upkeep and the construction of new buildings.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-forest31may31,0,4512755.story?coll=la-home-local
Report: Former FBI Official Claims to Be 'Deep Throat'
From Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said today.
W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His claim was revealed today by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-053105deep_wr,0,2738981.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Doesn't Amnesty International know the USA is NEVER, EVER supposed to receive criticism. You all want your funding cut or something? What's wrong with you people do you always bite the hand that feeds you ? Everyone in the whole world is supposed to be taking orders from Cheney/Bush, the most morally moronic men on Earth. See, if they were ? smart ? (whatever that means) they wouldn't have any excuses to be international criminals. They like their crony constituency just don't know better and when you try to explain things to them they are confused by the ambivalent language everyone else uses. They 'talk plain' so every a child could understand them, you see.
Bush Calls Criticism of Guantanamo Detainee Treatment Absurd
By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — President Bush today brushed aside criticism of the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and questions about whether his domestic agenda was losing momentum, as he sought to push his continued relevancy in a second term facing a recalcitrant Congress and debate about his policies in Iraq.
Speaking at a news conference in the Rose Garden, the president used the word "absurd" four times in the course of a 10-sentence response when asked his reaction to a highly critical report by Amnesty International that challenged the administration's respect for the human rights of detainees in the campaign against terrorism.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-053105bush_lat,0,1384603.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Iraqi Politicians Unite in Criticism of Mistaken Arrest of Sunni Leader
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Louise Roug, Times Staff Writers
BAGHDAD — Iraqi leaders displayed a rare degree of unity today after an American-led arrest threatened to further destabilize the country's fragile political process.
Appearing on national TV, Sunni leader Mohsen Abdel Hamid, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, thanked Shiite and Kurdish politicians for their support after his arrest by U.S. troops, which the Americans called "a mistake."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-053105iraq_lat,0,6807932.story?coll=la-home-headlines
The Korea Herald
Minister Han backs off on 5% growth forecast
Finance Minister Han Duck-soo backed off his forecast of 5-percent economic growth for the first time yesterday as a government data showed an unexpected drop in industrial production.
Adding to the bleaker outlook, the Bank of Korea said that the nation posted a current account deficit of $909.5 million in April, compared with a revised surplus of $1.11 billion a month earlier.
It was the first deficit in two years in April 2003, when the country had a $210 million deficit largely due to the dividends payments.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/31/200505310035.asp
Signals from Washington?
Many here and in the United States attach much significance to Washington's decision last week to suspend a Pentagon program to recover the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War. The withdrawal from North Korea of a U.S. excavation team could be a precursor to an extreme measure to resolve the nuclear stalemate with North Korea. Or, it is a gesture to indicate Washington's readiness to launch a military attack on the North as a gambit to bring the North back to the conference table.
The departure of the 27-member team, which has unearthed 220 sets of remains in nine years, may also simply be U.S. reaction to the exorbitant price charged by Pyongyang authorities for the project. We do not know how many million dollars Washington has paid the North for the labor and other costs in the dig but there were complaints that the U.S. POW/MIA program funneled too much money to the North Korean military for often getting dubious sets of bones.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/31/200505310013.asp
Solving Japan-China problems
After the April 23 meeting in Jakarta between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Chinese President Hu Jintao, the storm of anti-Japanese demonstrations that had taken place in many urban centers in China earlier in the moth appeared to have passed. But the abrupt departure of Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi before her scheduled meeting with Koizumi and the heated reaction on the part of some Japanese have further mired Sino-Japanese relations in the emotional quicksands of "saving face."
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/31/200505310011.asp
China to scrap export tariffs on 81 types of textiles
China said on Monday it would abolish export tariffs on 81 lines of clothing and textiles, keeping its promise to roll back the taxes if Western countries threw up barriers against its goods.
The European Union on Friday formally requested talks with China over surging shipments of T-shirts and flax yarn.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/31/200505310010.asp
Rockets fired at Zaytun unit in Iraq
For the first time since its deployment to Iraq in September, the 3,500-member South Korean Zaytun contingent Sunday was the target of rocket attacks. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday that no casualties or injuries were eported.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/31/200505310033.asp
Top nuclear negotiator travels to U.S.
Seoul's key foreign policy and security officials leave for Washington today to meet U.S. counterparts to discuss the North Korean nuclear standoff and to prepare for the June Korean-U.S. summit.
Deputy Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and Cheong Wa Dae's National Security Adviser Kwon Chin-ho make a four-day visit a week before the planned summit between Presidents Roh Moo-hyun and George W. Bush on June 10.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/05/31/200505310031.asp
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