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654 St Eugene I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1519 Magellan's 5 ship set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated
1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1809 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1827 Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1831 Former slave Nat Turner led violent insurrection against slavery
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1835 Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1846 Congress charters the "nation's attic," the Smithsonian Institution
1885 Leo Daft opens America's 1st coml operated electric streetcar (Balt)
1901 Chic White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1913 2nd Balkan War ends, Treaty of Bucharest, Bulgaria loses
1919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane
1944 Boston Brave Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to beat Reds 2-0
1944 Race riots in Athens Alabama
1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY)
1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
1954 Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
1961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market
1966 1st lunar orbiter launched by US
1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1980 Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship for 5th time
1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1984 Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden, juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles
1986 Billy Martin day, Yanks retire #1
1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
1988 UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion
1990 US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
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1965 MAILHES LAWRENCE SCOTT HOT SPRINGS AR
1969 MICKELSEN WILLIAM E. JR. MINNEAPOLIS MN
1970 CROWLEY JOHN E. WILLIAMSON NY REMAINS ID'D 04/22/00
1971 BATES PAUL J. JR. MESA AZ
1971 DOLAN THOMAS A. BALTIMORE MD
1972 SANSONE JAMES J. NORWOOD MA
Michael Moore Today
Cindy's Place in Crawford
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Crawford Peace House
Friends of Peace and Justice
We are in the process of mobilizing support
For Cindy Sheehan action in Crawford Texas
Monetary donations are needed and can be sent to:
Crawford Peace House
P.O. Box 710218
Dallas, Tx. 75371-0218
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Grieving Mother's War Protest Draws Notice
By Angela K. Brown / Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who started a quiet roadside peace vigil near President Bush's ranch last weekend is drawing supporters from across the nation.
Dozens of people have joined her and others have sent flowers and food. One activist called her "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement."
Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., says she was surprised at the response.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3633
"She's tired, fed up and she's not going to take it anymore, and so now we stand with her."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Houston moms heading to Crawford to protest war
KHOU 11
More protesters from the Houston-area are headed to President Bush's Crawford ranch.
They loaded their cars and left from the Heights area Wednesday afternoon.
They're upset by the mounting casualties in Iraq and are opposed to the Bush administration's handling of the war.
More importantly, they say they want to support a woman who lost her son in Iraq.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3632
Why No Tea and Sympathy?
By Maureen Dowd / New York Times
W. can't get no satisfaction on Iraq.
There's an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3624
"WE ARE INSULTED when people like Bush say that America has to 'stay the course' in Iraq to 'honor our children's sacrifices.'
Not one more drop of blood should be shed for the lies and deceptions."
- Cindy Sheehan, mother of Casey Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04
You owe her an explanation, Mr. President.
Our mission is to persuade President Bush to meet with Cindy Sheehan and answer her questions about why the war that took her son's life was started and why it is being continued.
http://www.meetwithcindy.org/
Ways to support Cindy and Gold Star Families for Peace:
*Donate to the Crawford Peace House, Military Families Speak Out or GSFP
*Join us in Crawford Texas
*Contact you representatives in Congress and demand they support the Resolution of Inquiry into the Downing Street Memo
*Work for Peace everydaybe patient.
If you have recently e-mailed us thank you for your support. We will try and answer all e-mails as soon as possible.
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Join Cindy Sheehan's Protest in Crawford
Cindy Sheehan went to Crawford to ask President Bush, "Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Iraq, on April 4, 2004. President Bush continues to refuse Cindy’s requests for a meeting, so she has made a stand outside his Crawford Ranch. At her side is CODEPINK''s Diane Wilson who began a hunger strike at their roadside vigil until Bush talks to Cindy. Show your solidarity with Cindy by joining us in Crawford, fasting with Diane, or BIRDDOG Bush at his events throughout the country. Click here to check out daily blogs from Crawford and see who is fasting with Diane today.
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An Open Letter from Ralph Nader to Cindy Sheehan
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2005-08-10 19:55. Cindy Sheehan
CONTACT: Ralph Nader 202-387-8034
WASHINGTON - August 10 -
Dear Ms. Sheehan,
From your grief over the loss of your son, Casey, in Iraq has come the courage to spotlight nationally the cowardly character trait of a President who refuses to meet with anyone or any group critical of his illegal, fabricated, deceptive war and occupation of that ravaged country. As a messianic militarist, Mr. Bush turned aside his own father's major advisers who warned him of the terroristic, political, and diplomatic perils to the United States from an invasion of Iraq. He refused to listen.
Thirteen organizations in early 2003 separately wrote their President
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VETERANS FOR PEACE
Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice Through Non-violence. Wage Peace!
The VFP National Convention 2005 in Dallas, TX
was a great success.
Thank you to all attendees, speakers, guests, and volunteers.
Click here for E.D.'s statement on the VFP Convention and Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
PHOTOS and Movies:
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Cindy Sheehan in Crawford
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Workshops and SPEAKERS
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MILITARY FAMILIES TO JOIN CINDY SHEEHAN IN CRAWFORD
Gold Star and Military Families from Across Country on their way to Texas
CRAWFORD, TX – More members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are traveling to Texas to join the protest outside of President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is vacationing for the month of August.
Starting today, Gold Star families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arkansas and other states whose loved ones have died as a result of the war in Iraq will be joining one of their members, Cindy Sheehan, at the protest. Ms. Sheehan, whose son Army Specialist Casey Sheehan was killed in Sadr City, Iraq on April 4, 2004, has been in Crawford since August 5th, demanding a meeting with the President. These families will be joined by military families with loved ones currently serving in Iraq or about to deploy or redeploy to Iraq. All of these families are coming to Crawford, Texas to share their stories about the personal costs of the war in Iraq and add their voices to the call for a meeting with President Bush.
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President Bush
Ditches Mother
Of Slain Soldier
Iconoclast To Be Posting
Cindy Sheehan Updates
CONTACT NUMBERS GIVEN
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The Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford (Day 4)
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
Today started at 4am when I had to get up and get ready to be on Good Morning America. It was pouring down rain at Camp Casey. The wind was blowing and there was thunder and lightening. It was pretty exciting. The interview went very well. I haven’t seen it or read a transcript. Since it was taped, I am just wondering if they showed it when I said Bush doesn't want to see me because he likes to surround himself with "sycophants." I also interviewed with Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz, Greta Van Susteren, and many others, and closed out the day with my pal, Mike Malloy.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Fahrenheit 911 on Showtime
SYNOPSIS:
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore ("Roger & Me," "Bowling for Columbine") crafted this incendiary piece of skillful agitprop, an exploration of the tragic chain of events before and after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. Pointing his finger at a global conspiracy of war, greed, and media manipulation, Moore leaves no political figure unscathed in his most passionate, outraged condemnation of a president and policies he considers illegitimate and incompetent.
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The Jerusalem Post
Security officials: Gaza evacuation will not pass quietly
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
Security officials said they believe that the evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements will not pass quietly, and security forces will be confronted with pockets of hard resistance in some of the settlements where agitators will attempt to stir up violence and physically resist attempts to be evacuated.
According to officials, while no concrete warnings of specific plans to violently resist the evacuation have been received by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), they estimate that it will not be violence-free.
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Gush Katif atmosphere punctured by youths' attacks on press vehicles
By MATTHEW GUTMAN
Neveh Dekalim
Segev's Puncheria, this settlement's flat tire repair shop, is enjoying a sudden spike in business. Countless vehicles belonging to some of the dozens of news organizations with correspondents based in Gush Katif have crawled into the Segev's warehouse, tires flapping on the asphalt.
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Trauma of Holocaust triples survivors' suicide risk
By JUDY SIEGEL
Psychological help must be offered to aging-but-still-traumatized Holocaust survivors, who, according to Israeli psychiatrists, are 3.5 times more likely to attempt suicide than elderly who did not suffer through the Nazi era.
This is the recommendation of researchers at Abarbanel Mental Health Center (affiliated with Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine) in Bat Yam, Geha Mental Health Center in Petah Tikva, and the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, published in Monday's issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
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The Middle East Times
Censored articles from
the Middle East Times
Mysteriously, the Egyptian censor found our correspondent's report over fashionable interest in heavily-marketed Jewish mysticism unacceptable. Read all about it here: Madonna draws recruits to the Kabbalah
And here are some stories which relate to freedom of expression but which were not actually censored.
Here is our archive of censored stories.
Egyptian law gives Egypt’s ministry of information the right to ban or censor any publication. The censor reviews each edition of the Middle East Times before allowing them to be distributed.
Articles may be censored if they:
Report on human rights abuses
Criticize the president or his family
Criticize the military
Refer to any ill-treatment of Egyptians in "friendly" Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia.
Discuss modern, unorthodox interpretations of Islam.
Report on discrimination against Coptic Christians in Egypt.
However, the censor is very arbitrary -- sometimes these things go through, sometimes they don't.
What did they censor?
Here is a selection of stories which the Egyptian authorities have censored over the past few months:
THE MOST RECENTLY CENSORED ARTICLE APPEARS FIRST
Journalists group protest expulsion of MET publisher
Freedom of speech under attack
Book ban exposes Azhar censorship
Torture victim's wife calls for justice
Egypt marks 15 years of Mubarak
In search of what went wrong
Orientalism, anyone?
Detainee families lose hope
An Embarrassment in Exile
Sleeping Rough on the Streets of Cairo
Fundamentalists demand Mafia-style protection money from Copts
Brothers backtrack on gizia
Copts crusade to bring back converted girls
Militants celebrate 'eid with church attack
Copt contests hotel dismissal
Police uncover call-girl ring
Gihad celebrates 6 October
Deported Egyptians 'faced abuse'
Thanks a lot, Mr. President - but that's illegal
Torture frequent and widespread in Egypt
Protestors condemn prison torture
Madonna draws recruits to the Kabbalah
Economic woes embolden opposition
Egyptian journalists hospitalized
Boycott US, then boycott Mubarak
Cash gist
Censored this week...
Egypt marks 15 years of Mubarak
Torture victim's wife calls for justice
Orientalism, anyone?
Sleeping rough
In search of what went wrong
An Embarassment in Exile
Detainee families lose hope
Fundamentalists demand Protection money from Copts
Torture victim's wife calls for justice
Egypt marks 15 years of Mubarak
Detainee families lose hope
Orientalism, anyone?
In search of what went wrong
Sleeping rough
An Embarassment in Exile
Torture victim's wife calls for justice
Egypt marks 15 years of Mubarak
Orientalism, anyone?
Detainee families lose hope
In search of what went wrong
An Embarassment in Exile
Sleeping rough
Orientalism, anyone?
Egypt marks 15 years of Mubarak
In search of what went wrong
Torture victim's wife calls for justice
An Embarassment in Exile
Sleeping rough
Detainee families lose hope
Israel braces for Arab backlash after soldier's deadly rampage
Majeda El Batsh
AFP
August 5, 2005
Shfaram, ISRAEL -- Security forces braced themselves on Friday for a violent backlash after four Israeli Arabs were shot dead by an extreme right-wing Jewish soldier trying to torpedo the imminent withdrawal from Gaza.
Israeli Arab leaders called a one-day general strike to protest against the killing of the four on a bus in the northern town of Shfaram as the military faced awkward questions over how 19-year-old Nathan Zada was able to keep hold of his weapon despite being identified as a potentially dangerous extremist.
Zada mowed down his fellow passengers on bus 165 in a shooting spree that left another 12 needing hospital treatment. After he had emptied his rifle, furious residents lynched Zada, who was wearing his military fatigues despite being absent without leave for several months.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050805-071838-6416r
The Web: Silencing jihadi Websites
Gene J. Koprowski
UPI
August 5, 2005
CHICAGO -- The online communications channel between Al Qaeda's shadowy leaders and its terrorist operatives has been severely disrupted in recent weeks - since the July 7 jihadi attacks on London - apparently by British intelligence.
Though the Internet is a recent and universal resource, legal and military experts told UPI's The Web that there is ample precedent for a government, in time of war, to attempt to deny the enemy the ability to communicate.
Recent reports in the foreign press, including the Sunday Times of London, indicate a number of jihadi sites, such as mojihedun.com in Pakistan - which apparently contained detailed plans for terrorists on how to strike a European city and "tens" of other sites and provided information on making weapons, including biologicals - have been stealthily shuttered.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050805-070724-6968r
Egypt copes with Sharm bombing aftermath
Ola Ahmed
Middle East Times
August 5, 2005
Sharm El Sheikh/Arish, EGYPT -- Egyptian state security said on Wednesday that they have identified the terrorists who carried out the July 23 Sharm El Sheikh attacks that killed some 88 people and injured another 200.
Interior minister assistant Mohammed Shaarawi, who is also the head of the investigation team, said that the terrorists behind the latest attacks were members of the same cell that carried out the October 2004 Taba blasts that claimed the lives of 34 people
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050805-040905-7953r
Over 100 dead in Sudan violence as world appeals for calm
Simon Apiku
AFP
August 4, 2005
REPLACEMENT: Salva Kiir, who took over the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) after former rebel leader and vice-president John Garang's death in a weekend helicopter crash, thanks elders from various southern Sudan regions after they handed him a document declaring their loyalty in New Site village on August 3.
(REUTERS)
KHARTOUM -- Over 100 people have been killed in three days of rioting in the Sudanese capital and a flashpoint southern town, officials said amid international appeals for calm in Africa's largest country.
The funeral procession for ex-southern rebel leader John Garang was due to begin on Thursday following his death in a helicopter crash, which has threatened to plunge the war-ravaged country into fresh turmoil and scupper a January peace deal.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050804-080704-6069r
Jordan judge stops marriage of a minor
UPI
August 5, 2005
AMMAN -- Jordan's chief judge has intervened to stop the marriage of a 14-year-old girl who was forced into matrimony, reports said on Wednesday.
Amman's daily Al Arab said that the judge ordered Muslim clerics not to bless the marriage of the girl whom he said did not want to marry.
The paper quoted the head of religious courts that control marriage contracts as saying that the girl's marriage is invalid by Islamic law because one of the parties is compelled into it.
He said that according to the law, both parties should agree to the marriage in order to become legal and valid.
Under Jordan civil law marriages cannot be contracted between minors and both parties should be at least 18 years old. But the government allows clerics to make certain exceptions if they see that there is a certain interest or benefit in concluding the marriage.
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050805-065238-2188r
Haaretz
IDF, police: More Israelis have infiltrated Gaza than expected
By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
Senior Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police officers admitted Wednesday that the number of right-wing activists who have infiltrated Gush Katif has risen significantly recently, just four days before the start of the disengagement.
The defense establishment is belittling the importance of the infiltration in its official statements. However, in private discussions this week, it estimated that the number of illegal Israelis in the Gaza Strip stands at 2,700 - 700 more than the IDF's highest public estimates thus far.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611132.html
Army police arrest soldier for threatening to shoot Sharon
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Military police arrested Wednesday night a soldier suspected of threatening to shoot Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The soldier, from the Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command, was posted at a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the Gaza Strip.
IDF troops and policemen at the checkpoint said the soldier had approached them and asked them where he could find Sycamore Ranch, the Sharon family's farm. "I want to shoot the prime minister," he added.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611128.html
Olmert: Pullout not meant to tighten hold over West Bank
By Reuters
Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied Palestinian suspicions that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, due to begin next week, was designed as a swap for permanent control over far bigger settlements in the West Bank.
Sharon has ruled out dialogue on a Palestinian state before Palestinians disarm militants. Palestinians call this demand unrealistic without statehood on the horizon and fear Israeli settlement growth in the West Bank could dash their dreams.
"Gaza is not a tradeoff for the West Bank," said Olmert, known for periodically testing Sharon's thinking in public before policy is formed.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611055.html
Haaretz probe: Jews no longer a majority west of Jordan
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent
For the first time since the establishment of Israel, the proportion of Jews living in territories under the country's control has dropped below 50 percent, standing slightly more than 49 percent, according to a probe conducted by Haaretz.
The results are based on figures supplied by Israel and the Palestinian Authority's official statistics bureaus.
According to the figures, following the upcoming disengagement, the proportion of Jews in territories under Israeli control will jump to 56.8 percent. As a result of this development, demographic expert Prof. Sergio Della Pergola of the Hebrew University said the country
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611130.html
Netanyahu's 'flight' was 'irresponsible,' Sharon asserts
By Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that he plans to continue leading the country after the disengagement is implemented, and hopes to make peace with the Palestinians.
"I don't intend to retire and rest," Sharon said in a Channel 1 television interview. "I certainly plan to continue and do the things that need to be done for the good of the country, with the hope of reaching a political arrangement that will lead to peace."
Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made similar comments Wednesday, saying: "For the first time in history, an Israeli government has voluntarily decided without outside pressure to pull out of these territories for the sake of one thing only - to lay foundations for the beginning of a meaningful dialogue with Palestinians."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/610570.html
AT ISSUE: The Bibi factor - pullout and politics
For months, Benjamin Netanyahu had scotched the rumors that he planned to resign just before the pullout. Then, this week, he stunned the nation and its markets by doing just that.
He had once been the great hope of the hard-line. But a succession of half-hearted efforts to derail or stall the disengagement may have cost Netanyahu his credibility among the religious and the right.
He had once been the great hope of the Likud. But Netanyahu's free-market economic reforms may have sapped his strong support among a power base of blue-collar Israelis.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=609901&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
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