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On this day…
284 Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
1758 1st indian reservation established
1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1883 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1889 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1908 NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1920 Charlie "Bird" (Charles Christopher) Parker is born in Kansas
City, Kansas. The jazz saxophonist will become one of the
leaders of the bebop movement and be noted for his works "Ko
Ko" and "In the Still of the Night," among others. He will
receive numerous awards from Downbeat magazine and have the
famous jazz club, Birdland, in New York City named in his
honor.
1924 Ruth Jones is born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She will be better
known as "Dinah Washington." She will perform with Lionel
Hampton from 1943 to 1946 and become one of the most popular
R & B singers of the 1950's and early 1960's.
1933 Isabel Sanford is born in New York City. She will become an
actress and will star as Louise on the long-running sitcom
"The Jeffersons", "All in the Family", and will star in many
movies including "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", "Original
Gangstas", "South Beach", "Love at First Bite", "The
Photographer", "The New Centurions", "Pendulum", and "Buffalo
Soldiers".
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1945 Wyomia Tyus, Olympic runner, who will become the first woman
sprinter to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100
meters (three total), is born in rural Georgia. She will also
become a 10-time AAU National Champion and an All-American
Athlete in both the indoor and outdoor competition. Tyus will
compete in amateur and professional track and field meets from
1960 - 1975. In addition to her athletic achievements, Tyus
will hold a special place in Olympic history. At the XXIIIrd
Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Tyus will become the first woman
ever, in the history of the Olympic Games, to bear the Olympic
Flag.
1946 Bob Beamon is born in Jamaica, New York. He will become a star in
track and field, He will specialize in the long jump and will win
the 1968 Olympic gold medal in the long jump and set the world
record of 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches. His record will stand for twenty
three years until it is broken by Mike Powell at the World
Championships in Tokyo in 1991.
1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1953 USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1957 The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed by Congress. It is the
first civil rights legislation since 1875. The bill
establishes a civil rights commission and a civil rights
division in the Justice Department. It also gave the Justice
Department authority to seek injunctions against voting rights
infractions.
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 Air Force Academy opens
1958 Michael Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana. First with the
family group the Jackson Five and later as a solo artist,
Jackson will be one of pop and Rhythm & Blues' foremost stars.
His solo album "Off the Wall" (1979) will sell 7 million copies
worldwide, surpassed only by "Thriller", his largest-selling
album (also the biggest selling album of all time).
1962 Mal Goode becomes the first African American television news
commentator when he begins broadcasting on ABC.
1962 Carl Banks is born. He will become a star NFL linebacker with the
New York Giants.
1966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF)
1970 - Black Panthers confront the police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
One policeman is killed and six are wounded in a racial
confrontation.
1971 - Hank Aaron becomes the first baseball player in the National League
to drive in 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1977 St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1977 St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career
stolen base record at 893.
1979 The first completely Black-owned radio network in the world, "Mutual
Black Network" is purchased by the Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation.
1984 Edwin Moses wins the 400-meter hurdles in track competition in Europe.
It is the track star's 108th consecutive victory.
1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
1986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1988 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 Seattle Mariners become 1st team to have father-son teammates, signing Ken Griffey to play with son Ken Griffey Jr
1991 John F Kennedy Jr wins his 1st law case
Missing in Action
1965 BYRNE RONALD E. JR. GREAT NECK NY 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1965 MC WHORTER HENRY S. SAVANNAH GA FLAK EJECTED NO PARA BEEP REMAINS RETURNED 04/10/86
1965 TAYLOR EDD DAVID KENSETT AR FIRE CRASH NO PARA SEEN
1966 WELLS NORMAN L. ANNAPOLIS MD "03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV (UNIONVILLE, VA)" ALIVE IN 98
1967 NEWBURN LARRY S. KOKOMO IN
1968 ASHALL ALAN F. BILLINGS MT SURVIVAL UNLIKELY
1968 DUNCAN ROBERT R. WEST PALM BEACH FL
1969 GRAF ALBERT STEPHEN BOGOTA NJ
1969 ZIMMER JERRY ALLEN MAINE NY
August 28
1962 SIMPSON ROBERT LEWIS PANAMA
1965 SCHIERMAN WESLEY D. ST. JOHN WA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV INJURED ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 BABULA ROBERT L. INDIANA PA
1966 BODENSCHATZ JOHN E. LOS ANGELES CA
1966 BORTON ROBERT C. JR. BENTON HARBOR MI FAMILY REJECTS ID REMAINS IDENTIFIED 29 MAR 95
1966 CARTER DENNIS R. LOMITA CA
1967 DEGNAN JERRY L.
1967 WALLACE CHARLES FRANKLIN ELLISVILLE MS
1968 MILLER ROBERT CHARLES HAYWARD CA
1968 PHILLIPS ELBERT AUSTIN HUNTSVILLE AL
August 27
1966 COKER GEORGE T. LINDEN NJ 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 FELLOWES JOHN H. VIRGINIA BEACH VA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 BACIK VLADIMIR HENRY HOUSTON TX
1967 BOGGS PASCHAL GLENN EAST POINT GA
1968 PICK DONALD WILLIAM RICHLAND WA
1970 ROGERS LYLE D.
1972 EVERETT DAVID A. BRUNSWICK GA 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 TRIEBEL THEODORE VIENNA VA 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
August 26
1965 DAVIS EDWARD A. MORRISTOWN PA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 DAY GEORGE EVERETTE NIAGARA FALLS NY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 FULLER WILLIAM OTIS HOUSTON TX
1967 KILCULLEN THOMAS MICHAEL ADELPHI MD
1971 VENNIK ROBERT N. WYCKOFF NJ
1972 CORDOVA SAM GARY HUNTINGTON BEACH CA REMAINS RETURNED 12/15/88
The Mail and Guardian
Monster Hurricane Katrina pounds US Gulf Coast
Mira Oberman New Orleans, Louisiana
Hurricane Katrina pounded vulnerable New Orleans with howling winds on Monday, damaging the roof of the Superdome stadium where thousands had sought refuge, knocking out power, flooding streets and threatening a wide swath of the United States Gulf Coast.
The large and extremely dangerous hurricane claimed the lives of at least three people and sent crude oil prices soaring following the evacuation of offshore rigs in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico and the closure of refineries in Louisiana.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249407&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/>
The Los Angeles Times
Fire Spreads in Area Near Palm Springs
Nearly 5,000 acres have burned in mountains. The blaze was only 5% contained Sunday.
By Jason Felch, Times Staff Writer
A wildfire in the mountains northwest of Palm Springs burned 4,980 acres of steep, grassy terrain, prompting a call for a voluntary evacuation of 150 residences that was later lifted, officials said Sunday.
The fire started when hikers tried to light a campfire, and spread quickly in Blaisdell Canyon Friday night, fueled by wind and dry, crunchy grasses left over from an unusually wet spring, officials said.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/inland/la-me-palm29aug29,1,3058493.story?coll=la-editions-inland-news
Hurricane Katrina Slams Into Gulf Coast
Fierce winds peel off sections of Superdome roof.
By Scott Gold and Ellen Barry, Times Staff Writers
NEW ORLEANS -- Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast early this morning, churning huge waves and spitting fierce 140-mile-an-hour winds that tore off sections of the Superdome's roof and blew out transformers, leaving much of the city without electricity.
Low-lying New Orleans was spared a direct hit from the storm that hit land at 6:10 a.m. local time near Grand Isle, La. Officials worried that a day of rain and the expected storm surge of 15 to 20 feet of water would flood New Orleans' historic districts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-082905katrina_lat,0,7531280.story?coll=la-home-headlines
http://www.latimes.com/media/acrobat/2005-08/19195639.pdf
New Orleans Facing Environmental Disaster
By MATT CRENSON, AP National Writer
As Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Monday, experts said it could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries.
Experts have warned for years that the levees and pumps that usually keep New Orleans dry have no chance against a direct hit by a Category 5 storm.
Pasted from <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13aug29,0,5691616.story>
RIA Novosti
Russia's foreign ministry regrets U.S. senators' plane delay
MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's foreign ministry said Monday it regretted that the airline flight of two U.S. senators had been delayed in Perm, the Urals region, today.
"We regret the misunderstanding and inconveniences for the senators," the ministry said.
"The flight of the U.S. Air Force airplane carrying the senators and their assistants was delayed at the Perm airport by border officials who had to look into relevant formalities and the flight's status," the ministry said.
Russian and American special flights have a number of reciprocal diplomatic privileges, including simpler border and customs procedures, the ministry said. "When Moscow confirmed the flight's diplomatic status, the senators left Russia."
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050829/41247206.html
Russia, China might consider replacing dollar in bilateral trade - expert
MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti, Yelena Fedorova) - Russia and China might consider replacing dollar in bilateral trade, a senior banking expert said on the eve of the Third Russian-Chinese Banking Forum opening Monday.
Garegin Torsunyan, president of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB), said, "There are many ways to establish direct currency exchange and appropriate exchange rates with our Chinese partners."
A certain step in this direction has already been made when Russian and Chinese banks were allowed to open mutual corresponding accounts, he added.
At the same time, Torsunyan said it was difficult to establish direct currency exchange considering that the Russian currency was not convertible abroad.
http://en.rian.ru/business/20050828/41239808.html
Russia to host special forces antiterrorist exercise in September
MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The training center of the Russian Interior Ministry special forces will host an international antiterrorist exercise in September, the commander of the Russian Interior Troops said Monday.
Colonel General Nikolai Rogozhkin said the exercise would focus on anti-terrorism efforts.
"Special forces from CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] member countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will take part in the exercise," Rogozhkin added.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050829/41243351.html
Putin to discuss Iraq with Berlusconi -- source
SOCHI, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the situation in Iraq and the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a meeting Monday, a Kremlin source said.
"Vladimir Putin will probably ask Silvio Berlusconi about the situation in Iraq, and, most importantly, about its future development," the source said, adding that Russia had "major economic interests" in the country. The source said that Russia also wanted to know Berlusconi's thoughts about when foreign troops, including Italian soldiers, would be pulled out of Iraq.
He said Russia was not pushing for an immediate withdraw, or even in the next couple of years, but did think it correct to set a deadline. He added that Western countries had pushed Moscow to set a deadline for withdrawing its troops from Georgia and Moldavia.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050829/41242303.html
August-September 1943: Tokyo tried to reconcile Stalin with Hitler
MOSCOW, (Anatoly Koshkin for RIA Novosti). Several years ago the U.S. National Archives published correspondence between the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, Hiroshi Oshima, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry that had been intercepted and decoded by American secret services during World War II.
From this correspondence, it transpired that after the defeat of the German armies in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, the Japanese government had tried to act as an intermediary for Moscow and Berlin. Tokyo made several attempts to arrange separate talks on the cessation of hostilities on the Soviet-German front. For example, Oshima reported to Tokyo that Hitler had ostensibly agreed to halt the war against the U.S.S.R. if the Soviet leadership gave him Ukraine. ITAR-TASS reported at the time that, "It is not clear from Oshima's encrypted correspondence whether Moscow received this proposal."
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050829/41247818.html
"Siberian labor camps" were invented in Tokyo
MOSCOW. (Anatoly Koshkin for RIA Novosti). -- Who was it that suggested using Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) to restore the Soviet economy after World War II?
Incredible though it may seem, it was the court of the Japanese emperor that came up with the idea.
The entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan can be seen as the Soviet government meeting its obligations to the Allies. However, Japan still claims that it was a treacherous act that contravened the Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact signed in April 1941. Japan also accuses the Soviet Union of illegally interning the men and officers of the Kwantung Army, which was routed by Soviet troops in August 1945.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050826/41233488.html
Gypsy culture in Russia
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Anatoly Korolev). -- A special course for gifted young gypsies is to start at the Shchukin Theater School in Moscow in September.
The man behind the project is actor, producer and singer Nikolai Slichenko, art director of the world's only national gypsy theater, the Romen Theater.
Slichenko set up the course for a number of reasons: firstly, the theater, which opened in 1931, will soon mark its centenary; secondly, the theatre troupe desperately needs new recruits; and thirdly, there are concerns about the general state of gypsy culture in Russia today.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050826/41232225.html
The Cheney Observer
Will Karl Rove be punished?
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One might wonder about the connection between the "Dough Boy" and "Rove Boy." It's simple: Both change when the heat is on.
Did Karl Rove leak the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame? That is the question ["Outing a CIA agent: Why should anyone care about leak?" Aug. 1].
At first Rove denied being involved in outing Plame, but later, when pressed with certain facts, he admitted he had spoken to a member of the press about her.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/082005/08282005/120941
Rove's role
August 28, 2005
SOME WHITE House sympathizers have attempted to portray Karl Rove's role in the Valerie Plame scandal as that of a statesman, seeking to provide President Bush with the best information possible on Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions so that Bush could set policy based on facts. This has been met with deserved skepticism. Rove's career, even before he became Bush's deputy chief of staff, is rich with reasons to think his motives in helping to identify Plame as a CIA agent were far darker.
After all, Plame's identity was revealed in a Robert Novak column on July 14, 2003, just eight days after her husband, Joseph Wilson, had embarrassed Bush over his Iraq war rationale. And Rove had talked with Novak on July 9.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/08/28/roves_role/
Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: August 29, 2005
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.
The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/29/international/middleeast/29halliburton.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1125340225-qO6lXKOXZ5oZ5HC96gnDoA
Smugglers force oil-rich Iraq to import high-priced fuel
By T. Christian Miller
Los Angeles Times
T. CHRISTIAN MILLER / LOS ANGELES TIMES
An Iraqi coast-guard sailor patrols the legendary waterway Shatt Al Arab, which means "Stream of the Arabs." The newly formed coast guard is responsible for catching smugglers.
ON THE SHATT AL ARAB, Iraq — The rusted skiffs chug down this broad channel lined with marsh, sometimes so laden with illegal cargo that they sit only half a foot above the waterline.
Usually they're carrying diesel fuel, bought cheaply in Iraq and smuggled for a handy profit to countries such as Iran, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002454704_fuelsmuggling28.html
Christians preach hate, too
Why do George W Bush and Rupert Murdoch think so highly of a dangerous demagogue?
Richard Ingrams
Sunday August 28, 2005
The Observer
One aspect of the preachers of hate debate which has gone unnoticed is that any new laws would have to apply to Christian preachers as well as Muslims.
In that case, people like American evangelist Pat Robertson could well find themselves in trouble. Last week, for example, Robertson was calling for the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to be 'taken out', in other words, murdered. (He later tried to get out of it by claiming that 'taking people out' didn't necessarily involve assassination.)
This Christian preacher of hate, it turns out, enjoys a cordial relationship with George W Bush, who might well come to his aid if he were under threat. But he could not deny that, in many respects, there is nothing to distinguish him from his Muslim brothers. He hates homosexuals, for example, and has even on occasion spoken out about what he calls a 'Jewish money conspiracy'.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1557952,00.html
Busted: Blair gives public treasure to White House
Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent
Sunday August 28, 2005
The Observer
A bronze bust of Winston Churchill, owned by the British Government Art Collection and paid for by the taxpayer, is at the centre of a row after it was loaned by Tony Blair to George W Bush.
The renowned Jacob Epstein sculpture that sits in President Bush's Oval Office was loaned to the White House four years ago, on orders from Blair's office, in an unprecedented act outside the strict remit of the collection.
The claim, to be made in a BBC radio documentary on Thursday and supported this weekend by art specialists, forms part of new scrutiny of the GAC and its backroom handling of tens of millions of pounds worth of British art each year.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1558068,00.html
Expert View : One Alan Greenspan, there's only one Alan Greenspan
By Christopher Walker
Published: 28 August 2005
The end of an era. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, the "world's central banker", is about to retire. His abstruse pronouncements have become legendary, defining whole periods and moving markets. What will happen after him?
Greenspan is the bankers' darling. This weekend he is being feted by his peers at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Declining risk premiums are attributed to the "Greenspan put" - the certainty that his astute monetary management will avoid slip-ups. His popularity has broader appeal as well; when he appeared before the senate finance committee recently, one hot-headed senator began inanely shouting: "Five more years!", while at a Washington baseball game this summer the crowd chanted: "Keep 'em low, Al."
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article308527.ece
Nine Miles to Crawford
By Paul Saint-Amand
SPECIAL TO THE ICONOCLAST
When the two Secret Service boys hopped out of their air-conditioned white Suburban, no doubt Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan felt a sudden chill pierce the 100-plus degree heat in Crawford, Texas. Saturday afternoon’s unrelenting sun washed over the roadway and spilled into the ditch where Cindy and an estimated 125 veterans and activists, including myself, waited for President Bush to acknowledge this anguished mother’s right to ask why her son, Casey, was killed for a lie.
I stood behind Cindy with my cell phone on speaker mode so that my wife in Massachusetts could hear her conversation with the agents. After a brief warning about Cindy’s intent to camp overnight on this lonely stretch of country road, the young agent hedged his concern for her safety with a final comment. “Well, ma’am. . .You have my condolences on the loss of your son.” Cindy, near heatstroke, looked into his deadpan face said quietly, “I didn’t lose my son. He was killed in Iraq. If I had lost him, I would go to Iraq and find him. He’s dead. Do you understand what that means? Do you understand?”
http://198.65.14.85/Columns/Guest/2005/34guest01.htm
Nine Miles to Crawford
By Paul Saint-Amand
SPECIAL TO THE ICONOCLAST
When the two Secret Service boys hopped out of their air-conditioned white Suburban, no doubt Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan felt a sudden chill pierce the 100-plus degree heat in Crawford, Texas. Saturday afternoon’s unrelenting sun washed over the roadway and spilled into the ditch where Cindy and an estimated 125 veterans and activists, including myself, waited for President Bush to acknowledge this anguished mother’s right to ask why her son, Casey, was killed for a lie.
I stood behind Cindy with my cell phone on speaker mode so that my wife in Massachusetts could hear her conversation with the agents. After a brief warning about Cindy’s intent to camp overnight on this lonely stretch of country road, the young agent hedged his concern for her safety with a final comment. “Well, ma’am. . .You have my condolences on the loss of your son.” Cindy, near heatstroke, looked into his deadpan face said quietly, “I didn’t lose my son. He was killed in Iraq. If I had lost him, I would go to Iraq and find him. He’s dead. Do you understand what that means? Do you understand?”
http://198.65.14.85/Columns/Guest/2005/34guest01.htm
Congressman questions VP's ability to perform duties
August 27, 2005, 5:14 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- The dean of New York's congressional delegation suggested in a television interview that Vice President Dick Cheney may not be healthy enough to perform his duties.
Rep. Charles Rangel was being interviewed on NY1, the New York City-based all-news channel, when he was asked Friday night whether he thought President Bush was taking too much vacation time this summer.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--rangel-cheney0827aug27,0,1363844.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Pentagon - Bush - Cheney Plan Nuclear War on Iran
by WEBSTER TARPLEY
With the direct threat of military attack against Iran issued Aug. 13 by Bush, the world has entered a phase of new and acute danger of general war.
Bush made the threat in an interview with Israeli television. "All options are on the table," said Bush, speaking from his estate in Crawford, Texas. Asked if that included the use of force, Bush replied: "As I say, all options are on the table. The use of force is the last option for any president and you know, we've used force in the recent past to secure our country." (Reuters,Jerusalem, August 13, 2005)
Bush's comments were ostensibly made in the context of the US campaign to shut down the Iranian nuclear program, but in reality came in the midst of feverish US-UK preparations for a new 9/11 of state- sponsored, false flag synthetic terrorism which is intended by the terrorist controllers in London and Washington to set the stage for the attack on Iran, as well as for martial law dictatorships throughout the English-speaking world and beyond.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=2&contentid=2641
Cheney's speech inappropriate
I really appreciated Robert Leger's editorial and question "How does Cheney praise Purple Heart?" in the Aug. 21 News-Leader. He said what really needed to be said.
I am not a Purple Heart recipient; however, I am a WWII veteran with my campaign medals and ribbons listed in the crowded space allotted on my honorable Army discharge. I was in the Mediterranean theater of operations.
Seems those in power never miss an opportunity to toot their campaign horn. Sometimes inappropriately.
Paul Nevatt, Springfield
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050827/OPINIONS03/508270336/1006
DeLay dances across district to woo voters
Ethics probe, upcoming race keep him close to home over break
By SAMANTHA LEVINE
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay at a senior citizens' sock hop that featured a DJ dressed as Elvis? You betcha.
And he wasn't roped into attending, either.
His office called the Sugar Land Parks & Recreation Department and said the House majority leader wanted to attend the event at the Sugar Land Community Center earlier this month.
"I was a little shocked," said officer Todd Zettlemoyer of the Sugar Land Police Department, which helped organize the dance as part of a neighborhood crime-awareness program.
"This was the first year that we had the congressman there," he said. "He no sooner walked in the door than he had a crowd around him."
That was the whole point.
In recent weeks, DeLay has worked his constituency harder than he has in years. He popped up at more than 20 local gigs, from speeches to the La Marque Rotary Club and the Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena to high-profile ceremonies at NASA and Ellington Field.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/front/3325775
Halliburton Is 'Doing All The Right Things'
Banc of America reiterated a "buy" rating on Halliburton (nyse: HAL - news - people ), noting "the company is doing all the right things to improve absolute returns to shareholders and relative performance versus its peers."
Banc of America said Halliburton's "breakout" second-quarter report "demonstrates the earnings potential of the company and we see the strength continuing with geographic and product line segments all expected to improve."
http://www.forbes.com/markets/equities/2005/08/26/halliburton-energy-kbr-0826markets01.html
Intelligent design - coming to a school near you
27.08.05
By Chris Barton
Science teachers say it has no place in the classroom. Christian educators say children shouldn't be denied alternative views.
Science teachers retaliate that it's not science, it's religion behind a mask and they don't want a bar of it. Christian educators argue they can teach it alongside traditional science, so what are science teachers so afraid of?
Science teachers' blood begins to boil. "It's not science."' they fume.
"It" is "intelligent design" - a challenge to the theory of evolution described by some as creationism in disguise. But it's a challenge that's garnering support from high places.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10342658
The timeline of a leak and a controversy
2002
February: Vice President Dick Cheney asks whether Iraq sought uranium from Niger.
Feb. 12: The CIA sends Joseph Wilson to Niger.
March 9: Wilson's report finds little evidence for such claims.
Aug. 26: Cheney says: "We now know that Saddam [Hussein] has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons."
Oct. 5-6: CIA Director George Tenet persuades the White House to remove the uranium claim from a Bush speech.
2003
Jan. 28: President Bush's State of the Union message cites a British report that Iraq sought uranium.
March 7: U.N. nuclear agency finds uranium documents are "not authentic."
March 20: U.S. invades Iraq.
July 6: Wilson goes public on his Niger trip and findings.
July 7-8: Administration sources tell columnist Robert Novak about Wilson's CIA wife.
July 7: White House admits to mistake in citing uranium claim.
July 11: Karl Rove tells Time's Matthew Cooper that Wilson's wife arranged the Niger trip.
July 14: Novak column unmasks Valerie Plame.
July 30: CIA asks Justice Department to investigate leak of agent's identity.
Sept. 16: White House says suggesting Rove leaked her identity is "ridiculous."
Sept. 29: White House spokesman says leaker will be fired.
Sept. 30: Wilson endorses John Kerry for president.
Dec. 30: Patrick Fitzgerald named special prosecutor.
2004
Jan. 23: Weapons inspector David Kay says there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
July 10: Senate panel faults prewar intelligence and calls Wilson's report inconclusive.
Nov. 2: Bush wins re-election.
2005
Feb. 15: Court orders journalists Judith Miller and Cooper to cooperate with grand jury.
July 6: Miller refuses to testify and is jailed; Cooper agrees to testify after getting permission from his source, Rove.
July 18: Bush says leaker will be fired if a crime was committed.
Sources: Times reporting, news media reports, White House and Senate documents
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002452825_leakbox26.html
Cheney wrong person to defend war
PILLIP GAILEY
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
I wish Dick Cheney would stay in his secret hideaway, wherever it is, the one he goes to when the terror alert in Washington is at maximum level.
Every time the vice president ventures out to defend the administration's bungled war in Iraq, he only adds insult to injury. Even more so than President Bush, Cheney is the cold embodiment of the delusions, arrogance, stubbornness, incompetence and denial that got us into this messy war. He has no credibility on the subject.
These days, you won't hear Cheney saying, as he did two months ago, that the Iraqi insurgency is in its "last throes." Instead, as he told a friendly audience of combat veterans last week, "there is still tough fighting" to come. The United States "will not relent" in pressing the war. U.S. forces will hunt down Iraqi insurgents "one at a time if necessary."
Easy to say when the war doesn't touch you or your family or wealthy friends, who enjoy tax cuts while our soldiers bleed in Iraq and their families struggle with hardships at home. At least Bush has broken down and wept with the families of fallen soldiers in private meetings on military bases. According to a story in Newsweek magazine last week, the president choked up and began to cry in a meeting at MacDill AFB in Tampa with families who had lost loved ones in the war. "I am sorry, I'm so sorry," he told them.
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National parks being hijacked, group claims
Retirees tie proposed public use revisions to political appointee
An association of retiree Park Service employees on Friday accused Bush administration political appointees of hijacking America’s national parks, saying a leaked Interior Department document shows a move to stress recreation and resource development over park preservation.
“Britney Spears could hold a major concert at Shiloh National Military Park or nearly any national park since the new rules significantly increase the emphasis on permitting public uses over the traditional mission of preserving historic and natural places,” the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees said in a statement.
The group singled out Paul Hoffman, who oversees the Park Service as an assistant Interior secretary, as being behind the revisions. Formerly head of the chamber of commerce in Cody, Wyo., outside Yellowstone, Hoffman had also worked for Dick Cheney when the vice president was a U.S. lawmaker in the 1980s.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9087265/
Hu’s on first, Cheney’s at bat
China, United States on back-to-back missions to Canada as both countries take aim at oil sands to shore up energy security
Gary Park
Petroleum News Canadian Correspondent
With North American trade relations at their lowest ebb in anyone’s memory, the stakes will be raised in September, if only symbolically, when Canada plays host to two of the world’s most influential politicians.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Chinese President Hu Jintao are staging back-to-back visits at a time when their interest in Canadian oil, especially the Alberta oil sands, is climbing to new heights.
For those trying to discern some deeper significance, Hu’s visit is a lengthy, elaborate affair; Cheney’s itinerary seems to have been hastily assembled.
So far, in fact, only the Alberta government and the Fraser Institute, a right-wing think tank, have even said Cheney is heading north of the 49th parallel. There has been no confirmation from Washington.
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