Monday, May 30, 2005
Heads Up !!! This heat plumb manifested off the equatoral North America within the past ninty minutes. There is reason to believe this may have significance to the southern coastal border and inland of the southern USA. This system built somewhat quickly over the past twelve hours but increased in intensity over the past 2 hours. 
May 27, 2005. This is a very rare and wonderful photograph. It is titled "UFOs." because of the formation of the clouds. What is so wonderful about it is it's location. Ready? The (Summit) Kummiut near Tasiilag/Angmassalik, GREENLAND. This is some of the peaks near the Greenland Ice. Isn't that an incredible picture?
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
May 27...
1818, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, reformer. Women's rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born on this day in 1818. Bloomer is most famous for her stand in favor of dress reform. (She often appeared wearing trousers, or "bloomers," under a skirt.) This site offers information about her life.
Mid-19th century America was in some respects an age of perfectionism. People believed religious, moral, social, or political perfection was obtainable. Many different reform causes attracted dedicated adherents. Mental health. Temperance. Education. Abolition. Utopian socialism. Diet. Seances. Fashion. Suffrage. Less serious issues competed with the more serious for a place on the public policy agenda. Disparate efforts under the umbrella of reform were united by one overriding goal: to assure that American reality matched American ideals. American women were leaders in reform movements. Some made names for themselves espousing particular reforms, while others supported a host of different reforms. Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to improve the care of the insane. Sarah and Angelina Grimke crusaded for abolition. Lydia Maria Child wrote about the right of a married woman to make a will. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the dramatic Seneca Falls Convention. Into this scene stepped Amelia Bloomer. Before she exited, she would affect popular culture and the public agenda.
Bloomer's battles both reflected and influenced gender roles in the 19th century as America debated social reforms and constitutional rights: the right to petition, the right to vote , among others. An avid volunteer, Bloomer challenged the existing social and political culture. She led a civic life that affected the nation's public agenda. She would shape and be shaped by political institutions, the media, and individual reformers with whom she shared the stage.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/bloomer_suffrage_petition/bloomer_suffrage_petition.html
1819, Julia Ward Howe, author and reformer
1837, Wild Bill Hickok, frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer
1907, Rachel Carson, marine biologist and author
1911, Hubert Humphrey, vice president of the United States
1647, The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.
1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1936, the Cunard liner Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage
1937, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, opens; at the time of its completion, it is the longest suspension bridge in existence.
1941, amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency."
1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy; some three dozen paintings were ruined or damaged.
1994, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a truce with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, leader of the breakaway state of Chechnya, although fighting continues on both sides.
Missing in Action
1965 LYNN DOYLE W. ALIQUIPPA PA AA HIT CRASH TARGET AREA NO PARA
1966 MONAHAN ROBERT W. 01/01/67 RELEASED
1966 SCALES THOMAS R. 01/01/67 RELEASED REFNO 0347 DECEASED
1967 BLACKWOOD GORDON B. PALO VERDE CA PROB DEAD---REMAINS RETURNED ID 11/20/89
1970 LEE GLEN H. HONOLULU HI REMAINS ID'D 8/23/94 DPMO SP GLENN
1971 KNUCKEY THOMAS W. WHARTON NJ REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93
1971 TAYLOR PHILLIP C. GRAND ISLAND NY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93
1972 LATENDRESSE THOMAS B. YAKIMA WA 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
May 28…
1779, Thomas Moore, poet
1888, Jim Thorpe, athlete
1908, Ian Fleming, British novelist, best known as creator of the popular suspense-fiction character James Bond, British secret service agent 007. Born in London, Fleming was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, which he left after a year to study languages in Munich, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland. He served as Moscow correspondent for the Reuters news agency from 1929 to 1933. He was then a banker and stockbroker in London until the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945), when he became personal assistant to the director of British naval intelligence. After the war Fleming worked as foreign manager of The Sunday Times, in London.
The suave, thrill-seeking Commander James Bond is the protagonist of 12 best-selling espionage novels written by Fleming, including Casino Royale (1953), From Russia with Love (1957), Dr. No (1958), Goldfinger (1959), Thunderball (1961), and The Man with the Golden Gun, published posthumously in 1965. Scottish actor Sean Connery and English actor Roger Moore, among others, have played the role of James Bond in several successful motion pictures based on Fleming's novels.
1929, On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden Theater.
1934, The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.
1961, The human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International (AI) was founded. The organization's official Web site offers information on human rights issues throughout the world.
The state of the world's human rights
During 2004, the human rights of ordinary men, women and children were disregarded and grossly abused in every corner of the globe. The Amnesty International Report 2005, covering 149 countries, is a detailed picture of these abuses.
http://www.amnesty.org/
1980, The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.
1987, West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.
1991, The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.
Missing in Action
1968 HILL JOSEPH A. TAYLORVILLE IL
1968 INGVALSON ROGER D. AUSTIN MN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 CHAVIRA STEPHEN WASCO CA
1971 URQUHART PAUL D. MC MURRAY PA
May 29…
1736, Patrick Henry, American orator and statesman, and a leading patriot of the American Revolution. Henry was one of the most eloquent advocates of individual freedom and states’ rights in the early years of United States history. His famous words, “Give me liberty or give me death!” have become a part of the American heritage.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, president of the United States (1917)
1453, Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1790, Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1854, U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.
1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain
1972, In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow, and on this day Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev issued a joint communiqué. Visit The Moscow Times online for current news on Moscow, Russia, and the world.
Missing in Action
1967 GARNER JOHN H. CHARLESTON HEIGHTS SC
1972 MORROW LARRY K. LOWELL NC
May 30 …
1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida.
1883, 12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede.
1896, Howard Hawks, film director, writer, and producer
1899, Irving G. Thalberg, motion-picture executive
1901, Cornelia Otis Skinner, actor
1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States. The Project for Excellence in Journalism presents a series on the challenges facing American newspapers today.
1903, Countee Cullen, American poet, novelist, playwright, and educator. Cullen was one of the best-known black poets of the first half of the 20th century and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Many details of Cullen’s early life, including his place of birth, are unknown. He was chiefly raised by Elizabeth Porter, who may have been his paternal grandmother, until her death in 1918. The teenager was then informally adopted into the family of Reverend Frederick Cullen, minister of the largest church in New York City’s predominantly black Harlem neighborhood.
Countee Porter Cullen attended the city’s prestigious De Witt Clinton High School, where he served as editor of the school newspaper and the literary magazine The Magpie. He earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1925. While in high school and college, Cullen won a number of poetry contests. Soon after graduating he published his first volume of poetry, Color (1925). After earning a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1926, Cullen became assistant editor of Opportunity magazine. In 1927 he published a second collection of verse, Copper Sun. That same year Cullen also compiled and edited The Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets.
1909, Benny Goodman, jazz clarinetist and orchestra leader
1934, Alexei A. Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut and artist
1911, Indianapolis saw its first 500-Mile Race; Ray Harroun was the winner.
1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971, the American space probe Mariner Nine blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars.
Missing in Action
1962 GERBER DANIEL A. TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1962 MITCHELL ARCHIE E. ELLENSBURG WA TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1962 VIETTI ELANOR A. HOUSTON TX TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1966 HATCHER DAVID B. MT. AIRY NC 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 MEHL JAMES P. BELLE HARBOR NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 IODICE FRANK C. 06/01/68 ESCAPED
1968 POTTER ALBERT J. 06/01/68 ESCAPED DECEASED
1968 SMITH LEWIS P. II BELLEFONTE PA
1970 DUKE CHARLES R.
1970 ISHI TOMOHARA JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST.
1970 MARK KIT T.
continued...
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
May 27...
1818, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, reformer. Women's rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born on this day in 1818. Bloomer is most famous for her stand in favor of dress reform. (She often appeared wearing trousers, or "bloomers," under a skirt.) This site offers information about her life.
Mid-19th century America was in some respects an age of perfectionism. People believed religious, moral, social, or political perfection was obtainable. Many different reform causes attracted dedicated adherents. Mental health. Temperance. Education. Abolition. Utopian socialism. Diet. Seances. Fashion. Suffrage. Less serious issues competed with the more serious for a place on the public policy agenda. Disparate efforts under the umbrella of reform were united by one overriding goal: to assure that American reality matched American ideals. American women were leaders in reform movements. Some made names for themselves espousing particular reforms, while others supported a host of different reforms. Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to improve the care of the insane. Sarah and Angelina Grimke crusaded for abolition. Lydia Maria Child wrote about the right of a married woman to make a will. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the dramatic Seneca Falls Convention. Into this scene stepped Amelia Bloomer. Before she exited, she would affect popular culture and the public agenda.
Bloomer's battles both reflected and influenced gender roles in the 19th century as America debated social reforms and constitutional rights: the right to petition, the right to vote , among others. An avid volunteer, Bloomer challenged the existing social and political culture. She led a civic life that affected the nation's public agenda. She would shape and be shaped by political institutions, the media, and individual reformers with whom she shared the stage.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/bloomer_suffrage_petition/bloomer_suffrage_petition.html
1819, Julia Ward Howe, author and reformer
1837, Wild Bill Hickok, frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer
1907, Rachel Carson, marine biologist and author
1911, Hubert Humphrey, vice president of the United States
1647, The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.
1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
1936, the Cunard liner Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage
1937, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, opens; at the time of its completion, it is the longest suspension bridge in existence.
1941, amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency."
1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy; some three dozen paintings were ruined or damaged.
1994, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a truce with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, leader of the breakaway state of Chechnya, although fighting continues on both sides.
Missing in Action
1965 LYNN DOYLE W. ALIQUIPPA PA AA HIT CRASH TARGET AREA NO PARA
1966 MONAHAN ROBERT W. 01/01/67 RELEASED
1966 SCALES THOMAS R. 01/01/67 RELEASED REFNO 0347 DECEASED
1967 BLACKWOOD GORDON B. PALO VERDE CA PROB DEAD---REMAINS RETURNED ID 11/20/89
1970 LEE GLEN H. HONOLULU HI REMAINS ID'D 8/23/94 DPMO SP GLENN
1971 KNUCKEY THOMAS W. WHARTON NJ REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93
1971 TAYLOR PHILLIP C. GRAND ISLAND NY REMAINS IDENTIFIED 02 AUG 93
1972 LATENDRESSE THOMAS B. YAKIMA WA 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
May 28…
1779, Thomas Moore, poet
1888, Jim Thorpe, athlete
1908, Ian Fleming, British novelist, best known as creator of the popular suspense-fiction character James Bond, British secret service agent 007. Born in London, Fleming was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, which he left after a year to study languages in Munich, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland. He served as Moscow correspondent for the Reuters news agency from 1929 to 1933. He was then a banker and stockbroker in London until the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945), when he became personal assistant to the director of British naval intelligence. After the war Fleming worked as foreign manager of The Sunday Times, in London.
The suave, thrill-seeking Commander James Bond is the protagonist of 12 best-selling espionage novels written by Fleming, including Casino Royale (1953), From Russia with Love (1957), Dr. No (1958), Goldfinger (1959), Thunderball (1961), and The Man with the Golden Gun, published posthumously in 1965. Scottish actor Sean Connery and English actor Roger Moore, among others, have played the role of James Bond in several successful motion pictures based on Fleming's novels.
1929, On With the Show, the first talking movie that is all in color debuts at New York City's Winter Garden Theater.
1934, The identical Dionne quintuplets are born in Ontario, Canada; the girls are made wards of the government and put on display at a themepark called Quintland.
1961, The human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International (AI) was founded. The organization's official Web site offers information on human rights issues throughout the world.
The state of the world's human rights
During 2004, the human rights of ordinary men, women and children were disregarded and grossly abused in every corner of the globe. The Amnesty International Report 2005, covering 149 countries, is a detailed picture of these abuses.
http://www.amnesty.org/
1980, The first Islamic parliament, the Majlis, opens in Iran.
1987, West German Mathias Rust flies a private plane unchallenged through Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's historic Red Square.
1991, The 17-year Marxist rule which brought famine and war to Ethiopia ends when rebel tanks storm the nation's capital, Addis Ababa.
Missing in Action
1968 HILL JOSEPH A. TAYLORVILLE IL
1968 INGVALSON ROGER D. AUSTIN MN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 CHAVIRA STEPHEN WASCO CA
1971 URQUHART PAUL D. MC MURRAY PA
May 29…
1736, Patrick Henry, American orator and statesman, and a leading patriot of the American Revolution. Henry was one of the most eloquent advocates of individual freedom and states’ rights in the early years of United States history. His famous words, “Give me liberty or give me death!” have become a part of the American heritage.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, president of the United States (1917)
1453, Ottoman forces under Sultan Muhammad II storm Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire; the empire falls and the city becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1790, Rhode Island becomes the 13th U.S. state; it is the last of the original colonies to ratify the Constitution.
1854, U.S. President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act, creating two new territories; settlers of the territories would determine the legality of slaveholding.
1953, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain
1972, In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow, and on this day Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev issued a joint communiqué. Visit The Moscow Times online for current news on Moscow, Russia, and the world.
Missing in Action
1967 GARNER JOHN H. CHARLESTON HEIGHTS SC
1972 MORROW LARRY K. LOWELL NC
May 30 …
1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida.
1883, 12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede.
1896, Howard Hawks, film director, writer, and producer
1899, Irving G. Thalberg, motion-picture executive
1901, Cornelia Otis Skinner, actor
1783: The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser is the first daily newspaper to be published in the United States. The Project for Excellence in Journalism presents a series on the challenges facing American newspapers today.
1903, Countee Cullen, American poet, novelist, playwright, and educator. Cullen was one of the best-known black poets of the first half of the 20th century and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Many details of Cullen’s early life, including his place of birth, are unknown. He was chiefly raised by Elizabeth Porter, who may have been his paternal grandmother, until her death in 1918. The teenager was then informally adopted into the family of Reverend Frederick Cullen, minister of the largest church in New York City’s predominantly black Harlem neighborhood.
Countee Porter Cullen attended the city’s prestigious De Witt Clinton High School, where he served as editor of the school newspaper and the literary magazine The Magpie. He earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1925. While in high school and college, Cullen won a number of poetry contests. Soon after graduating he published his first volume of poetry, Color (1925). After earning a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1926, Cullen became assistant editor of Opportunity magazine. In 1927 he published a second collection of verse, Copper Sun. That same year Cullen also compiled and edited The Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets.
1909, Benny Goodman, jazz clarinetist and orchestra leader
1934, Alexei A. Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut and artist
1911, Indianapolis saw its first 500-Mile Race; Ray Harroun was the winner.
1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971, the American space probe Mariner Nine blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars.
Missing in Action
1962 GERBER DANIEL A. TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1962 MITCHELL ARCHIE E. ELLENSBURG WA TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1962 VIETTI ELANOR A. HOUSTON TX TAKEN FROM LEPROSARIUM
1966 HATCHER DAVID B. MT. AIRY NC 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 MEHL JAMES P. BELLE HARBOR NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 IODICE FRANK C. 06/01/68 ESCAPED
1968 POTTER ALBERT J. 06/01/68 ESCAPED DECEASED
1968 SMITH LEWIS P. II BELLEFONTE PA
1970 DUKE CHARLES R.
1970 ISHI TOMOHARA JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST.
1970 MARK KIT T.
continued...
Morning Papers - continued...
The Onion
This is laughable. People are becoming so immune to advertising there is literally a campaign to increase awareness of advertising. YES !!! We are good !!
National Advertising Board Launches "Advertising: Get the Message!" Campaign
NEW YORK—In an effort to raise the individual American's awareness of and interest in advertising, the National Advertising Board launched a $32-million "Advertising: Get The Message!" campaign in major markets across the country Monday.
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4121
"Onion" Advertising
http://www.americanapparelstore.com/theonion-2.html
Palmolive Attacks Dawn For Coddling Grease
NEW YORK—Representatives for Palmolive dish detergent issued a challenge to the makers of Dawn Monday, charging that the blue dishwashing soap "coddles grease." "Palmolive lives up to its vow to be 'tough on grease,' but Dawn merely 'takes grease out of your way,'" Colgate-Palmolive CEO Reuben Mark said. "Out of sight, out of mind, eh Dawn? Palmolive believes in eradicating the grease problem, not simply pushing it to the far reaches of the sink." Mark added that, as unrelenting as Palmolive is on grease, it continues to be soft on hands.
Thousands Dead in Wake of Low Carbon Diet
FORT WALTON BEACH, FL—Doctors are linking nearly 9,000 deaths nationwide to the popular low-carbon diet outlined in the bestselling book, Dr. Wesley's Elemental Dieting. "Dr. Ryan Wesley's book tells dieters to avoid consuming carbon, an element that occurs in all organic life, animal and vegetable," said Dr. Peter Castle, a nutritionist at Johns Hopkins University. "Although Wesley dieters can ingest limitless hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, deriving nutrients only from gases is not viable in the long term." The low-carbon diet first came to prominence in February 2004 when Wesley appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show weighing an astonishing 76 pounds.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=2
Alternative Training School for Dogs De-Emphasizes Obedience
MONTEREY, CA—Dogs who attend the Kylee Alternative Training Institute are exposed to a "creative canine learning environment where less emphasis is placed on obedience," director Morgan Kylee said Monday. "We believe in helping our students to discover their own potential, rather than forcing them to conform to the traditional idea of what a dog should be," Kylee said. "Dogs that mess on the carpet or bark incessantly are not scolded, but praised for finding their own parameters. Our motto is 'If it feels good, chew it.'" Classes at the school include Holistic Heeling, Elective Fetching, and Removing The Leg-Humping Stigma.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=3
Cocky Attempt to Operate ATM in Spanish - Backfires !
SAFFORD, AZ—During a Monday night stop at an automated-teller machine, an overconfident Scott Tifton failed to withdraw cash using the machine's Spanish instructions. "My girlfriend Lisa was with me at the ATM, so I pressed Spanish as a joke," Tifton said. "I figured I could rely on my high-school Spanish, but instead of giving me $100, the deposit slot lit up. Then I hit what I thought meant 'cancel' a couple times, and it ate my card. We were going out to dinner for our two-year anniversary, and Lisa had to pay." Tifton said he probably could have figured out the instructions if he had been at his normal branch.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=4
Former Addict Celebrates 10th Year of Mind-Numbing Boredom
PHOENIX—Tom Stubbens, 44, a former heroin abuser, attended a party in his honor to celebrate a full decade of clean, sober, and dismally tedious living Tuesday. "The crazy gang of partiers I used to have so much fun with in the '90s wouldn't even recognize the clean and respectable person standing before you today," said Stubbens, raising an iced tea to friends at his regular evening haunt, the 36th Avenue Denny's. "Yup, but here I am... that person." Stubbens then retired to his apartment, where he watered his plants, organized his sock drawer, and fell asleep on the couch.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=5
Investigators Blame Stupidity in Area Deaths
WHEATLEY, AR—Although reckless driving and minor driver impairment were cited as additional factors, police investigators ruled pure, unadulterated stupidity as the primary cause in the death of an unlicensed motorist involved in a single-car accident Sunday.
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4121&n=1
Haaretz
Here we go. Bush wants to discredit Israel no matter what it takes. Prime Minister Sharon didn't come to the USA Diaspora for no reason.
U.S. to indict two senior AIPAC officials under Espionage Act
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.
A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Sources involved in the case confirmed that the Espionage Act is on the agenda. But there is also the possibility that the Justice Department is raising the intention to use that law with the purpose of reaching a plea bargain concerning a lesser offense, albeit one that is still covered by anti-espionage legislation in the U.S.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581788.html
The Bush Administration has a basic hated for Israel. People don't really 'buy into' the idea of an American President being Anti-Semitic but that is exactly what Bush/Cheney and their administration are.
I can't recall who of the Repuglican Right is Jewish.
AIPAC ( http://www.aipac.org/ ) is instrumental in providing meaningful support to Israel while being the a vital link for the diaspora to find comfort in that reality.
Sharon Gets Nod for Gaza Plan at Aipac Parley
http://forward.com/articles/3229
Rice Makes Plea For a 'Viable' Palestinian State
By Ori Nir
May 27, 2005
WASHINGTON — Despite fears of discord, Israel's prime minister received a rousing show of support Tuesday when he presented his Gaza disengagement plan to a cheering crowd of some 5,000 of America's most influential pro-Israel activists at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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In the time after that lunch. Bush's FBI sent an incompetent agent who has since been removed from any further investigation to AIPAC to rummage through the materials and files of that organization in a witch hunt to find SOMETHING. ANYTHING. That could be used as a wedge against Israel. Why? Because Bush as an Evangelical Christian has plans for a Christian Holy Land beginning by meetings held in Ur, Iraq at the beginnings of the invasion into Iraq.
It well known the land where Israel has built it's Knesset and other government buildings as well as private concerns are believed to be owned by Palestinian Christians. How that is the case when the Palestinians are not entitled to any of Israel since it's inception nearly fifty years ago but the 'myth' goes on. It can be speculated in Bush's fanaticism that he would see these lands as Christian and nothing else.
Under this oppressive administration Israel has been denied loans while the PA has been proved with millions upon millions of funding. Recently, it has come to the relief of the American Jewish Community the House of Representatives have earmarked all funds going to Palestinian development go through Hebrew Charitable Foundations, like AIPAC, to prevent funds from the USA becoming a blank check to kill Jews. The monies are to rehabilitate Palestine and assist where necessary while creating a peaceful process to disengagement.
Bush, just this past week, while Abbas was visiting, stated there would be more monies to Palestine taht woud go directly to the PA. Those are his demands but not necessarily the 'final word' about the legislation. The President can submit legislation but not dictate the outcome of it.
It is astounding that today there are announcements about a casual lunch called together by by Larry Franklin, a Pentagon operative, where alarming information was given to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman who are civilians and not officers of Israel or the USA. The purpose of this pursuit of indictment of innocent civilians who happen to work for AIPAC is to discredit Hebrew Chartable Funds so Bush 'gets his way' and the monies he is demanding for Palestine go directly to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
If someone called me the Pentagon and requested me and a pier to lunch, as Mr. Franklin did of Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman, I would be honored to attend. The senior staff members of AIPAC were set up. They were given alarming information over lunch as planned by Mr. Franklin. What would you do if a Pentagon Official provided alarming information to you? Wouldn't you feel as though you had act on it? I would. What was it supposed to be 'gossip' over lunch. I imagine the presentation of the information to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weisseman was rather creative and guided into concern those men carried away with them after lunch. Naturally, having information provided by a USA Pentagon Official in friendship over a friendly lunch would lead these men who loved Israel with all their heart for the work they do directly to an Israel contact to validate the information and voice concern now that they had knowledge of it. I believe Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman's contact with any Israeli entity was to demand attention to the issue as if the Israeli government were ignoring the issue. Those gentlemen are innocent of any malice to the USA. The ONLY guilty party is Mr. Franklin who 'set up' these Jewish Gentlemen to act on an emotional 'trigger' for their love of their native country, Israel.
I am personally appalled at the USA Justice Department that they would ever entertain such charges against citizens with a long history of devoted service within their faith and to Israel. But, when I reflect on it more I realize the Bush/Cheney Justice Department has a chronic history of victimizing innocent people for political gain. Also, Mr. Gonzalez has a long history of advocating distasteful torture that was used by this administration in Abu Ghraib.
To say the least this situation is upsetting, but, it is far more than that; it's victimizing to the Jewish Community and two of it's finest gentlemen who have devoted their lives to promoting Israel in the best light possible. If the Bush/Cheney administration is this determined to undermine Israel's reputation there is some very sounds concern for their determination to undermine Israeli sovereignty as well.
When all is said and done I guarantee you; Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman will be found innocent but in the meantime there will be huge amounts of damage done to Israel's reputable charitable organizations. It chills me to the bone to realize the hate that accompanies these allegations.
Court remands top Israeli execs in industrial espionage affair
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Monday remanded several people from some of Israel's leading commercial companies and private investigators suspected of commissioning and carrying out industrial espionage against their competitors, which was carried out by planting Trojan horse software in their competitors' computers.
Uzi Mor, CEO of Mayer and his deputies Avner Kez and Or Schachar, Moriah Katriel, financial vice president of Yes as well as Yoram Cohen, CEO of Hamafil were placed under an eight-day house arrest.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581790.html
AG denies hearing for chief rabbi on possible fraud charge
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Monday rejected a request by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger for a hearing ahead of any decision on whether to indict him for fraud and breach of trust.
Metzger could face charges for allegedly staying with his family at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem for a minimal fee during Pesach 2004. During an investigation into the affair, police discovered that the Metzgers also allegedly received huge discounts at David Citadel during last year's Sukkot and Shavuot holidays, and enjoyed similarly discounted stays at other hotels.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582283.html
FBI arrests two men on charges they offered to help al Qaida
By Associated Press
The FBI has arrested a Florida doctor and a New York martial arts expert on federal terrorism charges, saying they conspired to treat and train terrorists, prosecutors have announced.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a Boca Raton physician, and Tarik Shah, a self-described martial arts expert in New York, were both charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582169.html
FBI arrests two men on charges they offered to help al Qaida
By Associated Press
The FBI has arrested a Florida doctor and a New York martial arts expert on federal terrorism charges, saying they conspired to treat and train terrorists, prosecutors have announced.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a Boca Raton physician, and Tarik Shah, a self-described martial arts expert in New York, were both charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582169.html
EU meets with Israel, Arab neighbors over cooperation
By The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union foreign ministers and their counterparts from Israel and its Arab neighbors take stock of the Mideast peace process and debate economic and political cooperation between Europe and the Middle East at a two-day meeting opening Monday.
Rarely in the past decade has the twice-annual Euro-Mediterranean ministerial meeting opened with better prospects for peace in the region than now.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/581851.html
Abbas: Era of suicide bombers may be over
By Reuters
WASHINGTON - The culture of violence is changing in the Middle East, said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on ABC's "This Week" program yesterday.
Abbas, who visited the U.S. last week to meet President George W. Bush, said Palestinian-Israeli violence was down 90 percent in the past four months. Asked whether the era of suicide bombing was over, he said: "I believe it is over."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581811.html
The Washington Post
A Bane Amid The Housing Boom: Rising Foreclosures
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A01
PHILADELPHIA -- To walk Thayer Street in northeast Philadelphia is to count, door by door, the economic devastation afflicting a working-class neighborhood. On a single block, 18 of the 42 brick rowhouses have gone into foreclosure in the past three years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900972.html?sub=AR
Finding Support in the Search for E.T.
With Stronger Telescope and Renewed Vigor, Scientists Scan the Sky
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A01
HAT CREEK, Calif. -- Astronomer Michael M. Davis checked his computer. One of the antennas on the state-of-the-art radio telescope being built in the valley outside his office was picking up an unusual pulse from beyond the Earth. A signal from another intelligent civilization? Not today. It was the Rosetta Satellite, en route to study a comet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900966.html
Less Popular, Yet Tended With Care
Small National Cemeteries Have Their Own Faithful
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A01
Kelvin Bennett wakes up about 4 a.m. most mornings and drives nearly two hours from Baltimore to the wrought-iron gates of Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900973.html
Illinois Elephants' Fate Remains Uncertain
Battle Over 'Hawthorn Herd' Pits Circus World Against Animal Rights Backers
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A06
More than two years ago, federal officials concluded that 16 elephants owned by an Illinois circus-animal training business were being mistreated and had to be removed quickly. Facing the possible loss of his license to keep circus animals, the owner of Hawthorn Corp. formally agreed last year to give up his elephants as soon as a new home could be found.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900956.html
A Tall Agenda in the Smokies
New Park Superintendent Hopes to Resolve Several Old Issues
By Duncan Mansfield
Associated Press
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A19
GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- After barely a year on the job, Dale A. Ditmanson is talking about leaving a lasting mark on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Besides championing the health of the 520,000-acre forest and urging regional cooperation to improve its sometimes smoggy air, the 51-year-old superintendent said in an interview that he wants to resolve several long-running issues.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900884.html
The 100 Best High Schools in America
By Barbara Kantrowitz
Newsweek
Tuesday, May 10, 2005; 6:29 PM
In the winter of 1821, the civic leaders of Boston approved what was then a radical idea. At a time when advanced learning was largely restricted to the wealthy, they voted to create the country's first public high school, open to boys 12 or older who could pass an entrance exam. Ever since, Americans have been trying to figure out exactly what public high schools should do. Should they concentrate on preparing the best and the brightest for college? Should there be more emphasis on vocational training? Should students with different abilities and goals learn in the same classrooms, or should they be segregated into different tracks or even different schools? The debate has never been more contentious than now, when the attention of politicians, business leaders, educators, parents and students is focused on an unprecedented explosion of new ideas in big cities and small towns across the country. Everything is up for grabs: curriculum, size, even the idea of school itself. With new technology that puts the world at their keyboards, students can learn without a classroom or a formal teacher.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001140.html
The 100 Best High Schools in America
By Barbara Kantrowitz
Newsweek
Tuesday, May 10, 2005; 6:29 PM
In the winter of 1821, the civic leaders of Boston approved what was then a radical idea. At a time when advanced learning was largely restricted to the wealthy, they voted to create the country's first public high school, open to boys 12 or older who could pass an entrance exam. Ever since, Americans have been trying to figure out exactly what public high schools should do. Should they concentrate on preparing the best and the brightest for college? Should there be more emphasis on vocational training? Should students with different abilities and goals learn in the same classrooms, or should they be segregated into different tracks or even different schools? The debate has never been more contentious than now, when the attention of politicians, business leaders, educators, parents and students is focused on an unprecedented explosion of new ideas in big cities and small towns across the country. Everything is up for grabs: curriculum, size, even the idea of school itself. With new technology that puts the world at their keyboards, students can learn without a classroom or a formal teacher.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001140.html
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http://www.askmen.com/specials/2005_top_99/99.html
The Chicago Tribune
Where the elephants roam
At Tennessee facility, the land is their land
By William Mullen
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 29, 2005
HOHENWALD, Tenn. -- In the rural hills of central Tennessee, workmen are almost finished installing electrified double fences around 2,700 acres of forest: an 8-foot-high, chain-link barrier on the outside, and a much stronger inner fence of tubular steel and cable.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0505290315may29,1,1129943.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Policemen in Hillah
Published May 30, 2005, 3:06 AM CDT
HILLAH, Iraq -- Two suicide bombers attacked a large crowd of policemen south of Baghdad on Monday, killing 20 and wounding nearly 100, an Interior Ministry official said.
Iraqi police and soldiers immediately cordoned off the area, which was covered with pieces of flesh, pools of blood and shreds of clothing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top10may30,1,7901380.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
Six Found Shot to Death in Ohio Farmhouses
By NICK JULIANO
Associated Press Writer
Published May 30, 2005, 2:54 AM CDT
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio -- Six people were found shot to death and a seventh was in critical condition following a multiple murder-suicide in two neighboring farmhouses near this west-central Ohio town, authorities said. Investigators believe one of the victims was responsible for the attack, Logan County Sheriff's Lt. Chuck Stout said Sunday. Authorities would not say who they suspect opened fire.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-six-dead,1,7900254.story?coll=chi-news-hed
THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT to the information generated by it's agencies, including The Weather Service.
Weather Service braces for storm
Private firms, senator say agency's leg up on information unfair
By Dawn Withers
Washington Bureau
Published May 29, 2005
WASHINGTON -- A tempestuous clash between the National Weather Service and private weather companies is prompting an influential senator to intervene to protect AccuWeather, WeatherBank and other firms that package forecasts for public use.
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the Senate's third-ranking Republican, is pushing a bill that critics say would force the Weather Service to disseminate much of its data only to private companies.
The bill, these opponents contend, would limit the public's access to user-friendly weather information and require that people go to a commercial weather company to get any meaningful interpretation of raw climate data.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0505290318may29,1,1594490.story?coll=chi-technology-hed
The New York Times
Iraqi Offensive Met by Wave of New Violence From Insurgents
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 29 - The largest Iraqi-led counterinsurgency operation since the downfall of Saddam Hussein set off a violent backlash on Sunday across Baghdad. At least 20 people were killed in the capital, 14 of them in a battle lasting several hours when insurgents initiated sustained attacks on several police stations and an army barracks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/international/middleeast/30iraq.html?hp&ex=1117512000&en=4b17abb841822b94&ei=5094&partner=homepage
French Voters Soundly Reject European Union Constitution
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: May 30, 2005
PARIS, May 29 - Turning its back on half a century of European history, France decisively rejected a constitution for Europe on Sunday, plunging the country into political disarray and jeopardizing the cause of European unity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/international/europe/30france.html?hp&ex=1117512000&en=afa961eafddc3382&ei=5094&partner=homepage
In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guantánamo Bay
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: May 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 29 - In the last few months, the small commercial air service to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been carrying people the military authorities had hoped would never be allowed there: American lawyers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/politics/30detain.html
THIS IS OBSCENE. I suppose it is better called decadent.
It's All in How the Dog Is Served
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
The 15-bite hot dog at Brooklyn Diner USA, on West 57th Street, is $13.50 with onion rings and sauerkraut.
By ED LEVINE
Published: May 25, 2005
YOU know those hot dogs that you know and love, and can't wait to eat this time of year? The ones served at Katz's Delicatessen, Gray's Papaya, Papaya King, the legendary Dominick's truck in Queens and the best "dirty water dog" carts?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/dining/25dogs.html
The Philadelphia Inquirer
MIA hope spans half a century
As remains arrive in the U.S., local families and others wonder if they could be loved ones.
By Tom Infield
Inquirer Staff Writer
After five weeks of digging on old battlefields, American military teams emerged from North Korea on Tuesday carrying the remains of U.S. servicemen lost 55 years ago in the Korean War.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11763806.htm
Phila. to host Live Aid sequel concert
The July 2 show, called "Live 8," will coincide with one in London to help African countries.
By Michael Klein
Inquirer Staff Writer
Twenty years after Philadelphia hosted one of two Live Aid concerts that dramatized the plight of starving Africans, a second big-name benefit is in the works.
It will be July 2 on Ben Franklin Parkway, in the middle of the city's jam-packed Fourth of July festivities, according to Deborah
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11767041.htm
Honoring those who made a mark
By Edward Colimore
Inquirer Staff Writer
A century ago, the distinctive Grand Army of the Republic markers were scattered across the rolling grounds of Laurel Hill Cemetery in the city's East Falls section, amid ornate obelisks, statues and mausoleums.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11763831.htm
Evangelicals divided over evolution
By Paul Nussbaum
Inquirer Staff Writer
Can God and evolution coexist?
For many evangelical Christians, the debate over teaching evolution in public schools touches a vital spiritual nerve. Some see evolution as a path to perdition, while others see it as a crowning example of God's handiwork.
A legal battle in Dover, Pa., over the teaching of evolution and "intelligent design" has focused new attention on the issue, as have recent proposals in Kansas to change how evolution is taught there.
For David Wilcox, a biology professor at Eastern University, an evangelical college in St. Davids, the challenge is to teach students that it's possible to embrace evolution "without intellectual schizophrenia."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11771436.htm
Nude photo now just a footnote to her
"I was a girl on the verge of womanhood... not an icon, not a freak," Lorna Anton says of her brush with Diane Arbus.
By Rusty Pray
Inquirer Staff Writer
Lorna Anton says she's still the free spirit she was when, as a 13-year-old girl, she had her modesty compromised famously and forever.
She was the subject of a Diane Arbus photograph taken at Sunshine Park, a nudist resort in Mays Landing, N.J. Anton was working her first summer job as a server in the camp's dining hall when she posed for Arbus wearing only a silver hair band and a white apron.
The photograph, A Young Waitress at a Nudist Camp, N.J., 1963, has been part of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The show ends today.
The young waitress spent much of her childhood in Mays Landing and
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11771462.htm
Editorial Pat Tillman and Memorial Day Fighting for the truth
Battlefields do not tell lies.
They hold truths, truths that may be complex and unsavory, yet nonetheless hold a poignant purity. For in the rawest accounts of war are the real stories of heroes.
It is these tales of our men and women in uniform that deserve to be honored on Memorial Day - not stories whose facts have been distorted into made-for-TV myths. The life and death of Pat Tillman is a case in point.
Tillman made news long before he donned an Army uniform as a star defensive player for Arizona State University and the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. Many Americans felt pride and admiration when Tillman, shaken by the Sept. 11 attacks, turned away from his $3.6 million pro football contract to enlist in the Army with his brother to fight terrorists.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/11771454.htm
Anti-Syrian opposition favored in Lebanese vote
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Beirut residents voted yesterday in the opening round of the country's first elections since Syria ended its 29-year domination of Lebanon, with lingering anger over former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's assassination expected to propel his son to a big victory in the capital.
Turnout in Beirut, the first of four legs of parliamentary voting, was light, according to unofficial results. About 28 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, compared with 35 percent in the 2000 parliamentary elections, Interior Minister Hassan Sabei said after the polls closed.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/11771439.htm
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This is laughable. People are becoming so immune to advertising there is literally a campaign to increase awareness of advertising. YES !!! We are good !!
National Advertising Board Launches "Advertising: Get the Message!" Campaign
NEW YORK—In an effort to raise the individual American's awareness of and interest in advertising, the National Advertising Board launched a $32-million "Advertising: Get The Message!" campaign in major markets across the country Monday.
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4121
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Palmolive Attacks Dawn For Coddling Grease
NEW YORK—Representatives for Palmolive dish detergent issued a challenge to the makers of Dawn Monday, charging that the blue dishwashing soap "coddles grease." "Palmolive lives up to its vow to be 'tough on grease,' but Dawn merely 'takes grease out of your way,'" Colgate-Palmolive CEO Reuben Mark said. "Out of sight, out of mind, eh Dawn? Palmolive believes in eradicating the grease problem, not simply pushing it to the far reaches of the sink." Mark added that, as unrelenting as Palmolive is on grease, it continues to be soft on hands.
Thousands Dead in Wake of Low Carbon Diet
FORT WALTON BEACH, FL—Doctors are linking nearly 9,000 deaths nationwide to the popular low-carbon diet outlined in the bestselling book, Dr. Wesley's Elemental Dieting. "Dr. Ryan Wesley's book tells dieters to avoid consuming carbon, an element that occurs in all organic life, animal and vegetable," said Dr. Peter Castle, a nutritionist at Johns Hopkins University. "Although Wesley dieters can ingest limitless hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, deriving nutrients only from gases is not viable in the long term." The low-carbon diet first came to prominence in February 2004 when Wesley appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show weighing an astonishing 76 pounds.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=2
Alternative Training School for Dogs De-Emphasizes Obedience
MONTEREY, CA—Dogs who attend the Kylee Alternative Training Institute are exposed to a "creative canine learning environment where less emphasis is placed on obedience," director Morgan Kylee said Monday. "We believe in helping our students to discover their own potential, rather than forcing them to conform to the traditional idea of what a dog should be," Kylee said. "Dogs that mess on the carpet or bark incessantly are not scolded, but praised for finding their own parameters. Our motto is 'If it feels good, chew it.'" Classes at the school include Holistic Heeling, Elective Fetching, and Removing The Leg-Humping Stigma.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=3
Cocky Attempt to Operate ATM in Spanish - Backfires !
SAFFORD, AZ—During a Monday night stop at an automated-teller machine, an overconfident Scott Tifton failed to withdraw cash using the machine's Spanish instructions. "My girlfriend Lisa was with me at the ATM, so I pressed Spanish as a joke," Tifton said. "I figured I could rely on my high-school Spanish, but instead of giving me $100, the deposit slot lit up. Then I hit what I thought meant 'cancel' a couple times, and it ate my card. We were going out to dinner for our two-year anniversary, and Lisa had to pay." Tifton said he probably could have figured out the instructions if he had been at his normal branch.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=4
Former Addict Celebrates 10th Year of Mind-Numbing Boredom
PHOENIX—Tom Stubbens, 44, a former heroin abuser, attended a party in his honor to celebrate a full decade of clean, sober, and dismally tedious living Tuesday. "The crazy gang of partiers I used to have so much fun with in the '90s wouldn't even recognize the clean and respectable person standing before you today," said Stubbens, raising an iced tea to friends at his regular evening haunt, the 36th Avenue Denny's. "Yup, but here I am... that person." Stubbens then retired to his apartment, where he watered his plants, organized his sock drawer, and fell asleep on the couch.
http://www.theonion.com/nib/index.php?issue=4121&nib=5
Investigators Blame Stupidity in Area Deaths
WHEATLEY, AR—Although reckless driving and minor driver impairment were cited as additional factors, police investigators ruled pure, unadulterated stupidity as the primary cause in the death of an unlicensed motorist involved in a single-car accident Sunday.
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4121&n=1
Haaretz
Here we go. Bush wants to discredit Israel no matter what it takes. Prime Minister Sharon didn't come to the USA Diaspora for no reason.
U.S. to indict two senior AIPAC officials under Espionage Act
By Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondent
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) - Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman - and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.
A Virginia grand jury is now examining the evidence in the case, which involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Sources involved in the case confirmed that the Espionage Act is on the agenda. But there is also the possibility that the Justice Department is raising the intention to use that law with the purpose of reaching a plea bargain concerning a lesser offense, albeit one that is still covered by anti-espionage legislation in the U.S.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581788.html
The Bush Administration has a basic hated for Israel. People don't really 'buy into' the idea of an American President being Anti-Semitic but that is exactly what Bush/Cheney and their administration are.
I can't recall who of the Repuglican Right is Jewish.
AIPAC ( http://www.aipac.org/ ) is instrumental in providing meaningful support to Israel while being the a vital link for the diaspora to find comfort in that reality.
Sharon Gets Nod for Gaza Plan at Aipac Parley
http://forward.com/articles/3229
Rice Makes Plea For a 'Viable' Palestinian State
By Ori Nir
May 27, 2005
WASHINGTON — Despite fears of discord, Israel's prime minister received a rousing show of support Tuesday when he presented his Gaza disengagement plan to a cheering crowd of some 5,000 of America's most influential pro-Israel activists at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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In the time after that lunch. Bush's FBI sent an incompetent agent who has since been removed from any further investigation to AIPAC to rummage through the materials and files of that organization in a witch hunt to find SOMETHING. ANYTHING. That could be used as a wedge against Israel. Why? Because Bush as an Evangelical Christian has plans for a Christian Holy Land beginning by meetings held in Ur, Iraq at the beginnings of the invasion into Iraq.
It well known the land where Israel has built it's Knesset and other government buildings as well as private concerns are believed to be owned by Palestinian Christians. How that is the case when the Palestinians are not entitled to any of Israel since it's inception nearly fifty years ago but the 'myth' goes on. It can be speculated in Bush's fanaticism that he would see these lands as Christian and nothing else.
Under this oppressive administration Israel has been denied loans while the PA has been proved with millions upon millions of funding. Recently, it has come to the relief of the American Jewish Community the House of Representatives have earmarked all funds going to Palestinian development go through Hebrew Charitable Foundations, like AIPAC, to prevent funds from the USA becoming a blank check to kill Jews. The monies are to rehabilitate Palestine and assist where necessary while creating a peaceful process to disengagement.
Bush, just this past week, while Abbas was visiting, stated there would be more monies to Palestine taht woud go directly to the PA. Those are his demands but not necessarily the 'final word' about the legislation. The President can submit legislation but not dictate the outcome of it.
It is astounding that today there are announcements about a casual lunch called together by by Larry Franklin, a Pentagon operative, where alarming information was given to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman who are civilians and not officers of Israel or the USA. The purpose of this pursuit of indictment of innocent civilians who happen to work for AIPAC is to discredit Hebrew Chartable Funds so Bush 'gets his way' and the monies he is demanding for Palestine go directly to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
If someone called me the Pentagon and requested me and a pier to lunch, as Mr. Franklin did of Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman, I would be honored to attend. The senior staff members of AIPAC were set up. They were given alarming information over lunch as planned by Mr. Franklin. What would you do if a Pentagon Official provided alarming information to you? Wouldn't you feel as though you had act on it? I would. What was it supposed to be 'gossip' over lunch. I imagine the presentation of the information to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weisseman was rather creative and guided into concern those men carried away with them after lunch. Naturally, having information provided by a USA Pentagon Official in friendship over a friendly lunch would lead these men who loved Israel with all their heart for the work they do directly to an Israel contact to validate the information and voice concern now that they had knowledge of it. I believe Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman's contact with any Israeli entity was to demand attention to the issue as if the Israeli government were ignoring the issue. Those gentlemen are innocent of any malice to the USA. The ONLY guilty party is Mr. Franklin who 'set up' these Jewish Gentlemen to act on an emotional 'trigger' for their love of their native country, Israel.
I am personally appalled at the USA Justice Department that they would ever entertain such charges against citizens with a long history of devoted service within their faith and to Israel. But, when I reflect on it more I realize the Bush/Cheney Justice Department has a chronic history of victimizing innocent people for political gain. Also, Mr. Gonzalez has a long history of advocating distasteful torture that was used by this administration in Abu Ghraib.
To say the least this situation is upsetting, but, it is far more than that; it's victimizing to the Jewish Community and two of it's finest gentlemen who have devoted their lives to promoting Israel in the best light possible. If the Bush/Cheney administration is this determined to undermine Israel's reputation there is some very sounds concern for their determination to undermine Israeli sovereignty as well.
When all is said and done I guarantee you; Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman will be found innocent but in the meantime there will be huge amounts of damage done to Israel's reputable charitable organizations. It chills me to the bone to realize the hate that accompanies these allegations.
Court remands top Israeli execs in industrial espionage affair
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Monday remanded several people from some of Israel's leading commercial companies and private investigators suspected of commissioning and carrying out industrial espionage against their competitors, which was carried out by planting Trojan horse software in their competitors' computers.
Uzi Mor, CEO of Mayer and his deputies Avner Kez and Or Schachar, Moriah Katriel, financial vice president of Yes as well as Yoram Cohen, CEO of Hamafil were placed under an eight-day house arrest.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581790.html
AG denies hearing for chief rabbi on possible fraud charge
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Monday rejected a request by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger for a hearing ahead of any decision on whether to indict him for fraud and breach of trust.
Metzger could face charges for allegedly staying with his family at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem for a minimal fee during Pesach 2004. During an investigation into the affair, police discovered that the Metzgers also allegedly received huge discounts at David Citadel during last year's Sukkot and Shavuot holidays, and enjoyed similarly discounted stays at other hotels.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582283.html
FBI arrests two men on charges they offered to help al Qaida
By Associated Press
The FBI has arrested a Florida doctor and a New York martial arts expert on federal terrorism charges, saying they conspired to treat and train terrorists, prosecutors have announced.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a Boca Raton physician, and Tarik Shah, a self-described martial arts expert in New York, were both charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582169.html
FBI arrests two men on charges they offered to help al Qaida
By Associated Press
The FBI has arrested a Florida doctor and a New York martial arts expert on federal terrorism charges, saying they conspired to treat and train terrorists, prosecutors have announced.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a Boca Raton physician, and Tarik Shah, a self-described martial arts expert in New York, were both charged in Manhattan federal court with conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaida, the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York said Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/582169.html
EU meets with Israel, Arab neighbors over cooperation
By The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union foreign ministers and their counterparts from Israel and its Arab neighbors take stock of the Mideast peace process and debate economic and political cooperation between Europe and the Middle East at a two-day meeting opening Monday.
Rarely in the past decade has the twice-annual Euro-Mediterranean ministerial meeting opened with better prospects for peace in the region than now.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/581851.html
Abbas: Era of suicide bombers may be over
By Reuters
WASHINGTON - The culture of violence is changing in the Middle East, said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on ABC's "This Week" program yesterday.
Abbas, who visited the U.S. last week to meet President George W. Bush, said Palestinian-Israeli violence was down 90 percent in the past four months. Asked whether the era of suicide bombing was over, he said: "I believe it is over."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581811.html
The Washington Post
A Bane Amid The Housing Boom: Rising Foreclosures
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A01
PHILADELPHIA -- To walk Thayer Street in northeast Philadelphia is to count, door by door, the economic devastation afflicting a working-class neighborhood. On a single block, 18 of the 42 brick rowhouses have gone into foreclosure in the past three years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900972.html?sub=AR
Finding Support in the Search for E.T.
With Stronger Telescope and Renewed Vigor, Scientists Scan the Sky
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A01
HAT CREEK, Calif. -- Astronomer Michael M. Davis checked his computer. One of the antennas on the state-of-the-art radio telescope being built in the valley outside his office was picking up an unusual pulse from beyond the Earth. A signal from another intelligent civilization? Not today. It was the Rosetta Satellite, en route to study a comet.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900966.html
Less Popular, Yet Tended With Care
Small National Cemeteries Have Their Own Faithful
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A01
Kelvin Bennett wakes up about 4 a.m. most mornings and drives nearly two hours from Baltimore to the wrought-iron gates of Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900973.html
Illinois Elephants' Fate Remains Uncertain
Battle Over 'Hawthorn Herd' Pits Circus World Against Animal Rights Backers
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A06
More than two years ago, federal officials concluded that 16 elephants owned by an Illinois circus-animal training business were being mistreated and had to be removed quickly. Facing the possible loss of his license to keep circus animals, the owner of Hawthorn Corp. formally agreed last year to give up his elephants as soon as a new home could be found.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900956.html
A Tall Agenda in the Smokies
New Park Superintendent Hopes to Resolve Several Old Issues
By Duncan Mansfield
Associated Press
Monday, May 30, 2005; Page A19
GATLINBURG, Tenn. -- After barely a year on the job, Dale A. Ditmanson is talking about leaving a lasting mark on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Besides championing the health of the 520,000-acre forest and urging regional cooperation to improve its sometimes smoggy air, the 51-year-old superintendent said in an interview that he wants to resolve several long-running issues.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900884.html
The 100 Best High Schools in America
By Barbara Kantrowitz
Newsweek
Tuesday, May 10, 2005; 6:29 PM
In the winter of 1821, the civic leaders of Boston approved what was then a radical idea. At a time when advanced learning was largely restricted to the wealthy, they voted to create the country's first public high school, open to boys 12 or older who could pass an entrance exam. Ever since, Americans have been trying to figure out exactly what public high schools should do. Should they concentrate on preparing the best and the brightest for college? Should there be more emphasis on vocational training? Should students with different abilities and goals learn in the same classrooms, or should they be segregated into different tracks or even different schools? The debate has never been more contentious than now, when the attention of politicians, business leaders, educators, parents and students is focused on an unprecedented explosion of new ideas in big cities and small towns across the country. Everything is up for grabs: curriculum, size, even the idea of school itself. With new technology that puts the world at their keyboards, students can learn without a classroom or a formal teacher.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001140.html
The 100 Best High Schools in America
By Barbara Kantrowitz
Newsweek
Tuesday, May 10, 2005; 6:29 PM
In the winter of 1821, the civic leaders of Boston approved what was then a radical idea. At a time when advanced learning was largely restricted to the wealthy, they voted to create the country's first public high school, open to boys 12 or older who could pass an entrance exam. Ever since, Americans have been trying to figure out exactly what public high schools should do. Should they concentrate on preparing the best and the brightest for college? Should there be more emphasis on vocational training? Should students with different abilities and goals learn in the same classrooms, or should they be segregated into different tracks or even different schools? The debate has never been more contentious than now, when the attention of politicians, business leaders, educators, parents and students is focused on an unprecedented explosion of new ideas in big cities and small towns across the country. Everything is up for grabs: curriculum, size, even the idea of school itself. With new technology that puts the world at their keyboards, students can learn without a classroom or a formal teacher.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001140.html
The Macho Culture
5 million readers a month
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The Top Most Desirable Women in 2005
http://www.askmen.com/specials/2005_top_99/99.html
The Chicago Tribune
Where the elephants roam
At Tennessee facility, the land is their land
By William Mullen
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 29, 2005
HOHENWALD, Tenn. -- In the rural hills of central Tennessee, workmen are almost finished installing electrified double fences around 2,700 acres of forest: an 8-foot-high, chain-link barrier on the outside, and a much stronger inner fence of tubular steel and cable.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0505290315may29,1,1129943.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Policemen in Hillah
Published May 30, 2005, 3:06 AM CDT
HILLAH, Iraq -- Two suicide bombers attacked a large crowd of policemen south of Baghdad on Monday, killing 20 and wounding nearly 100, an Interior Ministry official said.
Iraqi police and soldiers immediately cordoned off the area, which was covered with pieces of flesh, pools of blood and shreds of clothing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top10may30,1,7901380.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=2&cset=true
Six Found Shot to Death in Ohio Farmhouses
By NICK JULIANO
Associated Press Writer
Published May 30, 2005, 2:54 AM CDT
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio -- Six people were found shot to death and a seventh was in critical condition following a multiple murder-suicide in two neighboring farmhouses near this west-central Ohio town, authorities said. Investigators believe one of the victims was responsible for the attack, Logan County Sheriff's Lt. Chuck Stout said Sunday. Authorities would not say who they suspect opened fire.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-six-dead,1,7900254.story?coll=chi-news-hed
THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT to the information generated by it's agencies, including The Weather Service.
Weather Service braces for storm
Private firms, senator say agency's leg up on information unfair
By Dawn Withers
Washington Bureau
Published May 29, 2005
WASHINGTON -- A tempestuous clash between the National Weather Service and private weather companies is prompting an influential senator to intervene to protect AccuWeather, WeatherBank and other firms that package forecasts for public use.
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the Senate's third-ranking Republican, is pushing a bill that critics say would force the Weather Service to disseminate much of its data only to private companies.
The bill, these opponents contend, would limit the public's access to user-friendly weather information and require that people go to a commercial weather company to get any meaningful interpretation of raw climate data.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0505290318may29,1,1594490.story?coll=chi-technology-hed
The New York Times
Iraqi Offensive Met by Wave of New Violence From Insurgents
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 29 - The largest Iraqi-led counterinsurgency operation since the downfall of Saddam Hussein set off a violent backlash on Sunday across Baghdad. At least 20 people were killed in the capital, 14 of them in a battle lasting several hours when insurgents initiated sustained attacks on several police stations and an army barracks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/international/middleeast/30iraq.html?hp&ex=1117512000&en=4b17abb841822b94&ei=5094&partner=homepage
French Voters Soundly Reject European Union Constitution
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: May 30, 2005
PARIS, May 29 - Turning its back on half a century of European history, France decisively rejected a constitution for Europe on Sunday, plunging the country into political disarray and jeopardizing the cause of European unity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/international/europe/30france.html?hp&ex=1117512000&en=afa961eafddc3382&ei=5094&partner=homepage
In Rising Numbers, Lawyers Head for Guantánamo Bay
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: May 30, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 29 - In the last few months, the small commercial air service to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been carrying people the military authorities had hoped would never be allowed there: American lawyers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/politics/30detain.html
THIS IS OBSCENE. I suppose it is better called decadent.
It's All in How the Dog Is Served
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
The 15-bite hot dog at Brooklyn Diner USA, on West 57th Street, is $13.50 with onion rings and sauerkraut.
By ED LEVINE
Published: May 25, 2005
YOU know those hot dogs that you know and love, and can't wait to eat this time of year? The ones served at Katz's Delicatessen, Gray's Papaya, Papaya King, the legendary Dominick's truck in Queens and the best "dirty water dog" carts?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/dining/25dogs.html
The Philadelphia Inquirer
MIA hope spans half a century
As remains arrive in the U.S., local families and others wonder if they could be loved ones.
By Tom Infield
Inquirer Staff Writer
After five weeks of digging on old battlefields, American military teams emerged from North Korea on Tuesday carrying the remains of U.S. servicemen lost 55 years ago in the Korean War.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11763806.htm
Phila. to host Live Aid sequel concert
The July 2 show, called "Live 8," will coincide with one in London to help African countries.
By Michael Klein
Inquirer Staff Writer
Twenty years after Philadelphia hosted one of two Live Aid concerts that dramatized the plight of starving Africans, a second big-name benefit is in the works.
It will be July 2 on Ben Franklin Parkway, in the middle of the city's jam-packed Fourth of July festivities, according to Deborah
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11767041.htm
Honoring those who made a mark
By Edward Colimore
Inquirer Staff Writer
A century ago, the distinctive Grand Army of the Republic markers were scattered across the rolling grounds of Laurel Hill Cemetery in the city's East Falls section, amid ornate obelisks, statues and mausoleums.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11763831.htm
Evangelicals divided over evolution
By Paul Nussbaum
Inquirer Staff Writer
Can God and evolution coexist?
For many evangelical Christians, the debate over teaching evolution in public schools touches a vital spiritual nerve. Some see evolution as a path to perdition, while others see it as a crowning example of God's handiwork.
A legal battle in Dover, Pa., over the teaching of evolution and "intelligent design" has focused new attention on the issue, as have recent proposals in Kansas to change how evolution is taught there.
For David Wilcox, a biology professor at Eastern University, an evangelical college in St. Davids, the challenge is to teach students that it's possible to embrace evolution "without intellectual schizophrenia."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11771436.htm
Nude photo now just a footnote to her
"I was a girl on the verge of womanhood... not an icon, not a freak," Lorna Anton says of her brush with Diane Arbus.
By Rusty Pray
Inquirer Staff Writer
Lorna Anton says she's still the free spirit she was when, as a 13-year-old girl, she had her modesty compromised famously and forever.
She was the subject of a Diane Arbus photograph taken at Sunshine Park, a nudist resort in Mays Landing, N.J. Anton was working her first summer job as a server in the camp's dining hall when she posed for Arbus wearing only a silver hair band and a white apron.
The photograph, A Young Waitress at a Nudist Camp, N.J., 1963, has been part of a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The show ends today.
The young waitress spent much of her childhood in Mays Landing and
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/11771462.htm
Editorial Pat Tillman and Memorial Day Fighting for the truth
Battlefields do not tell lies.
They hold truths, truths that may be complex and unsavory, yet nonetheless hold a poignant purity. For in the rawest accounts of war are the real stories of heroes.
It is these tales of our men and women in uniform that deserve to be honored on Memorial Day - not stories whose facts have been distorted into made-for-TV myths. The life and death of Pat Tillman is a case in point.
Tillman made news long before he donned an Army uniform as a star defensive player for Arizona State University and the NFL's Arizona Cardinals. Many Americans felt pride and admiration when Tillman, shaken by the Sept. 11 attacks, turned away from his $3.6 million pro football contract to enlist in the Army with his brother to fight terrorists.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/11771454.htm
Anti-Syrian opposition favored in Lebanese vote
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Beirut residents voted yesterday in the opening round of the country's first elections since Syria ended its 29-year domination of Lebanon, with lingering anger over former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri's assassination expected to propel his son to a big victory in the capital.
Turnout in Beirut, the first of four legs of parliamentary voting, was light, according to unofficial results. About 28 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, compared with 35 percent in the 2000 parliamentary elections, Interior Minister Hassan Sabei said after the polls closed.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/11771439.htm
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Morning Papers - continued
Michael Moore Today
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Veterans feel abandoned over cuts in medical benefits
By Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder
It was, I suppose, as inevitable as bluebonnets in a Texas spring: On the eve of Memorial Day a class-action lawsuit was filed against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of more than 1,000 residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in our nation’s capital.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2822
Modern memorials stand for the warriors, not the war
By Gregg Zoroya / USA Today
Grass-roots memorials to the war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan are spreading across America, and the driving force behind them is often the same: to commemorate the individuals, rather than the wars.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2821
Protesters greet air show with black coffins, leaflets
Anti-war protesters focus their message at an annual Memorial Day air show.
By Megan Rolland / Missourian
Black coffins lined one entrance to the Salute to Veterans Air Show on Saturday as thousands of spectators entered the show’s tarmac at the Columbia Regional Airport.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2820
Signs don't tell the whole story
By Julia Spitz / Metro West Daily News
Spc. Seth Garceau 22 Iowa. He's the third pole on your right, just past the newly renamed Exxcel gas station in Ashland, one of the 1,802 signs along routes 16 and 126 in Ashland, Bellingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Medway, Milford and Sherborn.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2819
Anti-war sailor lifts foes of Iraq policy
Sentence for defying deployment orders less than expected
By Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle
Pablo Paredes' name will be invoked by antiwar veterans and activists at Memorial Day events in the Bay Area and elsewhere this weekend, but not because he was sentenced to three months of hard labor and busted down to the Navy's lowest rank for refusing to board a ship bound for the Persian Gulf.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2811
After 19 years in military, homeless in Philadelphia
By Natalie Pompilio and Sam J Lin / Philadelphia Inquirer
Luis Mejias admits he did something wrong. Last year, while stationed in Baghdad with the National Guard, he failed a random drug test. The Guard has a zero-tolerance drug policy, and Mejias was immediately discharged.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2823
The secret Downing Street memo
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
IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY
Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment. Saddam's regime was tough and based on extreme fear. The only way to overthrow it was likely to be by massive military action. Saddam was worried and expected an attack, probably by air and land, but he was not convinced that it would be immediate or overwhelming. His regime expected their neighbours to line up with the US. Saddam knew that regular army morale was poor. Real support for Saddam among the public was probably narrowly based.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html
The LA Times
Legislature Targets Toxic Risks in Products
By Jordan Rau, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — Moving more assertively than lawmakers in other states, the California Legislature is stepping into a growing global debate over how to regulate potentially dangerous chemicals used in perfume, nail polish, plastic baby bottles, rubber ducks and thousands of other products.
Under measures facing votes this week, the state would collect samples from volunteers in California and study data from manufacturers to better identify which chemicals may pose health risks.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chemicals30may30,0,3438980.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Rebels Confront Baghdad Operation
By Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — Insurgents defied a much-touted military crackdown in the capital Sunday, targeting police checkpoints, the Oil Ministry and convoys of U.S. and Iraqi troops.
In at least five suicide bombings within six hours and an attack on a checkpoint, insurgents killed 20 members of the fledgling security forces. By the end of the day, militants had killed at least eight other Iraqis, pushing the death toll beyond 720 in the monthlong escalation of violence.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq30may30,0,4233691.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Towns in Big Storms' Path Still Winded
The state limps into a new hurricane season with thousands of families still displaced by last year's quadruple whammy.
By John-Thor Dahlburg, Times Staff Writer
FROSTPROOF, Fla. — A blue tarp still covers the tattered roof of the wood-frame home that was lashed by not one but three hurricanes last year. When 62-year-old Bobby Curtis, who has had two open-heart surgeries, feels up to it, he whittles away at the downed tree in the backyard, leaning on his cane as he wields a chain saw.
"We've got to get shingles," says his wife, Nell, 66, "we've got to get a roof and we've got to cut up the tree."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-frostproof30may30,0,3957852.story?coll=la-home-nation
No Purists in D.C.
The Wolfowitz Agenda follows the strategy of McNamara. This is interesting. First you make war and force impoverishment to develop. Then add agenda of privatization to '? Stimulate ?' movement out of war. Then with increased impoverishment comes disease which kills them in a way a war has no legitimacy. DOES ANYONE see the PROFITS for pharmaceuticals in this strategy while lending foreign countries into insoluble debt? Yeah, you betcha. American profits at the expense of global wars and global lives.
Countries around the world need to build their own pharmaceutical plants while supplying jobs to their people. The countries that can should start their own research and development projects to address local needs that American Pharaceutical Companies have no interest in because there is no profit in it for them.
The world needs to realize they are not in good hands if they are depending on the USA to be their savior.
True Believers at the World Bank
Rigid ideology is a threat, not an asset.
By Barbara Garson, Barbara Garson is the author of "Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy" (Penguin, 2002).
A few decades after the end of the war that he managed, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told us that the Vietnam War had been a mistake and he apologized.
Great. But when, I'd like to know, is he going to apologize for the World Bank?
...Before the McNamara years, the poorest people didn't get much richer. But during the Washington Consensus years, they got poorer and poorer.
I saw how that could be possible when I became a shareholder in the French water company Suez, which took over the water system of Johannesburg, South Africa.
To get ready for privatization, South African communities followed the World Bank/IMF suggestion that water rates be raised so consumers would get used to paying the full cost. The water of many people was cut off when they couldn't pay their bills. In some places they started taking water from rivers. The result was a cholera epidemic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-garson30may30,0,1654882.story
U.S. Detains Iraqi Islamic Party Leader
By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops detained the head of Iraq's largest Sunni Muslim political party during a house raid early Monday in western Baghdad, a top party official and police said. Mohsen Abdul Hamid, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was detained by American soldiers along with his three sons and four guards, said party-secretary-general Ayad al-Samarei. U.S. military officials could not immediately confirm the detentions.
Al-Samarei said American soldiers raided Hamid's home at around 6 a.m. and confiscated various items, including a computer.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top11may30,0,6674656.story
The Death of Pluralism
If Muslims Called Allah 'God,' Would the U.S. Be More Respectful?
MICHAEL McGOUGH
In November 2001, two months after the destruction of the World Trade Center, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a letter to the editor suggesting that the news media might stop using the word "Allah" to refer to the deity worshiped by Muslims.
"I would like to point out that the Arabic word 'Allah,' which is often erroneously perceived by many as some kind of a 'Muslim God,' is merely a translation of the word 'God,' " wrote Nash Khatri, noting that "even Christian (i.e., non-Muslim) Arabs refer to God as 'Allah,' when speaking in Arabic." The suggestion went nowhere, and in another letter two years later even Khatri acknowledged that "Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc., all define God differently in terms of what God expects from them here and what he will have for them in the afterlife."
Still, Khatri wasn't alone in his idea that post-Sept. 11 prejudices against Muslim Americans might be mitigated by recognizing that "Allah" and "God" are one and the same. No less a Christian than George W. Bush said at the time: "I believe we worship the same God."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcgough30may30,0,7017266.story
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia wants to send lawyers to Jakarta
By MIKE CORDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's government on Friday offered to send two senior lawyers to help the appeal of an Australian woman convicted of drug smuggling on Indonesia's Bali island and sentenced to 20 years.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Indonesia%20Drugs
Corby supporters plan national day of protest
May 30, 2005 - 7:57PM
Supporters of Schapelle Corby have called for a national day of protest against her 20-year jail sentence.
The protests would be held on July 10 to coincide with Corby's 28th birthday.
Gold Coast-based organiser Rachelle Hamilton said she believed thousands of Corby supporters would vent their anger towards Australian and Indonesian authorities at marches to be held across the country.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Corby-supporters-plan-national-day-of-protest/2005/05/30/1117305556785.html
Corby's long hours of devotion and prayer
By Matthew Moore, Neil McMahon and Lindsay Murdoch in Denpasar Cynthia Banham and agencies
May 30, 2005
A time for prayer … Corby.
Photo: Jason South
Two days after the trauma of her sentencing, Schapelle Corby found comfort and even smiles in her faith and friends.
Corby spent all of yesterday morning attending church services in jail, sitting beside a man, a fellow prisoner, who witnesses say has become a good friend since her arrest last October. It is understood Corby and the man, identified as Sinyo, first met when they were both detained last year at Polda police headquarters, where he was held on a minor drugs charge.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Corbys-long-hours-of-devotion-and-prayer/2005/05/29/1117305502568.html
Backlash could hurt Corby's case: govt
May 30, 2005 - 11:49AM
A backlash against Indonesia for Schapelle Corby's 20-year jail sentence could do more harm than good, the federal government has said.
Some Corby supporters want tourists to boycott Bali, while others have asked for their donations to help tsunami victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh to be returned.
Corby's former boyfriend Shannon McLure reportedly called for the government to cut foreign aid to Indonesia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Backlash-could-hurt-Corbys-case-govt/2005/05/30/1117305539349.html
Japan approves nuclear reactor
May 30, 2005 - 6:34PM
The Japanese Supreme Court upheld government approval of an experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor, paving the way for the reopening of a plant that was shut down a decade ago by an accident and cover-up.
The ruling reversed a 2003 decision by a high court that had nullified the government's 1983 approval to build the Monju reactor in Tsuruga, 320 kilometres west of Tokyo, said Takao Arakawa, a court spokesman.
The decision was a major boost for the plutonium-fired plant, the centrepiece in the government's campaign to expand resource-poor Japan's reliance on nuclear energy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Japan-approves-nuclear-reactor/2005/05/30/1117305555098.html
Taskforce to explore biofuels
May 30, 2005 - 5:54PM
Ethanol and other biofuels are to be given another chance by the federal government after it commissioned a taskforce to examine the oil alternatives.
Prime Minister John Howard said the taskforce would look at scientific evidence on the impacts of ethanol and other biofuels on human health, the environment and the operation of cars.
It signals the government may be gearing up to legislate on the inclusion of ethanol in petrol as a way of safeguarding the long-term fuel supply and also prop up grain and sugar-cane farmers.
In Australia, ethanol is largely produced from grain. It can also be made from sugar cane.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Taskforce-to-explore-biofuels/2005/05/30/1117305554752.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Crazy Horse monument fundraising begins
By JOE KAFKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CUSTER, S.D. -- Nearly six decades have passed since work began on the Crazy Horse Memorial, a granite mountain being carved into a colossal sculpture of the Sioux warrior, arm outstretched toward his ancestral homeland, astride a stallion more than two football fields long.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Crazy%20Horse
Indonesians bury 20 dead after bombings
By CHRIS BRUMMITT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TENTENA, Indonesia -- Tearful mourners on Sunday began burying the victims of twin bombings that killed at least 20 people in a crowded marketplace in a Christian-dominated town - the deadliest terror attacks in Indonesia since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Indonesia%20Market%20Bombing
Australia wants to send lawyers to Jakarta
By MIKE CORDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's government on Friday offered to send two senior lawyers to help the appeal of an Australian woman convicted of drug smuggling on Indonesia's Bali island and sentenced to 20 years.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Indonesia%20Drugs
What's in a name? Money for parks
Agencies look to business for funding
By KERY MURAKAMI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Chances are, Green Lake Park won't end up becoming Green Lake Pepsi Park.
But after being hit with $14.5 million in budget cuts over the last three years, Seattle's Parks and Recreation Department is dipping into the potentially controversial idea of courting advertisers to raise more money.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226358_parks30.asp
Pause to remember deaths of Iraqis, too
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
Do dead Iraqi civilians get a Memorial Day, too?
I am talking about people such as 19-year-old Farah al-Janabi. She lived with her family in an apartment near Baghdad. Farah took her last breaths right after U.S. soldiers came knocking at the door.
I am talking about Muhammad al-Qubaisi. Muhammad, just 12, and his siblings liked to go to the roof during the hot Iraq summers. He was bringing bedding of his brothers to the roof when members of the 82nd Airborne saw what they thought to be a weapon and fired a lethal shot.
I'm talking about 14-year-old Zaid al-Rubai, who was riding in a car driven by his brother. They were on their way to pick up food when U.S. forces loosed gunfire on them.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/226309_robert30.html
Idaho Powerball ticket wins $220.3 million
By CHUCK OXLEY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOISE, Idaho -- Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket here over the weekend has won a $220.3 million jackpot, the 10th-largest jackpot ever awarded by the multistate lottery, officials said yesterday.
But if they want to spend any of it over the holiday weekend, they're going to have to borrow it from their buddies.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226326_powerball30.html
Salmon rescue plan takes big jump forward
Seattle, King County, local governments finish document
By ROBERT McCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Saving salmon in Seattle is a big idea, a noble idea -- and a largely untested idea.
But plans to carry out that concept took a big step forward this week when representatives of Seattle, King County and other local governments in the Cedar River-Lake Washington basin put the final touches on their salmon-rescue blueprint.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226219_salmon28.html
Salmon: Facing the dam question
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
Federal efforts to protect Columbia River salmon runs must return to basics.
The fish, their ecosystem and the communities that live off the salmon must be protected. The Northwest economy must remain strong. Cooperative efforts, rather than divide-and-conquer tactics, provide the most hopeful avenues. Preserving endangered species is good sense, and it's the law.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226162_salmoned.asp
State Ecology workers vote to stay with union
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA -- The Washington Federation of State Employees has turned aside efforts at the Department of Ecology to decertify the largest state employee union.
The politically powerful union won a showdown vote, 459-406. Votes representing about 76 percent of the eligible workers were counted by the Public Employee Relations Commission on Thursday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226244_ecology28.html
United Nations: Divulge Bolton dossier
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
With the Senate in recess, there's time for a quick resolution of the roadblock to a final vote on United Nations ambassador nominee John Bolton.
The White House ought to share with the Senate relevant information on Bolton's record as a State Department official. That would clear the way for an up-or-down vote on his nomination after the Senate reconvenes June 7, following a Memorial Day recess.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226166_boltoned.asp
Women In Combat: The brass ceiling
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
The U.S. House last week passed a military spending bill only after rejecting an amendment that was so goofy even Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld didn't like it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226167_combated.asp
State turned a vital corner on path to clean energy
By K.C. GOLDEN
GUEST COLUMNIST
Washington's transition to a clean energy economy shifted into high gear this year with an impressive package of forward-looking legislation coming out of Olympia. Bipartisan majorities delivered clean cars, high-performance buildings, efficient equipment and solar energy incentives.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226176_focusgolden.html
Global warming? A small few non-believers say no
JOHANN HARI
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
Rev up your SUV. Jump in a plane to New York for a morning meeting about how global warming is a "scam" and head back in the afternoon. When you return to your empty, centrally heated house, turn on that gas fire -- and toss a copy of the Kyoto treaty on the flames. This is the message from David Bellamy, still routinely dubbed one of Britain's "leading environmentalists." Global warming? Chill, baby, chill.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226175_climate29.html
Hawaii seeks answers in missing child case
By JAYMES SONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HONOLULU -- Before he was 4 months old, Peter Kema Jr. already had his arms, a leg and three ribs broken. Doctors concluded the fractures were signs of child abuse. The child, who has become known throughout Hawaii as Peter Boy, was taken into state custody just three months after he was born in 1991. Three years later, a Family Court judge ordered him returned to his parents. Yet, the last time anyone saw him was 1997, when Peter Boy was 6, and the question remains: Where is he?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Peter%20Boy
Clinton visits Banda Aceh on relief mission
By MICHAEL CASEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Former President Clinton on Monday visited the Indonesian city hit hardest by the Dec. 26 tsunami, trying to jump-start efforts to rebuild the stricken region. Clinton, who was recently named U.N. special envoy for tsunami recovery, was in Banda Aceh as part of a four-day tour to ensure that aid is being distributed fairly and efficiently, and to keep the world's attention on tsunami recovery.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Tsunami%20Clinton
Austria avalanche searchers find U.S. body
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INNSBRUCK, Austria -- The body of an American snowboarder who disappeared in an avalanche in January was found on Sunday, the Austria Press Agency reported.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Austria%20Avalanche
Glance at France's referendum on charter
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A glance at the EU referendum vote in France on Sunday:
THE REFERENDUM: France's 41.7 million registered voters were asked: "Do you approve the proposed law authorizing the ratification of the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe?" They rejected it, about 55 percent to 45 percent.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=France%20EU%20Referendum%20Glance
Annan seeks wider African role in Darfur
By MOHAMED OSMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday called for widening the responsibilities of African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, as he visited a refugee camp and a tense, rebel-held area in the restive region of Sudan.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Sudan%20Annan
Canada offers $9.5M in aid to Palestinians
By BETH DUFF-BROWN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TORONTO -- Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Friday that Canada would back up its commitment to Middle East peace with $9.5 million in new aid to help the Palestinians build homes and justice in their new state.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Canada%20Palestinians
The New Zealand Herald
Human rights worries will not derail trade talks, says Clark
Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) and Helen Clark, seen in 2003 at the AG Research Centre in Hamilton. Picture / Greg Bowker
30.05.05 1.00pm
By Ian Llewellyn
BEIJING - New Zealand will continue to raise concerns about human rights issues in China, but will not allow it to derail a potential trade deal with the north Asian giant, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
The Prime Minister has arrived in Beijing ahead of talks with Chinese political leaders late tonight.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10128235
State of emergency at Matata to be lifted today
30.05.05 12.00pm
The state of emergency at flood-devastated Matata will be lifted later today.
Almost two weeks after the floods hit, State Highway 2 from Matata to Tauranga will be opened at 3pm, Wakatane District Council said.
Mayor Colin Holmes said police would continue to monitor Matata closely.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10128229
Prostitute disappears with slug embedded in brain
30.05.05 12.00pm
The disappearance of an Auckland prostitute with an air rifle slug embedded in her brain is worrying police who want to get her to hospital.
The prostitute, 20, was shot in the head in a drive-by attack last month but was back on the streets in the south Auckland town of Papatoetoe within a few days.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=1012823
Amazon Forest road to bring riches or ruin
30.05.05 3.50pm
By Peter Blackburn
SANTAREM, Brazil - Brazilian soybean farmers expect a rutted, muddy road through the Amazon will turn into a highway of gold thanks to plans to pave it over the next three years.
However, environmentalists fear the project will hasten the region's deforestation.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10128255
Anti-poverty coalition in forced labour row
30.05.05 1.00pm
By Helen McCormack
The Make Poverty History coalition suffered a major blow yesterday after it was revealed that white wristbands they have sold were made in Chinese factories accused of using forced labour.
The fashionable white wristbands, worn by celebrities and politicians including Tony Blair, were made for a coalition of charities as the symbol of their worldwide 2005 campaign to end extreme poverty.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10128212
Nuclear-leak clues ‘ignored for months'
30.05.05
By Francis Elliott
LONDON - Tens of thousands of litres of highly radioactive liquid leaked unnoticed for up to nine months from a ruptured pipe in the controversial Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
The leak, which was detected last month, was Britain’s worst nuclear accident for 13 years.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10128077
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http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Veterans feel abandoned over cuts in medical benefits
By Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder
It was, I suppose, as inevitable as bluebonnets in a Texas spring: On the eve of Memorial Day a class-action lawsuit was filed against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of more than 1,000 residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in our nation’s capital.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2822
Modern memorials stand for the warriors, not the war
By Gregg Zoroya / USA Today
Grass-roots memorials to the war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan are spreading across America, and the driving force behind them is often the same: to commemorate the individuals, rather than the wars.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2821
Protesters greet air show with black coffins, leaflets
Anti-war protesters focus their message at an annual Memorial Day air show.
By Megan Rolland / Missourian
Black coffins lined one entrance to the Salute to Veterans Air Show on Saturday as thousands of spectators entered the show’s tarmac at the Columbia Regional Airport.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2820
Signs don't tell the whole story
By Julia Spitz / Metro West Daily News
Spc. Seth Garceau 22 Iowa. He's the third pole on your right, just past the newly renamed Exxcel gas station in Ashland, one of the 1,802 signs along routes 16 and 126 in Ashland, Bellingham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Medway, Milford and Sherborn.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2819
Anti-war sailor lifts foes of Iraq policy
Sentence for defying deployment orders less than expected
By Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle
Pablo Paredes' name will be invoked by antiwar veterans and activists at Memorial Day events in the Bay Area and elsewhere this weekend, but not because he was sentenced to three months of hard labor and busted down to the Navy's lowest rank for refusing to board a ship bound for the Persian Gulf.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2811
After 19 years in military, homeless in Philadelphia
By Natalie Pompilio and Sam J Lin / Philadelphia Inquirer
Luis Mejias admits he did something wrong. Last year, while stationed in Baghdad with the National Guard, he failed a random drug test. The Guard has a zero-tolerance drug policy, and Mejias was immediately discharged.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2823
The secret Downing Street memo
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
IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY
Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq.
This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know its contents.
John Scarlett summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment. Saddam's regime was tough and based on extreme fear. The only way to overthrow it was likely to be by massive military action. Saddam was worried and expected an attack, probably by air and land, but he was not convinced that it would be immediate or overwhelming. His regime expected their neighbours to line up with the US. Saddam knew that regular army morale was poor. Real support for Saddam among the public was probably narrowly based.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html
The LA Times
Legislature Targets Toxic Risks in Products
By Jordan Rau, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — Moving more assertively than lawmakers in other states, the California Legislature is stepping into a growing global debate over how to regulate potentially dangerous chemicals used in perfume, nail polish, plastic baby bottles, rubber ducks and thousands of other products.
Under measures facing votes this week, the state would collect samples from volunteers in California and study data from manufacturers to better identify which chemicals may pose health risks.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chemicals30may30,0,3438980.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Rebels Confront Baghdad Operation
By Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — Insurgents defied a much-touted military crackdown in the capital Sunday, targeting police checkpoints, the Oil Ministry and convoys of U.S. and Iraqi troops.
In at least five suicide bombings within six hours and an attack on a checkpoint, insurgents killed 20 members of the fledgling security forces. By the end of the day, militants had killed at least eight other Iraqis, pushing the death toll beyond 720 in the monthlong escalation of violence.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq30may30,0,4233691.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Towns in Big Storms' Path Still Winded
The state limps into a new hurricane season with thousands of families still displaced by last year's quadruple whammy.
By John-Thor Dahlburg, Times Staff Writer
FROSTPROOF, Fla. — A blue tarp still covers the tattered roof of the wood-frame home that was lashed by not one but three hurricanes last year. When 62-year-old Bobby Curtis, who has had two open-heart surgeries, feels up to it, he whittles away at the downed tree in the backyard, leaning on his cane as he wields a chain saw.
"We've got to get shingles," says his wife, Nell, 66, "we've got to get a roof and we've got to cut up the tree."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-frostproof30may30,0,3957852.story?coll=la-home-nation
No Purists in D.C.
The Wolfowitz Agenda follows the strategy of McNamara. This is interesting. First you make war and force impoverishment to develop. Then add agenda of privatization to '? Stimulate ?' movement out of war. Then with increased impoverishment comes disease which kills them in a way a war has no legitimacy. DOES ANYONE see the PROFITS for pharmaceuticals in this strategy while lending foreign countries into insoluble debt? Yeah, you betcha. American profits at the expense of global wars and global lives.
Countries around the world need to build their own pharmaceutical plants while supplying jobs to their people. The countries that can should start their own research and development projects to address local needs that American Pharaceutical Companies have no interest in because there is no profit in it for them.
The world needs to realize they are not in good hands if they are depending on the USA to be their savior.
True Believers at the World Bank
Rigid ideology is a threat, not an asset.
By Barbara Garson, Barbara Garson is the author of "Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy" (Penguin, 2002).
A few decades after the end of the war that he managed, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara told us that the Vietnam War had been a mistake and he apologized.
Great. But when, I'd like to know, is he going to apologize for the World Bank?
...Before the McNamara years, the poorest people didn't get much richer. But during the Washington Consensus years, they got poorer and poorer.
I saw how that could be possible when I became a shareholder in the French water company Suez, which took over the water system of Johannesburg, South Africa.
To get ready for privatization, South African communities followed the World Bank/IMF suggestion that water rates be raised so consumers would get used to paying the full cost. The water of many people was cut off when they couldn't pay their bills. In some places they started taking water from rivers. The result was a cholera epidemic.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-garson30may30,0,1654882.story
U.S. Detains Iraqi Islamic Party Leader
By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops detained the head of Iraq's largest Sunni Muslim political party during a house raid early Monday in western Baghdad, a top party official and police said. Mohsen Abdul Hamid, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was detained by American soldiers along with his three sons and four guards, said party-secretary-general Ayad al-Samarei. U.S. military officials could not immediately confirm the detentions.
Al-Samarei said American soldiers raided Hamid's home at around 6 a.m. and confiscated various items, including a computer.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top11may30,0,6674656.story
The Death of Pluralism
If Muslims Called Allah 'God,' Would the U.S. Be More Respectful?
MICHAEL McGOUGH
In November 2001, two months after the destruction of the World Trade Center, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a letter to the editor suggesting that the news media might stop using the word "Allah" to refer to the deity worshiped by Muslims.
"I would like to point out that the Arabic word 'Allah,' which is often erroneously perceived by many as some kind of a 'Muslim God,' is merely a translation of the word 'God,' " wrote Nash Khatri, noting that "even Christian (i.e., non-Muslim) Arabs refer to God as 'Allah,' when speaking in Arabic." The suggestion went nowhere, and in another letter two years later even Khatri acknowledged that "Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc., all define God differently in terms of what God expects from them here and what he will have for them in the afterlife."
Still, Khatri wasn't alone in his idea that post-Sept. 11 prejudices against Muslim Americans might be mitigated by recognizing that "Allah" and "God" are one and the same. No less a Christian than George W. Bush said at the time: "I believe we worship the same God."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcgough30may30,0,7017266.story
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia wants to send lawyers to Jakarta
By MIKE CORDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's government on Friday offered to send two senior lawyers to help the appeal of an Australian woman convicted of drug smuggling on Indonesia's Bali island and sentenced to 20 years.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Indonesia%20Drugs
Corby supporters plan national day of protest
May 30, 2005 - 7:57PM
Supporters of Schapelle Corby have called for a national day of protest against her 20-year jail sentence.
The protests would be held on July 10 to coincide with Corby's 28th birthday.
Gold Coast-based organiser Rachelle Hamilton said she believed thousands of Corby supporters would vent their anger towards Australian and Indonesian authorities at marches to be held across the country.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Corby-supporters-plan-national-day-of-protest/2005/05/30/1117305556785.html
Corby's long hours of devotion and prayer
By Matthew Moore, Neil McMahon and Lindsay Murdoch in Denpasar Cynthia Banham and agencies
May 30, 2005
A time for prayer … Corby.
Photo: Jason South
Two days after the trauma of her sentencing, Schapelle Corby found comfort and even smiles in her faith and friends.
Corby spent all of yesterday morning attending church services in jail, sitting beside a man, a fellow prisoner, who witnesses say has become a good friend since her arrest last October. It is understood Corby and the man, identified as Sinyo, first met when they were both detained last year at Polda police headquarters, where he was held on a minor drugs charge.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Corbys-long-hours-of-devotion-and-prayer/2005/05/29/1117305502568.html
Backlash could hurt Corby's case: govt
May 30, 2005 - 11:49AM
A backlash against Indonesia for Schapelle Corby's 20-year jail sentence could do more harm than good, the federal government has said.
Some Corby supporters want tourists to boycott Bali, while others have asked for their donations to help tsunami victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh to be returned.
Corby's former boyfriend Shannon McLure reportedly called for the government to cut foreign aid to Indonesia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Backlash-could-hurt-Corbys-case-govt/2005/05/30/1117305539349.html
Japan approves nuclear reactor
May 30, 2005 - 6:34PM
The Japanese Supreme Court upheld government approval of an experimental fast-breeder nuclear reactor, paving the way for the reopening of a plant that was shut down a decade ago by an accident and cover-up.
The ruling reversed a 2003 decision by a high court that had nullified the government's 1983 approval to build the Monju reactor in Tsuruga, 320 kilometres west of Tokyo, said Takao Arakawa, a court spokesman.
The decision was a major boost for the plutonium-fired plant, the centrepiece in the government's campaign to expand resource-poor Japan's reliance on nuclear energy.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Japan-approves-nuclear-reactor/2005/05/30/1117305555098.html
Taskforce to explore biofuels
May 30, 2005 - 5:54PM
Ethanol and other biofuels are to be given another chance by the federal government after it commissioned a taskforce to examine the oil alternatives.
Prime Minister John Howard said the taskforce would look at scientific evidence on the impacts of ethanol and other biofuels on human health, the environment and the operation of cars.
It signals the government may be gearing up to legislate on the inclusion of ethanol in petrol as a way of safeguarding the long-term fuel supply and also prop up grain and sugar-cane farmers.
In Australia, ethanol is largely produced from grain. It can also be made from sugar cane.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Taskforce-to-explore-biofuels/2005/05/30/1117305554752.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Crazy Horse monument fundraising begins
By JOE KAFKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CUSTER, S.D. -- Nearly six decades have passed since work began on the Crazy Horse Memorial, a granite mountain being carved into a colossal sculpture of the Sioux warrior, arm outstretched toward his ancestral homeland, astride a stallion more than two football fields long.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Crazy%20Horse
Indonesians bury 20 dead after bombings
By CHRIS BRUMMITT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TENTENA, Indonesia -- Tearful mourners on Sunday began burying the victims of twin bombings that killed at least 20 people in a crowded marketplace in a Christian-dominated town - the deadliest terror attacks in Indonesia since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Indonesia%20Market%20Bombing
Australia wants to send lawyers to Jakarta
By MIKE CORDER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's government on Friday offered to send two senior lawyers to help the appeal of an Australian woman convicted of drug smuggling on Indonesia's Bali island and sentenced to 20 years.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Indonesia%20Drugs
What's in a name? Money for parks
Agencies look to business for funding
By KERY MURAKAMI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Chances are, Green Lake Park won't end up becoming Green Lake Pepsi Park.
But after being hit with $14.5 million in budget cuts over the last three years, Seattle's Parks and Recreation Department is dipping into the potentially controversial idea of courting advertisers to raise more money.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226358_parks30.asp
Pause to remember deaths of Iraqis, too
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
Do dead Iraqi civilians get a Memorial Day, too?
I am talking about people such as 19-year-old Farah al-Janabi. She lived with her family in an apartment near Baghdad. Farah took her last breaths right after U.S. soldiers came knocking at the door.
I am talking about Muhammad al-Qubaisi. Muhammad, just 12, and his siblings liked to go to the roof during the hot Iraq summers. He was bringing bedding of his brothers to the roof when members of the 82nd Airborne saw what they thought to be a weapon and fired a lethal shot.
I'm talking about 14-year-old Zaid al-Rubai, who was riding in a car driven by his brother. They were on their way to pick up food when U.S. forces loosed gunfire on them.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/226309_robert30.html
Idaho Powerball ticket wins $220.3 million
By CHUCK OXLEY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOISE, Idaho -- Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket here over the weekend has won a $220.3 million jackpot, the 10th-largest jackpot ever awarded by the multistate lottery, officials said yesterday.
But if they want to spend any of it over the holiday weekend, they're going to have to borrow it from their buddies.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226326_powerball30.html
Salmon rescue plan takes big jump forward
Seattle, King County, local governments finish document
By ROBERT McCLURE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Saving salmon in Seattle is a big idea, a noble idea -- and a largely untested idea.
But plans to carry out that concept took a big step forward this week when representatives of Seattle, King County and other local governments in the Cedar River-Lake Washington basin put the final touches on their salmon-rescue blueprint.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226219_salmon28.html
Salmon: Facing the dam question
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
Federal efforts to protect Columbia River salmon runs must return to basics.
The fish, their ecosystem and the communities that live off the salmon must be protected. The Northwest economy must remain strong. Cooperative efforts, rather than divide-and-conquer tactics, provide the most hopeful avenues. Preserving endangered species is good sense, and it's the law.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226162_salmoned.asp
State Ecology workers vote to stay with union
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA -- The Washington Federation of State Employees has turned aside efforts at the Department of Ecology to decertify the largest state employee union.
The politically powerful union won a showdown vote, 459-406. Votes representing about 76 percent of the eligible workers were counted by the Public Employee Relations Commission on Thursday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/226244_ecology28.html
United Nations: Divulge Bolton dossier
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
With the Senate in recess, there's time for a quick resolution of the roadblock to a final vote on United Nations ambassador nominee John Bolton.
The White House ought to share with the Senate relevant information on Bolton's record as a State Department official. That would clear the way for an up-or-down vote on his nomination after the Senate reconvenes June 7, following a Memorial Day recess.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226166_boltoned.asp
Women In Combat: The brass ceiling
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
The U.S. House last week passed a military spending bill only after rejecting an amendment that was so goofy even Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld didn't like it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226167_combated.asp
State turned a vital corner on path to clean energy
By K.C. GOLDEN
GUEST COLUMNIST
Washington's transition to a clean energy economy shifted into high gear this year with an impressive package of forward-looking legislation coming out of Olympia. Bipartisan majorities delivered clean cars, high-performance buildings, efficient equipment and solar energy incentives.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226176_focusgolden.html
Global warming? A small few non-believers say no
JOHANN HARI
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
Rev up your SUV. Jump in a plane to New York for a morning meeting about how global warming is a "scam" and head back in the afternoon. When you return to your empty, centrally heated house, turn on that gas fire -- and toss a copy of the Kyoto treaty on the flames. This is the message from David Bellamy, still routinely dubbed one of Britain's "leading environmentalists." Global warming? Chill, baby, chill.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/226175_climate29.html
Hawaii seeks answers in missing child case
By JAYMES SONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HONOLULU -- Before he was 4 months old, Peter Kema Jr. already had his arms, a leg and three ribs broken. Doctors concluded the fractures were signs of child abuse. The child, who has become known throughout Hawaii as Peter Boy, was taken into state custody just three months after he was born in 1991. Three years later, a Family Court judge ordered him returned to his parents. Yet, the last time anyone saw him was 1997, when Peter Boy was 6, and the question remains: Where is he?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Peter%20Boy
Clinton visits Banda Aceh on relief mission
By MICHAEL CASEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Former President Clinton on Monday visited the Indonesian city hit hardest by the Dec. 26 tsunami, trying to jump-start efforts to rebuild the stricken region. Clinton, who was recently named U.N. special envoy for tsunami recovery, was in Banda Aceh as part of a four-day tour to ensure that aid is being distributed fairly and efficiently, and to keep the world's attention on tsunami recovery.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Tsunami%20Clinton
Austria avalanche searchers find U.S. body
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INNSBRUCK, Austria -- The body of an American snowboarder who disappeared in an avalanche in January was found on Sunday, the Austria Press Agency reported.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Austria%20Avalanche
Glance at France's referendum on charter
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A glance at the EU referendum vote in France on Sunday:
THE REFERENDUM: France's 41.7 million registered voters were asked: "Do you approve the proposed law authorizing the ratification of the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe?" They rejected it, about 55 percent to 45 percent.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=France%20EU%20Referendum%20Glance
Annan seeks wider African role in Darfur
By MOHAMED OSMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday called for widening the responsibilities of African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, as he visited a refugee camp and a tense, rebel-held area in the restive region of Sudan.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Sudan%20Annan
Canada offers $9.5M in aid to Palestinians
By BETH DUFF-BROWN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
TORONTO -- Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Friday that Canada would back up its commitment to Middle East peace with $9.5 million in new aid to help the Palestinians build homes and justice in their new state.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Canada%20Palestinians
The New Zealand Herald
Human rights worries will not derail trade talks, says Clark
Chinese President Hu Jintao (right) and Helen Clark, seen in 2003 at the AG Research Centre in Hamilton. Picture / Greg Bowker
30.05.05 1.00pm
By Ian Llewellyn
BEIJING - New Zealand will continue to raise concerns about human rights issues in China, but will not allow it to derail a potential trade deal with the north Asian giant, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
The Prime Minister has arrived in Beijing ahead of talks with Chinese political leaders late tonight.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10128235
State of emergency at Matata to be lifted today
30.05.05 12.00pm
The state of emergency at flood-devastated Matata will be lifted later today.
Almost two weeks after the floods hit, State Highway 2 from Matata to Tauranga will be opened at 3pm, Wakatane District Council said.
Mayor Colin Holmes said police would continue to monitor Matata closely.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10128229
Prostitute disappears with slug embedded in brain
30.05.05 12.00pm
The disappearance of an Auckland prostitute with an air rifle slug embedded in her brain is worrying police who want to get her to hospital.
The prostitute, 20, was shot in the head in a drive-by attack last month but was back on the streets in the south Auckland town of Papatoetoe within a few days.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=1012823
Amazon Forest road to bring riches or ruin
30.05.05 3.50pm
By Peter Blackburn
SANTAREM, Brazil - Brazilian soybean farmers expect a rutted, muddy road through the Amazon will turn into a highway of gold thanks to plans to pave it over the next three years.
However, environmentalists fear the project will hasten the region's deforestation.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10128255
Anti-poverty coalition in forced labour row
30.05.05 1.00pm
By Helen McCormack
The Make Poverty History coalition suffered a major blow yesterday after it was revealed that white wristbands they have sold were made in Chinese factories accused of using forced labour.
The fashionable white wristbands, worn by celebrities and politicians including Tony Blair, were made for a coalition of charities as the symbol of their worldwide 2005 campaign to end extreme poverty.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10128212
Nuclear-leak clues ‘ignored for months'
30.05.05
By Francis Elliott
LONDON - Tens of thousands of litres of highly radioactive liquid leaked unnoticed for up to nine months from a ruptured pipe in the controversial Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield.
The leak, which was detected last month, was Britain’s worst nuclear accident for 13 years.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10128077
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