June 19, 2005. Israel.
Sunday, July 03, 2005
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1738, John Copley, painter
1854, Leos Janácek, composer
1860, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist and writer
1883, Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czech) Jewish novelist and short-story writer, whose disturbing, symbolic fiction, written in German, prefigured the oppression and despair of the late 20th century. He is considered one of the most significant figures in modern world literature; the term Kafkaesque has, in fact, come to be applied commonly to grotesque, anxiety-producing social conditions or their treatment in literature.
Kafka was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) on July 3, 1883. His father, a merchant, was a domineering figure whose influence pervaded his son's work and (as Kafka perceived it) stifled his life. Letter to His Father (1919; trans. 1966) expresses his feelings of inferiority and paternal rejection. Nevertheless, Kafka lived with his family most of his life, never marrying although engaged twice. His uneasy relationship with Felice Bauer, a young German woman whom he courted between 1912 and 1917, is revealed in the series Letters to Felice (1967; trans. 1973).
Although he had studied law at the University of Prague, Kafka took a civil service post and wrote in his spare time. With the strain of this dual life, added to his anxiety and depression, Kafka contracted tuberculosis in 1917 and died in a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, on June 3, 1924.
The themes of Kafka's work are the loneliness, frustration, and oppressive guilt of an individual threatened by anonymous forces beyond his comprehension or control. In philosophy, Kafka is akin to the Danish thinker Søren Aabye Kierkegaard and to 20th-century existentialists. In literary technique, his work has the qualities both of expressionism and of surrealism. Kafka's lucid style, blending reality with fantasy and tinged with ironic humor, contributes to the nightmarish, claustrophobic effect of his work—as in his famous long short story “The Metamorphosis” (1915; trans. 1937). In it, the hero, a hardworking insurance agent, awakens to find that he has turned into an enormous insect; rejected by his family, he is left to die alone. Another story, “In the Penal Colony” (1919; trans. 1941), is a chilling fantasy of imprisonment and torture.
Contrary to Kafka's wish that his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed after his death, his friend and biographer, the Austrian writer Max Brod, published them posthumously and thus established Kafka's reputation. Among these works are the three novels for which Kafka is best known (all first translated by the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa Anderson Muir, 1890-1962): The Trial (1925; trans. 1937), The Castle (1926; trans. 1930), and Amerika (1927; trans. 1938).
1962, Tom Cruise, actor
1775, 1775, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1819, The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.
1930, Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
1951, Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks
Talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the United Nations in the Far East.
Original proposals for the ceasefire talks were made by General Ridgway to the Communists who requested changes which have today been agreed to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2785000/2785543.stm
1956, Commonwealth heads honoured
The prime ministers of India and New Zealand have been made Freemen of the City of London.
Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sir Sidney Holland of New Zealand were honoured in a ceremony at the Guildhall in the British capital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2777000/2777357.stm
1962, After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain
A charter flight from Manchester has gone missing with 105 holiday-makers and seven crew on board.
The Dan-Air Comet jet left Manchester Airport at 1700 BST (1600 GMT) to make the short flight to Barcelona with passengers on a Clarkson tour and seven crew.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492087.stm
1986, President Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1987, British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic, jumping into the sea as their craft went down off the Scottish coast.
1987: Nazi war criminal gets life
The former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie guilty of the 341 separate charges that were brought against him at the court in Lyon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492285.stm
1988, the U.S.S. Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1966 PHILLIPS DAVID J. JR. MIAMI BEACH FL REFNO 0382 LIVE POW REPORT 1984
1966 RENO RALPH J. FAYETTEVILLE NC
1967 SEYMOUR LEO E. TOWANDA PA
1972 CUTHBERT STEPHEN H. OAKLAND CA REMAINS RETURNED...I.D. 12/20/90
1972 MARSHALL MARION A. UPPER MARLBORO MD 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
The girl's 9-year-old brother, Dylan, had not been found, Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said. He said the girl was spotted in her hometown by a waitress who apparently recognized her from photographs displayed in the media.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, of from Fargo, N.D., was arrested without incident and charged with kidnapping, Wolfinger said. Duncan was being held without bond.
They're still looking for the little boy.
Given this from the same article there is absolutely no reason why Duncan should have been out and capable of committing these crimes.
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/006348.php
Missing girl found with Fargo offender
By Erin Hemme Froslie and Dave Olson, The Forum
Published Sunday, July 03, 2005
· advertisement ·
A Fargo high-risk sex offender was arrested early Saturday after a Denny's restaurant waitress in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, spotted him with an 8-year-old girl missing for six weeks.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, was later charged with kidnapping. He is being held in the Kootenai County jail without bond and could face more charges, said Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96704§ion=news
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1738, John Copley, painter
1854, Leos Janácek, composer
1860, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist and writer
1883, Franz Kafka, Austrian (Czech) Jewish novelist and short-story writer, whose disturbing, symbolic fiction, written in German, prefigured the oppression and despair of the late 20th century. He is considered one of the most significant figures in modern world literature; the term Kafkaesque has, in fact, come to be applied commonly to grotesque, anxiety-producing social conditions or their treatment in literature.
Kafka was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) on July 3, 1883. His father, a merchant, was a domineering figure whose influence pervaded his son's work and (as Kafka perceived it) stifled his life. Letter to His Father (1919; trans. 1966) expresses his feelings of inferiority and paternal rejection. Nevertheless, Kafka lived with his family most of his life, never marrying although engaged twice. His uneasy relationship with Felice Bauer, a young German woman whom he courted between 1912 and 1917, is revealed in the series Letters to Felice (1967; trans. 1973).
Although he had studied law at the University of Prague, Kafka took a civil service post and wrote in his spare time. With the strain of this dual life, added to his anxiety and depression, Kafka contracted tuberculosis in 1917 and died in a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, on June 3, 1924.
The themes of Kafka's work are the loneliness, frustration, and oppressive guilt of an individual threatened by anonymous forces beyond his comprehension or control. In philosophy, Kafka is akin to the Danish thinker Søren Aabye Kierkegaard and to 20th-century existentialists. In literary technique, his work has the qualities both of expressionism and of surrealism. Kafka's lucid style, blending reality with fantasy and tinged with ironic humor, contributes to the nightmarish, claustrophobic effect of his work—as in his famous long short story “The Metamorphosis” (1915; trans. 1937). In it, the hero, a hardworking insurance agent, awakens to find that he has turned into an enormous insect; rejected by his family, he is left to die alone. Another story, “In the Penal Colony” (1919; trans. 1941), is a chilling fantasy of imprisonment and torture.
Contrary to Kafka's wish that his unpublished manuscripts be destroyed after his death, his friend and biographer, the Austrian writer Max Brod, published them posthumously and thus established Kafka's reputation. Among these works are the three novels for which Kafka is best known (all first translated by the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa Anderson Muir, 1890-1962): The Trial (1925; trans. 1937), The Castle (1926; trans. 1930), and Amerika (1927; trans. 1938).
1937,
1962, Tom Cruise, actor
1775, 1775, Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1819, The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.
1930, Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
1951, Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks
Talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the United Nations in the Far East.
Original proposals for the ceasefire talks were made by General Ridgway to the Communists who requested changes which have today been agreed to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2785000/2785543.stm
1956, Commonwealth heads honoured
The prime ministers of India and New Zealand have been made Freemen of the City of London.
Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sir Sidney Holland of New Zealand were honoured in a ceremony at the Guildhall in the British capital.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2777000/2777357.stm
1962, After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain
A charter flight from Manchester has gone missing with 105 holiday-makers and seven crew on board.
The Dan-Air Comet jet left Manchester Airport at 1700 BST (1600 GMT) to make the short flight to Barcelona with passengers on a Clarkson tour and seven crew.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492087.stm
1986, President Reagan presided over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1987, British millionaire Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic, jumping into the sea as their craft went down off the Scottish coast.
1987: Nazi war criminal gets life
The former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie guilty of the 341 separate charges that were brought against him at the court in Lyon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/3/newsid_2492000/2492285.stm
1988, the U.S.S. Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
Missing in Action
1966
1966 PHILLIPS DAVID J. JR. MIAMI BEACH FL REFNO 0382 LIVE POW REPORT 1984
1966 RENO RALPH J. FAYETTEVILLE NC
1967 SEYMOUR LEO E. TOWANDA PA
1972 CUTHBERT STEPHEN H. OAKLAND CA REMAINS RETURNED...I.D. 12/20/90
1972 MARSHALL MARION A. UPPER MARLBORO MD 03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
North Dakota Headlines
North Dakota Sex Pervert Caught In Idaho
A man from my home state has been arrested in Idaho.
The girl's 9-year-old brother, Dylan, had not been found, Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said. He said the girl was spotted in her hometown by a waitress who apparently recognized her from photographs displayed in the media.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, of from Fargo, N.D., was arrested without incident and charged with kidnapping, Wolfinger said. Duncan was being held without bond.
They're still looking for the little boy.
Given this from the same article there is absolutely no reason why Duncan should have been out and capable of committing these crimes.
http://wizbangblog.com/archives/006348.php
Missing girl found with Fargo offender
By Erin Hemme Froslie and Dave Olson, The Forum
Published Sunday, July 03, 2005
· advertisement ·
A Fargo high-risk sex offender was arrested early Saturday after a Denny's restaurant waitress in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, spotted him with an 8-year-old girl missing for six weeks.
Joseph Edward Duncan III, 42, was later charged with kidnapping. He is being held in the Kootenai County jail without bond and could face more charges, said Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96704§ion=news
Duncan vented on Internet blog
By Teri Finneman, The ForumPublished Sunday, July 03, 2005
Days before two Idaho children disappeared and family members were found murdered, Joseph Edward Duncan III typed an ominous message into cyberspace.
The registered sex offender from Fargo wrote in his Internet journal that he planned to harm society as much as possible and then die.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96705§ion=News
Complete coverage:
http://www.in-forum.com/
Troubling Questions Surround Idaho Case
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press - Sunday, July 03, 2005
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho
A day after missing 8-year-old Shasta Groene turned up with a registered sex offender at a Denny's restaurant in her hometown, investigators struggled with a troubling question: What happened to her 9-year-old brother?
http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8B44G3G0
Opinion:
Bush's Testosterone Driven Society Strikes Again.
The Pedophile Community of the USA under Bush has gone from covert to aggressive killing families to satisfy their perverted sexual desires.
Nearly three years to the date on July 16, 2002, five year old Samantha Runnion was found dead in California. She was abducted by a pedophile. After that the "Yellow Alert" was developed to secure the public's help in finding a child immediately after the abduction.
At the time Samatha was abducted George Walker Bush spoke to the nation regarding this horrible crime. NOTHING. I DO MEAN NOTHING has been done to HANDLE pedophiles who we know are incurable of their crimes.
Now, with Shasta Groene age 8 returned to society out of the clutches of a known sex offender we can AGAIN reflect on the incompetency of this administration.
During the past three years we have witnessed a very aggressive community of pedophiles that seek their pleasure at the deaths of sleeping parents. The deaths of Shasta's family excluding herself and her nine year old brother Dillon, was the acts of a pedophile intent on having a child to molest. The fact Shasta was in a Denny's resturant with her abductor is proof of the twisted mind of this community at large. The abductor thought being out and about in the early hours of the day would allow them more freedom and not less. He never once expected people to be suspicious of a child at a resturant at that hour of the morning. She was being rewarded by him for good behavior and we can only guess what that good behavior was.
Joseph Duncan is just the most recent pedophile with an incomplete pedophile record requiring federal legislation and a sharing by states of all the sex offenders in their state with the other 49 states.
This type of crime and the lack of this administration to deal effectively with it, realizing a concentration of these crimes have occurred in Florida, clearly illustrates the incompetency of the Bushes in dealing with social issues that effect us all. They call on 'Community Awareness' to handle this 'States Rights' issue while providing no tools for the states to talk to each other regarding criminals of this nature.
Three years and we are still seeing families slain and children stolen to lead shattered lives when they are lucky enough to be found by 'Community Awareness.' We need new leadership in this country. Can there be any doubt ?
M. D. Sweeney letter: Flood waters will pollute the big lake
The Forum
Published Sunday, July 03, 2005
Canadian legislators have shown much concern regarding the pollution potential that may occur by water from Devils Lake.
I suggest that they should be more concerned about the amount of pollution going into Lake Winnipeg from the present flood waters. How many tons of fertilizers, pesticides, etc.?
M. D. Sweeney
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96516§ion=Opinion
North Dakotans clean up after another storm
Associated Press, Associated Press
Published Tuesday, June 28, 2005
It sounded like a freight train and it hit fast, Cooperstown-area rancher Norm Tafelmeyer said. When it was over, he had broken windows, damaged buildings and trees down everywhere.
"We had a lot of trees surrounding our house and everything fell away from the house," Tafelmeyer said after the heavy rain and high winds hit early Monday.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=96222§ion=News
Berry Petroleum Acquires Acreage in North Dakota
Monday June 27, 11:50 am ET
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2005--Berry Petroleum Company (NYSE:BRY - News) announced that it acquired interests in approximately 20,000 gross acres in the Williston Basin of North Dakota; and is in the process of purchasing additional interests in another 100,000 gross acres in the area. These acquisitions, totaling approximately $9 million, represent another step in diversifying Berry's asset base and provide the Company an entry into the emerging Bakken oil play in the Williston Basin. The acreage covers several contiguous blocks located primarily on the eastern flank of the Nesson Anticline. Development activity in the Middle Bakken play is expanding to the area surrounding the Nesson Anticline, the oil producing heart of North Dakota.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050627/275746.html?.v=1
BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE: North Dakota receives $1 million to cope with BRAC job loss
Most to be spent in Grand Forks area
By Stephen J. Lee
Herald Staff Writer
North Dakota's Job Service will get a $1 million grant to help the Grand Forks area respond to losing about 2,700 civilian jobs at Grand Forks Air Force Base under the realignment announced recently by the Pentagon.
It's part of more than $28 million from the U.S. Labor Department announced Tuesday that will go to 35 states, the District of Columbia and Guam to help civilian workers affected by the Base Realignment and Closure process. The Pentagon's plan, subject to review by the BRAC Commission, is to close 33 major military bases and realign 29 more.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/12019553.htm
Globe and Mail
Live 8 rocks the globe
London, Britain
03 July 2005 09:30
Bono effortlessly worked the crowd. Half a globe away, Bjork strutted the stage. Bill Gates was cheered like a rock star. And on the continent that inspired the unprecedented Live 8 extravaganza, Nelson Mandela outshone them all.
Live 8's long, winding road around the globe on Saturday has been an eclectic marathon.
From Johannesburg to Philadelphia, Berlin to Tokyo and Rome to Barrie, Ontario, musicians and fans sang and danced through a global music festival to raise awareness of African poverty and pressure the world's most powerful leaders to do something about it at the Group of Eight summit in Scotland next week.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244393&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Mandela appears at Live 8 Joburg
Johannesburg, London
02 July 2005 07:15
Nelson Mandela at Live8 in Joburg
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity but an act of justice, former president and freedom icon Nelson Mandela said at the Africa Standing Tall Against Poverty concert in conjunction with Live8 in Newtown on Saturday.
"While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."
Mandela addressed about 20 000 screaming fans at Mary FitzGerald Square in Johannesburg, saying the world was one of great promise and hope, but also of despair, disease and hunger.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244386&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
All aboard! Green light for Gautrain
Matebello Motloung Pretoria, South Africa
02 July 2005 04:27
Construction of the high-speed train connecting Johannesburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg International airport will begin "today", Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Saturday.
He also announced Bombela, a French-Canadian-South African consortium, as the preferred bidder for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link Project (Gautrain).
"Work begins today. Today we have to sit down with the preferred bidder and point out what is that we are not happy with and so forth," he said.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244377&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
ANC remains 'a disciplined force of the left'
Mariette le Roux Pretoria
02 July 2005 04:27
The African National Congress (ANC) has reaffirmed its character as a national liberation movement, it emerged on Saturday from the party's national general council (NGC) meeting in Pretoria.
"As the ANC, we remain a national liberation movement," deputy secretary-general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele told reporters.
"We remain a disciplined force of the left."
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244378&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
CIA methods exposed by kidnap inquiry
02 July 2005 05:46
"I was walking down Via Guerzoni with my little girl and I saw a man with a long beard and a djellaba being stopped by two westerners with a cellphone. They were asking him, in Italian, for his documents, the way the police do," the witness said.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244381&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Australia, New Zealand plan new moves against Mugabe
Sydney, Australia
02 July 2005 08:14
Australia and New Zealand agreed on Saturday on a range of new measures to increase pressure on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to respect human rights, including referring him to the International Criminal Court.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244365&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Moscow's Bolshoi to close ahead of $700m revamp
Moscow, Russia
01 July 2005 01:20
Russia's Bolshoi theatre will undergo a $700-million overhaul in the next three years, the Izvestia daily reported on Friday, a day after the last performance took place in the legendary building.
The price tag — an astronomical sum by Russian standards — is due to major wear and tear suffered by the ageing building and the need for fundamental structural work below ground, Izvestia said, citing a leaked document on the project.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244300&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Time reluctantly agrees to give notes to grand jury
New York, USA
30 June 2005 04:21
Time magazine warned of "chilling" new limits on US press freedoms as it reluctantly agreed on Thursday to hand over a reporter's notes to a grand jury probing the leak of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative's identity.
The move was partly aimed at protecting Time journalist Matt Cooper, who has been ordered to testify before the grand jury or face prison.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244228&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
World's largest freshwater fish ends up in the pot
Daniel Lovering Bangkok
30 June 2005 01:22
Thai fishermen caught a 293kg catfish, believed to have been the world's largest freshwater fish ever recorded, a researcher said on Thursday.
The 2,7m Mekong giant catfish was netted on May 1 by villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote district in northern Thailand, and was weighed by Thai fisheries department officials, said Zeb Hogan, who leads an international project to locate and study the world's largest freshwater fish species.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/other_news/&articleid=244194
Suicide bombers leave 26 dead in Iraq
Baghdad
03 July 2005 11:07
Suicide bombers struck in Baghdad and a Shi'ite city south of the capital in attacks that killed 26 people and injured nearly 50, Iraqi officials said. One of the attackers targeted bystanders and police who had rushed to the scene of an earlier blast.
In a separate incident on Saturday, a fire destroyed a United States military helicopter while it was conducting routine resupply operations near Camp Ramadi in western Iraq, slightly injuring one crewman.
The CH-47 Chinook caught fire on the ground and the cause of the blaze was under investigation, the military said in a statement on Sunday.
In the first suicide attack, an attacker blew himself up outside a recruiting station for police special forces in western Baghdad early on Saturday, killing at least 16 other people, including 11 recruits, police and hospital officials said. Another 22 people were injured. A statement posted on the internet claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=244396&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
continued . . .
Geldorf !!
July 2, 2005. Live 8. It was 20 years ago. Live Aid. Townsend, Geldorf, Macca & Moyet � Warner Music
Morning Papers - continued
The Guardian
'Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world'
Imogen Tilden and agencies
Saturday July 2, 2005
Paul McCartney, who opened the Hyde Park concert at 2pm. Photo: PA
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's two o'clock. Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world." And thus, a few minutes after 2pm, Live 8 began simultaneously at venues in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
Backstage, Bob Geldof said:" Everything that's rock 'n' roll is ever meant to be is happening now." He admitted that he only finally relaxed once the concert got underway. "There's nothing more to do now - it's either crap or it's great and so far it's great," he told reporters a couple of hours into the blockbusting event.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/live8/story/0,16066,1519729,00.html
The war on dissent
Rachel Shabi
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Guardian
If you are attending the Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh today, you need to be a "good" protester. The event is intended to lobby G8 leaders to do what the title suggests. Demonstrators are asked to march alongside Gordon Brown, wearing white, and to stay on-message. Don't mention the war. Ditto for any critique of capitalism. Suggestions that G8 policy, far from alleviating poverty, is a direct cause of it, are not welcome. That constitutes "bad" protest. Shut up. Disappear. Stay at home.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1519649,00.html
The lies behind the lies
Roy Greenslade salutes Dilip Hiro's Secrets and Lies, a depressing but magisterial assessment of the reasoning that led to the invasion of Iraq
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Observer
Secrets and Lies: The True Story of the Iraq War
by Dilip Hiro
564pp, Politico's, £9.99
Millions across the world who marched in the hope of preventing the invasion of Iraq were angered by the fact that their opposition was ignored. If they read this book their anger will be redoubled. But the people who will surely feel even more embittered are those who were taken in, having been persuaded by the arguments of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to support the war.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/books/story/0,10595,1519046,00.html
'We don't want charity, what we want is justice'
Euan Ferguson watches an extraordinary day unfold when the world joined a chorus for Africa
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
The quietest and most damnably effective presence in Hyde Park at two o'clock yesterday afternoon was that of Richard Curtis. In the most magical stroke of his career, he actually managed to turn being a Briton, in this cloying July of 2005, into being part of a movie.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1520185,00.html
G8 targeted at counter-summit
Simon Jeffrey and Matthew Tempest
Sunday July 3, 2005
A succession of speakers at a "G8 counter-summit" today questioned Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's commitment to ending poverty and tackling climate change.
As the leaders of the world's richest countries prepare for this week's meeting at Gleneagles, delegates gathered in Edinburgh for the G8 Alternatives summit.
The one-day event is the work of a coalition of unions and campaign groups who believe the G8 has taken too much power for itself and who decry what they see as the rich nations' legacy of "war, occupation, neoliberal corporate globalisation, poverty and environmental devastation".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1520494,00.html
UK aid funds Iraqi torture units
Peter Beaumont in Baghdad and Martin Bright
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
British and American aid intended for Iraq's hard-pressed police service is being diverted to paramilitary commando units accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings, The Observer can reveal.
Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons and vehicles earmarked for the IPS are being taken by shock troops at the forefront of Iraq's new dirty counter-insurgency war.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1520186,00.html
Water companies in crisis areas may be granted emergency powers to impose meters on customers
Gaby Hinsliff and Mark Townsend
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
Thousands of homeowners are facing stringent cuts in their use of water under unprecedented emergency powers designed to curb the threat of drought in Britain, the environment minister warned yesterday.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1520150,00.html
Oil 'will hit $100 by winter'
Worst-ever crisis looms, says analyst · Surging demand to keep prices high
Heather Stewart, economics correspondent
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
Oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months, plunging the world into an unprecedented fuel crisis, controversial Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons has warned.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1519745,00.html
Drug reverses Parkinson's brain damage
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Guardian
An experimental drug for Parkinson's disease has been shown to trigger new nerve growth in the brain, the first time any treatment has reversed the brain damage caused by the condition.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,7890,1519586,00.html
Michael Moore Today
Go, Michael, Go !!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Mike Announces Traverse City Film Festival Lineup!
Michael Moore announces films for Traverse City festival
By John Flesher / Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Excited movie buffs queued up Friday to buy tickets for the inaugural Traverse City Film Festival — and to meet its founder, the Oscar-winning director Michael Moore.
"It's a great thing you're doing," Mimi Bruder, the first person in line, told Moore, who stood behind the counter as sales got under way. More than 500 tickets were sold within two hours, organizers said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3189
Mike is giving us the start of our own economy. This is very exciting.
"The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual event committed to showing just great movies and helping to save one of America’s few indigenous art forms -- the cinema."
http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/sections/home/home.html
Click here for Film & Event Schedule
July 27, 2005
State Theatre
Old Town Playhouse
City Opera House
July 27, 2005
State Theater
Opening Night
8:00 Mad, Hot Ballroom
July 28, 2005
StateTheater
1:00 The Ax
4:00 Land of Plenty
7:00 My Summer of Love
10:00 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 Czech Dream
4:00 Mondovino
7:00 Grizzly Man
10:00 The Woodsman
City Opera House
1:00 Me and You and Everyone We Know
4:00 Home of the Brave
7:00 Downfall
10:00 Human Resources
Fri
July 29, 2005
State Theater
1:00 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4:00 The Edukators
7:00 A Good Woman
10:00 Grizzly Man
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 Tarnation
4:00 Czech Dream
7:00 The Baxter
10:00 The Assassination
of Richard Nixon
City Opera House
1:00 Italian for Beginners
4:00 Gunner Palace
7:00 Land of Plenty
10:00 My Summer
of Love
Sat
July 30, 2005
State Theater
1:00 Downfall
4:00 The Baxter
7:00 Me and You and
Everyone We Know
10:00 Gunner Palace
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 Mondovino
4:00 The Talent Given Us
7:00 The Edukators
10:00 Les Miserables
City Opera House
1:00 Human Resources
4:00 Home of the Brave
7:00 Time Out
10:00 Les Miserables
July 31, 2005
State Theater
1:00 11 de Septembre
4:00 The Talent Given Us
7:00 Broken Flowers
(Closing Night)
10:00 “Audience Award Screening”
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 A Good Woman
4:00 Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room
7:00 Italian for Beginners
10:00 “Mike’s Surprise”
City Opera House
1:00 Time Out
4:00 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
7:00 The Ax
10:00 “Founders’ Prize Screening”
Showtimes for The Open Space
Thur 7/28
Dusk (10:00pm)
Jaws
Fri 7/29
Dusk (10:00pm)
The Princess Bride
Sat 7/30
Dusk (10:00pm)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Sun 7/31
Dusk (10:00pm)
Casablanca
Closing Night
http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/sections/info/info.html
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Seating Policies and Information
All tickets are general admission. There are no assigned or reserved seats.
All tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
All ticket sales are final and apply only to the screening purchased.
Ticket prices unless otherwise noted (i.e. opening & closing films) are $7.
Interlochen Box Office will process telephone ticket orders through Tuesday, July 26. Ticket orders received prior to July 20 will be filled and mailed to the purchaser upon request. Ticket orders received after July 20 will be available for “will call” at Bravo! beginning July 27.
Tickets are sold on a first come, first serve basis within the seating limits of each venue. Any remaining unsold tickets will be sold on a cash basis at each venue (State Theatre, City Opera House, Old Town Playhouse) for showings taking place at specifically at those facilities.
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Do you love movies and the Traverse City area as much as we do? Then join our team! We need volunteers to help us run the festival events. Many different opportunities to participate are currently available.
Volunteers are needed to handle ticketing, ushering and concessions during film events. Volunteers also are needed immediately in professional fields, including sales, advertising, event management, and technical and creative
support.
For more information, fill out the form below, click on the "Submit Form" button and a volunteer coordinator will contact you.
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MSNBC Analyst Says 2nd Source Confirms Karl Rove as Plame Leaker
By Greg Mitchell / Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source. Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, now claims that at least two sources have confirmed that the name is--top White House mastermind Karl Rove.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3190
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/07/02.html#a3746
Search for U.S. missing stepped up
Warplanes hit enemy compound, spokesman says
(CNN) -- The U.S. military was devoting "all available assets" Saturday in an attempt to find a small number of U.S. Special Forces who have been missing in Afghanistan for four days, shortly after a helicopter carrying their reinforcements crashed, killing 16 service members.
On Friday, U.S. forces attacked what was described as an enemy compound near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a military spokesman said Saturday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3191
Iraqi TV Producer Kidnapped, Killed
Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A media watchdog organization has condemned the killing of an Iraqi television producer in northern Iraq.
Khalid al-Attar, who worked for al-Iraqiya television, was abducted from a Mosul neighborhood by unidentified gunmen and found shot to death Friday, the state-funded station said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3195
The Los Angeles Times
State Ballot, Wider Impact
Activists across the nation are gearing up for the special election. It's seen as a prelude to battles on union clout, drug prices and more.
By Mark Z. Barabak, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — Even before the ballot is set, California's special election is drawing money and attention from interest groups and political partisans across the country who see the campaign as a way to invigorate their efforts in 2006 and beyond.
Democrats believe they have a chance this fall to make Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "a starring villain" in their attack on national Republican leaders, said Jenny Backus, a Democratic strategist in Washington.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-special3jul03,0,2209825.story?coll=la-home-headlines
According to General Abizaid Americans are arrogant that deomcracy won't ever happen in Iraq. Maybe sometime in the next 100 years. We aren't going to do this any longer. You, sir, can stay as long as you and volunteer for the Iraqi military. We'll see your way clear to do that. Bye!! DRAFT IRAQ !!!!!!!!!
Egypt's Top Envoy in Iraq Kidnapped in Baghdad
Witnesses said gunmen accosted Ihab al-Sherif as he stopped to buy a newspaper
From Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Egyptian envoy expected to become Iraq's first Arab ambassador since its new government took office was kidnapped in Baghdad, weeks after arriving in the country, diplomats said today.
Witnesses said gunmen accosted Ihab al-Sherif as he stopped to buy a newspaper late Saturday, pistol-whipped him and accused him of being an "American spy." The kidnapping could undermine U.S.-backed efforts to encourage Iraq's Arab neighbors to send high ranking diplomats to Baghdad.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-070305iraq_wr,0,7493168.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Glimpses of a Hermit Nation
A decade after a massive famine, North Koreans are still struggling. In Chongjin, deprivation spurs change.
By Barbara Demick, Times Staff Writer
His day begins at 4:30 a.m. The 64-year-old retired math teacher doesn't own a clock or even a watch, but the internal alarm that has kept him alive while so many of his fellow North Koreans have starved to death tells him he had better get out to pick grass if his family is to survive.
Soon the streets of his city, Chongjin, will be swarming with others doing the same. Some cook the grass to eat. The teacher feeds it to the rabbits his family sells at the market.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chongjin3jul03,0,1828534.story?coll=la-home-headlines
With Live 8, Rock Changes the Way It Calls for Change
Bob Geldof and U2's Bono redirect activism from the streets into the corridors of power.
By Robert Hilburn, Times Staff Writer
"Are you ready to change history?" an invigorated Madonna asked the 200,000 fans gathered in London's Hyde Park on Saturday for one of the day's Live 8 concerts.
"Yes!" the crowd screamed back.
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/la-fg-notebook3jul03,0,907051.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=hppromobox
U.S. Policy Lets Illegal Immigrants Go
By PAULINE ARRILLAGA, AP National Writer
HARLINGEN, Texas -- Several times a day, a chain-link gate rolls open and dozens of illegal immigrants stroll out of the U.S. Border Patrol station here, blinking into the hot Texas sun as they look for taxis to the bus station and a ticket out of town.
Each holds a piece of paper that Spanish-speakers call a "permiso" -- permission, courtesy of the U.S. government, to roam freely anywhere in the country.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13jul03,0,968429.story
I love this. GO OUT AND DEFEND YOURSELVES ! ! ! We are trying to resolve differences of the rebellion and the Iraqis reject the efforts. They are spoiled/lazy/scared. The Military Recruiters need to go to Iraq and leave the people in the USA alone. The Iraqis need to do this themselves. They take their time to build a formal military while their towns are already armed to protect themselves. It is a screwed up mess we need to out of. We don't belong in Iraq. We never did. We are not their servants. But Bush would have us be for the sake of his cronies. Go ahead, George, be a fool for a peace that will never occur. Nice propaganda piece at the very time Bush needed it. Tell, me has the criminal that outted the CIA agent put you on this 'lead?' Let's see, what did it take about a decade or more for Beirut to rebuild? Even today they have no respect for those efforts or focus. We are well out it as our military have exposed our troops to dangers that could have and should have been averted, including the armor plating for their vehicles. "We will be here as long as they need us." I don't think so. Let me make this perfectly clear, DRAFT IRAQ !!!!!!
Shiites Question U.S. Overtures to Sunni Rebels
Bush officials have had to reassure Iraq's ruling majority as they try to divide the stubborn insurgency and forge a political compromise.
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — It didn't take long for fresh reports of U.S. talks with Sunni Arab insurgents to stir cries of an impending sellout.
"The Americans and everyone else must understand that the Iraqi people will never accept any talks with the criminals who have blood on their hands," Sheik Jalaluddin Saghir, a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and member of parliament, declared during Friday prayers.
A senior U.S. official here sought to provide damage control. There was no intent, he declared, to undermine the fledgling Shiite-run government, which meets behind U.S.-fortified blast walls.
"In the end, we are not going to hand to the insurgency the head of the Iraqi government on a platter," the U.S. official told reporters Friday. "It isn't going to happen."
The exchange underscored the fragility of the political compromise that the Bush administration is seeking to facilitate in Iraq, even as the complementary military strategy — turning more and more responsibility over to fledgling Iraqi forces — has yet to prove a success.
U.S. commanders say they hope a drawdown of the 140,000-strong American force in Iraq can begin sometime next year. But no one will publicly say how many of Iraq's 100-plus U.S.-trained battalions are ready to wage a difficult counterinsurgency campaign without U.S. assistance.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tightrope3jul03,0,2912712.story?coll=la-home-world
Vietnam News
Poverty reduction should be key task
(01-07-2005)
HA NOI — President Tran Duc Luong has called on the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to treat poverty reduction as its central task.
During a visit last Wednesday to the ministry (MoLISA), he however acknowledged its efforts – and the efforts of the nation as a whole – in reducing poverty, saying Viet Nam was moving towards the UN’s Millennium Goals to the approbation of the international community.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02SOC010705
PM Khai thanks Japan for WTO support, ODA increase
(02-07-2005)
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai meets with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo. — VNA/VNS Photo
TOKYO — Prime Minister Phan Van Khai expressed deep gratitude to Japan for increasing official development assistance (ODA) to Viet Nam at a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo yesterday.
He also thanked the Japanese government for concluding bilateral negotiations with Viet Nam to enable the latter to join the World Trade Organisation, calling it a realistic act that would help Viet Nam develop and integrate into the global economy.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03POL020705
PM rolls out red carpet for Canadian investors
(01-07-2005)
TORONTO — The Government of Viet Nam will facilitate investment and trade by Canadian businesses in Viet Nam, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said yesterday during his visit to Canada.
In remarks to the Viet Nam – Canada Business Forum in Toronto, Khai said that, despite their geographic distance, Viet Nam and Canada have much in common and great potential for co-operation.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03POL010705
Student becomes Canadian Consul for a day
(01-07-2005)
by Van Nguyen
My dinner with Sanjeev: Nguyen Minh Vu (left) has dinner with the Canadian Consul General (middle). — VNS Photo
After a breakfast at home, a brief review of the Viet Nam News and half-an-hour workout, 18-year-old Nguyen Minh Vu was ready to start his day as the Canadian Consul General in HCM City.
Though it might sound odd for a Vietnamese student to be a Consul General for Canada, the opportunity was genuine. Canadian Consul General Sanjeev Chowdhury gave Vu his desk, because he’d won as the Canadian Consul General for A Day essay contest that took place last month to celebrate Canadian Day, July 1.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01CUL010705
International scholars assess era of Doi moi
(01-07-2005)
Doi moi(renewal) has refurned land to households for farming. — VNA/VNS Photo Bach Duong
HA NOI — Viet Nam’s Doi moi (renewal) is not like any other foreign socio-economic development model in the world, said Do Hoai Nam, President of the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences, at a two-day international conference to review the first twenty years of the renewal process.
Although the country has developed the model independently to find solutions to its development challenges, it is interested in learning from international experiences, he said
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01POL010705
Bond, t-bill issues fetch $4 billion in last decade
(01-07-2005)
Bank branch in Ha Tay Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Quang Hai
HA NOI — The Government has raised nearly VND63.37 trillion (US$4 billion) from treasury bills and bonds over the last 10 years, said a joint review meeting this week of the Ministry of Finance and State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03BAN010705
The Washington Post
Former Sen. Gaylord Nelson Dies at 89
By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; 9:42 AM
Gaylord Nelson, 89, the three-term Democratic senator from Wisconsin who introduced mainstream America to the modern environmental movement by founding Earth Day, died this morning of cardiovascular disease at his home in Kensington.
One of the leading environmentalists of the 20th century, Mr. Nelson also was a sponsor or co-sponsor of the 1964 Wilderness Act and laws that protected the Appalachian Trail and banned the pesticide DDT, Agent Orange and phosphorus detergents. He backed fuel efficiency standards in vehicles and strip-mining controls. He once proposed a ban on the internal combustion engine, as an amendment to the Clean Air Act.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/03/AR2005070300296.html
Federer Trounces Roddick at Wimbledon
By STEVEN WINE
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 3, 2005; 11:51 AM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Roger Federer strengthened his claim to greatness Sunday, winning his third consecutive Wimbledon title by beating Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-6 (2), 6-4. With an impeccable performance, even by his high standards, the top-ranked Federer became the third man since 1936 to win three straight Wimbledon crowns, joining seven-time champion Pete Sampras and five-time winner Bjorn Borg.
Federer defeated the second-seeded Roddick at Wimbledon for the third year in a row, including the past two finals, and leads the rivalry 9-1. Roddick is 32-0 against everyone else on grass since 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/03/AR2005070300121.html
Help From France Key In Covert Operations
Paris's 'Alliance Base' Targets Terrorists
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A01
PARIS -- When Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam, boarded an Air France flight from Riyadh on June 3, 2003, he knew only that the Saudi government had put him under house arrest for an expired pilgrim visa and had given his family one-way tickets back to Germany, with a change of planes in Paris.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201361.html
That's Howard. Get used to it !! He can be angry he needs to be, but, he needs to get and keep his facts straight. No misadventures, Howard.
Return of the Angry Man
He might have simply disappeared after the Scream ended his presidential hopes. But as head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is still going to go to New Hampshire. And South Carolina. And Oklahoma ...
By Sally Jenkins
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page W08
At some point in the next five minutes, Howard Dean is going to say something that somebody won't like. He will say it in words chesty and rough, with a voice that is raked out of the bottom of his throat. He might call Republicans "plunderers," or he might call them "brain-dead." Whatever he says, the sound of a politician speaking his actual mind will cause his admirers and detractors alike to react as if they just heard an explosion. The chatter fills the air like scattering flocks of jackdaws: Check me on this, but did Howard Dean just call half the country stupid?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801074.html
FRIST is a spineless wimp when it comes to Bush's demands but has a 'hissy fit' whenever a Democrat brings an objection to anything, calling them obstructionists. There is no balance in Frist approach. The people of this country suffer from it. Even Republicans disapprove of an Extremist President. A polarized populous brought 14 Senators to a negotiation table, 7 were Republicans. Frist is not a good majority leader, he is a pandering 'mama's boy.'
Frist Again at the Center of Stem Cell Fight
As Senate Vote Looms, Surgeon Shies Away From Advocacy He Expressed in 2001
By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A05
On July 18, 2001, Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) stood on the Senate floor urging his colleagues to buck conservative orthodoxy and support federally funded research on embryonic stem cells. As the Senate's only physician, Frist made headlines -- and gave momentum to the controversial science -- with his endorsement.
The following month, however, President Bush announced a policy that was far more restrictive, limiting federal research to already existing embryonic stem cells, and Frist acquiesced.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070200975.html
Russians' Appeals to Court Bring Intimidation, Death
Relatives of Missing and Dead Told Not to Go to Rights Body
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A15
NAZRAN, Russia -- Russians who appeal to the European Court of Human Rights after their relatives disappear or are killed in Chechnya or neighboring Ingushetia face constant threats to force them to drop the cases. In at least five instances, applicants to the court were themselves killed or had disappeared, according to lawyers, human rights groups, court records and relatives.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201430.html
continued . . .
'Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world'
Imogen Tilden and agencies
Saturday July 2, 2005
Paul McCartney, who opened the Hyde Park concert at 2pm. Photo: PA
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's two o'clock. Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world." And thus, a few minutes after 2pm, Live 8 began simultaneously at venues in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
Backstage, Bob Geldof said:" Everything that's rock 'n' roll is ever meant to be is happening now." He admitted that he only finally relaxed once the concert got underway. "There's nothing more to do now - it's either crap or it's great and so far it's great," he told reporters a couple of hours into the blockbusting event.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/live8/story/0,16066,1519729,00.html
The war on dissent
Rachel Shabi
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Guardian
If you are attending the Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh today, you need to be a "good" protester. The event is intended to lobby G8 leaders to do what the title suggests. Demonstrators are asked to march alongside Gordon Brown, wearing white, and to stay on-message. Don't mention the war. Ditto for any critique of capitalism. Suggestions that G8 policy, far from alleviating poverty, is a direct cause of it, are not welcome. That constitutes "bad" protest. Shut up. Disappear. Stay at home.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1519649,00.html
The lies behind the lies
Roy Greenslade salutes Dilip Hiro's Secrets and Lies, a depressing but magisterial assessment of the reasoning that led to the invasion of Iraq
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Observer
Secrets and Lies: The True Story of the Iraq War
by Dilip Hiro
564pp, Politico's, £9.99
Millions across the world who marched in the hope of preventing the invasion of Iraq were angered by the fact that their opposition was ignored. If they read this book their anger will be redoubled. But the people who will surely feel even more embittered are those who were taken in, having been persuaded by the arguments of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to support the war.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/books/story/0,10595,1519046,00.html
'We don't want charity, what we want is justice'
Euan Ferguson watches an extraordinary day unfold when the world joined a chorus for Africa
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
The quietest and most damnably effective presence in Hyde Park at two o'clock yesterday afternoon was that of Richard Curtis. In the most magical stroke of his career, he actually managed to turn being a Briton, in this cloying July of 2005, into being part of a movie.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1520185,00.html
G8 targeted at counter-summit
Simon Jeffrey and Matthew Tempest
Sunday July 3, 2005
A succession of speakers at a "G8 counter-summit" today questioned Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's commitment to ending poverty and tackling climate change.
As the leaders of the world's richest countries prepare for this week's meeting at Gleneagles, delegates gathered in Edinburgh for the G8 Alternatives summit.
The one-day event is the work of a coalition of unions and campaign groups who believe the G8 has taken too much power for itself and who decry what they see as the rich nations' legacy of "war, occupation, neoliberal corporate globalisation, poverty and environmental devastation".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g8/story/0,13365,1520494,00.html
UK aid funds Iraqi torture units
Peter Beaumont in Baghdad and Martin Bright
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
British and American aid intended for Iraq's hard-pressed police service is being diverted to paramilitary commando units accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings, The Observer can reveal.
Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons and vehicles earmarked for the IPS are being taken by shock troops at the forefront of Iraq's new dirty counter-insurgency war.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1520186,00.html
Water companies in crisis areas may be granted emergency powers to impose meters on customers
Gaby Hinsliff and Mark Townsend
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
Thousands of homeowners are facing stringent cuts in their use of water under unprecedented emergency powers designed to curb the threat of drought in Britain, the environment minister warned yesterday.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1520150,00.html
Oil 'will hit $100 by winter'
Worst-ever crisis looms, says analyst · Surging demand to keep prices high
Heather Stewart, economics correspondent
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Observer
Oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months, plunging the world into an unprecedented fuel crisis, controversial Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons has warned.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1519745,00.html
Drug reverses Parkinson's brain damage
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Guardian
An experimental drug for Parkinson's disease has been shown to trigger new nerve growth in the brain, the first time any treatment has reversed the brain damage caused by the condition.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,7890,1519586,00.html
Michael Moore Today
Go, Michael, Go !!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Mike Announces Traverse City Film Festival Lineup!
Michael Moore announces films for Traverse City festival
By John Flesher / Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Excited movie buffs queued up Friday to buy tickets for the inaugural Traverse City Film Festival — and to meet its founder, the Oscar-winning director Michael Moore.
"It's a great thing you're doing," Mimi Bruder, the first person in line, told Moore, who stood behind the counter as sales got under way. More than 500 tickets were sold within two hours, organizers said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3189
Mike is giving us the start of our own economy. This is very exciting.
"The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual event committed to showing just great movies and helping to save one of America’s few indigenous art forms -- the cinema."
http://www.traversecityfilmfestival.org/sections/home/home.html
Click here for Film & Event Schedule
July 27, 2005
State Theatre
Old Town Playhouse
City Opera House
July 27, 2005
State Theater
Opening Night
8:00 Mad, Hot Ballroom
July 28, 2005
StateTheater
1:00 The Ax
4:00 Land of Plenty
7:00 My Summer of Love
10:00 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 Czech Dream
4:00 Mondovino
7:00 Grizzly Man
10:00 The Woodsman
City Opera House
1:00 Me and You and Everyone We Know
4:00 Home of the Brave
7:00 Downfall
10:00 Human Resources
Fri
July 29, 2005
State Theater
1:00 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
4:00 The Edukators
7:00 A Good Woman
10:00 Grizzly Man
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 Tarnation
4:00 Czech Dream
7:00 The Baxter
10:00 The Assassination
of Richard Nixon
City Opera House
1:00 Italian for Beginners
4:00 Gunner Palace
7:00 Land of Plenty
10:00 My Summer
of Love
Sat
July 30, 2005
State Theater
1:00 Downfall
4:00 The Baxter
7:00 Me and You and
Everyone We Know
10:00 Gunner Palace
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 Mondovino
4:00 The Talent Given Us
7:00 The Edukators
10:00 Les Miserables
City Opera House
1:00 Human Resources
4:00 Home of the Brave
7:00 Time Out
10:00 Les Miserables
July 31, 2005
State Theater
1:00 11 de Septembre
4:00 The Talent Given Us
7:00 Broken Flowers
(Closing Night)
10:00 “Audience Award Screening”
Old Town Playhouse
1:00 A Good Woman
4:00 Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room
7:00 Italian for Beginners
10:00 “Mike’s Surprise”
City Opera House
1:00 Time Out
4:00 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
7:00 The Ax
10:00 “Founders’ Prize Screening”
Showtimes for The Open Space
Thur 7/28
Dusk (10:00pm)
Jaws
Fri 7/29
Dusk (10:00pm)
The Princess Bride
Sat 7/30
Dusk (10:00pm)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Sun 7/31
Dusk (10:00pm)
Casablanca
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MSNBC Analyst Says 2nd Source Confirms Karl Rove as Plame Leaker
By Greg Mitchell / Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source. Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, now claims that at least two sources have confirmed that the name is--top White House mastermind Karl Rove.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3190
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/07/02.html#a3746
Search for U.S. missing stepped up
Warplanes hit enemy compound, spokesman says
(CNN) -- The U.S. military was devoting "all available assets" Saturday in an attempt to find a small number of U.S. Special Forces who have been missing in Afghanistan for four days, shortly after a helicopter carrying their reinforcements crashed, killing 16 service members.
On Friday, U.S. forces attacked what was described as an enemy compound near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a military spokesman said Saturday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3191
Iraqi TV Producer Kidnapped, Killed
Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A media watchdog organization has condemned the killing of an Iraqi television producer in northern Iraq.
Khalid al-Attar, who worked for al-Iraqiya television, was abducted from a Mosul neighborhood by unidentified gunmen and found shot to death Friday, the state-funded station said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3195
The Los Angeles Times
State Ballot, Wider Impact
Activists across the nation are gearing up for the special election. It's seen as a prelude to battles on union clout, drug prices and more.
By Mark Z. Barabak, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — Even before the ballot is set, California's special election is drawing money and attention from interest groups and political partisans across the country who see the campaign as a way to invigorate their efforts in 2006 and beyond.
Democrats believe they have a chance this fall to make Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "a starring villain" in their attack on national Republican leaders, said Jenny Backus, a Democratic strategist in Washington.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-special3jul03,0,2209825.story?coll=la-home-headlines
According to General Abizaid Americans are arrogant that deomcracy won't ever happen in Iraq. Maybe sometime in the next 100 years. We aren't going to do this any longer. You, sir, can stay as long as you and volunteer for the Iraqi military. We'll see your way clear to do that. Bye!! DRAFT IRAQ !!!!!!!!!
Egypt's Top Envoy in Iraq Kidnapped in Baghdad
Witnesses said gunmen accosted Ihab al-Sherif as he stopped to buy a newspaper
From Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Egyptian envoy expected to become Iraq's first Arab ambassador since its new government took office was kidnapped in Baghdad, weeks after arriving in the country, diplomats said today.
Witnesses said gunmen accosted Ihab al-Sherif as he stopped to buy a newspaper late Saturday, pistol-whipped him and accused him of being an "American spy." The kidnapping could undermine U.S.-backed efforts to encourage Iraq's Arab neighbors to send high ranking diplomats to Baghdad.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-070305iraq_wr,0,7493168.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Glimpses of a Hermit Nation
A decade after a massive famine, North Koreans are still struggling. In Chongjin, deprivation spurs change.
By Barbara Demick, Times Staff Writer
His day begins at 4:30 a.m. The 64-year-old retired math teacher doesn't own a clock or even a watch, but the internal alarm that has kept him alive while so many of his fellow North Koreans have starved to death tells him he had better get out to pick grass if his family is to survive.
Soon the streets of his city, Chongjin, will be swarming with others doing the same. Some cook the grass to eat. The teacher feeds it to the rabbits his family sells at the market.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chongjin3jul03,0,1828534.story?coll=la-home-headlines
With Live 8, Rock Changes the Way It Calls for Change
Bob Geldof and U2's Bono redirect activism from the streets into the corridors of power.
By Robert Hilburn, Times Staff Writer
"Are you ready to change history?" an invigorated Madonna asked the 200,000 fans gathered in London's Hyde Park on Saturday for one of the day's Live 8 concerts.
"Yes!" the crowd screamed back.
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/la-fg-notebook3jul03,0,907051.story?coll=la-home-headlines&track=hppromobox
U.S. Policy Lets Illegal Immigrants Go
By PAULINE ARRILLAGA, AP National Writer
HARLINGEN, Texas -- Several times a day, a chain-link gate rolls open and dozens of illegal immigrants stroll out of the U.S. Border Patrol station here, blinking into the hot Texas sun as they look for taxis to the bus station and a ticket out of town.
Each holds a piece of paper that Spanish-speakers call a "permiso" -- permission, courtesy of the U.S. government, to roam freely anywhere in the country.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13jul03,0,968429.story
I love this. GO OUT AND DEFEND YOURSELVES ! ! ! We are trying to resolve differences of the rebellion and the Iraqis reject the efforts. They are spoiled/lazy/scared. The Military Recruiters need to go to Iraq and leave the people in the USA alone. The Iraqis need to do this themselves. They take their time to build a formal military while their towns are already armed to protect themselves. It is a screwed up mess we need to out of. We don't belong in Iraq. We never did. We are not their servants. But Bush would have us be for the sake of his cronies. Go ahead, George, be a fool for a peace that will never occur. Nice propaganda piece at the very time Bush needed it. Tell, me has the criminal that outted the CIA agent put you on this 'lead?' Let's see, what did it take about a decade or more for Beirut to rebuild? Even today they have no respect for those efforts or focus. We are well out it as our military have exposed our troops to dangers that could have and should have been averted, including the armor plating for their vehicles. "We will be here as long as they need us." I don't think so. Let me make this perfectly clear, DRAFT IRAQ !!!!!!
Shiites Question U.S. Overtures to Sunni Rebels
Bush officials have had to reassure Iraq's ruling majority as they try to divide the stubborn insurgency and forge a political compromise.
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD — It didn't take long for fresh reports of U.S. talks with Sunni Arab insurgents to stir cries of an impending sellout.
"The Americans and everyone else must understand that the Iraqi people will never accept any talks with the criminals who have blood on their hands," Sheik Jalaluddin Saghir, a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and member of parliament, declared during Friday prayers.
A senior U.S. official here sought to provide damage control. There was no intent, he declared, to undermine the fledgling Shiite-run government, which meets behind U.S.-fortified blast walls.
"In the end, we are not going to hand to the insurgency the head of the Iraqi government on a platter," the U.S. official told reporters Friday. "It isn't going to happen."
The exchange underscored the fragility of the political compromise that the Bush administration is seeking to facilitate in Iraq, even as the complementary military strategy — turning more and more responsibility over to fledgling Iraqi forces — has yet to prove a success.
U.S. commanders say they hope a drawdown of the 140,000-strong American force in Iraq can begin sometime next year. But no one will publicly say how many of Iraq's 100-plus U.S.-trained battalions are ready to wage a difficult counterinsurgency campaign without U.S. assistance.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tightrope3jul03,0,2912712.story?coll=la-home-world
Vietnam News
Poverty reduction should be key task
(01-07-2005)
HA NOI — President Tran Duc Luong has called on the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to treat poverty reduction as its central task.
During a visit last Wednesday to the ministry (MoLISA), he however acknowledged its efforts – and the efforts of the nation as a whole – in reducing poverty, saying Viet Nam was moving towards the UN’s Millennium Goals to the approbation of the international community.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=02SOC010705
PM Khai thanks Japan for WTO support, ODA increase
(02-07-2005)
Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai meets with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo. — VNA/VNS Photo
TOKYO — Prime Minister Phan Van Khai expressed deep gratitude to Japan for increasing official development assistance (ODA) to Viet Nam at a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Tokyo yesterday.
He also thanked the Japanese government for concluding bilateral negotiations with Viet Nam to enable the latter to join the World Trade Organisation, calling it a realistic act that would help Viet Nam develop and integrate into the global economy.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03POL020705
PM rolls out red carpet for Canadian investors
(01-07-2005)
TORONTO — The Government of Viet Nam will facilitate investment and trade by Canadian businesses in Viet Nam, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said yesterday during his visit to Canada.
In remarks to the Viet Nam – Canada Business Forum in Toronto, Khai said that, despite their geographic distance, Viet Nam and Canada have much in common and great potential for co-operation.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03POL010705
Student becomes Canadian Consul for a day
(01-07-2005)
by Van Nguyen
My dinner with Sanjeev: Nguyen Minh Vu (left) has dinner with the Canadian Consul General (middle). — VNS Photo
After a breakfast at home, a brief review of the Viet Nam News and half-an-hour workout, 18-year-old Nguyen Minh Vu was ready to start his day as the Canadian Consul General in HCM City.
Though it might sound odd for a Vietnamese student to be a Consul General for Canada, the opportunity was genuine. Canadian Consul General Sanjeev Chowdhury gave Vu his desk, because he’d won as the Canadian Consul General for A Day essay contest that took place last month to celebrate Canadian Day, July 1.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01CUL010705
International scholars assess era of Doi moi
(01-07-2005)
Doi moi(renewal) has refurned land to households for farming. — VNA/VNS Photo Bach Duong
HA NOI — Viet Nam’s Doi moi (renewal) is not like any other foreign socio-economic development model in the world, said Do Hoai Nam, President of the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences, at a two-day international conference to review the first twenty years of the renewal process.
Although the country has developed the model independently to find solutions to its development challenges, it is interested in learning from international experiences, he said
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01POL010705
Bond, t-bill issues fetch $4 billion in last decade
(01-07-2005)
Bank branch in Ha Tay Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Quang Hai
HA NOI — The Government has raised nearly VND63.37 trillion (US$4 billion) from treasury bills and bonds over the last 10 years, said a joint review meeting this week of the Ministry of Finance and State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV).
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03BAN010705
The Washington Post
Former Sen. Gaylord Nelson Dies at 89
By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; 9:42 AM
Gaylord Nelson, 89, the three-term Democratic senator from Wisconsin who introduced mainstream America to the modern environmental movement by founding Earth Day, died this morning of cardiovascular disease at his home in Kensington.
One of the leading environmentalists of the 20th century, Mr. Nelson also was a sponsor or co-sponsor of the 1964 Wilderness Act and laws that protected the Appalachian Trail and banned the pesticide DDT, Agent Orange and phosphorus detergents. He backed fuel efficiency standards in vehicles and strip-mining controls. He once proposed a ban on the internal combustion engine, as an amendment to the Clean Air Act.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/03/AR2005070300296.html
Federer Trounces Roddick at Wimbledon
By STEVEN WINE
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 3, 2005; 11:51 AM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Roger Federer strengthened his claim to greatness Sunday, winning his third consecutive Wimbledon title by beating Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-6 (2), 6-4. With an impeccable performance, even by his high standards, the top-ranked Federer became the third man since 1936 to win three straight Wimbledon crowns, joining seven-time champion Pete Sampras and five-time winner Bjorn Borg.
Federer defeated the second-seeded Roddick at Wimbledon for the third year in a row, including the past two finals, and leads the rivalry 9-1. Roddick is 32-0 against everyone else on grass since 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/03/AR2005070300121.html
Help From France Key In Covert Operations
Paris's 'Alliance Base' Targets Terrorists
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A01
PARIS -- When Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam, boarded an Air France flight from Riyadh on June 3, 2003, he knew only that the Saudi government had put him under house arrest for an expired pilgrim visa and had given his family one-way tickets back to Germany, with a change of planes in Paris.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201361.html
That's Howard. Get used to it !! He can be angry he needs to be, but, he needs to get and keep his facts straight. No misadventures, Howard.
Return of the Angry Man
He might have simply disappeared after the Scream ended his presidential hopes. But as head of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean is still going to go to New Hampshire. And South Carolina. And Oklahoma ...
By Sally Jenkins
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page W08
At some point in the next five minutes, Howard Dean is going to say something that somebody won't like. He will say it in words chesty and rough, with a voice that is raked out of the bottom of his throat. He might call Republicans "plunderers," or he might call them "brain-dead." Whatever he says, the sound of a politician speaking his actual mind will cause his admirers and detractors alike to react as if they just heard an explosion. The chatter fills the air like scattering flocks of jackdaws: Check me on this, but did Howard Dean just call half the country stupid?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801074.html
FRIST is a spineless wimp when it comes to Bush's demands but has a 'hissy fit' whenever a Democrat brings an objection to anything, calling them obstructionists. There is no balance in Frist approach. The people of this country suffer from it. Even Republicans disapprove of an Extremist President. A polarized populous brought 14 Senators to a negotiation table, 7 were Republicans. Frist is not a good majority leader, he is a pandering 'mama's boy.'
Frist Again at the Center of Stem Cell Fight
As Senate Vote Looms, Surgeon Shies Away From Advocacy He Expressed in 2001
By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A05
On July 18, 2001, Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) stood on the Senate floor urging his colleagues to buck conservative orthodoxy and support federally funded research on embryonic stem cells. As the Senate's only physician, Frist made headlines -- and gave momentum to the controversial science -- with his endorsement.
The following month, however, President Bush announced a policy that was far more restrictive, limiting federal research to already existing embryonic stem cells, and Frist acquiesced.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070200975.html
Russians' Appeals to Court Bring Intimidation, Death
Relatives of Missing and Dead Told Not to Go to Rights Body
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page A15
NAZRAN, Russia -- Russians who appeal to the European Court of Human Rights after their relatives disappear or are killed in Chechnya or neighboring Ingushetia face constant threats to force them to drop the cases. In at least five instances, applicants to the court were themselves killed or had disappeared, according to lawyers, human rights groups, court records and relatives.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201430.html
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July 1, 2005. Philadelphia, Pa. Live 8 sound check. Photographer states: Then it rained, and I was glad I was in my Apt. Do you see the people to the left under the fountain. They were there during the 20 min very violent lighting storm - very scary!! Then the sound check went on with Stevie Wonder, Will Smith and when I finally went back out there, it was Jay Z & Linkin Park
July 1, 2005. Philadelphia, Pa. The night before we save the world from itself. Photographer states: "As close as I get. The Live 8 crew has been working day and night to get the stage ready for Saturday's show. They have had to battle 85 - 90F temps and about 95% humidity, and random downpours. Thankfully the weather is supposed to break for the show on Saturday. 85 and beautiful with very low humidity."
The Arab News
Families of Saudi Gitmo Detainees Meet Lawyers
Mazen Mahdi, Arab News
MANAMA, 2 July 2005 — Family members of five Saudi Guantanamo detainees met here yesterday two US lawyers representing the detainees. The meeting is part of the lawyers’ preparations to meet their ‘clients’ for the first time, possibly as early as the first week of August.
Lawyers Anant P. Raut and Connie Ericson from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York-based law firm, described their five-day visit as an attempt to get to know their clients and build bridges of confidence between them, the detainees they are representing and their families
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66281&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Gifted Saudi Student Wins Prestigious MIT Awards
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
Abdul Rahman Tarabzouni
RIYADH, 3 July 2005 — One of the most prestigious American universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has given two awards to a Saudi student who is currently studying for a double bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering/computer science and management science.
An MIT selection panel of professors and industry leaders were unanimous in their choice of Abdul Rahman Tarabzouni for the MIT-Arab Students Association (MIT-ASO) Undergraduate Student Award. In addition, he was offered a seat on Microsoft’s “Board of the Future.”
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66299&d=3&m=7&y=2005
Where do and why do they go so wrong? It's ridiculous already.
Wanted Terrorist Surrenders
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
Fayez Ibrahim Ayub
JEDDAH, 2 July 2005 — A wanted militant whose name has appeared on a list of 36 terror suspects surrendered to Saudi security authorities yesterday amid press reports three others on the same list had died in Iraq.
The Interior Ministry confirmed that Fayez Ibrahim Ayub, who is No. 29 on the list, had surrendered to authorities after returning from abroad yesterday “to explain his true position,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted a ministry official as saying.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66275&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Sistani’s Aide Killed, Dawa Office Targeted
Bill Ickes, Agence France Presse
BAGHDAD, 2 July 2005 — A top aide to Iraq’s Shiite leader was among 18 people killed in insurgent attacks across the country yesterday, including a bombing near an office of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari’s party.
The unrest followed the release of figures showing that Iraqi deaths from attacks had fallen in June after one of the bloodiest months since Saddam Hussein was toppled in April 2003, although the US death toll was higher.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=66274&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Signals From Tehran
Amir Taheri
It may take some time before the shock caused by the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran is absorbed. But one thing is already clear: The election signals the beginning of the first major shift in the balance of power within the Khomeinist regime since 1981.
Khatami’s brother Muhammad-Reza has told journalists of his surprise that an “unknown” like Ahmadinejad could collect 18 million votes. But Muhammad-Reza forgets that eight years ago his own brother, another “unknown” at the time, was credited with 20 million votes.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66266&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Abdullah and Blair Discuss Iraq
Roger Harrison & Mohammed Rasooldeen
Crown Prince Abdullah meets with Blair prior to their talks. (SPA)
RIYADH, 3 July 2005 — Crown Prince Abdullah and British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday discussed the situation in Iraq, Middle East peace and ways of strengthening bilateral ties.
The Saudi-British talks focused on “major regional and international developments, most importantly the Palestinian issue and the situation in Iraq,” the Saudi Press Agency said.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66330&d=3&m=7&y=2005
Riyadh Professor Objects to Woman Pilot
Javid Hassan, Arab News
RIYADH, 3 July 2005 — An associate professor of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has objected to the hiring of a Muslim woman as a pilot.
In a statement issued in response to a full-page advertisement by Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Co., congratulating Capt. Hanadi Zakariya Hindi for becoming the first Saudi woman to get a commercial pilot’s license, Sheikh Yousuf Al-Ahmad said the appointment was un-Islamic.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66328&d=3&m=7&y=2005
The Striptease: An Interesting Point About Sino-US Trade
Amr Al-Faisal
I have recently been contemplating the economic relationship between the US and China and have noticed some interesting points.
This is a relatively recent relationship and is evolving quite rapidly.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66316&d=3&m=7&y=2005
The Boston Globe
A day to rock the world
At global concert, bands and fans urge aid for Africa
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff July 3, 2005
LONDON -- In what was trumpeted as the largest concert event ever produced, more than 160 artists took to 10 stages around the globe yesterday for Live 8, a series of musical extravaganzas organized to draw attention to the plight of the world's poorest nations.
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the free shows -- from Tokyo to Johannesburg to Philadelphia -- and organizers said the combined audience exceeded 1 billion people via television, radio, and the Internet.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/03/a_day_to_rock_the_world/
Autism, mercury, and politics
By Robert Kennedy Jr. July 1, 2005
MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.
Prior to 1989, American infants generally received three vaccinations (polio, measles-mumps-rubella, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis). In the early 1990s, public health officials dramatically increased the number of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations without considering the cumulative impact of the mercury load on developing brains.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/07/01/autism_mercury_and_politics/
Former senator who founded Earth Day dies
By Ryan Nakashima, Associated Press Writer July 3, 2005
MILWAUKEE --Gaylord Nelson, the former governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin who founded Earth Day and helped spawn the modern environmental movement, died Sunday. He was 89.
Nelson died of cardiovascular failure at his home in Kensington, Md., a Washington suburb, said Bill Christofferson, Nelson's biographer and a family spokesman.
"He died peacefully. His wife was with him," Christofferson said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/03/former_us_senator_gaylord_nelson_dies/
Indian troops rescue flood-hit villagers from trees
July 3, 2005
GARBADA, India (Reuters) - Indian troops on Sunday rescued villagers perched in trees to escape swollen rivers in India's western Gujarat state where severe flooding has left 127 people dead and tens of thousands homeless. "We screamed out when we saw the soldiers, asking them to save us," said Deepak Parmar, a laborer in Garbada village, 95 km (59 miles) south of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city.
Troops saved at least 100 people in Garbada using rubber dinghies. Some soldiers also swam to the roofs of flooded houses and to trees to bring people to safety.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/03/indian_troops_rescue_flood_hit_villagers_from_trees/
Teacher raises surpass US rate
Localities cite budget strains
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff July 3, 2005
The average salary for Massachusetts teachers has been rising faster than the national average, setting off concerns that local school committees have given in too easily to teacher unions' demands and squandered limited money on salary increases.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2005/07/03/teacher_raises_surpass_us_rate/
Special Forces operative rescued in Afghanistan-CNN
July 3, 2005
KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. Special Forces operative missing since Tuesday in Afghanistan has been rescued, CNN reported on Sunday.
Quoting an unidentified U.S. official, CNN said the soldier, who had been among a 16-member team which disappeared, was rescued by U.S. forces and was in good shape.
CNN quoted the official as saying he had "evaded the enemy."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/03/special_forces_operative_rescued_in_afghanistan_cnn/
Look at 16 troops killed in Afghan crash
July 3, 2005
WASHINGTON --The Pentagon released the names of the 16 troops killed last week when a MH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan while ferrying personnel to a battle against militants.
Seven of the victims were soldiers assigned to the Army's 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), Hunter Army Air Field, Ga.:
--Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare, 29, of Danville, Ohio.
--Chief Warrant Officer Corey J. Goodnature, 35, of Clarks Grove, Minn.
--Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby, 21, of Pompano Beach, Fla.
--Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles, 33, of Shelbyville, Ind.
--Maj. Stephen C. Reich, 34, of Washington Depot, Conn.
--Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell, 31, of Stafford, Va.
--Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach, 40, of Jacksonville, Fla.
One soldier was assigned to the Army's Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky.:
--Master Sgt. James W. Ponder III, 36, of Franklin, Tenn.,
Five sailors who died in the crash were assigned to SEAL Team Ten, Virginia Beach, Va.:
--Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan, 36, of New Orleans, La.
--Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen, 33, of San Diego, Calif.
--Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas, 33, of Corbett, Ore.
--Lt. Michael M. McGreevy, Jr., 30, of Portville, N.Y.
--Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor, 30, of Midway, W.Va.
Three sailors were assigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
--Senior Chief Petty Officer Daniel R. Healy, 36, of Exeter, N.H.
--Petty Officer 2nd Class James Suh, 28, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.
--Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Patton, 22, of Boulder City, Nev.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/03/look_at_16_troops_killed_in_afghan_crash_1120402893/
Mega-churches spread the word via high-tech
Digital aids alter the act of worship
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff July 3, 2005
The first Sunday service at Grace Chapel in Lexington starts at 8:05 a.m. Pastor F. Bryan Wilkerson and his staff arrive even earlier. They've got to switch on the lights, brew the coffee and, of course, boot up the computers.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/07/03/mega_churches_spread_the_word_via_high_tech/
What is it with Bush and the Palestinians? He is chronically seeking funding for those people. I think 'the degree' of his interest is inappropriate.
Bush sees chance to help Palestinians at G8 summit
July 3, 2005
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A summit of the world's industrialized nations this week provides an opportunity to discuss ways to help the Palestinians, President Bush said in an interview published on Sunday.
Bush said Africa, and its debt burden, was just one of several regions that would receive attention at the July 6-8 Group of Eight summit in Scotland.
"We also want to talk about the Palestinian conflict. There is a possibility for the G8 countries, the industrialized countries, to help the Palestinians," Bush was quoted as saying in the interview with Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/03/bush_sees_chance_to_help_palestinians_at_g8_summit/
Israeli cabinet rejects 3-month Gaza pullout delay
By Jeffrey Heller July 3, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet rejected on Sunday a proposal to delay the start of a Gaza pullout for three months, setting the stage for a showdown between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his main political rival Benjamin Netanyahu.
The attempt to force Sharon to postpone the withdrawal slated to begin in mid-August was a sharp reminder of the opposition he faces in his right-wing Likud party to the plan he has championed and a sign of internal leadership battles ahead.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/03/israeli_cabinet_rejects_3_month_gaza_pullout_delay_1120394560/
The New Zealand Herald
Bob Geldof: An open letter to the leaders of the G8
Ireland's Bob Geldof, the mastermind behind the Live 8 anti-poverty concerts. Picture / Reuters
02.07.05
Just so we're clear... The Live8 concerts that are happening this weekend will be a wonderful musical occasion. But despite the fact that the world's greatest popular musicians are playing, they are not the stars of the show. The 8 of Live8 are not 8 musicians or bands - they are you, the 8 leaders of the G8.
Everyone taking part in these concerts is there because the many generations watching will not tolerate the further pain of the poor while we have the financial and moral means to prevent it.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333850
Rock stars put on historic show to fight poverty
Pop star Madonna (L) performs with Ethiopian former famine victim Birhan Woldu at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London. Picture / Reuters
03.07.05
PHILADELPHIA/LONDON - More than a million people have jammed Live 8 venues around the globe as a galaxy of rock stars staged the world's biggest concert to pressure rich nations into doing more for the poor.
The biggest concert was in Philadelphia where up to a million people crammed the streets as people power rose up at 10 separate gigs across four continents.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333946
Crowd of 200,000 in Scotland urges poverty action
Thousands of demonstrators take part in the Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh. Picture / Reuters
03.07.05
EDINBURGH - A tide of some 200,000 people dressed in white streamed through Edinburgh on Saturday to demand that leaders of rich nations agree measures to attack global poverty at a summit near the Scottish capital next week.
As part of a day of pressure on the Group of Eight nations, including the Live 8 rock concerts, the marchers urged rich states to double aid to poor countries, especially in Africa. They also called for debt relief and trade reform.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333945
Over 26 million text messages sent backing Live 8
A view of the stage area during Will Smith's Philadelphia Live 8 performance. Picture / Reuters
03.07.05 12.50pm
PHILADELPHIA - More than 26.4 million people from around the world sent text messages on Saturday in support of the Live 8 campaign to cancel the debts of the poorest countries, setting a world record, organizers said.
"This is definitely going down as the biggest political call to action," said Ralph Simon, who was coordinating the text messaging campaign in Philadelphia, the venue of the largest of 10 concerts around the world to demand relief of African poverty.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333974
Greens draft bill to stop Zimbabwe cricket tour
Greens co-leader Rod Donald announced the move in Wellington today. File picture
03.07.05 UPDATED at 4.25pm
The Green Party has drafted a bill to make it illegal for the New Zealand Cricket team to tour Zimbabwe.
In Wellington today Green Party co-leader Rod Donald said he was seeking cross-party support for the law which would make it an offence for any New Zealand national sporting organisation to send a team on tour to Zimbabwe.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10333983
The tour must go ahead says Snedden
Martin Snedden
03.07.05
By Dylan Cleaver
Martin Snedden is not seeking your approval, just understanding. New Zealand Cricket's chief executive knows if the issue of touring Zimbabwe was played out on the pitch of public opinion, he would be facing an innings defeat.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333948
Flag debate: now look who's involved
03.07.05
By Patrick Crewdson
Two of the country's largest corporates have pinned their colours to the mast in controversial fashion by backing calls for a referendum on changing the New Zealand flag.
Telecom and NZ Post have thrown their support behind the campaign, agreeing to post copies of the referendum petition form to 1.4 million households.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10333950
Blair seeks Saudi backing for Palestinian package
03.07.05 11.30am
RIYADH - British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought Saudi backing on Saturday for a "package of support" he hopes G8 leaders will extend to Palestinians next week ahead of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Blair, who held 90 minutes of talks with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah, said he wanted to focus on raising Palestinian living standards but gave no details of his plans.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333962
Bomb kills 20 in Baghdad, slain cleric mourned
03.07.05
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed up to 20 people at a police recruitment centre in Baghdad on Saturday, while across town an angry crowd of Shi'ite Muslims mourned a senior cleric gunned down by insurgents.
Another bomb killed five and wounded 12 at a police checkpoint on a main highway just south of the city. After dark, two suicide bombers on foot struck a busy street in the centre of another town to the south, killing five people.
The bombings were the worst in Iraq in at least six days, shattering a relative lull in the Sunni Arab insurgency against US forces and the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government.
US President George W Bush, whose approval ratings have slid in recent weeks to the lowest levels of his presidency over concern about the war, said in a radio address the best way to honour the nation's dead was to "stay in the fight".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333944
Austrian bitten in third Florida shark attack
02.07.05
MIAMI - A 19-year-old Austrian tourist has been attacked by a shark along Florida's Gulf Coast, the third victim in less than a week of the ferocious predators that roam the waters around the Florida peninsula.
Armin Trojer from Baden, Austria, was bitten on the right ankle by the shark while swimming in chest-deep waters off Boca Grande, 230km northwest of Miami, said Lee County Sheriff's Deputy Angelo Vaughn.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333843
Reality behind the Rainbow Warrior outrage
David Lange
02.07.05
By John Armstrong
The officials working late in the Beehive on that July evening in 1985 must have registered some grim satisfaction as they compiled the dossier of incriminating documents that would be dispatched to Paris later that night.
While the New Zealand public was still unaware of just who was behind the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, Cabinet ministers had known within three days of the blasts that the finger of suspicion was already pointing firmly in France's direction.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333759
Bit players in Rainbow Warrior drama
Three days after it berthed in Auckland, the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French government agents who attached two bombs to its hull. Herald file picture
02.07.05
By Eugene Bingham
One was a meet-and-greet girl for a rental van company whose stalling tactics prevented two French agents fleeing the country. Another was a forestry worker whose innovative way of writing down a number plate gave police indelible, invaluable evidence. Another (who would later lead his country) was a security guard who helped prove that Alain Mafart had scouted out the Rainbow Warrior.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333767
The weather in Jamestown, North Dakota (Crystal Wind Chime) is 'hail storm:'
76 °F / 24 °C
Thunderstorm
Humidity:
76%
Dew Point:
68 °F / 20 °C
Wind:
9 mph / 15 km/h from the South
Pressure:
29.50 in / 999 hPa (Falling)
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 4900 ft / 1493 m
Mostly Cloudy 5500 ft / 1676 m
Mostly Cloudy 12000 ft / 3657 m
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Families of Saudi Gitmo Detainees Meet Lawyers
Mazen Mahdi, Arab News
MANAMA, 2 July 2005 — Family members of five Saudi Guantanamo detainees met here yesterday two US lawyers representing the detainees. The meeting is part of the lawyers’ preparations to meet their ‘clients’ for the first time, possibly as early as the first week of August.
Lawyers Anant P. Raut and Connie Ericson from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York-based law firm, described their five-day visit as an attempt to get to know their clients and build bridges of confidence between them, the detainees they are representing and their families
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66281&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Gifted Saudi Student Wins Prestigious MIT Awards
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
Abdul Rahman Tarabzouni
RIYADH, 3 July 2005 — One of the most prestigious American universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has given two awards to a Saudi student who is currently studying for a double bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering/computer science and management science.
An MIT selection panel of professors and industry leaders were unanimous in their choice of Abdul Rahman Tarabzouni for the MIT-Arab Students Association (MIT-ASO) Undergraduate Student Award. In addition, he was offered a seat on Microsoft’s “Board of the Future.”
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66299&d=3&m=7&y=2005
Where do and why do they go so wrong? It's ridiculous already.
Wanted Terrorist Surrenders
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
Fayez Ibrahim Ayub
JEDDAH, 2 July 2005 — A wanted militant whose name has appeared on a list of 36 terror suspects surrendered to Saudi security authorities yesterday amid press reports three others on the same list had died in Iraq.
The Interior Ministry confirmed that Fayez Ibrahim Ayub, who is No. 29 on the list, had surrendered to authorities after returning from abroad yesterday “to explain his true position,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted a ministry official as saying.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66275&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Sistani’s Aide Killed, Dawa Office Targeted
Bill Ickes, Agence France Presse
BAGHDAD, 2 July 2005 — A top aide to Iraq’s Shiite leader was among 18 people killed in insurgent attacks across the country yesterday, including a bombing near an office of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari’s party.
The unrest followed the release of figures showing that Iraqi deaths from attacks had fallen in June after one of the bloodiest months since Saddam Hussein was toppled in April 2003, although the US death toll was higher.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=66274&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Signals From Tehran
Amir Taheri
It may take some time before the shock caused by the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran is absorbed. But one thing is already clear: The election signals the beginning of the first major shift in the balance of power within the Khomeinist regime since 1981.
Khatami’s brother Muhammad-Reza has told journalists of his surprise that an “unknown” like Ahmadinejad could collect 18 million votes. But Muhammad-Reza forgets that eight years ago his own brother, another “unknown” at the time, was credited with 20 million votes.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66266&d=2&m=7&y=2005
Abdullah and Blair Discuss Iraq
Roger Harrison & Mohammed Rasooldeen
Crown Prince Abdullah meets with Blair prior to their talks. (SPA)
RIYADH, 3 July 2005 — Crown Prince Abdullah and British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday discussed the situation in Iraq, Middle East peace and ways of strengthening bilateral ties.
The Saudi-British talks focused on “major regional and international developments, most importantly the Palestinian issue and the situation in Iraq,” the Saudi Press Agency said.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66330&d=3&m=7&y=2005
Riyadh Professor Objects to Woman Pilot
Javid Hassan, Arab News
RIYADH, 3 July 2005 — An associate professor of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh has objected to the hiring of a Muslim woman as a pilot.
In a statement issued in response to a full-page advertisement by Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Co., congratulating Capt. Hanadi Zakariya Hindi for becoming the first Saudi woman to get a commercial pilot’s license, Sheikh Yousuf Al-Ahmad said the appointment was un-Islamic.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66328&d=3&m=7&y=2005
The Striptease: An Interesting Point About Sino-US Trade
Amr Al-Faisal
I have recently been contemplating the economic relationship between the US and China and have noticed some interesting points.
This is a relatively recent relationship and is evolving quite rapidly.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66316&d=3&m=7&y=2005
The Boston Globe
A day to rock the world
At global concert, bands and fans urge aid for Africa
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff July 3, 2005
LONDON -- In what was trumpeted as the largest concert event ever produced, more than 160 artists took to 10 stages around the globe yesterday for Live 8, a series of musical extravaganzas organized to draw attention to the plight of the world's poorest nations.
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the free shows -- from Tokyo to Johannesburg to Philadelphia -- and organizers said the combined audience exceeded 1 billion people via television, radio, and the Internet.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/03/a_day_to_rock_the_world/
Autism, mercury, and politics
By Robert Kennedy Jr. July 1, 2005
MOUNTING EVIDENCE suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays, and other childhood neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.
Prior to 1989, American infants generally received three vaccinations (polio, measles-mumps-rubella, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis). In the early 1990s, public health officials dramatically increased the number of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations without considering the cumulative impact of the mercury load on developing brains.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/07/01/autism_mercury_and_politics/
Former senator who founded Earth Day dies
By Ryan Nakashima, Associated Press Writer July 3, 2005
MILWAUKEE --Gaylord Nelson, the former governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin who founded Earth Day and helped spawn the modern environmental movement, died Sunday. He was 89.
Nelson died of cardiovascular failure at his home in Kensington, Md., a Washington suburb, said Bill Christofferson, Nelson's biographer and a family spokesman.
"He died peacefully. His wife was with him," Christofferson said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/03/former_us_senator_gaylord_nelson_dies/
Indian troops rescue flood-hit villagers from trees
July 3, 2005
GARBADA, India (Reuters) - Indian troops on Sunday rescued villagers perched in trees to escape swollen rivers in India's western Gujarat state where severe flooding has left 127 people dead and tens of thousands homeless. "We screamed out when we saw the soldiers, asking them to save us," said Deepak Parmar, a laborer in Garbada village, 95 km (59 miles) south of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city.
Troops saved at least 100 people in Garbada using rubber dinghies. Some soldiers also swam to the roofs of flooded houses and to trees to bring people to safety.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/03/indian_troops_rescue_flood_hit_villagers_from_trees/
Teacher raises surpass US rate
Localities cite budget strains
By Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff July 3, 2005
The average salary for Massachusetts teachers has been rising faster than the national average, setting off concerns that local school committees have given in too easily to teacher unions' demands and squandered limited money on salary increases.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2005/07/03/teacher_raises_surpass_us_rate/
Special Forces operative rescued in Afghanistan-CNN
July 3, 2005
KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. Special Forces operative missing since Tuesday in Afghanistan has been rescued, CNN reported on Sunday.
Quoting an unidentified U.S. official, CNN said the soldier, who had been among a 16-member team which disappeared, was rescued by U.S. forces and was in good shape.
CNN quoted the official as saying he had "evaded the enemy."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/03/special_forces_operative_rescued_in_afghanistan_cnn/
Look at 16 troops killed in Afghan crash
July 3, 2005
WASHINGTON --The Pentagon released the names of the 16 troops killed last week when a MH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan while ferrying personnel to a battle against militants.
Seven of the victims were soldiers assigned to the Army's 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), Hunter Army Air Field, Ga.:
--Staff Sgt. Shamus O. Goare, 29, of Danville, Ohio.
--Chief Warrant Officer Corey J. Goodnature, 35, of Clarks Grove, Minn.
--Sgt. Kip A. Jacoby, 21, of Pompano Beach, Fla.
--Sgt. 1st Class Marcus V. Muralles, 33, of Shelbyville, Ind.
--Maj. Stephen C. Reich, 34, of Washington Depot, Conn.
--Sgt. 1st Class Michael L. Russell, 31, of Stafford, Va.
--Chief Warrant Officer Chris J. Scherkenbach, 40, of Jacksonville, Fla.
One soldier was assigned to the Army's Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), Fort Campbell, Ky.:
--Master Sgt. James W. Ponder III, 36, of Franklin, Tenn.,
Five sailors who died in the crash were assigned to SEAL Team Ten, Virginia Beach, Va.:
--Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan, 36, of New Orleans, La.
--Lt. Cmdr. Erik S. Kristensen, 33, of San Diego, Calif.
--Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffery A. Lucas, 33, of Corbett, Ore.
--Lt. Michael M. McGreevy, Jr., 30, of Portville, N.Y.
--Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey S. Taylor, 30, of Midway, W.Va.
Three sailors were assigned to SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii:
--Senior Chief Petty Officer Daniel R. Healy, 36, of Exeter, N.H.
--Petty Officer 2nd Class James Suh, 28, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.
--Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Patton, 22, of Boulder City, Nev.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/03/look_at_16_troops_killed_in_afghan_crash_1120402893/
Mega-churches spread the word via high-tech
Digital aids alter the act of worship
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff July 3, 2005
The first Sunday service at Grace Chapel in Lexington starts at 8:05 a.m. Pastor F. Bryan Wilkerson and his staff arrive even earlier. They've got to switch on the lights, brew the coffee and, of course, boot up the computers.
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/07/03/mega_churches_spread_the_word_via_high_tech/
What is it with Bush and the Palestinians? He is chronically seeking funding for those people. I think 'the degree' of his interest is inappropriate.
Bush sees chance to help Palestinians at G8 summit
July 3, 2005
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A summit of the world's industrialized nations this week provides an opportunity to discuss ways to help the Palestinians, President Bush said in an interview published on Sunday.
Bush said Africa, and its debt burden, was just one of several regions that would receive attention at the July 6-8 Group of Eight summit in Scotland.
"We also want to talk about the Palestinian conflict. There is a possibility for the G8 countries, the industrialized countries, to help the Palestinians," Bush was quoted as saying in the interview with Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/03/bush_sees_chance_to_help_palestinians_at_g8_summit/
Israeli cabinet rejects 3-month Gaza pullout delay
By Jeffrey Heller July 3, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet rejected on Sunday a proposal to delay the start of a Gaza pullout for three months, setting the stage for a showdown between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his main political rival Benjamin Netanyahu.
The attempt to force Sharon to postpone the withdrawal slated to begin in mid-August was a sharp reminder of the opposition he faces in his right-wing Likud party to the plan he has championed and a sign of internal leadership battles ahead.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/03/israeli_cabinet_rejects_3_month_gaza_pullout_delay_1120394560/
The New Zealand Herald
Bob Geldof: An open letter to the leaders of the G8
Ireland's Bob Geldof, the mastermind behind the Live 8 anti-poverty concerts. Picture / Reuters
02.07.05
Just so we're clear... The Live8 concerts that are happening this weekend will be a wonderful musical occasion. But despite the fact that the world's greatest popular musicians are playing, they are not the stars of the show. The 8 of Live8 are not 8 musicians or bands - they are you, the 8 leaders of the G8.
Everyone taking part in these concerts is there because the many generations watching will not tolerate the further pain of the poor while we have the financial and moral means to prevent it.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333850
Rock stars put on historic show to fight poverty
Pop star Madonna (L) performs with Ethiopian former famine victim Birhan Woldu at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park in London. Picture / Reuters
03.07.05
PHILADELPHIA/LONDON - More than a million people have jammed Live 8 venues around the globe as a galaxy of rock stars staged the world's biggest concert to pressure rich nations into doing more for the poor.
The biggest concert was in Philadelphia where up to a million people crammed the streets as people power rose up at 10 separate gigs across four continents.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333946
Crowd of 200,000 in Scotland urges poverty action
Thousands of demonstrators take part in the Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh. Picture / Reuters
03.07.05
EDINBURGH - A tide of some 200,000 people dressed in white streamed through Edinburgh on Saturday to demand that leaders of rich nations agree measures to attack global poverty at a summit near the Scottish capital next week.
As part of a day of pressure on the Group of Eight nations, including the Live 8 rock concerts, the marchers urged rich states to double aid to poor countries, especially in Africa. They also called for debt relief and trade reform.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333945
Over 26 million text messages sent backing Live 8
A view of the stage area during Will Smith's Philadelphia Live 8 performance. Picture / Reuters
03.07.05 12.50pm
PHILADELPHIA - More than 26.4 million people from around the world sent text messages on Saturday in support of the Live 8 campaign to cancel the debts of the poorest countries, setting a world record, organizers said.
"This is definitely going down as the biggest political call to action," said Ralph Simon, who was coordinating the text messaging campaign in Philadelphia, the venue of the largest of 10 concerts around the world to demand relief of African poverty.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333974
Greens draft bill to stop Zimbabwe cricket tour
Greens co-leader Rod Donald announced the move in Wellington today. File picture
03.07.05 UPDATED at 4.25pm
The Green Party has drafted a bill to make it illegal for the New Zealand Cricket team to tour Zimbabwe.
In Wellington today Green Party co-leader Rod Donald said he was seeking cross-party support for the law which would make it an offence for any New Zealand national sporting organisation to send a team on tour to Zimbabwe.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10333983
The tour must go ahead says Snedden
Martin Snedden
03.07.05
By Dylan Cleaver
Martin Snedden is not seeking your approval, just understanding. New Zealand Cricket's chief executive knows if the issue of touring Zimbabwe was played out on the pitch of public opinion, he would be facing an innings defeat.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333948
Flag debate: now look who's involved
03.07.05
By Patrick Crewdson
Two of the country's largest corporates have pinned their colours to the mast in controversial fashion by backing calls for a referendum on changing the New Zealand flag.
Telecom and NZ Post have thrown their support behind the campaign, agreeing to post copies of the referendum petition form to 1.4 million households.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10333950
Blair seeks Saudi backing for Palestinian package
03.07.05 11.30am
RIYADH - British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought Saudi backing on Saturday for a "package of support" he hopes G8 leaders will extend to Palestinians next week ahead of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Blair, who held 90 minutes of talks with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah, said he wanted to focus on raising Palestinian living standards but gave no details of his plans.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333962
Bomb kills 20 in Baghdad, slain cleric mourned
03.07.05
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed up to 20 people at a police recruitment centre in Baghdad on Saturday, while across town an angry crowd of Shi'ite Muslims mourned a senior cleric gunned down by insurgents.
Another bomb killed five and wounded 12 at a police checkpoint on a main highway just south of the city. After dark, two suicide bombers on foot struck a busy street in the centre of another town to the south, killing five people.
The bombings were the worst in Iraq in at least six days, shattering a relative lull in the Sunni Arab insurgency against US forces and the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government.
US President George W Bush, whose approval ratings have slid in recent weeks to the lowest levels of his presidency over concern about the war, said in a radio address the best way to honour the nation's dead was to "stay in the fight".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333944
Austrian bitten in third Florida shark attack
02.07.05
MIAMI - A 19-year-old Austrian tourist has been attacked by a shark along Florida's Gulf Coast, the third victim in less than a week of the ferocious predators that roam the waters around the Florida peninsula.
Armin Trojer from Baden, Austria, was bitten on the right ankle by the shark while swimming in chest-deep waters off Boca Grande, 230km northwest of Miami, said Lee County Sheriff's Deputy Angelo Vaughn.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333843
Reality behind the Rainbow Warrior outrage
David Lange
02.07.05
By John Armstrong
The officials working late in the Beehive on that July evening in 1985 must have registered some grim satisfaction as they compiled the dossier of incriminating documents that would be dispatched to Paris later that night.
While the New Zealand public was still unaware of just who was behind the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, Cabinet ministers had known within three days of the blasts that the finger of suspicion was already pointing firmly in France's direction.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333759
Bit players in Rainbow Warrior drama
Three days after it berthed in Auckland, the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French government agents who attached two bombs to its hull. Herald file picture
02.07.05
By Eugene Bingham
One was a meet-and-greet girl for a rental van company whose stalling tactics prevented two French agents fleeing the country. Another was a forestry worker whose innovative way of writing down a number plate gave police indelible, invaluable evidence. Another (who would later lead his country) was a security guard who helped prove that Alain Mafart had scouted out the Rainbow Warrior.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10333767
The weather in Jamestown, North Dakota (Crystal Wind Chime) is 'hail storm:'
76 °F / 24 °C
Thunderstorm
Humidity:
76%
Dew Point:
68 °F / 20 °C
Wind:
9 mph / 15 km/h from the South
Pressure:
29.50 in / 999 hPa (Falling)
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 4900 ft / 1493 m
Mostly Cloudy 5500 ft / 1676 m
Mostly Cloudy 12000 ft / 3657 m
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