Workers jumped from this oil rig.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Morning Paper's - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1907, Frida Kahlo, painter
1937, Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist
1937, Bessie Head, antiapartheid writer
1854, the first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.
1885, French biologist Louis Pasteur uses his newly developed vaccine against rabies to save the life of a young boy, Joseph Meister, who was bitten by a dog.
1917, Arab forces rebelling against the Ottoman Empire capture the port of Al 'Aqabah with the help of British adventurer T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.
1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.
1944, 169 people died in a fire that broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum-and-Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.
1945, President Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
1957, Tennis player Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. She wins the U.S. Open later that year and repeats the performance in 1958.
1967, the Biafran War erupted in Nigeria. (The war, which lasted 21/2 years, claimed some 600,000 lives.)
1971, Louis Armstrong passed away. He was a great American jazz artist.
1988, High death toll feared in oil rig blaze
A fire on a North Sea oil rig is feared to have claimed the lives of most of those on board.
The fire is believed to have started after explosions at about 2230 BST (2130 GMT) on the Piper Alpha drilling platform, 120 miles (193km) off the north-east coast of Scotland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/6/newsid_3017000/3017294.stm
In 1989, the U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050706/LIVING/507060316/1007/LIVING
1997, Mars buggy starts exploring Red Planet
Nasa scientists have freed a robot from the space probe, Mars Pathfinder, allowing it to begin its exploration of the Red Planet at last.
The rover, known as Sojourner, has been stuck on Pathfinder since its successful landing on Mars two days ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/6/newsid_4105000/4105727.stm
2000, Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness
Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son, Euan, has been arrested for being drunk and incapable.
Police found the 16-year-old lying on the ground in Leicester Square last night after celebrating the end of his GCSE exams with friends.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/6/newsid_2495000/2495255.stm
Missing in Action
1966 HESTLE ROOSEVELT L JR. ORLANDO FL NO CHUTE BEEP OR SAR
1966 MORGAN CHARLES E. RANCHO CORDOVA CA NO CHUTE BEEPER OR SAR REMAINS RETURNED 7/31/89 ID 4/06/90
1966 TOMES JACK H. GLOBE AZ 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED
1966 YOUNG JAMES FAULDS FERNDALE MI 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 HUGHEY KENNETH R. SEAL BEACH CA "03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV (HOMENWALD, TN)" ALIVE IN 98
1967 POLLACK MELVIN LONG BEACH NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MAHONEY THOMAS P. III OAKLAND CA
1971 CARR DONALD G. EAST CHICAGO IN
1971 THOMAS DANIEL W. DANBURY IA
The Washington Post
The Military is not supposed to be involved with the civilian population. We do not have soldiers walking the beat we have police officers. The military belongs to THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT and has jurisdiction in protecting this country not invading it. This is an outrage. If the military is taking over Homeland Defense then we don't need Homeland Defense. I have had it with the incompetence of this administration. None of what they do has healthy boundaries and this is still another example of it. The Washington Post is a sell out. The ONLY aspect of the military that guards this country is The Coast Guard. This is an outrage. Bush has taken the wholesomeness out of America.
Military Expands Homeland Efforts
Pentagon to Share Data With Civilian Agencies
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; Page A01
A new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland calls for expanded U.S. military activity not only in the air and sea -- where the armed forces have historically guarded approaches to the country -- but also on the ground and in other less traditional, potentially more problematic areas such as intelligence sharing with civilian law enforcement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070501669.html
Watergate-Era FBI Chief Gray Dies at 88
By JOHN PAIN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; 1:55 PM
MIAMI -- L. Patrick Gray, whose yearlong stint as acting FBI director was marked by the Watergate break-in and the ensuing scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, died Wednesday. He was 88.
Gray died at his home in Atlantic Beach from complications from pancreatic cancer, said his son Ed Gray, of Lyme, N.H.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070600790.html
Civil disobedience is the way we protect the integrity of out democracy from vandals that live in the Oval Office. We need a law to protect the dedicated journalists that should be reporting and not sitting in jail cells. America has lost her democracy.
Prosecutor Demands Time Reporter Testimony
By Daniela Deane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 5, 2005; 2:57 PM
A federal prosecutor demanded Tuesday that Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testify before a grand jury even though the magazine recently handed over the reporter's confidential notes in the investigation of a leak of a CIA officer's identity.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also turned down the request of Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller to be allowed home detention rather than jail for refusing to disclose their sources.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070500788.html
Richmond Times Dispatch
For American Indians, native spouses rare gem
BY DENA SLOAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
Debora Littlewing Moore of the Pamunkey tribe and Preston Adkins of the Chickahominy dance one of the few American Indian dances that requires a partner. They were performing at a powwow in King William County.
EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Don't let the beating drums and fry bread and feathers fool you.
Last month's annual powwow on the Mattaponi reservation in King William County was indeed a time for locals to express their American Indian identity and to continue centuries of tradition.
But Reggie Tupponce, a member of the Upper Mattaponi tribe, smiled as he pointed out the drum circle where young men played music and chanted. Lingering nearby were a number of young women.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783670716
Coach fined $300 in bus fatality case
He will remain head of Varina football, Henrico official says
BY OLYMPIA MEOLA
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
GARY CHILCOAT
RELATED: Police Beat
Varina High School's football coach was found guilty yesterday of not using a warning device on a school bus when he dropped off a Varina track athlete who was fatally injured moments later by an oncoming car.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783670928
Strong storm socks Charlottesville
Power knocked out for 14,000; funnel cloud reported near U.Va.
BY CARLOS SANTOS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A powerful storm struck Charlottesville yesterday around 5 p.m., leaving the city a mess of broken trees, blocked roads and live, downed electrical wires.
About 14,000 customers were without electrical power at the peak of the storm.
As of yesterday evening, there were no reports of injuries, said Maurice Jones, a spokesman for the city.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783671403
Reservoir reptile killed by fisherman
The angler could face time in prison and a big fine if it was a protected species
BY JULIAN WALKER
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
The gator's a goner.
According to local police and animal-control officials, a South Richmond angler caught and killed an alligator-like reptile while fishing in the Falling Creek Reservoir on Sunday evening.
Authorities said the man could face penalties if the animal was a protected species under federal law.
According to authorities, the man hooked the creature and then allegedly used an oar to subdue it. Police said the animal's death was apparently caused by being clubbed repeatedly. It was 44 inches long and weighed 9 pounds.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783670625
The Hartford Courant
Connecticut Officials To Urge BRAC Panel To Keep Groton Base Open
10:49 AM EDT, July 6, 2005
Associated Press
BOSTON -- Faced with increasing pressure to save the Groton submarine base, Connecticut officials today unleashed harsh criticism of the Pentagon and the numbers it used in deciding to put the 137-year-old facility on its closure list.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, members of the state's congressional delegation and military experts testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in Boston Wednesday morning during a hearing that represented their best opportunity to convince federal officials to keep the base open.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-06101451.apds.m0905.bc-ct--subbjul06,0,927810.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
In Defense Of Private Property
Hundreds In New London Oppose Seizure Of Homes For Development
July 6, 2005
By LAUREN PHILLIPS, Courant Staff Writer
NEW LONDON -- Hundreds of people - some from as far away as Texas - rallied Tuesday on the steps of city hall to oppose the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming government's right to take private property for economic development purposes.
The outcry follows a national vein of opposition to the 5-4 decision two weeks ago siding with city officials who plan to use their eminent domain power to take 15 homes in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, making way for a private waterfront development.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-nlrally0706.artjul06,0,5240717.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
E85 Is Right Number At Pump
45 Cents A Gallon Cheaper Than Gasoline, Ethanol Mix Hooking Midwest Motorists
July 6, 2005
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
EAGAN, Minn. -- Like lots of motorists, Chuck Nye thought he had no choice but to grin and bear it as rising gas prices made filling up his minivan a painful experience.
But then he heard a radio ad promoting E85 - a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline - that sells for an average of about 45 cents a gallon less than regular unleaded. Inside his fuel door was a sticker saying Nye had a flexible fuel vehicle, which can burn the homegrown alternative.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-ethanol.artjul06,0,3340149.story?coll=hc-headlines-business
State Challenging Tests For Depleted Uranium
July 6, 2005
By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut is now the second state in the nation to challenge the validity of the tests the federal government uses to check military personnel for ingested or inhaled depleted uranium dust from U.S. munitions explosions.
The new law requires the state adjutant general and the veterans' affairs commissioner to assist Connecticut guardsmen and veterans in obtaining "a best practice health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium." Last month, Louisiana passed similar, less detailed legislation demanding better depleted uranium testing paid for by the federal government.
http://www.courant.com/news/health/hc-dutestslaw0706.artjul06,0,7608199.story?coll=hc-headlines-health
MetLife Promise On Jobs Resolved
Acquisition Completed; Insurer Complies So Far On Local Hiring
July 2, 2005
By DIANE LEVICK, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut's insurance commissioner said Friday she has resolved confusion over MetLife's job commitment in acquiring Travelers Life & Annuity, while the attorney general criticized MetLife for "playing games" on the promise at a hearing in June.
Despite the differing interpretations, MetLife Inc. Friday completed an $11.8 billion purchase of Hartford-based Travelers and flew one of its MetLife Snoopy blimps over Hartford to celebrate.
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-metlife0702.artjul02,0,2273283.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state
Michael Moore Today
The Demonstrators are being especially offensive. They don't want any aspect of this war.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Translation:
Happy Birthday, George!
Denmark Forecast Is Chilly for Bush
The president makes a pre-G-8 visit to thank the nation for its help in Iraq, though opposition is widespread. A large protest is planned today
By Warren Vieth / Los Angeles Times
COPENHAGEN — President Bush arrived in Copenhagen late Tuesday to thank the Danish government for its continued participation in the Iraq war and reconstruction effort despite considerable opposition among the public here.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3221
Rove 'Knowingly' Refusing Interviews on Plame Leak
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK Two days after his lawyer confirmed that his name turned up as a source in Matthew Cooper's notes on the Valerie Plame/CIA case, top White House adviser Karl Rove refused to answer questions about the development today.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3208
THE UNUSUAL MISSION IN IRAQ
Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change to Deter Terror
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: July 5, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 4 - The Pentagon's most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/politics/05strategy.html?hp&ex=1120536000&en=88383bf5a4108819&ei=5094&partner=homepage
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM
The Pentagon may dramatically change the strategeries of war in response to terrorism (but really in response to the war in Iraq, which is different):
In effect, the unusual mission in Iraq, which could last for years, has not just taken the slot for one of the two wars; it has upended the central concept of the two-war model. It is neither a major conventional combat nor a mere peacekeeping operation. It does not require the full array of forces, especially from the Navy and the Air Force, of a conventional war, and it takes far more troops than peacekeeping ordinarily would.
Pakistan's envoy to Iraq comes under fire and heads for home as insurgenterrorists target Muslim and Arab diplomats.
For the second consecutive day, Syrian forces clash with militants who may or may not be connected to Iraq's insurgency, specifically, they may or may not be Saddam Hussein's former bodyguards.
Listen to voicemails from a soldier stationed just outside of Baghdad.
Iraqi leaders strike a deal to move forward on the country's new Constitution, bringing Sunnis to the table with Kurds and Shiites.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
continued . . .
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1907, Frida Kahlo, painter
1937, Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist
1937, Bessie Head, antiapartheid writer
1854, the first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Mich.
1885, French biologist Louis Pasteur uses his newly developed vaccine against rabies to save the life of a young boy, Joseph Meister, who was bitten by a dog.
1917, Arab forces rebelling against the Ottoman Empire capture the port of Al 'Aqabah with the help of British adventurer T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.
1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.
1944, 169 people died in a fire that broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum-and-Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.
1945, President Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom.
1957, Tennis player Althea Gibson becomes the first African American to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. She wins the U.S. Open later that year and repeats the performance in 1958.
1967, the Biafran War erupted in Nigeria. (The war, which lasted 21/2 years, claimed some 600,000 lives.)
1971, Louis Armstrong passed away. He was a great American jazz artist.
1988, High death toll feared in oil rig blaze
A fire on a North Sea oil rig is feared to have claimed the lives of most of those on board.
The fire is believed to have started after explosions at about 2230 BST (2130 GMT) on the Piper Alpha drilling platform, 120 miles (193km) off the north-east coast of Scotland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/6/newsid_3017000/3017294.stm
In 1989, the U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050706/LIVING/507060316/1007/LIVING
1997, Mars buggy starts exploring Red Planet
Nasa scientists have freed a robot from the space probe, Mars Pathfinder, allowing it to begin its exploration of the Red Planet at last.
The rover, known as Sojourner, has been stuck on Pathfinder since its successful landing on Mars two days ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/6/newsid_4105000/4105727.stm
2000, Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness
Prime Minister Tony Blair's eldest son, Euan, has been arrested for being drunk and incapable.
Police found the 16-year-old lying on the ground in Leicester Square last night after celebrating the end of his GCSE exams with friends.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/6/newsid_2495000/2495255.stm
Missing in Action
1966 HESTLE ROOSEVELT L JR. ORLANDO FL NO CHUTE BEEP OR SAR
1966 MORGAN CHARLES E. RANCHO CORDOVA CA NO CHUTE BEEPER OR SAR REMAINS RETURNED 7/31/89 ID 4/06/90
1966 TOMES JACK H. GLOBE AZ 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED
1966 YOUNG JAMES FAULDS FERNDALE MI 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 HUGHEY KENNETH R. SEAL BEACH CA "03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV (HOMENWALD, TN)" ALIVE IN 98
1967 POLLACK MELVIN LONG BEACH NY 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MAHONEY THOMAS P. III OAKLAND CA
1971 CARR DONALD G. EAST CHICAGO IN
1971 THOMAS DANIEL W. DANBURY IA
The Washington Post
The Military is not supposed to be involved with the civilian population. We do not have soldiers walking the beat we have police officers. The military belongs to THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT and has jurisdiction in protecting this country not invading it. This is an outrage. If the military is taking over Homeland Defense then we don't need Homeland Defense. I have had it with the incompetence of this administration. None of what they do has healthy boundaries and this is still another example of it. The Washington Post is a sell out. The ONLY aspect of the military that guards this country is The Coast Guard. This is an outrage. Bush has taken the wholesomeness out of America.
Military Expands Homeland Efforts
Pentagon to Share Data With Civilian Agencies
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; Page A01
A new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland calls for expanded U.S. military activity not only in the air and sea -- where the armed forces have historically guarded approaches to the country -- but also on the ground and in other less traditional, potentially more problematic areas such as intelligence sharing with civilian law enforcement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070501669.html
Watergate-Era FBI Chief Gray Dies at 88
By JOHN PAIN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 6, 2005; 1:55 PM
MIAMI -- L. Patrick Gray, whose yearlong stint as acting FBI director was marked by the Watergate break-in and the ensuing scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, died Wednesday. He was 88.
Gray died at his home in Atlantic Beach from complications from pancreatic cancer, said his son Ed Gray, of Lyme, N.H.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070600790.html
Civil disobedience is the way we protect the integrity of out democracy from vandals that live in the Oval Office. We need a law to protect the dedicated journalists that should be reporting and not sitting in jail cells. America has lost her democracy.
Prosecutor Demands Time Reporter Testimony
By Daniela Deane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 5, 2005; 2:57 PM
A federal prosecutor demanded Tuesday that Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testify before a grand jury even though the magazine recently handed over the reporter's confidential notes in the investigation of a leak of a CIA officer's identity.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also turned down the request of Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller to be allowed home detention rather than jail for refusing to disclose their sources.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070500788.html
Richmond Times Dispatch
For American Indians, native spouses rare gem
BY DENA SLOAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
Debora Littlewing Moore of the Pamunkey tribe and Preston Adkins of the Chickahominy dance one of the few American Indian dances that requires a partner. They were performing at a powwow in King William County.
EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Don't let the beating drums and fry bread and feathers fool you.
Last month's annual powwow on the Mattaponi reservation in King William County was indeed a time for locals to express their American Indian identity and to continue centuries of tradition.
But Reggie Tupponce, a member of the Upper Mattaponi tribe, smiled as he pointed out the drum circle where young men played music and chanted. Lingering nearby were a number of young women.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783670716
Coach fined $300 in bus fatality case
He will remain head of Varina football, Henrico official says
BY OLYMPIA MEOLA
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
GARY CHILCOAT
RELATED: Police Beat
Varina High School's football coach was found guilty yesterday of not using a warning device on a school bus when he dropped off a Varina track athlete who was fatally injured moments later by an oncoming car.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783670928
Strong storm socks Charlottesville
Power knocked out for 14,000; funnel cloud reported near U.Va.
BY CARLOS SANTOS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A powerful storm struck Charlottesville yesterday around 5 p.m., leaving the city a mess of broken trees, blocked roads and live, downed electrical wires.
About 14,000 customers were without electrical power at the peak of the storm.
As of yesterday evening, there were no reports of injuries, said Maurice Jones, a spokesman for the city.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783671403
Reservoir reptile killed by fisherman
The angler could face time in prison and a big fine if it was a protected species
BY JULIAN WALKER
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Jul 6, 2005
The gator's a goner.
According to local police and animal-control officials, a South Richmond angler caught and killed an alligator-like reptile while fishing in the Falling Creek Reservoir on Sunday evening.
Authorities said the man could face penalties if the animal was a protected species under federal law.
According to authorities, the man hooked the creature and then allegedly used an oar to subdue it. Police said the animal's death was apparently caused by being clubbed repeatedly. It was 44 inches long and weighed 9 pounds.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783670625
The Hartford Courant
Connecticut Officials To Urge BRAC Panel To Keep Groton Base Open
10:49 AM EDT, July 6, 2005
Associated Press
BOSTON -- Faced with increasing pressure to save the Groton submarine base, Connecticut officials today unleashed harsh criticism of the Pentagon and the numbers it used in deciding to put the 137-year-old facility on its closure list.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, members of the state's congressional delegation and military experts testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in Boston Wednesday morning during a hearing that represented their best opportunity to convince federal officials to keep the base open.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-06101451.apds.m0905.bc-ct--subbjul06,0,927810.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
In Defense Of Private Property
Hundreds In New London Oppose Seizure Of Homes For Development
July 6, 2005
By LAUREN PHILLIPS, Courant Staff Writer
NEW LONDON -- Hundreds of people - some from as far away as Texas - rallied Tuesday on the steps of city hall to oppose the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming government's right to take private property for economic development purposes.
The outcry follows a national vein of opposition to the 5-4 decision two weeks ago siding with city officials who plan to use their eminent domain power to take 15 homes in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, making way for a private waterfront development.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-nlrally0706.artjul06,0,5240717.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
E85 Is Right Number At Pump
45 Cents A Gallon Cheaper Than Gasoline, Ethanol Mix Hooking Midwest Motorists
July 6, 2005
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
EAGAN, Minn. -- Like lots of motorists, Chuck Nye thought he had no choice but to grin and bear it as rising gas prices made filling up his minivan a painful experience.
But then he heard a radio ad promoting E85 - a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline - that sells for an average of about 45 cents a gallon less than regular unleaded. Inside his fuel door was a sticker saying Nye had a flexible fuel vehicle, which can burn the homegrown alternative.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-ethanol.artjul06,0,3340149.story?coll=hc-headlines-business
State Challenging Tests For Depleted Uranium
July 6, 2005
By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut is now the second state in the nation to challenge the validity of the tests the federal government uses to check military personnel for ingested or inhaled depleted uranium dust from U.S. munitions explosions.
The new law requires the state adjutant general and the veterans' affairs commissioner to assist Connecticut guardsmen and veterans in obtaining "a best practice health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium." Last month, Louisiana passed similar, less detailed legislation demanding better depleted uranium testing paid for by the federal government.
http://www.courant.com/news/health/hc-dutestslaw0706.artjul06,0,7608199.story?coll=hc-headlines-health
MetLife Promise On Jobs Resolved
Acquisition Completed; Insurer Complies So Far On Local Hiring
July 2, 2005
By DIANE LEVICK, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut's insurance commissioner said Friday she has resolved confusion over MetLife's job commitment in acquiring Travelers Life & Annuity, while the attorney general criticized MetLife for "playing games" on the promise at a hearing in June.
Despite the differing interpretations, MetLife Inc. Friday completed an $11.8 billion purchase of Hartford-based Travelers and flew one of its MetLife Snoopy blimps over Hartford to celebrate.
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-metlife0702.artjul02,0,2273283.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state
Michael Moore Today
The Demonstrators are being especially offensive. They don't want any aspect of this war.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Translation:
Happy Birthday, George!
Denmark Forecast Is Chilly for Bush
The president makes a pre-G-8 visit to thank the nation for its help in Iraq, though opposition is widespread. A large protest is planned today
By Warren Vieth / Los Angeles Times
COPENHAGEN — President Bush arrived in Copenhagen late Tuesday to thank the Danish government for its continued participation in the Iraq war and reconstruction effort despite considerable opposition among the public here.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3221
Rove 'Knowingly' Refusing Interviews on Plame Leak
By E&P Staff / Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK Two days after his lawyer confirmed that his name turned up as a source in Matthew Cooper's notes on the Valerie Plame/CIA case, top White House adviser Karl Rove refused to answer questions about the development today.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3208
THE UNUSUAL MISSION IN IRAQ
Pentagon Weighs Strategy Change to Deter Terror
By THOM SHANKER and ERIC SCHMITT
Published: July 5, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 4 - The Pentagon's most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time. Instead, they are weighing whether to shape the military to mount one conventional campaign while devoting more resources to defending American territory and antiterrorism efforts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/politics/05strategy.html?hp&ex=1120536000&en=88383bf5a4108819&ei=5094&partner=homepage
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM
The Pentagon may dramatically change the strategeries of war in response to terrorism (but really in response to the war in Iraq, which is different):
In effect, the unusual mission in Iraq, which could last for years, has not just taken the slot for one of the two wars; it has upended the central concept of the two-war model. It is neither a major conventional combat nor a mere peacekeeping operation. It does not require the full array of forces, especially from the Navy and the Air Force, of a conventional war, and it takes far more troops than peacekeeping ordinarily would.
Pakistan's envoy to Iraq comes under fire and heads for home as insurgenterrorists target Muslim and Arab diplomats.
For the second consecutive day, Syrian forces clash with militants who may or may not be connected to Iraq's insurgency, specifically, they may or may not be Saddam Hussein's former bodyguards.
Listen to voicemails from a soldier stationed just outside of Baghdad.
Iraqi leaders strike a deal to move forward on the country's new Constitution, bringing Sunnis to the table with Kurds and Shiites.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
continued . . .
The Hartford Courant
Connecticut Officials To Urge BRAC Panel To Keep Groton Base Open
10:49 AM EDT, July 6, 2005
Associated Press
BOSTON -- Faced with increasing pressure to save the Groton submarine base, Connecticut officials today unleashed harsh criticism of the Pentagon and the numbers it used in deciding to put the 137-year-old facility on its closure list.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, members of the state's congressional delegation and military experts testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in Boston Wednesday morning during a hearing that represented their best opportunity to convince federal officials to keep the base open.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-06101451.apds.m0905.bc-ct--subbjul06,0,927810.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
In Defense Of Private Property
Hundreds In New London Oppose Seizure Of Homes For Development
July 6, 2005
By LAUREN PHILLIPS, Courant Staff Writer
NEW LONDON -- Hundreds of people - some from as far away as Texas - rallied Tuesday on the steps of city hall to oppose the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming government's right to take private property for economic development purposes.
The outcry follows a national vein of opposition to the 5-4 decision two weeks ago siding with city officials who plan to use their eminent domain power to take 15 homes in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, making way for a private waterfront development.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-nlrally0706.artjul06,0,5240717.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
E85 Is Right Number At Pump
45 Cents A Gallon Cheaper Than Gasoline, Ethanol Mix Hooking Midwest Motorists
July 6, 2005
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
EAGAN, Minn. -- Like lots of motorists, Chuck Nye thought he had no choice but to grin and bear it as rising gas prices made filling up his minivan a painful experience.
But then he heard a radio ad promoting E85 - a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline - that sells for an average of about 45 cents a gallon less than regular unleaded. Inside his fuel door was a sticker saying Nye had a flexible fuel vehicle, which can burn the homegrown alternative.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-ethanol.artjul06,0,3340149.story?coll=hc-headlines-business
State Challenging Tests For Depleted Uranium
July 6, 2005
By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut is now the second state in the nation to challenge the validity of the tests the federal government uses to check military personnel for ingested or inhaled depleted uranium dust from U.S. munitions explosions.
The new law requires the state adjutant general and the veterans' affairs commissioner to assist Connecticut guardsmen and veterans in obtaining "a best practice health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium." Last month, Louisiana passed similar, less detailed legislation demanding better depleted uranium testing paid for by the federal government.
http://www.courant.com/news/health/hc-dutestslaw0706.artjul06,0,7608199.story?coll=hc-headlines-health
MetLife Promise On Jobs Resolved
Acquisition Completed; Insurer Complies So Far On Local Hiring
July 2, 2005
By DIANE LEVICK, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut's insurance commissioner said Friday she has resolved confusion over MetLife's job commitment in acquiring Travelers Life & Annuity, while the attorney general criticized MetLife for "playing games" on the promise at a hearing in June.
Despite the differing interpretations, MetLife Inc. Friday completed an $11.8 billion purchase of Hartford-based Travelers and flew one of its MetLife Snoopy blimps over Hartford to celebrate.
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-metlife0702.artjul02,0,2273283.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state
The Boston Globe
Connecticut officials to urge BRAC panel to keep Groton base open
By Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
BOSTON --Faced with increasing pressure to save the Groton submarine base, Connecticut officials Wednesday unleashed harsh criticism of the Pentagon and the numbers it used in deciding to put the 137-year-old facility on its closure list.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, members of the state's congressional delegation and military experts testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in Boston Wednesday morning during a hearing that represented their best opportunity to convince federal officials to keep the base open.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/07/06/connecticut_officials_to_urge_brac_panel_to_keep_groton_base_open/
In reversal, police to allow G-8 march
Police officers check automobiles at the entrance of the G8 summit at the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland, Tuesday July 5, 2005. Scottish police on Tuesday promised zero tolerance for troublemakers at protests planned to coincide with the opening of the summit of leaders of the G-8 group of wealthy nations, which begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
By Beth Gardiner, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
AUCHTERADER, Scotland --Scottish police on Wednesday said they would allow protesters to march to the edge of the G-8 summit venue, hours after they canceled a planned demonstration following outbreaks of violence.
After talks with organizers, Tayside Police said the march planned by G-8 Alternatives could go ahead. Earlier, police had called off the march in the village of Auchterarder after protesters smashed car windows, threw rocks and attempted to blockade one of the main approach roads to the exclusive Gleneagles resort hosting the summit.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/06/in_reversal_police_to_allow_g_8_march/
Angelina Jolie adopting Ethiopian girl
Movie star Angelina Jolie with her son Maddox at the Live 8 Africa Calling concert, held at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, July 2, 2005. Jolie is adopting another child, an orphaned Ethiopian baby girl. (AP Photo/Ian West/PA)
By Anthony Mitchell, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia --Angelina Jolie, who has been romantically linked with her "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-star Brad Pitt, is adopting an orphaned Ethiopian baby girl.
Jolie visited the Horn of Africa nation last week to file her adoption request, accompanied by Pitt and her 3-year-old son, Maddox, whom she adopted in Cambodia, an official said Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/07/06/angelina_jolie_adopts_ethiopian_girl/
Ex-Sen. Thompson to oversee court nominee
Police officers check automobiles at the entrance of the G8 summit at the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland, Tuesday July 5, 2005. Scottish police on Tuesday promised zero tolerance for troublemakers at protests planned to coincide with the opening of the summit of leaders of the G-8 group of wealthy nations, which begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 6, 2005
GLENEAGLES, Scotland --President Bush has named former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson to help shepherd his yet-to-be named Supreme Court nominee through the Senate, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/06/ex_sen_thompson_to_oversee_court_nominee/
California wildfire gets close to homes
July 6, 2005
PALMDALE, Calif. --A wind-whipped brush fire crept close to several homes before crews got the upper hand, one of a handful of Southern California blazes that also sent campers scrambling, officials said Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/06/california_wildfire_gets_close_to_homes/
Myanmar releases about 240 prisoners
By Aye Aye Win, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
YANGON, Myanmar --Myanmar's military government released about 240 prisoners on Wednesday, including political detainees and opposition politicians, an opposition spokesman said.
There was no indication, however, that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be released from house arrest, and no sign that the government's action was a sign of future political liberalization.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/06/myanmar_releases_about_240_prisoners/
Gulf Coast braces for arrival of Cindy
Jocelyne Fouineteau, left, takes a picture as her daughter Nancy holds the umbrella in the French Quarter Tuesday, July 5, 2005, in New Orleans. The Fouineteau's are from Toronto, Canada and are not letting the approach of Tropical Storm Cindy spoil their visit to New Orleans. The , storm is expected to make landfall on the Mississippi or Louisiana coast later tonight or early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
By Kevin McGill, Associated Press Writer July 5, 2005
NEW ORLEANS --A strengthened Tropical Storm Cindy moved its way toward the Gulf Coast on Tuesday with 70 mph winds and the potential for 10 inches of rain, forcing tourists and residents to head for higher ground and oil companies to evacuate rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/07/05/tropical_storm_cindy_heads_toward_la/
Party sparkles on a grand scale
4th of July fete in city blends patriotism, fun
By David Abel, Globe Staff July 5, 2005
At first, they looked like shooting stars. Then they seemed to be clouds floating in the night sky. Later, at different points, they looked like planets, palm trees, and waterfalls shooting through the firmament.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/party_sparkles_on_a_grand_scale/
State on hunt for racial profiling
Police report adds context to road stops
By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent July 5, 2005
After a statewide review showed racial disparities in traffic citations issued by police in nearly 250 communities, the state has launched an initiative to determine whether racial bias is to blame for the disproportionate number of minority drivers stopped on the state's roadways.
Two hundred forty-seven police departments -- from Boston and Lowell to tiny Spencer and Upton -- have been urged to participate in the program, featuring a more extensive report that officers are being asked to fill out every time they make a stop.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/state_on_hunt_for_racial_profiling/
Military recruiters find the war a difficult sell
Youths shy away from future in Iraq
By Sarah Schweitzer and Peter Canellos, Globe Staff July 5, 2005
KINGSTON -- When military recruiters came to Marshfield High School last year, Joe Satterthwaite and Luke Auen were intrigued. The 16-year-olds both needed money to pay for college. Both had relatives who had served their country and who were urging them on, for Satterthwaite his father and for Auen his grandfather.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/military_recruiters_find_the_war_a_difficult_sell/
Comet crash brings a glow of optimism
By Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post July 5, 2005
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a flawless journey to oblivion early yesterday, slamming into an onrushing comet to vaporize itself in an Independence Day blaze of glory.
Scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheered as spectacular images taken by a second flyby spacecraft positioned nearby confirmed that the ''impactor" had scored a bull's-eye. The craft smashed into comet Tempel 1 at its lower edge at 1:52 a.m. EDT, spewing a column of debris that lighted up the heavens.
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2005/07/05/comet_crash_brings_a_glow_of_optimism/
Aspirin may protect men from cancer but not women, opposing studies find
By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer July 5, 2005
CHICAGO --Men who took aspirin over five years slightly lowered their risk for prostate cancer, but women who took low doses over 10 years didn't reduce their risk of cancer, two separate studies indicate.
The conflicting results don't help settle the debate about whether aspirin and similar anti-inflammatory medicines could be used to prevent cancer. Doctors familiar with the research think different study designs and aspirin doses explain the contrasting findings.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/aspirin_may_protect_men_from_cancer_but_not_women_opposing_studies_find/
Congressional delegation says R.I. in good shape on base closings
By Richard C. Lewis, Associated Press Writer July 5, 2005
CRANSTON, R.I. --Rhode Island has fared well so far in the military base realignment process, but the state's congressional delegation said on Wednesday nothing is final, and the commission charged with deciding the bases' future nationwide could change its mind.
The state is scheduled to present its case on Rhode Island's military value in Boston on Thursday to members from the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, the panel that calls the shots on which military bases will close.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/07/05/congressional_delegation_says_ri_in_good_shape_on_base_closings/
Pope to say prayers in Hebrew at synagogue
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his speech in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Monday, July 4, 2005, where the pontiff received faithful and pilgrims from Spain during a special audience. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)
July 5, 2005
VATICAN CITY --German-born Pope Benedict XVI will say prayers in Hebrew when he visits the synagogue in Cologne, Germany, that was destroyed by the Nazis, a cardinal organizing the trip said Tuesday.
Jewish representatives invited the pope to visit while he is in Germany in August for the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day and Benedict replied, '"I will come,"' said Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner.
The visit will include a prayer service in which the psalms will be "prayed," the cardinal said. "We have learned them in Hebrew."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/05/pope_to_say_prayers_in_hebrew_at_synagogue/
First it's Amelda's shoes and not they are rigging elections. What goes on in the Phillipines? It's not because of the USA influence, is it?
Philippine leader ready to face trial
In this photo released by Malacanang palace, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, left, greets patients during her visit at Philippine General Hospital Cancer Institute in Manila on Tuesday July 5, 2005. Arroyo is ready to face an impeachment trial if it is the only way to quiet an ongoing political crisis over alleged election fraud, her spokesman said. (AP Photo/Malacanang Palace, Michael Rey Baniquet, HO)
By Paul Alexander, Associated Press Writer July 5, 2005
MANILA, Philippines --Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is ready to face an impeachment trial and confident that she can refute the allegations of election fraud against her, her spokesman said Tuesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/05/philippine_leader_ready_to_face_trial/
The Cheney Observer
Diplomats From Bahrain and Pakistan Are Ambushed in Iraq
By EDWARD WONG
Published: July 5, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 5 - Gunmen ambushed the top Bahraini and Pakistani diplomats in separate attacks as they drove through the capital today, spurring Pakistan to announce the withdrawal of its ambassador from Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/international/middleeast/05cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1120622400&en=1d7640073cc0e0c6&ei=5094&partner=homepage
In Seeking Unocal, Chevron Ruffles an Asian Partner
By JAD MOUAWAD and DAVID BARBOZA
Published: July 5, 2005
The last thing Chevron wanted when it made its $16.8 billion offer for Unocal back in April was to be pitted in a takeover battle against the Chinese government.
After all, one of the main reasons it went after Unocal, a California-based independent oil company with vast resources in Asia, was to sell oil and gas to the fastest-growing energy market in the world, China. But on June 22, when the state-controlled China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or Cnooc, countered with a higher bid for Unocal, Chevron found itself in a delicate position.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/business/worldbusiness/05chevron.html?hp
Another $27.5 Million Fraud by Halliburton-KBR
by CONSPIRACY PLANET
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) to be used as cooking and heating fuel to Iraq, a Pentagon audit report revealed Monday.
Pentagon auditors were stunned. "It is illogical that it would cost $27,514,833 to deliver $82,100 in LPG fuel," officials from the Defense Contract Audit Agency noted in the report.
The audit report was released by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., critics of Halliburton and its war profiteering contracts.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=2001
Pentagon releases Halliburton documents
In the wake of a subpoena threat, the Pentagon has started turning over to Congress documents related to Halliburton Corp.’s disputed billing under a $2.5 billion contract for Iraqi oil-site repairs and fuel imports.
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, intended to subpoena the Defense Department if the administration did not provide the long-requested documents.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/070605/pentagon.html
Bush Cheney Uses Patriot Act To Confiscate Assets
by AL MARTIN
It’s important for US citizens to understand that the Bush Cheney regime is becoming ever more confiscatory, regarding citizens’ offshore assets, and that, in fact, it is now impossible for US citizens, domiciled in the United States, to enjoy absolute protection of their assets offshore.
The only way that can now be done is complete expatriation, i.e. you have to give up your US citizenship and take the citizenship of another nation, which would be involved in moving to that nation or some other jurisdiction. But that is the only way you can now garner complete protection of your
assets.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49&contentid=2400
“Extreme Distrust between North Korea and the U.S.,” Says Unification Minister Chung
Minister of Unification Chung Dong-young is said to have failed to draw an agreement on a new message to North Korea from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and other high level officials of the U.S. administration. Chung had visited the U.S. to discuss resuming the six-party talks aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear issue.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2005070509788
Bush Unspikes The Ball
John Brummett
The Morning News
The fellow providing instant television analysis of President Bush's speech said the headline would be George W.'s assertion that the sacrifice of more than 1,700 American lives to his falsely justified invasion of Iraq was "worth it."
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2005/07/04/opinion/54opbrummett.txt
Option Players Lay Bets on $80 gallons per barrel
Buyers are betting that oil prices could climb to $80 (U.S.) a barrel this year, according to options contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
That pessimism is based on concern the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries won't produce enough oil to compensate for any disruption to supplies.
New York Mercantile Exchange data indicate 6,900 options contracts outstanding that allow buyers to purchase oil for December delivery at $80 a barrel, compared with an average of 77 contracts in January.
The probability that oil will top $75 a barrel when the December crude contract expires is 21 per cent, up from 5 per cent at the start of the year, according to strategists Adam Sieminski and Michael Lewis at Deutsche Bank AG.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050705/IBOIL05/TPBusiness/International
Oil futures rise in London as G8 nations prepare to meet
By EDITH BALAZS
Associated Press
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - Brent oil futures edged higher Monday in listless European trading, with the New York Mercantile Exchange and other U.S. markets closed for the Independence Day holiday.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3252450
China angered by US oil sale intervention
By David Litterick in New York (Filed: 05/07/2005)
The Chinese government has angrily responded to calls by US politicians for Washington to block the $18.5billion (£10.5billion) bid by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for US oil group Unocal.
"We demand that the US Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicising economic and trade issues and stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges between enterprises of the two countries," the foreign ministry said yesterday.
http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/07/05/cnchina05.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/07/05/ixfrontcity.html
BP Says Oil, Gas Production Increased in the Second Quarter
July 5 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc, Europe's largest publicly traded oil company, said oil and gas production rose 3.5 percent in the second quarter as the pace of growth at its Russian joint venture slowed.
Second-quarter production averaged 4.11 million barrels a day, compared with the 3.97 million barrels a day reported for the year- earlier period. The gain was larger than a 2.1 percent increase in the first quarter. Excluding Russia, BP's production was 3.135 million barrels a day last quarter.
``We know the big ramp-up in production is going to be in the fourth quarter,'' Jonathan Copus, an analyst at Investec Henderson Crosthwaite in London, who has a ``hold'' recommendation on BP, said yesterday.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aNx_3JwMwK7M&refer=home
The Sydney Morning Herald
Contaminant in Snickers bar 'similar to pest poison'
July 6, 2005 - 6:48PM
A contaminated Snickers bar sent to its manufacturer had been laced with a substance similar to pest poison and could be harmful to children, NSW Police said today.
A scientific report on the chocolate bar, which was sent to Masterfoods along with extortion threats, couldn't identify the contaminant.
But analysis revealed the substance appeared to be similar to a number of commercial pest poisons, a police statement said.
Masterfoods recalled all Snickers and Mars Bars in NSW last Friday after the company received extortion letters claiming seven bars had been contaminated.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/contaminant-in-snickers-bar-similar-to-pest-poison/2005/07/06/1120329494373.html
Charges may be laid over airline passenger's 'threat'
July 6, 2005
A Hobart airline passenger could be charged under Australia's strict new aviation safety laws, for allegedly making a threat against an aeroplane.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is considering laying charges against the man, who flew from Hobart to Melbourne last Friday.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/charges-may-be-laid-over-airline-passengers-threat/2005/07/05/1120329449000.html
Airport jokers warned: bomb quips 'not funny'
July 6, 2005 - 3:40PM
Travellers have been warned not to indulge in typical Aussie humour at airports, with jibes like "never mind the bomb in my bag" now likely to land jokers in hot water.
The Australian Federal Police said more than 70 people had been detained and questioned for making such comments since new aviation safety laws came into effect in March, with five convictions recorded.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/airport-jokers-warned-bomb-quips-not-funny/2005/07/06/1120329493992.html
Abducted woman raped five times
July 6, 2005 - 7:27PM
A woman was kept bound and gagged in a cupboard for six days and brought out to be raped five times, once at knife point, a Sydney court has been told.
Joseph Roy Omega, 23, and his 16-year-old girlfriend allegedly kept the 20-year-old woman prisoner in a unit at Concord in Sydney's west from June 27 to July 2 in a bid to obtain money.
The teenager threatened the woman with a knife and demanded her bank card and PIN after she was lured to the unit by Omega, who knew the woman, Bidura Children's Court was told during a hearing for the girl.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/abducted-woman-raped-five-times/2005/07/06/1120329497126.html
Death of the 'social X-ray'
July 6, 2005 - 2:45PM
The self-deprecating Nan Kempner ... her father told her: "You'll never make it on your face, so you'd better be interesting."
Nan Kempner, the New York society hostess who has died aged 74, inspired the novelist Tom Wolfe to coin the term "social X-ray" when describing, in Bonfire of the Vanities, the skeletal ladies-who-lunch on the Upper East Side.
Addicted to haute couture, she entertained on a grand scale, while fitting in regular trips to London, Paris, Gstaadt, Venice and the Caribbean for fashion shows, parties, skiing and sun-bathing.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/death-of-the-social-xray/2005/07/06/1120329491888.html
Disney kicks out the dwarfs
By Jonathan Watts in Beijing
July 6, 2005
The wicked Queen will not know what hit her. Snow White is about to be transformed into a martial arts epic with Shaolin monks replacing the seven dwarfs of the original fairytale.
In a sign of the times, Walt Disney is behind the kung-fu retelling of its 1937 animated classic, part of an intensifying strategy to make inroads into the Chinese cinema market.
Yuen Woo-ping, the fight choreographer for the Matrix trilogy, Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has been recruited to direct the film, to be shot in China later this year.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/disney-kicks-out-the-dwarfs/2005/07/05/1120329451426.html
Don't lower G8 bar, Geldof tells UK
July 6, 2005 - 1:17PM
Britain today lowered expectations for a summit of rich nations aimed at fighting poverty in Africa and combating global warming but activists kept up the heat on the eve of the gathering.
Finance minister Gordon Brown said Britain's room for manoeuvre on fighting poverty at the Group of Eight summit that begins in Scotland tomorrow was limited by leaders of the other G8 countries.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/dont-lower-g8-bar-geldof-tells-uk/2005/07/06/1120329488725.html
Corby's legal team 'unrealistic': Ruddock
July 6, 2005 - 1:05PM
Schapelle Corby's legal team has placed unrealistic expectations on the Australian Government, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says.
Bali's High Court has given approval for Corby's lawyers to present new witnesses backing the former Gold Coast woman's claims she did not know about 4.1 kilograms of marijuana found in her luggage at Bali airport last year.
But Mr Ruddock today said the Australian Federal Police had already done everything it could to assist Corby's defence team.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/corbys-legal-team-unrealistic-ruddock/2005/07/06/1120329488031.html
Schapelle Corby's letter
July 5, 2005 - 6:36PM
The full text of Schapelle Corby's letter to faxed to Prime Minister John Howard today:
The Honourable John Howard MP
Prime Minister of Australia
Parliament House
Canberra
I, Schapelle Leigh Corby, currently a prisoner of Kerobokan Jail, was recently sentenced to 20 years by the Denpasar District Court.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/07/05/1120329442466.html
Bono wins hat battle
July 6, 2005 - 11:59AM
U2 has won a court case to recover singer and activist Bono's Stetson hat and a pair of trousers taken by their former stylist in 1987.
The rock band, who opened Saturday's Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, said they took Lola Cashman to court on a point of principle rather than for the estimated €5000 ($8000) value of the goods.
Bono's iconic hat, a pair of black trousers, a green sweatshirt and a pair of metal hooped earrings were taken without permission during the group's Joshua Tree tour.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/bono-wins-hat-battle/2005/07/06/1120329485069.html
For around $100,000, the force can be with you
July 6, 2005 - 3:14PM
Two of the most famous props in US film history - light sabres belonging to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader of Star Wars fame - will go under the hammer this month.
Dozens of objects from George Lucas's celebrated sci-fi saga will go the highest bidders at the July 29 auction in Beverly Hills organised by Profiles in History, which specialises in the sale of film props.
The Jedi knight's light sabre, owned by Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz, is expected to sell for between $US60,000 and $US80,000 ($80,000 and $A108,000).
The light sabre used by the evil Darth Vader character in The Empire Strikes Back is estimated to go for up to $US60,000.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/for-around-100000-the-force-can-be-with-you/2005/07/06/1120329492831.html
Trafficked women 'being raped, starved'
July 6, 2005 - 6:04PM
At least 1,000 women are kept in debt-bonded prostitution in Australia, where they are raped, beaten and starved, a new paper shows.
The women, usually from Thailand and Burma, are brought into Australia by human traffickers who force them to work as prostitutes - often in legal brothels - for free until they pay off "debts" of up to $50,000.
The paper, published this week by the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault (ACSSA), reviews research and developments in trafficking in women for sexual exploitation since the early 1990s.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Trafficked-women-being-raped-starved/2005/07/06/1120329497809.html
Hundreds protest Bush visit to Denmark
July 6, 2005 - 5:54AM
About 200 demonstrators, mostly black-clad youth, have marched in downtown Copenhagen to protest a brief visit by US President George W Bush on his way to the G8 summit in Scotland.
The demonstrators, some shouting "Death to Bush, death to imperialism", were surrounded by about an equal number of police officers in riot gear.
Organisers had urged demonstrators to "come angry", but there were no signs of violence as they started marching from a square where they had gathered in pouring rain.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Hundreds-protest-Bush-visit-to-Denmark/2005/07/06/1120329470833.html
Bush defends treatment of detainees
July 6, 2005 - 6:54AM
US President George W Bush has defended the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, saying they will be given fair trials.
Bush, speaking at a news conference during a visit to Denmark, said Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen raised concerns about the US detention camp in Cuba.
"The prisoners are well-treated in Guantanamo. There's total transparency. The International Red Cross can inspect anytime, any day," Bush said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bush-defends-treatment-of-detainees/2005/07/06/1120329473120.html
Clinton shifts New York bid up a gear
July 6, 2005 - 7:24AM
New York has wheeled out US Senator Hillary Clinton as the race to host the 2012 Olympics enters the final straight, counting on the famous former first lady to make a strong case for the Big Apple.
"This is a great bid from a great city for the greatest international event there is," Clinton told a news conference across the road from the Raffles City Convention Centre where International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegates will vote on Wednesday.
The wife of former US President Bill Clinton landed in Singapore early on Tuesday but was whisked away from her breakfast - even before she could take a bite - to meet an IOC delegate.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Clinton-shifts-New-York-bid-up-a-gear/2005/07/06/1120329473782.html
Subsidies aggravate poverty: Wolfowitz
July 6, 2005 - 8:44AM
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz says phasing out agricultural subsidies in rich nations would be an important part of tackling poverty in the world's poorest ones.
Wolfowitz, speaking ahead of this week's Group of Eight industrialised nations (G8) summit in Scotland, said poor farmers lose their opportunities to become self-sufficient because of subsidies and market barriers.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Subsidies-aggravate-poverty-Wolfowitz/2005/07/06/1120329476522.html
Alliance wants US out of central Asia
July 6, 2005 - 9:19AM
A regional alliance led by China and Russia wants the US and its coalition allies in Afghanistan to set a date for withdrawing from several states in Central Asia, reflecting growing unease at America's military presence in the region.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which groups Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, urged a deadline be set for withdrawal of the foreign forces from its member states in light of what it said was a decline in active fighting in Afghanistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Alliance-wants-US-out-of-central-Asia/2005/07/06/1120329477707.html
Al-Qaeda chief labels Iraqi army enemies
July 6, 2005 - 9:25AM
The reputed leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says the country's fledgling army is as great an enemy as the Americans.
He also brushed aside calls for him to abandon the insurgency in favour of peace talks with the Iraqi government and the Americans.
In an audiotape found on the internet, a man claiming to be Abu Musab al-Zarqawi also announced the formation of a new terror command to fight Iraq's biggest Shi'ite militia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/AlQaeda-chief-labels-Iraqi-army-enemies/2005/07/06/1120329477874.html
Jordan arrests al-Zarqawi's mentor
July 6, 2005 - 10:59AM
Jordanian police have arrested the spiritual mentor of the leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq militant group as he was being interviewed on Al-Jazeera television, his first public appearance since his release last week, the Arab satellite channel said.
Isam al-Barqawi, also known as Sheikh Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi, had just been released from prison.
Al-Jazeera said he was detained during the interview with its correspondent in Jordan, but gave no details.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Jordan-arrests-alZarqawis-mentor/2005/07/06/1120329482219.html
Indonesians name 11 militant suspects
July 6, 2005 - 2:20PM
Indonesian police have formally named 11 recently arrested militants as terrorist suspects, but said six other men detained in the same series of sweeps had been released.
Two of the men are accused of providing detonating devices and explosives used in the 2004 suicide bombing outside the Australian embassy that killed 10 people, said Colonel Zainuri Lubis.
Three others will be charged with harbouring fugitive Malaysian terror suspects Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohd Top, who are believed to be key figures in the regional al-Qaeda linked terror group Jemaah Islamiah.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Indonesians-name-11-militant-suspects/2005/07/06/1120329491205.html
Rare eagles halt wind farm plan
July 6, 2005 - 1:14PM
Rare wedge-tailed eagles could force the abandonment of plans to build a $150 million, 70-turbine wind farm west of Melbourne.
Victorian Planning Minister Rob Hulls has refused a permit to build the farm at Yaloak, near Ballarat, after an independent panel raised concerns that it posed an unacceptable risk to the local wedge-tailed eagle population.
The site and design of the farm, by developer Pacific Hydro, would also have adverse environmental impacts, Mr Hulls said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Rare-eagles-halt-wind-farm-plan/2005/07/06/1120329488555.html
Giant panda gives birth to twins
July 6, 2005 - 2:20PM
A giant panda at a Chinese reserve has given birth to twins and mother and offspring are doing well, the China Daily says.
Pandas normally only rear one cub at a time and Ying Ying, who lived in the Wolong panda reserve in southwest Sichuan province, had chosen one of her new babies to care for, the paper said without specifying the twins' sex.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Giant-panda-gives-birth-to-twins/2005/07/06/1120329491202.html
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Connecticut Officials To Urge BRAC Panel To Keep Groton Base Open
10:49 AM EDT, July 6, 2005
Associated Press
BOSTON -- Faced with increasing pressure to save the Groton submarine base, Connecticut officials today unleashed harsh criticism of the Pentagon and the numbers it used in deciding to put the 137-year-old facility on its closure list.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, members of the state's congressional delegation and military experts testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in Boston Wednesday morning during a hearing that represented their best opportunity to convince federal officials to keep the base open.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-06101451.apds.m0905.bc-ct--subbjul06,0,927810.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
In Defense Of Private Property
Hundreds In New London Oppose Seizure Of Homes For Development
July 6, 2005
By LAUREN PHILLIPS, Courant Staff Writer
NEW LONDON -- Hundreds of people - some from as far away as Texas - rallied Tuesday on the steps of city hall to oppose the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming government's right to take private property for economic development purposes.
The outcry follows a national vein of opposition to the 5-4 decision two weeks ago siding with city officials who plan to use their eminent domain power to take 15 homes in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, making way for a private waterfront development.
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-nlrally0706.artjul06,0,5240717.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
E85 Is Right Number At Pump
45 Cents A Gallon Cheaper Than Gasoline, Ethanol Mix Hooking Midwest Motorists
July 6, 2005
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
EAGAN, Minn. -- Like lots of motorists, Chuck Nye thought he had no choice but to grin and bear it as rising gas prices made filling up his minivan a painful experience.
But then he heard a radio ad promoting E85 - a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline - that sells for an average of about 45 cents a gallon less than regular unleaded. Inside his fuel door was a sticker saying Nye had a flexible fuel vehicle, which can burn the homegrown alternative.
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-ethanol.artjul06,0,3340149.story?coll=hc-headlines-business
State Challenging Tests For Depleted Uranium
July 6, 2005
By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut is now the second state in the nation to challenge the validity of the tests the federal government uses to check military personnel for ingested or inhaled depleted uranium dust from U.S. munitions explosions.
The new law requires the state adjutant general and the veterans' affairs commissioner to assist Connecticut guardsmen and veterans in obtaining "a best practice health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium." Last month, Louisiana passed similar, less detailed legislation demanding better depleted uranium testing paid for by the federal government.
http://www.courant.com/news/health/hc-dutestslaw0706.artjul06,0,7608199.story?coll=hc-headlines-health
MetLife Promise On Jobs Resolved
Acquisition Completed; Insurer Complies So Far On Local Hiring
July 2, 2005
By DIANE LEVICK, Courant Staff Writer
Connecticut's insurance commissioner said Friday she has resolved confusion over MetLife's job commitment in acquiring Travelers Life & Annuity, while the attorney general criticized MetLife for "playing games" on the promise at a hearing in June.
Despite the differing interpretations, MetLife Inc. Friday completed an $11.8 billion purchase of Hartford-based Travelers and flew one of its MetLife Snoopy blimps over Hartford to celebrate.
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-metlife0702.artjul02,0,2273283.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics-state
The Boston Globe
Connecticut officials to urge BRAC panel to keep Groton base open
By Matt Apuzzo, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
BOSTON --Faced with increasing pressure to save the Groton submarine base, Connecticut officials Wednesday unleashed harsh criticism of the Pentagon and the numbers it used in deciding to put the 137-year-old facility on its closure list.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, members of the state's congressional delegation and military experts testified before the Base Closure and Realignment Commission in Boston Wednesday morning during a hearing that represented their best opportunity to convince federal officials to keep the base open.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/07/06/connecticut_officials_to_urge_brac_panel_to_keep_groton_base_open/
In reversal, police to allow G-8 march
Police officers check automobiles at the entrance of the G8 summit at the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland, Tuesday July 5, 2005. Scottish police on Tuesday promised zero tolerance for troublemakers at protests planned to coincide with the opening of the summit of leaders of the G-8 group of wealthy nations, which begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
By Beth Gardiner, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
AUCHTERADER, Scotland --Scottish police on Wednesday said they would allow protesters to march to the edge of the G-8 summit venue, hours after they canceled a planned demonstration following outbreaks of violence.
After talks with organizers, Tayside Police said the march planned by G-8 Alternatives could go ahead. Earlier, police had called off the march in the village of Auchterarder after protesters smashed car windows, threw rocks and attempted to blockade one of the main approach roads to the exclusive Gleneagles resort hosting the summit.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/06/in_reversal_police_to_allow_g_8_march/
Angelina Jolie adopting Ethiopian girl
Movie star Angelina Jolie with her son Maddox at the Live 8 Africa Calling concert, held at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England, July 2, 2005. Jolie is adopting another child, an orphaned Ethiopian baby girl. (AP Photo/Ian West/PA)
By Anthony Mitchell, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia --Angelina Jolie, who has been romantically linked with her "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" co-star Brad Pitt, is adopting an orphaned Ethiopian baby girl.
Jolie visited the Horn of Africa nation last week to file her adoption request, accompanied by Pitt and her 3-year-old son, Maddox, whom she adopted in Cambodia, an official said Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/07/06/angelina_jolie_adopts_ethiopian_girl/
Ex-Sen. Thompson to oversee court nominee
Police officers check automobiles at the entrance of the G8 summit at the Gleneagles Hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland, Tuesday July 5, 2005. Scottish police on Tuesday promised zero tolerance for troublemakers at protests planned to coincide with the opening of the summit of leaders of the G-8 group of wealthy nations, which begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 6, 2005
GLENEAGLES, Scotland --President Bush has named former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson to help shepherd his yet-to-be named Supreme Court nominee through the Senate, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/06/ex_sen_thompson_to_oversee_court_nominee/
California wildfire gets close to homes
July 6, 2005
PALMDALE, Calif. --A wind-whipped brush fire crept close to several homes before crews got the upper hand, one of a handful of Southern California blazes that also sent campers scrambling, officials said Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/06/california_wildfire_gets_close_to_homes/
Myanmar releases about 240 prisoners
By Aye Aye Win, Associated Press Writer July 6, 2005
YANGON, Myanmar --Myanmar's military government released about 240 prisoners on Wednesday, including political detainees and opposition politicians, an opposition spokesman said.
There was no indication, however, that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be released from house arrest, and no sign that the government's action was a sign of future political liberalization.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/06/myanmar_releases_about_240_prisoners/
Gulf Coast braces for arrival of Cindy
Jocelyne Fouineteau, left, takes a picture as her daughter Nancy holds the umbrella in the French Quarter Tuesday, July 5, 2005, in New Orleans. The Fouineteau's are from Toronto, Canada and are not letting the approach of Tropical Storm Cindy spoil their visit to New Orleans. The , storm is expected to make landfall on the Mississippi or Louisiana coast later tonight or early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
By Kevin McGill, Associated Press Writer July 5, 2005
NEW ORLEANS --A strengthened Tropical Storm Cindy moved its way toward the Gulf Coast on Tuesday with 70 mph winds and the potential for 10 inches of rain, forcing tourists and residents to head for higher ground and oil companies to evacuate rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/07/05/tropical_storm_cindy_heads_toward_la/
Party sparkles on a grand scale
4th of July fete in city blends patriotism, fun
By David Abel, Globe Staff July 5, 2005
At first, they looked like shooting stars. Then they seemed to be clouds floating in the night sky. Later, at different points, they looked like planets, palm trees, and waterfalls shooting through the firmament.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/party_sparkles_on_a_grand_scale/
State on hunt for racial profiling
Police report adds context to road stops
By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent July 5, 2005
After a statewide review showed racial disparities in traffic citations issued by police in nearly 250 communities, the state has launched an initiative to determine whether racial bias is to blame for the disproportionate number of minority drivers stopped on the state's roadways.
Two hundred forty-seven police departments -- from Boston and Lowell to tiny Spencer and Upton -- have been urged to participate in the program, featuring a more extensive report that officers are being asked to fill out every time they make a stop.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/state_on_hunt_for_racial_profiling/
Military recruiters find the war a difficult sell
Youths shy away from future in Iraq
By Sarah Schweitzer and Peter Canellos, Globe Staff July 5, 2005
KINGSTON -- When military recruiters came to Marshfield High School last year, Joe Satterthwaite and Luke Auen were intrigued. The 16-year-olds both needed money to pay for college. Both had relatives who had served their country and who were urging them on, for Satterthwaite his father and for Auen his grandfather.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/military_recruiters_find_the_war_a_difficult_sell/
Comet crash brings a glow of optimism
By Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post July 5, 2005
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a flawless journey to oblivion early yesterday, slamming into an onrushing comet to vaporize itself in an Independence Day blaze of glory.
Scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheered as spectacular images taken by a second flyby spacecraft positioned nearby confirmed that the ''impactor" had scored a bull's-eye. The craft smashed into comet Tempel 1 at its lower edge at 1:52 a.m. EDT, spewing a column of debris that lighted up the heavens.
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2005/07/05/comet_crash_brings_a_glow_of_optimism/
Aspirin may protect men from cancer but not women, opposing studies find
By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer July 5, 2005
CHICAGO --Men who took aspirin over five years slightly lowered their risk for prostate cancer, but women who took low doses over 10 years didn't reduce their risk of cancer, two separate studies indicate.
The conflicting results don't help settle the debate about whether aspirin and similar anti-inflammatory medicines could be used to prevent cancer. Doctors familiar with the research think different study designs and aspirin doses explain the contrasting findings.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/05/aspirin_may_protect_men_from_cancer_but_not_women_opposing_studies_find/
Congressional delegation says R.I. in good shape on base closings
By Richard C. Lewis, Associated Press Writer July 5, 2005
CRANSTON, R.I. --Rhode Island has fared well so far in the military base realignment process, but the state's congressional delegation said on Wednesday nothing is final, and the commission charged with deciding the bases' future nationwide could change its mind.
The state is scheduled to present its case on Rhode Island's military value in Boston on Thursday to members from the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, the panel that calls the shots on which military bases will close.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/07/05/congressional_delegation_says_ri_in_good_shape_on_base_closings/
Pope to say prayers in Hebrew at synagogue
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his speech in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Monday, July 4, 2005, where the pontiff received faithful and pilgrims from Spain during a special audience. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri)
July 5, 2005
VATICAN CITY --German-born Pope Benedict XVI will say prayers in Hebrew when he visits the synagogue in Cologne, Germany, that was destroyed by the Nazis, a cardinal organizing the trip said Tuesday.
Jewish representatives invited the pope to visit while he is in Germany in August for the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day and Benedict replied, '"I will come,"' said Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner.
The visit will include a prayer service in which the psalms will be "prayed," the cardinal said. "We have learned them in Hebrew."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/05/pope_to_say_prayers_in_hebrew_at_synagogue/
First it's Amelda's shoes and not they are rigging elections. What goes on in the Phillipines? It's not because of the USA influence, is it?
Philippine leader ready to face trial
In this photo released by Malacanang palace, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, left, greets patients during her visit at Philippine General Hospital Cancer Institute in Manila on Tuesday July 5, 2005. Arroyo is ready to face an impeachment trial if it is the only way to quiet an ongoing political crisis over alleged election fraud, her spokesman said. (AP Photo/Malacanang Palace, Michael Rey Baniquet, HO)
By Paul Alexander, Associated Press Writer July 5, 2005
MANILA, Philippines --Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is ready to face an impeachment trial and confident that she can refute the allegations of election fraud against her, her spokesman said Tuesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/05/philippine_leader_ready_to_face_trial/
The Cheney Observer
Diplomats From Bahrain and Pakistan Are Ambushed in Iraq
By EDWARD WONG
Published: July 5, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 5 - Gunmen ambushed the top Bahraini and Pakistani diplomats in separate attacks as they drove through the capital today, spurring Pakistan to announce the withdrawal of its ambassador from Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/international/middleeast/05cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1120622400&en=1d7640073cc0e0c6&ei=5094&partner=homepage
In Seeking Unocal, Chevron Ruffles an Asian Partner
By JAD MOUAWAD and DAVID BARBOZA
Published: July 5, 2005
The last thing Chevron wanted when it made its $16.8 billion offer for Unocal back in April was to be pitted in a takeover battle against the Chinese government.
After all, one of the main reasons it went after Unocal, a California-based independent oil company with vast resources in Asia, was to sell oil and gas to the fastest-growing energy market in the world, China. But on June 22, when the state-controlled China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or Cnooc, countered with a higher bid for Unocal, Chevron found itself in a delicate position.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/business/worldbusiness/05chevron.html?hp
Another $27.5 Million Fraud by Halliburton-KBR
by CONSPIRACY PLANET
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) to be used as cooking and heating fuel to Iraq, a Pentagon audit report revealed Monday.
Pentagon auditors were stunned. "It is illogical that it would cost $27,514,833 to deliver $82,100 in LPG fuel," officials from the Defense Contract Audit Agency noted in the report.
The audit report was released by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., critics of Halliburton and its war profiteering contracts.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=2001
Pentagon releases Halliburton documents
In the wake of a subpoena threat, the Pentagon has started turning over to Congress documents related to Halliburton Corp.’s disputed billing under a $2.5 billion contract for Iraqi oil-site repairs and fuel imports.
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, intended to subpoena the Defense Department if the administration did not provide the long-requested documents.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/070605/pentagon.html
Bush Cheney Uses Patriot Act To Confiscate Assets
by AL MARTIN
It’s important for US citizens to understand that the Bush Cheney regime is becoming ever more confiscatory, regarding citizens’ offshore assets, and that, in fact, it is now impossible for US citizens, domiciled in the United States, to enjoy absolute protection of their assets offshore.
The only way that can now be done is complete expatriation, i.e. you have to give up your US citizenship and take the citizenship of another nation, which would be involved in moving to that nation or some other jurisdiction. But that is the only way you can now garner complete protection of your
assets.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=49&contentid=2400
“Extreme Distrust between North Korea and the U.S.,” Says Unification Minister Chung
Minister of Unification Chung Dong-young is said to have failed to draw an agreement on a new message to North Korea from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and other high level officials of the U.S. administration. Chung had visited the U.S. to discuss resuming the six-party talks aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear issue.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=050000&biid=2005070509788
Bush Unspikes The Ball
John Brummett
The Morning News
The fellow providing instant television analysis of President Bush's speech said the headline would be George W.'s assertion that the sacrifice of more than 1,700 American lives to his falsely justified invasion of Iraq was "worth it."
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2005/07/04/opinion/54opbrummett.txt
Option Players Lay Bets on $80 gallons per barrel
Buyers are betting that oil prices could climb to $80 (U.S.) a barrel this year, according to options contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
That pessimism is based on concern the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries won't produce enough oil to compensate for any disruption to supplies.
New York Mercantile Exchange data indicate 6,900 options contracts outstanding that allow buyers to purchase oil for December delivery at $80 a barrel, compared with an average of 77 contracts in January.
The probability that oil will top $75 a barrel when the December crude contract expires is 21 per cent, up from 5 per cent at the start of the year, according to strategists Adam Sieminski and Michael Lewis at Deutsche Bank AG.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050705/IBOIL05/TPBusiness/International
Oil futures rise in London as G8 nations prepare to meet
By EDITH BALAZS
Associated Press
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - Brent oil futures edged higher Monday in listless European trading, with the New York Mercantile Exchange and other U.S. markets closed for the Independence Day holiday.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3252450
China angered by US oil sale intervention
By David Litterick in New York (Filed: 05/07/2005)
The Chinese government has angrily responded to calls by US politicians for Washington to block the $18.5billion (£10.5billion) bid by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for US oil group Unocal.
"We demand that the US Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicising economic and trade issues and stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges between enterprises of the two countries," the foreign ministry said yesterday.
http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/07/05/cnchina05.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/07/05/ixfrontcity.html
BP Says Oil, Gas Production Increased in the Second Quarter
July 5 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc, Europe's largest publicly traded oil company, said oil and gas production rose 3.5 percent in the second quarter as the pace of growth at its Russian joint venture slowed.
Second-quarter production averaged 4.11 million barrels a day, compared with the 3.97 million barrels a day reported for the year- earlier period. The gain was larger than a 2.1 percent increase in the first quarter. Excluding Russia, BP's production was 3.135 million barrels a day last quarter.
``We know the big ramp-up in production is going to be in the fourth quarter,'' Jonathan Copus, an analyst at Investec Henderson Crosthwaite in London, who has a ``hold'' recommendation on BP, said yesterday.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aNx_3JwMwK7M&refer=home
The Sydney Morning Herald
Contaminant in Snickers bar 'similar to pest poison'
July 6, 2005 - 6:48PM
A contaminated Snickers bar sent to its manufacturer had been laced with a substance similar to pest poison and could be harmful to children, NSW Police said today.
A scientific report on the chocolate bar, which was sent to Masterfoods along with extortion threats, couldn't identify the contaminant.
But analysis revealed the substance appeared to be similar to a number of commercial pest poisons, a police statement said.
Masterfoods recalled all Snickers and Mars Bars in NSW last Friday after the company received extortion letters claiming seven bars had been contaminated.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/contaminant-in-snickers-bar-similar-to-pest-poison/2005/07/06/1120329494373.html
Charges may be laid over airline passenger's 'threat'
July 6, 2005
A Hobart airline passenger could be charged under Australia's strict new aviation safety laws, for allegedly making a threat against an aeroplane.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions is considering laying charges against the man, who flew from Hobart to Melbourne last Friday.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/charges-may-be-laid-over-airline-passengers-threat/2005/07/05/1120329449000.html
Airport jokers warned: bomb quips 'not funny'
July 6, 2005 - 3:40PM
Travellers have been warned not to indulge in typical Aussie humour at airports, with jibes like "never mind the bomb in my bag" now likely to land jokers in hot water.
The Australian Federal Police said more than 70 people had been detained and questioned for making such comments since new aviation safety laws came into effect in March, with five convictions recorded.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/airport-jokers-warned-bomb-quips-not-funny/2005/07/06/1120329493992.html
Abducted woman raped five times
July 6, 2005 - 7:27PM
A woman was kept bound and gagged in a cupboard for six days and brought out to be raped five times, once at knife point, a Sydney court has been told.
Joseph Roy Omega, 23, and his 16-year-old girlfriend allegedly kept the 20-year-old woman prisoner in a unit at Concord in Sydney's west from June 27 to July 2 in a bid to obtain money.
The teenager threatened the woman with a knife and demanded her bank card and PIN after she was lured to the unit by Omega, who knew the woman, Bidura Children's Court was told during a hearing for the girl.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/abducted-woman-raped-five-times/2005/07/06/1120329497126.html
Death of the 'social X-ray'
July 6, 2005 - 2:45PM
The self-deprecating Nan Kempner ... her father told her: "You'll never make it on your face, so you'd better be interesting."
Nan Kempner, the New York society hostess who has died aged 74, inspired the novelist Tom Wolfe to coin the term "social X-ray" when describing, in Bonfire of the Vanities, the skeletal ladies-who-lunch on the Upper East Side.
Addicted to haute couture, she entertained on a grand scale, while fitting in regular trips to London, Paris, Gstaadt, Venice and the Caribbean for fashion shows, parties, skiing and sun-bathing.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/death-of-the-social-xray/2005/07/06/1120329491888.html
Disney kicks out the dwarfs
By Jonathan Watts in Beijing
July 6, 2005
The wicked Queen will not know what hit her. Snow White is about to be transformed into a martial arts epic with Shaolin monks replacing the seven dwarfs of the original fairytale.
In a sign of the times, Walt Disney is behind the kung-fu retelling of its 1937 animated classic, part of an intensifying strategy to make inroads into the Chinese cinema market.
Yuen Woo-ping, the fight choreographer for the Matrix trilogy, Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has been recruited to direct the film, to be shot in China later this year.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/disney-kicks-out-the-dwarfs/2005/07/05/1120329451426.html
Don't lower G8 bar, Geldof tells UK
July 6, 2005 - 1:17PM
Britain today lowered expectations for a summit of rich nations aimed at fighting poverty in Africa and combating global warming but activists kept up the heat on the eve of the gathering.
Finance minister Gordon Brown said Britain's room for manoeuvre on fighting poverty at the Group of Eight summit that begins in Scotland tomorrow was limited by leaders of the other G8 countries.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/dont-lower-g8-bar-geldof-tells-uk/2005/07/06/1120329488725.html
Corby's legal team 'unrealistic': Ruddock
July 6, 2005 - 1:05PM
Schapelle Corby's legal team has placed unrealistic expectations on the Australian Government, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock says.
Bali's High Court has given approval for Corby's lawyers to present new witnesses backing the former Gold Coast woman's claims she did not know about 4.1 kilograms of marijuana found in her luggage at Bali airport last year.
But Mr Ruddock today said the Australian Federal Police had already done everything it could to assist Corby's defence team.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/corbys-legal-team-unrealistic-ruddock/2005/07/06/1120329488031.html
Schapelle Corby's letter
July 5, 2005 - 6:36PM
The full text of Schapelle Corby's letter to faxed to Prime Minister John Howard today:
The Honourable John Howard MP
Prime Minister of Australia
Parliament House
Canberra
I, Schapelle Leigh Corby, currently a prisoner of Kerobokan Jail, was recently sentenced to 20 years by the Denpasar District Court.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/07/05/1120329442466.html
Bono wins hat battle
July 6, 2005 - 11:59AM
U2 has won a court case to recover singer and activist Bono's Stetson hat and a pair of trousers taken by their former stylist in 1987.
The rock band, who opened Saturday's Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park, said they took Lola Cashman to court on a point of principle rather than for the estimated €5000 ($8000) value of the goods.
Bono's iconic hat, a pair of black trousers, a green sweatshirt and a pair of metal hooped earrings were taken without permission during the group's Joshua Tree tour.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/bono-wins-hat-battle/2005/07/06/1120329485069.html
For around $100,000, the force can be with you
July 6, 2005 - 3:14PM
Two of the most famous props in US film history - light sabres belonging to Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader of Star Wars fame - will go under the hammer this month.
Dozens of objects from George Lucas's celebrated sci-fi saga will go the highest bidders at the July 29 auction in Beverly Hills organised by Profiles in History, which specialises in the sale of film props.
The Jedi knight's light sabre, owned by Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz, is expected to sell for between $US60,000 and $US80,000 ($80,000 and $A108,000).
The light sabre used by the evil Darth Vader character in The Empire Strikes Back is estimated to go for up to $US60,000.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/for-around-100000-the-force-can-be-with-you/2005/07/06/1120329492831.html
Trafficked women 'being raped, starved'
July 6, 2005 - 6:04PM
At least 1,000 women are kept in debt-bonded prostitution in Australia, where they are raped, beaten and starved, a new paper shows.
The women, usually from Thailand and Burma, are brought into Australia by human traffickers who force them to work as prostitutes - often in legal brothels - for free until they pay off "debts" of up to $50,000.
The paper, published this week by the Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault (ACSSA), reviews research and developments in trafficking in women for sexual exploitation since the early 1990s.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Trafficked-women-being-raped-starved/2005/07/06/1120329497809.html
Hundreds protest Bush visit to Denmark
July 6, 2005 - 5:54AM
About 200 demonstrators, mostly black-clad youth, have marched in downtown Copenhagen to protest a brief visit by US President George W Bush on his way to the G8 summit in Scotland.
The demonstrators, some shouting "Death to Bush, death to imperialism", were surrounded by about an equal number of police officers in riot gear.
Organisers had urged demonstrators to "come angry", but there were no signs of violence as they started marching from a square where they had gathered in pouring rain.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Hundreds-protest-Bush-visit-to-Denmark/2005/07/06/1120329470833.html
Bush defends treatment of detainees
July 6, 2005 - 6:54AM
US President George W Bush has defended the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, saying they will be given fair trials.
Bush, speaking at a news conference during a visit to Denmark, said Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen raised concerns about the US detention camp in Cuba.
"The prisoners are well-treated in Guantanamo. There's total transparency. The International Red Cross can inspect anytime, any day," Bush said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Bush-defends-treatment-of-detainees/2005/07/06/1120329473120.html
Clinton shifts New York bid up a gear
July 6, 2005 - 7:24AM
New York has wheeled out US Senator Hillary Clinton as the race to host the 2012 Olympics enters the final straight, counting on the famous former first lady to make a strong case for the Big Apple.
"This is a great bid from a great city for the greatest international event there is," Clinton told a news conference across the road from the Raffles City Convention Centre where International Olympic Committee (IOC) delegates will vote on Wednesday.
The wife of former US President Bill Clinton landed in Singapore early on Tuesday but was whisked away from her breakfast - even before she could take a bite - to meet an IOC delegate.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Clinton-shifts-New-York-bid-up-a-gear/2005/07/06/1120329473782.html
Subsidies aggravate poverty: Wolfowitz
July 6, 2005 - 8:44AM
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz says phasing out agricultural subsidies in rich nations would be an important part of tackling poverty in the world's poorest ones.
Wolfowitz, speaking ahead of this week's Group of Eight industrialised nations (G8) summit in Scotland, said poor farmers lose their opportunities to become self-sufficient because of subsidies and market barriers.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Subsidies-aggravate-poverty-Wolfowitz/2005/07/06/1120329476522.html
Alliance wants US out of central Asia
July 6, 2005 - 9:19AM
A regional alliance led by China and Russia wants the US and its coalition allies in Afghanistan to set a date for withdrawing from several states in Central Asia, reflecting growing unease at America's military presence in the region.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which groups Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, urged a deadline be set for withdrawal of the foreign forces from its member states in light of what it said was a decline in active fighting in Afghanistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Alliance-wants-US-out-of-central-Asia/2005/07/06/1120329477707.html
Al-Qaeda chief labels Iraqi army enemies
July 6, 2005 - 9:25AM
The reputed leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says the country's fledgling army is as great an enemy as the Americans.
He also brushed aside calls for him to abandon the insurgency in favour of peace talks with the Iraqi government and the Americans.
In an audiotape found on the internet, a man claiming to be Abu Musab al-Zarqawi also announced the formation of a new terror command to fight Iraq's biggest Shi'ite militia.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/AlQaeda-chief-labels-Iraqi-army-enemies/2005/07/06/1120329477874.html
Jordan arrests al-Zarqawi's mentor
July 6, 2005 - 10:59AM
Jordanian police have arrested the spiritual mentor of the leader of the al-Qaeda in Iraq militant group as he was being interviewed on Al-Jazeera television, his first public appearance since his release last week, the Arab satellite channel said.
Isam al-Barqawi, also known as Sheikh Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi, had just been released from prison.
Al-Jazeera said he was detained during the interview with its correspondent in Jordan, but gave no details.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Jordan-arrests-alZarqawis-mentor/2005/07/06/1120329482219.html
Indonesians name 11 militant suspects
July 6, 2005 - 2:20PM
Indonesian police have formally named 11 recently arrested militants as terrorist suspects, but said six other men detained in the same series of sweeps had been released.
Two of the men are accused of providing detonating devices and explosives used in the 2004 suicide bombing outside the Australian embassy that killed 10 people, said Colonel Zainuri Lubis.
Three others will be charged with harbouring fugitive Malaysian terror suspects Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohd Top, who are believed to be key figures in the regional al-Qaeda linked terror group Jemaah Islamiah.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Indonesians-name-11-militant-suspects/2005/07/06/1120329491205.html
Rare eagles halt wind farm plan
July 6, 2005 - 1:14PM
Rare wedge-tailed eagles could force the abandonment of plans to build a $150 million, 70-turbine wind farm west of Melbourne.
Victorian Planning Minister Rob Hulls has refused a permit to build the farm at Yaloak, near Ballarat, after an independent panel raised concerns that it posed an unacceptable risk to the local wedge-tailed eagle population.
The site and design of the farm, by developer Pacific Hydro, would also have adverse environmental impacts, Mr Hulls said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Rare-eagles-halt-wind-farm-plan/2005/07/06/1120329488555.html
Giant panda gives birth to twins
July 6, 2005 - 2:20PM
A giant panda at a Chinese reserve has given birth to twins and mother and offspring are doing well, the China Daily says.
Pandas normally only rear one cub at a time and Ying Ying, who lived in the Wolong panda reserve in southwest Sichuan province, had chosen one of her new babies to care for, the paper said without specifying the twins' sex.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Giant-panda-gives-birth-to-twins/2005/07/06/1120329491202.html
continued . . .
7.6.05 New Species of Dolphin, The Snubfin named afer the short fin it's back, the dorsal fin. I shouldn't hold back thinking people won't 'get it' but the dorsal fins on many dolphins are used for thermoregulation. These are warm blooded mammals. So, it is necessary for them to have a thermoregulation system that keeps them warm while swimming at relatively high speeds in the water. The dorsal fin is usually an intricate part of that thermoregulation system. Very complicated actually. The reason this is so fascinating is to realize this a a cold water dolphin and it's thermoregulation is more perhaps like that of baleen whales. Many of the baleens have tiny dorsal fins compared to their body mass. Some dorsal fins are even absent in whales. So this is really quite interesting from a 'genetic diversity' perspective.
Morning Papers - continued...
The New York Times
G.O.P. Asks Conservative Allies to Cool Rhetoric Over the Court
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and CARL HULSE
Published: July 6, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 5 - The White House and the Senate Republican leadership are pushing back against pressure from some of their conservative allies about the coming Supreme Court nomination, urging them to stop attacking Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales as a potential nominee and to tone down their talk of a culture war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/politicsspecial1/06scotus.html?ei=5094&en=a948e894edf57715&hp=&ex=1120708800&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1120658523-2VwuB3lAzPq4HNbI0SQ+9A
Florida's Zeal Against Castro Is Losing Heat
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 6, 2005
MIAMI, July 5 - Fidel Castro is not dead, but he has haunted Miami for nearly 50 years. This is a city where newscasters still scrutinize Mr. Castro's health and workers conduct emergency drills to prepare for the chaos expected upon his demise. Spy shops still flourish here, and a store on Calle Ocho does brisk business in reprints of the Havana phone book from 1959, the year he seized power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/national/06miami.html?hp&ex=1120708800&en=7bab7bdb68acca33&ei=5094&partner=homepage
From Filmmaker in Los Angeles to Iraq Detainee
By TIM GOLDEN
Published: July 6, 2005
LOS ANGELES, July 5 - Like a lot of aspiring filmmakers in Los Angeles, Cyrus Kar was obsessed with his project, a documentary about an ancient Persian king who championed tolerance and human rights even as he built an empire that stretched across the Near East.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/international/middleeast/06detain.html?hp&ex=1120708800&en=7a4cca591b3c6756&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Israelis in Gaza: Departure Is Certain, Details Are Not
David Silverman/Getty Images
At Ganim settlement on the West Bank, Anna Ashash, center rear, consoled the Harels, who moved out on Tuesday. From the left, Silvie; her husband, Yehonatan, and their daughter Maya. The departures next month from settlements in Gaza and the West Bank still carry many questions.
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: July 6, 2005
JERUSALEM, July 5 - After her trip here last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced to much fanfare on June 19 that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to demolish the 1,600 or so houses of Israel's settlements in Gaza, with the Palestinians to be paid to clear away the rubble.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/international/middleeast/06mideast.html?hp&ex=1120708800&en=74a7b84e552d2831&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Africa Tackles Graft, With Billions in Aid in Play
George Osodi/Associated Press
A scavenger at a dump in Lagos, with the Mobil offices in the background. Nigeria is seeking to reduce waste by use of competitive bidding.
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Published: July 6, 2005
LAGOS, Nigeria - One of Dora Nkem Akunyili's lowest moments as a corruption fighter came about two years ago when her son told her not to visit his boarding school. Obumneme Akunyili, age 13, did not want anyone to know that she was his mother.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/international/africa/06lagos.html?
Prosecutor in Leak Case Calls for Reporters' Jailing
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: July 6, 2005
Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times should be jailed for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative, the special prosecutor in the case said in court papers filed yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/06leak.html
THIS AS THERE IS NO SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS forthcoming from the Bush/Cheney Justice Department, while journalists are jailed when DC already knows the source.
Democrats to Use Newspaper Ads to Accuse 6 Republican Congressmen on Ethics Issues
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: July 6, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 5 - House Democrats said Tuesday that they would run newspaper advertisements this week criticizing the ethics of six House Republicans, including Representative Randy Cunningham of California, who is under investigation by a grand jury looking into his ties with a military contractor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/06cunningham.html
The Australian
London awarded Olympic Games
Agencies
July 06, 2005
LONDON erupted with joy tonight after it was named the host of the 2012 Olympic Games, beating arch rival Paris and three other cities in a nail-biting contest.
A crowd of four thousand people whooped and cheered as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Singapore, broadcast its announcement on two giant television screens erected in Trafalgar Square.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15846845%255E601,00.html
Holidays at risk: ACTU
Brad Norington and Michael Bachelard
July 06, 2005
THE Howard Government has endorsed employees cashing out half of their annual leave each year, sparking claims it wants to reduce the holiday entitlements of workers to the US standard of just two weeks.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews said yesterday four weeks' leave would remain the "minimum statutory requirement" under the Coalition's planned overhaul of industrial relations laws.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15837524%255E601,00.html
China uncovers Japan's secret 'germ warfare site'
July 06, 2005
BEIJING: China claims to have found the site of a vast germ warfare camp used by Japan for human experiments in advance of a planned invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
The camp is said to be in northeastern China, close to the borders with Russia and Mongolia, in a region once occupied by imperial Japanese forces.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15834218%255E2703,00.html
Anglican poll winner to face major disputes
Andrew West
July 06, 2005
AUSTRALIA'S four million Anglicans will have a new leader this weekend, with archbishops Peter Jensen from Sydney, Phillip Aspinall from Brisbane and the new archbishop of Perth Roger Herft the likely contenders.
Whoever takes over the position from Peter Carnley will have to wrestle immediately with the church's enduring disputes over women bishops and, even more controversially, the ordination of practising homosexuals.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15837570%255E2702,00.html
Britain 'to withdraw Iraq forces'
July 06, 2005
LONDON: Britain's Defence Ministry has drafted plans for a significant troop withdrawal from Iraq over the next 18 months and a big deployment to Afghanistan, according to The Financial Times.
Without citing sources, the newspaper said the plans represented the biggest operational shake-up involving Britain's armed forces since the Iraq war.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15834882%255E2703,00.html
Kabul calls our troops
July 06, 2005
JOHN Howard meets George W. Bush in 10 days' time in the US and before he leaves Howard must decide whether Australia should make a new troop deployment to Afghanistan.
Public comments in recent days by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer signal he favours a renewed Afghanistan commitment. Expectations have been created that Australia will take a positive decision.
Political logic suggests that Howard would want to announce any such decision before he sees Bush, not afterwards, to limit the inevitable ill-informed criticism that he was mugged in the White House.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15835201%255E601,00.html
Alcoholism
Alcoholism and high prices alarm Russians most
MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Out of all the events and processes underway in the country today, the growing level of alcoholism, high prices and the crisis in the housing and utilities complex are the greatest concerns for the Russians. This is the result of a poll conducted by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM).
According to the poll, two thirds of the Russian population fear the growing alcohol and drug addiction. Every second respondent takes to heart the growth of prices on commodities and services. Forty four percent are alarmed by the state of the housing and utilities system and the growth of tariffs.
http://en.rian.ru/society/20050531/40450519.html
Don’t drive drunk, ‘steering cop’ is smelling
May 30, 2005
A man, whose teenage son was brain-damaged after driving drunk has invented a device that will stop a car from starting if the driver is over the legal alcohol limit.
The $600 sensor can be installed in a steering wheel or in gloves and will test a driver’s skin to determine alcohol consumption.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1383499,008700010015.htm
Milwaukee girl killed by suspected drunk driver
MILWAUKEE - A suspected drunken driver struck and killed a 5-year-old girl as she waited for a bus with her aunt, police said.
Ameria Sandidge was killed at 4 p.m. Sunday about a block from her home, police said. The car drove into oncoming traffic, hit a pole and then struck the girl.
http://www.gazetteextra.com/drunkdrivingfatal053105.asp
Drunk Drivers Cause Tragedy for Those Who Follow the Rules Says Livonia, Michigan Attorney Terry Cochran
Livonia, MI 48154
May 31, 2005
Drunk Drivers Cause Tragedy for Those Who Follow the Rules "Innocent Victims Should Not Hesitate from Filing a Lawsuit" Says Livonia, Michigan Attorney Terry Cochran
Livonia, MI -- One of the greatest injustices created by drunk drivers is that innocent people are most often the victims. And usually the perpetrators are drivers age 18-25 who don't have the slightest intention of hurting anyone.
"The innocents get injured for life or killed when a drunk driver runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a freeway, or runs down a bicyclist on the shoulder of the roadway," says attorney Terry Cochran, senior partner of Cochran, Foley & Associates, PC, of Livonia, Michigan.
http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=9158
Drunk L.I. dad strangled by son - cops
BY NANCY DILLON and KATHLEEN LUCADAMO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A Suffolk County teen choked his drunken dad to death at a family barbecue - the second Long Island child to strangle a parent over the holiday weekend, police said yesterday.
One minute, Efrain Rivera, 38, was prancing along North 25th St. in Wyandanch on Sunday night inviting everyone to his barbecue bash and fireworks launching, neighbors recalled.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/314632p-268998c.html
Drunk driver's wife fights to get car back
Karyn Maughan
May 31 2005 at 05:40PM
The wife of a serial drunk driver is fighting to get back the family car, confiscated after her husband was sentenced to six years in jail for his ninth drink-driving conviction.
Rita Lewis of George says the Cape High Court order seizing her Opel Kadett 140i punishes her "for the behaviour of my husband, over whom I do not have any control".
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050531144557814C383625
Veteran the victim of alleged drunk driver
FAIRFIELD - A 54-year-old veteran heading to a Memorial Day weekend event in Washington, D.C., was killed early Sunday morning in front of his Freedom Township home outside Fairfield by a driver who police say was drunk.
Joseph Dean Duman Jr. was leaving his home on his motorcycle at 6:45 a.m., Liberty Township police said.
As Duman waved to his wife, who was sitting on the front porch of their home at 1670 Bull Frog Road, he was hit head-on by a 2003 Nissan Sentra that had veered into his lane, police said.
http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2005/05/31/local_news/news03.txt
Repeat drunk driver arrested
Citizen Staff
The 30-year-old Beaver Dam woman who was cited for drunken driving after striking the brick pillar and gate in front of Stooges Tavern on April 16 was arrested a week later for operating a motor vehicle after revocation.
According to the criminal complaint, an officer spotted the vehicle Kellie Fox, 1122 N. Spring St., was traveling in because it had a loud muffler. After pulling over the van, he noticed Fox was the driver. Fox told the officer that she had no license.
Fox was cited for her first offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, operating a motor vehicle after revocation, failure to yield right away and a seat belt violation for her accident a week earlier.
http://www.wiscnews.com/bdc/news/index.php?ntid=41881&ntpid=4
Councilman arrested for drunk driving
By COLLEEN MAIR — Staff Writer
MICHIGAN CITY — Michigan City Council President Chuck Lungren was arrested for drunk driving for the second time in 11 years early this morning, less than a half block from his house.
Lungren, 54, of 505 E. 9th St., said he was on his way home from Matey’s Bar when he was pulled over in his Lincoln Town Car at 9th and Lafayette streets at 1:03 a.m. today.
He was arrested for drunk driving in 1994.
http://www.heraldargus.com/content/story.php?storyid=6290
Royal News Suspected Drunk Driver Rams Gates Of Holyrood House
May 31, 2005, 2:47:44
Royal News: A suspected drink driver sparked security fears yesterday (30.05.05) after ploughing his car into the gates of the Edinburgh home of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/55552004.htm
Event targets alcohol abuse
Sunday, June 12, 2005
By Ron Cammel
The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS - With a burning bundle of sage, Frankie Sprague made his rounds in the small crowd. Participants of the 10th annual Native American Sobriety Walk would wave the smoke toward their faces to cleanse their spirits of negativity.
Before the walk began at Sixth Street Park on Saturday, Sprague, a former alcoholic, said he was trying to "walk the red road," a way of recovery, health and sacred manner.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1118571513229730.xml
AA helps alcoholics find the strength to stay sober
Gabe Carpenter
06-12-2005
For 70 years now, the Alcoholics Anonymous program has served as a support system for recovering alcoholics.
AA is not a how-to program to recovery. It’s simply a place where people trying to stay sober can share their stories with others with the same goal.
"In AA, we don’t sober people up, but we teach them how to live sober," said John at the central AA office in Anniston.
http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2005/dh-localnews-0612-gcarpenter-5f11o5738.htm
SIUC police step up effort to crack down on drunk driving
SIUC police step up effort to crack down on drunk driving
CARBONDALE - The Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Public Safety is conducting another expanded traffic enforcement to crack down on drunken driving.
The concentrated enforcement period began today (June 20) and runs through Sunday, July 3.
The increased enforcement is the result of a $15,892 grant the University received for a third consecutive year from the Illinois Department of Transportation's Mini-Alcohol Enforcement Program. The grant allows SIUC to hire off-duty officers for traffic enforcement activity for a specific number of hours over a two-week period. The grant pays for 336 hours of additional patrol time during eight enforcement periods through Sept. 30, 2005.
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2005/06/20/afternoon_evening/doc42b73fcca0573202725124.txt
SDSU Recognized for Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent Alcohol Abuse, Drunk Driving
By Amanda Padilla
SDSU’s comprehensive strategy aimed at preventing alcohol abuse and drunk driving has been recognized by the American Automobile Association and the Center for College Health and Safety.
The Alcohol and Other Drug Initiatives (AOD) program will receive a $1,000 award later this year at the U.S. Department of Education’s 19th Annual National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education.
http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=31582
Cops, parents take steps to keep teens from driving drunk
By JENNIFER HUBERDEAU
BENNINGTON --A blonde, blue-eyed teen wearing a brown leather jacket leans against the hood of a car with a wrecked front end. The boy's name is Steve. The words below his picture tell a blunt but supposedly effective message: "This six-pack cost $6,000."
This "All-American" teen, dressed in a T-shirt, jeans and high-top sneakers warned teens about the adverse effects of alcohol and drinking for over a decade.
Today more effective measures are being taken across the country by Students Against Destructive Decisions and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. States are also taking a more proactive role in the campaign to eliminate underage drinking and driving.
In Vermont, a state with one of the lowest levels of alcohol-related fatalities for drivers age 15 to 20, harsh penalties are in store for anyone under the age of 21 who decides to consume alcohol and drive.
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8676~2929717,00.html
DARE" Officer Charged With Drunk Driving In Injury Crash
A Kentucky State Police dispatcher who also happens to be a "DARE" officer was arrested for driving drunk then crashing into a car Saturday night
Stephen Wheeler's been a KSP dispatcher for a 25 years, and spends his free time as a "DARE" officer in Adair County, teaching fifth graders the dangers of drugs and alcohol. "DARE" stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=3497730&nav=EQlpbF1Q
Navajo Takes MADD Message to Other Tribes
Monday June 20, 2005 8:31 AM
AP Photo NMBC802
By ANNA MACIAS AGUAYO
Associated Press Writer
CHINLE, Ariz. (AP) - Navajo Nation first lady Vikki Shirley speaks from experience when she shares the pain of losing a daughter killed by a drunken driver, and the audience is riveted. The 40-year-old matriarch of the nation's largest Indian tribe frequently tours villages on the sprawling reservation that spans portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, cautioning crowds about driving intoxicated and underage drinking.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5085842,00.html
Antisocial Disorders More Common Among Addicted
6/23/2005
A new government study concludes that people with alcohol and other drug addictions are more likely to have antisocial personality disorders, conduct disorders, and adult antisocial behavior disorders.
Previous studies have shown that nearly half of all addicted individuals have some sort of antisocial disorder; the latest research found an association between nearly all drugs of abuse and antisocial disorders, according to researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) who conducted an epidemiological survey of 43,000 adults.
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0%2C1854%2C577554%2C00.html
Police: Woman Killed By Beer Truck Legally Drunk
POSTED: 11:10 am CDT June 7, 2005
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Investigators said a North Texas woman killed in a bizarre accident in January was legally drunk at the time.
Mary Cay de Vlaming was crushed between two vehicles involved in an accident on University Drive in Fort Worth.
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/4579313/detail.html
Moxley Apologizes For Drunk Driving Arrest
Jun 7, 2005 8:15 am US/Eastern
Catonsville, MD. (AP) Baltimore County Councilman S.G. Samuel Moxley is apologizing for his drunken driving arrest after a crash Saturday morning on the Baltimore Beltway near Woodlawn.
In a statement yesterday, he said he accepts responsibility for his actions and says he's thankful no one was hurt.
http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_158081518.html
Drunk bikie awarded $950,000
By Michael Pelly Legal Reporter
June 8, 2005
Peter MacKenzie admits getting drunk, and letting his drunk mate ride his unregistered Harley-Davidson.
However, a court ruled yesterday that he was entitled to compensation of almost $1 million - because he didn't know what he was doing.
The Gilgandra man was left a quadriplegic when the motorcycle ran off the Newell Highway with him as a pillion passenger in December 2000. He sued the Nominal Defendant - a division of the Motor Accidents Authority which handles claims when a vehicle is unregistered - and they agreed his claim was worth $4.75 million.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Drunk-bikie-awarded-950000/2005/06/07/1118123841720.html
Drunk Gurgaon businessman held at airport for misbehaving
Express News Service
New Delhi, June 7: The IGI Airport police arrested a drunk businessman who misbehaved with police personnel and Malaysian Airlines staff on Monday night.
According to senior police officers, the accused, Vivek Sarin is a resident of Gurgaon and deals in auto parts.
Sarin returned to Delhi on a Malaysian Airlines flight and quarrelled with immigration staff and CISF personnel at the airport. The airport police took him to Safdarjung Hospital and he was arrested on Tuesday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=132972
Nolte admits to taking anti-aging therapy
Tuesday July 5 2005 00:00 IST
IANS
NEW YORK: Oscar-nominated actor Nick Nolte has in an interview candidly admitted to taking human growth hormone and testosterone as a form of anti-aging therapy.
In the interview Nolte said he injects the hormone into his stomach and the testosterone into his butt.
When told that medical research had linked increased testosterone levels to prostate cancer in men in their 60s he replied: "That's a farce, That's fake. I've talked to Italy, I've talked to Sweden, I've talked to Germany, almost all the European countries and some Asian countries as well. Do you know there are places in the world where there is no prostate cancer? Here they just want to rip 'em out as fast as possible."
While talking about alcoholism Nolte said, "Even elephants gets drunk", reports Pagesix.com.
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE420050704074048&Page=4&Title=Features+-+People+%26+Lifestyle&Topic=0
McGREGOR: 'I WAS A MISERABLE DRUNK'
Scottish screen star EWAN McGREGOR battled alcoholism during his rise to fame, and he quickly plunged into a drink-fuelled depression.
But the STAR WARS hunk still can't understand why none of the directors he worked with pulled him up on his spiralling problem, and as a result he looks back at his early career with deep embarrassment.
He tells PLAYBOY magazine, "I was just ashamed of myself, really.
"None of my directors ever said, 'You know, I'd rather you didn't drink at work.' None of them. And they must have known. I was reeking of (alcohol).
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/mcgregor%20i%20was%20a%20miserable%20drunk
The New Zealand Herald
Police look for belongings after body found on beach
06.07.05 11.00am
Police are looking for the clothes, cellphone and wallet of a man whose naked body was found on a North Shore beach in Auckland on Monday.
The man, who was found at Castor Bay, had been identified but the clothes he was last seen wearing had not been found, police said.
A spokesman said police were waiting for the results of the post mortem before they could say what caused the man's death but it was not thought to be suspicious.
He was thought to be in his 40s.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10334463
Police call off harbour search for body seen in net
07.07.05 6.30pm
The case of a woman's body spotted by fishermen in a net in Auckland's Manukau Harbour on Sunday could remain an unsolved mystery, police said today.
Police divers have failed to locate the body in the murky waters off Waikowhai Bay and Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Gutry said the search was being called off.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10334502
Rape verdicts may encourage other victims
L-R: Warren Graham Hales, Peter Mana McNamara, and two other men who have name suppression were yesterday found guilty of rape. Picture / Fotopress
06.07.05 11.45am
Victims of past rapes may be encouraged to come forward following the conviction yesterday of four men for the gang-rape of a 20-year-old woman at Mt Maunganui 16 years ago, a sexual abuse expert says.
Auckland Sexual Abuse Health Foundation spokeswoman Caroline Day said today other victims of historical sexual abuse may have memories brought up by the case that played out for two weeks at the High Court in Wellington.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10334464
Russia blocks plan to stop African states buying arms
06.07.05 1.00pm
By Andrew Grice
LONDON - Britain's proposal for a global arms trade treaty to stop African nations spending billions of dollars on weapons has been blocked by Russia.
Tony Blair is unlikely to even raise the issue at Gleneagles after Russia made clear it would block a firm commitment to such an international agreement being included in the summit declaration on Friday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334480
Africa prepares G8 message on aid, debt, trade
06.07.05
SIRTE, Libya - African leaders, admonished by Libya for "begging" from the West, met behind closed doors on Tuesday to agree a message to rich nations that is expected to call for more aid, freer trade and debt relief.
Heads of state of many of the African Union's (AU) 53 member governments were holding a private meeting in the Libyan town of Sirte on the second and final day of the pan-continental organisation's half-yearly gathering of leaders.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334433
ANOTHER POLITICAL MOVE. BUSH IS ABLE TO REINVENT HIS GRANDMOTHER. Don’t' sneeze the 'W'rong way you might be a terrorist.
US redefines terrorism, incidents skyrocket
06.07.05 1.45pm
WASHINGTON - The US government has dramatically raised its official 2004 estimate of international terror attacks to 3192 from about 650 after adopting a broader definition of terrorism.
The National Counterterrorism Centre, or NCTC, set up last December to integrate and analyse US intelligence on terrorism, said terror attacks left 6060 people dead, 16,091 wounded and 6282 taken hostage worldwide last year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334485
Three jailed in UK over Chohan family murders
06.07.05
LONDON - A drug dealer and two of his henchmen have been jailed for life for the "uniquely terrible" murder of an Indian-born millionaire businessman Amarjit Chohan and three generations of his family.
The victims included the mother of New Zealand man Onkar Verma, and also his sister - Amarjit Chohan's wife.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334423
Snubfin dolphin in a class of its own
An Australian snubfin dolphin - not a variety of Irrawaddy dolphin but a separate species, named for its stubby dorsal fin.
06.07.05
By Nick Squires
SYDNEY - A new species of dolphin has been found living in the warm tropical waters of northern Australia.
Scientists had always thought the dolphins were a local variation of the Irrawaddy dolphin, a species which ranges into Southeast Asia.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334405
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G.O.P. Asks Conservative Allies to Cool Rhetoric Over the Court
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and CARL HULSE
Published: July 6, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 5 - The White House and the Senate Republican leadership are pushing back against pressure from some of their conservative allies about the coming Supreme Court nomination, urging them to stop attacking Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales as a potential nominee and to tone down their talk of a culture war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/politicsspecial1/06scotus.html?ei=5094&en=a948e894edf57715&hp=&ex=1120708800&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1120658523-2VwuB3lAzPq4HNbI0SQ+9A
Florida's Zeal Against Castro Is Losing Heat
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 6, 2005
MIAMI, July 5 - Fidel Castro is not dead, but he has haunted Miami for nearly 50 years. This is a city where newscasters still scrutinize Mr. Castro's health and workers conduct emergency drills to prepare for the chaos expected upon his demise. Spy shops still flourish here, and a store on Calle Ocho does brisk business in reprints of the Havana phone book from 1959, the year he seized power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/national/06miami.html?hp&ex=1120708800&en=7bab7bdb68acca33&ei=5094&partner=homepage
From Filmmaker in Los Angeles to Iraq Detainee
By TIM GOLDEN
Published: July 6, 2005
LOS ANGELES, July 5 - Like a lot of aspiring filmmakers in Los Angeles, Cyrus Kar was obsessed with his project, a documentary about an ancient Persian king who championed tolerance and human rights even as he built an empire that stretched across the Near East.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/international/middleeast/06detain.html?hp&ex=1120708800&en=7a4cca591b3c6756&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Israelis in Gaza: Departure Is Certain, Details Are Not
David Silverman/Getty Images
At Ganim settlement on the West Bank, Anna Ashash, center rear, consoled the Harels, who moved out on Tuesday. From the left, Silvie; her husband, Yehonatan, and their daughter Maya. The departures next month from settlements in Gaza and the West Bank still carry many questions.
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: July 6, 2005
JERUSALEM, July 5 - After her trip here last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced to much fanfare on June 19 that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to demolish the 1,600 or so houses of Israel's settlements in Gaza, with the Palestinians to be paid to clear away the rubble.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/international/middleeast/06mideast.html?hp&ex=1120708800&en=74a7b84e552d2831&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Africa Tackles Graft, With Billions in Aid in Play
George Osodi/Associated Press
A scavenger at a dump in Lagos, with the Mobil offices in the background. Nigeria is seeking to reduce waste by use of competitive bidding.
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
Published: July 6, 2005
LAGOS, Nigeria - One of Dora Nkem Akunyili's lowest moments as a corruption fighter came about two years ago when her son told her not to visit his boarding school. Obumneme Akunyili, age 13, did not want anyone to know that she was his mother.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/international/africa/06lagos.html?
Prosecutor in Leak Case Calls for Reporters' Jailing
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: July 6, 2005
Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times should be jailed for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative, the special prosecutor in the case said in court papers filed yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/06leak.html
THIS AS THERE IS NO SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS forthcoming from the Bush/Cheney Justice Department, while journalists are jailed when DC already knows the source.
Democrats to Use Newspaper Ads to Accuse 6 Republican Congressmen on Ethics Issues
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: July 6, 2005
WASHINGTON, July 5 - House Democrats said Tuesday that they would run newspaper advertisements this week criticizing the ethics of six House Republicans, including Representative Randy Cunningham of California, who is under investigation by a grand jury looking into his ties with a military contractor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/politics/06cunningham.html
The Australian
London awarded Olympic Games
Agencies
July 06, 2005
LONDON erupted with joy tonight after it was named the host of the 2012 Olympic Games, beating arch rival Paris and three other cities in a nail-biting contest.
A crowd of four thousand people whooped and cheered as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), meeting in Singapore, broadcast its announcement on two giant television screens erected in Trafalgar Square.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15846845%255E601,00.html
Holidays at risk: ACTU
Brad Norington and Michael Bachelard
July 06, 2005
THE Howard Government has endorsed employees cashing out half of their annual leave each year, sparking claims it wants to reduce the holiday entitlements of workers to the US standard of just two weeks.
Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews said yesterday four weeks' leave would remain the "minimum statutory requirement" under the Coalition's planned overhaul of industrial relations laws.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15837524%255E601,00.html
China uncovers Japan's secret 'germ warfare site'
July 06, 2005
BEIJING: China claims to have found the site of a vast germ warfare camp used by Japan for human experiments in advance of a planned invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
The camp is said to be in northeastern China, close to the borders with Russia and Mongolia, in a region once occupied by imperial Japanese forces.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15834218%255E2703,00.html
Anglican poll winner to face major disputes
Andrew West
July 06, 2005
AUSTRALIA'S four million Anglicans will have a new leader this weekend, with archbishops Peter Jensen from Sydney, Phillip Aspinall from Brisbane and the new archbishop of Perth Roger Herft the likely contenders.
Whoever takes over the position from Peter Carnley will have to wrestle immediately with the church's enduring disputes over women bishops and, even more controversially, the ordination of practising homosexuals.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15837570%255E2702,00.html
Britain 'to withdraw Iraq forces'
July 06, 2005
LONDON: Britain's Defence Ministry has drafted plans for a significant troop withdrawal from Iraq over the next 18 months and a big deployment to Afghanistan, according to The Financial Times.
Without citing sources, the newspaper said the plans represented the biggest operational shake-up involving Britain's armed forces since the Iraq war.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15834882%255E2703,00.html
Kabul calls our troops
July 06, 2005
JOHN Howard meets George W. Bush in 10 days' time in the US and before he leaves Howard must decide whether Australia should make a new troop deployment to Afghanistan.
Public comments in recent days by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer signal he favours a renewed Afghanistan commitment. Expectations have been created that Australia will take a positive decision.
Political logic suggests that Howard would want to announce any such decision before he sees Bush, not afterwards, to limit the inevitable ill-informed criticism that he was mugged in the White House.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15835201%255E601,00.html
Alcoholism
Alcoholism and high prices alarm Russians most
MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - Out of all the events and processes underway in the country today, the growing level of alcoholism, high prices and the crisis in the housing and utilities complex are the greatest concerns for the Russians. This is the result of a poll conducted by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM).
According to the poll, two thirds of the Russian population fear the growing alcohol and drug addiction. Every second respondent takes to heart the growth of prices on commodities and services. Forty four percent are alarmed by the state of the housing and utilities system and the growth of tariffs.
http://en.rian.ru/society/20050531/40450519.html
Don’t drive drunk, ‘steering cop’ is smelling
May 30, 2005
A man, whose teenage son was brain-damaged after driving drunk has invented a device that will stop a car from starting if the driver is over the legal alcohol limit.
The $600 sensor can be installed in a steering wheel or in gloves and will test a driver’s skin to determine alcohol consumption.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1383499,008700010015.htm
Milwaukee girl killed by suspected drunk driver
MILWAUKEE - A suspected drunken driver struck and killed a 5-year-old girl as she waited for a bus with her aunt, police said.
Ameria Sandidge was killed at 4 p.m. Sunday about a block from her home, police said. The car drove into oncoming traffic, hit a pole and then struck the girl.
http://www.gazetteextra.com/drunkdrivingfatal053105.asp
Drunk Drivers Cause Tragedy for Those Who Follow the Rules Says Livonia, Michigan Attorney Terry Cochran
Livonia, MI 48154
May 31, 2005
Drunk Drivers Cause Tragedy for Those Who Follow the Rules "Innocent Victims Should Not Hesitate from Filing a Lawsuit" Says Livonia, Michigan Attorney Terry Cochran
Livonia, MI -- One of the greatest injustices created by drunk drivers is that innocent people are most often the victims. And usually the perpetrators are drivers age 18-25 who don't have the slightest intention of hurting anyone.
"The innocents get injured for life or killed when a drunk driver runs a red light, goes the wrong way on a freeway, or runs down a bicyclist on the shoulder of the roadway," says attorney Terry Cochran, senior partner of Cochran, Foley & Associates, PC, of Livonia, Michigan.
http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=9158
Drunk L.I. dad strangled by son - cops
BY NANCY DILLON and KATHLEEN LUCADAMO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
A Suffolk County teen choked his drunken dad to death at a family barbecue - the second Long Island child to strangle a parent over the holiday weekend, police said yesterday.
One minute, Efrain Rivera, 38, was prancing along North 25th St. in Wyandanch on Sunday night inviting everyone to his barbecue bash and fireworks launching, neighbors recalled.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/314632p-268998c.html
Drunk driver's wife fights to get car back
Karyn Maughan
May 31 2005 at 05:40PM
The wife of a serial drunk driver is fighting to get back the family car, confiscated after her husband was sentenced to six years in jail for his ninth drink-driving conviction.
Rita Lewis of George says the Cape High Court order seizing her Opel Kadett 140i punishes her "for the behaviour of my husband, over whom I do not have any control".
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050531144557814C383625
Veteran the victim of alleged drunk driver
FAIRFIELD - A 54-year-old veteran heading to a Memorial Day weekend event in Washington, D.C., was killed early Sunday morning in front of his Freedom Township home outside Fairfield by a driver who police say was drunk.
Joseph Dean Duman Jr. was leaving his home on his motorcycle at 6:45 a.m., Liberty Township police said.
As Duman waved to his wife, who was sitting on the front porch of their home at 1670 Bull Frog Road, he was hit head-on by a 2003 Nissan Sentra that had veered into his lane, police said.
http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2005/05/31/local_news/news03.txt
Repeat drunk driver arrested
Citizen Staff
The 30-year-old Beaver Dam woman who was cited for drunken driving after striking the brick pillar and gate in front of Stooges Tavern on April 16 was arrested a week later for operating a motor vehicle after revocation.
According to the criminal complaint, an officer spotted the vehicle Kellie Fox, 1122 N. Spring St., was traveling in because it had a loud muffler. After pulling over the van, he noticed Fox was the driver. Fox told the officer that she had no license.
Fox was cited for her first offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, operating a motor vehicle after revocation, failure to yield right away and a seat belt violation for her accident a week earlier.
http://www.wiscnews.com/bdc/news/index.php?ntid=41881&ntpid=4
Councilman arrested for drunk driving
By COLLEEN MAIR — Staff Writer
MICHIGAN CITY — Michigan City Council President Chuck Lungren was arrested for drunk driving for the second time in 11 years early this morning, less than a half block from his house.
Lungren, 54, of 505 E. 9th St., said he was on his way home from Matey’s Bar when he was pulled over in his Lincoln Town Car at 9th and Lafayette streets at 1:03 a.m. today.
He was arrested for drunk driving in 1994.
http://www.heraldargus.com/content/story.php?storyid=6290
Royal News Suspected Drunk Driver Rams Gates Of Holyrood House
May 31, 2005, 2:47:44
Royal News: A suspected drink driver sparked security fears yesterday (30.05.05) after ploughing his car into the gates of the Edinburgh home of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/55552004.htm
Event targets alcohol abuse
Sunday, June 12, 2005
By Ron Cammel
The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS - With a burning bundle of sage, Frankie Sprague made his rounds in the small crowd. Participants of the 10th annual Native American Sobriety Walk would wave the smoke toward their faces to cleanse their spirits of negativity.
Before the walk began at Sixth Street Park on Saturday, Sprague, a former alcoholic, said he was trying to "walk the red road," a way of recovery, health and sacred manner.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1118571513229730.xml
AA helps alcoholics find the strength to stay sober
Gabe Carpenter
06-12-2005
For 70 years now, the Alcoholics Anonymous program has served as a support system for recovering alcoholics.
AA is not a how-to program to recovery. It’s simply a place where people trying to stay sober can share their stories with others with the same goal.
"In AA, we don’t sober people up, but we teach them how to live sober," said John at the central AA office in Anniston.
http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2005/dh-localnews-0612-gcarpenter-5f11o5738.htm
SIUC police step up effort to crack down on drunk driving
SIUC police step up effort to crack down on drunk driving
CARBONDALE - The Southern Illinois University Carbondale Department of Public Safety is conducting another expanded traffic enforcement to crack down on drunken driving.
The concentrated enforcement period began today (June 20) and runs through Sunday, July 3.
The increased enforcement is the result of a $15,892 grant the University received for a third consecutive year from the Illinois Department of Transportation's Mini-Alcohol Enforcement Program. The grant allows SIUC to hire off-duty officers for traffic enforcement activity for a specific number of hours over a two-week period. The grant pays for 336 hours of additional patrol time during eight enforcement periods through Sept. 30, 2005.
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2005/06/20/afternoon_evening/doc42b73fcca0573202725124.txt
SDSU Recognized for Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent Alcohol Abuse, Drunk Driving
By Amanda Padilla
SDSU’s comprehensive strategy aimed at preventing alcohol abuse and drunk driving has been recognized by the American Automobile Association and the Center for College Health and Safety.
The Alcohol and Other Drug Initiatives (AOD) program will receive a $1,000 award later this year at the U.S. Department of Education’s 19th Annual National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education.
http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=31582
Cops, parents take steps to keep teens from driving drunk
By JENNIFER HUBERDEAU
BENNINGTON --A blonde, blue-eyed teen wearing a brown leather jacket leans against the hood of a car with a wrecked front end. The boy's name is Steve. The words below his picture tell a blunt but supposedly effective message: "This six-pack cost $6,000."
This "All-American" teen, dressed in a T-shirt, jeans and high-top sneakers warned teens about the adverse effects of alcohol and drinking for over a decade.
Today more effective measures are being taken across the country by Students Against Destructive Decisions and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. States are also taking a more proactive role in the campaign to eliminate underage drinking and driving.
In Vermont, a state with one of the lowest levels of alcohol-related fatalities for drivers age 15 to 20, harsh penalties are in store for anyone under the age of 21 who decides to consume alcohol and drive.
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8676~2929717,00.html
DARE" Officer Charged With Drunk Driving In Injury Crash
A Kentucky State Police dispatcher who also happens to be a "DARE" officer was arrested for driving drunk then crashing into a car Saturday night
Stephen Wheeler's been a KSP dispatcher for a 25 years, and spends his free time as a "DARE" officer in Adair County, teaching fifth graders the dangers of drugs and alcohol. "DARE" stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=3497730&nav=EQlpbF1Q
Navajo Takes MADD Message to Other Tribes
Monday June 20, 2005 8:31 AM
AP Photo NMBC802
By ANNA MACIAS AGUAYO
Associated Press Writer
CHINLE, Ariz. (AP) - Navajo Nation first lady Vikki Shirley speaks from experience when she shares the pain of losing a daughter killed by a drunken driver, and the audience is riveted. The 40-year-old matriarch of the nation's largest Indian tribe frequently tours villages on the sprawling reservation that spans portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, cautioning crowds about driving intoxicated and underage drinking.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5085842,00.html
Antisocial Disorders More Common Among Addicted
6/23/2005
A new government study concludes that people with alcohol and other drug addictions are more likely to have antisocial personality disorders, conduct disorders, and adult antisocial behavior disorders.
Previous studies have shown that nearly half of all addicted individuals have some sort of antisocial disorder; the latest research found an association between nearly all drugs of abuse and antisocial disorders, according to researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) who conducted an epidemiological survey of 43,000 adults.
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0%2C1854%2C577554%2C00.html
Police: Woman Killed By Beer Truck Legally Drunk
POSTED: 11:10 am CDT June 7, 2005
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Investigators said a North Texas woman killed in a bizarre accident in January was legally drunk at the time.
Mary Cay de Vlaming was crushed between two vehicles involved in an accident on University Drive in Fort Worth.
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/4579313/detail.html
Moxley Apologizes For Drunk Driving Arrest
Jun 7, 2005 8:15 am US/Eastern
Catonsville, MD. (AP) Baltimore County Councilman S.G. Samuel Moxley is apologizing for his drunken driving arrest after a crash Saturday morning on the Baltimore Beltway near Woodlawn.
In a statement yesterday, he said he accepts responsibility for his actions and says he's thankful no one was hurt.
http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_158081518.html
Drunk bikie awarded $950,000
By Michael Pelly Legal Reporter
June 8, 2005
Peter MacKenzie admits getting drunk, and letting his drunk mate ride his unregistered Harley-Davidson.
However, a court ruled yesterday that he was entitled to compensation of almost $1 million - because he didn't know what he was doing.
The Gilgandra man was left a quadriplegic when the motorcycle ran off the Newell Highway with him as a pillion passenger in December 2000. He sued the Nominal Defendant - a division of the Motor Accidents Authority which handles claims when a vehicle is unregistered - and they agreed his claim was worth $4.75 million.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Drunk-bikie-awarded-950000/2005/06/07/1118123841720.html
Drunk Gurgaon businessman held at airport for misbehaving
Express News Service
New Delhi, June 7: The IGI Airport police arrested a drunk businessman who misbehaved with police personnel and Malaysian Airlines staff on Monday night.
According to senior police officers, the accused, Vivek Sarin is a resident of Gurgaon and deals in auto parts.
Sarin returned to Delhi on a Malaysian Airlines flight and quarrelled with immigration staff and CISF personnel at the airport. The airport police took him to Safdarjung Hospital and he was arrested on Tuesday under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=132972
Nolte admits to taking anti-aging therapy
Tuesday July 5 2005 00:00 IST
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NEW YORK: Oscar-nominated actor Nick Nolte has in an interview candidly admitted to taking human growth hormone and testosterone as a form of anti-aging therapy.
In the interview Nolte said he injects the hormone into his stomach and the testosterone into his butt.
When told that medical research had linked increased testosterone levels to prostate cancer in men in their 60s he replied: "That's a farce, That's fake. I've talked to Italy, I've talked to Sweden, I've talked to Germany, almost all the European countries and some Asian countries as well. Do you know there are places in the world where there is no prostate cancer? Here they just want to rip 'em out as fast as possible."
While talking about alcoholism Nolte said, "Even elephants gets drunk", reports Pagesix.com.
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McGREGOR: 'I WAS A MISERABLE DRUNK'
Scottish screen star EWAN McGREGOR battled alcoholism during his rise to fame, and he quickly plunged into a drink-fuelled depression.
But the STAR WARS hunk still can't understand why none of the directors he worked with pulled him up on his spiralling problem, and as a result he looks back at his early career with deep embarrassment.
He tells PLAYBOY magazine, "I was just ashamed of myself, really.
"None of my directors ever said, 'You know, I'd rather you didn't drink at work.' None of them. And they must have known. I was reeking of (alcohol).
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The New Zealand Herald
Police look for belongings after body found on beach
06.07.05 11.00am
Police are looking for the clothes, cellphone and wallet of a man whose naked body was found on a North Shore beach in Auckland on Monday.
The man, who was found at Castor Bay, had been identified but the clothes he was last seen wearing had not been found, police said.
A spokesman said police were waiting for the results of the post mortem before they could say what caused the man's death but it was not thought to be suspicious.
He was thought to be in his 40s.
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Police call off harbour search for body seen in net
07.07.05 6.30pm
The case of a woman's body spotted by fishermen in a net in Auckland's Manukau Harbour on Sunday could remain an unsolved mystery, police said today.
Police divers have failed to locate the body in the murky waters off Waikowhai Bay and Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Gutry said the search was being called off.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10334502
Rape verdicts may encourage other victims
L-R: Warren Graham Hales, Peter Mana McNamara, and two other men who have name suppression were yesterday found guilty of rape. Picture / Fotopress
06.07.05 11.45am
Victims of past rapes may be encouraged to come forward following the conviction yesterday of four men for the gang-rape of a 20-year-old woman at Mt Maunganui 16 years ago, a sexual abuse expert says.
Auckland Sexual Abuse Health Foundation spokeswoman Caroline Day said today other victims of historical sexual abuse may have memories brought up by the case that played out for two weeks at the High Court in Wellington.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10334464
Russia blocks plan to stop African states buying arms
06.07.05 1.00pm
By Andrew Grice
LONDON - Britain's proposal for a global arms trade treaty to stop African nations spending billions of dollars on weapons has been blocked by Russia.
Tony Blair is unlikely to even raise the issue at Gleneagles after Russia made clear it would block a firm commitment to such an international agreement being included in the summit declaration on Friday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334480
Africa prepares G8 message on aid, debt, trade
06.07.05
SIRTE, Libya - African leaders, admonished by Libya for "begging" from the West, met behind closed doors on Tuesday to agree a message to rich nations that is expected to call for more aid, freer trade and debt relief.
Heads of state of many of the African Union's (AU) 53 member governments were holding a private meeting in the Libyan town of Sirte on the second and final day of the pan-continental organisation's half-yearly gathering of leaders.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334433
ANOTHER POLITICAL MOVE. BUSH IS ABLE TO REINVENT HIS GRANDMOTHER. Don’t' sneeze the 'W'rong way you might be a terrorist.
US redefines terrorism, incidents skyrocket
06.07.05 1.45pm
WASHINGTON - The US government has dramatically raised its official 2004 estimate of international terror attacks to 3192 from about 650 after adopting a broader definition of terrorism.
The National Counterterrorism Centre, or NCTC, set up last December to integrate and analyse US intelligence on terrorism, said terror attacks left 6060 people dead, 16,091 wounded and 6282 taken hostage worldwide last year.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334485
Three jailed in UK over Chohan family murders
06.07.05
LONDON - A drug dealer and two of his henchmen have been jailed for life for the "uniquely terrible" murder of an Indian-born millionaire businessman Amarjit Chohan and three generations of his family.
The victims included the mother of New Zealand man Onkar Verma, and also his sister - Amarjit Chohan's wife.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334423
Snubfin dolphin in a class of its own
An Australian snubfin dolphin - not a variety of Irrawaddy dolphin but a separate species, named for its stubby dorsal fin.
06.07.05
By Nick Squires
SYDNEY - A new species of dolphin has been found living in the warm tropical waters of northern Australia.
Scientists had always thought the dolphins were a local variation of the Irrawaddy dolphin, a species which ranges into Southeast Asia.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334405
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