The Rooster
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
August 30, 2005. The remarkable dedication of Cindy Sheehan is showing in her final days at Crawford. She has been supported by friends and people dedicated to peace, but, she is still burdoned with her grief for her son Casy and that as any parent who has lost a child knows is a void that cannot be filled. I am concerned that her dedication to 'the cause' that defines her love of her son has dehydrated her and she needs at least a check up after her time in Crawford.
Morning Papers - It's Origins
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History
1800 The 40,000 slave revolt planned by Gabriel Prosser to attack Richmond, Virginia is foiled by a thunderstorm and betrayed by participants. Prosser and his main conspirators are captured and hanged. His revolt was the inspiration for Arna Bontemps' novel "Black Thunder."
1901 Roy O. Wilkins, called "Mr. Civil Rights," who will become the executive director of the NAACP , is born in St. Louis, MO
1905, Ty Cobb made his major-league debut as a player for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a double in his first at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders.
1928 Indian nationalist Jawarhalal Nehru organizes the Independence of India League to challenge British rule in India.
1931 Carrie Saxon Perry, who will become the first Black woman mayor of a major city, is born in Hartford, CT.
1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan, and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
1983 Aboard the U.S. space shuttle Challenger, astronaut Guion Bluford becomes the first African American to go into space. He will re-enter space on two other space shuttle flights in 1985 and 1991.
1991 Long overshadowed by his rival Carl Lewis, American Mike Powell breaks Bob Beamon's 1968 world record in the long jump, leaping 8.95 m (29.36 ft) at the track and field World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
1991 Azerbaijan declared its independence, joining the stampede of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.
1993 After leaving NBC for CBS, comedian David Letterman debuts his new late-night talk show, the Late Show with David Letterman.
1997 Americans learned of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul.
2002 Alfred “Pepsi” Bethel, a longtime jazz dancer, teacher, and choreographer, dies at the age of 83 from heart failure. He founded the Pepsi Bethel Authentic Jazz Dance Theater and performed in nine African countries as U.S. Cultural Emissaries.
Missing in Action
1966 HOFF SAMMIE D. KENNEDY TX EJECTED RADIO CONTACT - REMAINS RETURNED EARLY 89
1966 ROBINSON KENNETH D. INDIANAPOLIS IN NO SUBS INTEL INFO / REMAINS RETURNED 12/88
1967 ALLARD MICHAEL JOHN SCHOFIELD WI
1970 PERALTA BENJAMIN R.
The Los Angeles Times
U.S. Poverty Rate Rises Despite Growth in 2004
By Joel Havemann and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON -- Although the economic expansion entered its fourth year, Americans' incomes remained stagnant last year, and the poverty rate rose, the Census Bureau reported today.
Median household income — half of all households earned more and half earned less — was $44,389 in 2004, a statistically insignificant $93 less than the 2003 median when adjusted for inflation. Household income has been falling consistently since reaching its all-time peak of $46,058 in 1999. Not since 1997 has it been lower than its 2004 level.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-083005census_lat,0,4962711.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews
Ancestry in a Drop of Blood
Tribes and would-be members are turning to DNA tests. But the hunt for genetic truth has some asking: What does it mean to be Indian?
By Karen Kaplan, Times Staff Writer
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Marilyn Vann can trace her Cherokee roots back more than 200 years through generations of Native Americans and the descendants of black slaves who lived among them.
She has mountains of paper — birth certificates, tribal enrollment cards, land deeds, affidavits, yellowing photographs — documenting her family's life within the tribe.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-indiandna30aug30,0,3546002.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews
Katrina's Impact, At a Glance
From Associated Press
Hurricane Katrina's effects, at a glance:
LOUISIANA:
--Breaches in at least one levee allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach.
--Dozens of people rescued from roofs and attics. Canal Street was literally a canal. Water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter.
--Unknown number of deaths.
--Highest wind in New Orleans estimated at about 100 mph.
--Some 370,000 customers estimated without power in southeast Louisiana; number expected to rise. New Orleans water unsafe to drink without boiling.
--Entire city of New Orleans, city of 485,000, ordered evacuated before storm struck. Mayor Ray Nagin estimated
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-0830305impact_wr,0,6624060.story?coll=la-home-headlines
LAPD Gave Misleading Crime Data
A change in reporting domestic violence led to stats that show a steep overall decline, but the actual drop is less. Police did issue disclaimers.
By Jill Leovy, Times Staff Writer
A change in the way Los Angeles police count domestic violence incidents has allowed the department to substantially exaggerate how much crime has dropped citywide this year.
LAPD officials say they have issued disclaimers about the shift in its statistics on domestic violence, which was made to bring the Los Angeles Police Department into accord with federal guidelines.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crime30aug30,0,2189107.story?coll=la-home-local
Superdome Refugees Get Some Fresh Air
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS -- Desperate for fresh air, dozens of refugees from Hurricane Katrina slept on the walkway surrounding the Louisiana Superdome as conditions inside worsened and even more people were brought to the huge arena Tuesday.
National Guardsmen let some of the 10,000 people sheltering inside the arena take their bedding out onto the concourse, where it was cooler and the breeze was welcome.
"Oh God, fresh air, it's so wonderful. It's the first time I've wanted to breathe all day," said Robin Smith, 33. "When you think what we could've gone through, it's not too bad in there. But it's certainly not as wonderful as this."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13aug30,0,5232856.story
Bolton's mischief
AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF of studies and negotiations, the United Nations recently came up with a draft proposal calling for extensive internal reforms and world action against injustice, poverty and environmental catastrophe. Last week, soon after being appointed U.N. ambassador by President Bush, John Bolton may have sabotaged the entire effort.
Now that's getting things done.
Bolton has introduced hundreds of amendments to the 62-page draft, which is supposed to be signed by the leaders of 175 nations during the U.N.'s 60th anniversary summit starting Sept. 14. Other nations, notably Russia, also have objections to the draft proposal and have submitted their own amendments, but they haven't caused the same turmoil.
Bolton's amendments have been received like a wasp's nest at a picnic. Throughout the drafting process, a fragile consensus had been built; now everything may end up back on the table, and time is extremely short. A core group of 32 nations is scrambling to finalize a document by Friday, to be submitted to member states on Tuesday. U.N. diplomats fear that the only way to reach consensus will be to water down the draft until it is all but meaningless.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-bolton30aug30,0,4265638.story?coll=la-home-oped
A storm of commentary
Michael Newman
HURRICANE KATRINA is cause for sorrow and determination among editorial writers this morning, but it is also a test of the bedrock principles that they have always used to comprehend the incomprehensible and explain the inexplicable.
For the Wall Street Journal, the storm proves, yet again, the stupidity of most of the media; TV journalists, it notes, "were the only persons nuts enough to be anywhere near these destructive torrents." According to the New York Times, the storm highlights the need for better government planning and more government spending; it advises the Senate "to restore some $70 million that the House, in a singular act of poor timing, slashed from the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for the New Orleans district." The Boston Globe finds its faith in both humanity (an orderly evacuation) and technology (accurate forecasts) reaffirmed: The survival of New Orleans shows "the marvels of a technologically advanced, affluent society." It is USA Today that seems most at a loss over what to say — so it says just about everything in an extraordinary 1,300-word editorial that pleads with New Orleans officials, residents and admirers to better prepare for the inevitable next storm.
Sometimes, of course, the best thing to say is nothing, the option chosen by the Washington Post (and this page) this morning. Closer to the eye of the storm, the truest observation, and most prophetic, may have come from Monday's New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Getting through today will take great strength," it said. "Picking up the pieces will take even more."
Michael Newman
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-elsewhere30aug30,0,1392685.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
Garfunkel Faces Another Pot Charge in NY
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate New York, was charged again Sunday after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in the ashtray of his car, state police said.
The 63-year-old Garfunkel, who lives in Manhattan, was charged after being pulled over for failing to stop his vehicle at a stop sign, The Daily Freeman of Kingston reported Tuesday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top17aug30,0,6805724.story
Michael Moore Today
www.michaelmoore.com
FAHRENHEIT 9/11
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2 h 3 m
SYNOPSIS:
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore ("Roger & Me," "Bowling for Columbine") crafted this incendiary piece of skillful agitprop, an exploration of the tragic chain of events before and after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. Pointing his finger at a global conspiracy of war, greed, and media manipulation, Moore leaves no political figure unscathed in his most passionate, outraged condemnation of a president and policies he considers illegitimate and incompetent.
Showtime
Today
11:00 PM
http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?seriesid=0&episodeid=123757
War protest prepares to take anti-war message on bus tour
By Angela K. Brown / Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas -- War protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch prepared Monday for a three-week bus tour to spread their anti-war message to residents and lawmakers in 25 states.
They said three buses -- for northern, central and southern routes -- will depart Wednesday from the makeshift camp started by Cindy Sheehan along the main road leading to Bush's ranch. She arrived Aug. 6, soon after his Texas vacation began, and vowed to stay until month's end unless he talked to her about the war that claimed her 24-year-old son Casey's life.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3915
Bring 'em Home Now Tour
From Camp Casey, Crawford to Washington DC
From George Bush’s door step to Communities along the way, We Demand That:
Elected Representatives Decide Now to Bring the Troops Home
We Take Care of Them When They Get Here
We Never Again Send Our Loved Ones to War Based on Lies
We are currently at a significant turning point in how the American public views the war in Iraq. As the death toll in Iraq rises, Cindy Sheehan’s vigil near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of Americans.
On August 31st, the last day of the encampment, the Bring Them Home Now Tour will launch three buses from Crawford, Texas, each carrying military and Gold Star families, veterans of the Iraq War and veterans of previous wars. These buses will travel different routes across the country, converging in Washington, DC on September 21, for the United for Peace and Justice Mobilization September 24th-26th.
http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 24)
-- by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
Goodbye to Crawford But Not to Camp Casey
While George golfed yesterday, the worst hurricane ever struck New Orleans; oil went up to over 68.00/barrel; and an American soldier was killed in the charade and cataclysmic occupation of Iraq. The soldier's family doesn't even know what's going to hit them yet. The death is "Pending Notification." I continually ask myself: "How do George Bush and other death-mongers live with themselves?" While George vacations and bikes and golfs his way to the lowest poll numbers since Richard Nixon, other "patriots" are wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes and going along with the farce that the mission from hell -- killing more people in Iraq, because so many have already been killed -- is somehow a good thing ordained by God. I can live with myself, but trust me, sleep does not come easily to me these days.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=482
Slight Majority Say Bush Should Meet With Sheehan
By Richard Morin / Washington Post
Slightly more than half of the country says President Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed last year in Iraq, who is leading a protest against the war outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey found that 52 percent of the public says Bush should talk to Sheehan, who has repeatedly asked for a meeting with the president, while 46 percent said he should not. Fifty-three percent support what she is doing while 42 percent oppose her actions, according to the poll.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3914
A beautiful moment...
By Scott Galindez / t r u t h o u t
Monday 29 August 2005
8:48 PM
A beautiful moment just happened at Camp Casey I. There was a candle light vigil honoring troops who have died in Iraq. The counter protesters came across the street and joined the vigilers at Camp Casey, They shared the flag and prayed together for the families on both sides who have lost loved ones in the war. They are now singing and holding candles together. This is a testament to the power of this movement...
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3911
Iraq war protestor says to shift focus to Congress
By Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 26 - Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose vigil near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch has become a symbol for the anti-war movement, said on Friday she plans to focus on Congress, starting with Bush close ally and fellow Texan House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Sheehan has been demanding a meeting with Bush to discuss the U.S. presence in Iraq, where her son was killed in 2004, and next Thursday plans to begin a bus tour from Bush's ranch to the White House to campaign for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3875
Bloomberg Parries Repeated Questions on the War in Iraq
By Jim Rutenberg / New York Times
Faced with a second day of questions about where he stood on the war in Iraq, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday he supported bringing the troops home as soon as possible but shied away from directly criticizing President Bush's prosecution of the war.
In general, he said, he had "mixed emotions" about the war.
The questions came a day after the mayor declined to address a reporter's question about what he thought of the antiwar vigil being kept outside the president's vacation home in Crawford, Tex., by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a slain soldier. "It's not a local issue and I don't have anything to say," he said on Sunday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3916
FBI Document Labels Michigan Affirmative Action and Peace Groups as Terrorists
American Civil Liberties Union
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially "involved in terrorist activities." The file was obtained through an ongoing nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI's use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to engage in political surveillance.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3908
Access to Abortion Pared at State Level
By Ceci Connolly / Washington Post
This year's state legislative season draws to a close having produced a near-record number of laws imposing new restrictions on a woman's access to abortion or contraception.
Since January, governors have signed several dozen antiabortion measures ranging from parental consent requirements to an outright ban looming in South Dakota. Not since 1999, when a wave of laws banning late-term abortions swept the legislatures, have states imposed so many and so varied a menu of regulations on reproductive health care.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3905
Mayor dodges Sheehan debate
Bloomberg says the anti-war protest is not a 'local issue,' but his opponents, soldier's kin feel differently
By Glenn Thrush / Newsday
Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants no part of the wrenching national debate over Cindy Sheehan's anti-war protest, arguing yesterday that the bereaved mother's peace campaign isn't a "local issue" in New York.
But Bloomberg's effort to duck controversy only seemed to accentuate the Republican mayor's pro-war stance in a Democratic city that, on balance, is decidedly opposed to the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3904
Iraq charter a 'recipe for chaos'
BBC
Parts of the Iraqi draft constitution are a "recipe for chaos", Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has said.
He told the BBC the Arab League shared Sunni Muslim concerns over federalism and the fact the charter does not identify Iraq as an Arab country.
The US and UK have played down Sunni leaders' rejection of the text, which will go to a referendum by 15 October.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3903
The Boston Globe
427 meth arrests in over 200 cities
By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
WASHINGTON --Police around the country have arrested more than 400 people in the first nationally coordinated operation aimed at producers and sellers of methamphetamine, officials said Tuesday.
Police in more than 200 cities and the Drug Enforcement Administration took part over the past week in Operation Wildfire, which also resulted in the seizure of more than 200 pounds of the drug and 56 labs where it was made.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/30/427_meth_arrests_in_over_200_cities/
Energy prices surge on pipeline snags
Gas prices at an Amoco gas station in New York climbed toward $3 per gallon today. The effects of Hurricane Katrina sent oil futures higher, as traders awaited damage reports from US oil and gas refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo)
By Brad Foss, AP Business Writer August 30, 2005
The shutdown of oil platforms, refineries and pipelines along the Gulf Coast drove energy prices to new highs Tuesday, all-but-guaranteeing a surge in pump prices in the days ahead. Oil prices briefly jumped above $70 a barrel.
The trading frenzy on futures markets reflected uncertainty and fear about the full extent of the damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on key energy infrastructure, as well as the constraints being felt where actual shipments of gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel are bought and sold.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/08/30/energy_prices_climb_on_refinery_snags/
One sweet job
When it comes to creating new Ben & Jerry's flavors, Arnold Carbone has the scoop
By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff August 30, 2005
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The flavor lab at Ben & Jerry's corporate headquarters looks much like any other good-size kitchen -- or any good-size kitchen with four floor-length freezers. Just 25 feet by 20 feet, it also has a refrigerator, a stove, a central island, lots of counter space -- nothing too fancy. The giveaway comes when an otherwise sane-looking man takes a large butcher knife and -- whack! whack! -- neatly quarters a pint of ice cream, container and all.
http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2005/08/30/one_sweet_job/
Katrina forces more flight cancellations
By Dave Carpenter, AP Business Writer August 30, 2005
CHICAGO --Hurricane Katrina forced scores of more flight cancellations involving New Orleans and other Southern cities Tuesday as airlines juggled their schedules around one of the worst storms on record.
Hurricane-related disruptions also continued to have an impact far more worrisome for U.S. carriers than added costs and lost revenue from the flight turmoil: oil prices that briefly spiked to record highs over $70.
"Overall the storm will hurt but it's certainly not the same as the impact of rising oil prices," said Philip Baggaley, airline analyst for Standard & Poor's Corp. Any further significant increase, he said, will have "a large effect."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/30/airlines_cancel_dozens_more_flights/
Ark. unveils statues honoring integration
By David Hammer, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. --Nearly half a century after they faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School, the Little Rock Nine stood together outside the Statehouse Tuesday and unveiled statues of themselves in that defiant walk.
Some cried as they pulled away the sheets draping their individual statues and saw themselves as they were in 1957.
Elizabeth Eckford looked at the bespectacled statue of herself leading the way into the school and smiled and joked about the more slender chin on the statue.
The location, too, is heavy with meaning. The nine statues stand just outside the governor's office, where in 1957 Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent black school children from attending previously all-white Central High following a 1954 Supreme Court ruling. When the nine entered, they were under the armed guard of federalized troops.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/30/ark_unveils_statues_honoring_integration/
Calif. drivers can keep medical marijuana
August 30, 2005
SACRAMENTO, Calif. --The California Highway Patrol has stopped confiscating all medical marijuana during traffic stops, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that left intact a state law allowing the drug to be used for medicinal purposes.
The policy change was a victory for medical marijuana advocates, namely the Oakland-based Americans for Safe Access, which sued the CHP and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this year to have the practice stopped.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/30/calif_drivers_can_keep_medical_marijuana/
Damage from Katrina stuns troops in Iraq
The roof of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans was shredded by strong winds of Hurricane Katrina as it battered the Crescent City on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
By Slobodan Lekic, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq --Ever since Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, National Guard troops from Gulf coast states serving in Iraq have followed the disaster unfolding on television sets, worried about families and friends back home.
"It's a significant emotional event. Their families are on the forefront of the disaster," said Lt. Col. Jordan Jones of the 141st Field Artillery of the Louisiana National Guard.
"They're all watching TV and some have seen their neighborhoods completely submerged in water."
Jones, from Luling on the west bank of Lake Pontchartrain, said he hasn't been in touch with his own family for three days because of clogged phone lines, but that his neighbors had helped board up their home.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/30/damage_from_katrina_stuns_troops_in_iraq/
Pakistan official orders rape claim probe
By Munir Ahmad, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan --The prime minister ordered an investigation Tuesday into a woman's claim that police kidnapped and raped her because she was trying to lobby lawmakers about alleged police corruption.
The 23-year-old mother of two came to national attention in April when she was briefly detained for mistakenly trespassing inside Parliament. She wandered through a security cordon seeking to contact lawmakers to help her husband, whom she alleges police framed in order to extort money.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/30/pakistan_official_orders_rape_claim_probe/
France boosts protection against bird flu
August 30, 2005
PARIS --France will increase its stocks of medicine, vaccinations and protective masks amid concerns about a potential outbreak of bird flu in Europe and a possible resulting human pandemic, the prime minister's office said Tuesday.
The government said it would modify contracts it holds with two companies for vaccinations against a possible human pandemic flu strain that could evolve from bird flu, "to ensure vaccinations for the whole population," according to a statement issued after a ministerial meeting.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/30/france_boosts_protection_against_bird_flu/
Reuters cameraman still detained after Iraq shooting
August 30, 2005
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Reuters cameraman remained in U.S. military custody in Baghdad on Tuesday, two days after surviving an incident in which his soundman was shot dead, apparently by U.S. troops.
U.S. officers said they were continuing to question Haider Kadhem, 24, about "inconsistencies" in his statements after he was taken from the car in which soundman Waleed Khaled was killed by multiple shots while on a news assignment.
Iraqi police said U.S. troops fired on the Reuters team, both Iraqis.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/30/reuters_cameraman_still_detained_after_iraq_shooting/
Walesa: I'm no longer needed in Poland
Poland's former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa prepares to toast during a meeting with some 200 young Poles born on Aug. 31, 1980, the day when the Solidarity freedom movement was born out of worker protests in the shipyards on the Baltic coast, including Gdansk. Walesa attended a special birthday party for the young people at the Gdansk shipyard, Poland, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 as part of Solidarity's 25th anniversary celebrations. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
GDANSK, Poland --Solidarity founder Lech Walesa takes credit for setting "everything on the right course" for communist Poland's transition to a democratic market economy.
But the former shipyard electrician, whose charisma and courage helped topple an empire, said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview that he's no longer needed at home: A quarter-century later, he spends much of his time lecturing abroad, where he's still a hero.
Walesa, whose bumpy one-term presidency ended with his popularity diminished, spoke as world leaders gathered to fete him and Solidarity on the movement's 25th anniversary, bringing him back into the spotlight for the first time in years.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/30/walesa_im_no_longer_needed_in_poland/
continued …
"Okeydoke"
History
1800 The 40,000 slave revolt planned by Gabriel Prosser to attack Richmond, Virginia is foiled by a thunderstorm and betrayed by participants. Prosser and his main conspirators are captured and hanged. His revolt was the inspiration for Arna Bontemps' novel "Black Thunder."
1901 Roy O. Wilkins, called "Mr. Civil Rights," who will become the executive director of the NAACP , is born in St. Louis, MO
1905, Ty Cobb made his major-league debut as a player for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a double in his first at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders.
1928 Indian nationalist Jawarhalal Nehru organizes the Independence of India League to challenge British rule in India.
1931 Carrie Saxon Perry, who will become the first Black woman mayor of a major city, is born in Hartford, CT.
1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan, and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the Supreme Court.
1983 Aboard the U.S. space shuttle Challenger, astronaut Guion Bluford becomes the first African American to go into space. He will re-enter space on two other space shuttle flights in 1985 and 1991.
1991 Long overshadowed by his rival Carl Lewis, American Mike Powell breaks Bob Beamon's 1968 world record in the long jump, leaping 8.95 m (29.36 ft) at the track and field World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
1991 Azerbaijan declared its independence, joining the stampede of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.
1993 After leaving NBC for CBS, comedian David Letterman debuts his new late-night talk show, the Late Show with David Letterman.
1997 Americans learned of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul.
2002 Alfred “Pepsi” Bethel, a longtime jazz dancer, teacher, and choreographer, dies at the age of 83 from heart failure. He founded the Pepsi Bethel Authentic Jazz Dance Theater and performed in nine African countries as U.S. Cultural Emissaries.
Missing in Action
1966 HOFF SAMMIE D. KENNEDY TX EJECTED RADIO CONTACT - REMAINS RETURNED EARLY 89
1966 ROBINSON KENNETH D. INDIANAPOLIS IN NO SUBS INTEL INFO / REMAINS RETURNED 12/88
1967 ALLARD MICHAEL JOHN SCHOFIELD WI
1970 PERALTA BENJAMIN R.
The Los Angeles Times
U.S. Poverty Rate Rises Despite Growth in 2004
By Joel Havemann and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON -- Although the economic expansion entered its fourth year, Americans' incomes remained stagnant last year, and the poverty rate rose, the Census Bureau reported today.
Median household income — half of all households earned more and half earned less — was $44,389 in 2004, a statistically insignificant $93 less than the 2003 median when adjusted for inflation. Household income has been falling consistently since reaching its all-time peak of $46,058 in 1999. Not since 1997 has it been lower than its 2004 level.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-083005census_lat,0,4962711.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews
Ancestry in a Drop of Blood
Tribes and would-be members are turning to DNA tests. But the hunt for genetic truth has some asking: What does it mean to be Indian?
By Karen Kaplan, Times Staff Writer
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Marilyn Vann can trace her Cherokee roots back more than 200 years through generations of Native Americans and the descendants of black slaves who lived among them.
She has mountains of paper — birth certificates, tribal enrollment cards, land deeds, affidavits, yellowing photographs — documenting her family's life within the tribe.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-indiandna30aug30,0,3546002.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews
Katrina's Impact, At a Glance
From Associated Press
Hurricane Katrina's effects, at a glance:
LOUISIANA:
--Breaches in at least one levee allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach.
--Dozens of people rescued from roofs and attics. Canal Street was literally a canal. Water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter.
--Unknown number of deaths.
--Highest wind in New Orleans estimated at about 100 mph.
--Some 370,000 customers estimated without power in southeast Louisiana; number expected to rise. New Orleans water unsafe to drink without boiling.
--Entire city of New Orleans, city of 485,000, ordered evacuated before storm struck. Mayor Ray Nagin estimated
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-0830305impact_wr,0,6624060.story?coll=la-home-headlines
LAPD Gave Misleading Crime Data
A change in reporting domestic violence led to stats that show a steep overall decline, but the actual drop is less. Police did issue disclaimers.
By Jill Leovy, Times Staff Writer
A change in the way Los Angeles police count domestic violence incidents has allowed the department to substantially exaggerate how much crime has dropped citywide this year.
LAPD officials say they have issued disclaimers about the shift in its statistics on domestic violence, which was made to bring the Los Angeles Police Department into accord with federal guidelines.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crime30aug30,0,2189107.story?coll=la-home-local
Superdome Refugees Get Some Fresh Air
By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS -- Desperate for fresh air, dozens of refugees from Hurricane Katrina slept on the walkway surrounding the Louisiana Superdome as conditions inside worsened and even more people were brought to the huge arena Tuesday.
National Guardsmen let some of the 10,000 people sheltering inside the arena take their bedding out onto the concourse, where it was cooler and the breeze was welcome.
"Oh God, fresh air, it's so wonderful. It's the first time I've wanted to breathe all day," said Robin Smith, 33. "When you think what we could've gone through, it's not too bad in there. But it's certainly not as wonderful as this."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13aug30,0,5232856.story
Bolton's mischief
AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF of studies and negotiations, the United Nations recently came up with a draft proposal calling for extensive internal reforms and world action against injustice, poverty and environmental catastrophe. Last week, soon after being appointed U.N. ambassador by President Bush, John Bolton may have sabotaged the entire effort.
Now that's getting things done.
Bolton has introduced hundreds of amendments to the 62-page draft, which is supposed to be signed by the leaders of 175 nations during the U.N.'s 60th anniversary summit starting Sept. 14. Other nations, notably Russia, also have objections to the draft proposal and have submitted their own amendments, but they haven't caused the same turmoil.
Bolton's amendments have been received like a wasp's nest at a picnic. Throughout the drafting process, a fragile consensus had been built; now everything may end up back on the table, and time is extremely short. A core group of 32 nations is scrambling to finalize a document by Friday, to be submitted to member states on Tuesday. U.N. diplomats fear that the only way to reach consensus will be to water down the draft until it is all but meaningless.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-bolton30aug30,0,4265638.story?coll=la-home-oped
A storm of commentary
Michael Newman
HURRICANE KATRINA is cause for sorrow and determination among editorial writers this morning, but it is also a test of the bedrock principles that they have always used to comprehend the incomprehensible and explain the inexplicable.
For the Wall Street Journal, the storm proves, yet again, the stupidity of most of the media; TV journalists, it notes, "were the only persons nuts enough to be anywhere near these destructive torrents." According to the New York Times, the storm highlights the need for better government planning and more government spending; it advises the Senate "to restore some $70 million that the House, in a singular act of poor timing, slashed from the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for the New Orleans district." The Boston Globe finds its faith in both humanity (an orderly evacuation) and technology (accurate forecasts) reaffirmed: The survival of New Orleans shows "the marvels of a technologically advanced, affluent society." It is USA Today that seems most at a loss over what to say — so it says just about everything in an extraordinary 1,300-word editorial that pleads with New Orleans officials, residents and admirers to better prepare for the inevitable next storm.
Sometimes, of course, the best thing to say is nothing, the option chosen by the Washington Post (and this page) this morning. Closer to the eye of the storm, the truest observation, and most prophetic, may have come from Monday's New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Getting through today will take great strength," it said. "Picking up the pieces will take even more."
Michael Newman
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-elsewhere30aug30,0,1392685.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
Garfunkel Faces Another Pot Charge in NY
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to pot possession in upstate New York, was charged again Sunday after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in the ashtray of his car, state police said.
The 63-year-old Garfunkel, who lives in Manhattan, was charged after being pulled over for failing to stop his vehicle at a stop sign, The Daily Freeman of Kingston reported Tuesday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top17aug30,0,6805724.story
Michael Moore Today
www.michaelmoore.com
FAHRENHEIT 9/11
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2 h 3 m
SYNOPSIS:
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore ("Roger & Me," "Bowling for Columbine") crafted this incendiary piece of skillful agitprop, an exploration of the tragic chain of events before and after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center of September 11, 2001. Pointing his finger at a global conspiracy of war, greed, and media manipulation, Moore leaves no political figure unscathed in his most passionate, outraged condemnation of a president and policies he considers illegitimate and incompetent.
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Today
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http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?seriesid=0&episodeid=123757
War protest prepares to take anti-war message on bus tour
By Angela K. Brown / Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas -- War protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch prepared Monday for a three-week bus tour to spread their anti-war message to residents and lawmakers in 25 states.
They said three buses -- for northern, central and southern routes -- will depart Wednesday from the makeshift camp started by Cindy Sheehan along the main road leading to Bush's ranch. She arrived Aug. 6, soon after his Texas vacation began, and vowed to stay until month's end unless he talked to her about the war that claimed her 24-year-old son Casey's life.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3915
Bring 'em Home Now Tour
From Camp Casey, Crawford to Washington DC
From George Bush’s door step to Communities along the way, We Demand That:
Elected Representatives Decide Now to Bring the Troops Home
We Take Care of Them When They Get Here
We Never Again Send Our Loved Ones to War Based on Lies
We are currently at a significant turning point in how the American public views the war in Iraq. As the death toll in Iraq rises, Cindy Sheehan’s vigil near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of Americans.
On August 31st, the last day of the encampment, the Bring Them Home Now Tour will launch three buses from Crawford, Texas, each carrying military and Gold Star families, veterans of the Iraq War and veterans of previous wars. These buses will travel different routes across the country, converging in Washington, DC on September 21, for the United for Peace and Justice Mobilization September 24th-26th.
http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 24)
-- by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
Goodbye to Crawford But Not to Camp Casey
While George golfed yesterday, the worst hurricane ever struck New Orleans; oil went up to over 68.00/barrel; and an American soldier was killed in the charade and cataclysmic occupation of Iraq. The soldier's family doesn't even know what's going to hit them yet. The death is "Pending Notification." I continually ask myself: "How do George Bush and other death-mongers live with themselves?" While George vacations and bikes and golfs his way to the lowest poll numbers since Richard Nixon, other "patriots" are wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes and going along with the farce that the mission from hell -- killing more people in Iraq, because so many have already been killed -- is somehow a good thing ordained by God. I can live with myself, but trust me, sleep does not come easily to me these days.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=482
Slight Majority Say Bush Should Meet With Sheehan
By Richard Morin / Washington Post
Slightly more than half of the country says President Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed last year in Iraq, who is leading a protest against the war outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey found that 52 percent of the public says Bush should talk to Sheehan, who has repeatedly asked for a meeting with the president, while 46 percent said he should not. Fifty-three percent support what she is doing while 42 percent oppose her actions, according to the poll.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3914
A beautiful moment...
By Scott Galindez / t r u t h o u t
Monday 29 August 2005
8:48 PM
A beautiful moment just happened at Camp Casey I. There was a candle light vigil honoring troops who have died in Iraq. The counter protesters came across the street and joined the vigilers at Camp Casey, They shared the flag and prayed together for the families on both sides who have lost loved ones in the war. They are now singing and holding candles together. This is a testament to the power of this movement...
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3911
Iraq war protestor says to shift focus to Congress
By Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 26 - Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose vigil near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch has become a symbol for the anti-war movement, said on Friday she plans to focus on Congress, starting with Bush close ally and fellow Texan House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Sheehan has been demanding a meeting with Bush to discuss the U.S. presence in Iraq, where her son was killed in 2004, and next Thursday plans to begin a bus tour from Bush's ranch to the White House to campaign for withdrawal of U.S. troops.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3875
Bloomberg Parries Repeated Questions on the War in Iraq
By Jim Rutenberg / New York Times
Faced with a second day of questions about where he stood on the war in Iraq, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday he supported bringing the troops home as soon as possible but shied away from directly criticizing President Bush's prosecution of the war.
In general, he said, he had "mixed emotions" about the war.
The questions came a day after the mayor declined to address a reporter's question about what he thought of the antiwar vigil being kept outside the president's vacation home in Crawford, Tex., by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a slain soldier. "It's not a local issue and I don't have anything to say," he said on Sunday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3916
FBI Document Labels Michigan Affirmative Action and Peace Groups as Terrorists
American Civil Liberties Union
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially "involved in terrorist activities." The file was obtained through an ongoing nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI's use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to engage in political surveillance.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3908
Access to Abortion Pared at State Level
By Ceci Connolly / Washington Post
This year's state legislative season draws to a close having produced a near-record number of laws imposing new restrictions on a woman's access to abortion or contraception.
Since January, governors have signed several dozen antiabortion measures ranging from parental consent requirements to an outright ban looming in South Dakota. Not since 1999, when a wave of laws banning late-term abortions swept the legislatures, have states imposed so many and so varied a menu of regulations on reproductive health care.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3905
Mayor dodges Sheehan debate
Bloomberg says the anti-war protest is not a 'local issue,' but his opponents, soldier's kin feel differently
By Glenn Thrush / Newsday
Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants no part of the wrenching national debate over Cindy Sheehan's anti-war protest, arguing yesterday that the bereaved mother's peace campaign isn't a "local issue" in New York.
But Bloomberg's effort to duck controversy only seemed to accentuate the Republican mayor's pro-war stance in a Democratic city that, on balance, is decidedly opposed to the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3904
Iraq charter a 'recipe for chaos'
BBC
Parts of the Iraqi draft constitution are a "recipe for chaos", Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has said.
He told the BBC the Arab League shared Sunni Muslim concerns over federalism and the fact the charter does not identify Iraq as an Arab country.
The US and UK have played down Sunni leaders' rejection of the text, which will go to a referendum by 15 October.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3903
The Boston Globe
427 meth arrests in over 200 cities
By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
WASHINGTON --Police around the country have arrested more than 400 people in the first nationally coordinated operation aimed at producers and sellers of methamphetamine, officials said Tuesday.
Police in more than 200 cities and the Drug Enforcement Administration took part over the past week in Operation Wildfire, which also resulted in the seizure of more than 200 pounds of the drug and 56 labs where it was made.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/30/427_meth_arrests_in_over_200_cities/
Energy prices surge on pipeline snags
Gas prices at an Amoco gas station in New York climbed toward $3 per gallon today. The effects of Hurricane Katrina sent oil futures higher, as traders awaited damage reports from US oil and gas refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo)
By Brad Foss, AP Business Writer August 30, 2005
The shutdown of oil platforms, refineries and pipelines along the Gulf Coast drove energy prices to new highs Tuesday, all-but-guaranteeing a surge in pump prices in the days ahead. Oil prices briefly jumped above $70 a barrel.
The trading frenzy on futures markets reflected uncertainty and fear about the full extent of the damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on key energy infrastructure, as well as the constraints being felt where actual shipments of gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel are bought and sold.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/08/30/energy_prices_climb_on_refinery_snags/
One sweet job
When it comes to creating new Ben & Jerry's flavors, Arnold Carbone has the scoop
By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff August 30, 2005
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The flavor lab at Ben & Jerry's corporate headquarters looks much like any other good-size kitchen -- or any good-size kitchen with four floor-length freezers. Just 25 feet by 20 feet, it also has a refrigerator, a stove, a central island, lots of counter space -- nothing too fancy. The giveaway comes when an otherwise sane-looking man takes a large butcher knife and -- whack! whack! -- neatly quarters a pint of ice cream, container and all.
http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2005/08/30/one_sweet_job/
Katrina forces more flight cancellations
By Dave Carpenter, AP Business Writer August 30, 2005
CHICAGO --Hurricane Katrina forced scores of more flight cancellations involving New Orleans and other Southern cities Tuesday as airlines juggled their schedules around one of the worst storms on record.
Hurricane-related disruptions also continued to have an impact far more worrisome for U.S. carriers than added costs and lost revenue from the flight turmoil: oil prices that briefly spiked to record highs over $70.
"Overall the storm will hurt but it's certainly not the same as the impact of rising oil prices," said Philip Baggaley, airline analyst for Standard & Poor's Corp. Any further significant increase, he said, will have "a large effect."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/30/airlines_cancel_dozens_more_flights/
Ark. unveils statues honoring integration
By David Hammer, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. --Nearly half a century after they faced down a mob to integrate Little Rock Central High School, the Little Rock Nine stood together outside the Statehouse Tuesday and unveiled statues of themselves in that defiant walk.
Some cried as they pulled away the sheets draping their individual statues and saw themselves as they were in 1957.
Elizabeth Eckford looked at the bespectacled statue of herself leading the way into the school and smiled and joked about the more slender chin on the statue.
The location, too, is heavy with meaning. The nine statues stand just outside the governor's office, where in 1957 Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent black school children from attending previously all-white Central High following a 1954 Supreme Court ruling. When the nine entered, they were under the armed guard of federalized troops.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/30/ark_unveils_statues_honoring_integration/
Calif. drivers can keep medical marijuana
August 30, 2005
SACRAMENTO, Calif. --The California Highway Patrol has stopped confiscating all medical marijuana during traffic stops, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that left intact a state law allowing the drug to be used for medicinal purposes.
The policy change was a victory for medical marijuana advocates, namely the Oakland-based Americans for Safe Access, which sued the CHP and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this year to have the practice stopped.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/30/calif_drivers_can_keep_medical_marijuana/
Damage from Katrina stuns troops in Iraq
The roof of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans was shredded by strong winds of Hurricane Katrina as it battered the Crescent City on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
By Slobodan Lekic, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq --Ever since Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, National Guard troops from Gulf coast states serving in Iraq have followed the disaster unfolding on television sets, worried about families and friends back home.
"It's a significant emotional event. Their families are on the forefront of the disaster," said Lt. Col. Jordan Jones of the 141st Field Artillery of the Louisiana National Guard.
"They're all watching TV and some have seen their neighborhoods completely submerged in water."
Jones, from Luling on the west bank of Lake Pontchartrain, said he hasn't been in touch with his own family for three days because of clogged phone lines, but that his neighbors had helped board up their home.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/30/damage_from_katrina_stuns_troops_in_iraq/
Pakistan official orders rape claim probe
By Munir Ahmad, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan --The prime minister ordered an investigation Tuesday into a woman's claim that police kidnapped and raped her because she was trying to lobby lawmakers about alleged police corruption.
The 23-year-old mother of two came to national attention in April when she was briefly detained for mistakenly trespassing inside Parliament. She wandered through a security cordon seeking to contact lawmakers to help her husband, whom she alleges police framed in order to extort money.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/30/pakistan_official_orders_rape_claim_probe/
France boosts protection against bird flu
August 30, 2005
PARIS --France will increase its stocks of medicine, vaccinations and protective masks amid concerns about a potential outbreak of bird flu in Europe and a possible resulting human pandemic, the prime minister's office said Tuesday.
The government said it would modify contracts it holds with two companies for vaccinations against a possible human pandemic flu strain that could evolve from bird flu, "to ensure vaccinations for the whole population," according to a statement issued after a ministerial meeting.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/30/france_boosts_protection_against_bird_flu/
Reuters cameraman still detained after Iraq shooting
August 30, 2005
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Reuters cameraman remained in U.S. military custody in Baghdad on Tuesday, two days after surviving an incident in which his soundman was shot dead, apparently by U.S. troops.
U.S. officers said they were continuing to question Haider Kadhem, 24, about "inconsistencies" in his statements after he was taken from the car in which soundman Waleed Khaled was killed by multiple shots while on a news assignment.
Iraqi police said U.S. troops fired on the Reuters team, both Iraqis.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/30/reuters_cameraman_still_detained_after_iraq_shooting/
Walesa: I'm no longer needed in Poland
Poland's former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa prepares to toast during a meeting with some 200 young Poles born on Aug. 31, 1980, the day when the Solidarity freedom movement was born out of worker protests in the shipyards on the Baltic coast, including Gdansk. Walesa attended a special birthday party for the young people at the Gdansk shipyard, Poland, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 as part of Solidarity's 25th anniversary celebrations. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press Writer August 30, 2005
GDANSK, Poland --Solidarity founder Lech Walesa takes credit for setting "everything on the right course" for communist Poland's transition to a democratic market economy.
But the former shipyard electrician, whose charisma and courage helped topple an empire, said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview that he's no longer needed at home: A quarter-century later, he spends much of his time lecturing abroad, where he's still a hero.
Walesa, whose bumpy one-term presidency ended with his popularity diminished, spoke as world leaders gathered to fete him and Solidarity on the movement's 25th anniversary, bringing him back into the spotlight for the first time in years.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/30/walesa_im_no_longer_needed_in_poland/
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August 30, 2005. Caption :: Palestinian members of the Fateh movement participate in a training course Monday at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Hundreds of members of Fateh took part in the training for what they said would be the foundation of a popular army to help keep law and order after Israel's withdrawal ( Reuters photo by Suhaib Salem)
Morning Papers - continued...
The Jerusalem Post
Sharon: Netanyahu unfit to lead nation
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon didn't hold back in his criticism of Binyamin Netanyahu during an interview on Channel 10 Monday evening, calling him "a man who deals poorly with pressure and panics."
Sharon, who was interviewed by Channel 10's Mordechai Kirshenbaum and Yaron London, said, "Israel is a special country. Our problems are more complex than those of other countries. In order to run this country, you have to have good judgment and nerves of steel."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281964383
State: Shfaram attack not terrorism
By SHANI ROSENFELDER AND AP
Eden Natan Zada, the IDF deserter who murdered four Israeli Arabs in a shooting rampage on a Shfaram bus earlier this month, has been branded a Jewish terrorist, but the people who died cannot be recognized as terrorist victims, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
Under the current law in Israel, an assailant must be a member of the "enemy forces" against Israel for the action to be considered terrorism, said Mayan Malkin, a spokeswoman with the Defense Ministry.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125368482180
Israel NZ envoy presents credentials
By HERB KEINON AND AP
Israel and New Zealand have ended a row sparked by two Israeli agents trying to obtain a New Zealand passport which saw diplomatic links suspended for nearly a year, Israel's new ambassador said Tuesday.
"The incident is a closed chapter" for both nations, Ambassador Naftali Tamir told The Associated Press, shortly after presenting his credentials at Government House in the capital, Wellington.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that while Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's letter of apology in June to his New Zealand counterpart Phil Goff put the crisis between the two countries in the past, the presentation of credentials marked the "formal, symbolic act" cementing a return to normal ties. "We are now returning to a healthy and mutually beneficial relationship," he said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281965123
Israel braces for PA blitz at UN
By HERB KEINON
Despite Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, the Palestinians will not ease pressure on Israel at international forums and will try and bring discussion of the security fence back to the United Nations General Assembly this fall, according to diplomatic assessments in Jerusalem.
Israel has been in constant contact with European countries to try and keep this initiative from gaining traction, local officials say.
Palestinian officials have made no secret of their interest in now moving the focus of their diplomatic activity to international bodies like the UN in an attempt to get Israel to complete the withdrawal from Gaza, including control over the border crossings, and to commit to additional steps.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281965302
Six days in August
By DAOUD KUTTAB
In the mid-1980s Israeli settlement foe Meron Benvenisti of the West Bank Data Project came up with the idea that, at some stage, Jewish settlement in the Palestinian West Bank would be irreversible.
But this concept – which was well-intended and does have merit – has been dealt a blow by the Israeli government and army.
Within six days, as long it took the IDF to occupy the rest of Palestine, Israeli soldiers emptied all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip as well as four northern West Bank colonies. The fact that the number of days it took to evacuate the illegal settlers is equal to those it took to occupy Sinai, the Golan Heights and the rest of Palestine goes to show that occupation is not irreversible.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281964963
Haaretz
Netanyahu announces run for the premiership
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent
In a direct challenge to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, MK Benjamin Netanyahu declared his candidacy Tuesday for chairmanship of the Likud and as the party's candidate for the premiership.
Netanyahu painted Sharon as a prime minister who had veered sharply to the political left, abandoning his own party in the process.
"The Likud today needs a leader who can unify the ranks, rehabilitate the ruins, and lead the Likud to victory, and who will then lead the state in the spirit of our principles, and believe that I can do that," Netanyahu told a news conference in Tel Aviv.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618686.html
Arab-Israeli unemployment soars during second half of 2005
By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent
Unemployment among Israeli-Arabs soared by more than 10 percent during the second half of 2005, a government agency revealed in a report published on Tuesday.
The increase in unemployment among Israeli-Arabs, which stood at 11.3 percent in 2005, up by a whole percent since last year, came despite the reduction in unemployment in the Jewish sector.
Some 55.3 percent of the Israeli workforce is employed, the report stated.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618981.html
Lebanon PM: Top pro-Syrians are suspects in Hariri killing
By Reuters
The commander of the Presidential Guards, three former security chiefs and a former legislator are prime suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Tuesday.
The prime minister confirmed that the three former security chiefs had been detained earlier Tuesday for questioning by UN investigators and that the Guards commander had been summoned to appear before the U.N. team.
Saniora spoke hours after police detained at their homes: Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, the former chief of General Security; Maj. Gen. Ali Hajj, the former director general of the Internal Security Forces; and Brig. Gen. Raymond Azar, the former director general of military intelligence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618938.html
Police: Right-wing extremists pose threat to elected officials
By Gideon Alon
The police's senior intelligence officer, Major General Dudi Cohen, warned Tuesday that right-wing extremists might try to hurt public officials.
Cohen spoke before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee during a debate on the question of whether pardons should be given to anti-disengagement protesters in custody.
"The nation of Israel has passed through a terrible time and we must look forward and grant a general pardon," said Eli Yishi (Shas), one of the lead supporters of the proposal. "It is only proper to take a step toward reconciliation, otherwise we may drive the social divide even deeper."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/619046.html
Police arrest man suspected of China diamond heist
By Roni Singer
A Ramle court extended on Tuesday the remand of a 32-year-old man from Netanya who allegedly stole 1.7 million dollars worth of diamonds from the company he works for in China.
The suspect, Pini Chen, was extradited to Israel after being arrested in Panama last week.
Chen managed the "Polencic" diamond company's branch in the city of Shenzhen in China.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/619005.html
Pakistani leader could be censured for speaking at Jewish conference
By The Associated Press
The head of a leading Jewish organization hailed Pakistan's leader for accepting the group's invitation to speak at its conference in New York next month, but said in an interview aired Tuesday that President General Pervez Musharraf was likely to be criticized at home for the move.
Musharraf is expected to speak at the interfaith meeting, organized by the Council for World Jewry, while he is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Jack Rosen, the council's chairman, told Pakistan's Geo television that Musharraf's decision to speak at the conference would encourage other Muslim leaders to talk about reconciliation and religious extremism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/619063.html
Washington backs down on demand that Israel mark settlement boundaries
By Aluf Benn
Washington has rescinded its demand that Israel and the U.S. jointly mark the boundaries of settlements in the West Bank, according to American and Israeli officials.
Neither side reportedly has an interest in marking the boundaries: for Israel, it would be an uncomfortable concession; for the U.S., it would legitimize the existing settlements.
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U.S. officials said they are now making due with warning Israel to refrain from expanding the West Bank settlements. As an effect of such warnings, they note that most construction licenses in recent years have been given within the large settlement blocs or within built-up areas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618628.html
The Arab News
WELL, WELL, WELL. Bush gets help from his Arab friends. Bush is saying he is dipping into the National Reserve. Oh really? I don't think so. But. I might appear that way.
Kingdom Hopes Charter Will Safeguard Iraq’s Arab Identity
Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 August 2005 — Saudi Arabia yesterday expressed its hope that Iraq’s new constitution would safeguard its Arab and Islamic identity. “The Kingdom hopes that the Iraqi constitution will respond to the aspirations of the Iraqi people, ensure national unity and safeguard its Arab and Islamic identity,” a Cabinet statement said.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa has asked for an explanation from the Iraqi government on the draft constitution’s stance toward the Arab world, adding that the document had “disturbed” the 22-member pan-Arab organization.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=69266&d=30&m=8&y=2005
Editorial: Iraqi Constitution
30 August 2005
The constitution submitted to the Iraqi Parliament is a disaster in waiting. It is going to fall at the first hurdle: October’s referendum. To be ratified, the constitution not only has to get 50 percent of the votes nationally, but must not be rejected by two-thirds of voters in at least three of Iraq’s 18 provinces. That gives the Sunnis the veto and barring an unlikely change of heart, they will use it; they may be a minority but in four of the country’s 18 provinces, they are the majority.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=69240&d=30&m=8&y=2005
Jordan Asks Iraq to Extradite Three Aqaba Blast Suspects
Abdul Jalil Mustafa, Arab News
AMMAN, 30 August 2005 — The Jordanian government has established contacts with the Iraqi authorities to ensure the extradition of three suspects — two Syrians and an Iraqi — who earlier this month masterminded the explosions at the Red Sea port of Aqaba that targeted a US warship and the Israeli port of Eilat, Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher announced yesterday. “We are in touch with the Iraqi authorities to ensure the extradition of the suspects for trying them in Jordan,” Muasher said at a weekly media briefing.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=69234&d=30&m=8&y=2005
The Jordan Times
Iraqi Sunnis urge charter change
BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Sunni demonstrators rallied in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Monday to denounce Iraq's new constitution a day after negotiators finished the new charter without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs.
Sunni leaders have urged their community to defeat the charter in a nationwide referendum on October 15, saying it had been rammed through the drafting committee by the dominant Shiite Arab and Kurdish alliance.
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Iraqi constitution internal affair — Jordan
By Mahmoud Al Abed
AMMAN — A senior official on Monday said Jordan now has no plans to sign an extradition agreement with Iraq, refuting recent news reports on the deal.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher, however, confirmed that Baghdad was cooperating with Amman to arrest three suspected terrorists, who fled to the neighbouring country after launching a rocket attack in Aqaba against US warships, killing a Jordanian soldier and wounding another.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/homenews/homenews1.htm
Sunnis mobilise to defeat charter
By Seb Walker
Agence France-Presse
FALLUJAH — As the Sunni tribal chiefs file into the bullet-scarred headquarters of the US-led coalition in the centre of Fallujah, it is immediately clear what they came to talk about.
"The constitution is weak and it casts the Sunnis aside," says one. "We have to keep Iraq united from [Kurdish] Zakho to [Shiite] Basra," says another.
The Sunni complaints from Fallujah, the former rebel bastion, are familiar emanating from the once-powerful minority community. But then come comments that immediately grab the attention of the attending US officials.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/news/news5.htm
No 2nd stage of disengagement; roadmap talks next — Sharon
By Omar Karmi
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Egyptian intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, yesterday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss ways of shoring up the ceasefire and border controls between Gaza and Egypt. The visit came at the same time as EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana met Israeli officials to discuss how to use the momentum of the Gaza withdrawal to restart the peace process.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, meanwhile, said on Monday not all settlements Israel currently maintains in the West Bank will remain in place in a final peace accord with the Palestinians.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/news/news3.htm
Muasher says no plans now to repatriate Gazans
By Mahmoud Al Abed
AMMAN — A senior official on Monday said Jordan has no plans now to repatriate Gazans living in the Kingdom following the Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher told a weekly press briefing that it was "too early to talk about this issue."
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/homenews/homenews2.htm
Gaza fishermen dream of freedom on high seas after Israel's withdrawal
By Beatriz Lecumberri
Agence France-Presse
GAZA CITY — The fishermen of Gaza believe that Allah has put them to work in the only place in the world where the Mediterranean suffocates rather than gives a sense of freedom.
But as the days of Israel's 38-year rule draw to a close, they are hoping to take to the high seas once more.
For the past 35 years, Jamal Amudi has lived in Gaza City's chaotic but colourful port. He first learned to fish with his uncle, and afterwards, with his father. Today he is still fishing — with his four sons.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/news/news7.htm
I think there is a disconnect from reality in Jackson, Mississippi. Or maybe this the same tried and true method of oppression Bush now practices on the nation. See the Black people of Jackson, Mississippi are being punished by Katrina sent by God and this form of evil behavior is the reason why. This is the same ludicrous initiative by the Bush Administration across the nation to oppress the political opposition and make them 'toe the party line' along with everyone else who of course deserve to suffers. Of course, Bush and Cheney are always trying to tell those misguided how misguided they are while being above it all requiring sainthood for THEIR suffering for us. Sure. The wicked billionaires are really suffering along with their wives.
The Jackson Free Press
I Lied, But I Didn't Swear
by Adam Lynch
Photo by Adam Lynch
August 24, 2005
Thanks to The Meridian Star, the mainstream media blackout on coverage of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton’s recent lies to the Lauderdale Circuit Court has been lifted. On Tuesday, the Star reported as its lead Page 1 story that Melton went before an angry Judge Robert Bailey the day before in Meridian, on Aug. 22, to ask the judge not to grant default judgment to defendants suing him for defamation due to his lying under oath.
Melton asked Circuit Judge Robert Bailey to give him a break for lying to the court about leaking a faulty memo to a Clarion-Ledger reporter when he was head of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics—a story previously reported only by the Jackson Free Press on July 20. He changed his story in an amended document submitted days after he took the office of Jackson mayor.
“I think I owe the court a very serious apology,” Melton told the judge, as reported by the Star. “Why did I mislead or lie? I assumed I had First Amendment protection. ... It’s no excuse for ignorance. I made a stupid mistake.”
Melton told the judge that he gave reporter Ana Radelat, who covers Washington, D.C., for The Clarion-Ledger, the internal memo alleging wrongdoing by several MBN employees because he believed they were both journalists and were having a confidential exchange—thus, he believed the First Amendment gave him cover for lying about the leak in his sworn depositions earlier this year. Melton’s lawyers told the judge the mayor had been “confused” about whether the First Amendment protected his false statements.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=6930_0_9_0_C
Almost Legal: In Jackson, Are 18- to 20-Year-Olds Just Screwed?
by Sophia Halkias
Photo by Thabi Moyo
August 24, 2005
Sometimes, being under 21 in Jackson is like serving a term under house arrest.In February, when the Crossroads Film Society managed to secure a copy of “The Ramones, End of the Century,” it celebrated by throwing a Thursday night gala for the screening at Hal & Mal’s. An avid indie-rock fan, 18-year-old Logan Holleman alerted a couple of his friends to the event, and made the 20-minute trek from his home in Flowood to meet up with them in the parking lot before the film began.
“We thought it would be interesting and fun,” recalls the Hinds freshman. “I had just seen ‘The Motorcycle Diaries,’ and was enjoying the fact that you could see movies you don’t see a lot.”
But Holleman never made it past the entrance that night.
“When we got there, we were stopped by an officer of the law, and he told us that it was 21 and older.”
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Sharon: Netanyahu unfit to lead nation
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon didn't hold back in his criticism of Binyamin Netanyahu during an interview on Channel 10 Monday evening, calling him "a man who deals poorly with pressure and panics."
Sharon, who was interviewed by Channel 10's Mordechai Kirshenbaum and Yaron London, said, "Israel is a special country. Our problems are more complex than those of other countries. In order to run this country, you have to have good judgment and nerves of steel."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281964383
State: Shfaram attack not terrorism
By SHANI ROSENFELDER AND AP
Eden Natan Zada, the IDF deserter who murdered four Israeli Arabs in a shooting rampage on a Shfaram bus earlier this month, has been branded a Jewish terrorist, but the people who died cannot be recognized as terrorist victims, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
Under the current law in Israel, an assailant must be a member of the "enemy forces" against Israel for the action to be considered terrorism, said Mayan Malkin, a spokeswoman with the Defense Ministry.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125368482180
Israel NZ envoy presents credentials
By HERB KEINON AND AP
Israel and New Zealand have ended a row sparked by two Israeli agents trying to obtain a New Zealand passport which saw diplomatic links suspended for nearly a year, Israel's new ambassador said Tuesday.
"The incident is a closed chapter" for both nations, Ambassador Naftali Tamir told The Associated Press, shortly after presenting his credentials at Government House in the capital, Wellington.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that while Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's letter of apology in June to his New Zealand counterpart Phil Goff put the crisis between the two countries in the past, the presentation of credentials marked the "formal, symbolic act" cementing a return to normal ties. "We are now returning to a healthy and mutually beneficial relationship," he said.
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Israel braces for PA blitz at UN
By HERB KEINON
Despite Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, the Palestinians will not ease pressure on Israel at international forums and will try and bring discussion of the security fence back to the United Nations General Assembly this fall, according to diplomatic assessments in Jerusalem.
Israel has been in constant contact with European countries to try and keep this initiative from gaining traction, local officials say.
Palestinian officials have made no secret of their interest in now moving the focus of their diplomatic activity to international bodies like the UN in an attempt to get Israel to complete the withdrawal from Gaza, including control over the border crossings, and to commit to additional steps.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281965302
Six days in August
By DAOUD KUTTAB
In the mid-1980s Israeli settlement foe Meron Benvenisti of the West Bank Data Project came up with the idea that, at some stage, Jewish settlement in the Palestinian West Bank would be irreversible.
But this concept – which was well-intended and does have merit – has been dealt a blow by the Israeli government and army.
Within six days, as long it took the IDF to occupy the rest of Palestine, Israeli soldiers emptied all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip as well as four northern West Bank colonies. The fact that the number of days it took to evacuate the illegal settlers is equal to those it took to occupy Sinai, the Golan Heights and the rest of Palestine goes to show that occupation is not irreversible.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281964963
Haaretz
Netanyahu announces run for the premiership
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent
In a direct challenge to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, MK Benjamin Netanyahu declared his candidacy Tuesday for chairmanship of the Likud and as the party's candidate for the premiership.
Netanyahu painted Sharon as a prime minister who had veered sharply to the political left, abandoning his own party in the process.
"The Likud today needs a leader who can unify the ranks, rehabilitate the ruins, and lead the Likud to victory, and who will then lead the state in the spirit of our principles, and believe that I can do that," Netanyahu told a news conference in Tel Aviv.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618686.html
Arab-Israeli unemployment soars during second half of 2005
By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent
Unemployment among Israeli-Arabs soared by more than 10 percent during the second half of 2005, a government agency revealed in a report published on Tuesday.
The increase in unemployment among Israeli-Arabs, which stood at 11.3 percent in 2005, up by a whole percent since last year, came despite the reduction in unemployment in the Jewish sector.
Some 55.3 percent of the Israeli workforce is employed, the report stated.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618981.html
Lebanon PM: Top pro-Syrians are suspects in Hariri killing
By Reuters
The commander of the Presidential Guards, three former security chiefs and a former legislator are prime suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Tuesday.
The prime minister confirmed that the three former security chiefs had been detained earlier Tuesday for questioning by UN investigators and that the Guards commander had been summoned to appear before the U.N. team.
Saniora spoke hours after police detained at their homes: Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed, the former chief of General Security; Maj. Gen. Ali Hajj, the former director general of the Internal Security Forces; and Brig. Gen. Raymond Azar, the former director general of military intelligence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618938.html
Police: Right-wing extremists pose threat to elected officials
By Gideon Alon
The police's senior intelligence officer, Major General Dudi Cohen, warned Tuesday that right-wing extremists might try to hurt public officials.
Cohen spoke before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee during a debate on the question of whether pardons should be given to anti-disengagement protesters in custody.
"The nation of Israel has passed through a terrible time and we must look forward and grant a general pardon," said Eli Yishi (Shas), one of the lead supporters of the proposal. "It is only proper to take a step toward reconciliation, otherwise we may drive the social divide even deeper."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/619046.html
Police arrest man suspected of China diamond heist
By Roni Singer
A Ramle court extended on Tuesday the remand of a 32-year-old man from Netanya who allegedly stole 1.7 million dollars worth of diamonds from the company he works for in China.
The suspect, Pini Chen, was extradited to Israel after being arrested in Panama last week.
Chen managed the "Polencic" diamond company's branch in the city of Shenzhen in China.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/619005.html
Pakistani leader could be censured for speaking at Jewish conference
By The Associated Press
The head of a leading Jewish organization hailed Pakistan's leader for accepting the group's invitation to speak at its conference in New York next month, but said in an interview aired Tuesday that President General Pervez Musharraf was likely to be criticized at home for the move.
Musharraf is expected to speak at the interfaith meeting, organized by the Council for World Jewry, while he is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
Jack Rosen, the council's chairman, told Pakistan's Geo television that Musharraf's decision to speak at the conference would encourage other Muslim leaders to talk about reconciliation and religious extremism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/619063.html
Washington backs down on demand that Israel mark settlement boundaries
By Aluf Benn
Washington has rescinded its demand that Israel and the U.S. jointly mark the boundaries of settlements in the West Bank, according to American and Israeli officials.
Neither side reportedly has an interest in marking the boundaries: for Israel, it would be an uncomfortable concession; for the U.S., it would legitimize the existing settlements.
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U.S. officials said they are now making due with warning Israel to refrain from expanding the West Bank settlements. As an effect of such warnings, they note that most construction licenses in recent years have been given within the large settlement blocs or within built-up areas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/618628.html
The Arab News
WELL, WELL, WELL. Bush gets help from his Arab friends. Bush is saying he is dipping into the National Reserve. Oh really? I don't think so. But. I might appear that way.
Kingdom Ready to Hike Output: Naimi
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 August 2005 — Saudi Arabia yesterday announced its readiness to increase crude oil production to 11 million bpd if world market faces any shortage in oil supplies as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
“We are closely monitoring the impact of Hurricane Katrina on US crude oil supplies, refining activity and oil prices,” said Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi.
“We continue to be in close contact with our customers, especially those in the US, to assist them during any shortfall in oil supplies,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted the minister as saying.
Kingdom Hopes Charter Will Safeguard Iraq’s Arab Identity
Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 August 2005 — Saudi Arabia yesterday expressed its hope that Iraq’s new constitution would safeguard its Arab and Islamic identity. “The Kingdom hopes that the Iraqi constitution will respond to the aspirations of the Iraqi people, ensure national unity and safeguard its Arab and Islamic identity,” a Cabinet statement said.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa has asked for an explanation from the Iraqi government on the draft constitution’s stance toward the Arab world, adding that the document had “disturbed” the 22-member pan-Arab organization.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=69266&amp;d=30&m=8&y=2005
Editorial: Iraqi Constitution
30 August 2005
The constitution submitted to the Iraqi Parliament is a disaster in waiting. It is going to fall at the first hurdle: October’s referendum. To be ratified, the constitution not only has to get 50 percent of the votes nationally, but must not be rejected by two-thirds of voters in at least three of Iraq’s 18 provinces. That gives the Sunnis the veto and barring an unlikely change of heart, they will use it; they may be a minority but in four of the country’s 18 provinces, they are the majority.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=69240&amp;d=30&m=8&y=2005
Jordan Asks Iraq to Extradite Three Aqaba Blast Suspects
Abdul Jalil Mustafa, Arab News
AMMAN, 30 August 2005 — The Jordanian government has established contacts with the Iraqi authorities to ensure the extradition of three suspects — two Syrians and an Iraqi — who earlier this month masterminded the explosions at the Red Sea port of Aqaba that targeted a US warship and the Israeli port of Eilat, Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher announced yesterday. “We are in touch with the Iraqi authorities to ensure the extradition of the suspects for trying them in Jordan,” Muasher said at a weekly media briefing.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=69234&amp;d=30&m=8&y=2005
The Jordan Times
Iraqi Sunnis urge charter change
BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Sunni demonstrators rallied in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Monday to denounce Iraq's new constitution a day after negotiators finished the new charter without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs.
Sunni leaders have urged their community to defeat the charter in a nationwide referendum on October 15, saying it had been rammed through the drafting committee by the dominant Shiite Arab and Kurdish alliance.
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Iraqi constitution internal affair — Jordan
By Mahmoud Al Abed
AMMAN — A senior official on Monday said Jordan now has no plans to sign an extradition agreement with Iraq, refuting recent news reports on the deal.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher, however, confirmed that Baghdad was cooperating with Amman to arrest three suspected terrorists, who fled to the neighbouring country after launching a rocket attack in Aqaba against US warships, killing a Jordanian soldier and wounding another.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/homenews/homenews1.htm
Sunnis mobilise to defeat charter
By Seb Walker
Agence France-Presse
FALLUJAH — As the Sunni tribal chiefs file into the bullet-scarred headquarters of the US-led coalition in the centre of Fallujah, it is immediately clear what they came to talk about.
"The constitution is weak and it casts the Sunnis aside," says one. "We have to keep Iraq united from [Kurdish] Zakho to [Shiite] Basra," says another.
The Sunni complaints from Fallujah, the former rebel bastion, are familiar emanating from the once-powerful minority community. But then come comments that immediately grab the attention of the attending US officials.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/news/news5.htm
No 2nd stage of disengagement; roadmap talks next — Sharon
By Omar Karmi
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Egyptian intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, yesterday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss ways of shoring up the ceasefire and border controls between Gaza and Egypt. The visit came at the same time as EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana met Israeli officials to discuss how to use the momentum of the Gaza withdrawal to restart the peace process.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, meanwhile, said on Monday not all settlements Israel currently maintains in the West Bank will remain in place in a final peace accord with the Palestinians.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/news/news3.htm
Muasher says no plans now to repatriate Gazans
By Mahmoud Al Abed
AMMAN — A senior official on Monday said Jordan has no plans now to repatriate Gazans living in the Kingdom following the Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher told a weekly press briefing that it was "too early to talk about this issue."
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/homenews/homenews2.htm
Gaza fishermen dream of freedom on high seas after Israel's withdrawal
By Beatriz Lecumberri
Agence France-Presse
GAZA CITY — The fishermen of Gaza believe that Allah has put them to work in the only place in the world where the Mediterranean suffocates rather than gives a sense of freedom.
But as the days of Israel's 38-year rule draw to a close, they are hoping to take to the high seas once more.
For the past 35 years, Jamal Amudi has lived in Gaza City's chaotic but colourful port. He first learned to fish with his uncle, and afterwards, with his father. Today he is still fishing — with his four sons.
http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/news/news7.htm
I think there is a disconnect from reality in Jackson, Mississippi. Or maybe this the same tried and true method of oppression Bush now practices on the nation. See the Black people of Jackson, Mississippi are being punished by Katrina sent by God and this form of evil behavior is the reason why. This is the same ludicrous initiative by the Bush Administration across the nation to oppress the political opposition and make them 'toe the party line' along with everyone else who of course deserve to suffers. Of course, Bush and Cheney are always trying to tell those misguided how misguided they are while being above it all requiring sainthood for THEIR suffering for us. Sure. The wicked billionaires are really suffering along with their wives.
The Jackson Free Press
I Lied, But I Didn't Swear
by Adam Lynch
Photo by Adam Lynch
August 24, 2005
Thanks to The Meridian Star, the mainstream media blackout on coverage of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton’s recent lies to the Lauderdale Circuit Court has been lifted. On Tuesday, the Star reported as its lead Page 1 story that Melton went before an angry Judge Robert Bailey the day before in Meridian, on Aug. 22, to ask the judge not to grant default judgment to defendants suing him for defamation due to his lying under oath.
Melton asked Circuit Judge Robert Bailey to give him a break for lying to the court about leaking a faulty memo to a Clarion-Ledger reporter when he was head of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics—a story previously reported only by the Jackson Free Press on July 20. He changed his story in an amended document submitted days after he took the office of Jackson mayor.
“I think I owe the court a very serious apology,” Melton told the judge, as reported by the Star. “Why did I mislead or lie? I assumed I had First Amendment protection. ... It’s no excuse for ignorance. I made a stupid mistake.”
Melton told the judge that he gave reporter Ana Radelat, who covers Washington, D.C., for The Clarion-Ledger, the internal memo alleging wrongdoing by several MBN employees because he believed they were both journalists and were having a confidential exchange—thus, he believed the First Amendment gave him cover for lying about the leak in his sworn depositions earlier this year. Melton’s lawyers told the judge the mayor had been “confused” about whether the First Amendment protected his false statements.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/comments.php?id=6930_0_9_0_C
Almost Legal: In Jackson, Are 18- to 20-Year-Olds Just Screwed?
by Sophia Halkias
Photo by Thabi Moyo
August 24, 2005
Sometimes, being under 21 in Jackson is like serving a term under house arrest.In February, when the Crossroads Film Society managed to secure a copy of “The Ramones, End of the Century,” it celebrated by throwing a Thursday night gala for the screening at Hal & Mal’s. An avid indie-rock fan, 18-year-old Logan Holleman alerted a couple of his friends to the event, and made the 20-minute trek from his home in Flowood to meet up with them in the parking lot before the film began.
“We thought it would be interesting and fun,” recalls the Hinds freshman. “I had just seen ‘The Motorcycle Diaries,’ and was enjoying the fact that you could see movies you don’t see a lot.”
But Holleman never made it past the entrance that night.
“When we got there, we were stopped by an officer of the law, and he told us that it was 21 and older.”
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August 29, 2005. Fort Walton Beach, Florida sea wall gone. North Carolina has no sea walls or groins as New Jersey does. We don't have these surprise problems. We live with nature and the ocean as it presents itself. The recently finished Masonboro Inlet that was constructed to save ONE hotel called Shell Island (It matters who you know and not what you know.) is now being realized as a huge mistake.
Morning Papers - concluded
The Times Picayune
CATASTROPHIC
STORM SURGE SWAMPS 9TH WARD, ST. BERNARD
LAKEVIEW LEVEE BREACH THREATENS TO INUNDATE CITY
By Doug MacCash
and James O.Byrne
Staff writers
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new .hurricane proof. Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina's fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization's history.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/t-p/katrina.ssf?/hurricane/katrina/stories/083005catastrophic.html
The overview: 'Look, look man: It’s gone'
By Bruce Nolan
Staff writer
Hurricane Katrina struck metropolitan New Orleans on Monday with a staggering blow, far surpassing Hurricane Betsy, the landmark disaster of an earlier generation. The storm flooded huge swaths of the city, as well as Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, in a process that appeared to be spreading even as night fell.
A powerful storm surge pushed huge waves ahead of the hurricane, flooding much of St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, just as Betsy 40 years ago. But this time the flooding was more extensive, spreading upriver as well to cover parts of the Bywater, Marigny and Treme neighborhoods.
As with Betsy, people scrambled into their attics or atop their roofs, pleading for help from the few passers-by.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
Levee breach floods Lakeview, Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park
By Doug MacCash
and James O’Byrne
Staff writers
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new ‘hurricane proof’ Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina’s fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization’s history.
Police, firefighters and private citizens, hampered by a lack of even rudimentary communication capabilities, continued a desperate and impromptu boat-borne rescue operation across Lakeview well after dark. Coast Guard choppers with search lights criss-crossed the skies.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
Scenes from a broken city
Monday, 10:30 p.m.
As skies cleared and Katrina’s final gusts blew across New Orleans late Monday afternoon, dead pigeons and shattered streetlamps littered the empty Pontchartrain Expressway.
In the shadow of the bruised Superdome, broken Mardi Gras beads laced a pile of leaves and debris.
The number “44” was all that remained of a shredded Louisiana Lottery billboard along the expressway.
At the Kentwood water distributorship, plastic crates were still stacked neatly in the back of open tractor-trailers; the Kentwood marquee was toppled. Winds had wrenched the Superdome/Claiborne exit sign into a fresh angle.
A man wearing socks but no shoes claimed to have walked from Kenner to the Pontchartrain Expressway in front of The Times-Picayune. Firemen in a passing pick-up shooed him off the highway.
Four Crescent City Connection police officers blockaded the expressway near the Dome, turning away the few civilian vehicles. They, too, wondered about the scope of the destruction.
“Have you heard anything about Metairie?” one asked.
By 6 p.m. on Monday, looters had shifted to heavy lifting. Young men exited the Coleman’s clothing store on Earhart Boulevard, struggling under the weight of fully laden cardboard boxes and plastic bags.
When flashing lights appeared in the distance, a man in an orange jersey shouted “Police!,” and dropped his box in Earhart’s lake-bound lane. He splashed across the opposite lane, tripped and fell in knee-deep water, then ran toward the B.W. Cooper housing development.
As the sun set, four young women slipped out of the Magnolia Discount convenience store on South Carrollton Avenue and loaded pilfered boxes into a waiting car. One woman waved at approaching vehicles.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
New Zealand Herald
At least 50 reported dead from hurricane Katrina
30.08.05 UPDATE 7.30pm
By Mark Wallheiser
BILOXI, Mississippi - At least 50 people were reported dead in Mississippi while Louisiana officials scrambled to rescue hundreds stranded by high waters after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly swath through the U.S. Gulf coast.
The killer storm inflicted widespread, catastrophic damage along the coast as it slammed into Louisiana on Monday with 224km/h winds, then swept across Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343123
Halliburton whistle-blower to sue after demotion
30.08.05 4.20pm
WASHINGTON - A former top US Army procurement official who raised concerns about Halliburton Co's contracts in Iraq plans to sue the Army after being demoted, her lawyer said.
Lawyer Michael Kohn said Bunny Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official-turned whistle-blower, was removed, effective Saturday, from the senior executive service and moved into a lower-ranking job.
Earlier, in a June 3 memo, Army Corps of Engineers Commandant Lieutenant General Carl Strock, said the move came after a staff analysis clearly showed the decision was based on Greenhouse's "unacceptable performance" and "not in retaliation for any disclosures of alleged improprieties she may have made."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343193
Reuters demands release of Iraq journalist
30.08.05 12.20pm
BAGHDAD - Reuters has demanded the immediate release of an Iraqi cameraman who was still being held by United States forces in Baghdad more than a day after being wounded in an incident in which his soundman was killed.
Iraqi police said the news team was shot by US soldiers.
The US military said it was investigating and refused to say what questions it was putting to cameraman Haider Kadhem. It would not say where he was held nor identify the unit holding him.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343163
Eleven injured in Paris apartment fire
30.08.05 11.20am
PARIS - A fire in an apartment block in the centre of Paris has injured 11 people, the French fire brigade said.
The spokesman said he did not know what had caused the fire in the block, which mostly housed people of African origin.
The blaze comes just three days after 17 people were killed, at least six of them children, when fire tore through another apartment block housing African immigrants in the city.
Monday's fire broke out around 10pm (8am NZT) and was brought under control about an hour later.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343148
Ecuador makes drug bust at sea, biggest in decade
30.08.05 10.20am
QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuadorean police and the US Coast Guard have intercepted a boat carrying approximately US$175 million ($254.76 million) worth of US-bound Colombian cocaine in the Pacific Ocean in Ecuador's biggest drug bust in a decade, police said on Monday.
The fishing boat "Daniel" was stopped 370km south of the Galapagos Islands and its crew of eight Ecuadoreans arrested, police said, without saying exactly when the operation took place.
The fishing boat had been loaded with seven tonnes of cocaine supplied by fast launches off the Colombian coast and was sailing to a rendezvous with a ship which would carry the drugs to the United States.
Ecuador is a major transit country for cocaine from Colombia, where illegal armed groups fighting in a four-decade-old war rely on selling the drug to buy weapons.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343133
The weather at Scott Base, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Some cloud
-30.0°
Updated Tuesday 30 Aug 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
54 °F / 12 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
88%
Dew Point:
50 °F / 10 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.70 in / 1006 hPa
Visibility:
8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 100 ft / 30 m
Mostly Cloudy 2000 ft / 609 m
Overcast 5500 ft / 1676 m
end
CATASTROPHIC
STORM SURGE SWAMPS 9TH WARD, ST. BERNARD
LAKEVIEW LEVEE BREACH THREATENS TO INUNDATE CITY
By Doug MacCash
and James O.Byrne
Staff writers
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new .hurricane proof. Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina's fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization's history.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/t-p/katrina.ssf?/hurricane/katrina/stories/083005catastrophic.html
The overview: 'Look, look man: It’s gone'
By Bruce Nolan
Staff writer
Hurricane Katrina struck metropolitan New Orleans on Monday with a staggering blow, far surpassing Hurricane Betsy, the landmark disaster of an earlier generation. The storm flooded huge swaths of the city, as well as Slidell on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, in a process that appeared to be spreading even as night fell.
A powerful storm surge pushed huge waves ahead of the hurricane, flooding much of St. Bernard Parish and New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, just as Betsy 40 years ago. But this time the flooding was more extensive, spreading upriver as well to cover parts of the Bywater, Marigny and Treme neighborhoods.
As with Betsy, people scrambled into their attics or atop their roofs, pleading for help from the few passers-by.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
Levee breach floods Lakeview, Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park
By Doug MacCash
and James O’Byrne
Staff writers
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new ‘hurricane proof’ Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina’s fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization’s history.
Police, firefighters and private citizens, hampered by a lack of even rudimentary communication capabilities, continued a desperate and impromptu boat-borne rescue operation across Lakeview well after dark. Coast Guard choppers with search lights criss-crossed the skies.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
Scenes from a broken city
Monday, 10:30 p.m.
As skies cleared and Katrina’s final gusts blew across New Orleans late Monday afternoon, dead pigeons and shattered streetlamps littered the empty Pontchartrain Expressway.
In the shadow of the bruised Superdome, broken Mardi Gras beads laced a pile of leaves and debris.
The number “44” was all that remained of a shredded Louisiana Lottery billboard along the expressway.
At the Kentwood water distributorship, plastic crates were still stacked neatly in the back of open tractor-trailers; the Kentwood marquee was toppled. Winds had wrenched the Superdome/Claiborne exit sign into a fresh angle.
A man wearing socks but no shoes claimed to have walked from Kenner to the Pontchartrain Expressway in front of The Times-Picayune. Firemen in a passing pick-up shooed him off the highway.
Four Crescent City Connection police officers blockaded the expressway near the Dome, turning away the few civilian vehicles. They, too, wondered about the scope of the destruction.
“Have you heard anything about Metairie?” one asked.
By 6 p.m. on Monday, looters had shifted to heavy lifting. Young men exited the Coleman’s clothing store on Earhart Boulevard, struggling under the weight of fully laden cardboard boxes and plastic bags.
When flashing lights appeared in the distance, a man in an orange jersey shouted “Police!,” and dropped his box in Earhart’s lake-bound lane. He splashed across the opposite lane, tripped and fell in knee-deep water, then ran toward the B.W. Cooper housing development.
As the sun set, four young women slipped out of the Magnolia Discount convenience store on South Carrollton Avenue and loaded pilfered boxes into a waiting car. One woman waved at approaching vehicles.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
New Zealand Herald
At least 50 reported dead from hurricane Katrina
30.08.05 UPDATE 7.30pm
By Mark Wallheiser
BILOXI, Mississippi - At least 50 people were reported dead in Mississippi while Louisiana officials scrambled to rescue hundreds stranded by high waters after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly swath through the U.S. Gulf coast.
The killer storm inflicted widespread, catastrophic damage along the coast as it slammed into Louisiana on Monday with 224km/h winds, then swept across Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343123
Halliburton whistle-blower to sue after demotion
30.08.05 4.20pm
WASHINGTON - A former top US Army procurement official who raised concerns about Halliburton Co's contracts in Iraq plans to sue the Army after being demoted, her lawyer said.
Lawyer Michael Kohn said Bunny Greenhouse, the Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting official-turned whistle-blower, was removed, effective Saturday, from the senior executive service and moved into a lower-ranking job.
Earlier, in a June 3 memo, Army Corps of Engineers Commandant Lieutenant General Carl Strock, said the move came after a staff analysis clearly showed the decision was based on Greenhouse's "unacceptable performance" and "not in retaliation for any disclosures of alleged improprieties she may have made."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343193
Reuters demands release of Iraq journalist
30.08.05 12.20pm
BAGHDAD - Reuters has demanded the immediate release of an Iraqi cameraman who was still being held by United States forces in Baghdad more than a day after being wounded in an incident in which his soundman was killed.
Iraqi police said the news team was shot by US soldiers.
The US military said it was investigating and refused to say what questions it was putting to cameraman Haider Kadhem. It would not say where he was held nor identify the unit holding him.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343163
Eleven injured in Paris apartment fire
30.08.05 11.20am
PARIS - A fire in an apartment block in the centre of Paris has injured 11 people, the French fire brigade said.
The spokesman said he did not know what had caused the fire in the block, which mostly housed people of African origin.
The blaze comes just three days after 17 people were killed, at least six of them children, when fire tore through another apartment block housing African immigrants in the city.
Monday's fire broke out around 10pm (8am NZT) and was brought under control about an hour later.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343148
Ecuador makes drug bust at sea, biggest in decade
30.08.05 10.20am
QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuadorean police and the US Coast Guard have intercepted a boat carrying approximately US$175 million ($254.76 million) worth of US-bound Colombian cocaine in the Pacific Ocean in Ecuador's biggest drug bust in a decade, police said on Monday.
The fishing boat "Daniel" was stopped 370km south of the Galapagos Islands and its crew of eight Ecuadoreans arrested, police said, without saying exactly when the operation took place.
The fishing boat had been loaded with seven tonnes of cocaine supplied by fast launches off the Colombian coast and was sailing to a rendezvous with a ship which would carry the drugs to the United States.
Ecuador is a major transit country for cocaine from Colombia, where illegal armed groups fighting in a four-decade-old war rely on selling the drug to buy weapons.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343133
The weather at Scott Base, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Some cloud
-30.0°
Updated Tuesday 30 Aug 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
54 °F / 12 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
88%
Dew Point:
50 °F / 10 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.70 in / 1006 hPa
Visibility:
8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Scattered Clouds 100 ft / 30 m
Mostly Cloudy 2000 ft / 609 m
Overcast 5500 ft / 1676 m
end
August 30, 2005. The vortex flow on the left periphery of this satellite says it all. Otherwise, the Pacific is quiet. The equatorial air is a bit odd in that it literally is oscillating in a wave up and down like an ocean wave. That's weird. SOME vortex circulation is normal around Antarctica but this is extreme in it's reach to the lower latitudes of the equator.
August 30, 2005. A reverse flow 'supercell' is over North America. The vortices of the Arctic Circle are noted each side of the supercell. The collection of moisture in the Atlantic is interesting as it that off Africa. The Pacific is dominated by the Arctic vortex there and "Hilary" was absorbed by "Katrina."
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