UNISYS Infrared Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 1, 2005. Infrared showing Katrina's vortex over Canada. There is another vortex on the west side of Hudson Bay. There are storms forming over the Midwest. There are storm clouds again over The Gulf. The affected area where Katrina met land is getting rain or about to. There is a heat concentration which is getting to be a regular occurance over the Greenland Ice. A lot of turbulent aire over the Atlantic.

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 1, 2005. The west coast has been primarily clear of turbulance however there is a heat flow coming off Mexico over the last two hours to the middle of the USA. The Gulf remains questionably unstable with heat building again quickly. The Arctic Ocean Vortex is easily noted over the northern latitudes of Earth.

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite 12 hour loop - click here

September 1, 2005. The east coast USA is still clear. There is heat disruptions building again off the southern North American over the Gulf in the same vortex flow that supported Katrina.

The Rooster 

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Rooster "Crowing"

"Okeydoke"

History

1443 The Japanese dramatist Zeami Motokiyo, perhaps the greatest of the No dramatists, dies. Motokiyo wrote nearly half of the classic No repertoire, as well as essays on the theater.

1807 former Vice President Aaron Burr was found not guilty of treason.

1822 Hiram Rhoades Revels is born free in Fayetteville, NC. He will become a minister in the AME Church, help organize Black regiments in Maryland & Mississippi, and become the 1st Black to serve in the U.S. Senate from Mississippi.

1858 The fugitive slave John Prince is rescued from U.S. Marshals by Oberlin students.

1878 Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the United States, for the Telephone Despatch Co. of Boston.

1891 Dr. Halle T.D. Johnson becomes the first woman of any race to practice medicine in Alabama.

1923 A major earthquake nearly destroys the city of Yokohama, Japan, as well as much of nearby Tokyo. Over 100,000 people die in the quake.

1925 Novelist Rosa Guy, founder of the Harlem Writer's Guild, is born in Trinidad

1932 New York City Mayor James J. "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.

1939 World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

1945 Americans received word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)

1961 the Soviet Union ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an above-ground nuclear explosion in central Asia.

1972 American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

1983 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace.

Missing in Action

1966 NICHOLS HUBERT C. PENSACOLA FL
1966 SCHMIDT NORMAN BEN LOMOND CA 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1967 JOHNSON ROBERT D. DALLAS TX
1967 OTT EDWARD L. III ROCKVILLE CT
1968 KINKADE WILLIAM L. CORVALLIS OR
1969 ESCOBEDO JULIAN JR. SAN ANTONIO TX

BBC News

New Orleans evacuation under way
City under siege
The total evacuation of New Orleans is under way as conditions in the city battered by Hurricane Katrina worsen.
Buses have been taking the most vulnerable away to the Louisiana state capital - others are going to Texas.
Most of New Orleans is under water and many people have spent days on rooftops waiting to be rescued. Hundreds or even thousands are feared to have drowned.
President Bush acknowledged there is "frustration" at the pace of relief efforts, but called for patience.
He said boats and helicopters were on their way to the disaster area, as part of the biggest relief operation ever mounted in the United States.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4203718.stm


Pakistan-Israel in landmark talks
Reports say the talks follow a series of informal contacts
The foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel have for the first time held publicly acknowledged talks.
After the talks Pakistan's foreign minister said that his country had decided to "engage" with Israel after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
Israel's foreign minister described the talks, held in the Turkish city of Istanbul, as a "historic meeting".
Pakistan has emphasised that the meeting does not mean the recognition of the state of Israel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4203788.stm


Breast cancer gene risk for men
The gene increases the risk of many cancers in men
Researchers say they have begun to understand how a breast cancer gene poses a risk to men.
Experts have known for some time that two genes - called BRCA1 and 2, increase the risk of breast and other cancers in both men and women.
The Journal of Medical Genetics research suggests men with BRCA2 have double the risk of prostate cancer.
The gene also ups men's risk of cancer of the pancreas eight-fold, the team at Leiden University Medical Centre found.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4198578.stm


Cancer hope over breast gene find
The breast development gene was named after a James Bond villain
The discovery of a gene involved in breast development may help in the fight against cancer, scientists say.
The gene - named Scaramanga after the three-nippled James Bond villain in The Man With The Golden Gun - was found by an Institute of Cancer Research team.
Researchers said by analysing the gene they would be able to find out more about breast formation and how it is connected to breast cancer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4202466.stm


Briton kidnapped in Afghanistan
A British man has been kidnapped in Afghanistan after the convoy he was travelling in was attacked.
The man was with a firm providing security for a road project.
At least three policemen are believed dead after the ambush in the west of the country. The party's interpreter was also reportedly abducted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4203514.stm


US lifts nuclear curbs on India
India is looking at nuclear power to meet its energy needs
The United States has removed some export restrictions on six Indian civilian nuclear and space facilities.
The facilities will now be allowed to purchase sensitive technology from the US without being subject to special licenses, reports say.
Washington had imposed sanctions on India following its nuclear tests in May 1998.
But earlier this year it agreed to increase co-operation on civilian nuclear energy programmes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4203842.stm


continued …

September 1, 2005. New Orleans, Lousiana. Caption :: Eerie silence: A lone woman sits in the middle of Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, on Wednesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. With most of New Orleans submerged and thousands of people trapped by waters strewn with bodies, authorities also fought an outbreak of plundering.  

August 31, 2005. Baghdad, Iraq. Caption :: Sea of shoes: Iraqis walk past thousands of shoes that came off during a stampede on a bridge in Baghdad on Wednesday. More than 630 people were killed in the stampede as thousands of Shi�ite Muslims gathered near a shrine.
 

Morning Papers - continued ...

The Boston Globe

Residents open homes to Katrina refugees

David Keifer, right, leads his sister Molly and his son William Schultz through flooded streets in uptown New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. Keifer and his sister decided to finally make a run for it as flood waters continue to rise around their home. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
By Greg Bluestein, Associated Press Writer September 1, 2005
ATLANTA --Every night since Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast, Fredia Rainey has been glued to the tragic TV reports on the rising death toll and the thousands of people left homeless by the storm.
Finally, the worsening situation reached a tipping point in her mind. The least she could do, she figured, is make available a spare bedroom in her west Georgia home.
"I have space and people need help. That's just it," said Rainey, who is offering the bedroom for $1. "I can't just keep crying when I can reach out and help people."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/01/residents_open_homes_to_katrina_refugees/


Katrina virtually wipes Miss. town off map
David Keifer, right, leads his sister Molly and his son William Schultz through flooded streets in uptown New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. Keifer and his sister decided to finally make a run for it as flood waters continue to rise around their home. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
By Cain Burdeau, Associated Press Writer September 1, 2005
WAVELAND, Miss. --Hurricane Katrina seemed to take a particular vengeance out on this town. The storm virtually wiped Waveland off the map, prompting state officials to say it took a harder hit from the wind and water than any other town along the coast.
Rescue workers there Wednesday found shell-shocked survivors scavenging what they could from homes and businesses that were completely washed away. The air smelled of natural gas, lumber and rotting flesh.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/01/katrina_virtually_wipes_miss_town_off_map/


U.S. pushing for U.N. sanctions on Iran
By Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer September 1, 2005
WASHINGTON --The Bush administration is trying to rally other nations to agree to impose U.N. sanctions on Iran to force it to negotiate an end to its nuclear programs.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns accused Iran of misleading the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency with the guise of seeking a civilian program.
"We fully expect that the IAEA will refer this issue to the United Nations Security Council, where it should be," Burns said. "Iran must (face the) judgment of the international community, now that it has acted in defiance of the international community."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/01/us_pushing_for_un_sanctions_on_iran/


S.Korea: North's nuke plans not an issue
By Burt Herman, Associated Press Writer September 1, 2005
SEOUL, South Korea --South Korea's top diplomat said Thursday that North Korea's professed desire for a peaceful nuclear program shouldn't become an issue that overshadows disarmament talks.
Meanwhile, a leading North Korea expert said an official there told him the country was researching how to create lightly enriched uranium -- which could be used to fuel a reactor for non-weapons use, as opposed to the highly enriched uranium deployed in atomic bombs.
Amid the standoff, the North's foreign minister met Thursday with two visiting U.S. lawmakers who said they would raise the nuclear issue. In a one-sentence dispatch, the North's Korean Central News Agency provided no details of the discussions between Paek Nam Sun and U.S. Reps. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., and James Leach, R-Iowa.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/09/01/skorea_norths_nuke_plans_not_an_issue/


Grief, anger on anniversary of Russian school siege
By Oliver Bullough September 1, 2005
BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Grief mingled with anger in the ruins of Beslan's School No. 1 on Thursday as the Russian town marked the first anniversary of a hostage siege that ended in the deaths of 331 people.
Weeping mothers who lost their children appealed for asylum abroad, saying they did not want to live in a country where officials -- who some say made the death toll worse by botching the rescue operation -- value human life so little.
In a provincial town 500 km (300 miles) away, President Vladimir Putin, in a somber black tie, led a minute's silence for the Beslan victims but he faces tough questioning on Friday when he is to meet a group of the mothers in the Kremlin.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/09/01/beslan_marks_anniversary_of_bloody_school_siege/


Catastrophe
September 1, 2005
JUST AS Californians have always feared ''the big one" in a devastating earthquake, residents of New Orleans have always known that they were vulnerable to a hurricane that would overwhelm the city's levees and flood its streets. At first it looked as though Hurricane Katrina had passed enough to the east to leave the city's levees intact, but the Category 4 storm was so immense that even its glancing blow broke through the city's defenses. ''The big one" has hit.
It is a natural disaster -- perhaps the greatest in US history -- and a national disaster, calling forth a national response. All the relevant federal agencies, from the Coast Guard to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have been mobilized to send staff and equipment to the city and other affected areas. Texas is opening up Houston's Astrodome to provide shelter to New Orleans residents who had sought refuge in the Superdome, which itself became flooded. Other states have made hospital beds available. Soon there will be more than enough accounts of Samaritans to balance the looters.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/09/01/catastrophe/


Michael Moore Today

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The Bring Them Home Now Tour is Underway!

http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/

The Tour Stops

http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/article.php?list=type&type=7

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Get Out and Support the Troops!

Vacaville Mom Takes Protest On Road
(AP) After a 26-day vigil that ignited the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan took her protest on the road Wednesday, while a handful of veterans pledged to continue camping off the road leading to President Bush's ranch until the war in Iraq ends.
Rather than heading home to California, the mother of a 24-year-old soldier who died in Iraq boarded one of three buses heading out on tour to spread her message.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3941


Sheehan, war protesters leave camp
Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - Dozens of war opponents on Wednesday left their makeshift campsite near President Bush's ranch after a 26-day roadside vigil that drew thousands and ignited the anti-war movement.
Cindy Sheehan, a fallen soldier's mother who arrived in Bush's adopted hometown Aug. 6 and refused to leave until he talked to her, boarded one of several buses heading on a tour to continue spreading her message.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3938


Gas prices, Iraq war batter president's approval rating
By Susan Page / USA Today
WASHINGTON — President Bush returned to the capital Wednesday after a month-long summer vacation with big problems on his agenda — from record-setting gas prices to unrelieved turmoil in Iraq — and with his standing in handling those issues in a slide.
A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Sunday through Tuesday shows the toll that casualties abroad and economic uncertainty at home have taken on assessments of Bush. He gets the lowest ratings of his tenure for the job he's doing on the economy and health care. He matches his previous low point in dealing with Iraq. Three of four Americans disapprove of his handling of gas prices.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3942


Stop the War group rallies for peace in front of Town Hall
By Jamie Lynn Maglietta / News-Record
NEW JERSEY - They came bearing signs that questioned American occupancy in Iraq.
“What noble cause?” was written in blue marker across a cardboard sign. Another read “Let’s really support our troops. Stop the war.”

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3940


Bush: U.S. Must Protect Iraq From Terror
By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press
CORONADO, Calif. - President Bush on Tuesday answered growing anti-war protests with a fresh reason for American troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields that he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists.
Bush, standing against a backdrop of the imposing USS Ronald Reagan, the newest aircraft carrier in the Navy's fleet, said terrorists will be denied their goal.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3929


THE BOWL
When the Levee Breaks:
"It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."
-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.

Here's the Story of a Hurricane:
The Gulf Coast wetlands form a "natural buffer that helps protect New Orleans from storms," slowing hurricanes down as they approach from sea. When he came into office, President Bush pledged to uphold the "no net loss" wetland policy his father initiated. He didn't keep his word. Bush rolled back tough wetland policies set by the Clinton administration, ordering federal agencies "to stop protecting as many as 20 million acres of wetlands and an untold number of waterways nationwide." Last year, four environmental groups issued a joint report showing that administration policies had allowed "developers to drain thousands of acres of wetlands."

When the levee breaks

It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.
-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
This picture is an aerial view of New Orleans today, more than 14 months later. Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city and the sun is out, the waters continue to rise in New Orleans as we write this. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. With much of the Crescent City some 10 feet below sea level, the rising tide may not stop until until it's level with the massive lake.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html


The Houston Chronicle

Houston opens arms to those in Superdome
The first refugees arrive in a commandeered bus
By BILL MURPHY, RAD SALLEE and SALATHEIA BRYANT
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
Video, graphics courtesy Associated Press and KHOU; free Real Player, Flash plug-in and Acrobat Reader may be required.)
The first busload of New Orleans refugees to reach the Reliant Astrodome late Wednesday was a group of people who commandeered a school bus in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and drove to Houston looking for shelter.
Jabbar Gibson, 20, said he drove the bus from the flooded Crescent City, picking up stranded people along the way. After arriving at the Astrodome at about 10:30 p.m., they initially were refused entry by Reliant officials who said the aging landmark was reserved for the 23,000 people being evacuated from the Louisiana Superdome.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/3334057


Water levels stop going up, but looting, discontent swell
Guardsmen are sent to bring order to New Orleans as rescuers race to locate survivors
By KEVIN MORAN and DALE LEZON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
NEW ORLEANS - As natural forces finally ended Lake Pontchartrain's assault on New Orleans Wednesday, the city still struggled with rampant looting, growing discontent among refugees and the vexing problem of finding stranded residents while they are still alive.
Despite encouraging words from President Bush and undeniable glimmers of good news, however, the city remained mired in despair.
Mayor C. Ray Nagin said the death toll may reach the thousands, and others suggested that Hurricane Katrina, which blasted through the city Monday morning, could be the deadliest disaster since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory/3334058


FDA official quits in protest of Plan B delay
Women's health chief says decision on 'morning-after pill' has overruled clinical evidence
By MARC KAUFMAN
Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The top Food and Drug Administration official in charge of women's health issues resigned Wednesday in protest against the agency's decision last week to further delay a final ruling on whether the emergency contraceptive "morning-after pill" should be made more easily accessible.
Susan Wood, assistant FDA commissioner for women's health and director of the Office of Women's Health, said she was leaving her position after five years because Commissioner Lester Crawford's decision Friday amounted to unwarranted interference in agency decision making.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3333932


U.S. jets destroy insurgent target near Syrian border
Associated Press
RESOURCES
Current time in Baghdad: 3:14 p.m. Thursday
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Marine jets destroyed a train station in a town near the Syrian border today because insurgents were storing weapons there, the U.S. military said. There was no report of casualties from the attack — the third day of strikes in the area in a week.
Marine F/A-18 jets dropped precision-guided 500 pound bombs on the target after "numerous reliable sources" saw about 50 al-Qaida-linked insurgents using the facility, the statement said.
Iraqi officials said the attack was launched about 1 p.m. against the railway station on the southwest part of Qaim, 200 miles west of Baghdad.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3334445


Fox will use speech to 'close up shop'
In his final annual address, he is expected to hit the high notes of his presidency
By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
MEXICO CITY - With the election campaign to choose his successor starting to boil, President Vicente Fox has been waging a campaign to ensure his legacy as a democratic reformer.
Since early August, he has saturated the Mexican media with paid advertisements and carefully controlled interviews touting what he says are the democratic and economic accomplishments of his presidency.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3333944


Jackson case reporter exits Court TV
Diane Dimond says resignation was amicable
By FELICIA R. LEE
New York Times News Service
She is just about the last person you would expect to go quietly. But she has. Diane Dimond, whose dogged coverage of Michael Jackson was a controversial signature for Court TV throughout his recent trial, has left the cable channel — amicably — to focus on writing a book on Jackson's legal challenges.
Over the years, Dimond's critics have said her coverage of Jackson was strident and pro-prosecution, criticism that only sharpened during her two years as an investigative reporter for Court TV. But both she and the channel say the complaints had nothing to do with her departure this week, a few months before her contract was scheduled to expire in December.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3333751


The Times Picayune

New Orleans cops ordered to stop looters
9/1/2005, 1:45 a.m. CT
By KEVIN McGILL
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mayor Ray Nagin ordered 1,500 police officers to leave their search-and-rescue mission Wednesday night and return to the streets to stop looting that has turned increasingly hostile as the city plunges deeper into chaos.
"They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas — hotels, hospitals, and we're going to stop it right now," Nagin said in a statement to The Associated Press.
The number of officers called off the search-and-rescue mission amounts to virtually the entire police force in New Orleans.

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/weather/index.ssf?/base/national-50/1125536041100733.xml&storylist=hurricane


Radio captures the horror, exhaustion
By Dave Walker
TV columnist
The exasperation, sadness, shock and exhaustion in
Dave Cohen’s voice said more than the words he was
saying, and they were bad enough.
This was midday Wednesday, and Cohen was manning the
microphone at WWL AM 870, the New Orleans news-talk
station that was providing a lifeline of information
to thousands of evacuees around the region, one of
them me.
The hole in the levee allowing Lake Pontchartrain to
dump into unflooded portions of New Orleans and
Jefferson Parish had not been mended. The “bowl
effect” was going to be achieved, with the city
filling with water, maybe all the way to the brim
created by the walls built to protect it.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html


The Cheney Observer

Local Opinion Robert Abele: How to Engage in Moral Discussion with the Political Right Part IV
By: Dr. Robert Abele, Grass Velley
Published: August 25, 2005 at 09:27
Let us finish our analysis of the values of the political-religious right begun in our last segment.
II. The inconsistency of their alleged values
1) The inversion of values language and the conversion of language to "code" - This can be seen quite clearly in the vocabulary of the political-religious right by their crafty use of such terms as the following: "bigotry" and "Christian bashing" to characterize any opposition to them; the use of the term "activist judges" to cover their opposition to those judges who issue "gay friendly" decisions, such as Supreme Court Justice Kennedy did concerning the decriminalization of gay sex; using the phrase "people of faith" as code for their own narrow, literalist brand of Christianity. Mr. Bush has also used remarkably Orwellian language in his speeches, such as "war is peace" (what Bush actually said: "We have applied our might in the name of peace," in a speech delivered on April 24, 2003, and in other speeches since then) and "government power over citizens is necessary for citizen freedom," (what Bush actually said: "The terrorist threats against us will not expire at the end of this year, and neither should the protections of the PATRIOT Act"). Compare that to James Madison's idea: "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." The USA PATRIOT Act is the piece of legislation passed six weeks after the events of 9/11/01 which allows the government to spy on U.S. citizens and to seize their property without warrant. These powers are allegedly for security, and security is clearly a primary value. However, by giving itself carte blanche powers to spy on its own citizens and take their property, government makes itself the agent of fear, not security. Thus, they violate the primary value of security in order to preserve it. This is much like the comment made by an unnamed General in Vietnam, and quoted by Generals in Fallujah, Iraq, that we have to destroy people in order to save them.

http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_24268.shtml


Sheehan Represents "Shrillness" Democrats Sorely Need
Posted by Balletshooz on August 31, 2005 05:08 PM (See all posts by Balletshooz)
Filed under: Politics - Scroll down to read comments on this story and/or add one of your own.
Fahrenheit 9/11
DVD from Columbia Tristar Hom
Release date: 05 October, 2004
George Will has some unsolicited advice for the Democratic Party. Tone it down and don't be "shrill" like Cindy Sheehan, if you want to win 2006 and 2008. It is a typical tactic Republicans use --attempt to cow the Democrats into disavowing their own. Thanks, but no thanks, for the advice Mr. Will.
Frankly, your advice is absurd and a recipe for another disaster, in a long string of disasters, for the Democratic Party. The"shrillness" that Republicans tag to Cindy Sheehan, is their mistaken perception of bravery and steadfastness. They mistake belief in ones cause and the rightness of ones actions, as being extreme and someone Democrats should "distance themselves from". Sheehan displays an attitude, a sureness, and an intestinal fortitude that the Democratic leaders sorely need, and that is why Republicans are so desperate to stifle it at its onset.
To distance yourself from people like Cindy Sheehan, as the Republican commentator suggests, is to put your destiny in the hands of people like Tom Delay, Karl Rove, and George Bush. It is to push Sheehan and your own allies away with one hand, and to reach out the other to Republican wolves, knowing full well that your hand is going to be bit.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/31/170822.php


Poll Shows Democrats Losing Effort to Appear Religion-Friendly
By Kevin Eckstrom
Religion News Service
Washington - Democrats are losing their effort to convince voters that they take religion seriously, especially among independent voters who say the party has become less "friendly" to religion, according to a new Pew poll.
At the same time, voters seem concerned that religious conservatives among Republicans, and secularists among Democrats, have too much sway in the two parties. Independents seem more concerned about religious conservatives in the GOP than secularists among Democrats.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/174/story_17412_1.html


Preserving support for war takes more than a clever name
Melissa Webster
Staff Writer
August 31, 2005
Recently, Bush, Inc. announced the slogan "War on Terror" would be abandoned in favor of the new slogan "The Struggle Against Violent Extremism." This was an exciting new marketing opportunity for Bush to put a new face on an old and failing product.
Alarmed the American public was growing weary and dissatisfied with the progress of the war - and Bush, Inc. in general - and faced with a continued drop in approval ratings, the Bush PR team decided a new slogan would breathe life into a dying campaign.

http://www.usavanguard.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/08/31/43164d4a16fbb


Crossfire War: Middle East; Tehran - Breakthrough Announced in Nuclear Program
By Willard Payne
Night Watch: TEHRAN - Iranian state television quoted the unnamed manager of its new breakthrough in using biotechnology to extract larger amounts of uranium concentrate from its mines at reduced costs. "Reuters August 30, 2005]
"The new technique used for production of yellowcake will reduce costs, and efficiency will increase one hundred-fold as well." Reuters reported that yellowcake, also known as concentrated uranium oxide, is an early stage of the nuclear fuel cycle and is fed to atomic reactors. The same process can be used to produce bomb grade material.

http://newsblaze.com/story/20050831092932nnnn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html


Development of Nemacolin power plant on schedule
BY BOB NIEDBALA, Staff writer
niedbala@observer-reporter.com
Wellington Development LLC is moving ahead with plans to build a coal waste-fired power plant at the former Nemacolin Mine in Cumberland Township and expects to begin construction before the end of the year, a company official said.
Wellington and the Bechtel Corp., which was hired to design and build the 525-megawatt plant, are now working to complete additional permitting requirements, said Stanley Sears of Wellington.

http://www.observer-reporter.com/288261587540355.bsp


Cheney to hold St. Louis fundraiser for Talent
SAM HANANEL
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will host a major fundraiser for Sen. Jim Talent in September, as the Missouri Republican gears up for a challenge from Democratic State Auditor Claire McCaskill.
Talent spokesman Rich Chrismer confirmed Wednesday that Cheney would host the event in St. Louis on Sept. 19, less than three weeks after McCaskill launched her bid to unseat the first term senator.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/12526088.htm


Blogged by Winter Patriot on 8/31/2005 @ 8:41pm PT...
Larisa Tells Bush: 'Go Cheney Yourself!'!!
Huffington Post Will Never Be The Same!
We should give her an award for this!

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
You have to read this piece. I can't tell you why. I can only get you started.
We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience.
Read the whole thing!. Then come back here and talk to me!
I think we should give Larisa Alexandrovna a Big BRAD BLOG Award for this epic piece of blogging, but I can't decide what we should call the award ... and I'm also looking for a suitable inscription. So please help me out here. All suggestions welcome, as usual.

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001783.htm


Cheney's 'Spoon-Benders' Pushing Nuclear Armageddon
Mathaba.Net - Africa
... is practicing what he and Satanist Aquino preached in the MindWar paper, and is one of the leading propaganda assets in Vice President Dick Cheney's push for ...

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=336883

Politicians take pork spending to a new high
By CHRIS EDWARDS,
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS-PRESS
Published by news-press.com on August 31, 2005
• The explosion of irresponsible federal spending is a sign of the fiscal failure of today's congressional leadership.
Federal pork spending has exploded in recent years. The highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 pork projects, or earmarks, inserted by members of Congress. Overall, the number of pork projects has increased 10-fold during the past decade.
Many politicians see no problem with that. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay argues that it is better for members to earmark money for their districts than to leave spending to the "bureaucrats." Then there is Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who when asked whether Congress would cut pork, said, "I hope not. ... Pork barrel is in the eye of the beholder."
Actually, it isn't — the case against most pork is clear. Most pork spending is for activities that are state, local or private events for which the federal government has no role under the Constitution. Neither the bureaucrats nor Tom DeLay should be spending taxpayer money on items such as these from the 2005 omnibus budget bill:
• $350,000 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
• $218,000 for a seafood plant in Oregon.
• $250,000 for an Alaska statehood celebration.
• $250,000 for sidewalk repairs in Boca Raton, Fla.
• $1.4 million for upgrades to Ted Stevens Airport in Alaska.
• $100,000 to Rochester, N.Y., for a film festival.
PIG OUT
The first two projects are unjustified giveaways to private businesses. Surely, millionaire rock stars could fund their Cleveland shrine by themselves.

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/OPINION/508310349/1015


Halliburton Agrees to Accept Mediation
08.31.2005, 02:06 PM
Halliburton Co., the energy services and construction company, agreed to accept mediation to settle workplace disputes, the company and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Wednesday.
Under the agreement, discrimination charges against the energy-services and construction company will be sent to EEOC's mediation unit instead of an investigation.
Halliburton joined a trend that has seen 90 other companies enter into mediation agreements.
Since 1999, more than 72,000 cases has been handled through mediation, with 70 percent being settled in about half the normal time for investigations, according to the employment commission.

http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/feeds/ap/2005/08/31/ap2199577.html


Playing with fire: Halliburton’s ties with terrorism
By Jason Leopold - posted Thursday, 1 September 2005
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Scandal-plagued Halliburton - the oil services company once headed by US Vice President Dick Cheney - sold an Iranian oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, say Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.
Halliburton was secretly working at the time with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and sold the components in April to the official's oil development company, the sources said.
Just a few weeks ago, a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from acquiring a nuclear bomb. That time frame could arguably have been significantly longer if Halliburton, whose military unit just reported a 284 per cent increase in its second quarter profits due to its Iraq reconstruction contracts, was not actively providing the Iranian Government with the means to build a nuclear weapon.
With Iran's new hardline government now firmly in place, Iranian officials have rounded up relatives and close business associates of Iran's former President and defeated mullah presidential candidate Hashemi Rafsanjani, alleging the men were involved in widespread corruption of Iran's oil industry, specifically tied to the country's business dealings with Halliburton.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3777


Lawmakers Ask Pentagon to Probe Firing
Staff and agencies
31 August, 2005
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer Mon Aug 29, 7:57 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Three congressional Democrats asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday to investigate the demotion of a senior civilian Army official who publicly criticized the awarding of a no-bid contract to Halliburton Co. for oil-related work in Iraq .
In the letter to Rumsfeld, the lawmakers said the demotion "appears to be retaliation" for her June 27 testimony before Congress in which she detailed her objections to the award of contracts for Iraq projects.

http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0066159.html


Halliburton "outperform"
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:03:16 PM ET
RBC Capital Markets
NEW YORK, August 31 (newratings.com) - Analyst Kurt Hallead of RBC Capital Markets maintains his "outperform" rating on Halliburton Company (HAL.NYS). The target price is set to $73.
In a research note published this morning, the analyst mentions that a ten-day interruption in Halliburton's activities on account of Hurricane Katrina would result in a $0.01-$0.02 adverse impact on the company's 3Q EPS. The company is expected to deploy its cash for acquisitions, debt reduction and share repurchases going ahead, the analyst says. According to RBC Capital Markets, KBR's dining facility issue has been resolved.

http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_995301.html

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August 25, 2005. Chicago, Illinois. Photographer states :: There was a huge painting by Georgia O'keeffe at the Chicago Art Museum at the stairs that I think must have been 10 ft. by 25 ft. This photo reminds me so much of that painting. 

August 31, 2005. Keeping their heads above water. A permanent condition of their lives. From the time they are born the people of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi know one thing profoundly and that is poverty. For some this is the first time people have ever cared even if it was so late ! Even with so many dead. 

Morning Papers - continued ...

The Globe and Mail

Typhoon makes landfall in Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
01 September 2005 07:04
Typhoon Talim lashed Taiwan on Thursday, paralysing air and land traffic, shuttering offices and schools, and leaving at least one person dead and 24 injured.
By the time Talim made landfall at 7.30am local time at Ilan in north-eastern Taiwan, it had developed two centres and pounded the island with heavy rain and strong winds.
"The typhoon speed is slowing down from 20kph to 16kph, but the force of the typhoon will linger on over Taiwan for some time, causing downpours and gusts of wind to most parts of the island," the Central Weather Bureau said.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249652&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/


Thousands feared lost in Hurricane Katrina
01 September 2005 07:00
The death toll from Hurricane Katrina could rise into the thousands in New Orleans alone, the city authorities believe, in what United States President George Bush described as "one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history".
The US government declared a public health emergency along the devastated Gulf Coast as the scale of the disaster became apparent, and fears grew that disease could spread in the stagnant water.
After flying low over the shattered region in Air Force One, Bush said: "We're dealing with one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history. This recovery will take a long time. This recovery will take years."

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249651&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/


Wolfowitz put Zimbabwe in it's place.


Zimbabwe makes surprise payment to IMF
Harare, Zimbabwe
01 September 2005 07:33
Zimbabwe has paid back $120-million of its $300-million debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had threatened to expel Harare for arrears, state television said on Wednesday.
"Zimbabwe has managed to pay $120-million to the IMF out of its own resources as part of efforts aimed at servicing its international debt," said a statement read on state television.
"This development is a source of immense national pride as it demonstrates the country's unwavering commitment to turn around its economic fortunes," it said.
Minister of Finance Herbert Murerwa said it proves "that no one can write off Zimbabwe as yet," and that we "can still do things on our own".

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249655&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/


Almost 1 000 dead in Baghdad stampede
01 September 2005 07:16
At least 965 Iraqis were crushed to death or drowned in Wednesday's stampede on a Baghdad bridge as vast crowds of Shi'ite pilgrims were sent into panic by rumours of suicide bombers in their midst.
In Iraq's deadliest day since the United States-led war of March 2003, hundreds of women, children and elderly people were trampled underfoot or jumped to their deaths from the bridge after a deadly mortar strike on a Shi'ite shrine.
Iraq authorities said the tragedy -- which risks inflaming sectarian tensions in the country -- was a "terrorist" act by toppled dictator Saddam Hussein's loyalists and al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249653&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

It seems obvious to me. Armstrong was fighting his cancer at the same time he was preparing for The Tour. It is up to France as to whether Epogen is a legitimate medication to support cancer fighting efforts and still compete. It seems to me people who survive cancer or who are fighting it needing medication to sustain their lives are legitimate competitors. The only way this should be considered a violation is if Lance illegally took Epogen after he was finished with his cancer treatment to 'cheat' in 1999.

Expert adds to Armstrong doping claims
Berlin, Germany
01 September 2005 08:30
The exploits of seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, who is alleged to have used the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) in 1999, are also down to the use of other banned substances, according to one expert.
Alessandro Donati, a specialist in the fight against doping in sport, suggested the performances of the 33-year-old American appear to show he has used a range of banned substances, including anabolic steroids.
Armstrong, who retired after his seventh yellow-jersey victory last month, has always denied ever taking banned substances, and has been on a major defensive since a report by French newspaper L'Equipe last week showed details of doping test results from the Tour de France in 1999.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=249671&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__sport/


The Jerusalem Post


Schools open after last-minute compromise on reforms
By TALYA HALKIN AND YAAKOV KATZ
Introduction of reforms to the nation's school system as outlined by the Dovrat Report will highlight the opening of school Thursday for some 1,700,000 Israeli pupils.
An Education Ministry situation room was in operation from 7 o'clock p.m. Wednesday evening and will be open until 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Education Ministry situation room phone number: 1212234567.
The opening of the new school year on September 1 was in jeopardy until late Tuesday night, when the Education Ministry and the teachers' organizations finally reached an agreement after months of failed negotiations.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454957834


Nearly half of Gaza kids not enrolled
By TALYA HALKIN
Close to 1,000 children whose families were evacuated from Gush Katif and northern Samaria were still not enrolled in new schools on Wednesday, a day before the opening of the new school year.
Of the 3,233 children evacuated from Gush Katif, 913 children had formerly studied in schools outside the Gush area, and will continue to study in those schools. Of the remaining 2,422 children from the Gush, and the 102 children from northern Samaria, only 1,200 children have already enrolled in other schools.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454956826


After the tempest
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is not alone in sending condolences and sympathies, on behalf of the State of Israel, to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Our sympathies, too, are roused for all those affected.
After all, who can remain numb to the devastation that this most violent of storms has wrought, and continues to wreak, throughout the southern United States? Katrina has blown winds of unfathomable fury and poured surging waves of water that have overwhelmed New Orleans and its environs. The mammoth storm has swallowed entire city blocks, utterly destroyed countless homes and businesses, cut off electricity to vast stretches of land and sent millions of people fleeing in search of safe haven, far inland.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454956333&p=1006953079865


Katrina's wrath continues: no time to count dead
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
GULFPORT, Mississippi
Along the Gulf Coast, there was simply no time to even count the dead. Engineers scrambled to plug two broken New Orleans levees and rescuers searched for survivors clinging to both hope and rooftops as the swirling, tea-colored water continued to rise.
The flooding in New Orleans grew worse by the minute Tuesday, prompting Gov. Kathleen Blanco to say that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome stadium and other rescue centers, needs to leave. She said she wanted the Superdome evacuated within two days, but it was still unclear where the people would go.
To repair damage to one of the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain, officials late Tuesday dropped 1,360 kilograms sandbags from helicopters and hauled dozens of nearly 5-meter concrete barriers into the breach. Officials also had a more audacious plan: finding a barge to plug the hole, Maj. Gen. Don Riley of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281956804


CHABAD HURRICANE RELIEF

http://www.chabadneworleans.com/


PM rejects compromise on primary date
By GIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected efforts by his allies in the cabinet on Wednesday to mediate a compromise with his rival, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, on a date for the Likud leadership primary.
Sharon told the ministers that he intends to fight for his political life ahead of the key September 26 Likud central committee vote on advancing the primary. He said he would work to defeat a proposal initiated by his political opponents that would force a November Likud race instead of submitting an alternative proposal.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454957374


Generals to sign Philadelphi deal Thurs.
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, HERB KEINON AND JPOST STAFF
Twenty-six years after Egypt and Israel signed an historic peace treaty, an Israeli major general and an Egyptian counterpart will get together in Cairo on Thursday in order to sign a new article of the deal that would transfer the control of the Philadelphi route to Egyptian security control.
According to the new clause, which was approved by the Knesset on Wednesday, 750 Egyptian border policemen would deploy along the route, which separates Sinai and the Gaza Strip, in the coming days.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454957837


4 indicted in anti-Jewish terror plot
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES
The head of a militant Islamic prison gang and three other men were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of planning terrorist attacks against National Guard facilities, the Israeli Consulate and other Los Angeles-area targets.
The four conspired to wage war against the US government through terrorism, kill armed service members and murder foreign officials, among other charges, according to the indictment.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454957942


Reports: Shalom to meet Pakistani FM
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pakistan's foreign minister Khursheed Kasuri was set to hold talks Thursday with his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom on the situation in the Middle East, a landmark diplomatic meeting between the countries, two Pakistani newspapers reported Thursday.
The Dawn newspaper said the meeting, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, was taking place "in response to Israel's keenness to establish contact with Pakistan."
The two countries - which don't have diplomatic ties - decided to hold the meeting in Turkey because it is a "neutral" country, Dawn said. Turkey is a predominantly Muslim nation that has diplomatic relations with Israel and is a close friend of Pakistan.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125541481169


Israelis in Florida Jihad Trial
By NATHAN GUTTMAN
Washington
Five Israelis who witnessed a Palestinian suicide attack three years ago, were called to the stand Tuesday to testify in the trial of professor Sami Al-Arian who is accused of heading the Palestinian Islamic Jihad branch in the US and of raising money used to finance terror attack against Israelis.
The Israelis that testified in court in Tampa, Florida were all witnesses of the June 2002 attack on an Egged bus near the Megiddo junction. The attack, carried out by a terrorist who crashed his explosive-packed car into the bus, killed 17 people and injured 45. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed responsibility for the attack.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454957140


Journalism at Risk

Reuters soundman killed in Baghdad, police blame US
29.08.05 1.30pm

BAGHDAD - A Reuters Television soundman was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday and a cameraman who was wounded was still being questioned by US troops 12 hours later.
Iraqi police said the two, both Iraqis, were shot by US forces. A US military spokesman said the incident was being investigated. The cameraman was being held and questioned because of "inconsistencies in his initial testimony", he added.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10342978


More journalists killed in Iraq than Vietnam
PARIS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Sunday.
Since U.S. forces and its allies launched their campaign in Iraq on March 20, 2003, 66 journalists and their assistants have been killed, RSF said.
The latest casualty was a Reuters Television soundman who was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday while a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3894


EDITORIAL]High fatality of reporters

The death of a Reuters Television soundman in Bagh-dad Sunday raised the total number of journalists who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 to 66. Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media rights group, compared the number with the total 63 deaths of journalists in Vietnam over a period of 20 years from 1955 to 1975.
Reporters covering the war in Iraq get killed in the explosion of roadside bombs and are often caught in the crossfire between Coalition troops and insurgents. Excluding deaths in accidents, there have been 52 deaths (14 in 2003, 24 in 2004 and 14 this year), with the fatalities consisting of 33 Iraqis, nine Europeans, two Americans and eight other nationalities.

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/08/30/200508300007.asp


Little freedom when jail threatens
August 29, 2005
The media need help to be an effective watchdog, writes Petro Georgiou.
It is a grave matter to jail someone. Graver still when that imprisonment is for the expression of views, the publication of ideas or the reporting of an issue.
In a healthy democracy, it is hard to believe that a journalist might be jailed for accurately reporting a story of significant public interest which poses no risk to national security.
And yet we are facing the prospect of contempt of court charges and the jailing of two journalists from the Melbourne Herald Sun, Michael Harvey and Gerard McManus. Their offence is their refusal to disclose sources who assisted them in reporting on cuts to recommended benefits to war veterans.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/little-freedom-when-jail-threatens/2005/08/28/1125167548234.html


Former American businessman lobbies for China's political prisoners
TERENCE CHEA
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO - If China frees any political prisoners before its president's first official visit to the United States next week, chances are John Kamm will have played a role in this goodwill gesture.
The former chemical company executive, who now heads the nonprofit Dui Hua Foundation in San Francisco, has emerged as a key intermediary between Washington and Beijing on human rights matters. When a jailed dissident is released or sent into exile, the announcement often comes from Kamm.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/12500422.htm


Report criticizes media coverage of Egyptian presidential race
Ola Galal
Middle East Times
August 29, 2005
CAIRO -- A report evaluating media coverage of the first week of Egypt's presidential campaign that started on August 17 indicates that state-owned publications were biased toward incumbent president and current head of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Hosni Mubarak.
"Since President Mubarak announced his intention to run for presidency ... most of the editors of national newspapers have declared their support for him," stated the report by the National Campaign for Monitoring the Elections 2005, which was released on August 22. It added that the state-owned daily Al Ahram had given Mubarak more space on its pages than the total space given to all other candidates.

http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050829-101932-5519r

Reuters cameraman jailed in Abu Ghraib
September 1, 2005 - 8:40AM
The Reuters news agency said today it was shocked and appalled by the sentencing of one of its cameraman to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Reuters said 36-year-old cameraman Ali al-Mashhadani, who was detained by US forces in Iraq three weeks ago, had been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison until his case was reviewed - a process which could take up to six months.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/iraq/reuters-cameraman-jailed-in-abu-ghraib/2005/09/01/1125302657696.html


The Chicago Tribune


Total evacuation of New Orleans begins
By Howard Witt and Michael Martinez
Tribune national correspondents
Published August 31, 2005, 10:40 PM CDT
NEW ORLEANS -- A massive forced evacuation of this sunken city began Wednesday as Mayor Ray Nagin said thousands were feared dead in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the federal government deployed thousands of troops to help combat rampant looting and lawlessness.
Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the entire city would be empty for months as officials began the long task of pumping out floodwaters and assessing the damage caused by one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
"The city will not be functional for two or three months," the mayor said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050831hurricane,1,5714532.story?coll=chi-news-hed


Total evacuation of New Orleans begins
By Howard Witt and Michael Martinez
Tribune national correspondents
Published August 31, 2005, 10:40 PM CDT
NEW ORLEANS -- A massive forced evacuation of this sunken city began Wednesday as Mayor Ray Nagin said thousands were feared dead in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the federal government deployed thousands of troops to help combat rampant looting and lawlessness.
Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the entire city would be empty for months as officials began the long task of pumping out floodwaters and assessing the damage caused by one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050831hurricane,1,5714532.story?coll=chi-news-hed


Blagojevich sends Illinois National Guard to Louisiana
By Tara Burghart
The Associated Press
Published August 31, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
The Illinois National Guard will send 300 soldiers and up to 50 military vehicles to Louisiana to assist with the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office announced Wednesday.
The large military cargo trucks can drive through several feet of water, making them suitable for cleaning up debris and transporting supplies, officials said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050831nationalguard,1,398008.story?coll=chi-news-hed


Gasoline prices take off as day goes on
The disruption in the nation's supply of crude has motorists paying more than $3 a gallon in the Chicago area, and twice that in Georgia
By John Biemer and Erika Slife
Tribune staff reporters
Published August 31, 2005, 9:50 PM CDT
Motorists across the Chicago area were stunned Wednesday as gasoline prices soared past the $3-a-gallon mark as the ripple effect of Hurricane Katrina, which crippled most of the Gulf of Mexico's oil output, spread across the country.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050831gas-story,1,4220757.story?coll=chi-news-hed


The New Zealand Herald


Yachting: Team NZ wait on slick new 'McLaren'
01.09.05
By Julie Ash

MALMO - Team New Zealand are counting down the days, if not hours, until their slick new racing machine emerges from the boatyard.
The Emirates-sponsored syndicate finished third behind Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing in the sixth America's Cup pre-regatta in Malmo, Sweden.
Team New Zealand won nine out of 11 races. They could have ended with a 10-from-11 record had they not been over the startline against Italian syndicate +39 or if a jib sheet had not blown out against Oracle.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=4&ObjectID=10343441


Baghdad stampede provokes civil war fears
01.09.05 4.00pm
By Anne Penketh

There are fears that the stampede on the Imams bridge in Baghdad could be the event that causes Iraq's long-suffering Shia community to take up arms against the Sunni-led insurgents and start a full-scale civil war.
Sunni leaders were anxiously trying to calm the situation last night as emotions ran high after the pilgrim stampede.
Defence Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi, a Sunni Arab himself, insisted on television that "what happened has nothing at all to do with any sectarian tension".

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343532


Hurricane recovery to take years, says Bush
01.09.05 1.00pm

WASHINGTON - US President George W Bush says it will take years for the country's Gulf Coast states to fully recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.
More than 78,000 people are now in shelters after the hurricane that struck on Monday Bush said, calling it "one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history."
He said "tens of thousands of homes and businesses are beyond repair" and that part of the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been "completely destroyed."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343505


Gay affair not adultery says court
01.09.05 8.20am

A Vancouver woman has gone to court to fight for a divorce after her husband's gay affair was not recognised by the Judiciary as adultery.
Shelley Pickering, 44, had been married nearly 17 years when she found out last year that her husband was having an affair with a man.
Her spouse admitted to the fling in an affidavit, but a provincial Supreme Court judge refused to grant them an immediate divorce as Canada, despite allowing gay marriage, does not recognise homosexual relationships in adultery law.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343474


US largest weapons supplier
01.09.05 7.20am

The United States is the largest supplier of weapons to developing nations, delivering more than US$9.6 billion ($14.09 billion) in arms in 2004.
The total value of all arms agreements last year was close to US$37 billion and nearly 59 per cent of the agreements were with developing nations, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The weapons being sold range from ammunition to tanks, combat aircraft, missiles and submarines.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10343475

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This is the underwater cavern of the Indianapolis Zoo. It is their aquarium. The carvern is made of glass to allow viewing from all angles. 

August 29, 2005. Gulfport, Mississippi. A local aquarium moved five dolphins to resident swimming pools for their survival. I am grateful they don't have gills otherwise the chlorine would burn their gills. Has anyone found these Marine Mammals and removed them from the pools yet? 

Morning Papers - concluded

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Scott Base

Some cloud

-34.0°

Updated Thursday 01 Sep 7:59PM

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

50 °F / 10 °C
Overcast

Humidity:
87%

Dew Point:
46 °F / 8 °C

Wind:
Calm

Pressure:
29.85 in / 1011 hPa

Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Few 200 ft / 60 m
Overcast 2000 ft / 609 m

end

September 1, 2005. The Indian Ocean. Persistently hot but then it receives nearly direct solar rays all year round. 

September 1, 2005. This is Western Pacific. It is also East Asia. The 'description' of the oceans and continents are in opposites. Eastern boundaries of oceans are western boundaries of continents. This is a Cat Four Typhoon on it's way to an already battered Asia. It's huge.  

September 1, 2005. Like Africa, the Pacific is quiet. EXCEPT for the vortex near Antarctica that starts again at the equator and extends to the polar regions. The reason for this is the industrialized East Asian countries as well as Australia. A near mirror reflection is seen in the Northern Hemisphere as the equinox approaches. 

September 1, 2005. Western Hemisphere. What a mess. Noted the vortex flow from the Pacific Equator to the Arctic Ocean. In there is Katrina. Hurricane Lee is developing in the 'scallop' of the Atlantic equator between Africa and South America.  

September 1, 2005. The periphery off the Antarctica Vortex is finding reaches to the equator again thanks to the polluting ways of the USA. 

September 1, 2005. Quiet Africa. Noted the vortex flow off the equator south over South America. The equinox is approaching. The southern hemisphere is picking up more solar radiation. The South American Climate issues are effected by the Gulf as well and the USA's polluting ways.