May 15, 2005. The changing weather of Chicago, Illinois.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
May 8, 2005. Sag Harbor, New York. There are 'Waterway Beautificaton Projects' in many coastal and river cities. In Wilmington we add a few waterways each year to our beautification project which originally was funded by the state. It enhances property while making the waterways a pleasure to navigate. It stops erosion and encourages econo-systems. There is currently a project we are waiting for legislation to pass permitting Wilmington Waterways to host native oysters in caged beds suspended under boat docks. This is to allow native osyters to breed in home waters and spread their young to the open waters while the breeding sets stay together under the docks for year after year. There is little maintenance except to be sure they have free flowing water through their nesting cage.
Morning Papers - continuing
The Cheney Observer
press gallery: Will a change of horses work?
By Rana Qaisar
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly, concluding a three-day debate, passed a unanimous resolution on Friday to condemn the desecration of the Quran by US soldiers and the inhuman treatment being meted out to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The resolution called upon the US government to hold an inquiry into these incidents. When the ‘unanimous’ resolution was passed, hardly 30 members were present in the House.
Most of the speakers who participated in the three-day debate were from the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). The government allowed them to drag the debate beyond what was necessary only, but surely keeping in view the sensitivity of the issue, to provide the anti-US venom-spitting political mullas a cathartic opportunity to restrict them to parliament only. Otherwise, there was no logic to continue the debate when the US administration had already condemned the desecration of the Quran and ordered an inquiry soon after Islamabad had registered its protest with Washington on May 7.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_32
Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick strengthen opposition to AUT boycott
By israelinsider staff and partners May 15, 2005
At least three British universities will oppose the boycott imposed by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) on Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University in April, according to sources at the schools.
Representatives of the AUT branches at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick will object to the boycott in the AUT's special council meeting scheduled to reconsider the boycott next week.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/AntiSemi/5555.htm
Iraq - The Devastation
by Dahr Jamail
published by Tom Dispatch
Iraq - The Devastation
The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I'm still overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to describe this.
The illegal war and occupation of Iraq was waged for three reasons, according to the Bush administration. First for weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be found. Second, because the regime of Saddam Hussein had links to al-Qaeda, which Mr. Bush has personally admitted have never been proven. The third reason -- embedded in the very name of the invasion, Operation Iraqi Freedom -- was to liberate the Iraqi people.
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/050107Jamail.shtml
Big Dig expands search for problems
By Associated Press January 7, 2005
Big Dig inspectors are expanding their search for construction errors in the new Interstate 93 tunnels, hoping to learn whether problems that could lead to leaks were isolated to a section of the $14.6 billion roadway or are more widespread.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2005/01/07/big_dig_expands_search_for_problems/
…isms
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King
Blunt gets his agenda in session
By JOSH FLORY of the Tribune’s staff
Published Sunday, May 15, 2005
JEFFERSON CITY - He might not deserve all the credit, but Gov. Matt Blunt got nearly everything he wanted in his first legislative session.
Even before lawmakers finished their work Friday afternoon, Blunt held a news conference at his Capitol office to tout victories on a slew of campaign priorities: new restrictions on injury lawsuits, tighter workers’ compensation rules, a new school funding formula, a boost in education spending and a new job incentives program.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/May/20050515News004.asp
U.S., European Leaders Feud
By NATHANIEL POPPER
April 8, 2005
BALTIMORE — Transatlantic tensions spilled over at an intimate gathering of Jewish philanthropists this week, when a British Jewish communal leader accused his American counterparts of being "almost imperialistic" and of exaggerating the extent of antisemitism in Europe.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2957
Joseph Massad’s Mangled Lexicon
By Gilead Ini
IHC Abstract
This disturbing article highlights the ongoing “popular” antisemitism in universities in the United States and elsewhere. A professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, Joseph Massad, has made a name for himself as he shapes - and teaches - Middle Eastern dynamics in a manner which fits his skewed and extreme anti-Jewish/anti-Israel worldview.
All readers are encouraged to read this article in its entirety. It is important to know how U.S. tax dollars are paying for an “Ivy League” course in antisemitism and hate.
The IHC recommends you read the article in full.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/070420051
What are Islamic Schools Teaching?
By Daniel Pipes
IHC Abstract
Recent studies and investigations into Islamic schools in the United States and Canada have revealed an Islamist agenda that includes promoting antisemitism, radical Islamic ideas, segregation from one’s country and condemnation and intolerance of all other religions, including Judaism and Christianity. Islamic institutions other than schools also have adopted this agenda. Venomous anti-Jewish and anti-Christian materials have been found at U.S. mosques. And in Canada, the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress has publicly endorsed the murder of all Israelis over the age of 18. Outside pressure from politicians, journalists, researchers and moderate Muslims must be brought to bear stating clearly and frequently the unacceptability of this situation.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/070420052
FACES FORWARD: Back From Iraq, Marine Aims for Laughs as a Comic
By Heather Robinson
April 8, 2005
If the young Woody Allen had been a tough guy, he might have been something like David Rosner. A study in seeming contradictions, Rosner is a stand-up comic and a reserve Marine Corps major — a self-described "recovered hypochondriac" who served in the first Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. For the latter, he was deployed six months in Iraq and Kuwait during 2003 as an intelligence officer, for which his duties included gathering information to make and maintain expeditionary airfields.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2959
The UN's (United Thug's) Shameful Anti-semitism
By R.J. Rummel, 4/8/2005 6:32:24 AM
Israel is a liberal democracy. It has as high a Freedom House overall rating of free, and scores on political rights as does the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom; on civil liberties, it is only slightly below them, but still much better than many democracies, and certainly a whole lot better that the dictatorships and monarchies that surround it.
Yet, and maybe partly because of this, it is the pariah in the United Nations. It is the only UN member systematically excluded from participation in, as far as I could determine, all the committees and UN bodies. For example, it has recently been rejected for membership on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UN Human Rights Committee, UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and UN Racial Discrimination Committee. And, Israel is denied membership in every one of the important UN's five regional groups.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?52a7897b-19d1-4895-b582-283bbcf2e878
Opinion : THE POPE WHO TURNED ANTISEMITISM ASIDE
Posted by Senior Editor on 2005/4/7 15:37:00
By Jeff Jacoby
As a young boy in the 1930s, my father attended public school in Snina, a town in eastern Czechoslovakia. Twice a week, a Catholic priest would come in to teach the catechism, during which the few children who were Jewish were sent to wait outside. As they left the classroom, my father recalls, the priest invariably made some insulting remark about the Jewish people.
For Jews in the Europe of my father's youth, such Christian contempt was a fact of life. Its origins lay in the church's ancient claim that God had rejected the Jews when they rejected Jesus and that his covenant with Israel had been superseded by a new covenant with a "new Israel" -- namely, the Christian church. This 'teaching of contempt fed an often virulent anti-Semitism, which created the climate for Europe's long history of persecuting Jews. Sixty-five years ago that history culminated in the Holocaust.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4601
POPE JOHN PAUL II AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Rabbi Marvin Hier
In terms of reconciliation with the Jews, I believe that Pope John Paul II was the greatest Pope in the history of the Vatican with respect to his relationship to the Jewish people.
- Rabbi Marvin Hier, CNN's Larry King Live Show, Tuesday, April 4, 2005
As you read this, the funeral of Pope John Paul II is taking place. For twenty centuries, the Catholic Church has had a turbulent relationship with the Jewish people. Jews were persecuted and held responsible for the death of Jesus, and were often the victims of Church-instigated pogroms and antisemitic attacks.
http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=33&Param_Red=2293
The Pope Who Turned Antisemitism Aside
By Jeff Jacoby
IHC Abstract
In the sea of Catholic contempt for the Jewish people during and before the Holocaust, not every priest in that era treated Jews with disdain. The Boston Globe cites examples of respect and tenderness for a covenant people in the story of young priest whose name was once Karol Wojtyla. He died last week and was buried on Friday as Pope John Paul II. Jeff Jacoby in this article reminds readers of the years-long stand and many instances of refusal on the part of John Paul II to enter into the bias and antisemitism of his generation. As a young bishop at the Second Vatican Council, he spoke up powerfully in support of “Nostra Aetate,” the landmark Vatican declaration that renounced the idea of Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus and affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jews is unbroken. In 1986 he paid the first visit by a pope to the Great Synagogue in Rome, where he stressed the debt that Christians owe to the Jews, “'our elder brothers.” In 1993, he formally recognized the State of Israel, repudiating forever the old theology that Jews were doomed to everlasting exile, never again to be sovereign in their homeland. He became the first pope to publicly beg forgiveness for Christian wrongs done to Jews. And in 2000, on a deeply emotional pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he became the first pope to pray at the Western Wall. As Pope John Paul II is laid to his rest, Jews and Christians will weep together.
The IHC recommends you read the article in full.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/120420051
Jewish students resign
by: SJ reporter
Luciana Berger
Three Jewish members of the National Union of Students have resigned from their posts, citing NUS inaction against antisemitism as their grounds.
Luciana Berger (co-convenor anti-racism & anti-fascism campaign) and Mitch Simmons (co-convenor ethical & environmental campaign) both of the NUS National Executive Committee, together with Jonny Warren (NUS Steering Committee – who was standing for re-election) took the decision in front of NUS conference following a claimed year’s worth of inactivity by their National Union, and two days worth of apathy to antisemitism at the annual meeting.
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1435_jewish_students_resi.htm
Confronting Reality: Antisemitism in Australia Today
By Jeremy Jones
IHC Abstract
Although antisemitism is socially unacceptable in Australia - with government, media and religious institutions ensuring that it does not become acceptable - there are nevertheless well-documented cases for various manifestations of it in recent years. This article examines the presence and the sources of antisemitism in Australia, while arguing the ongoing responsibility of political and moral leadership to confront it.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=5/e/130420051
Antisemitism Revisited
By Asaf Romirowsky
IHC Abstract
It is 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and we are facing a resurgence of antisemitism in Europe. Why? Why now?
European antisemitism transformed from the medieval religious form to the Nazi racial/genetic form. Currently, both European and Muslim antisemitism embrace aspects of both the old antisemitic canards and the Nazi junk science. In Europe it is manifesting as anti-Zionism.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/130420051
Terrorist victims right to file law suits, supported by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
TORONTO, April 18 /CNW/ - The Canadian Coalition Against Terrorism wastoday commended by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies for their continuing campaign to have acts of terrorism, includingsuicide bombing, become the basis for allowing victims and victims' familiesto sue States, organizations and individuals who promote such atrocities.Said Friends' Director of National Affairs Leo Adler, "we will dowhatever we can to help them when they meet with Parliamentarians thisTuesday."Adler also noted "this is the first step in a process to see that theplanners, recruiters, financiers and propagandists are made responsible forthe fallout of their actions."Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies wants theCanadian government to take the lead in a sustained international effort todeclare suicide bombings as crimes against humanity.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2005/18/c6835.html
A Firm but Fallible Friend: Pope John Paul II and the Jews
By Sean Gannon
IHC Abstract
He was a man who took paths never taken by those who led before him, but also continued on some of the old ones. In this article by Sean Gannon, he shows why Pope John Paul II deserves much praise as well as some criticism regarding his relationship with the Jewish people.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/200420051
A Brief History of an Enduring Forger
By Jerome Chanes
April 22, 2005
This is the second in a series of three poetry reviews, published in celebration of National Poetry Month.
'Lies have short legs" is a proverb invoked by historian Richard Levy in discussing historical frauds and forgeries. Clearly, in the case of a slew of antisemitic libels — most infamously "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" — such folk wisdom is just plain wrong. "Protocols" may well be the longest-legged lie of modern times, and no amount of light shed on the "hoax of the 20th century" has been able to kill it.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3052
Shifting Political Alliances Raise Alarm for U.K. Jews
By Forward Staff
April 29, 2005
British Prime Minister Tony Blair goes to the voters next week to seek a third term, following a brief but heated election campaign in which his most controversial decision, taking his nation to war in Iraq, hardly played a role.
But while the Middle East appears to have caused few problems for Blair during the campaign, it has generated some uncomfortable moments for Britain's 270,000-member Jewish community.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3099
Natan Sharansky’s Resignation
By Anthony David Marks
Natan Sharansky has been at odds with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Disengagement Plan for some time, so his resignation from the Cabinet on 2 May 2005 was not a complete surprise. Sharansky was Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs. He feels Israel is giving away something with nothing in return. Mr. Sharansky asserts that Israel has a golden opportunity to demand the Palestinians incorporate democratic values and practices into their body politic before Israel relinquishes any territory. Israel should act while it has leverage. This has not been done and there are no plans to do it. Without continuous outside pressure, there is little chance the Palestinians will advance democracy one iota. In all probability, Hamas’ involvement in Palestinian affairs will guarantee a society administered by Muslim extremists.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/c/040520051
Sharansky Quits Cabinet Over Gaza Plan, Naming Conditions for a Return
By naTHANIEL POPPER
May 6, 2005
Israeli political resignations usually receive more notice in Israel than in America.
Not this week.
Natan Sharansky's resignation Monday from his post as Israel's minister for Diaspora and Jerusalem affairs was front-page news in America, where he is still remembered as a former Soviet refusenik and has become known as a favorite of President Bush. But Israeli newspapers brushed his resignation to the back pages, like another political maneuver in Jerusalem.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3132
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1
By MEMRI
IHC Abstract
Our long-time friend and only true Arab ally is showing signs of capitulating to the same deplorable antisemitic attitudes that have come to plague the Muslim world. MEMRI offers translated excerpts of articles published in the Turkish press clearly displaying a new and unprecedented antisemitic phase in Turkey. Jews are being blamed for running the world, orchestrating natural disasters and masterminding the worst cases of genocide known to mankind. The resourceful nature of the Jewish people, as well as their alleged disproportionate economic and political presence, is being peddled as the casus belli for the rise of Hitler in Germany and his program of extermination. On the other hand, Zionists are the ones accused of influencing Hitler to put the Holocaust into motion, so as to stir Jews to emigrate from Europe to Palestine.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=5/e/080520051
MEMRI: Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1
Special Dispatch - Turkish Media Project/Antisemitism Documentation Project
April 28, 2005
No. 900
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1
The rising antisemitism in the Turkish media is a complex phenomenon that
manifests itself in several forms:
1. Animosity towards Jews, Judaism and 'Jewish lobbies.' Jews are targeted as individuals, a community, people and "race," and as a sinister political entity seeking Jewish dominance on world affairs, businesses and media. Jews are demonized in many conspiracy theories including causing earthquakes, globalization, and the creation of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=25015
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media (Part II) - Turkish Intellectuals Against Antisemitism
Antisemitism in the Turkish media targets not only Jews in general, but also the Turkish citizens who are members of the small Jewish community of about 20,000 people. Increasingly, newspapers are accusing Turkish Jews of disloyalty, of betrayal, and of having hidden and sinister agendas. The Turkish media has recently blamed the Jews for espousing secularism and for espionage against Turkey.
This antisemitism, in which Turkish nationalism and radical Islam find common ground, is of growing concern to some Turkish intellectuals. The following report addresses the views and concerns of those intellectuals:
Turkish Intellectuals Petition: "Zero Tolerance for Antisemitism"
In its October 2004 issue, the socialist Turkish magazine Birikim published a petition titled "Zero Tolerance for Antisemitism." The petition was signed by Muslim and non-Muslim intellectuals (see Appendix). The following are excerpts: [1]
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP90405
Chilean martyr advocated surgical 'cure' for homosexuality
May 14, 2005
Berlin: Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile who was killed during a CIA-backed coup in 1973, was an anti-Semite who held fascist ideas in his youth, says a new book which has split Chile.
The book, Salvador Allende: Antisemitism and Euthanasia, will shock those around the world who revere the late president as a socialist martyr deposed by the right-wing General Augusto Pinochet with the backing of Washington and big business.
The disclosures come from Allende's 1933 doctoral dissertation which had been kept secret. In it he asserts that Jews have a disposition to crime, and calls for compulsory sterilisation of the mentally ill and alcoholics.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Chilean-martyr-advocated-surgical-cure-for-homosexuality/2005/05/13/1115843371706.html
Lessons of the Holocaust
By Dr. Robert R. Friedmann
The following is Dr. Robert R. Friedmann’s Keynote Address delivered at the State Capitol during the Annual State Official Observance of Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Atlanta, Georgia, 6 May 2005
Dr. Friedmann was the Recipient of the 2005 Humanitarian Award from the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=2/a/v/150520051
Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick strengthen opposition to AUT boycott
By israelinsider staff and partners May 15, 2005
At least three British universities will oppose the boycott imposed by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) on Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University in April, according to sources at the schools.
Representatives of the AUT branches at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick will object to the boycott in the AUT's special council meeting scheduled to reconsider the boycott next week.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/AntiSemi/5555.htm
Unwanted Pregnancies
Pitched passions at the polls over abortion, unions
By Jill Stewart
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until June 13 to decide whether to hold a special election on his widely publicized reform ideas. Yet I expect two lesser-known measures to arouse far more passion, potentially drawing true-believer voter blocs who could dramatically alter the calculus of the entire election.
One measure requires public-employee labor unions to get written permission from workers each year in order to spend worker dues on political races. The other requires parental notification if a minor seeks an abortion.
I can see election day now: Lefties and unionistas show up to derail the union dues-permission measure, while big business gleefully attempts to ram it through. Right-wingers and bugged parents vote to pass the abortion-notification measure, while feminists taunt parents as the sort of people who can't be trusted with such touchy info.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~24781~2869795,00.html
Brazil Begins Talking Openly About Abortion
Run Date: 05/15/05
By Jen Ross
WeNews correspondent
Brazil is moving to address the problem of illegal abortion, the country's fourth leading cause of maternal death. In March the government eased abortions for rape victims and in April it formed a committee to review all its abortion policies.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (WOMENSENEWS)--Marta won't give her last name for fear of legal recriminations.
Her ex-husband, she says, has already threatened to report her to the police.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2296/context/archive
Roe v. Wade would happen in the state with the highest teen pregnancy rate.
Texan known in D.C. for one thing
Web Posted: 05/15/2005 12:00 AM CDT
Maro Robbins
Express-News Staff Writer
Graduation was months away. College seemed a sure thing. The classroom clock was ticking toward the carefree time students call senior spring.
Then the birth-control pills failed.
What happened next shaped the future of a 17-year-old girl and may now do the same to one of the Texas Supreme Court justices who heard the teenager's request for an abortion without telling her parents.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051505.1A.judging_owen.275d3a411.html
Women
EMIRATES: JAILED BRITISH WOMAN AQUITTED
Dubai, 9 May (AKI) - A British woman jailed for entering the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a banned drug in her system has been acquitted after spending almost two months in prison. Tracy Lewis, 43, was cleared after the court was shown that she had a valid medical prescription for the painkiller Codeine, which is available over the counter in the UK, but is illegal in the UAE.
Her lawyer, Salim Al Sha’ali, said she had been acquitted after it was proved that the substances found in her bloodstream matched those subscribed in her prescription.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.164472384&par=0
Campaign begun to rid Africa of ‘insult’ laws
Two veteran SA journalists, Raymond Louw, former editor of the Rand Daily Mail, and journalist turned media consultant, Jeanette Minnie, have launched an ambitious campaign to persuade African governments to rid the continent of ‘insult and criminal defamation laws’.
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20050509083225664
continued...
press gallery: Will a change of horses work?
By Rana Qaisar
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly, concluding a three-day debate, passed a unanimous resolution on Friday to condemn the desecration of the Quran by US soldiers and the inhuman treatment being meted out to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The resolution called upon the US government to hold an inquiry into these incidents. When the ‘unanimous’ resolution was passed, hardly 30 members were present in the House.
Most of the speakers who participated in the three-day debate were from the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). The government allowed them to drag the debate beyond what was necessary only, but surely keeping in view the sensitivity of the issue, to provide the anti-US venom-spitting political mullas a cathartic opportunity to restrict them to parliament only. Otherwise, there was no logic to continue the debate when the US administration had already condemned the desecration of the Quran and ordered an inquiry soon after Islamabad had registered its protest with Washington on May 7.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_32
Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick strengthen opposition to AUT boycott
By israelinsider staff and partners May 15, 2005
At least three British universities will oppose the boycott imposed by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) on Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University in April, according to sources at the schools.
Representatives of the AUT branches at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick will object to the boycott in the AUT's special council meeting scheduled to reconsider the boycott next week.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/AntiSemi/5555.htm
Iraq - The Devastation
by Dahr Jamail
published by Tom Dispatch
Iraq - The Devastation
The devastation of Iraq? Where do I start? After working 7 of the last 12 months in Iraq, I'm still overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to describe this.
The illegal war and occupation of Iraq was waged for three reasons, according to the Bush administration. First for weapons of mass destruction, which have yet to be found. Second, because the regime of Saddam Hussein had links to al-Qaeda, which Mr. Bush has personally admitted have never been proven. The third reason -- embedded in the very name of the invasion, Operation Iraqi Freedom -- was to liberate the Iraqi people.
http://progressivetrail.org/articles/050107Jamail.shtml
Big Dig expands search for problems
By Associated Press January 7, 2005
Big Dig inspectors are expanding their search for construction errors in the new Interstate 93 tunnels, hoping to learn whether problems that could lead to leaks were isolated to a section of the $14.6 billion roadway or are more widespread.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2005/01/07/big_dig_expands_search_for_problems/
…isms
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King
Blunt gets his agenda in session
By JOSH FLORY of the Tribune’s staff
Published Sunday, May 15, 2005
JEFFERSON CITY - He might not deserve all the credit, but Gov. Matt Blunt got nearly everything he wanted in his first legislative session.
Even before lawmakers finished their work Friday afternoon, Blunt held a news conference at his Capitol office to tout victories on a slew of campaign priorities: new restrictions on injury lawsuits, tighter workers’ compensation rules, a new school funding formula, a boost in education spending and a new job incentives program.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/May/20050515News004.asp
U.S., European Leaders Feud
By NATHANIEL POPPER
April 8, 2005
BALTIMORE — Transatlantic tensions spilled over at an intimate gathering of Jewish philanthropists this week, when a British Jewish communal leader accused his American counterparts of being "almost imperialistic" and of exaggerating the extent of antisemitism in Europe.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2957
Joseph Massad’s Mangled Lexicon
By Gilead Ini
IHC Abstract
This disturbing article highlights the ongoing “popular” antisemitism in universities in the United States and elsewhere. A professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, Joseph Massad, has made a name for himself as he shapes - and teaches - Middle Eastern dynamics in a manner which fits his skewed and extreme anti-Jewish/anti-Israel worldview.
All readers are encouraged to read this article in its entirety. It is important to know how U.S. tax dollars are paying for an “Ivy League” course in antisemitism and hate.
The IHC recommends you read the article in full.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/070420051
What are Islamic Schools Teaching?
By Daniel Pipes
IHC Abstract
Recent studies and investigations into Islamic schools in the United States and Canada have revealed an Islamist agenda that includes promoting antisemitism, radical Islamic ideas, segregation from one’s country and condemnation and intolerance of all other religions, including Judaism and Christianity. Islamic institutions other than schools also have adopted this agenda. Venomous anti-Jewish and anti-Christian materials have been found at U.S. mosques. And in Canada, the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress has publicly endorsed the murder of all Israelis over the age of 18. Outside pressure from politicians, journalists, researchers and moderate Muslims must be brought to bear stating clearly and frequently the unacceptability of this situation.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/070420052
FACES FORWARD: Back From Iraq, Marine Aims for Laughs as a Comic
By Heather Robinson
April 8, 2005
If the young Woody Allen had been a tough guy, he might have been something like David Rosner. A study in seeming contradictions, Rosner is a stand-up comic and a reserve Marine Corps major — a self-described "recovered hypochondriac" who served in the first Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. For the latter, he was deployed six months in Iraq and Kuwait during 2003 as an intelligence officer, for which his duties included gathering information to make and maintain expeditionary airfields.
http://www.forward.com/articles/2959
The UN's (United Thug's) Shameful Anti-semitism
By R.J. Rummel, 4/8/2005 6:32:24 AM
Israel is a liberal democracy. It has as high a Freedom House overall rating of free, and scores on political rights as does the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom; on civil liberties, it is only slightly below them, but still much better than many democracies, and certainly a whole lot better that the dictatorships and monarchies that surround it.
Yet, and maybe partly because of this, it is the pariah in the United Nations. It is the only UN member systematically excluded from participation in, as far as I could determine, all the committees and UN bodies. For example, it has recently been rejected for membership on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UN Human Rights Committee, UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and UN Racial Discrimination Committee. And, Israel is denied membership in every one of the important UN's five regional groups.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?52a7897b-19d1-4895-b582-283bbcf2e878
Opinion : THE POPE WHO TURNED ANTISEMITISM ASIDE
Posted by Senior Editor on 2005/4/7 15:37:00
By Jeff Jacoby
As a young boy in the 1930s, my father attended public school in Snina, a town in eastern Czechoslovakia. Twice a week, a Catholic priest would come in to teach the catechism, during which the few children who were Jewish were sent to wait outside. As they left the classroom, my father recalls, the priest invariably made some insulting remark about the Jewish people.
For Jews in the Europe of my father's youth, such Christian contempt was a fact of life. Its origins lay in the church's ancient claim that God had rejected the Jews when they rejected Jesus and that his covenant with Israel had been superseded by a new covenant with a "new Israel" -- namely, the Christian church. This 'teaching of contempt fed an often virulent anti-Semitism, which created the climate for Europe's long history of persecuting Jews. Sixty-five years ago that history culminated in the Holocaust.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4601
POPE JOHN PAUL II AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Rabbi Marvin Hier
In terms of reconciliation with the Jews, I believe that Pope John Paul II was the greatest Pope in the history of the Vatican with respect to his relationship to the Jewish people.
- Rabbi Marvin Hier, CNN's Larry King Live Show, Tuesday, April 4, 2005
As you read this, the funeral of Pope John Paul II is taking place. For twenty centuries, the Catholic Church has had a turbulent relationship with the Jewish people. Jews were persecuted and held responsible for the death of Jesus, and were often the victims of Church-instigated pogroms and antisemitic attacks.
http://www.juedische.at/TCgi/TCgi.cgi?target=home&Param_Kat=3&Param_RB=33&Param_Red=2293
The Pope Who Turned Antisemitism Aside
By Jeff Jacoby
IHC Abstract
In the sea of Catholic contempt for the Jewish people during and before the Holocaust, not every priest in that era treated Jews with disdain. The Boston Globe cites examples of respect and tenderness for a covenant people in the story of young priest whose name was once Karol Wojtyla. He died last week and was buried on Friday as Pope John Paul II. Jeff Jacoby in this article reminds readers of the years-long stand and many instances of refusal on the part of John Paul II to enter into the bias and antisemitism of his generation. As a young bishop at the Second Vatican Council, he spoke up powerfully in support of “Nostra Aetate,” the landmark Vatican declaration that renounced the idea of Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus and affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jews is unbroken. In 1986 he paid the first visit by a pope to the Great Synagogue in Rome, where he stressed the debt that Christians owe to the Jews, “'our elder brothers.” In 1993, he formally recognized the State of Israel, repudiating forever the old theology that Jews were doomed to everlasting exile, never again to be sovereign in their homeland. He became the first pope to publicly beg forgiveness for Christian wrongs done to Jews. And in 2000, on a deeply emotional pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he became the first pope to pray at the Western Wall. As Pope John Paul II is laid to his rest, Jews and Christians will weep together.
The IHC recommends you read the article in full.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/120420051
Jewish students resign
by: SJ reporter
Luciana Berger
Three Jewish members of the National Union of Students have resigned from their posts, citing NUS inaction against antisemitism as their grounds.
Luciana Berger (co-convenor anti-racism & anti-fascism campaign) and Mitch Simmons (co-convenor ethical & environmental campaign) both of the NUS National Executive Committee, together with Jonny Warren (NUS Steering Committee – who was standing for re-election) took the decision in front of NUS conference following a claimed year’s worth of inactivity by their National Union, and two days worth of apathy to antisemitism at the annual meeting.
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1435_jewish_students_resi.htm
Confronting Reality: Antisemitism in Australia Today
By Jeremy Jones
IHC Abstract
Although antisemitism is socially unacceptable in Australia - with government, media and religious institutions ensuring that it does not become acceptable - there are nevertheless well-documented cases for various manifestations of it in recent years. This article examines the presence and the sources of antisemitism in Australia, while arguing the ongoing responsibility of political and moral leadership to confront it.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=5/e/130420051
Antisemitism Revisited
By Asaf Romirowsky
IHC Abstract
It is 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and we are facing a resurgence of antisemitism in Europe. Why? Why now?
European antisemitism transformed from the medieval religious form to the Nazi racial/genetic form. Currently, both European and Muslim antisemitism embrace aspects of both the old antisemitic canards and the Nazi junk science. In Europe it is manifesting as anti-Zionism.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/130420051
Terrorist victims right to file law suits, supported by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
TORONTO, April 18 /CNW/ - The Canadian Coalition Against Terrorism wastoday commended by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center For HolocaustStudies for their continuing campaign to have acts of terrorism, includingsuicide bombing, become the basis for allowing victims and victims' familiesto sue States, organizations and individuals who promote such atrocities.Said Friends' Director of National Affairs Leo Adler, "we will dowhatever we can to help them when they meet with Parliamentarians thisTuesday."Adler also noted "this is the first step in a process to see that theplanners, recruiters, financiers and propagandists are made responsible forthe fallout of their actions."Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies wants theCanadian government to take the lead in a sustained international effort todeclare suicide bombings as crimes against humanity.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2005/18/c6835.html
A Firm but Fallible Friend: Pope John Paul II and the Jews
By Sean Gannon
IHC Abstract
He was a man who took paths never taken by those who led before him, but also continued on some of the old ones. In this article by Sean Gannon, he shows why Pope John Paul II deserves much praise as well as some criticism regarding his relationship with the Jewish people.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/200420051
A Brief History of an Enduring Forger
By Jerome Chanes
April 22, 2005
This is the second in a series of three poetry reviews, published in celebration of National Poetry Month.
'Lies have short legs" is a proverb invoked by historian Richard Levy in discussing historical frauds and forgeries. Clearly, in the case of a slew of antisemitic libels — most infamously "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" — such folk wisdom is just plain wrong. "Protocols" may well be the longest-legged lie of modern times, and no amount of light shed on the "hoax of the 20th century" has been able to kill it.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3052
Shifting Political Alliances Raise Alarm for U.K. Jews
By Forward Staff
April 29, 2005
British Prime Minister Tony Blair goes to the voters next week to seek a third term, following a brief but heated election campaign in which his most controversial decision, taking his nation to war in Iraq, hardly played a role.
But while the Middle East appears to have caused few problems for Blair during the campaign, it has generated some uncomfortable moments for Britain's 270,000-member Jewish community.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3099
Natan Sharansky’s Resignation
By Anthony David Marks
Natan Sharansky has been at odds with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Disengagement Plan for some time, so his resignation from the Cabinet on 2 May 2005 was not a complete surprise. Sharansky was Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs. He feels Israel is giving away something with nothing in return. Mr. Sharansky asserts that Israel has a golden opportunity to demand the Palestinians incorporate democratic values and practices into their body politic before Israel relinquishes any territory. Israel should act while it has leverage. This has not been done and there are no plans to do it. Without continuous outside pressure, there is little chance the Palestinians will advance democracy one iota. In all probability, Hamas’ involvement in Palestinian affairs will guarantee a society administered by Muslim extremists.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/c/040520051
Sharansky Quits Cabinet Over Gaza Plan, Naming Conditions for a Return
By naTHANIEL POPPER
May 6, 2005
Israeli political resignations usually receive more notice in Israel than in America.
Not this week.
Natan Sharansky's resignation Monday from his post as Israel's minister for Diaspora and Jerusalem affairs was front-page news in America, where he is still remembered as a former Soviet refusenik and has become known as a favorite of President Bush. But Israeli newspapers brushed his resignation to the back pages, like another political maneuver in Jerusalem.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3132
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1
By MEMRI
IHC Abstract
Our long-time friend and only true Arab ally is showing signs of capitulating to the same deplorable antisemitic attitudes that have come to plague the Muslim world. MEMRI offers translated excerpts of articles published in the Turkish press clearly displaying a new and unprecedented antisemitic phase in Turkey. Jews are being blamed for running the world, orchestrating natural disasters and masterminding the worst cases of genocide known to mankind. The resourceful nature of the Jewish people, as well as their alleged disproportionate economic and political presence, is being peddled as the casus belli for the rise of Hitler in Germany and his program of extermination. On the other hand, Zionists are the ones accused of influencing Hitler to put the Holocaust into motion, so as to stir Jews to emigrate from Europe to Palestine.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=5/e/080520051
MEMRI: Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1
Special Dispatch - Turkish Media Project/Antisemitism Documentation Project
April 28, 2005
No. 900
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1
The rising antisemitism in the Turkish media is a complex phenomenon that
manifests itself in several forms:
1. Animosity towards Jews, Judaism and 'Jewish lobbies.' Jews are targeted as individuals, a community, people and "race," and as a sinister political entity seeking Jewish dominance on world affairs, businesses and media. Jews are demonized in many conspiracy theories including causing earthquakes, globalization, and the creation of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=25015
Antisemitism in the Turkish Media (Part II) - Turkish Intellectuals Against Antisemitism
Antisemitism in the Turkish media targets not only Jews in general, but also the Turkish citizens who are members of the small Jewish community of about 20,000 people. Increasingly, newspapers are accusing Turkish Jews of disloyalty, of betrayal, and of having hidden and sinister agendas. The Turkish media has recently blamed the Jews for espousing secularism and for espionage against Turkey.
This antisemitism, in which Turkish nationalism and radical Islam find common ground, is of growing concern to some Turkish intellectuals. The following report addresses the views and concerns of those intellectuals:
Turkish Intellectuals Petition: "Zero Tolerance for Antisemitism"
In its October 2004 issue, the socialist Turkish magazine Birikim published a petition titled "Zero Tolerance for Antisemitism." The petition was signed by Muslim and non-Muslim intellectuals (see Appendix). The following are excerpts: [1]
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP90405
Chilean martyr advocated surgical 'cure' for homosexuality
May 14, 2005
Berlin: Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile who was killed during a CIA-backed coup in 1973, was an anti-Semite who held fascist ideas in his youth, says a new book which has split Chile.
The book, Salvador Allende: Antisemitism and Euthanasia, will shock those around the world who revere the late president as a socialist martyr deposed by the right-wing General Augusto Pinochet with the backing of Washington and big business.
The disclosures come from Allende's 1933 doctoral dissertation which had been kept secret. In it he asserts that Jews have a disposition to crime, and calls for compulsory sterilisation of the mentally ill and alcoholics.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Chilean-martyr-advocated-surgical-cure-for-homosexuality/2005/05/13/1115843371706.html
Lessons of the Holocaust
By Dr. Robert R. Friedmann
The following is Dr. Robert R. Friedmann’s Keynote Address delivered at the State Capitol during the Annual State Official Observance of Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Atlanta, Georgia, 6 May 2005
Dr. Friedmann was the Recipient of the 2005 Humanitarian Award from the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=2/a/v/150520051
Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick strengthen opposition to AUT boycott
By israelinsider staff and partners May 15, 2005
At least three British universities will oppose the boycott imposed by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) on Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University in April, according to sources at the schools.
Representatives of the AUT branches at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick will object to the boycott in the AUT's special council meeting scheduled to reconsider the boycott next week.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/AntiSemi/5555.htm
Unwanted Pregnancies
Pitched passions at the polls over abortion, unions
By Jill Stewart
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has until June 13 to decide whether to hold a special election on his widely publicized reform ideas. Yet I expect two lesser-known measures to arouse far more passion, potentially drawing true-believer voter blocs who could dramatically alter the calculus of the entire election.
One measure requires public-employee labor unions to get written permission from workers each year in order to spend worker dues on political races. The other requires parental notification if a minor seeks an abortion.
I can see election day now: Lefties and unionistas show up to derail the union dues-permission measure, while big business gleefully attempts to ram it through. Right-wingers and bugged parents vote to pass the abortion-notification measure, while feminists taunt parents as the sort of people who can't be trusted with such touchy info.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~24781~2869795,00.html
Brazil Begins Talking Openly About Abortion
Run Date: 05/15/05
By Jen Ross
WeNews correspondent
Brazil is moving to address the problem of illegal abortion, the country's fourth leading cause of maternal death. In March the government eased abortions for rape victims and in April it formed a committee to review all its abortion policies.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (WOMENSENEWS)--Marta won't give her last name for fear of legal recriminations.
Her ex-husband, she says, has already threatened to report her to the police.
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2296/context/archive
Roe v. Wade would happen in the state with the highest teen pregnancy rate.
Texan known in D.C. for one thing
Web Posted: 05/15/2005 12:00 AM CDT
Maro Robbins
Express-News Staff Writer
Graduation was months away. College seemed a sure thing. The classroom clock was ticking toward the carefree time students call senior spring.
Then the birth-control pills failed.
What happened next shaped the future of a 17-year-old girl and may now do the same to one of the Texas Supreme Court justices who heard the teenager's request for an abortion without telling her parents.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051505.1A.judging_owen.275d3a411.html
Women
EMIRATES: JAILED BRITISH WOMAN AQUITTED
Dubai, 9 May (AKI) - A British woman jailed for entering the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a banned drug in her system has been acquitted after spending almost two months in prison. Tracy Lewis, 43, was cleared after the court was shown that she had a valid medical prescription for the painkiller Codeine, which is available over the counter in the UK, but is illegal in the UAE.
Her lawyer, Salim Al Sha’ali, said she had been acquitted after it was proved that the substances found in her bloodstream matched those subscribed in her prescription.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.164472384&par=0
Campaign begun to rid Africa of ‘insult’ laws
Two veteran SA journalists, Raymond Louw, former editor of the Rand Daily Mail, and journalist turned media consultant, Jeanette Minnie, have launched an ambitious campaign to persuade African governments to rid the continent of ‘insult and criminal defamation laws’.
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20050509083225664
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The Cheney Observer
Protesters demonstrate outside Halliburton's headquarters
12:09 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 17, 2005
From 11 News Staff Reports
Protesters staged a demonstration outside of Halliburton's headquarters Tuesday. They're accusing the company of war profiteering.
The group, Houston Global Awareness, said it wants to blow the whistle on the company's action, including accusations it has defrauded the people of Iraq and the American government.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou050517_gj_halliburton.283113a8f.html
Halliburton-owned firm gets bonuses
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The Army said Tuesday that it had awarded an additional $72 million in bonuses to Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root for logistics support of the Iraq war.
The Army said it graded the company's performance “very good” or “excellent.”
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11615344.htm
US Terrorism: Halliburton in Bed with Iran
by HalliburtonWatch.Org
In July 2004, Halliburton faced a criminal inquiry into its business ties with Iran.
Halliburton reported that it received a subpoena from a grand jury investigating its business ties with Iran, a nation President Bush says sponsors terrorism.
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has been investigating Halliburton since 2001 to determine whether it violated the ban on U.S. companies doing business with Iran.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=118&contentid=2175
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING DEREGULATION: HALLIBURTON PAYOFF?
The yield of every natural gas and oil well eventually declines. Once that happens, more significant measures are needed to keep the well producing. One of the more popular — and increasingly controversial— techniques is hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracing (pronounced "fracking"). This is most commonly used to extend the life of coalbed methane wells.
Fracing involves pumping highly pressurized fluids deep underground. This cracks geologic formations and forces oil and natural gas to rise so they can be more easily extracted — thus extending the useful life of oil and gas wells. The problem is that fracing could pollute aquifers, permanently alter the patterns and integrity of local hydrogeology, and even destroy nearby private wells. The most common fluid used is made up of water and sand — but sometimes it contains methanol, oil, MTBE, diesel fuel, or other toxicants.
http://notes.sej.org/sej/tipsheet.nsf/0/c159f09b0fdbc5e386256ffe004f84b0?OpenDocument
House Protests $1.7bn Contract to Halliburton
This Day (Lagos)
April 25, 2005
Posted to the web April 25, 2005
Mike Oduniyi And Kola Ologbodiyan
Lagos/Abuja
Senate summons Shell over Bonga project
The executive and legislative arms of government may be on a fresh collision course over the recent awards of engineering contracts to US oil services company Halliburton, which was earlier recommended for ban by the House of Representatives.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504250833.html
Halliburton: Looks to turn around overseas operations
DAVID BOGOSLAW
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Halliburton Co. said Friday that it expects results from its business that boosts production at oilwells - disappointing in the first quarter - to improve this year.
In the March quarter, revenue from the production optimization business was particularly weak in Russia due to adverse weather conditions, said Andrew Lane, Halliburton's chief operating officer.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/11465301.htm
So much for Halliburton
By Observer Viewpoint
Published: Monday, April 25, 2005
And to think, I was this close to gainful employment. Those hooded robe-wearing executives at Halliburton started recruiting me roughly two years ago upon discovering that, wonder of wonders, a Notre Dame student favors unfettered oil exploration across the world. Their weekly emails became tiresome, true, but I found myself flattered by their insistence that I join their ranks upon graduation. The allure of a seven-digit starting salary certainly had its perks, particularly when informed that I only had to keep my GPA above 2.0 in my final semester. Alas, the enterprising efforts of the Class of 2005 halted me in my capitalistic tracks when a representative asked me to sign the Senior Class Pledge of Social Responsibility.
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/paper660/news/2005/04/25/Viewpoint/So.Much.For.Halliburton-935844.shtml
Pentagon OKs $1.8B Halliburton KBR Fraud
by CONSPIRACY PLANET
The Pentagon and Bush Crony Capitalist firms like Halliburton continue to reap egregious profits, while multiple billions of dollars in Iraq War fraud continue to be paid out.
The Pentagon has signed off on paying $1.8 billion to KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root), a subsidiary of the Dick Cheney connected Halliburton Co., which has been involved in numerous Iraq War frauds.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=118&contentid=2113
RIA Novosti
URGENT: ONE KILLED, 10 INJURED IN MINE BLAST IN KISELEVSK
MOSCOW/KEMEROVO, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - One man was killed and nine injured in the explosion in a mine in Kiselevsk (Kemerovo region), said a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
"Ten out of 11 miners who stayed near the epicenter of the explosion were brought to surface. They have injuries and burns. One miner was killed," the spokesman said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050518/40375650.html
UZBEKISTAN RAISES QUESTIONS WHICH NOBODY CAN ANSWER
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - The European and American public was shocked by the ruthless suppression of the Andizhan revolt by President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.
And this shock in itself became an event of international life.
Most commentators did not know how to react to the situation, which cannot be described in the usual terms understandable in the societies of Europe, the U.S. and Australia.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050518/40373749.html
SUMMARY: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEETS PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to provide equal access to mass media for all political forces and to raise public sector wages by 50% within three years. At his meeting with senior parliamentarians in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the President recalled that his two latest addresses to the parliament should be viewed as a single long-term program of action. "The ideas and tasks set in the address are our common program of action," he said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050518/40376251.html
RUSSIA TO DESIGN NEW BOEING AIRCRAFT
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - The incomplete Boeing B-787 Dreamliner passenger plane design has been unveiled in Moscow while about 300 Russian engineers help design its components, Vremya Novostei reported.
On May 16, Boeing Russia-CIS President Sergei Kravchenko said that the company had decided to include Moscow in an extremely limited list of cities where B-787-s will be unveiled. His decision is motivated by Russia's considerable contribution to the R&D effort.
http://en.rian.ru/business/20050517/40366347.html
VIETNAM BOOSTS NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA
HANOI, May 17 (RIA Novosti, Thu Huong) - The Vietnamese government views Russia as a strategic partner in the economic development of the country, including in the sphere of nuclear energy, said Vuong Huu Tan, Director of the Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute.
The second sitting of the Vietnam-Russia coordinating committee on nuclear energy is to take place in Hanoi Tuesday. Vladimir Generalov, head of nuclear construction department of the Federal Nuclear Energy Agency (Rosatom), heads the Russian delegation.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050517/40370460.html
PUTIN: MORALS A MUST FOR RUSSIAN SOCIETY
MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin called moral values in Russian society immutable and intransient in his annual State of the Nation address Monday.
"Russian society has always condemned immorality. In Russia, law and morals, politics and morality were traditionally recognized as close and comparable notions. In any case, their interconnection was a declared ideal," said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050425/39736770.html
RUSSIA TO SELL 100,000 KALASHNIKOV SUBMACHINE-GUNS TO VENEZUELA
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 18 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Kurguzov) - On Tuesday Venezuela and Russia signed an agreement on supplies of 100,000 Kalashnikov submachine-guns to that South-American country.The sum total of the transaction is $54 million. Russia undertook to supply to Venezuela, alongside weapons, also 2,000 handbooks, as well as spare parts and accessories for the AK submachine-guns.
http://en.rian.ru/business/20050518/40372525.html
TREATY ON RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN BORDER SIGNED IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - The treaties on the Russian-Estonian border and maritime border delimitation in the Gulf of Narva and the Gulf of Finland were signed today in Moscow by the Russian and Estonian foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Urmas Paet.
The treaties determine the present-day border running along the former administrative border between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic with a minor adjustment "on condition of the adequate territorial compensation."
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050518/40374824.html
OIL CONFLICT IN UKRAINE: TIMOSHENKO'S PHYRRIC VICTORY
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti political commentator Yulia Yurova) - The new Ukrainian authorities cannot find a common language with Russian companies working in Ukraine.
The confrontation has grown in the past few days owing to a fuel crisis.
Relations between Ukraine's top officials and Russian companies started to become more tense after the new president, Viktor Yushchenko, spoke about the need to review the results of privatization in early spring. Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko added fuel to the flames by saying that the Ukrainian government and the Prosecutor General's Office would initiate a review of the closed criminal cases on privatization of nearly 3,000 facilities.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050518/40376245.html
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE ELITE BOOK PUBLISHED IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Intelligence Elite, a new documentary book about Russian intelligence officers was published in Moscow. The book's presentation took place at the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service on Wednesday.
"This collection is unique because it comprises stories of both military and political intelligence officers," spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service Boris Labusov said at the presentation.
http://en.rian.ru/society/20050518/40375191.html
WHAT THE RUSSIAN PAPERS SAY
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
Politichesky Zhurnal
Putin Aide: Baltics Stifling Russia-EU Relations
Russia's relations with EU newcomers are being stifled by vengeful elite who want the new Russia to bear the burden of Soviet historical responsibility, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, presidential aide for EU policy, told the Russian weekly Politichesky Zhurnal.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050518/40374435.html
RUSSIAN JEWELRY MARKET
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Nina Kulikova.) -- Russians traditionally love jewelry, especially gold, the symbol of wealth and prosperity.
And the Russian jewelry market is booming. Wealthy Russians can increasingly often be seen at European auctions and leaving as the surprise purchasers of exclusive pieces. Western jewelers are opening boutiques in Moscow one after another and are prospering. However, mass Russian consumers are oriented to the cheaper end of the market, meaning that the Russian jewelry market today has significant potential for development.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050516/40362216.html
The New York Times
Adrift 500 Feet Under the Sea, a Minute Was an Eternity
By CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: May 18, 2005
APRA HARBOR, Guam, May 16 - Blood was everywhere. Sailors lay sprawled across the floor, several of them unconscious, others simply dazed. Even the captain was asking, "What just happened?" All anyone knew for sure was that the nuclear-powered attack submarine had slammed head-on into something solid and very large, and that it had to get to the surface fast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/national/18crash.html?hp
Steroid-Assisted Fastballs? Pitchers Face New Spotlight
By JERE LONGMAN
Published: May 18, 2005
Baseball's conventional wisdom holds that anabolic steroids are used by beefy sluggers and avoided by pitchers, who rely on flexibility and long, lean muscles instead of constricting bulk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/sports/baseball/18steroids.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=85bb63db15155241&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Beijing Brushes Off U.S. Warning on Currency
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: May 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 18 - The Bush administration warned China on Tuesday that its currency policies were distorting world trade, and it brandished the threat of retaliation against the country's exports if Chinese leaders did not change course in the next year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/international/asia/18cnd-china.html
Registering New Influence, Iran Sends a Top Aide to Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 18, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 17 - Wasting little time in registering its new influence in Iraq, Iran sent its foreign minister to Baghdad on Tuesday only 48 hours after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the first high-level visitor to hold talks with Iraq's new Shiite-majority government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/international/middleeast/18iraq.html>
Old Pills Finding New Medicine Cabinets
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: May 18, 2005
As the cost of prescription drugs climbs, more of the nation's officials and consumers are weighing how to salvage at least $1 billion worth of unused drugs that are being flushed down the toilet each year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/health/18reuse.html
The Evolution of Reluctant Capitalists
By JOSH BARBANEL
Published: May 15, 2005
Will Creed and Jessica Tomb had questioned whether the deal was the best that tenants could achieve.
WEST VILLAGE HOUSES was once the ugly duckling of Greenwich Village, a huge postwar project of 42 brick walk-ups that look squat and plain among the imposing 19th-century warehouses and brownstones. The architecture is so unremarkable that the project was recently redlined out of a proposed West Village historic district.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/realestate/15cov.html
Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs
By TIM WEINER
Published: May 18, 2005
The Air Force, saying it must secure space to protect the nation from attack, is seeking President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move the United States closer to fielding offensive and defensive space weapons, according to White House and Air Force officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/business/18space.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=d2e1785def9a54d0&ei=5094&partner=homepage
BBC
Explosive showdown in Senate
George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.
Far from displaying the forelock-tugging deference to which senators are accustomed, Mr Galloway went on the attack.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4553601.stm
Timeline: Oil-for-food scandal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4445609.stm
Companies in 'oil-for-food scam'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4025057.stm
Analysis: Surge in Iraq violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4537065.stm
I think they open mouth kiss a good deal because the VOW so much.
Iran vows secure border with Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4558601.stm
Aids 'kills one in three' in SA
Almost one in three deaths in South Africa are caused by Aids making it the leading killer, according to research.
In two provinces, the figure is as high as 40%, says an unreleased report by South Africa's Medical Research Council.
Research was based on the study of death statistics for the year 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4558367.stm
Louisiana's frozen ark
The electronic metal gates closed ominously behind us as we entered the exotic world of the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species, just outside New Orleans.
Our small group of journalists was escorted into a place reminiscent of the film Jurassic Park in more ways than one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4547533.stm
UN calls for Uzbek deaths inquiry
The UN's top human rights official has called for an independent investigation into reports that Uzbek troops shot dead hundreds of protesters.
Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said she was "deeply concerned" about last week's violence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4559031.stm
How the Andijan killings unfolded
Hundreds of people are thought to have died when violence erupted in the Uzbek city of Andijan on Friday 13 May. The BBC News website has compiled this account of how events unfolded, based on media reports, eyewitnesses and official statements.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4550845.stm
The Miami Herald
Report: Many FEMA cases flawed
Spot reinspections of FEMA award claims for hurricane damage in Miami-Dade County found that more than half of inspections carried out in the county had at least one problem.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11671952.htm
Castro rallies Cubans against terror, Posada
Fidel Castro ordered thousands of people to attend a rally in Havana intended to mobilize the masses and focusing on Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles.
BY NANCY SAN MARTIN
nsanmartin@herald.com
Busloads of Cubans from across the island packed Havana's most famous seaside highway Tuesday to participate in a ''March against Terrorism'' called by Fidel Castro in what analysts called his latest attempt to rally the masses.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11672201.htm
Posada extradition issue poses major credibility challenge for U.S.
The Venezuelan government has requested that the United States extradite Cuban exile and suspected terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to face trial for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. How will the U.S. respond? How will the U.S. reconcile its hostility to the Cuban and Venezuelan governments with the war on terrorism?
Answer from Philip Peters, vice president of the Lexington Institute: Luis Posada Carriles is forcing the Bush administration to face the strict, no exceptions standard for antiterrorist action that it rightly demands of the rest of the world. ''If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist,'' the president has said. The administration's choices boil down to making Posada Carriles comfortable here or in a safe haven abroad, or making him face justice for terrorist crimes in which he has admitted involvement.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11672193.htm
U.S. finally says No to terror suspect
OUR OPINION: U.S. SHOULD KEEP ACCUSED BOMBER DETAINED
After accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles made a mockery of the federal agency charged with homeland security, it finally did its job: The Department of Homeland Security arrested him yesterday. The move came weeks after he was alleged to be in Miami, after he applied for asylum and only after he held a press conference.
Until then, DHS appeared indifferent to Mr. Posada and the danger he presented. How could the United States credibly wage a global war against terror while allowing a suspected terrorist to freely roam on its soil?
Mr. Posada is accused of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana de Aviacíon passenger jet, which killed 76 people. He also claimed responsibility for a 1997 series of bombings at tourist venues in Cuba, one of which killed an Italian tourist. Mr. Posada denies involvement in the jetliner downing, but equivocated on the tourist-site bombs: ''Leave it to history,'' he told Herald reporters last week in an interview that confirmed his presence in Miami.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11672214.htm
From family's wounds springs a vision of hope
Shederica McDuffie, daughter of Arthur McDuffie, now ministers to the community that was scarred by her father's violent death.
BY ANDREA ROBINSON
arobinson@herald.com
Evangelist Shederica McDuffie stepped to the lectern at a Sunday morning worship service in Liberty City. In powerful tones, she told the small congregation how she has traded ashes for beauty -- and how Miami can, too.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11672097.htm
The New Zealand Herald
State of emergency in Bay of Plenty after flooding
18.05.05 7.45pm UPDATE
A local state of emergency has been declared in the Eastern Bay of Plenty township of Matata, prompting officials to evacuate a third of the population.
Five 41-seater buses are being used to transport around 200 people from Matata to Whakatane as the heavy rain continues to fall in the region, threatening houses and roads.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126193
Editorial: Koran affair explodes in resentment
17.05.05
Newsweek magazine's backdown yesterday over the small story that sparked enormous consequences seemed to be the mother of all media mea culpas. As well as its readers, it had to apologise to the victims of the riots provoked by its report that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet to put pressure on Islamic prisoners.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10125814
Crash scene like a war zone as medics searched for life
A police officer beside the disintegrated remains of the van. Picture / Amos Chapple
18.05.05 UPDATED at 6.00pm
Tourists from four countries were involved in the fatal road smash that killed eight people and left one girl critically ill in the Waikato today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126150
Man faces kidnap and rape charges after missing woman found
18.05.05 3.45pm
A 29-year-old Tauranga man has been charged with kidnapping, rape and assault after a missing Auckland woman was found in a car with him in Taranaki yesterday.
The man was to appear in New Plymouth District Court today.
Counties Manukau police said the 20-year-old woman from Howick was reported missing by her parents on Monday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126186
The killed 300 at Beslan. This is not so unrealistic at this point.
Uzbek authorities deny troops killed civilians
18.05.05 1.00pm
ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan's government said troops had killed "terrorists" not civilians to quell unrest, contradicting witnesses who said they shot hundreds of protesters, including women and children.
An Uzbek opposition party said it had compiled a list of 745 people killed. Witnesses and a human rights activist in Andizhan have put the death toll at about 500.
Uzbekistan's prosecutor general said it was 169, including three women and two children among hostages killed by rebels.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126175
Viagra-fuelled Italian stallions seized by police
18.05.05 3.20pm
ROME - Italian police have discovered a mob-linked race track where they say horses were pumped full of Viagra and other drugs to fix races.
The illegally built and operated track, known locally as "Miss Charmet," is located on the outskirts of Naples city -- home to the Camorra, the local version of the Sicilian Mafia.
"We are able to ascertain the use of the famous (drug) Viagra to increase the performance of these horses," police commander Mario Pantano told local television.
It was not clear how Viagra affected the horses' speed.
The track and its horses, worth an estimated 5 million euros ($9 million), were seized by authorities investigating illegal doping of horses, according to local media.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126192
UN seeks climate 'roadmap' beyond Kyoto
18.05.05 2.40pm
BONN, Germany - The world should work out a roadmap this year for extending the UN Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 even though many rich states are far from complying, the UN's climate change chief said.
"There are a number of countries ... that are far from their targets" for greenhouse gas emissions, Joke Waller-Hunter, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told Reuters during a two-day 190-nation seminar.
"We are going to need action to make sure that the targets are being met," she said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126189
Tapu Misa: Education fails the poor, brown and disenfranchised
18.05.05
Not long ago I was invited to talk to a group of first-time principals about what schools should be like for kids. I leapt at the opportunity. What pushy parent wouldn't take the chance to tell 138 new principals how they should run their schools?
The fact that I don't have an education degree and have never taught was a minor point. I am a parent, therefore I am bound to know better.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10126009
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Protesters demonstrate outside Halliburton's headquarters
12:09 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 17, 2005
From 11 News Staff Reports
Protesters staged a demonstration outside of Halliburton's headquarters Tuesday. They're accusing the company of war profiteering.
The group, Houston Global Awareness, said it wants to blow the whistle on the company's action, including accusations it has defrauded the people of Iraq and the American government.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou050517_gj_halliburton.283113a8f.html
Halliburton-owned firm gets bonuses
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The Army said Tuesday that it had awarded an additional $72 million in bonuses to Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root for logistics support of the Iraq war.
The Army said it graded the company's performance “very good” or “excellent.”
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11615344.htm
US Terrorism: Halliburton in Bed with Iran
by HalliburtonWatch.Org
In July 2004, Halliburton faced a criminal inquiry into its business ties with Iran.
Halliburton reported that it received a subpoena from a grand jury investigating its business ties with Iran, a nation President Bush says sponsors terrorism.
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has been investigating Halliburton since 2001 to determine whether it violated the ban on U.S. companies doing business with Iran.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=118&contentid=2175
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING DEREGULATION: HALLIBURTON PAYOFF?
The yield of every natural gas and oil well eventually declines. Once that happens, more significant measures are needed to keep the well producing. One of the more popular — and increasingly controversial— techniques is hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracing (pronounced "fracking"). This is most commonly used to extend the life of coalbed methane wells.
Fracing involves pumping highly pressurized fluids deep underground. This cracks geologic formations and forces oil and natural gas to rise so they can be more easily extracted — thus extending the useful life of oil and gas wells. The problem is that fracing could pollute aquifers, permanently alter the patterns and integrity of local hydrogeology, and even destroy nearby private wells. The most common fluid used is made up of water and sand — but sometimes it contains methanol, oil, MTBE, diesel fuel, or other toxicants.
http://notes.sej.org/sej/tipsheet.nsf/0/c159f09b0fdbc5e386256ffe004f84b0?OpenDocument
House Protests $1.7bn Contract to Halliburton
This Day (Lagos)
April 25, 2005
Posted to the web April 25, 2005
Mike Oduniyi And Kola Ologbodiyan
Lagos/Abuja
Senate summons Shell over Bonga project
The executive and legislative arms of government may be on a fresh collision course over the recent awards of engineering contracts to US oil services company Halliburton, which was earlier recommended for ban by the House of Representatives.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504250833.html
Halliburton: Looks to turn around overseas operations
DAVID BOGOSLAW
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Halliburton Co. said Friday that it expects results from its business that boosts production at oilwells - disappointing in the first quarter - to improve this year.
In the March quarter, revenue from the production optimization business was particularly weak in Russia due to adverse weather conditions, said Andrew Lane, Halliburton's chief operating officer.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/11465301.htm
So much for Halliburton
By Observer Viewpoint
Published: Monday, April 25, 2005
And to think, I was this close to gainful employment. Those hooded robe-wearing executives at Halliburton started recruiting me roughly two years ago upon discovering that, wonder of wonders, a Notre Dame student favors unfettered oil exploration across the world. Their weekly emails became tiresome, true, but I found myself flattered by their insistence that I join their ranks upon graduation. The allure of a seven-digit starting salary certainly had its perks, particularly when informed that I only had to keep my GPA above 2.0 in my final semester. Alas, the enterprising efforts of the Class of 2005 halted me in my capitalistic tracks when a representative asked me to sign the Senior Class Pledge of Social Responsibility.
http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/paper660/news/2005/04/25/Viewpoint/So.Much.For.Halliburton-935844.shtml
Pentagon OKs $1.8B Halliburton KBR Fraud
by CONSPIRACY PLANET
The Pentagon and Bush Crony Capitalist firms like Halliburton continue to reap egregious profits, while multiple billions of dollars in Iraq War fraud continue to be paid out.
The Pentagon has signed off on paying $1.8 billion to KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root), a subsidiary of the Dick Cheney connected Halliburton Co., which has been involved in numerous Iraq War frauds.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=118&contentid=2113
RIA Novosti
URGENT: ONE KILLED, 10 INJURED IN MINE BLAST IN KISELEVSK
MOSCOW/KEMEROVO, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - One man was killed and nine injured in the explosion in a mine in Kiselevsk (Kemerovo region), said a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
"Ten out of 11 miners who stayed near the epicenter of the explosion were brought to surface. They have injuries and burns. One miner was killed," the spokesman said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050518/40375650.html
UZBEKISTAN RAISES QUESTIONS WHICH NOBODY CAN ANSWER
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - The European and American public was shocked by the ruthless suppression of the Andizhan revolt by President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.
And this shock in itself became an event of international life.
Most commentators did not know how to react to the situation, which cannot be described in the usual terms understandable in the societies of Europe, the U.S. and Australia.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050518/40373749.html
SUMMARY: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEETS PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to provide equal access to mass media for all political forces and to raise public sector wages by 50% within three years. At his meeting with senior parliamentarians in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the President recalled that his two latest addresses to the parliament should be viewed as a single long-term program of action. "The ideas and tasks set in the address are our common program of action," he said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050518/40376251.html
RUSSIA TO DESIGN NEW BOEING AIRCRAFT
MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - The incomplete Boeing B-787 Dreamliner passenger plane design has been unveiled in Moscow while about 300 Russian engineers help design its components, Vremya Novostei reported.
On May 16, Boeing Russia-CIS President Sergei Kravchenko said that the company had decided to include Moscow in an extremely limited list of cities where B-787-s will be unveiled. His decision is motivated by Russia's considerable contribution to the R&D effort.
http://en.rian.ru/business/20050517/40366347.html
VIETNAM BOOSTS NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA
HANOI, May 17 (RIA Novosti, Thu Huong) - The Vietnamese government views Russia as a strategic partner in the economic development of the country, including in the sphere of nuclear energy, said Vuong Huu Tan, Director of the Vietnam Nuclear Energy Institute.
The second sitting of the Vietnam-Russia coordinating committee on nuclear energy is to take place in Hanoi Tuesday. Vladimir Generalov, head of nuclear construction department of the Federal Nuclear Energy Agency (Rosatom), heads the Russian delegation.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050517/40370460.html
PUTIN: MORALS A MUST FOR RUSSIAN SOCIETY
MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin called moral values in Russian society immutable and intransient in his annual State of the Nation address Monday.
"Russian society has always condemned immorality. In Russia, law and morals, politics and morality were traditionally recognized as close and comparable notions. In any case, their interconnection was a declared ideal," said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050425/39736770.html
RUSSIA TO SELL 100,000 KALASHNIKOV SUBMACHINE-GUNS TO VENEZUELA
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 18 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Kurguzov) - On Tuesday Venezuela and Russia signed an agreement on supplies of 100,000 Kalashnikov submachine-guns to that South-American country.The sum total of the transaction is $54 million. Russia undertook to supply to Venezuela, alongside weapons, also 2,000 handbooks, as well as spare parts and accessories for the AK submachine-guns.
http://en.rian.ru/business/20050518/40372525.html
TREATY ON RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN BORDER SIGNED IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - The treaties on the Russian-Estonian border and maritime border delimitation in the Gulf of Narva and the Gulf of Finland were signed today in Moscow by the Russian and Estonian foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Urmas Paet.
The treaties determine the present-day border running along the former administrative border between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic with a minor adjustment "on condition of the adequate territorial compensation."
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050518/40374824.html
OIL CONFLICT IN UKRAINE: TIMOSHENKO'S PHYRRIC VICTORY
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti political commentator Yulia Yurova) - The new Ukrainian authorities cannot find a common language with Russian companies working in Ukraine.
The confrontation has grown in the past few days owing to a fuel crisis.
Relations between Ukraine's top officials and Russian companies started to become more tense after the new president, Viktor Yushchenko, spoke about the need to review the results of privatization in early spring. Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko added fuel to the flames by saying that the Ukrainian government and the Prosecutor General's Office would initiate a review of the closed criminal cases on privatization of nearly 3,000 facilities.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050518/40376245.html
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE ELITE BOOK PUBLISHED IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Intelligence Elite, a new documentary book about Russian intelligence officers was published in Moscow. The book's presentation took place at the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service on Wednesday.
"This collection is unique because it comprises stories of both military and political intelligence officers," spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service Boris Labusov said at the presentation.
http://en.rian.ru/society/20050518/40375191.html
WHAT THE RUSSIAN PAPERS SAY
MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
Politichesky Zhurnal
Putin Aide: Baltics Stifling Russia-EU Relations
Russia's relations with EU newcomers are being stifled by vengeful elite who want the new Russia to bear the burden of Soviet historical responsibility, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, presidential aide for EU policy, told the Russian weekly Politichesky Zhurnal.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050518/40374435.html
RUSSIAN JEWELRY MARKET
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Nina Kulikova.) -- Russians traditionally love jewelry, especially gold, the symbol of wealth and prosperity.
And the Russian jewelry market is booming. Wealthy Russians can increasingly often be seen at European auctions and leaving as the surprise purchasers of exclusive pieces. Western jewelers are opening boutiques in Moscow one after another and are prospering. However, mass Russian consumers are oriented to the cheaper end of the market, meaning that the Russian jewelry market today has significant potential for development.
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050516/40362216.html
The New York Times
Adrift 500 Feet Under the Sea, a Minute Was an Eternity
By CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: May 18, 2005
APRA HARBOR, Guam, May 16 - Blood was everywhere. Sailors lay sprawled across the floor, several of them unconscious, others simply dazed. Even the captain was asking, "What just happened?" All anyone knew for sure was that the nuclear-powered attack submarine had slammed head-on into something solid and very large, and that it had to get to the surface fast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/national/18crash.html?hp
Steroid-Assisted Fastballs? Pitchers Face New Spotlight
By JERE LONGMAN
Published: May 18, 2005
Baseball's conventional wisdom holds that anabolic steroids are used by beefy sluggers and avoided by pitchers, who rely on flexibility and long, lean muscles instead of constricting bulk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/sports/baseball/18steroids.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=85bb63db15155241&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Beijing Brushes Off U.S. Warning on Currency
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: May 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 18 - The Bush administration warned China on Tuesday that its currency policies were distorting world trade, and it brandished the threat of retaliation against the country's exports if Chinese leaders did not change course in the next year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/international/asia/18cnd-china.html
Registering New Influence, Iran Sends a Top Aide to Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 18, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 17 - Wasting little time in registering its new influence in Iraq, Iran sent its foreign minister to Baghdad on Tuesday only 48 hours after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the first high-level visitor to hold talks with Iraq's new Shiite-majority government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/international/middleeast/18iraq.html>
Old Pills Finding New Medicine Cabinets
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: May 18, 2005
As the cost of prescription drugs climbs, more of the nation's officials and consumers are weighing how to salvage at least $1 billion worth of unused drugs that are being flushed down the toilet each year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/health/18reuse.html
The Evolution of Reluctant Capitalists
By JOSH BARBANEL
Published: May 15, 2005
Will Creed and Jessica Tomb had questioned whether the deal was the best that tenants could achieve.
WEST VILLAGE HOUSES was once the ugly duckling of Greenwich Village, a huge postwar project of 42 brick walk-ups that look squat and plain among the imposing 19th-century warehouses and brownstones. The architecture is so unremarkable that the project was recently redlined out of a proposed West Village historic district.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/realestate/15cov.html
Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs
By TIM WEINER
Published: May 18, 2005
The Air Force, saying it must secure space to protect the nation from attack, is seeking President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move the United States closer to fielding offensive and defensive space weapons, according to White House and Air Force officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/business/18space.html?hp&ex=1116475200&en=d2e1785def9a54d0&ei=5094&partner=homepage
BBC
Explosive showdown in Senate
George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.
Far from displaying the forelock-tugging deference to which senators are accustomed, Mr Galloway went on the attack.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4553601.stm
Timeline: Oil-for-food scandal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4445609.stm
Companies in 'oil-for-food scam'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4025057.stm
Analysis: Surge in Iraq violence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4537065.stm
I think they open mouth kiss a good deal because the VOW so much.
Iran vows secure border with Iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4558601.stm
Aids 'kills one in three' in SA
Almost one in three deaths in South Africa are caused by Aids making it the leading killer, according to research.
In two provinces, the figure is as high as 40%, says an unreleased report by South Africa's Medical Research Council.
Research was based on the study of death statistics for the year 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4558367.stm
Louisiana's frozen ark
The electronic metal gates closed ominously behind us as we entered the exotic world of the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species, just outside New Orleans.
Our small group of journalists was escorted into a place reminiscent of the film Jurassic Park in more ways than one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4547533.stm
UN calls for Uzbek deaths inquiry
The UN's top human rights official has called for an independent investigation into reports that Uzbek troops shot dead hundreds of protesters.
Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said she was "deeply concerned" about last week's violence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4559031.stm
How the Andijan killings unfolded
Hundreds of people are thought to have died when violence erupted in the Uzbek city of Andijan on Friday 13 May. The BBC News website has compiled this account of how events unfolded, based on media reports, eyewitnesses and official statements.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4550845.stm
The Miami Herald
Report: Many FEMA cases flawed
Spot reinspections of FEMA award claims for hurricane damage in Miami-Dade County found that more than half of inspections carried out in the county had at least one problem.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11671952.htm
Castro rallies Cubans against terror, Posada
Fidel Castro ordered thousands of people to attend a rally in Havana intended to mobilize the masses and focusing on Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles.
BY NANCY SAN MARTIN
nsanmartin@herald.com
Busloads of Cubans from across the island packed Havana's most famous seaside highway Tuesday to participate in a ''March against Terrorism'' called by Fidel Castro in what analysts called his latest attempt to rally the masses.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11672201.htm
Posada extradition issue poses major credibility challenge for U.S.
The Venezuelan government has requested that the United States extradite Cuban exile and suspected terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to face trial for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. How will the U.S. respond? How will the U.S. reconcile its hostility to the Cuban and Venezuelan governments with the war on terrorism?
Answer from Philip Peters, vice president of the Lexington Institute: Luis Posada Carriles is forcing the Bush administration to face the strict, no exceptions standard for antiterrorist action that it rightly demands of the rest of the world. ''If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist,'' the president has said. The administration's choices boil down to making Posada Carriles comfortable here or in a safe haven abroad, or making him face justice for terrorist crimes in which he has admitted involvement.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11672193.htm
U.S. finally says No to terror suspect
OUR OPINION: U.S. SHOULD KEEP ACCUSED BOMBER DETAINED
After accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles made a mockery of the federal agency charged with homeland security, it finally did its job: The Department of Homeland Security arrested him yesterday. The move came weeks after he was alleged to be in Miami, after he applied for asylum and only after he held a press conference.
Until then, DHS appeared indifferent to Mr. Posada and the danger he presented. How could the United States credibly wage a global war against terror while allowing a suspected terrorist to freely roam on its soil?
Mr. Posada is accused of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana de Aviacíon passenger jet, which killed 76 people. He also claimed responsibility for a 1997 series of bombings at tourist venues in Cuba, one of which killed an Italian tourist. Mr. Posada denies involvement in the jetliner downing, but equivocated on the tourist-site bombs: ''Leave it to history,'' he told Herald reporters last week in an interview that confirmed his presence in Miami.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11672214.htm
From family's wounds springs a vision of hope
Shederica McDuffie, daughter of Arthur McDuffie, now ministers to the community that was scarred by her father's violent death.
BY ANDREA ROBINSON
arobinson@herald.com
Evangelist Shederica McDuffie stepped to the lectern at a Sunday morning worship service in Liberty City. In powerful tones, she told the small congregation how she has traded ashes for beauty -- and how Miami can, too.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11672097.htm
The New Zealand Herald
State of emergency in Bay of Plenty after flooding
18.05.05 7.45pm UPDATE
A local state of emergency has been declared in the Eastern Bay of Plenty township of Matata, prompting officials to evacuate a third of the population.
Five 41-seater buses are being used to transport around 200 people from Matata to Whakatane as the heavy rain continues to fall in the region, threatening houses and roads.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126193
Editorial: Koran affair explodes in resentment
17.05.05
Newsweek magazine's backdown yesterday over the small story that sparked enormous consequences seemed to be the mother of all media mea culpas. As well as its readers, it had to apologise to the victims of the riots provoked by its report that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet to put pressure on Islamic prisoners.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10125814
Crash scene like a war zone as medics searched for life
A police officer beside the disintegrated remains of the van. Picture / Amos Chapple
18.05.05 UPDATED at 6.00pm
Tourists from four countries were involved in the fatal road smash that killed eight people and left one girl critically ill in the Waikato today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126150
Man faces kidnap and rape charges after missing woman found
18.05.05 3.45pm
A 29-year-old Tauranga man has been charged with kidnapping, rape and assault after a missing Auckland woman was found in a car with him in Taranaki yesterday.
The man was to appear in New Plymouth District Court today.
Counties Manukau police said the 20-year-old woman from Howick was reported missing by her parents on Monday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10126186
The killed 300 at Beslan. This is not so unrealistic at this point.
Uzbek authorities deny troops killed civilians
18.05.05 1.00pm
ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan's government said troops had killed "terrorists" not civilians to quell unrest, contradicting witnesses who said they shot hundreds of protesters, including women and children.
An Uzbek opposition party said it had compiled a list of 745 people killed. Witnesses and a human rights activist in Andizhan have put the death toll at about 500.
Uzbekistan's prosecutor general said it was 169, including three women and two children among hostages killed by rebels.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126175
Viagra-fuelled Italian stallions seized by police
18.05.05 3.20pm
ROME - Italian police have discovered a mob-linked race track where they say horses were pumped full of Viagra and other drugs to fix races.
The illegally built and operated track, known locally as "Miss Charmet," is located on the outskirts of Naples city -- home to the Camorra, the local version of the Sicilian Mafia.
"We are able to ascertain the use of the famous (drug) Viagra to increase the performance of these horses," police commander Mario Pantano told local television.
It was not clear how Viagra affected the horses' speed.
The track and its horses, worth an estimated 5 million euros ($9 million), were seized by authorities investigating illegal doping of horses, according to local media.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126192
UN seeks climate 'roadmap' beyond Kyoto
18.05.05 2.40pm
BONN, Germany - The world should work out a roadmap this year for extending the UN Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 even though many rich states are far from complying, the UN's climate change chief said.
"There are a number of countries ... that are far from their targets" for greenhouse gas emissions, Joke Waller-Hunter, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told Reuters during a two-day 190-nation seminar.
"We are going to need action to make sure that the targets are being met," she said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10126189
Tapu Misa: Education fails the poor, brown and disenfranchised
18.05.05
Not long ago I was invited to talk to a group of first-time principals about what schools should be like for kids. I leapt at the opportunity. What pushy parent wouldn't take the chance to tell 138 new principals how they should run their schools?
The fact that I don't have an education degree and have never taught was a minor point. I am a parent, therefore I am bound to know better.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=466&ObjectID=10126009
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The Oil for Food Initative was a Peaceful, Life Sparing and Successful Disarmament of a Brutal Dictatorship. There were no weapons of mass destruction regardless this focus which seems to be to be 'much ado about nothing.' It was very successful in containing a difficult dicatator. The 'post mortem' of this program should serve the United Nations well to realize where it's strengths and weaknesses occur. Businesses paid illicit surcharges to secure contracts
Most of the deals involved Russian and Middle Eastern firms
Corruption on contracts alleged to be worse in post-Saddam Iraq
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