previous elections
Although organic foods can cost two to three times more than their conventionally raised alternatives, Corinne Alexander, a Purdue University assistant professor of agricultural economics, said people, herself included, are willing to pay.
"I like the idea that right now the organic farmers are being rewarded with premium prices for their hard work. It's really backbreaking work," she said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/organ.htm
In the wake of the recent cancellation of the CHEERS study in which parents were to be paid to expose their infant children to pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a new policy that encourages the same type of human dosing studies by industry. Today EPA closes public comment on its "no safeguards" policy of accepting all human subject experiments submitted by industry, according to a filing today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051005X.shtml
LaRouche, on Feb. 27, had pointed to large volumes of short-term debt payments piling up on GM and Ford's doorsteps this year, while they made the problem rapidly worse by large money-losing "incentives," attempting to keep autos moving to buyers whose falling real incomes meant that they could no longer afford them. On March 3, LaRouche asked publicly: "When will GM and GMAC go? Who will refinance this bubble, this debt swindle?"
http://www.rense.com/general65/gm.htm
"This is an obvious case of discrimination," he said. "They pulled 50 agents off the line to provide security. While they blocked me, there is no doubt that at the same time, hundreds of illegal aliens had no difficulty gaining access to the United States.
"If I was banned because of the Minuteman Project connection, that is unfair because I had a right and the proper credentials to attend the press conference," he said. "This is a perfect challenge for the ACLU."
Officials at ACLU's Tucson office did not return calls for comment.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050508-115751-9693r.htm
"I can confirm these birds have died, but it is not bird flu," said an official, who refused to be named, at the Qinghai provincial administration for wild animals and plants. "They died of disease, but we don't know what it is. We are still investigating; there are no results yet, but no bird flu virus has been found," he told Agence France Presse.
http://www.rense.com/general65/ruled.htm
Sydney's world-famous rock oysters, one of the high points of Australian cuisine, are slowly starving to death. A mystery parasite is threatening to wipe out the succulent delicacies, which are held in the same esteem by Australian diners as abalone is at Asian tables and truffles by French and Italian gourmets. Unique to the east coast of Australia, the Sydney rock oysters are prized around the world for their exquisite taste, long shelf life, and, some suggest, aphrodisiac properties.
http://www.rense.com/general65/osy.htm
While Peace Corps volunteers of decades past sought to aid African countries facing famine, these young people see a dire state of agriculture in the United States. Many of the young farmers and college students studying for a life in farming said they worry that as family farms are sold to large agribusinesses, food has been corrupted by chemicals and produced with exploited migrant workers. They also say that sales of onetime farmland to housing developers are worsening sprawl and that with small-scale farming they can begin to reverse those trends.
http://www.rense.com/general65/land.htm
Having forgotten the origins of our own country, built on a foundation of resistance to foreign occupation, Americans did not expect then, nor do we understand now, the resistance of indigenous people like Geronimo, Cochise—or Osama bin Laden to foreign occupation. We forget at our own peril.
“Underestimating the brains, patience, and religion-based fortitude of our foes,” is foolhardy, Scheurer observed. “This line of analysis takes a brilliant, calculating and patient foe like bin Laden (or Cochise before him) and reduces him to the status of a madman, blood thirsty and irrational . . . America is facing a talented, sturdy, charismatic and determined enemy.”
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/herman/herman13.html
Patients in Israeli hospitals, among them the elderly, children and the mentally infirm, have been used as guinea pigs in medical experiments without permission from their legal guardians, according to the country's main government watchdog.
Geriatric patients had their fingers inked to give fingerprints authorising the tests even though they suffered from senile dementia and would not have known what they were doing.
http://www.rense.com/general65/lli.htm
Why is it that the Apaches wait to die -- That they carry their lives on their fingernails? They roam over the hills and plains and want the heavens to fall on them. The Apaches were once a great nation; they are now but few, and because of this they want to die and so carry their lives on their fingernails.
http://www.indians.org/welker/cochise.htm
The interviews are presented in these formats: A Military Perspective, A Scientific Perspective, and A Survivor’s Perspective.
On the same subject, The Iconoclast is publishing an editorial encouraging the Texas Legislature to provide DU testing for soldiers who are returning from overseas, so that if problems exist, they can be addressed.
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/19news02.htm
A dog foraging for food retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a forest in Kenya and carried her to its litter of puppies, according to media reports yesterday.
The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road and a barbed wire fence in a poor neighbourhood in the Ngong Forests area of the capital, Nairobi, a witness, Stephen Thoya, told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.
http://www.rense.com/general65/ocedn.htm
[American may not be the best anymore, but we’re still the biggest.]
A federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines' plan to terminate its employees' pension plans Tuesday, clearing the way for the largest corporate-pension default in American history.
...
But, United workers stand to lose as much as one third of what was promised to them. The federal program taking over the affected workers' pension plans is itself $23 billion dollars under water, Axelrod reports.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/10/national/main694358.shtml
A Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Canada plans to sell all its churches and missions to raise the money to pay the victims of sexual assault by a priest who was convicted more than a decade ago, a bishop said Monday
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/10/canada.church.abuse.ap/index.html
Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world’s attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children. The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.
The rate of birth defects, after increasing ten-fold from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 in 2001, is soaring further. Dr Nawar Ali, a medical researcher into birth deformities at Baghdad University, told the UN’s Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) last month: “There have been 650 cases [birth deformities] in total since August 2003 reported in government hospitals. That is a 20 percent increase from the previous regime. Private hospitals were not included in the study, so the number could be higher.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m10.shtml
Dozens of innocent people, mostly Mexican immigrants, were arrested and jailed. More than 80 cases have been dismissed as a result of the scandal.
Zimmerman's report found that drug-court prosecutors worked too closely with police and failed to adequately review questionable work by detectives. Meanwhile, defense lawyers received blame for inadequately representing their clients
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/11610703.htm
Speaking to the people through his Sunday radio emission "Alo Presidente", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised to tighten control over strategic oil resources. The leftist leader said his government is ready to probe tax evasion from foreign companies in crude terms: "The companies must pay what they owe. If they don't pay, they must leave."
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/15428_venezuela.html
[Pregnant women being electrocuted, children being clapped in handcuffs. What in the world more do people need to see beore they get the idea about where we are living today?]
She was rushing her son to school. She was eight months pregnant. And she was about to get a speeding ticket she didn't think she deserved.
So when a Seattle police officer presented the ticket to Malaika Brooks, she refused to sign it. In the ensuing confrontation, she suffered burns from a police Taser, an electric stun device that delivers 50,000 volts.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/223578_taser10.html
Real wages fall at fastest rate in 14 years
By Christopher Swann in Washington
Published: May 10 2005 17:59 | Last updated: May 10 2005 17:59
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
Stingy pay rises mean many Americans will have to work longer hours to keep up with the cost of living, and they could ultimately undermine consumer spending and economic growth.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
Amidst the prosperity, however, a substantial dissident movement exists among Oneidas who assert that Ray Halbritter, "nation representative" of the New York Oneidas, was never voted into such an office. This group, centered in the Shenandoah family (which includes the notable singer Joanne Shenandoah and her husband Doug George-Kanentiio) believe that the New York Oneidas under Halbritter have established a busin ess, called it a nation, and acquired the requisite approvals from New York State and the United States federal government to use this status to open the Turning Stone. The dissidents’ tribal benefits were eliminated after they took part in a “march for democracy.” To regain their benefits, those who had “lost their voice” were told that they would have to sign papers agreeing not to criticize Halbritter’s government, not to speak to the press, and pledge allegiance to Halbritter and his men’s council.
The New York Oneidas have appointed a “men’s council,” (a body unheard of in traditional matrilineal Iroquois law or tradition) which issued a zoning code to “beautify” the Oneida Nation. This code enabled his 54-member police force (patrolling a 32-acre reservation) to "legally" evict from their homes Oneidas who opposed his role as leader of the New York Oneidas, which was solidified by the acquisition of a number of other businesses, a phalanx of public-relations spin-doctors, several-dozen lawyers, and ownership of Indian Country Today, a national Native American newspaper.
http://www.joanneshenandoah.com/oneida.cfm
The shock was that the enemy was not supposed to be in Ubaydi at all. Instead, American intelligence indicated that the insurgency had massed on the other side of the river. Marine commanders expressed surprise Monday not only at the insurgents' presence but also the extent of their preparations, as if they expected the Marines to come
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/world/11605487.htm
A rail link between Alaska and Canada, proposed as a faster way to transport natural resources, would also enable the United States to support antiballistic missile silos and military bases, a new study says.
While supporters are playing up the economic advantages, and the Alaskan and Yukon governments have signed an agreement to study the idea, critics say the military uses are likely to stir opposition in Canada, where the continental missile shield project is unpopular
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/09/Worldandnation/Report_links_Alaska_r.shtml
[Basically this woman was fired for trying to point out that the State Dept is riddled with spies. So now the gov. is claiming they can’t go through with the case because it would compromise national security. But aren’t the spies compromising national security? Hmm...
I would also like to point out that the native born Americans are the ones who are taking the side of the foreign spies, and the foreign born American is the one who is standing up for the actual American people. So make of that what you will.]
The need to protect state secrets justifies the refusal to hear a lawsuit brought by former government translator Sibel Edmonds who claims that she was dismissed in retaliation for criticizing her employer, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday.
Edmonds filed the lawsuit after the FBI fired her in March 2002. She said the agency dismissed her for revealing sloppy work by fellow translators and lapses in security measures in its hiring. The Justice Department's inspector general later affirmed the substance of her complaints about the agency's work and that the FBI had retaliated against her.
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0509-foi-states.html
A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from going to Trinity College in the fall.
Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student, a trumpet player in the school band and holds varsity letters in three sports, she discovered last fall she was one gym class shy of having enough credits to graduate next month.
She asked for a waiver, but the school wouldn't budge, telling her instead she had to drop a class to take gym.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0509ClassAction09-ON.html
As many readers have probably already seen, Mexican President Vicente Fox suddenly backed down this week from the “desafuero,” his crusade to haul popular Mexico City governor Andres Manuel López Obrador into court and therefore bar him from running for president next year. He too, like Gutiérrez, thought the people had become passive after they voted him into office, but a million protesters outside his office on Sunday proved him wrong...
Just over three years since a military coup was foiled by the people in Venezuela, a pre-electoral coup has been blocked by the masses in Mexico.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/29/125547/063
On Sunday, April 24, the streets of Mexico City filled as never before (or, at least not since the 2001 Zapatista Caravan) as an officially estimated 1.2 million Mexicans marched silently (read Quetzal Belmont’s eyewitness report in Narco News) against the “desafuero” plot of President Vicente Fox against López Obrador. The Mexico City governor flipped the proverbial bird, big time, to the illegitimate authority of those that were persecuting him. He announced that, come Monday, he’d be coming back to work running the city, and the federal authorities were displayed as impotent before the nation and much of the world
http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1277.html
THE FOREIGN Minister of the United States-established interim government in Haiti, Herard Abraham, has come knocking on the doors of some Caribbean Community administrations with the message that he is on a mission to counter a "campaign of disinformation" and win support for his country's return to the councils of Caricom.
Before leaving Port-au-Prince earlier in the week, Abraham should have known that not only did he have a very hard row to hoe in securing that level of support. He was in fact on a mission impossible
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=75220685
The silent march happened on April 24, departing from the Museum of Anthropology and History and culminating in the Zócalo, the capital’s main plaza. Hundreds of thousands of people came out onto the streets to demonstrate their support for the man now seen as the leading presidential candidate for the elections in July 2006
http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1273.html
In the report the Haiti Democracy Project’s executive director James R. Morrel along with other members of the "fact-finding" delegation, including three former U.S. Ambassadors, conclude that, “Monitoring the election will likely be easier with polling stations reduced to six hundred or so from the twelve thousand of previous elections”. The report also mentions the “utility of a voter registration card”. Both of these measures will work to exclude large swaths of the Haitian population from the upcoming vote and allow the interim government of Gerard Latortue and the former military to better censor the role of Lavalas and the poor. 95% of all the polling stations used in previous elections will be excluded in the upcoming election.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/5/4/62411/31371
"I like the idea that right now the organic farmers are being rewarded with premium prices for their hard work. It's really backbreaking work," she said.
http://www.rense.com/general65/organ.htm
In the wake of the recent cancellation of the CHEERS study in which parents were to be paid to expose their infant children to pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a new policy that encourages the same type of human dosing studies by industry. Today EPA closes public comment on its "no safeguards" policy of accepting all human subject experiments submitted by industry, according to a filing today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051005X.shtml
LaRouche, on Feb. 27, had pointed to large volumes of short-term debt payments piling up on GM and Ford's doorsteps this year, while they made the problem rapidly worse by large money-losing "incentives," attempting to keep autos moving to buyers whose falling real incomes meant that they could no longer afford them. On March 3, LaRouche asked publicly: "When will GM and GMAC go? Who will refinance this bubble, this debt swindle?"
http://www.rense.com/general65/gm.htm
"This is an obvious case of discrimination," he said. "They pulled 50 agents off the line to provide security. While they blocked me, there is no doubt that at the same time, hundreds of illegal aliens had no difficulty gaining access to the United States.
"If I was banned because of the Minuteman Project connection, that is unfair because I had a right and the proper credentials to attend the press conference," he said. "This is a perfect challenge for the ACLU."
Officials at ACLU's Tucson office did not return calls for comment.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050508-115751-9693r.htm
"I can confirm these birds have died, but it is not bird flu," said an official, who refused to be named, at the Qinghai provincial administration for wild animals and plants. "They died of disease, but we don't know what it is. We are still investigating; there are no results yet, but no bird flu virus has been found," he told Agence France Presse.
http://www.rense.com/general65/ruled.htm
Sydney's world-famous rock oysters, one of the high points of Australian cuisine, are slowly starving to death. A mystery parasite is threatening to wipe out the succulent delicacies, which are held in the same esteem by Australian diners as abalone is at Asian tables and truffles by French and Italian gourmets. Unique to the east coast of Australia, the Sydney rock oysters are prized around the world for their exquisite taste, long shelf life, and, some suggest, aphrodisiac properties.
http://www.rense.com/general65/osy.htm
While Peace Corps volunteers of decades past sought to aid African countries facing famine, these young people see a dire state of agriculture in the United States. Many of the young farmers and college students studying for a life in farming said they worry that as family farms are sold to large agribusinesses, food has been corrupted by chemicals and produced with exploited migrant workers. They also say that sales of onetime farmland to housing developers are worsening sprawl and that with small-scale farming they can begin to reverse those trends.
http://www.rense.com/general65/land.htm
Having forgotten the origins of our own country, built on a foundation of resistance to foreign occupation, Americans did not expect then, nor do we understand now, the resistance of indigenous people like Geronimo, Cochise—or Osama bin Laden to foreign occupation. We forget at our own peril.
“Underestimating the brains, patience, and religion-based fortitude of our foes,” is foolhardy, Scheurer observed. “This line of analysis takes a brilliant, calculating and patient foe like bin Laden (or Cochise before him) and reduces him to the status of a madman, blood thirsty and irrational . . . America is facing a talented, sturdy, charismatic and determined enemy.”
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/herman/herman13.html
Patients in Israeli hospitals, among them the elderly, children and the mentally infirm, have been used as guinea pigs in medical experiments without permission from their legal guardians, according to the country's main government watchdog.
Geriatric patients had their fingers inked to give fingerprints authorising the tests even though they suffered from senile dementia and would not have known what they were doing.
http://www.rense.com/general65/lli.htm
Why is it that the Apaches wait to die -- That they carry their lives on their fingernails? They roam over the hills and plains and want the heavens to fall on them. The Apaches were once a great nation; they are now but few, and because of this they want to die and so carry their lives on their fingernails.
http://www.indians.org/welker/cochise.htm
The interviews are presented in these formats: A Military Perspective, A Scientific Perspective, and A Survivor’s Perspective.
On the same subject, The Iconoclast is publishing an editorial encouraging the Texas Legislature to provide DU testing for soldiers who are returning from overseas, so that if problems exist, they can be addressed.
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/News/19news02.htm
A dog foraging for food retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a forest in Kenya and carried her to its litter of puppies, according to media reports yesterday.
The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road and a barbed wire fence in a poor neighbourhood in the Ngong Forests area of the capital, Nairobi, a witness, Stephen Thoya, told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.
http://www.rense.com/general65/ocedn.htm
[American may not be the best anymore, but we’re still the biggest.]
A federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines' plan to terminate its employees' pension plans Tuesday, clearing the way for the largest corporate-pension default in American history.
...
But, United workers stand to lose as much as one third of what was promised to them. The federal program taking over the affected workers' pension plans is itself $23 billion dollars under water, Axelrod reports.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/10/national/main694358.shtml
A Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Canada plans to sell all its churches and missions to raise the money to pay the victims of sexual assault by a priest who was convicted more than a decade ago, a bishop said Monday
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/10/canada.church.abuse.ap/index.html
Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world’s attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children. The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.
The rate of birth defects, after increasing ten-fold from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 in 2001, is soaring further. Dr Nawar Ali, a medical researcher into birth deformities at Baghdad University, told the UN’s Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) last month: “There have been 650 cases [birth deformities] in total since August 2003 reported in government hospitals. That is a 20 percent increase from the previous regime. Private hospitals were not included in the study, so the number could be higher.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m10.shtml
Dozens of innocent people, mostly Mexican immigrants, were arrested and jailed. More than 80 cases have been dismissed as a result of the scandal.
Zimmerman's report found that drug-court prosecutors worked too closely with police and failed to adequately review questionable work by detectives. Meanwhile, defense lawyers received blame for inadequately representing their clients
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/11610703.htm
Speaking to the people through his Sunday radio emission "Alo Presidente", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised to tighten control over strategic oil resources. The leftist leader said his government is ready to probe tax evasion from foreign companies in crude terms: "The companies must pay what they owe. If they don't pay, they must leave."
http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/368/15428_venezuela.html
[Pregnant women being electrocuted, children being clapped in handcuffs. What in the world more do people need to see beore they get the idea about where we are living today?]
She was rushing her son to school. She was eight months pregnant. And she was about to get a speeding ticket she didn't think she deserved.
So when a Seattle police officer presented the ticket to Malaika Brooks, she refused to sign it. In the ensuing confrontation, she suffered burns from a police Taser, an electric stun device that delivers 50,000 volts.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/223578_taser10.html
Real wages fall at fastest rate in 14 years
By Christopher Swann in Washington
Published: May 10 2005 17:59 | Last updated: May 10 2005 17:59
Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years, according to data surveyed by the Financial Times.
Inflation rose 3.1 per cent in the year to March but salaries climbed just 2.4 per cent, according to the Employment Cost Index. In the final three months of 2004, real wages fell by 0.9 per cent.
The last time salaries fell this steeply was at the start of 1991, when real wages declined by 1.1 per cent.
Stingy pay rises mean many Americans will have to work longer hours to keep up with the cost of living, and they could ultimately undermine consumer spending and economic growth.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f269a8f4-c173-11d9-943f-00000e2511c8.html
Amidst the prosperity, however, a substantial dissident movement exists among Oneidas who assert that Ray Halbritter, "nation representative" of the New York Oneidas, was never voted into such an office. This group, centered in the Shenandoah family (which includes the notable singer Joanne Shenandoah and her husband Doug George-Kanentiio) believe that the New York Oneidas under Halbritter have established a busin ess, called it a nation, and acquired the requisite approvals from New York State and the United States federal government to use this status to open the Turning Stone. The dissidents’ tribal benefits were eliminated after they took part in a “march for democracy.” To regain their benefits, those who had “lost their voice” were told that they would have to sign papers agreeing not to criticize Halbritter’s government, not to speak to the press, and pledge allegiance to Halbritter and his men’s council.
The New York Oneidas have appointed a “men’s council,” (a body unheard of in traditional matrilineal Iroquois law or tradition) which issued a zoning code to “beautify” the Oneida Nation. This code enabled his 54-member police force (patrolling a 32-acre reservation) to "legally" evict from their homes Oneidas who opposed his role as leader of the New York Oneidas, which was solidified by the acquisition of a number of other businesses, a phalanx of public-relations spin-doctors, several-dozen lawyers, and ownership of Indian Country Today, a national Native American newspaper.
http://www.joanneshenandoah.com/oneida.cfm
The shock was that the enemy was not supposed to be in Ubaydi at all. Instead, American intelligence indicated that the insurgency had massed on the other side of the river. Marine commanders expressed surprise Monday not only at the insurgents' presence but also the extent of their preparations, as if they expected the Marines to come
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/world/11605487.htm
A rail link between Alaska and Canada, proposed as a faster way to transport natural resources, would also enable the United States to support antiballistic missile silos and military bases, a new study says.
While supporters are playing up the economic advantages, and the Alaskan and Yukon governments have signed an agreement to study the idea, critics say the military uses are likely to stir opposition in Canada, where the continental missile shield project is unpopular
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/09/Worldandnation/Report_links_Alaska_r.shtml
[Basically this woman was fired for trying to point out that the State Dept is riddled with spies. So now the gov. is claiming they can’t go through with the case because it would compromise national security. But aren’t the spies compromising national security? Hmm...
I would also like to point out that the native born Americans are the ones who are taking the side of the foreign spies, and the foreign born American is the one who is standing up for the actual American people. So make of that what you will.]
The need to protect state secrets justifies the refusal to hear a lawsuit brought by former government translator Sibel Edmonds who claims that she was dismissed in retaliation for criticizing her employer, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday.
Edmonds filed the lawsuit after the FBI fired her in March 2002. She said the agency dismissed her for revealing sloppy work by fellow translators and lapses in security measures in its hiring. The Justice Department's inspector general later affirmed the substance of her complaints about the agency's work and that the FBI had retaliated against her.
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2005/0509-foi-states.html
A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from going to Trinity College in the fall.
Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student, a trumpet player in the school band and holds varsity letters in three sports, she discovered last fall she was one gym class shy of having enough credits to graduate next month.
She asked for a waiver, but the school wouldn't budge, telling her instead she had to drop a class to take gym.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0509ClassAction09-ON.html
As many readers have probably already seen, Mexican President Vicente Fox suddenly backed down this week from the “desafuero,” his crusade to haul popular Mexico City governor Andres Manuel López Obrador into court and therefore bar him from running for president next year. He too, like Gutiérrez, thought the people had become passive after they voted him into office, but a million protesters outside his office on Sunday proved him wrong...
Just over three years since a military coup was foiled by the people in Venezuela, a pre-electoral coup has been blocked by the masses in Mexico.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/4/29/125547/063
On Sunday, April 24, the streets of Mexico City filled as never before (or, at least not since the 2001 Zapatista Caravan) as an officially estimated 1.2 million Mexicans marched silently (read Quetzal Belmont’s eyewitness report in Narco News) against the “desafuero” plot of President Vicente Fox against López Obrador. The Mexico City governor flipped the proverbial bird, big time, to the illegitimate authority of those that were persecuting him. He announced that, come Monday, he’d be coming back to work running the city, and the federal authorities were displayed as impotent before the nation and much of the world
http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1277.html
THE FOREIGN Minister of the United States-established interim government in Haiti, Herard Abraham, has come knocking on the doors of some Caribbean Community administrations with the message that he is on a mission to counter a "campaign of disinformation" and win support for his country's return to the councils of Caricom.
Before leaving Port-au-Prince earlier in the week, Abraham should have known that not only did he have a very hard row to hoe in securing that level of support. He was in fact on a mission impossible
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=75220685
The silent march happened on April 24, departing from the Museum of Anthropology and History and culminating in the Zócalo, the capital’s main plaza. Hundreds of thousands of people came out onto the streets to demonstrate their support for the man now seen as the leading presidential candidate for the elections in July 2006
http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1273.html
In the report the Haiti Democracy Project’s executive director James R. Morrel along with other members of the "fact-finding" delegation, including three former U.S. Ambassadors, conclude that, “Monitoring the election will likely be easier with polling stations reduced to six hundred or so from the twelve thousand of previous elections”. The report also mentions the “utility of a voter registration card”. Both of these measures will work to exclude large swaths of the Haitian population from the upcoming vote and allow the interim government of Gerard Latortue and the former military to better censor the role of Lavalas and the poor. 95% of all the polling stations used in previous elections will be excluded in the upcoming election.
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