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OREO 05 09 08
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Newsstories of interest:
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** =3D Im****tant [in this edition: 2 ]
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MH =3D Misleading Headline [in this edition: 1 ]
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1 DISORDER
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Gotbaums Sue [City of] Phoenix Over Air****t Death
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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/gotbaums-sue-phoenix-over-airpo=
rt-death/index.html
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"strangled herself while in police custody"
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ACCIDENTALLY
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6 Philadelphia Officers Benched | Mayor Calls Actions in
Videotaped Beatings 'Unacceptable'
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http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/07/AR2008050703=
623.html
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"dragged the driver and two passengers out and started kick-
ing them and beating them with their fists and batons."
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MH With Abramoff in Jail, Saipan Loses Its Fight
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Rather, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands loses
its fight
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http://blog.wa****ngtonpost.com/wa****ngtonpostinvestigations/2008/05/with_abr=
amoff_in_jail_saipan_l.html
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"lost its 20-year fight to remain exempt from U.S. immi-
gration and labor laws."
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Economy of the Northern Mariana Islands:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands
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Powers say atom control treaty at risk
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/2/16smt.html
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3d from last paragraph:
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"Developing states baulk, saying this would wipe out their
NPT right to peaceful uses of atomic energy. They also say
the [>] original nuclear powers have undermined respect for
the treaty by clinging to arsenals as symbols of might and
respect."
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List of states with nuclear weapons:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_powers
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"Five are considered to be 'nuclear weapons states,' an in-
ternationally recognized status conferred by the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons these are: the
United States, Russia (successor state to the Soviet Uni-
on), the United Kingdom, France and China."
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*FIRST* STATE TERRORIST: THE SUPERPOWER
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3 ASIA
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THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE)
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Olmert defies calls to resign over bribe probe
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/15/16smk.html
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"when he addressed Canadian Jewish fundraisers for Israel
in Jerusalem on Friday"
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"police suspect that Olmert took hundreds of thousands of
dollars from a New York Jewish financier."
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Who is Morris (Moshe) Talansky?:
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=3D1209627042478&pagename=3DJPost%=
2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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THE BU$H PLAN (SYRIA)
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Hezbollah routs pro-government gunmen; controls Beirut
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/15/16snr.html
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"major blow to the U.S.-backed government" =3D MAJOR
BLOW TO THE SUPERPOWER
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THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ)
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Iraqi Resistance Re****t for events of Wednesday, 7 May 2008
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http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0508/iraqiresistancere****t_070508.h=
tm
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Item 3: US soldier killed in al-Anbar Province Tuesday
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Iraqi Resistance Re****t for events of Thursday, 8 May 2008
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http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0508/iraqiresistancere****t_080508.h=
tm
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Item 7: Eight killed, 18 wounded as US continues offensive
against impoverished Baghdad district
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"Local eyewitnesses re****ted that the Iraqi [puppet] go-
vernment troops used loudspeakers to tell residents of
the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district to leave their
homes and head to tent camps set up for them by the [pup-
pet] regime. The US and Iraqi government forces hope to
use maximum firepower against the anti-occupation forces
and wish to isolate the militiamen from their popular
constituency."
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British soldier injured in Iraq attack
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1938605/British-soldier-injured-in-Iraq-atta=
ck.html
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12-missile "attack on the UK base at Basra Air****t."
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JAPAN
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GIVE...
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US Marine gets two years in Japan *** case: military
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/19/16sif.html
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"two years confinement" "dishonourable discharge"
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=2E..AND TAKE
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** Japan to allow military use of space: lawmakers
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/19/16snd.html
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"move came during a rare fence-mending visit [!] to Japan
by President Hu Jintao of China"
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MYANMAR
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UN blasts Myanmar for visa policy on aid workers
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone
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"The junta said in a statement Friday it was grateful to
the international community for its assistance =97-which
has included 11 chartered planes loaded with aid supplies
-=97 but the best way to help was just to send in material
rather than personnel."
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Can JOURNO|LOONIES help? Can SPEC-OP|AIDERS help?
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UNO's aghast because this also means the beginning of the
end for BLUE HELMET GANGRENE.
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4 EUROPE
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TURKEY
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Three dead in landmine blast in Turkey
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/2/16sm5.html
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"members of the state 'village guard' militia were travel-
ling in the minibus."
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UK
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Islamic preacher Abu Qatada is bailed
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1938832/Islamic-preacher-Abu-Qatada-is-baile=
d.html
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"not a single [duh] international terrorist has been
forcibly removed from this country."
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AFTER ALL THAT WHIRLIGIG RHETORIC...
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5 LATAM
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NICARAGUA
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Esteban Lazo Hernandez | ** "We are facing a humanitar-
ian drama of incalculable consequences" | Presidential
Summit on Food Sovereignty and Security for Life | Mana-
gua, Nicaragua | May 7, 2008
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http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/mayo/juev8/20ldrama.html
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"I conclude by recalling the farsighted words expressed
by Fidel in 1996, which still resound today given their
actuality and profundity: 'The bells that toll today for
those who die of hunger every day, will tomorrow toll for
all of humanity, if humanity did not want to, did not
know how to, or lacked the wisdom to save itself.=94
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THE SUPERPOWER'S STARVATION WARFARE
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and
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Top UN forum to examine food crisis
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080509/2/16smz.html
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"The rights to adequate food and freedom from hunger are
enshrined in international law as basic, universal human
rights"
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STARVATION WARFARE DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN
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"[UNO food envoy Olivier] De Schutter said the food crisis
was man-made."
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6 SUPERPOWER
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Air Force Spy Drone Vanishes In Central Fla.
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http://www.local6.com/news/16189342/detail.html
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POOF!
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7 $$$$
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A.I.G. Re****ts a $7.8 Billion Loss in Quarter
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/business/09insure.html
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"largest-ever quarterly loss"
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Banks Fear Demand for Cor****ate Loans
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/business/09loan.html?ref=3Dbusiness&pagewa=
nted=3Dall
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"banks have pledged to lend companies more than $1 tril-
lion. And because most of those loans have not been made
yet,...the banks have not accounted for them on their
balance sheets."
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AH, SO!
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Posting Loss, Marsh Will Cut Staff
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/business/08insure.html
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Marsh & McLennan Companies:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_%26_McLennan
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"over 57,000 employees"
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Gas prices jump nearly 3 cents to record [$3.645], while
oil pauses
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=3DD90HHK0GC&show_article=3D1
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"Diesel prices also rose, adding 0.9 cent to match a record
national average of $4.251 a gallon."
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BU$H BONUS
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Oil surpasses $125 per barrel ahead of US driving season
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices
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Record "$125.12 a barrel"
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Oreo Archive:
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