DAILY NEWSLINKS

ON HIATUS---BACK SOON
6/22
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our (updated)
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
THE SWAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqLyeq9OJI

HEY, KIDS, IT’S THE DEATH CHANNEL!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,490174,00.html

KILLER SAND CASTLES!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2108878,00.html

STOLEN T-BIRD RECOVERED 31 YEARS LATER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/21/BAGPDQJD9826.DTL

FIRST PIC FROM NEW ‘INDIANA JONES’ FILM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6229544.stm

‘POTTER’ LEAKED ENDING NOT TRUE
http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/

‘DRACO MALFOY’ RELATED TO SALEM WITCHES
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=54173&in_page_id=34

YOU KNOW, MORFORD’S A GREAT WRITER, BUT UH. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2007/06/22/notes062207.DTL
Like ecstasy, like your first strap-on, like your first shameful warmonger of a president, you never forget your first tattoo. This was mine: a "flying V" electric guitar, standing vertically, with the words "Rock 'n' Roll" etched just underneath (I know, hot, right?) and I drew the whole damnable myself, badly, thinking the grumpy biker dude who ran the sole tattoo shop in Spokane back then would redraw it with some actual flair and artistic ability. Wrong.

And on to news and comment. . .

SF CITY ATTORNEY WANTS ‘GANG-FREE’ ZONES
In L.A., that would have be. . .the whole city
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/22/BAG14QK0MP1.DTL

HE’S AN EXECUTIVE! NO, HE’S A LEGISLATOR! NO, HE’S A DICK!
Cheney hides classified information---what else is new?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/washington/22cheney.html?ei=5065&en=320d27f75a620428&ex=1183176000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=all
“This order is designed to keep classified information safe. His argument is really that he’s not part of the executive branch, so he doesn’t have to comply.”

25 YEARS OF CIA HIJINKS TO BE DECLASSIFIED
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/22/MNG2GQJVLT1.DTL
The documents, to be publicly released next week, also include accounts of break-ins and theft, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, and a series of "unwitting" tests on U.S. civilians, including the use of drugs.

FLOYD:
CORRUPT CONGRESS WILL HELP BUSH ESCAPE COURT RULING
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php
The disgusting thugs who seized control of our government have been repeatedly unmasked. Their authoritarian pretensions and rampant lawbreaking have been repeatedly exposed in the media and by government insiders, and roundly condemned by numerous courts, including, as in this case, conservative courts packed with appointees of the Bush dynasty itself. Yet still, this gang squats in the White House, still they wield their earth-shaking powers, still they break laws and commit atrocities every day.

REPUGNICAN REP: STOP PELOSI FROM MEETING WITH LEADERS WHO SPONSOR TERROR
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285753,00.html

Electile Dysfunction
RON PAUL, THE MAHATMA
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north538.html
What has this to do with Ron Paul, who is running for President? At least this much: he also opposes violence, he also opposes empire, and he also believes in the long run that justice will prevail. So, he does what Gandhi did. He keeps telling the story of how a better society can be built, must be built, and will eventually be built when men reduce their commitment to violence as a way of shaping the world. This includes violence committed by the civil government. They called Gandhi the mahatma: the great self. Ron Paul is the mahatma of self-government.
DIPPY EDWARDS ON THE COVER OF VOGUE
http://www.mensvogue.com/business/politics/feature/articles/2007/06/john_edwards?currentPage=1

People’s Repugnic of China
WHO RUNS THE CHINESE MILITARY?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/22/asia/china.php
President Hu Jintao, who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission, the top military command body, is head of the armed forces, but there is considerable doubt among experts about the extent of the authority that he and his fellow civilian leaders exert over the 2.3 million-strong People's Liberation Army.

Animals in the news!
WATCH: THE COMPLACENT WHALE SLAUGHTERERS OF JAPAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/slideshow/page/0,,2109317,00.html

Religion
HEAD-TO-TOE VEIL TESTS TOLERANCE OF SECULAR BRITAIN
Just pretend they’re executioners
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/africa/veil.php

Iraq and Roll
UNBELIEVABLE: MILITARY SUGGESTS FOOT PATROLS
Why not just paint all the soldiers bright red and take away their weapons. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/In_desperation_military_suggests_foot_patrols_0622.html

The other war
WHOOPS! 25 AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6229422.stm

Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA TO SHUT DOWN REACTOR?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6229100.stm

Enviro Wacko
DARFUR CONFLICT IS ALSO DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT
http://www.enn.com/todays-news/13005

(Lack of) Health
STEM CELL INJECTIONS FOR HEART ATTACK VICTIMS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=54150&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=
GENE INJECTIONS HELP PARKINSON’S VICTIMS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,2109289,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
COMMUNISM IS ALIVE AND WELL---IN JAPAN
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1636115,00.html
Born in 1922 as the Japanese branch of the Communist International, the international federation of Marxist-Leninist parties created by Moscow, the JCP quickly adapted itself to local conditions. It was one of the few Japanese groups to stand up to the rise of Japanese militarists in the run-up to World War II, and suffered heavily as a result.
HALBERSTAM DRIVER TO FACE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Evidence shows grad student ran a red light
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/22/BAGA3QK1DV1.DTL
GIRL GOES ON INSANE ‘SUPERMAN’ RIDE, LOSES LEGS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/21/national/a185234D68.DTL
ANCIENT ETRUSCANS WERE IMMIGRANTS FROM ANATOLIA
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/esoh-aew061307.php

And in more important matters. . .

OH, NO, ANOTHER CELEBRITY OPERA DIRECTOR---WOODY ALLEN
Well, he can’t be worse than Ian Judge, a “real” opera director
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6229754.stm

R.I.P. HANK MEDRESS, ONE OF THE TOKENS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/arts/music/22medress.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

CLOONEY TRIES TO STOP ITALIAN TOWN FROM OVERDEVELOPMENT
Which would, coincidentally, spoil his villa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6229734.stm

Travel
VACATIONING. . .IN AUSCHWITZ?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630425,00.html
But today, a holiday stop at the former Nazi concentration camp at Belsen is far from unthinkable; it's a common destination, together with Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka, in the growing travel niche market known as "Dark Tourism."
THE WORLD’S MOST LIVABLE CITY? MUNICH
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/18/arts/rmon1munich.php
"There's a certain Italian ambience here," says Uschi Schnitzer, a 35-year-old event manager, putting down her book on a sunny afternoon in a café in Schwabing, one of the city's liveliest areas. "In winter you've got the mountains and in summer the cafés, beer gardens and lakes. What else do you need?"
SWIMMING WITH WHALE SHARKS
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/38992.aspx
YESSIREE! RAW SEWAGE SPILLS ON OVERSEAS FLIGHT
http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_172143902.html

Film
CRUISE FILM ON HITLER ASSASSINATION TRY ‘BOUND TO BE RUBBISH’
---SO SAYS SON OF WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,490147,00.html
‘PIRATES’ MOVIES HAVE GOT IT ALL WRONG
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0622/p20s01-woam.html
My gripe with the movies that followed, particularly the latest, was that they largely dispensed with the pirates and their real-world nemeses in favor of computer-generated underworlds, villains, and goddesses. I say, let well enough alone: What better material to draw inspiration from than the real pirates of the Caribbean?
RAINER ON ‘EVAN’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0622/p14s01-almo.html
RAINER ON ‘A MIGHTY HEART’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0622/p11s02-almo.html

And in the end. . .
WHO’S YEHUDI?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu7KL71oF7o


6/21
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our (updated)
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY PLAYED BY RUSSIAN NESTING DOLLS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VngIA0o8z3Q
WHAT EXACTLY ARE THESE DOLLS?
http://www.mandarinelectron.com/theremin/english/matryomin/index.html

NUDE COUPLE FALL TO DEATHS
Evidently got a little too jiggy on the roof
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/20/national/a082552D59.DTL&type=bondage

PEACE AND QUIET IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS?
NOT ANY MORE. . .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/06/21/camping.DTL
Such has been my experience at our popular local campgrounds. If the place isn't overrun with hordes of half-crazed collegians, then it is with drunken guys, blaring boom boxes, wailing babies or people cooking really smelly food round the clock.

WOMAN SUES OVER LOTTERY---BECAUSE HER NEIGHBORS WON
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,489959,00.html

THE AUSTRIAN FARM GIRL CALENDAR!
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,22604,00.html

And on to news and comment. . .

INTERVIEW: HERSH ON SEX-TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB
General Taguba’s revelations are the demented legacy of our country today
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17903.htm

NEW YORK TIMES GOES AFTER RUPERT MURDOCH
Launches worldwide investigation into News Corp business dealings
http://www.observer.com/2007/times-undertakes-multi-bureau-rupert-murdoch-investigation
Murdoch’s $400,000 Penthouse Gym
Got to keep those 76-year-old muscles hard for his young chickie wife
http://www.observer.com/2007/lets-get-physical-murdochs-400-000-penthouse-gym

CHENEY: I’M NOT PART OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_tells_agency_that_Vice_Presidents_0621.html

THE GREAT TEACHER RETREAT
Half-million teachers quit each year
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/21/MNGHHQITTQ1.DTL&feed=rss.news

TEXAS MOB BEATS MAN TO DEATH AFTER HIS CAR INJURES CHILD
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003756479_austin21.html

War in error
CHERTOFF BEATS FEAR DRUMS AGAIN---
SAYS AMERICANS ‘COMPLACENT’ ABOUT TERRORISM
Well, it’s like worrying about a lightning strike, Mike. . .
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0621/p25s08-usmb.html
BRIT COPS CAN’T SEEM TO HOLD TERROR SUSPECTS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=54067&in_page_id=34
U.S. SPENDS $78 BILLION---BILLION---FOR “ANTI-GAY BOMBS,” OTHER MADNESS
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3299379

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER 14 DEAD U.S. TROOPS
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/21/iraq.main/index.html

Enviro Wacko
LAKE IN CHILE SUDDENLY VANISHES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6225676.stm
CHINA TRAINS HUMANS TO SNIFF OUT EXCESSIVE POLLUTION
Oh, that’ll help
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6223722.stm

Electile Dysfunction
DAVE BARRY IS RUNNING FOR PREZ
Hopes to pick Keith Richards as running mate
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003601818
BILLARY BOOED BY ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Clinton_confronts_antiwar_activists_at_liberal_0621.html
---SO IS PELOSI
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/After_boos_Pelosi_declares_Iraq_was_0621.html
RON PAUL: REPUGS CAN’T WIN
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Ron_Paul_I_dont_see_how_0619.html
RUDY THE CREEP GAVE SPEECHES TO NUTBALL CHRISTIAN OUTFIT
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/21/giuliani-speech/
A daylong program infused with Christianity, patriotism and pumping music suitable for aerobics. Many among the roster of speakers urged the audience of about 25,000 to find their inner power — and to sign up for more seminars and books.

Mashed Media
OVER 100 JOURNALISTS KILLED IN IRAQ---DOUBLE THAT OF VIETNAM WAR
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/21/over-100-journalists-kill_n_53138.html
MSNBC ID’S REPORTERS WHO MADE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/21/msnbc-ids-144-journalists_n_53141.html
FBI PROBES THREATS AGAINST BLACK MIAMI HERALD COLUMNIST
http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/146399.html
POWER POINT TURNS 20. . .
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004696.html
. . .AND POWER POINT MAKES YOU DUMB
http://www.unc.edu/~mumukshu/gandhi/gandhi/powerpoint.htm

All you need is cash
FASHION INDUSTRY MILKS ‘SUMMER OF LOVE’ 40TH WITH ‘HIPPIE CHIC’
Now, for thousands of dollars, you, too, can look like a genuine hippie!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/fashion/21HIPPIE.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

Bush Leagues
PERFECT EXAMPLE OF BUSH SPIN---JUST SAY THE OPPOSITE---
SNOW SAYS BUSH ‘PUTS SCIENCE AHEAD OF IDEOLOGY’ ON STEM CELL POSITION
What a howl. . .
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/snow-veto-ii/

Oh, by the way. . .
SF MAYOR DENIES COKE USE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/21/MNG43QJ3UI1.DTL
R.I.P. ASTONOMER KENNETH FRANKLIN
First scientist to document noise from another planet
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/nyregion/21franklin.html?ref=obituaries
GORILLAS USE NAPKINS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53956&in_page_id=34

And in more important matters. . .

Musique
WHEN JIMI HENDRIX PLAYED NORTHRIDGE
Unbelievable footage. . .
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/hendrix_at_devonshire_dow.php
Smokey Robinson on tour again
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2107847,00.html
WANT TO TRY OUT A STRADIVARIUS?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/30/america/web-0330violin.php

HONG KONG: THRIVING, BUT NOT DEMOCRATIC
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/opinion/edpatten.php

For Art’s Sake
PONDERING NEW SHOW AT KASSEL
Note piece made of doors and windows of Ming and Qing Dynasty homes
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/21/arts/documenta.php

And in the end. . .
‘DR. WHO’ FANS IN ACTION
TV should be licensed. . .
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=54057&in_page_id=34

6/20
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our (updated)
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
SPIKE JONES---THE SHEIK OF ARABY
http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/2007/06/spike-jones-shiek-of-araby.html

GARDEN GNOMES BUSTED FOR SMUGGLING SNAKES!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6766631.stm

INDIA FEARS THE VIBRATING CONDOM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6221540.stm

FRANCE FEARS THE BLACKBERRY
http://www.itv.com/news/world_40b8f5982beead5ccc94d8b89cad4bd9.html

400 SIT ON CATHAY FLIGHT FOR 7 HOURS---ON THE GROUND
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/20/MNGSLQIDEN1.DTL

BEATLES BEAT SHAKESPEARE AS CULTURAL REFERENCE POINT
Don’t tell McCartney. . .he might get an ego (to go with the one he already has)
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2106954,00.html
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAULIE
He’s 65, folks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgiD3NPj2E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGEdb-mRmIU&mode=related&search=

HERO WHO SAVED DOG DIES OF INJURIES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/20/BAGDGQIBD01.DTL

THE GREAT MORFORD:
DESIGNER VAGINAS AND USELESS MEN
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/06/20/notes062007.DTL
And by the way, we have also invented new drugs to eliminate menstruation and we can now grow designer vaginas in the lab and plastic surgery is more common than bad sacrum tattoos and it's becoming increasingly obvious that males of many species -- including our own -- are largely unnecessary for procreation (but not, say, parallel parking, the lifting of heavy things or buying you a nice postcoital breakfast).

And on to news and comment. . .

Your Corporatocracy at work!
HOW BUSH HAS OUTSOURCED THE GOV’T. TO HIS PALS
http://www.alternet.org/story/54623/
The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department is known for being in charge of America's color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system, a sham that obscures HSD's real mission: to serve as a giant federal cookie jar for corporate America.
SHOP TILL THE EARTH DROPS!
http://www.alternet.org/environment/54208/
Want to make a buck on massive droughts brought on by global warming? Invest in Monsanto, the leader in developing drought resistant crops like corn. Wondering where to buy a second home as the earth heats up? The Atlantic Monthly suggests buying property in southern Canada.
ASIAN MOMS PREFER FORMULA TO BREAST-FEEDING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6220740.stm

WATCH: THE GREAT MICHAEL MOORE
ON BEING INVESTIGATED BY BUSH
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/#54701

Enviro Wacko
HAS A TEENAGER SOLVED THE BEE DIE-OFF MYSTERY?
http://mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070619/NEWS/706190314
A 13-year-old's award-winning essay suggests the die-off comes from feeding them too much corn syrup and trucking them long distances to pollinate crops.
BIRDS AND BEES PREMATURELY ACTIVE IN GREENLAND
Also in American high schools
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,489508,00.html

THE BIGGEST D.C. SCANDAL THAT THE PRESS NEVER COVERED
Remember when boy-prostitutes were flown in for parties?
http://www.thelawparty.org/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm
Former republican Senator John Decamp was involved in the production a documentary called "Conspiracy of Silence" it was to air May 3, 1994 on the Discovery Channel. This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies. At the last minute before airing, unknown congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry with restrictive legislation if this documentary was aired.

People’s Repugnic of China
CHINA SURPASSES U.S. IN CARBON POLLUTION
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2106689,00.html
SINGAPORE PM: ‘NOBODY CAN CONTROL CHINA’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,489723,00.html
CHINA WILL BUILD HIGHWAY N MT. EVEREST
We’re not making this stuff up
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1634969,00.html
BACKLASH GROWING OVER CHINA SLAVE LABOR
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1635144,00.html

Israelity
CARTER: BUSH POLICY ON PALESTINE IS ‘CRIMINAL’
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#54694
ISRAEL TANKS, JETS HIT GAZA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2107303,00.html
ISRAELI WOMEN SOLDIERS POSE NEAR-NUDE FOR MAXIM
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1635152,00.html
A new public relations effort by Israel's New York consulate wants the country known less for its conflict with the Palestinians or for its myriad holy sites than for its beautiful women in uniform. Or, more accurately, out of uniform.

Religion
CRAZY IRANIANS GOING NUTS OVER RUSHDIE KNIGHTHOOD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,489635,00.html

Iraq and Roll
CNN, RUSSERT: IRAQ WAR IS LIKE “WHACK-A-MOLE”
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Stewart_U.S._using_WhackaMole_strategy_in_0620.html
MORE EXTENDED TOURS FOR EXHAUSTED TROOPS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2747

Mission Accomplished!
IRAQ IS NOW WORLD’S SECOND MOST UNSTABLE COUNTRY
http://www.gulf-news.com/region/Iraq/10133677.html

RAIMUNDO: NIHILISM AND NEOCONS---ALL PART OF THE PLAN
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11163
Because, you see, smashing up the Middle East was and is the whole point. Every new day's headlines reminds me of a prescient piece by Joshua Marshall, published in the April 2003 issue of The Washington Monthly, entitled "Practice to Deceive," the subtitle of which was "Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario – it's their plan."

Electile Dysfunction
HORRID CELINE DION SONG CHOSEN FOR BILLARY’S CAMPAIGN
A perfectly vile song for a perfectly vile candidate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6221438.stm
THOMPSON: THE BUTT-UGLY PREZ CAMPAIGN
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2748
Barack Obama and John Edwards are considered pretty boys but - in both their cases - beauty and intellect appear equally superficial. Hell, Paris Hilton has more depth.

Kim Nook Yoo
N. KOREA TEST-FIRES ANOTHER MISSILE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6767243.stm

Mashed Media
FOX NEWS BLAMES BLOGGERS---BLOGGERS!---FOR ALL U.S. ILLS
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/fox-tba-bloggers/
SAN JOSE MERC NEWSROOM TO CUT 40
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003600984

Lost Angeles
LITTLE ANTHONY HIRES ‘GANG CZAR’---
OH, THAT’LL DO A LOT OF GOOD
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang20jun20,1,6803007.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
BRATTON GETS FIVE MORE YEARS TO HAVE NO IMPACT ON L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bratton20jun20,0,962357.story?coll=la-home-center
L.A. CITY ATTY AND WIFE ARE A COUPLE OF HORSE’S ASSES
(How’s that for a headline?)
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/rocky_and_michelle_story.php
DAILY NEWS DENOUNCES DELGADILLO
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6180688
OLDEST HOUSE IN VAN NUYS BEING TORN DOWN
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6181790

Oh, by the way. . .
WALKING UP HALF-DOME IS A DEADLY WALK IN THE PARK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/19/BAGHNQHLEV1.DTL
SF MAYOR ACCUSED OF COCAINE USE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/20/BAGBPQIBV21.DTL
GAMBIA’S NUTBALL PREZ AND HIS AIDS CURE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,485715,00.html
IWO JIMA CHANGES ITS NAME---THANKS TO EASTWOOD
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1635182,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

PIAF’S ‘SOULMATE’ REMEMBERS THEIR YEARS TOGETHER
‘We shared a bed but never touched’
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2107274,00.html

Film
‘POTTER’ ACTORS DISCUSS GROWING INTO THEIR ROLES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6745975.stm
‘FINDING NEVERLAND’ DIRECTOR WILL DO NEXT BOND FILM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6220890.stm

JON CARROLL IS GIVING AWAY SOME BOOKS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/20/DDGITP19RG1.DTL

A VISUAL TOUR OF NEW BRIT ‘MEDICAL CURIOSITY’ MUSEUM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jun/20/museums?picture=330056551

And in the end. . .
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8PJ4AEhmY

6/18
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our (updated)
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

TRAVELING WILBURYS ARE # 1 IN BRITAIN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6761757.stm

MAN PULLS TRUCK WITH PENIS
They don’t call ‘em Peterbilts for nothing
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53422&in_page_id=34

GIANT FROGS RAID TOILETS!
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/14/giantfrogs_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20070614111500

HEALTHY, MY ASS! BLACK WOMEN HAVE SERIOUS HINDQUARTER PROBLEMS
(Before you scream, “racism,” know that the article is written by a black woman.)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/07/obesity/?source=whitelist
To the degree that this black fat preference is simply a determination to pooh-pooh anything "white," blacks need to grow up. If it's simply ignorance, well, now we know and when you know better you're supposed to do better. Sorry, brothers, but just as I learned to reject "hard bodies" that are the result of steroids, y'all need to reject "lard bodies" that are, at least in part, the result of slow suicide to please you.

WOMAN WINS $29K SETTLEMENT FOR GOING TOPLESS
Tit for tat
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/18/ap/strange/main2941699.shtml

CREEPO CRUISE BUYS HOUSE IN BERLIN
Will make film about attempted Hitler assassination
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,489129,00.html

And on to news and comment. . .

NEW HERSH REPORT:
FATHER, SON WERE FORCED INTO SEX AT ABU GHRAIB
Army General details the deranged legacy of our country
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh
I learned from Taguba that the first wave of materials included descriptions of the sexual humiliation of a father with his son, who were both detainees. Several of these images, including one of an Iraqi woman detainee baring her breasts, have since surfaced; others have not. (Taguba’s report noted that photographs and videos were being held by the C.I.D. because of ongoing criminal investigations and their “extremely sensitive nature.”) Taguba said that he saw “a video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomizing a female detainee.” The video was not made public in any of the subsequent court proceedings, nor has there been any public government mention of it. Such images would have added an even more inflammatory element to the outcry over Abu Ghraib. “It’s bad enough that there were photographs of Arab men wearing women’s panties,” Taguba said. . . In the meeting, the officials professed ignorance about Abu Ghraib. “Could you tell us what happened?” Wolfowitz asked. Someone else asked, “Is it abuse or torture?” At that point, Taguba recalled, “I described a naked detainee lying on the wet floor, handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum, and said, ‘That’s not abuse. That’s torture.’ There was quiet.”

OOPS! U.S. KILLS SEVEN AFGHAN KIDS
Darn those pesky military mistakes that produce such “collateral damage”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6762549.stm

31 KIDS RESCUED FROM PEDOPHILE RING
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2105771,00.html

Religion
INSANE ISLAMICISTS THREATEN BRITAIN OVER RUSHDIE HONOR
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2105363,00.html
PAKISTAN CABINET MINISTER SAYS RUSHDIE TITLE JUSTIFIES SUICIDE ATTACKS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53423&in_page_id=34

ENGELHARDT: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION QUOTE QUIZ!
Test your skill at recognizing the unique Bush style of B.S.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/54315/

What is the law?
MOYERS ON ‘SCOOTER’ LIBBY
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/16/1926/
In a piece published on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, Ajami pleaded with Bush to pardon Libby. For believing “in the nobility of this war,” wrote Ajami, Scooter Libby had himself become a “casualty” — a fallen soldier the President dare not leave behind on the Beltway battlefield. Not a word in the entire article about the real fallen soldiers. The honest-to-God dead, and dying, and wounded.

Electile Dysfunction
BILLARY REGAINS DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD
Good news for the NWO!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Clinton_regains_double_digit_lead_in_0618.html

Iraq and Roll
DID IRAQI ‘COPS’ KILL U.S. TROOPS AT KARBALA?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1633265,00.html
GEORGE TENET CASHES IN ON IRAQ
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/07/tenet_money/index.html
‘IRAQ SUMMER’ AIMS TO ISOLATE BUSH
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/iraq-summer-hopes-to-isolate-president-bush-2007-06-15.html

(Lack of) Health
JEFF RENSE: THE CAUSE OF CHRON’S, IBS, COLITIS
http://www.rense.com/general77/croh.htm
WATCH: AMAZING LETTERMAN/MOORE INTERVIEW ON ‘SICKO’
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/06/sicko.html
YOUNG BINGE DRINKERS FACING LIVER DISEASE EPIDEMIC
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53437&in_page_id=34

Mashed Media
HER-EX PRESS BUILDING TORN DOWN FOR SWANKY CONDOS
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2007/06/18/news/news_briefs/at01.txt
KIDNAPPED IRAQI EDITOR FOUND DEAD
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003599919

Animals in the news!
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE MARVELOUS PINK DOLPHIN, KIDS!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,,2104341,00.html
WOMAN KILLED BY PET CHOW
They’re nasty dogs, folks
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/18/national/a055550D90.DTL

Enviro Wacko
BILLION REFUGEES, ANYONE?
Global warming-caused rising sea levels will ensure it
http://www.enn.com/todays-news/12976

Oh, by the way. . .
JAPAN PLANTS CORAL TO SETTLE TERRITORY DISPUTE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6758271.stm
SLIDE SHOW: THE HIDDEN ORPHANS OF INDONESIA
Ripe material for terrorist recruitment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/asia_pac_aceh0s_hidden_orphanages/html/1.stm
ANCIENT NUBIAN HOMELAND THREATENED BY DAM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070615-sudan-nubian.html

And in more important matters. . .

ARE THESE THE GREATEST COMEDY FILMS OF ALL TIME?
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2104660,00.html

TAIPEI’S ARCHITECTURAL FINGER IN CHINA’S EYE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0618/p04s02-woap.html
"We wanted the world to see Taipei and Taiwan, and having a tall building here has achieved that," says Cathy Yang, vice president of the company that built and owns the 101-floor tower. "It lets the world know about Taipei. It makes a difference." For the time being, Taipei 101 does the trick. The elegant, deep aquamarine skyscraper rises in sections said to have been inspired by bamboo canes and pagodas.

Musique
YES, CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITICISM IS ON THE WANE
Just part of the grand dumbing-down of all culture and the banal-izing of civilization
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118194664260737253.html

EBAY-NOMICS: TEMPORARY INSANITY OF BIDDING
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/06/10/ebay_nomics/?page=full

Light Reading
MORE PEOPLE DIED MAKING V-2 ROCKETS THAN WERE BLOWN UP BY THEM
How use, not innovation, prompts technological development
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/05/14/070514crbo_books_shapin?currentPage=all

And in the end. . .
UKELELE VIRTUOSO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72eDu3xcr2Y

6/15
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS, AND RAINBOWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9rjSJtttfA
PAULIE REHEARSES LAST WEEK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFtEZGE26gU

BABY MONITOR IS PICKING UP SPACE SHUTTLE FEEDS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53162&in_page_id=34

PIG HAS TWO PENISES
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=52994&in_page_id=2

DRACULA’S CASTLE TURNED OVER TO ROYAL FAMILY
From one bloodsucker to another
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53140&in_page_id=34

PAINTED BREASTS
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=53126&in_page_id=7


OPRAH IS THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6753847.stm

NO GAZA NEWS HERE TODAY!
Who gives a crap---they’re all nuts

And on to news and comment. . .

GERMAN ROBIN HOOD GOES TO JAIL
This guy’s a hero
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,488735,00.html
A German bank employee, identified only as Dragan V., stole money from rich customers to give it to poor ones. He's now been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison, officials in the southern German town of Mosbach

WOMAN CHASES DOWN, CAPTURES I.D. THIEF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/15/MNG77QG0G11.DTL

SCHWARZENEGGER IS RIGHT (FOR ONCE)
If Spanish-speaking immigrants want to learn English, they should stop watching Spanish TV
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/14/national/a162328D73.DTL

MORFORD:
A MILLION BUCKS FOR A LITTLE STARTER HOME IN SF
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
One million dollars. This appears to be the magic number in San Francisco right now. Yes, 600K will get you a tiny corner studio in a remote condo development with a view of some shattered bus shelters in a part of the city where you don't even let your dog walk outside alone at night. 850K will get you a nice little place with a bathroom large enough that you may turn around in it without knocking over the refrigerator.

Electile Dysfunction
MITT THE MORMON: FED SHOULD BAN GAY MARRIAGE---
Yes, now there’s an effective use of government time and money. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Romney_wants_marriage_amendment_0615.html
---AND AMERRYGUNS LOVE HIM!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0615/p01s03-uspo.html

Saudi Doody
BANDAR BUSH GOT $150 MILLION AIRBUS FROM BRIT DEFENSE CONTRACTOR
Just a little perq
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=12241
HOUSE OF BUSH, HOUSE OF SAUD
http://www.thinkingpeace.com/Lib/lib006.html
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, had long been the most recognizable figure from his country in America. Widely known as the Arab Gatsby, with his trimmed goatee and tailored double-breasted suits, the 52-year-old Bandar was the very embodiment of the contradictions inherent in being a modern, jet-setting, Western-leaning member of the royal House of Saud.

IRAQ WAR HAS USED UP ALL THE NAT’L. GUARD EQUIPMENT MEANT FOR. . .US
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-15-guard-equipment_N.htm?csp=34

IMMIGRATION BILL RISES FROM THE DEAD
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2716

DID GONZALES COACH MONICA?
(Does Bush think he's right?)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1633004,00.html

Plame-out
RAIMUNDO: I SAY ‘TORTURE’ LIBBY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11136
I say we lock him up in a room and force him to hear the collected speeches of Ron Paul: the flow of words hailing the Constitution, the rule of law, and the virtues of strictly limited government and a non-interventionist foreign policy will wash over him as if he'd been dropped in a vat of acid. Like a vampire reacting to garlic, or sunlight, Scooter's shrieks of pained outrage won't last long – he'll either beg for mercy and capitulate immediately, or else he'll eventually be converted to libertarianism and will voluntarily confess his crimes.

Mashed media
FASCIST WHITE HOUSE:
‘CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES’ PROTECTS TERRORISTS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/15/MNGDVQFUTK1.DTL&feed=rss.news
‘RANT’ COLUMNIST IS SICK OF ALL THE RANTING E-MAIL
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2693
My column Monday on Sen. Joseph Lieberman brought the anti-Semites out in force. Phil Hoskins' column over the weekend about gay pride brought a hoard of gay bashers. If we publish a story about Barack Obama, the racists weigh in. At times the cycle seems endless and repetitive.

Animals in the news!
WAVE GOODBYE TO ALL THE NICE BIRDIES, KIDS!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0615/p02s03-usgn.html
From the heartland's whippoorwills and meadowlarks to the Northern bobwhite and common terns of the nation's coasts, 20 common bird species tracked by the National Audubon Society have seen their numbers fall 54 percent overall since 1967, with some down about 80 percent, the group reported Thursday.
AND THE BEES, TOO!
http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=11137
Audubon: What's happening to birds we know and love?
http://www.audubon.org/bird/stateofthebirds/CBID/

Spaced Out
RUSSIA---YOU BROKE THE SPACE STATION COMPUTER, U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3281714
PLUTO OUTCLASSED AGAIN---THIS TIME BY ERIS
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Pluto_outshone_yet_again_study_06142007.html

Oh, by the way. . .
WOMAN COLOMBIAN PREZ CANDIDATE IN 5TH YEAR OF KIDNAP CAPTIVITY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488066,00.html
CHINESE WORKERS TOLD TO WEAR T-SHIRTS TO WORK TO SAVE ENERGY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488739,00.html
‘DIRTY BOMB’ PLOTTERS GET 136 YEARS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=53209&in_page_id=34

And in more important matters. . .

HOW MANY WAYS CAN YOU SPELL ‘VIAGRA?’
Tired of “penis enlargement” spam?
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55592?&print=yes
What's most remarkable about the question posed in my title is that I probably don't need to explain it. If you have checked your e-mail anytime in the past few years, you know all about "V.i.a.g.r.a" and "V!A6RA" and "\/lagra," not to mention "C1aL|$" and "Rrol,x Rep,ica" and—let's not be bashful about this—"pen1s en1argement." As spam has been proliferating in everyone's inbox, it has also been mutating madly, presumably in an effort to evade the filters that most of us now have in place.

HERE’S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE ‘HOW TO BE HAPPY’ ARTICLES
I always find them depressing.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1631176_1630611,00.html

THE AMAZING ROBOT VOLKSWAGEN
Now your car can get stuck in traffic---while you stay home!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/technology/15robot.html?em&ex=1182052800&en=5ff9a120cd2b0a2d&ei=5087%0A

For Art’s Sake
JAPANESE GARDENER EXHIBIT AT JAPANESE-AMERICAN MUSEUM
http://www.janm.org/exhibits/landscaping/home

LANGER’S DELI CELEBRATES 60TH
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/party_at_langers.php

JON CARROLL ON HUMORIST MIKE DAISEY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/15/DDGIPQF1EM1.DTL
Mike Daisey is really well known for someone who is not well known. He's been on Letterman, the gateway drug for fame junkies. He's been reviewed ecstatically in the New York Times. He is constantly creating monologues ("I believe in deadlines," he told me, and it sounded like a reproof of all the performers who tour the same act for years) and presenting them in various combinations to various audiences all over the country. (Details? www.mikedaisey.com.)

Film
RAINER ON ‘FANTASTIC FOUR’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0615/p11s01-almo.html

And in the end. . .
TALKING PLANTS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070614-plants.html 
YOU KNOW, LIKE THESE. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IT1JSTHok
AND THIS. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE

6/14
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
HONEY LIMITED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUnJUtSVY2A

THEY’RE GOING TO START CHARGING
TO DRIVE IN RUSH HOUR
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0614/p03s03-ussc.html

PARIS BACK IN LYNWOOD SLAMMER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/14/entertainment/e041145D23.DTL&type=entertainment
Her sentence is longer than 80 percent of inmates in similar crime
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-paris15jun15,0,863712.story?coll=la-home-center

BERKELEY PASSES LAW AGAINST ‘UNRULY BEHAVIOR’
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/14/BAGI5QEUDL1.DTL

LOUISIANA TOWN WILL BAN 'SAGGY' TROUSERS
That is, pants that barely cover the essentials
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751777.stm

EXCLUSIVE:
U.S. INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES REVEALED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_c7uHcM1E

And on to news and comment. . .

PERMANENT BASES THE WORLD OVER:
BEHOLD THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
http://www.alternet.org/story/54047/
What's finally coming into view is just what George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the top officials of their administration, the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, and their neocon followers had in mind when they invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003.

TONY SNOWJOB: NEW VIOLENCE IN IRAQ IS ‘SIGN OF SUCCESS’
Guess nuclear war would be quite a breakthrough
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/snow-success/

SCHEER: PRESIDENT LIEBERMAN---A CAUTIONARY TALE
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/13/1840/
This is the joker who bought the Ahmad Chalabi line that invading Iraq would result in a pro-West and pro-Israel democracy with Chalabi (who later failed to get 1 percent of the vote) playing Iraq’s George Washington. For five years before 9/11, Lieberman pushed funding for Chalabi’s exile organization to lead the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Lieberman was also a principal author of the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which threw $100 million in Chalabi’s direction.

Israelity
RAIMUNDO: BOMB IRAN? IT’S ALL ABOUT ISRAEL
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11132
Pollak's idea of a proper "balance of power" is that Israel alone will have the capacity to wipe out its neighbors with the press of a single button, the barking of a single command. In short, the only acceptable "balance" is Israeli military dominance. He does his bit to dress up this domination in the garb of an "American-enforced security architecture," but that, in essence, is what we are really talking about here: maintaining Israel's nuclear monopoly at all costs.

REPUGS DESERTING SINKING BUSH
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19209733/

Enviro Wacko
‘ECO-JET’ AIRCRAFT COULD CUT CARBON EMISSIONS IN HALF
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2103055,00.html

Your corporatocracy at work!
INSANE NEW DIET PILL HITS THE MARKET
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/14/MNG3DQF4UD1.DTL&type=health

Light reading
THE ‘ECONOMIC STUDY’ PLOY
http://crosscut.com/mossback/3899/A+study+of+Seattle+media+obsession+with+studies/
Economic studies don't just happen. They are planned, a part of political and public relations strategies to get media attention and guide — or stampede — opinion toward seeing the enlightened self interest in giving more money to the haves. They're an attempt to convince us to fork over our hard earned dollars to subsidize successful businesses by showing the trickle-down benefits of trickle-up spending.

Jesus H. Christ!
VATICAN TELLS CATHOLICS:
DON'T GIVE TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Mighty Christian of Il Papa!
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488527,00.html

L.A.(me) Times
‘HUMBLE AL’ RETURNING MONDAYS; COLUMNIST STEIN TO TEACH ORAL SEX
No wonder this newspaper is in such trouble
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/al_martinez_to_run_monday.php
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/joel_stein_will_do_anythi.php

Mashed Media
EBAY AT WAR WITH GOOGLE
Sounds like a Japanese monster movie
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/14/BUG9LQER0T1.DTL
FBI GOING AFTER ‘ZOMBIES’ THAT HIJACK HOME PC’S
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6752853.stm
The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.
GOOGLE PUSHES FOR ‘OPEN’ WIRELESS
http://news.com.com/Google+lobbies+for+open+wireless+networks/2100-1039_3-6190863.html?tag=nefd.lede

People’s Repugnic of China
217 SLAVES, INCLUDING CHILDREN, RESCUED IN CHINA
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Police_rescue_217_slaves_in_China_06142007.html
CHINESE INVESTORS FEAR BURST OF STOCK BUBBLE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488609,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
ORGAN TRADE THRIVES IN INDIA SLUMS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488281,00.html
India's slums are a gold mine for organ traders, full of poor people desperate enough to sell their organs. But with a healthy kidney fetching just €500, most donors only make enough to pay off their debts -- and end up even poorer in the long term.
FORMER U.N. CHIEF KURT WALDHEIM DIES
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19225774/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Waldheim
BRIT TV STAR BARRYMORE ARRESTED FOR MURDER
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2102942,00.html
KILLER MOTHS SPREADING IN UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XVO0REIZ5GWQPQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2007/06/13/eamoths13.xml

And in more important matters. . .

THE TEN-YEAR-OLD GODDESS OF NEPAL
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/14/news/goddess.php

TAKING THE BUTTERFLY CENSUS AT MT. DIABLO
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/14/BAG28QEQ1783.DTL

THE JAPANESE GARDENS OF LOS ANGELES
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-japanese14jun14,0,2836597.story?coll=la-home-middleright

WU’S WU IN CHINA?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article1923461.ece
In China every Tom, Dick and Harry is called Li. The number of Chinese named Zhang (88 million) exceeds the population of Germany. There are more Chinese called Chen or Zhou than there are Australians of whatever name. Hence the colloquial expression lao bai xing, “old hundred surnames”, is used in Chinese to mean “ordinary people” or commoners. In the same way that if you shout “Jones” in the garden quad of Jesus College, Oxford, twenty windows fly open, so, if you call out “Zhang Wei” in a street in Beijing, several men turn round.

Film
WHALE DREAMERS
http://whaledreamers.com/

Musique
Dead Symphony no. 6
An Orchestral Tribute to the Music of the Grateful Dead
http://www.deadsymphony.com/
Sir Paul plays another ‘secret’ gig
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6751375.stm

For Art’s Sake
BALTIMORE PAINTERS KEEPING URBAN FOLK ART ALIVE
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0614/p20s01-ussc.html

So why did Bob Barker quit?
http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2007/06/why_did_bob_barker_q.php

And in the end. . .
THE BIG RIP
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/big_rip_030306.html

6/13
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

ROBBERS ATTACK MAN WITH SWORDFISH SNOUT
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=84156

SWORDFISH POPULATIONS NEED YOUR HELP
http://www.activeangler.com/articles/conservation/articles/fff/swordfish.asp

THE HISTORY OF ‘SWORDFISH’ AS A PASSWORD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_(password)
 
THE BUSH WATCH CAPER
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2007/06/12/the_mystery_of_wristwatch_one.html

WOMEN LOVE PORN
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?in_article_id=52811&in_page_id=8

PARIS DROPPED BY AGENCY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6747845.stm

THE ASTOUNDING FLATULENT AMERICAN TIGER!
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/article.html?in_article_id=52817&in_page_id=46

MORFORD: WHAT’S THE F---ING PROBLEM?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/06/13/notes061307.DTL
This, then, is the real linguistic lesson kids need to learn. When it comes to a good curse, it's all about the placement, the timing, the precise usage. After all, "f--" is a delightful power word, one I wish I could actually employ in this very column every so often without those damnable dashes that protect, well, no one.

And on to news and comment. . .

REST IN PEACE, THE GREAT MR. WIZARD
Can you imagine television teaching and inspiring kids? Don Herbert used to do it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/arts/13herbert.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Plame-out
FITZ: THROW LIBBY IN JAIL NOW
Condi hints at pardon
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fitzgerald_wants_Libby_jailed_now_while_0612.html

TOP BUSH AIDES SUBPOENAED IN ATTORNEY SCANDAL
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/13/breaking-top-white-house-officials-subpoenaed/

TURKEY MIGHT INVADE NORTHERN IRAQ
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/contributors/06-2007/Article-20070608-0b230b36-c0a8-10ed-01b1-69966c57db81/story.html

NEW YORK TO LEGALIZE MEDICAL POT
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/97536.html
MS Sufferer Montel Williams Makes the Case for Medical Pot
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/53947/

Your Corporatocracy at work!
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM RUNS ON GREED---MICHAEL MOORE
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Michael_Moore_takes_healthcare_issue_to_0612.html
U.S. FOOD PRICES SPIKE WAY UP
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0613/p01s01-usec.html
ONE IN TEN BRIT FAMILIES GO WITHOUT FOOD, MEDICAL CARE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52744&in_page_id=34

NOAH’S FRIDGE:
SAVING THE WORLD’S SEEDS FROM CLIMATE DISASTER
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0613/p13s01-wogi.html
Handful by sweaty handful, they collect seeds from plants in the hills around this city in southern California. Once cleaned and dried, the seeds are put into silver-colored, insulated envelopes. Half of the envelopes remain here at San Diego Zoo's Conservation and Research for Endangered Species (CRES); the other half crosses the Atlantic to the Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) in Britain, the acting repository for all the world's wild plant seeds.

Lost Angeles
ANSCHUTZ’S FREE (LOUSY) EXAMINER COMING TO L.A.
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Newspapers_24/The_word_Examiner_will_launch_in_LA.asp
WHY LITTLE ANTHONY’S DIVORCE MATTERS TO L.A.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/why_villar_minus_raigosa.php
GARRISON KEILLOR TOURS L.A.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-keillor13jun13,0,5551125.story?coll=la-opinion-center

Mashed Media
JON CARROLL:
THE NEWSPAPER YOU ARE HOLDING IS A MIRACLE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/13/DDGH3P19NQ1.DTL
Prologue: The paper you are holding in your hands is a miracle. It has been put out by men and women dealing with sadness and loss. The personnel cuts have begun at the newspaper, and they ain't stopping any time soon. Everyone will be losing friends; some have already lost them.
Deep cuts at the Chronicle and the Mercury---
mean less journalism and accountability for the Bay Area
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3815&catid=&volume_id=254&issue_id=301&volume_num=41&issue_num=37
TONY SNOW JOB TO CBS: YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR OWN FACTS
You have to use mine! Mine!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Tony_Snow_Bush_leading_way_on_0612.html

Iraq and Roll
IRAQIS BLOWING UP MOSQUES AGAIN (YAWN)
Oh, those nasty “insurgents!”
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1632256,00.html
Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2101677,00.html
Envoy's damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war

(Lack of) Health
LACK OF SLEEP UPS HEART RISK
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Insufficient_sleep_increases_risk_o_06132007.html

Animals in the news!
IVORY WARS
Why don’t these crazy Africans just leave the poor elephants alone?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0613/p06s02-woaf.html
Sudan's breathtaking migration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2101666,00.html
Scientists find vast herds of antelope and gazelle in what could be one of the greatest natural events on Earth

Peoples’ Repugnic of China
CHINA---FOOD QUALITY UNDER CONTROL NOW
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1632231,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
INDONESIA GRABS TERRORIST LEADER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6747253.stm
EMERGENCY BEER FOR FLOOD-STRANDED AUSSIES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6748785.stm
MASSIVE FLYING DINOSAUR UNEARTHED
(TWEEEEEET, TWEEEEEET)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070613-giant-dinosaur.html

And in more important matters. . .

SEE BEST SHOTS FROM GOOGLE’S CANDID CAMERA
Invasion of privacy, anyone?
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1630926,00.html

COMPUTER SIMULATION BRINGS ANCIENT ROME BACK TO LIFE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,488356,00.html

JAPAN’S BEAUTY QUEEN FACTORY
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1631932,00.html

For Art’s Sake
PUBLISHERS’ BINDINGS
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery2.html

And in the end. . .
SQUIRREL GOES ON RAMPAGE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,488343,00.html


6/12
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
ZOOT ALLURES, MORE TROUBLE EVERY DAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAmcmdKjTDA

MICHAEL MOORE RESCUES
FILMMAKER WHO DISCREDITED HIM
Anonymous $12k check for wife’s health care turned out to be from Moore
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2099949,00.html

DAILY NEWS OF L.A. HIRES EXECUTIONER
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/watch_out_in_woodland_hil.php

LITTLE ANTHONY TAKES BLAME FOR MARRIAGE SPLIT
Anthony Jr. must have been naughty again
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/mayor_takes_blame_for_spl.php

100 SURNAMES FOR A BILLION PEOPLE
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Chinese_surname_shortage_sparks_ret_06122007.html

YOKO NEVER ATE THAT CORGI
http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=2271

GRANNY THE FORGER
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,487786,00.html

TRAIN DRIVER IN URINATION TRAGEDY
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=52534&in_page_id=2

CHENEY’S LABYRINTH!
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/06/cartoon_cheneys_labyrinth.html

And on to news and comment. . .

U.S. COUNTRY CLUB IN IRAQ
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.fobbit12jun12,0,2389548.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
The food is abundant, the showers have hot water and usually good water pressure, the $5 million gyms are open 24/7, as are the swimming pools, the post exchange and the 745-seat movie theater. These are built inside two-story steel buildings that stretch a city block long, hidden behind foot-thick concrete blast walls 12 feet high. Engineers recently added, at a cost of nearly $20 million, additional blast-resistant roofs that sit over the buildings on massive steel girders, comfort against mortars and rockets.

BILLARY WANTS TO LEAVE TROOPS IN IRAQ FOR TEN YEARS
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#53865
Billary will not withdraw from Iraq because “she’s a woman”
---Dickie “high heels” Morris
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/12/morris-clinton-woman-iraq/
She’s a Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7zkysijn8

‘INSURGENTS’ TURNING ON EACH OTHER---
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487882,00.html
---while crazy U.S. arms Sunnis against “Al-Qaeda”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,487785,00.html

ROBERTS: ABOUT THAT PERMANENT OCCUPATION. . .
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17863.htm
The Bush/Cheney White House, which told the American people in 2003 that the Iraqi invasion would be a three to six week affair, now tells us that the US occupation is permanent. Forever. Attentive Americans of which, alas, there are so few, had already concluded that the occupation was permanent. Permanence is the obvious message from the massive and fortified US embassy under construction in Iraq and from the large permanent military bases that the Bush regime is building in Iraq.

The other war
WHOOPS! U.S. ACCIDENTALLY KILLS SEVEN AFGHAN COPS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/12/us-accidentally-kills-sev_n_51738.html
AFGHAN MOMS USING OPIUM AS MEDICINE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487539,00.html

Iraq and Roll
BRIT TROOPS FULL OF DEXEDRINE
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=906322007
SPY JET MEANT FOR IRAQ IS USED FOR FBI SPEECHES
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061102321.html
U.S. TRYING TO TEACH KURDS HOW TO RULE BY LAW
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0612/p01s02-woiq.html

SOLOMON: THE SILENCE OF THE BOMBS
Did you know we are still bombing Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/11/1785/
In late May, an important challenge to those media patterns appeared on the website TomDispatch.com (and, in shorter form, in The Nation magazine). The in-depth article — titled “Did the U.S. Lie about Cluster Bomb Use in Iraq?” — went beyond probing the Pentagon’s extensive use of barbaric cluster bombs in Iraq since the spring of 2003. The piece, by journalist Nick Turse, also shined a bright light on fundamental aspects of a U.S. air war that has seldom seen any light of day in big American media outlets. “Unfortunately, thanks to an utter lack of coverage by the mainstream media, what we don’t know about the air war in Iraq so far outweighs what we do know that anything but the most minimal picture of the nature of destruction from the air in that country simply can’t be painted,” Turse writes.

LINDORFF: TEN THINGS YOUR MEDIA MAMA DIDN'T TELL YOU
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.06.01_arch.html#1181596817155
Here are ten of the things you don’t know if you just depend on the corporate media for your information.

The Torture Never Stops
GOV. HUCKABEE: MOST U.S. PRISONERS WOULD LOVE GITMO
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/12/huckabee-most-us-prisoners-would-love-gitmo/

People’s Repugnic of China
CHINA THREATENS TRADE WAR WITH U.S.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/China_warns_of_countermeasures_if_U_06122007.html

What is the law?
GUTSY SENATE FAILS TO PASS ‘NO-CONFIDENCE’ VOTE ON JACKASS GONZALES
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senate_Democrats_try_to_pass_no_0611.html

Bush Leagues
BUSH NOMINATES SURGEON GENERAL
WHO SUPPORTS ‘EX-GAY THERAPY’
http://www.alternet.org/story/53849/
BUSH: THE CUSSER-IN-CHIEF
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630538,00.html
The fact that Bush sometimes curses may seem irrelevant, but the "community standard" is one of the most important factors in legally determining indecency. What's good for Dubya, the court ruled, is good for the debutante.

Enviro Wacko
OCEAN WAVES BIGGER, LONGER---THANKS TO GLOBAL WARMING
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426075.400-global-warming-is-speeding-up-ocean-waves.html

Mashed Media
TONY BLAIR BLASTS ‘FERAL’ MEDIA
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblair/story/0,,2101076,00.html
RATHER BLASTS COURIC ‘NEWSCAST’
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/06/12/2007-06-12_dan_would_rather_not_see_katies_changes.html
MOORE BLASTS U.S. GOV’T. FOR ‘HARRASSMENT’
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Michael_Moore_accuses_US_government_06112007.html
SF CHRON M.E. ANNOUNCED HIS LAYOFF ON INTERNET
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/business/media/11chronicle.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
ROD BERNSEN CLEARED
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/06/rod_bernsen_cleared.php

Lost Angeles
GEHRY MAY LEAVE DOWNTOWN REDESIGN TEAM
Lucky for downtown
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-grand12jun12,0,5681202.story?coll=cl-calendar

And in more important matters. . .

THE CRUEL BUSINESS OF U.S. “PUPPY MILLS”
moneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoney
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/06/12/petscol.DTL
Puppy mills are the factory farms of dog breeding, big commercial operations that produce puppies that are then distributed nationwide to pet stores and sold directly to consumers on the Web. The dogs are kept in small cages -- which USDA regulations require to be no more than a few inches bigger than the dog -- and females have puppies every time they come in season for their entire lives.

THE NISEI LINGUISTS OF WWII
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/12/MNGHKQDN301.DTL
Now, the National Japanese American Historical Society is starting a fundraising campaign to build a museum at the Presidio honoring the nisei linguists -- while the men are still alive. Military historian James McNaughton, who recently published "Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service," will speak Wednesday at the Presidio about the veterans and their story.

BLACK HAT LAMA BLOGS FOR BUDDHISM
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52050&in_page_id=34
Here’s his site
http://www.karmapa.org/

MCCARTNEY, PLANT, ELTON ON FATS DOMINO TRIBUTE ALBUM
Will raise funds for New Orleans
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=74207
FATS IN ’62: “WALKIN’ TO NEW ORLEANS’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18nTpdDKD04
FATS: “AIN’T THAT A SHAME?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm8YpHd4_Is

And in the end. . .
THE CAT WITH 26 TOES!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/6741167.stm

6/11
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

SIR SEAN CONNERY IS THROUGH MAKING MOVIES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6733177.stm

DISNEYLAND SUBMARINE RIDE RE-OPENS AFTER TEN YEARS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nemo11jun11,0,2463820.story?coll=la-home-center

GOMER BUSH CALLS POPE “SIR,” CROWD GASPS
They're lucky he didn't call him “Pops”
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Yes_sir_Bush_says_to_His_Holiness__06092007.html

GEORGE CLOONEY’S PIG DIES
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6209130.stm

400 GORILLAS RUN THROUGH GOLDEN GATE PARK
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/11/BAGVUQD2GQ1.DTL


Paris, Sheriff Lee Baca And The Scientology Connection
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21285523.shtml
Paris says God has given her a new chance
Impeach God now!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101126.html
SCHWARZENEGGER PARDONS PARIS
http://www.internetweekly.org/2007/06/cartoon_schwarzenegger_pardons_hilton.html
PARIS, the social conscience of America, says---
PAY MORE ATTENTION TO IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003596781
PARIS ILLNESS IS CLAUSTROPHOBIA
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/06/10/paris--mystery-illness-is-claustrophobia-98487-19273224/

And on to news and comment. . .

Iraq and Roll
U.S. ADMITS IT IS ARMING SUNNI INSURGENTS
Um. . .weren’t these the guys who used to work for the “evil dictator,” Saddam?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_confirms_it_arming_Sunni_insurgents_0610.html
INTERVIEW: AL SADR
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/53363/
"The Americans are occupiers and thieves, and they must set a timetable to leave this country."

Little Joe gotta go
LITTLE JOEY LIEBERMAN WANTS TO BOMB IRAN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061000481.html
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senator_Lieberman_advocates_military_strike_on_0610.html

U.S. SOFT-PEDALS SUDAN SANCTIONS---IN EXCHANGE FOR IRAQ SPYING
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.sudan11jun11,0,7816375.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

PUTIN’S CENSORED PRESS CONFERENCE
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17856.htm
Putin cannot allow the United States to deploy its missile defense system to Eastern Europe. The system poses a direct threat to Russia’s national security. If Putin planned to deploy a similar system in Cuba or Mexico, the Bush administration would immediately invoke the Monroe Doctrine and threaten to remove it by force. No one doubts this. And no one should doubt that Putin is equally determined to protect his own country’s interests in the same way. We can expect that Russia will now aim its missiles at European targets and rework its foreign policy in a way that compels the US to abandon its current plans.

People's Repugnic of China
CHINA MILITARY AIMS TO CONFRONT U.S. OVER TAIWAN
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/10/frontpage/defense.php
CHINA PASSES JAPAN AS BIGGEST ASIAN ARMS SPENDER
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1631406,00.html
CHINA TRADE SURPLUS AT $22.4 BILLION
Buy from Wal-Mart---help arm China!
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/China_s_trade_surplus_hit_22_4_bill_06112007.html
CHILD LABOR ABUSE FOR BEIJING OLYMPICS?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6740611.stm
NOW CHINA IS MANUFACTURING FAKE BLOOD PROTEIN
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/asia/blood.1-72999.php

TWO RED CROSS WORKERS SHOT
OUTSIDE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6741737.stm

Enviro Wacko
NAKED BICYCLISTS PROTEST WORLD CAR CULTURE
Gee, that looks uncomfortable. . .
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,487854,00.html

Animals in the news!
SAVING PETS FROM ANOTHER KATRINA
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1629962,00.html

Oh, by the way
VIETNAM VET FOUNDS ORGANIZATION TO HELP THOSE HE ONCE BOMBED
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2007/06/11/findrelig.DTL
Jhai's founder and chairman is Lee Thorn, a 63-year-old Vietnam vet who returned to Laos in 1998. A meeting with Vietnamese veterans there led to the formation of Jhai, a nonprofit foundation providing medical, technological and economic aid to those whose villages he once helped bomb. Reconciling veterans with victims of the war has helped Thorn manage his posttraumatic stress disorder and turned him into a happier and healthier person.
GIANT MACHINE LOOKS FOR SMALLEST PARTICLE
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=572602007
ALZHEIMER’S CASES TO QUADRUPLE?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1631427,00.html
BIG DINOSAURS COULD ONLY HEAR VERY LOW SOUNDS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070608-dinosaurs-hear.html
SCOTLAND IS ‘WORST’ COUNTRY IN WESTERN EUROPE
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52462&in_page_id=34
INTERVIEW: CHERTOFF PLANS NEW TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FOR EUROPEANS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487813,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

Ex-Byrd, Ex-hippies, Ex-young people look back on the "summer of love"
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/10/no-headline---le1fclovevignettes10/

CHINA: LAND OF A THOUSAND IDENTICAL CITIES
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2100460,00.html

IRAQ MEDIA MOGUL TRIES TO REVIVE HIS COUNTRY’S ARTS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0611/p07s02-woiq.html

Musique
WAVE GOODBYE TO ALL THE CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITICS, KIDS!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/arts/music/09crit.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
TAVENER WRITES PIECE ABOUT ALLAH---FOR PRINCE CHARLES
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2100151,00.html
It's called The Beautiful Names, and it's a setting of the 99 names for Allah from the Qur'an. It's going to be performed in the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral next week, then a few days later in Istanbul. Tavener is Greek Orthodox, to which he converted years ago after a Presbyterian upbringing. You could see The Beautiful Names as a moving congruence of disparate religions in difficult times.

Book Product
TINA BROWN DIGS ALL THE DIRT ON DEAD DIANA
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118133529664029436.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

And in the end. . .
BLIND COPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytxm16XI9q4

6/8
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
STEVIE WONDER'S (ENDLESS) DRUM SOLO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SCZv7786KY&mode=related&search=

WATCH: TEEVEE NEWSMANNEQUINS AT THEIR FINEST
http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/2007/06/fox_news_journa_1.html

MAN SHEDS GREEN VULCAN BLOOD!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6733203.stm

13TH FLOOR ELEVATOR LEAD SINGER BACK FROM INSANITY---AT 60
Roky Erickson is on tour again after LSD apparently ruined him in the ‘60’s
http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2097535,00.html
Sumner proudly lists the ways in which his big brother's life has improved. Roky has a full set of dentures, paid for by one of his musical admirers, Henry Rollins. (A successful suit to reclaim back-catalogue royalties means he is now financially secure for the first time in decades.) He has quit smoking. He has a driver's license. Most surprisingly, on Christmas Day he finished weaning himself off the anti-psychotic medication Zyprexa. The brothers say that is because there's no such thing as mental illness, but we'll get to that later.

CREATION MUSEUM’S ‘ADAM’ RUNS SEX SITE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/07/national/a175033D34.DTL
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003596352
"But just because I'm Adam on the screen, that doesn't mean I'm Adam off the screen," he said.

‘MUHAMMAD’ IS 2ND MOST POPULAR NAME IN BRITAIN
Right behind ‘Jack’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1890354.ece

Man shoplifts frozen turkey, pretends he’s just fat
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,487459,00.html

THE ‘BLACK HAT LAMA’S’ MYSPACE PAGE
http://www.myspace.com/blackhatlama
“It would have been fun to meet The Beatles or Elvis.”

And on to news and comment. . .

WHY IS GENARLOW WILSON IN PRISON?
http://www.wilsonappeal.com/index.php

The Torture Never Stops
SECRET CIA ‘DETENTION FACILITY’ IN POLAND CONFIRMED---
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Council_of_Europe_confirms_Raw_Story_0608.html
---AND U.S. COMMITTED ‘MASSIVE AND SYSTEMATIC’
ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS THERE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487325,00.html

TB Blues
‘SUPER TB’ KILLING AIDS VICTIMS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Doctors Without Borders alarmed. . .
http://riprense.com/tb.htm 

Electile Dysfunction
LYNNE CHENEY AS SENATOR?
Why not? Congress is the last refuge of a scoundrel
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#53528

Iraq and Roll
WHEN BUSH SAID 50 YEARS IN IRAQ,
REPORTERS DIDN’T BOTHER TO GET IRAQI REACTION
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/53469/
We called Iraqi lawmakers from different parties representing the country's different ethnic and sectarian groups, and found that, without exception, just hearing that there were official whispers in Washington about plans for a decades-long U.S. troop presence in their country shocked and awed them, and not in a good way.

Israelity
REMEMBERING THE USS LIBERTY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6690425.stm
The attack, which lasted at least 40 minutes, resulted in the deaths of 34 of Mr Brummett's fellow crewmen, at least 170 injured and catastrophic damage to the ship. Alarmingly, the assault had been carried out not by enemy forces, but by the US' closest regional ally, Israel. . . Among the most popular theories as to why Israel would take such drastic action against its superpower ally is that the Liberty, a $40m state-of-the-art surveillance ship, was eavesdropping on an Israeli massacre of Egyptian prisoners of war.

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
HOW ‘OFFSHORING’ IS RUINING THE USA
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_25/b4039001.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives
But new evidence suggests that shifting production overseas has inflicted worse damage on the U.S. economy than the numbers show. BusinessWeek has learned of a gaping flaw in the way statistics treat offshoring, with serious economic and political implications. Top government statisticians now acknowledge that the problem exists, and say it could prove to be significant.The short explanation is that the growth of domestic manufacturing has been substantially overstated in recent years.
COCA-COLA CHARGED WITH DUMPING SLUDGE, WASTE, IN INDIA
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/07/1727/
The Coca-Cola company has been charged with illegally seizing lands communally owned by small farmers and indiscriminately dumping sludge and other industrial hazardous waste onto the surrounding community. This comes as the multinational beverage giant announced a new effort Tuesday to protect rivers on four continents.

GALLOWAY: BUSH MANTRA---BE VERY AFRAID
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17845.htm
Texas friends of the president told columnist Georgie Ann Geyer that it's the president's intention to arrange things so that his successors for half a century will never be able to pull out of Iraq. That George W. Bush intends that his blighted and bloody legacy of an unnecessary war that's hurt us more than it's hurt our enemies will continue, just as America's more rational and less costly commitment in Korea has continued.

NADER: CORPORATIONS GONE WILD!
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/06/08/taming_corporations_gone_wild.php
The big corporations are more avaricious than ever. The past decade’s corporate crime wave, dutifully reported in the major business media—newspapers and magazines—demonstrates how trillions of dollars were looted, or drained away, from tens of millions of small investors, pensioners and workers. In FDR’s time, the CEOs of the top 300 corporations paid themselves about 12 times the average wage in their company. Now the “top greed” registers 400 to 500 times what the average workers eke out in a full year. Wal-Mart is an example of that sheer self-serving power at the top.

DOES THE G-8 SUMMIT HAVE ANY POINT?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1630838,00.html
"There's a whole industry now surrounding the G-8, and two weeks from now, when it's all over here, they're going to start again for next year. In my opinion, they'd be better off sending the money to Africa."

Mashed Media
WOMEN WAR REPORTERS FACE SEXUAL ABUSE
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/52626/
Alone in her hotel room that night, the photographer recalls, she cried, thinking, "What a bloody way to make a living." She didn't inform her editors, however. "I put myself out there equal to the boys. I didn't want to be seen in any way as weaker."

War in error
U.S. PAYS MILLIONS TO FILIPINO TERROR INFORMANTS
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1945580.htm
ATTN., TERRORISTS: U.S. EASES PASSPORT REQUIREMENTS
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4873292.html

Enviro Wacko
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MORE WORRIED ABOUT POLLUTION THAN USA
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426073.400-developing-countries-more-worried-about-emissions.html
While emerging economies are often accused of resisting the need to tackle climate change, the survey, carried out with the Seattle-based research group Global Market Insite, suggests otherwise. People in India and China are more willing than citizens of industrialised nations to place restrictions on carbon emissions from nations like their own.
WAVE GOODBYE TO ALL THE NICE AFRICAN TREES, KIDDIES!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070607-africa-logging.html

Technically speaking
MORFORD ON THE IPHONE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/06/08/notes060807.DTL
Yes, the thing's wildly overhyped. Yes, it's just a glorified telephone and, yes, the army of Apple haters is right this minute sharpening their knives in anticipation of slamming every tiny flaw they can find in the iPhone, right along with how much they hate anything Apple does because, you know, who cares about simplicity and grace and thoughtful functionality in modern technology? Right.
JON CARROLL: THE EDITOR WHO IGNORED THE COMPUTER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/08/DDGH3P1D9E1.DTL

Oh, by the way. . .
‘ICE MAN’ BLED FROM ARROW WOUND
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070607-iceman-murder.html
MAN DISGUISES SELF AS PILOT TO GET FREE TRIP HOME
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6730783.stm
MOB PLOT TO KIDNAP ‘BOND GIRL’ FOILED
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52274&in_page_id=34

And in more important matters. . .

R.I.P. ALAIN LE RAY, LEADER OF FRENCH RESISTANCE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/world/europe/08ray.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Light reading
IKE LISTENED TO SCIENTISTS---NOT GAWD
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_6/47_1.shtml
Even more important was Eisenhower's recognition of his need for their advice. He listened to the scientists and acted on their advice. Fortunately, Eisenhower was comfortable with "his scientists," and he liked them. Few presidents since have had the self-confidence to sit with an intimidating group of scientists and take advantage of their advice. Eisenhower had that self-confidence.

SIR PAUL PLAYS SMALL SHOW
The man turns an impossible 65 June 18
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6733313.stm
http://music.guardian.co.uk/live/story/0,,2098413,00.html

And in the end. . .
DEAD DEER TALKING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5WtlYktUk0

6/7
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
TB BLUES
“I’m on my way to Denver. . .”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHIXT6k24Zg

‘WHOLE FOODS’ OPENING IN BRITAIN IS A BIG DEAL
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2097241,00.html

GIRLIE PAINTINGS BANNED FROM RAF JETS---
SO THEY WON’T OFFEND WOMEN AND MUSLIMS
Of course, their bombs might be just a little offensive, too. . .
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=460054

BILL GATES GOES BACK TO COLLEGE
But can he afford the tuition. . .
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1630188,00.html

THE TWO NEW BILLARY BOOKS: COMPARE AND CONTRAST
http://www.time.com/time/2007/candidates_books/clinton/

WATCH: MARK FIORE---JUST SAY NO TO AMNESTY
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/fiore/

And on to news and comment. . .

Saudi Doody
BRITS PAID ‘BANDAR BUSH’ $100 MILLION POUNDS A YEAR
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e37553d2-147f-11dc-88cb-000b5df10621.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6728773.stm
BAE has consistently denied allegations that there was anything illegal in payments it made in association with the £43bn Al Yamamah contract under which it supplied Tornado warplanes, Hawk training aircraft and other defence equipment to Saudi Arabia. BAE acted in accordance with relevant contracts, with Saudi government approval and where appropriate that of the UK, a spokesman said.

ROBERTS: THINK BUSH IS EVIL NOW?
WAIT TILL HE NUKES IRAN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17834.htm
They have a last desperate plan: Bomb Iran. Vice President Dick Cheney is spear- heading the neocon plan, and Norman Podhoretz is the plan’s leading propagandist with his numerous pleas published in the Wall Street Journal and Commentary to bomb Iran. Podhoretz, like every neoconservative, is a total Islamophobe. Podhoretz has written that Islam must be deracinated and the religion destroyed, a genocide for the Muslim people. The neocons think that by bombing Iran the US will provoke Iran to arm the Shiite militias in Iraq with armor-piercing rocket propelled grenades and with surface to air missiles and unleash the militias against US troops. These weapons would neutralize US tanks and helicopter gunships and destroy the US military edge, leaving divided and isolated US forces subject to being cut off from supplies and retreat routes. With America on the verge of losing most of its troops in Iraq, the cry would go up to “save the troops” by nuking Iran.
BUSH/CHENEY WILL USE ‘AL-QAEDA’ ATTACK TO PROMPT IRAN BOMBING
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/05/1688/
Following revelations of a George W. Bush administration policy to hold Iran responsible for any al Qaeda attack on the U.S. that could be portrayed as planned on Iranian soil, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinksi warned last week that Washington might use such an incident as a pretext to bomb Iran.

TB Blues
MORE SUPER TB ON THE WAY, FOLKS
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/05/healthscience/05tb-globe.php

The Torture Never Stops
DID 39 PEOPLE HELD IN U.S. CUSTODY VANISH?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Thirty_nine_people_said_to_have_0606.html

We’ll meet again. . .
BUSH AND PUTIN IN NUKE MISSILE STANDOFF
Nah, there’s no cold war
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/06/bush_and_putin_face_off_over_m.html
IDIOT BUSH IN DENIAL ABOUT RUSSIA---KASPAROV
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/07/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Opposition.php
N. KOREA TESTS MORE MISSILES
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/07/world/main2896617.shtml

Mashed Media
EDITOR WALKS OUT OF RAT-AND-MAGGOT-INFESTED
SINGLETON-OWNED NEWSPAPER
http://www.gradethenews.org/2007/bowman.htm
The heating and air conditioning went without repair for months. Thieves have sawed out the copper hot water pipes and stripped some of the building's wires. Rats have been a problem and maggots have been discovered in the women's bathroom. OSHA has been by to inspect.
9/11 CONSPIRACY REPORTER ORDERED ARRESTED BY GIULIANI
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Reporter_arrested_after_Republican_debate_0606.html
‘NUMBERS-DRIVEN’ WOMAN NAMED PUB OF O.C. REGISTER
But, but lady, newspapers are full of words. . .
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003594722
JON CARROLL ON OBSCENITY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/06/07/DDGITP1BGM1.DTL
Similarly, some networks including PBS have been wary of using battlefield footage from the Iraq war because people under fire tend to use rough language. This all seems like a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, but it's oh so real.

Iraq and Roll
IRAQ IS A PLACE OF SAHEL, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN
Sahel: dragging your enemy’s corpse through the streets
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/weekinreview/03wong.html?_r=3&ref=weekinreview&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Throughout Iraq’s history, he said, power has changed hands only through extreme violence, when a leader was vanquished absolutely, and his destruction was put on display for all to see.

Stemming bad health
STEM CELLS CREATED WITHOUT EMBRYOS
http://www.bbj.hu/main/news_27378_scientists+make+stem+cells+from+skin+of+mice+instead+of+embryos.html
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/NEWS/706070385/1002/BUSINESS
BRITS WILL USE STEM CELLS TO CURE TYPE OF BLINDNESS
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/06/07/top10.htm

Animals in the news!
HAVE YOUR E.COLI BURGER TODAY?
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0606ecoli0606.html
WATCH: COW COW BOOGIE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THB50R1ur7U
ELEPHANTS HEAR THROUGH THEIR FEET
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52075&in_page_id=34

Enviro Wacko
G-8 CLIMATE DEAL IS ALL HOOEY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6731045.stm
 
Oh, by the way. . .
JERK COSTA RICA BAILS ON TAIWAN
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6729917.stm
MINI-METEOR HITS SPACE STATION
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/International_Space_Station_holed_b_06072007.html
NEW LAW COULD STOP ‘JAILBIRD ART’
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1629655,00.html

And in more important matters. . .

BOB BARKER RETIREMENT MAKES INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES
The Rip Post remembers him on “Truth or Consequences”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6730247.stm

Film
LASALLE: ‘OCEAN’S’ GETS IT RIGHT THE THIRD TIME AROUND
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/07/DDGDBQ9JN913.DTL
EVITA? NO NEW MOVIE ABOUT BOLIVIA’S EVO
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2096270,00.html 

And in the end. . .
BUDDHIST LEADER SEEKS MYSPACE BUDDIES
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=52050&in_page_id=34



6/6
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
LEAN LIKE A CHOLO
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cqsrq34qDyk

YOKO PLANNING TO LIVE FOREVER
Believes death will be cured within ten years

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4078272a1860.html

MR. LEE THE CAT TAKES PICS OF HIS WORLD
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,487047,00.html

ROBOT LIZARD RELEASED IN THE WILD
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070606-robot-reptile.html

PARIS’S PRISON DIARY
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kenney5jun05,0,4717524.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Day 3: So that's what a bitch slap is. Wow. Just … wow. MUST remember not to make that sarcastic face again anytime soon.

MORFORD:
IS THAT YOU, OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE,
WITH A JOINT AND A HOOKER?
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
Ah, Google, you great wicked benevolent super-cool vaguely disturbing Big Brother überbitch mega-company, quietly taking over the entire goddamn Net universe and most of the terrestrial world, too, one cool but simultaneously unnerving innovation at a time.

And on to news and comment. . .

PARIS VS. SCOOTER
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6725787.stm
SCOOTER PARDON CHORUS SCREAMING
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003594429
Cancel your subscriptions---the O.C. Register wants Scooter pardoned
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/homepage/article_1719582.php
FOX DOWNPLAYS SCOOTER SENTENCING (OF COURSE)
http://mediamatters.org/items/200706060001?f=h_latest
SCOOTER JUDGE IS A BUSH APPOINTEE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Walton
LUNATIC CARVILLE CALLS FOR LENIENCY
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0605071libby12.html

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF U.S. INTELLIGENCE
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/01/intel_contractors/index_np.html
"We can't spy ... If we can't buy!" one of the slides proclaims, underscoring the enormous dependence of U.S. intelligence agencies on private sector contracts.

WATER CANNONS FOR BRAVE G-8 PROTESTERS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,487025,00.html
WHO ARE THE PROTESTERS?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,486748,00.html
Groups range from the "Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army," with its colorful rubber noses, to relatively established anti-globalization movements like Attac, to radical far-left anarchists. In the building's 55 rooms, a myriad of different strategies for forms of action are debated. With so many divergent approaches under one roof, organizers have decided to call the school the "Convergence Center" -- a place to meet and find common ground.

Iraq and Roll
U.N.: FOUR MILLION IRAQI REFUGEES
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F19055852%2F

Iran from the truth
MOVING VIOLATIONS
http://www.guernicamag.com/features/347/moving_violations/
She tells you that yesterday she was walking in the woods with a mutual friend and was stopped by the morality police. She tells you a lot of things - the inane questioning that somehow always smacks of the screeching sexual frustrations of the questioners, the night in jail, the stinking cell, the incessant weeping of the twenty-year-old girl, her cellmate, who was hauled in for something similar - like daring to smile in public or singing in the rain or whatever else it is they haul you in for during their periodic campaigns to enforce the codes of modesty.
BUSH PRESSURE MAKING LIFE IN IRAN WORSE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1629590,00.html

The Torture Never Stops
BUSH’S BOTCHED GITMO TRIALS---WHAT NEXT?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/06/guantanamo-humiliation/
In a humiliating blunder, the Military Commissions were drawn up to apply only to detainees determined to be “unlawful enemy combatants,” but no detainee at Guantanamo has ever been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant.

Electile Dysfunction
UGLY VS. EMPTY: RUDY THE CREEP TAKES SHOT AT EDWARDS
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Rudys_shot_at_Edwards_War_on_0605.html

Jesus H. Christ!
BILLARY PLAYS THE ‘FAITH’ CARD
Says Gawd got her through Wild Bill’s romp with Monica. . .
Frankly, we think Gawd was busy with a few supernovas and black holes. . .
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Clinton_turned_to_God_after_husband_06052007.html
GAWD SAVE US FROM THE ‘RELIGIOUS LEFT’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0606/p01s02-uspo.html

HERBERT: THE PASSION OF AL GORE
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607N.shtml

JON CARROLL: PRESIDENT X, VICE-PRESIDENT Y,
AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/06/DDGITP19K21.DTL

RAKKASAN: THE YOUNG REPUGNICAN CHICKENHAWKS
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/5/2030/83070
Fortunately for most contemporary chickenhawks, they’re too old to enlist, and thus marginally excusable. But not all of them are. Indeed, there is a very vocal minority of Republican chickenhawks, still young enough to enlist in the military, but still unwilling to physically support their beloved war.

Enviro Wacko
OPEC TO CUT OIL INVESTMENT OVER BIOFUEL TREND?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aeb9a650-136e-11dc-9866-000b5df10621.html
NOAH’S ARK DISCOVERED!
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,22125,00.html
INTERVIEW: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER STIGLITZ---
“BUSH IS ACCELERATING GLOBAL WARMING”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,486986,00.html
URBAN SPRAWL---THAT, IS, ENVIRO RAPE---CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
Rampant development and giant McMansions---it’s all unsustainable
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-06-05-warming_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Mashed Media
AFGHAN WOMAN RADIO HOST ASSASSINATED
(Yup, lots of progress there, Mr. Prezboy)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6726117.stm
NEWSPAPER ADS IN PERIL?
If display advertising bites the dust, that will be all she wrote for fishwraps
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2007/05/2b-in-newspaper-print-ads-periled.html
AT FOX, ‘THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE’
Conyers raging about being confused with another black congressman
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Conyers_issues_statement_after_Fox_News_0605.html
LARRY FLYNT WILL PAY $1 MILLION FOR SEX PIC OF CHENEY WITH HORSE
(X-rated article here, folks)
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Larry_Flynt_on_Daily_Show_seeking_0605.html

Queen Condi

RICE BLAMED FOR LOW MORALE AMONG US DIPLOMATS
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060607O.shtml

TB Blues
ONE BORDER OFFICER LET TB JERK INTO COUNTRY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6688208,00.html

(Lack of) Health
MAMMOGRAMS ON THE WAY OUT?
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/53228/

Animals in the news!
FEED A PARROT, PAY A FINE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/06/BAGERQ9N9J1.DTL
BIRDS THAT SING TOGETHER. . .SCARE OFF INTRUDERS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070605-birds-song.html

Oh, by the way. . .
FIDELLING WHILE BUSH BURNS
Castro back on the tube, looking healthy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cuba/story/0,,2096603,00.html
GIRLS ARE STAYING HOME AND PLAYING WITH DOLLS AGAIN---ON THE COMPUTER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/technology/06doll.html?em&ex=1181275200&en=a167b7ceeb1df707&ei=5087%0A

And in more important matters. . .

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For Art’s Sake
PAINTINGS LOOTED BY NAZIS FOUND IN SAFE
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,486999,00.html

Musique
JULIAN LENNON POSTS SOME NEW SONGS ON MYSPACE
http://myspace.com/julianlennon
WOMAN TO HEAD VIENNA OPERA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6688195,00.html
DIGITAL BOON FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0601/p13s02-almp.html

And in the end. . .
MAN SUES OVER ERECTION DRINK
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=51963&in_page_id=2

6/5
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago this month!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
SANTO AND JOHNNY---“SLEEPWALK”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dAk_0N85wNk&mode=related&search

“THE MORONIC INFLUENCE OF POPULAR CULTURE THROUGH LOCAL TV NEWS”
WATCH: RAY BRADBURY HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Ray_Bradbury_on_censorship_and_television_0604.html

JUDGE CITES 42 BEATLES SONGS
IN SENTENCING BEER THIEF!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=459804&in_page_id=1811

BRIT LADIES PREFER CHOCOLATE TO SEX
Who doesn’t?
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/British_women_prefer_chocolate_to_s_06052007.html

Buy Sir Paul’s new album in Brit Starbucks? You’re keeping it off the charts. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6720179.stm

BABA WAWA GET STAR ON H’WD ‘WALK OF FAME’
As Ray Bradbury was saying. . .
http://www.alternet.org/wire/#53158

CALIF. BILL WILL GIVE DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP TO HETEROS, TOO
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/205897.html

WOMAN GETS $184 MILLION DIVORCE SETTLEMENT
That should enable her to keep food on the table
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1628231,00.html

Pigs in the news!
THE AMAZING PAINTING PIGS OF BRITAIN!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51754&in_page_id=34
THE FAT BOYS WHO KILLED THE MONSTER PIG DEFEND THEIR ACTIONS. . .
http://www.monsterpig.com/
. . .AND THE PUBLIC WEIGHS IN (SO TO SPEAK)
http://www.monsterpig.com/negative_comments.htm
“This is Fred the pig from the grave. Thanks for killing me, you fat little bastard. I was just a simple domestic pig, not the great beast you and your asshole dad have made me out to be. I was someone's pet! I had a life. I am going to come back and haunt your chubby little ass. Just wait. You call yourself a Christian..... ha!”

And on to news and comment. . .

CHINA TAKES ENVIRO CLUE FROM BUSH---
REFUSES TO CUT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Good example you are setting, Mr. Prezboy!
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0605/p01s04-woap.html

Lost Angeles
INSANE L.A. THINKS IT NEEDS MORE BUSES!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rapid5jun05,1,1930411.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=2&cset=true

Iraq and Roll
U.S. CONTROLS A WHOPPING ONE-THIRD OF BAGHDAD!
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=42909
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6721689.stm
DOURA NEIGHBORHOOD IS ONE BIG PRISON
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2007-06-05\kurd1.htm
CAPTURED U.S. TROOPS DEAD---AL-QAEDA
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1628195,00.html

More Pigs in the news!
NYT: DICK CHENEY RULES
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/opinion/03sun2.html?ex=1338523200&en=c50056805230df94&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
It dawned on us that Mr. Cheney is in step with the times. He has privatized the job of vice president of the United States.
BIG DICK LIES TO HIGH SCHOOL KIDS
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#53140
SCOOTER SENTENCING TODAY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/05/national/w003947D11.DTL
Read letters of support on behalf of the scoundrel---from other scoundrels
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/05/libby-letters-released/

Your corporatocracy at work!
BIG BUSINESS BUYING OUT ENVIRO MOVEMENT?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/53113/
With Big Business going green, is it a sign that environmental campaigns have prevailed and are setting the corporate agenda? Or have enviros been duped into endorsing what may be little more than a new wave of corporate greenwashing?

RAIMUNDO: BACK TO THE FUTURE
For the War Party, it’s always 1940
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11069
The War Party, today, is an amalgam of elements that include foreign interests – notably the pro-Israel lobby, which has taken the place of the Anglophiles as one of the chief pillars of the interventionist leadership. Smearing peace advocates as "anti-Semites" has indeed been a recurring theme of the new war propaganda – especially when war critics point out that this campaign to "transform" the Middle East through military force has served Israeli and not American interests. What is notable, however, is that American Jews have not been taken in by this propaganda, and they remain opposed to the militaristic foreign policy of this administration, perhaps more so than any other single ethnic group in America.

JON CARROLL: THE MASTER NARRATIVE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/05/DDGITP18DH1.DTL
Journalism proceeds along predictable lines because there is a tacit agreement in the press about what makes a story. This doesn't have anything to do with politics as such, although it can have a profound effect on politics. It has to do with the structure of a news story versus the structure of reality.

BUSH JABBERS AT RUSSIA
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_says_Cold_War_over_Russia_not__06052007.html

Mashed Media
WSJ UNION WILL FIGHT MURDOCH’S BID TO BUY PAPER
http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSWEN855520070604
SF CHRON STAFFERS LAUNCH JOB BLOG FOR AXED COLLEAGUES
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003594016
TRIBUNE CO. EXECS RAKING IT IN, BIG-TIME, BY SELLING STOCK
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?post_date=2007-06-04&id=25236

DOCS ‘OPTIMISTIC’ ABOUT TB JERK’S RECOVERY
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1628274,00.html

Religion
CHILD-BEATING MORMONS JAILED
Used rolling pins and forced kiddies to eat chili powder as they carried out Gawd's will
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51748&in_page_id=34

Oh, by the way. . .
‘FATHER OF HMONG PEOPLE’ PLOTTED TO OVERTHROW LAOS---FROM ORANGE COUNTY
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/05/MNG44Q7OR51.DTL
DOWN SYNDROME PAIR FORGE LIFE TOGETHER
No, not George and Laura. . .
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070603/FEATURES/706030305
70 PERCENT OF CHINESE STUDENTS ABROAD DO NOT RETURN HOME
http://www.rense.com/general76/chnst.htm
COPS LINK FULL MOON TO AGGRESSION
Aowwooooooooooooooooooooooo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2095945,00.html
POLYNESIANS---AND THEIR CHICKENS---
ARRIVED IN AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070604-chickens.html

And in more important news. . .

For Art’s Sake
UNCLE WALT ACTUALLY WAS MICKEY MOUSE---AND DONALD, PLUTO. . .
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n11/grei01_.html
Mickey Mouse’s gestures ‘were copied from Walt’s when he performed Mickey at story meetings’; until 1946 Disney also voiced him, in falsetto. In another new Life, Michael Barrier’s The Animated Man, the studio head is seen by animators acting out ‘how a Chinese turtle should dance’, or doing ‘any of the people in the pictures, valets, anything – he all of a sudden was a valet.’
PSST! WANNA BUY A MONET?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6722437.stm

R.I.P. CLETE BOYER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/sports/baseball/05boyer.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

TIME WASTED? MIGHT BE TIME WELL SPENT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/fashion/31work.html?ex=1181275200&en=79a333b327f373be&ei=5070&emc=eta1
“The longer you work, the less efficient you are,” said Bob Kustka, the founder of Fusion Factor, a productivity and time-management consulting firm in Norwell, Mass. He says workers are like athletes in that they are most efficient in concentrated bursts.

THE OTHER MACHU PICCHU
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/travel/03inca.html?em&ex=1181188800&en=1e17dbac5b0273d3&ei=5087%0A  

And in the end. . .
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO: WOMEN IN ART
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

6/1
Skylines:
It was 40 years ago today!

Click the album cover for our
Sgt. Pepper Newslinks special!

Morning concert
FIYO ON THE BAYOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8VBta0w6E
THANK YOU (FALLETINME BE MICE ELF)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJRNtBqHCyc&mode=related&search=

WOMAN SUES WAL-MART AFTER TRIPPING IN VOMIT
She has no case. Puking in Wal-Mart is entirely understandable
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/68266.html

INDIA COURT TELLS STEWARDESSES: YOU’RE TOO FAT!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6710845.stm

MEET THE 2,100-YEAR-OLD MELON
No, not Larry King
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/01/international/i070830D83.DTL

U.S. PLOT TO MAKE RUSSIANS STERILE!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/31/whair31.xml

$100 MILLION DIAMOND-ENCRUSTED SKULL, ANYONE?
Artwork is sublte commentary on human priorities
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6712015.stm

KOBE WHO?
http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2007/06/01/james_48_takes_over_for_cavaliers/

COWS ADOPT WILD BOAR!
Watch out, Holsteins, that fat kid in Georgia will blow it away with his Glock
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,486124,00.html

MAN DIES OF CLEANLINESS
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50811&in_page_id=34

MORFORD: IS LINDSAY LOHAN THE ANTICHRIST?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/06/01/notes060107.DTL
Wary scholars and a few very stoned theologians might laugh, might scream, might argue that Lindsay Lohan cannot possibly be the Antichrist simply because, well, Tom Cruise is the Antichrist. I mean, duh. Others say no, that's impossible, research in a remote mountain monastery in Italy proved long ago that Tom Cruise was actually the Antichrist from about 2002 to 2005, at which point he suddenly fell off the Antichrist call sheet because he became so unbearably annoying, leaving Antichrist watchers merely to wonder exactly how the Scientology people managed to extract all Tom's blood and replace it with so much liquid crazy.

And on to news and comment. . .

HEY, KIDS, COMPARE AND CONTRAST!
ZHENG XIAOYU AND LESTER CRAWFORD---
A FUN STUDY IN CHINA AND THE USA!
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/31/1564/

IT’S OUT IN THE OPEN---
GATES CALLS FOR PERMANENT BASES IN IRAQ
This was the plan all along, and you’ve been duped again, USA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053102430.html
GENERAL ENDORSES 50-YEAR SUICIDE---ER, PLAN---FOR IRAQ OCCUPATION
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/korea-model/

Democraps
GORE: DON’T IMPEACH BUSH
Good thing we have courageous Democraps willing to take brave stands (urp)
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1100316
BUT AL, YOU ACCUSE BUSH OF MASSIVE DECEPTION ABOUT IRAQ
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070523/NEWS08/705230435/1025/NEWS

TB Blues
TB BOY ‘SORRY’---SAID HE WAS TOLD HE WAS NOT CONTAGIOUS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6712281.stm
TB BOY’S DADDY-IN-LAW IS CDC TB SPECIALIST!
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/health-tuberculosis-scare-airplane/20070529152509990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001
THE TB SCARE: A BROKEN SYSTEM?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1627159,00.html

Your Corporatocracy at Work!
Ehrenreich: CEOs vs. Slaves
http://www.alternet.org/rights/52645/
Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new "top" involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.

Enviro Wacko
JAPAN UNVEILS ZERO-EMISSION CARS AT G-8
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12880
PREZBOY WILL NIX MERKEL’S CLIMATE PLAN
But he’ll massage her shoulders for nothin’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,486092,00.html
CRAZY NASA OFFICIAL DISMISSES GLOBAL WARMING---THEN SAYS IT WAS A JOKE
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/01/griffin-npr-nasa/

The Torture Never Stops
‘DETAINEE’ ABUSE WAS WELL PLANNED (OF COURSE)
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1627229,00.html

Iraq and Roll
22 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN MAY
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060107J.shtml
U.S. SCRAMBLES TO PULL BAGHDAD PALACE—ER, EMBASSY---PLANS OFF THE ‘NET
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_scrambles_to_remove_plans_for_ne_05312007.html

Israelity
Israel's house of horrors
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6975.shtml
British lecturers vote to boycott Israel
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/68026.html

Religion
YOUNG AMERICAN MUSLIMS SUPPORT SUICIDE BOMBING
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=17734

Mashed Media
VIDEO RELEASED OF BBC REPORTER KIDNAPPED IN GAZA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6710863.stm
AP CAMERAMAN MURDERED IN BAGHDAD
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003592703

Animals in the news!
ORPHANED GRIZZLIES ADJUST TO NEW HOME
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/01/BAGD4Q5TMF1.DTL

Oh, by the way
NOBLE KEVORKIAN RELEASED FROM PRISON
Insane country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6710643.stm
BRIT ASYLUM SEEKERS SENT TO LIVERPOOL FOR GARDENING THERAPY
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2092507,00.html
CONJUGAL VISITS FOR GAY INMATES
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/01/MNGVOQ5TTI1.DTL
ROME AIR FULL OF POT, COCAINE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_fe_st/odd_italy_drugs_in_air;_ylt=AuGidwTKrLjq2yM1tmuzqlIDW7Of
WE DIDN’T SWING THROUGH TREES---WE WALKED THROUGH THEM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070531-orangutans.html
WOMEN PREFER PERSONALITY TO LARGE PENIS
Good news for Pygmies!
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article.html?in_article_id=51341&in_page_id=8

And in more important matters. . .

Lost Angeles
PHOTO ALBUM
Crowd gathered around Red Car train taking actor Jimmy Stewart to U.S.
Army, Westwood, Calif., 1941
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b3162_22585-A-2
View eastward from San Diego Freeway towards construction of buildings in Westwood, Calif., 1963
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b518_222410-1
Construction of Los Angeles Federal Building at 11000 Wilshire Blvd. and Sepulveda, 1967
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b594_235978
UCLA basketball player, Bill Walton in anti-war demonstration in Westwood, Calif., 1972
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b696_271387B1
Ships Coffee shop and high rise building at corner of Glendon Ave. and Wilshire Blvd. in Westwood, Calif., 1984
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b2571_300909

Books
P.J. Corkery interviewed last year about forthcoming Willie Brown bio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5039509655991114701

Musique
MYSPACE FOR DEADHEADS? SIGN US UP
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/29/greatful-dead-fan-site-reborn-as-social-network/
HUH? FEW BLACK ARTISTS INVITED TO BERKELEY JAZZ FESTIVAL?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/01/MNGVOQ5TTP1.DTL
YOUTUBE MAKES DEAL WITH EMI FOR ARTISTS’ VIDEOS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/01/youtube-makes-deal-with-e_n_50278.html
FREE CLASSICAL CONCERTS IN PHILLY
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20070530_The_high-quality_free_classical_concert_model__Priceless.html

WHY DOES ANYONE GIVE A DAMN
WHICH MOVIE MAKES MORE MONEY THAN WHICH?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0601/p11s02-almo.html

Film
RAINER ON ‘MR. BROOKS’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0601/p14s01-almo.html
RAINER ON ‘GOLDEN DOOR’ AND ‘KNOCKED UP’
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0601/p14s02-almo.html

And in the END. . .
HEY, KIDS! IT’S CHRISTIAN WIFE-SPANKING---REALLY
http://christiandomesticdiscipline.com/Home.html

5/31
Skylines:
Morning concert
WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeeGMpM_Nk

CREAM WILL REUNITE FOR ANOTHER SHOW
http://www.nysun.com/article/55241

SUMMER OF LOVE CONCERT SEPT. 2 IN SF
http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/bands.html

ARMY PUTS AMPUTEES BACK INTO COMBAT
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-amputee-soldiers,1,5037637.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
So far, the Army has treated nearly 600 service members who have come back from Iraq or Afghanistan without an arm, leg, hand or foot. Thirty-one have gone back to active duty, and no one who asked to remain in the service has been discharged, Arata said.
 
‘SPAM KING’ PUNK ARRESTED IN SEATTLE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6707333.stm

WEB ERROR ROCKS OIL MARKET
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053001700.html

KID WHO SHOT ‘HOGZILLA’ LOOKS LIKE HE COULD EAT THE WHOLE PIG
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=bizarre&id=5348463
HOW DID ‘HOGZILLA’ GET INTO FENCED HUNTING PRESERVE?
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/THISJUSTIN/70531003

MICK’S BEE-STUNG LIPS AND, UH. . .
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Mick+Jagger+s+Bizarre+Bee+Ritual.-35149.html

YOKO EATS DOG
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070529/lf_afp/britainanimalsoffbeat_070529233951

And on to news and comment. . .

PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE---THE CORPORATIONS
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2007/053107Worden.shtml
The corporations our Capitalist system spawned, encouraged and supported have now left our borders and become entities of life unto themselves. They have turned on us. The nature of a corporation, like a virus, is to survive and multiply like cancer. A corporation may be comprised of humans, but unlike humans a corporation has no soul and no inherent, self-imposed standard of ethics. Anything and anyone that stands in the way of profits is an enemy to a corporation.

NEW WORLD BANK JERK EQUATES
ANTI-GLOBALISM PROTESTS WITH TERRORISM
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/31/another_wolf_for_the_world_bank.php

TAXPAYERS ON THE HOOK FOR $59 TRILLION (WHATEVER THAT IS)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28-federal-budget_N.htm
The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used.

TB Blues
CDC HAD PUT TB CARRIER ON ‘NO-FLY’ LIST,
BUT HE FLEW ANYWAY
So much for Homeland Security
http://www.rense.com/general76/know.htm
TB FLIER RAISES RED FLAG ABOUT BIOTERRORISM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0531warningmay31,1,2965493.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed
HUNDREDS OF CO-PASSENGERS SOUGHT FOR TB TESTING
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/us/31tb.html
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/05/31/31tb.html
TB PATIENT HEADS TO DENVER FOR TREATMENT
http://www.nbc11.com/health/13418147/detail.html
TB: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=health&id=5353170

50 YEARS IN IRAQ, FOLKS---
THAT’S WHAT PREZBOY SAYS. . .50 YEARS!
Smart people told you that this was a permanent occupation, USA, but you didn’t listen!
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Korea_may_have_lessons_for_US_in_Ir_05302007.html

Little Joe gotta go
TROOPS ASK LITTLE JOE:
‘WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET OUT OF HERE?’
Be sure and see funniest pic since Dukakis in a tank
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/30/lieberman-iraq/

NEOCON ‘PRAYS’ FOR MASSIVE DEATHS IN IRAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Neoconservative_hopes_prays_Bush_will_bomb_0530.html

O’ REILLY WANTS TO PRESERVE ‘WHITE, CHRISTIAN, MALE POWER STRUCTURE”
How is this guy allowed to stay on the air?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/preserving-the-white-christian-male-power-structure/

U.S. ATTY---TOUGH REPUGNICAN---
WAS AXED FOR SUPPORTING NATIVE AMERICANS
What an awful, awful country this has become
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-usatty31may31,1,428758.story?track=rss&ctrack=3&cset=true

Iraq and Roll
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BOMB, ANOTHER 27 DEAD
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070506/baghdad_bomb_070506/20070506?hub=World
WHY SO FEW BOMB-SAFE U.S. MILITARY TRUCKS IN IRAQ?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0531/p01s02-usmi.html
U.S. TROOP DEATHS AT ALL-TIME HIGH
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626464,00.html

World gone mad
PAKISTANI GIRLS’ SCHOOLS IN RADICALS’ SIGHTS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0531/p06s02-wosc.html
WOMEN DESERT EASTERN GERMANY---
FRUSTRATED MEN BECOME NEO-NAZIS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,485942,00.html

Big Dick
CHENEY VISITOR LOGS NOT KEPT
Tricky Dick rides again!
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/30/1527/

THOMPSON: AMERICA LOOKS IN THE MIRROR, SCREAMS
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2594

LINDORFF: MY HERO, CONYERS---MRS. CONYERS, THAT IS
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

Electile Dysfunction
ROMNEY: HE’S A REAL NOWHERE MAN
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626721,00.html
KERRY REGRETS HAVING PICKED EDWARDS
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626498,00.html

Jesus H. Christ!

FALWELL: A LEGACY OF HATE AND VIOLENCE
http://www.alternet.org/rights/52666/
The late Rev. Jerry Falwell was one of the most powerful men in American religious and political life. He was also an avowed segregationist, contending that Africans were the cursed descendants of Ham, and worthy only of subservience to white people. He was an adamant opponent of civil rights legislation, calling the Civil Rights Act a "civil wrong."

Mashed Media
SF CHRON EDITOR BRONSTEIN: “THIS SUCKS”
Articulate, isn't he? No, he wasn’t referring to former wife Sharon Stone. . .
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591906
SOLVE MURDER OF RUSSIAN JOURNALIST---NEWSPAPER
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/31/russian-newspaper-publish_n_50113.html

Enviro Wacko
28 RUSSIANS DROWN WHILE SEEKING RELIEF FROM HEAT
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51207&in_page_id=34

Animals in the news!
MONTANA TO MURDER 300 PESKY BISON
Darn those animals! Don’t they know this world belongs to humans?
http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2007/05/30/news/10bison.txt
PANDA BRED IN CAPTIVITY RELEASED, KILLED BY WILD PANDAS
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/World_s_only_human_bred_panda_in_wi_05312007.html

Oh, by the way. . .
ITALY LIFERS CALL FOR REINSTATING OF DEATH PENALTY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6707865.stm
BABIES STRESSED IN THE WOMB
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51158&in_page_id=34

And in more important matters. . .

AUTHOR REJECTED 36 TIMES IN 40 YEARS
IS FINALLY PUBLISHED
Agents and publishers are so totally corrupted by marketing---they are actually the enemies of good writing
http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2007/story/0,,2091741,00.html

R.I.P. ARTIST IMMENDORF
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/31/obituaries/31immendorff.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

BILLION-DOLLAR ‘POTTER’ THEME PARK COMING TO FLA.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51214&in_page_id=34
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6706939.stm
ROWLING APPROVES
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=51215&in_page_id=7

For Art’s Sake
DALI’S ‘DESTINO’ PREMIERES IN BRITAIN
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2091773,00.html

And in the end. . .
JETHRO’S CASINO
http://www.jethroscasino.com/

5/30
Skylines:
Morning concert
LIMBO ROCK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=All8ADQq7FU

THE POPE CLOSES LIMBO!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13684&R=11380364C

L.A. (me) TIMES TO GIVE MARTINEZ HIS JOB BACK?
What in the hell are Humble Al’s “papers” doing in the Huntington Library? He’s not Einstein---or even Jack Smith
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/05/canned_responses_on_al_ma.php

MILLION-DOLLAR GOLD BATHTUB STOLEN FROM JAPAN HOTEL
Maybe Humble Al needed it for his Topanga digs
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070530/D8PEJCI80.html

MAN SHOT OVER CHILI SAUCE
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/29/national/a193439D30.DTL

SIZE MATTERS
Take a look. . .
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

WHALES NEARING THE OPEN SEA
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/30/MNGHPQ3PSJ1.DTL

DOG PLAYS SNOOKER!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50990&in_page_id=34

BO DIDDLEY IS HUMMING. . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6703401.stm

EBAY ITEM OF THE DAY!
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-4-SEASONS-SING-BACHARACH-DYLAN-Near-Mint-LP_W0QQitemZ260119781385QQihZ016QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

LOTS OF AIRHEAD CELEBRITIES BUSTED FOR DRUGS, ALCOHOL, GO INTO REHAB
No details here

And on to news and comment. . .

Your Corporatocracy at work!
CORPSE-OR-ATIONS ARE GRABBING UP YOUR WATER, FOLKS!
Global Warming is a wee bit profitable, you see. . .
http://www.alternet.org/environment/52526/
Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry. One of the biggest and most voracious of the water gobblers is Nestlé, which controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain -- which it draws from 75 springs located all over the country.

MORFORD: BUSH DECLARES SELF THE ‘MEGA-DECIDER’
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/30/notes053007.DTL
Or, to put it another way, it looks like the Bumbling One just gave himself ever more power. Power to control and dictate the entire government, power to really spread the gospel of happy GOP incompetence, power to command the entire wobbly American universe should some sort of epic -- or not so epic, as the case may be -- calamity strike the homeland.
IN CASE YOU WERE WATCHING ‘AMERICAN IDOL,’
BUSH HAS LEGALLY SET HIMSELF UP FOR DICTATORSHIP
http://www.truthring.org/?p=4172 

CHINA RAPES AFRICA
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,484603,00.html
China is conquering Africa as it becomes the preferred trading partner of the continent's dictators. Beijing is buying up Africa's abundant natural resources and providing it with needed cash and cheaply produced consumer goods in return.

Bush Leagues
BUSH WILL LOOK INTO POOTY-POOT’S SOUL AGAIN
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/30/national/w063206D54.DTL
BUSH APPOINTS ANOTHER INCREDIBLY UGLY GUY---TO RUN WORLD BANK
This is certainly the ugliest administration in history
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1626382,00.html

DID MAN WITH DANGEROUS TB INFECT FELLOW PASSENGERS?
He flew from Rome to Prague, then to Montreal and the United States — despite being contacted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
while in Rome and told to turn himself in to Italian authorities to be isolated and treated.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/05/30/international/i072359D10.DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_he_me/tuberculosis_infection

WALL STREET JOURNAL OP-ED CALLS FOR BOMBING IRAN
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591584
In the Wall Street Journal today, Norman Podhoretz, the neo-con legend (and father of columnist John Podhoretz) advocates just that, the sooner the better.

Plame-out
FITZ: PLAME WAS COVERT AT TIME OF ‘OUTING’
Prosecutor also hot on Cheney’s trail
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fitzgerald_says_Plame_was_covert_agent_0529.html

Iraq and Roll
REPUG CONGRESSMAN: MAKE WOLF-MAN MAYOR OF IRAQ
He’s kidding, but you had to think about it, didn’t you?
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Republican_lawmaker_Send_Wolfowitz_to_Iraq_0529.html
TWO YEARS SINCE CHENEY SAID ‘INSURGENCY IN LAST THROES’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591578
TWO IRAQI JOURNALISTS SHOT AND KILLED
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591576


ENGLEHARDT: THE COLOSSUS OF BAGHDAD
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/30/the_colossus_of_baghdad.php
We're talking, of course, about the still-uncompleted American embassy, the largest on the planet, being constructed on a 104-acre stretch of land in the heart of Baghdad's embattled Green Zone, now regularly under mortar fire. As Patrick Lenahan, Senior Architect and Project Manager at BDY, has put it (according to the firm's website): "We understand how to involve the client most effectively as we direct our resources to make our client's vision a reality." And what a vision it was! What a reality it's turned out to be!

RAIMUNDO: REMEMBERING THE USS LIBERTY
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11042
It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS Liberty – a large, armorless, refitted freighter that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean at the outset of the Six Day War – was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedoes. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed, and 172 were wounded. The Liberty limped back to Malta. A U.S. Navy court of inquiry was on board investigating the damage, but – for some reason – the investigators were not allowed to proceed to Israel to find out what really went on. Orders from the top echelons of the Pentagon nixed the inquiry, and today, the families of the fallen still haven't gotten any answers as to why Israel was allowed to get away with it without even so much as a slap on the wrist – nor even any public acknowledgment that it was a deliberate attack.

LOOKING BACK AT CINDY SHEEHAN’S NOBLE WORK
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/30/MNGHPQ3PSH1.DTL

BUSH’S MONICA PROBLEM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18881810/site/newsweek/page/0/
"I crossed the line," she said, taking a deep breath, a Christian girl who succumbed to temptation. Carefully prepared by a shrewd lawyer, John Dowd, she suggested, almost in passing, that Gonzales may have crossed another line by discussing with her his account of how the U.S. attorneys were fired. The implication was that Gonzales had been subtly trying to coach her testimony. "I just thought maybe we shouldn't have that conversation," she said.

Electile Dysfunction
ACTOR/SENATOR WILL RUN FOR ACTOR/PRESIDENT
He’s played one on TV---what the hell’s the difference?
http://cbs3.com/topstories/topstories_story_150093711.html
LITTLE ANTHONY TO ENDORSE BILLARY
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6016773
INTERVIEW: OLBERMANN TALKS TO AL GORE ABOUT MEDIA ROLE IN STARTING IRAQ WAR
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Olbermann_hosts_Al_Gore_assault_on_0529.html


El Diablo
CHAVEZ CALLS TV STATION ‘ENEMY OF THE STATE’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,485653,00.html

Jesus H. Christ!
‘GOD’ TELLS TOM DELAY TO BUILD RIGHT-WING MOVEON.ORG
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Mag_Many_Republicans_no_longer_interested_0529.html
‘CREATIONISM MUSEUM’ OPENS
Visitors are allowed to drool, suck thumbs publically
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-creation-museum-opening,1,2075862.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Enviro Wacko
THE DEMISE OF COUNTERPUNCH’S ALEXANDER COCKBURN
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=54
Cockburn tries to refute the consensus of the world’s leading climate scientists that man-made (anthropogenic) carbon dioxide is responsible for the planet’s current global warming trend. In his first article he does so by relying on the supposed expertise of one man who, it turns out, is no longer active in the field of climate research.
GERMAN ENVIRO MINISTER TELLS U.S. TO GET SERIOUS ON POLLUTION
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,485683,00.html
RICH NATIONS MUST PAY TO CLEAN UP ENVIROMENT---OXFAM
Well, the poor ones sure can’t do it
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12855
ER, UH. . .AFTER SIX WEEKS, GEORGIA IS STILL BURNING
Sherman nowhere in sight
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0530/p01s01-usgn.html

Animals in the news
BILL WILL REDUCE CALIF. ANIMAL DEATH CAMP EXECUTIONS
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2007/05/29/petbillsupport29.DTL
AB 1634, the California Healthy Pets Act, will require that any owned cat or dog be spayed or neutered, with certain exceptions, such as guide, service or signal dogs, animals used by law enforcement agencies and for purebred animals whose owners have a breeder's license. More than 800,000 stray dogs and cats are put into shelters every year in California. To make it worse, we are killing more than 400,000 of these helpless animals simply because no one wants them. This is an average of more than 1,000 dogs and cats every day-one death every 75 seconds.

Mashed Media
SF CHRON M.E. QUITS
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591426

And in more important matters. . .

The Truth Behind This Month's Blue Moon
http://www.livescience.com/space/spacewatch/070525_ns_blue_moon.html

R.I.P. GRETCHEN WYLER, ACTRESS AND ANIMAL RIGHTS ADVOCATE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/theater/30wyler.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

BIG DINOSAURS COULD SWIM
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070529-dino-swim.html

MAN FAINTS DURING TESTICLE STORY
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=51097&in_page_id=34

Worcester sauce 'best of British'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=DNA4RRLYKNKKPQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/30/nsauce30.xml

And in the end. . .
UNDER THE FLAMING LIMBO STICK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3fe-v7dnrI

5/29
Skylines:

QUOTATIOUS: “I am deemed a radical because I believe that partisan politics should be left to the wayside when hundreds of thousands of people are dying for a war based on lies that is supported by Democrats and Republican alike.”---Cindy Sheehan

Heil, Dick!

Cheney at West Point graduate address

GREAT SYMBOLISM! MISS USA FALLS ON HER ASS!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50911&in_page_id=34

MAN WILL EAT CORGI TO PROTEST PRINCE’S KILLING OF FOX
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50884&in_page_id=34

THE BIG DONOR SHOW---
FIRST PRIZE: A PAIR OF KIDNEYS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm

WHALES EDGING CLOSER TO THE PACIFIC
25 miles from home, as Edwin Starr sang
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/29/BAGBBQ2VSQ1.DTL

WATCH: THE TRAVELING WILBURYS BOXED SET AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbqKPIt6p7A

ONO HEAPS PRAISE ON HEATHER MILLS
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070528/139/6gckx.html

DOING GOOD COMES NATURALLY
You wouldn’t guess that by looking at ‘American Idol’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/29/some-things-just-come-nat_n_49788.html

BIRDSHIT USED FOR BEAUTY MASK
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50826&in_page_id=34

MORE QUOTATIOUS: “The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. . .Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.”---Cindy Sheehan.

And on to news and comment. . .

THE GREAT CINDY SHEEHAN BOWS OUT
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/national/main2861551.shtml
SHEEHAN: ‘GOOD RIDDANCE ATTENTION WHORE’
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/28/12530/1525
This is my resignation letter as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. This is not my "Checkers" moment, because I will never give up trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the empire of the good old US of A, but I am finished working in, or outside of this system. This system forcefully resists being helped and eats up the people who try to help it. I am getting out before it totally consumes me or anymore people that I love and the rest of my resources.Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it. It’s up to you now.
Sheehan: Why I Am Leaving the Democratic Party
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17784.htm

Mashed Media/Jesus H. Christ!
CONSERVATIVE RELIGIOUS JACKASSES DOMINATE U.S. NEWS COVERAGE
http://mediamatters.org/leftbehind/
Media Matters has published a new report, “Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media,” documenting how conservative religious leaders receive far more media coverage than their progressive counterparts.

LINDORFF: BUSH NO LONGER NEEDS ‘SIGNING STATEMENTS’---
DEMOCRAPS ARE SOLIDLY BEHIND HIM
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
A criminal president and vice president have succeeded in tricking us into a war that had no justification, and that can have no good end. And what once was an opposition party has succumbed, though a combination of greed and cowardice, to become an accomplice in crime. The president, now surely among the least popular leaders in the nation’s long history, has no need of signing statements any longer because he faces no organized opposition in Washington.

Cold in here
RUSSIA TESTS NEW BALLISTIC MISSILE
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1625979,00.html

HAMBURG G-8 PROTESTERS TURN VIOLENT
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,485366,00.html

FORMER CHINA FDA HEAD GETS DEATH PENALTY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6699441.stm

Iraq and Roll
RETIRED ARMY COL. WRITES ON DEATH OF SON IN IRAQ
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003590942
“Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month....”
EIGHT MORE SOLDIERS FOR NEXT MEMORIAL DAY!
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1625936,00.html
IRAQI WOMEN DRIVEN INTO PROSTITUTION TO SURVIVE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/world/middleeast/29syria.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
FOUR BRITS, GERMAN GRABBED IN BAGHDAD
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6700319.stm
TOP GENERAL PLAYS GAMES WITH NUMBERS OF U.S. DEAD
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_General_underestimates_US_fatalities_in_0528.html

RAIMUNDO: WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ---REALLY?
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11035
If, on the other hand, we look at what is actually happening in Iraq, and throughout the region, we can discern the real goals of the invasion, and they are two: a civil war in the Muslim world (check!) and the positioning of U.S. military forces for a confrontation with the next victim of the regime-change game: Iran (check!).

IRANIAN-AMERICANS CHARGED WITH SPYING
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1625928,00.html

PAKISTAN LOSING TERRITORY TO RADICALS
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0529/p01s04-wosc.html

Big Dick
CHENEY KNOCKS GENEVA CONVENTION
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cheney_criticizes_Geneva_Convention_in_Military_0526.html

Wolf-Man
WOLF-MAN BLAMES THE MEDIA FOR HIS DEMISE!
These cowardly montebanks always do
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003590967

Mashed Media
DRUDGE CALLS OLBERMANN A PHONEY
Knocks him for his Murrow sign-off. . .Well, at least he doesn't wear Walter Winchell's hat
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/29/drduge-on-olbermann/
LAT PULITZER WINNER EXPLAINS WHY SHE IS LEAVING THE PAPER
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003591028
KURTZ: HOW DO THEY GET AWAY
WITH ALL THE FAKE TABLOID NEWS?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701228.html

Electile Dysfunction
SMALL ASIAN-PACIFIC GROUP GAINS EAR OF CANDIDATES
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0529/p01s01-uspo.html

World gone mad
SAME SEX (SORT OF) COUPLE GET THREE YEARS IN JAIL
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/print_friendly_version.jsp?global_name=/channels/gulfnews_com/world/Pakistan/10128503.html

Jesus H. Christ
HITCHENS VS. HEDGES SMACKDOWN
http://www.alternet.org/story/52449/
Christopher Hitchens debated Chris Hedges in a battle of wits and faith over the meaning of religion in our lives and politics today.

(Lack of) Health
DOC: DYSLEXIA DOEN’ST EIXST
“Just a middle class way to hide stpiudity”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=458160&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

Animals in the news!
JAPAN/ANTI-WHALING SMACKDOWN!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6699201.stm
COW PRODUCES LOW-FAT MILK
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,485427,00.html

Oh, by the way. . .
28 PLANETS FOUND
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/29/MNG9CQ336T1.DTL
IRAN TO BUILD MAGNETIC ELEVATED TRAIN
Why can’t L.A.?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,485422,00.html
S. KOREAN COMPANIES EXPLOITING N. KOREA WORKFORCE
So much for principle. . .
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2007/gb20070525_037364.htm?chan=globalbiz_asia+index+page_top+stories
BULLET REMOVED 64 YEARS LATER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/29/international/i023010D61.DTL
R.I.P. GREAT HAWAIIAN SEAFARER KAPAHULEHUA
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/us/27kapahulehua.html?ref=obituaries
Kawika Kapahulehua, who, in 1976, as the seasoned captain of the first ocean-voyaging canoe to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti in perhaps 600 years battled fierce storms, becalmed seas and a mutiny, died on May 17 in Honolulu. He was 76.

And in more important matters. . .

JON CARROLL: THE KEY TO A GOOD TRAVEL STORY
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/29/DDGITP189F1.DTL

Light reading
WHY DO PEOPLE RESIST SCIENCE?
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bloom07/bloom07_index.html
In sum, the developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a non-scientific alternative that is rooted in common sense and championed by people who are taken as reliable and trustworthy.

LENNON’S LAST PIANO UP FOR SALE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6700347.stm

MISS JAPAN IS MISS UNIVERSE
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/05/28/entertainment/e200626D62.DTL

A VISIT TO DICKENSWORLD
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0525/p20s01-woeu.htm

And in the end. . .
SCREAMING BEANS
http://simon.supermegaactionplus.com/beans.html

5/25
Skylines:
Memorial Day Weekend Morning Concert
ELVIS---‘I’LL REMEMBER YOU’---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23OaLJrzFVU
---AND. . .’I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apir6cgcdbY

QUOTATIOUS:
“One hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer self depend on the labor of others, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.”---Albert Einstein.

WANT A LAUGH? READ THE LAT “EDITOR’S” BUYOUT MEMO
They call firing a "voluntary and involuntary employment separation program"
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/05/osheas_buyout_message.php
These aren’t editors, they’re run-of-the-mill corporate vampires. . .Just look at this schmuck. . .

Times "Editor" Jim O'Shea
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003590597

TERRORIST BIRD CRAPS ON BUSH
Olbermann: “Must have been a dove.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/24/bush-karma/
WATCH:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c28_1180051991

MAN GETS FIVE YEARS FOR BLOWING UP TOILET
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/23/national/a114958D91.DTL&type=bondage

WAYNE FONTANA AND THE DEBT COLLECTORS!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/6691773.stm

THE GREAT MORFORD:
WHY ARE YOU SO INCREDIBLY DRUNK?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/25/notes052507.DTL
What is it about, say, hard-core sports fans or twentysomething post-sorority girls and pot-bellied frat guys gathering in hordes and drinking so heavily two or three times per week and every single weekend that they can't see straight and fall out of their restaurant chairs and break a tooth on the ceramic tile and throw up in their hair and don't know who they slept with as they fry so many brain cells they finally move to Texas and become president of the United States?

And on to news and comment. . .

HERE’S YOUR MEMORIAL DAY IRAQ DEATH TOLL BREAKDOWN
Mission accomplished, Mr. Prez!
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Oh, and of course, there were also about 655,000 Iraqis killed, but who’s counting?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm

EDWARDS MIGHT BE A LIGHTWEIGHT, BUT HE'S RIGHT---
Edwards: war on terror a fraud
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=10816&sectionid=3510203
Edwards calls for antiwar protests on Memorial Day
http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/104441.html
Edwards to air anti-war TV ads
http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/243e7a27-www.wlos.com.shtml

CONGRESS GIVES WAR PROFITEERS ANOTHER $100 BILLION
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_070524_congress_gives_iraq_.htm

Goodling two-shoes
HOW EVANGELICALS HAVE BECOME PART OF D.C.---OR----
WE ARE SOOOOOOO F*****D
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402032.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Goodling is part of a new generation of evangelicals ushered in by Falwell, who insisted that Christians get involved in politics. They are graduates of the exploding number of evangelical colleges, which no longer aim to create a parallel subculture but instead to train "Christian leaders to change the world," as the Regent mission statement reads.

Jesus H. Christ!
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!
CREATIONISM ‘MUSEUM’ SHOWS PEOPLE FROLICKING WITH DINOSAURS!
Stick a fork in this country---it’s done
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=3fce574910e89398&ex=1180152000&pagewanted=all
Outside the museum scientists may assert that the universe is billions of years old, that fossils are the remains of animals living hundreds of millions of years ago, and that life’s diversity is the result of evolution by natural selection. But inside the museum the Earth is barely 6,000 years old, dinosaurs were created on the sixth day, and Jesus is the savior who will one day repair the trauma of man’s fall.
ONE IN THREE AMERRYGUNS BELIEVE THE BABBLE IS LITERAL ‘WORD OF GAWD’
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003590603

Iran from the truth
CHENEY AIDE CLEARING WAY TO BOMB IRAN
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Cheney_aide_clearing_path_to_0524.html
RAIMUNDO: NEOCONS DISCREDITED, BUT NOT DEFEATED
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11022
The President, reined in by his party’s fear of electoral disaster and his nation’s war weariness, has hesitated to go all the way with the neocons’ plan to open up the second phase of their bid to "transform" the Middle East into a pile of "democratic" rubble: no one in this country but Dick Cheney and his boys think going to war with Iran is such a grand idea, but that isn’t stopping the neocons from trying to pull it off anyway.
ALMONDJOYAD THREATENS TO WIPE OUT ISRAEL---IF IT ATTACKS LEBANON AGAIN
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,484958,00.html

U.S. RATCHETING UP COLD WAR WITH RUSSIA
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_ready_to_push_back_against_Russi_05242007.html

Democrap
SOLOMON: DEM MAJORITY MEANS NOTHING FOR DEMOCRACY
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/25/deadly_illusions_rest_in_peace.php
LINDORFF: KERRYCRATS, ALL!
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.05.01_arch.html#1180021323219

Electile Dysfunction
WILL TELL-ALL BOOKS DERAIL BILLARY CAMPAIGN?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402479_pf.html

Iraq and Roll
MILITIA LEADER KILLED---SO WHAT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2088299,00.html
IS U.S. LYING ABOUT USING CLUSTER BOMBS IN IRAQ?
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/52349/
OPIUM---IRAQ’S NEW IMPORT!
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2573299.ece
CIA PREDICTED POST-SADDAM CIVIL WAR
So did The Rip Post. . .So did a lot of five-year-olds
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18854414/

Your corporatocracy at work!
MEN IN 30’S WORSE OFF THAN THEIR FATHERS
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118005313993514160-ffyvlR98p8u9Sorpc2R_TwOs50w_20070601.html?mod=blogs

Enviro Wacko
NATIONAL WATER CRISIS LOOMING?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/070527/4water.htm

World gone mad
POOR SUU KYI STILL ‘DETAINED’ IN BURMA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6691935.stm
Ms Suu Kyi has spent 11 of the last 18 years under house arrest. In 1990 her National League for Democracy won polls that were annulled by the army.

Spaced out
SATURN MOON BLOWS OFF STEAM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/25/MNGR7Q1I3Q1.DTL&type=science

World gone mad
DOCTORS WARN AGAINST VAGINAL COSMETIC SURGERY
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,485045,00.html

Animals in the news!
TWO-LEGGED DINOSAURS COULD SWIM!
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=50479&in_page_id=34

Oh, by the way
COLLAPSED SF FREEWAY REBUILT, REOPENS---25 DAYS LATER
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/25/MNG6EQ1IDG1.DTL
MAN GOES ELEVEN DAYS AND NIGHTS WITH NO SLEEP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6689999.stm
MISSING DOCTOR LAY DEAD IN GARAGE FOR 22 YEARS
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,485064,00.html
European Man Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070524-china-dna.html

And in more important matters. . .

Light reading
ON WRITING WELL
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-05-21jl.html
In plain English, what does it mean when students “achieve a deficiency” or reach a “suboptimal outcome?” It means they failed. A “suboptimal outcome” is even worse in a hospital. It means the patient died. The airline industry sometimes speaks of a “hull loss.” What it means is that a plane just crashed. Here’s more twisted language: your doorman is now known as an “access controller,” and a receptionist is a “director of first impressions.” Hospital bills can be filled with such language. How about a “thermal therapy unit”—an ice bag—or a “disposable mucus recovery unit,” also known as a box of Kleenex?

BEMUSEMENT PARK: WHERE DICKENS MEETS DISNEY
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0525/p20s01-woeu.html

For Art’s Sake
HOCKNEY UNVEILS GIGANTIC PAINTING
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6690421.stm

Film review
‘PIRATES 3’ SINKS
Rainer:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0525/p11s02-almo.html
LaSalle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/24/DDGCEPVKR71.DTL

Musique
WHY IS ELGAR SO IGNORED OUTSIDE BRITAIN?
Because he puts you sleep, that’s why
http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2087164,00.html
SIR PAUL: WORKING WITH JOHN WAS ‘THE BEST’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6691543.stm

And in the end. . .
REMEMBERING POOLI, THE WAR VETERAN CAT
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/dlib/lat/display.cfm?ms=uclalat_1429_b392_117856



        . . .SPECIAL THANKS TO HOOKALAKAH MISHABOB FOR CONTRIBUTIONS. . .

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