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OREO 04 09 08
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Newsstories of interest:
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** =3D Im****tant [in this edition: 2 ]
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MH =3D Misleading Headline [in this edition: ]
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1 DISORDER
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GAO: Millions wasted on gov't [credit] cards
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080409/ap_on_go_ot/government_credit_cards
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"At the State Department, one credit-card holder bought
$360 worth of women's lingerie at Seduccion Boutique for
use during jungle training by trainees of a drug enforce-
ment program in Ecuador."
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Editorial | Cor****ate Croesus
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/opinion/08tue4.html
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"chiefs at 10 financial-services firms...made $320 million
last year, even as their banks re****ted mortgage-related
losses of $55 billion."
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U.S. Says It Will Increase Efforts Against 'Tax Defiers'
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/business/09tax.html
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Tax defier?
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"The tax defier is someone who rejects the legal foundation
of the tax system, despite decades of legal precedent up-
holding the system's constitutional and statutory validity,
and who takes specific and concrete action to violate the
law."
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A tax defier does not reject the *political* foundation of
the tax system. And that is?
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Lawless police, courts, prisons and, if necessary, troops.
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In Justice ****ft, Cor****ate Deals Replace Trials
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/wa****ngton/09justice.html?hp=3D&pagewanted=
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"In a major ****ft of policy, the Justice Department...has
put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of
wrongdoing over the last three years."
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** As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/business/09conserve.html?hp=3D&pagewanted=
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IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE...
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2 AFRICA
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EGYPT
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** Egypt Seeks to Appease Angry Workers
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080408/D8VTSMB01.html
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"This Nile Delta factory city has seen a wave of strikes
for more than a year, and the anger exploded into rioting
Sunday and Monday."
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And:
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Chief of UNO humanitarian operations speaking at Dubai:
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"food riots are already being re****ted across the globe."
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For instance:
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"On Monday and Tuesday, protesters angered by high food
prices flooded the streets of Haiti's capital, forcing
businesses and schools to close as unrest spread from
the countryside."
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El-Mahalla El-Kubra:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Mahalla_El-Kubra
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THE BU$H PLAN (SOMALIA)
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Car Bomb Targets Peacekeepers in Somalia
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080408/D8VTQTD80.html
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"One of our fighters has targeted the African Union troops
who are here to sup****t the Ethiopian troops' massacre of
our people."
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3 ASIA
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THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ)
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Iraqi Resistance Re****t for events of Monday, 7 April 2008
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http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0408/iraqiresistancere****t_070408.h=
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2d item from bottom: Eight killed in US air raid Sunday
night; Americans deny raid took place
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"An American spokesman said that its aircraft were not
responsible for the casualties, claiming that a bomb
exploded in a house in the al-Asdiqa' area late Sunday
night."
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Iraqi Resistance Re****t for events of Tuesday, 8 April 2008
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http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2008/0408/iraqiresistancere****t_080408.h=
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Item 8: Gunmen kill tribal leader of 'Awakening' colla-
borator police, an in-law of 'Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri in
al-Khalis.
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ad-Duri is the legitimate President of Iraq.
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Al Khalis:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khalis
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4 EUROPE
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FRANCE
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Students, Police Clash in France
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080408/D8VTSI681.html
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"Thousands of students marched from Paris' Luxembourg
Gardens in a rally that descended into violence for the
second time in a week." "protest over teacher job cuts."
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Jardin du Luxembourg:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Gardens
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224 500 sq meters =3D 55.475+ acres
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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Russian mayor 'urges closure of own town'
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=3D080408101021.6yrxk1d7&show_article=
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"mortality rates caused by tuberculosis, cancer of the
throat, liver and the kidneys are three times higher in
Chapayevsk than in the rest of the region."
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Chapayevsk:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayevsk
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Image:Map of Russia - Samara Oblast (2008-03).svg;
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map_of_Russia_-_Samara_Oblast_%282008-03%=
29.svg
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Oblasts ["provinces"] of Russia:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblasts_of_Russia
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UK
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British Court Rejects Iraq Inquiry
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080409/D8VU9HEG0.html
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"[mothers of two teenage soldiers killed in Iraq] argued
that an inquiry must be carried out, under the terms of
the European Convention of Human Rights, which protects
the 'right to life.'
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But a committee of nine Law Lords at the House of Lords,
Britain's highest court, ruled against the [duh] women"
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EU NEEDS TO KICK OUT UK
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5 LATAM
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CUBA
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Reflections of Fidel | Bush, war and the tooth-and-nail
struggle for survival
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COLUMBIA
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6 Soldiers Killed in Colombia Mine Field
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080409/D8VU56P00.html
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"walked [!] into a mine field while pursuing [!] a column
of leftist guerrillas"
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__DIRTY WAR__
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PERU
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Peru Court Convicts 4 for 1992 Massacre
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080409/D8VU2VBG0.html
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"three former soldiers and an ex-general guilty of partici-
pating in the 1992 kidnapping and murder of nine students
and a professor from La Cantuta University"
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National University of Education Enrique Guzm=E1n y Valle:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cantuta_University
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Grupo Colina [death squad]:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Colina
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7 $$$$
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Former Cor****ate Executive [Gail McGovern] to Run Red Cross
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/us/09cross.html
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"The Red Cross is grappling with a $200 million deficit,
mounting fines related to its blood collection and dis-
tribution business and low morale"
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Fed Auctions Another $50 Billion
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080408/fed_credit_crisis.html
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"ninth in a series"
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IMF Puts Cost of Crisis Near $1 Trillion | Problems
'Metastasized' To Threaten Economy Worldwide, Re****t Says
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http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803=
017_pf.html
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"re****t shows that predictions of such losses, which were
extreme outliers a few months ago, have become mainstream."
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Outlier:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers
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Oreo Archive:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o
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