 A founding member of a hippie movement called the Rainbow Family suggested Saturday that it launch a federal lawsuit against a growing crackdown on their annual gatherings. Barry Adams, known in the Rainbow Family as Barry Plunker, told a council circle at the first day of this year's weeklong gathering at Routt National Forest that federal pressure has gone too far. Dozens of Forest Service officers, county deputies and Colorado State Patrol officers are manning checkpoints and patrolling camps as thousands of hippies flood the forest about 30 miles north of Steamboat Springs. Under federal rules, any gathering of more than 74 people in a national forest requires a permit. Officials have said that in a fire, the narrow dirt access road would become clogged and campers would be trapped. ...
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Editor - 01:38:00 07-02-06
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 California woman lost 2 men to 2 wars |
Harold Stuart Roach Jr.'s name is not on the wall.He was a Navy pilot whose plane crashed into the South China Sea in 1964. But it fell 300 miles outside the combat zone, and he doesn't qualify for a place on the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.His daughter, Elaine Roach, refuses to accept the Pentagon's reasoning. She argues with the government. "My dad died in Vietnam," she says. "What's the question?"She presses the issue because more than four decades after the crash, she's still in pain, and not just because the loss of her father in Southeast Asia turned her young life upside down.Elaine Roach suffers new wounds, from a different war in a different part of the world....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-02-war-torn_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 01:35:00 07-02-06
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| Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say |
The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages. ``The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,'' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. ``This undermines that assertion.'' The Lies just never stop. There will come a point where they tell so many lies that no one but a fool will believe anything the Government says. We are very close to that point now ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abIV0cO64zJE
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Editor - 10:34:00 07-01-06
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| GOP candidates in N.Y. turn on each other |
The Clintons are no strangers to political soap opera, yet all the drama in New York revolves around the Republicans.Accusations of bigamy and child abuse, illegitimate children and a tabloid description of one candidate curled in the fetal position after downing half a pint of ice cream sound like top-rated, daytime fiction.Instead, it's the GOP Senate primary between a former Yonkers mayor, John Spencer, and a Reagan-era Pentagon official, Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland.On top of a vivid clash of ideologies and social class, the two have given New Yorkers more than the usual amount of political theater.Above all the drama is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is spending most of her time on Senate business and laying the groundwork for a possible 2008 presidential run. The Democrat has more than $19 million in the bank and a comfortable, double-digit lead over the underfunded Spencer and McFarland in statewide polls....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-01-GOP-race_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 09:43:00 07-01-06
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| Racism, Not Defence, At the Heart Of Israeli Politics |
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came out and publicly stated something that every unbiased observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has privately known for many years: that, to the Israeli oligarchs, the life of an Israeli citizen is "more important" than that of a Palestinian....
http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060629_RacismNotDefenceAttheHeartOfIsraeliPolitics.php
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Editor - 09:35:00 07-01-06
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| Clashes break out in Gaza Strip |
A gun battle has erupted between Hamas militants and Israeli troops in southern Gaza in one of the worst clashes since the Israeli incursion. Israeli armour moved across the border near the town of Khan Younis at about midday local time and were met with gunfire from Palestinian militants. Israeli forces were already in the south of Gaza as part of pressure to free a soldier captured by militants. US President George W Bush has called for Cpl Gilad Shalit's release. He said the release was key to ending the crisis which has seen Israeli forces destroying Gaza bridges and suspected militant sites, as well as the strip's only power station. "The initial goal should be freeing the Israeli soldier - that is the key to ending the crisis," President Bush was quoted by the White House as saying. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5136810.stm
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