2005.4.25=1[#115]:4703.3.17[#60+16/60]: [Girls Abduction, Scotland], Passport Loss reported. 1)Putin's USSR. 2)Muslim on Iraq. 3)US Media.

[Girls Abduction] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4478913.stm [Britain Cave Engravings Oldest] http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-43445.html [Scotland] http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/famous.htm http://netmedia.co.uk/history/week-14/ http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stonehaven/dunnottarcastle/ http://www.dunechtestates.co.uk/ Map: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/areace.html Cloudy then fair mild: Up 7:15, Jyun tel then faxes 3 pages on obtaining lost Taiwan passport, then we all try to find it all over, mom very hard to exaustion again, I start lunch quickly, then haul off old newspapers, lots, lots of them. Mom tel Setjian trying to open her big baggage fails. Almost 5pm drive mom to Police Dept. online apply lost record, then to Kinko's for extra photos, to Jyun's place, I escape leaving mom to Jyun, to home soon dinner & emails, now 11:03pm blog to get [Scotland]. TV: Violent reactions in Taiwan on Lien Chan's China visit. Jyun is still out here, typing notes about my letter on computer. Now 12:51am. So far no luck about mom's lost passport. Taiwan tv's show live Lien Chan's violent departure and welcoming at H.K. and Nanjing. 2:30 bed! 1) "Putin deplores collapse of USSR", BBC News, Last Updated: Monday, 25 April, 2005, 10:04 GMT 11:04 UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4480745.stm "" President Putin: Russia will pursue its own model of democracy Russia's President Vladimir Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century. Mr Putin's annual state of the nation address to parliament was broadcast live on Russian television. He said the break-up of the USSR in 1991 was "a real drama" which left tens of millions of Russians outside the Russian Federation. He also said Russia must develop as a "free and democratic" country. But he stressed that Russia "will decide for itself the pace, terms and conditions of moving towards democracy". "" 2) A Progressive Muslim on Iraq: "The Value of Human Life", by Omid Safi, AlterNet. Posted April 25, 2005. ""A progressive Muslim critique of the U.S. occupation of Iraq."" http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21854/ "" This is an excerpt from the recently re-released 'Twilight of Empire' (Perceval Press), featuring a new foreword by Howard Zinn. This piece was written soon after the occupation began, but we feel it still has resonance. The ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq presents a special challenge for Muslims who self-identify as socially and politically progressive. The challenge is to speak out, rise up, and act against the unilateral American display of unbridled military power, as well as against acts of violence by some Iraqis toward that same American might or perceived Iraqi sympathizers. This double critique arises out of the Qur'anic view that to save the life of one human being--any human being--is to have saved the life of all humanity, and to take the life of a single human being, any human being, is as if to destroy all of humanity [Qur'an 5:32]. "" 3) US Media: (1) "Media Blackout on Trilaterals", by James P. Tucker Jr.; Republished from American Free Press; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:08:57 -0500 [Posted By gaanjah_mama]: http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2454/Media_Blackout_on_Trilaterals "" Summary: Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission have interlocking leadership and a common agenda. David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger are leaders of both groups. The Trilaterals’ European chairman, Peter Sutherland, head of Goldman-Sachs International, is also a Bilderberg leader. Former House Speaker Tom Foley is the TC’s North American chairman. “The Trilateral Commission’s meetings have inspired conspiracy theories of powerful puppeteers who secretly pull the strings of world power as they seek to establish a new world order,” the Times story said. “The theories are based partly on fact.” "" (2) "The Right's Siege Mentality", Paul Waldman, TomPaine.com; April 25, 2005: ""Paul Waldman is a senior fellow with Media Matters for America and a senior contributor to The Gadflyer."" http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_rights_siege_mentality.php?dateid=20050425 "" Many progressives watched in puzzlement at the end of last year as religious conservatives declared that a war was being waged across America, a campaign of untold savagery whose sole victim was a holiday celebrated by approximately four out of every five Americans. Forced to endure the horror of department store signs reading “Happy Holidays,” conservatives beat their breasts and gnashed their teeth over the War on Christmas. ""