1976 -- Jamesd, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months, dies returning from the evening meal. His last mortal words: "I'm stuffed." 1983 -- Columnist Lars-Erik Nelson after checking the citations on all 434 Congressional Medal of Honor awarded during World War II, reveals that not one of them matches the story acting President Reagan told the other day. "It's not true," writes Nelson. Responds Reagan's man, Larry Speakes, "If you tell the same story five times, it's true." 1998 -- Author William Gaddis dies. The day on which a libidinal American President, counting the hours before his impeachment, launched yet another series of bomb attacks on an Iraqi population already unconscionably squeezed & starved, America's most proficient satirist died.... http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/gaddis.html http://home.pacbell.net/freeron/gaddis/ 2000 -- US: The president of the Florida Holocaust Museum recently noted that George W. Bush's grandfather derived a portion of his personal fortune through his affiliation with a Nazi-controlled bank. John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department's Nazi War Crimes Unit, said his research found that Bush's grandfather was a principal in the Union Banking Corp. in the late 1930s & the 1940s. That money flows into American politics today, he said, from "a series of multinational corporations behaving like pirates. They don't care about ideology; they care about money." "That's where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich," Loftus said. http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115 http://www.geocities.com/dudar2000/Bcc.htm http://www.srpska-mreza.com/library/facts/ratline.html ________________ "The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe." Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia Police Chief, Resident Philosopher http://users.lanminds.com/zapoid/p-dem-env-061899-432-jkap.jpg URLS on breaking au news...above's from http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20530&group=webcast Biker's blues http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9337&group=webcast Reactor rats.