` ` OREO ` 01 21 08 - Morning Edition ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important ` MH = Misleading Headline ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` == ` EV'RYTHING'S OLRIGHT 'ERE, GOV ` ` Smith 'does not feel safe' in London ` http://uk.news.yahoo.com/epolitix/20080120/tpl-smith-does-not-feel-safe-in-london-0a1c1a1.html ` POOR LIL' PUPPY, AAW ` ` ` Firm denies conflict of interest ` http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080120/tuk-firm-denies-conflict-of-interest-6323e80_1.html ` "recruitment firm headed by the wife of Work and Pensions Secretary" ` ` ` Man dies after stun gun incident ` http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080120/tuk-man-dies-after-stun-gun-incident-6323e80_1.html ` "injuries from the taser gun were 'minimum'" ` ` ` Heathrow plane removed from runway ` http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080120/tuk-heathrow-plane-removed-from-runway-dba1618_1.html ` GOOD MOVE ` ` == ` ` Pentagon and Contractors One Happy Family? ` http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40844 ` "Cambone [now of QinetiQ North America]...helped create the very office [Counter-Intelligence Field Activity] that is- sued the contract [to QNA]" ` "q" is pronouced "k" ` ` ` RCMP debunks claims Canada dumping 'extreme ecstasy' into U.S. market ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080120/national/us_cda_ecstasy ` Black House Office of National Drug Control Policy news re- lease "is 'cherry-picking data' to blame Canada." ` ` ` ==== ` Does the software at this site automatically convert URLs ` to links? If not, go to the Oreo Archive: ` Oreo ` ==== ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` 1 NATO soldier killed, 5 wounded in southern Afghanistan blast ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080121/world/afghan_violence ` "one attack over the weekend struck a NATO patrol, killing one soldier and wounding five others" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Pakistan militants blow up trucks carrying supplies for Afghan coalition ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080121/world/pakistan ` "blew up three trucks carrying provisions for coalition forces ...in the latest of several attacks on a key supply line for the troops" ` ` ` BHUTAN ` Four bombs shake Bhutan, ahead of vote http://au.news.yahoo.com/080121/2/15l86.html ` In the early 1990s "More than 100,000 ethnic Nepalis - a Hindu minority in Bhutan - fled or were forced to leave by authorities who wanted to impose Buddhist culture across the country." ` ` ` INDIA ` India launches Israeli satellite: report ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080121/world/india_israel_space_satellite ` "launch...had been kept secret because of its 'geopolitical sensitivity'" ` INDIA IS JOINING PUPPET-ISRAEL'S WAR ` just as it has joined The Superpower's war against Afghani- stan: see "Indian road engineers," Oreo 01 03 08 Evening Edi- tion) ` ` ` BJP mum as fringe Hindu group targets media ` http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiaabroad/20080121/r_t_ians_nl_politics/tnl-bjp-mum-as-fringe-hindu-group-target-a4b7bec.html ` "protesting against an...opinion poll...conducted by the TV channel, asking its viewers to name their candidates for Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. The list included painter M.F. Husain" ` FOLLOWING UP: ` 1) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Swayamsevak_Sangh ` "Organizations which are inspired by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's ideology refer themselves as the members of the Sangh Parivar." ` 2) Sangh Parivar: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangh_Parivar ` and ` 3) Community website for the well wishers of Sangh Parivar: ` at which, ` "My Bharat Ratna goes to the unsung jawan" ` http://www.sanghparivar.org/my-bharat-ratna-goes-to-the-unsung-jawan ` "The secularists are the most sadistic people on this earth. In a poll on Bharat Ratna, they have included a Hindu hater M F Hussain" ` so, ` 5) M. F. Husain: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_F_Husain ` "in 1998 Husain's house was attacked by Bajrang Dal" --which is a member organization of Sangh Parivar ` ` ` PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA ` China vows to end violence by urban inspectors ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080121/world/china_rights_inspectors_beating ` "Violently implementing the law...is in a way the same as trampling on the spirit of the law." ` ` ` 4 EUROPE ` ` SERBIA ` Nationalist wins first round of Serb president vote ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080120/15/15l05.html ` "setting up a run-off with the pro-Western incumbent" ` ` ` UK ` Stolen UK tractors sold in Australia ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080121/2/15l99.html ` "They have even stolen seized equipment back from the police" ` See "Timber Thieves Strike at Heart of Lands Held Dear," Oreo 01 20 08 Evening Edition. ` HOW TO GET AROUND THE CREDIT CRUNCH ` ` ` 5 LATAM ` ` VENEZUELA ` Relatives of Farc hostages request President Chávez to keep his mediator role ` http://www.abn.info.ve/go_news5.php?articulo=117192&lee=17 ` "group of eight relatives of Farc hostages arrived Friday in Venezuela" ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Stocks fall in Asia as Bush plan disappoints ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080121/19/15l73.html ` "too little, too late or too predictable" ` ` Leaders head for Davos as chilly winds whip world economy ` http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080120/tbs-davos-economy-5268574_1.html ` "begins Wednesday" ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` `