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Earth Day - Maybe - But It's really Lenin's Birthday Today! We like our readers to be informed and educated. This is why we often run the "Why we do what we do series" to show the Plain Truth behind some of the things that we do, like our expose on the real meaning of Easter, or Halloween or even seemingly innocent things like St Valentines day. Today we are looking at EARTH DAY. To most, the day represents the celebration of earth, an our efforts to keep it clean and green. Most educated people understand that it was started...

…or to use the current appellation, Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend Ira Einhorn preached against Vietnam War and violence, but had dark side Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the "composted" body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk. A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and '70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia’s head hippie. With his long beard and gap-toothed smile, Einhorn — who nicknamed...

BRUSSELS (AFP) – Europe must follow through on its pledge to impose sanctions on Iran's energy sector in order to coax Tehran back to the negotiating table over its nuclear activities, a top US diplomat said Tuesday. Robert Einhorn, the US coordinator for Iran sanctions, said he held meetings in Brussels with European Union officials to discuss the measures being drafted after EU leaders agreed this month to impose new sanctions. "What we hope is that stronger measures on the pressure side, on the sanctions side will give leaders in Iran strong incentives to come to the negotiating table and...

On this, the 36th anniversary of Earth Day, it is only fitting to speak of one of its founders, Ira Einhorn. You won't find Ira Einhorn's name listed in any of the Earth Day promotional literature, as the organizers have taken great pains to distance themselves from this man, at least since he became better known for composting his girlfriend in a trunk in his closet for a couple of years in the late 1970s.

Long before he became one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate — and the target of Congressman Pat Toomey's GOP primary challenge — Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania demonstrated a knack for notoriety. In 1964, as a member of the Warren Commission, he invented the "single-bullet theory" to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy. Conspiracy junkies have obsessed over him ever since. (In Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Kevin Costner's character labels Specter "an ambitious junior counselor" behind "one of the grossest lies ever forced on the American people.") Between serving on the Warren Commission and becoming a...

WASHINGTON: There is some ground to suspect that former scientists of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission may have had talks with al-Qaeda at some stage. In fact, it is believed that two Pakistani N-scientists were in touch with the militant outfit. This was stated by Robert Einhorn, Senior Advisor, Centre for Strategic and International Studies and former Assistant Secretary of State for Non-proliferation, during an interview on the subject of the alleged Pak-North Korean barter deal on the nuclear weapons front.He added that, with a note of caution, that nuclear scientists always possess a lot of know-how which are of...

A High-Risk Nuclear Stakeout The U.S. took too long to act, some experts say, letting a Pakistani scientist sell illicit technology well after it knew of his operation. By Douglas Frantz, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Nuclear warhead plans that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan sold to Libya were more complete and detailed than previously disclosed, raising new concerns about the cost of Washington's watch-and-wait policy before Khan and his global black market were shut down last year. Two Western nuclear weapons specialists who have examined the top-secret designs say the hundreds of pages of engineering drawings and handwritten notes...

When experts from the US and the IAEA came upon blueprints for a 10-kiloton atomic bomb in the files of the Libyan weapons program earlier this year, they found themselves caught between gravity and pettiness. The discovery gave the experts a new appreciation of the audacity of the rogue nuclear network led by A. Q. Khan, a chief architect of Pakistan's bomb. Intelligence officials had watched Dr. Khan for years and suspected that he was trafficking in machinery for enriching uranium to make fuel for warheads. But the detailed design represented a new level of danger, particularly since the Libyans...

PHILADELPHIA - A former hippie guru convicted in 2002 of a 25-year-old murder wants the judge who presided over his trial to hurry up with an opinion needed to pursue an appeal. Ira Einhorn, 64, is serving life in prison without parole for the murder of girlfriend Holly Maddux. After two trials and nearly 17 years on the run in Europe, he now is incarcerated at the state prison in Houtzdale. In a motion sent to the state Superior Court, Einhorn complains that Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge William J. Mazzola has failed to file a response to his lawyer's Nov....

I think it is fair to say that I'm something of an old hand at observing the political process. I was first elected as a Republican committeeman 50 years ago! A half century is time enough to learn the rules. The Republican primary battle between U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey and four-term Sen. Arlen Specter is unseemly, and bad for the party.

Posted on Sat, Oct. 19, 2002 Bars, bells and chow for EinhornBy Julie StoiberInquirer Staff Writer In western France, where Ira Einhorn lived before his capture, dinner was a leisurely affair on the terrace of a stone cottage. There, he sipped red wine and soaked in the sounds of the countryside - wind rustling the poplars, water splashing in the streams where he swam each day. A cowbell on the front gate announced visitors.In Central Pennsylvania, where the convicted killer is expected to serve his life sentence, the chow line forms at 4:15 p.m. and vertical bars spoil the...

Einhorn found guilty of first-degree murder From The Inquirer Staff Associated Press Ira Einhorn was convicted this morning of first-degree murder in one of the city's most notorious crimes: the death 25 years ago of girlfriend Holly Maddux, whose mummified remains were found in a steamer trunk in Einhorn's Powelton Village apartment. The jury of six women and six men deliberated for about an hour yesterday before retiring to their hotel. They resumed today at 9 a.m. and reached a verdict about 90 minutes later. The verdict was announced an hour later. The first-degree conviction brings with it an automatic...

The 60s just won’t go away. Many Boomers have idealized the period beyond recognition. To them, it was a period of making love, not war, of telling it like it is, of truth and beauty, of honesty and openness. The dirty little secret of it all, known by those of us who lived through it, is that the 60s had more than its fair share of pedestrian hypocrites. "All you need is love," advised John Lennon at roughly the same time he abandoned his own son. His holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, as the Beatles found out, was interested in more...

<p>PHILADELPHIA — Even Ira Einhorn laughed at the rambling testimony of a defense witness who generated giggles at his murder trial. Now, his lawyer says, it's up to the former hippie guru to convince a jury that he should go free instead to jail for the 1977 slaying of his girlfriend.</p>

Holly's sisters arrive at court. The men and women who will judge the guilt or innocence of Ira Einhorn will get to hear from the former hippie himself, his attorney said today. Einhorn plans to tell jurors that the mummified corpse of his former girlfriend found inside a locked steamer trunk in his apartment was planted, possibly by government agents, defense attorney William Cannon said during opening arguments. Einhorn, 62, is expected to testify that he never brutalized Holly Maddux. He will explain why he disappeared on the eve of trial in 1981 and lived a life on the run...