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Washington, D.C. 'Out of Iraq' Town Hall Meeting This Saturday Thu Jan 5, 11:07 AM ET To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Karen Bradley, 202-669-3927; or Christine Yorty, 703-447-6726 News Advisory: WHO: -- David Swanson, moderator, co-founder, After Downing Street -- Allan J. Lichtman, history professor, American University -- Lila Rajiva, author of Abu Ghraib and the Media, The Language of Empire -- Cliff Kindy, Christian Peacemaker Teams -- Kevin Zeese, peace activist, Democracy Rising -- D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (invited) WHAT: Out of Iraq Town Meeting WHEN: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 7 WHERE: Washington, D.C....

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Israel FM and Palestinian leader have unexpected meeting in Tunisia By: Associated Press Published: November 16, 2005 Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas held unexpected talks Wednesday in Tunisia, the highest-level Israeli-Palestinian talks since June. The meeting lasted for about 30 minutes and was also attended by the president of Mauritania, said Shalom aide Lior Ben-Dor. The Abbas-Shalom meeting came a day after Israelis and Palestinians, with a strong push from the U.S. reached an elusive agreement on Gaza border crossings, a step forward after months of deadlock. Abbas said he was pleased with the agreement...

Yesteday the Democrats took the unusual move of calling for a private session of the senate to discuss the intelligence presented in the weeks before the war in Iraq. Bill Frist threw some mud, "The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership," but didn't address the issue-that to the best of our ability, we knew Saddam was working on WMD's but we didn't have absolute specifics. A committee of Dems and Republicans has been working on a follow up to the 2004 report which chronicled our intelligence efforts going back years. The second part of that report...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush and visiting Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisted US-Italy ties were strong, brushing aside tensions on a range of issues including the war in Iraq. The meeting came after Berlusconi said in a forthcoming television interview that he had repeatedly tried to dissuade Bush from going to war to oust Saddam Hussein and that "it would have been better to avoid military action." At the White House, however, Berlusconi made no mention of such misgivings and instead took pains to praise his host as they met in the Oval Office, saying: "I...

I just finished reading another amazing novel by Dean Koontz, "Cold Fire". The afterword ... is hilarious: "Then, as is often the case when life is good, someone said, 'Hey, let's make a movie!' and life got strange, dark, and scary. "By this I do not mean to imply - although I can't stop you from inferring - that a lot of movie-industry executives are as brainless, voracious, and destructive as the flesh-eating bacteria ... I've met smart, fair, creative executives over the years...although I've noticed their kind either eventually get fired," (NOTE TO SELF: KELLY GOODE!!!) ... He goes...

Meeting raises possibility that Nagin may have political future 10/30/2005, 9:58 a.m. CT By KEVIN McGILL The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — There were fewer than 300 seats and more than 500 people jammed into the hotel for a town hall meeting. It was overcrowded and under-air conditioned (nothing new in post-Katrina New Orleans), dozens of unhappy people lined up behind a single microphone and the scene appeared set for an ugly political inquisition as Mayor Ray Nagin entered the room — 30 minutes late. Nagin made an opening statement on housing, then turned it over to the audience....

TALL AFAR, Iraq, Oct. 11, 2005 — Coalition commanders and 14 headmasters of area schools met Oct. 6 to discuss and coordinate the clean-up, repair and opening of schools here. "As you look around this room, you can see that whether you are Sunni, Shiite, Turkmen or Kurd, you all agree on your children, your future," said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Christopher Gibson, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. "We hope we can leave those schools as soon as possible but we do not want to do so too early and allow the criminals...

WASHINGTON, DC. (Army News Service, Oct. 5, 2005) – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker delivered the keynote address Tuesday at the Association of the United States Army’s luncheon at the Washington Convention Center. The chief told the full house, the war on terror would not be a short one. “It will be a long war because of the insidious nature of the threat,” Schoomaker said. “It is not clear many grasp the scope of what we have done.” Chief cites accomplishments He went on to cite some of the Army’s major accomplishments in the four-year old conflict. “For...

MEXICALI – The whole menu of hot-button California immigration issues intruded yesterday on a long-awaited meeting between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Baja California counterpart. Schwarzenegger and Baja California Gov. Eugenio Elorduy discussed cross-border cooperation on transportation, trade, education, environmental issues and immigration during a two-hour private meeting in the state government headquarters here. The two issued a joint statement with immigration couched in delicate diplomatic language: "Undocumented immigration is perhaps one of the most challenging and controversial issues that we face, but that does not mean that workable solutions cannot be found. Our dialogue with respect to this issue...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, SC (Sept. 2, 2005) -- Three Native American representatives from three different tribes visited Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Aug. 25-26. Richard Allen of the Cherokee Nation, Emman Spain of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and Tim Thompson of the Muscogee Creek Nation, visited the Lowcountry for a meeting with the Natural Resources Environmental Office and also took a tour of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122. Every year Native Americans who have interest in the Air Station’s land visit Fightertown to review projects and agendas, according to John Luce, the natural and cultural resources manager...

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict has had a meeting with Oriana Fallaci, the Italian author of best-selling books that criticise Islam, local media reported on Tuesday. Italian news agency Ansa quoted Vatican sources as saying the private meeting took place on Saturday at the Pope's summer residence in Castelgandolfo, near Rome. The Vatican was not immediately available to comment, but one official, who declined to give his name, said such a meeting had been under discussion for a long time. Fallaci lives in New York and has regularly provoked the wrath of Muslims with her outspoken criticism of Islam and...

Pope to meet traditionalist leader Vatican, Aug. 23 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) will meet with Bishop Bernard Fellay, the superior-general of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), on August 29, to discuss the prospects for reconciliation between the Vatican and the schismatic group. Although the Vatican has not yet confirmed plans for the meeting, officials of the Roman Curia have unofficially acknowledged the accuracy of reports within the SSPX about the coming meeting. According to those reports, Bishop Fellay will meet with the Pontiff and with Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos (bio - news), the...

CONSTITUTION PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO MEET IN COLUMBUS, OHIO The Fall 2005 National Committee meeting of the Constitution Party will be held September 16 and 17 in Columbus, Ohio. Please watch this space for details on registration and the meeting agenda. On Friday, September 16 the the business meeting of the National Committee will be held. That evening there will be an awards banquet. The meeting will reconvene on Saturday morning, September 17th. The National Committee meeting's official business will end with lunch on Saturday, followed by Howard Phillips' and The Conservative Caucus' special Constitution Day events. The weekend's activities...

U.S. border governors stay away from Mexico meeting By Eduardo Quiros Fri Jul 15, 7:08 PM ET The governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger (C) holds his hand to his chest as he stands between the governor of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, Enrique Martinez (L) and Jose Natividad Gonzalez (R) the governor of Nuevo Leon, at a meeting of U.S.- Mexico border governors in the northern Mexican city of Torreon July 14, 2005. This is Schwarzenegger's first official trip to Mexico as governor of California. (Stringer/Mexico/Reuters) TORREON, Mexico (Reuters) - A meeting in Mexico to address a vicious drugs...

Subject: Midwest regional director attends Third Tobacco Summit, July 11, 2005 in Chicago > Dear Dawn: Please note the data about the event below has been e-mailed to> the Smokers Club and Forces Illinois. We would appreciate your attendance in> order to continue the fight for individual freedom of choice. We expect a> great program as you can see, with plans for coordinated followup actions to> proceed after this confab.As Chicago, today, actually considers a smoking> ban in the City Council, we know that there is a need to circle the wagons> for liberty to protect the inalienable rights...

US says no to N Korea nuclear talks in NYAgence France-Presse Washington, July 1, 2005 The State Department poured cold water on Thursday on reports that US and North Korean officials might meet outside a conference in New York to try to revive talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme. Asian diplomats had said they expected State Department officials Joseph DeTrani and Jim Foster and senior North Korean diplomat Ri Gun to discuss the nuclear issue outside a two-day academic conference opening today. But State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters that "no meetings are scheduled between US and North Korean officials...

The Far East: Some may cry "sellout," but President Bush and the leader of Vietnam had good reasons to celebrate 10 years of normal relations in the aftermath of a bitter war. And one of those reasons is China. The U.S. and Vietnam are drawing closer for the same reasons that Victor Davis Hanson, in a column that ran on this page Thursday, cited for warmer ties between the U.S. and Japan. China's Wal-Mart earnings may be a generally good thing in helping build its private sector, but they're also strengthening that regime beyond its borders. Year after year of...

N. Korea May Return to Nuke Talks in July By BURT HERMAN, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said the communist nation could return to international nuclear disarmament talks as early as July, according to a top South Korean official who met him Friday in Pyongyang. "If it is certain that the United States is respecting the North as a partner, North Korea could come to the six-party talks as early as July, but it has to be further negotiated with the United States," South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young...

No, this is not a post about the Texas Air National Guard or the how the Vietnam War continues to haunt the national political psyche but of democracy and our national interests. Bruce Kesler, a columnist for the Augusta-Free Press alerted me to the underreported fact that Phan Van Khai, the Prime Minister of Vietnam, will be visiting the United States and meeting with President Bush- a key step in an increasingly warm relationship between Washington and Hanoi. The Prime Minister does not come empty-handed but instead brings with him a jet deal for Boeing that will net the corporation...