NewsNight opened with a segement regarding RAPE.
The next two segments were about Terrorists.
The following segment was about Breast Cancer.
The next segment continues to discuss breast cancer along with smoking.
Now we are going to discuss a warm and cuddly 'doggie' subject connected with an Arctic connection and a woman competitor. Do you know how many men are competing in the Arctic Circle?
Here we go again, Candy Crowley, and the discussion of 9/11 by calling on The Freedom Tower and the new design with it's lack of security design written into it's specifications. Now, we have moved after that intro by Aaron Brown to a Oklahoma City focus. More FRIGHT NIGHT minute after minute. Ms. Bigot is back to campaigning for a victory for DeLay and 2006.
Women and their reality will never be known from this program. As I included as a note to Aaron about this program; "Let me ask you something do you think between terrorists, rape and cancer women are allowed to enjoy life at all according to NewsNight?"
"No, Aaron, according to this type of programming women are supposed to be in chronic fear for their lives."
Matty McNair at the Arctic Circle. This normally under better management would have been Segment Seven after hearing about the new airliner debut and a debate about it's controversy. This Segment Seven after hearing all about the historic arrival of Russian President Putin to the Middle East, his trip to the Western Wall and the controversy surrounding his willingness to arm Palestine and Syria as seen by Israel which is going through and upheaval of it's populous due to the government disengagement in Gaza. Etc., etc., etc.. This hour has infomed me of nothing regarding the 'real world' but only the world allowed to be seen through edited film segments. There was absolutely no live segements.
There will be another $1 coin with the image of Susan B. Anthony removed. AMAZING. I will never use the coin. Ever.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
32-year-old Rape Case Broken By DNA; Debbie Rowe Not Coached In Jackson Rebuttal Video; New Drug Herpecin Gives Hope To Breast Cancer Sufferers
Aired April 27, 2005 - 22:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Larry, think about this, if your job is catching criminals, it's fair to say that stopping the bad guys before he commits a crime is about as good as it gets. Bat a close second may be cracking a cold case. Those are the cases that often only the victim and the cops remember. 32 years ago there was a rape here in New York. 15 years later a series of rapes in Maryland. There were plenty of victims, lots of cops, but no one caught. Tonight, a man is in jail proclaiming his innocence, but facing evidence that a jury may well find persuasive: His DNA left on a victim before many of you were born.
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BROWN (voice-over): If police are right, Fletcher Worrell made his last mistake in the fall when he tried to buy a gun in Atlanta. It was a decision that may have ended a reign of terror and three decades of fear and pain.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This person put a hand over my mouth, threatened my child's life if I screamed again. I was aware that he had a weapon. I saw the weapon.
BROWN: She was raped more than 15 years ago, in Maryland. And she was not the first or the last.
DOUGLAS GANSLER, STATE ATTY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY: Every night when they went to bed, they didn't know whether a stranger was going to come in their home in the evening. Montgomery County, Maryland, is an area with almost 1 million people and a very, very low crime rate. And the event of stranger on stranger rape, particularly of the serial variety, was very rare indeed.
BROWN: A background check on Worrell in Georgia found an outstanding warrant from New York. That, too, was a rape three decades ago. The evidence preserved and tested this week.
ROBERT MORGENTHAU, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK CITY: That underwear, now 32 years old, was submitted to the forensic biology laboratory of the office of the chief medical examiner in New York for DNA testing.
BROWN: The New York district attorney says the DNA in the underwear is a match for Worrell. And that's just the beginning. New Jersey has cases, Maryland has suspicions about 16 rapes at least. When all the testing is done, dozens of rapes may be solved and one rapist may finally face justice.
MORGENTHAU: And it will send a chill through a lot of defendants to know that after 32 years you can still test for DNA. And, of course, it was corroborated. We independently got a swab and that confirmed his DNA matched the DNA in the underwear.
BROWN: This has been a real life cold case pursued by real life cops who had never come close but who had never given up either.
LT. PHILLIP RAUM, MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE: The one thing we never lost track of was the fact that we had some real innocent victims out there that did not deserve what happened to them. And that was always a motivation for me.
BROWN: A lot changes in 30 years. People change. Maybe the suspect has changed, too. Maybe he's innocent. His lawyer says he is. What hasn't changed, though, is the memory and the fear, though maybe now it will.
GANSLER: And it gives us great solace as prosecutors in the law enforcement community, but particularly the victims. Victims who thought these cases would remain, unsolved forever, are now being solved each and every day throughout the country.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The anniversary of my rape is two days away. And this time of year, this memory always comes back to the surface. And I'm glad this year it's going to be a good memory. And from this spring forward, it will be a good memory.
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BROWN: On now to another unsolved crime that has long stumped investigators, a crime that's still unfolding in front of their eyes somewhere in cyberspace. Hundreds of photographs of a young girl being sexually abused document the crime. But who she is and where she is remain a mystery. Leads are scarce. Years have gone by. And now investigators are hoping the picture of another young girl can provide the break they need. Reporting the story for us tonight, CNN's David Mattingly.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Her face remains hidden to the public, but she is well known to child porn investigators around the world who are desperately trying to find her in ways they've never dared before.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are releasing the photograph of the material witness in hope that if a citizen can identify her, it will greatly increase the chances of successfully identifying the perpetrator and recovering the victim.
MATTINGLY: Orlando police now take the extraordinary step of going public with a child they believe is a material witness in the case. About 9-years-old in this picture when it was taken a couple of years ago, investigators have no evidence she is a victim or witnessed any acts of abuse, but they believe she is sitting on the same couch, in the same room where this highly sought after girl was photographed being sexually abused. A tip line has been set up in Central Florida to take calls from anywhere. 1-866-635-HELP. Find the girl on the couch, investigators hope, and they will find their victim.
DET. SGT. PAUL GILLESPIE, TORONTO POLICE: I'm confident that the victim perhaps knows this person and this witness might be able to help us out with that.
MATTINGLY: On the trail of this case for years, Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Police Child Exploitation Unit has been hampered, he says, by secrecy. It has been the rule in law enforcement to never reveal the faces of child pornography victims out of fear that it could place the child in danger from the abuser. But according to Gillespie, it's a rule, he says, that needs to be changed.
GILLESPIE: I think we have to take into account that we have to start taking, perhaps, a little more aggressive measures to get in and break this cycle.
MATTINGLY: Using computers earlier this year, Toronto detectives removed the victim girl from her own pictures and re-created the rooms behind her. Pictures they could then show to the public. And it paid off, someone recognized a bed spread from an Orlando resort. It was an unheard of break, but the hotel records with thousands of names didn't take them very far.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think those records are going to prove valuable from an historical standpoint, but at this point, we have no idea who we're looking for. So one name means nothing more than the next at this point.
MATTINGLY: Investigators believe this potential witness photograph is their last, best hope. Years spent scouring more than 200 photographs of the unknown victim have yielded few usable clues. If this girl's photograph doesn't help find their victim, more extreme measure, they say, may be taken. (on camera): How close are you to releasing this girl's picture?
GILLESPIE: Oh, that's always going to be an option to be quite honest with you.
MATTINGLY: If that comes to pass, it would be a landmark step in the fight against child pornography. But for now, investigators in two countries wait, hoping the next phone call brings the break they've been looking for. David Mattingly, CNN, Orlando, Florida.
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BROWN: Now a central figure not just in al Qaeda, but also in the fight against al Qaeda: Ahmed Rassam. He's been in federal custody since 1999, the end of the year, the so-called Millennium Bomber. For a good portion of that time, he has been talking to prosecutors and the FBI. Because he may yet have more to say, and may need a little extra incentive for saying it, a federal judge in Seattle today put off sentencing at least until July. Mr. Rassam was caught trying to enter the country from Western Washington with a car load of explosives and a plan to set them off at Los Angeles International Airport. In a moment, a bit of what he's been telling the feds. First, though, the fed who caught him. Here's CNN's Rusty Dornin.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello there. Where do you folks live?
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Every day, every car met with the same question, the same sweet smile. On December 14, 1999 began just like that for customs agent Diana Dean -- just another car on another day. The ferry had just arrived in Port Angeles, Washington. This car was the last off the boat. The driver picked Dean's line. She was the only woman on duty that day. He said his name was Benni Norris from Montreal headed to Seattle on business. Dean vividly remembers her reaction. (on camera): What made you so suspicious about him?
DIANA DEAN, U.S. CUSTOMS AGENT (RET): The answers he gave me -- or the answers he didn't give me to my questions. His itinerary didn't make any sense to me. And I'd only asked him a couple questions when he started getting very, very nervous.
DORNIN (voice-over): She asked him to fill out a customs declaration and told him he would have to do a secondary inspection. Other officers joined her and they opened the trunk. (on camera): When you saw the stuff in his trunk, did you have any idea that you were looking at an act of terrorism?
DEAN: No. Absolutely no idea at all. All that we -- we thought it was probably drugs of some kind. It was bags of white powder. And at that particular point really all we saw was the bags of white powder, because we had tunnel vision for a few minutes. And then we saw the timers and the nitroglycerin.
DORNIN (voice-over): 125 pounds of explosives, enough to kill or injure hundreds of innocent people. They later learned his target was busy, crowded Los Angeles airport. The terrorist now known as Ahmed Rassam ran but was caught a short time later.
DEAN: I hate to teen think of what might have happened if we hadn't become suspicious. Because then he would have been on his way down the road.
DORNIN: Credited with preventing a potential tragedy, in January, she and another inspector were honored. An anti-terrorism award was named after them. They were heroes. But Dean brushes off the hero moniker and said she just followed her instincts and her training.
DEAN: He looked like he wasn't telling the truth. We had no idea that we would find a bomb. And we just stopped a person that looked suspicious.
DORNIN: Now retired a grandmother and living in North Dakota, Dean came back for what she called the final chapter: the sentencing of Ahmed Rassam.Now that the chapter has been continued, she says she'll be back again.Rusty Dornin, CNN, Seattle, Washington.
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BROWN: And there are chapters to be written, as well, on Mr. Rassam. That's the hope over the next three months at least. Josh Meyer has been reporting this end of the story for the "Los Angeles Times," where he writes about terrorism, and we spoke with him a short time ago.
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BROWN: Josh, do we know -- do we have clues, suspicions -- as to why this sentencing was postponed?
JOSH MEYER, LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER: Well, I think the judge, after hearing arguments for three-and-a-half hours from one side and the other, decided that nothing can really be lost by delaying it by three months. He wants to give Rassam a chance to really think about what he's doing and consider participating more in the investigations and cooperating more, especially against -- in the prosecutions of two al Qaeda associates of his who are coming to the United States for trial.
BROWN: Nobody disputes that he has been talking. The question, I guess, came down to -- at some point he stopped talking, has been less cooperative. What do we know about why or what do we think about why?
MEYER: Well, it depends on who you ask. If you ask the FBI and the prosecutors, he's a disingenuous terrorist who decided to try to work the system and get a better deal for himself, and then once he got that, then he would stop talking. The pro -- I'm sorry, the defense side of it has an entirely different story. They say that the FBI just really squeezed him too much, and forced him to talk too much -- kept him in solitary confinement -- and reneged on his deal to lower his sentence and that Rassam feels slighted by that and feels there's no hope in continuing that effort and he's just, basically, refused to play along with it. So, the judge is trying to see through that and see what the real story is.
BROWN: Maybe we should have started here, but, his importance in all this -- in our understanding of al Qaeda, in our understanding of what we now call the war on terror -- because he predates all of that in many respects.
MEYER: Right.
BROWN: His importance is, what?
MEYER: Well, you know, I just read many, many court documents in this -- after four years of them not saying anything about the case at all, they've now, you know, sort of released a flurry of documents. His importance is that he sort of shows that, even in the camps in Afghanistan, there's no such thing as al Qaeda central. It was basically an agglomeration, as it were, of smaller terrorism groups. His was a group of north African group of Algerians based in Europe, mostly, who united under the banner of al Qaeda. So, he sort of can show how it's smaller groups all put together into one larger umbrella of al Qaeda.
BROWN: And, in specific cases, he was helpful, at least, in some, including the Richard Reid (ph) case. Is that right?
BROWN: Absolutely right. He's sort of helpful in what they call trade-crafted terrorism. He went through the camps for nine months, in three separate camps they're now saying. We had thought it was two. So, he's told the authorities, on many occasions, how they construct their explosives, how they engage in guerrilla warfare, conduct assassinations, do chemical bombs. In the Reid case, he showed authorities how they can make paper explosives and detonators that you can sneak aboard an aircraft like Reid did and then detonate them, and apparently he saved the lives, or could have, of several FBI agents who were tinkering with Reid's sneakers which contained those explosives and they didn't know it.
BROWN: He's -- would you describe him as low-level, midlevel? He's certainly not Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (ph)?
MEYER: No, he's a soldier, actually. Well, he rose in prominence in the Canadian -- in the Montreal cell of this Algerian group. But in the beginning he was what the FBI calls a mope. He was just a low level functionary who, like many, other people, went to Afghanistan. They saw some talent there, so they promoted him from one of the general camps to a bigger camp, a more senior camp, and then from then on he met with Abu Zubaydah (ph) who is one of the senior al Qaeda people, and Zubaydah basically gave him orders to go back to Canada, set up a cell and attack the United States.
BROWN: Let me ask you one, last -- one of those horrible questions. If you actually did get a chance to sit down and talk to him -- you've written a lot about him, you've spent a lot of time thinking about him -- what do you want to know from him?
MEYER: Oh, that is a good question. I'd ask him why he -- I mean, I think he's articulated why he did it. He thought that he -- he hated America, wanted to get back at them, and I wonder if he really is serious about turning around and rehabilitating himself. I mean, there's some very interesting arguments by the defense as to why he did that. He's very proud and he's now trying to regain his sense of pride and sense of self by cooperating. I would ask him, you know, why are you all of a sudden deciding to cooperate -- or excuse me, why did you decide to cooperate when you did four years ago.
BROWN: All right, Josh, you've done nice work on this. We appreciate your time tonight. We know you've been under deadline. Thank you.
MEYER: Thanks, Aaron.
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BROWN: Josh Meyer writes about terrorism for the "Los Angeles Times." Coming up, a potential breakthrough in treating breast cancer. First, at a quarter past the hour, "On the Money" tonight, Erica. Erica Hill joins us from Atlanta.
ERICA HILL, HEADLINES NEWS: Hi, Aaron. Good to see you, and good evening, everyone.
A setback tonight for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, his colleagues voting overwhelmingly to rescind a controversial ethics rule. That rule made it tougher to investigate alleged wrong-doings. Many Democrats and a number of Republicans had complained the rule was put in place specifically to protect Congressman DeLay.
Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe testified today in the singer's molestation trial. Rowe was married to Jackson from '96 to '99. She's the mother of two of his children. Today Rowe said she never shared a home with the singer, and also said Jackson asked her to make a video to rebut a damaging TV expose of his life.
The president briefly took shelter today in a bunker beneath the White House. Radar had shown some kind of aircraft inside the White House no-fly zone. It turned out to be a false alarm and the president quickly returned to the Oval Office. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged Congress to approve more money quickly so the army could keep operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rumsfeld says the army has already stretched every dollar to keep operations going through May when the money will run out.
In Tel Aviv, Israel, history in the making: tonight Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first Kremlin leader to visit the Jewish state. During the Cold War, Israel was a bitter enemy of Moscow, but the relationship has improved since the fall of the Soviet Union. And the world's biggest airliner struts its stuff in a maiden flight.
The Airbus A-380 made a four-hour flight today in southwestern France. The double decker is designed to hold 555 passengers in its basic configuration, but can actually accommodate up to 800. This is Europe's answer to the U.S.-built Boeing 787.
Now, Aaron, they just need a few more airports to agree to build the runways to accommodate it.
BROWN: A lot of middle seats, if you think about it.
HILL: Yes, a few too many for my liking.
BROWN: Yep, pretty much so. Thank you Erica, we'll see you in half an hour. More to come in the hour ahead, starting with a rare commodity for people with cancer: honest to goodness hope.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I had only been married for about a year and a half, and I felt like my world was falling down around me.
BROWN: After facing the kind of cancer that comes back and kills, she's cancer free today and she's not the only one, thanks to what could be a true breakthrough.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Targeted therapies, which we've talked a lot about for the last couple of years, are really coming to fruition.
BROWN: Also tonight, making buildings safe from terrorist attack, without turning them into armed fortresses. And, going back to the future by retracing a pioneering run up north a ways.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I like cold. I like to be cold. Don't get me confused there. But I love the cold. I love the arctic. I love the light.
BROWN: Down south, there's gold in them thar dogs. Planet Dog is on the rise, and so are we, because this is NEWSNIGHT.
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BROWN: In the war against cancer, the goal of late is to find stealth drugs that zero in on specific targets. The breast cancer drug Herceptin is one such drug. It's already used to treat women with an especially aggressive type of breast cancer whose cancer has spread. Now two trials shows it works in the early stages of that same aggressive cancer form. The evidence was so strong, the trials ended early. Here's medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.
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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She found the lump herself one morning.
ELIZABETH RUSSO, HERCEPTIN PATIENT: I was petrified.
COHEN: Then her doctor confirmed the worst.
RUSSO: I had only been married for about a year and a half. And I felt like my world was falling down around me. You know, the first question that goes through your head is, am I going to die? And that's really what I was thinking at the time. It was extremely frightening.
COHEN: At age 29, Elizabeth Russo had breast cancer, and there was more. Doctors told her she had a particular kind that grew quickly and was more likely to come back. This happens to one out of every four patients. But there was a twist. Because she had this particular type of tumor, she was a candidate for a study on a drug called Herceptin. Doctors knew it worked when the cancer had spread to other parts of the body, but they weren't sure if it could help women like Elizabeth who were at the early stages. At first, she wasn't sure what to do because the drug, in a small number of women, had caused heart failure.
RUSSO: There was a little bit of fear there, but obviously, in my situation, the chances absolutely outweighed the frighteningness of the whole situation. I mean, I had to take the risk because there was still the chance that I could die.
COHEN: She took Herceptin along with chemotherapy and radiation, and a year after finding that lump, she's cancer free. In the studies at the National Cancer Institute, when women did not take Herceptin, 30 percent of them had the cancer come back. When they did take Herceptin, only 15 percent had the cancer come back. It cut the recurrence rate in half. An extraordinary impact, experts say, meaning this drug is one of the most promising in a new generation of cancer treatments. Unlike chemotherapy or radiation which attack healthy and unhealthy tissue, medicines like Herceptin are designed to attack only the specific protein that causes problems.
DR. DAVID JOHNSON, VANDERBILT CANCER INSTITUTION: Targeted therapies which we've talked a lot about for the last couple of years, are really coming to fruition.
COHEN: Now Elizabeth Russo once afraid she would die, is alive for the big moments like her godson's christening last month. The cancer could come back, but now it seems that's less likely. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN reporting.
(END VIDEOTAPE)BROWN: Doctors can seldom explain why one woman gets breast cancer and another does not. No one knows exactly what causes the disease in the first place. A recent study out in California however, gives women and their loved ones who smoke some reason for concern. Here's CNN's Thelma Gutierrez.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, fish.
THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pat Grannis never smoked a cigarette in her life, but all the smoke she breathed might have come back to haunt her.
PAT GRANNIS, BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR: Whenever you hear the word cancer, it likea death sentence, so it's really horribly frightening.
GUTIERREZ: Frightening because Pat was diagnosed with breast cancer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the size of the tumor.
GUTIERREZ: That discovery threw pat's life into a tailspin.
PAT GRANNIES: When you're alone someplace or at night, you wake up in the middle of the night, you think about, you know, your body has really turned against you. What could be happening? If this happened to me, what else could be happening. What else could go wrong?
GUTIERREZ: According to a recent report by a California state environmental advisory group, secondhand smoke may be linked to breast cancer. For Pat, perhaps the most painful realization is that her exposure to secondhand smoke came from the people she loved the most.
PAT GRANNIS: My dad was really the only one who smoked. And you know, he smoked all his life that I remember, anyway. And he died of emphysema. He was about 77. I grew up with a smoking father and went to a smoking husband. So there was smoke in my life for all those years.
GUTIERREZ: All those years, more than 30 that Pat breathed in smoke. First from her father...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They do a beautiful job on the garden.
GUTIERREZ: ... then her husband Fred.
FRED GRANNIS, HUSBAND: I feel very bad that I didn't have better judgment at that time to not smoke.
GUTIERREZ: Pat's husband is a surgeon, a lung cancer specialist who began to smoke at the age of 10.
FRED GRANNIS: Both of my parents smoked. There were always packs of Camels open around the house.
GUTIERREZ: For years he was smoking a pack a day around his wife and four children, two of whom have asthma.
FRED GRANNIS: I would obviously like to think that the study wasn't accurate, and that would let me off the hook. But I think that after reading the study carefully, the evidence that's presented in this study is very compelling.
PAT GRANNIS: He has quite bad asthma.
GUTIERREZ: Grannis stopped smoking years ago but says he'll always regret it.
FRED GRANNIS: I have worries about it, both whether I contributed to my wife's breast cancer and more that I have four children that I also exposed to tobacco smoke when I was younger and stupider and addicted to nicotine.
PAT GRANNIS: There's no reason for any feeling of guilt or anything. I mean, we didn't know about it. So I mean, we were just doing in those days what you did in the '50s and '60s.
GUTIERREZ: Pat's doctor says it's too early to make the connection between breast cancer and secondhand smoke.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel badly if we're now even blaming somebody else or yourself for remaining in this situation or blaming somebody else for having placed you in that situation.
GUTIERREZ: Pat went through radiation treatment and is cancer free for now.
PAT GRANNIS: If there's any risk, any risk at all that secondhand smoke is causing breast cancer, it's a cigarette? What's the point? It's only a cigarette.
GUTIERREZ: As a doctor husband and father, Fred believes he learned the hard way. And hopes that others will stop smoking in front of families. Thelma Gutierrez, Los Angeles.
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BROWN: In a moment, can a building keep you safe from terrorism and also be beautiful, even memorable? It's a question being asked and answered all across the country. And later tonight, they were miles away from the finish and moments away from danger. They were also about to make history. From the South Pole to North and around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.
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BROWN: It hasn't been easy building a new skyscraper on the site of the World Trade Center, not even on paper. Another round of design changes for the Freedom Tower got under way this week to address concerns about security, which immediately raised another concern: reconciling place and space and beauty and cost with something else. It is a conversation that began, not here in New York City, but elsewhere, and not after 9/11, before. Reporting tonight from Oklahoma City, here's CNN's Candy Crowley.
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CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: From the chairs that memorialized those who died here, you can see what was built for the living.
CAROL ROSS BARNEY, ARCHITECT: From the very beginning, this was a commitment building. It meant that things weren't -- they'll change, but they'll change for the better, that they were going to be back in Oklahoma City...
CROWLEY: When Carol Ross-Barney started out as an architect, security was door locks. When she won the contract to design the new federal building in Oklahoma City, she faced the raw emotions of a deeply wounded city and new challenges to build buildings against the threat of the unknowable: secure, but open, a friendly fortress.
ED FEINER, CHIEF ARCHITECT: The goal was, that we are a brave society, that we stand by our principles of freedom and access. This is democracy and these buildings must be open to their owners, who are the American people.
CROWLEY: The Oklahoma City bombing left a legacy of new regulations for all federal buildings coast to coast: setbacks at least 20, preferably 100 feet from the street; barriers to keep vehicles from ramming the building; shatter proof windows; a building that could withstand a major hit. An estimated 80 percent of those killed in Oklahoma City survived the blast. They died when the building collapsed.
ROSS BARNEY: They wanted to be able to design buildings where you would be able to remove one major structural member without causing the building to fail. So, that's pretty hard to do. The way to think about it is trying to design a three-legged table.
CROWLEY: She wanted to build for and into the future. She wanted a structure about the totality of Oklahoma, not a single moment.
ROSS BARNEY: I thought that if I concentrated only on the bombing or only on a piece of it, that it wouldn't be as lasting. It wouldn't be as complete.
CROWLEY: She wanted -- Oklahoma City wanted -- a living, breathing, working office building that incorporated the lessons of tragedy without being about tragedy. When you were designing this building, did you say to yourself, you know what I'd love to do, but I can't do that because that would...
ROSS BARNEY: No, actually, we did the opposite. We'd say, you know what we'd love to do? How can we do that and still meet the security requirements?
CROWLEY: On three sides of the building, the reinforced walls are unforgiving concrete made with Oklahoma rocks.
ROSS BARNEY: The stone is integral in the wall. It is part of the wall. It is not applied to the wall.
CROWLEY: So, it doesn't come shooting out, essentially.
ROSS BARNEY: Right. Yes. So, it is not fastened to the wall, it is part of the wall.
CROWLEY: Part of the court yard is a babbling stream filled with boulders from a nearby buffalo ranch.
ROSS BARNEY: You can see our eating area out there. That's inside security. So, in a way, this is a modern moat, but it's beautiful.
CROWLEY: And since aluminum sun screens can turn into shrapnel, these are made of awning-like fabric which would shred, and everywhere, there is light, windows, glass.
ROSS BARNEY: You'd think that you couldn't do a building with this much glass, but you can. It's very special glass. All the injuries happened from flying glass, from the blast impact, so this window is designed so that it will break like your car window, rather than traditional glass, into little pieces.
CROWLEY: From the southeast corner of the new federal building, you can see the monument grounds where the Murrah building once stood. The offices belonged to Housing and Urban Development, the department that lost the most that day in April of 1995.
ROSS BARNEY: The second floor space here is HUD, and they were just -- oh, my God, they had a committee of survivors that were just terrified about coming back here. That's their training room, and they put it there. And so we said, well, aren't you worried about having training and having to look at the memorial? They said, oh yes, we need blinds. They never close the blinds either. So, I think that's good. If a building can heal -- help heal people, that's good.
CROWLEY: Candy Crowley, CNN, Oklahoma city.
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BROWN: There's often no better way of getting someone to do something than telling them it can't be done. There are, of course, exceptions, having mostly to do with cleaning rooms and mowing lawns. And there are variations. In this case, redoing the impossible because someone said it could not possibly have been done the first time around. Here's CNN's Matthew Chance.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thirty-seven grueling days across the Arctic pack ice, pulled by dogs and determination, to reach the North Pole. On a shaky satellite link, explorer Matty McNair told me the team feels very much on top of the world.
MATTY MCNAIR, EXPLORER: We're very excited. We still are very disbelieving that we're actually here. We don't actually have to get up and go for another 24 hours, nonstop. It's just -- it's like, we're here. We made it! It's hard to believe.
CHANCE: It was American explorer, Robert E. Peary (ph) who first reached the North Pole in 1909. His claim, to have done it in just 37 days, was debated for years. Matty McNair's expedition took the same route and used similar antiquated equipment to prove the U.S. naval officer could have done what he said he had.
MCNAIR: My read on the man was, he didn't have a lot of charisma. He wasn't somebody that people wanted to believe in, and therefore, it was easy to be critical of him. And I think they've been very unfair to him, and I think people that have been against him have no experience with dogs or the Arctic. And so yes, it's been great to follow his route, and say, yes, it is possible.
CHANCE: The team flew to Cape Columbia, where Peary's 1909 expedition started out, traveling 420 nautical miles to the pole. Along the way, she says, they rediscovered an old camp used by the Peary team.
MCNAIR: We found parts of old sled runners and lots of wire and parts of sleds and boards, and metal pans, probably a fuel tent. So that was really exciting, to find that stuff. We did that by taking a photograph and walking until the hills lined up with the photograph and said, oh, this must be where he had his camp, right here.
CHANCE: And, for McNair, herself a 53-year-old grandmother, it was another adventure in the kind of hostile climate she says she loves the most.
MCNAIR: I like cold. I don't like to be cold. Don't get me confused there. But I love the cold. I love the arctic. I love the light. It's like being on a different planet. There's a very softness to the light.
CHANCE: A softness in an extreme place visited by none but a determined few. Matthew Chance, CNN, London.
(END VIDEOTAPE)BROWN: Still to come tonight, that moment when it seemed there was nothing sacred anymore, a moment in Berlin. How things have changed since then. And, before the rooster, tonight, comes the dog: a business built on chew toys, and it is on the rise. From the statehouse to the -- well, doghouse, and all around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.
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BROWN: In business, a dog of an idea is rarely a good idea -- rarely but not never. Not when you consider the billions we spend on our pets every year. Which brings us to Planet Dog, a company on the rise.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on.
ALEX FISHER, CO-FOUNDER, PLANET DOG: This year, we expect that the pet industry will be close to $34 billion large.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get that. Good dog.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seer was one of two dogs that inspired us to start Planet Dog seven years ago.
FISHER: We wanted to sort of encapsulate what we thought was special about Ben & Jerry's and Patagonia, pick it up and drop it right in the pet industry. Here we are at the Planet Dog warehouse, we call it the doghouse. Come on in.Our most popular product is a version of the orby ball. This ball happens to glow in the dark. They also come in a whole bunch of different colors and sizes. Now with the same material, we're making bones, all types of sizes. We even have them for the real little guys. This is the compound year using to make our famous orby balls. The great thing about this material is that it can be recycled very easily. So, with any leftovers that we use, we make this product, we regrind it, we shoot it and make another ball from it. What makes these so special is the durability factor. These things are designed with dog's teeth in mind. Not only are they really durable, they float, they bounce, they're peppermint scented and they can glow in the dark. And dogs just love them.Now, go get them guys!
STEW MALONEY, CO-FOUNDER, PLANET DOG: It's great to have a dog on hand. When you get a prototype, give it to your dog or a series of dogs and say, let's see what you can do with that. FISHER: This is product testing at its best. Good dog, good dog.
MALONEY: Here we are at our first planet dog company store what did you see when you were there How old? I think you want a bigger one.Our company store is in Portland, Maine. It's intended to be a place were we can speak directly to the consumer, get a great idea of how they perceive our product. This is what makes a happy dog.
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BROWN: Coming up, putting new dollars in your pocket. Sounds like a plan to me. We'll take a break first. This is NEWSNIGHT.
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BROWN: Coming up, pictures from a moment that changed our world. First, though, the news of the moment. At about a quarter to the hour, time for other headlines of the day. Erica Hill again in Atlanta -- Erica.
HILL: Hi again, Aaron.
We start off with some news just coming in to us a few hours ago. The president will hold a primetime news conference tomorrow night, we'll learning. And CNN will, of course, cover it as it happens. It starts at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time. Mr. Bush is expected to talk Social Security and energy policy. Today he called for more research into hydrogen fuels, building refineries on abandoned military bases and a return to nuclear power. Our dependence on foreign energy, he said, is like a foreign tax on the American people.
A setback tonight for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, his colleagues voted overwhelmingly to rescind a controversial ethics rule. Now that rule made it tougher to investigate alleged wrongdoing. Many Democrats, and a number of Republicans, have complained the rule was put in place to specifically protect Congressman DeLay.
On the security watch, all international cargo coming into the Port of Oakland, California, will now be scanned for radioactive material. The goal here, to prevent a bomb from getting into the U.S. by next year. Customs officials hope more than 300 seaports in the U.S. will be using the scanners.
And finally, we're in for a dollar -- another dollar of the round variety. The government may soon give dollar coins the old try again. The House today approving a plan for presidential dollars here. The idea -- issue one coin for each president. A popular idea, because dollar coins only cost a nickel to produce. So the government makes a mint on every one. Pun intended -- Aaron.
BROWN: The lowest form of humor, Erica.
HILL: Indeed, it is.
BROWN: Thank you very much. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of all that stood between the East and the West during the height of the Cold War. As part of CNN's anniversary series "Then & Now," tonight we look back at an East German who helped bring down the wall and see where he is today.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His video of Communist East Germany crumbling, hopelessly polluted, restless, helped topple the Berlin Wall. Amateur video journalist Eric Radomski spirited his tapes to western TV which beamed them back into Eastern Germany. When the wall opens November 9, 1989, 27-year-old Radomski was among the first to walk to the west. He photographed checkpoint Charlie, a sullen, heavily fortified flash point at the end of the Cold War suddenly overrun with euphoria.
Our pictures on TV were a reason people took to the streets, he says. And they changed this land.15 years later, unemployment hovers around 20 percent in the east. Capitalism isn't so easy, he says. I try to look at it realistically, that you have to help yourself to find your place.Radomski found his, designing wall paper for homes, bars, film sets. After helping to tear down one wall, he's covering others. His life now as free as his spirit.
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BROWN: Throughout the year, we mark 25 years of broadcasting at CNN. We'll continue to look back at yesterday's newsmakers and where they are today. That was a pretty cool one, too wasn't it? Morning papers when we come back. And a reminder tomorrow at 8:30 Eastern time, the president's prime time news conference coverage here on CNN.
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BROWN: Okey-doke. Time to check morning papers from around the country and around the world.
The "International Herald Tribune" published by "The New York Times" in Paris. "First Flight is Perfect for Largest Passenger Jet," and then a picture of the Airbus A380. This is a plane that can hold up to 800 people. Think about what a pleasurable experience that's going to be. OK, 800 people.
"Stars and Stripes" -- listen, it doesn't mean you shouldn't go out and buy one of those planes. If you like the idea, go buy one, OK.
"Militants Gun Down Iraqi Lawmaker at Home. Woman is first in parliament -- is first parliament member targeted since the election. Also, I don't know how well you can make this picture out. Headline is "Enter Sandstorm, a dust storm moves across the western desert of Iraq on Tuesday." The storm spawned near the Syrian border leaving a heavy sheet of dust in its wake. Well, yes, I guess it would, wouldn't it?
That's "Stars and Stripes," so is this. How many editions do they put out? Anyway I like the story. "Dragging Down a Career, Heavy smoking military recruits are much more likely to wash out." While recruiting --"Will recruiting practices change?" Everybody it seems like when I was in the service smoked. It may have had to do with the fact that they'd charged you 10 cents a pack for cigarettes. "
The Washington Times," two that we'll mention. "House GOP" -- we'll probably a lot of good stories but two that were mentioned. "House GOP Backs off Ethics Rules," folded like a cheap suitcase on that one. "Hastert/DeLay support move to end impasse."
And then down here, this is a good story, "Life Worse for Iraqi Women, intimidation more common." I guarantee you, if this story had appeared in "The New York Times," the right wing blogs would go nuts on the "Times." But it's in the "Washington Times," so they'll probably leave it alone.
The -- and it's a good story and an important story. I'll move on now.
"The Rocky Mountain News," man, this is an ugly little moment. "They are Antichrist. Senator says he regrets using term to describe founder Dobson," that's James Dobson "and his efforts." Yes, that was intemperate.
How are we doing on time?
We out of time?
Weather tomorrow in Chicago, anemic.
We'll wrap it up quickly in a moment.
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BROWN: The president holds a prime time news conference. Our coverage begins at 8:00, the president starts at 8:30. And we'll talk about what he talked about afterwards for a while too.
Good to have you with us tonight. We'll see you tomorrow. Until then, good night for all of us.
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AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Larry, think about this, if your job is catching criminals, it's fair to say that stopping the bad guys before he commits a crime is about as good as it gets. Bat a close second may be cracking a cold case. Those are the cases that often only the victim and the cops remember. 32 years ago there was a rape here in New York. 15 years later a series of rapes in Maryland. There were plenty of victims, lots of cops, but no one caught. Tonight, a man is in jail proclaiming his innocence, but facing evidence that a jury may well find persuasive: His DNA left on a victim before many of you were born.
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BROWN (voice-over): If police are right, Fletcher Worrell made his last mistake in the fall when he tried to buy a gun in Atlanta. It was a decision that may have ended a reign of terror and three decades of fear and pain.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This person put a hand over my mouth, threatened my child's life if I screamed again. I was aware that he had a weapon. I saw the weapon.
BROWN: She was raped more than 15 years ago, in Maryland. And she was not the first or the last.
DOUGLAS GANSLER, STATE ATTY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY: Every night when they went to bed, they didn't know whether a stranger was going to come in their home in the evening. Montgomery County, Maryland, is an area with almost 1 million people and a very, very low crime rate. And the event of stranger on stranger rape, particularly of the serial variety, was very rare indeed.
BROWN: A background check on Worrell in Georgia found an outstanding warrant from New York. That, too, was a rape three decades ago. The evidence preserved and tested this week.
ROBERT MORGENTHAU, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NEW YORK CITY: That underwear, now 32 years old, was submitted to the forensic biology laboratory of the office of the chief medical examiner in New York for DNA testing.
BROWN: The New York district attorney says the DNA in the underwear is a match for Worrell. And that's just the beginning. New Jersey has cases, Maryland has suspicions about 16 rapes at least. When all the testing is done, dozens of rapes may be solved and one rapist may finally face justice.
MORGENTHAU: And it will send a chill through a lot of defendants to know that after 32 years you can still test for DNA. And, of course, it was corroborated. We independently got a swab and that confirmed his DNA matched the DNA in the underwear.
BROWN: This has been a real life cold case pursued by real life cops who had never come close but who had never given up either.
LT. PHILLIP RAUM, MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE: The one thing we never lost track of was the fact that we had some real innocent victims out there that did not deserve what happened to them. And that was always a motivation for me.
BROWN: A lot changes in 30 years. People change. Maybe the suspect has changed, too. Maybe he's innocent. His lawyer says he is. What hasn't changed, though, is the memory and the fear, though maybe now it will.
GANSLER: And it gives us great solace as prosecutors in the law enforcement community, but particularly the victims. Victims who thought these cases would remain, unsolved forever, are now being solved each and every day throughout the country.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The anniversary of my rape is two days away. And this time of year, this memory always comes back to the surface. And I'm glad this year it's going to be a good memory. And from this spring forward, it will be a good memory.
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BROWN: On now to another unsolved crime that has long stumped investigators, a crime that's still unfolding in front of their eyes somewhere in cyberspace. Hundreds of photographs of a young girl being sexually abused document the crime. But who she is and where she is remain a mystery. Leads are scarce. Years have gone by. And now investigators are hoping the picture of another young girl can provide the break they need. Reporting the story for us tonight, CNN's David Mattingly.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Her face remains hidden to the public, but she is well known to child porn investigators around the world who are desperately trying to find her in ways they've never dared before.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are releasing the photograph of the material witness in hope that if a citizen can identify her, it will greatly increase the chances of successfully identifying the perpetrator and recovering the victim.
MATTINGLY: Orlando police now take the extraordinary step of going public with a child they believe is a material witness in the case. About 9-years-old in this picture when it was taken a couple of years ago, investigators have no evidence she is a victim or witnessed any acts of abuse, but they believe she is sitting on the same couch, in the same room where this highly sought after girl was photographed being sexually abused. A tip line has been set up in Central Florida to take calls from anywhere. 1-866-635-HELP. Find the girl on the couch, investigators hope, and they will find their victim.
DET. SGT. PAUL GILLESPIE, TORONTO POLICE: I'm confident that the victim perhaps knows this person and this witness might be able to help us out with that.
MATTINGLY: On the trail of this case for years, Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Police Child Exploitation Unit has been hampered, he says, by secrecy. It has been the rule in law enforcement to never reveal the faces of child pornography victims out of fear that it could place the child in danger from the abuser. But according to Gillespie, it's a rule, he says, that needs to be changed.
GILLESPIE: I think we have to take into account that we have to start taking, perhaps, a little more aggressive measures to get in and break this cycle.
MATTINGLY: Using computers earlier this year, Toronto detectives removed the victim girl from her own pictures and re-created the rooms behind her. Pictures they could then show to the public. And it paid off, someone recognized a bed spread from an Orlando resort. It was an unheard of break, but the hotel records with thousands of names didn't take them very far.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think those records are going to prove valuable from an historical standpoint, but at this point, we have no idea who we're looking for. So one name means nothing more than the next at this point.
MATTINGLY: Investigators believe this potential witness photograph is their last, best hope. Years spent scouring more than 200 photographs of the unknown victim have yielded few usable clues. If this girl's photograph doesn't help find their victim, more extreme measure, they say, may be taken. (on camera): How close are you to releasing this girl's picture?
GILLESPIE: Oh, that's always going to be an option to be quite honest with you.
MATTINGLY: If that comes to pass, it would be a landmark step in the fight against child pornography. But for now, investigators in two countries wait, hoping the next phone call brings the break they've been looking for. David Mattingly, CNN, Orlando, Florida.
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BROWN: Now a central figure not just in al Qaeda, but also in the fight against al Qaeda: Ahmed Rassam. He's been in federal custody since 1999, the end of the year, the so-called Millennium Bomber. For a good portion of that time, he has been talking to prosecutors and the FBI. Because he may yet have more to say, and may need a little extra incentive for saying it, a federal judge in Seattle today put off sentencing at least until July. Mr. Rassam was caught trying to enter the country from Western Washington with a car load of explosives and a plan to set them off at Los Angeles International Airport. In a moment, a bit of what he's been telling the feds. First, though, the fed who caught him. Here's CNN's Rusty Dornin.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello there. Where do you folks live?
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Every day, every car met with the same question, the same sweet smile. On December 14, 1999 began just like that for customs agent Diana Dean -- just another car on another day. The ferry had just arrived in Port Angeles, Washington. This car was the last off the boat. The driver picked Dean's line. She was the only woman on duty that day. He said his name was Benni Norris from Montreal headed to Seattle on business. Dean vividly remembers her reaction. (on camera): What made you so suspicious about him?
DIANA DEAN, U.S. CUSTOMS AGENT (RET): The answers he gave me -- or the answers he didn't give me to my questions. His itinerary didn't make any sense to me. And I'd only asked him a couple questions when he started getting very, very nervous.
DORNIN (voice-over): She asked him to fill out a customs declaration and told him he would have to do a secondary inspection. Other officers joined her and they opened the trunk. (on camera): When you saw the stuff in his trunk, did you have any idea that you were looking at an act of terrorism?
DEAN: No. Absolutely no idea at all. All that we -- we thought it was probably drugs of some kind. It was bags of white powder. And at that particular point really all we saw was the bags of white powder, because we had tunnel vision for a few minutes. And then we saw the timers and the nitroglycerin.
DORNIN (voice-over): 125 pounds of explosives, enough to kill or injure hundreds of innocent people. They later learned his target was busy, crowded Los Angeles airport. The terrorist now known as Ahmed Rassam ran but was caught a short time later.
DEAN: I hate to teen think of what might have happened if we hadn't become suspicious. Because then he would have been on his way down the road.
DORNIN: Credited with preventing a potential tragedy, in January, she and another inspector were honored. An anti-terrorism award was named after them. They were heroes. But Dean brushes off the hero moniker and said she just followed her instincts and her training.
DEAN: He looked like he wasn't telling the truth. We had no idea that we would find a bomb. And we just stopped a person that looked suspicious.
DORNIN: Now retired a grandmother and living in North Dakota, Dean came back for what she called the final chapter: the sentencing of Ahmed Rassam.Now that the chapter has been continued, she says she'll be back again.Rusty Dornin, CNN, Seattle, Washington.
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BROWN: And there are chapters to be written, as well, on Mr. Rassam. That's the hope over the next three months at least. Josh Meyer has been reporting this end of the story for the "Los Angeles Times," where he writes about terrorism, and we spoke with him a short time ago.
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BROWN: Josh, do we know -- do we have clues, suspicions -- as to why this sentencing was postponed?
JOSH MEYER, LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER: Well, I think the judge, after hearing arguments for three-and-a-half hours from one side and the other, decided that nothing can really be lost by delaying it by three months. He wants to give Rassam a chance to really think about what he's doing and consider participating more in the investigations and cooperating more, especially against -- in the prosecutions of two al Qaeda associates of his who are coming to the United States for trial.
BROWN: Nobody disputes that he has been talking. The question, I guess, came down to -- at some point he stopped talking, has been less cooperative. What do we know about why or what do we think about why?
MEYER: Well, it depends on who you ask. If you ask the FBI and the prosecutors, he's a disingenuous terrorist who decided to try to work the system and get a better deal for himself, and then once he got that, then he would stop talking. The pro -- I'm sorry, the defense side of it has an entirely different story. They say that the FBI just really squeezed him too much, and forced him to talk too much -- kept him in solitary confinement -- and reneged on his deal to lower his sentence and that Rassam feels slighted by that and feels there's no hope in continuing that effort and he's just, basically, refused to play along with it. So, the judge is trying to see through that and see what the real story is.
BROWN: Maybe we should have started here, but, his importance in all this -- in our understanding of al Qaeda, in our understanding of what we now call the war on terror -- because he predates all of that in many respects.
MEYER: Right.
BROWN: His importance is, what?
MEYER: Well, you know, I just read many, many court documents in this -- after four years of them not saying anything about the case at all, they've now, you know, sort of released a flurry of documents. His importance is that he sort of shows that, even in the camps in Afghanistan, there's no such thing as al Qaeda central. It was basically an agglomeration, as it were, of smaller terrorism groups. His was a group of north African group of Algerians based in Europe, mostly, who united under the banner of al Qaeda. So, he sort of can show how it's smaller groups all put together into one larger umbrella of al Qaeda.
BROWN: And, in specific cases, he was helpful, at least, in some, including the Richard Reid (ph) case. Is that right?
BROWN: Absolutely right. He's sort of helpful in what they call trade-crafted terrorism. He went through the camps for nine months, in three separate camps they're now saying. We had thought it was two. So, he's told the authorities, on many occasions, how they construct their explosives, how they engage in guerrilla warfare, conduct assassinations, do chemical bombs. In the Reid case, he showed authorities how they can make paper explosives and detonators that you can sneak aboard an aircraft like Reid did and then detonate them, and apparently he saved the lives, or could have, of several FBI agents who were tinkering with Reid's sneakers which contained those explosives and they didn't know it.
BROWN: He's -- would you describe him as low-level, midlevel? He's certainly not Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (ph)?
MEYER: No, he's a soldier, actually. Well, he rose in prominence in the Canadian -- in the Montreal cell of this Algerian group. But in the beginning he was what the FBI calls a mope. He was just a low level functionary who, like many, other people, went to Afghanistan. They saw some talent there, so they promoted him from one of the general camps to a bigger camp, a more senior camp, and then from then on he met with Abu Zubaydah (ph) who is one of the senior al Qaeda people, and Zubaydah basically gave him orders to go back to Canada, set up a cell and attack the United States.
BROWN: Let me ask you one, last -- one of those horrible questions. If you actually did get a chance to sit down and talk to him -- you've written a lot about him, you've spent a lot of time thinking about him -- what do you want to know from him?
MEYER: Oh, that is a good question. I'd ask him why he -- I mean, I think he's articulated why he did it. He thought that he -- he hated America, wanted to get back at them, and I wonder if he really is serious about turning around and rehabilitating himself. I mean, there's some very interesting arguments by the defense as to why he did that. He's very proud and he's now trying to regain his sense of pride and sense of self by cooperating. I would ask him, you know, why are you all of a sudden deciding to cooperate -- or excuse me, why did you decide to cooperate when you did four years ago.
BROWN: All right, Josh, you've done nice work on this. We appreciate your time tonight. We know you've been under deadline. Thank you.
MEYER: Thanks, Aaron.
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BROWN: Josh Meyer writes about terrorism for the "Los Angeles Times." Coming up, a potential breakthrough in treating breast cancer. First, at a quarter past the hour, "On the Money" tonight, Erica. Erica Hill joins us from Atlanta.
ERICA HILL, HEADLINES NEWS: Hi, Aaron. Good to see you, and good evening, everyone.
A setback tonight for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, his colleagues voting overwhelmingly to rescind a controversial ethics rule. That rule made it tougher to investigate alleged wrong-doings. Many Democrats and a number of Republicans had complained the rule was put in place specifically to protect Congressman DeLay.
Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe testified today in the singer's molestation trial. Rowe was married to Jackson from '96 to '99. She's the mother of two of his children. Today Rowe said she never shared a home with the singer, and also said Jackson asked her to make a video to rebut a damaging TV expose of his life.
The president briefly took shelter today in a bunker beneath the White House. Radar had shown some kind of aircraft inside the White House no-fly zone. It turned out to be a false alarm and the president quickly returned to the Oval Office. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged Congress to approve more money quickly so the army could keep operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rumsfeld says the army has already stretched every dollar to keep operations going through May when the money will run out.
In Tel Aviv, Israel, history in the making: tonight Russian President Vladimir Putin became the first Kremlin leader to visit the Jewish state. During the Cold War, Israel was a bitter enemy of Moscow, but the relationship has improved since the fall of the Soviet Union. And the world's biggest airliner struts its stuff in a maiden flight.
The Airbus A-380 made a four-hour flight today in southwestern France. The double decker is designed to hold 555 passengers in its basic configuration, but can actually accommodate up to 800. This is Europe's answer to the U.S.-built Boeing 787.
Now, Aaron, they just need a few more airports to agree to build the runways to accommodate it.
BROWN: A lot of middle seats, if you think about it.
HILL: Yes, a few too many for my liking.
BROWN: Yep, pretty much so. Thank you Erica, we'll see you in half an hour. More to come in the hour ahead, starting with a rare commodity for people with cancer: honest to goodness hope.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I had only been married for about a year and a half, and I felt like my world was falling down around me.
BROWN: After facing the kind of cancer that comes back and kills, she's cancer free today and she's not the only one, thanks to what could be a true breakthrough.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Targeted therapies, which we've talked a lot about for the last couple of years, are really coming to fruition.
BROWN: Also tonight, making buildings safe from terrorist attack, without turning them into armed fortresses. And, going back to the future by retracing a pioneering run up north a ways.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I like cold. I like to be cold. Don't get me confused there. But I love the cold. I love the arctic. I love the light.
BROWN: Down south, there's gold in them thar dogs. Planet Dog is on the rise, and so are we, because this is NEWSNIGHT.
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BROWN: In the war against cancer, the goal of late is to find stealth drugs that zero in on specific targets. The breast cancer drug Herceptin is one such drug. It's already used to treat women with an especially aggressive type of breast cancer whose cancer has spread. Now two trials shows it works in the early stages of that same aggressive cancer form. The evidence was so strong, the trials ended early. Here's medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.
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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She found the lump herself one morning.
ELIZABETH RUSSO, HERCEPTIN PATIENT: I was petrified.
COHEN: Then her doctor confirmed the worst.
RUSSO: I had only been married for about a year and a half. And I felt like my world was falling down around me. You know, the first question that goes through your head is, am I going to die? And that's really what I was thinking at the time. It was extremely frightening.
COHEN: At age 29, Elizabeth Russo had breast cancer, and there was more. Doctors told her she had a particular kind that grew quickly and was more likely to come back. This happens to one out of every four patients. But there was a twist. Because she had this particular type of tumor, she was a candidate for a study on a drug called Herceptin. Doctors knew it worked when the cancer had spread to other parts of the body, but they weren't sure if it could help women like Elizabeth who were at the early stages. At first, she wasn't sure what to do because the drug, in a small number of women, had caused heart failure.
RUSSO: There was a little bit of fear there, but obviously, in my situation, the chances absolutely outweighed the frighteningness of the whole situation. I mean, I had to take the risk because there was still the chance that I could die.
COHEN: She took Herceptin along with chemotherapy and radiation, and a year after finding that lump, she's cancer free. In the studies at the National Cancer Institute, when women did not take Herceptin, 30 percent of them had the cancer come back. When they did take Herceptin, only 15 percent had the cancer come back. It cut the recurrence rate in half. An extraordinary impact, experts say, meaning this drug is one of the most promising in a new generation of cancer treatments. Unlike chemotherapy or radiation which attack healthy and unhealthy tissue, medicines like Herceptin are designed to attack only the specific protein that causes problems.
DR. DAVID JOHNSON, VANDERBILT CANCER INSTITUTION: Targeted therapies which we've talked a lot about for the last couple of years, are really coming to fruition.
COHEN: Now Elizabeth Russo once afraid she would die, is alive for the big moments like her godson's christening last month. The cancer could come back, but now it seems that's less likely. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN reporting.
(END VIDEOTAPE)BROWN: Doctors can seldom explain why one woman gets breast cancer and another does not. No one knows exactly what causes the disease in the first place. A recent study out in California however, gives women and their loved ones who smoke some reason for concern. Here's CNN's Thelma Gutierrez.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, fish.
THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pat Grannis never smoked a cigarette in her life, but all the smoke she breathed might have come back to haunt her.
PAT GRANNIS, BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR: Whenever you hear the word cancer, it likea death sentence, so it's really horribly frightening.
GUTIERREZ: Frightening because Pat was diagnosed with breast cancer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the size of the tumor.
GUTIERREZ: That discovery threw pat's life into a tailspin.
PAT GRANNIES: When you're alone someplace or at night, you wake up in the middle of the night, you think about, you know, your body has really turned against you. What could be happening? If this happened to me, what else could be happening. What else could go wrong?
GUTIERREZ: According to a recent report by a California state environmental advisory group, secondhand smoke may be linked to breast cancer. For Pat, perhaps the most painful realization is that her exposure to secondhand smoke came from the people she loved the most.
PAT GRANNIS: My dad was really the only one who smoked. And you know, he smoked all his life that I remember, anyway. And he died of emphysema. He was about 77. I grew up with a smoking father and went to a smoking husband. So there was smoke in my life for all those years.
GUTIERREZ: All those years, more than 30 that Pat breathed in smoke. First from her father...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They do a beautiful job on the garden.
GUTIERREZ: ... then her husband Fred.
FRED GRANNIS, HUSBAND: I feel very bad that I didn't have better judgment at that time to not smoke.
GUTIERREZ: Pat's husband is a surgeon, a lung cancer specialist who began to smoke at the age of 10.
FRED GRANNIS: Both of my parents smoked. There were always packs of Camels open around the house.
GUTIERREZ: For years he was smoking a pack a day around his wife and four children, two of whom have asthma.
FRED GRANNIS: I would obviously like to think that the study wasn't accurate, and that would let me off the hook. But I think that after reading the study carefully, the evidence that's presented in this study is very compelling.
PAT GRANNIS: He has quite bad asthma.
GUTIERREZ: Grannis stopped smoking years ago but says he'll always regret it.
FRED GRANNIS: I have worries about it, both whether I contributed to my wife's breast cancer and more that I have four children that I also exposed to tobacco smoke when I was younger and stupider and addicted to nicotine.
PAT GRANNIS: There's no reason for any feeling of guilt or anything. I mean, we didn't know about it. So I mean, we were just doing in those days what you did in the '50s and '60s.
GUTIERREZ: Pat's doctor says it's too early to make the connection between breast cancer and secondhand smoke.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel badly if we're now even blaming somebody else or yourself for remaining in this situation or blaming somebody else for having placed you in that situation.
GUTIERREZ: Pat went through radiation treatment and is cancer free for now.
PAT GRANNIS: If there's any risk, any risk at all that secondhand smoke is causing breast cancer, it's a cigarette? What's the point? It's only a cigarette.
GUTIERREZ: As a doctor husband and father, Fred believes he learned the hard way. And hopes that others will stop smoking in front of families. Thelma Gutierrez, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: In a moment, can a building keep you safe from terrorism and also be beautiful, even memorable? It's a question being asked and answered all across the country. And later tonight, they were miles away from the finish and moments away from danger. They were also about to make history. From the South Pole to North and around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BROWN: It hasn't been easy building a new skyscraper on the site of the World Trade Center, not even on paper. Another round of design changes for the Freedom Tower got under way this week to address concerns about security, which immediately raised another concern: reconciling place and space and beauty and cost with something else. It is a conversation that began, not here in New York City, but elsewhere, and not after 9/11, before. Reporting tonight from Oklahoma City, here's CNN's Candy Crowley.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: From the chairs that memorialized those who died here, you can see what was built for the living.
CAROL ROSS BARNEY, ARCHITECT: From the very beginning, this was a commitment building. It meant that things weren't -- they'll change, but they'll change for the better, that they were going to be back in Oklahoma City...
CROWLEY: When Carol Ross-Barney started out as an architect, security was door locks. When she won the contract to design the new federal building in Oklahoma City, she faced the raw emotions of a deeply wounded city and new challenges to build buildings against the threat of the unknowable: secure, but open, a friendly fortress.
ED FEINER, CHIEF ARCHITECT: The goal was, that we are a brave society, that we stand by our principles of freedom and access. This is democracy and these buildings must be open to their owners, who are the American people.
CROWLEY: The Oklahoma City bombing left a legacy of new regulations for all federal buildings coast to coast: setbacks at least 20, preferably 100 feet from the street; barriers to keep vehicles from ramming the building; shatter proof windows; a building that could withstand a major hit. An estimated 80 percent of those killed in Oklahoma City survived the blast. They died when the building collapsed.
ROSS BARNEY: They wanted to be able to design buildings where you would be able to remove one major structural member without causing the building to fail. So, that's pretty hard to do. The way to think about it is trying to design a three-legged table.
CROWLEY: She wanted to build for and into the future. She wanted a structure about the totality of Oklahoma, not a single moment.
ROSS BARNEY: I thought that if I concentrated only on the bombing or only on a piece of it, that it wouldn't be as lasting. It wouldn't be as complete.
CROWLEY: She wanted -- Oklahoma City wanted -- a living, breathing, working office building that incorporated the lessons of tragedy without being about tragedy. When you were designing this building, did you say to yourself, you know what I'd love to do, but I can't do that because that would...
ROSS BARNEY: No, actually, we did the opposite. We'd say, you know what we'd love to do? How can we do that and still meet the security requirements?
CROWLEY: On three sides of the building, the reinforced walls are unforgiving concrete made with Oklahoma rocks.
ROSS BARNEY: The stone is integral in the wall. It is part of the wall. It is not applied to the wall.
CROWLEY: So, it doesn't come shooting out, essentially.
ROSS BARNEY: Right. Yes. So, it is not fastened to the wall, it is part of the wall.
CROWLEY: Part of the court yard is a babbling stream filled with boulders from a nearby buffalo ranch.
ROSS BARNEY: You can see our eating area out there. That's inside security. So, in a way, this is a modern moat, but it's beautiful.
CROWLEY: And since aluminum sun screens can turn into shrapnel, these are made of awning-like fabric which would shred, and everywhere, there is light, windows, glass.
ROSS BARNEY: You'd think that you couldn't do a building with this much glass, but you can. It's very special glass. All the injuries happened from flying glass, from the blast impact, so this window is designed so that it will break like your car window, rather than traditional glass, into little pieces.
CROWLEY: From the southeast corner of the new federal building, you can see the monument grounds where the Murrah building once stood. The offices belonged to Housing and Urban Development, the department that lost the most that day in April of 1995.
ROSS BARNEY: The second floor space here is HUD, and they were just -- oh, my God, they had a committee of survivors that were just terrified about coming back here. That's their training room, and they put it there. And so we said, well, aren't you worried about having training and having to look at the memorial? They said, oh yes, we need blinds. They never close the blinds either. So, I think that's good. If a building can heal -- help heal people, that's good.
CROWLEY: Candy Crowley, CNN, Oklahoma city.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: There's often no better way of getting someone to do something than telling them it can't be done. There are, of course, exceptions, having mostly to do with cleaning rooms and mowing lawns. And there are variations. In this case, redoing the impossible because someone said it could not possibly have been done the first time around. Here's CNN's Matthew Chance.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thirty-seven grueling days across the Arctic pack ice, pulled by dogs and determination, to reach the North Pole. On a shaky satellite link, explorer Matty McNair told me the team feels very much on top of the world.
MATTY MCNAIR, EXPLORER: We're very excited. We still are very disbelieving that we're actually here. We don't actually have to get up and go for another 24 hours, nonstop. It's just -- it's like, we're here. We made it! It's hard to believe.
CHANCE: It was American explorer, Robert E. Peary (ph) who first reached the North Pole in 1909. His claim, to have done it in just 37 days, was debated for years. Matty McNair's expedition took the same route and used similar antiquated equipment to prove the U.S. naval officer could have done what he said he had.
MCNAIR: My read on the man was, he didn't have a lot of charisma. He wasn't somebody that people wanted to believe in, and therefore, it was easy to be critical of him. And I think they've been very unfair to him, and I think people that have been against him have no experience with dogs or the Arctic. And so yes, it's been great to follow his route, and say, yes, it is possible.
CHANCE: The team flew to Cape Columbia, where Peary's 1909 expedition started out, traveling 420 nautical miles to the pole. Along the way, she says, they rediscovered an old camp used by the Peary team.
MCNAIR: We found parts of old sled runners and lots of wire and parts of sleds and boards, and metal pans, probably a fuel tent. So that was really exciting, to find that stuff. We did that by taking a photograph and walking until the hills lined up with the photograph and said, oh, this must be where he had his camp, right here.
CHANCE: And, for McNair, herself a 53-year-old grandmother, it was another adventure in the kind of hostile climate she says she loves the most.
MCNAIR: I like cold. I don't like to be cold. Don't get me confused there. But I love the cold. I love the arctic. I love the light. It's like being on a different planet. There's a very softness to the light.
CHANCE: A softness in an extreme place visited by none but a determined few. Matthew Chance, CNN, London.
(END VIDEOTAPE)BROWN: Still to come tonight, that moment when it seemed there was nothing sacred anymore, a moment in Berlin. How things have changed since then. And, before the rooster, tonight, comes the dog: a business built on chew toys, and it is on the rise. From the statehouse to the -- well, doghouse, and all around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BROWN: In business, a dog of an idea is rarely a good idea -- rarely but not never. Not when you consider the billions we spend on our pets every year. Which brings us to Planet Dog, a company on the rise.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on.
ALEX FISHER, CO-FOUNDER, PLANET DOG: This year, we expect that the pet industry will be close to $34 billion large.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get that. Good dog.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seer was one of two dogs that inspired us to start Planet Dog seven years ago.
FISHER: We wanted to sort of encapsulate what we thought was special about Ben & Jerry's and Patagonia, pick it up and drop it right in the pet industry. Here we are at the Planet Dog warehouse, we call it the doghouse. Come on in.Our most popular product is a version of the orby ball. This ball happens to glow in the dark. They also come in a whole bunch of different colors and sizes. Now with the same material, we're making bones, all types of sizes. We even have them for the real little guys. This is the compound year using to make our famous orby balls. The great thing about this material is that it can be recycled very easily. So, with any leftovers that we use, we make this product, we regrind it, we shoot it and make another ball from it. What makes these so special is the durability factor. These things are designed with dog's teeth in mind. Not only are they really durable, they float, they bounce, they're peppermint scented and they can glow in the dark. And dogs just love them.Now, go get them guys!
STEW MALONEY, CO-FOUNDER, PLANET DOG: It's great to have a dog on hand. When you get a prototype, give it to your dog or a series of dogs and say, let's see what you can do with that. FISHER: This is product testing at its best. Good dog, good dog.
MALONEY: Here we are at our first planet dog company store what did you see when you were there How old? I think you want a bigger one.Our company store is in Portland, Maine. It's intended to be a place were we can speak directly to the consumer, get a great idea of how they perceive our product. This is what makes a happy dog.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: Coming up, putting new dollars in your pocket. Sounds like a plan to me. We'll take a break first. This is NEWSNIGHT.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BROWN: Coming up, pictures from a moment that changed our world. First, though, the news of the moment. At about a quarter to the hour, time for other headlines of the day. Erica Hill again in Atlanta -- Erica.
HILL: Hi again, Aaron.
We start off with some news just coming in to us a few hours ago. The president will hold a primetime news conference tomorrow night, we'll learning. And CNN will, of course, cover it as it happens. It starts at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time. Mr. Bush is expected to talk Social Security and energy policy. Today he called for more research into hydrogen fuels, building refineries on abandoned military bases and a return to nuclear power. Our dependence on foreign energy, he said, is like a foreign tax on the American people.
A setback tonight for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, his colleagues voted overwhelmingly to rescind a controversial ethics rule. Now that rule made it tougher to investigate alleged wrongdoing. Many Democrats, and a number of Republicans, have complained the rule was put in place to specifically protect Congressman DeLay.
On the security watch, all international cargo coming into the Port of Oakland, California, will now be scanned for radioactive material. The goal here, to prevent a bomb from getting into the U.S. by next year. Customs officials hope more than 300 seaports in the U.S. will be using the scanners.
And finally, we're in for a dollar -- another dollar of the round variety. The government may soon give dollar coins the old try again. The House today approving a plan for presidential dollars here. The idea -- issue one coin for each president. A popular idea, because dollar coins only cost a nickel to produce. So the government makes a mint on every one. Pun intended -- Aaron.
BROWN: The lowest form of humor, Erica.
HILL: Indeed, it is.
BROWN: Thank you very much. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of all that stood between the East and the West during the height of the Cold War. As part of CNN's anniversary series "Then & Now," tonight we look back at an East German who helped bring down the wall and see where he is today.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His video of Communist East Germany crumbling, hopelessly polluted, restless, helped topple the Berlin Wall. Amateur video journalist Eric Radomski spirited his tapes to western TV which beamed them back into Eastern Germany. When the wall opens November 9, 1989, 27-year-old Radomski was among the first to walk to the west. He photographed checkpoint Charlie, a sullen, heavily fortified flash point at the end of the Cold War suddenly overrun with euphoria.
Our pictures on TV were a reason people took to the streets, he says. And they changed this land.15 years later, unemployment hovers around 20 percent in the east. Capitalism isn't so easy, he says. I try to look at it realistically, that you have to help yourself to find your place.Radomski found his, designing wall paper for homes, bars, film sets. After helping to tear down one wall, he's covering others. His life now as free as his spirit.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: Throughout the year, we mark 25 years of broadcasting at CNN. We'll continue to look back at yesterday's newsmakers and where they are today. That was a pretty cool one, too wasn't it? Morning papers when we come back. And a reminder tomorrow at 8:30 Eastern time, the president's prime time news conference coverage here on CNN.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BROWN: Okey-doke. Time to check morning papers from around the country and around the world.
The "International Herald Tribune" published by "The New York Times" in Paris. "First Flight is Perfect for Largest Passenger Jet," and then a picture of the Airbus A380. This is a plane that can hold up to 800 people. Think about what a pleasurable experience that's going to be. OK, 800 people.
"Stars and Stripes" -- listen, it doesn't mean you shouldn't go out and buy one of those planes. If you like the idea, go buy one, OK.
"Militants Gun Down Iraqi Lawmaker at Home. Woman is first in parliament -- is first parliament member targeted since the election. Also, I don't know how well you can make this picture out. Headline is "Enter Sandstorm, a dust storm moves across the western desert of Iraq on Tuesday." The storm spawned near the Syrian border leaving a heavy sheet of dust in its wake. Well, yes, I guess it would, wouldn't it?
That's "Stars and Stripes," so is this. How many editions do they put out? Anyway I like the story. "Dragging Down a Career, Heavy smoking military recruits are much more likely to wash out." While recruiting --"Will recruiting practices change?" Everybody it seems like when I was in the service smoked. It may have had to do with the fact that they'd charged you 10 cents a pack for cigarettes. "
The Washington Times," two that we'll mention. "House GOP" -- we'll probably a lot of good stories but two that were mentioned. "House GOP Backs off Ethics Rules," folded like a cheap suitcase on that one. "Hastert/DeLay support move to end impasse."
And then down here, this is a good story, "Life Worse for Iraqi Women, intimidation more common." I guarantee you, if this story had appeared in "The New York Times," the right wing blogs would go nuts on the "Times." But it's in the "Washington Times," so they'll probably leave it alone.
The -- and it's a good story and an important story. I'll move on now.
"The Rocky Mountain News," man, this is an ugly little moment. "They are Antichrist. Senator says he regrets using term to describe founder Dobson," that's James Dobson "and his efforts." Yes, that was intemperate.
How are we doing on time?
We out of time?
Weather tomorrow in Chicago, anemic.
We'll wrap it up quickly in a moment.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BROWN: The president holds a prime time news conference. Our coverage begins at 8:00, the president starts at 8:30. And we'll talk about what he talked about afterwards for a while too.
Good to have you with us tonight. We'll see you tomorrow. Until then, good night for all of us.
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The Hatred by this 'woooman' is not to be understood
9:54 PM
Today in retaliation for statements made earlier there has been an advertisement completely absent of the Jew, Aaron Brown's name. There was also no e-mail in order to limit contact with the audience.
Could it be a jealousy by this exective producer?
And why?
...the hatred continues...
The Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Times
The Rocky Mountain News
San Antonio Express News
The Oregonian
The Dallas Morning News
Stars and Stripes
Chicago Sun Times
It is needless to say this caucasian dominated broadcast continues. I could day by day document that here but it would be redundant and pointless except for the futile exercise of it. The preference is there throughout the programming of CNN but strongly consistent with the NewsNight programming. The content of this show is very controlled by using highly edited pre-filmed 'news bits.'
The entire situation is a mess. It isn't journalism at CNN anymore, it's infomercials for the politics of the preferred. Women are victimized on a chronic basis through highly sexual contest commercials as noted with the Buick Le Baron.
In a rather alarming segment on Anderson 360 there was typed context as read by Anderson Cooper off the television screen. Both callers were named Mary (subliminal suggesting to Mary the Virgin and again there were no voices of a caller so there is no way of knowing if the e-mails were real and probably were most likely not.) The program transcript went like this:
COOPER: Well, a lot of you have been writing to us about the little Florida girl, hand-cuffed by police, after a prolonged classroom tantrum. Some of you have supported the actions of the teachers, or criticized the police, or the parents, but the most interesting email today came from Mary in May's Landing, New Jersey.
On the subject of corporal punishment, she writes, "Apparently, the nice doctor that was on your program last night, that stated it's never necessary or warranted to use corporal punishment on a child, never nursed a teething baby. If you've ever had a child bite your nipple --" ouch " -- the appropriate thing to do is immediately flick an exposed area of skin with your finger. Babies are smart and will connect this pain with the bite and will not do it again."
Mary, I'm going to take your word for it on this one, all right? We'll just move on.
Another Mary, this one from Asheboro, North Carolina, writes: "Help! Last night on 360, Anderson used the phrase 'try the veal.' Someone on a sports show said it yesterday as well. I've been on a fruitless quest all day to find out what it means. Could you please explain?"
Mary, you don't really need to know what it means, but from now, on every time I say it, I want you to just laugh out loud. Got it? I'll be here all week; try the veal.
The fact a mother is actually using corporal punishment against an infant that is breast feeding is not just alarming but tramatizing to realize the infant is traumatized for being smart. If an infant was that smart about inflicting pain a conversation could accomplish the task. There are far better ways of handling infants that breastfeed than using corporal punishment. It is worrisome this was rewarded by this show. People like Ms. Bigot frequently sees discipline issues like this as '... training them up right...'
The program was consistently condesending toward both women, real or fictious including the 'beef' promotion of "blah, blah, blah ... try the veal." It's a stupid expression and one the writers along with Ms. Bigot hopes becomes a popular thing to say as if people really need a 'catch all' as a bonding issue. This group of broadcasts are loquacious in an attempt to influence social content. I repeat this is NOT a news broadcast anymore so much as a MESSAGE BROADCAST by a political predator.
Today in retaliation for statements made earlier there has been an advertisement completely absent of the Jew, Aaron Brown's name. There was also no e-mail in order to limit contact with the audience.
Could it be a jealousy by this exective producer?
And why?
...the hatred continues...
The Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Times
The Rocky Mountain News
San Antonio Express News
The Oregonian
The Dallas Morning News
Stars and Stripes
Chicago Sun Times
It is needless to say this caucasian dominated broadcast continues. I could day by day document that here but it would be redundant and pointless except for the futile exercise of it. The preference is there throughout the programming of CNN but strongly consistent with the NewsNight programming. The content of this show is very controlled by using highly edited pre-filmed 'news bits.'
The entire situation is a mess. It isn't journalism at CNN anymore, it's infomercials for the politics of the preferred. Women are victimized on a chronic basis through highly sexual contest commercials as noted with the Buick Le Baron.
In a rather alarming segment on Anderson 360 there was typed context as read by Anderson Cooper off the television screen. Both callers were named Mary (subliminal suggesting to Mary the Virgin and again there were no voices of a caller so there is no way of knowing if the e-mails were real and probably were most likely not.) The program transcript went like this:
COOPER: Well, a lot of you have been writing to us about the little Florida girl, hand-cuffed by police, after a prolonged classroom tantrum. Some of you have supported the actions of the teachers, or criticized the police, or the parents, but the most interesting email today came from Mary in May's Landing, New Jersey.
On the subject of corporal punishment, she writes, "Apparently, the nice doctor that was on your program last night, that stated it's never necessary or warranted to use corporal punishment on a child, never nursed a teething baby. If you've ever had a child bite your nipple --" ouch " -- the appropriate thing to do is immediately flick an exposed area of skin with your finger. Babies are smart and will connect this pain with the bite and will not do it again."
Mary, I'm going to take your word for it on this one, all right? We'll just move on.
Another Mary, this one from Asheboro, North Carolina, writes: "Help! Last night on 360, Anderson used the phrase 'try the veal.' Someone on a sports show said it yesterday as well. I've been on a fruitless quest all day to find out what it means. Could you please explain?"
Mary, you don't really need to know what it means, but from now, on every time I say it, I want you to just laugh out loud. Got it? I'll be here all week; try the veal.
The fact a mother is actually using corporal punishment against an infant that is breast feeding is not just alarming but tramatizing to realize the infant is traumatized for being smart. If an infant was that smart about inflicting pain a conversation could accomplish the task. There are far better ways of handling infants that breastfeed than using corporal punishment. It is worrisome this was rewarded by this show. People like Ms. Bigot frequently sees discipline issues like this as '... training them up right...'
The program was consistently condesending toward both women, real or fictious including the 'beef' promotion of "blah, blah, blah ... try the veal." It's a stupid expression and one the writers along with Ms. Bigot hopes becomes a popular thing to say as if people really need a 'catch all' as a bonding issue. This group of broadcasts are loquacious in an attempt to influence social content. I repeat this is NOT a news broadcast anymore so much as a MESSAGE BROADCAST by a political predator.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
The noted oppression of Aaron Brown regarding NewsNight
It has been over a week now and Aaron Brown has yet to return to his Pre-program annoucement of the contents of the hour of news he finds most engaging. This was a long held practice of his to his relationship with his audience ranging in attire from suit with opened collar to shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbows while hard at work putting together an hour of important and pertinent news and not just 'special focuses' of issues.
This is an issue because it is a means of control of 'the image' of the program rather than trusting a Jew to deliver an honest and spontaneous message regarding the impact of the subjects. In other words, Sharon "The Bigot" von Zwieten, wants complete control over 'the message' rather than holding important the delivery of accurate news as "NewNight" once was including a 'block of time' called "Segment Seven" which allowed for specialty issues or 'the magazine portion' of the broadcast every night of the week.
"NewsNight" was based on the 'format' of a newspaper which gave it 'charm' and a unique environement for news delivary.
The removal of spontaneity is grossly obvious in all aspects of the programming. With the exception of the Vatican proceedings in recent history also noted is the absence of live, uncontrolled and probably expensive satellite transmissions on a regular basis with CNN in general but particularly the evening hours.
CNN used to cut to live television broadcasts on a moment to moment basis. That is highly controlled now and in my opinion serves a greater purpose of 'Message Delivery' rather than "News Delivery."
Not to leave a stone unturned or any doubt to purpose, so noted in recent history is some very wicked editing. It is edited based on religious preference and especially race preference. Example: Last night, April 25, 2005, Mr. "Riffraff" DeLay was repeatedly presented in a 'film loop' where he is coming around a corner with a light skinned minority who's identity no one stated. They didn't state it because the 'film loop' was repeated throughout the promotional 'infomercial' for DeLay. For that reason alone, the editing I mean, my argument that this is an agenda of 'message delivery' rather than news delivery stands over budgetary issues. The editing is all too consistent in it's advocacy to the current administration's agenda and elections. It raises serious questions about the possibity of this being less a program of 'choice' for CNN and more a Pre-Packed programming from Washington, D.C. as noted not long ago in The New York Times regarding propaganda news segments produced for 'indoctrination' of the public.
This is an issue because it is a means of control of 'the image' of the program rather than trusting a Jew to deliver an honest and spontaneous message regarding the impact of the subjects. In other words, Sharon "The Bigot" von Zwieten, wants complete control over 'the message' rather than holding important the delivery of accurate news as "NewNight" once was including a 'block of time' called "Segment Seven" which allowed for specialty issues or 'the magazine portion' of the broadcast every night of the week.
"NewsNight" was based on the 'format' of a newspaper which gave it 'charm' and a unique environement for news delivary.
The removal of spontaneity is grossly obvious in all aspects of the programming. With the exception of the Vatican proceedings in recent history also noted is the absence of live, uncontrolled and probably expensive satellite transmissions on a regular basis with CNN in general but particularly the evening hours.
CNN used to cut to live television broadcasts on a moment to moment basis. That is highly controlled now and in my opinion serves a greater purpose of 'Message Delivery' rather than "News Delivery."
Not to leave a stone unturned or any doubt to purpose, so noted in recent history is some very wicked editing. It is edited based on religious preference and especially race preference. Example: Last night, April 25, 2005, Mr. "Riffraff" DeLay was repeatedly presented in a 'film loop' where he is coming around a corner with a light skinned minority who's identity no one stated. They didn't state it because the 'film loop' was repeated throughout the promotional 'infomercial' for DeLay. For that reason alone, the editing I mean, my argument that this is an agenda of 'message delivery' rather than news delivery stands over budgetary issues. The editing is all too consistent in it's advocacy to the current administration's agenda and elections. It raises serious questions about the possibity of this being less a program of 'choice' for CNN and more a Pre-Packed programming from Washington, D.C. as noted not long ago in The New York Times regarding propaganda news segments produced for 'indoctrination' of the public.
The Religious Bigotry of CNN NewsNight "Morning Papers"
This segment stands alone as a Signature Segment to the programming expressing preferences in culture, race and faith.
PROOF, in lustful arrogance and zealotry for the entire viewing audience to hear:
From the transcript April 25, 2005
BROWN: All year long as CNN celebrates a quarter century of reporting the news, we're looking back on the people and the stories that helped shape our era. Morning papers help shape this program. We'll get to it in a moment.
Morning papers help shape this program.
Morning papers help shape this program.
Morning papers help shape this program !!!!!!!!!!
The Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Post
The Examiner
The Washington Post
The Rocky Mountain News
The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Chicago Sun Times
PROOF, in lustful arrogance and zealotry for the entire viewing audience to hear:
From the transcript April 25, 2005
BROWN: All year long as CNN celebrates a quarter century of reporting the news, we're looking back on the people and the stories that helped shape our era. Morning papers help shape this program. We'll get to it in a moment.
Morning papers help shape this program.
Morning papers help shape this program.
Morning papers help shape this program !!!!!!!!!!
The Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Post
The Examiner
The Washington Post
The Rocky Mountain News
The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Chicago Sun Times
Friday, April 22, 2005
The Religious Bigotry of CNN NewsNight "Morning Papers"
International Herald Tribune
The Washington Times
Christian Science Monitor
The Des Moines Register
Newsday.
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The Chicago Sun Times
The Washington Times
Christian Science Monitor
The Des Moines Register
Newsday.
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Sun Times
Thursday, April 21, 2005
This entire mess is unbelievable.
Sharon "The Anti-Semite and racist" von Zwieten is clearly exposed AGAIN as a woman of hatred. She clearly is trying to RID the program of a Jew who is an anchor and has been from it's inception. At one point Erica Hill 'master's' the program to introduce a commercial segment rather than returning the program to Aaron Brown. They are doing their best to eliminate Aaron from the position he has done well for years as they also interjected throughout the hour "Aaron" and "Brown" in an attempt at subliminal messaging that would project a human personality into the news segments rather than onto the PERSONALITY it belongs. I think Aaron has legal recourse.
9:59
AARON BROWN, HOST: Well, we've got to leave some for tomorrow's program. But, yes, it's your city, your credit card -- I'll see you in about 15 minutes, after we're done here. Thank you, sir, very much.
Good evening, again, everyone. It's good to be back in Los Angeles. Good to be here tonight.
Pope Benedict celebrated his first mass today as pope at the Vatican. It's going to get some getting used to, isn't it? That name, the first of his papacy -- he sent a message today of reconciliation to other religions and other branches of Christianity. As he did, we began learning the details of the ancient process, and some old-fashioned campaigning by which Cardinal Ratzinger became the new pope, details that come, despite their vows of secrecy, from the men who were there, the cardinals inside the conclave. And so, with that, we begin with CNN's Jim Bittermann.
10:00
The segment that followed was regarding the election of the new Pope and how Ratzinger impressed his colleagues. The segment was by Jim Bitterman.
Only caucasian faces are noted.
10:04
BROWN: At first reading, there's a line in the new pope's resume that raises eyebrows. As a young man he was a member of the Nazi Youth and also served in the German army during World War II. But a resume line is just that. It has no context and without context, it has no real meaning. So, some context tonight from CNN's Walter Rodgers.
10:04
The segment that follows is regarding Joseph Ratzinger, the man, and his history growing up in Nazi Germany including his participation at a paramilitary organization in 1941. The segment is done by Walter Rodgers.
Only caucasian faces are noted.
10:07
BROWN: In the half century since the young priest, Joseph Ratzinger, said that first mass, his church was transformed by Vatican II, only to begin moving back toward bedrock traditional church doctrine. As the world waits to see what type of mark Benedict XVI will make on the papacy, we turn now to the book that has caused a stir among some Catholics, many Catholics, "The Da Vinci Code." It's been a best-seller for more than two years. It's fair to say the novel presents an unorthodox version of church history, but just how far does the author, Dan
Brown,
go? .
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
10:07
The next segment is about placing 'False Gods Before You' in the book "The Da Vinci Code." It's Hocus Pocus and already stated by the Vatican as same. Either you accept the Bible as the authority in your life or you don't. The thing about it is that Da Vinci portrays a 'subject' view of the relationship of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. No doubt there was a relationship but that is simply 'spice' of Da Vinci's message in "The Last Supper." The Christian segment as if we needed another one was 'jumped into' rather than presented by the narrator of the expertise of the segment. There is no journalist involved with this segment which brings to mind licensing issues. Hm? There goes the professionalism of the program as well as wholesome content except for that of Jew Hating White Supremist. As noted above the USE of "Brown" is interjected here for projection of Aaron's presence.
PROF. HAROLD ATTRIDGE, YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL:
"...Basically
Brown
claims there was a sexual relationship between Jesus and Mary…."
"...The most relevant text for his plot is the painting by Da Vinci of "The Last Supper." And what
Brown
finds in that painting is first of all, the series of symbols, the way figures are arranged suggest to him a grand M, as in Mary Magdalene. And there's a gap between Jesus and one of the key figures among his disciples. And that gap suggests a V and the V is the symbol of the cup.
Now, the key thing that
Brown
alleges is that figure is not the beloved disciple John, the son of Zebede (ph), but rather it's the portrait of a woman. So this is Mary Magdalene.
Brown
claims that what Da Vinci was doing was encoding into his painting of "The Last Supper" his understanding that Mary was there and was a consort of Jesus…."
Only caucasian faces are noted.
10:11
BROWN: In a moment, Oklahoma City and bad guys who dream of doing it again. First, we go to Atlanta and some of the other news of the day. Erica Hill joins us. Erica, it's good to see you tonight.
10:11
The news segment with no depth of investigation to the issue but only SIMPLY as in SIMPLETON reported by ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS:
Hi, Aaron....
...Aaron, back to you.
10:13
BROWN: Good. We'll see you. Thank you. We'll see you again in about half an hour.
We have much more ahead on NEWSNIGHT tonight, starting with a life and death question. Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing changed the way how we think about terrorism, how greater danger do homegrown terrorists pose today?
10:13
This is an astounding segment. It condemns White Supremist even citing McVeigh, Rudolph and Matt Hail the leader of the Church of the Creator. This was another 'jumped into' segment but eventually there is a journalist, Frank Buckley, sitting in the interviewer's chair. Considering this program has a very strong affinity for portraying caucasian as a dominate race the segment was disturbing from the point of view of justification. In other words, so long as those that are racists are non-violent it's all okay.
Some of the statements.
AUGUST KREIS, ARYAN NATION: If we're fighting for our right to govern ourselves, to have no strangers over us or amongst us, that's a war. The war is on. That's what we call it. Aryan Jihad.
10:13
BROWN (voice-over): He says he's waging a holy war against the American government. And no one knows how many potential terrorists may be listening to him.
10:13
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the important thing to remember is it only takes one Tim McVeigh. It only takes one Eric Rudolph to carry out one of these actions.
10:13
BROWN: How much danger are we in? How worried should we be? The image that defined all that was lost in Oklahoma City.
Then there was a segment however fleeting of the picture of the dead baby in the firefighter's arms.
10:14
BROWN: What if it meant also saving the life of a loved one? A revolutionary idea to help find the right match without the red tape.
From Los Angeles, and around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.
10:14
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
10:17
BROWN: We come to you tonight from Los Angeles, but in many respects our heart remains in Oklahoma City.
!0 years ago yesterday Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols perpetrated the worst terrorist attack on Americans by Americans in the country's history.
We intended to be in Oklahoma City last night with a program devoted entirely to that, to lives lost, lives altered, to stories not just of survival, but we think, stories of triumph. And to questions as well. Is the next Timothy McVeigh among us?
Instead, the news from Rome trumped everything out. So tonight and for the rest of the week, we'll try to bring you in pieces what we couldn't bring you in full last night, starting with the threat still out there.
10:18
The segment regarding the White Supremist that are enabled by programs like this was presented by Frank Buckley.
KREIS: Yes. Anything. Anything necessary to gain freedom for the white race again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Violence is a positive thing. War is a positive thing.
THE CHRONIC PORTRAYAL OF TERROR in the programming put forth in this hour is loved as well. Repeated and loved. Neocons love war.
POTOK: And although that may sound reassuring on the face of it, the reality is that as extreme as their ideology is, the leaders of these groups very often, act essentially as kind of breaks on their the members. You know, essentially what their saying to their members is saying yes, yes we'll kill the Jews, but that's next week, boys. For now keep your guns in your holsters.
ISN'T THAT what the tone of this program is all about? Yes, yes we will rid the world of anything but Christians but keep your guns in your holsters for now. This caucasian, christian, bigoted, anti-Semitic and racist dominated programming is PROOF of same. Let's look at that set of statements again.
POTOK: And although that may sound reassuring on the face of it, the reality is that as extreme as their ideology is, the leaders of these groups very often, act essentially as kind of breaks on their the members. You know, essentially what their saying to their members is saying yes, yes we'll kill the Jews, but that's next week, boys. For now keep your guns in your holsters.
So at least in my opinion, I think there's a very real danger now of people acting out because they don't have their leaders holding them back in any sense.
POTOK: Exactly how active the entire radical right is doesn't really tell you much about how many people are going to die at the hands of a radical right. I mean, I think the important thing to remember is it only takes one Tim McVeigh, it only takes one Eric Rudolph to carry out one of these actions.
BUCKLEY: One person full of hate. Frank Buckley, CNN, Montgomery, Alabama.
Only caucasian faces are noted.
OR ONE Executive Producer full of hate !! Aaron Brown is under attack for being less than what this programming wants in it's exposure through these actions by me in detecting it's horribly dominating hate of anything other than caucasian and christian. And I mean hate !!
10:22
BROWN: Then later in the program, we'll return to that day in Oklahoma City. A moment in the day, a moment captured in a still photo seen around the world. That moment as remembered by the people in the picture. That's later. (Ah, a Bethie story how sweet, Aaron, knob polishers every one I am sure. In the ghetto we call it 'shining 'im on.)
It is a terrific and powerful story. And so is this. Imagine not being able to save a loved one even though you're willing to risk your own life to do so. Your son or daughter, husband or wife, sister or brother, desperately needs an organ transplant, but you can't help, because you're not the right match.
In the world of organ transplants, finding the right match is everything. Donors are scarce compared with the need, waiting lists, notoriously long and wrapped in red tape.
More than 61,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant right now which brings us to a remarkable and we think, remarkably simple idea that might possibly ease the backlog. It's about fair trade, helping someone
else in return for the same favor. Here's CNN's Jonathan Freed.
10:23
The majority of the program surrounds a subject that addresses a unique opportunity for families with members needs transplants. It was a very good segment whereby there were only caucasian faces noted.
10:36
BROWN: I want to point out how rare it is for hospitals to allow kidney transplant patients to meet before surgery, because there is always a risk that something could happen to cause one or the other to back out. And we obviously want to thank the staff of both the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo and Christ Hospital in Cincinnati for their help. They gave us extraordinary access to the patients in this story and to the surgeons and to the surgery. That was amazing.
Ahead on the program, the photograph that captured the horror of Oklahoma City. And why a mother still fights to protect her child whose image is frozen in time. From Los Angeles tonight, this is NEWSNIGHT.
10:36
Commercials
10:39
BROWN: We're sometimes taken a back at how gentle people become during the most horrible moments imaginable. Perhaps, we shouldn't be so surprised if there's hope for the human race, you can find it in the fields of Aceh or at a church near ground zero, or in a moment captured in the rubble of Oklahoma City a decade ago.
Here's NEWSNIGHT'S Beth Nissen.
10:39 - Bethie specializes in 'heart rendering' pieces as a co-dependant female. I don't think she is up to anything else. I'd really like to hear her heart rending voice tear into a completely unethical administration that rapes the poor of this country of their much needed benefits. That will never happen.
This was the segment where only caucasian faces were noted regarding the dead baby in the arms of a fireman. You know when one learns social skills children and animals are easy, right? During this segment "Aaron" was again laced through the reporting to present Aaron Brown's presence.
NISSEN: At that moment, Charles Porter (ph) who worked in a bank nearby took the photograph that would, within hours, be distributed by the Associated Press around the world.
Aaron
Almond (ph) didn't see it until the next day on the front page of the newspaper.
NISSEN: At
Aaron's
requestion, Chris Fields and Sergeant Avery both went to Bailey's funeral, helped lay her to rest, but the photograph had taken on a life of its own.
NISSEN: And
Aaron
Almond (ph) -- she is married with a young daughter and son. She keeps mementos of Bailey on display, including a painting of the famous image, which she sees differently now after 10 years.
10:44
BROWN: Just ahead tonight, some of the days other news, morning paper's still to come. We'll take a break first. We're in Los Angeles and this is NEWSNIGHT.
10:44
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
10:47
BROWN: In just a moment, the story of a young man who survived the Columbine massacre -- we're on that anniversary, too, but lost his sister that day. How the experience has changed his life.
But right now, as we head to the top of the hour Erica Hill joins us again in Atlanta with some of the day's other headlines -- Erica.
10:47
This is interesting. Aaron introduces Erica Hill a pretty white woman who needs protection from every man that isn't same I am sure, but, at any rate, Aaron never comes back at the end of the 'newsy' segment.
HILL: Hello again to you, Aaron.
...NEWSNIGHT continues in a moment, but first as part of CNN's anniversary series, "Then and Now," how one Columbine survivor used his experience to help others.
Aaron is completely circumvented into a Columbine survivor. A causcasian only.
:50
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
:53
It was after the commercial break do we finally see THE ANCHOR to the news hour, a complete five minutes later.
BROWN: Oke dokie (ph).
"Washington Post"
"International Herald Tribune,"
"Washington Times,"
"The Detroit News"
"The Des Moines Register"
"The Chicago Sun Times"
We'll wrap it up from the city of angels in just a moment upon.
:55
9:59
AARON BROWN, HOST: Well, we've got to leave some for tomorrow's program. But, yes, it's your city, your credit card -- I'll see you in about 15 minutes, after we're done here. Thank you, sir, very much.
Good evening, again, everyone. It's good to be back in Los Angeles. Good to be here tonight.
Pope Benedict celebrated his first mass today as pope at the Vatican. It's going to get some getting used to, isn't it? That name, the first of his papacy -- he sent a message today of reconciliation to other religions and other branches of Christianity. As he did, we began learning the details of the ancient process, and some old-fashioned campaigning by which Cardinal Ratzinger became the new pope, details that come, despite their vows of secrecy, from the men who were there, the cardinals inside the conclave. And so, with that, we begin with CNN's Jim Bittermann.
10:00
The segment that followed was regarding the election of the new Pope and how Ratzinger impressed his colleagues. The segment was by Jim Bitterman.
Only caucasian faces are noted.
10:04
BROWN: At first reading, there's a line in the new pope's resume that raises eyebrows. As a young man he was a member of the Nazi Youth and also served in the German army during World War II. But a resume line is just that. It has no context and without context, it has no real meaning. So, some context tonight from CNN's Walter Rodgers.
10:04
The segment that follows is regarding Joseph Ratzinger, the man, and his history growing up in Nazi Germany including his participation at a paramilitary organization in 1941. The segment is done by Walter Rodgers.
Only caucasian faces are noted.
10:07
BROWN: In the half century since the young priest, Joseph Ratzinger, said that first mass, his church was transformed by Vatican II, only to begin moving back toward bedrock traditional church doctrine. As the world waits to see what type of mark Benedict XVI will make on the papacy, we turn now to the book that has caused a stir among some Catholics, many Catholics, "The Da Vinci Code." It's been a best-seller for more than two years. It's fair to say the novel presents an unorthodox version of church history, but just how far does the author, Dan
Brown,
go? .
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
10:07
The next segment is about placing 'False Gods Before You' in the book "The Da Vinci Code." It's Hocus Pocus and already stated by the Vatican as same. Either you accept the Bible as the authority in your life or you don't. The thing about it is that Da Vinci portrays a 'subject' view of the relationship of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. No doubt there was a relationship but that is simply 'spice' of Da Vinci's message in "The Last Supper." The Christian segment as if we needed another one was 'jumped into' rather than presented by the narrator of the expertise of the segment. There is no journalist involved with this segment which brings to mind licensing issues. Hm? There goes the professionalism of the program as well as wholesome content except for that of Jew Hating White Supremist. As noted above the USE of "Brown" is interjected here for projection of Aaron's presence.
PROF. HAROLD ATTRIDGE, YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL:
"...Basically
Brown
claims there was a sexual relationship between Jesus and Mary…."
"...The most relevant text for his plot is the painting by Da Vinci of "The Last Supper." And what
Brown
finds in that painting is first of all, the series of symbols, the way figures are arranged suggest to him a grand M, as in Mary Magdalene. And there's a gap between Jesus and one of the key figures among his disciples. And that gap suggests a V and the V is the symbol of the cup.
Now, the key thing that
Brown
alleges is that figure is not the beloved disciple John, the son of Zebede (ph), but rather it's the portrait of a woman. So this is Mary Magdalene.
Brown
claims that what Da Vinci was doing was encoding into his painting of "The Last Supper" his understanding that Mary was there and was a consort of Jesus…."
Only caucasian faces are noted.
10:11
BROWN: In a moment, Oklahoma City and bad guys who dream of doing it again. First, we go to Atlanta and some of the other news of the day. Erica Hill joins us. Erica, it's good to see you tonight.
10:11
The news segment with no depth of investigation to the issue but only SIMPLY as in SIMPLETON reported by ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS:
Hi, Aaron....
...Aaron, back to you.
10:13
BROWN: Good. We'll see you. Thank you. We'll see you again in about half an hour.
We have much more ahead on NEWSNIGHT tonight, starting with a life and death question. Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing changed the way how we think about terrorism, how greater danger do homegrown terrorists pose today?
10:13
This is an astounding segment. It condemns White Supremist even citing McVeigh, Rudolph and Matt Hail the leader of the Church of the Creator. This was another 'jumped into' segment but eventually there is a journalist, Frank Buckley, sitting in the interviewer's chair. Considering this program has a very strong affinity for portraying caucasian as a dominate race the segment was disturbing from the point of view of justification. In other words, so long as those that are racists are non-violent it's all okay.
Some of the statements.
AUGUST KREIS, ARYAN NATION: If we're fighting for our right to govern ourselves, to have no strangers over us or amongst us, that's a war. The war is on. That's what we call it. Aryan Jihad.
10:13
BROWN (voice-over): He says he's waging a holy war against the American government. And no one knows how many potential terrorists may be listening to him.
10:13
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the important thing to remember is it only takes one Tim McVeigh. It only takes one Eric Rudolph to carry out one of these actions.
10:13
BROWN: How much danger are we in? How worried should we be? The image that defined all that was lost in Oklahoma City.
Then there was a segment however fleeting of the picture of the dead baby in the firefighter's arms.
10:14
BROWN: What if it meant also saving the life of a loved one? A revolutionary idea to help find the right match without the red tape.
From Los Angeles, and around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.
10:14
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
10:17
BROWN: We come to you tonight from Los Angeles, but in many respects our heart remains in Oklahoma City.
!0 years ago yesterday Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols perpetrated the worst terrorist attack on Americans by Americans in the country's history.
We intended to be in Oklahoma City last night with a program devoted entirely to that, to lives lost, lives altered, to stories not just of survival, but we think, stories of triumph. And to questions as well. Is the next Timothy McVeigh among us?
Instead, the news from Rome trumped everything out. So tonight and for the rest of the week, we'll try to bring you in pieces what we couldn't bring you in full last night, starting with the threat still out there.
10:18
The segment regarding the White Supremist that are enabled by programs like this was presented by Frank Buckley.
KREIS: Yes. Anything. Anything necessary to gain freedom for the white race again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Violence is a positive thing. War is a positive thing.
THE CHRONIC PORTRAYAL OF TERROR in the programming put forth in this hour is loved as well. Repeated and loved. Neocons love war.
POTOK: And although that may sound reassuring on the face of it, the reality is that as extreme as their ideology is, the leaders of these groups very often, act essentially as kind of breaks on their the members. You know, essentially what their saying to their members is saying yes, yes we'll kill the Jews, but that's next week, boys. For now keep your guns in your holsters.
ISN'T THAT what the tone of this program is all about? Yes, yes we will rid the world of anything but Christians but keep your guns in your holsters for now. This caucasian, christian, bigoted, anti-Semitic and racist dominated programming is PROOF of same. Let's look at that set of statements again.
POTOK: And although that may sound reassuring on the face of it, the reality is that as extreme as their ideology is, the leaders of these groups very often, act essentially as kind of breaks on their the members. You know, essentially what their saying to their members is saying yes, yes we'll kill the Jews, but that's next week, boys. For now keep your guns in your holsters.
So at least in my opinion, I think there's a very real danger now of people acting out because they don't have their leaders holding them back in any sense.
POTOK: Exactly how active the entire radical right is doesn't really tell you much about how many people are going to die at the hands of a radical right. I mean, I think the important thing to remember is it only takes one Tim McVeigh, it only takes one Eric Rudolph to carry out one of these actions.
BUCKLEY: One person full of hate. Frank Buckley, CNN, Montgomery, Alabama.
Only caucasian faces are noted.
OR ONE Executive Producer full of hate !! Aaron Brown is under attack for being less than what this programming wants in it's exposure through these actions by me in detecting it's horribly dominating hate of anything other than caucasian and christian. And I mean hate !!
10:22
BROWN: Then later in the program, we'll return to that day in Oklahoma City. A moment in the day, a moment captured in a still photo seen around the world. That moment as remembered by the people in the picture. That's later. (Ah, a Bethie story how sweet, Aaron, knob polishers every one I am sure. In the ghetto we call it 'shining 'im on.)
It is a terrific and powerful story. And so is this. Imagine not being able to save a loved one even though you're willing to risk your own life to do so. Your son or daughter, husband or wife, sister or brother, desperately needs an organ transplant, but you can't help, because you're not the right match.
In the world of organ transplants, finding the right match is everything. Donors are scarce compared with the need, waiting lists, notoriously long and wrapped in red tape.
More than 61,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant right now which brings us to a remarkable and we think, remarkably simple idea that might possibly ease the backlog. It's about fair trade, helping someone
else in return for the same favor. Here's CNN's Jonathan Freed.
10:23
The majority of the program surrounds a subject that addresses a unique opportunity for families with members needs transplants. It was a very good segment whereby there were only caucasian faces noted.
10:36
BROWN: I want to point out how rare it is for hospitals to allow kidney transplant patients to meet before surgery, because there is always a risk that something could happen to cause one or the other to back out. And we obviously want to thank the staff of both the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo and Christ Hospital in Cincinnati for their help. They gave us extraordinary access to the patients in this story and to the surgeons and to the surgery. That was amazing.
Ahead on the program, the photograph that captured the horror of Oklahoma City. And why a mother still fights to protect her child whose image is frozen in time. From Los Angeles tonight, this is NEWSNIGHT.
10:36
Commercials
10:39
BROWN: We're sometimes taken a back at how gentle people become during the most horrible moments imaginable. Perhaps, we shouldn't be so surprised if there's hope for the human race, you can find it in the fields of Aceh or at a church near ground zero, or in a moment captured in the rubble of Oklahoma City a decade ago.
Here's NEWSNIGHT'S Beth Nissen.
10:39 - Bethie specializes in 'heart rendering' pieces as a co-dependant female. I don't think she is up to anything else. I'd really like to hear her heart rending voice tear into a completely unethical administration that rapes the poor of this country of their much needed benefits. That will never happen.
This was the segment where only caucasian faces were noted regarding the dead baby in the arms of a fireman. You know when one learns social skills children and animals are easy, right? During this segment "Aaron" was again laced through the reporting to present Aaron Brown's presence.
NISSEN: At that moment, Charles Porter (ph) who worked in a bank nearby took the photograph that would, within hours, be distributed by the Associated Press around the world.
Aaron
Almond (ph) didn't see it until the next day on the front page of the newspaper.
NISSEN: At
Aaron's
requestion, Chris Fields and Sergeant Avery both went to Bailey's funeral, helped lay her to rest, but the photograph had taken on a life of its own.
NISSEN: And
Aaron
Almond (ph) -- she is married with a young daughter and son. She keeps mementos of Bailey on display, including a painting of the famous image, which she sees differently now after 10 years.
10:44
BROWN: Just ahead tonight, some of the days other news, morning paper's still to come. We'll take a break first. We're in Los Angeles and this is NEWSNIGHT.
10:44
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
10:47
BROWN: In just a moment, the story of a young man who survived the Columbine massacre -- we're on that anniversary, too, but lost his sister that day. How the experience has changed his life.
But right now, as we head to the top of the hour Erica Hill joins us again in Atlanta with some of the day's other headlines -- Erica.
10:47
This is interesting. Aaron introduces Erica Hill a pretty white woman who needs protection from every man that isn't same I am sure, but, at any rate, Aaron never comes back at the end of the 'newsy' segment.
HILL: Hello again to you, Aaron.
...NEWSNIGHT continues in a moment, but first as part of CNN's anniversary series, "Then and Now," how one Columbine survivor used his experience to help others.
Aaron is completely circumvented into a Columbine survivor. A causcasian only.
:50
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
:53
It was after the commercial break do we finally see THE ANCHOR to the news hour, a complete five minutes later.
BROWN: Oke dokie (ph).
"Washington Post"
"International Herald Tribune,"
"Washington Times,"
"The Detroit News"
"The Des Moines Register"
"The Chicago Sun Times"
We'll wrap it up from the city of angels in just a moment upon.
:55
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
How deep does the hatred of a Jew go?
For years Aaron Brown and I have shared communication of one type or another around the near daily activity called NewsNight. At the top of my hours worth of notes was always the title "Aaron Brown's NewsNight." At the conclusion of the program I would e-mail with a "Word" attachment the unedited and candid notes of the program.
A time back I purchased a program called "One Note" from "Microsoft." There is a separate space for the title to the program that does not accompany the notes which I send no longer as an attachment but only as a cut and paste to an e-mail. When I switched to "One Note" the notes no longer featured a title.
I was preceiving a change in the expertise and quality of NewsNight as of late and felt it needed to be addressed and as a consequence I was communicating same. I thought perhaps including the Title of the notes with the e-mail would spawn something. I was hoping a return to things as expert as they used to be.
Well. What resulted was more ego driven hatred that I never expected from the Executive Producer that drives this blog. So for the people that ever thought (and at times that included me) that Aaron Brown was the issue in regard to the hatred and racism exhibited by this program let that 'doubt' be put to rest. The bigotry and racism is proudly owned by Sharon "The Religious Bigot and Racist" von Zwieten. (I could never remember if Zwieten was spelled with an 'ie' or 'ei' and neither do I care.)
Previous to any program I usually react to the e-page of NewsNight and subsequent e-mail. Last night when I noted the e-page of NewsNight stated STILL ANOTHER 'Special Editon' I wrote to the bigot she should balance her desire to dominate women's uterus's by balancing the program equally with the other 149 dead adults as well as infants and children. THAT explains CLEARLY the 'script' Aaron was to read at the beginning of the program:
"We come to you from the memorial in Oklahoma City this evening. Ten years ago tonight parents in and around Oklahoma City were putting their children to bed about this time. No doubt, a few were reading a final bedtime story. Those who worked in the Murrah Federal Building could not possibly imagine what the next day would bring when they dropped their child off at the daycare center on the second floor, a daycare center that was so convenient, so close."
That aside the bigotry and hatred leveled at me and I do believe Aaron last night was significant. The program was an hour or so in length and Aaron's participation was all of approximately 3 minutes. Below was his only PART in it.
AARON BROWN, HOST (voice-over): April 19th, 1995.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got a critical.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People running past us had blood all over them. I have never seen so much glass.
BROWN: Domestic terrorism strikes in the heartland of America. The rescue.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was falling three floors, still in my chair but upside down.
BROWN: The arrest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He said "My weapon is loaded." and I said "Well, so is mine."
BROWN: The emotions.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was as though we entered the gates of hell.
BROWN: April 19th, 10 years later, in their own words, those who lived it then and now.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: Before September 11th and Osama bin Laden, there was Oklahoma City. And there was Timothy McVeigh. Welcome to our special coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing on NEWSNIGHT.
We come to you from the memorial in Oklahoma City this evening. Ten years ago tonight parents in and around Oklahoma City were putting their children to bed about this time. No doubt, a few were reading a final bedtime story. Those who worked in the Murrah Federal Building could not possibly imagine what the next day would bring when they dropped their child off at the daycare center on the second floor, a daycare center that was so convenient, so close.
On April 19th, 1995, a truck bomb exploded. It demolished the building, 168 people would die, men, women and children. And many hundreds more were injured in what was the worst terrorist attack in our country to that point. A decade later, the people who were there, the survivors of the attack, the rescue workers, the people who lost loved ones that day and the reporters and the photographers who covered it remember a day that changed the country.
Then at 10:30 PM
BROWN: Ten years ago tonight nobody knew the name Timothy McVeigh or the shadowy world in which he lived. That would change very soon. On April 19th, 1995, McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building here in Oklahoma City. That attack killed 168 people, men, women and children. It was, at that time, the worst act of terrorism ever committed on American soil.
THAT WAS TO PROVE to someone how POWERFUL the idiot 'von zweiten or von zwieten or von zwhiten' actually is you see. It could never be "Aaron Brown's NewsNight" after all because she is the only dominating factor to the news hour. All possible exists because Sharon has psycotic and narcisstic control over every aspect of thought and reason of a nation falling at her feet.
Amazing.
At any rate, the intentions of Bubba von Zwieten is to cause again 'fear' rather than 'confidence' in the American public putting forward an agenda of equating 9/11 to Oklahoma City. That is pure nonsense. I wrote to Aaron 'as always' after the program stating I noted the hostile work environment he must conduct himself and also noted the program and the American Public would have been best served to come to understand how McVeigh could exist without the FBI knowing before the plot was carried out that it actually would be carried out. I felt the entire hour, although a respect at some level to the people who suffered losses, certainly was a waste of time to the cause of public safety in regard to HOME GROWN terrorists and killers.
Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph are a sad reality The Religious Right has spawned in Red States where young men and young women are under valued except for the 'ROLES' they can play in the 'Mind Set' scheme of things dictated by dysfunctional evangelical faith issues such as unrealistic control over women's lives and options to live them. Red States with poorly performing primary and secondary schools as well as high joblessness or at the very least low status employment without health issues while social issues such as drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse are common place.
Timothy McVeigh was a caucasian Christian who felt strongly about his actions being correct. A caucasian and former soldier. A soldier who never stopped being one for lack of a different identity.
A time back I purchased a program called "One Note" from "Microsoft." There is a separate space for the title to the program that does not accompany the notes which I send no longer as an attachment but only as a cut and paste to an e-mail. When I switched to "One Note" the notes no longer featured a title.
I was preceiving a change in the expertise and quality of NewsNight as of late and felt it needed to be addressed and as a consequence I was communicating same. I thought perhaps including the Title of the notes with the e-mail would spawn something. I was hoping a return to things as expert as they used to be.
Well. What resulted was more ego driven hatred that I never expected from the Executive Producer that drives this blog. So for the people that ever thought (and at times that included me) that Aaron Brown was the issue in regard to the hatred and racism exhibited by this program let that 'doubt' be put to rest. The bigotry and racism is proudly owned by Sharon "The Religious Bigot and Racist" von Zwieten. (I could never remember if Zwieten was spelled with an 'ie' or 'ei' and neither do I care.)
Previous to any program I usually react to the e-page of NewsNight and subsequent e-mail. Last night when I noted the e-page of NewsNight stated STILL ANOTHER 'Special Editon' I wrote to the bigot she should balance her desire to dominate women's uterus's by balancing the program equally with the other 149 dead adults as well as infants and children. THAT explains CLEARLY the 'script' Aaron was to read at the beginning of the program:
"We come to you from the memorial in Oklahoma City this evening. Ten years ago tonight parents in and around Oklahoma City were putting their children to bed about this time. No doubt, a few were reading a final bedtime story. Those who worked in the Murrah Federal Building could not possibly imagine what the next day would bring when they dropped their child off at the daycare center on the second floor, a daycare center that was so convenient, so close."
That aside the bigotry and hatred leveled at me and I do believe Aaron last night was significant. The program was an hour or so in length and Aaron's participation was all of approximately 3 minutes. Below was his only PART in it.
AARON BROWN, HOST (voice-over): April 19th, 1995.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got a critical.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People running past us had blood all over them. I have never seen so much glass.
BROWN: Domestic terrorism strikes in the heartland of America. The rescue.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was falling three floors, still in my chair but upside down.
BROWN: The arrest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He said "My weapon is loaded." and I said "Well, so is mine."
BROWN: The emotions.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was as though we entered the gates of hell.
BROWN: April 19th, 10 years later, in their own words, those who lived it then and now.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: Before September 11th and Osama bin Laden, there was Oklahoma City. And there was Timothy McVeigh. Welcome to our special coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing on NEWSNIGHT.
We come to you from the memorial in Oklahoma City this evening. Ten years ago tonight parents in and around Oklahoma City were putting their children to bed about this time. No doubt, a few were reading a final bedtime story. Those who worked in the Murrah Federal Building could not possibly imagine what the next day would bring when they dropped their child off at the daycare center on the second floor, a daycare center that was so convenient, so close.
On April 19th, 1995, a truck bomb exploded. It demolished the building, 168 people would die, men, women and children. And many hundreds more were injured in what was the worst terrorist attack in our country to that point. A decade later, the people who were there, the survivors of the attack, the rescue workers, the people who lost loved ones that day and the reporters and the photographers who covered it remember a day that changed the country.
Then at 10:30 PM
BROWN: Ten years ago tonight nobody knew the name Timothy McVeigh or the shadowy world in which he lived. That would change very soon. On April 19th, 1995, McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building here in Oklahoma City. That attack killed 168 people, men, women and children. It was, at that time, the worst act of terrorism ever committed on American soil.
THAT WAS TO PROVE to someone how POWERFUL the idiot 'von zweiten or von zwieten or von zwhiten' actually is you see. It could never be "Aaron Brown's NewsNight" after all because she is the only dominating factor to the news hour. All possible exists because Sharon has psycotic and narcisstic control over every aspect of thought and reason of a nation falling at her feet.
Amazing.
At any rate, the intentions of Bubba von Zwieten is to cause again 'fear' rather than 'confidence' in the American public putting forward an agenda of equating 9/11 to Oklahoma City. That is pure nonsense. I wrote to Aaron 'as always' after the program stating I noted the hostile work environment he must conduct himself and also noted the program and the American Public would have been best served to come to understand how McVeigh could exist without the FBI knowing before the plot was carried out that it actually would be carried out. I felt the entire hour, although a respect at some level to the people who suffered losses, certainly was a waste of time to the cause of public safety in regard to HOME GROWN terrorists and killers.
Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph are a sad reality The Religious Right has spawned in Red States where young men and young women are under valued except for the 'ROLES' they can play in the 'Mind Set' scheme of things dictated by dysfunctional evangelical faith issues such as unrealistic control over women's lives and options to live them. Red States with poorly performing primary and secondary schools as well as high joblessness or at the very least low status employment without health issues while social issues such as drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse are common place.
Timothy McVeigh was a caucasian Christian who felt strongly about his actions being correct. A caucasian and former soldier. A soldier who never stopped being one for lack of a different identity.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
The Religious Bigotry of CNN's NewsNight "Morning Papers"
The Moscow Times
Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Times
The Washington Post
The what?
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rocky Mountain News
Chicago Sun Times
Christian Science Monitor
The Washington Times
The Washington Post
The what?
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rocky Mountain News
Chicago Sun Times
Ethnoreligious Based Hatred and Bigotry
Morning Papers
Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-When-Due"
"Oak-He-Doe-$he"
First up the News Rag that espounds unconstitutional directives, mistrust, destruction and hatred. Not patriotism, tolerance, trust and preservation. Greed over longevity.
In contrast according to CNN's Bigoted "Morning Papers"
..."The Christian Science Monitor." Not really -- it's kind of a fun paper....
The Christian Science Monitor - The 'WHITE MAN'S' Neocon News Rag
Task ahead: how to be a spy czar
Negroponte's confirmation hearing hints at strategies.
By Peter Grier and Faye Bowers Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – Experts to John Negroponte: If confirmed by the Senate, you'll be the first true czar of US intelligence. Make sure you act the part. Redirect a spy satellite. Change some figures in a budget. Fire somebody. Or promote them.
Don't pick a fight for a fight's sake, but throw your weight around at the first good opportunity - and make sure the White House goes along.
Bringing the case against judges
Are 'activist judges' ruining America? That's the fear of a newly formed coalition of religious conservatives who are urging Congress to push back.
By Jane Lampman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – 'Activist judges" are out of control and waging a war on faith, religious conservatives are charging. That's why - even as the United States Senate prepares for a battle over the president's judicial nominations - a conservative coalition is working to broaden the fight to the federal judiciary as a whole. Its ultimate goal is to force Congress to rein in the judges.
Drilling where antelope play
Even as natural-gas wellheads proliferate, new strategies aim to lessen environmental impact
By Todd Wilkinson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor PINEDALE, WYO. – On a windswept butte in the upper Green River valley, biologist Steve Belinda watches a herd of pronghorn antelope as a line of red Halliburton trucks rumble down a dusty road below.
In front of him is an intersection of sprouting gas derricks, nomadic wildlife, and, on the horizon, the serrated caps of the Wind River mountain range. The convergence of the three is creating a clash here in western Wyoming as part of one of the largest energy booms in United States history.
Chronically EXCLUDED from CNN's "Morning Papers" Segment is any and all Jewish Newspapers
This is Haaretz this morning...
FM Shalom presents Mubarak with peace plan with Arab states
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Staff
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak early Tuesday afternoon ended a Cairo meeting during which Shalom presented Israel's "road map" to peace with Arab and Muslim states.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563714.html
Analysis: Instead of friendship - disagreements
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
CRAWFORD, Texas - The news conference George Bush and Ariel Sharon held at the U.S. president's ranch felt like there was something a little off. Instead of conveying friendship and partnership, the two leaders exposed their disagreements. The tremendous effort invested in flying the prime minister here, in staging a fabulous photo op, and in tedious preparatory talks by aides, was overshadowed by arguments over construction in the settlements and the way to get the peace process moving after the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563713&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0
THE 'TAG TEAM' OF CHENEY/BUSH - The Old Routine of 'Good Cop, Bad Cop'
PM arrives in Washington to meet with Cheney
By Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Washington Tuesday to meet with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney as part of an ongoing visit to the United States, Israel Radio said.
Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush remained at odds over the issue of construction in the settlements, after their meeting Monday at the president's ranch in Crawford.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563773&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
PM arrives in Washington to meet with Cheney
By Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Washington Tuesday to meet with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney as part of an ongoing visit to the United States, Israel Radio said.
Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush remained at odds over the issue of construction in the settlements, after their meeting Monday at the president's ranch in Crawford.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563773.html
Arafat's feminist legacy
By Amira Hass
It could be that if the late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat were still alive, the demonstration that is planned for one of the next few days would not have to be held. It could be that Arafat would have made some members of the Palestinian Legislative Council change their minds and vote in favor of the provision in the Elections Law that is clearly aimed at creating more cracks in the patriarchal social tradition. But in the absence of the father figure, whose wish was his command, the snail's pace of the hard work that a coalition of feminist and pro-feminist organizations has been investing to advance women's participation in political life is even more evident.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563770&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0
PM: If pullout coordinated with PA, homes to remain
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted Wednesaday as having told administration officials that Israel would refrain from destroying the homes of settlers in the Gaza Strip if the disengagement plan is coordinated with Palestinian officials.
"The homes of settlers in Gush Katif will not be destroyed after the evacuation if the disengagement plan will be carried out in coordination with the Palestinians," Army Radio quoted Sharon as saying at the close of his talks with senior U.S. officials.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564243.html
In surprise win, Fatah beats Hamas at Bir Zeit University elections
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
Fatah defeated Hamas in a surprise victory in elections for the student council of Bir Zeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The voting at the university is thought to be representative of the power struggle between the two organizations, as the campaigns for Palestinian Authority local elections set for May 5 swing into their final phase.
The Bir Zeit student council, which had always been led by Hamas activists, was handed over to Fatah, which won 23 seats on the council, versus 22 for Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564182.html
Thousands attending funeral of lyricist Ehud Manor
By Haaretz Staff and Reuters
Thousands of people turned out Wednesday afternoon for the funeral of Israel Prize laureate Ehud Manor, who died Tuesday.
Manor, one of Israel's most prolific and best-loved songwriters, passed away early Tuesday morning in his Tel Aviv apartment at the age of 64. His widow said he collapsed early Tuesday of an apparent heart attack.
Some of Israel's most famous singers were to perform at the funeral, which began at 2 P.M. in Manor's birthplace of Binyamina. Those set to sing included Matti Caspi, Hanan Yuval and Gali Atari.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564039.html
Jaljulya man latest in series of rape arrests
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
A resident of Jaljulya aged 39 was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of raping a 20-year-old woman he had held for two days against her will in an abandoned house in Tel Aviv.
The suspect was arrested in Tel Aviv after detectives from the Yarkon region spotted him entering the building on Yehuda Halevi Street. The police officers followed him inside, where they discovered the woman.
She told them that the suspect, with whom she had previously had an acquaintance, had taken her there early in the week, locked her up and raped her. The suspect will be brought for an extension of his remand Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564638.html
The borders were marked in Texas
In Texas on Monday, George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon marked out the furthest borders that any Israeli prime minister can dream of: at most - and even that is not without conditions and not necessarily so - they will be the eastern line around the major Israeli population centers (settlement blocs) in the territories, including - by implication - the post-1967 Jerusalem neighborhoods.
It's doubtful Israel will ever find a friendlier president than Bush, and one more combative toward its enemies. If he drew that line, for his guest Sharon and the world watching them, it means that any campaign to save dozens of settlements and tens of thousands of settlers who are outside that line is doomed from the start. Many Israelis, who have long hoped for a compromise based on the 1967 lines, won't regard that as a defeat, but just the opposite. But others, including those who have been in power for years or on the rightist flanks that made things difficult for governments, play with the delusion of holding onto all the settlements of the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564240.html
Bush is from Mars, Sharon is from Venus
By Aluf Benn
WASHINGTON - It is difficult to describe a pair more different from one another than George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon. The physical differences are obvious. One is from a tiny village in mandate-era Palestine, the other the son of patrician Americans. One is an eternal opposition figure who barely made it to the top, and the other is a president son of a president. One is a warrior and general and the other a rear guard pilot whose national service is a matter of controversy. At least their farms are about the same size.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564221.html
OIL AND WATER. Literally. The Christian Science Monitor advocates the drilling for and use of oil with complete disregard to the well being of populous all over Earth and the destruction of biota leading to extinctional Climate Change.
I wonder why ANY OTHER Ethnoreligious paper doesn't appear on this segment? Could it be they all have agendas of peace rather than war? Yeah. I think so.
What Sharon forgot to tell the Jews
By Nathan Guttman
WASHINGTON - When aides to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began planning his trip to the United States, they included a visit to Los Angeles, where Sharon was supposed to spend time with the city's large Jewish community. But by the time the plan got to the execution stage, it was decided to forgo Los Angeles, for lack of sufficient time. The American Jewish community will have to make do with a meeting between Sharon and several leaders of major organizations at his hotel in Washington.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564220.html
Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-When-Due"
"Oak-He-Doe-$he"
First up the News Rag that espounds unconstitutional directives, mistrust, destruction and hatred. Not patriotism, tolerance, trust and preservation. Greed over longevity.
In contrast according to CNN's Bigoted "Morning Papers"
..."The Christian Science Monitor." Not really -- it's kind of a fun paper....
The Christian Science Monitor - The 'WHITE MAN'S' Neocon News Rag
Task ahead: how to be a spy czar
Negroponte's confirmation hearing hints at strategies.
By Peter Grier and Faye Bowers Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – Experts to John Negroponte: If confirmed by the Senate, you'll be the first true czar of US intelligence. Make sure you act the part. Redirect a spy satellite. Change some figures in a budget. Fire somebody. Or promote them.
Don't pick a fight for a fight's sake, but throw your weight around at the first good opportunity - and make sure the White House goes along.
Bringing the case against judges
Are 'activist judges' ruining America? That's the fear of a newly formed coalition of religious conservatives who are urging Congress to push back.
By Jane Lampman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – 'Activist judges" are out of control and waging a war on faith, religious conservatives are charging. That's why - even as the United States Senate prepares for a battle over the president's judicial nominations - a conservative coalition is working to broaden the fight to the federal judiciary as a whole. Its ultimate goal is to force Congress to rein in the judges.
Drilling where antelope play
Even as natural-gas wellheads proliferate, new strategies aim to lessen environmental impact
By Todd Wilkinson Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor PINEDALE, WYO. – On a windswept butte in the upper Green River valley, biologist Steve Belinda watches a herd of pronghorn antelope as a line of red Halliburton trucks rumble down a dusty road below.
In front of him is an intersection of sprouting gas derricks, nomadic wildlife, and, on the horizon, the serrated caps of the Wind River mountain range. The convergence of the three is creating a clash here in western Wyoming as part of one of the largest energy booms in United States history.
Chronically EXCLUDED from CNN's "Morning Papers" Segment is any and all Jewish Newspapers
This is Haaretz this morning...
FM Shalom presents Mubarak with peace plan with Arab states
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Staff
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak early Tuesday afternoon ended a Cairo meeting during which Shalom presented Israel's "road map" to peace with Arab and Muslim states.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563714.html
Analysis: Instead of friendship - disagreements
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
CRAWFORD, Texas - The news conference George Bush and Ariel Sharon held at the U.S. president's ranch felt like there was something a little off. Instead of conveying friendship and partnership, the two leaders exposed their disagreements. The tremendous effort invested in flying the prime minister here, in staging a fabulous photo op, and in tedious preparatory talks by aides, was overshadowed by arguments over construction in the settlements and the way to get the peace process moving after the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563713&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0
THE 'TAG TEAM' OF CHENEY/BUSH - The Old Routine of 'Good Cop, Bad Cop'
PM arrives in Washington to meet with Cheney
By Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Washington Tuesday to meet with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney as part of an ongoing visit to the United States, Israel Radio said.
Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush remained at odds over the issue of construction in the settlements, after their meeting Monday at the president's ranch in Crawford.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563773&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
PM arrives in Washington to meet with Cheney
By Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Washington Tuesday to meet with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney as part of an ongoing visit to the United States, Israel Radio said.
Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush remained at odds over the issue of construction in the settlements, after their meeting Monday at the president's ranch in Crawford.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/563773.html
Arafat's feminist legacy
By Amira Hass
It could be that if the late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat were still alive, the demonstration that is planned for one of the next few days would not have to be held. It could be that Arafat would have made some members of the Palestinian Legislative Council change their minds and vote in favor of the provision in the Elections Law that is clearly aimed at creating more cracks in the patriarchal social tradition. But in the absence of the father figure, whose wish was his command, the snail's pace of the hard work that a coalition of feminist and pro-feminist organizations has been investing to advance women's participation in political life is even more evident.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=563770&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0
PM: If pullout coordinated with PA, homes to remain
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted Wednesaday as having told administration officials that Israel would refrain from destroying the homes of settlers in the Gaza Strip if the disengagement plan is coordinated with Palestinian officials.
"The homes of settlers in Gush Katif will not be destroyed after the evacuation if the disengagement plan will be carried out in coordination with the Palestinians," Army Radio quoted Sharon as saying at the close of his talks with senior U.S. officials.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564243.html
In surprise win, Fatah beats Hamas at Bir Zeit University elections
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
Fatah defeated Hamas in a surprise victory in elections for the student council of Bir Zeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The voting at the university is thought to be representative of the power struggle between the two organizations, as the campaigns for Palestinian Authority local elections set for May 5 swing into their final phase.
The Bir Zeit student council, which had always been led by Hamas activists, was handed over to Fatah, which won 23 seats on the council, versus 22 for Hamas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564182.html
Thousands attending funeral of lyricist Ehud Manor
By Haaretz Staff and Reuters
Thousands of people turned out Wednesday afternoon for the funeral of Israel Prize laureate Ehud Manor, who died Tuesday.
Manor, one of Israel's most prolific and best-loved songwriters, passed away early Tuesday morning in his Tel Aviv apartment at the age of 64. His widow said he collapsed early Tuesday of an apparent heart attack.
Some of Israel's most famous singers were to perform at the funeral, which began at 2 P.M. in Manor's birthplace of Binyamina. Those set to sing included Matti Caspi, Hanan Yuval and Gali Atari.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564039.html
Jaljulya man latest in series of rape arrests
By Roni Singer, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
A resident of Jaljulya aged 39 was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of raping a 20-year-old woman he had held for two days against her will in an abandoned house in Tel Aviv.
The suspect was arrested in Tel Aviv after detectives from the Yarkon region spotted him entering the building on Yehuda Halevi Street. The police officers followed him inside, where they discovered the woman.
She told them that the suspect, with whom she had previously had an acquaintance, had taken her there early in the week, locked her up and raped her. The suspect will be brought for an extension of his remand Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564638.html
The borders were marked in Texas
In Texas on Monday, George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon marked out the furthest borders that any Israeli prime minister can dream of: at most - and even that is not without conditions and not necessarily so - they will be the eastern line around the major Israeli population centers (settlement blocs) in the territories, including - by implication - the post-1967 Jerusalem neighborhoods.
It's doubtful Israel will ever find a friendlier president than Bush, and one more combative toward its enemies. If he drew that line, for his guest Sharon and the world watching them, it means that any campaign to save dozens of settlements and tens of thousands of settlers who are outside that line is doomed from the start. Many Israelis, who have long hoped for a compromise based on the 1967 lines, won't regard that as a defeat, but just the opposite. But others, including those who have been in power for years or on the rightist flanks that made things difficult for governments, play with the delusion of holding onto all the settlements of the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564240.html
Bush is from Mars, Sharon is from Venus
By Aluf Benn
WASHINGTON - It is difficult to describe a pair more different from one another than George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon. The physical differences are obvious. One is from a tiny village in mandate-era Palestine, the other the son of patrician Americans. One is an eternal opposition figure who barely made it to the top, and the other is a president son of a president. One is a warrior and general and the other a rear guard pilot whose national service is a matter of controversy. At least their farms are about the same size.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564221.html
OIL AND WATER. Literally. The Christian Science Monitor advocates the drilling for and use of oil with complete disregard to the well being of populous all over Earth and the destruction of biota leading to extinctional Climate Change.
I wonder why ANY OTHER Ethnoreligious paper doesn't appear on this segment? Could it be they all have agendas of peace rather than war? Yeah. I think so.
What Sharon forgot to tell the Jews
By Nathan Guttman
WASHINGTON - When aides to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began planning his trip to the United States, they included a visit to Los Angeles, where Sharon was supposed to spend time with the city's large Jewish community. But by the time the plan got to the execution stage, it was decided to forgo Los Angeles, for lack of sufficient time. The American Jewish community will have to make do with a meeting between Sharon and several leaders of major organizations at his hotel in Washington.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/564220.html
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