Saturday, October 5, 2013

B*U*S*T* DayNews World News 2005 - 2013




DAY NEWS, WORLD NEWS CONTINUED ... [ON HIATUS SINCE 2005]

OCTOBER 2013 -

UNITED STATES  Tuesday Oct 1 Open enrollment on ObamaCare (Affordable Healthcare Act) ... Federal Government "Shutdown" due to no compromise between Obama & Congress.  800,000 non-essential federal employees stayed home ...  World War II veterans on Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. War Memorial pushed through the barricaded open-air park due to the shutdown ... Washington D.C. police killed Miriam Carey, a fired dental hygienist from Connecticut tried to enter the White House barricade ... October is National Breast Cancer Month - Go Pink! ... Tom Clancy, bestselling author of The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger dead at the age of 66 ... Minneapolis 9-year old boy with no airline ticket and passed through security checkpoint and was able to sneak pass the gate and stowed to a flight to Las Vegas.  Amazing, reminded me of the film Catch Me If You Can ...  The US will be in default by October 17 - Obama ate his words that he's "unpatriotic" because he kept raising the debt ceiling since 2009 from 9 trillion to 16 trillion to 17 trillion.  Anyway, the US Treasury just keep printing the money.  For your information, this is according to a World Bank whistleblower, not me, all the US gold is in the Bank of Hawaii and the Banco di Vaticano ... Immigration demonstration, mostly with illegal immigrants, at the Washington Mall approved by the Obama Administration.  World War II veterans who fought for freedom were very livid and angry because they were barricaded and not allowed to enter the open-air War Memorial.  Obama and the Democrats could not care less - they are anti-military ... 5 coffins of American soldiers who just died in Afghanistan not paid by the military because of the shutdown ... Scott Carpenter, one of the original members of Mercury 7 mission and the second astronaut to orbit the earth died at the age of 88 ... All of 72 Dominick's stores in Chicago to close in 2014, owned by Safeway it has 6,600 employees mostly belonging to unions ... Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Sunday October 13 ... 51,000 signed up in ObamaCare, on its 11th day... Stalemate between Obama and Congress ... Truckers in Washington, D.C. calling for Obama's impeachment for treason and fraud ... America, including the Republican Party, held hostage by Obama because of government shutdown ... 1.5% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) in Social Security benefit in 2014 ... Columbus Day (every 2nd Monday of October) Parade in Chicago ... ObamaCare goofy website a migraine headache to many curious health applicants ... October 16 Government shutdown over by kicking the "can" to January 15, 2014 ... 47 million Americans on food stamps - $858 million per year wasted in fraud ... New runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport ... Google shares hit $1000 mostly from businesses abroad ...St. Louis' Cardinals going to the World Series ... 

Boy Scout Leaders Glenn Taylor and Dave Hall toppled a 2000-year old sandstone formation in Goblin State Valley Park, Utah ...

Oarfish (Regalecus glesne), longest and biggest fish caught in Oceanside, California ...


ObamaCare malfunctioning http://www.healthcare.gov  website to be redone at an additional cost of millions of taxpayers' dollars.  I'm old-fashioned: When I first enrolled for my basic healthcare it was from my employer and did not go to the computer.  It went to an effect after three months of employment.  Many years later, I went to another healthcare enrollment and was interviewed and enrolled in person to person at designated hotels and other venues.  Computer applications may be okay with social networks, computer dating and ordering stuffs but not with serious, personal and very private business such as health care.  ObamaCare is self-destructing in a few years ...  91-0 score in high school football team game in Texas ... US unemployment down to 7.2% ... Average earning of Americans $24.09 ... October 23, 1986 bombing of US baracks in Beirut, Lebanon, 241 soldiers killed ... October 29 Popular conservative radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh, 20 million listeners, who wrote Rush Revere book available in bookstores ...


... HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius apologetic in HealthCare website congressional hearing.  She's the scapegoat when all blame should be with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and US Supreme Court for pushing ObamaCare and approved by the Bystander President ... The one-size fits all healthcare does not fit and therefore one must quit.  It turned out there's a conflict - the target young age of 27 and up don't have a job and those that are under 26 years old are insured by their parent/s.  The healthcare is unsustainable with high cost of maintenance because of enrolees with pre-existing health problems.  Because of the ObamaCare debacle, there will be a Republican rise in the 2014 mid-term election ...


October 30 Boston Red Sox won the World Series against St. Louis Cardinals ... Airline passengers allowed to have portable electronic device except cell phone and texting ... November 1 TSA officer Geraldo Hernandez killed in LAX shooting by gunman Paul Ciancia of New Jersey.  First TSA officer to die ... Suicide in Paramus, New Jersey shopping mall ...  129 million health insurance could be cancelled by 2014.  The United States has a population of more than 300 million ... Chicago's celebrity chef Charlie Trotter, 54, died Monday. His gourmet restaurant which very few can afford ($500 dinner)  closed in 2012 ? when he retired ... Blockbuster to close 300 stores ... Illinois is the 15th state to pass same-sex marriage bill ... Anti-Gay discrimination at workplace bill passed ... Chris Christie, moderate Republican, re-elected Governor of New Jersey ... Bill de Blasio (D) newly-elected of NY ... US and Israel lost UNESCO voting rights ... There will be 30,000 drones on US airspace by the year 2020 ... November 7  Twitter, just like Facebook with no net profit,  Initial Public Offering (IPO) ... Trans Fats being phased out from foods ... USS Gerald Ford christened by daughter Susan Ford ... USS New York returns to NY for Veterans Day... CIA buys AT&T call logs for $10 million ... November 10 Sunday, 238th anniversary of US Marine Corps ... Chrysler recall cars due power steering problem ... $26 billion lost in GM stimulus ... November 13 The lovely face that launched a thousand enrollees in HealthCare.gov, not!, is an illegal immigrant from Colombia and her name is Adriana ... Privately health insured Americans cancelled and wiped out by insurers because of ObamaCare program ... Meningitis outbreak at Princeton University ... Dow Industrial up to 16,000 and it's going up, up ...  JP Morgan Chase to pay billions to US government for dumping bad mortgages ... November 17 Tornado hits central Illinois, 6 killed ...  Racing to Mars ...  November 19  150th Anniversary of Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln ... November 20  HealthCare.gov enrollees - 27,000 ... White House closing healthcare enrollment to December 24 ... November 26 Dancing With The Stars finale - all great dancers ... 
   
CYBERSPACE  20 Microsoft shareholders want to get rid of Chairman Bill Gates (if you ask me, it should not be Bill Gates that should be fired but the developers of OUTLOOK -- I had trouble and very inconvenient since my HOTMAIL, the best in my opinion, was transferred to OUTLOOK).  It used to be you just click click click on each recipient box but with OUTLOOK you have to go back each time which is a waste of time ... Every member is having a hard time with the new YaHoo! Groups format (I, self, stopped replying and conversing right on the website and when you press the next and previous arrows nothing happens).  It used to be in the old format all the messages are shown right away.  What a pain! The developers should be fired! ... YouTube videos play but no sound or audio.  Google goofy, goofy, goofy!!! ... It seems my YouTube videos are back with audio ...

ARCTIC CIRCLE  Greenpeace activists in protest of oil rigs - Russia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Canada and the U.S. ...

CHINA  Christie's International opens in booming art market ... One of the largest holder of US debts nervous because of US government shutdown.  60% invested in US assets ... Whew! Chinese debt holders and investors are breathing a sigh of relief from what  the Obama government had put them and the world through with the possibility of US default.  US debt from China - $1.28 trillion.  This is chicken feed with a US debt of $17 trillion.  Who the hell cares?!  Not the American people who keep voting for the big spenders in Washington ...  Getting more oil from Russia, less for Europe ... 5 killed in crowded Tiananmen Square car "suicide" ... One child policy no longer implemented ...

GREECE  Saturday Oct 5  Olympic Torch light for the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia to pass and go around the world and Mission 37 on International Space Station (ISS) in November ...  Economy on the way to recovery by 2019 ...

SOMALIA  US SEAL Team withdrew after excessive firefight ...

LIBYA  US SEAL Team successfully captured wanted Al-Queda terrorist leader Abu Abas al-Liby responsible for Kenya & Tanzania US embassy bombing ... Gaddafi /Khadafi raped "thousands" of women while alive and some became his amazon bodyguards ...

SYRIA  Chemical weapons right on track to be destroyed according International Observer Team (IOT) ... Nobel Peace Prize winner Organization of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons overseeing clean up.  Syria won't pay for the clean up so OPCW will donate the award money ... Gunmen fired at Red Cross convoy.  Kidnapped and later released ... October 30 Chemical weapon stockpile destroyed as per OPCW ...

NORWAY  Nobel Prize nominees to be announced this weekend.  Two nominees from the US in Medicine have been announced Monday October 7 ...  (My) Prediction:  Malala Yousafzai, 16-year old girl from Pakistan, a survivor of Talaban assassination, shot in the head and neck, on October 9, 2012 while returning home from school will be the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever.  Ever.  Have you heard her speak at the UN and everywhere?  Very impressive for one so young in comparison with others of the same age ...

Just announced Friday October 11 by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo - The 2013 winner of Nobel Peace Prize is the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in the Hague, the Netherlands.  Malala's nominators should take heart and be reminded that it took Blessed Mother Teresa to be nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize ...

INDIA  Rent-a-womb industry booming -  a preferred fertility tourism destination because of low cost technology, skilled doctors, unregulated industry and plentiful supply of surrogates ...  89 killed in Hindu temple stampede ...  Renewing discussion with Pakistan what to do with water-rich region of Kashmir ... November 4  Launched rocket to Mars ...

ITALY-SICILY  34 immigrant from Eritrea and Somalis lost when their boat sank in Lampedusa ... Pope Francis praying for the 174 dead immigrants ...

VATICAN CITY  The Vatican has no concern its calls are being allegedly monitored from December 10, 2012 to January 8, 2013  by the U.S. National Security Agency.  On October 30, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi told reporters "We have no evidence of this." ... Bone fragments maybe that of St. Peter ... President Putin had a meeting with Pope Francis ...

RUSSIA  Whistleblower Edward Snowden was awarded the Whistleblower's Sam Adams Award by his fellow whistleblowers Radack, Drake and McGovern in a Moscow ceremony.  He's wanted for espionage in the US ... 235 carat diamond for sale for $2 million.  Russia has the largest collection of diamonds in the world ... October 27 Olympic Torch passing through St. Petersburg ... Miss Universe 2013 to be held November 9 Saturday at Crocus City Hall in Moscow ... Miss Venezuela crowned Miss Universe ...
November 17  All 50 on board killed in Boeing 737 plane crash at Kazan Airport, exploding upon impact ...

GERMANY  Worldwide protests against biotech giant Monsanto - opposition to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), food and Products which is on the market for 15 years.  Monsanto Protection Act was passed to provide immunity to biotech companies ... Chancellor Angela Merkel and more than 30 world leaders upset with NSA phone monitoring.  Hello, don't be too naived or surprised! ...

BAHRAIN   Bloody anti-government rally ...

EGYPT  US sattelite station hit by terrorists... Hard to hit US largest listening post is isolated Ascension Island ... Tourism recovering and business almost back to normal ... Deposed Pres. Morsi's trial moved to Alexandria ...

UNITED KINGDOM  UK icons such as Heathrow Airport sold to Chinese investors ... PM David Cameron lambasting The Guardian for the Edward Snowden leaks ... October 23 Christening of Baby Prince George ...


PHILIPPINES  93 killed in 7.2 earthquake in Bohol southern province ... Supertyphoon Haiyan (Yolanda) blasted Central Luzon Philippines of Leyte and neighboring islands Friday November 8 ... 10,000 More than 3,000 killed in the aftermath.  Help on the way from US Navy, USS George Washington, Royal Navy, UNICEF and Red Cross ... Thanks to generous donations from US $28 million, Australia $20 million, China $2 million and all over the world ...


November 24 Manny Pacquiao bloodied BamBam Rios in Macau.  Dedicate the fight to typhoon victims.  Zero crime rate in the Philippines during the fight ...
ROMANIA  Local folks protesting for the project "fracking" by US oil giant Chevron ...

BRAZIL  About 60 Christian youths from Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries who attended the World Youth Day seeking asylum ... Billionaire Batista filed for bankruptcy ...

IRELAND  No thanks to economic bailout offer ...

PAKISTAN  The ultra-conservative Muslim government blocked first Gay website ... Drones strikes supported by government ... November 1  Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, responsible for the killing of 7 CIA agent and New York failed terror bombing, killed in drone strike ... Musharaf out on bail ... Doctor who helped to find Osama bin Laden still in jail ...

TALIBAN CONNECTION  On-Line Dating for singles website, a counterpart of Match.com ...



Affordable package-deal wedding for Muslims in comparison to expensive American weddings that cost $40,000 ...


COLOMBIA  Becoming a hot tourist destination.  Fly Avianca Airlines ...

SPAIN  Out of recession with 1% growth ... 60 million phones monitored by NSA ...

GEORGIA  President Saaskashvili of Rose Revolution finishing term.  Election to be held ...

IRAQ  Ethnic tension between Sias and Sunnis - 50 killed in series of bombing ...

AFGHANISTAN  18 civilians killed in Eastern area ...  Outgoing President Hamid Karzai not sure of US troops staying for ten more years ...

OUTER SPACE  Junkyard of earth's broken satellites and rockets.  Not sucked in the universe's Black Hole.  On collision course? ...



IRAN  November 4  Annual  Anti-American Rally in Tehran.  In 1979, 52 American were kept hostaged for 444 days ... Nuclear talk resumes November 20.  Two months away in enriching nuclear reactor ... Sanction lifted in a nuclear deal with US and other nations in Geneva, Switzerland.  Israel and Saudi Arabia ? not happy ... Lest US forgets the US hostages in Iran in 1979 ... Gullible Americans.  Death to America ...

CANADA  November 4  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford finally admits to smoking crack cocaine ...

PALESTINE  Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) Yasser Arafat who died in 2004 ? was poisoned with radioactive polonium according to his British widow.  Israel is being accused but denied having done it ...

TURKEY  Arms deal with US canceled and favored China ...

ISRAEL  Surrounded by hostile Middle Eastern countries, except Saudi Arabia, is not all alone thanks to its 84-150  200 - 400 nuclear bombs ... November 18 Monday France's President Francois Hollande who rejected the US-Iran nuclear takl agreement is visiting Israel and met with Bibi Netanyahu ...  

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B*U*S*T* GLOBAL DAYNEWS

DAYLINE:  AUGUST 16 - 31,
2005


Tuesday  8.16 
160 killed in Venezuelan plane crash...17 Spanish peacemakers died in helicopter
crash in Afghanistan...Half of Israelis already left Gaza Strip
settlements...President Bush on vacation in his Crawford ranch with summer
reading of books on SALT, Alexander II, The Great Influenza...US defense cost of
$419 billion next year...Consumer Price Index 5%...Singer Madonna, 47, fell
from a horse with broken ribs and hands.  She's been taking lessons for 6
months...5.23  Gaza withdrawal completed...President Bush addressed the
peace mom and extreme left activist, Cindy Sheehan, but did not meet with
her.  President Bush meet with her in 2003 after her son died in
Iraq...Peruvian airliner crash-landed dividing into two due to hailstorm and bad
weather...Doping allegations by the French against 7-time Tour De France
bicycling champion Lance Armstrong...Evangelist and one-time presidential
candidate Pat Robertson on eliminating Venezuelan Communist President Hugo
Chavez - calls for US assassination...8.30  Hurricane Katrina going
northeast leaving a path of destruction.  Hundreds feared dead, 55 in
Biloxi, Mississippi.  Damage estimated at $25 billion...$69.81 a barrel of
oil...Cellphone usage cleared of causing brain cancer according to a medical
study.  8 out of 10 adults have mobile or cellphone....Precision guided
missiles bombed 3 militant safehouses near the Syrian border...Another Paris
fire housing poor African immigrants from Ivory Coast...Binyamin Netanyahu will
challenge Ariel Sharon...Great photos of one of the moons of Saturn by
Cassini-Huygens...Oldest person died at the age of 115 in the
Netherlands


Wednesday  8.17  43 people killed in Iraq...Emotional withdrawal in Neve
Dekalim, Gaza...8.24 President Bush in Idaho and met with pro-Iraq war mother
Tammy Pruiet and other 68 families whose sons/daughters died in Iraq...11
military bases closing including Ingleside Naval Station, Texas.  A saving
of $5-7 billion a year for the Pentagon.  Spared were the Groton,
Connecticut naval submarine base with 31,000 jobs and Portsmouth, Maine...Heavy
flooding in Bavaria, Germany...Tropical storm Katrina to landfall Friday in
Florida...8.31  President Bush addressed the nation at 4:05 pm on the
Hurricane Katrina disaster.  Thousands feared dead due to Hurricane
Katrina.  20,000 people evacuated and will be transported to Houston
Astrodome where there's electricity and flushing toilets from the roof-damaged
and stinky hot New Orleans Superdome...A thousand Shias killed in a bridge
stampede in a religious pilgrimage to Baghdad...25th anniversary of Poland's
Solidarity...Annual Venice Film Festival...Robert Kramer, husband
of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and political
consultant/fundraiser to Illinois Governor Rod Blagoyevich and Chicago Mayor
Richard M. Daley, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and federal tax violation. 
Possibility of 4 years in prison...


Thursday  8.18 
Pope Benedict in a 4-day World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany...4 US soldiers
killed by roadside bomb in Samarra, Iraq...2 soldiers died of IED in
Afghanistan...No shuttle mission until March 2006...BTK killer Dennis Rader
sentenced to ten consecutive life terms for murdering ten victims...Former Sun
Times newspaper publisher David Radler in
dicted...Tornadoes wiped out Stoughton, Wisconsin...8.25  Walter
Reed Army Medical Center closing and moving to a new building with the same
name.  It's been serving veterans since 1909...Preamble in a draft of Iraqi
Constitution - "We the sons of Mesopotamia, land of the
prophets..."...
Wily militant insurgents dressed as Iraqi soldiers trapped
and deceived innocent civilian Iraqis in thinking they were cooperating with
them and then killed 36 men.  They were found in a mass grave in Dora,
Iraq...Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 85, who did most of the writings
on marijuana users and eminent domain expressed a different feeling and thought
in a speech...Concern on the overpopulation of elephants at Kruger National
Park, South Africa...


Friday  8.19  3
rockets fired at 2 US ships missed but killed a Jordanian soldier in Ellat,
Jordan...Piggyback ride by shuttle Discovery on 747 from Edwards AFB to Cape
Kennedy at a cost of $1 million...$250 million awarded by a jury to a Texas
woman on her lawsuit against VIOXX drug maker.  Thousands of lawsuits are
pending...Northwest Airline, 4th largest, mechanic union to go on
strike...8.26  7 people died in Hurricane Katrina...US respects the wish of
Uzbekistan and will close its military base that was a go-through in the start
of war in Afghanistan...There's an increase of tuberculosis cases in South
Africa - 500,000 die a year...


Saturday  8.20 
Gaza withdrawal on schedule.  21 settlements are being evacuated...1 US
soldier killed in Iraq...47th Annual Air & Water Show - Chicago...8.27 
Hurricane Katrina on the way to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Alabama and
Louisiana...


Sunday  8.21 
Khadaffi extend an invitation to President Bush to visit Libya...Saddam
Hussein calls himself a "martyr'...4 US soldiers killed in roadside bomb in
Afghanistan and 2 diplomats were injured in a separate incident...Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarik on 5th election term...Joint Palestinian-Israeli Peace
Concert...In his homeland of Germany, Pope Benedict told the faithful at World
Youth Day to remain a loyal Catholic and return to basic values. 
He warned of do-it-yourself religion and go to mass every Sunday...10
firefighters died in central and northern Portugal forest fires.  3,000
firefighters are not enough...Rolling Stones rocks Fenway Park,
Boston...8.28  Hurricane Katrina now a category 5.  People have been
warned and told to leave and stay out of her path...Iraqi Parliament adjourned
until November with no final constitution...


Monday  8.22  President Bush defends the Iraq
War in a VFW  (Veterans of Foreign War) convention in Salt Lake City,
Utah...Draft of Iraq Constitution but no agreement yet...2 US soldiers killed in
Iraq...10th bombing in Beirut, Lebanon since January...Life sentence for Olympic
bomber Eric Rudolph...8.29  President Bush declared a state of emergency in
advance.  9,000 people sought refuge in Superdome...Sunni protestors in
Tikrit hometown of Saddam Hussein...Opium production in Afghanistan is down. 90%
of world's illegal supply come from Afghanistan...Smuggling rampant in former US
military base in Subic Base, Zambales, Philippines...


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