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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (306199)	5/1/2005 9:56:48 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

well geeze, everyone here knows it is "end of days" we even have a tv show on about it. must be true.

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (306199)	5/1/2005 11:47:28 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 436258

May Day In Berlin, more than 500,000 Germans turned out for marches and rallies across the country, many of them focusing on recent political debate accusing company executives of increasing earnings while squeezing workers' wages and slashing jobs. In Moscow, thousands of communists rallied under pictures of Lenin and Stalin, while tens of thousands of labor union workers and opposition activists protested sweeping social reforms. French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen marked the workers' holiday Sunday by urging his countrymen to reject the European Union constitution. Thousands of others in France used traditional marches to voice job concerns and resentment over the government's decision to cancel the traditional Monday holiday after the Christian festival of Pentecost, which falls on May 16 this year. French President Jacques Chirac has staked considerable prestige on getting the historic EU treaty accepted, but his center-right government faces a battle before France's May 29 referendum. Polls suggest the French are inclined to vote "no." In the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, about 5,000 workers rallied to demand a minimum monthly wage equivalent to $50 and better safety standards, just weeks after a garment factory collapsed, killing 73 workers. There is no minimum wage in the poverty-stricken nation where inexperienced workers earn on average $13 to $20 per month. "It's a question of survival. " The best is yet to come