Most important news story of the week (ending June 12, 2009)

[ColbertWatcher]

Most important news story of the week ending June 12, 2009

A: hundreds of indigenous people are killed by Peruvian police^{http://amazonwatch.org/peru-action-alert.php">Amazon Watch, DU}; Royal Dutch Shell agrees to pay $15.5-million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of complicity in the 1995 executions of 9 environmental and human rights advocates^{Los Angeles Times}

B: a gunman kills Stephen T. Johns at the Holocaust Museum

C: Pro-Western parties win seats in Lebanon's election

D: Minnesota court orders Norm Coleman to pay Al Franken's court fees

E: a new element is added to the period table ^{http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8093374.stm|BBC>}

F: Euna Lee and Laura Ling are sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean prison

G: Iran's holds national elections

H: the World Health Organization elevates the H1N1 flu to a pandemic

I: One of the last-minute "incidents" that are a part of the Friday document dump (please see which in my reply)

J: Other (please see my pick for most important new story in reply)

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Kick. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Saturday kick. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

2. Other: DU and the 'Rape of the Moon' by a 'Japanese Probe'.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5829895
http://www.examiner.com/x-12038-SF-Astrology-Examiner~y2009m6d10-Orbiter-crashing-into-the-moon
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090610/sc_space/japaneseprobetoslamintomoontoday

[ColbertWatcher]

3. How could I have forgotten!? n/t