Monday's News
IRAQ:
Association of Muslim Scholars: vote illegitimate for "absence of international supervision"
Profile/history of possible PM, Mahdi
$82 Billion war funding bill sent to congress; in addition to $2.57 Trillion budget

AFGHANISTAN:
Pakistani general: troops will NOT be withdrawn from S Waziristan

PALESTINE:
"Unknown" group takes credit for assassination of ex Lebanon PM, Hariri, 8 others
4 arrested for using forged docs to sell Palestinian land in US, including Likud member

NEOCONS:
Weisman, Wurmser, Perle, Feith blow trumpet for war with Iran
SAIC: founded by nuke/neocon, war profiteer, spy agency, data mining masters

WORLD:
Kazakhstan: S Korea will export naval vessels for Caspian Sea fleet
Sudan: 700 POWs will be released to the ICRC by SPLM this week
Venezuela: Castro: if Chavez is assassinated, bush did it
Canada: Quebec MP: Wal-Mart guilty of "economic terrorism" for anti union activities

US:
Draft: selective service spokesperson: prep for draft is "in fact, what we've been doing"
bush budget timebombs for next prez: SS: $79.5 Billion when in office, $675 Bil after
Merck memo from 1991: children getting vaccine would get 87 times RDA of Mercury
Florida: food stamp use up 53% under bush administration
Verizon buys MCI for $6.7 Billion after SBC buys AT&T for $16 Billion in antitrust takeovers
SCLC joins Amnesty International and calls for moratorium on Taser use

BANKRUPTCY BILL:
New bankruptcy law: only 3% would qualify for chapter 7 in credit card corp welfare
Credit Card industry (most lucrative banking) got $11.7 Billion in penalty fees last year
Credit Card corp's campaign donations by party, year is $40 million in last 8 cycles
Bankruptcy bill would profit MBNA $75 million per year

COLORADO:
Castle Rock aquifer dries up: $32,000 per house for water within next 30 years
Country's largest herd of migrating Deer/Elk hurt by wells, roads, pipelines in NorthPark
Spring's cop, Broshous, gave most underage drinking citations; ordered men's shirts off

ACTIVISM:
Albuquerque activist gets $40,000 settlement from city for arrest at protest
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.org
Kevin Benderman Defense Committee.org
Save Our Environment.org petition to stop lawsuits and reduce emissions 30% by 2016
Lynne Stewart Defense Fund.org

HUMOR:
Date to Save.org; (can't make dis shit up)
I Love Karl Rove.com
Gunfight at the WMD Corral

Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Final: Shi'a Alliance: 47.6%; Kurdish coalition: 25.4%; 8,456,266 voted, or 59%
ONLY 40% in US know how many are dead; ONLY 42% follow news closely
Chart of 882 US children who have lost a parent in the war
Pentagram lying and covering up truth about trained Iraqis; 5,000 ready, not 122,000

PALESTINE:
Cabinet passes release of 500 Palestinians; admits none guilty of fighting

NEOCONS:
Chertoff released the 200 Israeli spies after 9/11 as assistant AG for DofJ

9/11:
Scan of Richard Clarke's memo to Condi Jan 21, 2001, warning of attack 9 months later
Scan of Dec, 2000 Clinton report attached to Clarke's memo warning Condi of attacks
Waxman and Maloney call for new hearings on 52 warnings sent to airports on CD-ROM

WORLD:
Iran: Pakistan's ISI admits Khan sold nuke materials, components, and plans to Iran
Iran: US flying surveillance drones over nuke facilities since last year
Iran: 50 CIA spies captured and killed in mid 1990s, destroying intel gathering ability
Togo: 3 killed as 3,000 protest coup
US steps up campaign to oust El-Baradei for telling truth about NO WMD in Iraq and Iran
Korea: former ambassador: N Korea told US about weapons program 2 years ago

US:
Chart: bush budget increases for "red states" is 3.7%, but ONLY 2.3% for "blue states"
ONLY 5 "blue states" get net fed money; ONLY 2 "red states" pay net fed taxes
List of 99 programs cut completely and 55 with major spending cuts

COLORADO:
Cop who busted Hildenbrandt at NATO protest, fired for stalking male arrestees
Gazette editorial arguing AGAINST Democracy in Woodland Park vote on Wal-Mart
Massachusetts files to dump NUCLEAR waste in Adams County
Factory farm in Kiowa COunty could be fined $10,000/day for 14 health violations
Director of Gender, Society, Culture Studies forced out for inviting Churchill on panel

ELECTIONS:
Transcript of Howard Dean's acceptance speech to DNC

ACTIVISM:
Daniel Ellsberg and Howard Zinn speeches against the war (streaming RM)
Veterans for Commoon Sense. org
Awakened Woman.org
Peace Roots Alliance.org
Peace Majority.org
Alternative Media Project.org
Velvet Revolution.US
Fox Bovine Growth Hornone Suit.com

HUMOR:
Kim Jong Il confident nukes will attract attention of Jodie Foster
SpongeBob admits infatuation with Homer Simpson; "one hot dude"

Saturday's News
IRAQ:
US dead in Iraq passes 1,500; details, dates, circumstances for each
1920: British occupation, 1958 revolution, 1963 CIA coup, 1968 CIA puts saddam in
28 Dems introduce bill for exit plan from "misadventure" in 28 days
Allawi meets with Kurds to form minority coalition to fight Shi'a majority
CNN exec resigns; told truth that US targets journalists to silence free press and truth
Doctor found guilty on 59 counts of charitable work for kids suffering under sanctions

AFGHANISTAN:
70 year old doctor drafted; retired from military 25 years ago
CIA agent who beat Afghani to death uses "public authority" defense: OK'd by bush

PALESTINE:
Syrian source: Israel shot down 2 MIG-29s over Mediterranean in September 2004
Abbas starts talks with Hamas

NEOCONS:
Carlyle Group and it's subversion of Democracy in America (streaming RM)
Convicted war criminal, Elliot Abrams pardoned by bush 1 for Iran/Contra crimes

9/11:
Declassified memo, 9 months before attack: "urgently need review on al-qaeda"

WORLD:
Canada: pulls Adderall (used for ADHD) after 20 deaths; FDA: "take 2, they're small"
Pentagram's "Salvador Option": FM-30-31B: if no insurgent attacks happen, create them
DR Congo: 80,000 refugees this year run from fighting; 50,000 killed since 1999

US:
Texas: bill introduced to give legislative power to stop judicial suit of DeLay corruption
WMD found!: US nuke weapons spending has grown 84% since 1995
Gonzales recuses self from CIA leak probe; due to his own guilt and the WH
Chicago cops delay 100 more tasers after killing 1 and cardiac arrest of teen
Kansas: 26 appointed by BofEd to change science curriculum to ignore reality
Kansas: BofEd had secret illegal meeting to put stickers in textbooks denying science truth
Utah: HB166 killed so state can govern cities on no smoking laws to protect workers
FDA blocks another scientist from telling truth about Bextra and Celebrex at meeting
Biowarfare has been hard at work: new virulent AIDS virus strain found
Wal-Mart agrees to wrist slap of $135,540 for violating child labor laws in 3 states

COLORADO:
Fucus needs 67,829 signatures to get gay marriage ban on state ballot
Dave Therault letter in RMN on Ward Churchill and free speech

ELECTIONS:
Dems select Howard Dean to replace Terry McAuliffe as chair of party
8 power plant polluters wrote Clean Skies destruction Act
Cinergy Corp campaign contributions to federal candidates in 2004 cycle
Cinergy Corp contributions to bush in 2000/2004 cycle
American Electric Power contributions to federal politicians in 2004 cycle
American Electric Power contributions to bush in 200/2004

ACTIVISM:
France: 15,000 march for release of Ocalan; got life for Kurd independence movement
MAD: Mothers Against the Draft
Quebec unions call for BOYCOTT of Wal-Mart for closing store being unionized

HUMOR:
Movie poster: "Terror From the Year 2005" starring Condi, bush, Ann Coulter
Cartoon: Gonzales breaks up PBS porno ring

Friday's News
IRAQ:
German court decides not to indict Rummy for war crimes after CCR files US complaint
Halliburton lost radioactive material in October; told govt in Feb; found this week
Iraq will seal borders for 5 days during Shi'a religious holiday
18 diagnosed with Lariam (Malaria drug) poisoning so far
Ramsey Clark on why he's taking saddam's case

AFGHANISTAN:
HOHR: 37 have been tortured to death in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo

PALESTINE:
Abbas fires Gaza top cop after mortar retaliation for 2 Palestinian deaths
nazi soap from Romania tested for DNA: no human DNA found

9/11:
Junior tried to stop release of report on 52 warnings about osama before 9/11
Sheikh Rahman's lawyer, Lynne Stewart, convicted of "material support"

WORLD:
England: US has 110 nukes at East Anglian Base or the 480 in Europe
Canada: K of C spend $65,000 lobbying against being 3rd country with gay marriage
Columbia: 17 state troops and 11 FARC troops die in battle in oil region
Nepal: resistance attacks jail, kills 5 guards, frees 166
Ukraine: AG says Yushchenko poisoned intentionally at dinner with secret service
West African leaders officially reject Togo power change as coup d'etat
Other shoe drops: Iran to establish world oil consortium to stop London's domination
N Korea: US rejects bilateral diplomacy in nuke talks

US:
SS: African Americans get 44% of income from SS; women 56.8%; 57% poverty without
40% Hispanics uninsured; 20% of African Americans; 11% of European Americans
Budget has 40% cut in federal juvenile crime prevention
Budget cuts COPS money to states 96%; DofJ by $1.5 Billion, HS by $310 million
NCLB underfunding by state for FY2006 total of $13.1 Billion
REAL ID Act passes house 261-161; state IDs must contain undefined "data elements";
California: parents react to elementary school forcing kids to wear radio ID badges (RFID)
200 scientists from Fish and Wildlife told to change findings to hurt environmental laws
Ohio: after "Choose Life" license plate, state offers: "One Nation Under God"
Senate passes tort deform 72-26 to stop state court class action suits; house next
RNC sends letters to 14 TV corps to stop MovOn.org ad against SS piratization plan
EPA/bush plans 2 year amnesty of factory farm polluters
Photo of 1996 IRS lawsuit against media pimp, Guckert/Gannon, for $20,742
7 Deadly Absurdities of NCLB law

TASERS:
DofD Taser study showed damage to pig's heart after several shocks; Taser hid results
Chicago stops purchase of more Tasers after man dies, teen suffers cardiac arrest
St. Louis man 87th to die after Taser shock
Chicago cops sued after death of 14 year old shot with Taser in treatment facility

COLORADO:
State gets 2.1% increase for NCLB, BUT still underfunded 64%, or $137.1 million
Video of Ward Churchill's speech in Boulder Tuesday (streaming RM)
"They're Baaaack": Fucus starts ballot campaign to ban gay marriage in Colorado
Springs: Nor'Wood Development will pay for city park; city will reimburse
Woodland Park Wal-Mart opponents find bylaw to stop rezoning hearing
Owens quiet on Merrifield's HB1061 Tenant's Rights bill
Students For Social Justice letter to INDY on Ward Churchill, freedom of speech

ACTIVISM:
Action: valentine card to Karl Rove, signed from LGBT, liberal, Dem, etc:
4925 Weaver Terrace NW, Washington DC, 20016
Nepal: Letter to police chief on missing Amnesty International staff in Khatmandu
Letter to Salazar/Allard to support Climate Stewardship Act
How the reichwing does it and what the left wing can learn from their tactics
Petition to Senate to investigate 9/11 attack more thoroughly
US Department of Peace Campaign
Petition to strengthen Clean Air Act, sign Kyoto Treaty, alternative energy
Petition to UN to stop "terminator gene" technology so farmers can save seeds to plant

HUMOR:
Mark Fiore animation: "Crazy George's Accounting Service"
Dean Friedman music video of song, "Four More Years" (Flash)

Thursday's News

IRAQ:
Tariq Aziz may go to trial first
"Election" results delayed over 300 ballot boxes tampered with
Florida Vet, in standoff with cops, got no PTSD support when he returned

AFGHANISTAN:
Coalition of the willing to accept $400 million in bribes

PALESTINE:
Flashback: Shin Bet (FBI) undercover agents infiltrated Palestinians for 40 years
Sharon appoints assassin, "Y" Diskin, as new head of Shin Bet
Business as usual: 2 unarmed Palestinians killed, mortars shot at occupiers

NEOCONS:
Karl Rove learned "dirty tricks" from Donald Segretti, working for Nixon, before jail
24 Israelis arrested in latest mall spy gambit; visa scam similar to "Zoom Copters"
Michael Ledeen/AEI admit interference in Ukraine election

9/11:
Classified report: FAA got 52 warnings about bin laden, al-qaeda, hijacking

WORLD:
Iran will open oil trading market for OPEC to rival London's Petroleum Exchange
Canada: Knights of Columbus join Spongebrain Dobson fighting gay marriage
NASA: 1998 warmest year in history; 2002 second; 2003 third; 2004 fourth
Iran caught 40 spies in 1990s; "network wiped out"; bush don't need no stinking intel
Nepal: "Nobody can speak against the government"; "not allow any demonstration"
Canada: Wal-Mart will close store that voted to unionize

US:
Medicare drug bill will cost $913 Billion, or $600 Billion more than lies told in 2003
AARP sues under EEOC, to stop Medicare from age discrimination; (bill they supported)
Professor gets $500,000 grants fro DofJ to study Tasers; already concludes safe
Kansas: unevolved AG will defend stickers in texbooks saying evolution is a theory
Censorship bill goes to house by 42-6 vote; FCC fine of $500,000 per nipple, Janet!
A month after bill to hire 10,000 border cops; budget cuts 9,790 of them
Tort deform bill moving through Senate without amendment/compromise
WR Grace (Montana asbestos) paid $8 million in Mass. for killing 5 kids with Leukemia
Verizon bid for MCI continues Raygun telecom consolidation anti trust trend
$617.7 Billion trade deficit last year, 24,4% above last record

REAL ID ACT:
REAL ID Act would give HS power for martial law: "authority to waive all laws"
Sensenbrenner rider requires asylum seeker PROVE religious persecution
Sensenbrenner REAL ID Act would invalidate driver's license from 10 states
HR 418 even has GOP, like Ron Paul, and Gun Owners of America up in arms
ACLU opposes several measures in HR 418 "foundation for (national ID card)"

COLORADO:
Suit from anti abortion groups may help campus free speech issue
Churchill's next speech is March 1 at U of Wisconsin; plans go ahead
Salazar/Allard battle to get $172 million spent to destroy 2,600 tons of Mustard Gas
AFA applications down 3,000 this year from 9,401
Only 2 of 4 Spring's council incumbent GOP will have opponents in race

ELECTIONS:
Ohio's Blackwell, and Florida's Hood fail to appear before house panel probing 2004 coup
Howard Fineman: Gore considering run in 2008; "wind at his back" (insert fart joke here)

TALON NEWS/GANNON/GUCKERT:
Who the hell is James Guckert, Eberle, Jeff Gannon, Talon News, Jon Lauk?
Daschle opponent Thune staffer paid $27,000 for website pushing "Gannon" dirty tricks
Who the hell is BedrockCorp@aol.com that registered MilitaryEscortsM4M.com?
Gannon/Talon interviewed Wilson about CIA leak and quoted secret CIA memo on wife
DailyKos chronology on Guckert, Valerie Plame, CIA memo
Transcripts of Guckert's questions to WH paid for by WH; Bribes R Us
Who the hell is Bobby Eberle, editor in chief of Talon News?

ACTIVISM:
Fax congress to stop HR418 exemption for HS from "all state, federal and local environmental laws"
Sign to be citizen co-sponsor of "Count Every Vote" act by Hillary and Barb Boxer
Call Mike Merrifield on HB1262, follow Amend 35 tobacco tax; 303-866-2932
"Your tax dollars at work" on hanging soldier, stirs up Sacramento (photo)

HUMOR:
Bush promises to bring troops home; "fastest way would be through Iran"
Plumbers march to protest Virginia "low rider pants" law; violates butt crack amendment
Gonzales at Senate hearings on his torture policy (photo)

Wednesday's News

IRAQ:
DC judge rejects "stop loss" suit against military for keeping soldiers past agreed tour
Sistani will oversee constitutional convention and PM selection
Army pulls head from ass: forgives bills given to 129 wounded vets
Soldier charged in death of Iraqi and wearing "unauthorized" Purple Heart
CIA's "torture jet" on the move again; stopped in Glasgow on way to Iraq
CNN exec admits "12 journalists killed by US troops, targeted as matter of policy"

AFGHANISTAN:
US wouldn't let airliner land at Bagram with 15 minutes of fuel left; crashed, killing 104

PALESTINE:
Egypt and Jordon will send ambassadors back to Israel for first time in 5 years
Transcripts of Abbas and sharon's statements
sharon's intentional provocation started intifada killing 3,350 Palestinians and 970 Israelis
Palestinians skeptical, disappointed, guardedly optimistic
West Bank checkpoints opened; 1,000 will get work permits

NEOCONS:
HR418, section 102: HS can build barriers on border; "no court shall have jurisdiction"
War criminal, Elliot Abrams, puts the CON in neocon

WORLD:
Paris: only 150 students allowed into Rice appearance; questions cleared day before
Nepal: 10 of 30 Congress Party members in jail; leader underground
Sri Lanka: military assassinates top Tamil politician, 5 others
Kenya: lake drying up; million Flamingos starving; (it's not global warming, you commie!)
Europe: WMD found!: US has 480 nukes on continent; Pentagram lied, said 200

US:
Illinois: 20th state to charge 48 pharmaceuticals with Medicaid fraud
State by state data on tobacco related illness, costs, revenue, deaths (PDFs)
Top 7 candidates for "Deep Throat"; odds for and against; analysis, data
Taser stocks down 11.3% (52% for year) after failure to meet projections
Chicago: 14 year old suffers cardiac arrest after Taser shot in treatment center
Media: "Pentagon Channel" on DISH network will reach 11 million 24/7
Judge orders Gale Norton to appear on Native American retaliation for royalty lawsuit
Montana: 7 execs of WR Grace indicted for killing hundreds with asbestos
Virginia: HB 1981: $50 fine for showing underwear above low rider pants
LA: cops murder 13 year old kid with 10 shots for backing into cop car

WHITE HOUSE SECRET PRESS:
Bloggers find WH's favorite, Jeff Gannon, is fake name of a pimp: HotMilitaryStud.com
Talon news Wash. bureau chief, "Gannon", runs GOPUSA.com and MilitaryEscorts.com
"Jeff Gannon" (Eberle) resigns after truth comes out

BUDGET:
5.3 Billion regressive tax on middle class buried in back of budget (PDF)
Airline "fees" raised $3 per flight, or 60%; $4.8 Billion in all; (and don't call it a tax!)
$1.6 Trillion in new tax CUTS for rich (over 10 years); Medicaid CUT $45 Billion
Budget counts $2.4 Billion raised from ANWR drilling leases, which hasn't been OK'd (yet)
Food stamps/child care assistance cut for 300,000; deficit up from $1.364 T to $1.393 T
EPA cut 5.6%; CDC cut 12.4%; $39 million for abstinence; $161 mil for faith-based
$369 million CUT in Clean Water Fund; $90 million CUT for Park Service to buy land
Ben Cohen's Oreo cookie analysis animation of budget
$340 million increase for Boeing, Lockheed/Martin missile programs

COLORADO:
CU allows Ward Churchill speech; standing O for not backing down on free speech
Churchill defends "rhetorical device" in book; tells Gov. Owens: 1. find ass; 2. kiss
11 audio excerpts of Ward Churchill speeches, interviews, discussions
4th district judge: Woodland Park city council broke sunshine law, then covered it up
More local Black History Month events on calendar
Spring's sales tax revenue up 8% if 2004

ELECTIONS:
GOP black ops agent get 5 months, $15,600 fine for jamming Dem phones to stop voting
New York: GOP declared winner in state Senate race by 18 votes; 10th term
Karl Rove promoted to official cabinet position: deputy chief of staff
Saudi Arabia: first municipal elections tomorrow in kingdom; NO women allowed to vote

ACTIVISM:
Colorado Vets for America
Dem's petition to junior that budget is irresponsible and he should start over
War Tax Resistance "Peace Tax Return" form
Training For Change.org for building coalitions, effective activism, strategy and tactics

HUMOR:
Cartoon: bush, Newton, and the tree of knowledge
Throw out your MAC, you commie, and switch to a PC, "it builds character" (MOV)
"Focus of the Flintstones" wants cartoon, cereal, vitamins banned; "way too gay"
Tori Spelling sworn in as Secretary of Education

Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
2 biggest parties in Shi'a alliance have 2 different candidates for PM
Analysis of Arab media on "elections"
40 of 435 ballot boxes in Mosul not sealed properly; sent for analysis
UN suspends 2 in charge of oil-for-food program for corruption

PALESTINE:
al-Jazeera coverage of truce agreement
Ha'aretz coverage of truce agreement
Washington Post coverage of truce agreement
Israel caught red handed faking "Hezb Allah" mortar attack on border town Monday

NEOCONS:
$70,000 PAC moneys for Trent Lott and Tom DeLay, given to Abramoff, MISSING

9/11:
CIA agent Melissa Boyle Mahle interview (pt.2)
CIA agent, Sheuer: "renditions" of POWs to other countries for torture, "out of control"
Gitmo lawyer: POWs sodomized into giving false statements to stop pain
Holes in radar and flight path analysis of attack planes

WORLD:
Canada: US reichwing, fundinazi, "christian" taliban sending money to fight gay marriage
Another satellite or space junk deorbits over Hawaii; mystery continues
Secret docs leaked from Cambridge U show lab animals scream in fear and pain
Philippines: 16 dead in 2 days of raids on rebel camps on southern island
David Kay: Iran "intel" has "eerie similarity to the events proceeding the Iraq war"
Nepal: congress leader 1 of 1,000 opposition rounded up since king's coup
Venezuela: CIA FOIA docs, 5 days before coup, shows tactics to overthrow Chavez

US:
Utah: first gay activist sworn in for state Senate
Merck new docs show stopped Vioxx cardiac testing in 2002; knew what it would show
Montana: WR Grace indicted for hiding Asbestos at mine; made 1,200 sick so far
California Dem, Harman, introduces bill to ban torture
List of 84 cases of death after Taser (as of Jan1) with descriptions
New York: 2 years after smoking ban "I have to admit...no falloff in business"
Reichwing, "christian" taliban fight science, reason, reality for heart of education

BUDGET:
DHHS budget data and highlights; 1.2% cut
VA budget only up 2.7%; doubles prescription copay, which accounts for most of raise
Firefighters budget slashed $715 mil to $500 mil; Cops slashed from $600 mil to $60 mil
LIHEAP cut 8.4%; health training cut 64%; abstinence indoctrination INCREASE $38 mil
American progress analysis, resources, links on FY 2006 budget
Overview of big government, fiscally irresponsible, pork barrel, war monger, deficit mess
$1 Billion cut in education; $500 million technology grant completely eliminated

COLORADO:
2 chem weapons dumps need $115 million each; will share $31 million for destruction
Clear Channel's KHOW DJ, Caplis took reichwing money to bash Ward Churchill
6,000 acre Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge only one with plutonium Muledeer
CU cancels Ward Churchill speech over death threats
CU environmental studies prof fired for criticizing corps that fund university
Fort Cartoon one of few winners in budget: $70 million for construction; $98 mil in all
Woodland Park city council violates sunshine law with secret meetings just like Springs

ELECTIONS:
Roemer out of race for DNC chair; Dean only candidate in February 12 election
Ohio Prof: Dems spent too much time focusing on absentee ballots

ACTIVISM:
Space 4 Peace.org
Peace-Out.com site for by and for conscientious objectors to get out of military
Kelly Dougherty, Hoffman, and IVAW protest at Harvard
Common Cause petition to preserve filibuster rule in Senate
Phone Salazar; complain about Gonzales vote; 202-224-5852; tell MoveOn.org
Rose Monday procession in Germany turns into bush bash carnivale (photos)
American Friends Service Committee video, "Wage Peace" and petition to exit Iraq
Ann Arbor billboard photo: "The world says no to war, why won't George bush listen?"

HUMOR:
TruthOut.org multimedia page with "Red State Tour"
Cartoon: Allawi prays to the election gods
FBI SWAT team van burgled; 4 sniper rifles, ammo taken from Holiday Inn
Joe Lieberman: "The Perfect Wife" (photo)