Monday's News
IRAQ:
"This war
is about money...I serve in shame"; essay from anonymous soldier in
Iraq
Secret
negotiations with resistance on Baghdad
Transcript/video of
Hillary and McCain on Meet the Press
Curfew,
checkpoints, martial law in Ramadi
AFGHANISTAN:
288
arrive on weekend to double US troops embedded in Afghan army
PALESTINE:
Australia:
US intel agent: Mossad using country for spy base
Hariri
assassination mystery: bomb under street, Palestinian's home raided;
no answers
First
of 500 promised, released from Israeli prisons; no charges, no probable
cause
NEOCONS:
185
bodies exhumed from Battalion 3-16 mass grave in 2001 from Negroponte/CIA
base
WORLD:
Scott Ritter: attack
on Iran planned for June; Iraq election results "cooked"
Some details
of "Operation Gladio" by CIA/MI6/Mossad of attacks blamed on leftists
European
leaders get 1 question each on assigned topics for bush visit; 2,000
sent home
Togo: parliament
amends constitution again to limit dictator for 60 days
Aceh:
2nd round of peace talks begin with autonomy on table
UK military
normalizes family quarters for LGBT soldiers in fall
US:
CIA also
using 737 to "render" people for torture in "ghost prison" system
JSCO-N "satellite
killer" program starts with "Terminal Fury 05" in militarization of
space
California
man in critical condition after cardiac arrest from repeated Taser
shots
GAO:
repackaged "news" from WH illegal propaganda
5 suspended
in investigation of Marines killing another recruit at Parris Island
Father
of dead Marine: wanted out; assaulted on camera before drowning
Connecticut:
Gov orders inspection of Wal-Mart in snub to "sweetheart deal" from
feds
EPA
refuses to ban Syngenta's Atrazine; another proven estrogenic mutagen
Global
warming will cause 20% less summer cold fronts from Canada to cleanse
air
Media:
Lehrer warns Mark Shields to watch his metaphors over Kool-Aid remark
263
cops hired by Taser hiding association with corp and safety issues;
93 dead so far
GOP
chair of environment panel demands tax records for pollution monitors
COLORADO:
GOP
cannibalize their own for releasing budget report of fiscal crises
in state
Churchill signs
McCarthy era oath of allegiance to constitution of US and state
HB1202
protects whistleblowers of animal abuse
Legislature
again bans car dealers from opening on Sunday for some reason
ELECTIONS:
Guy
who taped bush for 9 hours says not meant for public; so he played
them for NY Times
Guckert
whines to Newsweek he'll sue bloggers, liberal press for political
assassination
ACTIVISM:
Hunter
S. Thompson dead from apparent suicide
United
for Peace and Justice meeting of 850 groups continues today in St.
Louis
Iraq
Veterans Against the War concentrate on Fort Bragg March 19
HUMOR:
First
state "Holy Cards" recognize, Cheney, Limbaugh, Gannon, Coulter, Bennet
Bush's fascination
with Guckert's bald head (photos)
$3 Billion request for funding
to clean up purple fingerprints all over Iraq
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
International
Federation of Journalists challenge CNN firing Jordon over 12 killed
by US
Jafari
plans to "purify state's institutions" of Ba'athists
Pentagram
reluctantly investigates 10 serial rapists identified by Miles Foundation
Pentagram
(and CyberDyne Systems) spend $130 Billion on new robot army
AFGHANISTAN:
Military
investigates troops killing 2 unarmed men near Iranian border
PALESTINE:
Putin pressures
Israel into stopping arms sales to Georgia
Likud
cabinet votes 17-5 in favor of Gaza withdrawal
NEOCONS:
Negroponte
will now prepare presidential daily briefing (PDB), not CIA
9/11:
Madrid
fire reignites WTC collapse controversy
The most
insane, wacko, crazy 9/11 conspiracy theory of all, detailed here
WORLD:
Togo:
embargo and sanctions imposed as thousands march against coup
S Africa:
annual deaths from AIDS up 57% from 1997-2003
US:
Chicago
area cops delay Taser purchases; wait on lawsuits and more tests
Minnesota:
Clear Channel owns 7 radio stations, 80% of billboards, St. Paul city
council
Arkansas
house votes 44-39 AGAINST bill affirming separation of church and state
New Jersey:
charges Blockbuster with fraud for "end of late fees" (you bought it)
fraud
Pfizer
celebrates tort deform: "we prefer you not publish data" on faulty heart
valve
COLORADO:
Lakewood
manager and 3 council members took down Air Force Vet's "unpatriotic"
art
(Council member, Wise, read it in paper, according to her email to me;
cjjwise@att.net)
Wrapup
on state house bills in the last week
Bill for
60 cents surcharge on Xcel energy customers for scrubbers on coal fired
plants
Reichwing
uses Ward Churchill to attack ethnic curricula and tenure system nation
wide
ELECTIONS:
Transcripts
of SECRET recordings of Bush preparing for primaries in 2000
Florida:
early voting starts monday in March 8 election
"This
(software) program is needed to control the voting in South Florida"
Florida:
election supers protest Jeb's attempt to take control of elections
GannonGate:
Bruce Eberle,
talon News, fundraising, Omega list, GOP, Ollie North, Asskroft, Raygun
McClellan
admits Guckert got press pass under GOPUSA, not Talon News
Eberle's
anti-Semitic attack on Soros as "prolocutor in the congregation of Moloch"
Craig Spence,
John Lehman (9/11 panel), GOP pedophile ring, bush senior
Gannon/Guckert
as symptom of larger media control issues
ACTIVISM:
Preparations
for protests in Belgium for junior's visit February 21
Iceland calls
for international protest over Alcoa/Bechtel dams and aluminum smelting
Sierra Club
files suit against new bush forest rules
National
Resources Defense Council files suit against EPA for secret pesticide
regulations
Lakewood,
Colorado city council email addresses phone numbers
HUMOR:
Bill
Maher, Robin Williams, and Joe Biden on Guckert's pass and bush's man
date (QT)
"My god
John, that 'battalion 6' of yours has torture written all over it"
Hollywood
billboard by Citizen's United.org with bush swastika on forehead
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
Pentagram
claims typo in 1,000 wounded troops removed from active duty, denied pay
Treasury Dept approved
Iraq oil shipments to Syria, Jordan, Turkey in March, 2003
Ja'aferi
and alliance says Kurdish veto power has to be changed or thrown out
307
sexual assaults reported in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Bahrain; most not
reported
PALESTINE:
List
of UN resolutions against Israeli fascism since 1955, and US vetoes of
all
NEOCONS:
Baltimore Sun
expose on Negroponte and Batallion 316 from 1995
WORLD:
Mosaic TV from 15 middle east countries
(QT stream)
Togo: prez installed
by army, promises elections in 60 days
England:
red dye carcinogen causes recall of 350 foods from Bird's Eye and Heinz
England:
1,092 NEW claims of rape from 756 priests
US:
Scientist
tells FDA COX-2 has no need, but dangers, so they put Vioxx back on market
89th dies
from Taser in forced commitment to psych ward of heart patient
Utah: house passes 2 measures
to reign in NCLB damage
Study:
lead in environment "can lead to antisocial and criminal behavior"
38
state AGs demand answers from Choice Point on stolen IDs of 145,000
Highest
gas prices in history make Exxon world's largest company: $385.8 Billion
assets
PBS COUP:
CEO
of PBS resigns over cartoon crap; Ed Sec'y, Spelling's brother-in-law
complains
2 newest CPB
board members gave $186,000 to GOP in last 14 years
Mitchell
Pack appointed VP after pitching Lynne Cheney PBS series over tea
Public
television looses $92 million FY2006 budget
Frontline
documentary on Iraq edited out cussing over fear of FCC
COLORADO:
Thomas McCullock's
INDY letter on the "moronic mind of the religious reich"
Graft, kickbacks,
corruption and access payments to state/local politicians detailed
Spring's Rampart
High opts out of Black History Month celebration
Woodland Park
broke "Sunshine Law" with closed meeting; Spring's will do same Tuesday
Churchill
received evaluations of "exceeds, far exceeds" expectations
862
new gas/oil drilling permits in county with already poisoned water wells
Lakewood
manager removes art by AF Veteran, as unpatriotic; he hasn't even seen
it
Peyton:
3 fire board members resign over volunteer fire dept training
ELECTIONS:
Guckert brags of
planting stories, knew of "Shock and Awe" 4 hours before
Karl
Rove used Guckert for coup against Daschle in S Dakota
ACTIVISM:
Call
Hefley and ask for town hall meeting on SS piratization; 520-0055
"Free
speech zone" at Okinawa base closed to public
Deception
Dollar actions against "Popular Mechanics" attack on 9/11 theories
Lakewood, Colorado mayor's email
to write about Veteran's art; 303-987-7040
Lakewood
city council emails for "Hope Stones" art censorship
HUMOR:
Middle wing media
caught in crossfire of left and reich wing media
Bush
proposes mass suicide by baby boomers to save social security
Friday's News
IRAQ:
CIA murdered
POW with "Palestinian hanging" by wrists in Abu Ghraib
AFGHANISTAN:
Oops:
more incriminating photos of POW torture found in captain's office after
shredding
PALESTINE:
"Wink,
wink, nudge, nudge, say no more": junior publicly backs Israeli bombing
of Iran
WB
thieves/squatters break activists jaw for guarding sheep herder
Palestinian
woman forced to give birth at checkpoint; not allowed through; baby survives
NEOCONS:
Elliot
Abrams, John Negroponte, Otto Reich, John Poindexter: Raygun's war criminals
Battalion 316, Negroponte,
Iran/Contra, CIA, Honduras, and the media's blindness
Elliot Abrams, Nathan Glazer,
Natan Sharansky, "Scoop" Jackson, Norman Poderhetz
"Day of the Condor":
bush senior, negroponte, noriega, armitage, MOSSAD, raygun
WORLD:
World news briefs from 15 mideast countries
from Mosaic (streaming QT)
Nepal: prez of
women's org and more journalists, unions, students arrested
Darfur:
Red Cross/Crescent warns situation deteriorating; 2.5-3 million will need
food
England:
nuke plant pulls a Rocky Flats: looses 30 kilos of PLUTONIUM
File
under "D" for DUH: proof ONLY human activity could have caused rise in sea
temps
US:
Greenspan
concedes expanding 401(K)s will do more for savings than piratization of
SS
Truth about junior's BS
about social security figures; deficits, costs
Orlando:
man wins $32,500 in settlement for Taser shot for cussing after car wreck
Compare
Wal-Mart's "sweetheart (child labor) deal" and that with Footlocker and
Sears
Tobacco,
oil, pharmas, asbestos, chemical industries celebrate as tort deform passes
Toledo,
Ohio stops Taser use until more tests after man killed with 9 shots
Media consolidation:
NY Times buys About.com for $410 million; 22 million users
Clam
shell driveway paving in 3 states exposes 300 WWI grenades dumped by Navy
Interactive Social inSecurity
calculator: how much will bush steal from your retirement?
unETHICS COMMITTEE:
1st
order of business for new Ethics chair: fire 2 staff for telling truth about
DeLay
Total
of 5 replaced on Ethics panel; 2 replacements gave $5-10,000 to DeLay defense
fund
Ethics chair,
Hastings, got $5,930 from DeLay's ARMPAC
COLORADO:
Salazar in Springs Monday
at 11, 2365 Patriot Heights, 332-3326; email form for questions
J&P's Dennis Apuan elected 1st Vice
Chair of El Paso County Democrat Party
HB 05-152 would
ban cities from providing broadband; even indirectly subsidizing
Denver
mayor reiterates support for statewide indoor smoking ban to restaurants
assoc
GOP
hopes turn on republicrat, Salazar AGAIN, in Myers judicial appointment
State ends emissions
testing in 2007; Skorman tries to get city program
ELECTIONS:
Just
released exit poll data: Kerry won by 5 million votes
Ari
Fleischer stopped calling on Guckert when he found out he worked for GOPUSA
Video shows
Guckert and Ari a month before Talon News existed
Columbus, Ohio
votes on overturning smokefree workplaces (bars) on May 3rd
ACTIVISM:
Common
Cause on 12 state's battles for nonpartisan, judicial, constitutional redistricting
Free Press.net media activism
page
Here Us Now.org actions
on internet, TV, cable, radio, ownership, phone, wireless media
Muni Wireless.com reports
of municipal wireless and broadband projects
Champaign-Urbana's municipal wireless
internet project
Free Networks.org list of 40 worldwide
municipal wireless nets, 12 in US
Smoke Free.net discussion forum
for Colorado activists supporting smoke free workplaces
Florida
conscientious objector, Iraq Vet, Mejia, released from prison
HUMOR:
Monsanto releases
genetically modified MUD+; 45% cleaner than regular mud
Bush claims
he pulled a "James T Kirk" on saddam just like Kirk did to Khan
WH touts rousing
near success of latest missile test that almost started to work
Thursday's news
IRAQ:
Parliament seats: Shi'a
alliance: 140, Kurds: 75, Allawi: 40
AFGHANISTAN:
Karzai
will appoint first female governor
PALESTINE:
PA
complains over repeated violations of cease fire by Israel and squatters
Israel's
S Court approves destruction of orange grove for violating security of DM's
squat
Israel's
AG drops charges against Sharon, indicts son for campaign corruption
NEOCONS:
Fourth Reich is in place:
bush picks war criminal, Negroponte, for intel CZAR
National Security
Archive declassified docs on Negroponte's Honduran war crimes
Profile of John Negroponte
WORLD:
Kyoto
goes into effect without US, producer of 25% of greenhouse gasses
Russian
FM: Caspian Sea resources are for Caspian states only
Iran:
it's a bird, it's a plane, a missile, a fuel tank, dam construction, now
it's oil drilling
US:
Ohio:
professors attacked by Mumpers "80% are Dems, liberals, socialists, communists"
Renewable
energy industry would create 154,598 jobs per year from 2005-2020
International Association
of Police Chiefs will issue policy guideline on Tasers
Watergate:
Ehrlichman convinced Kissinger was "deep throat"
Junior
doesn't rule out raising taxes on those making $90,000 to pay for SS piratization
Pressure
works: company that makes RFID pulls out of plan to tag elementary students
COLORADO:
Lamborn
bill to block recognition of gay civil unions from other states, fails
ELECTIONS:
Senator Lautenberg
write WH to get all info on Guckert's press pass
Mareen
Dowd denied WH press pass by Ari; months of secret service probe to get
it back
Guckert appeared
in WH press room before Talon News was formed by Eberle
Homeland Suckyourty,
Ridge, met with GOP pollsters during bush campaign
ACTIVISM:
State
Senator: SB079 to create paper trail for ballots, no remote access to machines
Letter to
Condi to join Kyoto Treaty
Letter
to demand special prosecutor to investigate torture policy by administration
Campus Progress.org
Co-sponsor Hillary's
"Count Every Vote" bill
14 Dem
Senators to write calling for Negroponte's nomination to be killed
11 SOA
protesters sentenced to 3-6 months for November 21 protest at Ft Benning
Fox News email to demand Brit Hume
be fired for lies and distortions
Greenpeace
stops International Petroleum Exchange trading in London
Sign letter
to BLM to stop oil/gas drilling on Colorado's Roan Plateau
Sign letter
to stop T.F.inc form Ketchikan logging Tongas
HUMOR:
Photo: Major
League Asshole; anal retentive; full of it; doo doo, caca
Bush defends Global
warming, makes earth cozy
Wednesday's
News
IRAQ:
Shi'a
Alliance names Jafari as PM candidate; Mahdi out of race
bush
fighting court award of $1 Billion for POWs tortured by saddam
Even Custer Battles' mercenaries
quit after seeing murders of Iraqi civilians
Judge
threatens Rummy with contempt for ignoring his Anthrax vaccine ruling
Infighting
among Sunni parties for boycotting elections
84 year
old gets invitation from selective service to reenlist; served during Truman
35 nurses
being called up from Walter Reed to Iraq; some in violation of recruitment
PALESTINE:
"Berlin wall"
keeps 10,000 chronically ill from healthcare, 100,000 women from prenatal
Abbas
will announce cabinet today; headed by PM, Qurei
Hariri
assassination: Syria: who had motive and opportunity? Israel
9/11:
FAA warned for
10 years about security; 105 times in last 6 months before 9/11
WORLD:
Flashback: CIA coup in Guatemala
the year after putting Shah in Iran
Global
warming comparison photos from around the world
Liberia:
Condi hires Dyncorp to train 4,000 man army; dejacoup all over again
Australia:
govt keeping files on public's dissent/criticism in newspapers, radio, TV
Europe: US secretly shipping
nuclear weapons to non nuke countries in treaty violation
IRAN:
US spy planes
"will be shot down"
Explosion
near Bushehr nuke plant still has no explanation (that makes sense)
Witnesses:
missile fired at nuke facility from plane 12 miles away
ElBaradei
reiterates no evidence of nuke weapon program in Iran
Iran
report now, it was a damn construction explosion
US:
Head
of Rummy's spies resigns after disclosure of Pentagram spy nest
Local news stations: 25 seconds
on Iraq, 13 seconds on foreign policy, 8 minutes on ads
Judge rules "no
first amendment" protecting sources in CIA leak case of Miller/Cooper
Ohio: councilman
calls for suspension of Tasers; ACLU wants use ONLY with lethal force
Utah HB135: state regulation
trumps NCLB, BUT compromise in works to keep fed cash
55
dead farmers have received $400,000 each per year in farm subsidies
Buster
flap final straw: PBS chief exec resigns in June
Columbia
U: 50% increase in genetic abnormalities from pollution for fetuses living
in city
2 producers
and 1 VP hire lawyers instead of resign from CBS News
CNN changes nuke plant
photos a day later; had same photo for Iran and N Korea
Mental Health panel
scrubs "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender" from suicide prevention talk
Choice Point gives 30,000 IDs
to criminals; same corp that removed Florida felon voters
BUDGET:
5
Vets groups and several senators from both parties slam VA cuts in budget
FDA
food inspections cut 5%; foreign drug plants 5.8%; blood bank inspections
4.7%
Budget cuts over 5 years: ED:
15%, VA: 16%, health: 14%, environment 23%
40% cut in delinquency
prevention after 44% cut since 2002
COLORADO:
Pogany: Lariam (for Malaria) made
him hallucinate and paranoid; no Malaria in Iraq
Merrifield's
Tenants Rights Bill passes house
CU
official now says Churchill didn't go through 6 tenure process
State revenue will
fall $7 Billion short in next 5 years
USOC cuts
26 staff in Springs
Spring's council will
reevaluate decision to pay $5.1 million to firefighters for mistake
ELECTIONS:
Duane Acklie, promised
ambassadorship for fund raising, only got head of student loans
FEC starts hearings
on internet use by candidates, bloggers, pundits; regulatory role
Conyers and Slaugher
file FOIA on Guckert/Gannon and WH's McClellan
Senate confirms
Chertoff 98-0, as Dems grab ankles and say, "thank you sir, may I have another?"
ACTIVISM:
Howard Dean's
petition and plan to rebuild Democratic Party
Off duty customs
cop murders Arab/American; no charges, no arrest; write to DA
Country's largest
antiwar coalition, United for Peace and Justice, meets in St Louis
At least 13 journalists
killed by US in Iraq
Email Jim Walton at CNN to demand probe
into Eason's charge that US targets press
HUMOR:
Bush/Cheney will
tap highschool teen to write Global Warming position paper
Bush
survives freak accident thanks to antiwar protesters
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
US buying Pakistan
weapons to arm Ba'athist militias for civil war to stop Shi'a majority
Background on
Chalabi, Allawi, Mahdi; childhood friends, US puppets, CIA/MI6 agents
Chalabi officially
nominated for PM
Iraqi
women beat 25% representation rule in election; take 31% of seats; 86 of 275
15
Vets in 1 Florida county can't get treatment at home due to bureaucratic BS
Prez=Kurdish;
PM=Shi'a; speaker of parliament=Sunni, as horse trading begins
Australian
scientist says CIA edited WMD report to lie about weapons
AFGHANISTAN:
Germany
quietly investigates US kidnapping of citizen before junior's visit
PALESTINE:
IOF
in Hebron murder 13 year old Palestinian boy
Israel reneges
at Oslo accords (again) in handing over Jericho
NEOCONS:
Elliot Abrams,
Natan Sharansky, Likud, Kristol, Raygun, Kagan, PNAC, Condi
CIA confiscates
10 documents from "Scoop" Jackson library
9/11:
FAA, NORAD,
NCA, Ptech, Saudis, "radar injects", "false blips", WTC, "phantom flight 11"
WORLD:
CNN runs same
satellite photo as being BOTH N Korea nuke plant and Iran's
Lebanon:
Hariri's deputy says assassination was Mossad black op
Azerbaijani oil starts
to flow in pipe from Caspian Sea, across Georgia, to Turkey
FBI
conducting investigations in Germany, elsewhere, without telling CIA/State Dept
Nepal: US, UK, other
remove ambassadors; king appoints loyalists
Venezuela: Chavez
claims US delaying spare parts for F-16s in prep for Colombia invasion
US:
Missile
"defense" missile fails to get it up again; leaves war mongers feeling unsatisfied
Air Force investigating
8 more contracts by convicted Boeing administrator
Judge exempts CIA's
budget info from FOIA law because it might compromise security
Montana
house opts out of nationalized driver's license as ID
Maryland: school
board approves biology textbook to 10th grade WITHOUT creationism
Chicago joins New
Orleans in installing 2,250 cameras to watch city
TASERS:
California: 88th
person dies after being shot with Taser (San Diego)
Florida: Jacksonville
town meeting to discuss use of Tasers in schools
Amber
Alert News Center calls for moratorium of Taser use
COLORADO:
More local
Black History Month events
U
of Oregon cancels Ward Churchill speech
Union
urges grocery workers to decline latest offer
Latest telecom anti trust
crime will effect 1,200 local MCI employees
ELECTIONS:
Cheney's
daughter become #2 in Middle East Affairs at State Dept
GUCKERT/GANNON:
Raw Story "outs" Scott
McClellan as Guckert's contact in WH
McClellan
admitted he knew Guckert was using false name; press pass app had SS#
Slaughter and
Conyers ask special prosecutor to investigate Guckert connection to WH
Guckert's questions on
Wilson, WMD, al-qaeda/saddam connection, etc
ACTIVISM:
Progressive Utilization Theory.org; economic
democracy system and activism
WesPac.org of New York
War Resister's League.org
Interview with Kelly Dougherty
and Michael Hoffman of IVAW (MP3)
North Carolina Peace and Justice Coalition.org
Court awards
veggie activists $19 and 26,000 for unfair trial over Mc Donald's libel
HUMOR:
AntiMagnet.com: "we support the guy in
China making these magnets" campaign
Movie poster:
"The Thing From Planet EXXON!"; a Bill Kristol Production
Bush attends "Planet of
the Apes" reunion; was extra in original film
