Monday's News
IRAQ:
Turkmen
accuse US of raiding HQ, putting on guards uniforms,
firing from roof
Syrian
Kurds captured saddam's half brother, gave to Iraqi
Kurds, gave to Baghdad
AFGHANISTAN:
Pakistan
rebuts: "No CIA agent is operating in Pakistan to track
down osama"
PALESTINE:
Israel's
costs of occupation: 19.2% below poverty line; $10 Billion
for settlements
Next
ploy: demolishing occupier's squats could pose asbestos
hazard
WORLD:
Iran/Russian
plan: give reactor fuel (no need of enrichment); take
spent fuel (no bomb)
US:
Mercury
poisoning reduces IQ of 300-600,000 kids in US; costs
$8.7 Billion lost wages
Barak
Obama swing vote in committee deciding "Clear Skies
Act" on Wednesday
Abramoff
paid DeLay $13,318 for hotel stay in London in new corruption
scandal
Civil
trial on DeLay's corrupt PACs and redistricting fight,
starts in Texas
Maine:
GOP introduces bill to stop abortion of "gay" fetuses
Campus
Watch website formed to keep an eye on pro Palestinian
professors in US
USA
Next has received millions from pharma industry for
SS battle
Couple
sue USA Next to stop using photo in anti AARP/SS/gay
ads
Archbishop
of Canterbury: US Anglican church must "repent" for
gay bishop
Judge's
study of 33 states: 96.4% of those that file ch. 7 bankruptcy
can't pay any more
Confirmation
hearings on Myers: anti environmentalist for 9th appeals
court
COLORADO:
Labor
Dept now admits 29% of cancer caused by Rocky Flats,
not 1-10%; still lying
Denver
poll: 55% support Owens' budget fix, 37% Dem's fix;
66% none of the above
Merrifield's
HB1176, to stop graft to lawmakers, dies; Cadman apologizes;
Campbell lobbies illegally
Decrease
in neonatal care after change in Medicaid eligibility
and CBMS mess
3
private prison guards charged with sex with 7 inmates
at women's prison
Mesa
College prof, who wrote "death to Eric and Megan" (reporters);
resigns
ELECTIONS:
Kyrgystan:
polls close on vote; 390 candidates run for 75 seats
in parliament
ACTIVISM:
Email form
for Obama; pressure him to vote down "Clean Skies Act"
in committee
$40,148,280
credit card corps spent to buy legislation like bankruptcy
law change
Write
senators to stop credit card corps from gutting bankruptcy
laws
10,000
march in Beirut to form new government; Syria out of
Lebanon
760 AM
"Blue List" of progressive companies
HUMOR:
Utah
declares Mormon theocracy, seals border, invades Colorado
Bush's
weekly diary entry from Euro-land
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Analysis
of Bremer's 100 orders, political appointments in agencies,
control of govt
Shi'ite
Political Council (30 seats) rallies around Ja'afari after
Chalabi rejected
Kurds
want regional autonomous militias written into constitution
$1.5 Billion
in budget for more Halliburton contracts
Death
of women soldiers reaches 31 as "front lines" disappears
AFGHANISTAN:
$570
millionin equipment losses on both fronts this year alone
US
accused of secret spraying of poppies: sheep dead, people
sick, food crops ruined
PALESTINE:
Syria
denies state support for bomber; Israel will continue
assassinations
Condi
cancels G8 summit in Cairo after parliament opposition
leader arrested
Israel
exploitsexcuse: freezes WB handover; reconsiders prisoner
release
Syria
withdraws from Lebanon: $3.5 Billion from banks
9/11:
Ex
CIA Agent, Robert Baer: govt approach to al-qaeda "totally
reactionary"
"People
in the (CIA) agency are worried" about being prosecuted
for torturing POWs
WORLD:
Haiti:
18 dead in renewed fighting in capital
57
countries join WHO tobacco ban in public, banning ads,
large warnings on packs
Venezuela:
FM warns of coming US coup
Chile:
Riggs Bank will pay Pinochet victims $8 million in settlement
New
Zealand: 1 of Mossad agents in NZ was arrested in Cyprus
bugging Hezb Allah
Saudi
Arabia: "royal" family considers "allowing" women to vote
in next elections
Russia:
banker who assisted Yukos selloff was Stasi agent connected
to Putin
US:
Interpreter
testifies US had Indonesia secretly arrest Baasyir BEFORE
the Bali bombing
Australian
Treasury Secretary warns of US bond selloff and Dollar
collapse
Diabetic
wants Taser tapes; shot 3 times on the ground in diabetic
stupor
Montana
Gov Schweitzer: allow unsafe beef from Canada, but NOT
safe drugs?
Virginia
passes gay marriage ban 79-17 in house, 30-10 in senate
Universal
Press Syndicate edits own Ann Coulter "Arab" slam on Helen
Thomas
COLORADO:
ABC forces
Robin Williams to cut SpongeBrain Dobson parody for tonight's
Oscars
Hunter
S. Thompson was working on gay pedophiles in govt, media,
DC, both parties
Arkansas
salt content continues to poison farm land downstream;
Kansas suit coming
Rapists,
Brents, ONLY 1 of 21 cases of Aurora cop's malpractice
200
CU faculty sign ad calling for end to Ward Churchill witch
hunt
ACTIVISM:
Founder
of Amnesty International, Peter Beneson, dies
Founder
of Plutonium Action, Citizens for Peace in Space collaborator,
Satomi Oba dies
American Friends
Service Committee movie and petition to bring troops home
Avery
returns to Israel to ask S Court for investigation into
being shot in face
51 Capitol March
May Day protest of stolen election
HUMOR:
Village
idiot demands job back; bush refuses to step down
Saturday's
News
IRAQ:
Marine
Corp suicides up 29% in last year
GOP
passes $230 yearly fee for 2.4 million Vets for healthcare
(from a grateful nation?)
Halliburton
awarded $9.4 million in bonuses, while investigated for
fraud/corruption
Duke U
doctors refuse to treat Vets; VA only pays medicare rates
AFGHANISTAN:
600
Stinger missiles missing after CIA gave 2,000 to Mujahadin
for Raygun/Rummy
CIA
looking for osama in Pakistan
PALESTINE:
Abbas arrests
8 after suicidal maniac blows up nightclub killing 4
al-Quds
Brigade takes responsibility for nightclub blast; claims
PA puppets of US
Israeli
jets violate Lebanese airspace again as Syrian troops pull
back
Appointment
if Air Force head as chief of staff just in time to airstrike
on Iran
NEOCONS:
Faux
News wonk, Krauthammer, claims "absence of angry demonstrations"
for bush
Reichwing,
Bradley Foundation, pays George Will $250,000 for neocon
opinions
9/11:
inJustice
Dept blocks Sibel Edmonds suit with "national security"
excuse
Oops:
CNN tells truth: "no evidence of plane crash anywhere near
Pentagon (SWF)
WORLD:
Governments
ask UN to study mercury emissions (2,000 tons/year) world
wide
US
"hijacks" Mercury resolution for energy lobby to make it
voluntary
Nigeria:
troops kill 14 in village on oil producing delta region
DR Congo:
9 UN peacekeepers killed by militias
Nepal:
resistance calls off 14 day old transportation blockade
Canada:
US will fire missile over Canadian airspace whether they
like it or not
Vietnam:
100 families will win Agent Orange lawsuit against Monsanto
and Dow
US:
10
of 32 on FDA panel paid by drug corps; put Vioxx, Bextra,
Celebrex back on market
Kansas:
AG uses pedophile excuse to force abortion clinics to give
up women's records
Taser
reacts to Academy of Forensic Science report that shock
causes 50% fibrillation
Arkansas
city council puts Taser purchase on hold for further study
Faux
News promoting USA Next attack on AARP and SS piratization
HR 1886 Breast
Cancer Patient Protection Act guarantees 48 hour hospital
stay
CIA
author: "agency living in denial"; "not accept there had
been intelligence failure"
Social
Security Administration actuarial memo detailing 18 fixes
to system (PDF)
5
Toledo cops get off with admin charges; handcuffed man,
killed him with 9 Taser shots
Feingold
introduces 3 bills to limit Patriot Act spying
Bank
of America: ChoicePoint is nothing; we lost 1.2 million
IDs, credit card #s
ChoicePoint
execs sold $16.6 million in stock after theft discovery,
before telling clients
COLORADO:
Shakeup
at Fucus: prez/CEO, Hodel out suddenly; Daly in charge
Reaganite,
"christian" coalition leader, Hodel, started Fucus PAC before
2004 elections
Urban
League panel details racism and bigotry by Spring's police
Mitchell
High bends over for Cristen, bans Planned Parenthood from
campus
Next
tactic: offer Churchill early retirement buyout
Salazar
challenges WH on water protection and Lynx habitat thrown
out of forest plan
Beauprez:
$30 million to study new VA hospital ONLY used to study
Fitzsimons
Ute
tribal council chair election and resignations shake up
power structure
ELECTIONS:
US "ally",
Kyrgystan, "disqualifies" 2 opposition candidates before
weekend "elections"
Kyrgystan
prepares for "Tulip Revolution:" over repression by US puppet
ACTIVISM:
Action: counter protest every Saturday
morning at Planned Parenthood, W. Colorado
Vermont:
52 towns vote on Iraq exit resolution and use of National
Guard there
MoveON.org's
petition to stop piratization of social security
Petition
to congress for long term aid to Tsunami victims
Women's Policy.org
Lesbian
straight-A student in a tux in the school yearbook? banned
in Florida
Email for Florida
Commissioner of Education to complain about Clay County
yearbook
Email for superintendent
of Clay County schools; phone 904-284-6510
Email
for Clay County Board of Education
Slenda Exposed.com
on "sweetener wars" of Aspartame vs Sucralose
HUMOR:
OK, kids,
now open your science textbooks
StrapOn Veterans for
Truth on Ann Coulter, Jeremy Levinsohn, Pudenda Shenanigans
Argentina:
airline substitutes "ashcroft" for "asshole" in inflight
movie "Sideways"
Friday's News
IRAQ:
House Budget Committee:
war will cost $461-$646 Billion by 2015
Iraq Coalition Casualty
Count; official Pentagram count
Barzani:
Kurds still undecided who to back in PM race
90
women elected, mostly Shi'as, vow to support Sharia law
The truth
about Depleted Uranium ordnance
AFGHANISTAN:
Army
closed investigation of CIA agent beating POW to death: evidence
was "sketchy"
PALESTINE:
Lebanon
conference on "right of return" Rabbis speak out against zionism
Syria
withdrawing troops close to border in Lebanon
NEOCONS:
Cuban press
report/profile on war criminal, Negroponte
WORLD:
Nicaragua:
man convicted of buying SAM-7 missile paid $1,000 by CIA at
embassy
Indonesia:
Oxfam update on Tsunami relief efforts
Canada
out of missile "defense"; "insist" on control of airspace;
US pissed
DR
Congo: unknown number of UN KIA in ambush; 4,800 peacekeepers
in country
Canadian
Medical Assoc: climate change already kills 150,000 per year
pope: "insidious
and hidden", "ideology of evil" gay marriage
Italy:
prosecutor probes CIA in kidnapping, "rendition" of Muslim
US:
Chair
of SS subcommittee, McCrery (R-La) got $198,650 from banking
lobby
45%
of news corporate bonds rated CCC junk bonds as US corps head
for default
Connecticut:
committee votes 25-13 to support civil unions, not marriage
license
Crime
labs need 9,400 more forensic staff to cover 70% increase
since 2002
California:
2 suits filed to stop Prop 71, Stem Cell research, passed
by 59%
Witness
in so-called bush assassination plot, killed by Saudis in
2003
Public
Citizen calls FDA's new safety board "desperate...cynical"
Clear
Channel posts net loss of $4.67 Billion
Wal-Mart
fined $7.5 million in disabled discrimination lawsuit
TASERS:
Florida:
town hall meeting after sheriff suspends Taser use, Police
Chiefs Assoc for study
Mother
blames cops for "senselessly" killing mentally ill son with
Taser, choke hold
PETA
tries to stop Taser testing on pigs; 94 human autopsies provide
sufficient data
Killeen, Texas
holds off of Taser purchase to do more research
BUDGET:
Budget cuts:
K-12: $11.5 Billion, WIC: 617,000 kids, state grants $70.7
Billion
Budget
cuts HOPE IV funds; 466 grants to 166 cities for 20,300 redevelopment
units
Budget
cuts 470,000 people from ABE, literacy, GED, english language
programs;
COLORADO:
Hildenbrandt
rejects $5,000 bribe attempt by desperate Springs over NATO
arrest
Some
crackpot's letter to INDY bashing spongeBRAIN Dobson and "christian"
taliban
State's
cost of war to date: $3.2 Billion (PDF)
Profile
on Dobson empire; 4 million mailings/month, 200 million radio,
80 TV stations
Qwest
increases bid for MCI to $8 Billion in bidding war with Verizon
20
week abortion ban bill aborted in committee
Save
Colorado Now will concentrate on gas drilling regulation first
Palmer,
Mitchell, Wasson ignore D11 vote; ban Planned Parenthood after
17 years
Hazelhurst
on "irrational, malevolent universe" of D11's Cristen and
Cox
Hunter
S. Thompson's wife, Anita, RMN interview
COLORADO UNIVERSITY:
Fired CU
professor "not going to be silenced" on pollution from Lowrey,
Coors
CU English
prof says 50-50 chance he'll be fired for not re-signing loyalty
oath
CU
regents vote 6-3 AGAINST conflict of interest policy for themselves
UCCS:
new logo, old name
ELECTIONS:
5
Senators deliver letter to junior calling for investigation
of Guckert press pass
Behind
the scenes look at staff of Talon News/GOPUSA
Attempt
to get statement from 8 reichwing "christian" fundinazis on
Guckert gets nada
Eberle
closes Talon News website; "can only take so much of a beating"
Wisconsin:
governor will veto voter ID bill; passed 64-33; requires state/national
ID
USA Next,
Rove, Swifties attack on AARP over troops and gay marriage
in SS battle
ACTIVISM:
UFPJ,
IMAWII, MFSO, others world wide protests on March 19 gear
up
Write
state rep to support HB1262 funding tobacco prevention program
Write congress
to stop sneak attack on ANWR
Dems petition
to support Howard Dean's plan for future of party
New Strategies
for Southern (states) Progress.org
National Priorities
Project.org
Our Future.org
Project Hope.org
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
Junior speaks to "Old Europe"
CU
decides to let football team have Ward Churchill
Bush
hosts G1 conference with himself in attendance
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
LA
Times piece on Ja'afari
Chalabi's
deal to leave PM race: Interior Minister in charge of oil
Kurd
price for coalition: autonomy and control of their oil reserves
Allawi
tries to put together coalition to supplant Shi'a majority
Rules
of engagement: kill an unarmed, wounded man, laying on his back,
no problem
US
state run TV runs 15 minute "confession" by "Syrian" intel agent
Profile/interview
with Lieutenant who started Peace-Out.com for COs
AFGHANISTAN:
Only Wash Post,
AP, and Newsweek have full time reporters left in country
US
has paid Pakistani informants $57 million for al-qaeda info
worth approximately $1.98
PALESTINE:
New
24 member Palestinian cabinet voted in; reformists dominate
Profiles
on major members of Palestinian cabinet
9/11:
WTC
forensics over with 1,161 DNA samples still not matched to any
on list of names
Cop
at OKC bombing that blew whistle, suicided; "It's not true...it
didn't happen that way"
WORLD:
Venezuela
shuts down Coca Cola for tax evasion
Germany:
junior refuses town hall meeting after German govt won't censor
citizens
US:
IMF:
"current (US) deficit cannot by sustained"; Dollar has lost
50% of Euro, 30% of Yen
Report
of year long study of NCLB: "does not believe that NCLB is constitutional"
San Francisco
council bill, AB1237, would gather stats on Taser use
Pennsylvania:
energy corp will install scrubbers on 3 plants to follow Clean
Air Act
Perchlorate
from rocket fuel found in mother's milk in 18 states
COLORADO:
Soul Force
booklet on SpongeBRAIN Dobson; local action May 1 (PDFs)
State
spends $1.8 million/year for lobbyists; 11 make more than governor
HB1288
would allow civil court action against telemarketers for calling
cell phone
Defense
Dept tells Pueblo 15 more years for funding to destroy WMD
HB1252,
study of Arkansas water diversion, dies on 5-5 vote, with rep
out of state
Army
court: Fort Carson closed hearing violated law and free press
5,200 members
of 3rd ACR prepare to go back to Iraq
ELECTIONS:
ESSI
on "Bucky" Bush's $450,000 profit from war: "Having a bush doesn't
hurt"
House
Judiciary and Rules committees ask GAO to investigate Guckert
connection
Judiciary,
investigating CIA leak, subpoena Guckert's journal
GOPUSA
2004 Xmas greetings with special thanx to Karl Rove and G. Gordon
Liddy
ACTIVISM:
MoveOn.org
petition for election reform; paper trails, barring partisans,
long lines
No
mention of God in constitution; twice in Federalist, twice in
Dec of Independence
Colorado
house leaders remind reps that the "whole world is watching"
Bill "fist up
your ass" Cadman (R-CS) email to complain about violent threat
Protest
at Loveland, Co Wal-Mart over unionization efforts
Chicago
groups file federal suit after banned from permit to march on
19th
Coverage
of German protests against our little fascist cowboy
HUMOR:
Bush twins
"SideKick" hacked; photos of father all over net (photos)
CNN/Gallup
poll: bush numbers up 12% among past evil dictators
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Chalabi
withdraws under pressure; war criminal, Ja'afari next PM
Ja'afari
was CIA's boy in uprising against saddam in second coup attempt
PALESTINE:
S
Court stops "Berlin wall" construction near Ramallah
NEOCONS:
Analysis of
media ignorance and deception on Negroponte's criminal record
WORLD:
Mosaic world report from 15
countries (streaming RM)
Cuba:
junior pays Miami "journalists" to slam Castro $200,000/year
Pope:
gay marriage part of "new ideology of EVIL"; (and pedophiles R
us?)
Lebanon:
PM ready to resign and form new government
England:
AG told lap dog, Blair, Iraq war was illegal in 13 page ruling,
March 7, 2003
Turkey:
90 of nukes that started Cuban Missile Crises, still in Turkey
US:
AARP
under attack by pharmaceutical lobby over SS piratization
ONLY
5% signed up for stat's private retirement accounts in last 7
years
900 "christian"
taliban meet in Florida to strategize theocratic overthrow of
Democracy
Greenspan: "have
to raise taxes or reduce spending to keep deficit under control"
CBPP report
on social security lies by administration
Only
50 of 350 PBS stations air Iraq documentary; offered censored
and not by PBS
S Court refuses
to even hear "Jane Roe" argue against Roe v Wade
Dollar
falls as S Korea says it would rather have Canadian or Australian
dollars instead
Theocratic
reichwing takes on Shrek for "evil" transgender bartender and
Pinocchio
Oil
prices up 6%; DOW falls 174 points
TASERS:
San Francisco
assemblyman introduces bill to regulate Tasers
Jacksonville,
Florida sheriff suspends Taser use
Akron,
Ohio ME rules Taser factor in man's death
UN
Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials: Tasers violate
international law
COLORADO:
Romanoff:
Owens won't provide state's needs in next 30 years, for budget
planning
Western
states summit on Native American casinos, that Owens opposes,
in March
Pueblo:
2 of 3 county commissioners reverse Wal-Mart tax break positions
7
diplomats tour state in support of CAFTA
Slow
start to tobacco tax: $11.1 million for January, or 19% below
expected
Bill
would halve payment for land taken through eminent domain for
FasTracks
Schultheis'
HB1271, barring services to illegals, looses in committee 6-5
Cadman
told Dem legislator on house floor he's "gonna shove his fist
up my ass"
Sentencing
for Adelphia thief, Rigas and son postponed
ELECTIONS:
"Bucky"
Bush (HW's brother) makes $450,000 on ESSI stocks as war profiteer
Thune
appeared on Guckert's webRadio show; reichwing bloggers took $8-27,000
Wead: I cost
myself $1 million by not releasing book before election
RNC:
$16.5 million; DNC: $2.6 million
ACTIVISM:
Environment Colorado.org
talking points on renewable energy; oil industry subsidies
Call
Salazar (212-224-5852); demand support for Amend 37 renewable
energy; report
Celebrity Chef
fundraiser for Colorado Common Cause April 14 in Denver
Save
Our Environment.org JS form to legislature to stop ANWR drilling
Report
on German reception for our #1 terrorist
HUMOR:
Belgian
bush urinal cake all the rage
Rove and
Guckert play "Name That Thune" (photo)
Uncle "Bucky's" gravy train (photo)
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Amnesty
International: women no better off than under saddam
5,000 US soldiers
charged with desertion since war started in 2003
1 million
books, 10 million docs, 14,000 artifacts destroyed since invasion
Australia:
bush's lap dog, Howard, breaks campaign promise, sends 450 more
to Iraq
More
journalists killed in first 14 months of Iraq than all of Vietnam:
63 so far
PALESTINE:
Israeli
AF chief: must be prepared to bomb Iran; "no one knows" if there
will be war
Squatters
poison WB Palestinian well for 7th time in 3 years; 12 kids have
liver infections
New
Zealand rejects Israeli apology on Mossad agents using NZ passports
for war
World
Council of Churches votes to support divestment in Israeli corps
Qurei scraps
cabinet list as most threaten vote against corrupt old guard
NEOCONS:
Wead:
Amway cultist, Baptist minister, coined phrase "compassionate conservative"
Wead:
Barry Goldwater supported Dem opponent in congress race
USA
Next hires SwiftBoat consultants to plan attack on AARP on SS piratization
WORLD:
7 CIA pilots
honored by French for secret flights to Vietnam in 50's still denied
by US
Iran
officially mobilizes 7 million strong militia in prep for war
Kuwait:
Ummah Party first to back full political rights for women
England:
list expands to 400 foods contaminated with carcinogenic chilly
powder
UN:
33% of remaining 5,743 amphibian species threatened with extinction
US:
California
man 94th to die after Taser shot; shocked several times in domestic
dispute
Montana:
house exempts casinos from smokefree workplace rules passed by referendum
Arizona:
500 vigilantes join "MinuteMen" militia to patrol 370 mile border
with Mexico
COLORADO:
Amy Goodman interview
with Ward Churchill (transcript, streaming RM)
Salazar uses
CBO data in Pueblo to deny junior's lie of "crises" in Social Security
Salazar
in Springs: SS piratization "frankly has be befuddled" (like Gonzales)
Woodland
Park council waits for $20,000 report from economic analysis on
Wal-Mart
Lakewood:
Air Force Vet's art sells after minority of council remove it as
"unpatriotic"
Churchill
denounces McCarthy witch hunt day before speech at U of Hawai'i
4,500
people in state had info sold to criminals by Choice Point
ACTIVISM:
Soul
Force.org action against Dobson's bigotry in Springs, weekend of
May 1
Gold
Star Families for Peace.org started with 50 families of fallen soldiers
(gsfp.org)
Vote For Peace.org.UK starts
campaign to elect pro peace candidates to parliament
Photos
from protests in Belgium
Photos
from Brussel's protests of bush visit
Bar and Restaurant
Employees Against Tobacco Hazards.org for smokefree workplaces
BREATH endorsements
from associations, bars/restaurants, medical, musicians
True
Majority letter to Condi to take Darfur war criminals to the ICC
for prosecution
HUMOR:
Latest osama
tape: apologizes for Guckert infiltrating organization
Bush thrown
out of Belgium restaurant for complaining about Brussels Sprouts
