Monday's
News
IRAQ:
Sgt. Kyne (Gulf War) claim
(photos) that low yield nukes used in Iraq (Graphic)
Parliament
meets March 16th; Talibani as prez, Ja'afari as PM
Zogby
poll: 8% increase, since mid February, of those against war; 54% now
AT&T
ripping off soldiers with PhoneCards; 8 minutes from 120 minute card; other
cards banned
Truth
about WH fake story of tortured Iraqi woman
SGRENA:
Sgrena: "started to
shoot without any light or signal...no (road) block"
Sgrena:
operation coordinated with US Colonel at airport waiting on her
Sgrena captors
warned: "The Americans don't want you to return alive to Italy"
Sgrena's
Falluja story of 73 Napalmed bodies that helped bring assassination attempt
PALESTINE:
Syria
begins pullback of 14,000 troops to Bekaa Valley
NEOCONS:
Bush will appoint
zionist stooge, Bolton, ambassador to UN
Profile of John
Bolton; PNAC, AEI, against ICC, UN, and Bioweapons Convention
Right Web profile of
USA Next
9/11:
CIA
has used "rendition" to torture 100-150 people after 9/11; 72 before
WORLD:
US deploys
2 B2 Stealth bombers to Guam; next stop Iran
Scotland: "several
hundreds of thousands of particles" of Plutonium dumped on beach
US:
Indiana:
family sues over teen shot 16 times with Taser; for memory loss, medical bills
CO2
level rise from 280 ppm to 370 ppm, reducing nitrogen in foliage wild ruminants
eat
Navy SEALS exercise on
USS Philadelphia 45 miles from where 70 Dolphins beached
Boeing CEO fired for
affair with coworker
Florida
cops strike again with 96th Taser death; unarmed, ran from cops
COLORADO:
CU
prez, Hoffman, resigns over football scandal, effective June 30
Gates:
7 proxy votes for him discarded improperly in progressive Dem's party win
Waak
counters that they too have proxy votes not counted due to procedural rules
Owen's
Center for New American Century website down, offices closed
HB1125
would allow all taxpayers to deduct donations to charities, not just itemizers
SB88:
all 178 school districts have to offer kindergarten; all do, but not required
Protect
Our Wells: Arapaho Aquifer has dropped 25-30 feet; won't support growth
ELECTIONS:
S
Dakota: Thune paid 2 bloggers $35,000 for consultations: 2 interviews with Guckert
Santorum removes poll
from website after 90.2% answer no to piratization of SS
ACTIVISM:
Bridges for Peace.org March 19th action
on interstate overpasses
2
MoveOn.org House Parties in Springs Thursday, March 10 @ 8PM to fight GOP
Email
to congress to stop budget cut of $238 Billion from social programs
Email form for
AT&T PhoneCards ripping off troop's minutes and price gouging
SoulForce
seminar in Boulder; action against Dobson in Springs April 30-May 2
FreeWay
Blogger in San Francisco area this weekend
20,000 protest
China ruling that invasion of Taiwan would be "legal"
Media Transparency.org
51 Capital March.com protesting bush's
second coup May Day
HUMOR:
Coin
collectors divided over new Bush "horse's ass" half penny
Syria resigns in Lebanon;
"wants to spend more time with the family"
NCLB: "No Contractor
Left Behind"
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Health Ministry
doctor: US used mustard gas, nerve gas, other WMD in Fallujah
13
investigations in Ramadhi result in NO charges
90 UN
inspection sites looted under lousy security
US arrests
top paper's reporter
ITALIAN JOURNALIST SHOOTING:
Sgrena's car had passed
all checkpoints; boyfriend says deliberate
Sgrena:
"US doesn't approve of this policy, so they try to stop it in any way possible"
Sgrena's
bullet riddled car, prime evidence in the crime, disappears
Sgrena:
car traveling at "regular speed"
Italian
agent, killed by US, had freed other hostages in Iraq
AFGHANISTAN:
Report
from secret CIA prison, "Salt Pit" where POW froze to death, chained, naked
PALESTINE:
Assad announces
Syria will remove troops to Bekaa Valley; Israel will NOT leave Golan
Ireland
catches 2 Mossad agents trying to assassinate deported Palestinian
Lebanon: interview with
foreign policy advisor on current affairs
NEOCONS:
Profile
of Ahmanson, flat earther, homophobe, Discovery and Claremont Institutes
9/11:
Bush secretly
gave CIA permission for renditions for torture after 9/11
Popular Mechanics
"debunking" researcher is Chertoff's cousin, Benjamin
WORLD:
DR Congo: UN head fired
over 72 allegations of rape by troops, civilian staff
US:
Ohio: Toledo to change
Taser policy after death of man shot 9 times
Black
recruitment down 41% since 2000 due to bush's policies; was 23.5% of Army
Des
Moines police chief admits Taser of drunk homeless man for trespassing unwarranted
30 factory farms chosen
for emissions test; pork producers gave $6 million to EPA
Oak Ridge: radiation
leak causes evacuation at nuke plant
California:
doctoral student duplicates NSA's CARNIVORE internet device tracking
COLORADO:
Progressive
Dems kick out party head, Gates, put Waak in by 187-184 vote
Private toll road keeps
investors, eminent domain, plans, route secret
125 year old
law allows toll road builders to take land through eminent domain
Grocery workers
take contract 60-40% against advice of union
Southern Delivery System
for water, backup plans, concerns, proponents
Hefley
on changes in Ethic Committee: "looks like a purge" by DeLay supporters
ELECTIONS:
Kyrgystan: protests
continue for 5th day over sham "election"
ACTIVISM:
California:
parents protest use of radio ID badges on school kids
March 19th rally
at state capitol in Denver
Civil Rights.org
Idealist.org
HUMOR:
Bush makes
sweeping changes at CIA
Bush
calls for faith based, male escort training service
Saturday's
News
IRAQ:
Official casualties for US reaches 11,220
Italian reporter
home after US kills rescuer, wounds her at roadblock
Italian reporter wouldn't
be embedded, vehemently opposed war, told female POWs story
Paper editor: reporter
shooting: "murder"; passed all checkpoints, cellphones jammed
AFGHANISTAN:
HRW and Amnesty International:
war criminal, Dostum, shouldn't be commander of army
PALESTINE:
Likud
wants referendum; 69% of polled support Gaza withdrawal
32
Fatah leaders of West Bank, resign in protest over corruption
Lebanese
army takes intel HQ with military for 45 minutes to speed Syrian withdrawal
Undercover
Shin Bet agents beat, arrest 4 Palestinians boys for protesting "Berlin" wall
WORLD:
Russia will launch
2 Iranian spy satellites between April and June
US
drops anti abortion amendment; joins rest of world in UN women's equality resolution
7,000
in Niger freed today from slavery as enforcement of law starts
VENEZUELA:
India
signs oil agreement with Venezuela next week
Russia's
LUKOIL may build oil refinery in Venezuela
Venezuelan
Navy finds US battleships 75 kilometers off coast
US:
Ohio:
Gov will cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for rich and leave $2 Trillion debt
by 2010
EPA
has 'til March 15 for news rules on soot and smog after loosing lawsuits
Forensic
investigator tells Am. Academy of Forensic Examiners: "Tasers can kill"
California judge rules
bloggers do NOT have same source protection as journalists
Gas
price tracker prez:" brutal, horrendous" increase of $.24 per gallon this week
Nevada: state Senator
paid $3,000/month "consulting" for Vegas TV station reports
Study: 100% of those given
RITALIN for ADHD had 300% increase in gene mutation
JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS:
Nomination
for 4th court, Boyle, overturned 150 times for mistakes
Boyle ruled
fed court anti discrimination law on hiring women didn't apply
National
Bar Association opposes nomination of Boyle to 4th appeals court
Coalition
of civil rights groups and NC Police Benevolent Assoc. opposes Boyle
COLORADO:
Salazar
defends his worthless whitewash investigation of CU football as AG
Denver
cops sued again for killing man suit claims was unarmed; shot 20 times
Spring's Hide
'N Seek mortgage corp says evicted, out by March 15
ELECTIONS:
USA Next admits
stealing photo for AARP ad, tried to buy another to cover up
Bush using state secrets
ploy to stop lawsuits by those tortured, kidnapped, silenced
Waxman asks Rummy
for details on no-bid contract to "Bucky" Bush's corporation
Ukraine
Minister "suicide" was 2 gunshots; had info on Kuchma murder of reporter
ACTIVISM:
Jefferson: US law NOT
based on 10 commandments, but English law before Christianity
Nicaraguan
activists that helped overthrow US' Somoza, denied entry, Harvard position
HUMOR:
Cartoon of Ann
Coulter: "If that old Arab gets within yards of me, I'll puke on her"
Bush's weekly diary:
Laura wants to know why his number in Paris Hilton's Sidekick
Friday's News
IRAQ:
Pentagram
$574 million unfunded for 2006 death benefits to 1,000 families
Turkey
sends 1,357 across border to fight PKK Kurds
653 ejected from military
for being gay in 2004 but half 1,227 in 2001, due to need
AFGHANISTAN:
Bush
proposes $698.3 million payment to puppet, Musharraf, for being good little fascist
PALESTINE:
zionist
thieves steal another 10 square miles of WB land around Hebron
Syria's
Assad will address parliament Saturday; may announce troop withdrawal
London
Mayor shows gonads on criticizing zionist fascism, renouncing anti Semitism
WORLD:
Darfur bill
calls for UN resolution, sanctions, embargoes, no-fly zone
Only half of promised
3,320 peacekeepers in place in Darfur, Sudan
Africa:
UN report: 80 million may die of AIDS by 2015
China's
civil rights report on US; prisons employ 530,000, second only to GM
Russia
FM: Iran's Bushehr nuke facility "under IAEA control"
Caspian Sea oil,
elections, oligarchs in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan
Oceanographic
Institute: global warming heating oceans, changing weather patterns
Vietnam:
class action lawsuit filed against 30 corps (Dow, Monsanto) for Agent Orange
Lancet: 3 million
neonatal deaths per year from poverty
US:
Facts, data, charts on extending tax
cuts; cost $2.5 Trillion through 2015
$45
Billion Medicaid cut in first 5 years could fund healthcare for 1.8 million children
Arizona: lawmaker
removes own bill after reading NRA words allowing any gun anywhere
US by the numbers: 49th literacy,
54th healthcare, 22nd poor kids, 41 infant mortality
Ohio: jailhouse video
shows 9 Taser shots during booking of man who died
Texas: GOP submits
bill to stop municipal wireless internet like CC
GOP
introduces bill to allow preachers to back candidates from pulpit like taliban;
tax free
WTO
appeal judges uphold ruling US cotton subsidies illegal, unfair trade practice
COLORADO:
Report from
undercover agent inside Fucus' Houston "ex gay" conference
Udall
will not run for governor; reelection in 2006, senate in 2008
MDC/Richmond
Homes caught in $24 million kickback corruption
CU
prez, Hoffman, warns faculty about "new McCarthyism" over Churchill
CU
sues 9News, reporter, over grand jury leak, may sue AG office
Hunter
Thompson's son fired shotgun into air after, no bullet in chamber of "suicide"
gun
Pueblo HIV/AIDS office
closes after loss of fed grants
Merrifield's HB1176
looses 32-28; would have stopped graft, corruption in "gifts"
Votes
counted Saturday in grocery union vote on strike
List of 25 facilities in state housing
extremely hazardous substances
ELECTIONS:
FEC:
link to candidate's website is campaign contribution; bloggers not exempt
Conyers
submits "resolution of inquiry" (1 step below subpoena) on Guckert press access
"Pinky" Reid
on Greenspan: "one of the biggest political hacks in Washington"
GOP
goosesteps to junior's drum: passes war funding, cuts only $800 million
ACTIVISM:
Congress
petition to stop $45 Billion Medicaid budget cut in next 10 years
Petition
to stop Kansas from violating privacy of abortion clinic medical records
Petition
to FCC to stop deceptive and hidden fees on phone bills
No Draft, No Way.org on 63% deployment
rate, inadequate reup/recruitment rate
Minnesota
HS reverses: antiwar group allowed to table and give brochures
HUMOR:
Greenspan: "There is no try....only
do"
List of bush cabinet
member's numbers found in Paris Hilton's Sidekick
Religious leaders announce
secular 10 commandments and Brooklyn Bridge sale
Thursday's
News
IRAQ:
Official
Pentagram KIA figures pass 1,500 for US soldiers
Ja'afari
and Kurd deal: Kirkuk will be part of Kurdistan for no 3 state veto of constitution
War profiteer, CACI,
gets $2.8 million contract from New Jersey for HS
Interview
with Ja'afari, VP and next next PM of Iraq
AFGHANISTAN:
First female
governor named by Karzai, in Herat province
PALESTINE:
US admits Palestinian
population of 5.3 million greater than Israeli population of 5.2 mil
Israel
decides NOT to bulldoze half of Rafah, destroy 3,000 homes to dig 3 mile moat
9/11:
Transcript of Sibel Edmonds
statement to house subcommittee on national security
Transcript
and video of McKinney asking Rummy about 4 war games in progress on 9/11
State Dept
lawyer warned bush he could be prosecuted for war crimes for Geneva Con.
WORLD:
Guatemala: Star
Link GM corn found in World Food Program corn shipments from US
Haiti: DC rep bill to
investigate bush's role in 33rd coup in Haiti
OPEC:
price per barrel of oil could rise to $80 in next 2 years
Uruguay: new prez
signs energy deal with Chavez; full diplomatic relations with Cuba
Venezuela:
China signs 19 point cooperation agreement with Chavez, including energy
Venezuela: India
will sign energy cooperation agreement this week
US:
Budget
cuts 48 Ed. Dept programs $4.2 Billion; Pell Grants rise ONLY $100/year
Budget
eliminates eligibility for Pell Grants for 80-90,000 low income students
Florida:
AG admits excessive force of Taser of handcuffed, 13 y.o., 65 lb girl in cop car
Media: ignoring USA Next
GOP ties, past campaigns, Jarvis work for Raygun, bush senior
S
Court rules CIA spies cannot sure agency for contract violation of pension
Chicago council
on Tasers: "this technology could create a huge liability for taxpayers"
Nation Mag: Mercury for coal-fired
plants causes 38,200 heart attacks every year
Riggs
Bank investigation uncovers mail from Albritton to Pinoche
House
bill allows faith-based groups, using fed tax money, to employ based on religion
Montana:
Senator Burns caught giving $3 million bribe for Abramoff in DeLay corruption
COLORADO:
Sister
Hudson (silo protest) released Friday; won't pay $3,080 fine; may go back
Spring's Gallagher's
brothers own land needed to expand Brush Hollow water plan
Fosset over Pagosa Springs,
will land in Kansas at 12:17 for world record
Salazar speech on floor criticizes
bush budget cut of 12% for PILT bill
Several
stupid cops and admin gets wrist slaps for letting rapist, Brents, free
Aurora
cops willing to meet with black leaders about man Tased over salad bar
SB
152 passes without disbanding Glenwood Spring's municipal broadband service
$60,000
needed to fix sham firecode used to shut Hide 'N Seek; only business shut 2004
ELECTIONS:
Common
Cause's election reform agenda items
Text of Holt
Bill (HR550) to require a paper trail for every vote (PDF)
Text of Reid
Bill (S330) to require a paper trail for every vote (PDF)
Bush preaches
ONLY to choir again at Notre Dame on SS piratization; no public tickets
ACTIVISM:
Email
form to write congress to replace Pell Grant increase of $450
Dem's letter
to editor form to stop budget madness
MoveOn.org's
contest to produce flash animation for national ad to stop bush's budget
Interview with Bill Moyers
on "christian" taliban, media whores, values voters
NRDC from to write
NATO to stop active SONAR damaging marine life
49
Dolphins strand themselves on Florida beach
Signup
for MoveOn/org's March 10 house parties to organize against GOP
New Navy laser plasma
PEP weapon designed to create pain for protesters
HUMOR:
Ann Coulter Action Figure (real
product); push her belly and listen to her rabid diatribes
Bush yoga thong (real product
$8.99) with photo of bush action figure in asana pose
Bush dog chew toy (real product
$12.99); give Fido something to chew on
Wednesday's
News
IRAQ:
CO, Mejia: "I was a coward, not
for leaving the war, but for having been part of it"
General Zinni,
commander in Iraq 1997-2000: invasion "horrendous mistake"
Custer Battles
former staff blow whistle on millions in fraud, corruption, bribery
Vermont: 48 towns
vote to get out, 4 vote no, 3 abstain
PALESTINE:
Victor
Ostrovsky (former KGB) on Mossad knowledge of Marine bombing in 1983
NEOCONS:
Zoellick
also in running for World Bank chair with Wolfie, Taylor, Tobias, Whitman, Hills
WORLD:
US and British military
were working on "Tsunami Bomb" in 40's in New Zealand
Mosaic News TV feed (QT)
Japan
joins Iran in rejecting IAEA proposals on dual use nuke fuel for power
Nepal:
king's forces kill 70 resistance in big battle
Abkhazia: PM
survives assassination attempt in ex-Georgia republic
US:
California:
governator used tax payer money for fake commercial supporting no lunch
Restaurant Assoc gave $21,000
to Ahnold; buys support for no lunch time for workers
inJustice
Dept will appeal ruling that Padilla has constitutional right to due process
Pennsylvania: "Clear
Skies" would exempt 894 facilities from cleaning up emissions
Stevens
wants his "standards of decency" to apply through FCC to cable/satellite
COLORADO:
Auditors
find serious lapses in $3.8 Billion in private contracts
Next tactic: Wal-Mart opponents
didn't register properly as a PAC
Bush's
budget will cut $5.5 million from wounded Vet's subsidies for nursing homes
1 of 19 cases
against Schlage Lock's perchoroethlene pollution, dismissed
Salazar
writes bush to pressure removal of all 20 renominations to courts
ELECTIONS:
Neil Bush, Crest Investments,
New Bridge Strategies, Allbaugh, Ignite, Saathoff, Chenierre
Frist
and DeLay suggest SS piratization may have to wait
ACTIVISM:
Westboro Baptist
brings "God Hates Fags" campaign to Palmer High, March 11
MoveOn/org's petition against
he 20 judicial renominations back before congress
Save
Our Environment.org's petition to stop national forest rule changes before March
7
14 defining characteristics of fascism
(flash animation)
HUMOR:
Photo of
cheney, bush, bush, asscroft behind bars
Bush "Jack in the Box" $21.99 (real
product)
State of the Union remix (flash)
Tuesday's
News
IRAQ:
5 million Vets treated by VA last
year; 48,733 from Iraq and Afghanistan
HRW challenges new MATRIX
remote controlled anti personnel mines
Halliburton paid $6.6 Billion
so far, $3 Billion pending; $6 Billion/year
Kucinich
leads charge on accountability for $9 Billion missing in Iraq
50 Vermont towns
decide today on exit plans resolutions at town meetings
DEPLETED URANIUM:
325,000 Gulf War Vets on permanent
disability; 56%; cause? Depleted Uranium
1 unit: 40%
malignancies in 16 months; 67% of 251 study group kids have birth defects
Charges Vet Affairs
Sec'y, Principi, resigned over growing DU/GulfWar Syndrome scandal
Scientist
who found 400% more DU in urine of soldiers, arrested for bullet he was testing
Veterans
for Peace call on Dean to drive Dems to call for ban of DU in battle
AFGHANISTAN:
8
POWs will sue Rummy for torture; ACLU files in fed court
Pakistan: study shows
media overstates enrollment in Madrassas; less than 1%, not 10%
Karzai
appoints war criminal, Dostum, head of army
PALESTINE:
Syria: Assad expects
attack by US/Israel; points to similar rhetoric before Iraq
Shin
Bet: zionist thieves are also murderers: 70 death threats on Sharon
3
of 5 killed in Tel Aviv bombing were elite assassination squad soldiers
NEOCONS:
Wolfie
top of short list to head World Bank of economic warfare
Wave bye bye:
Wead gives audio tapes to WH lawyer; 18 minute gap coming soon
9/11:
Fed judge rules obvious:
charge Padilla or let him go, but give him due process
Where
are the confiscated airport videotapes of attackers getting on planes?
WORLD:
Lebanon: 25,000 protesters
force PM and Syrian puppet government to resign
Caspian Sea:
State Dept warns Georgia against selling pipeline to Russia's, Gazprom
EU
backs Russia/Iran deal to provide fuel, take waste, avoiding nuke program developed
England: Jane's
Defense: no way RAF not aware of CIA's "torture jet" kidnappings
State
Dept annual Human Rights Report slams countries for using OUR torture tactics
Scientists
working on "Klingon" cloaking device of "Plasmonic cover"
Canada: Condi cancels
trip after attempt at autonomy and sovereignty of airspace
US:
S Court: 19 states
wrong for executing children under 18; 70 death sentences overturned
9 in house charge
SS admin with editing docs, PR, website, stats to help junior's plan
SS
Admin changed communications strategy to undermine public confidence (PDF)
Pennsylvania:
suit argues lack of creationism in science class violates 1st amendment
Interview with economic hitman,
Perkins, on predatory lending in economic warfare (RM)
National
Conference of State Legislatures calls for 40 changes to NCLB
Examination
of NCLB and lack of funding to achieve goals
316,000-637,000
children per year loose IQ due to Mercury poisoning from coal plants
Suit
filed against Taser Inc. on behalf of child whose father was killed by cops
Media: Harley Sorensen
archive; SF Chronicle fired him; will no longer carry column
Media:
another CBS exec fired for retyped docs detailing junior's service lies
HR 650 removes
all liability from vaccines manufacturers
EPA
tactic: change "Clean Air Act" leak rate numbers for CFCs and removes confirmation
COLORADO:
Denver
reacts to cops beating, Tasing man for stealing from salad bar at Chucky Cheese
Jane
Norton says she won't run for governor next year when Owens is term limited out
Bill
would require changes to constitution have super majority of 60% of voters
ELECTIONS:
Kyrgystan:
40 of 75 seats not stolen outright; need runoff in corrupt election
Tajikistan: incumbent
US puppet steals 80% of seats in parliament
ACTIVISM:
Write Judiciary
to stop Myers appointment to 9th appeals court
Protest of
Tasers after mentally ill patient killed by cops in Houston
Choose the Blue.com list of progressive
companies nationwide, by category
Interview
with UFPJ's Cagan, on the direction and tactics of antiwar movement
Time To Go Joe.com website to get Lieberman
to give up seat to real Democrat
No Draft No Way.org on preparations, finished
March 31, for new draft
HUMOR:
Administration's new abstinence education
program: Iron Hymen.com
Global warming Mug (real) just
add hot liquid and watch seacoasts recede
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