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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