Monday's News
IRAQ:
Marine: "We kill
innocent Iraqis all the time"; from Sgrena's paper
British
Medical journals calls for independent investigation of civilian
deaths
PALESTINE:
Israel
says 20,000 E Jerusalem homes, built without permits, will be destroyed
Likud
cabinet affirms 24 occupations to be dismantled, but no timetable
and nothing on 81
Squatters
rush to falsely register thousands as Gaza residents
9/11:
143
videotapes from Brooklyn detention center detail torture of Arabs
after 9/11
WORLD:
Iran
postpones Uranium Enrichment to make statement not interested in
nuke bomb
India,
world's 6th largest Dollar reserves, discusses diversification;
Asia has $2.46 Trillion
Nepal:
500 arrested fro protesting monarchy absolute rule
Nepal:
ICRC investigates detentions and 1,200 disappearances in last 5
years
Hong
Kong: leader to be chosen by only 800 voters chosen by Beijing
WHO:
cluster of "Bird Flu" cases means virus has mutated into form passed
by people
US:
Unabomber,
Ted Kaczynski, was in CIA mind control experiments with LSD at Harvard
EPA:
power plants have until 2018 to cut 70% of Mercury pollution; can
trade credits
AOL
TofS for IM: "You waive all rights to privacy"; AOL can "display,
distribute"
HS's
Ridge pressured watchdog "not to give things to congress, and spin
reports"
3.2
million FOIA requests per year getting less and less info as govt
closes doors
COLORADO:
Wal-Mart
fires worker in Loveland for trying to unionize; from Poland's Solidarity
4
of 7 Gates proxy voters complain to national Dem party about election
for chair
State
suicide rate twice national average; ranked 7th in US
Aurora
reluctantly sets up "Use of Force" police oversight board with 2
citizens
ELECTIONS:
Guckert,
Gosch, Franklin, pedophiles, Hunter S, Thompson, photographer Nelson,
WH;
Delay's
lobbyist, Buckham, had same address as Korean group, same business
manager
FBI
can't find $2.5 million paid to Abramoff and Scanlon for DeLay corruption
ACTIVISM:
A
Voice of Reason will attend troop homecoming in Grand Junction with
brownies
Antiwar
rally Friday, 5PM, Routt Country courthouse
Email
form for AOL to complain about TofS lack of privacy
Snow shovel activism by
the Soggy Boot Gang (photos)
HUMOR:
Song
about Falwell, Rove, Rummy, Cheney, bush; (not for work-MP3)
Gonzales considers
sending POW into space to escape Geneva Convention
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Sgrena:
"fired on the car, and not at the engine"; "no one shot in the air"
PALESTINE:
Israel plans
to bomb Iran complete; practicing in desert; US cooperation
Hariri
assassination by bush and sharon to clear way for airbase in northern
Lebanon
NEOCONS:
Reichwing,
neocon guide to the political left
9/11:
NSA warned
bush in 2001 of "permanent presence" on US digital network
WORLD:
USS Roosevelt
heading to Med in Atlantic; USS Vinson leaves Singapore, going to
Gulf
USS
Kitty Hawk leaves Japan for S Korea sabre rattling exercises
US
withdraws gender equality support after changes on contraception and
globalization
US:
Nixon
had seat on KAL007 next to John Birch prez; CIA warned him not to
fly
Study:
Mercury changes growth related signals in breast cancer tissue
Texas
tax bill: make over $100,000, get tax cut; under $23,000, tax hike
of 5%
COLORADO:
Photos
from Westboro counter protest
Spring's gazette
voter guide for April 5 municipal election
Analysis of TABOR's
"population plus inflation" formula
RMN
coverage of Westboro counter protest
Western
Skies coverage of Westboro counter protest
Palmer High
letter to parents regarding Westboro protest
ELECTIONS:
Arkansas:
Asa Hutchinson will run for Gov; HS, Mena Airport, Iran/Contra
Biden
campaign worker, Blevins, sentenced to 3 years for stealing $412,000
Florida:
Orlando mayor indicted, removed from office over paying for absentee
ballots
California:
Governator used tactic of fake news propaganda to push agenda
ACTIVISM:
Report
from activist thrown out of bush SS rally
HUMOR:
Bush refutes
claim that US would waste ammo on Italians
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
ACLU FOIA release shows
contract signed between military and CIA to hide "ghost" POWs
Complete
documents from ACLU FOIA release after 2.5 years (PDFs)
24 experts from 6 countries
slam US/UK for not investigating innocent civilian deaths
Pentagram wants
to move half of Gitmo to Yemen, Saudi, Afghanistan for torture
Editor:
bush told him before nomination: going to "take out" Iraq (Video/audio/text)
PALESTINE:
Convoy
of 62 Syrian military vehicles cross back in to Syria
UN
gets timetable from Assad on pulling out all Syrian military from Lebanon
Hamas
will have candidates in elections in WB, Gaza, E Jerusalem next summer
NEOCONS:
Ambassador
to Iraq Cheney, Wolfie, Rummy neocon advisor to UNOCAL oil
WORLD:
Pakistan:
Musharraf opposition party walks out over Khan selling centrifuges to
Iran
China: US
spends $5 Billion building 4 nuke plants
China Dollar
reserves fell from 82% to 76% last year in selling even as Dollar fell
Iran:
US joins positive incentives plan to stop nuke program; drops World
Bank objection
Nepal:
king releases Prime Minister, 20 others
Georgia:
parliament votes unanimously for Russia to close 2 bases
Argentina:
prez calls for nationwide strike against Shell Oil for price hikes
Hungary:
US pays $25.5 million to Holocaust victims for plundering nazi "gold
train"
US:
CBO finds bush budget will
increase deficit $1.6 Trillion over next 10 years
House budget resolution
cuts $30-35 Billion from Medicaid, food stamps, EI Tax Credit
Indiana:
97th killed with Taser just happened to have seizures after 50,000 volts
Florida:
98th killed with Taser dies after shock with cops sitting on chest
76% of Feb
229,000 jobs were nontradable services, 35% largely temp jobs
List of pollution
chemicals in average 1.5 year old: flame retardants, PCBs, Mercury,
Lead
Montana
governor calls for National Guard return for wildfire season
COLORADO:
Dems
budget fix allows state to keep $3.8 Billion in next 10 years; $1.6
Billion tax break
CU
regents back down from Churchill buyout
Woodland
Park planning commission votes 6-3 to change zoning code for Wal-Mart
ELECTIONS:
Indian
casino paid most of $70,000 trip to England for DeLay who killed bill
for them
She's
baaaack: Karen Hughes will be head spin doctor; wants to spend less
time with kids
ACTIVISM:
NRDC actions on ANWR,
energy bill, global warming, military environment laws
India:
Ghandi's "Salt March" begins 240 mile journey; J&P's Dennis Apuan
marching
Salt March.org
HUMOR:
Bush's
new SS plan: outsource elderly to third world countries
Photo
of Iraqis toppling bush statue in Baghdad
Friday's News
IRAQ:
Sgrena's
assassins were Negroponte's security
Abu
Ghraib's, Karpinski: children held, 1 was 11 years old, 1 was sexually
assaulted
Pentagram
has no plan to repay troops for equipment, despite law passed last year
PALESTINE:
Family sues
over murder of cameraman holding white flag and wearing "press"
jacket
61
new occupations of Palestinian land since 2001
WORLD:
Mosaic TV (Quicktime stream)
Vietnam:
Group will appeal decision against class action suit over Agent Orange
US:
Coal fired power plants:
97% of soot and SO2, 92% of NO, 86% of CO2
Lawsuit forces
San Juan Power to cut 14,500 tons of SO2, 25,000 of NO, 750 lbs Mercury
Vermont:
Burlington , and 49 of 57 towns, votes to bring troops home now
Connecticut:
legislature forms panel to study Depleted Uranium effects on troops
Ohio: Toledo Taser
policy: no handcuffed, more than 4 times, pregnant, juveniles, elderly
Ohio:
Team Amber Alert calls for ban on Tasers used on kids after another teen
is shot
New
Hampshire: Conservation Law Foundation will sue over Mercury pollution
Florida:
2 Dem Senators introduce bills to restrict of ban Tasers
Montana:
Helena see first gas drilling in decade at summit of pass
Study:
90% greater risk of breast cancer from second hand smoke
Second hand
smoke: 3,000 cancers/year, 37-50,000 deaths per year
February
budget deficit: $133.94 Billion; $96.7 more than Feb 2004
COLORADO:
SpongeBob
video released to 15,000 schools; tolerance spreads like virus
15
Qwest qrooks facing SEC indictments for $2.5 Billion lying on books
Another CU
prof claims fired over politics; teaching 21 years in Boulder
Gazette
coverage of Westboro action
$51 million
expansion of North Com and NORAD at Pete field
6 GOP
breaks ranks in hose, pass Dem budget fix
ELECTIONS:
DeLay
also took an all expenses paid trip to S Korea from a registered foreign
agent
ACTIVISM:
Call
House Ethics Committee to investigate latest DeLay corruption
Email
house: no more war money without exit strategy
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
Bolton bomb at the UN
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
Marine
that captured saddam says whole thing faked; captured in battle; Marine
killed
Kurds and
UIA say agreement is close
Pentagram claims
10,900 wounded, but 24,772 US evacs from theater so far
AFGHANISTAN:
"Ally",
Pakistan, admits Khan gave Iran centrifuges to enrich Uranium
PALESTINE:
State
prosecutor wants criminal investigations into millions diverted to steal
land
IOF West Bank
chief admits 366 "arrests" made by "Arab Impersonation Unit"
NEOCONS:
10 questions
the Senate is too castrated to ask John Bolton at his confirmation hearing
Rummy's dinner with
Fox's Ailes, Safire, Thune, Zoellick, Paul Gigot of WSJ
9/11:
Secret
FBI docs on al-qaeda: "we have not found any true sleeper agents in the
US"
WORLD:
Iran:
presidential commission will report intel is inadequate and incomplete
Bush
rejects UN death penalty protocol used against Iran with hostages during
Carter
Dollar
hits 2 month low against Euro after Japanese PM says it's banks need less
dollars
Flashback:
60 years ago US firebombed Tokyo, killing 100,000 civilians
Hong
Kong: China's puppet fired
Vietnam:
US judge throws out Agent Orange lawsuit
US:
GAO: SS "not
an immediate crises"; piratization will "exacerbate" problems
Florida imposes
corporate loopholes into minimum wage hike voted in by citizens
Study
of propaganda from big Tobacco against second hand smoke and SIDS report
New
Jersey: Perchlorate found in breast milk of mothers 500% more than dairy
SB131 to weaken
Clean Air Act, dies in committee in 9-9 stalemate
Arizona: Scotsdale
will no longer Tase cops in training for fear of injury; citizens, no doubt
March 15
deadline for EPA ruling on Mercury; GAO pressures to include brain damage
GOP
proposes 30% cut in bush's tax cuts from $100 Billion to $70.2 Billion
Illinois:
"Suicide" leaves note saying he killed judge Lefkow's mother/husband
Junior uses
record oil prices to push for drilling in ANWR and nuke plants
40.5% more
blacks than whites die from poor healthcare; 83,570 per year
COLORADO:
5
GOP join Dems on HB1194 to balance budget, keep TABOR surplus, cut income
tax
BeauprezForGovernor.com
domain name registered March 5
Gates
officially requests recount by state Dem party
Salazar
introduces bill to allow Rocky Flats workers with 22 listed cancers to get
aid
CU
professor files lawsuit over firing; corporate pressure on CU after criticism
Spring's
developer, Picolan, threatens eminent domain to take land for Gleneagle
road
"We Are
Family" DVD arrives in schools with "gay" SpongeBob, Big Bird, Barney
ACTIVISM:
Westboro Baptist counter protest Friday morning at 7AM at Palmer
High
National Fossil Fools Day,
April 1
Energy Action.net Fossil Fools Day
action April 1
Adopt A
Dealer protest package from Global Exchange.org for Fossil Fools Day
Email
to auto CEOs demanding less polluting cars, better mileage
List of Democrat Senators
that voted for bankruptcy bill (yes, Salazar caved)
319 US cities holding March 19th
rallies against war
Write congress
to oppose sneaking ANWR drilling in to budget bill
Wounded Warrior Disabled
Sports Project
Write Montana
BLM to oppose opening 90% of wildlands to drilling
MoveOn./org's action to stop
20 re-nominated judges already rejected by Senate
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
bush's Fractured Fairy Tales
Bush
declares war on Poland for too many consonants in names
al-qaeda
announces 1 thing in common with US: hatred of Russel Crowe
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Custer
Battles' markup to govt: $33,000 billed for $432,000; $74,000 billed as $400,000
Iraqi children
with congenital deformities from Depleted Uranium, up 400% since 1991
Sgrena's
report on captivity
Italian
FM: Sgrena's car not speeding, no signals to stop
UIA and Kurds agree on
quotas; not announced until after March 16 congress
Army
used psychiatrist to send soldier back to US after complaining about POW torture
Calls
for investigation as Blair caught keeping AG legal advice from parliament
AFGHANISTAN:
Scottish World
Bank worker killed in Kabul
PALESTINE:
Israeli corporation
gets US military contract to armour 2,000 vehicles in Iraq
West Bank
report, delayed for 3 months: "blatant violations of the law" by zionists
1.5
million march against US interference in Lebanon
NEOCONS:
Former
Saudi ambassador: Bolton at UN like: "dropping neutron bomb on the org."
Bolton quotes from long
history with Jesse Helms, Raygun, arms control, State Dept
Bolton and
Helms, Meese, USAID, Iran/Contra, AEI, James Baker, Federalist Society
9/11:
5,000
foreign nationals imprisoned since 9/11 with no charges
Rep
calls for investigation of CIA "torture jet" owned by Bayard Foreign Marketing
WORLD:
Mosaic TV report from 15 countries (QT)
Kosovo: PM resigns
after being charged with war crimes by UN in The Hague
Azerbaijan
refuses to ratify treaty for oil drilling by ex PM Jean Chrétien's
corp
Diego Garcia:
satellite photos of B2 hangers, now empty after planes moved to Guam
Diego Garcia: no Tsunami damage,
so not the reason for moving B2s from island
Nepal: 200 arrested
for protesting monarchy
US:
GAO: 47 of
58 applications approved for guns by "terrorist suspects"; all destroyed in
24 hours
Even
GOP minimum wage hike of $1.10 fails; full of corporate welfare
NCSL:
Budget cost states $300 Billion in 10 years with underfunded Medicaid, NCLB
Tobacco
spends $34.2 million/day on ads; smoking reduced 31.5-56% in 8-12 grades with
ads
Commodity
index price reaches 24 year high, Copper at 16 year high; oil up 49% in year
Amnesty International
exec and Taser CEO will debate today in California
Orlando
cops Taser man tied to hospital bed for refusing piss test
GAO: EPA data
useless on 1,100 coal-fired plants putting out 48 tons of Mercury/year
PCRM
study: milk no advantage in children's health, not best source of Calcium
Dan
Rather's last newscast tonight, marked with hour long special
California:
Native American tribe calls dam project "cultural genocide"
Human Rights
Coalition hosts debate with taliban nutcase, Phelps, of Westboro Baptist
SS PIRATIZATION:
All
SS piratization plans would include an equal cut in SSDI for disabled people
SS
piratization will reduce survivor benes to widows and children; price indexing
will too
CBPP: disabled workers benes
cut at retirement though price indexing
COLORADO:
Gates
agrees to let state Dem Party decide election validity, not national
State
school board member files 4 ballot measures to gut Amend 23 school funding
Corp
files for BLM permit to mine 500 tons/month of Uranium in Mesa County
Spring's
council: cars on Gold Camp Sunday-Tuesday; hikers/bikers other days
ELECTIONS:
"Suicide" investigation
reopened on investigator of Feeney Florida election software
McCain's Reform Institute
got $200,000 from Cablevision for FCC a la carte pricing
DeLay
personally forwarded at least 1 check to TRMPAC, evidence shows
20 facts about Diebold, ES&S,
and voting corruption in the US
Jonathan
Bush ordered to pay $630,000 for lousy Riggs Bank investments
ACTIVISM:
Friday, March 11 action against Westboro Baptist "God Hates Fags"
nuts at Palmer High
Bad Corp.com shit list of fraudulent,
corrupt, discriminatory corporations
National Women's Law Center.com
10th anniversary
of UN International Women's Day; (PDF)
Amnesty International
report on worldwide state of women's equality; (doesn't exist)
Email bush and Gonzales not to let
big tobacco off the hook in lawsuit
Petition
Colorado Senators to support SB63 and stop taxpayer subsidies for developers
List of 351 member
organizations of End The War.org
World
Organization Against Torture.org
HUMOR:
Bush
to release gangsta rap album, including hit, "Iraq, you my bitch now"
Movie Poster:
"The Creature From the Federal Reserve"
Hole
in Social Security found; goes in one ear and out the other of bush's head
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
International
Criminal Tribunal for Iraq indicts bush and Blair
Sgrena
kidnappers say no ransom paid
Australia
will send investigators to check for DU before deploying 450 to southern Iraq
Iraqi
Health Minister: "hundreds of stray dogs, cats, birds" gassed in Fallujah
"Ramahdi
Madness" torture video by troops released by ACLU FOIA suit
Multimedia
report on women in combat: "worried about being raped by your own people"
Northrop Grumman unveils
unmanned plane that can drop 500 lb bomb
AFGHANISTAN:
Details of
"Charlie Wilson's War"; largest CIA op in history to build Mujahadin/taliban
PALESTINE:
Israeli
inJustice ministry: "systematically established illegal settlements" in West
Bank
Syrian ambassador points
out there were 42,000 troops in Lebanon before withdrawals
500,000 pro
Syrian and Hezb Allah protesters in Beirut
War has killed 514 Palestinians
and 97 Israelis under 16 years old
NEOCONS:
Background and analysis of fascist,
John Bolton, UN ambassador
Profile,
history of John Bolton from American Progress
"The Public Interest"
neocon magazine goes under after 40 years of no public interest
9/11:
600 CIA
"renditions" to 40 countries started under Clinton, changed after 9/11
Rendition rules
change: no reviews, no approvals, not extradited for prosecution
Syrian/Canadian kidnapped by CIA,
tortured for 10 moths, not charged
Ironies, similarities, coincidences
between JFK assassination and 9/11
Australia:
another "terror" suspect turns out to be intel agent; (ASIO is their CIA)
WORLD:
Background on the other top 10 countries
that imprison people without due process
Russia assassinates
ex Prez of Chechnya, moderate leader of resistance
Nepal: govt forces
claim to kill 30 resistance in big battle
Kuwait: parliament
agrees to speed up gender equality, 400 march, audience cleared
DR
Congo: HRW/WHO document 40,000 rapes; 10 women/girls every day in Bunia
Bolivia:
president resigns over "gas war", Indian's rights
Iran: investigation into Halliburton's
Iranian operations for 3 more years
Venezuela: ex
ambassador was fired for warning Chavez about CIA assassination plot
US:
Illinois:
Dynegy fined $9 million for pollution; forced to spend $15 million to clean
up
GAO:
EPA just another lying propaganda agency for bush's failed Mercury policies
Pennsylvania:
flat earth creationist appointed to school board
NJ:
30 school districts failing to meet NCLB standards
Asskroft's
religious rights unit, sides with Salvation Army in discrimination
Even
war criminal, James Baker, urges global warming policy changes
EPA:
stricter monitoring of LEAD by states, utilities, schools, child care facilities
40 who
applied for CIA/intel jobs, turned down for connections to "terror groups"
BANKRUPTCY BILL SB356:
Credit
Card Corps have profited as bankruptcies rose to 1.6 million a year
Some
of active military exempted from Bankruptcy bill, but not all of 16,000 a year
Roll
call of failed amendment to exempt military bankruptcies; only active and low
income
Roll
call of vote on amendment to Bankruptcy for trust fund exemption up to $125,000
Roll
call of vote on failed amendment to exempt elderly medical bankruptcy taking
home
Roll
call of vote for failed medical exemption amendment to SB256 Bankruptcy bill
COLORADO:
Owens tried
to circumvent procedure to appoint Holtzman prez at CU 2 years ago
Owen's choice,
Hotzman: Young Republicon, Tech Sec'y, profited in Hungary after wall
Purvis: Spring's
city attorney should investigate Gallagher water corruption with employer
NCJRS study
and history of CSPD from Munger through Kramer and Velez
Friend
confirms Hunter Thompson working on gay whores at WH story
Gates
vows to fight Waak for Dem party chair over 7 proxy votes
Woodland Park
planning commission SRO over Wal-Mart; Thursday 7PM next meeting
ELECTIONS:
Teresa
Heinz Kerry: "very easy to hack into machines" of which "2 brothers own 80%"
Dems
rise in $5.15 minimum wage fails 49-43
ACTIVISM:
ACTION: Friday, March 11, Palmer
High, Westboro Baptist's GodHateFags.com counter
Denver
activists take on "christian" taliban, Dobson, at state house
Talking Points on Bankruptcy
bill from John Podesto
Write
congress to oppose SB256, Bankruptcy Bill
Vote on Iraq exit plan ad from Council
for a Livable World, published in NY Times
"None of us are free, if
one of us is chained" (flash animation)
Sunday,
"Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama 40 years ago today
Put Families First.org congressional
phone action to stop healthcare cuts
Call house Ethics
Committee to investigate DeLay and Abramoff latest corruption
Reichwing
bloggers circulate fake photos of Sgrena's car to counter murder claim
HUMOR:
Fox News' coverage of the Tsunami
Greenspan new singer for
U2 as Bono leaves to head the World Bank
Feds remove Martha's
ankle bracelet; will track her using CNN coverage
