Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Logistics
screw-up: British soldiers issued blanks for duty in Iraq
US
releasing Iraqi resistance fighters to be double agents
and spies for US
30
British soldiers sue govt for destroying mental and physical
health, then firing them
Calendar
of 1,571 US soldiers killed in Iraq War
Australia
sending 450 to find and clean up Depleted Uranium
AFGHANISTAN:
"One
huge US jail"
PALESTINE:
Photos
prove extensive building in WB zionist squats; 500 registered
as Gaza residents
10,000
Jewish Israelis march in Tel Aviv in support of Gaza withdrawal
Israel
attacks Lebanon from Shebaa Farms occupied land
NEOCONS:
EU
fury grows at nomination of Wolfie as head of World Bank
World
Bank staff association tells execs swamped with complaints
over Wolfie
Wolfie claims
will not impose "US agenda" of predatory, imperialistic,
racist economics
9/11:
Purge
of Popular Mechanics senior staff preceded the propaganda
piece on WTC
WORLD:
US
lied to allies that N Korea supplied uranium to Libya; it
was "ally", Pakistan
E-Bomb,
Light Saber, Space Arrows, Orbital Bomber, Mobile Mine,
Easy Prey
US:
US
"defense" policy of pre-emptive imperialism becomes officially
"active deterrence"
Purdue U
will do study on factory farms pollution
Pentagram:
all 425 military bases in US under consideration for closing
States
and towns paid lobbyists over $10 million in last 3 years
to keep military bases
Arizona:
Gov vetoes animal/eco "terrorism" bill over abortion clinic
clause
FDA
nominee: ready to allow "morning after", "plan B" pill sold
over the counter
Yale/Columbia
study: teens taking "virginity pledge" just as likely to
get STD
2
largest HS agencies opt out of Taser use for 20,000 officers
over safety issues
Texas:
Gov. hypocrite (bush) signed legislation allowing hospitals
to remove life support
COLORADO:
Interesting
free speech conflict at Denver antiwar protest
Estes
Park will not allow "Peace Tree" on public land after CDOT
chops it down
Global
warming threatens Colorado ski industry
Owner
of "Super Slab" sure it will relieve congestion, but won't
release study
Springs
voters to decide to raise council pay from $6,250 to $12,000
per year
5,678
conceal carry permits for guns in El Paso County
ELECTIONS:
Central
African Republic's dictator and coup leader, leads "election"
ACTIVISM:
Colorado Progressive Coalition protests bush in Denver, Monday,
March 21, noon
"Misdirecting
the Antiwar Movement" on boycotts and territorial fights
by coalitions
Taco
Bell boycott ends as demands from tomato pickers met by
corporation
Military Law Task Force.org
to help GIs with legal issues
Committee Opposed to Militarism
and the Draft.org
MARCH 19 COVERAGE:
Photos
of Hollywood, California protests
Coverage
of DC protests
San
Francisco coverage
More
San Francisco coverage
Rome,
Italy protest in photos
London,
England
Dublin,
Ireland photos
Fort
Bragg, North Carolina
Louisville,
Kentucky
London,
Turkey, Poland, Athens, Sweden, Norway
New
York, Times Square
Tucson,
Arizona, in photos
Canada
Washington
Post coverage
BBC
slideshow from around the world
HUMOR:
The Empire
Strikes Back (photo)
House
Ethics Committee rules DeLay has to work weekends for 625
years
Karen
Hughes: "Return of the Bride of FrankenCHIMP"
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
Eyewitness
in Fallujah: "the truth is worst than you could possibly have
imagined"
Free
Kuwaiti gasoline for troops ending; price to be determined
UIA
agrees to right of return for thousands of Kurdish refugees
to Kirkuk
PALESTINE:
Text
of statement of 13 Palestinian groups on Cairo ceasefire agreement
PA
wants $440 million to rebuild homes after 28,000 left homeless
by IOF
zionist
occupying forces invade Palestinian town after 40 Israeli
squatters beat 8
Greek
Orthodox church secretly sells Arab property in Jerusalem
to zionists for millions
9/11:
US Army
wrote plan to attack WTC with airplanes, hijacked with boxcutters,
in 1976
WORLD:
Africa:
UN: DR Congo even worse than Darfur as humanitarian crises
Vietnam:
US stopped largest study of Agent Orange, then lawsuit on
grounds no evidence
Oil
futures reach $57/barrel; analysts say it's the new norm for
prices
US:
1
in 7 women (302) report sexual assaults at military academies
1
of 1,012 reported rapes, sues Army for rape, coverup, harassment
Vermont:
minimum wage bill adds cost of living adjustment in future
years
DN Interview
with Rep. McDermott on NCLB provision for military recruiters
in schools
Arizona:
another cops becomes sales rep for Taser after paid stocks
to lie about safety
Tennessee:
"christian" radio personality arrested in child porn sting
DC:
lesbian in mayor's cabinet, head of GLBT issues; assassinated
COLORADO:
Super
Slab opponents will bus to capitol Tuesday for Senate hearing
ELECTIONS:
Appointment
of Martin to FCC chair puts another Raygun antitrust deconstructionist
in
FCC's
Martin one of lawyers that threw the "election" to bush in
Florida in 2000
New
Mexico passes paper trail election reform bill
junior defies
FOIA, blacks out all 915 pages on Clinton's 177 pardons on
last day
ACTIVISM:
Petition
Senate to stop Myers confirmation to 9th Circuit Court
Fair
Vote Colorado.org's final report on 2004 election (PDF)
Petition
Co. Senators, Lamborn and Keller, to support SB05-28; LGBT
hiring practices
Draft Resistance.org
MARCH 19 COVERAGE:
Freeway blog over I-25 in Springs TODAY at noon;
Iraq
Veterans Against the War statement on second anniversary
Ft.
Bragg demonstration one of largest of 726 in US
Marine
Corp Times coverage of Ft. Bragg and 726 US protests
1,000
in Melbourne, Australia protest
Village
Voice guide to March 19 resistance to war
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
Tom "The Hammer DeLay pleads for defense funds to pay his
lawyers
Why
does junior rub people's heads? (photos)
Friday's News
IRAQ:
Secret meeting
before war for coup, sell off oil, destroy OPEC
Halliburton
exec indicted for fraud in charging US $3.5 million for fuel
Returning
soldiers not allowed off plane for 3 hours in SF over weapons
security
AFGHANISTAN:
Karzai
delays spring parliamentary elections again, until September
PALESTINE:
zionists
plotting to take over Temple Mount to stop Gaza squatter withdrawal
Vanunu charged
with 21 counts to talking to media; 1 count of trying to leave
Abbas
gets pledge form militants to extends ceasefire until end of
year
1
small group rejects Cairo ceasefire that other 13 agree to
Former science
minister admits Israel has had nukes for 40 years
NEOCONS:
World
Bank board of 23 nations: Wolfie choice: "unfavorable"; "US
couldn't care less"
Claire Short:
Wolfie nomination "shocking"; "trying to wreck our international
systems"
2
AIPAC spies forced to take paid leave of absence before indictments
come down
9/11:
3
Iranian brothers released after 3 years; no charges, no evidence
no due process
WORLD:
Mosaic TV
England:
MP removed from parliament chambers for saying Blair "misled"
public on war
2 studies:
global warming, ocean rising even if greenhouse gases stopped
today
Baluchistan:
50 dead in renewed fighting with Pakistan over oil autonomy
Iran
offers "objective guarantees" on nuke program
US:
House/Senate
barely pass competing budgets; Senate rejects Medicaid cuts
California
coroner: Taser contributed to death along with forcible restraints,
exertion
New
Mexico: SB818 to declare Taser lethal weapon, dead after amendment
on liability
California
air quality district wins $81 million suit against BP for refinery
pollution
California:
gas reaches $3.15 gallon in Malibu
Texas:
bill would tie state school funding to banning cheerleader's
"shaking their behinds"
Nevada:
Yucca Mountain nuke disposal site staff falsified study on water
seepage
Alaska National Wildlife Refuge:
ANWR
will produce ONLY 1-2% of US needs, for a year, at peak production,
in 2027
Junior expects
$2.4 Billion from oil leases FY2006; 50% to Alaska; law states
90%
Alaska North
Slope: 28 plants, 38 gravel mines, 223 drill pads, 500 miles
road, 4,800 wells
Map of
present drilling and exploration on the North Slope
Map of potential
oil development areas in ANWR
40 more years
of North Slope oil; 40 mpg cars would save 1100% more than ANWR
COLORADO:
Springs: Westboro Baptist returns Wednesday, 24th, April 30
Fucus
supports hiring discrimination in faith-based non-profits illegal
with SB28
10th Circuit Court rejects conviction appeals of missile silo
protesters
List
of states that protect bar/restaurant workers for smoke, Colorado
cities that do
Trinidad:
public input sought on environmental impact of Pinon Canyon
firing range
Navy
wants 2 million barrels/day from oil shale in Rifle by 2025
Durango:
new storm water management laws for 2,700 gas wells, construction
sites
ACTIVISM:
Action: tomorrow, noon; banner against war; all I-25 overpasses
in Colorado Springs
726 US cities, in all
50 states, holding antiwar rallies Saturday
Iraq Veterans
Against the War statement for second anniversary
Court
rules "free speech zone" violated 1st amendment rights of Cheney
protester
Signup
to be citizen co-sponsor of Hillary's "Count Every Vote"
act
Petition FCC, congress
to stop fake news propaganda from WH
Petition FCC ad inJustice
Dept to stop fake news propaganda by WH
FCC emails to stop
fake news propaganda
MoveOn'org's
ad to stop "nuclear option" to stack S Court and control Senate
(QT)
Petition
to support Colorado HB 1262 for proper funding to tobacco free
kids
Campus
cops assault anti recruitment protesters, students arrested
Irish activists
protest US airbase used for Iraq (audio/video)
HUMOR:
Condi praises
Pakistan democracy as "greater than Florida or Ohio"
New
"Knockout gun" to replace Tasers on police force
Vatican
introduces "Book Burning Mobile" to deal with DaVinci Code
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
5,500 soldiers
AWOL in US; (text, audio, video)
White
House allowed Halliburton to clean up UN report to remove $108
Billion loss (PDF)
108
POWs murdered, and longest sentence so far is 3 years
General
admits less than 20% of Fallujah's 300,000 have returned home
Iraqi
parliament meets; no decisions, no shared power structure agreed
to
Italy
will start pulling it's 2,700 troops out in September; 87% of
soldiers in Iraq are US
Halliburton
charged US $27.5 million for $82,100 worth of cooking oil and
heating fuel
House
passes $81.4 Billion war funding 388-43, but rejects CIA infested
embassy
AFGHANISTAN:
Army/Navy
investigators admit 26 homicides of POWs in Iraq and Afghanistan
PALESTINE:
Rachel
Corrie's family sues IOF for bulldozer murder of activist, 2 years
ago
Corrie's
family sues Caterpillar for international law violation in Israel
Amnesty
International demands Condi support investigation of Corrie murder
by zionists
NEOCONS:
Junior
nominates Wolfie for head of World Bank; world groans, Likudniks
cheer
John Perkins,
"economic hitman" on how we cheated poor countries out of Trillions
(RM)
Waxman
charges Bolton part of Niger Uranium lie; State Dept covered up
involvement
9/11:
FOIA
autopsy report: no Arabs on flight 77 (Pentagon); 3 extra bodies
not listed
WORLD:
UN estimate
of dead in Darfur rises 250% to 180,000
Venezuela: CIA's “Ché”
Guevara assassin, Felix Rodriguez admits US will kill Chavez
Charts,
data on world's top 11 "water wars", including Ogalala Aquifer
in Colorado
Oil
price reaches $56.45/barrel; up 50% in a year
Chile:
Pinochet had 125 accounts in 6 US banks, including Riggs and Citibank
Philippines:
judge orders extradition of indicted CIA agent for bombing
US:
House
passes CIA/Nazi bill 391-0; to uncover "government's cozy relationship
with Nazis"
Direct
correlation found for Mercury and Autism; 1,000 lbs caused increase
of 17% Autism
WH tells agencies
to ignore GAO ruling on "illegal propaganda" of fake news
US
trade deficit with Canada in January: $6.16 Billion
US
trade deficit increased 25.5% in 2004 to $665.9 Billion with broadest
measure
Dollar
falls on news of deficit and Ukraine moving 25% of reserves to
Euro
Former
chair of Wisconsin GOP, Nixon, Cheney aid: John Dean is "Deep
Throat"
State
by state comparison for Medicaid cuts (Colorado- $101-$159 million)
Washington
state house passes strict California auto emission standards
WorldCom
CEO, Ebbers, guilty of fraud, conspiracy in largest bankruptcy
in history
EPA MERCURY RULES:
NRDC:
Mercury controls "violates law"; "Illegal, irresponsible"; "fails
to protect health"
Environmental
Defense:" allows Mercury levels to rise, particularly in the west"
NSR
rules change does more harm than EPA Mercury levels
EPA's
inspector general admitted: decision "was compromised" by White
House
EPA
rules took dozen paragraphs from industry's suggestions; some
verbatim
Methyl Mercury
in NE songbirds stumps scientists
COLORADO:
Senator
Grossman introduces bill for state wide ban on smoking in work
place
Colorado
joins 18 states with bills to protect bar/restaurant workers from
smoke
Gasp for
Air.com's letter grades for each local smoking ordnance; Springs=
C-
Owens,
Dems reach compromise: state keeps $3.1 Billion over 5 years,
temp tax cut
Owens
rejects Open Records Law demand for his travel vouchers (it's
a secret)
Activists
charge elections commission trying to cause low turnout on jail
vote
Letter slamming
Westboro and Cristen by "Magic" Dave Therault
Hefley
co-sponsors bill to stop GOP Ethics Committee rule changes to
aid/abet DeLay
Gale
Norton/Abramoff/DeLay lobby group claims tax exempt; IRS says;
"huh?"
Denver
tries to hire Portland, Oregon's head of police oversight
Denver
Post examination of 500 Taser shots from 15 cop shops in state
"Hope
Stones" artwork restored after lawsuit threat
ELECTIONS:
List of DeLay's
"Dirty Dozen" bribes, threats, and corruption
House
Judiciary Committee votes down investigation of Guckert's backdoor
WH access
ACTIVISM:
Saturday, noon, all I-25 overpasses, world wide protest against
the war; 583 US cities
March
19: 1PM Raven's Nest vigil; 6PM, Acacia Park vigil, speeches,
songs
Westboro Baptist
"church" brings "God Hates Fags" campaign BACK to Springs March
24
Public
Action Campaign petition to Hefley to demand DeLay resign from
congress
Alabama:
judge releases woman arrested outside "free speech zone" at bush
visit
Dem petition
to stop changes in filibuster rules
Petition
congress to support Smith/Bingaman amendment to protest Medicaid
Email
Allard, who voted against Cantwell Amendment to remove ANWR drilling
from bill
Email
Salazar with thanks for voting for Cantwell to protect ANWR
1
dead in Guatemala protest of CAFTA, passed by parliament 126-12
HUMOR:
Osama criticizes
Homeland Suckyourity's list of terror targets as "so yesterday"
Senate
passes bill to allow grinding up tree hugging Hippies for oil
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Veteran
slams media coverage, apathy, lack of protests; reiterates poll:
60% troops against
GAO:
Pentagram's claim of trained Iraqi forces "unreliable"
Audit:
Halliburton overcharged US $108 million in no-bid oil contract
PALESTINE:
Lebanon: UN investigators
find evidence of official coverup in Hariri assassination
Abbas:
all Palestinians "realistically" can't return; should be compensated
Sharon
rejects latest offer of ceasefire from Hamas
250
high school seniors sign petition to Sharon to refuse military
service while occupying
NEOCONS:
Cheney,
Rove, and Card wanted Bolton; Condi didn't; turned him down for
chief of staff
Scott
Ritter interviews on neocon "Brownshirts"
WORLD:
Darfur:
UN raises death toll estimate in genocide to 180,000; 10,000/month
Turkey/Pakistan:
analysis of US blind eye to these corrupt, fascist "allies"
New
Zealand: visa for high ranking IOF officer denied over continued
Mossad spying
56
journalists murdered in 2004 in deadliest year; not all by US
and "allies"
Mt.
Kilimanjaro snow free for first time in 11,000 years; 15 years
ahead of prediction
US:
Texas: $11 Billion
tax bill tied to lobby contributions; tax breaks for rich and
corporations
Dems
may filibuster Haynes nomination to bench; connected to Gonzales'
torture memo
California:
superior court judge rules banning gay marriage unconstitutional
WH
rejects GAO ruling that fake news propaganda is illegal use of
tax money
Gas
prices up 33 cents in year to within a penny of highest ever at
$2.06/gallon
COLORADO:
Last of
4 pleads to reduced charges, gets off in drowning death of innocent
civilian
8
testify against Captain's brutality; forced them to torture at
gunpoint
Conti
will run for Beauprez' 7th district seat
GOP
fails attempt to keep their lies in voter guide on ballot issues
CU
Foundation will not fund buyout of Churchill's contract
Marion
House Soup Kitchen get OK from city; still needs $4-5 million
for expansion
ELECTIONS:
DeLay
forced to return legal defense funds from RJ Reynolds, Dominos,
Reliant
Kyrgystan: prez lies,
cheats, steals way to parliamentary dominance
ACTIVISM:
Amnesty
International action on SB495 to stop genocide in Darfur
FAX
Senate to support Cantwell Amendment to STOP oil drilling in ANWR
World
Tribunal on Iraq starts Friday in Lisbon, Portugal
United for Peace and
Justice March 19 actions
Common
Cause's action to Ethics Committee to investigate DeLay
Email
Senators to oppose Medicaid funding cuts in budget
Free Press petition
to stop tax payer funded fake news propaganda
True
Majority email action to congress to demand exit strategy, and
no permanent bases
HUMOR:
More
"politically correct" stickers for textbooks
Bush
weekly diary entry: back from you're a'peein' trip
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
