Monday's News
IRAQ:
Profile
and background on new parliament speaker, Hassani
PALESTINE:
Israel plans to dump
10,000 tons of garbage a month in WB in latest violation of treaties
3 Apache helicopters
delivered by US to IOF
NEOCONS:
Investigators look
for proof that Bolton intimidated intel agents about Cuban bioweapons
9/11:
Terry Nichols: FBI supplied explosives
for OKC bomb (PDF)
WORLD:
Brazil:
2 cops first to be arrested for role in death squads that slaughtered 30
Canada:
trade war with US heats up with 15% surtax on US goods; $11.6 million this year
Oil
reaches new record of $58.28/barrel
US:
Philip Morris
tried to tamper with 2001 study showing second hand smoke causes SIDS
US
trading partners want $665.9 Billion deficit reduced; could cause world wide recession
BBC documentary
on 4 month investigation into torture in US prisons (Warning: Graphic)
Junior
still pushing for $9 Billion in 2006 for "Star Wars" missile "defense"
Connecticut:
civil unions bill goes to full Senate
9 states have bills to
restrict local control of Genetically Modified seeds
Re-examination
of evidence shows James Earl ray did not assassinate Martin Luther King
6
corporations now control US "news" media
TASERS:
Seattle
cops restrict Taser use on pregnant, young, old, infirm, multiple shots
Police Chief
Assoc: all departments need policy on Taser use on pregnant, old, kids, etc
Original Amnesty
International report on Taser use and deaths
104th dies after Taser
shock by off duty cop working security
COLORADO:
SB
152 would allow municipalities to set up wireless broadband net as utility
Pueblo
Chieftan hires lawyer to help it stop CS pipeline project
McInnis
makes run for governor in 2006 official
Mike
Miles' "Be the Change, USA" group put Waak in, ready for 2006 governor's race
El
Paso County election clerk expects turnout to be 15%
ELECTIONS:
4th
GOP agent indicted for blocking Dem's phone lines in 2002 election
ACTIVISM:
4:30 protest at Broadmoor Int Center TODAY against weapons
in space; lecture at 7
Gaylord Hall, 7:30 lecture tonight by activist key to Pinochet's
indictment in Chile
People for the
American Way ad to keep filibuster (Flash)
CIA recruiting seminar at
NYU stopped by protesters
True
Majority petition to congress to dump DeLay
HUMOR:
CIA's intel source says Brad
and Jen are staying together
Karl
Rove's production of "The Birds"
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
ACLU
demands investigation into General Sanchez' orders to violate Geneva at Abu Ghraib
Blackwater
prez: "fun" to shoot resistance
England
to pull 5,500 out in next 12 months as exit strategy begins
Parliament
elects Sunni, Hasani, as speaker
AFGHANISTAN:
US military
confirms increasing attacks since end of winter
PALESTINE:
US State Dept again
calls on Israel to give up nukes, accept IAEA governance
Israel
honors 11 agents that bombed US and Uk targets over Suez Canal
NEOCONS:
Larry Franklin quietly
rehired by Pentagram over FBI objections
WORLD:
Yemen:
25 killed in fighting
Iran: 10 anti-aircraft
batteries deployed around Natanz nuke facility
Pakistan increases
nuke facility security after 25 spies trained in Kabul by India/Israel
Sudan:
ceasefire monitor: death toll could rise to 15,000/month
US:
Junior
makes recess appointment of 9 to determine military base closures
Senator
Lautenburg write DeLay to warn of crime of threatening judges
Former
Malaysian PM: US dollar will collapse in "catastrophe"; gold standard needed
10
states got half $2 Billion for "faith based" charities in 2004
Montana:
house passes strongest condemnation of Patriot Act in nation
COLORADO:
Partial COSMIX schedule released
ELECTIONS:
Zimbabwe:
Mugabe can now appoint 30 MP's; change constitution; eradicate opposition
ACTIVISM:
Chilean activist at
CC Monday, 7:30
CPIS and Global Network protest Space
Symposium, Monday at Broadmoor
Veterans
for Peace calls for IMPEACHMENT of bush/cheney
Activist,
against Japanese internment in WWII, Korematsu, dies
17 techniques
for government suppression of the truth
Canada: seal slaughter
hunters fire gunshots to scare off protesters
HUMOR:
Belgian police
trainers use bush/chimp facial photos for training
Scientific
American Magazine apologizes for not being "fair and balanced" on creationism
Photo: Pat Buchanan doused with salad dressing in protest
Saturday's
News
IRAQ:
Collection
of resources and military policy on Depleted Uranium; all violated
PALESTINE:
Abbas
fires Ram Allah security chief; forces another's resignation over security lapses
NEOCONS:
"The Lie Factory":
"Feith-based intel" from OSP, Wurmser, Bolton, Perle, Wolfie
Mike
Stone, of "Freedom House", gloats over successful coup in Kyrgystan
9/11:
Government wire taps
(trap and trace) up 75% since 2000
WORLD:
Oil
prices jump 3.4% to $57.25/barrel as supplies run out world wide
Rwanda:
Hutu militants, FDLR, officially apologizes for 1994 genocide; will disarm
US:
Amnesty
Int. report: Taser International Inc "wildly exaggerates...life saved"
Mystery tip leads FBI to find explosives
in Terry Nichol's home 10 years after bomb
SILBERMAN INTEL REPORT:
Never
interviewed bush of cheney in concluding sole fault of CIA
Doesn't mention
Rummy's Office of Special Plans (OSP)
Declassified
CIA report that Iraq was not "reconstituting it's WMD programs"
Chalabi
claims report is "vindication" though it says he and his sources lied to bring
coup
Tenet and McLaughlin
defend CIA on Chalabi intel and "curveball" source
COLORADO:
Rape
counselor slams "extreme double standard" at AFA
Jean Ferguson
letter on Issue 2A to repair Prospect Lake
ELECTIONS:
Text
of Colorado SB198 on paper trails for all voting machines (PDF)
Bush
nominates Cheney's son in law for HS lawyer; represented Lockheed/Martin to HS
Bush
lies about "Thrift Savings Plan": fed workers get both, non-govt would not
Profile on Dorothy Walker
Bush (junior's younger sister)
Zimbabwe:
Mugabe steals 78 seats to oppositions 41 to continue dictatorial rule
ACTIVISM:
Petition
to Colorado legislators supporting SB198: paper trail in all voting machines
Coloradans for Voting Integrity
Citizen's
for Global Solution's petition to stop Bolton nomination
50 groups
and 1,000 people signed up for Fucus protest May 1
NARAL petition to
pass REAL Act to establish fed sex-ed program of truth
Free
Speech TV collection of streaming videos (RM)
Protect Worker
Health.com on Clean Indoor Air Act for Colorado
First Amendment Center.org
HUMOR:
Junior tells the media
"you've been punk'd" with WMD claims in Iraq
Tom
DeLay hospitalized with acute irony; will have skeleton surgically removed from
closet
Friday's News
IRAQ:
JAMA:
26% of soldiers diagnosed with mental disorders, BUT only 20% come to VA
UN human rights:
US using food/water "as weapon of war"
PALESTINE:
"Land Day"
Palestinians 17.5% of Israel, but own ONLY 3% of their own land
NEOCONS:
Wolfie confirmed
unanimously as head of World Bank; EU gets to name IMF head
WORLD:
Goldman Sachs sees possible
oil "super spike" to $105/barrel; May futures up 2.4%
Ukraine: Yushchenko confirms Kuchma
sold cruise missile to Iran
US:
Intel:
not only "dead wrong" on Iraq, but "disturbingly little" known about N Korea/Iran
Intel
report: spy, "Curveball": "crazy"; "a waste of time"; but helped invasion agenda
Wisconsin: GOP has
public hearing on pollution with ONLY 17 hours notice and NOT bill
TASERs:
Amnesty
International: 103 Taser deaths now, including Canada
Houston: Nearly
90 of Taser shots fired at minorities
Indiana:
FBI investigates 18 year old shot 16 times with Taser
STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Massachusetts:
Senate vote 35-2 for stem cell research; governor threatens veto
Maryland:
house passes $25 million for funding research; Wisconsin, NY and NJ debate
House
will vote in 2-3 months on research widening as proposed by bush
COLORADO:
Dobson issues
"lavender alert": April Fools Day is secret gay agenda celebration
Salazar:
Social Security must be kept away from fed govt's "grubby hands"
Merrifield's
bill advances; will stop state from being only one that doesn't limit gifts
Excerpts
from news conference of same sex marriage bill
1,000 of state's 8,173
registered sex offenders, live in Springs
11
states protect workers from second hand smoke; 14, including Co., debating issue
Furious
reaction to judges ruling to dismiss case against CU for football rapes
IRS
investigates CU football coach, Barnett's football camp as "slush fund"
Iraqi general
was beaten 2 days before he died, but not by Ft. Carson troops on trial
Gazette coverage on Tuesday, April
5 municipal election issues
Owens
apologizes for moccasin in mouth comment that "natives are getting restless"
Bobby Vincent letter
on Westboro visit
Cindy Kulp on holiday
crackdown on homeless and panhandlers
ELECTIONS:
Dem's
DeLay case file resources for all his scandals
$634.000 raised
in 24 hours from internet appeal for Byrd campaign
ACTIVISM:
Space for Peace.org; Spring's action on
Monday, April 4 at the Broadmoor
Space Symposium agenda;
CPIS will hold press conference before opening, Monday, 4th
Petition to demand Tom
DeLay resign Senate
Global Disarmament call from
World Peace
Peace
Happens Week at CC (PDF)
Peace Happens Week
at CC, April 4-17; complete schedule online
Buzz Flash's GOP Hypocrites.com
HUMOR:
INDY buys the Gazette;
"All wire, all the time"; "All the news that fits, we print"
Homeland Suckyourity outsources
border patrol to Mexico
Pat Robertson made last
minute offer to donate his brain to Schiavo; "hardly used"
Thursday's
News
IRAQ:
UN
HRC: 7.7% acute malnutrition in Iraqi children; 4% in 2003 from sanctions
Captain convicted
of killing unarmed, wounded man; caught on video by drone
US
doubles POWs since October to 10,500; 100 children;
Halliburton's
"Redneck Mafia" beats Hispanic employee at airport (video, audio, text)
Stryker deployed:
11 wheels changed a day from weight of armor that works 1/2 the time
40%
of 700 Oregon National Guard are unemployed
Prez
commission on Iraq war "intelligence": "dead wrong" (or fascist LIE)
PALESTINE:
Amnesty International's
report on Palestinian women
Jews,
Christians, and Muslims work together to stop gay pride event in Jerusalem
Sharon and NitWitYahoo
forced to cut $78 million from "defense" budget
Prez
Abbas orders crackdown on Ram Allah militants after firing on his compound
NEOCONS:
Bolton
"tried to torpedo" Kerry investigation into CIA Iran/Contra drug smuggling
9/11:
38 more of 558
at Gitmo freed; innocent; CCR: "these things are a sham"
Yemeni
businessman, kidnapped by CIA in Cairo, surfaces 1.5 years later at Gitmo
WORLD:
Iran: 30 journalists
tour Natanz nuke plant with prez; empty; IAEA inspects monthly
Pakistan:
"ally" denies Condi's latest request for access to Khan, after F-16 sale
Columbia: Panamerican
Health Org: 20,000 children die each year needlessly
Canadian Harp Seal
Slaughter: the good news is 319,500 fur coats are on the way
US:
Potomac
Institute study on Taser deaths; "possible contributing factor"
EPA SO2 auction
results for 2005, where corps buy allowance to produce acid rain
Arizona: after
$2.2 million lawsuit, town restricts Taser use: not when fall will injure
California:
USC says private university can abridge free speech rights of preacher
2nd
largest mortgage lender, Freddie Mac, sees 40% drop in income
Indiana:
"christian" taliban orders removal of 10 concrete Venus de Milos for obscenity
AP
poll: 66% don't think any nation, including US, should have nuke weapons
5
year study: Coumadin no better than Aspirin; but much worse side effects
COLORADO:
Dr. Gino Strada in
Springs April 5 and 9; war surgeon, author, founder of "Emergency"
League
of Conservation Voter's 2004 scorecard on Colorado delegation
Owen's
revenue chair emails 1,200 workers: support bill to keep $3.1 Billion above TABOR
HB1304
passes committee: would disallow zoning against factory built homes
Shultheis
defends marriage definition bill to change constitution
Secret
Service impostor still unknown GOP worker; threw out 3 people for bumper sticker
Fort Carson
witness: abuse so widespread he stopped reporting it; officers didn't care
ELECTIONS:
Statisticians:
odds against 3% Kerry lead becoming 2.5% bush lead are 1 in million
Florida:
477 of 1,246 votes thrown out from "faulty" computer code
Pennsylvania: state
legislator (2 guesses) indicted for fake anthrax attack
Zimbabwe:
Mugabe stealing another one; Karl Rove taking notes
ACTIVISM:
Petition to
18 GOP Senators to protect right to filibuster
Emergency USA for civilian war victims;
founder in Springs April 5 and 9
Petition
to Foreign Relations Committee to stop Bolton nomination
6 colleges
boycott Coca Cola over human rights record in Columbia; campaign at 90 more
San Diego Radio interview on Spring's
March 19 overpass action (6.4mb QT)
KERPOW Youth Activist
Conference in Denver, April 16, on under 30 skills building
Council for a Livable World
contributions for 8 Senate candidates that opposed war
HUMOR:
Accepted bumper
stickers at bush rallies: "If Gore invented internet, why does it start with "W"
"Frenchie", Jules Verne,
blamed by CIA for N Korean and Iraq WMD
Jeb petitions court to adopt the Pope
Wednesday's
News
IRAQ:
US
admits killing 2 al-Arabiya journalists; not lying, covering up, excusing, spinning
PALESTINE:
177 Palestinians
tortured to death in Israeli prisons since 1967
Israel
using ambulances to transport troops in violation of Geneva Convention
Israeli human rights
groups: Gaza "one big prison" with 77% poverty
IOF
uses Flaschette shells at soccer field; outlawed by Geneva; uses "Gonzales" excuse
NEOCONS:
EU
decides to back Wolfie for World Bank; but wants balance to leadership
"Friends of Israeli
'Defense' Forces" adds to $15 million coffers with $1,000/plate dinner
9/11:
Fed
judge stops "renditions" from Gitmo without due process
WORLD:
2/3
of earth's resources "used up"; 24% of earth cultivated; 40-50% of water used
1,360 researchers from
95 nations: overpopulation and ecological damage threaten planet
6
Arab Gulf states will have new currency by 2010; threat to dollar when tied to
oil
Syria:
US govt confirms meeting to plan soft coup against Assad; denies intent
Brazil: "no longer
to subordinate to IMF"; largest debtor
Russia:
minister: need foreign investment to develop Arctic reserves of gas/oil
Kyrgystan:
deposed prez willing to resign if given legal protections
Belarus and Ingushetia
protesters mirror movements in Kyrgystan, Georgia, Ukraine
Sudan:
claims to prosecute 164 for crimes in Darfur; but no ICC jurisdiction
Canada:
Slaughter of 320,000 baby Harp Seals begins
US:
Portland
may be first city to pullout of FBI's JTTF over police spying
9
states file suit against EPA for Mercury regs that fail to protect
Arizona: man
wins $2.2 million suit for Taser shot in tree that left him paralyzed
Wisconsin:
professor withdraws from research with prof testing Tasers on pigs
Dallas: supporter of Boy
Scouts homophobia policy, busted in worldwide pedophile sting
Bechtel
reports record $17.4 Billion revenue from war mongering, pillaging, plundering
MCI
takes $7.64 Billion antitrust bid from Verizon; $1 Billion less than Qwest offer
COLORADO:
ACLU
wants Denver to withdraw from JTTF after auditor says cops could still be spying
AUSCS
and Fucus debate court ruling on bible on deliberation room
Report from 3 Denver
residents, thrown out of bush speech for bumper sticker
Text
of Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act to protest all workers/patrons from smoke (PDF)
Hagedorn
still key to Indoor Clean Air Act to protect workers/patrons from smoke
23
NA tribes meet with western governors on gaming laws
LtEs on Issue
200 (Convention Center), Wood-Mart; SS piratization
ELECTIONS:
Zimbabwe votes Thursday
in greatest challenge yet to dictator, Mugabe
ACTIVISM:
Forum on pacifism, righteous
violence, militarism, CD; Thursday 7-9, CC's Bemis Hall
Action: banner on Monument
Valley pedestrian overpass Saturday, noon, April 2
Email
Senate to keep tax incentives for conservation donations
KRCC/Western Skies coverage of Westboro
protest and CP forum a city hall
Citizen's Project city
council candidate survey for April 5 election
Email Senator Hagedorn to support Indoor Clean
Air Act (303-866-4879)
HUMOR:
Poster:
St. Ann (Coulter) the Intolerant; patron saint of the BrownShirts
Ann
Coulter's Neocon School of Beauty and Elocution
Poster: "Attack
of the 50 Foot Neocon Fembot" (guess who)
Tuesday's
News
IRAQ:
Photos
of medical evac in C-17, M.A.S.H. unit, and German hospital (graphic)
CO, Mejia
interview on Democracy Now (text, audio, video)
Parliament
delays naming speaker; next meeting Sunday
PALESTINE:
Malignancies up
97.8% for Arab men, 123% for women; not included in studies by Israel
NEOCONS:
John Bolton, in his own words; from Stop
Bolton.org (WMV)
59
former diplomats urge Senate NOT to confirm Bolton for UN post
9/11:
HS lists
animals rights and ecology groups as terrorist, but not violent reichwing
WORLD:
Volker panel: "evidence not sufficient"
of Kofi Annan's involvement in son's corruption
Lebanon:
2,000 more Syrian troops leave
US:
Schiavo's
father unplugged his mother just like DeLay unplugged his father
Map
of state laws allowing pharmacists to refuse birth control scripts
Wisconsin weighs
law allowing pharmacists to refuse contraception prescriptions
Bankruptcy
judges: new law weakens very section requiring $3 Billion to be repaid now
Inflation spiral
from oil/gas prices accelerates products price hikes
COLORADO:
S Court
rules reading biblical "eye for an eye" passage voids death penalty verdict
CU
students surpass the 2,085 signatures needed to put pot issue on ballot
Fort
Collins votes April 5 on issue to remove Fluoride from water
S
Court upholds decision domestic violence shelter's records are confidential
Secret
Service investigating 3 removed from bush visit by GOP posing as agents
High
School censors student journalist's stories on STDs and contraception
ACTIVISM:
Soul Force update
on 1,000 strong May 1 action against Fucus; rejects private talk
Action: April 13 against Caterpillar
by Cat Destroys Homes.org and Jewish Voice for Peace
Email
board of directors of Caterpillar to stop sales to Israel
Environmental Integrity
Project.org
Amnesty International's
current 5 cyber actions
Public Citizen's current cyber actions
CCR
sues New York for right to march on 5th Avenue
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
Jeb, Elian, and Terri in 2008
Kyrgyz
prez ousted; stripped of last remaining vowel
Bush diary on Bolt-on
for UN and Wolfie for Wurld Bank
Monday's News
IRAQ:
VA:
12,500 troops, or 17% treated for PTSD symptoms; women twice men's rate
Australia:
Medical Assoc for Prevention of War tells DM not to send troops: DU
"Government has not
lifted a finger to get back $50 million Custer Battles defrauded"
Troops
face illegal foreclosures, evictions, repossessions while in Iraq
Sgrena's
rescuer assassinated for knowledge of bush sr., CIA, and saddam
PALESTINE:
Israel
parliament backs Sharon; votes not to have referendum on Gaza withdrawal
Israel
raids Jenin; arrests 8-10
NEOCONS:
Deputy Sec'y State, Armitage,
and CIA Heroin/Cocaine trafficking for Raygun/bush
WORLD:
Caspian
Sea: BP selling more assets after 2002 and 2003 sales of Kashagan Field
Egypt:
3,000 protest govt; 45 Muslim Brotherhood arrested for "possession of books"
Sudan: Total's
oil monopoly at stake as $400 million development deal signed
US:
VA:
Dallas VA hospital nation's worst; "fully unsatisfactory"; "no effort to improve"
Second
Hand Smoke linked causally to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Florida:
TV reporter made $100,000 from Jeb contract with state for propaganda
Private schools exempt from
NCLB provision to give military recruiters info on students
COLORADO:
DeGette
Stem Cell bill will go to floor vote in house
Refining
16% of gas cost; crude price is 52%; Fed tax 18.4¢; Colorado state tax 22¢
Even Allard condemns Friday
news dump memo to absolve all AFA officers of rape
Canada opting out of Star
Wars changes NORAD's options
ELECTIONS:
MNBA,
Wal-Mart, Exxon, Credit Suisse, Wachovia, Bank of America all bought legislation
Pro Israel PACS and 2004 contributions
totaling $2,218,405
Zimbabwe:
archbishop calls for peaceful revolution before rigged parliamentary "election"
Zimbabwe:
80% unemployment fuels Mugabe opposition in urban areas
KYRGYSTAN:
Bakiev
recognizes parliament as legitimate in appeasement gesture
Parliament recognizes
Bakiev and PM; old parliament suspends work
Ambassador's policy plan to interfere
in elections to remove Russian influence
ACTIVISM:
People Judge Bush.org; support
war crimes charges
Troops Out Now.org May Day rally
Westboro
flyer says April 30-May 2 rally in Springs; website says not; stay tuned
Topeka newspaper archives on
Phelps and Westboro
Without Delay.org petition
for DeLay to resign immediately from congress
Greg Palast BBC report
on Iraq Oil plan before 9/11 (QT)
National Conference for Media Reform
in St. Louis, May 13-15
Progressive Principles Project.com
HUMOR:
Painting: GOP recommendation
for Terri Schiavo
In rare public appearance,
god tells DeLay, "I'm not taking smiting off the table"
Congress
on a roll: acquits Whacko Jacko; fines coach for putting boy in right field