Monday's News
IRAQ:
Coverage
(photos) of "End the Occupation" rally in Baghdad
Getty
photo coverage of "End the Occupation" rally in Baghdad
17,000
jailed; 2/3 without charges
AFGHANISTAN:
737
black box has no info; CVR never found; no answers
PALESTINE:
Latest
rafah report (photos) of 3 boys murdered while playing soccer
Revava
plans to try for another 10,000 at al-Aqsa mosque May 9 after first
attempt fails
Tul Karm
no longer occupied, but economic war still waged
IOF
raids Nablus; demolishes houses; no "arrests" made
Sharon
arrives at Crawford, Texas
NEOCONS:
Bolton
hearings begin today; broadcast on C-SPAN
9/11:
1975
fire at WTC burned on 6 floors for 3 hours with no collapse
WORLD:
Colombia:
AUC threatens to quit talks if all fighters not given complete immunity
Korean
CIA agent, who wouldn't kill prez park, killed by Mossad, ground
into chicken feed
Lebanon:
Syrian troops pullout complete; PM will announce new govt and elections
US:
Watts
Bar nuke plant makes Tritium again for bombs; surprise at triple
amount created
US
indicts Pakistani and Israeli for exporting nuke triggers through
South Africa
Gas
price average rises 19¢ in 3 weeks to record high of $2.29/gallon
Anti-trust
suit against Clear Channel after loosing motocross promotion contract
Wages
trail inflation for first time in 14 years as inflation spiral speed
up
COLORADO:
19
budget initiatives on ballot in November; if multiples pass, effects
unknown
Durango
city council will be 3 women and 2 men for first time, after latest
election
ACLU:
Denver cops have "absolute abysmal record" of honoring open records
requests
4,000
AFA Christian cadets to get religious tolerance training after
55 bigotry incidents
COLORADO OIL/GAS:
State
will issue 3,400 gas/oil drilling permits, up 17%, for second straight
record year
Coalition
says BLM's study flawed on drilling 1,374 gas wells at Roan Plateau
EnCana
fined $371,000 for gas seep into aquifer near Silt
Pollution
upgrades at Hayden plant reduced SO2 40%, and particulates 20%
ELECTIONS:
Senator Shays (R-Conn)
calls for Delay's resignation as majority leader
Senator
Santorum calls for DeLay to "lay out what he did and why"
ACTIVISM:
East Timor genocide film 7PM, CC, Tuesday; panel on activism
and peace Wed, 7:30PM, CC
Mothering Mother Earth
Day, May 7th, Acacia park
Call
state Senators today to support SB198, paper trail on voting machines
Campus
Antiwar Network protest at NYU causes CIA to cancel recruitment
event
American Friends Service
Committee movie (Flash): "Eyes Wide Open; Wage Peace"
Flashback: Eisenhower's
1961 address on dangers of "military/industrial complex" (RM)
MoveOn.org petition
for exit strategy/timetable; war profiteering halt
40
cities protest Caterpillar April 13; activist at shareholder meeting
in Chicago
Petition
to block DeLay's bankruptcy bill to pay back credit card corps for
contributions
Oil Depletion Analysis Center.org
HUMOR:
Playlist
from bush's iPod
DeLay defend
"fact finding" trip to Disneyland; paid wife/kids $500,000 to go
Bush
blames CIA for AirForce 1 mix-up with Laura and Camilla
Photo:
Cheney alien springs from bush's chest
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Flashback:
saddam's statue propaganda in front of Palestine Hotel full of journalists
Talibani
is signatory of international petition against he death penalty
Military
flights from Germany with US wounded arrive in US ONLY at night
AFGHANISTAN:
Regional
politician and Karzai ally assassinated
DM
gives clear indication of permanent US military occupation
PALESTINE:
Former
head of Mossad: "There is a danger of a military coup in Israel"
Small
concession: Israel won't destroy homes of squatters in Gaza after
withdrawal
Islamic
Jihad says ceasefire still in effect after murder of 3 teens playing
soccer
3,000 cops
stop protesters at al-Aqsa; 31 arrested; 70 mortars fired over teen's
deaths
NEOCONS:
Video
of military/industrial complex and it's domination of foreign policy
(RM)
9/11:
Video
of Guiliani reporting he was given 15 minute warning that WTC would
collapse
WORLD:
Ecuador:
civil unrest increases as S Court revokes arrest warrants for war
criminal
Haiti: leading
civil rights activists: "the situation in Haiti is critical"
Colombia:
reichwing paramilitary, AUC, rejects amnesty conditions
China:
10,000 protest Japanese texbook's whitewash of war atrocities
US:
Dominionists
introduce HR1070 and SB520 to reduce judicial branch power
CIA
admits employing Nazi war criminals
Texas: 106th Taser
death dies 3 days later in jail cell
Florida;
7th Taser usage at high school on teen already handcuffed
Study:
smoking during pregnancy increase asthma in GRANDchildren 2.1 times
Pennsylvania:
bill would allow school boards to require teaching creationism as
science
COLORADO:
6 more Lynx released
near Creede on Saturday
ELECTIONS:
Book
excerpt: DeLay fought Clinton on Saipan reforms including sex slavery
14,000
lobbyists spent $2.4 Billion in 2003 to influence govt; 50% increase
in 6 years
United
Seniors Assoc's Jarvis connected to USA Next, Pfizer, Fucus, PhRMA,
DeLay
Interview/profile
on bush chief speech writer, McGurn; ex WSJ columnist
ACTIVISM:
Rwanda film, 7PM, Monday, WES room, CC; East Timor film, 7:30
Tuesday; Gates, CC
Operation Pillow.com
to send pillows to soldiers
Operation Military
Support.com penpal organization for troops
Denver Cop Watch.org
HUMOR:
Osama
spotted at DisneyLand
US
sells F-16s to Pakistan to help them fight us in the future
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
Cannistraro: Niger uranium
documents created in US by neocons, maybe Michael Ledeen
Conservative:
"If I'd known then, what I know today, I wouldn't have voted for (war)"
Profile
on PM, Ja'afari and Dawa Party, Iran, saddam
US dead passes 1,600;
complete calendar of all deaths
PALESTINE:
Revava
to bring 10,000 Israelis to al-Aqsa mosque Sunday; "reclaiming the holy
site"
Thousands
of Israeli cops surround Temple Mount and al-Aqsa mosque
zionists
murder 3 teens chasing soccer ball near Egyptian border
Hezb Allah
offers to disarm if Israel leaves occupied Shebaa Farms of Lebanon
Israel using
whole body X-rays at Rafah checkpoint
Photos
from the beating and arrest of 5 Palestinian cops in Hebron
Palestinians
mark the anniversary of the 1948 slaughter of 100 of 700 in Deir Yassin
Israel tightens
racist law on naturalization of Palestinians spouses of Israelis
NEOCONS:
Congress
investigates Bolton for threatening CIA over Cuba findings
9/11:
Padilla
lawyers want S Court ruling on indefinite incarceration
WORLD:
Pakistan:
China will assist in building more nuke power plants
Mexico:
Vincente Fox removes main rival from ballot with legal technicality
Kashmir:
bridge opened for first time after closure in 1947; busses running again
Nepal:
King's army kills 50 resistance; arrests 500 protesters
Sudan: main
opposition party HQ raided, banned from political process
US:
US threatens
27.5% tariff on imports if China doesn't revalue currency in 180 days
Wisconsin
joins suit against EPA for Mercury from coal power plants
Mobile
Oil fined $1 million for Navajo power plant pollution
Florida:
deputy resigns after Tasing Marine; "arrest was wrong...Tasing was wrong"
Spammer
gets 9 years in first felony spam case
Florida:
EPA cancels CHEERS program to pay parents to document pesticide effects
on kids
Wal-Mart
#2 fired for $500,00 he says was for anti union activities
Terry Nichols,
Moore, FBI, Oklahoma City, gunstore robbery, Scarpa, Anderson, Bob Miller
COLORADO:
Senator
McDonnell introduces bill to restore money for Pueblo WMD disposal
House
passes HB1245 to publish corps that give little or no insurance and
drain Medicaid
Woman
who murdered boyfriend in 1993, cut up legs for stew; released
Poster for
Dr. Gino Strada visit to Shove Chapel TODAY at 2PM (PDF)
ELECTIONS:
Russian
intel report: Iran/Contra, bush senior, Shah, Israel, Turkey, Kurds,
Iraq
Djibouti:
incumbent dictator, only candidate; "re elected"
US intervention
in Belarus political process out from under wraps
ACTIVISM:
Amy Goodman interview with Dr. Gino Strada; at CC TODAY at 2
PM; Shove Chapel (MP3)
IVAW,
EPIC, BPfP, audience discuss occupation, responsibility, withdrawal
(MP3, RM)
Y-12
Peace Walk reaches northern Virginia; headed to UN in News York
Tens of thousands march
to protest anniversary of US occupation on Iraq
Mexico:
massive protests as Fox removes opposition candidate from prez ticket
Japan:
2,000 march to protest nuke fuel reprocessing plant
HUMOR:
Bush
comments on Pope
Bush proposes
renaming GOP: "Republicon Party of God"
Friday's News
IRAQ:
Documentary:
"The Ground Truth"; the soldiers perspective during and after (RM stream)
Lawyers
Against the War charge junior with 7 counts of war crimes; tried in Canada
Wounded
gay soldier wants to stay in Army openly
Talibani
offers amnesty to Sunni fighters to lay down weapons
HRW leads
charge against use of Cluster Bombs
"Free Fraud
Zone" in Iraq may rival oil-for-food corruption in size
"The Oil Factor: Behind the War
on Terror" documentary from Free Will Productions
PALESTINE:
20 Palestinian
sheep poisoned by squatters in latest weapon of economic genocide
NEOCONS:
Flashback:
1963 Kennedy signs Executive Order 1110 to strip Fed Reserve of power
WORLD:
Canada:
US automakers sign import deal to reduce greenhouse gases by 6% by 2010
China:
govt announces plans to build 40 nuke power plants in 15 years for east
coast
Mosaic TV from middle east
Colombia:
17 govt troops killed in latest battle claiming 70 in 3 months
UK Study:
workplace smoke kills 617 per year
IMF
warns of "permanent oil shock" as world's supplies go up in smoke
Colombia: US
ambassador says US soldiers smuggling coke are immune from prosecution
US:
22 scientists
and 9 Nobel Laureates demand congress stop funding missile "defense"
US home foreclosures
up 50% in March as last strong economic indicator fails
Common
Cause's report on redistricting battle in California, Florida, and US
(PDF)
EPA Clean Air Act
excellence award to 12 local sate govts, groups, manufacturers
Chevron/Taxaco
bets on "Peak Oil" in $16.4 Billion bid for Karzai's Unocal
Bush's Harvard
prof: "called Roosevelt a 'socialist'"; "seriously disconnected"
Even
Wall Street Journal calls it "a bad idea" to borrow $2 Trillion to piratize
SS
Pentagram's
flying saucer: MSSMP is 50hp flying surveillance saucer (photo)
COLORADO:
Colorado Political
News blog.com
Farmers not convinced
waste water from methane coal mining properly handled
Shell
Oil wants production to start in 2010 on new heater process for oil shale
mining
Excerpts
from Woodland Park public input forum on Wal-Mart
Springs finance kept
secret that surplus revenue is NOT $1.37 million, but $716,182
Falcon
D-49 school district will ask again for mill levy override
Panel
will report to Spring's council Monday on SB 152 and municipal wireless
internet
Boyles
LtE on Wal-Mart and Gazette's "luxury" of conservation and stewardship
ELECTIONS:
Sen.
Martinez claims didn't know lawyer wrote Schiavo memo; gave it to Harkin
unread
DeLay's
wife got $40,000/year from ASG, pharmaceutical lobby; Enron was biggest
client
Waxman
formally asks GAO for accounting on "60 Days" SS propaganda tour
Boxer
battles EPA designate over CHEERS; paid $970 to continue using pesticides
in home
Senator
Hatch's hypocrisy on "blue slip" filibuster mechanism in committee
Santorum
says Frist will use "nuclear option" to stop Dems from filibuster
ACTIVISM:
75 media groups
and 1,000 activists for Soul Force protest of Dobson, May 1 in Springs
Dem's
LtE form to write opposing "nuclear option" of banning filibusters
Email
legislators to demand Colorado do what Maryland did in requiring health
benes
Tent State University
protest April 18 for education and against war funding
Email
Lamborn/Keller in support of Colorado adding protections for LGBT in bill
Email
Spring's council to include LGBT in non-discrimination for city employees
Citizen's
Project "Coffee and Conscience" April 18, 6PM, Pike's Perk, on immigration
(PDF)
Florida
petition for fair redistricting (PDF)
1
million PfAW petitions delivered to capital hill in support of filibuster
by Reid, Lewis
Military Free Zone.org
form for students to opt out of private records given to recruiters
Left Hook.org
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
UK elections
Israel will build
3,500 houses on roller skates to move from place to place
Tom DeLay considers
changing name to cleanse reputation; list of possibles
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
Jafari
appointed as PM by presidential council
US
selling DU weapons to 12 other countries; 59 sites in US contaminated
30,000
active duty and 11,000 reservists are not US citizens
Democracy
Now show on Talibani: CIA, saddam and Iranian intel (audio, video)
Hans Blix: US "wanted
to secure oil"; "incredibly dependent"
Army
official evac stats and data; Army alone: 16,723 up 'til January
PALESTINE:
Shin Bet closes
Temple Mount Sunday over threats by reichwing zionists
Israel
fails in latest attempt to put spy satellite in orbit over Iran
NEOCONS:
Chafee,
key to Bolton nomination, says constituency is "overwhelmingly" against
Bolton
WORLD:
Canada:
US will require passports to enter country, so Canada will follow suit
Chile:
appeals court upholds freezing $5 million of Pinochet's assets
US
will block IMF sale of gold reserves for debt relief of developing countries
US:
Harvard
students get university to divest $4.4 million stake in PetroChina; tied
to Sudan
Maryland
passes bill to require Wal-Mart, others to spend 8% on healthcare
US
citizens will need passport to get back into US from Canada, Caribbean,
Mexico, Panama
US
truckers spend 35¢ per mile on fuel compared to 17¢ a decade ago
Coroner:
"The use of a Taser while immersed would enhance the drowning process" (duh)
US oil production
peaked in 1970; now 5 million brl/d compared to 11 million
Gonzales admits
155 "sneak and peak" secret spying ops under Patriot Act
Special
prosecutor in Plame CIA leak to Novak: investigation over 6 months ago
Nazi,
Matthew Hale gets 40 years for trying to have judge killed; mother and husband
were
Who, what,
when, where, why on US control of stocks, treasuries, and currencies
COLORADO:
Douglas County
GOP hearing from restaurants that want workplace smoke free
Salazar
support state and federal probe into Secret Service impersonation at bush
rally
Spring's
council will consider all mail-on ballots after low turnout in election
Willard
Ronald letter on smoke free workplaces
INDY coverage of
Spring's election
Spring's cops
sift through "cold case" files after INDY finds 2 unsolved murders
ELECTIONS:
DeLay's
PACs have paid his wife and daughter $500,000 since 2001
Delay's
daughter's baby shower held at Reliant Energy offices; now under investigation
Republicon
committee gives doctor Physician of Year award; for $1,250 contribution
Florida:
Sen. Martinez's lawyer admits writing Schiavo memo; resigns
ACTIVISM:
Bruce
Gagnon blog on ongoing Space Symposium protest at Broadmoor
Petition to corporations working
with DeLay threatening boycott
DeLay's Dirty Dozen
corporations supporting his PACs (PDF)
Email Licoln Chafee if Rhode
Island against Bolton nomination
Email
legislators to support SB 495 Darfur Accountability Act
Email
Co state reps to support HB 1021 to analyze health impact on state of every
bill
MoveOn.org petition to fire Tom
DeLay
UFCW petition
to strengthen Social Security by eliminating exceptions
HUMOR:
Laura catches
george flirting with Hillary Duff
Movie
poster: "Warning from Space"; the rapture is coming
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Talibani,
Kurd leader, will be named prez today; VPs are Sunni and Shi'a; appoints PM
Parliament agrees on al-Yawer
as VP; Sunnis get Defense Minister position
Evidence
that US forces kidnapped mother and sister of Iraqi to force his surrender
Halliburton
won't get $55.1 million of $200 million from Army
PALESTINE:
IOF beats and arrests
Palestinian traffic cops in Hebron
Abbas
will retire 1,000 security officers over 60 make room for new recruits
3
Israeli border cops get 6-10 months in jail for beating and abusing teens
NEOCONS:
DIA
at Space Symposium: NDI, Negroponte, will need to spy on everyone from space
9/11:
NIST ignores
seismic data; says explosion knocked off fire proofing from steel in WTC
WORLD:
Chile:
tax agency wants judge to remove Pinochet's immunity for prosecution
Japan:
Education Ministry orders textbooks NOT to say WMD not found in Iraq
Ecuador:
ex prez returns from exile for "Bolivarian revolution" after court clears
him
World
Bank warns US deficit will reach 6% of GDP; hurt economic recovery world wide
US:
FBI read
emails, tapped phones of British animal rights activists
Marine recruiter
tactics in high schools
Houston:
chief of police reluctantly agrees to Taser Task Force to examine policy
Kansas:
70% of voters vote to ban gay marriage; will loose court challenge
Washington:
senate tables bill to add gay rights to non discrimination law
MCI
rejects Qwest $8.9 Billion telecom antitrust bid; takes $7.5 Bil Verizon antitrust
bid
COLORADO:
Spring's vote: all
4 incumbents back; no raises; no TABOR reform; no convention center without
vote; but fill Prospect Lake
Spring's
Vote: voters say no to council on convention center without vote
Gazette
coverage of Space Symposium protest at Broadmoor (today and Thursday)
Owens
vetoes bill requiring hospitals to inform rape victims of morning after pill
DeGette formally
calls for investigation of people removed from prez SS speech
Dobson lies about judges
in his "prophetic" call for impeachment of 6 on S Court
Salazar's SAFE bill to limit
application of Patriot Act
Gates
drops recount demand over Dems chair vote
House committee passes HB152
for municipal wireless internet to go to voters
Steamboat:
5 of 7 on council support ordinance for smoke free workplace over ballot
Ft.
Collins votes 2-1 to keep Fluoride in drinking water
Krabloonik
sled-dog vendor on Snowmass shoots 30 dogs, buries in latrine
Denver
RTD bans Jerry Springer show from break room TVs
Monument:
mayor forces out manager with treasurer, police chief, clerk, planner
ELECTIONS:
$57,238
paid by Russian govt for DeLay trip, laundered through Bahamas
Gallup:
45% for bush is lowest for any prez 6 months into second term
ACTIVISM:
NASA TV webcast
from inside Space Symposium at Broadmoor all week
Vote
on MoveOn.org ad on Social Security truth v. lies (Flash)
League of Conservation
Voter's petition to stop Myers nomination to 9th Circuit Court
Vote for Big Media Hall of
Shame
Colorado smoke
free dining guide updated for Colorado Springs (interactive)
HUMOR:
Florida
Living Will, Shiavo revision
Wanted poster
for Tom DeLay and John Cornyn
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Reservist
eye witness report of war crimes; interview with Paul Rockwell
Sworn
depositions of at least 4 more POWs beaten to death by CIA
Army recalls
10,000; 5,674 thought they were through with active duty
PALESTINE:
Poll:
59% of Jews in Israel support or open to idea of right of return for Palestinians
Corps
will save 25% by dumping 10,000 tons of waste per month at Nablus water supply
9/11:
Popular Mechanics fails to
mention jet engine in street was NOT from 767
Intel report panel
not even aware of "Powers that be" email, until NewsWeek provides it
WORLD:
Haiti:
freed priest considers running for prez
Bolivia: US
threatens to withhold economic aid to force support for ICC immunity
ANWR: map of 30 deposits
of oil, not concentrated in 2,000 acres oil corps claim
England:
banking on good economy, lap dog, Blair calls for May 5 elections
Chile:
body of former prez may be exhumed to determine how CIA killed him
Italy:
Berlusconi's party looses in 9 of 13 regions to main left-center party
Mexico:
DEA covered up 12 tortured, murdered, to protect drug case
Amnesty International:
3,797 executions, most death penalties in decade
US:
Chevron/Texaco
buys Unocal for $16.4 Billion in latest antitrust consolidation of power
Madison,
Wisconsin bans Taser use for fleeing suspects, handcuffed, as first weapon
Florida: Taser used
on innocent Marine, just back from overseas, at wrong address
Indiana:
fed judge slams Army over delay of dealing with DU at shooting range
2.5
tons of Mercury emitted yearly from dental fillings during cremation
California:
105th dead from Taser will have autopsy; pepper spray, batons used
Gonzales
wants to reinstate all expiring sections of Patriot Act
COLORADO:
$15.5
Billion budget is 5.5% over FY2004; would keep $3.1 Billion in TABOR funds
Smoke
Free Steamboat puts smoke protections to city council tonight
ADL:
anti-Semitism hate crimes rose 22% since 2003, to make state #9 in nation
Springs
judge rules Palmer Gay/Straight Alliance won't get club status awaiting trial
Florida
Power and Light propose wind farm east of DIA with 50 turbines
Biodiesel fuel,
with 20% Canola Oil, will be available in Steamboat this year
Denver
overturns policy: religious themes allowed in Parade of Lights
Petition started to recall
Fountain councilperson, Lender
Gazette
letters on evolution/creationism debate
ACTIVISM:
Petition
to get DeLay out of congress
Join John Kerry's
ad to keep filibuster in congress
MoveOn/.org's petition to
demand exit strategy for $82 Billion appropriation
Common
Cause House Party April 12 to organize efforts against DeLay ethics corruption
75
protest the REAL ID Act at Colorado state capital
Ohio
State students protest Patriot Act by checking out library books on watch list
Seattle activists
join nationwide action against force feeding geese for Foie Gras
American Friends
Service Committee will monitor vigilantes on Arizona border
Last day to
vote on United for Peace and Justice priorities for activism
HUMOR:
Top 100 things
I'd do if I ever became an Evil Overlord
Cleveland Indians fans demand
team take steroids
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:
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"
