Monday's News
IRAQ:
United
Iraqi Alliance want all officials of saddam's govt indicted
Reports
of 150 Shi'a hostages, apparently a hoax
PALESTINE:
Egyptian
MPs sue Sharon for $70 million for torture and murder of 16,000 POWs
Documentary
by Jeff Halper on Sharon's real agenda in Palestine (RM)
Public
Committee Against Torture in Israel list of publications (PDF)
Israel
resumes controversial use of X-Ray machines at border crossings
IOF investigation
finds lie that soldiers aimed at legs of teens playing soccer
Soldier
who murdered 13 y.o. girl awarded medal of valor; thought she was 10
3-5,000
women sold to Israel for $10,000 each, keep ONLY 3% of prostitution
earnings
NEOCONS:
Bolton
kept vital IAEA intel about Iran from Powell and Condi
Woman testifies
Bolton threw things at her on Kyrgystan trip for USAID
6 minute
Air America Radio interview with woman in Bolton altercation (MP3)
WORLD:
Azerbaijan:
Rummy's covert trip to shop for oil and pipeline corridor
Uzbekistan:
at least 10 CIA torture flights to base there
Uzbekistan:
report and photos of $500 million to dictator, Karimov, and result (GRAPHIC)
Venezuela: Chavez
starts $2 Billion tax evasion investigation of foreign oil corps
Update
on Tsunami relief efforts in Aceh
Algeria
decides to explore for oil near disputed Morrocan border
Marshall
Islands: NCI study shows 530 cancers caused in last 50 years from nuke
testing
Complete report
on all global markets and the giant hit they took last week
Tokyo:
Nikkei stocks fall 3.8%; largest drop in 11 months
US:
94
of 162 Appeals Court judges appointed by GOP presidents; 10 of 13 Circuit
Courts
DART
missile attempt by NASA at Vandenburg fails; runs out of gas
Florida:
13% of Wal-Mart employees Medicaid eligible (12,300); most of any corp
in state
Adobe will buy Macromedia
for $3.4 Billion in latest software antitrust
Alabama:
deputy resigns after shooting man with hands up with Taser; "excessive
force"
ENERGY BILL:
$8
Billion in corporate welfare, drilling in ANWR; Tort DEform on MTBE
poison
US Geologic
Survey: economically recoverable oil in ANWR less than year's supply
Halliburton's
Hydraulic Fracturing technique, poisons water supply; to be unregulated
Bill
author, Barton (R-TX), got $1.5 million form oil/gas corps in last decade
COLORADO:
Xcel
will raise natural gas prices by 9%; blames oil prices and supply and
demand?
SB
18 would allow judges to take vehicles after 5 DUIs
Denver
teachers will leaflet nw school board member's homes for better wages/benes
Govt
study shows air quality at 3 National Parks in state is worse in last
10 years
Mercury switches
in wrecked cars also a contributor to Mercury poisoning
Water pressure in
Denver aquifers has dropped 30% as number of wells tripled
5
council members want Vice Mayor position
Profile
of ACORN leader, Stovall, in Springs
ELECTIONS:
Italy:
Berlusconi to resign and form new government
Ralf
Reed also tied to Abramoff and casino money along with DeLay
Cyprus:
pro EU moderate elected prez in Turkish half of island
Ecuador:
puppet congress backs dictator's firing of Supreme Court
ACTIVISM:
Bios
of speakers and entertainers at Soul Force protest against Dobson May
1,2
Activists
have 43 corporations considering revealing what they contribute to campaigns
"Orwell Rolls
in His Grave" documentary on media by Robert Pappas (RM)
Nicaragua:
none of $490 million settlement to banana workers paid by Dow, Dole,
Shell
Email form for
Dow Chemical and CEO Bill Stavropoulos
Email
form for Dole Food and CEO David Murdock
Email
form for Royal Dutch Shell Chemicals and CEO van der Veer
Global Response.org
Manager of KFC in Brownsville,
Texas turns on sprinklers to soak PETA protesters
Student
who vomited at CIA recruitment protest responds to critics
HUMOR:
Recruitment poster for main
stream media
Cardinals spilt
in vote over Chinese or Tapas for lunch
Congress passes
bill to create "re-education" facilities for credit card debtors
Tom
DeLay political Death Watch by Doonsebury
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
saddam's
top spy, al-Douri, captured 40 days ago; held in secret
AFGHANISTAN:
Mystery
"plague" kills 6,000 farm animals in northeast in 2 weeks
PALESTINE:
Prez
Abbas says elections will be on time; others want to wait until after
Gaza withdrawal
Palestinian
Prisoner Day focus on PA getting release of 7,000 held without charges
PA
calls for Gaza squats to be razed to make room for highrise apartments
NEOCONS:
Heritage Foundation's
Feulner/wife on lobbyist payroll, suddenly Malaysia democratic
Top
10 recipients of Zionist PAC money for current cycle and career wide
NSA's
General Hayden will be Negroponte's second spy in charge
9/11:
C-SPAN covers
Griffin lecture 5:30 Monday, 18th
WMD
panel threatened to resign en masses several times to get cooperation
from CIA
Complete
analysis of US/UK's Ricin plot that never was
4 years, Billions spent: airport
screening no better, but we're safe from Cat Stevens
WORLD:
Libya:
ex-Mossad agent details "Trojan" use to frame Qaddafi before Raygun's
bombing
Ecuador:
dictator lifts state of emergency, BUT suspends S Court
Caspian:
BP covered up fact that pipeline to Ceyhan Turkey will corrode and is
uninsurable
East Timor: border passes
yet to be issued to facilitate right of return to E Timor
Uzbekistan:
UNHRC demands explanation of execution of Uzbek with case pending
Haiti:
bush breaks US embargo to sell $3 million in arms to puppet government
Virus
still not found in Israel, Saudi Arabia, US, and Japan
Ivory Coast:
talks scheduled; resistance will return to cabinet
Oil production and
consumption charts, by country, for 2004
US:
G7
ministers: #1 priority is US deficit
NJ: 2 Senators
and 13 Reps took 86 trips, paid for by Pharma lobby, worth $177,275
FRC "christian"
taliban group wants to stop Cervical Cancer vaccine; push abstinence
Secret
study by Australian cardiologist shows Tasers "potentially fatal"
No-fly
list increases from 19,000 to 31,000 since September
CAFTA fight starts in Senate
finance committee
Another
study finds estrogenic BPA gassing out from polycarbonate plastic containers
Unused
medications flushed down toilet end up in water supply
COLORADO:
Fucus
ads will target Salazar for "judicial tyranny", along with Dem Party
El
Paso County Care and Share 1 million pounds of food short; rural Colorado
failing
ELECTIONS:
9
Dems write Gonzales to complain about no indictments in CIA leak case
Polls show Labour
Party (lap-dog, Blair) leading by 1-10%
Senator
Hagel latest to waver on Bolton after more abuses surface
Iran:
Rafsanjani run for prez "more definite" as reformist, Khatami, term limited
June 17
Basque: elections will be
referendum on armed revolution or legislative secession
Italy:
UDC Party quits Berlusconi's cabinet adding shaking coalition
DeLay
raises $438,235 for re-election; borrows $100,000 from Texas bank
ACTIVISM:
Peace Happens TODAY: Sri Lanka film 1PM; gospel concert 3PM (BRAVO
Mauro and Devon)
Colorado Democratic Party online
survey on priorities, issues, tactics
Mixed Power.com website of, by, and for
Hybrid car owners
Cop's
edited and true, complete video of arrest at RNC; charges dropped
Details
and specs on 26 land imaging satellites in orbit; 25 planned (PDF)
HUMOR:
Ann Coulter (Ms. Pudenda
Shenanigans) on cover of Time Magazine
Karl
Rove's 2006 GOP campaign playbook revealed
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
Australia:
former intel agent, Rod Barton, goes public on involvement (Flash)
Senator
Levin releases declassified docs showing no ties between saddam and al-qaeda
PALESTINE:
UNHRC
passes resolution condemning expansion of squats; US votes against
US
suspends Israel from F-35 project for selling arms to China
Israel
violates Lebanese airspace on recon mission for second day
NEOCONS:
How Rockefeller,
Chase Manhattan Bank, and Kissinger helped Shah steal from Iran
WORLD:
Data/resources on world's
arms trade: US is 45.8% of $26.4 Billion arms trade
Chile:
judge estimates Pinochet's theft at $17.82 million, hidden by Riggs Bank,
US
Chile: human rights groups react to to end of special judges
investigating abuse
Lebanon:
new PM starts process of making cabinet for elections in May
Turkey:
latest in genocide of Kurds kills 21 PKK and 4 Turkish troops
Turkey
will host "Caspian Guard" in US/Russia proxy war over oil
EU emergency
ban on US feed grains after 1,000 tons of GM corn discovered
Vials of virus
sent to Lebanon and Mexico by "mistake", still missing
When your bioweapons posolutely,
absitively have to be there overnight, use FED-X
Belarus:
pollster closed down after reporting truth about exit polls and Lukashenko
loss
Belarus: EU
issues rebuke of Lukashenko "dictatorship"
Aceh:
EU to send 1-200 crisis management troops to area to ensure peace
Japan:
salvage will raise WWII sub with 2 tons gold and peace treaty for Allen
Dulles
Kyrgystan:
Bakiyev denies reports AWACS to be stationed as Bishkek airbase
US:
Stocks
fall 400 points to 2005 low on deficit, oil prices, inflation spiral, economic
collapse
American Progress'
alternative approach to tax reform (PDF)
US tax code: 1990-2002, top
1% rose 40%, while middle 20% rose 13%
Military
recruitment among foreign nationals down 20% while citizen's down 12%
Spies
claim to shut down MATRIX system after grant runs out only 4 states use
Montana battles
Patriot Act with SAFE along with 14 other states
US media ignores Rudolf's homophobic,
anti-Semitic, anti-abortion "christian" terrorism
"JUSTICE SUNDAY":
Perkins
and family Research Council: "thieves in night...rob us of religious freedom"
Program includes convicted
Watergate taliban: Colson; Dobson, Perkins, Frist
HighView
Baptist taliban church and attack of separation of church and state
Fucus
runs ads in 45 papers, 70 radio stations attacking separation of church
and state
COLORADO:
INDY report on
Soul Force, Mel White, Dobson, and May 1 protest at Fucus
Fucus letter
to Soul Force refusing meeting to discuss homophobic taliban positions
Animal activists,
SHARK, offer $50,000 to Pro Rodeo to stop calf roping
Tancredo:
"not the worst idea" for DeLay to step down; Hefley has no comment
Profiles of 5 candidates
for Falcon D-49 school board chair
Springs: the D-11
fight over vouchers, Willie Breazell, charter schools
Hefley
and Beauprz join 42 GOP in calling for Medicaid restoration after passing
bill
ELECTIONS:
Bolton
flew from S Korea to Florida to help stop counting of ballots in 2000
Docs prove bush
and Spelling lied about knowledge of Armstrong Williams corruption
Hastert
and 20-30 lobbyists had dinner in restaurant owned by Abramoff
Cost
of reforming Alternative Minimum Tax is $1.3 Trillion, but revenue factored
in already
List of 73
Dems that voted for Bankruptcy bill
ACTIVISM:
Peace Happens final days: film 11:30 today; film, concert Sunday
(BRAVO Mauro/Devon!)
People
for American Way letter to Frist to not attend taliban event on "Justice
Sunday"
Call Senater
Chafee (R-R.I.) to vote against Bolton nomination 202-224-2921
Write
Colorado Senators to support SB 198 for paper trail and voting reforms
Write
Colorado Senators to support SB 98; extend non-discrimination to LGBT
Write
Colorado reps to oppose HR 1002 banning same sex marriage
Citizen's
Project discussion Monday, 18th, Pikes Perk, 6-8 (PDF)
U
of Wisconsin campus cops pull plug on amps at anti recruitment rally
NY
pays $231,200 to 108 protesters falsly arrested at RNC
Pressure by
sweatshop activists, like "No Sweat", working on Nike, Gap, Levi Strauss
Earth Justice.org
Pet Abuse.com
HUMOR:
Spammer sentenced
to hard labor of deleting all his emails
Bush
battles hecklers at ballgame: throws out the first cabbage (photo)
Friday's News
IRAQ:
Texas
oilman (sorry, not that one) indicted in UN oil-for-food corruption
PALESTINE:
Lebanese finds
6 Israeli mortars in apparent false flag op gone bad
Eye witness
reports US troops disguised with IOF troops in Negev Desert
NEOCONS:
Senate confirms
fascists war criminal, Negroponte, DNI chief spy
Neocon 101
primer by Christian Science Monitor
Money trail
from Bradley Foundation to New Citizenship Project and AEI, PNAC, Kristol
Colombia, Venezuela,
Orinoco Basin, and the central American proxy oil war
9/11:
Gitmo POW sues
to get video of his torture
WORLD:
East
Timor: Indonesian prez visits island, signs territorial agreement with Gusmao
Venezuela:
files for extradition of Cuban airliner suspect and assassin in US
Congo:
human rights group details civilians killed by UN peacekeepers
Colombia
will review treaty that gives US troops immunity from prosecution
Kyrgystan:
Rummy assured US base solid; tents being replaced
Deadly
virus, shipped by "mistake" never arrives in Lebanon and Mexico
Nepal:
2 week toll: 177 anti monarchists killed in fighting
US:
Arizona:
first oil refinery in 30 years passes Clean Air Act regulations
Homeland Suckyourity's
recent TOPOFF 3 drill was practice for martial law
EPA
will miss today's court ordered deadline to meet clean air rules in 156 National
Parks
Chapter 1 of Deffeyes'
"Hubbert's Peak, The Impending World Oil Shortage"
LA
Times circulation down 5.5%; NewsDay down 4%; Tribune papers numbers drop
FAKE NEWS:
FCC
decides broadcasters must reveal govt or corporate sources for fake news
FCC
commissioner statement on ruling, citing "tens of thousands of citizens" emails
(PDF)
FCC
commissioner's statement citing "large number of complaints from the public"
(PDF)
Complete
FCC decision (PDF)
BANKRUPTCY BILL:
Busheviks
pass credit car and banking welfare of Bankruptcy bill
Open
Secrets collection of resources on bankruptcy bill
Bill
restricts homestead exemption; top priority to child support; code decision
from judges
Bill
has no provisions against predatory credit card practices
COLORADO:
Owens
vetoes bills on county sales tax for open space and lawsuit limit increase
House
approves tenants rights and cycling bills; Owens signs 28 bills
CRG will put Woodland
Park Wal-Mart on ballot: democracy ruling republic
Larson
(R-Cortez): putting SB 207 on ballot puts democracy at odds with republic
Bill will transfer 1,465
acres into Native American trust for Sand Creek Massacre site
$8.6
million grant to 45 orgs in 32 counties to combat bullying
Oil/Gas
Assoc: illegal to stop drilling on Roan Plateau; 3,000 wells needed
ELECTIONS:
Delay:
"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts"
DeLay, Falwell,
Phyllis Schlafly open JCCCR seminar on "Judicial War on Faith"
GOP
leadership scrambles to defend filibuster destruction after majority disagrees
Bolton
ordered State Dept official, working with Powell, removed in 3rd known abuse
Frist
will join "christian" taliban in "filibuster against people of faith" broadcast
ACTIVISM:
TODAY: 4-6 film/discussion on militarized space; 7-9 Chomsky
film; Sat, 11:30 film on race
Denver
Post supports SB 207, smoke free workplace bill
Email Rep. Hillman to support
smoke free workplace bill for state
Legislative calendar of upcoming
bills
Write congress
to mark Turkey's 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians
Letters
to editors of Colorado papers on HB 1262, tobacco prevention funding
New
David Rovics album (MP3)
Email bush to reveal the truth about
assassination attempt of Italian journalist, Sgrena
Email
Rummy to tell the truth about Negroponte's forces trying to assassinate Sgrena
NY cops caught
editing video evidence of RNC arrests (text, audio, video)
HUMOR:
Bill
allows corporations to move your money directly to their banks, avoid paperwork
Pharmaceutical animation
"The Drugs I Need" (caution, may cause side splitting pain)
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
Estimates
and analysis of Defense Dept "black budget" (PDF)
Reporters Without
Borders calls on US to release CBS cameraman, shot and "arrested"
Senator
Durbin will introduce bill to require every VA hospital have PTSD clinic
PALESTINE:
Sharon
pimps war on Iran to his uncle Sam in Texas
12 Palestinian and
20 Israeli mayors meet to declare "civilian truce"
2
more Palestinian home bulldozed (18 homeless) to bring total to 675 in 4 years
Israel
court acquits IOF officer in murder of British documentarian waving white flag
Zionist
groups will attend Caterpillar meeting to stop investigation of abuse by Israel
NEOCONS:
Complete declassified
files on war criminal, John Negroponte
Iran/Contra, Raygun
coup, FBI, bush senior, Rockefeller, Reed, CIA, Chase Bank
State
Dept #2 neocon, Zoellick, visits Iraq; tries to whitewash Falluja
9/11:
C-SPAN will
cover Griffin conspiracy lecture and discussion Monday, 18th at 5:30 PM
WORLD:
Azerbaijan:
Rummy's 3rd trip to finalize plans for $100 million "Caspian Guard"
Colombia:
UN says human rights violations reached "critical" in 2004
China:
cops turn chemical plant pollution protest into riot
Aceh: Indonesia
will add 3,000 to 40,000 troops to scuttle peace talks
BIOWEAPONS:
"Asian
Flu" virus sent to 3,700 labs "by mistake", caused 1957 pandemic killing millions
Closer look at Meridian
Bioscience that released virus to 3,700 labs "by mistake"
Angola:
Marburg Virus toll reaches 210
Avian Flu
could kill 70 million worldwide according to WHO and Nobel Laureate
Mysterious death
of at least 25 microbiologists
US:
GOP
defeats Dem's attempt to add $2 Billion in VA funding
Minnesota
state Senator comes out, votes against marriage ban; supports outing politicians
North
Carolina school board bans use of Tasers on school grounds
GOP expands it's
control of appeals courts today; 10 of 13 dominated now
Photo
of stamp art that got Secret Service to visit art gallery; demand artist's names
AIG
CEO transferred 14.4 million shares, worth $2.2 Billion, to wife before being
fired
Budweiser won't
buy rice from Missouri if GM rice is grown there
ESTATE TAX:
Congress
compromising on Estate Tax bill; 47% rate now for $1.5 million and more
CCPP analysis of repeal of Estate
Tax
Americans
for Fair Estate Tax analysis of current and proposed taxes
House
passes permanent repeal of all Estate Taxes; on to harder fight in Senate
Only Russia and
Mexico have worst distribution of wealth than US
COLORADO:
List
of 50 orgs and churches endorsing May 1 action against Fucus and Dobson
Virus
sent to 19 labs in state
SB
102 would buy drugs with other states for 16.7% without insurance
56%
vote for CSU pot violations to be same as alcohol
Hundreds protest Breazell
statement before D-11 school board meeting
Woodland
Park votes 5-2 to rezone for Wal-Mart SuperStore
Spring's Gazette calls
for DeLay to go; exit strategy in Iraq
ACTIVISM:
Write
congress on Estate Tax
People
for the American Way ad to stop the filibuster repeal
Soul Force will attempt
to meet with Dobson May 2 and deliver letters
Rachel
Corrie's parents target Caterpillar with lawsuit and boycott
Greenpeace protests
French Plutonium/Uranium MOX shipped to South Carolina
Video surfaces
that proves cops lied (as usual) about arrests at RNC last summer
House
ready to pass exemption to Halliburton drilling technique fouling water
HUMOR:
Rapture Ready: current index:
152, or "Fasten Your Seatbelts"
Steve Bridges impersonation
of bush; several videos in Windows Media
Cartoon:
bush and bolton comment on the United Nations
Wednesday's
News
IRAQ:
UNHRC concludes
children better off under saddam with sanctions, than under bush
Ramsey Clark's report to ICC on 19
counts of US war crimes in Iraq
Sgrena
on 60 Minutes tonight at 7PM: US lied about assassination
AFGHANISTAN:
Judge
orders records unsealed in case of CIA agent beating POW to death
CIA
agent says torture approved; wants to call Cheney, Tenet, Gonzales as witnesses
PALESTINE:
Prez
Abbas expresses "astonishment" at Sharon WB squats and calling him "chairman"
HRW: bush should
be unequivocal on international law against 3,650 more WB squats
NEOCONS:
New memos show
Negroponte's role in Iran/Contra with CIA's Casey (killed to silence)
Cheney gave OK for
CIA's torture jet
Bolton, Kristol, AEI, James Baker,
Jesse Helms, Raygun, Goldwater, Meese, Federalists
WORLD:
Azerbaijan:
Rummy visits to promote Caspian Guard with $100 million, and military bases;
Azerbaijan: US commander
confirms bases to "protection of the Caspian Sea"
Complete discussion of "Peak
Oil" with charts/graphs; we find 1 barrel for each 4 used
Netherlands: Holland
will decide bush war crimes charges day before he arrives, May 1
Lebanon:
PM steps down after 6 weeks an no cabinet; parliament deadline May 31
Mosaic TV
Iran
will sue US using "Algiers Accord' for $18 million in opposition support
Cuba: Panamanian
prez' sister bought immunity for assassin in US now
US:
Ohio
coroner: Taser death ruled homicide; multiple shocks "contributed to death"
California:
city, police chief, 7 cops sued for $30 million in Taser death
Connecticut:
Ed. commish demands apology from Spelling for NCLB resistance "bigotry"
Florida Presbyterian
taliban challenges Dobson crusade to "reclaim America for Christ"
Ohio: judgment
against polluter includes $14.4 million in renewable energy projects
Wages
up 2.4% 2004, BUT healthcare up 7%; 47% don't provide employee insurance
Vermont:
legislator paid wife/daughter $150,000 to campaign just like DeLay
Army
reservist charged with holding 7 illegals at gunpoint in vigilante border op
COLORADO:
Denver
Post supports SB 207 to protect worker's health from second hand cig smoke
Assoc
of School Boards Exec and CEA outline changes needed to NCLB
Denver
Civil Rights Office gets ax; 3 people process complaints from 7 states
Matthew
Sheperd's mom speaks at CSU: "constitution protects minority from majority"
9 boys
return to school after 2 months suspension for watching off campus fight
Frasier
River one of top 10 most endangered streams in US
HB
1070 would force homeowner's associations to accept drought tolerant landscaping
Oil/Gas
industry pissed at new storm water runoff regulations
Fort Carson deaths rise
to 51
Fountain city
councilman, Lender, withdraws resignation; will fight
Janet Brazill's
LtE on Gov. Owens veto of emergency contraception
ELECTIONS:
Bush benefactors caught
by SEC hiding shares of stocks offshore; funded SwiftBoat Vets
DeLay
tells GOP to blame demonic Dems and media for his corruption
DeLay
sold tort "reform" on Asbestos for contributions
Ratzinger
ahead in Vatican election; publishes dominionist book in Germany
ACTIVISM:
Activist's panel at CC 7:30 tonight; film on Palestinian/Israeli
teens 4:30 Thurs
Email/call Gov on HB1061 Landlord/Tenant
bill that passed Senate; phone 303-866-2471
Harvard dean reverses
ban on CIA protest hours before rally; fails to ruin organization
Latin American
activists who disrupted Negroponte hearing explains action
Email
Senators to add amendment to $82 Billion appropriations bill of exit strategy
Call Hefley to vote
against Bankruptcy Bill: Springs: 520-0055; DC: 202-225-4422
Baghdad Blog from RiverBend blogspot
"Corky"
Gonzales, Chicano activist in 60s and 70s; dead at 76
HUMOR:
Complete
playlist from bush's iPod
Bush reverts back to
Tom Sawyer speaking style; c'boy hat and boots
Tuesday's
News
IRAQ:
None
of 19 rebuilt power stations being run properly; waste management wasting millions
Talibani
supports US troops in country for 2 years
Falluja:
70% destroyed but only 90 families have gotten ONLY $1,500 to rebuild
Photos
from Iraq, March 28-April 10 (Graphic)
Scotland: 6,000 Gulf
War troops poisoned with DU, pesticides, vaccinations, nerve gas
Pentagram
audit: Halliburton overcharge $212 million for fuel with no-bid contract
Illegal photos of flag draped coffins of American dead
AFGHANISTAN:
Army Corps
of Engineers: US will have 7 permanent bases in country
PALESTINE:
Sharon:
expanding WB occupation by 3,650 squats NOT violation; warns of "civil war"
NEOCONS:
FOIA
releases new Negroponte memos on arming contras from Honduras
Negroponte confirmation
hearings begin today; broadcast on C-SPAN
Lugar
and Kerry mention CIA agent's name in Bolton's confirmation hearing
Neocons
in congress allocate $3 million to support opposition in Iran
9/11:
"UK poison cell",
quoted by Powell as tied to Zarqawi, found not guilty of anything
Gitmo
will reduce POWs to half
SEC: Israelis took
"short" positions, worth $22 million, on 38 stocks before 9/11 attack
WORLD:
Nepal: monarchists
kill 100 resistance in fighting
Azerbaijan:
BP pumping oil through Russian pipeline while new one is built
Cuba: CIA agent, wanted
for bombing Cuban airliner in 1976, wants asylum in US
Canadian Bank:
Saudi oil will decline 27% in next 7 years; no new finds; "Hubbert's Peak"
Synopsis of "Hubbert's Peak"
theory of world passing peak oil production
Detailed report on remarkable
earthquake activity in last 7 days
US:
National
Institutes of Health charged with sexual harassment and intimidation
Arkansas passes
bill, 75-2 to let students lead prayer in schools
California: Spelling
will give credit for progress on NCLB goals and relax requirements
Trade
deficit soars 4.3% in a month to all-time record of $61.04 Billion
Pharmaceutical
prices rose 7.1% in 2004; twice inflation rate
Corporation for
Public Broadcasting reichwing coup complete with firing of CEO, Cox
COLORADO:
Dobson: black robed S Court
same as white robed KKK
DU prez,
Hotzman reports $413,000 for governor campaign; Coffman back Beauprez
$6
million in farm subsidies paid to investment group for 12,000 acres of unused
land
SB
207 (smoke free workplace) goes to full Senate
Reporters
covering legislature now required to wear name tags
ELECTIONS:
Abramoff turns
on DeLay: "DeLay knew everything. He knew all the details."
Pennsylvania:
dept of State finds touch screen voting "unreliable" and cannot be used
ACTIVISM:
Code Pink gives Bolton
hell; OR, tells the truth and he thinks it's hell
True
Majority action to email Senate and stop Bolton nomination
Call American Airline's,
Tim Wagner, about supporting DeLay; 817-967-1577
Email American Airline, Bacardi, Nissan,
Verizon, RJR; supporting DeLay's defense fund
HR
2037: a person's taxes are paid to a fund that does NOT go to war and military
Peace Tax Fund.org
Email Canadian conservation
minister to list Caribou on Endangered Species List
Telluride
activists hold monthly march on 11th to keep war in minds of citizens
HB
1266 would spread cost of hunting to non hunters
Rep.
John Salazar calls on BLM NOT to approve drilling on Roan Plateau
SNAP protests Cardinal
Law at Vatican for protecting pedophiles
Secret Service
visits Columbia U art show wants names and addresses of all artists
HUMOR:
Cartoon: pharmacists
refuse to fill VIAGRA prescriptions
Bush nominates guy wearing
"Fu*k the UN" t-shirt as ambassador to the UN
Karl
Rove gathers dirt on medal recipients in case nay run for office later
