Monday's News
IRAQ:
Documentary
of wounded soldiers recounting their battles (RM stream)
ROTC
enrollment down 16% in last 2 years
Marine
Company E speaks out on need for armor and soldiers
AFGHANISTAN:
US
gets UNHRC investigator fired after report on POW torture
PALESTINE:
$14,000
donated to Abramoff charity for inner city kids, went to Israeli
squatter to fight
NEOCONS:
Iran:
UK Foreign Sec'y, Straw, complained to Powell that Bolton hurt negotiations
in 2003
USAID
worker details Bolton "screamed that I was fired" over Nestle baby
formula regs
Move
America Forward.org ad that Voinovich "stabs president in the back"
on Bolton
9/11:
Judges
appointed by Raygun and bush Sr; close Sibel Edmonds hearing to
public
UK
Gitmo POW details sodomy, gasoline enemas, poisonous snakes, smearing
with feces
FOIA
docs, including proof that DofD torturers impersonated FBI (PDFs)
WORLD:
Darfur:
estimate: 15,000 dying per month
Colombia:
UNHRC investigating 3,500 Nasa people dispersed by recent fighting
Analysis
of Peak Oil; last year more oil discovered than used was 25 years
ago
Belarus:
Lukashenko visits Putin day after Condi speech at NATO in Lithuania
East
Timor: wants oil/gas boundary in middle; Australia wants it 93 miles
off coast
East
Timor: church closes door on negotiations on compulsory religious
education
Venezuela:
several US arrested for taking photos at military bases and refineries
Peak
Oil conference sees $100 barrel oil this decade; economic destruction
US:
3 co-conspirators
of Cuban bomber, Posada, arrived in Miami just before 2004 election
Ratzinger
ordered all US bishops to carry out pedophile investigations in
secret
SS
piratization cuts pension by amount privately invested, plus 3%,
plus inflation
1
in every 138 US citizens in jail; 900 per week while crime stats
fell
Taser
kills NY man on schizophrenia medication after 5 shocks
Hybrid
car sales up 960% since 2000; up 81% last year to 83,153
COLORADO:
"Justice
Sunday": Dobson tells 61 million of "judicial tyranny to people
of faith"
Beauprez
running for governor: "I want the job"
MCI
calls latest Qwest $9.74 Billion bid "superior"; Verizon has a week
to counter
Pueblo garbage
contractors lobby against citywide recycling proposal
Forest
Service delays gold mining at McCollugh Gulch (Breckenridge) for
wetlands impact
State targets
Mercury switches in junk cars for recycling
ELECTIONS:
Secret
Service docs: Guckert at WH 25 times when no press briefings were
held
UK:
13 pages of AG's advice war was illegal, leaked 11 days before elections
Guatemala:
junior kicks out Kerry supporters from telecom commission meeting
Head
of Frist's Presbyterian church urged him NOT to participate in "Justice
Sunday"
DeLay's
chief of staff, Buckham, was bridge with Abramoff; put wife on payroll
of lobby
Togo: dictator
raids opposition HQ, steals tally computers, day before "elections"
Saudi
Arabia: Wahhabis and theocrats from religiously approved "Golden
List" take majority
ACTIVISM:
Fucus/Vanguard church discussion on gay civil rights TODAY; 5:30;
3950 N. Academy
Denver
Post coverage of Soul Force protest of Fucus/Phelps, Sunday, May
1 at 12:30 pm
Petition to congress
calling for DeLay to resign
1
million rally to defend Mexico City's indicted, impeached mayor
and prez candidate
HUMOR:
Exploding
toads impact the Rature Ready Index?
Bolton
orders AK-47 sculpture for his UN desk
Photos
of bush laying on hands
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
HRW
calls for war crimes investigation of Rummy and Tenet for torture
of POWs
HRW:
150 "renditions" for torture to other countries
Buck
stops with Karpinski: even Sanchez' intel chief and legal advisor
cleared
Coroners:
60 bodies in Tigris were killed 3 weeks ago; not civilian "hostages"
Halliburton
announces "mission accomplished" on oil infrastructure rebuilding
State
Dept: "poor performance" from Halliburton on repair of southern oil
fields
Cabinet
details released Monday; Allawi and his party out of all ministries
AFGHANISTAN:
Woman
who asked for divorce; stoned to death for adultery
PALESTINE:
Prez
Abbas replaces old guard in security forces
IOF
investigation finds soldiers "lying", tampering with evidence
in murder of cameraman
NEOCONS:
12
new declassified emails from Westermann on Bolton's abuse over Cuba
Howard
Zinn lecture at MIT on religious justification for imperialism (RM
stream)
Photo
of Bolton inspecting hanging chads in Florida in 2000
9/11:
Former
GOP insider claims video proof 737 hit WTC; govt story "unequivocal
lie"
Air
marshal sues HS over free speech right to criticize lousy security
WORLD:
Sudan
claims it will implement UN resolution on "systematic violations of
human rights"
Darfur: water
shortage in Chad refugee camps for 200,000
Haiti:
US claims didn't violate arms embargo with 9,668 guns, only 2,657
guns
Pakistan:
Musharraf will not allow IAEA to "question our officials or inspect
our facilities"
Ecuador:
ousted prez sneaks out back door of embassy, flies to Brazil
Tokyo
scientists add human liver gene to GM rice
US:
Condi
edited State Dept report on increase of attacks from foreign policy
failure
Texas
fined $444,000 by Sec'y of Ed for cheating on NCLB testing
Arizona:
Navajo Nation outlaws uranium mining at one of world's largest deposits
Senate minority
leader, Reid: SS piratization is DOA; enough votes to block
LAGLC
wants award back after MicroSoft helped defeat HB 1515 on gay civil
rights
COLORADO:
$17.6
million antitrust crime will have expected results for Adelphia users
D-49
chooses Oregonian, Hull, for superintendent of schools
Loring
Wirbel's LtE on Fucus/Salazar battle
ELECTIONS:
Ratzinger's
letter to US bishops on gay marriage and abortion, and it's effect
in 2004
Airfare
on Delay's trip to London/Scotland in 2000, on Abramoff's credit card
ACTIVISM:
1500 Lies counter recruitment march in Springs, Saturday, April
30
Denver Cop
Watch needs volunteers for Cinco de Mayo
Waging Peace.org
Spyware Keyloggers
HUMOR:
Photo:
DeLay tarts it up a bit
"Queer
Eye for the Crooked Guy"
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
General Sanchez,
3 top officers cleared in Abu Ghraib torture of POWs
Oil
Ministry has fired 450 employees for black market oil sales
AFGHANISTAN:
UNHRC:
US guilty of "arbitrary arrests, sexual abuse, beatings, torture"
NEOCONS:
Ambassador
Hubbard latest to recount Bolton tirades to committee
Colin
Powell: Bolton "very problematic"
9/11:
Moussaoui
pleads guilty to proposed attack on WH, not WTC
WORLD:
Canada:
Raytheon scouting missile locations in Labrador; ignoring Martin's refusal
East
Timor: Australian Council of Trade Unions calls for fair division of
profits from oil
East
Timor: PM refuses to step down; discounts protests over mandatory religious
Ed
Ukraine,
Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova will form "Union of Democratic States"
Colombia:
US adds to $3 Billion in arms with 4 planes, 6 choppers worth $52 million
Turkey: tanker
runs aground in Dardanelles; closes Black Sea to military and oil traffic
Ecuador:
ousted prez still in Brazilian embassy; protesters want him arrested
Canada:
promised $425 million for Tsunami relief never arrived
US:
Chair
of Election Commission resigns over no reforms; conservative, GOP, minister
Wisconsin:
Gov announces will join lawsuit against EPA's Mercury pollution standards
Interview
with Chomsky: "we can't afford to leave world affairs to so-called experts"
Georgia:
school cop may be suspended for Tasing 7th grade student sleeping in
class
17
Baptists churches urge cancellation of "Justice Sunday"
COLORADO:
Dobson refuses
to rebut Mohler's: "Pope holds false and unbiblical office"; "false
church"
More Dobson lies
on judicial filibusters, percentages of affirmations, ABA approvals
3
thrown out of bush event will sue
Salazar
got 416 calls in support yesterday in Fucus battle, BUT 2,218 against
Springs: 81
year old evicted cause pension was $21 too much
ELECTIONS:
Italy:
Berlusconi appoints new cabinet, who appoints him PM again
ACTIVISM:
NY
Mayor Bloomberg cancels May Day Marches and rallies; email/phone him
SB
198 goes to house; email reps to support paper trail eVoting machines
Common
Cause LtE in Colorado in support of SB 198, Paper Trail bill
SB
28 civil rights for LGBT in employment; email Senators to support bill
Discussion
of gay issues with Citizen's Project, Vanguard, Exodus, Fucus; Monday,
25th
Democratic Party's Women's Vote
Center
Free Speech
Zone in Smokies was miles away from bush visit that weather prevented
PETA takes Taser
protest to manufacturer's conference in Arizona
PFAW
ad to oppose filibuster changes, "Justice Sunday", Frist, Dobson fundis
(QT, WMV)
Email/phone Israeli embassy
in Chicago to oppose Jaber Dalny arrest 312-297-4800
Minnesota
recruiter's office blasts loud patriotic music at weekly protesters
HUMOR:
Colonel
Klink sworn in as Director of National Intelligence (photo)
California:
rule change allows robots to run for governor
Friday's News
IRAQ:
$81.3
Billion appropriation takes total to over $300 Billion
PALESTINE:
DM, Mofaz, recommends
Gaza withdrawal delayed until August 15
NEOCONS:
War criminal,
Negroponte, sworn in as top spy over 15 agencies
Only
Harkin and Wyden opposed Negroponte in Senate
9/11:
Govt claims
"exemption 6" privacy for bin laden family flights after 9/11
CIA held innocent man for a
month after Tenet/Condi knew of "mistake"
Spanish
trial will be first to look into attacks
WORLD:
Iran:
IAEA finds radiation came from equipment from Pakistan
Burma: human
rights group: chem weapons used against Karenni minority in February
Darfur:
Marine Captain brings back some photos of genocide
Darfur:
500 dying every day; 400,000 since 2003
US:
Tape
recordings show Dobson wants congress to do away with 9th Circuit Court
Hyde: Clinton
impeachment was retaliation for Nixon by some GOP
MicroSoft
bends over for evangelicals on civil rights for gays bill in Washington
EARTH DAY:
Montana group
makes gains with vegetable oil fuel and seed crops
USGS
and British Antarctic Survey admit glacial shrinkage due to global warming
(duh)
Ohio:
NRC will fine reactor record $5.45 million for leaks covered up for 2
years
"Sunset
Commission" in budget would remove all federal regulation
BisPhenol
A in polycarbonate plastics is estrogen mitigator
"Clear Skies"
SB 131 loophole would exempt 39% of Mercury producing coal fired plants
Safer Products.org list
of consumer products and the hazardous chemicals in each
First 6
wild horses slaughtered under new bill
Heavy
consumers of processed meat 70% more likely to get Pancreatic Cancer
COLORADO:
Secret
Service begins investigation into fake agent that threw 3 out of bush
event
Regulators
threaten to yank Cotter's Cañon City uranium mill license
Division
of Wildlife says Roan Plateau drilling ignores wildlife, science, and
is ambiguous
Salazar and Dobson
trade anti Catholic charges in filibuster battle
Springs hotel occupancy
rates down 9% from last year in March
Local farmers
launch "beneficial" label after agribusiness steals "organic" label
INDY letters
on Dobson, Soul Force, rodeo
ELECTIONS:
Judge
rules in favor of DC ban on CSX hazardous waste shipments past Capitol
Details
on $586,370 CSX spent in 2004 campaigns
Abramoff
held 3 fundraisers for Harkin/Grassley while they were investigating him
Santorum
got $4,000 from Accuweather for bill to stop federal weather forecasts
ENERGY BILL:
Fluor
$2-5,000/plate fundraiser for DeLay just before Energy Bill vote
DeLay
main pimp for MTBE tort DEform in Energy Bill
Analysis
of Energy Bill, MTBE, gas prices, drilling, ANWR
Bill
includes $12 Billion in corporate welfare for oil corps
ACTIVISM:
Action: boycott
Wal-Mart for Mother's Day
Tom
Hayden goes to Canada on behalf of 100 military resisters there
HUMOR:
Parody
of Ann Coulter's Time Magazine cover
Junkets Tom DeLay
turned down to golf in Scotland
Top
10 rejected names for Pope Benedict XVI
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
2
cops killed in assassination attempt on Allawi
BBC documentary
"The War for Oil" (RM stream)
Camp
Lejuene will bar reporters from premeditated murder trial of Marine
Naomi Klein
on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (RM stream)
AFGHANISTAN:
17 Afghans,
released from Gitmo, told not to discuss their torture
PALESTINE:
Army
reopens probe into murder of cameraman with white flag after worldwide pressure
NEOCONS:
BBC documentary
on "The War Party" and neocons (RM stream)
LA
Times calls for Bolton to step aside
Senator
Chafee: "might be advisable" to nominate someone other than Bolton
Bolton
investigation moves to former head of CIA and NIC
Rosen
and Weissman fired from AIPAC for FBI investigation of spying
WORLD:
Syria: Putin will
sell SA-18, vehicle mounted missiles, to stop airspace violations
Venezuela: National
Lawyer's Guild calls for immediate extradition of CIA assassin
Geologist
for Amoco: "the oil peak arrives next year"; 944 Bil barrels so far, 764
Bil left
Belarus:
Condi makes regime change official: "It's time for a change in Belarus"
Colombia:
Harken Energy gets $3.00 increase in well head price in new contract
Ecuador:
ousted prez hides in Brazil's embassy; granted asylum
Nepal: Amnesty
International says 3,000 political prisoners since king took power
US:
2004
death re-examined: Taser, pepper spray, fractured ribs, ruptured testicles
S Carolina GOP:
protection for roosters in cock fighting; NO spousal abuse protections
Omaha:
woman Tased 3 times at fire for trying to save daughter she thought was
inside
Greenspan
suddenly see deficit as problem: "unsustainable path"; "unlikely to improve"
List
of which plastics are safe and which are leaching poisons into food
House votes
to allow drilling in ANWR as corporate welfare bill passes 231-200
Connecticut
becomes 3rd state to legalize same sex civil unions
COLORADO:
Salazar:
Fucus ads "un-Christian" tactics on judicial nominations
Senate
passes adding civil rights protection on sexual orientation
HB
1287 makes adoption records available for adoptees
AFA
chaplains told cadets to warn non-Christians they'll "burn in the fires
of hell"
South
Oil plans to drill 500 wells; 85% on public lands in Mesa County
ELECTIONS:
Swing Vermont
vote, Jeffords, to retire at end of term; left GOP in 2001
DeLay
got use of Abramoff's skybox and didn't report it
Florida:
all of Jeb's trumped up charges dropped against Dem Mayor of Orlando
ACTIVISM:
Spring's Counter recruitment rally April 30, noon, Academy and
Galley
Email Ariel
Sharon, ministers, embassies to protest expulsions from Aqaba
Indiana:
fed judge rules "free speech zone" violated 1st amendment rights of protester
Nevada Clean Energy.org petition
to stop coal-fired power plant
Common
Causes documentary on November 2 coup (WM)
Earth Day Virtual March on Washington
petition to save ANWR from oil drilling
Review
and excerpts of Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"
CU
Boulder turns on sprinklers to douse annual 420 pot smoking rally
Email
Senator Chuck Hagel to stop Bolton nomination
Email
Senator Lincoln Chafee to stop Bolton nomination
HUMOR:
Movie poster:
"The Devil's Rejects" starring junior, Rove, and Pudenda Shenanigans
Movie
poster: "The Thing from Planet Exxon" starring Cheney (Bill Kristol production)
Fetus
ornament; US troop model with M-16 (real product; $14.95)
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Ruzicka uncovered
that US kept Iraqi civilian stats a week before assassination
PALESTINE:
Israeli Lands
Authority announces 50 more squats will be built in West Bank
Likud
cabinet will wait on Army input to decide on Gaza withdrawal timetable
Israel's consul
general to the Hague arrested for selling passports
NEOCONS:
Voinovich
stops GOP from rubber stamping Bolton; 3 weeks to make case before vote
Stop Bolton.org
Move
America Forward.org targets "traitor" Voinovich for not goosestepping with
Bolton
Bolton
not invited back to lawfirm in 1992 over abuse of subordinates
Feith
will be in Quadrennial Defense Review after resignation from Pentagram
9/11:
Classified
memo orders "modify or remove ALL records designated 'terrorist'"
18
more released from Gitmo; total 232 with no charges, convictions, due process
OKC Secret Service
docs: "video tapes show detonation after subjectS exit"
WORLD:
Report: 11 million
children, 5 years old, die from preventable causes each year
Belarus:
Condi calls state: "last remaining dictatorship"; denies "fomenting revolution"
Uzbekistan:
journalist arrested for writing on Ukraine revolution, Muslim pilgrimage
East
Timor: clergy organize 5,000 march to protest no mandatory religious education
East
Timor: Australia in talks on how to share $30 Billion in oil/gas money from
seabed
Saudi
Arabia refuses to sign UN doc to limit it to 10 tons Uranium and 2.2 lbs Plutonium
Flashback:
Ratzinger ordered Kerry communion ban over support on abortion
Darfur:
residents claim AU did nothing to stop 22 murders 3.1 miles away Monday
Italy: PM Berlusconi
hands in resignation over Iraq; will form new government
US:
Missile Defense
Agency resurrects Space Test Bed with $675 million in 2008 budget
Air
Force denies XSS-11 satellite is test of anti-satellite capability
Montana:
Gov signs statewide smoking ban; restaurants now, bars in 4 years
Oak
Ridge: Bechtel will start removing Uranium from machinery in summer
Oregon:
HB 275 would sign up men for draft when they get driver's license
9th
Circuit Court rules holocaust victims can sue Vatican Bank for profits from
Nazis
Wholesale prices
up .7% in March; largest jump in 5 months
Michigan: Dow Chemical
buys censorship from 3 PBS stations on Bhopal documentary
Utah
puts state Ed standards above NCLB; will cost state &76 million in fed
funds
NEA,
3 states sue to force Fed govt to pay $27 Billion more for NCLB mandates
Texas
house passes ban on gay/bi foster parents
COLORADO:
Referendum
D: $2 Billion bond issue for roads, schools, cops, firefighters
Dems
compromise after GOP threat to stop school funding; $1.14 million corp tax
breaks
Intel
promise: 1600 jobs for tax break; reality: 900 jobs; 62% of program in El
Paso Co
Pueblo commissioners OK
Wal-Mart zoning variance to build "SuperCenter"
Udall
demands name of operative who threw out 3 from public visit by junior
CU Boulder
marches to "Take Back the Night"
Salazar
pressure: Pentagram restarts program to destroy 2,600 tons of Pueblo WMD
9 sign
up for D-11 superintendent position
Gelroy
letter on Earth Day and meat consumption
ELECTIONS:
Baker/Carter
Election Commission and "Thor" Hearne, ACVR, Ohio corruption, Swifties
Conyers report
on first hearing of Baker/Carter EC: stacked deck
DeLay
attacks S Court judge Kennedy for applying international law and using internet
Ohio
GO, Ney, failed to report 2003 tribe fundraiser
ACTIVISM:
Velvet Revolution.us for true election
reform
Freedom From Debt Coalition.org
Montana
sees some rhetorical success with Tiffany's over silver/copper mine
Rock
Creek Alliance battling Revett Silver over Montana mining under Wilderness
Area
"Mission
Against Terror" documentary made on 5 Cuban agents arrested for stopping US
Media Reform Conference in
St. Louis May 13-15
Wake Up Wal-Mart.com
Colorado for HealthCare.com
Vote on 3 radio ads from Drop
the Hammer.org for broadcast (MP3)
Re-Energize America.org for sustainable
energy and responsible policies
Brussels: 500 "Bomb
Spotters" arrested at NATO protest for nuke free NATO
Email
Chuck Hagel to stop Bolton confirmation
Email
Chafee to stop Bolton confirmation
HUMOR:
New Bush
Social Security reform plan: lottery
Bush
will release gangsta rap album
(photo contains partial nudity)
Pope Soap on a Rope (Real product)
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Iraq Analysis.org's examination
of the use of illegal MK-77 NAPALM by US
Iraq Veteran speaks out (QT)
CO, Jeremy Hinzman
gets work permit, waits for political asylum in Canada
Army
circulated a Sanchez "wish list" of torture techniques to use on POWs
PALESTINE:
Sharon
proves again his word is worthless: delays Gaza withdrawal; religious excuse
Nuke workers
at Dimona and Sorek reactors sue for $17 million for cancers
NEOCONS:
Bolton vote
today; asked for identities of 10 NSA agents
Jack Abramoff and the "House that Jack
Bought" by Jack in the House.org
9/11:
FBI informant living with
3 hijackers has entire govt cover story fall apart
Rescue
worker told by FBI to "keep his mouth shut" about finding WTC "black box"
WORLD:
Cuba:
Posada, Bay of Pigs, Ollie North, Orlando Bosch, Venezuela, Panama, Miami
Belarus: Lukashenko
arrests opposition leader for smuggling $200,000 from Lithuania
Uzbekistan: Legal
Aid Society says torture has increased dramatically
Venezuela detains
8 Colombia soldiers in civilian clothes
Oil Depletion
Allowance Center: new drilling, producing 12.5 million b/day, not enough
Lebanon:
PM forms new cabinet of 14 businessmen
France:
Chirac cabinet coalition in danger over EU vote
Sudan: oil rig
construction begins; "oil in abundant quantities in Darfur"; I'm shocked
US:
HS' Tom Ridge on
board of Savi Technology; makers of RFID tags
Savi Tech has $100
million contract with Pentagram; Ridge will make $120,000
White house is
keeping citizens from public events, not "zealous volunteers"
Florida:
cop charged for Tasing man handcuffed to hospital bed for urine sample
Illinois:
governor orders all pharmacies with "morning after pill" to fill prescriptions
GM reports $1.1
Billion loss of Q1
Housing
starts off 18%; biggest decline in 14 years as only growth sector fails
COLORADO:
American
Cancer Society study: 66% support SB 207 to protect workers from smoke
Fucus calls
off Proctor/Gamble boycott after they pull ads from "Will and Grace"
Budget
on ballot to keep 5 years of TABOR refunds worth $3.1 Billion
ELECTIONS:
Long list of DeLay's ethics
violations and corruption
ACTIVISM:
MovOn.org's nationwide
rallies April 27 against filibuster and S Court take over
MoveOn.org's
LtE campaign on "nuclear option" to stop filibuster
Protect Worker
Health.com to support SB 207 and smoke free workplaces in Colorado
Call/email Ed Jones to support
SB 198 paper trail for eVoting 303-866-6364
Call/email Doug Lamborn to
support SB 198 303-866-4835
Call/email Ron May to support SB 198 for
paper trial on all eVote machines 303-866-2737
Report
on Kansas University "tent state" protest again war in Iraq, tuition, student
govt
13 colleges have banned
Coca Cola from schools in support of Colombia and India
Fund
for Animals sues Maryland to stop slaughter of 2,000 swans
Japanese
activists fishermen ongoing protest of Marine base for entire year
Waco
remembered (Warning: gruesome)
HUMOR:
Time
Magazine parody cover with Ms. Shenanigans (Ann Coulter)
Bob Jones U banned music:
New Age, Jazz, Country, Contemporary Christian
