Monday's News
IRAQ:
Complete
Pentagram report on attempted Sgrena assassination
that Italy rebuts today
Italian
version: driver stopped immediately when lights were
flashed
6,000
homeless female Vets in US
WORLD:
East
Timor: TV stations refuse ad on Timor Straits oil/gas
dispute accusing $2 Billion theft
Darfur:
OXfam: crises will last another 18 months until a
new crop can be harvested
Haiti:
Aristide's PM will be exiled today; jailed for 10
months without charge
Uzbekistan:
State Dept analysis: 5,300-5,800 political prisoners;
"routine torture"
Eq
Guinea: exiled leader, Moto, kidnapped, but spared
and released
US:
Progress
for America will spend $1.85 million on ads on filibuster
as Christian agenda
Joint
Chiefs plan for subs to load nukes in Japan for preemptive
strikes
Kansas
Scopes trial starts Thursday to decide if creationism
or evolution is science
Bisphenol
A plastic, lining soda cans, linked to Prostate Cancer,
other estrogenic effects
California:
smog costs state $521 million year in health costs
Greenspan
in 1966: "deficit spending is a scheme for the confiscation
of wealth"
COLORADO:
Texas
corporation will drill 2 wells in Pike National Forest
on Monument's Mt. Herman
El
Paso Country property owners have until May 31 to
appeal double digit increases
336,000
employed in state have no health insurance
Dems
don't have votes to override Owens veto of rape contraception
Dems
and GOP reach compromise on HB 1272; $175 million
will give Medicaid coverage
FUCUS ACTION:
Summit
County Daily News
AP
India's
The Hindu
Denver
Post
Rocky
Mountain News
Gazette
ELECTIONS:
Delay,
Abramoff, SunCruz Casinos, mafia, bank fraud, $23
million fake wire transfer
Meet
the Press transcript of Andy Card, Senators Dodd and
Allen on SS piratization
Ukraine:
Lech Walesa claims US NGOs didn't stop Yanukovich's
bloodbath; he did
ACTIVISM:
Activist's
yard signs get visit from Secret Service, state troopers,
search, vandalism
Reichtag
fire and WTC attacks slideshow from Armchair Commando
Petition
to congress to fire chair of CPB and restore fairness
to PBS
Petition
to congress to enforce US Weapons Control Act on Israeli
use of weapons
Effects
of environmentalist activism on banking industry
40,000
anti nuke, antiwar protesters in Central park
Nepal:
8,000 protest king's absolute powers day after emergency
powers "lifted"
May
Day protests in Europe
May
Day in Africa
May
Day in Russia
HUMOR:
Miss
Poppy's "Wash Away Your Sins" starter gift basket;
hand soap and auto air freshener
Osama
surfaces; tearfully admits being a "runaway groom"
Bush
will drill for oil on Gilligan's Island
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Irony
gets thick: Defense Dept invokes Geneva Convention in
denying torture photos
Italy
wants criminal investigation after US whitewashes Negroponte
deaths squads
AFGHANISTAN:
UN
human rights investigator was pushed out to hide torture
and transfers from Gitmo
PALESTINE:
10,000
Orthodox protest zionism, Israel, construction disturbing
graves
Church
of Christ will vote on $3 Billion divestment of firms
profiting on occupation
WORLD:
Uzbekistan:
at least 7 torture flights and $500 million in aide
for fascist "ally"
Nicaragua:
prez stands firm as 5,000 Sandanistas protest
Mexico:
1.2 million protesting pressure Fox, who blames AG for
jailing opposition leader
Cuba:
US gives up extradition fight for Canadian selling water
purifiers to hospitals
Nepal:
king lifts state of emergency; leaves secret police
in power
Togo:
12,000 refugees run from dictator's army to neighboring
countries
Darfur:
US flies general who played "key role" in genocide,
to Washington
US:
Civil
Rights Commission will close 2 more of 6 offices; 64
staff, down from 93 in 1996
Massachusetts:
7 year old special needs kid arrested, handcuffed at
school for tantrum
Alabama:
GOP rep introduces bill to ban books by and about gays
Oregon:
Portland withdraws for FBI's JTTF cause Mayor not given
clearance
S
Court briefs increase arguing against the "wall of separation
between church and state"
COLORADO:
Committee
rejects Owens/bush Clean Air Act destruction
ELECTIONS:
Clean
Peace details lies about energy bill from junior's press
conference
Energy
bill forces tax payers to pay oil corps Billions for
unused leases
England:
secret docs prove US/UK approved war then tried to "create"
justification
Text of
secret Blair doc on creation of justification for war
in 2002; "UK eyes only"
ACTIVISM:
NYC
reverses ban on May Day march, but attendance hurt from
last week's ruling
HUMOR:
Ratzinger
wins Miss Vatican beauty pageant; crowned by Regis Philbin
Saturday's
News
IRAQ:
Families
of British soldiers killed in Iraq preparing charges against
lapdog, Blair
AFGHANISTAN:
Goss trumps
Negroponte in naming SEAL that directed taliban to chief
spy at CIA
PALESTINE:
Prez
Abbas arrests 2 militants for firing mortars at occupiers
International
Trade Commission blacklists Israel along with 14 over
intellectual property
IOF
admits reservist killed by Israel; murdered taxi driver
for the killing
NEOCONS:
CIA
WMD chief disputes Bolton on Cuban intel, trying to fire
analysts
9/11:
50
from National Security Whistleblowers Coalition talk to
congress about protections
WORLD:
Venezuela:
prison guard says CIA offered $20,000 for release of Cuban
airline bomber
Freedom
House issues world press freedom report; 39% free, 26%
partially, 35% not
Saudi
Arabia: source says King Faud is dead
Nepal:
veteran of human rights work will head UN delegation
US:
Indiana:
ICLU files suit against voter ID; need govt issued photo
and biometric ID
Karzai's
Unocal profits up 69% in Q1
COLORADO:
Forest
Service rescinds OK for SnowMass expansion plans
Care
package suggestions for troops: hard candy, beef jerky,
books, powered Gatorade
RECRUITMENT:
2
Army recruiters suspended after being taped lying to high
school students
Recruiter
told student to create fake diploma from internet; how
to cheat piss test
Denver
recruiting center vandalized with 8 shots through windows
ELECTIONS:
Ohio:
FBI raids home of bush fund raiser
Scans
of Guckert Secret Service docs showing he didn't check
in and out on 16 occasions
ACTIVISM:
Soul Force protest of Dobson/Phelps Sunday, 1st, 12:30PM; Explorer
closed at 10AM
2
teachers, arrested, strip searched at bush rally, sue
Secret Service, cops
CP
petition to reps in support of SB 198 paper trail, voting
reform
EC
petition to reps to stop rollbacks of Clean Air Act
Jury
finds Eureka, Oregon cops used excessive force with pepper
spray swabbed in eyes
HUMOR:
Bush
pumps plan for personal petroleum accounts
Village
idiot demands job back; Bush refuses to step down
Friday's
News
IRAQ:
Abu
Ghraib: man under the hood in famous photo speaks on NOW
tonight, 7PM PBS
FOIA
release of 360 flag draped caskets after a year
Chalabi
oil minister and deputy PM; nephew is finance minister
PALESTINE:
Putin
offers economic and military aid to Palestinian Authority
Israel plans
new "Berlin wall" to divide Hebron
NEOCONS:
Rummy:
reporters at Courts Martial can't interview soldiers, escorted
to bathrooms
Bolton panel
will interview 25 people in next 10 days
Negroponte
takes over DPB from CIA chief
9/11:
Fake
interrogations at Gitmo for politicians and VIPs to give
idea intel was gathered
WORLD:
Mosaic TV RM stream
Colombia:
Condi announces $600 million more to prop up puppet dictatorship
East
Timor: $5 Billion on top of 90% oil revenues from Timor
Straits drilling
Russian
scientist: Chernobyl concrete seal won't last past 2006;
$185 million embezzled
Sudan:
CIA sent jet last week to bring intel chief to Washington
for secret talks
US:
Exxon
profits up 44%; Shell up 28%; BP up 29%
Stocks
fall 128 points on news of GDP down to 3.1%; slowest growth
in 2 years
Medicare
booklet lies about "donut hole" of NO coverage between $2,250
and $5,100
EPA
projected $50 million health savings with Mercury reduction;
truth: $2 Billion in SE
Louisiana:
legislature passes bill to give free $170 DU screening to
Vets; paid by VA
COLORADO:
"Theocon
Valley" examination of "christian" taliban, Fucus, and military
alliance
AUSCS
report on AFA bigotry against non Christians; church/state
separation issues
Text
of AUSCS letter to Rummy on AFA religious discrimination
On
the job deaths down from 123 to 102, except for 56% increase
for Hispanics
SB
207 goes to House; only applies smoking ban to some restaurants
7
CU students on hunger strike outside chancellors office
to stop CU logo in sweatshops
Activists
try for override of Owens veto of HB 1024 on emergency contraception
Spring's
slumlord gives 81 y.o. woman moving expenses and refunds
April rent
Spring's
convention center backers give up after voters slam proposal
Hybrid
car registrations up 72% in state; 960% in nation
Bill
Sulzman INDY letter on Haggard as environmentalist, "free"
markets and military
ELECTIONS:
Secret
Service demands racial profile on anyone attending correspondent's
dinner
BUDGET:
Bush lies
on "progressive price indexing" last night: would reduce
benefits by 28%
Budget cuts
Medicaid $10 Billion; $5.3 Billion in regressive taxes;
deficit of $168 Billion
48
of 150 programs cut in education: $530 million; 100 bucks
for Pell Grants
JUDGE OWENS:
NOW
voting profile on Owens, reichwing judge from 5th Circuit
Court
Frist's
darling, Owens, ruled for Halliburton and Enron after massive
contributions (PDF)
Karl
Rove and Gonzales both tied to Owens; Rove made 100s of
thousands as consultant
ACTIVISM:
"1500 LIES" counter recruitment march TOMORROW, 30th, NOON, Galley/Academy
Protest Fucus/Phelps Sunday at 1 PM, Explorer Drive, CSPD will
close road
Email Senators and Reps to stop drilling in ANWR
Parry's
analysis on the left's failure to utilize the media properly
15,500
attend 192 MoveOn.org rallies to stop judicial takeover
by reichwing
Al
Gore's address on the independence of the judiciary (text,
QT, MP3)
UK:
Animal rights activist found guilty of stealing 695 mice
used in Botox experiments
Email president of
CU to stop purchasing CU logo articles from 3rd world sweatshops
Email Phil
DeStefano, Chancellor of Boulder, to stop sweatshop purchases
by college
HUMOR:
"Don't
hurt 'em, Hammer"
Bush's
new Social Security plan: draft ONLY 65 and older
Movie Poster: "Dubya Hood" Steals from the middle class
and gives to the rich
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
Video
report from Fallujah (Warning: Graphic)
3
Sunni MPs resign in protest of marginalized representation
Parliament
approves cabinet
Deputy
PM and Oil Minister: Ahmed Chalabi; complete list
Doctors
report 20% increase in infant deformities from Depleted Uranium
Halliburton
overcharged $212 million, or 12.6%; details by contract
5
more journalists arrested in last 2 weeks
Complete calendar
of 1644 killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN:
Osama Clock: 1325 days,
3 hours, 9 minutes without capture
PALESTINE:
IOF
lies again about another shooting: Israeli soldier killed
by own troops
33%
of Palestinians unemployed in continued economic warfare
NEOCONS:
DeLay
will be investigated under old ethics committee rules
Bolton
constantly inflated and exaggerated Syrian nuclear program
in 2002-03
DeLay:
those that got campaign money from ARMPAC gave it back to
DeLay's defense fund
WORLD:
"Mission
accomplished": world inflamed; attacks tripled last year to
655 from 175
US
State Dept decides to stop issuing attack reports when they
don't support agenda
Darfur:
US photographer arrested to showing truth in refugee camps
Nepal:
king arrests former PM
US:
NSA
spying on US citizens; 3-3,500 times of the 10,000 requests
American
Lung Association calls on congress to stop siding with corporate
polluters
Bush
plan would exempt refiners on military bases; tax payers would
insure nuke plants
S
Court upholds right to sue pesticide makers for poisoning
Wal-Mart attempt
to censor parody site with lawsuit to shut it down
COLORADO:
Crime
bill adds LGBT and mentally/physically challenged to protections
as "hate crimes"
SB
207 amended to allow poisoning of workers in bars, casinos,
bingo parlors, offices
WH
position: thinking one's intent is to disrupt, justifies removal
from public event
Grand
opening of Salazar's Spring's office May 6, 5 PM, #3 S. Tejon,
suite 300
Salazar
rescinds "antiChrist" label for Dobson/Fucus; ("taliban" is
better)
3rd
grade CSAP reading scores dropped 2.6% to 71.4%
ELECTIONS:
Junior
holds prime time press conference tonight at 6:30 MDT
95%
of judicial nominees have passed Senate; hasn't made nominations
for half vacancies
UK: More
to join Sedgemore and leave Labour Party in protest of Blair's
policies
UK: AG
told Blair he needed UN resolution for the use of force to
be legal
Togo:
opposition leader declares himself president
Togo: 22 killed
in post "election" violence so far; civil war possibility
ACTIVISM:
Email
state Reps to support SB 198 paper trail on all eVote machines
Email
bush to drop Bolton's nomination to UN
Amnesty International
and UN's support of victims of torture on June 26
Marijuana
Policy Project.org
LtE
form in support of SB 198 paper trail on all eVote machines
in Colorado
Email
state Senator to reject EPA rules on increased pollution in
state
Email
congress to support elections reform to ensure fair, open,
accurate elections
Amy Goodman
interview with Howard Zinn (audio, video, text)
Photo
of arrest of antiwar protester "crucified" on light pole
Email
Senators to defend Clean Air Act, oppose SB 131, and stop
corporate polluters
Newmont
Mining stocks fall 6.3% in day after Denver protests and profit
report
Protesters
block recruitment tables at Carnegie Mellon University
HUMOR:
"We
wouldn't have the one party system we enjoy today, if not
for the 'Leper'"
WH
press office admits bush didn't get to second base with Saudi
prince
Utah
declares theocracy, invades Colorado
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Veterans for
Constitutional Law: depleted Uranium has killed 11,000 Gulf
War Vets
Gallup
poll: half of US pulls head from butt: 50% think WMD were lie
Jafari
submits list of cabinet and 31 ministries to Talibani
Female
MP assassinated in Baghdad; one of 90 elected
Human
Rights Watch: "Abu Ghraib was only the tip of the iceberg"
PALESTINE:
US
will sell 100 Bunker Busters to Israel (but they aren't going
to bomb Iran)
NEOCONS:
Complete 392
cables and memos from Negroponte's "Chron File" of Iran/Contra
crimes
Council on Foreign
Relations wants Iraq split into 5-6 federal states
WORLD:
Lebanon:
last 500 Syrian troops and 200 vehicles leave country
Venezuela: interview
with former CIA agent, Philip Agee, on efforts to oust Chavez
Saudi
Arabia: "ally" arrests 40 Pakistani Christians for praying to
"illegal" god
Chile: judge
Tapia announces retirement; indicted Pinochet, "Operation Condor"
criminals
Darfur:
US State Dept defends estimate of ONLY 60-160,000 deaths
Arctic
ozone layer at lowest level in recorded history
Ecuador:
2.5 million acres of rainforest destroyed by Toxico in search
for oil
Korea:
50% increase in Thyroid Cancer from Chernobyl meltdown 19 years
ago
US:
Latest
corporate welfare for military/industrial complex: oil refineries
on closed bases
SS: the Ferrara
plan: borrow $68 Trillion over 75 years
SS:
Cato Institute plan: piratize all 6.2% payroll deductions, "get
rid of entire system"
PBS
reichwing coup: "systematic effort to sanitize truth; impose
rightwing agenda"
PBS:
latest board members gave $816,000 to GOP; fundraser for Newt
Gingrich
Arizona:
Gov signs ban on junk food sales in schools
TASER:
FBI
will investigate man killed with Taser after 9 shocks in jail
cell
Canada:
cops investigated for using Taser at protest; edited videotape
to remove incident
NY:
family challenges "acute exhaustive mania" finding in Taser
death after 9 shocks
Texas:
cop suspended for 16 days for illegal entry and search, in Taser
death
COLORADO:
Grossman
still 3 votes short in Senate debate today on smoking protections
for workers
Chair
of Young Republicons involved in throwing out 3 from bush SS
rally
7
states fail to agree on Colorado River, so Gale Norton will
decide
Senate
committee takes away Super Slab developer's right to eminent
domain
3rd
endangered species filing on Roan Plateau for indigenous flower
Xcel
proposed buying 500 megawatts of wind power; only bought 129
mw
Activists
confront Newmont Mining stockholders at Denver meeting
Springs
council votes to move 2 fire stations
Gazette
letters on Fucus, taliban, filibuster, separation of church
and state
ELECTIONS:
Family
Research Council prez, Perkins, paid KKK's David Duke $82,000
for mailing list
DeLay's
staff got illegal gifts: tickets, sports equipment, Abramoff's
frequent flyer miles
Togo:
2 protesters killed after dictator's son "elected"
ACTIVISM:
Call
Hagel and Nelson to urge them to stop "Nuclear Option" on filibuster
England:
GreenPeace installs solar panels on roof of Deputy PM's home
"Homo No
Mo" one man show at Gill Foundation Friday, April 29, 7PM
"Mothering
Mother earth" May 7 Acacia Park, 11AM
New Digest 1 week archive
on ThomasMc.com
HUMOR:
"George and Abdullah,
sitting in a tree..."
Bush abandons
stance on gay marriage; announces plans to marry Prince Abdullah
Bush
diary: WMD was April Fools joke
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Iraq
Survey Team finds NO evidence of WMD shipped to Syria; lie #12,
346
Army
inquiry clears Negroponte's deaths squads that murdered Italian
agent
PALESTINE:
NY Times reported
700% more stories on Israeli kids when Palestinians died 2,200%
more
Amnesty
calls on Israel to stop poisoning Palestinian fields with chemicals
Prez
Abbas calls on Hamas to give up weapons after elections
NEOCONS:
MicroSoft
paying "christian" Coalition's Ralf Reed $20,000/month retainer
Former ambassador
to Morocco: "if policy is to destroy UN, Bolton is our man"
WORLD:
Colombia:
spraying coca with herbicides is destroying the jungle and indigenous
peoples
Colombia:
Amnesty blasts legislation that will give impunity to reichwing
death squads
Belarus: Lukashenko
meets with Putin to build military alliance for defense against
Condi
Belarus
Amnesty report: "Hell-bent for shutting down any peaceful opposition"
Tajikistan:
candidate announces run for prez, then arrested
Simmons calls
for independent analysis of world's oil; Saudi may have peaked
in 1981
Chile:
judge frees $2.7 million in Pinochet money for back taxes
Chile:
CitiBank still helping launder Pinochet money for family
Darfur: Sudan
expects newly discovered oil in Darfur to produce 500,000 barrels/day
Darfur:
Janjaweed burning abandoned villages to keep inhabitants from
returning
US:
Hundreds
of cops on payroll of weapons manufacturers; not just Taser
Kentucky:
507 busted at cock fights fined ONLY $195.50; PETA, Humane Soc.
want felony
SS: average wage
earner, retiring in 2075 would have 28% reduction under price
indexing
COLORADO:
Longmont
staffer gets court hearing on Churchill support and subsequent
harassment
SB
28 passes Senate on party lines; bans discrimination against gays
at work
MCI's Skytel
will set up wireless broadband in Spring's neighborhoods in pilot
project
Rigas family
to pay $1.5 Billion for Adelphia fraud and bankruptcy
ELECTIONS:
Congress
has taken $16 million in privately financed trips in last 5 years
Congress rushing
to amend campaign records in fear of DeLay ethics violations
Bush/Saudis
vow to ignore 9/11, pump mo' oil, help bush's numbers, make Saudis
richer
London
Times poll: 86% don't want to follow bush into unilateral war
with Iran
Labour
MP defects to Lib Dems over Blairs "lies" about Iraq
Togo:
opposition calls for resistance after rigged "election"
Vincente Fox shows
george and jeb how it's done: arrests leading opponent
ACTIVISM:
NARAL
Petition to save filibuster from Frist
Email PM
Martin of Canada to help war resisters by amending the immigration
laws
Petition
to oppose SB 271 that restricts 527s from the political process
Indonesia Relief.org
for Tsunami relief
100s of thousands
march in Armenia to remember the 1.5 million of the Turkish genocide
Profile
on Azerbaijan; maps of oil fields, pipeline routes, NGO involvement
HUMOR:
Reverend Frist
throws out separation of church and state; replacement: Sturch
Vice
Pope, Tito, secure in undisclosed location
Movie
Poster: "Dawn of the Dolts"
