Monday's news
IRAQ:
5,133
officially AWOL from US military; complete figure much higher
PALESTINE:
4,757th
killed day after millions mark 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) forced exile
Hamas
elected in Beit Hanoun in Gaza, work on basics of street lights and
school busses
Palestinian
atlas shows 1,303 villages and 31,000 places bulldozed out of existence
Minister
of health: Israel has buried 80 tons of nuclear waste 300 meters from
Nablus
9/11:
Egypt admits 60-70
taken there; claims no torture; HRW: 150-200; torture is widespread
Sibel
Edmond's latest piece in Information Clearing House: "Gagged, but not
dead"
Anonymous security
field researcher: Newsweek's retraction on Q'ran desecration wrong
Some
of the many reports of Q'ran desecration before Newsweek's spineless
retraction
WORLD:
Chile:
secret police chief says Pinochet ordered atrocities, including Washington
bomb
Venezuela:
Chavez stops paying oil corps reimbursements in dollars
Cuba:
Castro's weekly speech focuses on Posada, Bosch, bush senior and plane
bombing
Bolivia: protests
designed to force 50% tax on oil/gas exports, or nationalization
Canada:
"accepts the medical opinion" that Agent Orange test at base in '66
killing troops
Ecuador:
World Bank secret proviso: state can keep ONLY 10% of windfall from
oil prices
Russia: Yuko's
Khodorkovsky found guilty on 6 counts of fraud
UZBEKISTAN:
200
more killed in another town brings total to 700 killed protesting Karimov
govt
Film
on life under our new bestest friend, Karimov (RM)
Karimov
will allow international observers and journalist into eastern region
Justin
Raimondo's analysis of US and Uzbek relationship
Foreign
ministry claims murder of protesters didn't happen at all
Background
on Karimov's fraud, nepotism, and torture
US:
Moyers
says reichwing coup at CPB/PBS may get him out of retirement
Energy
Information Administration supply and demand report on COAL
Minnesota: priest denies
communion to 100 in rainbow sashes supporting gay rights
American eugenics:
65,000 sterilized against their will and without their knowledge
Jefferson's letter
reiterating the "wall of separation between church and state"
COLORADO:
Family
on campaign payroll: McInnis, Allard, Beauprez, Musgrave, Salazar, Nighthorse
Denver
and Boulder students put school condom distribution on agenda
El Paso County
will discuss $130 million in proposed building Thursday at 2PM
ELECTIONS:
Kuwait:
committee sends women's suffrage to full parliament for vote
ACTIVISM:
FILMS: Afghanistan tonight; Thomas Berry tonight; 3 globalization
films Tuesday
Dr. Gino Strada's
Emergency
Petition georgie
boy to address the Downing Street Memo on "fixing" intel for war
Protests at
Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo after 9 animals die
Kurds
protest in Syria at trial of 3 activists and against 42 year state of
emergency
Millions join "white band"
days July 1 and September 10 to "make poverty history"
Email archdiocese of St.
Paul about denying communion to those wearing rainbow sash
Email swing vote,
Murkowski, to keep filibuster
Email
swing vote, Hagel, to keep filibuster
Email
swing vote, Specter, to keep filibuster
Email swing
vote, Warner, to keep filibuster
Email swing vote,
Sununu, to keep filibuster
HUMOR:
Photo of georgie and
the kids at their Nuremberg war crimes trial in 2006
Bush explains
complicated points of his bike ride and Cessna shootdown protocols
The Mosque Alarm Clock (please
remove shoes before entering website)
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
History
of Bechtel, bin Laden Const, Raygun, Rummy, Saudis, Star Wars, Allen Dulles
Amnesty
report on "Unchecked Executive Power": 10,200 held in Iraq
MI6
and Australian intel "sexed up" WMD report after Dr. Kelly's assassination
70%
if suicidal idiots in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia
PALESTINE:
Ellsberg:
Israel may have 400 nuclear weapons
65 UN resolutions against
Israeli policy since 1955; all vetoed by US
WORLD:
Canada:
US guarded it's secret nuclear weapons cache in Newfoundland in '60s
Ukraine:
Russia has turned off gas pumps for 5 days; controls 80%
Bolivia:
dictator, Mesa, calls off energy meeting after judiciary and legislature
refuse
UZBEKISTAN:
Border with
Tajikistan closed, thousands trapped, death toll may have reached 500
Revolution
spreads to other cities; Putin calls dictator; claims no order to fire
Uzbek
cops got $79 million fro US in 2002; 7 flights of CIA's "torture jet"
in 2004
Former
UK ambassador says I told you so; was fired for criticizing dictator,
Karimov
Dr: 500
bodies laid out in school house, loaded on busses and trucks and removed
Uzbeks
killed by border guards near Kyrgystan
Kyrgystan
has 600 in refugee camp on other side; UNHRC on scene
US:
Luis
Posada Carriles: bombed Cuban airliner, JFK assassination; Venezuelan
intel chief
Dr
Hager will leave FDA in June 30; "christian" taliban sexually abused wife
for 32 years
Southern
Baptist's resolution at convention to investigate schools teaching tolerance
Gulf of
Mexico's "dead zone" from 1.6 million of Nitrogen fertilizer, early and
larger
COLORADO:
Emmet Till statue
in Pueblo repaired again after more racist vandalism
Sugar Beet
growers oppose CAFTA over sugar subsidies and imports
ELECTIONS:
Lapdog, Blair assures Brown
he will step down in 2 years
Ethiopia
votes; referendum on democracy, EPRDF party, market reform for coffee
ACTIVISM:
Films: "Gacaca" (Rwanda) today at 5PM; Afghanistan Monday; Globalization
Tuesday
HUMOR:
Miss
Poppy's "Get a Grip" gift basket for the chronic masturbator in your family
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
50
House members call for AG Gonzales to appoint prosecutor for US war crimes
"Purple Hearts; Back from
Iraq" video (QT)
Obama
amendment to emergence appropriations to pay for wounded Vet's meals passes
Italian
troops role not just humanitarian; also sent to get $300 Billion oil deal
3
days after $82 Billion war funding signed; congress wants $50 Billion more
"Iraq Uncensored"
photo/video project by 7 journalists
PALESTINE:
67
militants hand over weapons to PA; complain about lack, of promised jobs
and housing
NEOCONS:
Boxer
will lift hold on Bolton in exchange for docs WH refuses to provide
FBI
starts to interview journalist on contacts with Larry Franklin/AIPAC
"The Power
of Nightmares" documentary on neocon lies, playing at Cannes Film Festival
9/11:
Saudi
govt joins chorus of "deep indignation" at desecration of Q'ran at Gitmo
US
claims another al-qaeda #3 killed by drone
Pakistan
denies al-qaeda #3 killed with drone
WORLD:
England
also hired Nazis after war; MI6 faked death of SS who murder 100 agents
Chile:
intel officer details 580 murders under Pinochet on behalf of Nixon/Kissinger
East
Timor: talks with Australia not over on $41 Billion in oil/gas in Timor
Straits
Bolivia:
coup leader, Mesa refuses to sign 50% tax on gas in surprise move
Kurdistan:
10,000 Turkish troops deploy, kill 9 resistance
Kurdistan:
Ocalan's ruling threatens EU/Turkey relations
Congo:
UN peacekeeper killed, 5 wounded in ambush
Colombia; ex "justice"
minister arrested for 1989 CIA assassination of prez candidate
Azerbaijan: Rummy's
"Caspian Guard" plan will put US troops on border with Iran
UZBEKISTAN:
Death
toll in revolution ranges from 200-300 as cops murder protesters
Human rights
monitor: 200 murdered by cops to protect dictator, Karimov
Karimov
says 2,000 released from prison; 6,000 head to Kyrgystan border
Karimov
throws out media; given 30 minutes to leave city
Karimov
wants to silence mother of man boiled to death with 6 year prison term
Almatov,
Interior Minister: "we don't care if 200, 300, 400 people die"
DARFUR:
Sudan
will not allow 100 Canadian troops in; will take $170 million
Sudan
sentences 28 of 72 "arrested" for coup attempt to 5-15 years
Sudan:
11 AU peacekeepers held hostage by rebels
US:
Pew Research
on US news sources and shifts in trends
ABC
News: Iraq "simply isn't going to break through" there coverage of tabloid
events
Seattle:
purge begins as 4,100 removed from section 8 rental voucher rolls
DC
Mayor wants to meet with Chertoff on Cessna scare that was all politics
and no threat
GE latest
example of "greenwashing" image while working to violate environmental regs
Rummy's
plan will close 150 military facilities, 33 major bases, 29,005 jobs
Ohio:
another person dies shortly after Taser shock
132 Mayors
reject bush on Kyoto; will implement protocols locally
COLORADO:
Even
Allard wants Army to investigate recruiters lies and corruption
State
is fourth in gains from BRAC base closures, with 4,917
D-11
picks Thomas for super by 4-3 vote
D-11 offers .28% pay
raise to teachers in 3 year contract
ELECTIONS:
Rep Ney (R-Ohio) violated rules
with $2,707 trip to London casino paid for by felon
WH admits
SS plan will cut survivor benefits and disability benefits
Taiwan:
Chen's DPP party wins elections
Czech Republic:
new PM barely wins no confidence vote 101-99
Canada:
Martin calls for confidence vote Thursday, May 19;
ACTIVISM:
Films: Rwanda Sunday, Afghanistan Monday, Baraka today, globalization
Tuesday
Petition
Gov Owens to sign HB 1133 on Natural gas efficiency programs for consumers
Petition Wal-Mart
CEO to stop using Nazi book burning photo in ads against municipal regs
HUMOR:
John
Cleese's "Declaration of Revocation" of independence for US colony
Osama found working at a New
Jersey 7-11 for 2 years by rent-a-cop buying slurpee
Rejected TV pilots
by networks in their search for reichwing religious programs
Friday's News
IRAQ:
Reservist
who wired POW and forced masturbation of naked pile: "this was a joke"
Washington
Post runs bush/blair Iraq memo story 2 weeks late on page 18
"Operation
Matador" continues attempt to get Syrian bull to charge red cape
General
Karpinksi speaks out on Abu Ghraib: reservist and National Guard "disposable"
Jordon
will consider pardon for Chalabi for some of stolen $300 million back
Outgoing
NY Times editor: "lousy job on WMD"; "very bad journalism" (duh)
AFGHANISTAN:
3 more
students murdered at protests over US desecration of Q'ran in Gitmo toilet
PALESTINE:
DM, Mofaz admits
obvious: Gaza exit is to expand occupation of WB and Jerusalem
Israel gets $15,139,178
per day from US; PA gets $232,290/day
Hizb
Allah and Israel trade mortars and air strikes across Lebanese border
US Anglicans consider
divesting in Israel; $3.6 Billion portfolio
NEOCONS:
Bolton
played major roll in Niger "yellow cake" Uranium lie used to justify invasion
Boxer
again out gonads the guys and puts a "hold" on Bolton nomination
WORLD:
Egypt: HRW:
US among states sending islamic militants to Egypt for torture
Darfur:
MEDAIR: outbreaks of Meningitis and Hepatitis E in refugee camps
Mosaic TV world report
Azerbaijan:
dictator brags poverty down to 40%; GDP up 11%, production up 15%
"One
China" policy changed to "Two Shores, One China" in nod to Taiwan
UZBEKISTAN:
9 dead in
protests; state TV control after "arrest" of 23 by dictator
Kyrgystan
closes border with Uzbekistan after situation turns ugly
Protesters
overrun eastern province prison, free 4,000 inmates; dictator arrives
Death
toll estimates reach 50 in storming of prison
US:
A look
at FDA's Dr. Hager that single handedly stopped OTC "Plan B" availability
Substantiated
cases of recruiter's abuses increased 60% in 2004 to 320 cases
Wisconsin
Taser researcher fires advisor paid by Taser for "conflict of interest" (ya
think?)
Nebraska:
district judge throws out state's DOMA; "irrational fear"; does not legalize
Bush
begins former campaign season for CAFTA with Rose Garden photo op
Utah: substitute
biology teacher dissects LIVE dog in science class
House blocks
nuke "bunker buster" bomb funding
34
military bases closed since 1988 on EPA superfund worst toxic dumpsite list
COLORADO:
AFA
fired Lutheran chaplain who complained taliban wanted to "subvert the system"
Former
Denver Dem DA, Ritter, will run for Governor
HRW
assures Owens vetting process in place for discrimination lawsuits, so sign
SB 28
Reservoirs at
89% of capacity; still 20% classified as drought
Fort Cartoon
will gain 4,377 in base closures
Spring's
Woodman Hills residents react to draconian neighborhood covenants
Spring's North Nevada
urban renewal has pros and cons
Inmates file suit
over banning Passover Seder
Skorman: GOP machine
cause for "selection of Vice Mayor" Smalls
ACTIVISM:
MoveOn.org
LtE form, with talking points, on stopping "nuclear option" on filibuster
Petition
Senate to keep filibuster of minority party
Call/email Utah High School
that dissected LIVE dog in biology class; 435-528-7256
RainForest-Alliance.org
HUMOR:
Cheney
reacts to charges he's paid by Halliburton to pimp for military contracts
Cheney
as "Dick Ventura", Halliburton pimp
Leaders
explain what it is bush is compensating for with macho affectations
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
66%
increase in Leukemia and Cancer in southern regions where Depleted Uranium used
US media continues to ignore
memo on "intel and facts being fixed" to rationalize war
Seymour Hersch
on "open civil war" in Iraq (text, audio, video)
Khalizad,
one of signatories of PNAC letter to invade Iraq, named ambassador
84% of
higher Ed "destroyed, damaged, robbed"; 50 Profs killed, in attacks on literati
Testimony
from man in infamous photo, with wires and hood, NOT allowed in torture trial
AFGHANISTAN:
US/Afghan troops
murder 4 protesting US desecration of Q'ran in toilet in Gitmo
PALESTINE:
COHRE
slams US hypocrisy on Palestinian right of return of 4 million refugees
IOF shot teen in
back for refusing to squeal on boys throwing rocks at tanks
NEOCONS:
State Dept: didn't
provide docs on Bolton cause "of little relevance" and "burdensome"
Bolton
paid Freedman $110,000/year for unknown work; won't disclose clients (PDF)
Voinovich will vote against Bolton
for "arrogant bullying"
Chaffee
will roll over and support Bolton
AIPAC's
Rosen, expects indictment as soon as June; trial by January, 2006
9/11:
Detroit prosecutor:
"we should not bring this case"; pressure from WH brought case
WORLD:
12.3 million enslaved
on planet, producing $30 Billion from labor
Saudi Arabia:
book claims they have "dirty bombs" to spoil oil in case of invasion
Guatemala: nun
tells of US personnel, SofA, CIA at torture/rape sessions (RM)
Belarus:
FSB (KGB) claims foreign NGOs are planning regime change
Kurdistan:
European human rights court rules Ocalan's trial was a sham
Italy: impotent
man who kept secret must pay wife for violating "right to sexuality"
US:
Unions may
strike after court allows United Airlines to terminate 4 pension plans
Ag
Dept paid "journalist" $9,375 to promote NRCS in magazine articles
Media Matters analysis
destroys MRC "study" on "liberal bias" in US media
Medical
advisor to new Taser study on payroll of Taser International
Army will suspend
recruitment on May 20 for 1 day training on more effective lying
Redneck pastor in NC
church quits after exiling Democrats
Minnesota bans
writer's talk on family tree book on evolution
2 Senators call
for investigation of CPB and PBS reichwing coup by WH
COLORADO:
Owens
allows NCLB exemption for state, without signature
Progress
Now calls on Beauprez to return DeLay's ARMPAC money
Denver
councilperson will now introduce bill to protect workers from smoke in city
3
thrown out of bush rally, interviewed by Secret Service, with 3 witnesses
AFA
chaplain was fired for complaining about "christian" taliban at college
EPA:
toxic chemical release fell 11% to ONLY 23 million pounds in 2003
Victor gold
mine top polluter; Spring's Nixon power plant #5 with 1.2 million pounds of
crap
D-11 puts off vote on teacher
contract
BLM delays gas leases after
protest by land owners that don't own mineral rights
EPA: 4,000
gallons of oil spilt in Arkansas, not the 200 gallons in original lie
ELECTIONS:
Record highlights
for Judge Owen for which Frist wants to use "nuclear option"
Tom Ridge: WH
was "really aggressive about raising" threat level for political gain
DELAY:
Lawsuit
against major manufacturers using Saipan slave labor
DeLay
killed investigation into Marianas sweatshops to hide his money laundering
DeLay
staff got votes changed leading to $1.6 million Marianas deal for Abramoff
Bush,
AssKroft, Cheney helped keep minimum wage laws from applying to Marianas
ACTIVISM:
Petition EPA NOT to
"blend" sewage with clean water in new regulations
Navy sailor, Paredes,
facing courts martial for antiwar activism, refusing to board ship
1
of protesters who recreated Abu Ghraib naked pyramid for bush, found suicided
HUMOR:
Mark Fiore on PBS take over by
the reichwing (Flash)
Junior's
artwork to be sold to pay for Social Security plan
Miss
Poppy's televangelist's wife "Bad Hair Day" wig
Wednesday's
News
IRAQ:
Defense Contract
Management Agency recommended NOT buying Point Blank vests
Italian
FM: Italy will pull out of Iraq in January or February of 2006
Khalizad
appointed ambassador in largest CIA spy nest in the world: Baghdad
King
of Jordon will pardon Chalabi from 22 year sentence for $300 million embezzlement
Halliburton
gets $72 million Army BONUS for lying, cheating, stealing
French
press reporting al-Zarqawi is dead
AFGHANISTAN:
2 Marines,
8 civilians killed in eastern battle near Iranian border
PALESTINE:
118 Israeli children killed since 2000; 680
Palestinian children killed in same period
Israel's
FM: will reconsider Gaza withdrawal if Hamas wins elections
Media
misdirection ignoring Israel stealing another 8% of West Bank
ABC,
NBC, CBS gave 3-4.4 times more coverage to Israeli deaths than Palestinian
135
deaths in Israeli hospitals from experiments on patients; no consent from kids/elderly
NEOCONS:
Armitage
was so pissed at Bolton on Korea, he delayed testimony on Syria
Senator Lugar
helping hide Bolton's NSA spying on colleagues
Bolton responsible
for getting US out of ABM, Kyoto, ICC, and UN's "zionism is racism"
Justin Raimondo
interview on neocons going from communists to republicons (RM)
WORLD:
Georgia:
grenade thrown at bush podium; doesn't explode
Colombia: history
of US arming of reichwing paramilitaries before 2 US soldiers got caught
Caspian: Russia
blocking Azerbaijani ships from using canal out of Caspian Sea
Balochistan: peace
talks collapse over oil/gas reserves and pipeline corridor
US:
$106 Billion in new tax cuts will
increase the deficit by $168 Billion in 5 years
EPA
puts hold on Lead paint regs to protect children; looks at voluntary controls
Proposals would put housing vouchers
under block grants, give HUD override power
KC:
cops now have to justify Taser use after shooting 66 y.o. women for blowing horn
Canadian
cops get off after using Taser to wake sleeping teen in backseat of car
Get
ready: new nuclear power plant designs likely to be certified in US
NY Times finally reports
on reichwing, Cuban, CIA trained maniac in US; bush equivocates
Declassified
record of CIA trained Cuban reichwing bomber, Posada
Appeals
court strikes down Sierra Club and Judicial Watch lawsuits against Cheney
Spelling may loosen
NCLB rules on Special Eds kids after 142 Illinois schools fail
50 dirtiest power
plants: 14% of power, but 50% of SO2, 42% of Mercury, 40% NOX
Kentucky: Sarin
gas leaks in weapons storage facility
MEDICAID:
NH: bill
would make poor with NO income pay $10 per child per month for Medicaid
Interactive
Medicaid impact calculator; by state and by proposal
Analysis
of all the Medicaid proposals and better ways to support 53 million of poorest
COLORADO:
Legislators
vow smoking ban is NOT dead
Medicaid
cuts in state would be between $101 and $119 million
Interfaith
Alliance: fundinazis attacking Salazar are "gestapo, taliban, reactionary"
Recruiters
drove enlistee to drug store for laxatives so he could loose weight; faked docs
Owens warms up
veto pen for 17-19 vetoes of 100 bills to add to his lousy record
Kramer orders
investigation (whitewash) of slaughter of 5 Bison on W. Colorado
Spring's cops
tell Bruce he can't have meeting without submitting signup sheet to them
King
Soopers will allow transgender woman to wear female clothes after EEOC lawsuit
EnCana
testing biofuels for it's operations
ELECTIONS:
Top 25 recipients of DeLay's
ARMPAC money; Beauprez is #2, Tancredo #17
Milwaukee:
4,500 more ballots than registered voters last November
Senate
passes REAL ID act for unfunded mandate of biometric national ID
Wages
in US fall fastest in 14 years as inflation spiral speeds up to 3.1% in March
Agriculture
Dept is 3rd agency to admit it paid "journalist" to write positive stories
JUDICIAL NOMINEES:
Complete
list of judicial confirmations: 10 pending for bush, 62 pending for Clinton
Hagel
(R-Nebraska) admits GOP didn't give vote for 62 Clinton judicial nominees (duh)
Frist goes
to Moon's paper to announce 5th circuit nominee will get the "nuclear option"
Gonzales praises
judge Owens now, accused her of trying to "judicially amend the statute"
Bush
judge nominee has been practicing law for 4 years without a license in Utah
Hypocrite
Frist, filibustered Clinton's nominee, Paez, in 2000, along with Allard
"Nuclear
option" more about putting in reichwing activist in S Court, than circuit courts
taliban Dobson
and Wildmon of American Family Association, slam Frist for filibuster deal
ACTIVISM:
Email
Senate to stop Bolton nomination Thursday
eBay
auction to benefit Tobacco Free Kids
One plan for
spreading information in US to turn public against the war
Email Gale Norton
to stop oil/gas drilling on Otero Mesa in New Mexico
Florida:
animal rights activists target store selling sick and dying dogs
Petition
representatives to fire DeLay
Pendulum Foundation.com
working for juvenile justice
HUMOR:
List of what it will
take for busheviks to take global warming seriously
Miss
Poppy's "Hell Notes" pocket money for those of us not going anywhere in the rapture
Tuesday's
News
IRAQ:
Birth
defects from Depleted Uranium rose 1,000% in 2001; rises 20% more since 2003
Crawford, Texas newspaper
survey: 19 of 20 don't know what Depleted Uranium is
Pentagram
received 1,700 reports of sexual assaults in 2004
Mossad chief
says WMD may still be found in Iraq
Govt
retakes oath of office and include "democratic federal" phrase omitted
POINT BLANK ARMOR:
Marines
recall 5,277 of 19,000 "bullet proof" vests for not being bullet proof
Point
Blank Armor lost class action suit with police forces over worthless vests in
January
Point
Blank parent corp, DHB, hired Army's top commander, Gen. Ellis, as prez last week
2 lots of Point
Blank body armor were rejected in 2004 by Marine Corp quality control
Point
Blank was charged with 15 violations of labor law, spying on employees, anti-union
Pipefitters
union filed lawsuit about mismanagement and stock price plummet in 2003
PALESTINE:
Israel raids and
closes 2 E Jerusalem precincts for registering voters
NEOCONS:
Negroponte trumps
Goss again with classified memo to CIA station chiefs worldwide
AIPAC spying
probe expands to Israeli "defense" expert
9/11:
Sibel Edmond's case
goes to S Court after loss in Appeals Court
WORLD:
East Timor: Catholic classes
must be part of school curriculum, but parents may opt out
Darfur:
2 main rebel groups agree to ceasefire and peace talks (again)
Caspian
Sea: Richard Perle: "Caspian Guard" will defend states "from threat of Moscow"
Caspian
Sea: BP begins filling pipeline through Georgia to Turkey
US:
Corporate Welfare:
Energy bill gives $3.275 Billion in tax breaks for oil industry (PDF)
NC:
AUSCS starts IRS campaign to take tax exempt status from redneck church
Kentucky:
private industry corps, get $700,000 to give out contracts for pollution
Pro
life extremist, Horsley: "grow up on a farm in Georgia; (his) first girlfriend
is a mule"
Indiana: BP fined
$58,000 for twice the Lead and Cadmium emissions from refinery
E-Trade offers
to buy AmeriTrade for $5.5 billion in giant stock antitrust crime
California
corp looks at Baculite Mesa outside Pueblo, for wind farm
130,000 acres
of Eagle County open to roads, mining, drilling under bush's insanity
COLORADO:
2 Dems
help GOP kill smokefree workplace bill in Senate
Homeless rate in Denver up
18%
Gazette gloats
about betrayal of 2 Democrats on SB 207 to protect workers from smoke
Springs cops slaughter
5 Bison that escaped from slaughter house on W. Colorado
Springs council
OKs firefighter pension plan after finance dept screw up AGAIN
ELECTIONS:
DeLay
killed fact finding trip to Marianas Islands to investigate garment sweatshops
Alabama:
95% of absentee ballots for 1 candidate, 5% for other bring charges of fraud
England:
Labour Party movement to elect Gordon Brown as PM gathers steam
ACTIVISM:
Email Point Blank Armor about 19,000 "bullet
proof" vests that won't stop a bullet
Social Security
animation (Flash) and petition by MoveOn.org
LtE
guide and addresses for Colorado papers on filibuster
Petition
Gov Owens to sign HealthCare Disclosure Act
Petition
congress for strong identity theft protections
Video of Bright
Eyes performance on Leno "When the President Talks to God" (RM)
Petition
Senate to stop weakening of Clean Air Act
Petition
Senators to stop "Nuclear Option" on filibuster
Email Dem Senator, Stephanie
Takis, about vote AGAINST smokefree workplaces
Email Dem Senator, Lois Tochtrop,
about vote AGAINST smokefree workplace bill
HUMOR:
CIA tracks osama from Akbar's
House of Flowers and card: "Mother of all Mother's Days"
Miss
Poppy's "HandzOFF" chewing gum stops masturbation
Monday's News
IRAQ:
Johns Hopkins
study: over 100,000 people have died in invasion, occupation, war (PDF)
Illegality of
the war lawsuit presented to the ICC in the Hague
AG, Gonzales,
plays semantic games with the definition of torture again
CIA
refuses to turn over intel services to Iraqis; docs locked up
CACI gets 50 contracts as "classified
domestic contractor" for $100 million
PALESTINE:
Sharon,
in typical gesture, changes conditions he already agreed to for prisoner release
Sharon confirms
3 week delay in removing squatters from occupied land in Gaza
NEOCONS:
NSA,
Bolton, Hayden, Negroponte and intercepts hidden as "training mission"
Lugar
expects Bolton to pass committee on party line vote
9/11:
Gitmo: US flushed
Q'ran down toilet to torture POWs
WORLD:
Darfur: video clips
from refugee camps (RM)
N
Korea: S Korea counters US scare tactics on nuke experiment
Venezuela:
Chavez says tax evading oil corps must pay up or get out
BBC
refuses to air documentary on Kursk that claims US used MK-48 torpedo to sink
sub
England:
20 ton leak of Plutonium/Uranium shuts nuke reprocessing plant
US:
Energy Dept finds
bush's Energy Bill will increase foreign oil dependence by 82.9%
Alaska:
govt gives unaccredited Christian school, with 37 students, $1 million in 2 years
Material
costs for Pharmaceuticals marked up as much as 569,958%
S
Carolina: pastor in redneck church told congregation not to vote for Kerry in
October
Organic
food sales go from $3.57 Billion in 1997 to $14.5 Billion by end of 2005
Corporate welfare:
pharmaceuticals get tax break from 35% to 5.25%
Any savings on Medicare
pharmaceuticals will be deducted from food stamps
SS: benefits calculator
for bush's "progressive indexing" plan
COLORADO:
Grossman
needs 18 votes to pass smokefree workplace (SB 207) today; has 15
HB
1122 will make it illegal to have open container in front seat
WH
claims exemption from FOIA on identity of fake SS agent who threw out antiwar
folks
Independent
Media Center website still down after hacking by reichwing
Texas
corp wants to drill within 1/2 mile of nuke blast used in stupid 1969 experiment
ELECTIONS:
Bush
recount team from Florida in 2000 still owes Abramoff henchmen $314,000
Mexico: Mayor of
Mexico City will step down to concentrate on beating Fox for prez
ACTIVISM:
May 15 Counting the Cost action nationwide
HUMOR:
Hen's resurrection challenges
"Mike, the Headless Chicken" for miracle status
Miss
Poppy's anti Hate anointing oil will even keep away the Phelps Klan
