Monday's News
IRAQ:
Army
Captains and Lieutenants left service at 8.7% rate in 2004;
highest since 2001
Oil-for-food
$ to Bayoil, then Enron, then bush's campaign and Cheney's
energy policy
US
plans to build 4 giant permanent bases, turn over 100 smaller
bases to Iraqis
GI
Rights Hotline got 30,000 calls last year; up 50% since
9/11
Head of
35,000 member Newspaper Guild: US troops "target and kill
journalists"
AFGHANISTAN:
MP
gets 3 months for beating POW to death, lying to investigators
UK
will send 5,500 troops to stop civil war and "complete strategic
failure"
Tillman's
father: Army "lies" about death used for propaganda, recruitment,
nationalism
US
bombs across the border into Waziristan; kills 5 civilians
PALESTINE:
Election
commission says elections must be postponed; hurts Hamas,
helps Fatah
Israeli
court rules Vanunu did not violate foreign travel ban; it's
all Palestine
NEOCONS:
Bamford
interview on NSA, CIA, ISI, Tenet, Perle, Feith, Wurmser,
neocons
Negroponte
putsch elevates Graham as head of clandestine service of
super spies
9/11:
Castro:
FBI not only Posada intel in Havana, but warning on flight
training in Florida
WORLD:
Russia:
Energy Sec'y, Bodman, will discuss Yukos, foreign investors,
pipeline with Putin
Russia:
Junior send dad to smooth the way with Putin on taking Caspian
oil
UZBEKISTAN:
Defense
lawyer: families of jailed 23 organized jail break, gave
prisoners weapons
EU
will not stop or reduce $12.6 million in aide to Karimov
Enron's
"Kenny Boy" Lay memo to Gov bush on meeting with Uzbek ambassador
on gas
Kyrgystan:
"we don't consider them refugees"; ONLY 10 days political
asylum
Kyrgystan:
4,500 turned away at the border; refugees appeal to Annan
and UN
US:
Bill
would remove S Court jurisdiction over suits against "God
as sovereign source of law"
Unocal
net earnings up 69% in Q1 from pipelines in Azerbaijan,
Gulf of Mexico, Bangladesh
NAACP
wants probe of cop using Taser 5 times on handcuffed/manacled
inmate who died
"No
Child Left Un-recruited" on how NCLB provision brought recruiters
to schools
Maryland:
Gov vetoes bill to allow "life partners", gay or straight,
to make medical decisions
Maryland:
Gov vetoes min wage increase after bill to make Wal-Mart
spend 8% on healthcare
S
Court will hear NH parental notification case on abortion;
struck down by appellate
WH
dances to spin report on plans to weaponize space
Tucson diocese
auctions 83 properties to pay for $3.2 million in pedophile
settlement
JUDICIAL FILIBUSTER:
Cheney will
be on the floor of the Senate, as president, on Tuesday
Warner,
Collins, Hagel, Specter, Smith all GOP on fence about filibuster
Dems
need 6 defections from GOP to stop filibuster destruction
COLORADO:
Dobson
hosted by Seattle church: "choosing homosexuality like choosing
murder"
DeGette
will introduce bill to expand embryonic stem cell research
Salazar
voted against 40% cuts in Clean Water State Revolving Fund;
it passed
Recruiter
lie #12,097: cooks, mechanics, supply clerks don't get shot
ACTIVISM:
Tuesday documentary on Andean tribe at downtown library at 5:50pm
Film"
"The Cost of War" May 29; "Just Say No to Dick" Cheney June
1, AFA, 7:30 am
Father,
who lost son, warns Latinos of recruiter's lies on becoming
"green card Marine"
Photos
from Halliburton shareholders protest in Houston
HUMOR:
7,000
saddam look-a-likes march in protest of underwear photos
British
tabloid publishes exclusive photos of Darth Vader in his
underwear
Woman
finds Dick Cheney in a bowl of Wendy's soup; threatens to
sue
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
"Doro"
Bush-Koch; Bayoil; saddam; oil-for-food; $1,294,620 in bribes
(scroll to bottom)
4
days before State of Union, NSC put out a call for more intel;
knew "case was weak"
Closeup examination
of faked Galloway document
AFGHANISTAN:
85,000
Vets have requested medical care from the VA; 25% of Afghan
Vets
UN
renews call for US to open Bagram airbase prison to human
rights investigators
PALESTINE:
Sharon
OKs transfer of deeds to stolen land from Israel to squatters
Militants
flooding into Gaza to fight against withdrawal in August
9/11:
Bush
proposal: FBI can get postal records of those in foreign intel
investigations
2002:
Red Cross on Q'ran: guards scrawled obscenities in, let dog
carry, urinated on
UZBEKISTAN::
Kyrgystan
hands over 84 refugees and 26 Kyrgyz citizens
When prison
was raided, 54 killed, 40 hostages taken; mostly guards
Times details
3 separate massacres
WORLD:
Venezuela:
international oil corps owe $4 Billion in back taxes and royalties
Venezuela:
10, armed with assault rifles, steal government helicopter
Darfur:
Kofi Anna will visit Friday and talk to government
Syria:
10,000 Kurds demonstrate for news on cleric possibly arrested
Ecuador:
$6 Billion trial against Texaco for dumping Billions in oil
waste in Amazon
AZERBAIJAN:
45
arrested for "illegal" rally after permit denied by Mayor;
roundup of journalists
World
Bank funding 16 projects for $365 million; adds 2 and $68
million
Poisoning
suspected in death of deputy of opposition party just after
rally
US:
Illinois:
libraries sign $40,646 contract with U.S. Biometrics Inc.
to scan fingerprints
Kissinger,
Nixon, CIA, Posada, Ricardo, Lugo, Cuban airlines
Monsanto
study showed rats fed GM corn had abnormalities to Kidneys
and immune system
COLORADO:
A look
at the $7.5 million spent by lobbyists in the state
Suit filed
because SS admin doesn't hire married couples even if lesbians
can't marry
Army
recruiting says 2005 up from 2004 in Springs, BUT won't give
numbers
Smaller
water districts want in on 43 mile Southern Delivery System
ACTIVISM:
Tuesday: film on Kogi (Andean tribe) at Penrose Library at 5:50
pm
MoveOn.org
petition; delivered every 3 hours before Tuesday's "nuclear
option"
ACORN petition
to congress to stop piratization of Social Security
ACLU
quiz to see if the FBI has a file on YOU
NH
man announces June 11 action against TSA document requirements
to fly
HUMOR:
Rummy
closes all US military bases to help with the deficit
Photo:
Junior's latest announcement from aircraft carrier
Latest
recruiting T-shirt: "Join the Army! It's like X-Box - only
you die"
Saturday's News
IRAQ:
VA
using 60 year old claims system with no provision for PTSD,
65%: understaffed
Advisor:
"we were squandering the money" for reconstruction just before
handover
AFGHANISTAN:
NY
Times interactive report on murder of 2 POWs at Bagram prison
(flash)
Officers
at Bagram prison transferred there while under investigation
for other murders
Doctor:
altered death certificate show conspiracy; 17 murders at Bagram
PALESTINE:
Leader
of Colombia's reichwing paramilitary, AUC, trained in Tel
Aviv, Israel
NEOCONS:
Posada,
George H.W. Bush, Bay of Pigs, Dealy Plaza, JFK
WORLD:
Uzbekistan:
Karimov rejects UN calls for investigation on phone with Annan
Uzbekistan:
80 of 500 arrested in new protests over arrest of leaders
that took town
Chechnya:
thousands march as Russia acquits soldier who murdered 6 civilians
East
Timor denies reports of deal with Australia on Timor Strait
oil/gas
Azerbaijan:
Rummy's visit April 12 was to establish military bases there
Azerbaijan:
Energy Sec'y, Bodman, goes to Baku for opening of pipeline
next week
Colombia:
$100 million fund set up for oil companies to attract business
US:
New
Swedish docs show CIA's torture jet schedule
TASERS:
Taser
Int. provided bulk of research, analyzed data of "independent"
DofD study
Missouri:
cops tell newspaper Taser use report is secret; 1 cop was
28% of use
Albuquerque
man dies after 3 shots; cops: "definitely on something"
COLORADO:
"Denver
3" have conference call with those thrown out of public events
in 3 other states
CU
football rape victims: Prez Hoffman lied about knowing of
other rapes
Woodland
Park Wal-Mart group turns in signatures to get council vote
on ballot
ELECTIONS:
FEC:
DeLay's ARMPAC lied about $15,523 in funds, and $51,755 in
expediters
WIPP
memo reveals process for infesting bush's SS appearance with
supports
Raygun
Treasury Sec'y calls for impeachment of bush over document
proving lies
JUDGE OWEN:
PFAW
report/analysis on record of judge Owen
Judge
Owen voted against consumers and for corporations and govt
in all of 175 cases
Halliburton
gave thousands to Owen, Gonzales, Hecht; got ruling against
framed man (PDF)
Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights letter in opposition to Owen nomination
ACTIVISM:
Film on Andean tribe, Kogi, Tuesday, May 24, Penrose Library,
5:50PM
Comment to
Dems on Howard Dean's appearance on Meet the Press Sunday,
9am
"The
Cost of War" film sunday, May 29, 4PM; Chili dinner fundraiser
after
MoveOn.org
"Citizen Filibuster" action NOON, May 24 across country
Call Salazar and tell him to stop filibuster
rules change: 202-224-5852
15
arrested at Halliburton protest in Houston; 7 in business
suits snuck in
HUMOR:
Poster:
Senator Rick Santorum defines "Golden Rule"
Bill
of Rights updated by Bush White House
Bush
unveils his design for the World Trade Center
Friday's News
IRAQ:
GAO
2003: Pentagram is missing $1 Trillion, 56 planes, 32 tanks,
36 Javelin missiles
22%
of wounds are brain traumas; 270 in first year treated by just
2 doctors
Recruiter
lie #12,012: "you have more chance of dying in the US", than
Iraq
AFGHANISTAN:
Army
report details 2 POWs tortured to death in 2002 at Bagram prison
Journalist
murdered who angered conservatives and left job in March
Rushing
to reincorporate the taliban before parliamentary elections
in September
PALESTINE:
Israeli comptroller:
11 of 39 hospitals doing illegal medical research without consent
NEOCONS:
Bolton
letter: "urged the immediate replacement" of Armstrong, so LIED
under oath
Armed
Services battles Negroponte for control of Pentagram's intel
Interim
head of Counterterror Center fired as Negroponte putsch continues
9/11:
Red
Cross reported Q'ran desecrations to Pentagram in 2002 and 2003
WORLD:
Uzbekistan:
2 human rights groups say 1,000 possibly murdered by dictator
Uzbekistan:
fear of torture for 81 "arrested" for belonging to illegal mosque
Colombia:
fighting on Ecuador border kills 13 cops and 16 militia
Colombia:
1,100 refugees run from fighting in 7 villages near Panama
Editor of
BMJ: medical journals are "extension of marketing arm of pharmaceuticals"
Azerbaijan:
head of democratic party 2nd to be murdered as 29 "arrested"
in oppression
Belarus
and Poland throw out diplomats over helping US NGOs plan regime
change
East Timor:
UN peacekeepers leave on 3rd anniversary of independence
Amazon
deforestation up 6% to 10,088 sq miles in 2004; second worst
on record
China:
Even reichwing Rand Corp says Pentagram lied about military
spending by 71%
US:
U
of C Scientists blast Pentagram "emotional attachment to putting
weapons in space"
Greg
Palast gives NewsWeek (Wash Post) award for "Yellow Streak for
Craven Cowardice"
New Mexico
man critical after Taser shot for "freaking out"
California
Taser death may go to DA; man shot in jail for suspicion of
being high
NH Bishop
urges parishioners to stop legislature from passing "morning
after" pill bill
NRDC
files suit against EPA for Mercury delisting and "cap and trade"
rules
Florida:
ACLU says Brevard sheriff spying on antiwar and liberal activists
(duh)
STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Stem
Cell bill in house developing; using donated fertility clinic
cells
Stem
Cell bill by Castle has 201 sponsors; 218 needed to pass; DeLay
"adamantly opposed"
Orrin
Hatch FOR using 400,000 frozen eggs in fertility clinics for
"world changing science"
COLORADO:
Leahy
accuses Dobson of "religious McCarthyism" after "he hates god's
people"
Spring's
coal power plant's Mercury emissions up 25% in 2003
Owens
has vetoed 11 bills out of 225 passed by legislature; pattern
is obvious
SmokeBrush
will hang Palmer student's banned paintings of nude friend
Allard
will join Hatch in legislation to produce oil shale with Shell
Oil
Cotter
claims Uranium exposure was fault of worker for not rinsing
his mouth out
Letter
by Tammy Wuerth on "irritating bug; S.O.B.": D-11 board member
Christen
ELECTIONS:
New
docs prove CIA knew of Posada/Bosch plot of bomb Cuban airliner
1/3
of faculty, 800 students sign protest letter on bush's commencement
at Christian school
NUCLEAR OPTION:
Chart
demonstrating the truth about judicial nominees and rates of
confirmation
Senator
Hatch's "Blue Slip" hypocrisy: another change for executive
branch domination
Judge
Owens hometown paper: "all too willing to bend the law to fit
her views"
ACTIVISM:
Tuesday, May 24, free film on Andes (Kogi) tribe and environmental
destruction
List
of 383 cities in 43 states with resolutions against Patriot
Act
List
of "100 Most Sustainable Companies" shows problems with "green"
investing
Petition
House and Senate to stop all funding for nuclear weapons
Tent State.com
MoveOn.org
ad "The Revenge of the FRIST" (QT) and action to post flyers
at theaters
Petition
congress to stop reichwing takeover of PBS and CPB by Thomlinson
Petition
Gov Owens to sign HB 1133 for natural gas efficiency
Petition
CEO of furniture corp NOT to buy Peruvian Mahogany
Petition
Gov Owens to sign SB 28 on civil rights for all workers
Arkansas
River cleanup Saturday as part of National River Cleanup Week
MP Galloway's email
address to thank him for telling lying scum of congress to kiss
ass
HUMOR:
Mark Fiore's "Democracy
Translator" for Iraq (Flash)
Photo:
saddam answers the question, "boxers or briefs" in British tabloid
Miss
Poppy's "667, Neighbor of the Beast" sticker
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
BayOil
was largest US supplier of Iraqi oil; used to buy cluster bombs
for Iran war
Connecticut:
senate passes bill 34-0 to establish study of Depleted Uranium
effects
PTSD
reports from Iraq Veterans
Galloway
oil-for-food docs forger: "steamed the papers so they would look
old"
PALESTINE:
DM,
Mofaz, wants 1 defense contractor for Israeli arms business: 10%
of world's arms
IOF
soldier gets 20 months fro killing unarmed Palestinian fixing
rooftop antennae
NEOCONS:
Bolton
pressured CIA's Tenet for months to fire truthful analyst; LIED
to Senate committee
WORLD:
Georgia
grenade, dropped near bush, had fuse malfunction so didn't explode
Air
Force: prez directive will give "free access in space" for weapons
Pakistan:
Musharraf announces he will violate the constitution again and
stay after 2007
Colombia:
AG says diplomatic immunity for 7 US soldiers caught arming militias,
illegal
China
claims WTO violation in US apparel tariffs and pressure to float
currency
Nagorno-Karabakh:
Azerbaijan vows autonomy, but won't give lans back to Armenia
UZBEKISTAN:
Photos
of bush, Powell, Rummy, Feith, Gen Franks, Zinni, Myers with despot,
Karimov
Sec'y
Treasury, Paul O'Neill press conference outlining corporate destabilization,
IMF
Powell
tried to cut off $18 million arms support last summer; Gen Myers
gave $21 million
2001:
"authoritarian state, limited civil rights"; 2002-2003: at least
7 CIA torture flights
Tour
of town for diplomats avoids scene of massacre at school #15
Govt
retakes town, arrests leader trying to establish Islamic Republic
US:
Top 10 lies
about filibuster from Media Matters
World
Economic Forum gender equality report: US is 17th; behind Latvia,
Estonia
Corporations
lobby to overturn section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley accounting regulations
AICPA
summary of Sarbanes-Oxley corporate accounting act of 2002
Senate
Intel Committee meets in secret on reauthorization of Patriot
Act
Senator
Roberts would add subpoenas without judge or grand jury to Patriot
Act
98,000
killed each year by lousy hospitals, doctors, medical care
Man
dies after 2 Taser shocks in jail cell; arrested for suspicion
of being high
Wisconsin:
GOP hires fundiNazis, Alliance Defense Fund to stop equal rights
for gay workers
New
York will adopt California's emissions control regulations
Florida:
judge rules holding 4 school graduations in church illegal, but
so what
California:
sheriff defends Tasing 14 y.o. on the ground; suspected of bicycle
theft
COLORADO:
Owens expected
to sign HB 1262 to use tobacco tax for 90,000 poor healthcare
Fed study
contradicts Owens on litigation caused by equal protection laws
for gays
ACLU
accuses Denver of violating ruling on FBI JTTF "spy files"
FBI/JTTF
spied on activist working against sweatshop apparel
British
Petroleum wants to double coal-bed methane well heads on Ute reservation
82 rounds
of .223 ammo used on 5 Bison on W. Colorado, hit 4 houses and
a car
ELECTIONS:
Florida:
12,000 got FEMA money for nothing (but votes); Miami-Dade winds:
47 MPH
Villaraigosa
elected Mayor of Los Angeles; incumbent unseated after corruption
ACTIVISM:
"Just Say No to Dick" Cheney at AFA commencement, Wednesday,
June 1
Petition
Senate to save filibuster and stop Frist's "nuclear option"
The truth
about junior ROTC in schools from AFSC
Vote
on agenda priorities for MoveOn.org for next 4 years
Call RJR Tobacco
prez; demand no more defense fund for DeLay; 336-741-5500
Judge
orders curfew and electronic tag on protester at NSA/Echelon spy
lab
Email
Laura Bush to stop executions by stoning in Afghanistan
Brazil:
cops attack landless marchers after 150 mile, 17 day march
HUMOR:
DeLay
billboard
Kerry threatens
1 hour filibuster talk in violation of Geneva Convention
Bush Doctrine
in action
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Soldier
that attached wires in fake Abu Ghraib electrocution, given ONLY
6 months
GALLOWAY AT SENATE:
MP
reads reichwing, gonad-challenged hypocrites in congress the riot
act
Video/audio
of Galloway testimony before Coleman and Senate committee (RM, MP3)
Photo of
document faked with Galloway's name; tilted, wrong font, lighter
than rest
Transcript of
Galloway address to Senate
PALESTINE:
Israelis
"hopeful" they've bought Pollard's release from prison for spying
on US
Pollard
will be visited by Israeli ambassador today for first time ever
NEOCONS:
US
support for Karimov from Weekly Standard, National Review, Horowitz,
Schwartz
Indictments
imminent for AIPAC spies; investigation started just before 9/11
9/11:
Former
POW at Gitmo reiterates Q'ran abuse was "done routinely"; caused
hunger strike
3
UK POWs reported Q'ran humiliation in early 2004; FOIA releases
proved allegations
WORLD:
Venezuela:
Chavez launches 24 hour news channel to combat lies by US media
Venezuela:
deal signed to buy 100,000 Kalashnikov AK-103 assault rifles from
Russia
Africa
econ. growth up 5% in 2004 on oil prices; central: 14.4%, east:
6.8%, west: 3.4%
UZBEKISTAN:
Background on
our little fascist, Karimov, and what we get for our $200 million
bribe
Military admits
massacre, claims ONLY 169 murdered, and usual "terrorist" label
British
ambassador complained about Karimov and was fired by lapdog, Blair
600
political/religious prisoners, Karimov family controls industry,
GOLD/oil/gas
Rebels claim
to control town of 20,000 near Kyrg border; will defend
US:
FBI
reverses lie: grenade thrown at bush in Georgia was live and failed
to explode
Posada,
CIA assassin and bomber, tied to Ollie North and Bosch, arrested
in Miami
Junior expected to sign
prez directive for AF to weaponize space
ACLU sues
govt over "Silver Ring Thing" virginity vow hiding Christian conversion
message
12 environmentalgroups
join suit against news Mercury regs of "Clean" Skies Act
Minnesota:
school board bans Tasers except in case of "great bodily harm or
death"
Taser Int.
claims "error" in tax computation for 2004; stock falls again; 70%
in 2 years
Seattle
high school bans military recruiters from school in PTA vote 25-5
Big
Oil fights against raising regs to 8 Billion gallons of Ethanol
blended in by 2012
PETA
reveals video from 11 months undercover at biomedical lab abusing
monkeys
Montana
glacier looses 43 acres in just 8 years; 500 feet in 50 years
CBS cancels
60 Minutes II; claims it's not WH pressure over bush's chickenhawk
BS
COLORADO:
Walcher
signs up as to run again; lost to Salazar in 3rd district
Shareholder
research firms say Qwest board puppets of chair, Notebaert
Cancer/Lung
coalition will focus on local smokefree workplaces
Undergrad
debt up 66% since 1997 to CSU average of $16,312
Judge
sides with constitution that Durango Herald does NOT have to give
cops photos
EPA backs Denver
plan for Ozone: focus on rural oil/gas producers, gas additives
Tancredo
caught on BS: NOT 25% of murderers are illegals; but 47 of 198 fled
to Mexico
COLORADO SPY FILES:
FBI
docs show no threat from harassed antiwar protesters like "Food
Not Bombs"
ACLU
filed FOIA in 6 states for 100 groups; got ONLY 20 pages so far,
but proof of abuse
UFPJ, GreenPeace,
PETA, ACLU file today for records on spying by cops, FBI, JTTF
ELECTIONS:
FEMA
gave $31 million for hurricane relief for no damage; BUT helped
buy 2004 election
Abramoff's
children's "charity" spent $150,225 for him and Bob Ney to golf
in Scotland
Before vote on NA casino,
Ney "won" $34,000 on $100 bet at London casino trip
CREW
requests house ethics investigation of Senator Ney and connection
to Abramoff
ACTIVISM:
Citizens for Responsibility
and Ethics in Washington.org (CREW)
Email Maryland
Gov to make Wal-Mart pay for worker's healthcare
Email
reps to end $48 million in logging subsidies in Tongass National
Forest in Alaska
37
arrested in massacre protest at Uzbek embassy in London
Nuclear
Bunker Buster demonstration video proving they don't work and spread
radiation
2
Kentucky theaters refuse to show latest Jane Fonda (top grossing)
movie
Call Ike Boutwell (theater owner) and demand Jane Fonda movie be
shown: 270-769-1505
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
Flush Gingbaugh reads the Q'ran
NewsWeek
retracts stories on Rummy dancing with Chippendales
Norm
Coleman after first round knockout by Galloway
Tuesday's
News
IRAQ:
30 year
old POW at Camp Bucca dies of "apparent heart attack"; Brooklyn Bridge
on eBay
Senate: Junior
knew of oil-for-food abuses and did nothing; US was 52% of bribes
Galloway
wins £150,000 libel suit against Telegraph on oil-for-food allegations
Galloway's
name on fake docs in wrong type font, at angle, too light; "we forged
the list"
PALESTINE:
Israel
releases 3 planning to fire missile into al-Aqsa mosque; had second
thoughts
Shin
Bet (Israeli FBI) appoints assassin as chief
Back
of the bus: Israel assures Philippines citizens will no longer be
segregated on El Al
NEOCONS:
Photos
of delegates arriving at 2005 Bilderberg meeting to decide fate of
the world
WORLD:
Sudan: CIA
and secret police (Mukahabarat) relationship explains tolerance for
regime
Chile:
Pinochet's banker sued for $6 million transfer personally OK'd by
Riggs Bank owner
Venezuela:
reichwing Center for Security Policy calls for "regime change" against
Chavez
Ukraine: PM:
gas shortage from Russian boycott will be relieved from Belarus and
Baltics
Meet the Press transcript
of Egyptian PM admitting US sent 60-70 for torture
Armenia:
Turkey still refuses to acknowledge genocide of 1915 on 90th anniversary
UZBEKISTAN:
900
in Kyrg refugee camps
Witness: "truckload
of Vodka was delivered" to troops before shooting
1,500
arrested after massacre; UNHRC: 18 wounded in refugee camp in Kyrgystan
Opposition
party claims list of 745 murdered by troops, still counting
Original
23 were jailed for belonging to banned Islamic org, Akramiya
US:
Nashville:
councilperson submits resolution to ban Taser use
Kentucky: Toyota will
build new gas/electric Camry hybrid in state
Florida:
cop suspended for Tasing 13 y.o. girl handcuffed in back of caged
patrol car
SS "price indexing"
would pay 2055 retiree making $37,000 $7,510; current SS: $22,100
Missouri:
Medicaid plan will remove 100,000 poor, disabled, elderly (text, audio,
video)
1,300
mile power line to California from Nevada, Utah, Wyoming called "colonialism"
Senate
close to passing $295 Billion Highway Bill over junior's veto threat
1,500,000
homeless children in US; 42% under 5; 50% for more than 6 months
MEDIA REFORM:
Bill
Mowers speech on PBS/CPB reichwing takeover (video-QT)
Bill
Moyers speech (audio only MP3)
Bill Moyers
speech transcript
SOCIAL SECURITY:
United Airline
pension default of $9.8 Billion is largest, BUT only the latest of
192
Pension
guarantor, PBGC, has $30 Billion deficit; pension plans down 50% in
20 years
Less
than 50% of 132 million workers have pension plan; savings less than
1%
COLORADO:
Rally
at Denver city hall in support of tent city for homeless
S
Court: cops bungled arrest of rapist/kidnapper by not giving Miranda
rights
AFA rape counselor
defends therapist/client privilege in Texas tomorrow
California congressperson
weighs in on AFA religious bigotry
ELECTIONS:
Reid:
negotiations with Frist are over; that blinding flash is "nuclear
option"
Karl
Rove personally guided career of judge Owens; passed up Texas S Court
PFAW
ad in Alaska to get Murkowski to support filibuster (QT)
Kuwait:
parliament passes women's suffrage with proviso that Islamic law be
followed
Kuwait women's
suffrage: 2005; Azerbaijan: 1921; Palestine: 1946; NZ: 1893; US: 1920
ACTIVISM:
Sign
to be citizen sponsor of HR 551 to stop recruiter's access to students
through NCLB
Leave My Child Alone.org
Nationwide
conference call with Harry Reid on "nuclear option" on filibuster
May 18
KFC/Ringling Bros action
against PETA fails: keeps 501(c) status after 20 month audit
Bolivia:
thousands protest in La Paz to nationalize oil/gas industry
American Lung
Association petition to support smokefree workplaces nationwide
Email Gov Owens to support
SB 198 and SB 206 for paper trail on all eVote machines
Howard Zinn:
"The Scourge of Nationalism"
Petition
Thomlinson to keep his hands off PBS and CPB
GreenPeace
charged under Danish terrorism law for hanging anti GM food banner
HUMOR:
Runaway bride
strays into WH airspace; terror alert raised to RED, media on high
alert
Jeb renamed
"Country Roads" and appointed as Transportation Secretary (song lyrics)
Movie
Poster: "Lady Frankenstein" starring Ann "Pudenda Shenanigans" Coulter
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
