Monday's News
IRAQ:
One of
Blair's conditions for invasion, at Crawford ranch: "shape public opinion"
Desperate
recruiters give away computer game: "America's Army"; (RM)
Custer
Battles COO, banned from govt contracts after theft of millions, secretly
working for govt
Official
US death toll reaches 1,700 as real toll is at least 1,775 and probably
much higher
All 7 leaked
"Downing St Memos" and related docs, in PDF form
PALESTINE:
US
stops fighter plane project over secret Harpy drone sales to China
NEOCONS:
2002 lunch
with Wolfie transcript: "wrongfoot saddam on inspectors"
Documentary
with Noam Chomsky on neocon fear-based agenda in US (RM)
9/11:
Excerpts
from interrogation log from Gitmo
S
Court denies Padilla's request for ruling on 3 years solitary confinement
FEMA was in
place night before attack; Pier 92 used by Giuliani cause FEMA there
on 10th
WORLD:
World
Bank admits "consulting" costs 40% of global aid budgets,; $20 Billion
Uzbekistan:
Amnesty calls for Sweden to remove military base; pressure Karimov on
killings
Bolivia:
new Prez meets with protest leaders; wants time to work on solution
Venezuela:
Chavez threatens to use ICC for UN and OAS charter violations over Posada
Germany:
court orders Monsanto secret report on GM foods released to GreenPeace
Global
Warming: US is 4% of population; 25% of CO2, 16% of world's oil into
US cars
US:
S
Court refuses to hear media corp's case against constitutionality of
ownership regs
USAID
wastes 95% of $90 million budget on overhead; ONLY 5% on fight against
malaria
Illinois pharmacist sues
over order to sell "morning after pill"
Indiana:
30 gallons of VX Nerve Gas spills from 250,000 gallons in storage
Cooney
fired over changing climate facts in WH docs
COLORADO:
Tancredo
threatens to run for Prez: "They're coming here to kill you and my grandchildren"
Prosecutors
focus on Qwest CEO, Nacchio's insider trading for $49 million profit
Even
Weyerhaeuser says state's 3-10% recycle rate pathetic; trash corps to
blame
125
corporations in Uranium conference in Grand Junction after prices reach
$30/lb
Dept
of Public Health/Environment urging towns to take Ross' nuclear waste
ELECTIONS:
Frist
campaign took out $1.44 million loan at $10,000/month interest, to pay
HIM back
Guvornator
reverses; will return $10,000 donation from Ohio's "CoinGate" Noe
Chamber
of Commerce CEO threatens congress to stop contributions if CAFTA opposed
Green Party
calls for impeachment
Italy:
Vatican boycott succeeds in 20% turnout failure for referendum on assisted
fertility
Iran:
students protest at Teheran U after 89 female candidates banned from
elections
Kuwait
appoints first female cabinet minister after agreeing to let women run/vote
in 2007
ACTIVISM:
Free
Film: "The Corporation", with Noam Chomsky; Tuesday, June 14, downtown
library
Petition congress to repeal section 215 of Patriot Act on searches of library records
Petition Tony Blair to end world hunger before the G8
summit
British
single woman's protest stops photo op for Colin
Powell in England
Turkey:
environmentalists in 1,000 boats stop Bosporus
Straits traffic for an hour
England:
protesters march against war profiteer,
EDO MBM Technology
Email address lists for all House, Senate, newspapers,
TV/radio networks, guvernors
HUMOR:
Cartoon: bush and blair
dance to same tune from their "Lie Pod"
Bush defends his
respect for Q'ran as he wipes his ass with the Constitution
"F Dubya" license
plate for sale on eBay, removed
Sunday's News
IRAQ:
Blair
agreed to invasion at Crawford ranch; doc: "create
the conditions" to make it legal
Conyers
will hold committee hearing on "Downing St Memo"
on Thursday, 16th
Army
opens criminal investigation into "fragging" and base that killed 2 US
Army,
in desperation, offers $40,000 recruiting
bonuses; $50,000 for mortgages
GAO finds
another $3.5 Billion missing to add to $1.4
Trillion the Pentagram has lost
Downing
St Memo: "little thought" to "political conditions; aftermath and how
to shape it"
Barzani's
son chosen as Prez of Iraqi Kurdistan
Calendar of 1,775 US killed
as "official" death toll reaches 1,700
PALESTINE:
Veterans
of USS Liberty attack pressure Pentagram for full investigation of war
crimes
9/11:
Bush
says 400 charged for "terrorism"; inJustice Dept says only 39 convicted
CIA blocked memo to FBI 20 months before attack telling
that 2 highjackers were in US
Flashback:
no Arabs found in flight 77 (Pentagon) BUT 3 names
not listed by Am Airlines
WORLD:
Kazakhstan:
Halliburton in $230 million criminal investigation
over customs violations
Uzbekistan:
600 stand vigil outside house of arrested activist
Venezuela:
Posada extradition docs prove he bombed Cuban airliner for CIA
Bolivia: activists
back off as S Court justice becomes new Prez; calls for early elections
US:
Sensenbrenner
and republicons walk out of Patriot Act hearing;
turns off mics
Video
of Sensenbrenners tantrum to end hearing on Patriot Act and Amnesty report
Ohio: cop uses
Taser on unruly 12 year old on school bus
Ohio: "christian"
taliban's "Ohio Restoration Project" chooses Blackwell as next Guv
inJustice
Dept adds more corporate welfare to tobacco settlement with reduced penalties
Texas:
Guv puts marriage ban on ballot at evangelical school; says gays should
find another state
Florida:
7th man dies in state after Taser shot
Silkwood
investigator called in to probe Los Alamos whistleblower attempted murder
Maryland:
school holds diploma after students wears Native Am bolo tie under gown
COLORADO:
3
GOP vote against Pryor confirmation, BUT Salazar betrays Dems AGAIN and
votes FOR
Gay/Lesbian Victory
Fund in Springs training future candidates on political tactics
DeGette, Udall, Salazar
charge secret service and WH with "coverup" in "Denver 3" case
10th Circuit Court
stop AFA from arresting rape counselor for honoring privacy
Donkey Den owner will change menu, hold violence against
women benefit
Springs
counts Tesla hydro as renewable, so close to Mend 37 goal of 10% by 2010
ELECTIONS:
"Suiciding"
of DOT investigator tied to "CoinGate" through
Saudi, Chinese, Nigerian funds
Obama
takes on under Sec'y State nominee on racists comments about black and
hispanics
2
more "Pioneers", who raised $100,000 for campaign get ambassador nominations
House
subcommittee makes it official: cut ALL federal funding for PBS/CPB in 2 years
Ethiopia: opposition
party under house arrests after govt massacres 26 of their supporters
Lebanon:
voting today in East Bekaa and Mount Lebanon; crucial areas
Iran:
zealots and vigilantes beating reformers as elections nears
Iran: 4 bombs
near govt offices before elections; casualties unknown
ACTIVISM:
Film:
"The Corporation", with Noam Chomsky; Tuesday, June 14, 5:50 pm; discussion;
Petition congress to stop HR 2726 that bans all community broadband
Petition
congress to support "Local Community Radio Act" for low power FM radio
Philippines:
5,000 march for ouster of Arroyo for election
fraud and corruption
HUMOR:
"Downing Street Love Letters",
from Blair to Bush, declassified
Bush
touts Patriot Act as needed to stop crazed celebrities from throwing phones
Landover
Baptist unveils new church plans in exact replica of King Herod's Temple
Friday's News
IRAQ:
CO,
Delgado, speaks out on Geneva Convention violations he witnessed (QT)
saddam's
lawyers have not received indictment or 8 million docs under disclosure
Gulf War Vets
have 40 times more Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
W
talked of invasion in 1999; said daddy "wasted" political capital by leaving
saddam
SAIC
wins $100 million PsyOps budget for propaganda news, TV, websites
PALESTINE:
Israeli S Court
rules Gaza an WB were seized by war in violation of law, so are NOT Israel
NEOCONS:
Negroponte
visits chair of House ASC to make deal on his control over all spies
Dodd/Biden
ask Rockefeller/Roberts to get names in Bolton NSA intercepts
Liedtke,
who provided half the money for Watergate slush fund was bush sr. partner
CIA
doc declassified proves Posada and Orlando Bosch were going to bomb Cuban
plane
Another
Downing Street Memo on Wolfie visit in 2002 detailing lies to "justify"
war
9/11:
inJustice
Dept inspector: FBI missed 5 chances to catch 2 highjackers before 9/11
WORLD:
Canada: Ontario
the 7th province to protect workers from tobacco smoke
Germany: 2 health
"experts" paid secretly by tobacco corps for decades
Junior
thanked Exxon for "active involvement" in 2001 defeat of support for Kyoto
Treaty
Kyrgystan
hands over 4 refugees to Uzbekistan in violation of UN and Kyrg law
Darfur:
oil tycoon trades US citizenship for British, buys oil rights for $3 million
Bolivia:
congress appoints puppet in late night session; was hiding at army post
US:
Ohio:
email proves Guv Taft knew about "CoinGate" 7 months ago, then lied
Ohio: former
aid to daddy bush and Quayle wrapped up in "CoinGate"
Study:
providing healthcare for uninsured costs average insured family $922/year
Nevada:
SAEN charges Reno lab as worst in nation; fined $11,400 for 46 animal
abuses
Virginia:
teacher has been teaching creationism in biology class for 15 years; book
taken
US
trade deficit soars 12% to $56.96 Billion, while Canada's surplus up $5.1
Billion
Albuquerque:
cops revised Taser rules to no passive resistance after death of man
Autism
rate for vaccinated kids: 1 in 166; for never vaccinated Amish: 1 in 15,000
COLORADO:
Junior offers "research
sites" of 5,100 acres to oil shale production
Secret
Service still covering up investigation into 3 thrown out of public bush
rally
UCCS tuition rises
20%
"Papiere Bitte"
or no soup at the soup kitchen for homeless
ELECTIONS:
GOP
bill would raise campaign limit from $101,400 to $1.1 million every 2
years
Senate
confirms Pryor to appeals court; will continue to invalidate environmental
controls
Kerry and
Waxman call for GAO investigation of WH wonk changing environmental report
TOBACCO SETTLEMENT:
Ass.
AG, McCallum, who pressure tobacco settlement change, worked for RJ Reynolds
Prez
of Tobacco Free Kids was pressured to change testimony in trial
Ass. AG, McCallum, was Yale classmate and Skull and Bones devotee
with georgie boy
inJustice Dept
lawyers wanted $57 million for case; Asskroft gave them $1.8 million
Junior
got $167,845 from tobacco corps in 2004 election cycle
DELAY:
House
ethics panel frozen in 5-5 vote on staff; DeLay investigation delayed
Text
of House rules specifically barring Hastings from hiring his own chief
of staff
DeLay
hires another lawyer for ethics case
Hasting's
home town newspaper calls for special prosecutor for DeLay corruption
case
ACTIVISM:
Tenant's
rally and press conference with Mike Merrifield Saturday, 11th, 10:30
am
Petition congress to stop HR 525 and SB 406 to trump state
laws with AHP health plans
Virtual march on Washington to stop global warming
Profiles on
main protest groups in Bolivia involved in
current redistribution struggle
Petition junior to increase National Parks budget by $150 million to hire rangers
"The Corporation", with Noam Chomsky,
Tuesday at Library; 5:50 PM; discussion after
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
"Deep Throat" leaks Downing Street Memo to today's media
Sweet Jesus
I hate Bill O'Reilly.com
Springs' cops
shoot terrorist Ford Escort in raging gun battle; also 5 "antsy" Bison
Thursday's
News
IRAQ:
Report
from French journalist of abuse by US forces in Fallujah (MP3)
16 mercenaries arrested for
shooting spree in Fallujah
Army
divorce rate rises 78% in 2004 from 2003 figures; 350% from 2000
Talibani
adds 25 Sunni seats to 55 seat constitutional committee
AFGHANISTAN:
11,000
have deserted Afghan army after training for US/UK
PALESTINE:
Abbas
calls for reopening Gaza airport and safe passage to West Bank
Israel's
Supreme Court rules Gaza withdrawal plan is legal
Trojan
Horse investigation turns to Dimona nuke plant hack of heavy water producers
NEOCONS:
SPLC report
on how reichwing "christian" taliban use homophobia for fundraising
9/11:
German
appeals court upholds acquittal of "Hamburg Cell" Moroccan
WORLD:
Azerbaijan oil minister:
pipeline will raise exports from 15.5 million tonnes to 50 million
Africa: Bush
rejects doubling aid; agrees to cancel debt of 27 nations, offers crumbs
Taiwan:
lawmaker claims CIA evidence that Prez Chen set up assassination of opponent
Denmark:
will not stop CIA torture flights from using airspace; 16 since 2001
Uzbekistan:
DM no show at NATO meeting; Russia rejects investigation into massacre
Uzbekistan:
HRW details 16 arrests, beatings, abuses aimed at right's activists
Ethiopia: 22 protesters
slaughtered for demonstrating against corrupt "election"
Bolivia:
indigenous Guarani take over 7 oil fields owned by BP and Repsol
Aceh: Indonesia
rejects cease fire in war of independence
Iran:
opens Natanz underground nuke facility to IAEA for inspection
US:
Senate
committee OKs FBI subpoena of records without judge of grand jury
8
Dems demand investigation into last minute tobacco deal of 92% reduction
in fine
Cooney,
who edited global warming report, worked for American Petroleum Institute
Roche,
former AF sec'y, Northrop Grumman exec, fired by Rummy, on board of Orbital
Sci
DOT rules against
more secret shipments of Depleted Uranium by DofD
Wisconsin:
cops hate new Taser rules: no runners, elderly, kids; won't "change anything"
COLORADO:
"christian"
college forces out professor after editorial against Dobson's SpongeBob
crap
Owens signs bill to
require paper trail by 2010 on all ballots
Foreclosures
up 145% in state
Denver
water use drops by 24%
Owens
forms roadless panel of puppets to clear cut the trees and pave the entire
state
ELECTIONS:
Grover
Norquist was paid $50,000 by casinos for private audience with king george
II
Interior
Dept: bush paid Florida family $120 million for land after $121,000 in contributions
Bill passes
committee to stop bush from banning importation of cheaper pharmaceuticals
Senate
confirms reichwing activist, Justice Brown to DC appeals court
NC:
GOP must repay illegal $100,000 corps contribution; pay $10,000 fine
ACTIVISM:
Tenant's
rights action, Merrifield press conference, Saturday, June 11, 10:30 am
Petition Senate to stop tobacco
settlement of ONLY 8% of original fine
Petition Reps to stop HR 1316 to allow unlimited campaign
donations
SAEN
files complaint with Dept of Ag against U of South Florida for primate lab deaths
Boycott the Donkey Den.org actions: email mayor, council person, papers
HUMOR:
Howard Dean calls republicons
"fat and ugly too"
WH changes
global warming report to: "farting is the only to environment"
Deacon
Fred on that "perverted little cartoon character" SpongeBob SquarePants
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Lapdog's
profit motive: 90% of conventional arms to Iraq in 2004, from England
Spain: judge
wants to question 3 US soldiers that killed journalist at Palestine Hotel
PALESTINE:
Israel
investigation: housing ministry gave £9 million for 82 illegal
squats
NEOCONS:
Bolton
vote: Dodd spoke to Negroponte, who spoke to "higher authorities": no NSA
docs
9/11:
Flashback: Pakistani
diplomat: US was planning Afghan attack before 9/11
WORLD:
Bolivia:
prez Mesa resigns again; congress will probably accept
Ethiopia: 22 protesters
shot dead for protesting sham "election"
Australia: mayor
gets written assurance US won't use Depleted Uranium in war games
Venezuela:
Colombia claims ownership of 5 missile guidance parts going to Israel for
work
Lithuania:
NATO ties it all together in war games with Georgia and Azerbaijani troops
Darfur:
AU says militia infighting killed 11, wounded 17 in village
Chile:
court strips Pinochet of prez immunity in tax evasion segment of trial
Kyoto: "(bush)
rejected Kyoto, in part, based on input from you": Exxon lobbying group
UN: 3 million
children in Africa will die from failure to stop infant mortality rate
UZBEKISTAN:
Reporter for IWPR
arrested, sentenced for "hooliganism" after he's attacked on street
HRW calls for international
investigation; cease EU deal if refused; charges coverup
Peace
Corps pulls out after 52 denied having visa renewed
467
seeking asylum, moved from refugee camp at Kyrg border to interior camp
US:
Pentagram
comptroller on Boeing tanker deal: "we didn't need those aircraft"; "bailout"
State's raise
property taxes average of 21% to pay for NCLB and fed tax cuts
New law:
airlines have to report animal deaths; SPCA says 20,000/year die
Nevada: Man dies
after 2 Taser shots in Las Vegas
Georgia:
SCLC calls for national protests after DA reuses investigation into Taser
death
9 French fighter
planes, in fuel emergency, denied landing rights at AF base
Los
Alamos whistleblower, beaten at bar, was called and told to meet someone at
bar
U of
Michigan study: US leads world in mental/emotional illness; 46% with clinical
signs
Army
misses May recruiting goal by 37.4%, or 25% after it lowers recruiting goal
COLORADO:
Interview
with Owens on unprecedented 48 bills he's vetoed so far
State is 9th to deregulate
Qwest; price for lousy service going up in Springs and Denver
AFA
doesn't back down on rape therapist's files; judge schedules hearing for 3
PM today
Cops kill
Cougar after it refuses to leave bushes where it was hiding
D-11 board meeting tonight
will focus on record's privacy after attack on Karen Teja
ELECTIONS:
DeLay,
Abramoff, Karl rove, Norquist, Scanlon, and tribal casinos (scans of docs)
Bush
aide, Cooney, changed global warming evidence from scientists
Prez Carter
calls on bush to shut down Gitmo torture emporium and war crimes scene
Text
of bush/blair press conference; Downing St memo, global warming, African aid
DOWNING STREET MEMO:
Kennedy
on Downing Street Memo: "unjustified war; linked to 2002 elections";
Rep Conyers on
Downing Street Memo: "deliberate deception"
Some
members of the media prove they did hear of Downing St Memo at press conference
COINGATE:
$12-13
million missing; manage by chair of bush NW Ohio re-election team
Ohio
Sec'y of State, Blackwell, returns $3,000 from Noe; "smells of organized crime"
Noe
hired felon, convicted of perjury and money laundering, to manage state's
account
3,500
bottles of wine and 265 Cuban cigars among loot seized in Colorado
ACTIVISM:
Petition Senators to vote against Judge Brown for appeals
court confirmation
Petition Senators to vote against Pryor confirmation to
appeals court
LtoE
form on Owens' veto of 4 environmental bills
Scotland:
12 arrested for action at UK's Trident nuclear Submarine
base
Activists target Denver
"Donkey Den" bar for sexual violence and bestiality
references
Protest posters posted online at
CSAction.org (send yours in)
HUMOR:
Cartoon: 3 comments
on POW torture at Gitmo
Movie Poster
for "Dr. Cyclops" starring Cheney
Deacon Fred
of LBC attacks the "gateway sin" of breastfeeding
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Dem Now interview
on war starting in 2002 with doubling of air raids (MP3, text, RM)
PALESTINE:
197
new squats built in West Bank
Latest
offer they can't NOT refuse: execute traitors and no prisoner release
Israel
violates Lebanese airspace again, with 8 planes, for an hour
NEOCONS:
Senator
Dodd offers Negroponte deal: tell if names are NOT in Bolton's NSA intercepts
History:
how Hitler fought the Munich Post with lawsuits, propaganda, media control
Collection of quotes from "christian"
taliban in the US
9/11:
Amnesty calls for
closing Gitmo and prosecuting war criminals, bush, Rummy, Cheney
Homeland Suckyourity
groups antiwar, human rights, and labor activists with "terrorists"
WORLD:
Venezuela
seizes Lufthansa shipment of 5 F-16 missiles from Colombia to Israel
Uzbekistan:
Red Cross/Crescent still has no access to injured and arrested after 3 weeks
Uzbekistan: Complete Human
Rights Watch report on Karimov's massacre
Darfur:
all parties will attend peace talks on the 10th of June
Darfur:
Sudan rejects ICC investigation of war crimes and Genocide
Syria:
VP will resign after 10 years
US
is 47% of world's $1,035 Trillion in war spending in 2004; up 6% to 2.6% of
GDP
History:
Kennedy was working through back channels in 1962 to stop US in Vietnam
US:
Alaska:
govt's public input closes July 26 on natural gas pipeline loan guarantees
Closing
arguments start today in RICO case against tobacco corporations
Prudhoe Bay output has fallen
75% since Peak Oil in 1987
inJustice
Dept opens investigation into Taser death of NY man in 2004
House
bill would give CIA control of all HumInt (Pentagram and FBI) overseas
New Mexico:
agreement to limit Uranium enrichment storage submitted to NRC
Harvard
study of big tobacco: "slim" and "light" cigarettes marketed specifically to
women
Baltimore
will join 12 states in demanding more Mercury pollution controls from power
Texas: boy faces
life in prison, under fetal law, for helping girlfriend induce miscarriage
GM
will layoff 25,000 after loosing $1.6 Billion in Q1
Citigroup
says UPS lost personal data for 3.9 million people
Harvard study
of 12,000 children: 3 servings of milk per day increases obesity 35%
Michigan: Science
Teachers Assoc: "intelligent design" is theory and won't be taught
Los Alamos whistleblower
beaten badly in attack before his testimony before congress
COLORADO:
Owens
vetoes SB 203 so private corps can use eminent domain to take land for toll
road
100
rare coins seized in raid connected to Ohio bush campaign and Noe "CoinGate"
Newmont Mining rejects
IMF gold sales to relieve 3rd world debt
Environment coalition slams
Owens for veto of 4 environmental bills
UCCS Biology prof and
668 others using medical marijuana vow to keep on truckin'
ELECTIONS:
Connecticut
Dem's elections reform bill gets bipartisan support
Majority
in Maine, Arizona, and North Carolina taking part in "clean" elections
Washington:
judge upholds Dem Gregoire as Guv by 133 votes; GOP looses 4 more votes
Bush's
consultant for 2000 and 2004 campaigns agrees to help McCain
Energy bill provides
loan guarantees for corp owned by 4 Enron execs for western coal
ACTIVISM:
CPIS
action at Pete Field open house photos posted on CSAction.org
Petition
congress to Shut Down Guantanamo
Petition bush and G8 summit to end global poverty
Ethiopia:
cops arrest 500 at university for protesting sham
"election"
ACLU files
FOIA suit against FBI's JTTF for spying on antiwar activists
at convention
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
Army recruiters lament lack of enlistees
Bolton explains anger management
problems stem from Gamma Ray accident
Deacon Fred, of LBC explains how Noah's sons used flying dinosaurs to gather
animals
