Weekend's
News
IRAQ:
World Tribunal on Iraq: audio/video streams and transcripts
World
tribunal on Iraq (WTI): US has killed more people than saddam
More
photos of boys playing soccer killed, RPGs planted, clothes
don't match (caution)
General
Moseley admits secret airwar started 9 months before invasion;
21,736 sorties
VA
admits bush administration is $1 Billion short in healthcare
for Veterans
Original
story on Downing St Memos on Manning meeting with Condi;
with page scans
Exxon,
Halliburton, Shell, BP, and Iraqi oil ministers, meet in
london to carve up oil fields
Noam
Chomsky audio lecture: "Propaganda and War: Iraq ands Beyond"
US
met secretly with resistance in Balad on June 3 and 13;
more meetings planned
Army
National Guard hires temp agency with 700 outlets, Labor
ready, to hire troops
AFGHANISTAN:
Claim
178 taliban killed and 56 captured in 3 days of fighting
PALESTINE:
UN:
world's refugee count falls 4% to 9.2 million; 4.4 million
are Palestinian
Israel
claims to stop arms deal with China under US pressure
IOF
leaves 3 Hebron schools used as military base for 4 years
NEOCONS:
Former
Turkey consul, Edelman, tells PM NOT to run articles by
Robert Fisk, Naomi Klein, Dahr Jamail
Flashback:
L. Patrick Gray thought Felt's motivation was "revenge";
Nixon wanted him fired
Bush
nominates another wolf to watch sheep; EPA cop was lawyer
for Dow, Dupont, BP
9/11:
Italy:
7 of 19 CIA agents spent $42,000 at one 5 star hotel in
3 weeks to kidnap cleric
WORLD:
EU
sets 2011 deadline for banning Mercury exports; exports
1,000 tons/year
Venezuela:
lead in gasoline banned; will buy sugar cane Ethanol from
Brazil
Balochistan:
ill-timed bomb blast on railway line near Iranian border,
doesn't hurt anyone
Balochistan:
3 rockets fired at chief minister's home
Haiti:
activists demand apology from Roger Noriega for attack on
Aristide
Conservative
mag, Economist: US, UK, French housing market, "biggest
bubble in history"
Colombia:
25 killed, 18 missing in worst fighting since Uribe took
office; 3 years
Sudan:
Illinois bans $1 Billion in pension fund investments in
Sudan
Uzbekistan:
Kyrgystan refuses to turn over 103 refugees to Karimov for
torture
US:
Thomlinson
appoints fake news producer, former RNC co-chair, to head
of CPB/PBS/NPR
EPA, CDC:
1 in 6 pregnant women has enough Mercury to threaten fetal
development
Georgia:
widow will file civil suit in Taser death after criminal
court whitewashes murder
Florida:
cop shot drunk 13 year old for "pitching a fit" in hospital;
suspected of loitering
NC:
man sues cops after off duty cop uses Taser for "cussing
my daddy" in rent dispute
California:
tax protesting IRS agent acquitted of charges for saying
taxes are illegal
Iowa
and NC studies details health problems from living near
EPA exempt feedlots
Appeals
court backs bush/EPA on throwing out Clinton pollution upgrade
regs
Nevada:
new canadian law may stop state efforts to get cheaper drugs
for citizens
ENERGY BILL:
Senate
Energy Bill does NOT include ANWR drilling; House bill does
Comparison
of Senate and House versions of Energy Bill
EMINENT DOMAIN:
Connecticut
prepares to reintroduce bill to stop use of Eminent Domain
for private profit
Washington
state constitution forbids Eminent Domain for private economic
development
Virginia
assures residents state law protects property, but others
disagree
COLORADO:
Ralph
Reed knew 3/99 that radio ad funds were from gambling; Dobson
claims ignorance
GILL
Foundation gets 94% increase in funding requests; J&P
responds to changes
Hazelhurst
rebuts Fucus op/ed piece on religious zealotry at AFA
ELECTIONS:
Bulgaria:
socialists lead incumbents with 53% of votes counted, but
disappointing showing
IRANIAN ELECTION:
Reichwing
nationalist Tehran mayor wins runoff with 61.69% of vote
Kurds
join 25 million eligible voters in boycotting elections
Neocons
cheer for nationalist; makes war plans easier than reformist
would have
ACTIVISM:
Petition junior to fire KKKarl Rove
Call House rep to stop funding to Colombia's reichwing paramilitary
Whispering
Campaign: print copies of progressive information
and post in public places
Petition congress for independent inquiry into bush lies about Iraq War
ACORN cleans up Wildflower Park in prep for development
of playground
Part 2 of Hazelhurst debate on AFA zealots on reichwing radio next
Saturday 10:30 am
CAFTA
and KKKarl rove petitions added to CSAction.org
HUMOR:
Cartoon:
After being tortured at Gitmo, Bert and Ernie admit to being
LIBERALS
inJustice
Dept removes Asskroft's $8,000 curtains from breasts of
statues
Prozac
Nation: 50% of reporters suffering from Post Jackson Case
Depression (PJCD)
Friday's News
IRAQ:
WH
warns networks to cover junior's Fort Bragg speech Tuesday
at 6 Pm MDT
US
commander in Iraq says resistance is undiminished (someone
tell Rummy)
Federal
Reserve opened fault on Sunday for $2.4 Billion in $100 bills
just before handoff
Houston
recruiter threatens possible enlistee with arrest for missing
meeting
PALESTINE:
Jane's
report Rummy planning to attack Hizb
Allah, occupy Bekaa, Syria to provoke war
HRW:
Israeli soldiers "getting away with murder": 1,600 innocents,
500 children murdered
POW
blinded by torture in Israeli prison
Israel
will ban annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem
9/11:
US
doctors helping design torture at Gitmo
WORLD:
Italy:
judge orders arrest of 13 CIA agents
for kidnapping, torturing Egyptian cleric
Uzbekistan:
Amnesty calls for Kyrgystan to give 29 people asylum
G8
countries are 84% of world's arms trade and breaking laws
selling to despots/criminals
Kazakhstan:
UK govt gives $10 million loan guarantee to Halliburton for
oil field deal
Iran:
Hans Blix: "many years" before state has enough enriched Uranium
for bomb
Ecuador: prez
refuses to sign immunity for US troops before ICC
India: bans
smoking in films; TV must scroll warning when showing tobacco
use
Sudan: fighting
in east for 2nd day using aerial bombing; several civilians
wounded
Tajikistan:
Russia's capital improvements and re-equiping will officially
be military base
Georgia:
report Russian soldier being held for throwing grenade at
bush
US:
Hastings may quit House ethics chair cause he can't corrupt
committee with his staff
House
passes flag burning amendment to constitutional free speech
286-130
California
Senators urge Junior to block Chinese offer to buy UNOCAL
for $18.5 Billion
Ameritrade
will buy TD Waterhouse for $3.3 Billion in latest investment
antitrust crime
CNN
cancels 16 year old "Capital Gang" for prized demographic:
all women show
Florida:
cop uses Taser on drunk, 4' 9", 90 pound, 13 year old in hospital
EMINENT DOMAIN:
Connecticut:
S Court eminent domain ruling paves way for 'hood to be leveled
for Pfizer lab
Michigan
already protected itself from S Courts unconstitutional ruling
on eminent domain
New
London paper's coverage of decision about their neighborhood
vs Pfizer
WAL-MART:
Wal-Mart
has 600,000 full time employees of 1.6 million workers, without
healthcare
Dateline report:
Wal-Mart clothes made in Bangladesh by kids working 18-19
hour days
Wal-Mart's
hired gun is recess appointment, Scalia;
S Court's reichwing activist's son
List
of 24 states with "Wal-Mart Bills" to require corps to list
workers on Medicaid
Maryland
Guv shakes Wal-Mart CEO's hand before vetoing bill requiring
8% healthcare
COLORADO:
Fucus
claims ignorance that Ralf Reed's money for radio ad came
from tribal casino
Salazar
will be swing vote in Senate to pass flag burning ban in constitution
AFA
rape victim refuses to sign release of medical records to
AFA
Yale
Divinity School testifies on AFA "ridiculous" report that
bigotry is only "perception"
Lawsuit
filed for underfunding 181 school districts by $1 Billion;
50th in per capita funds
"Bilderburg"
Beaver Creek prepares for AEI'S annual secret "World Forum"
Interfaith
Alliance apologizes for 2 who told truth about Dobson being
"taliban; gestapo"
Ranchers
love new BLM grazing rules that allow them to keep public
land they don't use
Big
Oil claims west will be next Saudi Arabia if govt will let
them get oil shale on public land
Group
close to 493 signatures for resolution to repeal Teller County
grocery tax
Canadian
Drug to open on N Circle to order cheaper pharmaceuticals
from Canada
ELECTIONS:
Roll
call of 284-140 House vote to RESTORE $100 million in PBS/CPB
funding
House
does NOT restore funding for preschool "Ready to Learn" and
digital transition
GAO finds
7 states had "systematic voter registration problems"; only
1 met HAVA regs
DELAY/ABRAMOFF/SCANLON/REED:
Abramoff
used tribe's money to set up zionist "sniper school" in West
Bank
Abramoff/Scanlon
charged $7.7 million, spent $1.2 million on lobbying, kept
$6.5 million
Emails prove
Ralf Reed knew gambling money paid for fight against state
lottery
ACTIVISM:
Petition
congress to stop CAFTA-DR
After
House win on PBS/CPB funding, next is to FIRE Thomlinson;
petition bush
Dems
call for Rove to apologize for insane statement; his phone
#: 202-456-2369
HUMOR:
Bush will
charge "Axis of Evil" a membership fee
Terri
Schiavo's autopsy shows US media in "persistent vegetative
state"
Army releases new
interactive draft registration form online
Thursday's News
IRAQ:
Marines:
not enough weapons, communications gear, or properly outfitted
vehicles
German
court rules soldier can apply specific conscientious objection
to Iraq war
Downing
Street Memo flash animation of comparisons with lies from administration
Blair/Hoon/Straw
wanted minority govt, led by Sunnis, with Kurdish autonomy
Pentagram hires
private firm for database of 16-18 in highschool and ALL college
students
CIA
report: bush is recruiting and training militants in Iraq better
than ever
AFGHANISTAN:
US
kills 76 in massive bombing campaign
PALESTINE:
Details
and map of E-1 land theft and construction near E Jerusalem
Israel
claims to suspend evictions in E Jerusalem, but eviction notices
still arrive for 88
NEOCONS:
Levin
threatens to block appointment if Feith's docs not turned over
9/11:
Abramoff,
Atta, Tiller, Hilliard, Boulis, Seminole casino, Kidman, "cruises
to nowhere"
al-Jazeera
reporter, in Gitmo for 4 years, reports sexual abuse, beatings,
persecution
Excerpts
from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" for comparison to Gitmo
techniques
Mexico
admits arrested man connected to attack on 9/11, just an innocent
tourist
WORLD:
China:
70% state owned oil corp outbids Chevron for Unocal with $18.5
Billion bid
Iran:
further evidence U2 crashed in Iran after spying on Iran
US:
S
Court rules 5-4 govt can take home for private
corp with eminent domain
Amy Goodman
interview Bill Moyers on reichwing takeover of PBS (Vote is
today)
DoT
HAZMAT will recommend DofD relabel Depleted Uranium in transport
on highways
U
of Wisconsin invents BioFuel process twice as efficient as Ethanol
for Sulfur free Diesel
Amendment
banning flag burning passes House; Senate expected, 38 states
to ratify
California:
Feds raid medical pot facilities; arrest secret number of people
TASERS:
California
Grand Jury says Taser policy needs to be changed; used for punishment
West Virginia
cops use Taser on 82 year old man pissing in park
Taser
VP admits, in sworn testimony, that he and CEO shocked 5 pigs
in a garage
ENERGY BILL:
Senate
amendment, to inventory offshore oil/gas, is "historic victory"
for oil corps
Senate
Bill contains economic incentives to build first nuke plant
since 1978
GAO:
42 presently working nuke plants don't have money for decommissioning
and cleanup
COLORADO:
AF
study finds AFA proselytizing and insensitivity by faculty,
officers, cadets
Another 317,750
gallons of crap in Fountain creek for second time in a month
Boulder
chief of police: cop that shot kid in eye wrong; no pepperballs
above waste
Rights group
joins lawsuit against Park Cnty jail for conditions that cost
man leg and lung
Fort
Cartoon could double in size with 4th Infantry and others, under
BRAC closures
Activist's
lawsuit forces Forest Service to study environmental impact
of coal bed drilling
ELECTIONS:
Abramoff
and Scanlon defrauded tribe of $15 million for services not
provided
Ohio:
Dems find 28% of voters had problems, 52% of black voters; 2.8
million votes
Registered
lobbyists in Washington, since 2000, has doubled to 34,750 for
535 MCs
Iran:
148 violations investigated, 44 linked to military, 26 arrests
for election fraud
Egypt:
reformists march against Mubarak 3 days after Condi visited
puppet
ACTIVISM:
1
million MoveOn.org petitions delivered
to congress to keep funding PBS/NPR/CPB
Call Hefley TODAY to save PBS/NPR funding 202-225-4422
Petition bush to remove Thomlinson
as chief of CPB, PBS, NPR
Media Matters
letter to Penguin/Putnam on "false and defamatory" book about
Hillary
EMAIL Penguin/Putnam
publisher to complain about character assassination of Hillary
Global
Warming virtual march in Indianapolis;
Indy cars will run on 10% Ethanol next year
Documentary
on 4.4 million acres of Colorado
open to logging under bush's new
rules
Activist
wins case against college; can table on slaughterhouses outside
"free speech zone"
HUMOR:
Movie
poster: "Mr. Ed Does Crawford"; co-starring Rick Santorum
Painting:
Junior as "Liberator"
Landover
Baptist's "Do It Yourself Circumcision" t-shirt
Wednesday's News
IRAQ:
Flashback:
al Udeid Airbase was built in Qatar in the spring of 2001, in
prep for war
Week
before handoff in 2004, US sent $4 Billion in cash to Iraq
Westboro
Baptist and Phelps protesting at funeral of Idaho soldier today
Doctor
writing book on doctor's role in Abu Ghraib torture and coverup
Red
Crescent calls for access to 7,000 families of refugees and Karabila
wounded
Dem Now interview
with producer of PBS documentary, "Private Warriors" on mercenaries
Justice Minister:
"who was helping saddam?"; "lots of secrets they (US) want to
hide"
AFGHANISTAN:
U2
plane crashes; Pentagram claims trip to Afghanistan; apparently
in Iran
PALESTINE:
Abbas/Sharon
summit produces little; begin Gaza airport reopening work
NEOCONS:
British
ambassador to Wash: bush/blair discussed attacking Iraq at 9/18
meeting
Executive
branch checks, then balances legislative branch on another Bolton
vote
House
gives Negroponte $40 billion for spies from satellite budget
9/11:
Gitmo
prison contract inked when Cheney was CEO of Halliburton
WORLD:
Darfur:
UN: looting, bandits, armed attacks still going on
Venezuela:
3 new significant oil reserves found; 220,000 brl/day potential
Uzbekistan:
thousands arrested after massacre; report of rapes and torture
by cops
Aceh
Tsunami figures: 116,800 homes destroyed or damaged; 1,525 km
of roads
Amnesty
and Oxfam: arms sales by G8 are fueling poverty and rights abuses
Japan: US
wants Japan to pay $545 million for Missile "Defense" system
Libya:
US and Qaddafi opponents discuss regime change at London summit
Zimbabwe:
Mugabe borrows tactic from Israel: destroys subsistent gardens
of poor
Balkans: Army
gives Halliburton contract while probing $85.98 plywood (costs
$14.06)
Venezuela:
Chavez claims proof of CIA funded Colombian reichwing militias
planning coup
Japan:
Whaling Commission rejects proposals to abolish sanctuary and
double research
US:
AIDS/HIV bioweapons
inventor, suing govt for patent for his Leukemia/Lymphoma virus
GOP
calls Domenici on carpet, he reverses on pollution limits in Energy
Bill
AMA bends
over for pharmaceuticals on direct ads to consumers on drugs
Where to find
Thimerosal (Mercury) in Merthiolate, cosmetics, contact cleansers,
eyedrops
Senate
votes to sue OPEC for high oil prices as antitrust violation
Nuke
worker's union slams use of 16 fake green card workers at Oak
Ridge
bush, a master
of political timing, calls for gay marriage amendment again
Chair
and former director of NorthWest Airlines have quietly sold 7
million shares of stock
COLORADO:
13
year Veteran of AFA chaplain resigns over "christian" taliban
at college
Commission
wants another fine on gas corp Encana for destroying wells in
Garfield County
Did
we say $3.1 Billion in TABOR money for Ref C? we meant $3.7 Billion
United
Airlines deal for union: 5.5% decrease in pay, loss of vacations,
sick days
Qwest's
Nacchio says it was just "corporate optimism"; SEC says it was
lies to investors
Rape
counselor, Biers, gets visit by marshals, but not arrested; asked
for records; refused
CJPE
pressures Fort Collins' schools to pass resolution to ban recruiters
Study:
BLM lands can generate 85 MW of wind power by 2025; non-BLM: 1,848
MW
ELECTIONS:
Congress
made 5,900 trips, costing $17.6 million, paid for secretly by
lobbyists, in 5 years
Abramoff
told tribes to hide $55,000 donations with more obscure PACs
Iran: Rafsanjani
appeals to students for votes with his new persona as reformer
Iran:
hardliners seize 500,000 Rafsanjani cards/posters from printer
for "offensive words"
MZM/CUNNINGHAM:
Realtor
made 18 donations to Cunnigham's campaign before house laundering
corruption
"Sure
Foundation", offices at MZM, lists ONLY Wade and Cunningham family
on board
CREW
files FEC suit against MZM for forcing workers to contribute to
"Duke" Cunningham
ACTIVISM:
Army PAYS corporate
partner list helping recruitment; for boycott and email campaign
16
in Senate call for removal of Thomlinson as head of CPB/PBS/NPR
Virtual march on Washington THURSDAY; call WH and Dept of inJustice about Tobacco
suit
White House phone # 202-456-1414;
AG at DofJ: 202-353-1555
Petition Castle Mountain ski resort to do proper environmental impact study on expansion
Co-sponsor
Healthcare Accountability Act against Wal-Mart
and $210,180,811 Dr bill
Center for Justice, Peace, and
Environment.org and 6 orgs in Fort Collins
Velvet Revolution.US
Petition against HR27 that rolls back regs against using
tax money for religious bigotry
Petition
congress to so-sponsor exit plan resolution
HUMOR:
Photo cartoon:
bush promotes bumper sticker: "Bush lied, People Died"
Bush: "Downing
Syndrome Memo" is "communist"; "probably made in France"
Landover
Baptist's Creation Science Quiz
Tuesday's News
IRAQ:
Transcript
of legal advice to UK cabinet: US view "not consistent with UN Res
687" (ii 9)
US refuses
to allow medical evac of al-Arabiya reporter wounded in kidnap attempt
50
House Dems join Maxine Waters in "out of Iraq" caucus
Conyers responds
to Wash Post's Milbank's piece with "Pravda on the Potomac" piece
Flashback:
report from 2002 on 300% increase in bombing and change in targets
Army recruiting
General admits anti recruitment activists hurting his attempts to
kill
saddam
tells guards he misses Raygun days with planes and helicopter sales
NEOCONS:
Dems
block Bolton vote again; recess appointment would be until Jan of
2007
Pentagram
ally removes clause from bill giving Goss all control over all spies
Iran:
Scott Ritter on Downing St and war with Iran that's already started
with CIA/MEK
CPB
delays vote on former RNC co-chair as prez in control of PBS and
NPR
9/11:
Sibel Edmonds'
overview of FBI failures to react to warnings before attack
WORLD:
Darfur:
Sudan drops charges against medics who reported widespread rapes
Darfur:
National Geographic photo gallery and report from Darfur
Azerbaijan:
EXXON will pay $30 million to get out of oil development deal after
dry well
Azerbaijan:
foreign held debt will rise 80% to 27.1% of GDP
$59.37
per barrel of oil for new record; Pickens says $3 gallon of gas
soon
US:
16
men with fake green Cards working at Y-12 Nuclear Weapons plant
in Oak Ridge
WH space weapons
plans for "full spectrum dominance"
Fannie
Mae warns chance of housing bubble bust has "risen sharply" in certain
areas
SimpsonWood
seminar and coverup on Thimerosal connection to 1500% increase in
Autism
Georgia:
county DA closes case on man in jail shocked to death with Taser
AMA
decides not enough spine to decide, so needs more study on ads to
consumers
Pennsylvania:
house subcommittee hears debate on "intelligent design" in science
class
"christian"
taliban still attacking IMAX movies on Volcanoes and Astronomy
Klan
member convicted of forming mob to kill civil rights workers in
1964
ENERGY BILL:
Senate includes
biofuel incentives extension in it's version of the Energy Bill
GOP
kills global warming provision in Energy Bill
A
look at pork in Energy bill for Xcel, Exxon, Halliburton, MTBE makers
COLORADO:
Indiana
taliban accuses Dems of "war on Christianity" for stopping AFA proselytizing
Adelphia
criminals get 15 and 20 years for stealing $100 million from corporation
Chart on
where the money would go on Referendum C and D
Fed district
court keep redistricting battle alive with ruling NOT to dismiss
case
Teller Country
changes barking dog complaint process to stop crime that plagues
state
Denver
3 turned away at white house in attempt to deliver demand for answers
on rally
Health Dept gives
Army 30 days to submit plan to deal with 2,800 TONS of WMD in Pueblo
Legislature
and PUC still debating application of Amendment 37 on renewable
energy
ELECTIONS:
Belarus: opposition
to Lukashenko join forces to nominate 1 candidate
Lebanon:
nationalists and Hariri's son win outright majority
Iran:
partial recount under way; papers closed for publishing letter charging
fraud
ACTIVISM:
American
Lung Assoc petition to bush/gonzales
to impose original fine on Tobacco corps
News links from CSAction.org
HUMOR:
Bolton appoints
himself as ambassador to the UN
Poster:
The Downing Street Memo Monkey Show, starring bush and blair
White House
Department of Faith works directly with Landover Baptist's Deacon
Fred
