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Wikipedia Down Wikipedia website crashed... is being restored....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 7:14pm PST
Scott Ritter Says U.S. Plans June Attack on Iran United for Peace of Pierce County (WA)
February 19, 2005
Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 2:39pm PST
Protests, Vigils to Mark One-Year Anniversary of Coup d'etat in Haiti Protests in Several Cities to Call for Investigation into U.S. Role in Last Year's Coup, Ending Discrimination Against Haitian Refugees
Speaking Tours, Vigils, Film-Screenings, and Faith Reflection Will Also Commemorate Haiti Solidarity Week 2005...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 1:23pm PST
The boy who cried wolf (part 2) Aesop's fable remade -- bigger, longer, un-cut!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 1:15pm PST
Polar Bears May Become Extinct by the End of This Century The Center for Biological Diversity, a non profit conservation organization, filed a formal petition requesting that the polar bear species (Ursus maritimus) worldwide be added to the list of threatened species under the United States Endangered Species Act. Polar bears may become extinct by the end of this century because their sea-ice habitat is literally melting away due to global warming....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:54am PST
Reproductive Rights Conference A FREE conference that addresses reprodctive freedom as it relates to a broad range of social justice initiatives including economic justice, healthcare reform, racial equality, peace, freedom from violence, youth liberation, civil liberties, and LGBTQ rights....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:35am PST
cocaine in racing horses DawnWatch: Chicago Tribune lead story on cocaine in racing horses -- 2/18/05...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 10:08am PST
Hip Hop community joins protest of radio racism NEW YORK — Protesters were on the street outside the office of Hot 97 here Feb. 14, the second day back on the job for suspended morning show deejays.
The “Miss Jones in the Morning” crew on WQHT-FM sparked outrage last month when it played the “Tsunami Song,” a racist parody of “We Are the World” that made fun of the victims of last December’s South Asian tidal wave that killed almost 300,000 people. “We Are the World” had brought an array of stars together in the 1980s to aid victims of ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:27am PST
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination On this the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, we spend the hour with historian Manning Marable who has spent a decade working on a new biography of Malcolm X. He is one of the few historians to see the three missing chapters from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" that he says paint a very different picture than the book with Alex Haley and Spike Lee's film. Marable has also had unprecedented access to Malcolm's family and documents that shed new light on the involve...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:23am PST
Dubya as Economist "We got into deficit because the economy went into the recession-is how we got into deficit..The more money they have in their more pockets-in their pockets, the more likely it is that somebody will find work..An ownership society is a compassionate society" - Economic wisdom from good ol' Dubya...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 6:34am PST
Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself at Age 67 Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 9:51pm PST
United States government, 2005: If it walks like a goose… (Part I) To see how the Bushies stack up against former regimes of a particular bent, read on....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 6:37pm PST
New Tapes Say Bush May Have Smoked Marijuana WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush indicated in interviews secretly taped by a friend before he became president that he had used marijuana but would not admit it for fear of setting a bad example for children....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 2:27pm PST
New York Times Tapes Confirm Bush Smoked Pot; No Word Yet on Whether He Enjoyed It Apologies to our nominal President, but: Sir, when a minister asks you about your denials of any past drug use, and you respond, "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried," is there any convention of decorum or journalism which prevents us from baldly stating that you smoked dope?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 2:25pm PST
SOS- Save Our Substitutes We hire substitute soldiers to die for us....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 12:32pm PST
N.Y. Judge Orders Gay Marriage "It is clear that moral disapproval of same-sex couples or of individual homosexuals is not a legitimate state purpose or a rational reason for depriving plaintiffs of their right to choose their spouse."...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 7:22am PST
Israel killed JFK,says Vanunu In a startling accusation, nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Jerusalem was behind the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, who was exerting pressure on the then Israeli head of state to shed light on the Dimona nuclear plant....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:50pm PST
"Postcards from Buster" the Bunny Creates Nationwide Flap Controversy has been brewing this year, since the news came out that in one episode, called "Sugartime!," Buster goes to Vermont and learns about making maple syrup. Buster is visiting Karen, who used to work with his mom. Karen's partner is a woman named Gillian, and they have kids. (!!!)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:45pm PST
PBS's 'Buster' Gets An Education PBS was surprised to receive a letter from new Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, warning the public TV network against airing an upcoming episode of the kids show "Postcards From Buster," because PBS had already informed her office it would not send the episode to its stations, programming co-chief John Wilson says....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 4:40pm PST
PDC demands: "Fight the Frame-up of Lynne Stewart, PDC Denounces Government Conspiracy Against Everyone's Rights, Demands:
"Fight the Frame-up of Lynne Stewart,
Mohamed Yousry and Ahmed Abdel Sattar!"...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 3:32pm PST
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