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Isaac "Chef" Hayes leaves South Park Over Scientology Jokes Singer Isaac Hayes is to stop providing the voice for a character in cartoon South Park because he objects to its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 4:38pm PST
Call to Action: Take Action on FY07 HUD Appropriations Call the DC offices of your Representative and Senators this week and ask to speak to the staff person in each who deals with housing issues.
1-877-322-5742...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 1:52pm PST
Burst oil pipeline causes 'catastrophe' in Alaska A burst pipeline in Alaska's North Slope has caused the Arctic region's worst oil spill, spreading more than 250,000 gallons of crude oil over an area used by caribou herds and prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration's drive for more oil exploration there....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:32am PST
100,000 March in Chicago to Protest Immigration Reform Bill Over 100,000 marchers took to the streets of Chicago last Friday to fight a bill that would rewrite the nation's immigration laws. The march marked one of the biggest pro-immigrant rallies in U.S. history. We discuss the implications of the bill with discuss the demonstration with a member of one of the many organizations that spearheaded the event....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:22am PST
In Historic Move, Feingold Introduces Resolution to Censure President Bush On Monday, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin introduced a resolution to censure President Bush for authorizing the no-warrant domestic surveillance program. Feingold accused Bush of breaking the law and misleading Congress about it. We play Feingold introducing the resolution as well as reaction from Republican and Democratic senators on the Senate floor....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:21am PST
Google Goes To Court to Protect Privacy CNET reports that Google goes to court in San Jose this morning....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 6:29am PST
100,000(!) March for Immigrant Rights in Chicago In a show of strength that surprised even organizers, tens of thousand of immigrants poured into the Loop Friday, bringing their calls for immigration reform to the heart of the city's economic and political power.
What started as a word-of-mouth campaign, then spread through the foreign language media, grabbed the attention of the entire city by midday, as a throng 2 miles long marched from Union Park on the Near West Side to Federal Plaza....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 12:35am PST
Weather Modification (pro chemtrail biil) S517 Violates National Security 
In 1978, the United States became a party to an international treaty banning the use of weather modification and since has went underground and has been a part of their black operations....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 2:36pm PST
A World Lit by Energy Warfare ...What "Mission Accomplished" in reality achieved was an intractable quagmire of bloodletting and a nightmarish prospect of global conflict......
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 2:17pm PST
Future of Music is Topic of McChesney's Media Matters Now 
Guests today will be Jenny Toomey and Michael Bracy, both of the Future of Music Coalition. The FMC's primary goal is to educate musicians and the public at large about some of the critical issues that are shaping the policy debate in the music/technology space....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 11:03am PST
Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:38am PST
Boston Catholic Charities Puts Ugly Political Agenda Before Child Welfare Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the
following statement today regarding news that the Boston Catholic
Charities was halting its adoption program because of a state law
allowing children in need of a home to be adopted by gay and lesbian
parents....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:48pm PST
Medical Marijuana in the News: 3/10 · ASA IN THE NEWS: San Diego Patients Stand Ground
· ASA ACTION: Return of Property Remains an Issue
· NEW MEXICO: Petty Partisan Politics Kills Patient Protections
· MASSACHUSETTS: Lawmakers’ Blame Feds for Bill Failure
· CALIFORNIA: Implementation Action Across the State...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:30pm PST
US hostage killed in Iraq A dead body found in Iraq has been identified as that of missing US hostage Tom Fox, the US State Department has said....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:27am PST
Ralph Nader: Bush at the Tipping Point A Lawless and Incompetent Leadership...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:55am PST
Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad: Gitmo on the Mississippi Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization A Fighting Chance, has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Kla...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:52am PST
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to Push Anti-Palestinian Legislation Action Alert 
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chair of the Middle East and Central Asia Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee (HIRC), has called a hearing for Wednesday on “Palestinian Authority Elections: Implications for Peace, Regional Security, and U.S. Assistance”.This biased hearing will include as witnesses an Israeli brigadier general, a researcher who claims that the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics over-counted Palestinians by 1.3 million people, and a researcher wh...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:14am PST
...CRIMINALS 
Why is Cindy Sheehan targeted and not John Bolton?...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 9:03am PST
Western Shoshone Victorious at United Nations In 1973, when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management came out to Carrie and Mary Dann’s (two Western Shoshone sister's) cattle ranch and asked them to obtain grazing permits and pay grazing fees for their cattle, they argued that the cattle were grazing on Western Shoshone land. The Bureau of Land Management sued them for trespassing and the battle was engaged....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 2:04pm PST
FBI knew in the early 1990s that al Qaeda was sending pilots to U.S. flight schools The key piece of info in this article is not in what the main story is about. It doesn't appear until the very last paragraph. It's just one more piece of evidence that Condi was completely full of it when she claimed no one imagined using planes as weapons -- nevermind the widely publish reports in the mid-90s about the people in the Philippines who were planning to highjack multiple US planes simultaneously and crash them into the ocean.
"...the FBI knew in the early 1990s that al...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 1:53pm PST
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