Really News Archives - August, 2005

January 29 and 30, 2006

EXXON Produces Largest Profit of Any US Company, 10.7 Billion - Assoc. Press 01/30/06
Senate Ends Alito Filibuster Attempt, Votes for Cloture 72-25 - Wash Post 01/30/06
Why No Child Left Behind Does Not Work for Our Schools - Urbana-Champaigne Indy Media
Enron Chief's to Face Jurors - Truth Out/Assoc. Press 01/30/06
Hamas/Palestine told to recognize Israel in return for aid - Independent Online, UK 01/31/06
Anti-Globalization Activists Meet for 6th World Social Forum

- BBC 01/27/06

Kidnap and Torture American Style follows the stories of terror suspects. Some of them are British residents, who have been snatched from streets and airports throughout the world before being flown to the Middle-East and Africa.

Testimonies from those suspects allege that Britain has a key role in these shady operations from supplying intelligence information on which interrogations are based, to ordering their arrest and detention.

Broadcast 11/23/05 Channel 4 UK

Alberto Gonzales defends wiretaps amid protestors at a speech at Georgetown University. 01/24/06
C-SPAN Raw Video

The university was one of the stops on Gonzales' circuit as he attempts to defuse criticism of the National Security Agency's domestic spying program.

- Democracy Now with special guest Harry Belefonte.
- Hamas Asks World Community Not to Cut Off Aid
- Momentum Grows for Filibuster to Block Alito Confirmation
- ABC News Anchor Seriously Injured by Bomb in Iraq
- Haitian Priest Gerard Jean-Juste Released From Prison
- Vet Who Spoke Out About War's Psychological Affects Commits Suicide
- 50,000 Soldiers Forced to Stay in Military Under Stop-Loss Program
- NASA Attempts to Silence Agency's Top Climate Scientist
- 2005: Halliburton's Most Profitable Year Ever
- Pentagon Admits U.S. Public Exposed to Military Propaganda
- Abramoff Tied to South African Apartheid-Era Assassin
- NYT Exposes U.S. Role in Coup of Haiti's Aristide

and More

Stark Warning over Climate Change. Greenhouse gas emissions are rising at an "unsustainable" rate and the Greenland ice cap is at risk, scientists say. BBC News

Look at Global Warming In Depth

January 26, 2006

Democrats Fight (Seek Filibuster) Alito Nomination for Supreme Court Justice

01/25/06
Impeachment Billboard to Circle in Washington DC - After Downing Street 01/26/06
UN Names Nicole Kidman Good Will Ambassador

- Assoc. Press 01/26/06
US Releases Five Iraqi Women from Custody -

Assoc. Press 01/26/06
China & Iran warm to Russia's Nuclear Proposal - Reuters 01/26/06
New PAC Group to Back Iraq War Veterans - LA Times 01/26/06
Congress Believes Americans = Suspected Foreign Terrorists - The Constitutional Republican 01/25/06
Assurances on Security in Voting (Re: DRE Voting Machines) Sought in MD - Baltimore Sun 01/26/06

General Michael Hayden, Deputy Director of National Intelligence misinforms and incorrectly defines to MSNBC the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. MSNBC 01/26/06

The 4th Amendment is Part of the Bill of Rights: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

AP - Bush asserts that his confident warrantless searches & wiretaps are legal. Article 01/26/06

In a shocking result, unofficial tallies from the Palestinian parliamentary elections indicate an overwhelming victory for Hamas. The unconfirmed results show Hamas has captured nearly all 16 districts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Assoc. Press Report. Article 01/26/06

*January 23, 2006*
	Two More Arrested, More Evidence, FBI Infiltration of Activist Groups - Portland IMC (01/19/06) Bush Calls Surveillance Legal & Necessary - Assoc. Press 01/23/06 Halliburton Cited in US Troop Food & Water Contamination - Assoc. Press 01/23/06 Attacks in Iraq Jumped 29% in 2005 - USA Today 01/22/06 Three Civilians, Seven US Soldiers Killed in Iraq - Assoc. Press 01/23/06 Two More Coal Miners Found Dead in W. Virginia, Senator Byrd Says Deaths Preventable TIME Magazine Reports Photos of Bush & Jack Abramhoff, link - 01/22/06
	Tucker Carlson & Rachel Maddow discuss the news/media comparing, identifying & associating Osama Bin Laden with known democrats. 01/22/06	Inn World Report (01/20/06) News from last week US Media did not report. Includes CIA Flights to secret prisons in Europe. Janet Karpinski, former Brigadier General framed & accused of violations at Abu Ghraib tells her story & NYC conference to hold Bush Admin accountable for war crimes. MUCH MORE	Does it really make a difference if you buy an American-made car or not? Just ask the folks at Drake's Restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford Motor Co. plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs and shutter 14 plants in a sweeping restructuring that the nation's second biggest automaker hopes will tackle declining market share and rising costs that led to hefty losses in its North American operations.

*January 20, 2006*
	New York City Transit Workers Reject New Contract - Assoc. Press 01/20/06 US Government Obtains Internet Users Search Records - Truth Out/Assoc Press 01/20/06 Iraq Power Shortages Continue to Affect Millions - Reuters 01/19/06 Siniyah, and Iraq Town Becomes a Prison/Battle Field - IPS (Inter Press Service) 01/20/06 Karl Rove Speaks to RNC Outlining 2006 Strategy - 01/20/06 CBS Reporter Explains Lack of Good News from Iraq & Limited Ability to Report PBS 01/19/06 Representative Louise Slaughter (NY) Speaks on GOP Corruption - CNN 01/18/06
	Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), ranking member on the Hse. Judiciary Cmte., joins other Democrats in a hearing-style meeting on the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program. The National Security Administration recently released a White Paper, supporting the President's position. 1/20/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 30 min. NOTE: Republican leadership, Dennis Hassert was asked to join this meeting (one month ago), hold hearing and ignored the request. This Meeting was only allowed to be scheduled in the basement. Congress not in session.	Over 70 million searches are done each day on Google. The Bush Administration want access to Google's search data as well as the pages contained in the Google database. The government says that it wants the private records to help fight kiddie porn on the internet. Privacy experts are concerned and Google vows to fight the request. A court date has been scheduled for October 2005. Google says NO NOTE: "Expert" in CNN video misinforms public when he says Google users cannot be identified if the government gets this information. See TOP right corner of this search page: DNS STUFF This Information is stored in Google's database when people surf & search. 01/20/06	In a heated debate at the White House press briefing, MSNBC reporter Gregory presses Scott McClellan over Abramhoff visits to the White House & attendance at staff meetings. 01/19/06

January 18, 2006

Abramhoff Billed Clients $25,000.00 for "face time" with G.W. Bush - The Texas Observer 01/18/06
Iran Crisis is a Dilemma for China - BBC News 01/18/06
Department of Defense Decreases Number of Some Troops & Increases Others - DoD 01/18/06
US Memo Doubted Sale of Uranium to Iraq plus

- Mail & Guardian Online 01/18/06
An Army Death, a Family Left in the Dark - Washington Post 01/18/06
White House Silent on Meetings with Abramhoff - Associate Press 01/17/06
NYC Wins in a Case Dismissal Regarding WTC 7, Ground Zero - Village Voice (01/12/06) Other Article
Special: The Media Today

- Chris Valentine (video), Chris Brickler (music) 01/16/06

Two Lawsuits underway. President Bush has exceeded the powers of his office by allowing eavesdropping on conversations of Americans, according to federal lawsuits seeking to ban the practice.

NEW YORK - Federal lawsuits were filed Tuesday seeking to halt President Bush's domestic eavesdropping program, calling it an "illegal and unconstitutional program" of electronic eavesdropping on American citizens. The lawsuits accusing Bush of exceeding his constitutional powers were filed in federal court in New York by the Center for Constitutional Rights and in Detroit by the American Civil Liberties Union. 01/18/06

Bush demands that critics "disagree responsibly" about Iraq. Bush says that criticism of the Iraq war is "defeatism" that is hurting the troops morale.
Paul Hacket, officer, iraq veteran, and candidate for Ohio US Senate says that morale is high and that serving soldiers welcome and participate in the debate. 01/17/06

Al Jazeera airs footage of captured journalist Jill Carroll. Carroll works as an independent journalist for Christian Science Monitor and Alternet. 01/18/06

See Articles and Information

Report of Kidnap by Iraqi Captors

*January 16, 2006*
	Al Gore Addresses Threat to Constitution: A Call To Arms at DAR Constitution Hall (Full ) READ Full Transcript of Speech 01/16/06 Gore calls upon ALL Americans of ALL Parties to Defend US
	Iraq Reconstruction Money Gone, US Promotes Private Corporation Investment - LA Times 01/15/06 Pakistan Protests US Terrorism/Bombing, Islamabad - The Guardian (UK) 01/16/06 Pakistan Foreign Office to Investigate US Bombing - The Nation, Pakistan 01/16/06 UK Officials warn "No Rush in sanctioning Iran" - CNN, London 01/16/06 Ohio Churches Could Face IRS Probe & Lose Tax Exempt Status - The Columbus Dispatch 01/16/06 FEATURE: Liberty TV News - January Edition, The Month of December in Review
	Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929-April 14, 1968) "I have a dream." speech. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed . . . that all men are created equal." More Dr. King Information	Investigator finds Europe complicit in US CIA secrete prisons. Dick Marty, a Swiss Senator, is leading the Council of Europe's inquiry into reports that the C.I.A. operated secret torture prisons in several European countries. 01/14/06	(PBS) Katrina Survivors may face hotel evictions. Also Celebration in New Orleans ends in gunfire From New Orleans and NOLA.COM. City as it is today.

January 14, 2006

Katrina - Independent Media Coverage from Indy Media - (ongoing)
US Torture Camps Confirmed to be running in Europe - Sontags Blic, Switzerland 01/10/06
"Operation Dreamland" Documentary of US Troops & Iraq

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For Lack of Body Armor Troops Die; why the delay? - USA Today 01/13/06
Roadside ambush in Baghdad

from Operation Truth (recent, date unknown)
Feature: Independent World Television

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Prior To 9/11/01 - Truth Out 01/13/06
NSA Spied Upon Quakers/Baltimore Peace Group - K. Zeese, Raw Story 01/10/06

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that his country does not need nuclear weapons. (BBC Article) 01/14/06

At a rare news conference in Tehran, Mr Ahmadinejad said they were needed only by people who "want to solve everything through the use of force".

However, US and Germany unite for UN for sanctions against Iran, but many other countries are reluctant on this issue. NYT Article.

Director of Public Diplomacy, US State Department Bureau of Near Eastern affairs, Alberto Fernandez interview on Al-Jazeera TV: "I reject the idea that the futureof this region is in the hands of Al-Zarqawi and Mula Omar." Al-Jazeera Press Conference. 01/07/06

Note: This is a question answer only discussion. No commentary from outside correspondents.

Our US Diplomat.

Maryland's legislature enacted a law that forces the retail giant to spend more on employee health. Wal-Mart's critics plan to make it a model for other states to follow. MD law makers over rode governor's veto.

from Maryland National Public Radio 01/13/06

A U.S. air strike in Pakistan targeted the al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahri. The attack destroyed 3 houses in small village near the Pakistan border. 18 people, including women and children were also killed. 01/14/06

January 11 & 12, 2006

Bush Threatens Democrats on Going Against His Iraq Policy - ABC News 01/10/06
Clear, Concise and Straightforward Answers from Supreme Court Nominee

01/10/06
Ohio Congressman Bob Ney Linked to Abramhoff, Diebold and Ohio Election Fraud - 01/10/06
ALERT: Toxic Food (Diamond Dog Food) Kills Dozens of Dogs

- CNN 01/11/06
Poverty, Race, Ministry & Media: Tour of South on Fact Finding Mission, includes audio 01/11/06
Iraq Shiite will not accept big changes to largely Islamic Iraq constitution - Billings Gazette 01/11/06
Bush Amendment to Patriot Act Criminalizes People who Dissent as "Disruptors" - 01/11/06
Alito's Coaches Also Sit on Supreme Court Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings - 01/12/06

(CBC) Omar Khadr, a Canadian teenager and Citizen, could be jailed at Guatanamo prison camp for life. (CTV Article)

Plus Amnesty International Releases new testimony and documentation of extreme Gitmo torture. Read full testimony of Guatanamo detainee here. 01/10/06

US discusses with European Union possible actions against Iran for their nuclear activities. (BBC Article)

Israel plans a pre-emptive military strike on Iran in March, 2006. (UK Herald Article)

Bush Plans to Attack Iran - Dated 01/17/05 CNN

UK, Blair Won't Rule "Anything" out for Iran

INN World Report on Supreme Court Justice Nominee Samuel Alito. Interview & Analysis with Owen Fiss of Yale Law School. Read Yale Report on Alito Rulings

NOTE: Alito was a member of "Concerned Alumni of Princeton"

Hearings, Day 1 Part 1
Hearings, Day 1 Part 2
Hearings, Day 2 Part 1
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Hearings, Day 3 Part 1
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Hearings, Day 4 Part 2
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NSA Whistleblower speaks out on ABC's Nightline. Russel Tice is one of possibly a dozen whistleblowers who gave information to the NY Times regarding Illegal wiretapping of US citizens without a court order. Tice clarified that the program in question was not simply one of the government "listening in on a few calls made to al-Qaeda," as many have tried to minimize it, but an enormous effort that resulted in "millions" of Americans having their conversations listened to in violation of the law and Constitution. 01/10/06

Former CIA Lawyer testifies "No Legal Basis for Wire Taps"

January 9, 2006

LIST of who REALLY Took Jack Abramhoff Money - William Pitt, See C-Span

George Bush Speaks to press on Supreme Court Nominee Sam Alito

01/09/06
Abramhoff Viewed as the "Middle Guy" according to TIME - Raw Story 01/08/06
"State of War" Gives Vital Background On Downing Street Memos - TruthOut/AfterDowningStreet
Counting the Cost of War - TIME Magazine 01/08/06
Extra Armor "Could Have" Saved Many Lives - NY Times 01/09/06
State Gun Owners Put in Legal Limbo by Government Backlog - The Southern (Illinois) 01/09/06

Truth In Journalism - Charles Lewis, President/CEO of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington, DC, and also serves on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. He discusses freedom of the press issues and the influence of money on Congress and the Presidency. Lewis was an Investigative reporter at ABC News and at CBS News as a producer for senior correspondent Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes. (1977-88) Wrote for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation & others. (C-Span Q&A Broadcast 01/01/06)

Democracy Now
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Senate Confirmation hearings begins today on Capitol Hill in Washington 01/09/06

Also *17 Americans Dead in Iraq Violence, Helicopter Crash
* US Bombing of Ramadi Neighborhood Kills 6 Teens
* Delay Abandons Bid To Reclaim House Majority Spot
* Funeral Services Begin For West Virginia Coal Miners
* Head of UN Force in Haiti Dies of Apparent Suicide
* Greenpeace Confronts Japanese Whaling in Southern Ocean
* My Lai Rescuer Hugh Thompson Dead at 62

Delay's spokesman has informed the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert that he will not seek to reclaim his old post as Majority Leader. 01/07/06

Due to pressure from the Abramoff scandal and other corruptions scandals, this may the beginning of a Republican shake-up in the House.

January 7, 2006

Bush Spying Not Authorized by Congress - NY Times 01/07/06
Israeli Prime Minister Sharon makes slight improvement after stroke - BBC News 01/07/06
National & International News from Democracy Now

- 01/06/06
More than 130 killed In Iraq, 11 US Soldiers die CBC

- BBC Report 01/06/06
Singer, community activist Lou Rawls succumbs to cancer at age 72.

- 01/06/06
Hearings begin on Supreme Court Nominee, Sam Alito on Monday - Reuters 01/07/06

Demonstrations turned violent in Nasiriyah Iraq - Two dead, dozens injured as the Shiites protested lack of employment in their country. 01/06/06

Iraqi civilian family killed by US air strikes when their home was bombed. Syria Television Report 01/06/05

Plus, US Reporter kidnapped, her translator killed 01/07/06

Plus 11 US Troops killed in one day (Printable Article)

Hundreds of people who came out on a cold January evening to hear Congressman and Marine Corps veteran Jack Murtha speak on the war in Iraq were turned away last night from an overflowing town hall meeting in Arlington, Virginia 01/06/06

The latest edition of Liberty News TV. The month of December in review. (12/05)

From our affiliate Liberty News TV

*January 4, 2006*
	History DoJ Alice Fisher, Ties to Abramhoff & Delay Defense Team: Conflict of Interest? Compilation - West Virginia Mining Disaster Video Web Log UPDATES - 01/03/06-01/04/06 Mine Safety Critical of Policies Faces Firing - NY Times 2003 "Marlboro Man" in Famed Iraq War Photo Suffers from PTSD - Editor & Publisher 01/04/06 Bush Assistant Labor Secretary worked on Abramhoff's Accounts - Raw Story 01/04/06 Bush prepares to Bypass Torture Ban - Truth Out/Boston Globe 01/04/06
	Update (Reversal): 11 of 12 Miners Died in Coal Mine Accident. Anger and Outrage from families as what they described as misinformation & lied to that the miners were alive. VIDEO WEB LOG by Really News.	Peter Oborne, political editor of the Spectator (UK), reports on the West's exit strategy for Iraq. He believes the invasion of Iraq is proving to be the greatest foreign policy failure since Munich. 'Oborne argues that the plan to transform Iraq into a unified liberal democracy, a beacon of hope in the Middle East, is pure fantasy. Reporting on location with US troops in Sadr City, and through interviews with leading figures in Britain and the US, Osborne argues that the coalition and its forces on the ground are increasingly irrelevant in determining the future of Iraq - a future that's unlikely to be either unified, liberal or democratic.	A suicide bomber killed 32 mourners and wounded dozens at a funeral for the nephew of a Shiite politician, one of several attacks Wednesday across Iraq that killed a total of 53 people. Assoc. Press 01/04/06 Article

*January 2, 2006*
	HAPPY NEW YEAR, NYC Plus 2005 DC Follies
	Twelve of the West Virginia Coal Miners Rescued Alive - Assoc Press 01/03/06 Decorated Marine Veteran, now Congressman says he would not join military today - Reuters 01/02/06 The Daily Show Video of the Year (Crooks & Liars), Revisiting Katrina - 01/02/06 West VA Coalminers Trapped Underground and and Update 01/02/06 Gas Scarce and Prices Skyrocket in Iraq - CNN 01/02/06 Intense Gun Battle on Ramadi Streets (Iraq), Car Bomb kills 12 - Assoc. Press 01/02/06 Abramoff Pleads Guilty: May Implicate many powerful in Congress -Assoc Press 01/03/06 Behind the Eavesdropping Story, A Loud Silence - Byron Calame, NY Times Omnibudsman 1/1/06
	Iraq Labor Leaders visit and tour the US (unreported news you did not see, June 2005) More	Racial Profiling. The fourth episode of The ACLU Freedom Files TV series tells the stories of everyday Americans who were practicing their right to free speech and dissent only to be thwarted, harassed or arrested. View Freedom Files on line.	Mitch McConnell & Senator Charles Schumer on FOX express differing views on NY Times reporting, media leaks and unauthorized Presidential spying on US Citizens 01/02/06