Really News Archives - February, 2006

February 27, 2006


NSA uses private firms for  massive, unchecked domestic surveillance.  CNBC Sunday talk with Tim Russert discusses this with James Risen, the reporter who broke the story in the NY Times and Robert O'Harrow, Jr. of the Washington Post. 02/06/06 (also from Bradblog)


Voting machine outburst.  Arizona election official goes into tirade when asked about Diebold's DRE contract in his state and "how" one could know their vote were accurately counted on Diebold's AccuVote, ballot less, receipt less touch screen voting machine as no record of the vote physically can be counted or recounted.  02/27/06  Bradblog exclusive.

ALSO Retaliation - Diebold Whistleblower gets charged with three counts of felony for blowing the whistle on the Voting machine company. LA Times 02/27/06


Iran forges ahead with plans for uranium enrichment.  

Iran and Russian in joint venture for uranium enrichment.

BBC News

 

 

February 25, 2006


  As violence surges in Iraq, the death toll for journalists has risen to a new high. Depending on the source, between 76 and 82 journalists have been killed since the war began. MORE

Over 40 of the journalists killed were Iraqi. In addition, others killed were of Arabic descent, including those killed when a US tank opened fire on a hotel full of Al Jazeera's journalists. 02/26/06  


Lou Dobbs of CNN answers Bush's challenge and also continues his report on the connections of the Bush family's ties to UAE Government Corporation Dubai World, and the UAE government ties to support of 9/11 terrorists & Al Qaeda. 02/24/06.

Homeland Security has objected to the US ports deal. READ Article.

 


  A judge has ordered the Pentagon to release uncensored transcripts of detainee hearings at Guantanamo Bay to the Associated Press. 02/26/06

Pentagon to Release Names of Guantanamo detainees. Assoc. Press Article.  02/26/06

Medical Ethics Violations at Gitmo. 02/24/06

Afghan Prison being Expanded to fill Gitmo's Role.  NY Times Article 02/26/06

 

February 23, 2006

ACLU: New Documents Show Senior Defense Officials Encouraged Gitmo Abuse - Raw Story 02/23/06
Olympic Figure Skaters Go for Gold - Yahoo News, CNN 02/23/06
Bombing of Shrine in Iraq, spurs violent reprisals - Canadian Broadcast Service 02/23/06
Forty Veterans Run for Congress, Meet up In Washington DC (02/08/06)
Environmental Activist Arrested by FBI in Tucson, Arizona - Arizona IndyMedia 02/23/06 
New Orleans:  Voices of the Evicted Speak Out - New Orleans Indy Media TRUTH 02/23/06
Iran and China Close to Signing Major Oil Deal - From The Wilderness **02/17/06


Lou Dobbs actually reports real news on CNN!  Amazing!  Bush Admin, Family & Business (Including Bush/Carlyle group) ties to Dubai World.  Two current members of Bush Admin, one of which was an executive at Dubai Ports World (United Arab Emirates Gov't run Corporation), who now is head of U.S. Maritime Administration, Bush's Secretary of the Treasury was Chairman of CSX Railroad which was sold off to Dubai Ports World.

The Daily Show Weighs in

More 9/11 Ties to United Arab Emirates from the Seattle Times.

UAE (United Arab Emirates) Ties to Bin Laden (Raw Story) 02/23/06


Violence escalates as Iraq descends into civil war.   
Iraq Implements "Curfew" to stem violence 02/23/06

As Always, Regularly updated REAL  Iraq news as it happens at icasualties.org

Katrina Report: Bush admin blames communication, says no one's Fault, promises to do better next time  - ABCNEWS

Victim Photos (Warning: Extremely graphic.) MORE 

VIDEO FLASHBACK OF CORPORATE MEDIA TABLOIDS During Katrina

 

 

February 20 & 21, 2006

Pentagon Memo Reveals How White House Thwarted Torture Ban,The New Yorker 02/2006
More on New Yorker Story from Raw Story & Associated Press in Wash Post - 02/20/06
Government Reclassifies over 50,000 Previously Declassified Documents - NY Times 02/21/06
Jobs Cut at Energy Lab Restored in Time for Bush Visit - Wash. Post 02/20/06
After Injury, War Vet Takes on Politics - Truth Out Wash. Post 02/20/06
Paper Trail Politics: VOTING IN MARYLAND Update (Op-Editorial/Washington Post) - 02/20/06
Kevin Zeese, Independent  for US Senate MD, Calls for Electoral Reform for 2006 -  02/20/06
Iraq Police Tied To Iraqi Death Squads - LA Times/Truth Out 02/21/06


Corporate Media actually Reports.  Members of Congress and the Bush administration are at odds over whether security is compromised by an Arab company’s takeover of operations at six major American seaports.

UPDATE:  Congressmen Attempt to Block Ports Deal.  Read ArticleAND  Bush Threatens to Veto Legislation to Stop Ports Deal  02/21/06

Bush's appointed  Michael Chertoff, Director of Homeland Security, Article & defends selling ports to United Arab Emirates, who have been purported to support financially the Taliban and al Qaida.   GOP Governor's Question Takeover.

Firm in Miami sues to block take over.   Company taking over Philadelphia (Article).  


  MUST SEE - Readings from a Voices of a People's History of the United States edited by historian Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Hear dramatic readings of speeches, letters, poems, songs, petitions, and manifestos. These are the voices of people throughout U.S. history who struggled against slavery, racism, and war, against oppression and exploitation, and who articulated a vision for a better world.

Performances include Danny Glover as Frederick Douglass, Marisa Tomei as Cindy Sheehan, Floyd Red Crow Westerman as Tecumseh and Chief Joseph, Sandra Oh as Emma Goldman and Yuri Kochiyama, and Viggo Mortensen as Bartolomeo de Las Casas and Mark Twain


ACLU holds town hall meeting on & presidential authority and NSA Surveillance. Knowledgeable panelists include John Dean, former White House Council, and Anthony Romero, President of ACLU  02/20/06
Read American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Articles and information.

See Windows Media Player version of meeting Here

***NOTE: Over 5,000 interceptions are known, many are not related to al qaida or terrorist investigation.

 

 

February 18, 2006

China Rushes to Complete 100B Oil Deal with Iran, May Complicate US Plans  - Wash Post 02/18/06
Russia Warns US Against Striking Iran - Forbes 02/16/06 (China/Russia Hold Joint Military Exercises)
Jail Inmates Stripped Naked, Matresses Taken Away to Quell LA Prison Riots - LA Times 02/18/06
US New Construction at Gitmo to make Permanent as UN calls for Gitmo Closure - 02/18/06
Cheney Shooting Story Filled with Numerous Discrepancies - Assoc. Press 02/18/06 
Democracy Now: Gitmo News, Senators Block NSA Spying Probe, FBI Raids, More Cheney

Jon Stewart Prepares to Host Oscars
- Assoc Press 2/18/06

Senate Decides Against Wire Tapping Inquiry of Bush Administration  - 02/17/06


Channel 4 in UK does full report on the recent leaked Abu Ghraib photographs.  Know, the REST of the world has seen these, while US citizens remain largely unaware as it is not substantially covered in US Corporate Media.  02/18/06  ACLU still fights for release in US so citizens may be informed.  Austrailian here.


  Iraqi Civilians among those killed in latest violence in Iraq. 

Associated Press Article

 


Rolling Stones Gear up for concert before 2 million people in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.  BBC Article 02/18/06 

Breeding center in China, sends 16 panda cubs to school in hopes of restoring the panda population on verge of extinction. 02/18/06

 

February 16, 2006

VIEW:  BUSH ABRAMHOFF PHOTOGRAPHS
Maryland Used Uncertified/Illegal Diebold Voting Machines 2002 & 2004 - Raw Story 02/16/06
Gonzales Withholds or Destroys White House Plame Related Emails - Truth Out 02/16/06
Iraq Economy falls below Pre-War Levels - Financial Times  UK 02/16/06
John Edwards Meets with Hotel Workers - NY Times 02/16/06
Former Marine, Now Running for RI Senate, calls for Impeachment - Marine Corps Times 02/16/06
War Veterans/Katrina Survivors to Embark on Historic March in Alabama - 02/16/06


BBC News Report on UN Report regarding Treatment of prisoners at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba. UN calls it a Torture Camp.

View a "US" corporate media version here from NBC.    Really News will let the slant speak for itself. Great meals, great service.

United Nations calls for Guatanamo closure.  BBC

Thanks to Dave Edwards &  Brad Blog, for video blogging today.  02/16/06


Abu Ghraib video  Australia's equivalent of PBS reports on more photographs & videos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib.  Guardian Article NOTE: This video graphically shows extreme violence and sexually explicit photos of the abuses and humiliation being endured by those being held prisoner, including females, without charge or for known reason. US corporate media will not show you this and is complicit in the government cover up.  The abuses are thought to be wide spread.  02/16/06  
FULL VIDEO DOWNLOADS HERE

More Photographs (extremely explicit and graphic.  You are warned).

 


  Whistleblower Russell Tice, former NSA employee, Russell Tice, testified before Dennis Kucinich and the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations.  02/14/06

Important video.  Thanks again to Dave Edwards. 

 

 

February 14, 2006

More Abu Ghraib Photographs Surface - Fairfax Digital/Australia 02/14/06
Saddam Goes on Hunger Strike Protest (plus
)  - BBC 02/14/06
Paul Hackett pulls out of Ohio Senate Race ** Dem Party Betrayal - Raw Story & NY Times 02/14/06
Iran Resumes its Small-Scale Uranium Enrichment Program - Assoc. Press 02/14/06
US Group Implants Electronic Tags in Two of It's Workers - Guerilla News Network 02/13/06
Bush PR Blitz Costs Taxpayers  1.6 Billion - GNN 02/14/06


Hunter shot by Dick Cheney also suffered heart attack and has some birdshot lodged in his heart.  02/14/02

** This information was only released today.
  See Article


More fall out from the UK soldiers abuse of young Iraqi's. (CBC - Canada) 02/14/06

More from BBC News.Corporal Martin Webster, of the First Battalion, the Light Infantry, is being questioned about his involvement in the production of a video in Iraq. 02/14/06

 


Democracy Now.  - At Least 2 Reported Killed by UN Troops in Haiti
- Cheney Cited For Hunting Violation in Shooting Incident
- Report: US, Israel Consider Destabilizing Hamas Government
- Report: US Drawing Up Plans For Iran Attack
- Abramoff Associates Say He Bragged of Ties to Rove
- Decade-Old Measure To Give Energy Companies $7B Windfall
- GAO: Bush Admin. Spent Over $1.6B on PR

of Part One and of Part Two (please wait for video to load. It may take some time)  FOX News Report - Three students make documentary questioning the official story of Sept. 11, 2001.

View Trailers and get a copy of this documentary at their website. Loose Change  MUST SEE- For all Americans

 

February 12, 2006

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Another Hunter - Associated Press 02/12/06
Rep & Dem Senators say Cheney should be investigated in CIA Leak Probe - 02/12/06
$592 million dollar US Embassy being built in Baghdad, Iraq - TruthOut/Corporate Watch 02/12/06
Hundreds March On Vermont State House for Peace - Boston News 02/11/06

PROGRAMS BUSH ADMIN WANTS TO ELIMINATE - Assoc. Press  BE INFORMED


02/10/06 INN World Report: Libby testified to a federal grand jury he had been authorized by cheney and other white house superiors to disclose classified information to journalists. 

Paul Pillar National intelligence officer (2000 – 2005) for the near east and south asia accuses Bush admin of cherry picking intelligence as it had already made the decision to go to war.


UK Soldiers under investigation for abuse.  Warning: Highly graphic content.

Read the BBC Article  See BBC News

 

 

February 8 through 10, 2006

New Jersey Court Reinstates Law Suit Against Electronic Voting Machines- Rutgers Campus News
Ex-Fema Head Testifies Bush Admin was well aware of Katrina/Levy 2 days before 2/10/06
Emails Show Abramhoff Met with Bush Many Times - NY Times 2/10/06 and MORE
INN World Report:  US Imminent Attack On Iran with Nuclear Weapon in March
 
Cheney Authorizes Irving "Scooter" Libby to Leak CIA Operatives Name - DN 2/10/06
Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq - Wash Post 02/09/06


Soldiers come back from Gulf terminally ill from depleted uranium.  An NBC 30 (CT) investigation has found that for some soldiers, their service has meant a long and debilitating death sentence with mysterious diseases. 02/09/06
IMPORTANT: LEARN MORE
Effect on IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN

Depleted Uranium is highly radio active and US uses in warheads in Afghanistan & Iraq, which infects the ground, dust and area for thousands of years.


NBC's Countdown recaps the eulogies at the memorial and celebration of Coretta Scott King. 02/08/06

Former President Carter spoke of racial injustice and the wire tapping of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King. 

 


Chris Hume of Truth Out interviews Cindy Sheehan in Venezuela about a possible run for California State Senate against Diane Feinstein.  02/06

Later, Ms. Sheehan announces on radio, she has decided not to run and other matters.  02/09/06

 

 

February 6 & 7, 2006

The Washington Journal Discussion on Bush/NSA Hearing - CSpan 02/06/07
Thousands Fill the Georgia State House for Coretta Scott King Funeral - Assoc. Press 02/07/06
Month of January in US Warmest Ever (8.5 degrees higher) - Wash Post 02/07/06
Injured soldier ordered by US Army to pay for destroyed armor - Raw Story W. VA Gazette 02/07/06
Gonzales says Washington, Lincoln & Roosevelt used electronic surveillance too - 02/06/06
Senators challenge Gonzales on NSA spying - The Boston Globe 02/07/06
Republican Congresswoman Calls for Full Scale Investigation of NSA Wire Taps - 02/08/06


Reverend Dr. Joseph Lowery, at the Coretta Scott King funeral, in front of 4 presidents: "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there [standing ovation]... but Coretta kew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty aounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor."  02/07/06


John Dean, former legal counsel to Richard Nixon discusses Alberto Gonzales testimony on legality of  Bush Admin/NSA wire tapping. 02/07/06 

Iran's Vaidi listens to questions after IAEA board of governors meeting in Vienna.  (Channel 4 News UK)

Iran curbs inspections of its nuclear plants and re-starts its enrichment programme after being referred to the UN.  02/07/06

 

February 4, 2006

Twenty Inmates Hospitalized After Prison Riot in Los Angeles - Assoc. Press 02/04/06
Details Emerge over the Egyptian Ferry that Caught Fire & Sank - Channel 4, UK
Saddam Hussein Trial Descends into Chaos - Channel 4, UK
Surveillance Net/Wire Taps Yielded Few Suspects - Washington Post 02/04/06
Thousands Protest, Demanding the President Step down and 02/04/06
Report on John Boehner, Elected to Replace Tom Delay as House Majority Leader - 02/04/06
Judge Slams Fmr EPA Chief over Hazardous Air in Class Action - Assoc. Press 02/03/06
President Bush State of Union Concerns for Animal Human Hybrids
01/31/06


PBS Frontline Documentary exerpt. ebuilding the WTC Towers. The story of power and money is an age-old New York City story. And indeed, it is the story that drove the "arranged marriage" between prominent architects David Childs and Daniel Libeskind. This excerpt from "Sacred Ground" details how two very different architects, were forced to collaborate in designing the Freedom Tower, the signature skyscraper to be built at the World Trade Center site.


Thousands honor Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King.  Mourners lined the streets of Atlanta Saturday to pay their respects to the civil rights leader. 02/04/06

Experts confirm La Nina.  Bonnie Schneider explains La Nina, a mild cooling of Pacific Ocean waters that could affect U.S. weather.  La Nina predicts dry weather in the south and a very active upcoming hurricane season.  02/05/06

 

February 2, 2006

Ability to Wage "Long War" is Key to Pentagon Plan/Expand US Forces World-wide - Wash Post 02/04/06
Rhodes Interview w/John Perkins, Author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Re: American Empire

Tax Cuts, Extension of the Patriot Act, West VA Gov calls for halt to coal mining - Democracy Now
Bush to Request 120 Billion More for Iraq War Funding - Assoc. Press 02/02/06
Coretta Scott King, Wife of Martin Luther King Passes Away - 01/31/06 CNN Plus
Capitol Police Drop Charges Against Cindy Sheehan for wearing T-Shirt at SOTU - MSNBC 02/01/06

Cindy Sheehan's Account of her Arrest at State of the Union - 02/01 & Cindy's words 


 Impeachment Conference Held in Washington, DC at the historic Bus Boys & Poets restaurant.  The even was chaired by Kevin Zeese, Independent Candidate for US Senate, Maryland.  Important speakers, Ramsey Clarke, former Attorney General under President Johnson, Marcus Raskin, Distinguished Fellow for the Institute for Policy Studies, David Swanson co-founder of After Downing Street, Ann Wright former US Ambassador/State Dept. Official under then Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Discussion of Constitutional Alternate way to Impeach from a State or Territory Legislature.  

See also Bush Commission, meeting held in New York City 01/20-01/21/06 
 LISTEN


  Channel 4/UK Report The White House memo

Revealed: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war.  MORE

 Report.   in UK Report on Secret Bush/Blair memo to Goad Saddam Hussein to War 

 


Liberty News TV - Month of January In Review.

The influence of the Christian Right on American politics has gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream press. In this, our one-year anniversary show, we delve into what has become a major schism in American ideology: Christ the peacemaker versus Christ the warrior and avenger (what we call the "Corporate Christ.).  02/01/06

See January Archives from Really News Archives