Really News Archives - April, 2006

April 25, 2006

US to Test 700 Ton Bomb in Nevada Desert 
"Divine Strake" Nuke Simulation  on June 2, 2006

Understand Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs as to be used on Iran


Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on PBS "Jim Lehrer's News Hour regarding the firing of his former colleage Mary McCarthy, who the CIA has accused of leaking information about US Torture prisons.

MSNBC has a full report.  See 04/25/06


Associated Press/CBC reports on ceremony for the fallen in Canada. Even in Canada, this type of event is rarely publicized.  See CBC article.

 An image not seen in the United States of America, the honoring and fallen of our troops, nor ceremony.  As of 4/25/06, AT LEAST 2389 US soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq & Afghanistan.  No such ceremony has ever been shown, nor has Bush attended a single funeral.  04/25/06  Tens of thousands more have lost limbs or have been severely disabled.


(Warning: Extremely Disturbing & Graphic) Uses Macromedia FLASH.   Truths about the massacre in the Village of Abu Sifa, Isahi district in Iraq. 03/06

Recent video presentation by Chris Floyd for the Huffington Post.  04/25/06

 

 

April 20, 2006


Randi Rhodes of Air America reports REAL news on Divine Strake, White Sands Bomb Test (articles above). ON Lou Dobbs, CNN. 04/18/06

NOTE: The Nevada Test Site (NTS) was a nuclear testing ground, bomb detonation could send nuclear material up into the air in the surrounding areas. 


MSNBC Countdown Tribute to Scott McClelland, White House Press Secretary who resigned yesterday 04/19/06. BBC News with article. 

Flashback to "Talon News" Jeff Gannon/Guckert, gay male escort who had frequent access to the White House/"member of press corp" See Salon Article and America Blog who broke story (02/2005 - original stories)

Really News will genuinely miss Scott McClelland. Thanks for the memories Keith Olbermann

 


The United States has announced plans to prosecute more employers who hire illegal immigrants. BBC 04/20/06

and ARTICLE. The government plans to crack down ever harder on employers who harbor and hire illegal immigrants, pursuing companies that ignore the law so they can exploit cheap labor.

 

 

April 14 through 18, 2006


Are The Children Being Left Behind?  04/18/06

Loophole: States Omitting Minority Test Scores - Associated Press

 


Tavis Smiley interviews former White House Council for the Nixon Administration John Dean. Dean focuses on the moral and legal failings of the current Administration. (Dave Edwards)

Jon Stewart discusses the latest on Rumsfeld 04/17/06


Countdown discussion on latest on Rumsfeld 04/17/06


Cindy Sheehan and many others return to Crawford TX for Easter. 


Dr. Joseph Lowery co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Lowery is concerned about the "Soul of America." Easter/Crawford TX

President Bush reshuffled his economic team Tuesday with a new budget chief who is highly regarded on Capitol Hill and promised more changes were coming.

 

April 13, 2006

"Zeroes for Heroes" A Report on 9/11 Illnesses & Related Deaths - New York Metro (2003)
5,000 in Class Action Law Suit Regarding 9/11 Illnesses (01/06) & MORE on Law Suit (03/06)
Sunni's & Americans Die Near Baghdad - CBS News/Assoc. Press  04/13/06
US Government to Outsource/Hire Terrorist Group for Iran Intel - Raw Story 04/13/06


ABC Reports on the "Fake Chemical Labs" reported by the Bush Administration to the American People and the United Nations, given as proof and reason to go to war in Iraq. 04/13/06

Another from MSNBC Countdown.

**Note: When the corporate media does its job, it will be shown here, as it is above.


California Senator Barbara Boxer from California appeared on MSNBC's Hardball.  She has requested an apology, on behalf of the American people for Bush declassifying information for political purposes. 04/11/06 (posted by David Edwards at the BradBlog)

US Military to hype up the propaganda on their alleged terrorist Al-Zarqawi.  US propaganda is angering the more Iraqi's toward the US led occupation, according to Al-Alam TV.

See also this Washington Post Article

 

 

April 11, 2006

Dick Cheney Booed at Washington Nationals Opening Day 04/10/06
Bush Claims Iraq Leak was Declassified CNN 04/11/06
Iraqi insurgents attack in Eastern Baghdad - Assoc. Press 04/11/06
With Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in the Spotlight - NY Times 04/11/06
Phone Jamming Scandal Leads to White House - Assoc. Press 04/11/06


Countdown with Keith Olbermann, discussion of the President's leak in outing CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Guests Joe Wilson and David Shuster also reports 4/10/06

Other dissecting the Spin with David Shuster reporting on the President & CIA outing of Plame


Seymour Hersh on the Bush Administration's plans to attack Iran on CNN. 04/09/06 C & L

Bush's Plan to Attack Iran (already on going) - Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker 04/17/06 edition
Messianic Mission: US Plan to Topple Iranian Regime - The Guardian (UK) 04/10/06 Russian "Pravda" Article

 


Iran Takes Step Toward Nuclear Power - 04/11/06

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country has successfully enriched uranium. But insists he does not want to make weapons with the technology (Article). 

 

 

April 9, 2006

US to Use Nukes on Iran & Begin war - 04/06/06 (MUST see Congressman Ron Paul video below)
Death Toll Goes up to 85 in Iraq Attacks Yesterday - Assoc. Press 04/08/06
Embassy in Niger Forge Niger Documents for Iraq War - Raw Story 04/08/06
Seventh Vermont Town Votes to Impeach - Brattleboro Reformer 04/08/06
American Bar Association "Getting to Bottom" of NSA Surveillance - Knight Ridder 04/08/06


  HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS (Republican) - Before the U.S. House of Representatives 
April 5, 2006

Iran’s history is being ignored, just as we ignored Iraq’s history.  This ignorance or deliberate misrepresentation of our recent relationship to Iraq and Iran is required to generate the fervor needed to attack once again a country that poses no threat to us. 

Article on Ron Paul, fighting for America and our Freedom.


Tornados rip through midwest, killing many.  Over 400 Tornadoes have been reported in the US so far this year.  Peak tornado is March through May in SE.  While in the upper midwest tornados occur during the summer. 04/06/06

More Tornados slam the southeast.  Plus witness testimony

And hurricane season is to begin soon. 

 


Democracy Now
- Bush Accused Of OKing Leak of Classified Info
- Senate Delays Vote on Immigration Reform
- LA Cardinal Offers Mass In Support of Undocumented Immigrants
- Gonzales: Gov't Has Power To Monitor Domestic Calls
- Whistleblower: AT&T Cooperated With NSA Over Spying
- Sen. Harkin Urges Democrats To Back Censure of Bush
- Report: U.S. Forces Int'l AIDS Programs To Focus on Abstinence
- UN Accuses Haiti of Illegally Detaining 4,000
- U.S. Reduces Spending on "Democracy Promotion" in Iraq

(BBC Report) BBC & Al Jazeera, not the US Coporate media, cover Veterans 150 Mile Walk from Alabama to New Orleans in March. 

Veterans tell their stories and experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Really News is listening.  Thank You Veterans. We support you.

 

 

April 6, 2006

Iranians Mull Military Exercises near American border - 04/06/06
Money from Abroad Donated for Katrina Lost to US Bureaucracy - 04/06/06
Debate in Congress over War in Iraq Grows Louder - 04/06/06
Senate Nears Immigration Deal  - Associated Press 04/06/06


David Schuster reports that Bush and Cheney authorized the leak of information regarding Valerie Plame, covert CIA operative.  AP Article  Plus Evidence Suggests Conspiracy

From October 2003 Bush & Scott McClelland views Bush & Scott McClelland on the outing of Valerie Plame when it occurred in 2003

And from July 2006
Bush AND McClelland  regarding their friend Karl Rove.


Are we living in a Science Fiction world?  Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed.  How Corporate Funded Propaganda Is Airing On Local Newscasts As "News" Watch segment from Democracy Now. 04/06/06

Bush event goes off script in North Carolina when a man named Harry Taylor took the microphone.  (Read Transcript and story at Think Progress)  Also has a version of including Bush's response in which Bush states he will not apologize for wiretapping Americans. 04/06/06

 

April 4, 2006

Explosions Rock Baghdad - Associated Press 04/04/06
Casualties Mount In Iraq - Get the Latest Iraq News (Constantly Updated)
Union Leaders Boo McCain on Immigration - Associated Press 04/03/06
Schools to Adopt Security Lock Down Drills - Assoc. Press 04/04/06
British Secretary Calls for Geneva Conventions Review - Assoc. Pres 04/03/06


Tom Delay resigns from Congress and from running for re election.  Video of speech he gave on his resignation.  Hat tip C & L

Delay was indicted on felony charges in violating Texas campaign finance law. He could receive a two-year prison sentence and a fine of up to 10,000 dollars found guilty. 04/04/06


TruthOut's Allie Deger traveled to New Orleans with over seven hundred students from eighty-two colleges across the nation from March 15 to March 19, 2006, to participate in debris removal in the New Orleans area during an "alternative spring break" with Habitat for Humanity. Here is her eyewitness report.
(Photo: Chris Hume / TruthOut)

City Club Presents Ann Wright and David Swanson
Former U.S. diplomat Ann Wright explains why she resigned in 2003 after 30 years of service in protest over the U.S. policies that led to the invasion of Iraq . David Swanson, founder of DowningStreet.Org follows with his critique of Britain 's role in the Iraq War in this address to the Catfish Club and the City Club of San Diego.

** Video uses Real Player

 

April 2, 2006

50 war protesters rallied outside Exxon Mobil Corp - Mercury News/Assoc. Press 04/01/06
Thousands Rally Against the Occupation in Atlanta - Washington Post/Assoc. Press 04/02/06
Marines kill Staff Sergeant Who Survived Tour of Duty in Iraq - Houston Chronicle 04/02/06
U.S. Plans Enduring Bases in Iraq - The Independent (UK) 04/02/06
US and UK in Talks Regarding Striking Iran - UK Telegraph News 04/02/06
America's War on the Web, US Gov't Controls Airwaves/Internet Info WAR  - Sunday Herald 04/02/06


Gen. Zinni was the second guest on "Meet the Press," today and was very powerful in his observations in the run up to the war, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush's loyalty to his people rather than to their performance which has been appalling by his standards. Russert let him give uninterrupted answers to his questions. 04/01/06

Transcript from Think Progress


Jill Carroll, a reporter for the Christian Science monitor who was abducted in Iraq, arrives home.  Jill Carroll (2nd L) is reunited with her family (L-R), sister Katie Carroll, mother Mary Beth Carroll, and father Jim Carroll in Boston, Massachusetts, April 2, 2006. Jill Carroll, the American journalist held captive in Iraq for 82 days, returned home to the United States Sunday for a reunion with her family. Article

More from INN Report, plus more WORLD news. Bomb Tests in Las Vegas, Nevada, Condi Rice, and Rialto Airport closing.


Liberty News April 2006.   Some of the nation's best economists are finally telling it like it is. The U.S. Economy is teetering on the abyss. We look into the legacy of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush free ride for free trade. What do we find? Foreign ownership of critical assets, a devastated manufacturing sector and $804 billion in U.S. dollars at the whim of foreign banks.

See March Archives from Really News Archives