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Anti-Bush Protests
'Into the Buzzsaw' Exposes the Death of Investigative Journalism in America
Blaming Al Gore - The Latest Crime of the Stolen Election
Caught in the Crossfire: Begala Strikes Back
Is Ted Olson Lying About Barbara's Calls from Flight 77?
GWBush.com Produces Radio Ad Exposing Cheney's Hypocrisy
L.A. Times Says White Should Quit
Presidential Orders Obviously Don't Apply to Oil Companies - or Bush
As W-ar Costs Surpass $12 Billion, White House Admits 'You've Got to Have a Roaring
Economy'
British Tell Blair Not to Be Bush's 'Poodle'
'Bush and Tony' - The Latest Hit Song from Mad Kane
Virginia GOP Director Indicted!
Jeb's Business Partner Accused of Tax Evasion and Bribery
Oh My! Are the Reverend Jerry Falwell's Shorts in a Knot? The Good Rev Files Suit
Against Parody Website!
Press Censorship in Alaska
Another Peek Inside Osama bin Laden's Diary
__Anti-Bush Protests
On 4/15, protest Bush in Cedar Rapids IA, and protest Cheney in Collinsville IL. On
4/19, protest Cheney in Allentown PA. On 4/20, participate in major demonstrations
against Bush's War in DC and SF.
http://legitgov.org/action.html
__'Into the Buzzsaw' Exposes the Death of Investigative Journalism in America
Kristina Borjesson, an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning investigative reporter and
veteran of CBS and CNN, has written a must-read book for Americans who want to know
what happened to investigative journalism - and the truth. "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading
Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press" contains urgent essays by 18 mainstream
reporters who tried to investigate major stories like TWA Flight 800 (Borjesson), CIA
involvement in the drug trade (Michael Levine and Gary Webb), the No Gun Ri massacre
in Korea (Robert Port), and Monsanto's bovine growth hormone (Jane Akre). Pursuing
stories that challenged corporate and government power led these journalists "into the
buzzsaw," and they were lucky to come out alive. To read about the death of
investigative journalism - and truth in America - buy this important book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573929727/democratscom
__Blaming Al Gore - The Latest Crime of the Stolen Election
"The latest crime of the stolen 2000 Presidential election is blaming the victim of
the stolen election - Al Gore - for the numerous illegal acts committed by the Bush
campaign and its surrogates in their broad daylight theft of the Presidency. Both the
evidence that Democrats.com has collected in its extensive investigation of the stolen
election, and the election laws and procedures of the state of Florida, prove this
'blame the victim' attack to be totally wrong." So writes Nancy Kuhn.
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6543
__Caught in the Crossfire: Begala Strikes Back
Once again Paul Begala used his secret weapon to undermine poor helpless Tucker
Carlson on CNN's Crossfire -- the facts! Begala has them and Carlson thinks bringing
some facts to use in an argument is unfair. Hey Tucker, either get better at your
right-wing zealotry or get gone.
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6553
__Is Ted Olson Lying About Barbara's Calls from Flight 77?
Right-wing commentator Barbara Olson's two calls to right-wing Solicitor General Ted
Olson during the hijacking of Flight 77 instantly became legendary. Barbara's last
words, "What do I tell the pilot to do?" were cited as the epitome of her courage and
leadership. But as time goes by, Ted keeps changing his story. On 9-11, he told CNN
and the NY Times that she called him from her cellphone. On 9-12, he told the London
Telegraph, "She called and said she was locked in the toilet." On 9-14, the Telegraph
wrote: "She had locked herself in the lavatory and had to call 10 times before she
could persuade the operators to accept the call charges." But on 3-5-02, Ted told the
Telegraph: "She had had trouble getting through, because she wasn't using her
cellphone, she was using the phone in the passengers' seats. I guess she didn't have
her purse, because she was calling collect..." Why is Ted changing his story? Is he
lying about his own wife's death? After all, he was caught lying during his Senate
confirmation hearing about his role in Richard Mellon Scaife's Arkansas Project to
destroy the Clinton Presidency. Where are the phone records for 9-11?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/main.jhtml?xml=%2Ffamily%2F2002%2F03%2F05%2Ffolsen05.xml
__GWBush.com Produces Radio Ad Exposing Cheney's Hypocrisy
With $10,000 in donor financing, GWBush.com has produced a radio ad exposing the
illegal business with Iraq that Cheney engaged in at Halliburton. This effort
represents the beginning of the site's "open media project that will enable people WHO
ARE NOT REPUBLICAN BILLIONAIRES to produce and air issue ads."
http://www.gwbush.com
__L.A. Times Says White Should Quit
An L.A. Times editorial points out that -- as if it wasn't bad enough that Army
Secretary Thomas White was part of an elaborate, deceptive plot to deceive Wall Street
analysts while working at Enron - his post-Enron conduct has also been a scandal. He
has lied about the nature of and the number of contacts he had with Enron officials
since joining the administration, and he even had the nerve to apply for retirement
benefits after Enron tanked! The editorial sums it all up: "The secretary of the Army
needs to be like Caesar's wife--beyond suspicion. White's conduct during and after his
tenure at Enron does not meet that standard. He should resign."
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000024015apr04.story
__Presidential Orders Obviously Don't Apply to Oil Companies - or Bush
The case against John Walker Lindh puts the Bush administration in a very difficult
bind. Steven Brill of Newsweek writes, "Lindh....is charged with... aiding and
conspiring to aid terrorists, and aiding an organization, the Taliban, that supports
terrorists. But it's now clear that the government only has a good case against him
for violating a presidential executive order in 1999 that made it illegal to provide
services to the Taliban because they were aiding Al Qaeda." Whose presidential order
was it in 1999? Bill Clinton's of course. Besides Lindh, who else violated this order?
Unocal, which wined and dined Taliban officials to approve their pipeline - and Bush's
own State Department, which gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban. Will they be
prosecuted like Lindh? Don't hold your breath.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/735202.asp?cp1=1
__As W-ar Costs Surpass $12 Billion, White House Admits 'You've Got to Have a Roaring
Economy'
After giving America's hard-earned surplus to the rich, and tapping into Social
Security and Medicare reserves, White House officials are now mounting a re-election
[sic] campaign initiative designed to scrim over their fiscal mismanagement and insure
that Bush#43 doesn't appear to repeat the economic mistakes of his father, Bush#41.
Fearing that rising gas prices (March's was the sharpest 4-week increase since 1990)
could diminish public optimism about economic recovery, Bush strategists are busily
implementing a public relations offensive. Plans cover using the poor economy for
legislative leverage to promote Mr. Bush's agenda, such as increased energy
production, including oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
While Mr. Bush defers optimism, aides are cautiously optimistic about economic
recovery. As one candidly put it, "You've got to have a roaring economy to create the
kind of revenue you need to fight wars."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10858-2002Apr7.html
__British Tell Blair Not to Be Bush's 'Poodle'
John Nichols writes in the Nation, "It turns out that Blair, who has been the
president's most enthusiastic international ally since the September 11 terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has been having a very hard time
making the case at home for British support of a U.S.-led attack on Iraq... Dismissing
Blair's sympathy for the American president's military strategies as misguided, the
mass-circulation Mirror newspaper has taken to referring to the prime minister as 'the
president's poodle.' 'We didn't do so lightly -- but the truth is the prime minister
has done nothing but play lapdog to the Washington Red Neck,' Mirror editors wrote in
an editorial that appeared Friday morning. 'Whenever Bush has barked, Mr. Blair has
rolled over with his legs in the air. As other European leaders held back from jumping
to Bush's demands (on Iraq), Britain under Blair has rushed forward with embarrassing
haste.'"
http://thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=44
__'Bush and Tony' - The Latest Hit Song from Mad Kane
Bush and Tony(To be sung to the tune of "Love and Marriage") Bush and Tony, Bush and
TonyGo together like a cart and pony.This I tell you brotherYou can't have one without
the other.Bush and Tony, Bush and TonyAlways waging war & being phony.Ask the local
gentry And they will say it's elementary.Try, try, try to separate themFrom their
distortions.Try, try, try, and you will only comeTo this conclusion.Bush and Tony,
Bush and TonyGo together like a cart and pony.Split them? Don't you bother.You can't
have one without the other.There's more...
http://www.madkane.com/bush&tony.html
__Virginia GOP Director Indicted!
Edmund A. Matricardi III, executive director of Virginia's Republican Party, was
indicted on charges of illegally intercepting telephone conference calls involving
Gov. Mark Warner and other Democrats. Matricardi was charged with two counts of
illegal wire interception and two counts of attempting to disclose the contents. The
GOP Executive Director is accused of eavesdropping on calls by Democrats that
discussed a court fight over redistricting. Matricardi and his lawyer contend that
"listening in on a phone conversation is not illegal" and have asked that the charges
be dropped. How outrageous!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1648419,00.html
__Jeb's Business Partner Accused of Tax Evasion and Bribery
According to the St. Petersburg Times, "Jeb Bush's former business partner, prominent
Republican contributor J. David Eller, twice flew suitcases of cash to offshore tax
havens to hide his assets, the U.S. Justice Department contends in a lawsuit. The
lawsuit also says Eller's MWI Corp., a Deerfield Beach water pump manufacturer,
improperly used more than one-third of a $74.3-million U.S. loan to pay a Nigerian
agent for the company. In turn, that agent and other company officials paid Nigerian
government officials involved in buying MWI's pumps... The allegations of wrongdoing
by MWI track the period when Bush worked for an affiliated company promoting the
company's equipment overseas. A Bush spokeswoman, Katie Muniz, said Friday that the
governor was unaware of any wrongdoing by MWI and that the absence of any reference to
Bush proves what he has said for years: 'He had nothing whatsoever to do with the
alleged wrongdoing of MWI.'" Why is EVERY Bush deal surrounded with corruption???
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/06/State/Ex_partner_of_Jeb_Bus.shtml
__Oh My! Are the Reverend Jerry Falwell's Shorts in a Knot? The Good Rev Files Suit
Against Parody Website!
The Reverend Jerry Falwell, in an apparent snit over a parody website that makes fun
of his accusations that liberals and the Godless caused 9-11, has filed a complaint
with the World Intellectual Property Organization against the developer of
www.jerryfalwell.com. Falwell says the site violates a "common-law trademark" of his
name. Gary Cohn of Highland Park, Ill., says Falwell "is trying to shut down a
noncommercial Internet site that makes fun of Falwell for blaming the Sept. 11 bombing
of American landmarks on the supposed moral decline of America, and quotes the Bible
at Falwell in the exact same way that Falwell likes to quote it at other people."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020404/ap_on_hi_te/falwell_web_site_1
__Press Censorship in Alaska
In a decision that bodes poorly for a healthy press in Alaska, two of the three
columnists at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner have been fired. The main target was Dan
O'Neill, a respected researcher whose columns exposed a secret plan to test Scud
missiles at the U of Alaska. The commotion this caused resulted in a proposal to
restrict classified research on campus. Columnist Gary Moore, an Alaska Native
critical of the Native corporations, may also have annoyed the local powers. The
surviving columnist, Judy Kleinfeld, is a conservative married to a Reagan-appointed
judge. Kelly Bostian, the managing editor, said the stable of regular columnists had
dwindled, and it was too hard to recruit locals willing to write for meager fees, so
he will invite guest editorials. This is barely credible: most newspapers have both
regular columnists and op-ed columns, and lots of articulate people in Fairbanks would
love to see their names in print. Express your outrage to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/857656p-942953c.html
__Another Peek Inside Osama bin Laden's Diary
"Allah be praised, I'm still alive! I fully expected a backlash from the evildoers,
but not on this scale. This moving around every night or two is exciting, but it gets
old -- like me -- pretty fast. Still, there's the 'rush' from escaping the
bombardments and the troops (thank Allah for our Afghan and Pakistani friends)." So
writes Bernard Weiner.
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6499
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