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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
November 13, 2002
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-- BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY--
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Breaking News: -- The Iraqi government will accept a U.N. mandate to submit to inspections and disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, Reuters and other sources say.
Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium -- On the "Highway of Death," 11 miles north of the Kuwait border, a collection of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles are rusting in the desert. They also are radiating nuclear energy.
Asking The Hard Questions On Iraq -- by Paul Vitello "The news conference was getting ugly. 'Do you even like America?' asked one member of the press corps. 'It seems like you have a lot of complaints.'
Bush warns Iraq after parliament rejects UN resolution -- Vote greeted with derision by US Dictator -- The shadow-boxing between America and Iraq continued yesterday when the parliament in Baghdad recommended rejecting the United Nations resolution on weapons inspections and Dictator George Bush said such a decision would lead to war.
Defensible Tripwire for War -- (The Christian Science Monitor) "President [sic] Bush failed over the summer to provide enough hard evidence of Iraqi support for Al Qaeda to justify a war against Saddam Hussein. But rather than retreat in the face of international doubts, Mr. Bush instead launched a new moral offensive."
Let 'The Quiet American' Speak -- by Brett Dakin "Australian director Phillip Noyce's film adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel, 'The Quiet American,' is set in Saigon during the early years of America's involvement in Vietnam... 'The Quiet American' has been finished for more than a year, and it was a hit at the Toronto Film Festival. Critics at home and abroad have raved. But Americans still can't see it."
Bush military role less than glorious -- (letter to The Boston Globe) -- by John Hamilton "Now that President [sic] Bush is preparing to order young Americans into battle, he should reflect on his own less than courageous behavior when America was asking young men to kill and die for 'freedom.' ''
Imperiled pipeline gets U.S. troops in Colombia -- On the edge of the war-torn city of Saravena, U.S. military advisers are preparing for a major escalation of American involvement in Colombia's 38-year-old civil war.
Argentina probes former Ford officials for links to murders -- An Argentine judge said on Monday he had opened a probe into allegations that former executives of U.S. automaker Ford's local unit were implicated in the "disappearances" of employees during the 1976-83 dictatorship. Up to 30,000 suspected leftists died or disappeared -- a euphemism for being kidnapped, tortured and murdered -- under Argentina's brutal military dictatorship. Many victims were thrown out of planes into the Atlantic Ocean while still alive.
Webster Ends His Brief Stint on S.E.C. Oversight Board -- William H. Webster resigned today as head of a new board overseeing the accounting profession in the midst of continuing controversy over his ties to a company under investigation for fraud.
FERC Scolded for Lack of Oversight -- The federal agency charged with policing the nation's energy markets to prevent price gouging continues to shirk its enforcement duties, a congressional report to be released today concludes. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has promised reforms to prevent a repeat of the abuses that marked California's 2000-2001 electricity crisis.
Halliburton says submits 200,000 documents to SEC -- Halliburton Co. (NYSE:HAL) said on Tuesday said it has submitted about 200,000 documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an ongoing inquiry into the accounting practices at the oilfield services firm.
Probes proceeding on several fronts -- Bulging boxes holding thousands of Enron documents line the walls four high in the offices of the Energy Task Force on the 18th floor of a downtown building leased to the California Attorney General's Office.
Leading US companies 'expect to cut jobs' -- Executives from some of America's leading companies are expecting to cut jobs and delay investment over the coming year, in the latest sign that the US economic recovery is struggling to gain momentum.
Senate shift on trees, oil and air -- When Republicans settle into chairing the Senate's 14 committees, it'll be hard to find any changes starker than those in the two panels that decide energy and environmental policies. Under Democrats, those committees were pulpits for critics of Bush mis-ministration policies on logging, air pollution and oil drilling. Now they are about to become pulpits for those who say that environmental regulations often outweigh any benefits and hurt the economy.
Bechtel Vs. Bolivia - Time to Open Up Secret Trade Courts -- by Jim Shultz "Sometime in the next few weeks, behind closed doors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., panelists in a secret trade court will decide if the people of South America's poorest country will have to pay $25 million to one of the world's most wealthy corporations."
Groups sound off at the Capitol over textbooks' content -- (TX) Dozens gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday to criticize what they say is an unfair influence of social conservatives and religious right groups in Texas' textbook adoption process.
Democrats Said to Pick Boston Over New York for Convention -- The Democratic National Committee was moving tonight to bypass New York as the site of its 2004 presidential convention, settling instead on Boston as the location for its quadrennial meeting, officials familiar with the deliberations said.
Democrats Plan to Allow Confirmation of 2 Judges -- Democrats who had been using their slim majority in the Senate to block several of Dictator Bush's judicial candidates are expected to give way some on Thursday and allow the confirmation of two appeals court nominees, senior Congressional aides said today.
Democrat raised funds for the GOP -- (FL) In a sign of the increasing influence of money in Tallahassee, Gwen Margolis, an incoming Democratic state senator from Northeast Miami-Dade, raised campaign contributions for the new Republican Senate president -- money that he used to help defeat Margolis' fellow Democrats seeking Senate seats.
Happy days are here again? Right -- by Tom Brazaitis "But beware, Democratic appeasers. Learn a lesson from Sens. Jean Carnahan of Missouri, Max Cleland of Georgia and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, all of whom went along with Bush's 2001 tax cuts and Iraq war resolution only to have Bush hunt them down like a serial sniper in the closing days of the campaign."
In a First, a Lesbian Is Elected District Attorney in San Diego -- With her victory over District Attorney Paul Pfingst sealed, Judge Bonnie Dumanis of Superior Court will become the first openly gay prosecutor elected in the country, gay advocates say.
Ministers develop plan for 'Protect and Survive' film to warn of terror threat -- (UK) A public information film in the style of the 1970s Protect and Survive campaign is being considered by the Government as part of plans to improve the country's ability to cope with terrorist attacks.
Radioactive particles contaminate workers -- (UK) Twenty-one workers at a nuclear reprocessing plant were contaminated with radioactive particles, it was revealed last night.
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