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• August 29, 2003  
• CDM Watch Monitoring the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol: Whistleblowers, Action Alert: Help stop the CDM subsidising unsustainable technologies. 
• Mother Jones  Camisea Gas and Pipeline Project, Export Import Bank and Inter-American Development Bank and George W. Bush.
• Bank Information Center provides info to NGO's and social groups on World Bank. Whats New: Camisea Project ( Bush and the price of natural gas),  Activists oppose 'clean development' credits
• Bretton Woods Project critical voices on World Bank and IMF 
• August 28, 2003  
• Diabetes epidemic could be worse than AIDS, and  California Food Policy Advocates, low-income peoples nutrition advocate, links, news.
• Iraq/Israel pipeline re-opening planned,  shutdown in 1948, and attempts to revive it during Iraq-Iran War.  Haaretz 
• Conservatives and Liberals together oppose the Computer Assisted Passenger Presceening System (CAPPS II)  
• August 27, 2003  
• "Jewish left finds itself as isolated and vilified as it has been at any time in its history" MERIP Middle East Report. 
• Judicial Watch on Dick Cheney  
• House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Cheney Energy Task Force  Latest developments: Cheney Stifled Probe   Yahoo/Reuters
• Halliburton bribe to Nigeria probe started   for tax exemptions.   Old News.  Thought I'd throw this in just to keep it alive.  
• August 26, 2003  
• Peace activist site near Bush's Crawford Texas home  also, a woma1n from Military Families Speak Out was there.  AP/ Yahoo 
• New Scientist Daily news:  Resveratrol compound found in grapes can protect from heart disease in humans and may have life extending properties in mammals. 
• Civil Liberties Digest, Pacific News  Palestinian harassment in Maryland,  fewer Arab Americans support Bush,  Anti-Muslim incidents, banks blacklisting Muslims. 
• Who Dies  dies, lies, thrives from the Iraq Occupation......Project Underground   News, Drillbits and Tailings, war profits......Veterans for Peace Veterans Working Together for Peace & Justice through non-violence. Who profits from war.  Wage Peace 
• August 25, 2003  
• Bushjokes.com
• August 24, 2003  
• Federal Register, Executive Orders archive, seems to be updated only until January of 2002, will keep looking.
• Changing the Climate Tag SUV campaign.  Using ridicule and social embarrassment to turn the SUV into a badge of shame. 
• August 23, 2003  
• 70 South: Hints of ozone recovery spotted, Antarctic drilling may spur eruption, Iraelis and Palestinians in joint expedition. 
• Right Wing politics in BC forests Bush and Campbell two peas in a pod.  Election campaign promises turned out to be just lies. 
• Freedom from Religion Foundation support abolishing Vatican ambassadorship because of anti-gay stance,  Ten Commandments monument rejected by Federal District Court in La Crosse, Wisconsin and Alabama, Disinformation guide 
• August 22, 2003  
• No sunshine on Florida voucher program.  The Islamic Academy of Florida (government says is terrorist cell) got $350,000.  Neither the state or the public have access to audits.  Herald Tribune 
• Atrazine and the EPA  EPA's own assessment says numerous communities have dangerous levels in their water supplies.  links to cancer. OMB Watch 
• 1991 Gulf War Vets lawsuit Blame corporations and banks named in UN report.  More than 100,000 vets seeking compensation.  Lawyer Gary B. Pitts.   Sign on San Diego 
• August 21, 2003  
• New evidence that Atrazine not safe.  Press Release from June 2002, also in headlines today.  Atrazine, most used weed-killer.  NRDC called on EPA to investigate Syngenta for allegedly covering up studies results. 
• Ashcroft, secret searches 'sneak and peak' provisions in Patriot Act,  House voted 309-118 to block fed funds for these searches.  Could a terrorist eventually be anyone who opposed Bush? Reuters 
• Sustainable Business, News:  Soles of your shoes made from Sunflowers, US-EU GM crop dispute heats up, solar energy as a solution to US grid problems.  
• Changing World Technologies, Brian Appel, Thermo-Depolymerization Process, converts industrial waste into fuels, oils, ...more,  renewable resources. 
• August 20, 2003  
• Prevent Conflict.org  Late breaking news portal,  Central Asia, Afghanistan. 
• August 19, 2003   
• HIV Insight U of California  comprehensive, up-to-date info on AIDS, News page: "China Meets AIDS Crisis With Force" 
• Pesticide.net news 
• 'Clear Skies'  Bush smokescreen it detrimentally expands pollution trading system,  stretches mercury reduction deadlines, loosens the cap on nitrogen oxide which is linked to asthma and lung disease, weakens protections from sulfur dioxide, ...more Sierra Club 
• Global warming causing glaciers to disappear faster than initially thought  Dawn 
• August 18, 2003   
• Roy Moore, Ten Commandments Judge  Jerry Falwell, Alan Keyes at rally in Alabama to keep Ten Commandments monument.  see People for the American Way  for Progressive view.  People for the American Way. 
• August 17, 2003   
• Sustainable Energy & Economy Network Breaking News. 
• Earthrights International, works with Government Accountability Project and Sustainable Energy & Economy Network. 
• Government Accountability Project challenges Bush Executive Order 13303 which grants blanket legal immunity to oil companies in Iraq.  All veiled by 'humanitarian spin' by Bush administration. 
• August 16, 2003   
• "US tried to plant WMD's, failed: whistleblower" Nelda Rogers, veteran debriefer of DoD. search on "Nelda Rogers" CIA WMD...etc  Is this for real?  Searches reveal a spreading story, but little substance beyond story???.  Pakistan Daily Times 
• GreenBiz.com News and article on distributed energy systems, in the 'light' of recent power outages: "Climate Wise"
• Syndicated News  NewsFollowUp.com 
• August 15, 2003   
• Straight Goods, Canada, new content regularly,  article on group rights versus individual rights in the context of language issues in Quebec. "Shawville anglophones are a persecuted minority"
• Bringthemhome.org links in  Global Free Press:  Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace campaign to voice the pleas of military families, veterans and GI's in Iraq. 
• Eco-Portal Environmental Sustainability.Info, content news, links.  "Latest Global Atmospheric Sustainability Headlines": California emissions lawsuit dropped, EU heat wave, arctic ice shrinking, Barrier reef bleaching worsening. 
• August 14, 2003   
• Australian colonialism, a common currency is a tool in the strategy aimed at  poor, and small countries in the region where poverty grows the buildup of terrorists.  Independent.uk 
• Peaceful Resistance, Buzzflash: The Whitehouse backed recall effort in California say Karl Rove planned recall just days after Davis beat Simon  
• Mothers' Alert News good news, bad news.  On Depleted Uranium, nuclear industry, risks of radiation.  News research.
• American Bar Association opposes Bush administration efforts to repeal the oversight provisions of the Patriot Act and to extend it permanently beyond 2005.  ABA says it's "highly prone to potential abuse".  also called on Congress and the Executive branch to give Guantanamo defendants effective legal counsel. Findlaw  
• August 13, 2003 
• Our Future.org Press Center, Issues and Campaigns: Stop tax cuts on the rich that drive budget cuts, how Democrats won the fight on Social Security in 2002, Energy independence.
• "Are Markets Inherently Moral?" by: Matt Miller, in  TomPaine.com  believers say free exchange among free peoples is moral, those who disagree say markets are just constructs of the smartest and luckiest among us.  But, we have to tamper with them...ie..laws against stock market insider trading to make them 'fair'.  Which side are you on?
• August 12, 2003 
• Aquaculture will help provide food to the world, but it needs to be done in a sustainable way.  Currently it is a threat to coastlines and rivers.  EcoISP 
• Agent Orange, TCDD, Dioxins remain in Vietnam's food supply  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  Agent Orange Victims Fund, and National Acadamies Press
• August 11, 2003 
• Bushjokes.com
• August 10, 2003 
• Sign on San Diego  money in presidential campaign, 'pyramid fund raising', bundlers, Bush will raise $150-200 million.  Completely swamping Democrats. 
• Why don't we ever hear anything about Karl Rove?
• Chemical Weapons Working Group incineration hazard, but U.S. Army given go-ahead to start incineration in Anniston, a low-income, minority community, search on Monsanto and Anniston, PCB's, mercury, etc 
• Quick Afghanistan chronology: 1998 - U.S. still paying the salary of all Taliban officials in war against Russia.  1999 - Taliban kicked out UNOCAL and gave an Argentina company pipeline contract, 2000 - Taliban demonized, 2001 - After WTC Bush goes to war with against Afghanistan even though no hijackers came from there, 2002 - Karzai ( a former UNOCAL employee) and Pakistan's Musharef agree to build Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.  Halliburton is in the pipeline business.   iAfrica 
• Iowa Electronic Markets  real money futures on economic, political events
• August 9, 2003 
• David Kelly, British biowarfare weapons expert who committed suicide  investigation opens.  ABC News 
• The Arab Regional Resource Center on Violence Against Women:  news 
• Palestine Ministry of Environmental Affairs ongoing programs: Formulation of Environmental Law...Strengthening of Palestinian Environmental Action Plan...
• Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, to promote environmental education, scholarship, advocacy, and action in the Jewish community.  News:  on Udall amendment to Interior Appropriations Bill, info about climate change, clean car campaign. 
• August 8, 2003 
• American Legacy Foundation report 65% of young women smokers want to quit, but only 3% successful over a years time.  see also CDC and study on underage tobacco use. 
• Multinational Monitor latest issues: Countering privatization,  no accounting of government spending on private contractors, and effect of  'Homeland Security' on GS pay system....more 
• California recall election turning into a great source of jokes  Independent 
• Penis shape evolved to dispel other men's semen, findings reported in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior   ReutersHealth 
• August 7, 2003 
• Lesbian News, National Stonewall Democrats, news.   also: China has world's largest condom, covers the facade of a 20-story hotel, control population growth, promote sexual health, prevent aids.  Anglican Conservatives against Episcopalian gay bishop  Guardian 
• Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle  DARPA (same agency that just fired Poindexter, Iran-Contra fame), awarded Carnegie Mellon and Boeing $5.5 million to develop UGCV. MachineBrain  also: AUVSI  US Military robots employed in Iraqi War  
• Natural Gas price up 60% from one year ago, and threatens to shut down entire industries.   USA Today 
• European Commission says Microsoft illegally ties it's Media Player into Windows, and illegally withholds Windows code from rivals. Microsoft disagrees.  ABCNews  
• August 6, 2003 
• Microsoft Watch, Ziff-Davis Media  following the threat of Linux on the Microsoft empire.  
• DNA technology changing the use of the statute of limitations.  NYC charges unknown suspects in rape cases based on DNA profiles  ABCNews   see also California Innocence Project  
• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count body count, from DOD, Centcom, CNN also see News Insider 
• Iraq War, real numbers: 827 wounded (unofficially in the thousands), killed from hostile fire since Bush called an end to combat operations: 52, but unofficially 112.  Sydney Morning Herald 
• Transportation Security Administration has admitted compiling a blacklist of left and right wing activists, journalists, among others, that are scrutinized more thoroughly or not allowed on airplanes.  Alternet 
• August 5, 2003 
• Chemical & Engineering News late in 2002 regulations were relaxed to require chemical and pharmaceutical makers to install up-to-date pollution controls when they expanded or altered plants.  EPA is reconsidering in the face of state governments and environmental groups protests. 
• Incinerators release cancer-causing dioxins. African WildlifeFoundation headlines Goldman Environmental Prize winners. 
• Forests.org Rainforest, Biodiversity Conservation News:  Peruvian gas project threatens rainforests, Stop Bush ecocide, Amazon rainforest loss skyrocketing. 
• Genetically altered trees, Sierra Club wants a moratorium until science more understood.  MSNBC 
• August 4, 2003 
• McDonald's plasters its 13,602 restaurants with Barbie Dolls, video games, book jackets...  Nutritionists say it perverts children's eating habits and leads to obese children. Yahoo 
• Nigers President demands UN agency exonerate it of any uranium dealings with Iraq   UN officials called docs forgeries, Niger is the world's third-largest supplier of mined uranium. AP 
• Foreign student registration deadline  about 7000 schools keep records, most will make Aug 1st deadline, but database problems persist. 
• August 3, 2003 
• PeaceNow  'Working for a Secure Israel Through Peace'.  Middle East Peace Report. 
• N. Korea warns any UN move to discuss it's nuclear weapons would be 'prelude to war'.  They fear  sanctions on their already impoverished nation.  Undersecretary of State John Bolton criticized UN for not taking up the issue.   AP 
• Chechnya women bombers get revenge?  a recent surge in attacks by Chechnya women draws a lot of speculation about their motivation and backing.  CNN 
• Pacific Life Research Center research papers on nonviolence, links 
• Ghandi Today news, nonviolence campaigns, events  
• Innate: Nonviolence News:  Irish network for Nonviolence   Action, Training and Education, and archives.  
• Love Canal, the contaminated neighborhood (1978) that led to the EPA superfund tells it all in 2003.  Half of neighborhood not safe for family homes, state funding dried up.  CBS News  
• Blair to testify on Iraq weapons advisors suicide, and judge says inquiry will dig into suspect government dossier that put Kelly in the spotlight.  also would seek testimony from Geoff Hoon, and Alistair Campbell.  Did Blair authorize the release of his name?  Guardian 
• Colombia, drug war, California Microwave, Northrup Grumman, unsafe airplanes used in surveillance.  From March 2003 article.   Africa Aviation News   and from MSNBC: Colombia drug war   Pentagon sends Americans on dangerous missions, but their not soldiers.  MSNBC 
• August 2, 2003 
• Judicial Watch seeks Saudi documents from Congressional Inquiry report on behalf of WTC family in U.S. District Court.  Report details Saudi involvement and directly bears on the victims lawsuit. 
• SBC, US's largest ADSL provider challenged the subpoena served against it by RIAA, says that Digital Millennium Copyright Act (RIAA supported) is unconstitutional, violates privacy.  File swapper wars go on.  ZDNet  
• Microsoft lowers venture capital, and large investment schemes of the past.  Unlike Intel, which pumps hundreds of millions into companies with new technologies.  News.com  
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• August 1, 2003 
• Can the Catholic Church stop gay marriage?  They're sure trying.  Condemns same-sex unions, urging Catholic lawmakers to vote a  against supportive bills.  Also against gay couples adopting children.   Yahoo Reuters  
• Iraq War serving to strengthen Al-Quida around the world.   British Parliament committee says war has failed to reduce security threats.  Enhanced to appeal of Al-Quida to Muslims,  Conservatives obviously disagree.   USA Today
• Dems fight back with new Progressive legal organization: The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy  a response to the Republicans' Federalists Society.     AP
• July 31, 2003 
• Four Republican Senators break with Bush's plan to dismantle Amtrak. Bush wants toward privatization with more state control.   Symbolic of important power struggles in Washington.   Bloomberg  
• July 30, 2003 
• Bush Jokes
• July 29, 2003 
• Sen Paul Wellstone, old article by Sheryl Seal, just wanted to keep it alive. 
• North Korea, America's options from Asia Times.  A look at Americas history in arms negotiations tells a lot about what could happen in the future. 
• It's what's not in it that's important, 911 Report USA Today.  There's much more than Sen. Shelby's mention of  'foreign governments' involvement.  See Center for CooperativeResearch for an in-depth investigation into 9/11. 
• July 28, 2003 
• Bush Jokes  
• Daily Humor 
• Dubya Report
• July 27, 2003 
• Shareholder Action Network project of the Social Investment Forum 
• WTOWatch.org, Daily News: WTO shuts out poor nations in decisions, World says no to WTO,  Banana price war threatens Third World growers, EU officially requires labeling of GM food, 
• Framework Convention on Tobacco Control:  Infact lifts boycott of Philip Morris/Altria as momentum builds for FTCT implementation. 
• InboxRobot News retrieval system, found 262 articles on GMO news:  Australia issued Bayer CropScience a license for its GM Canola.  Joins carnations and cotton as other approved GM crops.  
• Exotic Earthworms invading U.S. Forests devouring vital leaf litter, reducing acidity of soil, changing ecosystems.  But scientist hopeful that an equilibrium will be reached.   Yahoo AP  
• July 26, 2003 
• Liberia, Bush sends troops closer.  unfolding humanitarian disaster.  Liberians angry at U.S. for not intervening.  BBC  
• CorpWatch, Bechtel from March 2003, and International Forum on Globalization and Workers World on the corporate looting of Iraq.  
• Occupation Watch  exposing the impact of the military and economic occupation of Iraq.  Investigate Bechtel Corporation.  
• July 25, 2003 
• Action Alerts, Voice4Change.org headlines:  Cut military aid to Colombia, Investigate Bush lies,  Kucinich and Clark efforts to see evidence on Iraq war.  
• Multilateral Agreement Investment?  The power of multinational corporations over national governments.  Global Trade Watch, Public Citizen.  see also Canadian Action Party  research on FTA, NAFTA.  
• Many warning signs that bin Laden was planning attacks, but U.S. report says no smoking gun  Vital information not passed between agencies.  Report filled with CIA, FBI and NSA misconnections.  U.S. based hijackers well connected around the world.  Yahoo AP
• Common personal laws in India will foster integration, supported by BJP, see also: Political Resources, India 
• July 24, 2003 
• 1000 children abused by Catholic priests over a period of six decades just in Boston.  see Linkup survivors of clergy sexual abuse organization.  Sexual abuse of believers by their spiritual leaders occurs in all religions in the world. 
• Global Grid Forum, NASA, and open source computing  'grid computing', a new tech buzz.  see also ITWorld, Sun Microsystems chief researcher John Gage.  One example is SETI@home and the search for extraterrestrial life, but the definition of GGF is still forming.  
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• July 23, 2003 
• NewScientist, Science & Technology News:  Big Bang afterglow, West Nile virus found in UK, Aral Sea will be gone in 15 years,  extracting water from exhaust gases of autos. 
• Ambassador Joseph Wilson, wife, illegal smear campaign by Whitehouse?  transcript with TIME magazine, CNN   and  The DailyEnron's Daily Briefing 
• ACLU News, Privacy and Technology and also see: Salon.com: good article on how an Israeli company came to dominate data security market.  the futility in trying to control encryption software distribution by US officials. 
• Common Cause, Press Library:  Congress should undo media ownership rule changes.  Senators Ted Stevens and Fritz Hollings, and in the House: Rep. Richard Burr (R-NC) and John Dingell are sponsoring legislation to roll back the FCC changes. 
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• July 22, 2003 
• Civil liberties abuses by Justice Dept officials, cases opened by Inspector Glenn Fine, 272 complaints, including mistreatment of Muslim inmates.  28 claims sent to internal affairs offices. AP  
• Boston's Roman Catholic Archdiocese officials will not be charged for keeping abusive priests in parishes  a victim said it was because the way laws were written.  "men who agreed to sanction the abuse of children ....cannot be indicted."  The names of  four of the priests: Rev. Thomas V. Daily, now bishop in Brooklyn, N.Y.; the Rev. Robert J. Banks, now bishop in Green Bay, Wis.; and the Rev. John B. McCormack, now bishop in Manchester, N.H.  AP 
• 54 pesticides will have restrictions placed on them by Seattle federal judge, interim protection of  salmon with buffer zones.  see also Earth Justice and Washington Toxics Coalition  Beyond Pesticides  
• July 21, 2003 
• The Onion, satirical weekly newspaper. 
• July 20, 2003 
• Corporate America is disclosing more financial information since scandals, but moving very slowly  when it comes to  seeing balance sheets and cash flow analysis on same day as earnings release.  These are really needed to make sense out of earnings statements.  Yahoo Reuters 
• Italian journalist involvement comes out in forged Africa nuclear documents embarrassment.  She believed that they would end her career if published.  Bush attributed them to British sources.   CIA saw them in Rome.  Fox News
• Hunger related news: National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, projects, federal policy, info on hunger and homelessness, and action.  
• July 19, 2003 
• U.S. Children fatter but less violent.  Death rates continue to drop, but teen giving birth decreasing.  Heart disease and diabetes also occuring in children as never before.   Smoking and alcohol use is down among most groups.  Car accidents were 37% of childhood deaths while guns killed about half that percentage.  Yahoo Reuters 
• Go Linux, becoming a de facto standard, nobody owns it and it crosses all platforms.   Microsoft beware. the buzzword is 'virtualization', the best option in tying together  hundreds of millions of computers on networks. 
• Sen. Mitch McConnell, leader in stopping campaign finance reform is now trying to stop law suits against fast food industry  Trial Lawyers opposed, Food Industry lobbies for it, both heavy contributors.  Yahoo   
• Soaring Incomes, Falling taxes,  articles on wartime sacrifice, Warren Buffets remarks on tax cuts, farm and corporate subsidies, the new rule by aristocracy.  Inequality 
• July 18, 2003 
• Ephedra and $4 million in political contributions by the diet supplements industry.  and little movement towards meaningful legislation to curb its dangerous use. CVS, nations second-largest drugstore chain will stop selling it.   USA Today
• Congo war claimed a million lives in 5 years, over land and resources.   see also World Policy Institute on Africa and war profiteers. BBC 
• July 17, 2003 
• VP Cheney asked to resign, from a group of senior former intelligence officials  information selectively used to support war decision, Jack Straw also in trouble for knowing  African nuclear were forgeries.  Independent.uk 
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute  links to arms transfers related Internet sites. Projects include maintaining a database on arms transfers to identify global weapons flows. 
• US anti-Muslim violence rising.  Justice Dept says charges unfair that crack down on terrorist is to blame. see also: United Muslim Americans Association  and Council on American-Islamic Relations 
• July 16, 2003 
• Howard Dean on the deficit,  Issues2000 
• Korea Web Weekly, US News report, Pentagon plan for a possible conflict with North Korea.  Would they provoke war? Korea Web Weekly 
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases  leading US AIDS research institute.  Latest News: expanding choices of anti-HIV medications, SARS chip free distribution to help researchers to rapidly detect genetic variations. 
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• July 15, 2003 
• Citizens Commission on Human Rights  Campaign to stop coersive tactics to prescribe psychiatric drugs to children. 
• Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research recent poll: support for Abu Mazin down, ceasefire up, and recognizing Israel up. 
• Blair, most voters don't trust his justification for war  27% say he knowingly misled people to support decision to go to war.  48% said war justified, 38% said not justified.   Bloomberg 
• Privacy Digest, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilence" articles: ISP's ordered to reveal names, peer to peer issues, Ernst & Young under investigation. 
• Bush plans to reverse Clinton ban on off-road vehicles in Algodones Dunes, the largest dune ecosystem in the US.  as many as 240,000 off-roaders on some weekends.   EndangeredEarth 
• July 14, 2003 
• Iraq council has 13 Shiites, 5 Kurds, 5 Sunnis, 1 Christian and 1 Turkoman woman.  Most members those who remained in Iraq throughout Sadam Hussein's rule.  How powerful it is remains to be seen. Guardian
• July 13, 2003 
• CIA warned UK not to use uranium claim, but now George Tenet takes the heat for it's OK. What's goin' on? 
• Alaska Oil being developed with help of US Minerals Management Service search words include: Cassandra Energy, Katalla, Chugach National Forest, Chugach Alaska Corp. (Native-owned), offshore leasing options.  local residents oppose all. Reuters Yahoo 
• POGO Project on Government Oversight: about us  
• July 12, 2003 
• Stock Market Bubble of 90's left 50 nations poorer  from WTO Watch, Trade Observatory: foreign aid declined and debt increased for poor nations, commodity prices down and,  European cows get $3 per day subsidy while 40% of Africans live on less than $1 per day. 
• Trade Observatory, WTO Watch, sustainable growth, news: 
• DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) founded in 1989, from ACTUP Aids Coalition to Unleash Power 
• 10-25 attacks per day on US troops US denied Arab media reports that they had pulled out of Fallujah.  Jihad threatened by some religious leaders if no pull-out of troops in 6 months.   Rueters, Yahoo 
• July 11, 2003 
• Stoplight cameras: from a conservative view: NewsMax  and a Progressive view: 
• Jewish same-sex partnerships recognized, Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues,  to gay and lesbian partners, and mixed-faith marriages offer of blessing.
• Trans fat on food labels will spur companies to reformulate their products and inform consumers about this dangerous fat.  Center for Science in the Public Interest 
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• July 10, 2003 
• Malpractise Insurers lose Senate voted 49-48 blocking legislation to limit malpractice awards.  Bloomberg 
• World Population Day, July 11th PLANetWire Reporters guide to family planning, population, reproductive health, environment.  News on restoring funding of UNFPA, UN Population fund. 
• 9/11 Independent Commission, timeline: by Cooperative Research, last update 7/9.  Several Democrats and even some Republicans call for a more intensive inquiry into Aug 6 memo to Bush about possible Bin Laden strikes. 
• July 9, 2003 
• Education 
• Dean takes in $800,000 in one day, online contributions, new issue in campaign finance. Workingforchange 
• Waterkeeper Alliance  and the PRLDEF Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund celebrate the closing of the US Navy's bombing range.  Latest News:  MALDEF 
• See new daily economic charts. Still under construction, will have more links to related sites that help explain charts and relate to news items. 
• July 8, 2003 
• Medicare Update AARP Medicare Prescription Drug Campaign, news, petitions, legislation.
• Alliance for Retired Americans News, Alerts, Resources: Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003, has serious problems  6/23/03  
• AFSC American Friends Service Committee Africa: New Oil and Military Frontier, Oct 2002. and Afrol News 07/072003  
• July 7, 2003 
• Running of the Nudes help end the cruel "Running of the Bulls" and bullfights. and also PETA TV animal rights television.  
• Organic Consumers Organization  news headlines: Bush squeezes organic farmers, USDA promoting biotech, dioxin warnings to women 
• July 6, 2003 
• Guantanamo Bay, Britain concerned that British citizens may face military tribunals   BBC 
• US wants to expand on aircraft refueling agreements and gain access rights to more areas in the Arab countries of northern and sub-Saharan Africa to 'combat terrorist threat' in the region.   1800 now in Djibouti. Reconnaissance aircraft and satellites watch the area more closely. NYTimes  
• Pollution Equipment News Article Archive: Bush's push for hydrogen cars, oil shippers and the European Union, high lap-top computer manufacturing waste 
• July 5, 2003 
• Bush Humor :) Shrubbish
• July 4, 2003 
• Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors 
• Genetic Post, World News:  BBC article:  aborted foetus' eggs go to infertile women 
• Bush misleading Americans on AIDS, poverty and conflicts in Africa $15 billion AIDS commitment not available now.  Securing oil sources is driving most decisions.  AfricaAction
• Microsoft takes on Google   Bill Gates' first underestimated the importance of the Internet and now has done the same with search engines.  Can Microsoft's massive presence and technology make a difference? GSMBOX. UK 
• July 3, 2003 
• DARPA, Pentagon developing urban surveillance system that uses face and vehicle recognition software to track citizens and 'terrorist' movements   see also Yahoo, Spyware  AP 
• July 2, 2003 
• Infragard, FBI, Corps share info on security, ACLU says danger.  and TechNews: articles on Cyber-Warfare, Data-mining, database privacy, pervasive computing.
• Propaganda blitz by Bush backed voucher front group, story in   Black Commentator.  Bush directly funding BAEO Black Alliance for Educational Options, funded by Bradley Foundation 
• Head start suit that accuses Bush administration of trying to silence staff and parents from speaking out about proposals to overhaul Headstart.  see also: HHS  and OBMWatch   AP  
• July 1, 2003 
• The high cost of not giving exemption to US at International Criminal Court. about 3 dozen countries face cut-off of $200 million in military assistance. Bloomberg 
• CIA Venture Capital and In-Q-Tel,  PixLogic will scour digital photos for clues.  FreeRepublic.com (Conservative News Forum). 
• Florida's restaurant smoking ban Reuters, adds restaurants to nearly all indoor workplaces banned, see also Smoke Free for Health, Florida. 
• Sri Lanka news, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, News ticker, Electronic bulletin board. 
• June 30, 2003 
• Kashmir conspiracy, India 
• June 29, 2003 
• UNFoundation, Ted Turner-formed, part of Iraq assessment team. 
• Bush overtime rules revisions and the right to overtime pay: proposed new definitions of professional, administrative, and executive employees.  see also: EPI, Economic Policy Institute. AP
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• June 28, 2003 
• Rep Sheila Jackson Lee, Dem TX. joined Rep. Dennis Kucinich in attempt to broaden Iraq war probe. also:   Center for Public Integrity midwife a terrorist. 
• $1 Billion settlement in Stock Market bubble lawsuits.  Underwriters failed to disclose agreements with purchasers of  techy IPO's that ultimately grossly inflated the value of those stocks and greedy stock traders.   MarketWatch 
• Missaoui access to Al-Queda member: on a technical appeal issue, the government still can't block access, so case may be pushed closer to military tribunal.  Reuters 
• June 27, 2003 
• Feminist.org in Today's News stories: Republicans approve proposal to stop filibusters on Judicial nominees, ban on 'partial birth' abortion challenged in Fed court, same sex couples rights bill in California. 
• Medical Malpractise Referral Network  News
• Medicare Memo that Bush won't release shows premiums for those who stay in traditional program may rise 25%  AP
• Tax burden for the richest 400 plummets, IRS: their average income was $174 million.  Stock market bubble, decrease in capital gains taxes, and executive compensation were all factors in income increase. NY Times
• June 26, 2003 
• MoveOn online voters Virtual Primary and Foreign Policies' Special Report: 'If I Were President'.
• Red Pepper, UK, 'the warfare state', and other stories of abuse on intelligence services, US encouragement of looting in Iraq, Shell's public relations bubble punctured,  Israeli soldiers shoot to kill human rights observers. 
• Fed barred Enron from selling electricity and natural gas anywhere in US.  AP  see also Enrongate  news. Pat Wood , FERC, 'death penalty' 
• Boy Scouts in Law Enforcement Explorers program sexually abused  25 cases in the last 5 years.
• June 25, 2003 
• New York, Britain, and more than 20 countries, ban hand-held cell phones while driving.  Unsafe Hands-free phones Wired News and Psychological Science search 
• ACLU, welcomes Supreme court decision.  Affirmative Action news, issues
• Citizen.org Bush and WTO challenge European GMO policies. 
• Africans challenge Bush's GM crops, say more concerned with their oversupply than hunger in Africa.  Dawn Pakistan's largest English Newspaper. 
• June 24, 2003 
• SNAFU, Support Network for an Armed Forces Union  and Military and Veterans News  on civilian deaths, staged events, Conscientious Objectors, media ban on covering protests, cuts in Veterans benefits.
• Supreme Court cuts back how much race can be a factor in university admissions 
• United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC news:  Wal-mart ordered to recognize union.   Management whistleblower on Human Rights abuses. 
• June 23, 2003 
• Forest Service Retirees news, national, regional, Rocky Mountains, Congress, Research
• Center for Biological Diversity failure of Bush logging plan.  'Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, Healthy Forests Iniative. 
• June 22, 2003 
• Social Funds.com 
• The latest on Medicare, FamiliesUSA   The House bill forces the traditional Medicare program to bid against private insurance plans. 
• June 21, 2003 
• Microsoft settlement appeal unsuccessful, by two industry groups. CCIA and SSIA. Settlement will not remedy anticompetitive acts of Microsoft. see Microsoft Press Pass  
• Dept of Justice, Press Releases  all 
• EPA, Christy Whitman, global warming risks section of a report she commissioned in 2001 reduced to a few noncommittal paragraphs. 
• June 20, 2003 
• Freedom Forum, Iranian Press issues, Fatemeh Haqiqatjou, a reformist lawmaker said "America's involvement only undermines the slow pace of reforms in Iran.", from Yahoo 
• Halliburton bribe to Nigeria probe started for tax exemptions.  Guardian  
• Presidential lies are a serious problem, a 'high crime' and are impeachable offenses, Findlaw 
• June 19, 2003 
• Afghanistan, world's largest opium producer  also from  Pakistan's Balochistan Post,  narcotics boom under US puppet regime.
• Benton Harbor Michigan, riots impoverished city, allegations of police harrassment. 
• North Korea won't give up nuclear weapons program without US concessions.  Britain has blockade plan.  US says policing of  North Korea's exports is not a blockade.  CNN 
• June 18, 2003 
• Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism latest news. see also older legislative update from February 2002. 
• Government can ban campaign contributions from advocacy groups: Supreme court decision.  Prelude to broader showdown in campaign finance reform. Yahoo. 
• SeattlePI: Link between obesity and childhood diabetes Pacific Northwest Research Institute: News  to prevent and cure diabetes and cancer.   see also Commercial Alert 
• Rand Beers? Lied about Al Queda connection.  Recently resigned from Bush Administration, said Bush not countering terror threat  Yahoo article
• June 17, 2003 
• Where are WMD?  Council for a Livable World  article 6/4/03.  Other efforts include a campaign a campaign to stop the Bush Administration plans for missile defense.
• Cetacean Bycatch Resource Center Nets kill 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises annually 
• Jewish Bulletin News, San Francisco and links Road Map road block. 
• June 16, 2003 
• Delta Force, Task Force 20, scoured Iraq for WMD before war and found nothing, but initially sent 'promising' reports to Bush that helped lead to the war decision.  MSNBC Mobile.
• Bank Beat Reporter, Inner City Press, more on multinational banks underwriting high-rate sub-prime loans in the US.  Royal Bank of Scotland.
• Consumer Federation of America, re: Payday loans, Federal Reserve Board, First Bank of Delaware:  Republic First Bancorp owns FBD, and 60 consumer organizations have petitioned Fed Reserve Board to stop RFB from partnering in payday, predatory lending scams.  see also Responsible Lending: What's New 
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• June 15, 2003 
• Moussaoui trial, 9/11 Investigation, CNN Law Center.  Federal prosecutors do not want him to have access to any other 'terrorist' captives.  Trial indefinitely delayed until resolved. 
• US Europe relations are in serious trouble Global Beat in: New York University's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media 
• "Menwith Balls" Menwith Hills, England, largest electronic monitoring station in the world.  Has gigantic 'golf ball' looking structures.  Run by NSA, Echelon, able to tap all international communications circuits. see also: Campaign for Accountability American Bases latest news.   SchNews
• the High Court in London ruled against the Ministry of Defense that sought to overturn a tribunal decision to grant a soldier's military Pension. The soldier claimed Gulf War Syndrome, and could to thousands to seek compensation.  Bloomberg 
• June 14, 2003 
• Hydrogen Economy Might Impact Earth's Stratosphere, CalTech leakage could cause problems with ozone in the upper atmosphere, see Science also. 
• Megh Barta, Online forum for Activism, Bangladesh
• Guardian Unlimited Bush administration urges release of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Mayanmar (Burma)
• BushWatch,  Project Underground,  News,  Central Asia Oil, Mayanmar, Indonesia. 
• June 13, 2003 
• Green Party UK market manipulations, licensing barriers, nutrient standards all come into play as large EU pharmaceutical companies work against smaller firms on food supplements.  Search Guardian for the latest pharmaceutical news
• Workers World news: article on Bush's latest trip to Europe, on Iraq, Iran, North Korea. 
• World Lakes News, Amazing lakes, Threats, Strategies, Nutrient Pollution, Toxic Contamination, Water Diversion
• FoodFirst, Institute for Food and Development Policy, think tank, educate for action center, food as a fundamental right. Media quick stop: Harsh realities behind 'free trade', article. 
• June 12, 2003 
• Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute, News.  Welfare for Weapons Dealers, old but relevant report. 
• Covering the Uninsured from Families USA, weekly news. 
• Mini-Nuke development concern: Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety , search: Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, and WIPP Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.  
• Open Secrets Nuclear news. 
• Seroxat, UK Warning, GlaxoSmithKline Children under 18 should not take this top-selling anti-depressant, potential suicidal behaviors cited.  ABCNews, Reuters
• June 11, 2003 
• Fareed Zakaria The Future of Freedom, Illiberal Democracy, Home and Abroad, book. on WMD 
• Jobless recovery? Economic Policy Institute President Lawrence Mishel's report .pdf  offers and analysis and method of tracking  Bush's 'tax cut' plan's progress. 
• Progressive Populist search on Iraq Oil, and see article by Jason Leopold, on Halliburton
• OutthereNews North Korea, nuclear 'deterrent'.  
• Agent Orange, Supreme Court decision: If you learned of your illness from the defoliant after 1994, you may still be fighting Monsanto or Dow Chemical 
• June 10, 2003 
• GovExec:  Surveillance drones protect pipelines, monitor traffic on highways, and 'aid in other homeland security missions'. 12/02.  Transportation Department Research and Special Programs Administration  search on UAV
• International Freedom of Expression eXchange  News: Internet is coming under new forms of censorship: OSCE Conference on Freedom of the Media and the Internet.
• StateWatch monitoring state and civil liberties, EU.  News: Expanding surveillance role of airlines, border controls. 
• Global Internet Liberty Campaign   new member: Human Rights Education Associates HREA