Bob Dylan to host weekly radio music show
• ReutersLegendary folk rocker Bob Dylan will start a new career as a radio DJ when he launches a new weekly music show on XM Satellite Radio next March.
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China censors police shooting incident on Google
• New York TimesChinese officials have barred most newspapers outside of the immediate region of the incident to report on it, to banning place names and other keywords associated with the event from major Internet search engines, such as Google, to prevent news of
Sen. Dorgan Returns Tribes' Donations
• Associated PressThe top Democrat on the Senate committee investigating Jack Abramoff's Indian lobbying is returning $67,000 in donations in response to reports that he collected tribal money around the time he took actions favorable to those of Abramoff clients.
You have to produce in order to trade
• ReutersThe U.S. trade deficit widened unexpectedly to a record $68.9 billion despite a drop in the cost of imported oil, as the deficits with China, Canada, the European Union, Mexico and OPEC all hit records
Fed Raises Rate to 4.25%, Drops Reference to 'Accommodation'
• BloombergFederal Reserve policy makers raised the main U.S. interest rate to 4.25 percent, and signaled they may soon end their run of increases...a sign that members consider rates high enough that they're no longer spurring economic growth.
TSA moves to control ALL forms of public transportation
• Washington PostTeams of undercover air marshals and uniformed law enforcement officers will fan out to bus and train stations, ferries, and mass transit facilities across the country this week in a new test program to conduct surveillance and "counter potentia
Is military spying on Americans?
• MSNBCA year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn't know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military. A secret 40
An 11th-hour drive to amend Patriot Act
• Christian Science MonitorAn unusual coalition of lawmakers and activists opposed to parts of the USA Patriot Act is mounting a last push to persuade Congress to take more time before voting to extend some of the law's most controversial provisions.
Bush getting ready to ask for another $100 billion for war
• Associated PressThe Pentagon is in the early stages of drafting a wartime request for up to $100 billion more for Iraq and Afghanistan, a figure that would push spending related to the wars to a staggering half-trillion dollars.
New law will create domestic intelligence chief
• World Peace HeraldThe law renewing the USA PATRIOT Act will create a new official in the Justice Department responsible for domestic intelligence-gathering. Section 506 of the law, which is currently before Congress, establishes a National Security Division within
Judgement Day getting closer for Rove
• The Raw StorySpecial Prosecutor Fitzgerald is expected to ask a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame to indict Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove for making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department investigators in Oct
Army defends transporting of dead to U.S. on commercial flights
• Stars and StripesMilitary aircraft are prohibited, legally, from providing services already available through commercial flyers, as spelled out in laws governing noncompetition between the military and the private sector. “We don’t expect everyone to be happy about t
Class Action Suit Against Diebold
• Brad Blog8 Current and Former Executives Named as Co-Defendants, Including former CEO O'Dell and New CEO Swidarski. Class Action Suit Alleges Fraud, Insider Trading, Manipulation of Stock Prices, Concealment of Known Flaws in Voting Machines and Company S
An Increasingly Aerial Occupation
• by Dahr Jamail and Tom EngelhardtMore recently, however, air war has largely disappeared from consciousness. It simply hasn't been part of war, as Americans see, read about, or imagine it, on-screen or off. This is strange.
Anti-Drug War Sheriff purposely left out of DEA led restaurant raids
• Rocky Mountain News53 officers from a number of law enforcement agencies, some with guns drawn, stormed into 2 Aspen restaurants during the busy after-ski time, netted about 2 ounces of cocaine, $3,000 in cash, nine arrests for drug involvement and 11 for immigration l
Idealism vs. Realism in Egypt
• by Patrick J. Buchanan (AntiWar.com)How many times must we relearn the lesson? The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the fruits of Wilsonian idealism are rarely ideal.
Lieberman's 'War Cabinet'
• by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)Liberman has the rhetorical conceit of pretending that we're in the position of Britain during the blitz. This is so typical of the neoconservative vocabulary of crisis-mongering: their response to any criticism, is an outraged cry: "Don
Israel Troubled by Bush's Priorities
• by Jim Lobe (AntiWar.com)While President Bush favors, or is at least indifferent to, the collapse of the Ba'athist regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Israelis reportedly made it very clear in Washington that they do not see the alternatives to the young leader
Canada shrugs off U.S. warning to back off
• ReutersThe United States made an unprecedented foray into Canada's election campaign on Tuesday, warning politicians not to bash Washington in their bid to win the January 23 election.
Ya, Camp Terror
• Associated PressA Lebanese-born Swede has been charged in a plot to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, prosecutors said.
Torture Prisons moved to North Africa?
• CBS NewsMarty told a news conference he believed the United States was no longer holding prisoners clandestinely in Europe and he believed they were moved to North Africa in early November, when reports about secret U.S. prisons first emerged in The Washingt
Pentagon rolls out stealth journalism
• USA TodayA $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, one of the military officials in charge of the program says.
Zogby: Bush approval rating falls to 38%
• Zogby InternationalPresident Bush’s job approval rating languishes under 40%, despite an upturn in the economy and a public relations onslaught defending the role of the U.S. military in rebuilding Iraq. Just 38% of Americans said they approve of the job the President
Police want guidelines on quarantine rules
• USA TodayWhile the federal government and the military would take the lead on managing quarantines, the chiefs' group says local police face a "monumental challenge" because of a lack of basic information.
House to take up controversial immigration measure this week
• Star TelegramThe Republican-controlled House of Representative turns to one of the nation's most volatile issues this week with an immigration bill that would toughen federal controls on employers and immigrants.
Atlanta Braves for Sale?!!!!
• Associate PressThe Atlanta Braves may be on the market. A statement released by the team Tuesday said Time Warner is exploring the possibility of selling the Braves and the Turner South cable network, which carries many of the Braves' games.
Prosecutor in DeLay case subpoenas records from defense contractors
• CNN NewsA Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Feds still collecting illegal taxes, only corporations likely to get rebate
• USA TodayPhone customers are due $9 billion in tax refunds and a 3% cut in wireless phone and long-distance bills, according to a series of federal court decisions.
King's men drop gag rule
• Associated PressThe federal court for Rhode Island on Monday dropped a proposed rule that would have banned lawyers and court workers from releasing any information about a case that was not part of the public record.
Australian beat down spreads to other cities
• Associated PressThe racial unrest that broke out in Sydney's beachside suburbs over the weekend has spread to two other large Australian cities, where people of Middle Eastern descent were assaulted by whites, police said Tuesday.
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