Bush to seek $70 bln in partial 2009 war funding 28 Jan 2008
 
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http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news Bush to seek $70 bln in
partial 2009 war funding 29 Jan 2008 The Bush administration will
ask the U.S. Congress next week for $70 billion to fund the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan and related operations for part of the 2009
fiscal year, the Pentagon said on Monday. Since the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks on the United States, Congress has approved $691 billion
to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and such related activities
as Iraq 'reconstruction,' the Congressional Budget Office said last
week.

Big blaze sweeps through Iraq's central bank 28 Jan 2008 A large
fire ripped through Iraq's central bank building in Baghdad in the
early hours of Monday, causing material damage, police said. The
fire erupted in three floors of the bank's building on Rashid Road
in the centre of Baghdad, a security source told the Voices of Iraq
news agency.

Five US soldiers killed in Iraq 28 Jan 2008 Five US soldiers were
killed in Iraq today when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb
and then came under small arms fire, the American military said.
The attack, one of the deadliest against US troops in months, was
in Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, 390km (240 miles) north of
Baghdad.

Fort Riley soldier dies of injuries suffered in Iraq 28 Jan 2008 A
19-year-old soldier from Fort Riley has died of wounds suffered
from a bomb that detonated near his vehicle during combat in Baghdad,
Iraq, military officials said Sunday.

Baghdad blast kills 3 28 Jan 2008 A roadside bomb has struck a
minibus in southeastern Baghdad, killing at least three passengers
and wounding five, police say. The bomb apparently was meant for a
police patrol but missed its target and blew up near the bus, which
was carrying a coffin to a funeral, a police officer said.

Family of 3 Stabbed to Death in Baghdad 27 Jan 2008 A former city
official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in
their home in a neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad, officials
said Sunday. Elsewhere in the capital, two American soldiers were
killed in separate bombings, the military said Sunday.

U.S. used waterboarding: ex-spy chief 28 Jan 2008 The United States
used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does,
a former U.S.

spy chief said in the Bush regime's most explicit confirmation of
the technique's use. U.S. officials have been reluctant to acknowledge
the CIA's use of the simulated drowning technique, which human
rights groups call an illegal form of torture.

Musharraf rejects CIA bid to hunt Taliban 28 Jan 2008 President
Pervez Musharraf has rejected an offer of greater American involvement
in hunting down 'al-Qa'eda' and Taliban militants in Pakistan, it
has been reported. Amid growing concern in Washington over militants'
entrenchment in Pakistan's border tribal areas, America's two most
senior intelligence officials made the proposal during a secret
visit to Islamabad earlier this month.

Turkey says U.S. nuclear policy strengthens Iran 26 Jan 2008 U.S.
ally Turkey said on Saturday Washington's efforts to isolate Iran
over its nuclear programme were undermining reformists in Tehran
and bolstering Iranian influence across the Middle East. Foreign
Minister Ali Babacan said the United States was failing to win broad
support for tougher sanctions against Iran, and called instead for
dialogue and diplomacy.

Iran to Retaliate in Case of Invasion 27 Jan 2008 IRGC commander
says his forces would retaliate against the US military bases in
the Persian Gulf if they are involved in any possible future attack
on Iran. General Mohammad Ali Jaafari, commander of the Islamic
Revolution Guards Corps, told Arab language Al-Jazeera television
on Saturday evening that it is Iran's "natural right to respond''
if attacked by land or air.

McCain Warns: "There Will Be Other Wars" By Sam Stein 27 Jan 2008
The presidential candidate who sang "Bomb bomb Iran" is already
looking towards the war after the war in Iraq. Sen. John McCain
told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, "It's a tough war we're in.
It's not going to be over right away.

There's going to be other wars." Offering more of his increasingly
bleak "straight talk," he repeated the claim: "I'm sorry to tell
you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but
there will be other wars."

Israeli 'Economic Warfare' to Include Electricity Cuts in Gaza 28
Jan 2008 Saying they were waging "economic warfare" against the
Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders, Israeli officials told the Supreme Court
on Sunday that the military intends to start cutting electricity
to the Palestinian territory and continue restricting fuel. The
statements by Israel's state attorney, outlining Defense Ministry
plans, came in response to a lawsuit filed by Israeli and Palestinian
rights groups.

Israel bars aid convoy to Gaza By Rachel Shabi at the Erez crossing,
Gaza-Israel border 28 Jan 2008 The Israeli military has prevented
an aid convoy organised by Israeli human rights organisations, peace
activists, and former military personnel, from reaching needy
families in the besieged Gaza Strip. Since Saturday, Israeli groups
have braved dipping temperatures and the unusually rain-sodden
grounds of the Erez border crossing between Israel and the Gaza
Strip, hoping that Israeli authorities would allow five tonnes of
food through. Israeli, Palestinian unity: The Israeli and Palestinian
peace activists first arrived at the Erez crossing in a convoy of
about 100 cars and 20 buses that wound its way from Israel's main
cities to the border on Saturday. Travelling under the "End the
Siege!" banner, the convoy brought about 1,000 demonstrators and
five tonnes of food aid to the border.

Man arrested near White House for verbal threat 28 Jan 2008 A man
was arrested on Monday for making a verbal threat against President
[sic] George W. Bush outside the fence at the White House, the
Secret Service said. "We had an individual arrested for making a
threat against the president on the fence line," Malcolm Wiley,
spokesman for the Secret Service, said. "He left behind a suspicious
package," he said. That prompted the area immediately outside the
White House to be closed off to the public, he said.

Gas Leak Prompts Evacuation of Senate Day-Care Center 28 Jan 2008
A gas leak in the 300 block of C Street NE temporarily forced the
evacuation of a building that houses a day-care center for the
Senate. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services was notified by
Capitol Police around 9:30 a.m. that people had reported smelling
natural gas in a building just one block from the Hart Senate Office
Building, said fire department spokesman Alan Etter.

TSA tester slips mock bomb past [Bush's privatized] airport security
--CNN goes along with a TSA tester, witnesses mock bomb slip past
security 28 Jan 2008 Jason -- that's the name CNN was asked to call
him -- slides a simulated explosive into an elastic back support.
The mock bomb is as slim as a wallet;

its fuse, the size of a cigarette. He wraps the support around his
torso, and the bomb fits comfortably into the small of his back...
So Jason shows a boarding pass and an ID to a TSA document checker,
and he is directed to a checkpoint where, unbeknown to the security
officer on site, the real test begins. He gets through, which in
real life would mean a terrorist was headed toward a plane with a
bomb.

'We think that this e-mail could be the tip of the iceberg and that
we may have many more similar e-mails circulating in federal
agencies.' 3 US workers face investigation over Obama e-mail 26 Jan
2008 Three federal employees are being investigated for unlawful
political activities after they allegedly sent an e-mail falsely
accusing Barack Obama of being a "radical Muslim," the Globe has
learned. The US Office of Special Counsel has launched investigations
of two employees at one agency and one employee at another agency.
All three are believed to have forwarded the erroneous chain e-mail
about Obama from their government e-mail accounts... The e-mail
questioning Obama's faith and patriotism, recently appeared on a
local Republican Party office's website in Washington state.

Make no mistake: The GOP-run media is using race to pick off Clinton
first, Obama second. The media is (finally) giving us wall-to-wall
political coverage instead of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears -
but that of the campaigners and their surrogates, not the issues.
28 Jan 2008 Where is John Edwards? He's as far from Bush as you can
get, and so the corpora-terrorists don't want us to hear/see him.
After a Bush false flag in the summer of 2008, the GOP troll on tap
will gain about 10 points heading into the November 'elections.'
When the GOP steals a *third* presidential 'election,' the Reichwing
- pushing race as a false front-and-center issue 24/7 - will claim
that even though Barack Obama was ahead in pre-election polls,
people must lied to pollsters and in fact, decided not to vote for
an African American for president, after all! Hint: Do you think
we will be getting wall-to-wall coverage of the Kennedys, when the
general election campaign begins? LOL, we'll be back to Lindsay and
Britney in the blink of an eye. --LRP See: Tell MSNBC to Stop the
Misogyny! and Hill-bullies May Bring US Four More Years of GOP Rule
By MDR 08 Dec 2008.

'I feel a change in the air,' says Kennedy of Obama 28 Jan 2008
Barack Obama today appeared at a boisterous rally alongside three
members of the Kennedy family, America's most beloved political
dynasty, to accept the endorsement of senator and Democratic
powerbroker Edward Kennedy. "We want a president for those who still
believe in the American dream and those around the world who still
believe in the American ideal," the senator said. "I feel change
in the air. What about you?"

Florida Democratic Primary Florida: Clinton 47% Obama 25% 28 Jan
2008 The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Florida finds
Senator Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by nineteen percentage
points, 47% to 25%. Thats little changed from earlier surveys.

Shell set to stir petrol storm with record profits of #13.6bn --Oil
group to post highest earnings by British firm 28 Jan 2008 Shell
will be at the centre of a political storm this week when it posts
profits of almost $27bn (#13.6bn), the highest earnings ever made
by a British company. The record-breaking profits, on the back of
soaring oil prices, seem likely to stir fresh allegations of
profiteering. Texas-based Exxon Mobil, the world's largest
privately-owned oil company, is expected to improve on its own
previous record on Friday by reporting earnings of $39.6bn, the
biggest annual profits that the US has ever seen.

Polar Bear Population In Arctic Sea Endangered 28 Jan 2008 Global
warming and oil spills, from oil drilling projects slated to begin
February 2008 in the Arctic, may endanger the lives of polar bears.
With ongoing global warming, the ice in the Arctic Sea is shrinking,
making the animals vulnerable to drowning as they are forced to
swim long distances in between the ice or simply starve to death.
NASA predicts that the Arctic Sea could be ice-free as early as the
summer of 2013.

Bush's moves in Alaska fail 'red face' test By Joel Connelly 27 Jan
2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a "delay"
in its decision on listing the polar bear under the Endangered
Species Act. In the meantime, the Minerals Management Service is
getting set, on Feb. 6, to throw open 30 million acres of the bears'
habitat to oil and gas development. With the skill of a World War
II convoy escort, the administration has laid down a smoke screen
around its actions... "The U.S. Geological Survey has concluded
that polar bears will almost certainly disappear from Alaska by the
middle of this century, and that we will have lost fully two-thirds
of the world's polar bears by this time," [Reps.] Inslee and Shays
wrote.

Navy resumes sonar training off coast 27 Jan 2008 The Navy has
resumed sonar training off the coast of Southern California as the
government and environmentalists battle in court over how the
exercises affect whales and other marine mammals.

Sales of New Homes Fell by 26% in 2007 28 Jan 2008 The housing
industry, caught in a maelstrom of sinking demand, rising foreclosures,
and bulging inventories, is in its worst slump in decades, a growing
body of economic evidence shows. Sales of new homes fell last year
by 26 percent, the steepest drop since records began in 1963, the
Commerce Department said on Monday.

Ballot measure would phase out rent control laws 28 Jan 2008 More
than 100 owners and operators of apartment buildings and mobile
home parks spent nearly $2 million to put an initiative on the June
3 ballot to phase out California's rent control laws. About 1.2
million people statewide are covered by such laws.

Japan stocks down 2 pct on exporters, Fed cut eyed 27 Jan 2008
Japanese stocks fell more than 2 percent on Monday, with exporters
such as Canon Inc down after U.S. stocks sagged late last week,
while investors grew cautious ahead of events including a Federal
Reserve meeting that is expected to result in another interest rate
cut.

eBay's PayPal to buy Israeli fraud-detection company 28 Jan 2008
An Israeli transaction verification service, Fraud Sciences, is
being acquired by PayPal [terrorists] in a $169 million transaction,
San Jose-based eBay announced today. The deal marks the first time
eBay and PayPal have acquired a security technology company. PayPal,
eBay's online payment service, has preferred to build its own
'security' technology until now.

Court rules Arizona must allow 'choose life' license plate 28 Jan
2008 A federal appellate court says Arizona must grant an anti-abortion
group's request for a special "choose life" license plate. The 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the state's system
for special plates effectively created a public forum for private
speech.

India bird flu disease 'alarming' 28 Jan 2008 The bird flu epidemic
has spread further in the Indian state of West Bengal with 13 of
the state's 19 districts affected, officials say. An outbreak has
been reported from Budge Budge, a suburb of the capital, Calcutta,
officials say.

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[Previous lead stories:] Iraq moves troops, tanks to northern city
Mosul 27 Jan 2008 Iraqi tanks and helicopters arrived in the northern
city of Mosul with troop reinforcements on Sunday for a big offensive
against 'al Qaeda' militants, Iraqi security officials said. U.S.
military officials on Sunday said their own operations around Iraq's
third largest city were continuing.

Pakistan Rebuffs Secret U.S. Plea for C.I.A. Buildup 27 Jan 2008
The top two American intelligence officials traveled secretly to
Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to
allow the Central Intelligence Agency greater latitude to operate
in the tribal territories where militants are active, according to
several officials who have been briefed on the visit. But in the
unannounced meetings on Jan. 9 with the two American officials --
Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, and Gen.
Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director -- Mr. Musharraf rebuffed
proposals to expand any American combat presence in Pakistan, either
through unilateral covert C.I.A. missions or by joint operations
with Pakistani security forces.

Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe 27 Jan 2008 An investigation
into the illicit sale of American nuclear secrets was compromised
by a senior official in the State Department, a former FBI employee
has claimed. The official is said to have tipped off a foreign
contact about a bogus CIA company used to investigate the sale of
nuclear secrets. The firm, Brewster Jennings & Associates, was a
front for Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent. The claims that a
State Department official blew the investigation into a nuclear
smuggling ring have been made by Sibel Edmonds, a former Turkish
language translator in the FBIs Washington field office.

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