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November 03, 2006
NOVEMBER 3, 2006—It's been a tough month for Wal-Mart as its pattern of poor business practices have caused its stock to tumble, sales to remain flat, growth plans to be scaled back, and earnings to fail. This reversal of fortune is just the American people speaking to Wal-Mart and telling them tha...
October 27, 2006
October 27, 2006—Terry Nelson the President of Crosslink Strategy, and a top consultant to Wal-Mart is behind a racist TV advertisement that attacks US Senatorial Candidate Harold Ford, Jr. from Tennessee.
NAACP and other civil rights leaders, to include the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Congressma...
October 26, 2006
October 26, 2006 — I received an e-mail late Wednesday evening telling me that Wal-Mart had an exciting announcement Thursday morning that would have a significant impact on 9 states. Finally after months of disappointment from declining sales, slowing customer traffic counts, labor problems, an...
October 25, 2006
OCTOBER 24, 2006-The expected huge bombshell announcement from Wal-Mart in their Webcast this morning was a disappointment. Most things coming from The Peoples Republic of Wal-Mart lately have been a big disappointment.
The big news from Wal-Mart is that they have redesigned their Web site to mak...
August 30, 2006
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was giving lessons in American history yesterday to the American Legion annual convention in Salt Lake City. Rumsfeld said that those who want civil and legal rights for the American people were suffering from “moral or intellectual confusion...
August 29, 2006
SANTA ANA, CA—In the penalty phase of the trial of convicted Aryan Brotherhood gang leaders Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham Tuesday the US Attorney told jurors that the two convicted leaders, who were convicted of ordering the deaths of 17 inmates, would continue to be a danger to other prisoners unle...
August 29, 2006
HOUSTON, TX—Pampered and preppy college student Howard Fish, 21 was granted bail by a federal judge in Houston Monday after he was arrested for carrying dynamite, blasting caps and explosives purportedly packed in a soda bottle filled with muddy water packed in his luggage on an international flight...
August 29, 2006
NEW YORK, NY—Next month 67-year old defense lawyer Lynne Stewart will be sentenced by a federal judge magistrate to between 30 and 40 years in federal prison. She was convicted last year of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, and defrauding the United States government. Her 7-mon...
August 29, 2006
SANTA ANA, CA—Federal prosecutors on Monday told a jury that “At some point, somebody has to stand up and say, 'That's enough.' For Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham, todays the day. We're standing up and saying enough.” Federal prosecutors are asking that the jury return a death sentence against Barry ...
August 27, 2006
UN Secretary Kofi Annan said Friday during his press conference that United Nations peacekeepers will not be stationed along the Lebanese-Syrian border to prevent smuggling of arms to Hezbollah terrorists unless Beirut ask for help in preventing arms smuggling to terrorists working inside of Lebanon...
August 27, 2006
HOUSTON, TX—Howard McFarland Fish, a college student from Connecticut, bought one-half stick of dynamite on a visit to South America, packed it in his suitcase, boarded an international flight from Argentina to Houston, and when arrested claimed that it was a mistake.
Fish's dynamite was found by...
August 26, 2006
Two weeks ago Senator Allen at a campaign trail stop looked out over the crowd. He spotted S.R. Sidarth video taping his speech. He paused, pointed to Sidarth and shouted “That fellow over there in the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent.” “Macaca” means monkey an...
August 20, 2006
PHOENIX, AZ—Arizona's Charter Schools are an abysmal failure. Drop out rates among Charter High Schools are the highest in the nation when compared to public schools, despite the amount of money spent on each student. Student's in Arizona Charter Schools have a higher failure rate on the state req...
August 19, 2006
DETROIT, MI-- A federal judge in Detroit ruled on Thursday that Bush's NSA must stop warrantless wiretaps of telephone and internet communications. The White House program was ruled unconstitutional, and in violation of federal laws prohibiting such conduct, even in the name of fighting terrorism.
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July 29, 2006
SANTA ANA—A federal jury found four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang guilty on Friday. Two of those convicted face the death penalty.
Barry “The Baron” Mills, 57; Tyler “The Hulk” Bingham, 58; Edgar Wesley Hevle, 54; and Christopher Overton Gibson, 46 were convicted by a federal ju...
July 29, 2006
SEATTLE—Five people were injured and one killed Friday as a man opened fire inside the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. The man expressed anger towards Jews before he opened fire.
Seattle Police would not identify the suspect. He was arrested 12 minutes after the first telep...
July 12, 2006
GAZA-- Wednesday morning Israeli forces moved with force into central Gaza and expanded their two-week offensive against Palestinian Hamas terrorists to gain the release of their captured soldiers, and stop rockets fired into Israel.
The Israeli air force dropped a powerful bomb on a Gaza City ho...
July 12, 2006
ISRAEL—Lebanese Hezbollah fighters kidnapped two Israeli Soldiers along the border with Lebanon. Israel responded by force sending armored attack vehicles, soldiers, and fighter air craft into Lebanon.
For the first time since Israel pulled out of Lebanon in 2000 Israeli forces have attacked acr...
July 11, 2006
ISRAEL—Israeli officials confirmed Tuesday night that infantry, and armored units have entered central Gaza and are beginning military operations.
Soldiers are going to conduct military operations in the towns of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah where they had not entered since the beginning of the ...
July 11, 2006
WASHINGTON—All Guantanamo Bay prisoners are to be processed under the proscriptions of the Geneva Conventions the White House announced.
The White House, who initially fought the idea that Guantanamo Bay detainees were prisoners of war entitled to the Geneva Conventions rights, has now announced ...
July 11, 2006
INDIA—105 people were killed and 230 were injured as a series of seven bombs exploded on the rail network in India's financial capital of Mumbai Tuesday evening during rush hour.
India officials said that the blasts occurred at seven separate suburban stations and took place during the evening r...
July 10, 2006
SYRIA—Khaled Mashaal in a public statement in Damascus on Monday reversed himself and admitted that Hamas had authority over the Palestinian Hamas Terrorists that kidnapped an Israeli Soldier on June 25.
Palestinian Hamas terrorists admitted to kidnapping Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25 ...
July 10, 2006
MOSCOW—Shamil Basayev, the Chechnyan separatist terrorist who was best known for the massacre at a Russian school in 2003 was killed.
Moscow's most wanted man who made war on Russia for more than a decade was killed by Russian forces in the neighboring southern republic of Ingushetia.
Basayev ...
July 10, 2006
IRAQ—The Iraq girl allegedly raped and murdered by US Soldiers in March was only 14 years old. US military officials in Iraq name the 5 soldiers charged in the death of the family, as well as the death, and rape of the girl.
An Iraq Identity Card identified the young girl allegedly raped by US S...
July 10, 2006
WEST BANK—As Israel moves forward on their offensive against the Hamas led terrorist Palestinian Authority, Hamas government officials run, and hide from Israeli's.
Mahmoud Ramahi a member of the Palestinian parliament, and a Hamas terrorist is hiding from Israel. He said “We have to take precau...
July 10, 2006
GAZA—Israeli Air Force fires at car carrying Palestinian terrorists. Weapons in car cause it to explode. Palestinian Hamas killed in Helicopter attack.
Sunday evening the Israeli Air Force fired at, and struck a car carrying Hamas members near a refugee camp in the neighborhood of Jabalya, in Ga...
July 10, 2006
WASHINGTON-- US Envoy to North Korea Christopher Hill has urged international unity in response to North Korea's missile tests.
Hill is holding talks in Tokyo among growing regional divisions on how to react to North Korea's missile tests. Hill said “We need to speak with one voice” adding that...
July 09, 2006
WASHINGTON—House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said that Bush briefed lawmakers on intelligence programs only after he angrily complained of not being briefed.
Hoekstra told Fox News Sunday that Bush didn't brief Congress on an unidentified intelligence program that the...
July 09, 2006
IRAQ—US Military Officials in Baghdad said Sunday that three US soldiers were charged with the March rape and murder of a teenage girl and her family. This brings to four the number of Americans charged in the four deaths, and the rape in Iraq.
Military officials have also charged a fourth soldi...
July 09, 2006
GAZA—Israel completed a withdraw from the northern Gaza Strip Sunday morning following a two day operation that involved fierce fighting with Palestinian terrorists, the death of 45 Palestinian terrorists, with no loss of life to Israeli forces. Offensive operations continue in other areas of the G...
July 07, 2006
NEW YORK—Federal authorities announced that a year old plot to blow up transportation tunnels in Manhattan has been foiled, and the mastermind was arrested in Lebanon and confessed.
A year ago FBI agents monitoring an internet chat room believed to be used by terrorists uncovered the planning to ...
July 07, 2006
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July 06, 2006
GAZA—Israel in its offensive strike in Gaza killed several Palestinians in air strikes and battles with Palestinian terrorists on Thursday. This has been the worst violence since Israel left Gaza last year.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered tanks and soldiers into northern Gaza after P...
July 06, 2006
GEORGIA -- Three people have been charged in federal district court with trying to sell the secret Coca Cola formula to Pepsi. The three also attempted to sell a sample of the new Coca Cola drink to Pepsi.
Three three Coca Cola employees-- including an executive administrative assistant that had...
July 05, 2006
GAZA—A force of Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers has moved into northern Gaza, heading toward the former Jewish settlement.
Tanks, and armored carriers have been sent into northern Gaza in response to a second harmless rocket attack on Israel by the Hamas controlled Palestinian Author...
July 05, 2006
GAZA—Hamas terrorists running the Palestinian government hit the center of Ashkelon, Israel on Tuesday with a long range rocket, and Israel has expanded military operations against Hamas terrorists in the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
Hamas terrorists operating from the rubble of former Israeli ...
July 05, 2006
ROME—Italian prosecutors said today that they are looking to arrest 4 American CIA agents, who acted with twenty-two other Americans, and two Italians in kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003.
Prosecutors in Milan said that they are looking for three American CIA agents, and a fourth Ame...
July 05, 2006
COLORADO—Former Chairman of Enron, Kenneth Lay has died of a heart attack at 64 years old.
Kenneth Lay, the former Enron Executive who was convicted in federal court of his crimes that brought Enron to financial ruin, has died of a heart attack in Colorado. Lay was 64 years old.
Pitkin Colora...
July 05, 2006
GUNTANAMO BAY CUBA—Omar Khadr is a teenager who grew up as a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay after he killed an American Green Beret in Afghanistan.
International outrage over Khadr's confinement in Guantanamo have painted Khadr as a fresh faced, wholesome teenager, who was in the wrong place at the w...
July 05, 2006
WASHINGTON—The test launch of North Korea's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was a failure as the missile ended up in the Sea of Japan 42 seconds after launch.
North Korea launched 6 test missiles, over a period of four hours. Intelligence officials focused mainly on North Korea's intercontine...
July 04, 2006
AUSTRALIA—Terry Hicks the father of Australian David Hicks who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 claims that his son is not a terrorist, despite being trained by al Qaeda, being arrested in a war zone, and seeking out information about fighting in Afghanistan from Muslim Clerics in Australia.
D...
July 03, 2006
AFGHANISTAN—Al Jazeera has reported that coalition forces have killed 20 suspected Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
Coalition forces found a weapons cache in the Sangin district of southern Helmand on Sunday. They then identified a convoy connected with the cache. The convoy was attacked by 30 ...
July 03, 2006
ISRAEL—Palestinian Hamas terrorists who kidnapped an Israeli soldier gave Israel 24 hours ion Monday to release Palestinian prisoners, or there would be consequences for Israel.
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declined the terrorists offer, and the Israeli defense chief has pointed out th...
July 03, 2006
WASHINGTON—Democrats said on Sunday that there should be a broad review of whether President Bush overstepped his war powers in the face of a Supreme Court ruling that attacked the administration's use of military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.
Senior Democrats on Sunday claimed that the Supreme Co...
July 02, 2006
SYRIA—Hamas in an outstanding reversal over original statements now says that they have nothing to do with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier an have no influence over his Palestinian captor.
Hamas' military organization was one of the three groups that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping...
June 30, 2006
WASHINGTON—In an interview President Bush said "I would like for there to be a way to return people from Guantanamo to their home countries, but some people need to be tried in our courts."
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the military tribunals established by President Bush to try ...
June 30, 2006
DUBAI—Osama bin Laden released a tap that praised the dead leader of Iraq's al-Qaeda, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Bin Laden promised that al Qaeda will continue its fight against US forces, and allies “everywhere.”
The audio tape, believed to be the voice of bin Laden said that “The lion of jihad...al...
June 30, 2006
WASHINTON—A top U.S. Counterterrorism official said Wednesday that the United States has not had an intelligence strategy to secure the US borders for years. The current strategy has resulted in uncoordinated and sometimes incomplete threat information about illegal immigrants crossing the nations ...
June 29, 2006
GAZA STRIP—Israeli troops arrested dozens of Hamas-led Palestinian government officials, in an operation after an Israeli soldier was kidnapped. Israel has expanded their military operation in Gaza.
Israeli special operations soldiers have arrested Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer ...
June 29, 2006
DAMASCUS, SYRIA—In a Hamas news conference, aides to Khaled Mashaal gave praise to the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, but claimed that Hamas played no official role in it. Israel claims that Mashaal planned the abduction and has threatened to have him assassinated.
The accusations have put M...
June 29, 2006
WASHINGTON—Congressman Peter King wants The New York Times to be criminally prosecuted for publishing details of the US anti-terror bank monitoring.
Peter King, a New York Republican, is the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told “Fox News Sunday” that the newspaper crossed the ...
June 29, 2006
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to President Bush's war on terror by his circumvention of the U.S. Constitution at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A 5-3 vote of the Justices was a strong rebuke to President Bush's use of military tribunals for 10 suspects arrested overseas in the U.S. oper...
June 07, 2006
Fifty eight thousand American military personnel died in Vietnam. It is estimated that between 1964 and 1972 the total cost of the Vietnam war to the U.S. was $111 billion. On March 16, 1968 U.S. Soldiers of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade under the command of...
June 07, 2006
PeoplePC was acquired by EarthLink in 2002 for about $14 million dollars according to the San Francisco Chronicle, and Securities and Exchange Commission documents filed by EarthLink. EarthLink has had a long history of allegations of consumer fraud, bait and switch advertising, and just general po...
June 06, 2006
More than a dozen United States Marines, and one Navy Corpsman are in the brig or restricted to the base at Camp Pendleton in California. The Marine Corp plans to file criminal charges, that include some murder charges, against several of the enlisted Marines in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civili...
June 01, 2006
Enforcement of US law is not a humanitarian issue. Our laws should be enforced equally. Racial profiling is something that is not acceptable. Our United States Constitution demands that all laws will be applied equally, and that all persons under the law will be treated equally. Law enforcemen...
May 31, 2006
In a 5-4 decision Tuesday the United States Supreme Court limited protections available to government whistleblowers. Bush’s new justice Samuel Alito cast the deciding vote. The decision means that government workers are not protected for blowing the whistle on governmental misconduct.
Proponents...
May 31, 2006
PHOENIX – A rehabilitated murderer, James Hamm has been denied the privilege to practice law, and the United States Supreme Court on May 22, 2006 refused to hear Hamm’s appeal. Fighting Hamm to keep him from practicing law were at least fourteen individual lawyers, and at least three large law fir...
May 30, 2006
WASHINGTON - President Bush before a Memorial Day speech and a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery signed the ”Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act” as a response to the protests of a Kansas church group that staged protests at military funerals around the country. The Kansas group clai...
May 30, 2006
On January 10, 2006 Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his elite Fraud and Identity Theft Enforcement Bureau prosecutors received a “Gold Record” from the Recording Industry Association of America for his ongoing efforts to prosecute criminals who make illegal copies of music. Thomas’ award...
November 30, 1999
MOSCOW—A preliminary report indicates that bad brakes may have caused the crash of an airliner that killed 122 people in the Siberian city of Irkutsk yesterday.
An Airbus A-310 careened off the runway, plowing into garages and bursting into flames. 122 people died, and there were 58 injured in t...