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Bush’s yellow cakewalk to Iran: Text of State of the Union Address— Prepared text of President [sic] Bush’s State of the DisUnion address on Jan. 28, 2009, as provided by the White House 29 Jan 2008 
pResident Bush said earlier tonight, “Tehran is also developing ballistic missiles of increasing range and continues to develop its capability to enrich uranium, which could be used to create a nuclear weapon.” (It’s from Niger, right?) Flashback! During the 2003 State of the DisUnion speech, Bush said, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

BTW, what the f*ck is ‘a protective overwatch mission?’ “American troops are shifting from leading operations, to partnering with Iraqi forces, and, eventually, to a protective overwatch mission.” [!?!]

Also, according to Bush, the State of the Union will be strong – only if the spying telecoms get immunity from lawsuits! “To protect America, we need to know who the terrorists are talking to, what they are saying, and what they are planning. Last year, the Congress passed legislation to help us do that. Unfortunately, the Congress set the legislation to expire on February 1. This means that if you do not act by Friday, our ability to track terrorist threats would be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. The Congress must ensure the flow of vital intelligence is not disrupted. The Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America.” Gag me with a chainsaw! —LRP www.legitgov.org/

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.
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-31636020080128

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.
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/179341,big
-blaze-sweeps-through-iraqs-central-bank.html

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.
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2248299,00.html

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.
www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/464126.html

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.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=40661&sectionid=351020201

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.
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3o
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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.
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2816325620080128

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.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2008/01/27/wpak127.xml

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.
in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-31609520080126

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.
www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.
asp?newsid=039030120080127092438

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.”
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/27/
mccain-warns-there-will_n_83459.html

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.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/01/27/AR2008012702062.html

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.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BE7095BF
-0E93-4AAB-A2CA-42B17264D16A.htm

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.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews
/idUSN2848993920080128

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.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/01/28/AR2008012801458.html

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.
www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/28/tsa.bombtest/index.html

‘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.
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/26/3_us_
workers_face_investigation_over_obama_e_mail/

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?”
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2248292,00.html

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%. That’s little changed from earlier surveys.
www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election
_20082/2008_presidential_election/florida/election_2008
_florida_democratic_primary

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.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/28/royaldutchshell.oil

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.
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009852426

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.
seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/348970_joel28.html

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.
www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_8095464

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.
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/business/28cnd-econ.html

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.
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/
california/la-me-rent28jan28,0,6996587.story

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.
www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idCAT7945020080128

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.
www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8100382

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.
www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0128choose-life0128-ON.html

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.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7212486.stm