Peace March Ignored By Mainstream Media...Again

I was hard pressed to find ANY media coverage of the planned Peace March/Rally scheduled for yesterday, April 29th in New York City. The March For Peace Rally drew several well known figures like Cindy Sheehan, Jesse Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Randi Rhodes and others. Even C-Span, my most reliable source for viewing such events, when every other media outlet ignores them...did NOT show any portion of the event.

The protest was supposed to call attention to this country's Iraq War policies as well as its immigration policies. I finally went to The New York Daily News and got an abbreviated report on the march and rally:

Army of protesters invades ManhattanDemonstrators formed a human river through the streets of Manhattan yesterday in the latest protest against the war in Iraq and controversial immigration policies. Thousands marched down Broadway from the Flatiron District to the federal courthouse near City Hall, waving banners and shouting slogans calling for President Bush to bring U.S. soldiers home from Iraq. More>>>

June 2, 2006 - Why Bushco Wants Us to Ignore That Date

It appears that only Air America Radio's Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy are constantly talking about this date. After listening to Mike and Randi explain what was to happen on June 2nd, I posted an item called: "Divine Madness" earlier this month which detailed what is going to happen on June 2, 2006.

Apparently, testing a "ammonium nitrate and fuel oil" 700 ton bomb in the Nevada desert is not newsworthy on the regular network news shows as well as cable "news" broadcasts.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: The 700-ton blast aimed at fine-tuning the government's skill at destroying underground bunkers, Divine Strake is set to take place in just five weeks. Before that time, the Pentagon and the Energy Department may need to follow up on information the Utahns requested, but they also must get an air-quality permit from the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, which also wants details.

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The explosion involves putting ammonium nitrate and fuel oil - the makings of a conventional bomb, like the one used in the Oklahoma City federal building bombing - in a 37-foot-deep pit that is being dug into a mountaintop about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. The pit lies about 100 feet above a 1,000-foot-long tunnel, which has been used for 45 past tests. Detonation will cause a blast comparable to a 3.1- to 3.4-magnitude earthquake, based on the Richter scale, said Matheson's office. The debris cloud is expected to shoot 10,000 feet into the air, but environmental reviewers say the debris won't cross the Nevada Test Site boundary eight to 10 miles away.

Thousands of Utahns are among the downwinders - Westerners who blame cancer and other illnesses on fallout from atomic tests conducted at the Nevada site in the 1950s and '60s. Two downwinders have joined with members of the Western Shoshone Indian tribe in trying to have a court block the test. MORE>>>

So why is this not being reported in MOST of the"Mainstream Media" outlets? Perhaps Mike Malloy was right when he said on his April 26th radio show, that Bushco does not want this to get out, because if it does, there would probably be the kind of massive anti-war demonstrations we (who are old enough) witnessed in the 70's during the Johnson and Nixon administrations.

Although the Bushco Administration claims this is simply a test of a non-nuclear device and there is no danger to American Citizens, over the decades, we have heard this kind of rhetoric before with regard to testing/detonating such devices in Nevada in the past and yet the record tells us that in each case it was detrimental to the environment and people living near the blast sites.

This article in Time Magazine shows that A Native American Tribe and two citizens groups are taking legal action against the Department of Defense to halt this test which is only 90 miles from Las Vegas: Time Magazine article by Margot Roosevelt states:

A Western Shoshone Indian tribe and representatives of two Salt Lake citizens groups have filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department to stop the June 2 detonation of a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The test, announced by the Pentagon on April 4, and dubbed "Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site — 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ‘Here we go again,’" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims "the Pentagon has sprung it on everybody with no examination of its effects." MORE>>>

Hastert Caught Ditching Hybrid He Drove To Energy News Conference...For SUV!!!

This is so typical of GOP deception. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill), Speaker of the House is seen here switching vehicles after an Energy News Conference today. Here we literally see the "bait and switch" schemes these cowards play. This Yahoo Video captures it all thanks to AP. Thanks HuffPo for the heads up.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., center, gets out of a Hydrogen Alternative Fueled automobile, left, as he prepares to board his SUV, which uses gasoline, after holding a new conference at a local gas station in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2006 to discuss the recent rise in gas prices. Hastert and other members of Congress drove off in the Hydrogen-Fueled cars only to switch to their official cars to drive back the few block back to the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Halliburton collected $100,000 a day for a pipeline it never built

Rebuilding of Iraqi Pipeline as Disaster Waiting to Happen - New York Times

By JAMES GLANZ
Published: April 25, 2006

When Robert Sanders was sent by the Army to inspect the construction work an American company was doing on the banks of the Tigris River, 130 miles north of Baghdad, he expected to see workers drilling holes beneath the riverbed to restore a crucial set of large oil pipelines, which had been bombed during the invasion of Iraq.What he found instead that day in July 2004 looked like some gargantuan heart-bypass operation gone nightmarishly bad. A crew had bulldozed a 300-foot-long trench along a giant drill bit in their desperate attempt to yank it loose from the riverbed. A supervisor later told him that the project's crews knew that drilling the holes was not possible, but that they had been instructed by the company in charge of the project to continue anyway.

A few weeks later, after the project had burned up all of the $75.7 million allocated to it, the work came to a halt. MORE>>>

The Situation At Duke

Randi Rhodes is on point regarding this topic. (The link on her name points to an interview with Paula Zahn on CNN recently). There is way too much REAL news to be addressed, instead of concentrating on "fake news" and gossip. We are about to test/detonate a nuclear type bomb in the Nevada desert on June 2nd; we may or may not release nukes on Iran; we have the executive and legislative branches of government filled with crooks and liars and the "lamestream" newsmedia is discussing DUKE's Rich kids who may or may not have assaulted a woman.

Here is Bartcop's take on it...it pretty much echos MY sentiments:

Thanks Bartcop for this item:

From: The situation at Duke

Funny, the same right wing bastards that are attacking the alleged victim were the same ones ready to burn Kobe Bryant.

But that can’t be because of race or anything.

Charlie B

Dude, good point. The most racist of the whites among us (Republicans) will always get back to the behavior of "those people" so they can pretend they're so "superior" to them.

Meanwhile, on that same page, we had:

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Republican Councilman Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

But the Gop/KKK insists the "darkies" need to be on a leash.
...and why did sexpot Jeff Gannon get a White House press pass with a fake name?

The Grand Ole Docket

As an update to my post about GOP Perverts and Criminals, here is something I ran across at TPM: The Grand Ole Docket.