HI TO EVERYONE FROM DOWN UNDER
WOW isn't this a blast, I have a voice
I bow down to you Queen for allowing me my passion, to be heard
Thanks also to Tech Guy and Kimmy
Boy I do ROCK dont I Queen
Lawmakers Told About Contract Abuse in Iraq
A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday.
The lawyer, Alan Grayson, represents two former employees who charged in a federal lawsuit that the security firm Custer Battles LLC of Fairfax was paid approximately $15 million to provide security for civilian flights at Baghdad International Airport, even though no planes flew during the contract term. Grayson said the firm received $100 million in contracts in 2003 and 2004, despite a thin track record and evidence the government was not getting its money's worth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24468-2005Feb14.html?referrer=email
Well what is new, that we did not already know, big Corporations takin home the bacon
Ex-Aide Questions Bush Vow to Back Faith-Based Efforts
A former White House official said yesterday that President Bush has failed to deliver on his promise to help religious groups serve the poor, the homeless and drug addicts because the administration lacks a genuine commitment to its "compassionate conservative" agenda.
David Kuo, who was deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for much of Bush's first term, said in published remarks that the White House reaped political benefits from the president's promise to help religious organizations win taxpayer funding to care for "the least, the last and the lost" in the United States. But he wrote: "There was minimal senior White House commitment to the faith-based agenda."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24561-2005Feb14.html?referrer=email
What is new, the faith based can be really happy with them selves, dumb just like their President
Money for Iraqi Forces Rises Sharply
President Bush asked Congress yesterday for $82 billion in emergency spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the Indian Ocean tsunami, making good on a pledge to dramatically scale up efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an eventual U.S. withdrawal.
The package includes $74.9 billion for U.S. military forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, including $5.7 billion to train and equip Iraqi forces. The latter sum represents more than a tenfold increase in spending on Iraqi forces over last year's request. An additional $1.3 billion would go toward training and equipping security forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23018-2005Feb14.html?referrer=email
Lawmakers Use Policy Committee to Investigate Issues They Say GOP Ignores
C-SPAN viewers tuning in yesterday morning might have thought they misread the results of November's elections.
There was Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (N.D.) -- a Democrat -- wielding a gavel and calling to order a hearing on Iraq contracts. Dorgan presided over a wood-paneled Senate hearing room, complete with water pitchers on the witness table, nameplates for the committee members, and C-SPAN 1 -- live!
But, paying closer attention, the viewers might have noticed that there were no Republicans on the panel, no administration officials at the witness table, and only two Democratic senators in the room. Then, the viewer might have surmised, correctly, that this was not a real committee hearing.
These are frustrating times for the Democratic Party, shut out of power in the White House, the House and the Senate. Democrats don't have power to call hearings, to subpoena witnesses or to move legislation.
But they still have the power to raise a ruckus. And one of their best vehicles for raising a ruckus is the Democratic Policy Committee, a taxpayer-funded entity established by law and given the power to hold meetings, pay for witnesses' travel and, on a good day, get coverage from C-SPAN.
Definitely back to the drawing board for 2006
Frenchman interrogated for days in secret
ABC radio says the Australian government has since paid Mohamadou Sacko $25,000 compensation over the incident.
The ABC says Mr Sacko was detained after arriving at Sydney airport 18 months ago to start an English course.
Mr Sacko says he was taken to Villawood Detention Centre where he received no consular access, and was asked to sing the French national anthem to prove his nationality.
He's told the ABC there was a scratch on his passport photo and immigration officials accused him of carrying a fake document.
Immigration officials say the terms of the compensation agreement can't be disclosed for legal reasons.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/15/1108229971713.html
Some world we are living in, when you cant travel today without being detained
Amnesty attacks Hicks trial as sham justice
Jumana Musa, Amnesty International's legal observer at the Guantanamo Bay military commissions, says the US trial that will hear the case of David Hicks is like an operation where the surgeons have had no training in basic human anatomy.
Ms Musa is visiting Australia to talk to the federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, about the commissions.
She will tell him today that the commissions - set up by the US outside the confines of either its domestic legal system or the Geneva conventions - is "a broken process ... [it] isn't working, and hasn't been working".
"The most important thing people need to understand is there is no amount of good lawyering that can fix this process," she said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229936602.html
And Mr Bush is all for justice of course
Jemaah Islamiah's constitution found: police
Indonesian police have disclosed they have found a copy of what may be the constitution of alleged South-East Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah.
The document was said to have been discovered after a bomb explosion on January 8 on Kalimantan Island, but its existence was only disclosed yesterday by National Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar during a hearing with a commission of the House of Representatives dealing with security affairs.
General Bachtiar said the explosion was in the oil town Balikpapan in East Kalimantan province.
The alleged bomber, identified as Sujono alias Sugiono, was injured in the blast.
"From him, we confiscated a copy of a document of the Nidhom Azasi, a kind of JI constitution, consisting of 15 chapters and 34 articles," General Bachtiar told legislators.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229936040.html
BLAST 'WAS SUICIDE BOMBER'
The devastating attack that killed Lebanon's former prime minister was probably caused by suicide bomber who drove into the ex-leader's motorcade.
Lebanon's interior minister said the crater caused by the attack was not at the side of the road - indicating the vehicle had not been parked.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/worldnews
Some peace you are giving Mr Leader of the free world
JACKSON TRIAL DRAMA
The Michael Jackson child abuse trial has been thrown into a spin after the star was rushed to hospital.
Lawyer Thomas Mesereau said his client was "very, very ill", raising fears that Jackson was suffering a serious illness.
But it later emerged the 46-year-old was suffering nothing more than a bout of influenza.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1171111,00.html
WOW fuax is set for the next month for their news BIG TIME
MOSQUE BLAZE KILLS 59
Around 59 people have been killed and 200 injured in a fire at mosque in Tehran.The fire was caused by an electrical heater used to protect worshippers from Iran's bitter cold weather, Iranian television said. The blaze was in the Arg Mosque in the centre of the capital.The fire started as hundreds of worshippers were performing evening prayers.
The mosque is close to the historic Golestan Palace where Reza Khan was crowned as Reza Shah Pahlavi in the 1920s and the huge Tehran bazaar, the heart of business in the capital
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1170979,00.html
So many innocent dead hope you are happy Mr President
I bow down to you Queen for allowing me my passion, to be heard
Thanks also to Tech Guy and Kimmy
Boy I do ROCK dont I Queen
Lawmakers Told About Contract Abuse in Iraq
A government contractor defrauded the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction funds and the Bush administration has done little to try to recover the money, an attorney for two whistle-blowers told Democratic lawmakers yesterday.
The lawyer, Alan Grayson, represents two former employees who charged in a federal lawsuit that the security firm Custer Battles LLC of Fairfax was paid approximately $15 million to provide security for civilian flights at Baghdad International Airport, even though no planes flew during the contract term. Grayson said the firm received $100 million in contracts in 2003 and 2004, despite a thin track record and evidence the government was not getting its money's worth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24468-2005Feb14.html?referrer=email
Well what is new, that we did not already know, big Corporations takin home the bacon
Ex-Aide Questions Bush Vow to Back Faith-Based Efforts
A former White House official said yesterday that President Bush has failed to deliver on his promise to help religious groups serve the poor, the homeless and drug addicts because the administration lacks a genuine commitment to its "compassionate conservative" agenda.
David Kuo, who was deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives for much of Bush's first term, said in published remarks that the White House reaped political benefits from the president's promise to help religious organizations win taxpayer funding to care for "the least, the last and the lost" in the United States. But he wrote: "There was minimal senior White House commitment to the faith-based agenda."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24561-2005Feb14.html?referrer=email
What is new, the faith based can be really happy with them selves, dumb just like their President
Money for Iraqi Forces Rises Sharply
President Bush asked Congress yesterday for $82 billion in emergency spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the Indian Ocean tsunami, making good on a pledge to dramatically scale up efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an eventual U.S. withdrawal.
The package includes $74.9 billion for U.S. military forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, including $5.7 billion to train and equip Iraqi forces. The latter sum represents more than a tenfold increase in spending on Iraqi forces over last year's request. An additional $1.3 billion would go toward training and equipping security forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23018-2005Feb14.html?referrer=email
Lawmakers Use Policy Committee to Investigate Issues They Say GOP Ignores
C-SPAN viewers tuning in yesterday morning might have thought they misread the results of November's elections.
There was Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (N.D.) -- a Democrat -- wielding a gavel and calling to order a hearing on Iraq contracts. Dorgan presided over a wood-paneled Senate hearing room, complete with water pitchers on the witness table, nameplates for the committee members, and C-SPAN 1 -- live!
But, paying closer attention, the viewers might have noticed that there were no Republicans on the panel, no administration officials at the witness table, and only two Democratic senators in the room. Then, the viewer might have surmised, correctly, that this was not a real committee hearing.
These are frustrating times for the Democratic Party, shut out of power in the White House, the House and the Senate. Democrats don't have power to call hearings, to subpoena witnesses or to move legislation.
But they still have the power to raise a ruckus. And one of their best vehicles for raising a ruckus is the Democratic Policy Committee, a taxpayer-funded entity established by law and given the power to hold meetings, pay for witnesses' travel and, on a good day, get coverage from C-SPAN.
Definitely back to the drawing board for 2006
Frenchman interrogated for days in secret
ABC radio says the Australian government has since paid Mohamadou Sacko $25,000 compensation over the incident.
The ABC says Mr Sacko was detained after arriving at Sydney airport 18 months ago to start an English course.
Mr Sacko says he was taken to Villawood Detention Centre where he received no consular access, and was asked to sing the French national anthem to prove his nationality.
He's told the ABC there was a scratch on his passport photo and immigration officials accused him of carrying a fake document.
Immigration officials say the terms of the compensation agreement can't be disclosed for legal reasons.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/15/1108229971713.html
Some world we are living in, when you cant travel today without being detained
Amnesty attacks Hicks trial as sham justice
Jumana Musa, Amnesty International's legal observer at the Guantanamo Bay military commissions, says the US trial that will hear the case of David Hicks is like an operation where the surgeons have had no training in basic human anatomy.
Ms Musa is visiting Australia to talk to the federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, about the commissions.
She will tell him today that the commissions - set up by the US outside the confines of either its domestic legal system or the Geneva conventions - is "a broken process ... [it] isn't working, and hasn't been working".
"The most important thing people need to understand is there is no amount of good lawyering that can fix this process," she said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229936602.html
And Mr Bush is all for justice of course
Jemaah Islamiah's constitution found: police
Indonesian police have disclosed they have found a copy of what may be the constitution of alleged South-East Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah.
The document was said to have been discovered after a bomb explosion on January 8 on Kalimantan Island, but its existence was only disclosed yesterday by National Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar during a hearing with a commission of the House of Representatives dealing with security affairs.
General Bachtiar said the explosion was in the oil town Balikpapan in East Kalimantan province.
The alleged bomber, identified as Sujono alias Sugiono, was injured in the blast.
"From him, we confiscated a copy of a document of the Nidhom Azasi, a kind of JI constitution, consisting of 15 chapters and 34 articles," General Bachtiar told legislators.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229936040.html
BLAST 'WAS SUICIDE BOMBER'
The devastating attack that killed Lebanon's former prime minister was probably caused by suicide bomber who drove into the ex-leader's motorcade.
Lebanon's interior minister said the crater caused by the attack was not at the side of the road - indicating the vehicle had not been parked.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/worldnews
Some peace you are giving Mr Leader of the free world
JACKSON TRIAL DRAMA
The Michael Jackson child abuse trial has been thrown into a spin after the star was rushed to hospital.
Lawyer Thomas Mesereau said his client was "very, very ill", raising fears that Jackson was suffering a serious illness.
But it later emerged the 46-year-old was suffering nothing more than a bout of influenza.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1171111,00.html
WOW fuax is set for the next month for their news BIG TIME
MOSQUE BLAZE KILLS 59
Around 59 people have been killed and 200 injured in a fire at mosque in Tehran.The fire was caused by an electrical heater used to protect worshippers from Iran's bitter cold weather, Iranian television said. The blaze was in the Arg Mosque in the centre of the capital.The fire started as hundreds of worshippers were performing evening prayers.
The mosque is close to the historic Golestan Palace where Reza Khan was crowned as Reza Shah Pahlavi in the 1920s and the huge Tehran bazaar, the heart of business in the capital
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1170979,00.html
So many innocent dead hope you are happy Mr President
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