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Bush Plan Would Raise Deficit by $1.2 Trillion, Budget Office Says
President Bush's budget would increase the federal deficit by $35 billion this year and by more than $1.2 trillion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office reported on Friday. http://www.nytime s.com/2006/03/04/politics/ 04budget.html?pagewanted=p rint The... ...
Pesticides Found in Most U.S. Rivers
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Most of the nation's rivers and streams — and the fish in them — are contaminated with pesticides linked to cancer, birth defects and neurological... ...
Pentagon Intelligence Agency Reviewed for Corruption
Federal investigators are looking into contracts awarded by the Pentagon's newest and fastest-growing intelligence agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity, which has spent more than $1 billion,... ...
MP bids to change planning laws for mobile phone masts Back to Local Government
Publisher: Jon Land Published: 03/03/2006 - 15:21:08 PM Mobile phone mast A bid to change planning laws relating to mobile phone masts was launched in the Commons today with cross party backing. Leading... ...
Govt. "Error" That Cost U.S. Billions
How it happened or who's responsible is a mystery eight years after the fact. But what may have been a simple error — or perhaps something more ominous — has given a multimillion-dollar windfall to a group... ...
Fire Michael Chertoff
"My gut tells me ... this is a bad one and a big one." -- FEMA Head Michael Brown to President Bush and Michael Chertoff on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's landfall Misjudgments. Grandstanding. Deceit.... ...
NASA MISSION DETECTS SIGNIFICANT ANTARCTIC ICE MASS LOSS
NASA Press Release March 2, 2006 The first-ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, conducted using data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace),... ...
The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Here's the second installment of the article about TETRA from the West Highland Free Press Newspaper. It's taken ages to scan in, please don't waste it. Read it, and pass it on. Regards, Chris Behind-the-scenes... ...
Untangling the next Telecom Act
In These Times by Craig Aaron 03/02/06 The last thing that the network giants want is for the public to realize what's going on -- which is why it's never been more important to speak out. If what they... ...
The $80 Billion Medicare Sellout
Nowhere is Republican corruption more glaring than in the Medicare Part D disaster passed in the dark of night in November of 2003 after a 3-hour vote - the longest recorded vote in the history of the... ...