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The Marty Heiser Show

Rev. Al Sharpton in Danbury CT: May 29, 2008 Broadcast.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Rev. Al Sharpton's speech at New Hope Baptist Church in Danbury CT.
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UN child sex abuse claims

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The BBC's investigation in late 2006 into the alleged sexual abuse of children by UN peacekeepers in Haiti. click here to see video.

Haiti does not need "an international watch dog to investigate the sex abuse claims." Haitians need justice, and a government that is not afraid to protect its people against foreign invaders. History will repeat itself in Haiti.
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Students Feeding Hunger. Thursday, May 22, 2008 Broadcast.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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McCain

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
























Cartoon from The Hill
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the swelling threat of xenophobia

Monday, May 19, 2008

"At least 13 immigrants have been killed as a wave of anti-foreign violence spreads across . . ."
Click here to read the article
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Town of Ridgefield, CT: Do the voters know better? Thursday, May 15, 2008 Broardcast.

Thursday, May 15, 2008


First Selectman Rudy Marconi and Board of Finance chairman Marty Heiser discussed Ridgefield voters rejecting the 2008-09 operating budget.
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Bush administration sporadic contacts with terrorists


map from news.bbc.co.uk

Iran
from The USA Today
The Bush administration had until now refused to talk directly to the Iranians about their nuclear program, although there have been sporadic contacts among relatively low-level officials on other subjects.


North Korea
The USA Today
While the United States tries to restart talks with North Korea over its nuclear program, the few official ties between the nations are disappearing.


Sudan
from The Los Angeles Times, April 29, 2005
The Bush administration has forged a close intelligence partnership with the Islamic regime that once welcomed Osama bin Laden here, even though Sudan continues to come under harsh U.S. and international criticism for human rights violations.The Sudanese government, an unlikely ally in the U.S. fight against terror, remains on the most recent U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. At the same time, however, it has been providing access to terrorism suspects and sharing intelligence data with the United States. Last week, the CIA sent an executive jet here to ferry the chief of Sudan's intelligence agency to Washington for secret meetings sealing Khartoum's sensitive and previously veiled partnership with the administration, U.S. government officials confirmed.
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The so-called Ag-Jobs: a domestic priorities



Senate panel adds immigration measure to Iraq supplemental
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday added to an Iraq spending bill a controversial provision to help pave the way for undocumented agriculture workers to win legal status, a move that may reopen the divisive immigration debate on the Senate floor.

The so-called Ag-Jobs amendment, sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would create a process that allows undocumented workers to continue to work on farms. Without the amendment, Feinstein warned that the U.S. would lose $5-9 billion to foreign competition, tens of thousands of farms would shut down and 80,000 workers would be transferred to Mexico. The bill would sunset in five years.

"Agriculture needs a consistent workforce," Feinstein said. "Without it, they can't plant, they can't prune, they can't pick and they can't pack.

"This is an emergency situation," she added.
Click here to read more.
from The Hill
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GOP to break from President Bush

Wednesday, May 14, 2008


GOP looking past Bush
from The Hill
A growing number of Senate Republicans are preparing to break from President Bush on an emergency war-spending bill.

It is the latest in a series of fights that demonstrate GOP willingness to look ahead to the next administration while ignoring the one still in office.

Recognizing that the emergency measure will probably be the only spending bill approved before the November elections, many Republican senators say they are willing to add billions of dollars in domestic spending because the sagging economy is dominating the minds of voters.

Bush has firmly stated he would veto such a measure.

Click here to read more
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International Embarrassment: No one can blame President Bush

Tuesday, May 13, 2008


". . . we are left with the lingering sense, albeit informed by hindsight, that the Iraqi campaign was a strategic blunder of historic proportions. Meanwhile, the al-Qaida leaders who masterminded 9/11 remain free, and parts of Afghanistan are in turmoil. The "real and present danger" facing Western civilization, Iran, is unchecked." The Jerusalem Post
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Sharif party quits government

Nine ministers from the Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) of Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, have quit the cabinet over the delayed reinstatement of judges sacked last year.

The ministers submitted their resignations to Yousuf Raza Gilani, the incumbent prime minister, on Tuesday.

However, Gilani has reportedly refused to accept the resignations.

Sharif said on Monday that the PML-N was "bound by this date," referring to a deadline he set with his main coalition partner, the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, for judges sacked by Pervez Musharraf, the president, to be reinstated.

However, he said his party would not take any decision that would strengthen the "dictatorship", referring to Musharraf.

from english.aljazeera.net
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BREAKING NEWS

Monday, May 12, 2008

Sharif party to quit cabinet

Nawaz Sharif, a former Pakistani prime minister, has announced that ministers from his political party will resign over the delayed reinstatement of judges sacked last year.

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Sharif said: "Our ministers will submit their resignations to the prime minister tomorrow."

However he said his party would not take any decision that would strengthen the "dictatorship", referring to Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president.

Sharif's party, the PML-N, pledged to continue supporting the six-week old coalition from outside the government, the prime minister's office said.

It said: "Senior Federal Minister for Food, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani this morning and assured him that PML-N members would continue to support the coalition government, regardless of the decision taken by the party leadership today."

Government coalition partners Gilani and Sharif have been deadlocked over the restoration of judges dismissed by Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, in November under emergency rule.

from english.aljazeera.net
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Senator Judith Freedman and Rep. Toni Boucher: Thursday, May 8, 2008 Broadcast.

Thursday, May 08, 2008


State Senator Judith Freedman talked about her long career in the Hartford Legislature and discussed with State Representative Toni Boucher her candidacy for the seat being vacated by Senator Freedman.
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Ridgefield Police Department: Thursday, May 8, 2008 Broadcast.


Ridgefield Police Commission member Carl Lecher, and Ridgefield Police Chief Richard Ligi and Mack Reid, from The Ridgefield Presswill discussed the upcoming vote on the police headquarter expansion.
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The United States has its own plans for Iran's gas?

What the Russian papers say
20:00 | 04/ 05/ 2008

MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) Washington might bomb Iran to stop gas cartel / Saakashvili targets Medvedev after failing to persuade Putin / Freedom House criticizes the United States / Basic Element quits tender for purchasing RTB Bor

RBC Daily

Washington might bomb Iran to stop gas cartel

On April 30, a high-ranking Pentagon official was reported as saying that the United States was planning to attack Iran if the latter does not curtail its nuclear program and stop arming Iraqi Shias.

Experts say the true goal behind the alleged plans is to stop Gazprom establishing itself in the region and the efforts of Tehran and Moscow to set up a gas cartel.
The same day, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in New Delhi that India was prepared to sign an agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan. The Pakistani prime minister expressed support for the project. The Russian gas monopoly has supported the project and proposed investing in it for a share in the consortium.

Igor Tomberg, a senior research fellow at the Center for Energy Studies of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said Russia might propose building a kind of a Nord Stream pipeline along the Arabian Sea bed, bypassing unstable Pakistan.
The United States, which has its own plans for Iran's gas, is categorically against the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline.
Another headache is the proposed gas cartel, whose charter may be approved this summer at the Moscow meeting of the energy ministers of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).

Iran is also trying to involve Gazprom in its projects. In late April, the concern agreed with the National Iranian Oil Company to set up a joint venture for the development of three license areas of the South Pars gas deposit.
Taken together, this is of major importance for global power generation, which will increasingly depend on gas in the 21st century, said Konstantin Simonov, head of Russia's National Energy Security Fund.

This is forcing Washington to take unusual steps. On April 30, the second conference of the World Congress of Azerbaijanis (WCA) was held in Baku with the assistance of Azerbaijan's State Committee for the Diaspora. The WCA was set up in the Untied States in 1997 to fight for the independence of southern Azerbaijan, i.e., the northern provinces of Iran populated by Azeris. Congress participants actually presented territorial claims to Iran.

In 2006, military analyst Ralph Peters published an article, "Blood borders. How a better Middle East would look," in which he writes that in a better Middle East "Iran, a state with madcap boundaries, would lose a great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan."

That the White House supports the idea became clear when it actually divided Iraq into Sunnite, Shiite and Kurdish pseudo-states in 2007. The United States views Azerbaijan as a key ally in the South Caucasus and a potential NATO member, as well as one of the four bridgeheads for a possible attack on Iran.
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The amazing journey

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Sami al-Hajj released from Guantanamo prison

Friday, May 02, 2008

"Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was held by the US in its controversial Guantanamo prison, has been freed."

"Al Jazeera had been campaigning for al-Hajj's release since his capture nearly six and a half years ago."

Wadah Khanfar, the network's director-general said, "Sami will continue with Al Jazeera, he will continue as a professional person who has done great jobs during his work with Al Jazeera."
from english.aljazeera.net


video from english.aljazeera.net
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Danbury Eriquez, Abrantes discuss Danbury's proposed 2008-09 operating budget: Thursday, May 1, 2008 Broadcast.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

P1010035
Former Mayor Gene F. Eriquez and Helena Abrantes, former Democratic Candidate will appear on Ideas at Work and Beyond to discuss the 2008-2009 Proposed Operating Budget for City of Danbury, CT.
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