Wednesday
Mar092005
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 12:00AM
- Governor issued faked news -- Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has used state resources to
produce faux news reports promoting some of its most contentious
proposals, including revamping teacher tenure and freezing a law that
would increase the number of nurses in hospitals. Schwarzenegger
himself appears in two videos prepared at taxpayer expense for
California television stations that tout his education overhaul plans
and now-abandoned proposal to scrap scores of state boards and
commissions. [more]
- Pictured Above: Idiot Schwarzenegger
greets bystanders from a Humvee on Tuesday as he takes volunteer
signature gatherers to a North Natomas restaurant to circulate
petitions for redistricting and pension overhaul initiatives that he is
pushing for the November ballot. [more] and [more]
- Joseph Pannell
went to Canada to become Gary Freeman. Why? Would a young
African-American involved in an incident with police get a fair hearing
in early 70's Chicago? Check out Freemandrum.org [here]
- Check Out LocalBlack.com -A
Civil Rights Support Organization dedicated to the socioeconomic
development and empowerment of Blacks in the United States of America [more].
- Chuck D Speaks:
"MTV and Viacom have extended the teenage years to age 29," Chuck went
on. "Now people are so deep in fantasy that Americans have to watch TV
for 'reality.' "When we made this album there was a crack epidemic
going on. Today we have another epidemic: 'Consumption' is the new
crack." [more]
- ''People
assumed if they saw it on the news, it was real, and it was correct.
But what we've seen over the past few years is a whole swaying of
media, news, and information for all sorts of purposes -- the war,
weapons of mass destruction, and so on." - DJ Spooky [more]
- 'Angry Black White Boy': The Way I Am [more]
- SEE the "State of the Black Union" [here] courtesy of the Final Call [more]
- Tests Show King Tut Was Not Murdered [more]
- The "Voices of Civil Rights" exhibit will be on display through March 26 and is also accessible on the Library's Web site at www.loc.gov/exhibits .The full project can also be viewed at www.voicesofcivilrights.org.
- Prosecuter: Lil' Kim lied about shootout. [more]
- CONFIRMED: Republican Jeff Gannon was an adult porn webmaster [more]
- Iraq shrine in Mexico [more]
- Wyclef Jean on Bush: "If he was a pot smoker, that makes him cooler to me." [more]
- Police officer’s killer sentenced to death [more]
- Ohio security bill has Muslims wary [more]
- Africa faces up to 89 million new HIV/AIDS infections by 2025 [more]
- Jailed immigrants cost county millions [more]
- Pawnshop database paying off for police -
Pawnshops and secondhand stores send their transaction records — which
they are legally required to submit to law enforcement agencies — to
the database. Authorities search records for items potentially linked
to investigations. [more]
- Fatal shootings by police rose in 2004 [more]
- Bill would rename BWI after Thurgood Marshall [more]
- University of Georgia defends use of 'Nigger' [more]
- NJ Poor districts urged to raise taxes to cover shortfall [more]
- Mutabaruka: I will look to the hills from whence cometh my help [more]
- Saviours’ Day enjoyed around the country [more]
- The Company That Would Sell Your Soul to the Devil [more]
- Segregated in life and death [more]
- Nation of Islam leader encourages gays to march [more]
- BUSH: "IT'S HARD WORK, WINNING THE WORLD SERIES. IT'S HARD; WORK. THIS WORK IS HARD ..." -stoopid MF
- Arab Bashing Reaches Low With Thomas Slur from White Trash Ann Coulter [more]
- King memorial fundraising `turbocharged' [more]
- Meet
the New Jeff Gannon, Same As the Old Jeff Gannon: Disgraced Republican
Activist, Selling Scandal By the Pound, Continues to Embarrass White
House [more]
- Wesson Change of Venue Denied [more]
- Don't Punish the Victims of Bankruptcy: Tell Senators to Oppose Unfair Bankruptcy "Reform" [more]
- Cuban Dissidents Testify to Congress from Havana [more]
- Local African-American Ministers Calling for Boycott of Upcoming of "Gangster Rapper" Nelly Concert in Jonesboro [more]
- Malcolm X's impact felt across area Seminar to discuss influence on Islam [more]
- This is Madness The Last Poets Recalled [more]
- Stokely Carmichael AKA Kwame Ture [more]
- Filmmakers say public uninformed about slavery [more]
- Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony For The Late Jackie Robinson [more]
- "I don’t believe in interbreeding like that," he said. [more]
- Elijah Muhammad's Georgia roots shape his future as Nation of Islam patriarch [more]
- Same-sex Hispanic couples are pro-family, study shows [more]
- More jobs for Hispanics [more]
- Toledo Police officer sentenced for lying [more]
- Cause for Compensation [more]