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Today's lead stories:
2005 Budget released
Previewing Super Tuesday: Report from New Mexico
Censorship by CBS during Super Bowl
Refugees in Mexico after violent incursion
European Social Forum
FSRN Headlines
Bush Agrees to Independent Commission on Iraqi Intelligence
President Bush told reporters at his cabinet meeting today
that he will appoint a special panel to look into intelligence
gathering leading up to the invasion of Iraq. From Capitol
Hill, Darby Hickey reports.
Pakistani Scientists Gives Other Nations the Bomb
Pakistani intelligence officials found that one of their own
nuclear scientists helped other nations develop the bomb.
Masror Hussain reports from Islamabad.
Protests in Haiti
Small and diverse organizations joined forces and amassed
more than 100- thousand to march in Port-Au-Prince. Sylvio
Juste reports from Haiti.
NYC to Dump Recycling??
A New York City agency announced today that the city could
have saved 35- million dollars if the city dumped its recycling
program. Jackson Allers reports from WBAI.
State of Georgia Won't Teach Evolution
Georgia’s governor said he is displeased with the proposal
by his state’s Superintendent of Schools to remove the
word “evolution” from the curriculum for high
school biology students. The plan, which also takes out topics
like Darwin’s fossil evidence and the emergence of single
celled microorganisms, refers to evolution as “biological
adaptation” and reduces its emphasis. Superintendent
Kathy Cox says she wants to avoid student’s being turned
off to science because they believe in other origin theories
of the development of life on Earth. Governor Perdue said
if you’re going to teach evolution then call it evolution.
Public comment on the proposal runs until March. The Superintendent
will make a final recommendation to the Georgia state board
of education in May.
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2005 Budget released
Today President Bush released his 2005 Budget proposal that
totals 2.3 trillion dollars. The budget would make permanent
the tax cuts that are set to expire and would increase the
national debt to 521 billion dollars, the largest in actual
dollars ever. Spending on the military meanwhile makes up
almost a quarter of total national spending, making defense
contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, some of the
biggest winners in Bush’s budget proposal. FSRN‘s
DC Editor Mitch Jeserich reports.
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Previewing Super Tuesday: Report from New Mexico
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson today attended rallies for
Democratic presidential hopefuls John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman
on the heels of tomorrow’s 7 state primary and caucus
votes. Tomorrow’s contests will be the first to include
largely people of color electorates - in South Carolina the
population is largely African American, while in Arizona and
New Mexico close to half of the population is Latino. And
while much of the attention is on South Carolina and Arizona,
communities in New Mexico are mobilizing to be heard. Deepa
Fernandes reports from Albuquerque.
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Censorship by CBS during Super Bowl
Yesterday’s Super Bowl was the most watched game since
1997 with some 140 million viewers tuning it for at least
some portion of the football final. Controversy came at the
half time break when singer Justin Timberlake ripped co-performer
Janet Jackson’s shirt exposing her breast on national
television. The FCC announced today it will probe into the
issue. Yet what many activists around the country took issue
with was the censorship practiced by CBS when they refused
to air an ad by MoveOn.org. As Sandra Ahten reports, MoveOn.org,
like other groups which are willing to pay the full costs
for advertisement or underwriting, are having to modify their
message or find alternative outlets in order to be heard.
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Refugees in Mexico after violent incursion
The central Mexican town of Tlalnepantla remains occupied
following a violent incursion by state police nearly three
weeks ago. On Saturday, refugees displaced by the conflict
were able to return to their town long enough to attend a
mass for peace and reconciliation. However, as Vladimir Flores
reports, as long as state police continue to occupy the town,
many of Tlalnepantla's displaced will continue to live as
refugees.
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European Social Forum
There were events all across Europe over the weekend organized
by the European Social Forum. Naomi Fowler brings us this
report from Parliament Square in London.
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