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Today's lead stories:
Bush’s 2005 Budget
On the ground Haiti
Haiti at the UN
Electronic voting systems
Gun Liability Bill Vote
Pine Ridge Alcohol vote
FSRN Headlines
Mortar Attacks on Shrines in Iraq
Two attacks on Shiite shrines in Iraq today killed at least
140 people and wounded hundreds more. Multiple mortar blasts
in Karbala and Baghdad ripped through the religious pilgrims
and other believers on this special day of worship. Suspicions
of who is to blame range from the United States and Israel
to a Jordanian militant. The U.S. installed Iraqi interim
governing council declared 3 days of mourning.
Clean Up in Haiti
The streets of Port au-Prince are just now being picked up
as the people of Haiti try to restore law and order to the
nation. In Port au-Prince, Sylvio Juste reports.
Protest Over US Haitian Policy
Demonstrators will gather in opposition to the Bush administration’s
intervention in Haiti. Leigh Ann Caldwell reports from WBAI
in New York.
Scalia Decides Himself If Ethical
The Supreme Court says Justice Antonin Scalia should decide
whether to recuse himself from the Sierra Club’s case
against Vice President Cheney and for full disclosure of the
Energy Task Force meetings. Jay Tamboli reports from D.C.
Nigerian Banks May Fire 22-Thousand
Nigerian bank officials are threatening to fire twenty thousand
workers hoping to curb a plan by the country’s main
workers union to picket them. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
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Bush’s 2005 Budget
Today is the one-year anniversary of the Department of Homeland
Security. President Bush said the Department deserves a gold
star for a job well done, but he warned that so called terrorists
are still lurking in the dark to kill Americans. However a
new critical report on Bush's 2005 budget suggests that the
President's multi billion-dollar proposal for the military
does little to increase safety for US citizens from an attack
while it funds old programs meant to fight the cold war. Mitch
Jeserich reports.
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On the ground Haiti
The AP reports that exiled ex Haitian leader Jean-Claude
``Baby Doc'' Duvalier told a television reporter he wants
to return to his homeland now that Jean-Bertrand Aristide
is out of the country. Duvalier told a reporter during an
interview in Paris, that QUOTE: ``I'm ready to put myself
at the disposal of the Haitian people.'' He said, however
that he did not plan to run for president. Meanwhile one city
in Haiti with relative calm is the northern port city of Cape
Haitian. The city has no official curfew, yet streets are
empty by 7pm. Banks and schools remain closed, but street
markets and small stores today resumed business. The new police
force has begun a campaign to round up Aristide supporters,
many of whom have fled into nearby mountains. Those already
captured are housed in the old port warehouse. FSRN’s
Deepa Fernandes and Kody Emmanuel met with the new police
chief and some prisoners this morning and they bring us this
report from Cape Haitian.
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Haiti at the UN
International reports say anti government leader Guy Philippe
declared himself Haiti's new military commander and called
on the people to give his forces quote: "the mandate
to provide them with security". And today, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan appealed for a long-term international commitment
to Haiti, saying the effort to stabilize the country could
take years. Meanwhile, Annan and other United Nations officials
are comment on claims by Haiti’s democratically elected
president that he was kidnapped by U.S operatives and forced
to resign. Susan Wood has more from the UN.
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Electronic voting systems
Public policy makers met with citizen activists in Los Angeles
to discuss Dibolds new electronic voting systems used in today’s
primary vote. FSRN’s Jason Rosenkrantz reports from
Los Angeles.
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Gun Liability Bill Vote
Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards, Democratic
Presidential hopefuls, rushed back to the capitol this Super
Tuesday to vote on the Gun liability Bill, which grants widespread
immunity to the gun industry from law suits. However, for
gun control advocates, some victories have been achieved through
the passage of additional amendments. Selina Musuta reports
from our Washington, DC bureau.
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Pine Ridge Alcohol vote
Tribal leaders on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation
voted down an ordinance last week that would have approved
a reservation wide referendum vote for the legalization of
alcohol. The legislation to permit the sale and consumption
of alcohol on the dry Oglala Sioux reservation was proposed
in December 2000 by tribal council representatives as a road
to economic development. FSRN correspondent Jim Kent visited
the Pine Ridge Reservation to speak to tribal members on both
sides of an issue that may not be a dead horse
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