Today's stuff from Randi's site

- CACI v Randi Rhodes – Randi’s victorious decision

- Watch and enjoy Randi's "We Believe" speech given at The 50th Anniversary Celebration of Peace Action of Michigan, November 11th, 2007.



McCLELLAN MISLED:
Scott McClellan writes that he was asked to misinform the press regarding who outed Valerie Plame. McClellan passed along information that was NOT TRUE to cover for Bush and Cheney, Card, Libby and Rove.

Here is the excerpt from Scott McClellan’s book. It will be released on April 21^st 2008.

White House spokesperson Dana Perino, at an off-camera briefing, said that she discussed McClellan's book with Bush and Perino said the President, "has not and would not knowingly pass false information". (The key word is "knowingly")

A BuzzFlash Editor’s Blog: Scott McClellan Didn't Out Bush, Cheney Did.

(NOT) SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS:
Unbelievable: Wounded soldiers are being asked to give some of signing bonuses back if they cannot serve out their time due to their injuries.

Pfc. Jordan Fox talks about the military asking for signing bonuses back.

WAR ON TERROR:
Troop levels in Iraq will fall by about 5,000 by the end of next month. There will still be some 157,000 US troops in Iraq.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin says Democrats will not cut war funding for troops.

Though US forces have made progress against the Taliban, many goals that the Bush administration set for 2007 have not been met.

A sad story about a decorated GI who lost friends, recovered from injury and was redeployed. (To try to make this war REAL).

The Polish Prime Minister says he will pull all Polish troops from Iraq in 2008.

IRAN:
Ari Fleisher teaching and focus testing how to sell WAR IN IRAN.

The US is ordering more jet fuel to be sent to Gulf for F-18's. They are also ordering extra ship fuel.

AFGHANISTAN:
The Taliban has expanded their territory. There is an increase in opium poppy cultivation and Hamid Karzai is useless. Mission Accomplished!

Reports say that a resurging Taliban is in more than half of Afghanistan.

PAKISTAN:
Musharraf to become a civilian President this Thursday.

“I have come to save this country,” is what former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday as he returned to Pakistan after years in exile.

LYING & SPYING:
Almost two-thirds of Americans believe that the government new about the 9/11 attacks but did not to stop them.

The Feds are tracking cell phone calls with warrants that some judges are granting without requiring proof of probable cause.

Houston police are going to use drone panes…but for what?

Congress has revealed some $80 million to be spent to boost spy tech and training for 2008.

ECONOMY:
Though less money was spent per shopper this holiday weekend, more people went out shopping this year than last. The average shopper spent about $348.00 this weekend.

Oil prices nearing $100 a barrel.

PRIVATIZING THE MILITARY:
Guards employed by a private contractor, Unity Resources Group, were found to be involved in a June and October shooting.

BIG MEDIA:
The FCC is set to vote tomorrow on a plan to regulate the cable industry more stringently.

Rupert Murdoch is looking to shape Sky News in the Fox News mold.

IMPEACHMENT:
Impeach Bush and Cheney. If not now, when? Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

THE ’08 CANDIADATES:
Huckabee and Romney in a virtual tie in Iowa.

The primaries are only weeks away! Here's a guide to the scenarios that could alter the current situation in both party showdowns.

Behind in fundraising, the GOP is turning to wealthy candidates who can spend their own money getting elected.

Oprah is set to stump for Obama.

SIDEBARS:
A great article by William Rivers Pitt entitled, “Bad, Worse, Worst and Beyond”.

A person close to Senator Trent Lott is saying that he will resign from Congress by the end of the year.

Karl Rove is not going to be hired at TIME.

Bush asks Courts to delay a case that would hold businesses accountable for hiring illegal’s.

Al Gore is headed back to White House, but not for the reason we’d like.

Broadway strike talks resume.

Making a u-turn, Condi Rice and the Bush administration are now getting actively involved in the Israelis/Palestinian peace process.

A new book says that the Secret Service knew of a plot to assassinate JFK in Chicago in November of 1963.

These stories, your calls and much more on today’s Randi Rhodes Show.

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