WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

·  US soldier killed in Baghdad is 2,999th death - A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southeastern Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

·  How Washington and London helped to create the monster they went to war to destroy - Indeed, it was Washington that supplied him with many of the weapons of mass destruction the dictator used against his foes - weapons that one day would serve as a pretext for the US-led invasion that toppled him.

·  Top Ten Ways the US Enabled Saddam Hussein - The tendency to treat Saddam and Iraq in a historical vacuum, and in isolation from the superpowers, however, has hidden from Americans their own culpability in the horror show that has been Iraq for the past few decades.

·  Ramsey Clark reacts to the execution of Saddam Hussein - Ramsey Clark reacts to the execution of Saddam Hussein on BBC

·  Where Were the Mass Graves? - I am sure the fact that United States supported him in that war and Don Rumsfeld sold him weapons to use in that war was not a factor at all as to why that was not emphasized in his trial ... run by the Iraqis.

·  Bombings kill at least 68 in Iraq - The U.S. military also announced the deaths of three Marines and three soldiers, making December the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq, with 109 service members killed.

·  Iraq War is "War for Oil" - Los Angeles Times - The Iraq Study Group would commit U.S. troops to Iraq for several more years to ... provide security for Iraq's oil infrastructure. We can thank the Iraq Study Group for making its case publicly. It is now our turn to decide if we wish to spill more blood for oil.

·  Bomb kills 15 in Iraqi fish market - A bomb planted aboard a minibus exploded in a fish market south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 15 people, a hospital official said.

·  Dec. Deadliest Month in Iraq for U.S. - 5 GIs Die in Iraq, Making December Deadliest Month for U.S. Troops in 2006, With 108 Deaths

·  Saddam: The questions that will live on - So why did George Bush decide to invade Iraq? Nearly four years and hundreds of thousands of casualties later, the reasons appear both as obvious and as elusive as they were in the spring of 2003.

·  Police say car bomb kills 15, wounds 25 in northwest Baghdad - The blast occurred in Hurriyah, a mixed neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, at around 3:30 p.m. local time.

·  A dictator created then destroyed by America - But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?

·  Saddam was Right and Bush was Wrong - Think about it. It was the Bush administration and not Saddam that turned out to be lying about WMDs. As we all know now, there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Amazingly enough, it was Saddam who was telling the truth from the very beginning. Bush was the one who lied to the whole world.

·  Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein executed - "Saddam's body is in front me," said an official in the prime minister's office when CNN telephoned. "It's over."

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

·   Bush's Nightmare May Be Only Just Beginning - “After Saddam's execution, the U.S. is bracing for blowback that could last days, months or even decades.”

·  Cheney hails Ford's pardon of Nixon - "It was this man, Gerald R. Ford, who led our republic safely though a crisis that could have turned to catastrophe," said Cheney, speaking in the Capitol Rotunda where Ford's body rested. "Gerald Ford was almost alone in understanding that there can be no healing without pardon."
TVNL Comment: No healing, no justice and no exposing crimes within our government. What a great thing!

·  50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said - "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." -summing up his first year in office, three months after the 9/11 attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001

·  Hussein's death does not alter Bush's problems - The execution of Saddam Hussein closes an agonizing chapter in history that began with President Bush's vow to achieve a "regime change" with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
TVNL Comment: This is a very deceptive article by the Washington Post. Bush's promise was not to achieve regime change in Iraq; that would have violated both domestic and international law. He vowed to protect us from a "grave and gathering threat." The Washington Post is revising history as they try to distract us from the high crimes of George W. Bush by pretending that regime change was the accepted reason for starting a war.

·  I Witness the Israel Lobby in Action - This chilling statement was a candid expression of the goals of the Israel lobby. A member of a Jewish organization was saying that it's OK to have a wide-open discussion of these issues in Israel, but it's dangerous to have such a discussion here. Why? Because America is the mainstay of support allowing Israel to continue its policies in the Occupied Territories. The Israel lobby fears that Americans, if left to their own devices, will abandon Israel, out of indifference, or antisemitism. So Americans must be influenced—in this case by having the information they get about Israel/Palestine vetted, and by pressuring Jews on campus to toe the party line.

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#economy

·   The Wealth of the Poor: Managing ecosystems to fight poverty - The World Bank is no more interested in ending poverty than the Ford Motor Company is concerned about their employees or the surrounding communities of St. Paul and Minneapolis as they move to shut down the Twin Cities Assembly Plant--- although both the World Bank and the Ford Motor Company do have a common goal: maximizing corporate profits.

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

·   Search for Human Remains Expands at WTC - In a memo to Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the search for remains, Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said debris believed to be from the towers had been dug up from under a service road on the site's western edge and said more of the road would be excavated.

·  9/11 - ARE AMERICANS THE VICTIMS OF A HOAX? - The time has come to stop using the flag as a blindfold, to stop waving our guns and our gods at each other, to take a close look at the facts which have emerged from the attacks on the World Trade Towers and to recognize the very real possibility, indeed probability, that We The People are the victims of a gigantic and deadly hoax.

CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

·  Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations - Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has "accepted responsibility" for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening.

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

·  Localities Operate Intelligence Centers To Pool Terror Data - Frustrated by poor federal cooperation, U.S. states and cities are building their own network of intelligence centers led by police to help detect and disrupt terrorist plots.
TVNL Comment: As they invade your privacy!

·  Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007 - Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans' grim predictions for the United States in 2007.

·  Trounced at Polls, Kansas GOP Is Still Plagued by Infighting - Phill Kline is not one to slink away -- and the ideological wars inside the Kansas Republican Party show no sign of ending.

·  Tax forms mailed with Soc. Sec. numbers - The state Department of Revenue was scrambling to alert taxpayers to be on the lookout for the mailings. "We want to prevent any chance identity theft might occur,"

·  Justice investigating whether Interior officials steered oil-trading contracts to favorites - The Justice Department is investigating whether the director of a multibillion-dollar oil-trading program at the Interior Department has been paid as a consultant for oil companies hoping for contracts

·  House candidate can't inspect secret voting software - Jennings has alleged that the machines made by ES&S, which also manufactured the voting machines used in South Florida, had malfunctioned. Buchanan won by less than 400 votes, but more than 18,000 voters in Sarasota County did not make a choice in the race to succeed Rep. Katherine Harris.

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

·   China chokes on a coal-fired boom - Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific to California laden with microscopic particles of chemicals that cause cancer and diseases of the heart and lung.

·  Siachen glacier melting fast due to military activity - The studies reportedly pointed out that during the last two decades, the melting of Siachen glacier has now been bracketed amongst the fastest in the world.

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

·  Pakistan could become next US nightmare - It already has nuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles made with North Korean help. It shelters jihadists battling Western forces across its border, and fanatical cells training Muslim youth in Western countries to put bombs on buses and metros.

·  End double standards on nukes: Egypt - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit called yesterday for an end to nuclear double standards, after the UN imposed sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment.

·  World leaders welcome, condemn Saddam's execution - World political and religious leaders were divided over whether former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's execution Saturday was a milestone toward peace or further conflict in the Middle East.

·  Scarlett, author of the Iraq war dossier, is knighted - John Scarlett, who took responsibility for the error-ridden dossier that justified the war in Iraq, is knighted in today's New Year's Honours list. The award will enrage peace campaigners, who have accused the veteran spymaster of saving Tony Blair's skin over the flawed case for the invasion. The news came as a British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra yesterday, the 127th to die since the invasion in 2003.
TVNL Comment: "Flawed" case for war? "Error" ridden?" No..."concocted" and ridden with "lies!"

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

·   Third time's the harm - After two tours of duty in Afghanistan, Steven Henderson says his latest callup 'not to exceed 545 days' in Iraq is asking too much.

·  Security Effort by Coast Guard Is Falling Short - A Coast Guard plan to combat terrorism by creating the maritime equivalent of an air traffic control system in the coastal waters here, a test for a nationwide effort, has fallen far short of expectations.

·  2 U.S. Sailors Die in Fall From Sub - Two American sailors died after falling from a U.S. submarine off the coast of southern England on Friday, the U.S. Navy said.

·  More troops unhappy with Bush's course in Iraq, poll finds - The American military, once a staunch supporter of President Bush and the Iraq war, has grown increasingly pessimistic about chances for victory.
TVNL Comment: They supported this war, now they should simply keep their mouths shut! People who spoke our before the war were demonized by the military community for being anti-American. Now they better keep the flag wrapped around their collective mouths and clean up the mess that they asked for!

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

·  In 2007 Make it the Truth or Nothing! - You can also stop hurting people by contributing to their self harm. What do I mean by that?

·  Neo-cons and the "Nanny State" - Now that the neo-Conservative philosophy is experiencing its first full-year of genuine crisis, it is not surprising that we find its most ardent purveyors offering up some ever more desperate and audacious claims.

·  Hussein and Ford = Dead Criminals - If citizens of East Timor had a say, Ford's corpse might not be laying in state. In fact, he just may be hanging side-by-side with Saddam.

·  The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age - At the beginning of the scientific era, men had the hope that the ability to discover truth would free mankind from superstition, dogma, and the service of power.

·  Bush and the F-word in 2006: Police State or Progressivism in 2007? - This two-part series recaps Bush's record in 2006 under the framework of Britt's "fourteen common threads" of fascism and makes predictions for 2007.

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

·   Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 - Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.

HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

·   Healthy? Insurers don't buy it - Minor ailments can thwart applicants for individual policies.

·  DNI Awards $2 Million in Hush-Hush Money - Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte awarded $200,000 grants earlier this month to 10 scientists in the intelligence community, one of whom could not be named and several of whom declined to be interviewed, for projects whose details remain secret.

·  Park Service Can’t Say How Old Grand Canyon Is To Not Offend Creationists - PEER is also asking Director Bomar to approve a pamphlet, suppressed since 2002 by Bush appointees, providing guidance for rangers and other interpretive staff in making distinctions between science and religion when speaking to park visitors about geologic issues.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights

·   Around the World, Unease and Criticism of Penalty - “Mainstream middle-class sentiment in Europe now regards the death penalty as being as ethically tainted as the crimes that produced the sentence,” he added.

·  Palestinian death toll triples this year - The report claimed that at least 322 of those killed were not fighters. At the same time, B'Tselem recorded a drop in the number of Israelis killed during the year. Palestinians killed 17 civilians, including one minor, and six members of the security forces.

·  We Can't Ignore Iraq's Refugees - Today, within Iraq, 1.6 million people have already fled or been expelled from their homes. An additional 1.8 million, fleeing sectarian violence, kidnappings, extortion, death threats and carnage, have sought refuge in neighboring countries.
TVNL Comment: This tragic inexcusable situation is the fault of George W. Bush, PNAC and the US corporate media!

·  Palestinian girl, 14, killed by IDF fire near West Bank fence - Israel Defense Forces troops on Tuesday opened fire on two teenaged Palestinian girls approaching the separation fence near the West Bank town of Tul Karm, killing one and wounding the other.

OF INTEREST : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#interest

·  Why Ford Pardoned Nixon: To Keep Secret His Role in the Kennedy Assasination - The DNC had gotten copies of the photographs taken of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza, and identified two of them as long time Nixon henchmen E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. This put the DNC in a position to at least blackmail the President, if not expose him outright.