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

·  ·  U.S. loses fourth copter in Iraq in two weeks - A U.S. Apache helicopter went down in Iraq on Friday, Pentagon officials said, the fourth helicopter to crash in two weeks.
TVNL Comment: Some people are going to make a fortune selling the US replacement military hardware! Mission accomplished for them! They are just loving what is going on now!

·  185 professors killed since U.S. invasion - Some 185 university professors have been assassinated since the 2003 U.S. invasion which has plunged the country into a spiral of violence.
TVNL Comment: But according to Bush supporters and other idiots we are all better off without Saddam!

·  U.S. delays report on Iranian role in Iraq - The Bush administration has postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq amid internal divisions over the strength of the evidence, U.S. officials said.

·  Iraq at risk of further strife, intel report says - A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources familiar with the document.

·  Double the Troops in "Surge" - President Bush and his new military chiefs have been saying for nearly a month that they would "surge" an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, in a last, grand push to quell the violence in Baghdad and in Anbar Province. But a new study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the real troop increase could be as high as 48,000 -- more than double the number the President initially said.

·  U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given - Statistics on a Pentagon Web site have been reorganized in a way that lowers the published totals of American nonfatal casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
TVNL Comment: Where does the deception end?

·  Two Iraqi generals suspected of complicity in attack on US GIs - "There are 2 senior Iraq generals that US officials say are now suspect of involvement in an attack against American forces in Karbala on Jan. 20th," a Fox News host reported on air.

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

·   FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney - She described the bureau's interview with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Oct. 14, 2003. Asked where he first learned of Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, he had told the FBI then -- from the vice president, on or about June 12 that year, in a telephone conversation.

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

·  Fewer jobs added; jobless rate climbs - The tally of new jobs added last month fell short of economists expectations for a gain of around 150,000 positions.
TVNL Comment: And as usual these numbers will probably be revised...down. And nobody will mention this in the media.

·  Wal-mart pays itself rent -- and cuts its taxes - But in a rather deft tax strategy, the company has been paying most of that rent -- we're talking about billions here -- to itself, and then it deducts that amount from its state taxes in the 25 states that allow the deduction.

·  Senate ups wage to $7.25 over two years - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with controversial tax cuts for small businesses and higher taxes for many $1 million-plus executives.
TVNL Comment: Do some research as to what companies fall under the definition of small business: Verizon Communications, AT&T Wireless, Barnes & Noble and Dole Food to name a few.

·  Exxon Sets Record on Annual Profits - With oil and gas prices on the upswing again in recent days, few analysts think the bonanza of profits that energy companies have enjoyed in recent years will end anytime soon.

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

·  DONATE TO VERMONTERS FOR A REAL 9/11 INVESTIGATION - Our mission is to secure a new, thorough, and truly independent forensic investigation that fully addresses the many questions surrounding the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

·  Dennis Kucinich Calls For Some 9/11 Truth - He has made a serious accusation concerning the 9/11 attacks, and I think that deserves some attention. But I’m not expecting the Democrats to give it much. Just like they ignored the 9/11 “truther” who ran on their party’s ticket for the House down in Florida this last election.

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

·  House Panel Probing Bush's Record on Signing Statements - The new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, said yesterday that he is launching an aggressive investigation into whether the Bush administration has violated any of the laws it claimed a right to ignore in presidential "signing statements."

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

· Flood Maps May Have Out-Of-Date Data - Maps used to calculate flood danger in the U.S. rely on data that are decades out of date, according to a report that calls for a new national program to remap land levels.

·  Top US prosecutors ‘forced out’ - Democratic senators are fighting to halt what they say is a Bush administration campaign to remove forcibly top federal prosecutors, including the US attorneys responsible for key investigations of Congressional corruption and stock options back-dating.

·  Pfizer, Halliburton Grab Democrats as Hearings Loom - Pharmaceutical companies and Iraq war contractors, both heavy Republican contributors, are among the companies scrambling to hire lobbyists with Democratic ties as they prepare for congressional investigative hearings next week.

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

·   Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study - Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

·  Climate Report Won't Signal Policy Change - It was a U.S. government scientist who helped push through the strong language in the upcoming international report on global warming. But that doesn't signal a change in President Bush's policy about greenhouse gas emissions.
TVNL Comment: For the sake of the world...preemptively strike the Bush adminstration!

·  China's Poison for the Planet - Can the environment withstand China's growing economic might? As one of the planet's worst polluters, Beijing's ecological sins are creating problems on a global scale. Many countries are now feeling the consequences.

·  Warming 'likely' man-made, unstoppable - The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is "very likely" caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

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

·  China airs rare public criticism of Bush Iraq policy - President Bush should scrap his unilateral approach and respect religious diversity in his "war on terror" to resolve troubles in Iraq, a senior Chinese official said in comments published on Thursday.

·  Labour 'falling apart' as MPs turn on Blair - The Prime Minister, in one of his worst days at the despatch box, faced taunts in the Commons about the spectre of Watergate, and was told by the Tory leader David Cameron to quit "in the national interest" after Lord Levy's arrest on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

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

·  UPDATE PENDING

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

·   Why the Bush Administration MUST be Stopped - Politics can be repaired. Truths can come out. Crimes can be solved and justice service. Even wars can end (although the damage can not be reversed.) But the damage being done to the environment can very possibly be a death sentence for all of us and the Bush administration is doing everything in its power to make sure the environmental damage caused by humans continues.

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

·  The Grand Illusion: Wake Up America - The long and the short of it is that the media, with the collusion of government, academics and various social institutions has created a fantasy world for us that is based on nothing more than illusion

·  Google: Disabling the Politically Incorrect - As Raw Story tells us, Google has finally addressed link bombs, attempts to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine. Specifically, and apparently embarrassing for the corporation, entering “miserable failure” in the search engine returned George Bush. Vladimir Putin returned “enemy of the people,” a description not too far off the mark.

·  CNBC's 'Mariagate' fiasco is its own fault - Bartiromo's image as a hard-working, responsible journalist was shattered. And CNBC's self-styled reputation as "the worldwide leader in business news" took a Lusitania-like hit.

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

·  Drug company 'hid' suicide link - Secret emails reveal that the UK's biggest drug company distorted trial results of an anti-depressant, covering up a link with suicide in teenagers.

·  Certain Oils Linked to Breast Growth in Boys - Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases, apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study suggests.

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

·  Israel's Economic Stranglehold a Silent Killer - Through the Israeli, US and European move to paralyze the precarious Palestinian economy over the last year, daily life has become a constant struggle for the ordinary Palestinian trying to put food on the table or run a business within a choking, round-the-clock military occupation.

·  US 'victory' against cult leader was 'massacre' - There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and the Iraqi security forces supported by the US, in which 263 people were killed and 210 wounded, is a fabrication. The heavy casualties may be evidence of an unpremeditated massacre.

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

·   Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs - The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs.