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TVNL Editor's Comments: How much news has to come out about crimes committed by the Bush administration, both domestic and international, before people take notice? What the hell is going on here? No matter what comes out nobody is held accountable by Congress or by the press!!!

Now we find out that the US was working with Iraqis to conduct sabotage, among other things, in Iraq prior to the invasion. Aside from being illegal isn’t that TERRORISM? How does this get a free pass? This is getting beyond unbelievable! Think about it! – Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

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

· Before the War, CIA Reportedly Trained a Team of Iraqis to Aid U.S. - Before the war in Iraq began, the CIA recruited and trained an Iraqi paramilitary group, code-named the Scorpions, to foment rebellion, conduct sabotage, and help CIA paramilitaries who entered Baghdad and other cities target buildings and individuals, according to three current and former intelligence officials with knowledge of the unit.
TVNL Comment: How is this legal? This sounds like it breaks both domestic and international law.

· US Marine captured in Iraq - AN Iraqi insurgent group said overnight it has captured a US Marine who was wounded in a clash in western Iraq in which eight other Marines were killed.

· Poll worker among 9 killed in Afghan violence - At least nine people, including a poll worker, have been killed this week in Afghanistan, part of a fresh wave of violence ahead of next month's parliamentary polls, officials said on Wednesday.

· US journalist killed in Iraq - Iraqi police say Steven Vincent and his Iraqi translator were kidnapped from a street in central Basra yesterday evening. - Both were later shot but the translator survived.

· 14 MARINES KILLED NEAR HADITHA - Fourteen Marines and a civilian interpreter, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action early this morning when their amphibious assault vehicle was attacked by an improvised explosive device.

· MARINE KILLED BY CAR BOMB NEAR HIT - A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action Aug. 1 by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Hit, Iraq.

· SIX MARINES KILLED NEAR HADITHA - Six Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed in action August 1 near Haditha.

· WAR IS HELL! - LOOK AND SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING!

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

· Guy on C-Span just said something we should look into - Some guy just called into C-Span he said that he worked for the government in the early 80's. He claims that Roberts was involved in a case of espionage where he covered up and helped destroyed info. The caller said the case was "worse than the Rosenburgs." He said to go look up the date 4/12/84.

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

· The zero-savings problem - Some savings measures show households are flush, but consumers are spending every dime they make.

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

· Former CIA worker analyses bin Laden threat - Michael Scheuer worked for the CIA for 22 years, eight of them as chief of the bin Laden unit, which he set up in 1996. He resigned from the CIA late last year after becoming frustrated with political and bureaucratic inaction on intelligence indicating that bin Laden was going to kill thousands of Americans if he was not stopped.

· REPLAY: 9/11-PNAC, 9/11-PNAC" SHOULD BE THE #1 TOPIC OF DISCUSSION - A WAKE-UP CALL THE ALTERNATIVE AND LIBERAL MEDIA: TO STOP IGNORING 9/11 AND THE PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

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

· UPDATE PENDING

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

· Bringing Health Coverage to America's Uninsured Kids - LINK - An estimated 45 million Americans lack health insurance, and nearly 20 percent of them are children.

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

· UPDATE PENDING

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

· Israeli IP? You're banned - Increasing amount of internet storage sites placing blanket regional bans on all Israeli users; says huge amount of Israeli surfers violate their terms of use
TVNL Comment: TvNewsLIES.org has been the victim of credit card fraud twice. Both times the IP address traced back to Israel. Interesting.

· World criticism angers Musharraf - President Pervez Musharraf has said he is angered when Pakistan is blamed for fostering extremism in the world.

· Iran hardliner becomes president - Iran's new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been confirmed in office, following his surprise election victory in July.

· Japan keeps eye on China's military spending - It says Japan will need to evaluate whether the upgrading of China's military exceeds the level needed for its national defence.

· Iraq blasts Kuwait over border - ANGRY Iraqi MPs today charged Kuwait with repeatedly violating their southern border in a lively televised debate on the 15th anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

· Iran may trigger "major international crisis": French FM - "The Iran matter seems very serious to me -- it may trigger a major international crisis because, if Iran doesn't go back on itsdecision, then Iran will be, I would say, in a purely unilateral position," Douste-Blazy told reporters after a ministers meeting chaired by French President Jacques Chirac.

· British Authorities impose "free speech zones" - This is exactly what Bush has implemented in the US. - "This is all about silencing critics of the war in Iraq and ID cards and denying people the right to free speech," she said. - "If you heard on television that someone in another country were banned from gathering near a government building to stage a legitimate protest you would probably think thank goodness that kind of thing doesn't happen in this country."

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

· Guardsman in Iraq Punished Over Blog Post - An Arizona National Guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his Internet Web log, an Army official said Monday.

· The Iraq Infection - Military doctors are fighting to contain an outbreak of a potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria that apparently originated in the Iraqi soil. So far at least 280 people, mostly soldiers returning from the battlefield, have been infected, a number of whom contracted the illness while in U.S. military hospitals.

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

· Revisiting Hiroshima - McNamara regards "current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary and dreadfully dangerous," creating "unacceptable risks to other nations and to our own," both the risk of "accidental or inadvertent nuclear launch," which is "unacceptably high," and of nuclear attack by terrorists.

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

· Newsweek dismisses accurate information on judge's record - Like much of the mainstream media coverage, Newsweek magazine's August 1 cover story on Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts was overwhelmingly positive. But Newsweek went even further than most, dismissing as inaccurate stories that depicted Roberts as a conservative partisan--even though it was Newsweek, in fact, that was getting the stories wrong.

· Pentagon bans use of anonymous quotes in press releases - The Pentagon has banned the use of anonymous quotes in press releases, calling the recent use of nearly identical quotes attributed to unnamed Iraqis an "egregious error."

· That Awful Power: How Judy Miller Screwed Us All - don't care how many awards Judy Miller has, she is a miserable failure who has irreparably harmed her country with bad journalism and by allowing her own personal beliefs to infect her reportage.

· Russia bars U.S. ABC after Basayev interview - Russia on Tuesday barred ABC television from contacts with officials after it broadcast an interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, and will not allow the U.S. channel's journalists to work in the country.

· Replay: Independent World Television - Watch the video. Take the survey.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

· Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists - Over 750,000 people actually do die in the United States every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: modern medicine.

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

· Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs - Interrogated General's Sleeping-Bag Death, CIA's Use of Secret Iraqi Squad Are Among Details

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

· SHERMAN SKOLNICK CONFIRMS TOM FLOCCO STORY - "Tom, my opinion is that your story is going to force this thing out in the open. The monopoly press is going to have to deal with SOME aspect of this."