1900        Standard Oil Co. acquired Pacific Oil Co.
    (SFC, 10/20/04, p.C6)

1901        Jan 7, New York stock exchange trading exceeded two million shares for the first time in history.
    (HN, 1/7/99)

1902        The Texas Fuel Co. was founded. It soon changed its name to the Texas Co. and eventually became Texaco.
    (SFC, 10/20/04, p.C6)

1907        Feb 26, Members of US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500.
    (SC, 2/26/02)

1907        Dec, The US stock market, spurred by a "bear raid," took a nose-dive and set off a widespread panic. Many banks failed.
    (SFC, 9/30/99, p.E5)
1907        Dec, There was stock market panic this year when the Knickerbocker Trust Co. failed. J.P. Morgan took charge and forbade the NY stock market to close and raised $25 million in 15 minutes to add liquidity. He summoned the most important bankers to devise a plan to abort the panic and no depression was induced. Morgan also called on clergymen to preach sermons of confidence. The crises led the government to create the Federal Reserve System (1913). Morgan got bankers to agree to settle accounts among themselves with clearinghouse certificates rather than cash and thus increased the money supply. The story was later recounted by John Steele Gordon in his 1999 book "The Great Game."
    (SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)(WSJ, 10/7/98, p.A22)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)(WSJ, 12/13/99, p.A32)
1907        Dec, Banker J.P. Morgan saved the US financial system by putting his own money on the line in the Panic of 1907. In the Panic of 1907 J.P. Morgan, who ran US Steel, bought the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. and trustbuster Theodore Roosevelt agreed not to object to the buyout. Elbert H. Gary was the chairman of US Steel.
    (WSJ,2/13/97, p.A18)(WSJ, 5/28/96, R45)(WSJ, 7/16/01, p.A10)

1908        Oil was discovered in Persia.
    (WSJ, 9/13/99, p.R4)

1909        Congress proposed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which proposed an income tax. It was ratified in 1916.
    (WSJ, 6/4/03, p.B1)

1911        May 15, The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The anti-trust suit led to the dissolution of Standard Oil Co. of John D. Rockefeller. From its remains 34 new companies were formed that included Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Chevron, Arco and Conoco. Rockefeller’s quarter interest in the parent turned into a quarter interest in all the offspring.
    (AP, 5/15/97)(WSJ, 5/8/98, p.W10)

1913        Mar 1, The US Federal income tax took effect (16th amendment).
    (SC, 3/1/02)

1913        Dec 23, The Federal Reserve Act was signed by Pres. Woodrow Wilson. The Owen-Glass Act established the decentralized, government-controlled banking system in the U.S. known as the Federal Reserve. It repealed the gold standard and replaced it with a system that ensured that the US dollar would be a better store of value than gold. The act guarded against inflation but allowed deflation. It was the first thorough reorganization of the national banking system since the Civil War. The goal was to strive for maximum employment and price stability
    (Wired, 10/96, p.142)(WSJ, 3/7/97, p.A14)(HNQ, 10/16/99)(SSFC, 11/28/04, p.D1)

1914        Apr 2, Federal Reserve Board announced plans to divide country into 12 districts. [see Nov 16, 1914]
    (HN, 4/2/98)

1923        The US established a 22-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
    (Econ, 12/11/04, p.28)(SFC, 1/22/05, p.A5)

1927        Oil was discovered near Kirkuk, Iraq, the 1st commercial find in any Arab country.
    (SSFC, 4/13/03, p.E1)

1929        Oct 24, Black Thursday—the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression. Stock values collapsed and 13 million shares changed hands as small investors frantically tried to sell off their holdings. Thousands of confused investors and brokers were ruined and banks, which had also invested heavily in the market, failed when they could not produce enough cash on demand for angry depositors. The 3 cent Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported the crash along with a story on the trial of a former banking superintendent for taking a $10,000 bribe for not inspecting some insolvent banks.
    (HN, 10/24/98)(HNPD, 10/29/98)(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.D9)

1929        Oct 29, The DJIA dropped 11.7%. "Black Tuesday" was the worst day of the market crash as panicked survivors dumped 16 million shares on the market. Clerical workers stayed up all night to find that $30 billion in paper value had been wiped out in one day. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America's Great Depression began. On Wall street prices plunged $14 million. By mid- November $30 billion of the $80 billion worth of stocks listed in September were been wiped out. Stocks continued to slide until 1932, but the fear caused by the crash made Americans unwilling to buy or invest and the economy slowly worsened into the Great Depression. In 1994 daily trades average 200-300 million shares. In 2001 Maury Klein authored “Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929.”
    (V.D.-H.K.p.253,292)(HFA, '96, p.40)(TMC, 1994, p.1929)(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2) (HNPD, 10/29/98)(HN, 10/29/98)(WSJ, 10/26/01, p.A20)

1932        Feb 27, The Glass-Steagall Act was passed, giving the Federal Reserve the right to expand credit in order to increase money circulation. It separated regular banks from investment banks. Senator Carter Glass (d.1946 at 88) of Virginia and Rep. Henry Steagall (d.1943 at 70) of Alabama sponsored it. The act had two measures. The 1932 act was a bookkeeping provision that allowed the Treasury to balance its account. [see 1933]
    (SFC, 4/7/97, p.A4)(WSJ, 8/8/97, p.A11)(HN, 2/27/98)(WSJ, 4/10/98, p.A1,6)

1932        Jul 31, The George Washington quarter went into circulation as a 200 year commemorative of G. Washington’s birth. It has been in use ever since.
    (WSJ, 7/12/96, p.B5B)(MC, 7/31/02)

1932        May 31, Socal, formerly Standard Oil of California, discovered oil in Bahrain. This was the 1st middle eastern oil discovered by an American firm.
    (SFC, 10/20/04, p.C6)(www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199901/prelude.to.discovery.htm)

1933        May, Saudi Arabia gave Standard Oil of California exclusive rights to explore for oil. Socal formed the California Arabian Standard Oil Co. to drill for oil in Saudi Arabia.
    (www.chevron.com)(SFC, 10/20/04, p.C6)

1933        Apr 19, The United States went off the gold standard by presidential proclamation. FDR tied this with orders that 445,000 newly minted gold $20 "Double Eagle" coins be destroyed. Ten coins escaped and one was scheduled for auction in 2002. The coin fetched $7.59 million. [see Jun 5]
    (TMC, 1994, p.1933)(PCh, 1992, p.819)(AP, 4/19/97)(SSFC, 3/29/02, Par p.6)(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A2)

1933        Jun 16, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) became effective.
    (www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/1000-200.html)

1936        Jan, Standard Oil of California found some gas and oil at their 1st Saudi Arabia test well, Damman No. 1.
    (www.chevron.com)

1936        Mar 3, Standard Oil of California struck oil at Damman No 7. Aramco made the first commercial oil find in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The English Arabist, H. St. John Philby, orchestrated the Aramco concession in Saudi Arabia.
    (HN, 3/15/98)(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A16)(SFEC, 6/27/99, p.T3)(www.chevron.com)

1936        The Texas Co. joined Standard Oil in Saudi Arabia. The joint venture eventually became the Saudi oil giant Aramco.
    (SFC, 10/20/04, p.C6)

1943        Two American oil firms decided to expand their refinery in Bahrain and hired Bechtel. Capacity was doubled to 65,000 barrels per day.
    (SSFC, 5/4/03, p.A8)

1943        Jun 9, "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions were authorized. [see Jul 1, 1943]
    (MC, 6/9/02)

1944        Jul 1, Delegates from 44 countries began meeting at Bretton Woods, N.H., where they agreed to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The US hosted an international conference at Bretton Woods, N.H., to deal with international monetary and financial problems. The talks resulted in the creation of the IMF, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank in 1945. In 1997 Catherine Caufield wrote "Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations." The Bretton Woods institutions also include the United nations and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (renamed the World Trade organization). The agreement was a gold exchange standard and only the US was required to convert its currency into gold at a fixed rate, and only foreign central banks were allowed the privilege of redemption.
    (SFEC, 3/2/97, BR p.1)(SFC, 1/13/98, p.A4)(WSJ, 10/15/98, p.A22)(AP, 7/1/04)

1945        Dec 27, The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development was created. 28 nations signed an agreement creating the World Bank. Better known as the World Bank, the IMF was created to promote healthy international trade and began transactions in 1947. The World Bank was designed by Englishman John Maynard Keynes and American Harry Dexter White.
    (AP, 12/27/97)(HN, 12/27/98)(HNQ, 12/27/00)(Econ, 7/24/04, p.63)

2000        Oct 13, Chevron announced plans to acquire Texaco in a deal valued at $37 billion. Chevron and Texaco agreed to merge on Oct 15 for $35 billion in stock and $7.5 billion in debt.
    (SFC, 10/14/00, p.A1)(SFC, 10/16/00, p.A1)

2000        May 3, The Euro fell below 90 cents to the dollar for the first time.
    (WSJ, 5/4/00, p.A18)

2001        Aug 20, Four oil companies (Chevron, Shell, Texaco and Unocal) agreed to clean up MTBE contamination in California caused by leaking storage tanks. 4 others (ARCO, Exxon, Mobil and Tosco) declined to settle the suit.
    (SFC, 8/21/01, p.A3)

2001        Nov 6, The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the 10th time this year. The half point drop put the benchmark fed funds rate to 2% and the discount rate to 1.5%, its lowest level in 40 years. The DJIA rose 150 to 9591. The Nasdaq rose 41 to 1835.
    (SFC, 11/7/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A2)(AP, 11/6/02)

2001-2003    Cuba ran up an oil debt to Venezuela of some $752 million.
    (WSJ, 2/2/04, p.A1)

2002        World oil production reached nearly 67 million barrels per day.
    (SSFC, 3/21/04, p.J3)

2002        The average CEO in the US earned 282 times the salary of an average worker. In 1982 the ratio was 42 to 1.
    (WSJ, 4/12/04, p.R11)

2003        Feb 8, Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in support of 9,000 oil workers fired for leading a two-month strike against President Hugo Chavez that battered the economy of this oil-dependent nation.
    (AP, 2/8/03)

2003        Jan 15, The Bush administration said the 2003 budget deficit will exceed $200 billion and probably go over $300 billion in 2004.
    (SFC, 1/16/03, p.A7)

2003        Feb 24, Dan Rather interviewed Saddam Hussein via satellite and Hussein proposed a live debate with Pres. Bush. Hussein said he would rather die than leave his country and that he would not destroy its wealth by setting fire to its oil wells in the event of a U.S.-led invasion.
    (SFC, 2/25/03, A10)(AP, 2/26/03)

2003        Mar, Oil flow from Iraq to Syria ceased with the US invasion. It had reached 130,000 barrels a day providing both countries over $10 million a month in profits.
    (SFC, 4/11/03, p.A18)

2004        Feb 18, The US federal debt passed the $7 trillion mark.
    (WSJ, 2/19/04, p.A1)

2004        Apr 28, The US monetary policy subcommittee approved a bill to put the faces of US presidents on new dollar coins.
    (SFC, 4/29/04, p.C3)

2004        Aug 9, Oil prices for September delivery of light crude hit a record high of $44.98 since trading began in NYC in 1983.
    (SFC, 8/10/04, p.A1)

2004        Sep 11, The US fiscal gap, measured as future receipts minus future obligations, was reported to be between $40 and 72 trillion. The debt portended a severe economic decline or financial collapse.
    (SSFC, 9/11/04, p.A1)

2004        Sep 14, Hurricane Ivan whipped western Cuba with 160 mph winds. The hurricane knocked some 25 million barrels of oil off world markets by causing undersea mudslides in the Gulf of Mexico.
    (AP, 9/14/04)(WSJ, 10/27/04, p.A1)

2004        Oct 7, Light crude oil for November closed in NYC at a record $52.67 per barrel.
    (WSJ, 10/8/04, p.C1)

2004        Oct 11, Light crude oil for November closed in NYC at a record $53.64 per barrel.
    (SFC, 10/12/04, p.E12)

2004        Oct 14, Light crude oil for November closed in NYC at a record $54.76 per barrel.
    (SFC, 10/15/04, p.C1)

2004        Nov 12, It was reported that Japan and China owned about a quarter of outstanding US Treasury debt. They held $723 and $172 billion respectively.
    (WSJ, 11/12/04, p.C4)

2004        Dec 25, President Fidel Castro said a 100-million-barrel crude oil deposit had been discovered off Cuba by Canadian firms. Cuba imports about half the petroleum it needs.
    (AP, 12/25/04)

2004        The new Iraqi government priced local petrol at one American cent per liter. The policy caused severe shortages as large amounts leaked over to the black market where prices were significantly higher.
    (Econ, 12/18/04, p.64)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=3&u=/usnw/20050202/pl_usnw/faa_to_outsource_2400_air_traffic_controller_positions164_xml

This is considered to be the largest, most complex outsourcing effort of public functions in U.S. Government history.  Lockheed Martin was awarded a 5 year deal that, with options, is valued at $1.9 billion dollars.  The National Association of Air Traffic Specialists strongly condemns the Federal Aviation's decision to involuntarily separate 2000 controllers.  "Many of our controllers are 3 to 4 years short on retirement, and stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their pensions," stated Kate Breen, NAATS President.

Lockheed Wins Presidential Copter Contract

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4763168,00.html

Study: Illness, Medical Bills Account For 46% Of Bankruptcies

http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_27656

Yet, Bush is more concerned about us receiving 27% less Social Security benefits in 2052!, something easily fixable without privatization, which at a cost of roughly $2 Trillion, will cost every American citizen, including children, $6,666.66.  ($2T/roughly 300Mil Americans).

Mexico’s Fox Vows Free Cancer Treatment

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=734&e=2&u=/ap/20050107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_free_medicine

Iraq Election Headlines:

Entire Samarra Election Commission Resigns

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/January/focusoniraq_January52.xml&section=focusoniraq&col

1/27: Bush’s Stake Is Huge In Iraq Election

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050127/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_on_the_ballot&cid=544&ncid=1480

In Scarred Falluja, Many Will Ignore Election

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5502493

Militants Abduct 3 Sr. Iraqi Officials, Behead A Man And Kill At Least Four Others

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Mosul Election Center Blown Up

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/08/content_2432723.htm

Video Shows Allawi Aide Killing

http://reuters.myway.com//article/20050127/2005-01-27T163420Z_01_N27677262_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-IRAQ-SECRETARY-DC.html

Mosul Residents Fear Election

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B497F1E0-B459-49CD-BF62-C0EE194E6E69.htm

Arabs Say Iraq Vote Gives Bad Name To Democracy

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050128/wl_nm/iraq_election_arabs_dc_2

Iraqi Candidate Killed On Videotape

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/international/middleeast/28iraq.html

Iraqi Leader Says Thousands Couldn't Vote

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4771853,00.html

Gorbechev: “Iraq elections were fake”

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/01/31/gorbacheviraq.shtml

Some Iraqis Just Voted For Food

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000192.php

Insurgents’ Threats Keep Ramadi Residents From Voting

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=26010&archive=true

Ankara May Not Recognize Election Results In Kirkuk

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=3120

Some Experts Fear Iraq Election’s Aftermath

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/world/10775183.htm

Zarqawi Says 13 Suicide Bombs Hit Targets

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20050130/wl_nm/iraq_attacks_zarqawi_dc

AP: At Least 31 Die In Election Day Attacks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4766054,00.html

Summary Of Attacks On Election Day

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/15F23DED-17B3-4F3F-A1DA-A1E502E1DB74.htm

Funny how the U.S. Corporate media doesn’t report anything beyond “estimates” (U.S.) and “unconfirmed reports” about the attacks-Is that not news?  Civilians dying?  It’s great that most didn’t, but don’t ignore facts.  I LOVE when the corporate media actually says the words “TV propaganda” when talking about Arab media.  It may be true at times, but take a look in the damn mirror!  Example of this:  This link used to be titled “Bombers Attack Iraqi Voters”.  Look at it now:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html

Iraq Officials Say No Results Or Turnout Figure Soon

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/030/world/Iraqi_officials_say_no_results:.shtml

Iraqi(U.S. Appointed) Official: Turnout: 72%

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/jan/30/013002678.html

Bush: Iraq Election Was A “Resounding Success”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4220551.stm

Bush To Take A Bow For Iraq Vote In State Of The Union

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050131/pl_afp/usiraqvotebush_050131192303

U.S. Ends Hunt For Weapons Of Mass Destruction

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=406500

CIA Admits Iraq Abandoned Chemical Weapons Program In 1991

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cia1feb01,1,6296401,print.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true

In case you forgot, we invaded Iraq because they were in possession of WMDs and were an “imminent threat” the United States.

U.S. Spending In Iraq: $2.2 Bil. On Relief/Rebuilding $10.5 Bil. On Corporate Contracts

http://www.nytimes/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-usa-congress.html?

Wolfowitz Story Falsified (Saddam Torture Victim Lied)

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/01/22/2003220487

An Estimated 5,500 Soldiers Have Deserted Since Iraq Invasion

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/09/wus09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/09/ixportal.html

Cheney Says Iran Tops U.S. List Of “World Trouble Spots”

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7385089&src=rss/politicsNews

U.S. Special Forces “Inside Iran”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4180087.stm

U.S. Troop Deaths In Iraq Top 100 In January

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_US_LOSSES?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=MIDEAST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

This is the third month that U.S. troop deaths have topped 100 since the invasion.

Former Enron Chiefs “May” Stand Trial In September

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9c8f0ef4-7454-11d9-a769-00000e2511c8.html

I’m speechless on this one……

Enron Made Over $1.6Billion On Western Energy Crisis

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/10781748.htm?1c

Good Source For Enron-Related News:

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/enron/

Some Things About Enron We Shouldn’t Forget:

Nov. 1993: India approves Enron’s $3 Billion power plant, the largest FDI in India’s history.  This is the first of many investments that Enron makes in that region.  However, most depended on building a pipeline across Afghanistan and in the late 90s, it became clear that this would not be possible, due to ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan.  Since the U.S. invasion of the country, construction of this pipeline has resumed, though obviously it’s not being done by Enron, due their “alleged” (jaw on floor) scandal.  More information about Enron (and others’ activity in Afghanistan (and region):

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&theme=oil#a0698enron

U.S. Companies Eye Trans-Afghan Pipeline

http://www.myafghan.com/news2.asp?id=577434660

Military Facing Budget Gap With Halliburton

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050201/ts_nm/arms_halliburton_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

The top U.S. commander in Baghdad is facing a budget gap of at least $4 billion between what Halliburton Co. says it will cost to provide services for U.S. troops for a year and what the government has budgeted.

Related News: Halliburton Poised For Q1 “Upside Surprise”

http://www.forbes.com/markets/economy/2005/01/31/0131automarketscan13.html

Audit: $9 Billion Unaccounted For In Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=5&u=/ap/20050130/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_funds

Halliburton The Big Winner From Iraq Invasion

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=23ed1b69eda9c34d

10,252 US Troops Total Wounded; 5,396 Unable To Return To Duty

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_wounded&cid=540&ncid=1480

Halliburton Wins Drilling Contract In Iran

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh12534_2005-01-09_09-08-06_l09131331_newsml

Halliburton To “Wind Down” Iran Operations

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Earns-Halliburton.html

Lockheed Tops Pentagon 04’ Contracts; Halliburton’s Double

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B06E00A2D-EE84-41A3-ACAB-DA55061FA9E6%7D&siteid=google&dist=google

Exxon May Have Tripped Tsunami (Earthquake(Drilling For Oil))

http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indonesian_Tsunami/

Morgan Stanley Fined Record $19 Million

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/01/13/cnmorg13.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/01/13/ixcity.html

NASD Fines Tripled In 2004

http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/brokerages/10201075.html

Loophole Allows Inauguration Spending Binge

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Inauguration/story?id=426152

Wartime Inauguration With Expensive Peacetime Tilt

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=742&e=1&u=/usatoday/20050118/cm_usatoday/awartimeinaugurationwithanexpensivepeacetimetilt

Bush Inauguration Approval Rating Lowest Of Any Recent Prez

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2982686

Bush Names Major Fundraiser As Economic Advisor

http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=economicNews&storyID=7286042&section=investing

Wall Street Hears Pitch For Social Security Plan

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/business/11social.html?ex=1107493200&en=51482cceae004044&ei=5070&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

Spitzer Critical Of Bush’s Social Security Plan

“Debt Incurred Would Be Astronomical”

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/archivedStory

AARP: Don’t Mess With Social Security

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/chitribts/20050130/ts_chicagotrib/aarpdontmesswithsocialsecurity

Bush Accused Of Scaring Public Over Social Security

“The system will be broke in 2042! (2052) BOOH!

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7472005&type=businessNews

Leaked White House Memo: “Convince Public Social Security Is Heading For An Iceberg”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791950

(WA) Taxpayers To Foot The Bill For Rossi’s Challenge

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1199382

In case you forgot, the challenge in Ohio was paid for by collecting small donations from thousands of people who were concerned about electoral fraud.  They (re)counted 3% of the ballots using counting machines and amazingly, they all came out perfect, so there was no need to recount the rest.   Grrrrrr……..

U.S. Judge: Guantanamo Tribunals Unconstitutional

http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7485936

Detainees “Beaten To Death”

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12096767%255E1702,00.html

CIA’s “Ghost Prisoners” Spark Rights Concern

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1291449.htm

White House Refuses To Release Gonzales Memos On Torture

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=389107

U.S. Marine Killed In Iraq (1,431)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/31/content_2530838.htm

Worker Salaries Losing To Inflation

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=5&u=/nm/20050130/bs_nm/economy_wages_dc

SEC: Must Be Ready For Hedge Fund Crisis

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7473783&src=rss/businessNews

Bill Gates Bets Against Dollar

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=atQjxQiQeANA&refer=top_world_news

China Ready To Dump Dollar

http://www.sprott.com/pdf/marketsataglance/01-17-2005.pdf

Chief Morgan Stanley Economist: “World On Brink Of Ruin”

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=80642

Global Warming Claiming Prehistoric Glaciers

http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050130/NEWS07/501300335/1001/NEWS

WWF: Dangerous Global Warming By 2025

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005012919030002586895&dt=20050129190300&w=RTR&coview=

NO! Social Security is more urgent-2052!

Arctic Ozone May Drop To New Low

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4217329.stm

Volcker: No 'Smoking Gun' In Oil-For-Food Investigation

http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2005/1/7/131818/3375

Kofi Annan’s Son Admits Oil Dealing

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1462576,00.html

Senior U.S. Military Official: U.S. Troops Will Never Overcome Insurgency

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wirq230.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/30/ixnewstop.html

Lawyers Defend Challenge To Ohio Election Results

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=982452&tw=wn_wire_story

Exit Poll Investigation Results: “Kerry Supporters Overpolled”

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/exit.polls/

Ohio Supreme Court Dismisses Challenges To Presidential, Chief Justice Elections

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10626738.htm

Blackwell Thanks OH GOP For “Helping Deliver OH To Bush”

http://www.dispatch.com/election.php?story=dispatch/2005/01/08/20050108-B1-00.html

Many Americans Refuse To Concede Bush’s “Stolen Election”

http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/medina/110526668478510.xml

Lawmakers Launch Historic Protest Of Electoral Vote

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0107-02.htm

Bush Pledges Political Cover For Republicans

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-bush-republicans.html?oref=login&oref=login

Audit Cites Misuse Of $600 Mil Of Homeland Sec. Funds In TX

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB5FBPXP3E.html

Spitzer: “Fraud In Insurance Industry Is Vast”

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E17FE355D0C7B8CDDA80894DD404482

Recently Ousted For Fraud, Fannie Mae’s Raines To Receive $114,393 Annually For Life

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=80390

Congress Proposes Tax On All Net, Data Connections

An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year.

http://news.com.com/

Bush Urged To Order Full Disclosure Of Covert Propaganda

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20050128/pl_usnw/pelosi__president_urged_to_order_full_disclosure_of_covert_propaganda123_xml

Weeks After Bush Awards Tenet Freedom Medal, CIA Report Says He And Other Top CIA Are Accountable For 9/11 Security Failures

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=80611

Despite US Budget Woes, Homeland Security Summit Offers Fun in the Sun

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=340420&page=1

Cheney Dresses Down At Aushwitz

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-2005Jan27.html

Expect To See More Of Cheney On Hill, Possibly Abroad

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBB8D61I4E.html

World Sends Leaders to World Econ Forum, Bush Sends Labor Sec.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBW69V2I4E.html

12 Mil AIDS Orphans In Africa Barely Get A Fraction Of The Help And Aid 5 Mil Homeless Tsunami Survivors Are Quickly Receiving

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=a8csF6YxliMI

Bush Donates $10,000 In Personal Funds To Tsunami Relief

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2005/01/05/national1340EST0579.DTL

Powell: Up To 5,000 Americans Unaccounted For After Tsunami

http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=050103154335.pm4buxo9.xml

Third Columnist Caught With Hand In Bush’s Till

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/27/mcmanus/index_np.html

PR Spending Doubled Under Bush

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=5&u=/usatoday/reportprspendingdoubledunderbush

White House Paid Black Commentator $240,000 To Promote “No Child Left Behind”

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20050107/ts_usatoday/whitehousepaidcommentatortopromotelaw

No Child Left Behind... by Aggressive Military Recruiters

http://okimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=447

Iraq’s Power Supply Sinks To Record Low: U.S. General

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=35871

Senate Boosts Spending On It’s Own Committees

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050107/pl_nm/congress_committees_dc

24 Fans Tasered By Police At Utah Football Game

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/specials/bowls/2004/01/05/bc.fbc.utahfans.taser.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

College Loans Increasingly Burdensome-Undergrad Debt Averages $18,900

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0501050172jan05,1,5183918.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=3&cset=true

Job Cuts In December Topped 100,000

http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/05/news/economy/jobs_challenger/index.htm

36 Million Americans Lived In Poverty In 2003

http://www.goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=16781