Multinational corporations are buying up water rights worldwide. About five percent of the global water supply is controlled by private companies. This privatization raises fears, and in some places, like Bolivia, water privatization has caused deadly conflict. A three year struggle over control of the Felton, CA waterworks, entered a new phase last night with passage of Measure W, an 11 million dollar bond to buy-back the local system. Vinny Lombardo reports. TRT- 3:32

President Bush now says he will fire for convictions, not mere leaks. The consensus of lawyers is that Karl Rove will be indicted by the grand jury now in session in Washington, DC, in the Valerie Plame outing case -- and not for what you think. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to have a slam-dunk case under Title 18, Sec. 641, USC (which is NOT about outing a covert agent) just as the DOJ did for leaker Jonathan Randel, who got a year in prison. Karl Rove was abandoned by both of his parents -- the man he called Dad left home, Rove found out "Dad" wasn't his father after all (his aunt and uncle "outed" this at the dinner table), and his mother committed suicide.

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Hillary Clinton is calling for 80,000 more troops for the Army so that the United States can be fully equipped to patrol the far corners of the empire at a moment's notice.