MEET ELI - A 14 YR. OLD HOMESCHOOLED FREE STATER

At 14 she's one of the Free Staters' youngest activists. Hear how she's volunteered to enter the belly of the beast rather than preach to the choir.

BOTTOM OF THE 9TH, AND LARRY HITS A GRAND SLAM. (JUDGE GRANTS MOTION)

Okay, the recent ORDER signed by Judge Kennedy is not exactly game over, but it is one heck of a Grand Slam when all the attackers were saying no court would touch this, me or my Attorney. It is a day that gives up the opportunity to believe in the American Justice system once again, regardless of how big or small that belief is.

A RAVING MADMAN

The Third Reich's man in the White House

MEXICAN DRUG RUNNERS NOT CHARGED AND MUKASEY HAS NO CLUE...

BEAR STEARNS FALLOUT CONTINUES

Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee questioned why the Fed was willing to put such a large amount of money at risk to protect Wall Street while as many as 3 million homeowners are facing the risk of defaulting on their mortgages with the administration balking at greater efforts to help them.

ATA SHUTS DOWN AS AIRLINE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- ATA Airlines Inc. discontinued operations on Thursday after filing for bankruptcy, resulting in wholesale layoffs and leaving passengers on their own to seek alternative travel arrangements.

NO CHECKPOINTS IN HEAVEN

I still vividly remember my fatherâ€™s face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my familyâ€™s home in a Gaza refugee camp wearing old yellow pyjamas and a seemingly ancient robe. As I hauled my one small suitcase into a taxi that would take me to an Israeli airport an hour away, my father stood still. I wished he would go back inside; it was cold and the soldiers could pop up at any moment. As my car moved on, my father eventually faded into the distance, along with the graveyard, the water tower and the camp. It never occurred to me that I would never see him again.

RECORD HOME FORECLOSURES ACROSS AMERICA

The desire of commercial banks to gut the Glass-Steagall Act(GS) of 1933 so they could get back into the lucrative investment banking business has resulted in todayâ€™s subprime mortgage mess, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law(MSL), a former Justice Department anti-trust lawyer, says.

ITS CREDIT AND ITS CRUNCHY

Repost of a humorous take on the banking industry -- ZDN

9/11 CONTRADICTIONS: BUSH IN THE CLASSROOM

The official story of 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. One of these contradictions involves the question of how long President Bush remained in classroom in Sarasota, Florida, on the morning of 9/11.

America was under attack. Bush was at a location that was disclosed publicly. While he sat on his ass and did nothing, and according to "official" lie, there was no way to know how many planes were hijacked or where they were heading, so how can anyone know that the school wouldn't be targeted? Why wasn't he moved immediately? -- ZDN

HISTORIANS: BUSH WORST PRESIDENT EVER

A History News Network survey of 109 professional historians conducted over a three-week period indicated that in comparison to the 41 other American presidents, more than 61 percent of the historians consider Bush to be the worst.

JUDGE HELPS FRIEND CHEAT MENTALLY ILL KIDS

A Texas judge forced a public children’s mental health program to replace a highly regarded and efficient company with a firm owned by his longtime friend, even though it charged taxpayers double and lacked the expertise to do the job.

FRIDAY: 51 IRAQIS KILLED, 37 WOUNDED

Although Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stopped threatening more crackdowns, he continues his attempt to reassert his power against Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Meanwhile, at least 51 Iraqis were killed and another 37 were wounded in the latest violence. No Coalition deaths were reported.

OBAMA AND HILLARY SPIN A 'BIG LIE' ABOUT IRAQ

The two Dems lie, blatantly, every time they discuss Iraq on the campaign trail, but the media refuse to call them on it.

REPORT FROM IRAN: SHOULD WE REALLY BOMB THESE PEOPLE?

The author explains, "Iranians are among the most gracious and hospitable people I've ever met."

AT LEAST 8 REPORTED DEAD AS TIBETANS, POLICE CLASH IN W. CHINA

BEIJING, April 4 -- Hundreds of Tibetan monks and laypeople clashed with Chinese police Thursday night in a small mountain town in western China after government officials attempted to force monks to denounce their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and arrested two monks who were found with his picture, according to reports from Tibetan activist groups.

BUSH VOWS TO NATO: U.S. WILL ADD TROOPS

ZAGREB, Croatia, April 4 -- President Bush promised NATO allies at a summit that ended in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday that the United States will increase forces in Afghanistan next year no matter what happens in Iraq, aides said.

PLANNED RAIDS OF SHIITE DISTRICTS CALLED OFF

The United Nations said this week that at least 713 people were killed during the clashes, which lasted from March 25 to April 1. The fighting left at least 1,541 people wounded, according to the organization. The majority of victims were civilians, it said.

U.S. MILITARY INVESTIGATES 3 CIVILIAN DEATHS

BAGHDAD, April 4 -- The U.S. military has launched an investigation into the shooting deaths of three Iraqi civilians, including a 2-year-old girl, after numerous witnesses reported that they were killed by gunfire from American soldiers.

WE SPIED ON 36,000 CUSTOMERS USING THE INTERNET, ADMITS BT

BT tested secret "spyware" on tens of thousands of its broadband customers without their knowledge, it admitted yesterday.

HEALTH COUNCIL WARNS OF GOVERMENT PLAN TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP OF EVERY NEWBORN'S DNA

A prominent Health Organization has warned that there is an ongoing semi-covert movement by state and federal governments to claim ownership of every newborn baby's DNA for the purpose of genetic research without the consent of individual citizens.

A pending bill on the floor of the Minnesota House and Senate will strip citizens of genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights, The Citizens Council on Healthcare has warned.

LAWMAKERS HEAVILY INVESTED IN DEFENSE

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group.

DESPITE DENIALS, MILITARY STILL STUDYING CLANDESTINE USE OF BLOGS

It was revealed this week by Wired that a study written for the U.S. Special Operations Command in 2006 recommended "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers" in order to promote messages favorable to the military. It also raised the possibility of altering an "enemy blog" by hacking to destroy its credibility or use it to spread false information.

The military has downplayed this study as an "academic exercise," but its conclusions appear to match closely with a strong and growing focus by the Pentagon on what it calls "information warfare."

SO THEY KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE, SO?

U.S. private security firm Blackwater's deal to protect American diplomats in Baghdad will be extended for a year while the FBI investigates a 2007 incident in which the company's guards are accused of killing 17 Iraqis, the State Department said on Friday.

WHY DOESN'T THE 9/11 COMMISSION KNOW ABOUT MUKASEY'S 9/11 STORY?

Critically, the 9/11 Commission Report -- intended to be a comprehensive account of all relevant pre-9/11 activities -- makes no mention whatsoever of the episode Mukasey described. What has been long publicly reported in great detail are multiple calls that were made between a global communications hub in Yemen and the U.S. -- calls which the NSA did intercept without warrants (because, contrary to Mukasey's lie, FISA does not and never did require a warrant for eavesdropping on foreign targets) but which, for some unknown reason, the NSA failed to share with the FBI and other agencies. But the critical pre-9/11 episode Mukasey described last week is nowhere to be found in the 9/11 Report or anywhere else. It just does not exist.

GRANNY D SAYS BUSH GUILTY OF TREASON, URGES PEOPLE TO SCARE CONGRESS INTO ENDING OCCUPATION

Here’s something you may not know or may have forgotten: Saddam Hussein, several weeks before our attack, invited our military to come in and look at anything they wanted to look at. They were invited to come in, fully armed, and look wherever they wanted. Our administration said no thank you.

HOW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LIES ABOUT THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

This typical pre-Petraeus II article shows well the habit that the AP and most of the rest of the US corporate media have of lying about the funding of the occupation of Iraq

LENDERS SWAMPED BY FORECLOSURES LET HOMEOWNERS STAY

April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Banks are so overwhelmed by the U.S. housing crisis they've started to look the other way when homeowners stop paying their mortgages.

MCCANINE

THANKS UNCLE SAM

FALLOUT: COMING HOME FROM THE WAR IN IRAQ

STRATEGIC MANURE

Sen. John McCain is already spreading the old "strategic interests" fertilizer along the presidential campaign trail while pretending to be an expert.

Let's hope he really can explain what interests require us to maintain troops in Germany and Japan 63 years after the end of the war.

WINTER SOLDIERS TELL TALES OF DEHUMANIZATION

“We would sit through mandatory classes and every unit had this representative to ensure that no elements of racism could resurface,” he said. Prysner was deployed to Iraq with the 10th Mounted Division in March 2003.

“Then September 11th happened and I began to hear new words like ‘towelhead’ and ‘camel jockey,’ and the most disturbing: ‘sand nigger.’ These words did not initially come from my fellow soldiers but from my superiors: my platoon sergeant, my company first sergeant, my battalion commander. All the way up the chain of command these terms, these viciously racist terms were suddenly acceptable.”

DO YOU UNDERSTAND NET NEUTRALITY?

If you haven’t been following the debate on net neutrality, you’re not alone. The details of the issue can lead into realms where only tech geeks and policy wonks dare to tread, but at root there’s a pretty simple question: How much control should network operators be allowed to have over the information on their lines?

WOULD YOU LIKE CHANGE WITH THAT?

Some serious leftists we know and love point to Obama's roots as a community organizer in Chicago, though many people in a position to know say he didn't rock many boats in those days. He was embraced by foundation liberals, however, who greased his way into the Harvard Law School via a lakefront condo.

All of which doesn't make Obama uniquely bad: he's just another mainstream Democrat with a sleazy real estate guy in his past. Though he's being touted as an early opponent of the Iraq war, he told the Chicago Tribune in 2004: 'There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position ...' He voted to renew the PATRIOT Act, campaigned for happy warrior Joe Lieberman against Ned Lamont in 2006, and wants to increase the size of the U.S. military. He supports Israel's continuing torture of the Palestinians penned into the Gaza Strip. A Congressional Quarterly study found his Senate voting record was virtually indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton's; the only major difference in their votes is a surprising one: a move to limit class actions suits against corporations, which Clinton voted against, and Obama for. Obama's vote was against the preferences of a Dem financial base, trial lawyers, but pleasing to the Fortune 500 and Wall Street.

IS THERE A ‘SOCIALIST’ REVIVAL IN AMERICA?

In what will be an uncomfortable read for many Americans, Adler writes for France’s Le Figaro, “Is socialism, which was banished from minds and hopes by the collapse of the Soviet system some years ago, rising again out of the spectacular transformations taking place at the center of global capitalism, the United States itself?

ANALYSIS: CLINTON PROBABLY ONLY RAISED $7 MILLION IN MARCH, USING SLICK ACCOUNTING TRICK TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE $20 MILLION

Wonder why Clinton claimed to have raised nearly $35 million in February, but more than $20 million of that haul wasn't available for the primary race?

WHY DO BLACKWATER PERSONNEL MAKE $1,222 A DAY?

Why are United States taxpayers paying the private military and security firm Blackwater, $1,222 a day for the services of each of its single protective security specialist. By most estimates that amount is six times what it would cost for a U.S. soldier to perform the same duty.

ONE LESS WMD

A federal B1 bomber burns in an outpost of the empire, with neither airmen nor victims harmed (taxpayers are, as usual, another matter). The Pentagon says it has no idea why its socialist death machine was near Iran.

RAN: A NATION OF NOSE JOBS, NOT NUCLEAR WAR

For years we in the West have been looking for a new Evil Empire to fill the gap left when Russia - a genuine threat - retired from the job and deprived us of an enemy. What were all those spies to do? How could we justify those missiles and bombs? What should we be scared of now?

At one stage we were reduced to pretending that Panama's General Noriega was a menace to our way of life. Then it was Slobodan Milosevic. Finally, we inflated the piffling Saddam Hussein into a looming Hitler.

Now the same experts think they have found something to be afraid of in Iran.

SWINDLER’S LIST

It is a common trend amongst rabid Zionists and notorious Islamophobes to quote some isolated and mistranslated verses from the Qur’an for the purpose of collectively libeling Muslims and presenting Islam as a regressive and violent belief system.

US ATTORNEY GENERAL: PIRACY FUNDS TERROR

So does INCOME TAX -- ZDN

Who are these terrorists that fund operations by selling DVDs from the side of the road? Mukasey, who presumably knows, isn't saying, so you'll have to take his word for it.

NOTIFICATION OF THE IMPOSITION OF CONDITIONS OF ENTRY FOR CERTAIN VESSELS ARRIVING TO THE UNITED STATES, CUBA

Section 70110 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act provides that the Secretary of Homeland Security may impose conditions of entry on vessels requesting entry into the United States arriving from ports that are not maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures.

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON MARS!! WHY IS NASA OBFUSCATING THE TRUTH?

Here is an analysis of evidence of life on Mars. What is surprising is that the positive results produced by the Viking Landers have been stone walled for reasons which needless to say, seem to be obvious.

MONTREAL 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT AVERTS MOSSAD METRO TERROR PLOT

Mtl 911 truth released a documentary showing that companies tied to the terrorist state of Israel’s intelligence(read:terrorists) are surveilling the transit system.

Links to YouTube video and download links included in the article -- ZDN

MAINE MIDDLE SCHOOL MAY DRUG 11 YEAR OLD GIRLS WITH BIRTH CONTROL PATCHES

(NaturalNews) A middle school in Portland, Maine is considering a proposal to provide birth control pills and patches to students as young as 11 years old.

IT IS NOT TOO LATE

NOW is the time to stand up and insist on our freedom.

NOW is the moment to seize victory away from those who want to manipulate us.

NOW is the window of opportunity when the people can throw off the yoke of the tyrants.

2004: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORTS US IS FUELING ISLAMIST MILITANCY BY PROPPING UP AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES IN MIDDLE EAST

“If there is one overarching goal [Islamist militant groups] share, it is the overthrow of what Islamists call the ‘apostate’ regimes: the tyrannies of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan and the gulf states… . The United States finds itself in the strategically awkward - and potentially dangerous - situation of being the longstanding prop and alliance partner of these authoritarian regimes. Without the US, these regimes could not survive.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007: CORE OF AL-QAEDA STILL ONLY ABOUT 200 OPERATIVES

It has been estimated that there were roughly 1,000 al-Qaeda operatives around 9/11, but only a core of about 200 had pledged loyalty to bin Laden

SEPTEMBER 9, 2001: NORTHERN ALLIANCE INFORMS CIA OF MASSOUD ASSASSINATION; NEWS SOON LEAKS

Northern Alliance leader Amrullah Saleh calls the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center to inform it of the assassination of anti-Taliban commander Ahmed Shah Massoud (see September 9, 2001). His call is taken by Rich B, the manager responsible for Alec Station, the CIA’s bin Laden unit. Although Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, an expert on Afghanistan, realizes the assassination means “something terrible [is] about to happen” (see September 9, 2001), Rich B does not appear to connect the assassination to a spike in warnings about an al-Qaeda attack against US interests, even though he has been briefing senior officials about this all summer (see May 30, 2001, June 28, 2001, July 10, 2001, and Late July 2001).

1996 AND AFTER: AL-QAEDA REVIVES BOSNIA CONNECTIONS THROUGH SAUDI GOVERNMENT CHARITY; US FAILS TO SHUT CHARITY DOWN

Author Roland Jacquard will later claim that in 1996, al-Qaeda revives its militant network in Bosnia in the wake of the Bosnian war and uses the Saudi High Commission (SHC) as its main charity front to do so. [Jacquard, 2002, pp. 69] This charity was founded in 1993 by Saudi Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz and is so closely linked to and funded by the Saudi government that a US judge will later render it immune to a 9/11-related lawsuit after concluding that it is an organ of the Saudi government.