REZKO BORROWED $3.5 MILLION FROM AUCHI TO TRAP OBAMA

Easy to understand presentation of the salient facts involving Obama's sleazy financial dealing with Rezko and Saddam's bagman Auchi. Auchi has already been convicted of fraud in France in 2003. Rezko is currently in jail and going through his own criminal trial. Every day more information with which to nail Obama leaks out from the court transcript. This is heading towards the Seantor taking a big fall in the late summer/ early Fall

HILLARY’S TALL TALES ABOUT HEALTH CARE

It's a predictable disaster, of course, seen over and over again around the world: Government-financed health care means government rationing of health care, in a system where the prestige, status, freedom and pay of doctors who care for patients plummets over time.

But don't expect Hillary or Barack to tell that truth any time soon.

CLINTONS CASH IN ON DUBAI

World Net Daily - The tax returns released by Bill and Hillary Clinton late Friday reveal $15 million earned in a partnership with billionaire "supermarket czar" investor Ron Burkle and the sheik of Dubai, whose Arab state sparked controversy with a purchase giving it control of 22 American ports.

CLINTONS CASH IN ON DUBAI

GENERAL PETRAUS, YOU’VE JUST BEEN RON PAULED

Here is a video excerpt of Ron Paul schooling General Petraus. When Ron Paul asks Petraus point blank if the army can bomb Iran without a congressional

approval of war, Petraus acts like a retarded deer caught in the headlights. We really should coin the term “you’ve been Ron Pauled:” displaying ignorance as an escape rout in the face of truth.

GOVERNMENT IS THE LARGEST EMPLOYER: THE FADING AMERICAN ECONOMY

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.

Government employs 22,387,000 Americans, 8,744,000 more than manufacturing.

VENTURA’S 9/11 QUESTIONS BREAK THROUGH MAINSTREAM MEDIA DAM

Jesse ‘The Mind’ Defends Questions About Towers’ Telling Collapse on Hannity & Colmes and National Talk Radio Programs: “How can two planes bring down three buildings?”

OPEN LETTER TO WAR CRIMINAL - GENERAL DAVID ‘BETRAYUS’

WAR CRIMINAL - GENERAL DAVID ‘BETRAYUS’

Your superior – Admiral Fallon, said it best when he exposed you for the brown-nosed sycophant you really are – when he identified you as: “an ass kissing little chicken shit” I unanimously second that accurate assessment. Real men despise people like you.

APRIL 9TH: IRAQ, FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF “LIBERATION”

Iraqis have had yet another western insult imposed upon them: the fifth anniversary of “liberation” and the shameful, staged toppling of the statue of President Saddam Hussein, the face covered by an American flag, by a US marine. A flag, the world was told, which had been rescued from the Twin Towers. Like the alleged hijacker's passport ( the latter presumably chucked from the 'plane before impact) the flag too, survived an inferno that melted steel. The Pentagon PR machine must have burned a lot of midnight oil dreaming up that rubbish. The statue's fall began the systematic destruction and erasure of the history of Mesopotamia and our humanity, ancient and modern.

THE PATREAUS REPORT DISSECTED

JOHN YOO AND THE "TORTURE MEMOS"

New York. In a memorandum written the same month George W. Bush invaded Iraq, Boalt Hall law professor John Yoo said the Department of Justice would construe US criminal laws not to apply to the President's detention and interrogation of enemy combatants. According to Yoo, the federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming and stalking do not apply to the military in the conduct of the war.

JEWISH ANTI-SEMITISM AGAINST ISLAM IS A REAL PROBLEM

Israel and powerful Zionist circles in Europe and North America have been seeking of late to spread the message that criticizing Israel and her brutal policies and actions in occupied Palestine borders on anti-Semitism.

The ultimate purpose of this campaign is obviously to silence critics of Israel in order to allow the racist entity to murder Palestinians as quietly as possible and to steal their land as quietly as possible, and to get away with impunity. Meanwhile, Israeli and Zionist hasbara doctors from Sydney to Los Angeles are wasting no time inciting hatred against Islam and Muslims.

REMEMBERING WHAT NOT MANY OF WE THE PEOPLE EVER KNEW ABOUT 'NEVER FORGET,' DEIR YASSIN, 9/11 AND ISRAEL TOO

Deir Yassin was once a peaceful Palestinian village on the west side of Jerusalem. On April 9, 1948 the lives of over 100 innocent men, women, and children ended by the hand of Jewish terrorists from the Irgun and the Stern Gang.

THE RISE OF THE JEWISH EMPIRE: THE JEWISH CONQUEST OF AMERICA

America may have lost the war against vietnam but it has never been invaded or conquered by external forces since its declaration of independence. But since the second world war and, in particular the establishment of the terrorist state refered to as Israel, it has been conquered from within.

THE MARTIAL LAW ACT OF 2006

Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make it easy for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a terrorist “incident.” It also empowers him to effectively declare martial law in response to what he or other federal officials label a shortfall of “public order” – whatever that means.

SPYING ON AMERICANS: THE FBI'S "QUANTICO CIRCUIT"

According to whistleblower Babak Pasdar, a telecom carrier he worked for as a security consultant, subsequently named as Verizon by the Post, said the company maintained a high-speed DS-3 digital line that allowed the Bureau and other security agencies "unfettered" access to the carrier's wireless network, including billing records and customer data "transmitted wirelessly."

Verizon denied the report that the FBI has open access to its network; a denial belied by documents obtained by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation describing the Bureau's Digital Collection System.

GLOBAL WARMING CENSORED: HOW THE MAJOR NETWORKS SILENCE THE DEBATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

While the networks had plenty of time to worry about the future of birds, most network news shows didn’t take much time to include any other point of view even though hundreds of scientists have expressed skepticism of manmade climate change theory.

POPE DUE IN US OVER PEDOPHILE SCANDAL

Pope Benedict XVI has started his US tour in a bid to help restore the scattered Catholic Church image marred with pedophile scandals.

It might help if he denied refuge to known pedophiles being protected by the vatican first. -- ZDN

SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN ATTENDS PRO-IRAQ WAR RALLY

Before attending the Senate Armed Services hearing with Petraeus and Crocker, McCain attended a rally sponsored by the pro-Iraq war Vets for Freedom, where he continued to praise Petraeus, calling him "one of [America's] greatest generals."

SIZING UP PETRAEUS ON IRAQ

Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, testified before two Senate committees on Tuesday regarding the state of the war. Salon takes a look at their various claims and admissions, boiling down the rhetoric and what we might expect as the war moves into its sixth year.

WEDNESDAY: 7 US SOLDIERS, 49 IRAQIS KILLED; 122 IRAQIS WOUNDED

On the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, Iraqi authorities placed curfews on the capital and other cities in order to prevent anti-American activities and protests. At least 49 Iraqis were killed and another 122 were wounded in the latest violence. Also, seven American soldiers were killed in separate incidents.

US LAWMAKERS INVESTED IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN WARS

Senator John Kerry, the Democrat from Massachusetts who staked his 2004 presidential bid in part on his opposition to the war, tops the list of investors. His holdings in firms with Pentagon contracts of at least five million dollars stood at between 28.9 million dollars and 38.2 million dollars as of Dec. 31, 2006. Kerry sits on the Senate foreign relations panel.

Members of Congress are required to report their personal finances every year but only need to state their assets in broad ranges.

Other top investors include Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen, a New Jersey Republican with holdings of 12.1 million - 49.1 million dollars; Rep. Robin Hayes, a North Carolina Republican (9.2 million - 37.1 million dollars); Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin (5.2 million - 7.6 million dollars); and Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat (2.7 million - 6.3 million dollars).

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the Democrat and former governor of West Virginia who chairs the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, invested some 2.0 million dollars in Pentagon contractors, CRP says.

Other panel chiefs who invested in defence firms include Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent who presides over the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rep. Howard Berman, the California Democrat who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

In all, 151 current members of Congress -- more than one-fourth of the total -- have invested between 78.7 million dollars and 195.5 million dollars in companies that received defence contracts of at least 5.0 million dollars, according to CRP.

IS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY WORTH $4 MILLION DOLLARS?

The Washington Post is reporting that the Vice President will be provided a Secret Service security detail after he leaves office costing the tax payers approximately $4 MILLION DOLLARS but there is a catch;

Although presidents and their spouses are entitled to Secret Service protection long after they depart the White House, federal law authorizes protective services for the vice president and his immediate family only during his time in office. Extending Cheney’s detail would require a directive from the president or a joint resolution of Congress.

APR. 9, VCS SPECIAL REPORT: NEARLY 75,000 U.S. SERVICE MEMBER BATTLEFIELD CASUALTIES FROM THE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WARS

Last month, the US marked five years in Iraq with the tragic news of 4,000 service members killed in the war zone. But the 4,000 U.S. deaths are only part of the story. In addition to the deaths, the devastating facts about the war continue to leak out. On the night of April 8, in an effort to conceal bad news from the public and press, the Department of Defense quietly released their new U.S. service member battlefield casualty statistics from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: 74,713.

VACCINES IN SCI-FI HORROR

From Sci-Fi Horrors to Real-Life Horrors, vaccine programs that affect our health, our food supply, and even our reproductive systems are being implemented. Whether it is with reckless abandon or a malevolence of purpose, I will leave that for you to decide. However, with vaccine-caused outbreaks, viruses leaving laboratories on their own accord, and companies willing to overstate the need for their questionable vaccines, Sci-Fi Horror is getting a little too real.

THE BARACK OBAMA SONG: THE "AUDACITY FOR NOPE."

The "Barack Obama Song" Strongly Questions The Ideology Behind The Barack Obama Sound Byte Driven Socialist Presidential Campaign. This Song Goes On To Discuss The Role That Government-Run Programs Have Played In Destroying Personal Initiative And Pride

IDIOTIC SCHOOL BAN ON CANDY MIRRORS STUPIDITY OF DRUG PROHIBITION

Whaddya know? As soon as CA schools started banning candy, students started dealing it on the "underground market" at a marked up price.

CHINA MOVES OLYMPICS TO UNDISCLOSED LOCATION

Fearful about the prospect of human rights protesters ruining the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China today announced a plan to move the summer games to a remote location where no one can find them.

HOMELAND SECURITY INVOKES NUCLEAR BOMB, AS BUSH QUIETLY LINKS CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM TO NSA

According to Wired's Ryan Singel, Chertoff gave few details of what the government actually plans to do.

He cites a little-noticed presidential order: "In January, President Bush signed a presidential order expanding the role of DHS and the NSA in government computer security," Singel writes. "Its contents are classified, but the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has said he wants the NSA to monitor America's internet traffic and Google searches for signs of cyber attack."

CONTROVERSY: MERCENARIES TRAINING US LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS

There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-trained mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States

REP. LYNN WOOLSEY GRILLS PETRAEUS

Woolsey: Gentlemen, polls show that up to 80 percent of the American public supports redeployment of our troops out of Iraq. When that statistic was presented with those staggering numbers, the vice president’s response was “so.”

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

NON-COMBAT TROOPS

Senator Obama says he'll keep only non-combat troops in Iraq. I had no idea what those could possibly be, until somebody sent me this photo of some non-combat troops in Iraq:

NON-COMBAT TROOPS

REP. WEXLER ASKS GEN PETRAEUS WHAT "VICTORY" WOULD MEAN

Congressman Wexler's question to Petraeus is simply "what is winning" (what is the definition of 'winning' in Iraq, why are we there). Petraeus then spouts off a typical hard-coded, bulleted list of nonsense which can be debunked by a child. Here's my answers to this traitors lies...

Petraeus: ...what we are fighting for is national interests...

ZDN: wrong. 80% of the people in the U.S. want us OUT of Iraq, as well as the majority of Iraqis.

Petraeus: ...interests that have to do with al-Qaeda...

ZDN: you mean the al-Qaeda that was/is backed by the CIA? The ones that had only a few hundred members at one time?

Petraeus: ...possible spread of sectarian conflict...

ZDN: the spread of conflict has never been greater than it is now.

Petraeus: ...conflict that had engulfed that country [Iraq] and had it on the brink of civil war...

ZDN: so it went then from "on the brink" to an active civil war, which is now the case sine the U.S. occupation.

Petraeus: ...has to do with regional stability...

ZDN: Iraq was never more instable. Millions dead and displaced; many doctors have left; hospitals closed; dirty water; little or no electric; little or no fuel to power generators; violence rising sharply; human rights abuses; massive increase of birth defects from depleted uranium, etc., etc., etc.

Petraeus: ...of a region that is of critical importance to the global economy...

ZDN: what about the "terrorists" and 9/11? No mention of that, huh? Looks like oil is more important than the lives of the Iraqi people.

Petraeus: ...influence of Iran [suggesting Iran is an evil force in Iraq]...

ZDN: this the same Iran -- the one without nuclear weapons and no intension of persuing them -- that was behind the cease fire that took place last week?

Petraeus: ...in terms of what is is that we are trying to achieve, i think simply that it is a country that is at peace with itself and it's neighbors...

ZDN: 5 years have gone by and this piece of ass kissing garbage is unable to see that everything is now WORSE than it was before? Total number of lessons learned from Vietnam by this f'n pinhead: ZERO!

The rest is just outright garbage. -- ZDN

FAILING THE TROOPS

WASHINGTON—No lights at the end of the tunnel. No corners turned. Give Gen. David Petraeus points for using well-understood clichés to express the obvious: We are bogged down in Iraq, the general in charge there has now testified on Capitol Hill.

ARE WE CLOSER TO ‘VICTORY’?

Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the American forces in Iraq, is more candid than his publicity agents. Unlike the senators and editorial writers who claim that the glorious “surge” should be hailed as one of the most successful military campaigns in history, he warns that the escalation’s achievements are mixed at best—or, as he put it, progress on the ground is “uneven” and “fragile and reversible,” with “innumerable challenges” remaining to be addressed.

THE WAL-MART VIDEOS

“I am so proud of this company and everything that it represents.”

WAL-MART :THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICES

MADE IN CHINA

THE USS ECONOMY

JOHN MCCAIN’S FAVORITE DITTY: DON’T KNOW MUCH ‘BOUT FOREIGN POLICY

It’s frightening to think of a man with his temperament with all the things a president has at his fingertips–the IRS, CIA, FBI…

PETRAEUS SAYS TROOP MORALE IS UP

If you factor out the women, the NCOs and those who have done multiple tours of duty over several years, things are looking great! By the way, I admit I was never a math major, but that last sentence about the morale being close to double this year…well, that’s true if 7.4% was half of 13.1%. Either way, that’s only 1 out of every 7 troop members who consider their morale high. Is that something to celebrate?

CIA SAID TO CONTROL ECUADOR'S MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador's defence minister has resigned amid allegations the country's military intelligence is controlled by the CIA.

IMF SAYS US CRISIS IS 'LARGEST FINANCIAL SHOCK SINCE GREAT DEPRESSION'

America's mortgage crisis has spiralled into "the largest financial shock since the Great Depression" and there is now a one-in-four chance of a full-blown global recession over the next 12 months, the International Monetary Fund warned today.

Don't worry, the same people that created the problem will be offering you a solution in the not too distant future. -- ZDN

PETRAEUS SAYS WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ WOULD DRIVE UP GAS PRICES

The war in Iraq and a potential American withdrawal from that country have “ripple effects that certainly will ripple all the way into the U.S.” America’s top military commander in Iraq told lawmakers today.

Makes perfect sense: keep feeding the killing machine so we can save a few cents on a gallon. -- ZDN

BUSH SHOULD VETO NEWBORN SCREENING LAW

We're all supposed to be ecstatic that the federal government, which is bankrupt, will now be printing new money to pay for "universal newborn screening."

COULD MCCAIN MAKE US NOSTALGIC FOR BUSH?

McCain is a boiling maelstrom of hate, and he wants the power to blow up the world--that is, to be our Dear Leader. He claims he don't need no stinkin' permission to murder foreigners, and then hires the most bloodthirsty chickenhawks possible to whisper "Kill all them Ayrabs" in his ear.

CURFEWS, CLASHES, PROTESTS AND MORTARS; FIVE YEARS AFTER FALL OF SADDAM

April 9, yesterday, marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein. But for many Iraqis, it was more notable for marking the beginning of a long-term American military occupation of their country.

The US military was so little in control after five years that two mortar shells slammed into the Green Zone, the American HQ in Iraq. On Sunday, a similar attack killed two US military personnel while they were jogging.

CHILDREN INJURED AND KILLED IN GAZA BY ISRAEL USING US MADE AND PAID FOR MISSILES

LAW SETS 3-YEAR JAIL PENALTY FOR CAR-OWNERS WHO GO TO MECHANICS IN PA

A penalty of three years' imprisonment will be imposed on Israeli vehicle-owners who take their vehicles to mechanics in the West Bank under a law passed by the Knesset on Monday.

OAKLAND COPS: MIND IF WE SEARCH YOUR HOUSE FOR GUNS?

OAKLAND _ A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for guns got the green light from the City Council's public safety committee Tuesday night.

D.C. POLICE SET TO MONITOR 5,000 CAMERAS

D.C. officials are giving police access to more than 5,000 closed-circuit TV cameras citywide that monitor traffic, schools and public housing — a move that will give the District one of the largest surveillance networks in the country.

U.N. OFFICIAL CALLS FOR STUDY OF NEOCONS' ROLE IN 9/11

On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. While Mr. Falk's specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the "9-11 official version."

THE FIRST FIFTEEN MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 11TH

Within three hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Robin Hordon knew it was an inside job. He had been an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) for eleven years before Reagan fired him and hundreds of his colleagues after they went on strike in the eighties. Having handled in-flight emergencies and two actual hijackings in his career, he is well qualified to comment on what NORAD should have been able to achieve in its response to the near simultaneous hijacking of four domestic passenger carriers on the morning of September 11th, 2001.

14 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS NOW PUBLICLY CHALLENGE GOVERNMENT'S EXPLANATION FOR DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

A prominent engineer with 55 years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building projects including high rise offices, former member of the California Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres) believes that the World Trade Centers were brought down by controlled demolition

The tools: a 12 yr. old and the NIST report.

The conclusion: bunk

The entire theory proposed by NIST relies heavily on assumption and what they were unable to prove using physical models: that fire and structural damage led to the collapse. -- ZDN

BEAR STEARNS WAS A PLANNED DEAL

We believe the demise of Bear Stearns was planned months if not years ago. The tip-off was Randal Quarles’ statements.

BOOK: MCCAIN TEMPER BOILED OVER IN '92 TIRADE, CALLED WIFE A 'CUNT'

At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2001: US SPECIAL FORCES PRESENTATION MEANT FOR PRESIDENT BUSH SUGGESTS POISONING AFGHANISTAN FOOD SUPPLY

President Bush is briefed at the Pentagon on upcoming special operations in Afghanistan. National Security Council staffer Franklin Miller reviews a classified slide presentation that an unnamed two-star general is going to give Bush in a few minutes. One slide in the presentation is labeled, “Thinking Outside the Box—Poisoning Food Supply.”