NIU SHOOTING "ODDITIES"

At approximately 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Kazmierczak, dressed in black and armed with three handguns and a shotgun, entered an introductory geology class and opened fire.

MILLIONS ARE HEARING THE TRUTH: GUNS PREVENT CRIME AND SAVE LIVES

Every time a crime is committed with a gun, or some lunatic shoots up a school or restaurant, the TV news media gives the event obsessive news coverage.

* But they never tell Americans about all the tragedies that are averted by citizens using guns in self-defense.

* They never tell people that law abiding citizens use their guns to avert far more acts of violence than are caused by criminals with guns.

* They never tell citizens the stories of mass shootings that have been prevented by one lone citizen with a gun.

* They never tell you about the women who save themselves from rape by brandishing a gun.

* They never tell you about the homeowners who save their property and their families simply by showing a gun to demonstrate that they are not defenseless.

THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE

Coming to a city near you ...

OUR ENEMY, THE PRESIDENCY

The current president claims the right to detain, torture and kill anyone on earth and to start wars and occupations in any nation of his choice. He claims the right to levy taxes on anything, prohibit anything, mandate anything, spy on anyone, and demand that all jurisdictions on the planet bend to his will.

NH: "IMPEACH BUSH" RALLY, LEGISLATIVE HEARING

PRESIDENT'S DAY MONEY BOMB - TODAY!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Today is the day! On this President's Day, please contribute to the man that this country needs the most - the Thomas Jefferson of our time - Dr. Ron Paul!

7/7 RIPPLE EFFECT

Regarding the 7/7/2005 terrorist attacks in London, let us look at the facts, and what we were told, and compare them. Then, using Ockham"s Razor and common-sense, let us see what conclusions are to be drawn, so we can all understand what most likely really did happen that day.

AN EPIDEMIC OF POLICE THUGGERY FIRST SEEN IN US OCCUPIED NEW ORLEANS

Certainly, the brutal Blackwater occupation of New Orleans was but a foretaste of an epidemic of police thuggery and brutality that now sweeps the US.

GEORGE BUSH VISITS AFRICA TO PROMOTE THE US AFRICA COMMAND

Horace Campbell look at Bush's visit as an attempt to further militarize the continent and consolidate US holding.

TOWARDS THE CONQUEST OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: THE U.S., THE E.U. AND ISRAEL JOIN HANDS

In the first portion of this text, the longstanding plans for creating a Mediterranean Union, which predate Nicolas Sarkozy by many years, were revealed as were U.S. and E.U. efforts to turn the Middle East and North Africa into free trade zones and economic territories. The implementation of this project was planned through the 1995 Barcelona Process and the U.S. Middle East Free Trade Area (MEFTA).

BUSH DISMISSES IRAQ RECESSION: THE WAR HAS "NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ECONOMY"

This morning on NBC"s Today Show, President Bush denied that the there"s any link between the faltering U.S. economy and $10 billion a month being spent on the Iraq war.

BRITAIN RELEASES IE, WHICH WAS SEEKING TO STRENGTHEN THE CASE FOR WAR - A CLAIM THE GOVERNMENT HAS STRONGLY DENIED

Blair presented a final draft of the JIC dossier, called "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction," to parliament on Sep. 24, 2002 - a document which included the 45-minute claim.

WHAT FBI WHISTLE-BLOWER SIBEL EDMONDS FOUND IN TRANSLATION

Over nearly six months, Ms. Edmonds listened with increasing unease to hundreds of intercepted phone calls between Turkish, Pakistani, Israeli and American officials. When she voiced concerns about the processing of this intelligence - among other irregularities, one of the other translators maintained a friendship with one of the FBI"s "high value" targets - she was threatened.

HOW MOSSAD DECEIVED THE U.S. MILITARY ON 9/11

Mossad, Israel's military intelligence agency, infiltrated the most sensitive computer networks in the United States through a little start-up company known as Ptech, in Quincy, Massachusetts.

WHISTLE-BLOWER SITE TAKEN OFFLINE

A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.

Still available here... -- ZDN

wikileaks.org.uk

BUSH JUDICIAL APPOINTEE CAUGHT IN DUI, FISHNET STOCKINGS

Robert Somma remembered his purse, cocktail dress and fishnet stockings, but he forgot about a designated driver.

ST. PAUL TO PURCHASE TASERS JUST IN TIME FOR RNC

The purchase is expected to arrive in St. Paul just in time for the Republican National Convention prompting media speculation that the weapons are being purchased specifically for the convention.

MCCAIN FEARS RON PAUL AND HIS REVOLUTION

The man-who-would-be dictator and commander-in-chief of endless war thinks the real problem with the Republican party is the "Taft wing," i.e. Ron Paul. And McCain is right for once. Ron Paulism is the only opposition to McFascism in the GOP.

"THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY: THE FINAL CHAPTER".

This examination of the latest theories about the J.F.K. assassination & cover-up was shown once in November, 2003 and quickly suppressed, due mainly to outrage and threat of a lawsuit by family and former associates of L.B.J. who is targeted in the documentary as being a lead conspirator in the Kennedy assassination plot and other murders as well.

COPPING OUT: BPD REVIEW PANEL MEETS IN SECRECY

Boston"s year-old police-civilian review board - touted as the people"s watchdog on cop abuses - is so shrouded from public view it stands out nationally as among the most secretive panels of its kind, a Herald review shows.

CIA SET UP 12 BOGUS COMPANIES MOSTLY IN EUROPE AFTER 9/11

Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency set up 12 bogus companies in Europe and other parts of the world in the hope of penetrating Islamic organizations, The Los Angeles Times reported on its website late Saturday.

But citing current and former CIA officials, the newspaper said the agency had now shut down all but two of them after concluding they were ill-conceived.

BERNANKE'S STATE OF THE ECONOMY SPEECH: "YOU ARE ALL DEAD DUCKS"

Even veteran Fed-watchers were caught off-guard by Chairman Bernanke's performance before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. Bernanke was expected to make routine comments on the state of the economy but, instead, delivered a 45 minute sermon detailing the afflictions of the foundering financial system.

THE SPIES WHO LOVE YOU

A Familiar Snuggly Bear explains Warrantless Wire Tapping & Love.

RUSSIAN STATE TV SUGGESTS USA INVOLVED IN DRUG-TRAFFICKING FROM AFGHANISTAN

Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army.

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

These people are just plain scary -- ZDN

AGING AIR FORCE WANTS BIG BUCKS FIX

An extra $20 billion each year over the next five — beginning with an Air Force budget of about $137 billion in 2009 instead of the $117 billion proposed by the Bush administration — would solve that problem, according to Selva and other senior Air Force officers.

GEORGE CARLIN - VOTING

MARTIAL LAW, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND FASCISM: ARE THESE REAL CONCERNS TO AMERICANS?

There have always been those who are complacent and “believe it could never happen to us,” but a close reading and analysis of Bush’s recent administrative and executive orders seem to speak otherwise, and for those attempting to survive, it will be our mission to provide the best the Internet has to offer in suggestions, methods, and the actual probabilities of what such an action would entail and how it would manifest itself upon the population.

SINCE WE NO LONGER HAVE LAWS, WE HAVE TO MAKE STUFF UP AS WE GO ALONG

Richard Bacon: Why can’t they be tried in front of a jury in a federal court?

Michael Goldfarb: Well, frankly, there are security issues. You know, we’re not going to expose American citizens to sitting on a jury for al-Qaeda members […]

Richard Bacon: […] So a terror suspect has never been tried in the United States in a civil or federal court?

Michael Goldfarb: Terror suspects have been tried in a federal court …

Richard Bacon: Well, why was that jury exposed to them?

Michael Goldfarb: I mean, if you arrest someone in this country, we’ve dealt with these things differently. The fundamental issue here is that we’re making these things up as we go along.

BUSH AND EXXONMOBIL V. CHAVEZ

It's too early to predict what's ahead, but one thing is sure. As long as George Bush is president, he'll go after Chavez every way possible with one aim in mind - to destabilize the country and remove the Venezuelan leader from office.

JUST WORDS. JUST NOT OBAMA'S.

That speech contained language similar

to Deval Patrick's 2006 speech called "Just Words".

MAKING BOYS CONFORM

Conform, be the same, believe government myths, don't think independently or critically, don't be competitive, don't run and play, keep all four legs of your chair on the floor, take ritalin and prozac.

PEACE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT MADISON MALL

Madison, WI – At noon on Friday, February 15, three peace activists were arrested at Hilldale Mall in Madison, WI during an action of nonviolent civil resistance.

THE DUMBING OF AMERICA

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

VICENTE FOX SEEKS INTERDEPENDENT NORTH AMERICA AND EMERGING WORLD GOVERNMENT

Former Mexican President Urges U.S. to Embrace "Solidarity" Not "Selfishness" as North American Union Unfolds

IDENTITY CARDS 'USELESS IN FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM'

Mass fingerprinting, biometric passports, identity cards and international identity databases will not protect Britain and other European countries from terrorists or criminals.

US SPY SATELLITE PLAN 'A COVER'

Russia has accused the US of using a plan to shoot down a broken spy satellite as a cover for testing an anti-satellite weapon.

BEHIND OBAMA AND CLINTON: WHO'S WHISPERING IN THEIR EARS SAYS A LOT

Voters on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party are rightly disappointed by the similarity of the foreign policy positions of the two remaining Democratic Party presidential candidates, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama.

AFGHAN BOMB TOLL 'RISES TO 100'

Funerals have been held in the Afghan city of Kandahar for the victims of Sunday's suicide attack that officials now say killed more than 100 people.

CELEBRATE PRESIDENTS DAY: - IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT!

Let this President’s Day serve as a reminder that there is a criminal holding the office of the Presidency who must be held accountable and impeached as required by the Constitution of the United States.

BILL TO REQUIRE TEACHING KIDS GLOBAL WARMING

A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require “climate change” to be among the science topics that all California public school students are taught.

IRAQI MEDICAL SYSTEM WRECKED BY WAR

BAGHDAD - Already a troubled system, Iraqi medical care has fallen to the brink of collapse since the U.S.-led invasion five years ago. Scores of doctors have been slain, cancer patients have to hunt down their own drugs — even IV fluid is in short supply.

ACTIVIST VIDEO FORCES LARGEST BEEF RECALL IN U.S. HISTORY!

OBAMA SUPPORTS GLOBAL TAX ON AMERICANS

A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States.

DIANA MURDERED, AL FAYED CLAIMS

Mr Al Fayed felt the murder was likely to have been carried out by photographer James Andanson, who has since died, on the orders of the security services.

WHEELCHAIR-DUMPING COP CHARGED WITH FELONY ABUSE

The Wheelchair Warrior has been charged with abuse of a disabled person after she turned himself over the weekend.