EU LEADERS CONDEMN ISRAEL ON SETTLEMENT PLAN

"The EU reiterates that settlement building anywhere in the occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem, is illegal under international law," the bloc's presidency said in a statement after a summit of EU leaders.

"FREEDOM RALLY"

It is time to send a message to those in authority: WE may have different priorities, we may be of every persuasion, but we are all Americans and we are sick and tired of unrepresentative government. We are tired of watching the fundamental promise and potential of American life subverted by profiteers and self-serving interests. And we are sick and tired of the few pretenders, and their supplicants, who posture that their agendas are ours.

9/11: HAVE WE BEEN LIED TO?

An article in preparation by members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth

In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted â€¦they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lieâ€¦ It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Adolf Hitler, 1925

MCCAIN: OPPOSITION TO IRAQ WITHDRAWAL ‘SEMINAL EVENT’ IN HISTORY

John McCain cast his opposition to a troop withdrawal date in Iraq in historic terms Thursday during a FOX News interview, saying he would continue to fight anybody trying to end the war prematurely “every step of the way.”

As we will continue to fight war mongering, war profiteering, unethical pieces of uneducated garbage, such as yourself -- ZDN

PROTESTERS GREET MCCAIN IN EXETER

A large number of protesters waited for John McCain to arrive at the Exeter Town Hall Wednesday as he returned to NH to thank voters for their support.

ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS CHANT "WAR CRIMINAL" AT RICE

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced the angry chants of protestors during a hearing on Capitol Hill. As soon as Rice completed her testimony, protestors in the public accused Rice of being a war criminal.

RON PAUL SPEAKS

Friends: NOW is the time for us to unite and come together, whether our primary cause is peace, labor, truth, human rights, American sovereignty, impeachment, environmental, voting rights, civil liberties, the Constitution or sound fiscal policy....or all of the aforementioned.

HALLMARKS OF A "HIT JOB" ORDERED FROM THE VERY TOP: FORGET SPITZER, FIRE BERNANKE

There must be something about men achieving power that exposes them to frequent misuses of authority. In particular, infidelity seems a particular curse for the powerful across the world. This week's events involving the governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, may however have helped to hide a more egregious misuse of authority, namely that of Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and his central banking cohorts around the world.

TURKISH INCURSION INTO NORTHERN IRAQ: MILITARY FIASCO, POLITICAL DEBACLE

The February incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq has ended in a terrible debacle for both U.S. imperialism and Turkey.

PREDATORY LENDERS' PARTNER IN CRIME

The following oped by Eliot Spitzer was published barely a month prior to the unfolding scandal and his demise as Governor of the State of New York. Does the scandal bear any relationship to Spitzer's intent to reveal the criminal nature of the subprime mortgage scam and the role of the Bush adminstration. Was the scandal intended to silence Eliot Spitzer?

ISRAEL THREATENS LEBANON WITH WAR

Israel has threatened to wage another war against Lebanon if Hezbollah retaliates for the killing of its commander, Imad Mughniyah.

FALLON FALLS: IRAN SHOULD WORRY

The resignation came a few days after the publication of an Esquire magazine article profiling Fallon in which he was described as being "in hot water" with the White House and justified public comments departing from the Bush administration's policy toward Iran. The publicity that followed the article - titled The Man Between War and Peace - accelerated the pressure on Fallon to resign.

But "Fox" Fallon almost certainly knew that he would be fired when he agreed to cooperate with the Esquire magazine profile.

MCCAIN SAYS AL QAEDA MIGHT TRY TO TIP U.S. ELECTION

SPRINGFIELD, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday he fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him.

Could we possibly be so lucky? -- ZDN

PLO: “ISRAEL KILLED 274 RESIDENTS, INCLUDING 50 CHILDREN, 18 WOMEN, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 2008”

The report documents the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people. It stated that the Israeli army carried war crimes during its offensive against the Gaza Strip, and explained that the army used different sorts of weapons against civilians, who were the vast majority of the casualties in the latest offensive.

The report indicated that two infants (20 days old and 7 months old) were among the Palestinians who were killed by the army. Eighteen women were also killed and one resident was shot and killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

BEAR STEARNS BAILED OUT BY FED, JPMORGAN

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bear Stearns Cos., one of the most venerable names on Wall Street, turned to a rival bank and the federal government for a last-minute bailout Friday to prevent it from collapsing.

Wonder how the Fed bailed them out? With more worthless money that will increase inflation? -- ZDN

AFGHANISTAN COMES FULL CIRCLE AS NATO SEEKS RUSSIAN HELP

One of the most ironic twists to the ongoing mission in Afghanistan emerged from the NATO meetings held in Brussels last week. With member countries either reluctant or unable to add military resources, NATO is now seeking assistance from Russia, its erstwhile Cold War enemy and one-time "evil occupier" of Afghanistan.

IRISH BANKS MAY NEED LIFE-SUPPORT AS PROPERTY PRICES CRASH

The Irish banking system faces acute strains and may require a phase of temporary nationalisation as the property slump leads to a wave of defaults, according to a leading Irish economist.

IRAQ: TEACHERS TOLD TO REWRITE HISTORY

Teachers will threaten to boycott military involvement in schools at the union's annual conference next weekend, claiming the lesson plan is a "propaganda" exercise and makes no mention of any civilian casualties as a result of the war.

RIGHT NOW, FEDS MIGHT BE LOOKING INTO YOUR FINANCES

WASHINGTON — Each year, federal agents peek at the financial transactions of millions of Americans — without their knowledge.

DESPITE THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S EFFORTS WALL STREET FEARS A BIG US BANK IS IN TROUBLE

Global stock markets may have cheered the US Federal Reserve yesterday, but on Wall Street the Fed's unprecedented move to pump $280 billion (£140 billion) into global markets was seen as a sure sign that at least one financial institution was struggling to survive.

GERMAN SCIENTIST EXPOSES CHEMTRAILS AS MILITARY OPERATIONS

The purpose of chemtrails, which are well documented over the United State and other parts of the world, according to researchers, is to manipulate the weather. Karsten Brandt, German meteorologist states, "The Federal Army is Manipulating the Meteorological maps."

GLOBAL "OIL SHOCK" RATTLES WORLD STOCK MARKETS

So far, the Bernanke Federal Reserve has pumped more than half-a-trillion dollars into the markets with open market operations and special emergency lending schemes, to help cushion the blow to the US economy and stock markets. However, there’s evidence that the Fed’s prescription for dealing with the sub-prime debt crisis, is actually making matters much worse, and leading to “Stagflation.”

Note that the graphs used for indicating peak oil production may be entirely untrue. It is this authors opnion based on my research that oil production peaking around 2010 may be a lie. For one, we appear to have huge oil reserves on the north slope of Alaska. Of course none of it would be needed if secret free energy technology were brought into the public sector. -- ZDN

PENTAGON: $520 MILLION FOR SPACE WEAPONS RESEARCH

We all know that the Pentagon has more space weapons technology in mind than just a single, satellite-shooting missile. But trying to pin down how much the Defense Department is spending on space combat research -- and on what projects -- is an absolute bitch. The programs are spread across at least a dozen different accounts; much of the technology involved is "dual use" -- meaning, it could help with another military matters, too; and that's before you get into the Defense Department's "black," classified budget.

SWAT TEAMS DISPERSE CROWD OF HUNDREDS AWAITING HOUSING APPLICATIONS

BOCA RATON, Fla. --

Police in riot gear intervened Wednesday when hundreds of people seeking a chance at subsidized housing grew frustrated after officials ran out of applications.

INSIDE A CIA BLACK SITE

A Yemeni man has told Amnesty International that he was abducted and tortured and spent nearly three years in secret prisons at the hands of the CIA. Khaled al-Maqtari says that without charge, legal representation or even a word to his family he was shuttled from one prison to another and ultimately dumped into Yemeni custody, once the U.S. had finished with him.

COUNTDOWN’S BUSHED! DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND SECRECY IN IRAQ

The number of Iraqis killed daily has nearly doubled, from an average of 20 in January to 39 in the first two weeks of March. The total death count of Iraqis is now well over 1 million, a staggering number. But sadly a number that too few people are aware of, as a recent Pew study suggest. In fact, only 28% of those surveyed knew that our own American casualties is just under 4,000, while nearly half believed it to be 3,000 or fewer.

ONE GERMAN MAN BUYS THREE FULL PAGES OF NEW YORK TIMES IN ATTEMPT TO EDUCATE AMERICANS ABOUT AMERICAN WARS

The West is much more violent than the Muslim world. Millions of Arab civilians have been killed since colonialism began.

Faced with the warmongering of the West, it is really not surprising that support for Muslim extremists continues to grow.

Terrorists in Islamic disguise are murderers. The same holds true for the ringleaders disguised as Christians who wage wars of aggression in contravention of international law.

Muslims were and are at least as tolerant as Jews and Christians. They have made a major contribution to Western civilization.

Love of God and love of one‘s neighbor are the central commandments not only in the Bible but also in the Qur‘an.

NEW POLL: 12 YEAR OLDS KNOW CONGRESS COULD CUT WAR MONEY, ADULTS BELIEVE CONGRESS POWERLESS TO END IRAQ OCCUPATION

The first poll asked 2,000 American 12 year olds whether Congress has the power to end the occupation of Iraq. Minorities believed Congress did not, or believed it could do so if the Democrats had larger majorities. But a 61 percent majority of those polled believed that Congress could simply stop funding the occupation, and that the Democrats in Congress had sufficient majorities to accomplish this without any Republican assistance.

Those 61 percent of 12 year olds were correct.

THE $200 BILLION BAIL-OUT FOR PREDATOR BANKS AND SPITZER CHARGES ARE INTIMATELY LINKED

While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there’s a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush’s man Bernanke was using ours.

WINTER SOLDIER: IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

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ANTIWAR AND PRO-TROOPS? NO WAY

The excuse making typically falls into two broad categories. The first being: “Our troops are just following orders.”

A simple Web search will find many reasons why this concept has no legal basis. For example, Principle IV of Nuremberg Tribunal (1950) states: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”

BREAKING: HOUSE FISA BILL PASSES

Throughout the morning Republicans have goose-stepped up to the podium and told lie after lie about the bill, which unlike most of them, I have read. They have said that the bill requires a court order b before any foreign-to-foreign wiretaps can be implemented. This is a lie. It requires a court order for Foreign-Domestic and Domestic-Wiretaps, but has a 30 day emergency provision.

GAS NOT ALONE -- FOOD PRICES WAY UP, TOO

Other factors behind food taking a bigger bite out of consumer pocketbooks, Kauffman reports, include the falling dollar boosting prices of imported foods such as pasta, and large amounts of grain going to ethanol production and to other nations, cutting supplies here.

SILENCED IN THE BARRACKS

When military sexual assault survivors call Susan Avila-Smith, she advises them to keep their mouths shut while she works on getting them home.

“It breaks my heart to do that,” she says, “but I want to get them out alive and that’s my main goal.”

THE BIG WHOOSH: IS THIS THE BEGINNING?

And to think, just yesterday, S&P tried to suggest that the end of the subprime mess was in sight. Hate to break the news to them: The subprime slime was just the tip-o-the-rapidly melting iceberg.

U.S. FACES SEVERE RECESSION: NBER'S FELDSTEIN

"The situation is very bad, the situation is getting worse, and the risks are that it could get very bad," Feldstein said in a speech at the Futures Industry Association meeting in Boca Raton, Florida.

WHY GEORGE W. BUSH SHOULD STAND TRIAL FOR CAPITAL CRIMES

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

-US Codes, TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441

GOLD ENDS UP AFTER HITTING RECORD HIGH OF $1,009

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures closed with gains Friday after surging to a record high of $1,009 an ounce earlier, as investors sought a safe haven following news of a bailout of troubled investment bank Bear Stearns.

APRIL 15 IS FREEDOM DAY

Thanks to Linda Hunnicutt, the Granny Warrior, who is hosting a huge rally in DC on that day, featuring Ron and Carol Paul.

HIGH TIDE: THE RON PAUL REVOLUTION CONTINUES

Grassroots effort stresses continuing the Ron Paul Revolution, restoring the spirit of freedom in the country and turning back the tide of sprawling foreign wars and disastrous economic policy

Very cool computer animation of Ron Paul -- ZDN

50-50 CHANCE OF IRAN WAR

I believe that we are already in the early stages of a major bear market in stocks that will rival the 1929-32 bear market, because the excesses requiring liquidation are at least as large as at that juncture. The daily financial revelations are stunning. We already have the eventual makings of a Dow-Jones Industrial Average at the 4500-5000 level. A war with Iran may speed up its attainment.

JERAMIAH WRIGHT: OBAMA PASTOR A PORTRAIT OF HATRED FROM THE PULPIT

"God Damn America"

9/11 HERO: “WHY ISIN’T THIS COUNTRY TAKING CARE OF ME?”

FRIDAY: 13 IRAQIS KILLED, 14 WOUNDED

This week's surge in violence finally tapered off in time for the Friday prayer day. Attack reports are usually lighter on Fridays as many reporters in Iraq take the day off. At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 14 were wounded, but no Coalition deaths were reported.

THURSDAY: 39 IRAQIS KILLED, 112 WOUNDED

As the body of a kidnapped Chaldean Catholic priest was found in northern Iraq, a car bomb blast in Baghdad killed and injured scores of civilians. Overall at least 39 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 112 were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported today, but the toll for the week so far is 12 Americans. Also, both Iran and Turkey shelled separate rebel locations in northern Iraq.

THE RUTHLESS AMERICAN EMPIRE

Listen further my fellow Americans, when I say for the benefit of the United States, I am not talking about the people of the United States, rather I am talking about those that own and manage the United States. These people are the people in our government, our corporate leaders, and our mega-wealthy ruling class.

BUSH'S AMERICA FROM DIRTY WATER TO WINTER SOLDIER

THE AMERICAN MILITARY IS EXPENDABLE IN BUSH'S CORPORATE-RUN AMERICA

AMERICANS ARE EXPENDABLE IN GEORGE W. BUSH'S CORPORATE WAR ECONOMY

THE TRUTH IS EXPENDABLE TO THE PRESIDENT, HIS VICE, THE PENTAGON, AND THE CORPORATE WAR MACHINE

ALL HUMAN LIFE IS EXPENDABLE WHEN IT LIVES IN THE PATH OF EMPIRE

935 LIES - OVER ONE MILLION DEAD - A TWO TRILLION DOLLAR WAR

DENNIS KUCINICH YOU CAN’T SECURE OUR NATION WITH LIES!

The following video is from C-SPAN’s Bush Speech, broadcast on March 13, 2008

LIL BUSH IS DOING JOHN MCCAIN!

The following video is from Comedy Central’s Lil Bush, broadcast on March 13, 2008

OLBERMANN: THE DEFIANT DECIDER

The following video is from MSNBC’s COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann, broadcast on March 13, 2008

EDITORIAL COLUMN: HOTHEAD MCCAIN

To combat what he likes to call "the transcendent challenge [of] radical Islamic extremism," McCain is drawing up plans for a new set of global institutions, from a potent covert operations unit to a "League of Democracies" that can bypass the balky United Nations, from an expanded NATO that will bump up against Russian interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus to a revived US unilateralism that will engage in "rogue state rollback" against his version of the "axis of evil." In all, it's a new apparatus designed to carry the "war on terror" deep into the twenty-first century.

MCCAIN'S VOTING RECORD: HE DOES NOT SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND VETERANS

In mid 2007, Senator Reid noted that McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq. However, here is a summary of a dozen votes (two that he missed and ten that he voted against) with respect to Iraq, funding for veterans or for troops, including equipment and armor. I have also included other snippets related to the time period when the vote occurred.

September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.

July 2007: McCain voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq. At the time, an ABC poll found that 63% thought the invasion was not worth it, and a CBS News poll found that 72% of respondents wanted troops out within 2 years.

March 2007: McCain was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all combat troops within one year. Around this time, an NBC News poll found that 55% of respondents indicated that the US goal of achieving victory in Iraq is not possible. This number has not moved significantly since then.

February 2007: For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn’t even bother to show up and vote against a resolution condemning it. However, at the time a CNN poll found that only 16% of respondents wanted to send more troops to Iraq (that number has since declined to around 10%), while 60% said that some or all should be withdrawn. This number has since gone up to around 70%.

June 2006: McCain voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so.

May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.

April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

March 2004: McCain once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans' needs.

October 2003: McCain voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.

April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.

August 2001: McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650,000,000. To his credit, he also voted against the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which he now supports making permanent, despite the dire financial condition this country is in, and despite the fact that he indicated in 2001 that these tax cuts unfairly benefited the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

ACLU SUES TO UNCOVER GOVERNMENT RECORDS DETAILING TORTURE AND ABUSE OF GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS

March 13, 2008, Washington, DC – Decrying the U.S. government’s failure to comply with its records request, the American Civil Liberties Union is filing a federal lawsuit today to force the government to release un-redacted transcripts in which 14 prisoners now held at Guantánamo Bay describe abuse and torture they suffered in CIA custody.

FOOD, FUEL, AND FASCISM: THEIR ELECTION OR YOUR LIFE?

After two years of managing the Truth To Power website and subsequent to many more years of researching domestic and geopolitical events and trends, it is chilling to witness so much of what "prophets" like Mike Ruppert, Matt Savinar, Catherine Austin Fitts, Richard Heinberg, Matt Simmons, Dmitry Orlov, myself, and many others have been forecasting for nearly a decade or longer. We are no longer prophets but truly historians, and yet I take no pleasure in the accuracy of these forecasts or in the fact that our dire predictions are unfolding before our eyes.

HOW ISRAEL TAUGHT HAMAS ALL IT KNOWS

Once more, as Israel continues its ruthless attacks on the Palestinian population (against both civilians and resistance fighters), mainstream media outlets direct the blame on the victims.

PORTER, HELLER VOTE TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT'S TORTURE PROGRAM AND KEEP EVERYTHING SECRET

The President of the United States vetoed a ban on waterboarding and “other harsh interrogation techniques,” [WaPo] and the effort by the House of Representatives to over-ride that veto failed to attain a 2/3rds majority; the vote was 225-118. [LAT] [The Gavel] Representative Shelley Berkley (D-NV1) voted in favor of the over-ride (and against torture), Representatives Jon Porter (R-NV3) and Dean Heller (R-NV2) were among the 118 voting to uphold the President’s veto to allow waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques.

LAYOFF NOTICES SET TO HIT TEACHERS' MAILBOXES

More than 10,100 teachers will see pink slips in their mailboxes over the next few days as districts up and down California meet a Saturday deadline to warn staff of anticipated layoffs due to the state's budget crisis.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ICE AGES

We propose that for far smaller — <1% —

costs, the mean thermal effects of "greenhouse gases" may be obviated in any of several distinct

ways, some of them novel. These suggestions are all based on scatterers that prevent a small

fraction of solar radiation from reaching all or part of the Earth.

Is this what the aersols being sprayed over our heads are being used for? -- ZDN

SPACE PRESERVATION ACT OF 2001 (INTRODUCED IN HOUSE)

(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--

(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;

(ii) chemtrails;

CHRONIC BARIUM INTOXICATION DISRUPTS SULPHATED PROTEOGLYCAN SYNTHESIS: A HYPOTHESIS FOR THE ORIGINS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

High level contamination by natural and industrial sources of the alkali earth metal, barium (Ba) has been identified in the ecosystems/workplaces that are associated with high incidence clustering of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases such as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Barium? Hmmm... -- ZDN

LOCAL NEWS STATION CONFIRMS BARIUM IN CHEMTRAILS

PUBLIC LAW 95-79 [P.L. 95-79] TITLE 50, CHAPTER 32, SECTION 1520 "CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM" "The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents by the U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to the experiments and studies." "The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemical and biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States]." -SOURCE- Public Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79. Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375.

MPS RAISE FEARS OVER DATA PROTECTION FOR NATIONAL ID REGISTER

Repeated breaches of data protection laws by government departments raise huge question marks over plans for the national identity register required for ID cards and biometric passport, an influential parliamentary human rights watchdog has warned.

RUSSIAN SERFS PAID $3 A DAY TO BREAK CAPTCHAS

Why should miscreants bother to develop cutting edge programming techniques when they can pay $3 to somebody to set up spam-ready webmail accounts on their behalf?

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