Tactically it would absolutely retarded for Gaza to pull a school shooting in revenge for Israel's attacks it serve to do nothing but lose the moral high ground and provoke a greater backlash from Israel. If Gaza could get into Israel with guns then they would go after the soldiers, a check point, a political leader or building, something other than a school. This attack just doesn't make any sense. I say false flag is possible.

There were no attacks in Jerusalem the entire year of 2007 and suddenly there is this big attack. Why? Because Israel killed 127 people in Gaza many of them children some of them babies, in the prior week. You can't bomb civilian homes safely from the air and shoot up houses and killed hundreds of people and brag about it being a Gaza Holocaust and expect nothing to happen in return. However that being said the counter attack still doesn't make any sense. The timing and the pre-packaged media blitz each saying the same catch phrases to the letter, is quite shocking. It looks, reads, and feels like a set up.

U.S. central banks may have less than half the gold they claim to possess in their vaults, charges a watchdog group in an ad scheduled for publication in the Wall Street Journal this week.

Godard and fellow owner-operators have been slammed by diesel fuel prices that reached record highs in many parts of the country on Friday. In San Antonio, diesel fuel soared to a new high of $3.64 a gallon, up 44 percent in a year's time, according to AAA.

Putin is planning to attend the meeting in Bucharest on April 2-4, which will take place on the sidelines of a full NATO members summit. Bush will attend the alliance gathering.

A foot of snow buried parts of the Ohio Valley early Saturday, virtually shutting down some road and air travel.

As much as 10 inches of snow fell overnight in Ohio, and 13 inches fell on central Kentucky's Owen County, the National Weather Service said. Louisville, Ky., had 11 inches to shovel and plow.

Blizzard warnings remained in effect in Ohio.

Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has said his coalition has collapsed and is calling for elections.

Wall Street banks are facing a "systemic margin call" that may deplete banks of $325 billion of capital due to deteriorating subprime U.S. mortgages, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a report late on Friday.

Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.

Proponents of tax increases often reference the Clinton 1993 tax increase and the subsequent period of economic growth as evidence that deficit reduction through tax hikes is a pro-growth policy. What these proponents ignore, however, is that the tax increases occurred at a time when the economy was recovering from recession and strong growth was to be expected. They also ignore that the real acceleration in the economy began in 1997, when economic growth should have cooled. This acceleration in growth coincided with a powerful pro-growth tax cut.

The evidence is persuasive that the tax increase probably slowed the economy compared to the growth it would have achieved and that the subsequent tax cuts of 1997, not the tax increases, were the source of the acceleration in real growth in the latter half of the decade. As taxes are now above their historical average as a share of the economy, and are rising, Congress should look to enact additional tax relief to keep the economy strong.

Has anyone considered that the CIA and its stooges in Colombia KNEW perfectly well that negotiations on the release of the French and American hostages were close to success, and that this raid was INTENDED to destroy those negotiations?

If the hostages die in captivity, the propaganda benefits to the USA and France and to Uribe in Colombia will be immense. The Greek chorus of the media will be instructed to play up their lives and show pictures of bereaved wives and orphaned children of the hostages.

Following the Great Crash of 1929, one of every five banks in America fails. Many people, especially politicians, see market speculation engaged in by banks during the 1920s as a cause of the crash.

Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.

Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career.

Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women to take up jobs as professors, doctors and government officials. In today's Iraq, women are being killed by militia groups for not conforming to strict Islamist ways.

The Roman Catholic church in the United States paid out 615 million dollars (400 million euros) last year for child sex abuse cases involving members of the clergy, or 54 percent more than the previous year, a report showed Friday.

The global credit crisis plunged to new depths yesterday as persistent fears over the collapse of a large financial institution caused funding markets to dry up and forced the US Federal Reserve to make available up to $200 billion (£99.3 billion) of emergency financing.

This morning on Fox & Friends, the conversation turned to the recent explosion at the Times Square recruiting center. Geraldo Rivera chimed it that he believed it was not the work of al Qaeda, but was done by anarchists such as " the 9/11 was an inside job" group.

You've got to admire the Lebanese. They're rarely fazed by anything. Throughout three decades, they've been embroiled in a lengthy civil war; they've been occupied by foreign armies and attacked by a puissant and sophisticated military power. Today, the country hosts a United Nations force and is devoid of a functioning government.

Have the zionists been spreading their infectious diseases onto your PC or Laptop?

Howard Wolfson, the chief spokesman for Mr. Lazio's opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, even showed up at a Lazio event in Harlem to fan the flames [over his tax returns].

I think it's safe to say that Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana doesn't like Real ID, a backdoor way for the government to impose and create a national ID card (with RFID chip which an unauthorized, knowledgeable techie can read) by requiring extensive documentation before you can get a drivers license. Here's an interesting site devoted to the anti-side of the issue. And here's what security expert Bruce Schneier thinks of the idea.

Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.

The number of wounded soldiers has become a hallmark of the nearly 5-year-old Iraq war, pointing to both the use of roadside bombs as the extremists' weapon of choice and advances in battlefield medicine to save lives.

"Two Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace and flew over Beirut briefly before leaving the area," a senior Lebanese security official said.

"The king has ordered the reconstruction of Palestinian houses at the expense of the Saudi government," Al-Jazirah Arabic daily quoted the minister as saying. Al-Manie did not say how many Palestinian homes would be rebuilt under the program.

The council of world leaders launched by former President Nelson Mandela is sending a three-person team to the troubled Middle East.

It has been clear for a long time that the single most effective thing America could do to improve both its relationships and its security in Middle Eastern affairs would be to end its coddling of the right wing Israeli government, pressuring it instead to come to a reasonable accommodation with Palestine.

While much of American 'even handedness' in the Middle East over the years has been a charade, the latest move clearly ends even the illusion of fairness. As the AP reported, "A senior Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Sharon thought that no American president had ever made concessions so important to Israel as Bush did on Wednesday."

It survived six Tory governments, the end of the Cold War and the rise and fall of mass marches against the British nuclear deterrent. But after 50 years in which the tradition of peaceful demonstration has been maintained outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, the New Labour era has finally done for one of the most famous symbols of protest in British political history.

Granted, this has been an ugly Democratic Primary season. I've seen things come out of the Clinton campaign that I would have never expected, and surely I'm disappointed. I would have hoped that the Clinton's would have had more respect for the positive direction that the majority of the country is determined to take, rather than the pursuit of "winning" by any means. The fact that the Republicans have gleefully done all they can to ensure Hillary continues this behavior should be a clear indication of what side she is benefiting.

However, this is not why she won three of the four March 4th contests. Once again we are supposed to believe that it was the leaked memo, or the red phone ad, or buyer's remorse or some other such nonsense. In reality however, she won for the same reason George Bush has been president for eight years. She won because this country still uses Diebold and ES&S voting machines that have time and again altered the outcome of our elections. I don't think I can say it any clearer than that.

The latest US unemployment figures - released on Friday - showed the number of people laid off last month at its highest for five years.

US employers cut 63,000 positions from their payrolls in February, Labor Department figures revealed.

Mr Bush said he hoped consumer spending would "spur job creation".

Five years ago, alarmed by a dramatic increase in violent antisemitic incidents, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe hosted the first international conference on antisemitism. The American delegation to the conference proposed that the OSCE develop tools to assist the organization's 55 member nations in training police to monitor and respond to hate crimes.

"It's very hard to imagine how we can see the world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous demand for food," he told a conference on sustainability in London yesterday.

Teachers at the Jefferson County Open School turned the tables on their students today, locking classroom doors and going outside and playing music and cards.

www.uruknet.info is under attack.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that its Empire State Manufacturing survey showed business conditions deteriorated markedly in February, with the index at -11.7, falling below zero for the first time since May 2005.

Native American films and research...

Puppies Get Revenge On Marine...

The crude Palestinian rockets were often criticised even by Palestinians as useless in the tit-for-tat style of war underway, while easily used by Israeli officials as a casus belli, or at least as an excuse for keeping Gaza 'contained', besieged and on the brink of starvation.

Grocery Store Prices for 14 Items in 1957...

sraeli forces on Thursday penetrated the border line in south Lebanon towards the Ghajar area overseeing Wazani river, but did not cross the "Blue Line," Future TV reported.

The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding -- a technique that simulates drowning -- and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.

Churkin said that there was a clear division in the 15-member panel because some members were "in favor of focusing on this particular terrorist attack (while) others chose to take a broader view of the situation."

Thursday's shooting struck 'underbelly' of settlement movement, Yesha religious leaders direct accusations at weak political leadership 'that arms the enemy and negotiates with Holocaust deniers over the division of holy Jerusalem'

Zand quotes from many existing studies, some of which were written in Israel but shunted out of the central discourse. He also describes at length the Jewish kingdom of Himyar in the southern Arabian Peninsula and the Jewish Berbers in North Africa. The community of Jews in Spain sprang from Arabs who became Jews and arrived with the forces that captured Spain from the Christians, and from European-born individuals who had also become Jews.

We find, then, that the members of a variety of peoples and races, blond and black, brown and yellow, became Jews in large numbers. According to Zand, the Zionist need to devise for them a shared ethnicity and historical continuity produced a long series of inventions and fictions, along with an invocation of racist theses. Some were concocted in the minds of those who conceived the Zionist movement, while others were offered as the findings of genetic studies conducted in Israel.

American Troops Going Insane...

American Troops Going Insane...

A federal judge said today she's inclined to dismiss a lawsuit by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against a Muslim rights group that reprinted Savage's attacks against Islam and called for an advertising boycott.

A 'crazed Muslim fanatic' entering the holy of holies-a 'seminary' (the Christians will better identify with that word than they will the word yeshiva) and kills 8 soon-to-be Rabbis whom the Jewish Talmud says are even smarter than God Himself...The world is brought to a standstill...The news media is on the scene and covering it as if nothing else where taking place anywhere...Scenes of wailing Jews, crying out to the God in heaven who loves them more than anyone else 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken us?...'

Boy THAT sure was a lucky coincidence for Israel, huh? Right in the 'knick of time,' as they say...I mean, what could have been more timely and fortuitous, and particularly with what just took place last week? All that bad press that this 'shitty little country' (as one diplomat once described the Jewish state) was getting after it invaded Gaza and murdered over 100 people, to say nothing of the fact that before murdering them they tortured them for several months by preventing the most basic necessities such as food, fuel and medicine from entering the most densely populated area on the planet.

How on earth do they do it? Every time they need something to 'pop up' in order to take the heat off them or in some way facilitate some demand on their part, it arrives with great fanfare as if it were gift-wrapped from heaven and hand-delivered by an army of angels marching in perfect syncopation.

The deadly attack on a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem Thursday was planned by an operation with purported ties to Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group in Lebanon, Palestinian militant sources in Gaza said.

The information that the group Free Men of Galilee planned the attack was provided to CNN amid news reports that Hamas, the Palestinian movement that runs Gaza, claimed responsibility.

In this exclusive extract from his new book, Philip Shenon uncovers how the White House tried to hide the truth of its ineptitude leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Ohio just did for HRC what it did for Bush in 2004.

Volunteers who worked the Jester Center caucus on Tuesday are suspicious of at least one of the caucus lists, the precinct chairman said late Thursday night. At least three students who signed the list verified that the candidates attached to their names were not the candidates they voted for.

It's springtime in American politics. It's only early March, but there's a giddy, hopeful feeling to this election season, a sense that new leadership is blossoming. We could have a Democrat in the White House next year. But winter isn't over yet and we need to balance our hope with a little fear. In 2000 Bush and Cheney stole the election in Florida. In 2004 they played dirty tricks in Ohio. In 2008 could they go one step further -- and suspend the election altogether?

For NASA, however, the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) also highlights a stark reality: In 2 1/2 years, just as the station gets fully assembled, the United States will no longer have any spacecraft of its own capable of carrying astronauts and cargo to the station, in which roughly $100 billion is being invested. The three space shuttles will be retired by then, because of their high cost and questionable safety, and NASA will have nothing ready to replace them until 2015 at the earliest.

US puts ships from Syria on watchlist...

An MSNBC technical operations staffer was struck and killed by a garbage truck on Tuesday night after leaving work, where she'd contributed to MSNBC's primary night coverage. According to the NYDaily News 29-year-old Jennifer McNamara was struck around 2:30amET while crossing the street at West 50th St. and Seventh Ave., just a block from Rockefeller Center.

Playmobil Security Check Point...

Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.

Zionist dominated Western media drops any pretense of objectivity today. While the more than 120 Palestinians killed in Gaza in the past week were for them business as usual, an attack on an institution for the extremist settler movement is an 'escalation'. A few years back when a brutal siege of the Jenin refugee camp ended, and Israel allowed in foreign journalists after a week of 'clearing' the crime scene, Zionists immediately went on the attack against anyone describing the flattening of the whole refugee camp as a massacre. Yet today, the Independent sees nothing wrong in declaring the death of 7 Zionist militants a 'massacre'. You are unlikely to find any truth today on the media, who are always looking for an opportunity to balance their reluctant reporting of Israeli crimes with something that could present the oppressors as victims in the same league. (Although the Independent mentions that the 'seminary' was established by the notoriously racist Rabbi Kook, it gives no indication to readers why that in itself should raise some eyebrows).

Paul, who held on to his Texas congressional seat on Tuesday, became an Internet money machine, with his supporters raising far more money for him than several better-known candidates. He also won quite a bit of attention during debates as the only Republican candidate opposed to the Iraq war.

But Paul's campaign failed to translate that success and notoriety into votes, only reaching double digits in a couple of contests.

For the past 60 years Israel has conducted a reign of terror on the entire nation of Palestine... just in the past week the following pictures were taken in Gaza...of dead infants.... do you see Palestine taking advantage of that?

'Thou shalt not kill'....are obviously alien words to certain members of the 'tribe'.... they changed those words to 'Thou shalt not kill unless it's a Palestinian'..... killing any hopes of obtaining peace in the region as well.

I'm sad today. So many horrible things are happening in the middle east. I've been watching the developments in the Gaza strip for quite some time. The people there are suffering... dying... silently. What has been happening there is despicable, criminal behavior on the part of the Israeli government.

A law revised and submitted to Congress by Senator John McCain and others before him was determined to be the root cause of violations, which after ratification by President Clinton in 1999 during a globally publicized sit in by Songstress Julia Butterfly Hill at Big Mountain, Arizona. The enactment led to the removal of the Dineh band of Navajo from the Black Mesa to free the lands up to mining, and could lead to relocation of the Dineh-Navaho from Big Mountain, all based on a tissue of deceit, false claims of prior ownership by a small group of paid Arizona locals of Indian descent led by one Wayne Taylor, working for McCain and Peabody.

US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has implicitly told his supporters that he is quitting his long-shot presidential campaign.

The Texas Republican congressman addressed supporters in an 8-minute video on his campaign website Thursday night; however he did not specifically say he was quitting the race.

The U.S. unexpectedly lost jobs in February for the second consecutive month, adding to evidence the economy is in a recession.

POLL results: Over Half Of Americans Say They Do Not Trust The Press...

Erbert and Gerbert's Candle Cannon...

A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.

While millions of Haitians go hungry, containers full of food are stacking up in the nation's ports because of government red tape -- leaving tons of beans, rice and other staples to rot under a sweltering sun or be devoured by vermin.

Nearly a week after Colombia's cross-border raid against an encampment of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrilla movement in neighboring Ecuador, Latin America continues to confront its worst regional diplomatic and military crisis in decades. The US government and mass media have weighed in with unsolicited judgments and advice, attributing the tense standoff between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela to the threat of terrorism to Colombia, the complicity in terrorism on the part of Venezuela and overheated animosities between the respective heads of state of these three countries.

We celebrated Yousuf's fourth birthday today. We ate cake. And we counted the bodies.

The spectre of food shortages is casting a shadow across the globe, causing riots in Africa, consumer protests in Europe and panic in food-importing countries. In a world of increasing affluence, the hoarding of rice and wheat has begun. The President of the Philippines made an unprecedented call last week to the Vietnamese Prime Minister, requesting that he promise to supply a quantity of rice.

If the CIA/Mossad hired terrorists used an extreme surplus of thermite or thermate for the welding of the steel columns of the building structure, it is well conceivable that this surplus burned for weeks. Is there any other material useful in controlled demolition, other than thermite (or thermate), that would continue burning for weeks despite all trials to extinguish the fire with water????? Thermite is not a simple "fire" depending on exogeneous oxygen. Any combustion would stop within hours, if there was no oxygen available. This is the reason, why a fire can be extinguished with sand. In contrary, if one covered a thermite reaction with tons and tons of sand, the reaction would not stop. And the reaction could not be extinguished by pouring water onto the reaction partners. It is well conceivable that the extra thermite, mixed and polluted with other material, "burned" slowly and more moderately for weeks.

The mayor of a French village has issued a decree banning residents from dying in his territory unless they own a spot in the overcrowded cemetery.

Mordechai, considered one of the most knowledgeable Talmudic sages in Israel , said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews for fear of injuring and killing Palestinian civilians.

This is not the first time Elyahu issues such an outrageous Talmudic edict. A few years ago, he called on the Israeli occupation army not to refrain from killing Palestinian children if that meant "saving Jewish lives."

Elyahu is associated with Merkaz Ha'rav, a Talmudic College in West Jerusalem , that is largely considered to be the theological and ideological nerve center of religious-messianic Zionism.

[W]ell-placed observers now say that it will come as no surprise if Fallon is relieved of his command before his time is up next spring, maybe as early as this summer, in favor of a commander the White House considers to be more pliable. If that were to happen, it may well mean that the president and vice-president intend to take military action against Iran before the end of this year and don't want a commander standing in their way.

Bush says McCain will stay the course in Iraq...

CNN host Lou Dobbs says that the New World Order can be defeated but only if "Americans awaken and soon," as he attacked the Bush administration's "shameless" destruction of U.S. sovereignty on a nationally syndicated radio show.

Colombian rebels bombed an oil pipeline and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he may seize assets of the neighboring country's companies after a Colombian raid into Ecuador killed a rebel leader.

DJIA closed at its lowest level since January 22nd...

ZIONISTS UP IN ARMS ABOUT 'ALARMING RISE OF ANTI SEMITISM IN THE MUSLIM WORLD'...

There is nothing new here to report. The troops are clearing out one nest of patriots only to have them move down the road. The DoD is fudging on the death tolls and they never mention the lunatics, the drug use or the semi-mutinous grunts, the constant attacks on the Green Zone with mortars and rockets and so on, and on.

Some reports in English have noted that the Israeli Security Cabinet yesterday decided against any more attempted "partial stoppages" of the rocket attacks, in favor of a "complete stoppage", but they don't explain what that means.

Parents hit out at police for 'putting their children's lives in danger' after they blasted 15 schoolgirls with CS gas spray near a busy road.

The association of rabbis for the people and land of Israel headed by extremist rabbi Dov Lior issued on Wednesday a religious ruling legitimizing the shelling of Palestinian civilian gatherings by IOF troops at the pretext of responding to the rocket attacks carried out by the Palestinians.

Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund.

At a time when Israel is looking for any excuse to justify it's operations of genocide in both Gaza and the West Bank, one was literally handed to them on silver platter this evening in Jerusalem.

Hillary's resurrection may have a big downside: it will prolong the illusion that a system creature, in this case Obama, truly represented change. Now we'll have to wait longer while the horde of Ronpaulites and Obamanites digest the lesson, and learn to see that, after all, the problem is the system.

Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven.

It is always good to know as a citizen that your leaders think everything is under control, for this reason I can only begin to imagine the relief people in the United States must feel when President Bush publicly acknowledges; "I believe that our economy has got the fundamentals in place." I must admit however that I struggle to understand where the president is getting his data from and I dread to think what things will look like by the time he admits that "fundamentals" are not really "in place". According to Alan Greenspan "as of right now, U.S. economic growth is at zero", "home prices will continue to weaken" and a boom in oil prices is going to "go on forever". As he puts it, the US is "clearly on the edge."

At least 8 killed at Israeli seminary...

Dallas City Council member accused of frauding caucus results (HRC supporter)...

Washington's covert attempts to overturn an election result lie behind the crisis in Gaza, as leaked papers show

The new "Osama" shows up......

THE LAVON AFFAIR...

Fake Al Qaeda...

US President George W. Bush on Thursday assured Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the United States stands with Israel after the "barbaric and vicious attack" on a school in west Jerusalem.

7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened...

Pasdar discovered evidence of the backdoor when he was part of a rapid deployment team that was brought in to facilitate a large-scale network security hardware migration for the mobile carrier. During the migration, Pasdar was instructed not to migrate the traffic for one particular DS-3, which was referred to as the "Quantico Circuit" by consultants who worked closely with the carrier (the FBI Academy is based in Quantico, Virginia).

A gunman infiltrated a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a library Thursday night in an attack that left at least seven dead and more wounded, officials said.

At least 7 killed at Israeli seminary...

The consequences for the restaurant business, the food industry and American consumers were immediate and enormous. MSG, a common flavor enhancer and preservative used since the 1950s, was tagged as a toxin, removed from commercial baby food and generally driven underground by a new movement toward natural, whole foods.

Homeowners with tarnished credit who have subprime adjustable-rate loans took the hardest hits. Foreclosures and late payments for these borrowers swelled to all-time highs, too, in the fourth quarter.

A small bomb caused minor damage to a landmark military recruiting station in the heart of Times Square before dawn Thursday, and police were searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance video pedaling away.

Homeowners' portion of equity slipped to downwardly revised 49.6 percent in the second quarter of 2007, the central bank reported in its quarterly U.S. Flow of Funds Accounts, and declined further to 47.9 percent in the fourth quarter -- the third straight quarter it was under 50 percent.

That marks the first time homeowners' debt on their houses exceeds their equity since the Fed started tracking the data in 1945.

Here's a preview of tomorrow's Congressional hearing into the executive pay and compensation paid to the CEOs of three companies implicated in the mortgage crisis: Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Financial Corporation, E. Stanley O'Neal of Merrill Lynch, and Charles Prince of Citigroup.

Hedge funds under pressure from a combination of tightening credit lines, illiquid investments and investor redemptions are increasingly moving to stem investor outflows, industry experts told Reuters on Thursday.

Journalist James Risen has been prosecuted because he has revealed the details of a CIA-Mossad joint plot against Iran's nuclear program.

Israel has postponed a planned meeting with Costa Rican officials over the Central American nation's decision to formally recognize a Palestinian state.

In the spring of 1994, the Tucker family received lengthy prison sentences -- 10 years for Steve, 16 years for his older brother Gary, and 10 years for his brother's wife, Joanne -- without possibility of parole, for the curiously worded federal crime of "conspiracy to manufacture marijuana."

Yet federal prosecutors never charged them with buying, selling, growing, transporting, smoking or even possessing marijuana. An 18-month DEA investigation had failed to turn up direct evidence connecting the Tuckers to even a single joint.

Instead, they were locked away for selling the lamps, fertilizer and gardening hardware from the small hydroponic supply shop Gary operated on Buford Highway that enabled their customers to grow pot.

The company said it received margin calls from seven financing groups that totalled $37m and it was not able to meet four of those requests.

George W. Bush has created the path for American fascism, he's all but made the American Presidency and our Democratic system of governance a sham. He's not alone, however. In addition to the neo-conservative movement, we've seen the rise of cowardice in Congress. Democrats and moderate Conservatives have failed to stand up for justice and the Constitution. In the view of Americans who actually give a damn, the two-party system has failed and Democrats and Republicans may as well be working together as they've allowed Bush to get away with murder, so-to-speak.

The Bush administration is prolonging the hunting season against journalists. The latest victim is James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs. About three months ago, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena against him, ordering Risen to give evidence in court. A heavy blackout has been imposed on the affair, with the only hint being that it has to do with sensitive matters of "national security."

City officials say the small explosion happened shortly before four in the morning local time, causing some damage to a small kiosk used by the U.S. military as a recruiting office, but no injuries. Guests at hotels as far as several blocks away said they could feel the building shake.

Caught on Tape - British Soldiers Beating Iraqi Children...

IOF troops murder infant girl, wound her mother in central Gaza...

From the screaming loons at the Palm Beach election center to the bloodbath in Gaza, from the shores of Montezuma to David Motari's puppy tossing, it's been a hard Se7en years. I can honestly say that I saw it coming. I saw Mr. Executioner demagoging out of Texas and I looked at the source of the money behind him and I said to myself, "Bush... head for the mountains." And metaphorically speaking, that is what happened.

South Africa's cabinet has approved a bill that would speed up its land reform programme aimed at transferring 30 percent of farmland to black ownership by 2014, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

One Week at War in Iraq and Afghanistan for $3.5 Billion

Arab countries will walk away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if Israel ever officially acknowledges it has nuclear weapons, the Arab League announced in a statement Wednesday.

The ad was a fear-based attack, building on a theme that has been central to Clinton's campaign. Clinton, the ad's message said, is the Democratic candidate better equipped to deal with the frightening world out there from day one. It may have scared up enough votes to keep Clinton's campaign alive by helping bring her a crucial win in Texas (notwithstanding the awarding of delegates there, still to come).

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged Florida and Michigan party officials to come up with plans to repeat their presidential nominating contests so that their delegates can be counted.

I can see only one possible justification for having a president of the United States: to preside over the dismantling of the federal government. If you think this is a radical idea, think again. This is, in part, what people have long voted for, even if they never actually get it. I can hardly remember a time when a president has been elected who didn't promise to get the government off our backs.

Bush Blames "Too Many Houses" Not War Spending For Destruction Of US Economy...

Karl Rove "has handed me a note," added Fox anchor Steve Doocy (the clip takes place at 2:51). "More US presidents have been born in the month of October than any other month. You were born in--?"

"October," Clinton replied. "Thank you, Karl. I mean the omens are just stacking up. What can I say?"

America weighed in, with President Bush accusing Mr Chávez of "provocative manoeuvres" and declaring US support for Colombia.

Carlos speaks in his native language of Portuguese, with Arabic translation, but his words can be understood by all through his facial expressions and display of his most recent creations.

The nazis had a rough time conducting their holocaust; first they had to round up the Jews, the Gypsies, The Communists, the Trade Unionists, the Gays, and anyone else that 'posed a threat' to their regime.Then they had to transport these millions of people to either forced labour camps or death camps. Afterwards there were mass burials or cremation of the victims...

The evidence is overwhelming, compelling, and alarming that George and his indecent bandits traitorously had intelligence fabricated to fit their goal of invading Iraq. The criminals foisted a Lie of Historic Proportions on the world. It was clear to many of us more aware people that George, Condi, Rummy, the two Dicks: Cheney and Perle, Wolfie, and most effectively and treacherously, Colin Powell, lied their brains out before the invasion. The world was even shown where the WMD'S were on the map. We were told that the “smoking gun” could come at any time in the form of a “mushroom cloud” or a cloud of toxic biological or chemical weapons. Does anyone remember duct tape and plastic sheeting?

Even the experts missed the housing bubble...

The US economy is struggling on several fronts, with housing, manufacturing and retail activity losing steam, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book survey Wednesday.

The report, to be used at the upcoming central bank policy meeting March 18, said growth "has slowed since the beginning of the year."

Ballot boxes are being thrown around the warehouse. A data card fell out of a handicapped voting machine and went sliding across the concrete floor. Vans holding ballots from precincts are lined up outside in a line several blocks long. Ballot boxes are coming in without security stickers. Officials are predicting 12 more hours of counting in Cuyahoga County.

This video is graphic. Sometimes the truth is horrible. The video contains disturbing scenes of American troops sadistically taunting Iraqi children, randomly throwing grenades at sheep herders and the infamous puppy toss with David Motari. Juxtaposed against a hollow and hypocritical Presidential address this is mandatory watching for every American citizen. George Bush is a war criminal and unfortunately so are some of his troops. This is mandatory viewing.

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Mr. Marshall said he did not understand “how Web sites owned by a British national operating via a Spanish travel agency can be affected by U.S. law.” Worse, he said, “these days not even a judge is required for the U.S. government to censor online materials.”

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The State Department said it could not confirm that US and Iranian officials would meet Thursday in Baghdad for a long-delayed new round of talks on security in Iraq.

In Tehran, the student ISNA news agency reported that an Iranian delegation headed by Reza Amiri Moghaddam had arrived in Baghdad Wednesday for the talks, which would be the fourth time the two foes have sat down to discuss Iraq.

U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq.

Crude oil may rise to $120 a barrel within six months due to the dollar weakness and global political tensions, the chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. said.

``I think a trading range between $80 and $120 a barrel this year is about right,'' Peter Barker-Homek, the head of the United Arab Emirates state-controlled company, which is also known as Taqa, said in an interview in Dubai today.

Egypt allegedly allowed Hamas to smuggle weapons and fighters into the Gaza Strip for the battle against Israel, an intelligence report claims.

A group of suspected Hamas fighters were arrested after allegedly returning from training courses in Iran and Syria. About 15 of the suspects were allegedly allowed to cross into Gaza with a cache of weapons and ammunition in ambulances, the Jerusalem military intelligence Web site DEBKAfile said.

Every day, thousands of Americans look to invest their money in stocks, and many of them go through brokers and traders to simplify the process.

Unfortunately, according to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a majority of those purchasers will be victims of Wall Street's criminal tactics and will help line the pockets of corrupt brokers and lawyers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in Washington recently issued an alert about the ''disturbing events'' and the ``increase in the number of employee arrests.''

How interesting that Ahmadinejad, unlike a U.S. president who has to be airlifted unannounced into ultra-secure bases, was able to convoy in from the airport in broad daylight on a road that U.S. dignitaries fear to travel. His love fest with Iraq President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who fought on Iran's side against Iraq and who speaks Farsi, even took place outside of the safety of the Green Zone, adding emphasis to Ahmadinejad's claim that while he is welcome in Iraq, the Americans are not.

But for Bush, his signature issue, the battle against terrorism, is a shambles. The terrorists are very much on the rise in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which Bush neglected for an Iraq sideshow that has cost over a trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives. But the long-run price will be far higher, with the blowback from the massive instability that he has engendered in the region.

A US warship deployed off the coast of Lebanon has passed through the Suez Canal and is heading for the Gulf, an official with the canal authority told AFP.

"The USS Cole has crossed the Suez Canal and is making its way to the Gulf," the official said.

No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956. Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92. The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Venezuelan and Ecuadorean troops deployed on Colombia's frontier last night as South America's military and diplomatic crisis escalated into a dangerous showdown between President Hugo Chávez and Colombia's US-backed government.

''It is our responsibility to uphold the laws, not break the law,'' Winkowski wrote in the Nov. 16 memo obtained by The Miami Herald.

Winkowski's memo cites employee arrests involving domestic violence, DUI and drug possession. But court records show Customs officers and other Department of Homeland Security employees from South Florida to the Mexican border states have been charged with dozens of far more serious offenses.

Among them: A Customs and Border Protection officer at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was charged in February with conspiring to assist a New York drug ring under investigation by tapping into sensitive federal databases.

It's moderately common to find girls wearing anti-male, hate clothing. Slogans on T-Shirts include: “Stupid Factory:Where Boys are Made;” “BOYS ARE STUPID, THROW ROCKS AT THEM!” and (prefixed by the profile view of a handgun) “He had it comin'”

Others include “WHO NEEDS BOYS WHEN YOU HAVE CREDIT CARDS?” and “I LIKE BOYS WHO ARE SENSITIVE AND CRY, WHEN i HIT THEM;” and “MENtal Anxiety MENtal Breakdown MENstrual Cramps MENopause Did you ever notice how all our problems begin with MEN.”

Can you imagine if these comments were addressed at girls?

“It's the view of the administration that as long as there’s trouble in Iraq that you have authorization of this Congress to continue there in perpetuity and define trouble as you desire?” asked Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y.

“We have authorization to defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq,” Satterfield replied. “The situation in Iraq continues to present a threat to the United States.”

Levis is accused of masturbating from the balcony of his hotel room which overlooked the hotel's pool area where young girls were swimming. He faces two felony counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts in the presence of children under the age of 16.

As some of us have long been pointing out, the real winner of the Iraq War was Iran, not the United States. The U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq succeeded in installing a radical, Islamic, Shiite regime in Iraq, one that aligned itself with Iran, a country that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are sanctioning and still might even bomb.

Now, if that’s not a perverse outcome of an invasion of a country that never attacked the United States and which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, I don’t know what is. It means that U.S. troops have killed and died for the sake of an Islamic regime — one that they continue to kill and die for as part of their indefinite occupation of Iraq.

The attempt by western politicians and media to present this week's carnage in the Gaza Strip as a legitimate act of Israeli self-defence - or at best the latest phase of a wearisome conflict between two somehow equivalent sides - has reached Alice-in-Wonderland proportions.

"The voices, flamboiements, the voice of the horn and the mountain steaming" that the Israelites saw, according to the Bible (Book of Exodus), as they camped around Mount Sinai, the researcher noted, own hallucinatory experiences in the Amazon after absorbing ayahuasca, a beverage made from vines that drink the Latin American shamans. «Avec l'ayahuasca, j'ai éprouvé des visions religieuses et spirituelles» souligne le professeur qui a consommé plus d'une centaine de fois la décoction. "With the ayahuasca, I had visions of religious and spiritual," said Professor who consumed more than one hundred times the decoction. La transmission divine à Moïse des tables de la Loi serait donc, estime-t-il, le fruit d'une hallucination collective. The transmission God to Moses tables of the Act would be, he says, the result of a collective hallucination.