Obama administration wants Cuba to play ball with the IMF and World Bank before lifting embargo In his first official visit to Latin America, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday the White House wants the region to play a more active role in organizations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and ruled out lifting the embargo on Cuba Barack Obama's team prepare etiquette and gifts for President's meeting with Queen Top advisers to Barack Obama are rehearsing the etiquette and debating what gifts the President will give to Queen Elizabeth when he meets the British monarch in London Luke Rudkowski Arrested for Attempting to Question Mayor Bloomberg WeAreChange founder and activist Luke Rudkowski was arrested at the Hilton Hotel on Manhattan today for attempting to question New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about his refusal to pay for the health care of 9/11 first responders 03-29-2009: Environmentalists Claim Earth Hour A Huge Success "The world said yes to climate action, now governments must follow," the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said Sunday, a day after hundreds of millions of people worldwide followed its call to turn off lights for a full hour. 03-29-2009: Obama’s Involvement In Chicago Climate Exchange The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong. Jim Tucker: Bilderberg To Meet In Greece Israeli Scientists Develop Smart Dew To Track People Greek Jews 'shocked' after Holocaust denier is acquitted by Athens Appeals court The Greek Jewish community said Friday it was “shocked” after neo-Nazi militant Kostas Plevris, who wrote a book denying the Holocaust and containing offensive references to Jews, was acquitted by an Appeals court in Athens Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story Typical ignorant Zionist tries to debate Ryan Dawson France calls Gaza 'open-air prison' France has warned that the Gaza Strip cannot remain an 'open-air prison' forever, urging Israel to lift the blockade on the territory Jewish writer raises a storm in America with his report from a 'tolerant' Iran The newspaper, and Cohen in particular, has been accused of being too critical of Israel and an apologist for Iran and its leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Cohen's column was written from Iran about the country's small Jewish minority. His piece acknowledged the difficulties the group experienced and portrayed them as part of an Iranian society that he said was more tolerant, democratic and sophisticated than many American critics allowed Brazil builds walls around Rio de Janeiro slums Officials say the wall is to protect the remaining native forest but critics fear the move could be seen as discriminatory and become a blemish symbolizing Brazil's deep divisions between rich and poor Israel planned to kill Erdogan: Report Turkish media sources detail information implicating the Israeli Mossad in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. An e-mail found on a personal computer belonging to one of the members of the underground Ergenekon organization exposed Mossad's role in the failed assassination efforts against Erdogan, Turkish media outlets reported on Friday

03-22-2009: Larry Silverstein Wants A Bailout The private developer redeveloping the World Trade Center site in New York City has asked the government for financial assistance, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

U.S. Could Use Crisis to Wage 'Financial Warfare' There's growing concern in defense and intelligence circles that the global recession has the potential to threaten America's national interests. But a small group of academics and Pentagon policy-makers believe that the U.S. could benefit from the financial havoc http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/finance-threat.html Wiki Leaks Web Site Banned By Australian Government www.techradar.com/news/internet/australia-issues-wikileaks-linking-fine-warning-585894 Senator Grassley: Throw AIG to the Wolves (and Ignore Us) The fellows at AIG are indeed amoral pigs, and they make no pretentions to be otherwise, whereas Chuck Grassley and his ilk are venal hypocrites who are attempting to deflect attention from their own significant role in the current financial crisis, and a disastrous foreign policy conducted under false pretenses for the enrichment of private interests and corporations. Those who take his pious pronouncements seriously are born to be shorn, over and over, again and again South Central Farm Destruction

Afghanistan Holds Mineral Treasure: Ministerwww.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE52F2AV20090316 Israeli Military Chief: Attack on Iran a 'Serious' Optionhttp://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3687471,00.html Iraqi Forces Surround MEK Base in Diyalawww.metimes.com/Security/2009/03/16/iraqi_forces_surround_pmoi_in_diyala/4342/ Justice Experts Call for Gaza War Crimes Inquirywww.thenational.ae/article/20090317/FOREIGN/934996305/1002 Demonstrators Protest in Front of Miami's Israeli Consulatewww.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/952770.html Poll Shows Most Israelis, Palestinians Support Continued Killings of One Anotherwww.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=167471

DEVELOPMENT: Preparing for Water Quarrels, if not Wars The Fifth World Water Forum begins in Istanbul Mar. 16 in the face of some stark facts: of the world's water, 97.5 percent is the sea, and of the remaining, 70 percent is frozen in polar icecaps. That leaves precious little for 6.76 billion people around the world, expected to grow to 9 billion by 2050 Russia proposes creation of global super-reserve currency http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13682035&PageNum=0 “It looks expedient to reconsider the role of the IMF in that process and also to determine the possibility and need for taking measures that would allow for the SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) to become a super-reserve currency recognized by the world community,” the document says. 03-16-2009: New Bill Will Extend Sunset Clauses Of The Patriot Act The criminal terrorists in the federal government are seeking now to extend sunset clauses found in the USA Patriot Act and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004. This will effectively extend certain provisions of this bill that were set to expire from 2009 to 2019 GMO and Morgellon’s Disease With the help of a couple of search engines, the following article by Whitley Strieber published on October 12, 2007, titled “Skin Disease May Be Linked to GM Food” was found, which concludes that the fibers taken from a Morgellons sufferer contain the same substance that is “used commercially to produce genetically-modified plants.” Netanyahu: Israel facing dire financial crisis Netanyahu told the directors that he wanted to "join hands" with them in order to formulate a socioeconomic policy that could help the weaker populations, who suffer most from the economic meltdown. U! S! A! We're Number .... 15? A new report shows that in terms of aggregate health, education, purchasing power, security and general well-being, the U.S. has been in decline The Obama Deception HQ Full length version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw Shocking Video Shows Los Angeles City Bulldozing Community Gardens Into the Dirt It's called The Destruction of South Central Farmers and it demonstrates why short-term, profit-based thinking will ultimately destroy sustainable human life on our planet. Keep in mind what you are watching it the city of Los Angeles destroying a community garden plot. It's like an apocalyptic future scene right out of Terminator, enforced at gunpoint by clueless city cops who are arresting the very citizens they should be protecting Off With Their Heads!!” Tax Revolt in California Sparks Revolution

The Case Against Israel's "Right To Exist"http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/03/case-against-israels-right-to-exist.html The Case Against Israel's "Right To Exist" So let us examine this curious notion that Israel has some sort of inherent "right to exist," a claim that no other nation-state has ever felt it necessary to make. We would all agree that human beings have a right to exist, although there are many who would make an exception for those who commit murder. Some even go further and say that all sentient beings have a right to exist, but only in this one peculiar case is there this insistence that a particular nation-state has such an inalienable right. Why is that? Is it, perhaps, because in this particular case the contention is on particularly shaky ground? Sorry, but methinks the lady protesteth too much. Afghan police say victims of U.S. raid not militantshttp://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/FullArticle/p.rdt/CTOP/ntopNews_uUSTRE52D0KA20090314 Afghan police disputed whether five men killed in a raid by U.S. and Afghan troops on Saturday were militants Rosen, along with his slick defense lawyer Abbe Lowell and pro-AIPAC Judge T.S. Ellis III, constitute a formidable force against Washingtons efforts to curb AIPACs power, and in favor of Israels determination to subvert U.S. policyhttp://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/60552

Africom’s Covert War in Sudan http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/africoms-covert-war-in-sudan/ Roger Winter is intimate with USAID, and is a long-time ally of Susan Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State on African Affairs (1997-2001), Special Assistant to President Clinton (1995-1997), and National Security Council insider (1993-1997). Susan Rice is the Obama Administration’s Ambassador to the United Nations and staunch enemy of Omar al-Bashir. Roger Winter is also a staunch supporter of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne, one of the leading U.S. Democrats pressing for action to “stop genocide” in Darfur, Sudan. Payne sponsored the Darfur Genocide Accountability Act and was arrested in June 2001, along with John Eibner, director of Christian Solidarity International, for protesting against the GoS. Much of the AID infrastructure in Sudan has at one time or another been used as a weapon through the use of human shields, food deliveries to refugee populations inseparable from insurgents, and shipments of weapons by ‘humanitarian’ NGOs. This is both incidental and deliberate policy. Christian ‘relief’ NGOs played a huge role in supporting the covert western insurgency in South Sudan. One notable ‘humanitarian’ NGO involved in weapons deliveries was the Norwegian People’s Aid (known affectionately in the field as the Norwegian People’s Army). Interestingly, “The Man For A New Sudan” story, an establishment whitewash of the involvement of the U.S. military-intelligence establishment in Sudan, was written by Eliza Griswold, a ‘Fellow’ with the New America Foundation, a left-leaning think tank and pressure group with a very confused ideological but nationalist-militaristic position. (The NAF is obviously dependent on U.S. foundation funding, and it reveals no apparent policy formulations of substance on the Great Lakes or Horn of Africa, conflicts for which they remain completely silent).

DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE TO BE BOYCOTTED BY THE WORLD’S MOST RACIST NATIONS. http://lataan.blogspot.com/2009/03/durban-review-conference-to-be.html United States Congress (Washington, DC) Uganda: Record Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold on Lord's Resistance Army MR. FEINGOLD: Mr. President, I rise today to express my grave concern at the continuing massacres, kidnappings and terror orchestrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army, the LRA, in northeastern Congo and southern Sudan Just over two months ago, the Ugandan, Congolese and South Sudanese militaries launched a joint offensive against the LRA’s primary bases in northeastern Congo. Serious concerns have been raised about the planning and implementation of this operation. Since the military strike began, the LRA has been able to carry out a series of new massacres in Congo and Sudan, leaving over 900 people dead. That is a killing rate that, according to the Genocide Intervention Network, exceeds that in Darfur or even in Somalia. Hundreds of new children have been abducted and new communities have been devastated and displaced. It’s tragically clear that insufficient attention and resources were devoted to ensuring the protection of civilians during the operation. Meanwhile, the LRA’s leader Joseph Kony and his commanders escaped the initial aerial assault and have continued to evade the militaries. Thus far, this operation has resulted in the worst-case scenario: it has failed to stop the LRA, while spurring the rebels to intensify their attacks against civilians.(senator amdits that southern sudan is the problem) The Weekly Observer (Kampala) Sudan: Bashir Indictment is Colonial Conspiracy The main instrument for neo-control in the ICC is selective justice. It decides whom to indict and whom not to indict. Those who fail to succumb to Western neo-colonial control will be targeted for indictment. Those who play the role of "good boys" will be spared. They have the capacity to fan violence in any country and cause bloodshed. Once they get one group to take up arms and fight the government in power, the Western-based humanitarian organisations come in with relief for the war victims. Being at the grassroots in the war zone, the politically oriented humanitarian organisations will accuse which ever side they don't like of involvement in violence and crimes against humanity. At the end of the day, if you don't succumb to Western neo-colonial control, they will get a way of hooking you and stage-managing you as a war criminal. They will then get the ICC to issue a warrant of arrest.http://allafrica.com/stories/200903120727.html Shabait.com (Asmara) Eritrea: High-Level Delegation Delivers President's Message to Sudanese Leader The message that mainly focuses on the accusation by the so-called International Criminal Court against President Omar Hassan Al-Beshir of Sudan reasserted the firm and lasting support of the people and Government of Eritrea. It also contains an invitation for the Sudanese leader to pay an official visit to Eritrea.http://allafrica.com/stories/200903110213.html

Seymour Hersh: 'Executive Assassination Ring' Reported Directly to Cheney Office http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/131144/seymour_hersh%3A_%27executive_assassination_ring%27_reported_directly_to_cheney_office/ "Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths. "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause. The document, written by an environmental engineering flight commander in December of 2006 and posted on Wikileaks (PDF) on Tuesday, details the risks posed to US troops in Iraq by burning garbage at a US airbase. It enumerates myriad risks posed by the practice and identifies various carcinogens released by incinerating waste in open-air pits. Because of the difficulties in testing samples, investigators could not prove that chemicals exceeded military exposure guidelines. But a military document released last December found that chemicals routinely exceeded safe levels by twice to six times.The leaked report was signed off by the chief for the Air Force's aeromedical services. Its subject is Balad Airbase, a large US military base about 70 kilometers north of Baghdad."In my professional opinion, the known carcinogens and respiratory sensitizers released into the atmosphere by the burn pit present both an acute and a chronic health hazard to our troops and the local population," Aeromedical chief Lt. Colonel James Elliott wrote Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera' in the homes of millions, warns founder of the web The British inventor of the internet has launched a damning attack on plans by BT and other communications firms to spy on the web surfing habits of up to 11million households. 03-11-2009: Nobel Prize Winner Backs Calls For Global Currency KAZAKH President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won backing for his plan for a single world currency from an intellectual architect of the euro currency, Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell. U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday. The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. He spoke on condition of anonymity http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070318.html The Martyrdom Of Mordechai Vanunu Within days of the announcement of a record 205 nominations for 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize, [one of several prizes endowed by Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel] perpetual nominee Mordechai Vanunu declined the honor in a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo: I am asking the committee to remove my name from the nominations…I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres…Peres established and developed the atomic weapon program in Dimona in Israel…Peres was the man who ordered [my] kidnapping…he continues to oppose my freedom and release…WHAT I WANT IS FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM….FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies involving major drugs. Yikes. Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., has asked several anesthesiology journals to retract the studies, which appeared between 1996 and 2008, the WSJ reports. The hospital says its former chief of acute pain, Scott S. Reuben, faked data used in the studies. FLASHBACK - Left Wing Canadian Paper Says Cheney Directed B52 to Bomb Iran Israeli court orders Palestinian to demolish his own home or face penalty Tamimi said in a statement, "How can I destroy the house in which I lived for 17 years with my own hands! Where will I go with my family? I have paid all fines with the hope of obtaining a construction permit but to no avail". He said that the land is owned by his family and that he had the required documents to prove it. The Israeli occupation authority bans construction or even maintenance of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem's Old City in a bid to empty the holy city from its indigenous population and replace them with Jewish immigrants. Life insurer laundered drug money Iraq sentences two of Saddam's half-brothers to death The Groundwork Has Already Been Laid for Martial Law The Drug War: An Old Mission for the Pentagon Freeman Blames Israel Lobby for His Exit In Congress, UN Chief Calls US 'Deadbeat' Donor Govt to Stop Protest March With 'Full Force' Some Local Officials Defy Nation Govt Call to Institute Emergency Rule Religious Party Chief Warns Crackdown Could Harm Pakistani Govt British Police Help With Bangladesh Mutiny Probe

Chas Freeman speaks: By vetoing U.S. appointments, the Israel lobby is enforcing adherence to a foreign governmentwww.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/freeman-the-powerful-israel-lobby-is-determined-to-prevent-any-view-other-than-its-own-from-being-ai.html Another Jew Against Zionism "We Jews, we the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. NOTHING that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy, because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build." --"You Gentiles"p.155 Maurice Samuel Israel to use 'anti-Semitic' card against Chavez? How much of AIGs bailout/handout is financing Israeli mortgages in Jerusalem & the West Bank?http://jezekiah.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/how-much-of-aigs-bailouthandout-is-financing-israeli-mortgages-in-jerusalem-the-west-bank/ Creepy commercial for Israel's missile sales to Indiawww.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQOLO4U5iQ

Pathologising dissent? Now that’s Orwellian http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6320/ Crisis? What Crisis? All is Proceeding According to Globalist PlanMarch 9th, 2009 - by Terry Melanson Parts 1 and 2. The Doomsday Bias The Power Elite and the Nazi Plan, Part 2 Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.March 9, 2009 People across the U.S. question whether there really is a Power Elite (PE) facilitating global events. My response is, “If a former Chief of Special Operations (clandestine activities) for the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (USJCS) says there’s a secret team that controls the U.S. and the World, why is it so hard to believe in a PE acting similarly?” Former Special Ops Chief for the USJCS, L. Fletcher Prouty authored The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World (1973), in which he revealed there’s a “Secret Team consisting of security-cleared individuals in and out of government who receive secret intelligence data gathered by the CIA and the National Security Agency…. The Secret Team has very close affiliations with elements of power in more than threescore foreign countries and is able when it chooses to topple governments, to create governments, and to influence governments almost anywhere in the free world.”

YouTube - Talk - Robert Fisk - The Age of the Warrior http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfQYhU1IfbQ

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3581-0-22-22--.html"Western military forces turning inward in anticipation of domestic unrest As the growing world-wide economic crisis deepens, military forces from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom are preparing to meet angry citizens on the street. The economic crisis - and the public outrage it is causing - is at the forefront of intelligence agencies and military forces in the western world. http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3580-0-21-21--.html"Chuck Norris claims thousands of right wing cell groups exist and will rebel against U.S. government The call by some right wing leaders for rebellion and for the http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Interests-Examiner~y2009m2d25-Is-the-Republican-Party-fomenting-rebellion-among-the-armed-forces-as-a-political-tactic"military to refuse the commander in chief’s orders is joined by Chuck Norris who claims that thousands of right wing cell groups have organized and are ready for a second American Revolution. During an appearance on the Glen Beck radio show he promised that if things get any worse from his point of view he may “run for president of Texas.” http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3577-0-14-14--.html"St. John's Children's Hospital Deploys RFID to Protect Children St. John's Children's Hospital, located in Springfield, Ill., is employing an RFID-enabled security system to protect newborns and children up to 18 years of age in its care. The system, provided by RF Technologies, covers three of the facility's six floors, as well as an outdoor play area in the center of the hospital's fifth floor, which has a two-story-high atrium open to the sky. St. John's has 80 beds, and averages approximately 1,600 admissions each year titlelink" href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-3575-0-12-12--.html"Monks taken for 're-education' before Tibet uprising anniversary Police will take away more than 100 monks for political re-education today on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising that led to the flight of the Dalai Lama titlelink" target="_blank" href="http://www.army.mil/usapa/epubs/pdf/r210_35.pdf"Army Regs - Civilian Inmate Labor Program - pdf This regulation provides guidance for establishing and managing civilian inmate labor programs on Army installations. It provides guidance on establishing prison camps on Army installations . It addresses record keeping and reporting incidents related to the Civilian Inmate Labor Program and/or prison camp administration. titlelink" target="_blank" href="http://cryptogon.com/?p=7362"Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 GEORGE GALLOWAY: THE NOBLE MAN" target="_blank" href="http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/george-galloway-the-noble-man/" rel="nofollow"GEORGE GALLOWAY: THE NOBLE MAN Breaking the Taboo on Israel's Spying Efforts on the United States" target="_blank" href="http://www.alternet.org/audits/130891/breaking_the_taboo_on_israel%27s_spying_efforts_on_the_united_states/" rel="nofollow"Breaking the Taboo on Israel's Spying Efforts on the United States Bolivia gives US diplomat 72 hours to leave" target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090310/pl_afp/boliviausdiplomacy_20090310014947" rel="nofollow"Bolivia gives US diplomat 72 hours to leave Palestine - 60 years of Bloody Oppression" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAxgokbOrE" rel="nofollow"Palestine - 60 years of Bloody Oppression Israeli police say they have busted an international human trafficking ring that smuggled hundreds of eastern European women into Israel and forced them into prostitution http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0%2C%2C2-10-1462_2482426%2C00.html"http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0%2C%2C2-10-1462_2482426%2C00.html Mossad linked to 9/11 attacks: Report " target="_blank" href="http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=87982&sectionid=3510203" rel="nofollow"Mossad linked to 9/11 attacks: Report New found information has implicated the Israeli Intelligence agency Mossad in the staging of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/63581.html" rel="nofollow"Russian Advice on Afghanistan: More Troops Won't Help http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C03%5C10%5Cstory_10-3-2009_pg7_30" rel="nofollow"Former Pakistani General: Nukes Prevented India From Attacking After Mumbai http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5875297.ece" rel="nofollow"Lahore Attack 'Mastermind' Escapes Police Raid in Punjab http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C03%5C10%5Cstory_10-3-2009_pg7_21" rel="nofollow"Taliban Kill Three US 'Spies' in South Waziristan http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hz0C0SXcxgP0NxzlqGA_EI57FBkQD96QIVJ04" rel="nofollow"Court Rejects Mumbai Gunman's Translation Request http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7933155.stm" rel="nofollow"Israeli West Bank Mines 'Illegal' http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/03/09/israel-imposes-west-bank-closure-during-festival/Israel Imposes West Bank Closure During Festival http://allafrica.com/stories/200903091459.html" rel="nofollow">Somali Rebels Vow More Attacks on AU Troops http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/03/09/bolivia-expels-us-diplomat-alleging-conspiracy-2/Bolivia Expels US Diplomat, Alleging Conspiracy http://www.metimes.com/Security/2009/03/09/general_drug_cartels_linked_to_terrorism/0009/" rel="nofollow"US General: Mexican Drug Cartels Linked to Terrorism Obama to Escalate Drone Attacks In Pakistan March 9, 2009 Just days after President Obama spoke of reaching out to moderate Taliban, reports are emerging that his administration is planning to dramatically escalate their attacks against Taliban targets in Pakistan. One diplomat was quoted by the Telegraph as saying “there will be talks but the Taliban are going to experience a lot of pain first, on both sides of the border.” http://news.antiwar.com/2009/03/09/obama-to-escalate-drone-attacks-in-pakistan/"http://news.antiwar.com/2009/03/09/obama-to-escalate-drone-attacks-in-pakistan/ ran Opens Bushehr to Tourists March 9, 2009 Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility will be open to tourists in order to show the plant is used for civilian purposes. The secretary of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization said Bushehr w6ill be open during celebrations for the Iranian New Year, Nowrouz. http://www.metimes.com/Security/2009/03/09/iran_opens_bushehr_to_tourists/cceb/"http://www.metimes.com/Security/2009/03/09/iran_opens_bushehr_to_tourists/cceb/ http://www.blogger.com/pakistan/pakistannews/9613-pakistan-was-safer-under-musharraf-former-cia-official-.html"Pakistan was safer under Musharraf: Former CIA official http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=30878"Somalia's cabinet approves sharia law plans Information Minister says Islamic Sharia is only option to get solutions for problems in this Somalia. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=30868"War Crimes and Double standards No one in a position of power in American journalism is demanding that former President Bush join President Bashir in the dock at The Hague. US journalists can be very tough on President Bashir but only make excuses for President Bush, notes Robert Parry.

Study: Israel Plans to Double West Bank Settlers UK Science Museum Accused Over Links to Israel OLC Authorized Pentagon to Ignore Bill of Rights On U.S. Soil In an October 2001 memo released today, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not only deploy the military within the United States, but it may ignore the Bill of Rights in the process of doing so. FEMA's Citizen Corps Partners With United States Power Squadron The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a newly-formed affiliation with the United States Power Squadrons (U.S. Power Squadrons) to support Citizen Corps, FEMA's grassroots effort to strengthen community preparedness through civic participation SOCOM: the covert army of the US SOCOM oversees the various special operations commands of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marines. It conducts both covert and overt missions, including unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance and psychological, direct action, counterterrorism and anti-narcotics operations. Dogs of War: Blue helmets and bottom lines Is the world ready to let private military and security contractors participate in U.N. peace operations? When I ask this, I'm not talking about Hollywood celebrities calling for the firm formerly known as Blackwater to work in Darfur. Asean leaders call for EU-style union Leaders sign agreement for an Asean community within next six years, with EU-style agreement planned by 2015 03-02-2009: Vermont Issues Licenses With RFID Tags Vermont has become the third state to begin issuing enhanced driver’s licenses with radio frequency tags that also serve as official identification cards at U.S. border crossing points. It did so under a program authorized by the Homeland Security Department 03-02-2009: OLC Authorized Pentagon to Ignore Bill of Rights On U.S. Soil In an October 2001 memo released today, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top lawyer that the president may not only deploy the military within the United States, but it may ignore the Bill of Rights in the process of doing so. Israel to present Clinton with 'red lines' on talks with Iran Israel plans to present U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a series of "red lines" it wants Washington to incorporate into its planned dialogue with Tehran about Iran's nuclear program. "I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon, as quoted by Kol Yisrael radio $700 million eyed for toll projects This means taxpayer-paid for roads will be taxed again. And this isn't happening only in Texas; it's happening nationally ZIONISM: A BLIGHT ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE Throughout the world this week, on campuses in every major city, Israeli Apartheid is being exposed via exhibits and mass gatherings. Apartheid is not the only blight facing the Jewish people…. zionism itself is a blight…. an ongoing one. This week also commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the slaughter of 30 Palestinians in the city of Hebron. Only one-third of US pledge at Gaza conference to go to Gaza, none of it for rebuilding