Violent
Latino Terrorist Gang (MS-13) Threatens American Minuteman
Protestors!
It looks like there is going to be a "showdown at
OK corral" on April 1st in Tombstone, Arizona. A
high level leader of the Mara Salvatruchas, Ebner Anivel
Rivera-Paz, has issued orders, from federal prison, to
members of his extremely violent organization to teach
the Minutemen vigilantes a lesson they will never forget,
La Voz de Aztlan has learned. - ALIPAC.US
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Freedom
Ain't Free: It's $2.57 Trillion Per Year
Is it just me, or does it sound like many seem to equate
freedom with government, and especially government in
the act of murdering people?
Freedom isn’t free, say the realists, the non-naïve
grownups who think that the ideas of anarchy or even
libertarianism are fantastic utopian dreams and nothing
more. - Strike-The-Root.com
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Man
Tasered By Police In Salad Bar Dispute
Aurora police have reviewed a weekend incident in which
a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese
salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers and
said that proper procedures were followed. - TheDenverChannel
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Oil
breaks over $53 as gasoline climbs new peak
U.S. crude oil prices rose to a fresh four-month high
over $53 a barrel Wednesday as refinery problems in Texas
propelled gasoline up to an all-time peak. - Reuters
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China
charges U.S. monopolizes the Internet, seeks global control
China's ambassador to the United Nations last week called
for international controls on the Internet. - World Tribune
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CFR
Member - Recruit Foreigners To US Military
With the Army and Marines having trouble maintaining their
ranks, it's time to sign up aliens - even illegal aliens
- as volunteers
Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,
is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where this first
appeared. - Rense.com
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Stealing
Our Privacy And Ruining Lives
What's your name? Address? Phone and other contact numbers?
What's your income? Business interests? Investments? How
about that Social Security number – and while we're
at it, driver's license number? Those bank and security
account numbers would be nice, and computer and other
passwords, too. - WorldNetDaily.com
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World
Market Could Be Hurt as Severe Coal Shortage Worsens in
China
China's breakneck economic growth is causing a dangerous
shortage of its most important energy source coal, with
potential consequences for the entire world, state media
warned. - Yahoo Finance
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Income
Dips, Spending Flat
Consumer spending about in line with analysts' forecasts;
inflation reading worries bond market.
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Qwest-MCI
Merger May Cost 15,000 Jobs
Qwest Communications would cut as many as 15,000 jobs
if it succeeds in acquiring the long-distance phone company
MCI, more than double the reduction planned by Verizon
Communications in its deal to buy MCI. - IHT
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Dress
Rehearsal for a Dollar Deluge
Tuesday's sell-off was a test run of the problems that
will erupt when foreign investors refuse to finance our
debt binge and home owners stop their own binge. - MSN
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Homelessness
Plagues Many U.S. Veterans
Harleigh Marsh was tough enough to scrape ice from the
frozen deck of a Navy aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic.
Smart enough to strip and rebuild a cockpit. And responsible
enough to maintain survival gear for pilots. So when he
found himself homeless six years ago, he figured he could
handle it. -
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Detention
Of American Is Defended
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
yesterday strongly defended the Bush administration's
decision to detain alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla
for more than two years without criminal charges, arguing
that the government has the right to hold alleged enemy
combatants in the war on terrorism "for the duration
of hostilities." -Washington Post
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Governors
at Odds With Bush Over Medicaid
The National Governors Association
winter meeting concluded yesterday with the state leaders,
President Bush and Congress far apart on how to control
the rapid rise in Medicaid spending. Despite four days
of negotiations, the conference ended much as it began
-- with governors of both parties willing to restructure
the health program for 53 million Americans, but strongly
opposed to Bush's proposed budget reductions -Washington
Post
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State
Churches? Supreme Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas
believe...
Supreme Justices Rehnquist, Scalia,
and Thomas believe the U.S. Constitution allows States
to establish official Churches. Is this our future?
-Intervention Magazine
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Bush
has clear run at Syria
As long as the vast majority of Democrats
are afraid to appear "soft" toward the Syrian dictatorship
and as long as so few progressive voices are willing
to challenge the Democrats, Bush appears to have few
obstacles in his way should he once again choose to
lead the country to war -Stephen Zunes/Asia Times
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Backed
into a corner and weaker than ever, but don't underestimate
Bashar Assad
Although it suspects Damascus of double-dealing
over Iraq, the US also knows an overtly hostile Syria
could make matters much worse for its occupation forces.This
US ambivalence is reflected in its decision to omit
Syria from its "outposts of tyranny" and "axis of evil"
lists of rogue regimes.While Mr Assad has never appeared
weaker and may be forced into further concessions, he
is far from out of the game -Simon Tisdall/Guardian
UK
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Cornering
the dragon
When newly appointed Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) director Porter Goss recently warned that
China's modernization of its military posed a direct
threat to the United States, was it standard budget
time scare tactics, or did it signal the growing influence
of hardliners in the administration of President Bush
who want to "contain" China and reinstitute the Cold
War in Asia? -Conn Hallinan/Asia Times
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China
fuels energy cold war
China, which has been a net oil importer
since 1993, is the world's number two oil consumer after
the US and has accounted for 40% of the world's crude
oil demand growth since 2000. Nevertheless, in the face
of sporadic power shortages, growing car ownership and
air travel across China and the importance of energy
to strategically important and growing industries such
as agriculture, construction, and steel and cement manufacturing,
pressure is going to mount on China to access energy
resources on the world stage -Chietigj Bajpaee/Asia
Times
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Leading
Figure of Venezuela’s 2002/2003 Oil Industry Shutdown
Arrested
Venezuela’s investigative police arrested
fugitive labor leader Carlos Ortega in the early hours
of Tuesday morning. A prominent leader of Venezuela’s
opposition to President Hugo Chávez, Ortega has been
wanted by the Venezuelan police since 2003 on charges
of treason and civil rebellion -Venezuelanalysis.com
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U.S.
Military Presence near Venezuela Raises Concerns
Venezuela’s Armed Forces are closely
watching the unannounced presence of U.S. military vessels
near the Caribbean island of Curacao, which was detected
early Monday.The United States is also conducting military
exercises in the Caribbean island of Trujillo, along
with Belize, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras, according
to the Prensa Latina news agency -Venezuelanalysis.com
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Uruguay
Inaugurates First Leftist Leader
A doctor took office as Uruguay's first
socialist president Tuesday, joining the ranks of left-leaning
leaders in Latin America - now six in all - governing
a majority of the region's people with a cautious approach
to U.S.-backed free-market policies.Vazquez, elected
Oct. 31 to replace Jorge Batlle, is part of a reinvorgorated
- but far less ideological - leftist movement in Latin
America whose leaders have come to power amid economic
turmoil.He took the oath of office for his five-year
term with many of South America's new generation of
leftists leaders looking on
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Suit
Alleges Rumsfeld Approved Torture
Two U.S. human rights groups on Tuesday
sued Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying he first
authorized and then failed to stop torture of prisoners
in Iraq and Afghanistan.The American Civil Liberties
Union and Human Rights First filed suit in federal district
court in Rumsfeld's home state of Illinois on behalf
of eight former detainees who said they were severely
tortured.The ACLU filed similar complaints against three
other senior officers: Col. Thomas Pappas, Gen. Janis
Karpinski and Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez on behalf of
prisoners mistreated at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison
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The
Spread of Anti-Americanism
A 2005 review of Pew Global Attitudes
Project findings: Anti-Americanism is deeper and broader
now than at any time in modern hi. (.pdf file)
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Saddam
Hussein's Judge Assassinated
The presiding judge in Iraq overseeing
the trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein has been
assassinated. According to NBC News, Judge Raid Juhi
al-Saadi, 35, was gunned down as he left his home in
Baghdad.
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Rice
Pressures Syria Over Lebanon Presence
The United States called for an immediate
end to Syrian military and political dominion over neighboring
Lebanon on Tuesday, applying its strongest pressure
to date.
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