AFP | TSA says it will now not demand passengers remove metal piercings and will instead simply subject them to “visual inspection,” just in case al-Qaeda has something to do with their private parts.

Juan Cole | The Sadrists are demanding a timetable for US withdrawal, whereas the Islamic Supreme Council wants US troops to remain.

Miami Herald | ”We need to think about charging some of the high-value detainees because there could be strategic political value to charging some of these detainees before the election,” said Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England.

YouTube | Satire… or is it?

Thomas Marczewski | An unannounced protest brought the realities of the average home-owner to the very heart of the banking industry.

Lee Rogers | We are living in a police state and this incident as well as the TSA’s ridiculous response to the incident shows us that we are living in tyranny.

Steve Watson | Supporters question why only key portion of video was switched to lower resolution.

Reuters | Question is, how long until they will be fitted with Hellfire missiles and programmed to go after blond hair, blue eyed homegrown terrorists?

The Sun | “It’s designed to lessen injuries to both officers and the person being arrested,” says the police, never mind the dozens of deaths attributed to this “non-lethal” weapon.

Jones Report | We Are Change confront former National Security adviser again.

Kurt Nimmo | On Alex’s show today, former New York mayor Ed Koch revealed an astounding lack of knowledge on key issues. In order to get Mr. Koch up to speed, we offer the following reality-based links.

Times Online | Rockets from Sadr City slammed into the governmental Green Zone compound in the city centre, killing one person and wounding several more.

CNN | In Baghdad, the U.S. Embassy warned employees to remain indoors until there’s an end to the rocket and mortar fire.

Kurt Nimmo | In the not too distant future, people may look back fondly on the days when all they had to do was take off their shoes or remove nipple piercings with pliers at the airport.

Peter Symonds | US and Iraqi forces have exploited the ceasefire to round up Madhi Army militiamen and attack their bases. After effectively turning a blind eye for months, Sadr finally protested in recent weeks and demanded the release of Mahdi Army detainees.

CNN | Defense Secretary Guillermo Galvan said 2,026 soldiers, 180 military tactical vehicles, three airplanes and more than a dozen drug detection devices would be employed in the military operation

Local 6 News | Deputy Donna Hudepohl could not handle the rowdy child, so she tasered her.

Paul Joseph Watson | Public figures increasingly speaking out while media ignores professionals and experts.

Associated Press | Imagine the surprise of the Taiwanese when they received intercontinental ballistic missile warhead fuses instead of helicopter batteries.

YouTube | An Alex rant from March 25, 2008.

YouTube | Alex talks about how the New World Order utilizes false flag to terror to implement a global control grid.

Paul Joseph Watson | Actress Cho says Americans will be angry when they realize true agenda behind attacks.

BBC | New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy’s assassination has been brought to light.

Steve Watson | Ice extent is actually approaching second highest level since records began.

Times Online | The Prime Minister signed Britain up to moves to create common EU immigration standards and cooperate on defence and nuclear policy.

International Herald Tribune | Romania, which has been one of the most receptive markets on a skeptical Continent for genetically modified crops, is moving toward a reversal of its stance, in what would be another setback for the biotech industry in Europe.

NY Times | Larry A. Silverstein, who has won nearly $4.6 billion in insurance payments to cover his losses and help him rebuild at the World Trade Center site, is seeking $12.3 billion in damages from airlines and airport security companies for the 9/11 attack.

George Washington’s Blog | Many of us have heard allegations that post-9/11 arrests of suspected Al Qaeda members were based on very thin information. Did you realize that all or virtually all of these arrests occurred due to entrapment? For example…

YouTube | We Are Change UK bullhorn the BBC, reminding them that their propaganda has been exposed and declaring it’s lies will no longer be accepted as casual fact.

JohnMcCain.com | “We cannot build an enduring peace based on freedom by ourselves, and we do not want to. We have to strengthen our global alliances as the core of a new global compact — a League of Democracies…”

AFP | Bush used his authority to exempt Pakistan from a law that restricts funding countries where the legitimate head of state was deposed by a military coup, as in Pakistan.

ABC News Blogs | Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, took a brand new whack at Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, adding to his usual construct that he “decided to run not because I thought it was somehow owed to me” the notion that “certainly I wasn’t presumptuous enough to think it was my turn.”

U.S. News & World Report | Obama cites Hamilton, the Federalist who liked the idea of a central bank and elites running the country.

Reuters | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a socialist and fierce U.S. critic, warned on Tuesday that relations with Washington could worsen if Republican candidate John McCain wins this year’s presidential election.

Times Online | Hillary’s supposed Bosnia adventure sounded like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. The problem was, it probably did come out of a Tom Clancy novel. It was pure fiction.

Fox News | Time to listen to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the lone voice of reason in Congress today who’s got to feel like he’s shouting into a field of cotton with his repeated warnings about the dangers of a collapsing dollar, while the administration goes AWOL on the proble

Kyle Bristow | The ideology of those who promote globalization can be termed globalism, because just like Nazism, communism, socialism, libertinism, and all other utopian “isms” of the 20th century, it is unnatural and is a world-order that conflicts with human nature.

The New York Sun | The lawsuits claim that the city failed to ensure that ground zero was a safe work place. High among the claims is the assertion that the city failed to enforce rules requiring workers to wear respirators while working amid the toxins and rubble.

YouTube | A report from Connecticut’s NBC 30 concerning new evidence in the controversy surrounding the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

Associated Press | Street kids and mental deficients planned “an anti-government war,” according to the government, a devious plot orchestrated by an FBI informant.

Open Source Center | Three bills under consideration in the Federal Asssembly suggest the government is considering extending its control over the Internet, particularly the blogosphere, one of the few alternative sources of information and collaboration open to the opposition in the face of increasing government control of the mainstream media.

Secrecy News | In a memorable TV interview with former Secretary of State James Baker, prankster “Ali G” (Sasha Baron Cohen) wondered about the possibility of confusing “Iran” and “Iraq.”

Associated Press | Consumer and ”Net Neutrality” advocates have been equally vigorous in their attacks on the company, saying that by secretly blocking some connections between file-sharing computers, Comcast made itself a judge and gatekeeper for the Internet.

Norman Solomon | Overall, when it comes to politics and war, the range of perspectives on National Public Radio isn’t any wider than what we encounter on the avowedly commercial networks.

Once Upon a Time | How many times can we read about the capture or death of the second or third most important person in Al Qaeda — twenty? thirty? — before we understand that this is only another lie of the war machine?

Los Angeles Times | On a percentage basis, the California price meltdown is more than three times as severe as the national decline of 8.2% in median prices reported this week by the National Association of Realtors.

The Independent | The allegations were published in Stern magazine, which said it had obtained hundreds of pages of surveillance reports compiled on Lidl staff in Germany and the Czech Republic by private detectives contracted to spy on employees.

Associated Press | Attempts to set up a commission so far have gone nowhere because of a political stalemate and a sense that other levee probes have exhausted the issue and that the corps’ shortcomings have been resolved.

WCBS TV 2 | Protests over using palm scanners to log employee time have been especially loud in New York City, where officials are spending $410 million to install an automated attendance tracking system that may eventually be used by 160,000 city workers.

Times Online | U.S. installed Iraqi government paying the price for attacking the Shias. Corporate media once again insinuates Iran behind the scenes, responsible for taking out the Zubair 1 oil pipeline.