A man opens fire on police officers in Pittsburgh, killing three of them.Friends say the man feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns....
PS:Here is another tragedy related to guns...Now--all those that are for gun control--and really dont think much about the 2nd amendment--are going to push harder for GUN CONTROL in all 50 states...I dont know if I believe the comment by his "friends"...I dont believe the media much these days...Just watch and see what Eric Holder will say next week....
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SIGN of the TIMES:Kids Told to Shout Obscenities in "Swearing Lesson"

By John Coles
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GAY AGENDA WATCH:Gay Marriages Set to Begin in Iowa April 24

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North Dakota Lawmakers Reject 'Personhood' Rights for Fertilized Eggs

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High Winds May Be Cause of North Korea's Rocket Launch Delay

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GAY WATCH:Gays killed in Baghdad as clerics urge clampdown...

(Additional reporting by Ahmed Rasheed, Writing by Mohammed Abbas: editing by Tim Pearce) By Wisam Mohammed and Khalid al-Ansary
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Afghan President Backtracks on Law Legalizing Rape in Marriage

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Afghan Law That Legalizes Rape Poses Problem for Obama and Clinton

The Associated Press and State Department producer Nina Donaghy contributed to this report.
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
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NATO Protesters Set Fire to Buildings, Clash With Police

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512536,00.html
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NO WE CAN'T:Obama fails to win Nato troops for Afghanistan

PICTURE:Leaders of Nato countries take their seats for a working dinner at Baden-Baden
By Michael Evans and David Charter in Strasbourg
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6032342.ece
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Obama to Lift Family Travel Ban to Cuba

Jose de Cordoba and John Lyons contributed to this article.
By Laura Meckler
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879435046687885.html
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ISLAMIC CRAZE WATCH:Woman Publicly Flogged in Pakistan
Pakistani authorities have ordered an investigation into a video showing the public flogging of a woman.WARNING: some viewers may find this video disturbing....!!!!
Gay Marriage Legalized in Iowa
Gay rights activists are celebrating after Iowa's Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage...
GAY AGENDA WATCH:Unanimous ruling: Iowa marriage no longer limited to one man, one woman

Third state to allow same-sex marriages
Today’s decision makes Iowa the first Midwestern state, and the third in the country, to allow same-sex marriages. Lambda Legal, a gay rights group, financed the court battle and represented six couples who challenged Iowa’s 10-year-old ban on gay marriage.Supreme Court Justice Mark Cady, who wrote the unanimous decision, at one point invoked the court’s first-ever decision, in 1839, which struck down slavery laws 17 years before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of a slave owner to treat a person as property.Iowa’s gay marriage ban “is unconstitutional, because the county has been unable to identify a constitutionally adequate justification for excluding plaintiffs from the institution of civil marriage,” Cady wrote in the 69-page opinion that seemed to dismiss the concept of civil unions as an option for gay couples.“A new distinction based on sexual orientation would be equally suspect and difficult to square with the fundamental principles of equal protection embodied in our constitution,” Cady wrote.The ruling also addressed what it called the “religious undercurrent propelling the same-sex marriage debate,” and said judges must remain outside the fray. Some Iowa religions are strongly opposed to same-sex marriages, the justices noted, while some support the notion.“Our constitution does not permit any branch of government to resolve these types of religious debates and entrusts to courts the task of ensuring that government avoids them,” the opinion says.The ruling explicitly does not affect “the freedom of a religious organization to define marriage it solemnizes as unions between a man and a woman,” the justices stressed. The case, Varnum vs. Brien, involved couples who sued Polk County Recorder Timothy Brien in 2005 after his office denied them marriage licenses. Hanson sided with the couples last year but then suspended his decision pending a high court ruling.
• Read the summary: Iowa Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage.
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Japan Robots on Moon by 2020

By JAY ALABASTER
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Chavez:"Capitalism needs to go down"

TEHRAN, Iran-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday ridiculed the G-20 summit's attempts to deal with the global financial meltdown, saying that capitalism is in crisis and must end.Chavez criticized the G-20 nations' pledges of more than a trillion dollars for lending to struggling countries at Thursday's summit in London, calling it "the same medicine that's killing the patient—a trillion dollars...more money for a bottomless pit."Speaking during a visit to Iran, the Venezuelan leader said the plans by the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries would strengthen "one of the great guilty ones behind the crisis: the International Monetary Fund."The IMF and the World Bank are "tools of imperialism" and must be eliminated, Chavez said.In earlier remarks, he also blamed the United States and Britain, calling them "the most guilty" for the financial crisis sweeping the globe because of the financial model "they've been imposing for years.""It's impossible that capitalism can regulate the monster that is the world financial system, it's impossible," Chavez told Venezuela's state TV late Thursday."Capitalism needs to go down. It has to end. And we must take a transitional road to a new model that we call socialism."Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, shared that critique, saying "some decisions by the world leaders cannot restore dead imperialism."The two leaders, appearing Friday at the inauguration of joint commercial bank, referred to their nations as the "G-2." In recent years, Chavez and Ahmadinejad—both well-known for their anti-U.S. rhetoric-have boosted economic and political ties.The G-20 leaders on Thursday promised $1.1 trillion for lending to struggling countries. They also vowed major efforts to clean up banks' tattered balance sheets, get credit flowing again, shut down global tax havens and tighten regulation over hedge funds and other financial high-flyers in the U.S. and elsewhere.Chavez said the summit's efforts were not what the world needs "in the face of the great crisis of global capitalism." Chavez's own economic program to institute socialism in Venezuela could slow as his country's oil-dependent economy suffers from falling crude prices. Inflation there has soared above 30 percent, eroding Venezuelans' salaries.In his decade in power, Chavez has boosted state control over the economy and spent heavily on social programs meant to increase his popularity.
By NASSER KARIMI--Associated Press Writer
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Bruni backs off from Obama kiss

By JENNIFER BRAIN and LEON WATSON
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President holds town hall in France; Questions from Americans, not French!

By Joseph Curl--POLITICAL THEATER
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BIG BROTHER WATCH:English villagers send Google snapper packing

PICTURE:An undated file photo made available by Google Friday April 3, 2009 of one of their street mapping cars. You're never far from a camera in Britain, a country that has accepted the presence of millions of surveillance cameras in its streets, shopping centers and public spaces. But for the villagers of Broughton in southern England, the roving eye of Google was a camera too far. A gaggle of residents of the affluent hamlet formed a human chain to turn away a car shooting images for Google Street View, the popular service that allows Internet users to see high-quality photos of houses and streets around the world (AP Photo/Google)
By JILL LAWLESS--Associated Press Writer
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Fed "extremely uncomfortable" about bailouts

"These are extraordinary challenging times for our financial system and our economy,"Bernanke said. "I am confident that we can meet these challenges, not least because I have great confidence in the underlying strengths of the American economy."To brace the economy, the Fed has slashed a key interest rate to an all-time low of near zero. The central bank has turned to unconventional tools—such as its recent decision to start buying government debt—to pull down interest rates on a range of consumer loans.The goal: entice Americans to go out and spend again, which would help lift the economy out of recession.
By IEVA M. AUGSTUMS and JEANNINE AVERSA--AP Business Writers
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Obama to Bank CEOs:"My Administration is the Only Thing between You and the Pitchforks"...

PICTURE:Freddie Mac CEO John Koskinen, Northern Trust CEO Rick Waddell and Banker's Association CEO Ed Yingling leave the White House March 27.
Photo: AP
Photo: AP
By EAMON JAVERS
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Wall Street protesters ask US to "bail out the people"


NEW YORK-Hundreds of people are marching on Wall Street in New York City to protest the billions of dollars in bailout money to big business.Four people were arrested Friday on disorderly conduct charges after they tried to walk in the middle of Broadway in downtown Manhattan. Marchers plan to walk past AIG headquarters and several banks on their way to the iconic bull statue on Wall Street.The protesters plans to repeat the march on Saturday.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97B5NF81&show_article=1
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97B5NF81&show_article=1
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IAEA split over new chief,Iran,Syria

By GEORGE JAHN--Associated Press Writer
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New Video May Help FBI Solve Somali-American Terror Case

VIDEO: Click here to watch Catherine Herridge's report.The 30-minute video posted this week is a highly polished production, featuring anti-American hip-hop and sporadic images of Usama bin Laden. In much of the video, a man dubbed "The American" purportedly leads a group of al-Shabaab militants in an ambush of Ethiopian forces, which oppose an Islamic state and have backed the new Somali government."The only reason we are staying here, away from our families, away from the cities, away from candy bars [and] all these other things is because we are waiting to meet with the enemy," he tells them in the video, first provided to FOX News by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). "They're supposed to be coming anytime. We're going to set up the ambush, and by the will of [God] we're going to kill all of them."FBI spokesman Rich Kolko said the FBI is "reviewing" the video.MEMRI identified "The American" as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, and a law enforcement official said he is originally from the United States, but has been in Somalia "for some time." The official said al-Amriki is in his late 20s or early 30s. The official wouldn't offer any other identifying features, including whether he had converted to Islam.MEMRI described the video as a "clear appeal to foreign youth, especially in English-speaking countries, to join the jihad in Somalia."In the video, "The American" praises a man killed in the fight, saying, "We want to inform his family that he was one of the best brothers here...We need more like him, so if you can encourage more of your children and more of your neighbors, anyone around, to send people like him to this jihad it would be a great asset for us."Another man, with an accent and a wrap covering his face, says at the end of the video,"We're calling all the brothers overseas, all the Shabaab, wherever they are, to come and live the life of a fighter, and they will...love it."The FBI investigation into how young American men were recruited to join al-Shabaab in Somalia is active in Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston; Seattle; and San Diego, according to testimony from counterterrorism officials and others at the Senate hearing last month.But reports from around the world suggest young Muslims from other Western countries, namely Canada, Australia and England, are also being recruited to join the fight in Somalia.U.S. officials declined to comment specifically on whether officials from those countries have been working with the FBI.But at a State Department briefing today, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said, "Somalia would be one of those areas that we're concerned about with regard to Al Qaeda recruitment. This requires broad cooperation, the United States with other countries-not only in the Horn of Africa but outside of that region-to try to do what we can to prevent Al Qaeda from being successful in recruiting young people to their cause."
PICTURE:Screenshot of the "American," a man law enforcement officials identify as Abu Mansur al-Amriki.(FNC/Provided by memrijttm.org)
By Mike Levine and Catherine Herridge
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512253,00.html
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Senate Follows House, Passes $3 Trillion Budget
The Democatic-controlled Senate has passed a budget drafted to President Barack Obama's specifications, voting a few hours after the House approved a similar plan. The Senate vote was 55-43, along party lines...
Robot achieves scientific first:"Machine makes discovery independently of creators"

By Clive Cookson, Science Editor
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OBAMA STIMULUS WATCH:"Detroit man traps raccoons for food,fashion..."

Beasley, a 69-year-old retired truck driver who modestly refers to himself as the Coon Man, supplements his Social Security check with the sale of raccoon carcasses that go for as much $12 and can serve up to four. The pelts, too, are good for coats and hats and fetch up to $10 a hide.While economic times are tough across Michigan as its people slog through a difficult and protracted deindustrialization, Beasley remains upbeat.Where one man sees a vacant lot, Beasley sees a buffet."Starvation is cheap," he says as he prepares an afternoon lunch of barbecue coon and red pop at his west side home.His little Cape Cod is an urban Appalachia of coon dogs and funny smells. The interior paint has the faded sepia tones of an old man's teeth; the wallpaper is as flaky and dry as an old woman's hand.Beasley peers out his living room window. A sushi cooking show plays on the television.The neighborhood outside is a wreck of ruined houses and weedy lots."Today people got no skill and things is getting worse," he laments."What people gonna do? They gonna eat each other up is what they gonna do."A licensed hunter and furrier, Beasley says he hunts coons and rabbit and squirrel for a clientele who hail mainly from the South, where the wild critters are considered something of a delicacy.Though the flesh is not USDA inspected, if it is thoroughly cooked, there is small chance of contracting rabies from the meat, and distemper and Parvo cannot be passed onto humans, experts say.Doing for yourself, eating what's natural, that was Creation's intention, Beasley believes. He says he learned that growing up in Three Creeks, Ark."Coon or rabbit. God put them there to eat. When men get hold of animals he blows them up and then he blows up.Fill 'em so full of chemicals and steroids it ruins the people. It makes them sick. Like the pigs on the farm. They's 3 months old and weighing 400 pounds. They's all blowed up. And the chil'ren who eat it, they's all blowed up. Don't make no sense."Hunting is prohibited within Detroit city limits and Beasley insists he does not do so. Still, he says that life in the city has gone so retrograde that he could easily feed himself with the wildlife in his backyard, which abuts an old cement factory.He procures the coons with the help of the hound dogs who chase the animal up a tree, where Beasley harvests them with a .22 caliber rifle. A true outdoorsman, Beasley refuses to disclose his hunting grounds."This city is going back to the wild,"he says."That's bad for people but that's good for me. I can catch wild rabbit and pheasant and coon in my backyard."Detroit was once home to nearly 2 million people but has shrunk to a population of perhaps less than 900,000. It is estimated that a city the size of San Francisco could fit neatly within its empty lots. As nature abhors a vacuum, wildlife has moved in.A beaver was spotted recently in the Detroit River. Wild fox skulk the 15th hole at the Palmer Park golf course. There is bald eagle, hawk and falcon that roam the city skies. Wild Turkeys roam the grasses. A coyote was snared two years ago roaming the Federal Court House downtown. And Beasley keeps a gaze of skinned coon in the freezer.With the beast fresh from the oven, Beasley invites a guest to lunch.He believes coon meat tastes something like mutton or pork, but to the uneducated pallet, it has the aroma and texture of opossum.While Beasley preps his coon with simple vinegar brine and spices, there are 100 ways to cook a coon.There is roast coon with sweet potato, sausage and corn bread stuffing; raccoon cobbler and roast marinated raccoon with liver and onion. It is this reporter's opinion that the best sauce for coon may very well be hunger.The story of Glemie Dean Beasley plays like a country song. The son of a sharecropper, Beasley left school at 13 to pick cotton. He came to Detroit in 1958. His woman left him in 1970 for a man he calls Slick Willy.Someone stole his pickup truck and then someone killed his best dog."I knowed some hard times," Beasley says. "But a man's got to know how to get hisself through them hard times. Part of that is eating right."
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http://www.detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395/To+urban+hunter++next+meal+is+scampering+by
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ISRAELISTINE WATCH:State Dept. will push hard for "Palestinian Statehood"

Sue Pleming
http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20090403/760/twl-u-s-says-will-push-hard-for-palestin.html
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G20 pledge $1 trillion to boost world economy
Despite a number of earlier disagreements, G20 leaders seem to have finally reached a consensus and pledged over one trillion dollars to the IMF and the World Bank to stimulate the global economy....
Obama presents himself as "Bridge-Builder"

By Caren Bohan and Matt Spetalnick
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE53183Q20090402?sp=true
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