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Missing Human Rights Attorney Gao Zhisheng Confirmed ‘Alive’
Missing Human Rights Attorney Gao Zhisheng Confirmed ‘Alive’
Severe storms, tornadoes lash Southeast – CNN
Swedish pension fund bans investment in Israeli company on ethical grounds
Swedish pension fund bans investment in Israeli company on ethical grounds
Swedish pension fund shuns Israeli company on ethical grounds
China Expecting 70 Million Visitors for Shanghai Expo – Fox
Heavy rain set to topple records on East Coast – Mass. deploys soldiers, sandbags; road closures in several states – MSNBC
Heavy rain set to topple records on East Coast – Mass. deploys soldiers, sandbags; road closures in several states – MSNBC
Judge Dismisses Case Challenging Parental Notification Law in Illinois; Law Will Not Go Into Effect Until After Appeal
Judge Dismisses Case Challenging Parental Notification Law in Illinois; Law Will Not Go Into Effect Until After Appeal
Indictment: Hutaree militia planned to murder officer, attack funeral
Man arrested for Congressman Eric Cantor death threat – The Politico
Andrew Palau in Jamaica for Eighth Annual Fun in the Son Festival
Andrew Palau in Jamaica for Eighth Annual Fun in the Son Festival
Turkey PM says opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy
Netanyahu to Russia: Israel stands with you against terror
Netanyahu to Russia: Israel stands with you against terror
CWA of Illinois Applauds Parental Notice Ruling
CWA of Illinois Applauds Parental Notice Ruling
Human rights emergency – Washington Times – March 29
The Tragedy of the Peace Process – National Review Online – March 29
Friend of the Enemy – National Review Online – March 29
Friend of the Enemy – National Review Online – March 29
Turkey PM opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy
Turkey PM opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy
75 injured as Hindus, Muslims clash in south India – Gulf News
More Gitmo Prisoners Return To Terrorism
Israel allows clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza for first time
Consumer spending gains as incomes stagnate – Report also shows personal savings dipped to lowest level since October â€™08 – AP
Special Report: ‘Telemed Abortions’ Endanger Women and Drive Up Insurance Costs
Special Report: ‘Telemed Abortions’ Endanger Women and Drive Up Insurance Costs
Israel to allow clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza
March 31 Marks Fifth Annual National Memorial for ‘Terri’s Day’
Will Graham Talks Truth and Eternity During East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration
Will Graham Talks Truth and Eternity During East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration
Mexican Cartels Expand To All U.S. Regions
At least 38 killed in twin suicide blasts at Moscow metro stations
At least 38 killed in twin suicide blasts at Moscow metro stations
N. Korea warns U.S., S. Korea over border – Pyongyang threatens â€˜unpredictable incidentsâ€™ for disturbing security – MSNBC

Missing Human Rights Attorney Gao Zhisheng Confirmed ‘Alive’

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:54 PM PDT

Contact: Annee Kahler, Media Coordinator, 267-210-8278, Annee@ChinaAid.org; Jenny McCloy, Directory of Advocacy (Washington, DC), 202-213-0506, Jenny@ChinaAid.org; www.ChinaAid.org, www.MonitorChina.org SHANXI, China, March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- On Sunday, March 28, 2010, missing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng spoke to his wife and children for the first time in over a year, confirming he is still alive. False rumors of his death, torture, and escape from the custody of Source: China Aid Association, [...]

Missing Human Rights Attorney Gao Zhisheng Confirmed ‘Alive’

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 05:54 PM PDT

Severe storms, tornadoes lash Southeast – CNN

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Swedish pension fund bans investment in Israeli company on ethical grounds

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:55 PM PDT

The biggest Swedish pension fund has barred Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems from its investment portfolios on ethical grounds, Israel Radio reported Monday. [...]

Swedish pension fund bans investment in Israeli company on ethical grounds

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:55 PM PDT

The biggest Swedish pension fund has barred Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems from its investment portfolios on ethical grounds, Israel Radio reported Monday. [...]

Swedish pension fund shuns Israeli company on ethical grounds

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:52 PM PDT

The biggest Swedish pension fund has barred Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems from its investment portfolios on ethical grounds, Israel Radio reported Monday. [...]

China Expecting 70 Million Visitors for Shanghai Expo – Fox

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Heavy rain set to topple records on East Coast – Mass. deploys soldiers, sandbags; road closures in several states – MSNBC

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Heavy rain set to topple records on East Coast – Mass. deploys soldiers, sandbags; road closures in several states – MSNBC

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PDT

Judge Dismisses Case Challenging Parental Notification Law in Illinois; Law Will Not Go Into Effect Until After Appeal

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:47 PM PDT

Thomas More Society Attorneys, present as 'Friends of the Court,' Applaud Dismissal Contact: Stephanie Lewis, 312-422-1333 CHICAGO, March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Today in Cook County Court, a judge dismissed the case challenging the constitutionality of the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act, while imposing a stay of his decision for 60 days to allow the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) time to file an appeal. Attorneys from the Thomas More Society appeared as "friends o Source: TC Public [...]

Judge Dismisses Case Challenging Parental Notification Law in Illinois; Law Will Not Go Into Effect Until After Appeal

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:47 PM PDT

Indictment: Hutaree militia planned to murder officer, attack funeral

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PDT

"Captain Hutaree," his wife and two sons planned with other militia members to kill a law enforcement official to draw the officer's colleagues to the funeral, authorities say.

Then, according to an indictment unsealed Monday, the militia planned to attack the funeral procession to kick off its war against the U.S. government.

Man arrested for Congressman Eric Cantor death threat – The Politico

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 01:22 PM PDT

Andrew Palau in Jamaica for Eighth Annual Fun in the Son Festival

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Contact: Randal Burtis, 503-614-1500 KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Partnering with Jamaica Broilers Group (one of the largest privately-run companies in Jamaica), Glory Music, and dozens of local churches, Andrew Palau and several top musical guests came together for Fun in the Son Festival on March 20. Palau proclaimed the Good News to an estimated 45,000 people at the Jamaica College grounds. This was the eighth annual Fun in the Son Festival, and Andrew's fourth Source: Luis Palau [...]

Andrew Palau in Jamaica for Eighth Annual Fun in the Son Festival

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Turkey PM says opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:42 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he did not favor imposing economic sanctions to pressure Iran into showing that it has no covert nuclear weapons [...]

Netanyahu to Russia: Israel stands with you against terror

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PDT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended Israel's condolences to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday after at least 38 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in a twin terror bombing in Moscow. [...]

Netanyahu to Russia: Israel stands with you against terror

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:40 PM PDT

CWA of Illinois Applauds Parental Notice Ruling

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Contact: Colleen Nolan, State Director, Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Illinois, 708-349-6828 MEDIA ADVISORY, March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Illinois applauds the just decision of Judge Daniel A. Riley of the Cook County Circuit Court to protect our daughters by securing our 1995 Illinois parental notification law. Parental notification laws have historically been beneficial not only for parents' God-given and legal responsibilities, but also Source: CWA of [...]

CWA of Illinois Applauds Parental Notice Ruling

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Human rights emergency – Washington Times – March 29

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT

Tehran goads Interpol into arresting dissidents worldwide The Iranian regime thinks it is on a roll. Without so much as a whimper from the United States or Europe, it succeeded in brutally suppressing the Green movement during the latest round of protests on the anniversary of the revolution on Feb. 11. Now it sees an opportunity [...]

The Tragedy of the Peace Process – National Review Online – March 29

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:54 AM PDT

Why the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" creates more conflict than it solves. When the right-wing Benyamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister of Israel the first time round in 1996, Clinton-administration officials barely disguised their bitter disappointment. For the next three years, relations between the U.S. and Israel would be dominated by tempests-in-teapots such as what an Israeli [...]

Friend of the Enemy – National Review Online – March 29

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:52 AM PDT

Barack Obama's decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia — to a democracy with the world's largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century — is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America's friends and kowtow to [...]

Friend of the Enemy – National Review Online – March 29

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:52 AM PDT

Turkey PM opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:44 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he did not favor imposing economic sanctions to pressure Iran into showing that it has no covert nuclear weapons [...]

Turkey PM opposed to Iran sanctions, urges diplomacy

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:44 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he did not favor imposing economic sanctions to pressure Iran into showing that it has no covert nuclear weapons [...]

75 injured as Hindus, Muslims clash in south India – Gulf News

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:41 AM PDT

More Gitmo Prisoners Return To Terrorism

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:45 AM PDT

As President Obama restores America's "moral high ground" by freeing Guantanamo Bay prisoners, the list of detainees that return to terrorism after being released continues to grow sharply.

Last year the Pentagon revealed that the number of Middle Eastern terrorists who rejoined "the fight" after leaving the military prison nearly doubled in a short time. Among them was an Al Qaeda leader (Said Ali al-Shihri) who masterminded a U.S. Embassy bombing in Yemen's capital after being released. Like many of the detainees, al-Shihri went through an Obama-backed Saudi Arabian "rehabilitation" program that supposedly reforms jihadists but instead has served as a training camp for future terrorists.

As the administration frees more detainees, the list of those who rejoin extremist missions is predictably growing. More than 100 have returned to terrorism recently and 30-40% of all released prisoners are active in terrorist causes, according to a Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel cited in a national news report. A lot of them go underground, change their name and hide out before surfacing again, the Lieutenant Colonel says.

Adding insult to injury, many of the U.S.-hating Middle Eastern radicals who actively train to kill Americans benefit from generous medical treatments during their incarceration, compliments of Uncle Sam. Among them is Abdullah Mehsud (also known as Said Mohammed Alim Shah), who got a $75,000 prosthetic leg before leaving U.S. custody. After his release he directed an attack that killed 31 people in Pakistan and a few months later blew himself up to avoid capture.

U.S. taxpayers have also bought laptops and computer lessons for Guantanamo terrorists so that they can be reintroduced into a modern society when the president fulfills his campaign promise of releasing them. The U.S. military actually set up a sophisticated computer lab for the detainees, who also get phones and fast-food takeout, to send electronic mail and receive language and basic user skills to assist them in finding jobs once freed.

There are still around 170 prisoners at Guantanamo and even the president and some of his ultraliberal allies in Congress acknowledge some are far too dangerous to be released. In some cases the courts may lend a hand as they have dozens of times. In the last few months alone, different federal judges have ordered the release of two top Al Qaeda operatives. One of them (Mohamedou Slahi) recruited most of the 9/11 hijackers and the other (Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim) fought against U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

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Israel allows clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza for first time

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:38 AM PDT

Israel will allow a shipment of clothes and shoes to be delivered to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the first time in its almost three-year-old tight blockade of the enclave, Palestinian officials said on [...]

Consumer spending gains as incomes stagnate – Report also shows personal savings dipped to lowest level since October â€™08 – AP

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:04 AM PDT

Special Report: ‘Telemed Abortions’ Endanger Women and Drive Up Insurance Costs

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:59 AM PDT

Contact: Troy Newman, President, 316-841-1700; Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor, 316-516-3034; both with Operation Rescue, info@operationrescue.org DES MOINES, Iowa, March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Operation Rescue announces the release of a special report detailing a disturbing new trend in the abortion industry that could be endangering the lives and health of thousands of women, and is bilking insurance companies out of grossly inflated fees. Audio recordi Source: Operation [...]

Special Report: ‘Telemed Abortions’ Endanger Women and Drive Up Insurance Costs

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:59 AM PDT

Israel to allow clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:55 AM PDT

March 31 Marks Fifth Annual National Memorial for ‘Terri’s Day’

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:24 AM PDT

Contact: Margaret, Priests for Life, 888-735-3448 ext 251 AVE MARIA, Fla., March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, will be the celebrant and homilist at the Annual National Mass for Terri's Day Wednesday night, March 31 at the Ave Maria Oratory of Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. "On March 31, five years ago, Terri Schiavo died a court mandated and government enforced death," said Fr. Pavone. "I saw Source: Priests for [...]

Will Graham Talks Truth and Eternity During East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:59 AM PDT

19,700 Attend Three-Day Event on the Campus of Auburn University Contact: Erik Ogren, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 704-577-2109, eogren@bgea.org AUBURN, Ala., March 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- The East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration reached a crescendo last night as Will Graham, alongside some of the top bands in Christian music, presented the Gospel at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum on the campus of Auburn University. A total of 19,700 people attended the Source: Billy Graham Evangelistic [...]

Will Graham Talks Truth and Eternity During East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:59 AM PDT

Mexican Cartels Expand To All U.S. Regions

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 08:49 AM PDT

The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars to fight Mexican drug cartels yet they continue to be the nation's largest supplier of illicit narcotics and violent Mexican gangs have expanded into every region of the country, including idyllic rural areas.

This is hardly earth-shattering news since Mexico has long represented the single greatest drug trafficking threat to the U.S., despite Uncle Sam's multi billion-dollar effort to halt the northbound flow of narcotics. The costly investment has failed miserably, according to a federal report that reveals Mexican heroin production has actually doubled in the last year.

Thousands of metric tons of heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and cocaine were smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico in the last year and tens of billions of dollars in drug proceeds flowed back south, according to the Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center. The cargo is usually transported in private or commercial vehicles, through cross-border tunnels or subterranean passageways and low-flying ultra light aircraft. Much of it is smuggled across the Southwest border through the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation in Arizona.

Once in the U.S. the drugs are distributed by feared street and prison gangs, which have spread from urban cities to suburban areas once thought to be impenetrable by such corruption. Nearly 1 million criminally active gangbangers representing about 20,000 street gangs in more than 2,500 cities sold drugs in the U.S. for Mexican cartels last year.

The operations are so sophisticated that it's unlikely U.S. law enforcement agencies can stop them. The growing strength and organization of criminal gangs, including their alliances with large Mexican drug cartels, will make disrupting illicit drug availability and distribution increasingly difficult for law enforcement agencies, the feds claim in the report.

A similar Justice Department report published in late 2008 revealed that the influence of Mexican drug trafficking organizations is unrivaled in the U.S. and that the vast majority of cocaine is smuggled into the country through the southern border. The cartels are unstoppable because they have established varied transportation routes, advanced communication capabilities and strong gang affiliations to control the U.S. drug market, according to that probe.

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