- Hundreds protest at British nuclear weapons site. British target Aldermaston Trident sub nuke warhead production facility.
- Iraqis protest ban on candidates. Shias ban those with "Baathist" links from running in election.
QUAKE NEWS (Chapter III of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" by Emmanuel Goldstein, 1984, by George Orwell: "All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon . . . others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Pentagon briefing, April 28, 1997: "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.")
- 4.5 quake jolts Baja California. Epicenter near Tecate with quake felt in San Diego.
- 4.1 quake shakes California desert. Quake centeredin Inyo County as California quake swarm continues.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Palestinians protest in "Avatar" costumes. Palestinians dress as Na'vi as Israelis act as bloodthirsty military attackers portrayed in popular film.
- Head-on train crash may have killed at least 25 in Belgium. Trains crashed in snowy weather.
- Eurostat to investigate Greek currency swaps. This will eventually pinpoint George Soros and Goldman Sachs as the perps.
- Spanish intelligence investigating attacks on Spanish stock market. They will find something that smells of Goldman Sachs, Geithner, Bernanke, and $oro$.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Congressional exodus continues. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) calling it quits.
- Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) says the United States should physically break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Of course, Baird is retiring, so he cannot be targeted for defeat by the Israel Lobby and its deep-pocketed Jewish donors.
- Two held after Fort Worth bomb scare. One suspect, Kimberly Suzanne Al-Homsi, is well-known to local police and feds.
COUNTRY FOCUS: Turkey. Turkey to assist in Iran uranium swap. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes pitch to Tehran.
