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Nazi killer loses citizenship

A Michigan man who sent his Nazi superiors handwritten reports accounting for the ammunition he spent killing Jews was stripped of his citizenship.

John (Ivan) Kalymon, of Troy, Mich., belonged as a young man to the Ukranian Auxiliary Police in Lviv. The Nazi-sponsored unit was responsible for the deaths and displacement of more than 100,000 Jews in the area in 1942-1943, according to the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. According to contemporary documentation, Kalymon participated in the killings.

“Irrefutable evidence, including a handwritten report prepared by Kalymon in which he accounted to his superiors for ammunition he expended in shooting Jews, proved his participation in Nazi genocide,” OSI director Eli Rosenbaum said in a release Friday. Marianne Battani, a federal judge in Detroit, found that Kalymon’s 1955 citizenship was invalidated because of his Nazi service, and because he concealed it from immigration officials.

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Blood on the Walls over at Kirksville Today.com

‘We Want Homes and Electricity – and if we don’t get it, we will burn everything down’ from sa is crap.blogspot

The New South African mindset of demand, take, demand, take, demand, take, demand, take, without any concept of where things come from or who is actually paying for them, has been illustrated once again with an outbreak of rioting in the Winterveld Sophisticated Black residential area in “Tshwane” on Wednesday.
Ironically, much of what the SB Population is complaining about, is directly attributable to their own racial comrades’ inability to actually deliver on anything, but that is of course lost on them when they have a chance to engage in a bit of the old mindless vandalism.
The community met at the Bushveld Road and Lucas Mangope Drive intersection where they were addressed by the ward councillor. Listening to the announcements was Oupa Masilela. He said he embarked on the street action because he wanted a roof over his head. “We want a home of our own and electricity. They have been installing lights since the end of last year, but they are taking too long.
“Some people have stolen some equipment, which is making it difficult,” he said.
Ward 9 Councillor Galela Makama said the protest was the result of delayed implementation of electrical supply to about 250 000 households in the area. He said the Tshwane Metro Council started the process last year and about 6 000 homes had received power, but due to lack of manpower and equipment being stolen, the process was taking time. “Three transformers worth R120 000 each and cables were stolen. We have approached the community to form block committees to stop the theft.”
A 1km stretch of Bushveld Road was barricaded with rocks, burning tyres and 5m-long gum poles, some of which had been burnt. Police clashed with the protesters when they moved in to disperse the crowd.
The residents hurled stones at police who responded with rubber bullets, scattering the crowd. Residents said several people were injured in the clashes. Police used a water cannon to douse the burning tyres. Several Nyala armoured personnel carriers loaded with police armed with shotguns and stun-grenades patrolled the area after the clashes, keeping a check on some unruly residents. Some SBGs made use of the opportunity to get drunk and hurl abuse at the police.

Judicial system is ‘failing Jews’ from Aryan awakening.blogspot

The Crown Prosecution Service is to investigate why fewer than one in 10 anti-Semitic incidents results in prosecution, the Government will announce today.

The review follows criticism by MPs that the judicial system is failing Jews, who are more vulnerable to attacks and abuse than at any time for a generation.

Police forces are also overhauling their procedures for recording such incidents after MPs complained that many were “complacent”.

The measures will be announced as part of a Government campaign to combat concerns that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Britain and across Europe.

Ministers are particularly worried about anti-Jewish agitation on university campuses, and have ordered a Government task force to tackle the issue as a “matter of urgency”.

They are to urge the police to use the Public Order Act 1986, which outlaws the spread of racial hatred, where there is enough evidence to bring prosecutions against Islamic extremists for speeches on campuses.

The task force, which is jointly run by the Home Office and the Communities Department, will also step up efforts to counter political extremism and racism
on the internet.

Afghani goes on rampage against non-paying blacks Newsnet14.com

LONG BEACH – The fate of a local physician accused of committing a variety of hate crimes in an effort to evict two black tenants from her Orizaba Avenue rental property now rests in the hands of a Long Beach jury.Dr. Mary Zulfacar, a 66-year-old native of Afghanistan and naturalized U.S. citizen, faces several misdemeanor counts and two hate-crime allegations arising from a dispute over a lease agreement with Kenneth Jackson and his 17-year-old daughter, Jerlean.

Prosecutors allege that on two days in May 2006, Zulfacar punched Jerlean in the stomach when she was five months pregnant, threatened Kenneth with a shovel, vandalized the Jacksons’ car, yelled racial slurs at them, left a manila envelope containing feces in their mailbox and taunted them by hanging a stuffed monkey from a rope next to a sign reading “I.M. LYNCHED.”

In addition to the hate-crime counts, Zulfacar is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, battery, making criminal threats, brandishing a deadly weapon and violating a court order. If convicted, she could face several years in jail.

In her closing argument before a Long Beach Superior Court jury Wednesday, Deputy City Prosecutor Sayge Castillo said there was no question that Zulfacar committed the acts and was motivated by a deep-seated hatred.

“The bottom line is that (lease disputes) are no defense – absolutely no defense – for what she did to this family,” Castillo said. “Whether (the Jacksons) paid the rent, or didn’t pay the rent, is irrelevant.”

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AIPAC SCANDAL Washington – New details are emerging about a secret 2003 briefing that could play a key role in the defense of two pro-Israel advocates charged with passing classified information.

Until now, the identities of the participants were not publicly known, except for one of the defendants, Steve Rosen, then policy director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In recent weeks, however, the Forward has confirmed that the meeting featured a briefing delivered by top Middle East peace envoy Anthony Zinni and was attended by Jess Hordes, head of the Washington office of the Anti-Defamation League, and Dan Mariaschin, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith International.

Defense lawyers have sought the testimony of those in attendance to demonstrate to the jury that meetings between administration officials and Jewish representatives were common practice, and that intelligence was frequently shared during these powwows without the participants knowing the information was classified. But, as first reported in the Forward last month, the Jewish representatives who attended the meeting are refusing to cooperate with the defense team.

Hordes and Mariaschin refused to comment for this story, and the identity of the third Jewish representative who is refusing to testify could not be confirmed.

In Zinni, the defense team would be turning to a harsh critic of both the Iraq War and neoconservatives at the Pentagon, who according to Zinni thought the invasion would stabilize American interests in the Middle East and strengthen Israel’s position.

“I think it’s the worst-kept secret in Washington. That everybody — everybody I talk to in Washington — has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do,” said Zinni in a May 2004 interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”

At the meeting with the Jewish representatives, Zinni discussed the situation in the Middle East and attempts by the Bush administration to promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, according to sources familiar with the prosecution’s account of the meeting. The sources said that Zinni “spoke very freely” and that he revealed information that was not available to the general public.

The next day, Rosen, who had represented Aipac at the meeting, informed his superiors at the pro-Israel lobby about the information supplied by Zinni.

At the time, Rosen was already under FBI surveillance and his conversations about the meeting with Zinni were monitored. They later appeared in documents presented by the prosecution once Rosen and the other defendant in the case, Aipac’s Iran specialist, Keith Weissman, were indicted.

According to sources close to the case, the Jewish participants in the meeting are refusing to cooperate on the advice of their organizations’ respective legal advisers, who recommend steering clear of the proceedings.

Sources close to the defense expressed disappointment over the reluctance of the Jewish groups to testify. These sources describe it as another sign of the decision by Jewish organizations to distance themselves from the case. One source close to the defense described the response of the Jewish community to the prosecution of the two former senior Aipac staffers as “abandonment,” and said that many Jewish officials and organizations cut off all ties to the defendants after the case was made public.

The U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., will make a decision later this month regarding the government’s request to keep the trial closed and not to allow the public or press to see the evidence or to listen to wiretapping recordings that will be the central pieces of evidence in the case. In a hearing last month, Judge T.S. Ellis III said that no precedent exists for such a request. The judge ordered both sides to prepare arguments for a pretrial hearing on the issue, which is scheduled for mid-April.

If the prosecution’s request for a closed trial is denied, the government will be asked to prepare redacted versions of the evidence to be presented in the courtroom.

9/11

Giuliani Faces 9/11 Questions
Friday March 30, 2007 7:46 AM

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By LARRY McSHANE

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) – Rudy Giuliani’s White House aspirations are inescapably tied to Sept. 11, 2001 – for better and for worse.

While the former mayor of the nation’s largest city was widely lionized for his post-9/11 leadership – “Churchillian” was one adjective, “America’s mayor” was Oprah Winfrey’s assessment – city firefighters and their families are renewing their attacks on him for his performance before and after the terrorist attack.

“If Rudolph Giuliani was running on anything but 9/11, I would not speak out,” said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was among the 343 FDNY members killed in the terrorist attack. “If he ran on cleaning up Times Square, getting rid of squeegee men, lowering crime – that’s indisputable.

“But when he runs on 9/11, I want the American people to know he was part of the problem.”

Such comments contradict Giuliani’s post-Sept. 11 profile as a hero and symbol of the city’s resilience – the steadfast leader who calmed the nerves of a rattled nation. But as the presidential campaign intensifies, criticisms of his 2001 performance are resurfacing.

Giuliani, the leader in polls of Republican voters for his party’s nomination, has been faulted on two major issues:

- His administration’s failure to provide the World Trade Center’s first responders with adequate radios, a long-standing complaint from relatives of the firefighters killed when the twin towers collapsed. The Sept. 11 Commission noted the firefighters at the World Trade Center were using the same ineffective radios employed by the first responders to the 1993 terrorist attack on the trade center.

Regenhard, at a 2004 commission hearing in Manhattan, screamed at Giuliani, “My son was murdered because of your incompetence!” The hearing was a perfect example of the 9/11 duality: Commission members universally praised Giuliani at the same event.

- A November 2001 decision to step up removal of the massive rubble pile at ground zero. The firefighters were angered when the then-mayor reduced their numbers among the group searching for remains of their lost “brothers,” focusing instead on what they derided as a “scoop and dump” approach. Giuliani agreed to increase the number of firefighters at ground zero just days after ordering the cutback.

More than 5 years later, body parts are still turning up in the trade center site.

“We want America to know what this guy meant to New York City firefighters,” said Peter Gorman, head of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association. “In our experiences with this man, he disrespected us in the most horrific way.”

The two-term mayor, in his appearance before the Sept. 11 Commission, said the blame for the death and destruction of Sept. 11 belonged solely with the terrorists. “There was not a problem of coordination on Sept. 11,” he testified.

Giuliani was also criticized for locating the city’s emergency center in 7 World Trade Center, a building that contained thousands of gallons of diesel fuel when it collapsed after the terrorist attack.

The lingering ill will between Giuliani and firefighters was resurrected when the International Association of Fire Fighters initially decided not to invite the former mayor to its March 14 candidates forum in Washington. Other prominent presidential hopefuls, including Republican John McCain and Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards, addressed the nation’s largest firefighters union.

According to the Giuliani camp, the contretemps with the union dates to tough contract negotiations in his second term as mayor. His critics deny any political motivation.

The IAFF drafted a membership letter – it was never sent – that excoriated Giuliani and promised to tell “the real story” about his role in handling the terrorist attack.

The then-mayor’s decision to change policy on the ground zero recovery effort was “an offensive and personal attack” on firefighters, the letter said, going on to say that Giuliani’s “disrespect … has not been forgotten or forgiven.”

Giuliani countered the attacks by releasing an open letter of support from retired firefighter Lee Ielpi, whose firefighter son was among the 2,749 victims on Sept. 11. “Firefighters have no greater friend and supporter than Rudy Giuliani,” Ielpi said.

A contingent of nearly 100 South Carolina firefighters also expressed their support for Giuliani and his White House hopes.

Hank Sheinkopf, a veteran political consultant, predicted the 9/11 criticisms could resonate beyond New York during the presidential campaign.

“These are very emotional people who will touch a responsive chord with a lot of the electorate,” he said. “The things that the 9/11 families say will wind up in television commercials used against Rudy Giuliani.”

The issues also have forced Giuliani to try to strike a balance to avoid the perception that he’s exploiting the attacks for his own personal gain. President Bush faced the same challenge in 2004 when he invoked the attacks to portray himself as a strong and steady leader in the face of terrorism. Some victims’ relatives criticized Bush for using the ruins of the World Trade Center in his campaign commercials, while others defended him.

9/11 and the Evidence

By Paul Craig Roberts

03/27/07 “ICH “ — Professor David Ray Griffin is the nemesis of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. In his latest book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, Griffin destroys the credibility of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Popular Mechanics reports, annihilates his critics, and proves himself to be a better scientist and engineer than the defenders of the official story.

Griffin’s book is 385 pages divided into four chapters and containing 1,209 footnotes. Without question, the book is the most thorough presentation and examination of all known facts about the 9/11 attacks. Griffin is a person who is sensitive to evidence, logic, and scientific reasoning. There is no counterpart on the official side of the story who is as fully informed on all aspects of the attacks as Griffin.

At the outset, Griffin points out that the reader’s choice is between two conspiracy theories: One is that Muslim fanatics, who were not qualified to fly airplanes, defeated the security apparatus of the US and succeeded in three out of four attacks using passenger jets as weapons. The other is that security failed across the board, not merely partially but totally, because of complicity of some part of the US government.

Griffin points out that there has been no independent investigation of 9/11. What we have are a report by a political commission headed by Bush administration factotum Philip Zelikow, a NIST report produced by the Bush administration’s Department of Commerce, and a journalistic account produced by Popular Mechanics. Various scientists who work for the federal government or are dependent on government grants have issued speculative statements in behalf of the official conspiracy theory, but have not produced meaningful evidence in its behalf.

The relevant skeptics of the official story are approximately 100 independent researchers consisting of experts and professors whose careers have required them to deal with evidence and its analysis. Their individual contributions to 9/11 analysis can be found online.

Griffin has undertaken to absorb the arguments and evidence for the official account and the arguments and evidence against it. In his latest book, which has just been released, he presents the case for the official account and its evidential failure.

Polls show that 36% of Americans do not believe the official story. Setting aside the 25% of the public that is so uninformed or uninvolved as to believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attack, leaves 39% of the public who believe the official story. However, this 39% is essentially relying on the mainstream media’s endorsement of the official story. Griffin believes, perhaps naively, that truth can prevail, and it is his commitment to truth that has motivated him to shoulder the enormous task.

Everyone who believes in the integrity of the US government or the Bush administration will find Griffin’s book to be disturbing. Readers will have to confront such issues as why US authorities seized the forensic evidence resulting from the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings, the attack on the Pentagon and the crashed airliner in Pennsylvania and prevented any forensic examination of any part of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite widespread belief that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attack, the evidence we have is a suspect video declared to be “bogus” by Bruce Lawrence, perhaps the leading American expert on bin Laden. The US government has never produced the promised report on bin Laden’s responsibility. When the Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden on presentation of evidence, the US government had no evidence to deliver; thus the invasion of Afghanistan.

The fragility of the NIST report is astonishing. The report succeeded because people accepted its assurances without examination.

Griffin shows that the Popular Mechanics report consists of special pleading, circular reasoning, appeals to the authority of the NIST report, straw men, and internal contradictions in the report itself.

There is not space in a review to present the evidence Griffin has mustered. A few highlights should suffice to alert readers to the possibility that the Bush administration has lied about more than Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

The two WTC towers did not collapse. They blew up and disintegrated, as did WTC 7. There is an enormous energy deficit in every account that rules out the use of explosives. Gravitational energy is insufficient to explain the pulverization of the buildings and contents and the severing of the 47 massive center core steel columns in each of the towers into convenient lengths to be picked up and loaded onto trucks; much less can gravitational energy account for the pulverization of the top floors of the towers and ejection of steel beams hundreds of feet horizontally just prior to the disintegration of the floors below.

Damage caused by airliners and short-lived limited fires cannot explain the disintegration of the buildings. The massive steel skeletons of the towers comprised a gigantic heat sink that wicked away whatever heat the limited fires produced.

NIST’s final report stated that of the steel available to it for examination, “only three columns had evidence that the steel reached temperatures above 250 degrees Celsius” (482 degrees Fahrenheit). The self-cleaning ovens in our home kitchens reach temperatures higher than this, and the ovens do not melt or deform.

Steel begins to melt at 1,500 degrees C or 2,800 degrees F. Temperatures of 250 degrees C would have no effect on the strength of steel. The explanation that the buildings collapsed because fire weakened the steel is speculative. Open air fires do not produce temperatures sufficient to deprive steel of its structural integrity. Steel framed buildings have burned 22 hours in raging infernos, and the steel skeletons remained standing. The WTC fires in the towers lasted about one hour and were limited to a few floors. Moreover, it is impossible for fire to account for the sudden, total and symmetrical disintegration of powerfully constructed buildings, much less at free fall speeds that are obtainable only with controlled demolition.

Griffin provides quotes from firefighters, police, and tenants, who heard and experienced a series of explosions prior to the disintegration of the towers. Such witness testimony is generally ignored by defenders of the official conspiracy theory.

Molten steel was found in underground levels of the WTC buildings weeks after the buildings’ destruction. As everyone agrees that the fires did not approach the melting point of steel, a possible explanation is high explosives used in demolitions that produce 5,000 degree temperatures. The possibility that explosives were used remains unexamined except by independent researchers.

Contradictions in the official conspiracy theory leap off the pages and hit the reader in the face. For example, the evidence that Flight 77, a Boeing 757, crashed into the Pentagon is the government’s claim to have obtained from the wreckage enough bodies and body parts to match the DNA for each person on the passenger list and flight crew. Simultaneously, the absence of passenger luggage, fuselage, wing and tail sections–indeed the absence of a 100,000 pound airliner–is attributed to the vaporization of the airplane due to the high speed crash and intense fire. The incompatibility of vaporized metal but recovered flesh and blood stood unnoticed until Griffin pointed it out.

Another striking inconsistency in the official conspiracy theory is the difference in the impact of airliners on the Pentagon and the WTC towers. In the case of the Pentagon, the emphasis is on why the airliner caused so little damage to the building. In the case of the WTC towers, the emphasis is why the airliners caused so much damage.

Perhaps it is merely a coincidence that just prior to 9/11 Cathleen P. Black, who has family connections to the CIA and Pentagon and is president of Hearst Magazines, the owner of Popular Mechanics, fired the magazine’s editor-in-chief and several senior veteran staff members and installed James B. Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff, a cousin of Bush administration factotum Michael Chertoff. It was Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff who produced the Popular Mechanics report that Griffin has eviscerated.

In his conclusion Griffin reminds us that the 9/11 attack has been used to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to plan an attack on Iran, to curtail constitutional protections and civil liberties in the US, to radically expand US military budgets and the power of the executive, and to enrich entrenched vested interests. Griffin is definitely correct about this regardless of whether a believable case can ever be made for the government’s version of the 9/11 conspiracy.

ADL Spiked Sept. 11 Blockbuster
Foxman & Crew Pressured Media To Suppress Israeli 9-11 Connection

By Mark Glenn
American Free Press
April 2nd, 2007

“What are you doing putting this stuff out there? You’re killing us!” These were the words of Abraham Foxman, executive director of the infamous Anti-Defamation League, considered by many in the know to be nothing more than a domestic branch of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad.

According to an explosive piece recently appearing in the online edition of Counterpunch, Foxman shouted this during a sit-down he demanded to have with an unnamed Fox News executive shortly after Sept. 11.

The “stuff” that was causing Foxman so much indigestion that day was a damning, four-part investigative series Fox News had been airing after Sept. 11 dealing with the arrests of several hundred Israeli nationals as well as some of the incriminating circumstances surrounding their activities in the United States.

In particular, it was the story dealing with one group, known to investigators and journalists as the “high fivers,” who, according to an arrest report by the Bergen County Police Department, were “seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage.”

The same police report also indicated that “maps of the city with certain places highlighted” were found in their vehicle, giving all of it the appearance that “they’re hooked in with this” and that “they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.”

Since then, Cameron’s reports have been removed by the network from its archives on the Internet. However, the series can still be viewed on web sites around the world.

These men—along with many others arrested around the country after 9-11—were held by U.S. authorities for several months for questioning before being quietly sent back to Israel. What these investigations revealed was that the young Israeli nationals were all intelligence officers working for Mossad, a fact later admitted by Israel and proved by the comments of one of these men in a radio interview he gave after his return home. “We were sent to document the event,” said one of the Israelis.

What is of particular importance in this development, however, was the role that pro-Israel pressure groups—in this case the ADL, AIPAC and the misnamed Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)—played in the cover-up of the role Israel played in the mass murder of not just the 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, but the 3,000+ American servicemen and 700,000 Iraqis subsequently killed in Iraq as well.

In a personal interview with American Free Press, the writer of the report in Counterpunch, Christopher Ketchum, indicated that Foxman just didn’t call upon Fox News. Every major media outlet in America received a visit from the head of the ADL. In addition to Foxman inserting his largesse personally, executives at the highest levels of the various networks were also inundated with phone calls, letters and emails so numerous that they caused the computer networks to crash.

Of equal importance is the fact that according to the several intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies who were contacted, various members of the most powerful Jewish groups in the country visited the White House and petitioned officials at the highest levels to close down all investigations of the Israeli spies.

It is important to remember that the official position of these various Jewish groups has been that the stories circulating on the internet alleging Israeli foreknowledge of 9-11 have been nothing more than an “old canard” dreamt up by anti-Semites and Israel-haters and that there was never any evidence to suggest that such foreknowledge existed.

Had Americans been made aware of the arrests of hundreds of Israeli intelligence officers in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding them, it is unlikely—even as propagandized as they are concerning the Middle East—that they would have signed on to sending their sons and daughters off to fight and die for Israel in Iraq.

Cover-ups are part of the dirty business of the Israeli lobby. Whether it involves the murderous attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces in 1967, Israeli foreknowledge of Sept. 11, the attempt to secure the release of major spy Jonathan Pollard or the efforts to gain an acquittal for the two AIPAC executives now standing trial for espionage, the conclusion to which all Americans must arrive is that Israel and her various tentacles collectively make up the most dangerous enemy the United States has ever faced.

TNB

Whites have reason to be afraid from the S.A. Star

The heading of Max du Preez’s recent column, “Don’t believe everything you read” (The Star, Opinion and Analysis, March 22 2007) should also be applied to his own views.

White South Africans have every reason to be terrified, given the current breakdown in law and order, as well as President Thabo Mbeki’s anti-white rhetoric.

French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut said during the Parisian race riots of 2005 that “the lofty idea of ‘the war on racism’” was gradually turning into a hideously false ideology.

And this anti-racism will be for the 21st century what communism was for the 20th century: a source of violence.

During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the infamous Radio-Télévision des Milles Collines broadcast a call to arms to its Hutu listeners by saying “cut down the tall trees” and “kill the cockroaches”.

We all know what happened next, having seen the sanitised version of the events in the movie Hotel Rwanda.

Mbeki’s claims that vast numbers of whites out there call blacks “kaffirs” and flatten their noses in racist caricatures are tantamount to anti-white propaganda.

A few months ago I spent a weekend with a foreign TV journalist and his cameraman.

After showing them a collection of newspaper clippings depicting the carnage that took place in December 2006 when every day more white and especially Afrikaner victims were reported murdered, tortured and raped, he soon stopped me, saying: “I’ve seen enough. What your government has done, is to designate you as targets. They don’t have to kill you; they know someone else will do it for them.”

Max du Preez is living in a dream world if he thinks that South Africa has good race relations and that there is no ethnic motive underlying our rampant murder rate.

In Europe, the murder rate is two per 100 000 per year.

In black ghettoes in the US it rises to about 40.

Among Afrikaner farmers it is more than 300 per 100 000 per year!

That single statistic justifies the hypothesis that we are already in the early stages of anti-Afrikaner genocide.

My children recently visited some friends in a rural area.

Upon returning they told me this about their friends’ mother: “Auntie A drives with her pistol on her lap and when she sees more than one black man getting closer than 10m from her car, she cocks it and gets very nervous.”

I was quite shocked by this narration.

But Auntie A is an amiable, intelligent and liberal woman.

Upon reflection, I had to admit that she was acting entirely rationally, protecting her children in the car, as well as mine.

Du Preez is also wrong when he claims that black people commit 10 times more violent crime than whites, which would be proportionate to their demographic weight within the total population.

The truth is that they commit 50 to 100 times more violent crime, even though such statistics are not generally available.

In the early 1960s, some Afrikaner anthropologists predicted that unbridled urbanisation, coupled with a superficial Western consumerist lifestyle, would not only rob Africans of their soul and unique culture, but also create a nightmare of nihilistic violence in the country.

Bruwer wrote at the time that “the African is in his deepest being a good person when he moves within the embrace of an own cultural tradition”.

Today millions of Africans in this country have indeed ceased to be good and we have reason to fear them.

Anyone who pretends otherwise, as Du Preez does, is simply blind to reality.

Three suspects, one arrest in Pasco rape Last Edited: Thursday, 29 Mar 2007, 9:20 AM EDT Created: Wednesday, 28 Mar 2007, 8:30 PM EDT

NEW PORT RICHEY – The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in connection with the rape of an elderly woman earlier this week.

Deputies have arrested 18-year-old Jathaniel J. McMichael. They say two other suspects are still at large. One is 18-year-old Bobby Lee Black.

Another is a juvenile they are not yet naming.

Pasco Sheriff Bob White said McMichael was already in custody on a drug-related charge.

He was charged in connection with the rape last night.

Sheriff White said investigators contacted Black’s family last night, and they are hoping he will turn himself in. White said that the Sheriff’s Office is devoting “extensive resources” to finding Black.

“It’s only a matter if time. We will catch him,” Sheriff White said.

The 68-year-old rape victim lived in a senior living community, called Ramblewood Mobile Homes in South Zephyrhills.

Her friends told FOX 13 News that the horrific ordeal began when two men broke through her window early Tuesday morning.

The dramatic evening ended with the woman clawing her way out of an abandoned quarry in Zephyrhills that was a muddy pit of water twenty feet below.

The victim and her white minivan were tossed there by the men who robbed and raped her moments before.

Europe, New Right/Antisemitism/Yawn

Communities and Local Government News Release

Government outlines action to stamp out antisemitism

Communities and Local Government News Release 2007/0062

29 March 2007

Race and Faith Minister Phil Woolas today pledged to step up action to eradicate antisemitism in a report strongly condemning the increase in incidents in the UK. Today’s response forms part of a comprehensive cross-government strategy to tackle faith and race hate crime.

The response to the all-party enquiry into antisemitism outlines new work to:

improve recording and reporting of antisemitic incidents;

review and strengthen the prosecution process;

accelerate work to confront extremist groups who spread hate;

promote community cohesion through education about different faiths;

prevent any manifestation of racial or religious intolerance on university campuses.

Ministers recognise and share the Jewish community’s concerns about a rise in antisemitism in the UK and across Europe, and are using this report to underline the importance of society coming together to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to antisemitism. Measures outlined in the response are on top of legislation introduced since 1997 to protect people from discrimination on the basis of faith at work and in their day to day lives.

Phil Woolas said:

“We will not tolerate racially motivated crime of any kind. We share the concerns of Jewish communities, and fully support the police and prosecuting authorities in taking a tough line to stamp out antisemitism wherever it occurs.

“We have one of the strongest legal frameworks in the world to protect people from discrimination or persecution on the grounds of their faith or race, and this was strengthened by the introduction of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act last year.

“The Government shares the Jewish community’s concerns over recent manifestations of antisemitism. Apart from what may be criminal acts, I am concerned about the tone of the general discourse. Open and public debate is one thing, but rhetoric and an undercurrent of hate and racism is quite another. This is not acceptable.

“I believe local communities are at the heart of the battle to eliminate all forms of hate crime, and my department is driving this agenda forward by supporting local projects that tackle prejudice and discrimination. A local approach will help reach directly into communities and will bring people from different faiths and cultures together to understand their differences and celebrate their shared experiences.

“There is no room for complacency and we are committed to accelerating action to eliminate antisemitism alongside any other form of racism.”

Commenting on the Government’s response, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism, John Mann said:

“I am encouraged that the Government are taking the scourge of antisemitism seriously and I look forward to working with them to confront it head on. We must not allow this alarming rise in incidents and hostility to go unchecked.”

The report published today outlines the following action points the Government is taking forward:

Improving the recording and reporting of antisemitic incidents

The Home Office is now working with the police to identify, nationally, better and more consistent ways of collecting and managing data on hate crimes including antisemitic incidents and crimes. This should be in place by 2008-09.

Local Crime and Disorder Partnerships are encouraged to make it easier for victims and witnesses to report hate crime. Home Office are piloting a 24-hour helpline to encourage people to report in the Yorkshire and Humberside region.

Increasing the effectiveness of the criminal justice system

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is looking at the reasons for antisemitic incidents not resulting in prosecution, and will examine incitement to racial hatred prosecutions. The CPS is currently working with criminal justice system partners on how best to take these recommendations forward.

Confronting the threat from extremist groups

Communities and Local Government is working with local partners, providing them with support in tackling extremist messages of all kinds. This includes working with local government leadership on their communication strategies, myth busting, conflict resolution, and building relationships between communities that support the values of tolerance and multiculturalism.

Task force to tackle and prevent hate crime

A cross-Government team is now working on tackling and preventing hate crime, including antisemitism, jointly chaired by the Home Office, and Communities and Local Government. The key objectives are to drive work to increase reporting, increase the effectiveness of the criminal justice system and other agencies in tackling hate crime, increase confidence in the ability of the Criminal Justice System, develop better use of intelligence and improve the data on the nature and extent of hate crimes. This team will also consider prevention and community activity.

Promoting community cohesion

Communities and Local Government has two major funding streams that deal with hate crime and promoting good community relations. The £18m Connecting Community Plus grant scheme offers grants over a three year period to projects tackling racism and inequality. The £5m Faith Capacity Building Fund supports faith and interfaith organisations to strengthen their capacity to play a fuller part in civil society. It also supports inter faith activities, which bring together people from different faith groups to talk, network and learn from one another.

Ruth Kelly has asked the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, an independent advisory group reporting in June 2007, to consider practical and local solutions to building shared values in communities, and to developing resilience to tensions within communities.

The Government aims to ensure the establishment of interfaith forums in all English upper tier authorities. We are targeting support to local interfaith activity with the aim of tackling faith hate crime and creating trust and understanding between different faith groups.

The Government is working with the Board of Deputies and Muslim groups to consider how best to improve Jewish-Muslim dialogue at national, regional and local levels. Communities and Local Government has supported a Rabbi/Imam event and the first national conference for Muslim and Jewish women.

Addressing inequalities

A new single equalities body, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, will become operational in Autumn 2007. It will provide a powerful, authoritative, single voice on equality and human rights and play a legal role enforcing equalities legislation. The body will work to ensure that organisations and individuals have access to clear and understandable information in order to foster debate, tackle issues early and encourage a change of culture within institutions.

Education and school twinning

Government has pledged £1.5 million to the Holocaust Educational Trust (established in 1988) to educate young people from every ethnic background about the Holocaust. The funding facilitates visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for more than 6,000 students. The Government supports the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, with an annual grant of £500,000.

New guidance for schools to promote community cohesion as a duty under the 2006 Education Act will recommend twinning as a way of promoting cross-cultural understanding. This will come into effect in September 2007.

Preventing racist incidents on university campuses

A recent publication from the Department for Education and Skills, Guidance for Higher Education providers to help Tackle Violent Extremism in the name of Islam on Campus, provides universities and colleges with a practical tool to assist students and staff to increase community cohesion and tackle violent extremism on campuses.

German company pays Jewish family for Nazi-era confiscation

By Mark Landler

Friday, March 30, 2007

FRANKFURT: Settling the last big property restitution case from the Nazi era, Germany’s largest retailer agreed Friday to pay the heirs of a once-Jewish-owned department store nearly $120 million for the confiscation of what is now prime real estate in Berlin.

The company, KarstadtQuelle, will pay €88 million, or $118 million, to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a group in New York that filed suit on behalf of the Wertheim family, which founded the elegant Berlin emporium that still bears its name.

The 1.5 hectare, or 5-acre, parcel of land in question lies on the edge of Potsdamer Platz, and is now the site of a glittering complex that includes a Ritz-Carlton and a Marriott Hotel as well as luxury apartments and offices.

“We’ve battled this case for 15 years,” said Gideon Taylor, executive vice president of the claims conference. “Despite the length of time and despite the difficulties we encountered, there is clearly the recognition in Germany that historical injustices must be corrected.”

The settlement is a vindication for the far-flung Wertheim heirs, not least Barbara Principe, the 74-year-old daughter of Gunther Wertheim, who fled Berlin with his family in 1939. Her father settled in southern New Jersey, tending a chicken farm not far from where Principe still lives.

She spearheaded the long quest for restitution, traveling to Berlin in September with two grandsons to raise the pressure on KarstadtQuelle, which inherited the Wertheim family’s expropriated businesses in 1994 through its acquisition of another German chain.

Speaking by telephone from New Jersey, Principe said Germany had made adequate amends. “What more can you do?” she said. “The Nazis are gone. This compensates for a lot of things.”

For KarstadtQuelle – which marked its recovery from years of financial trouble this week by announcing a new name, Arcandor – the settlement closes a lingering and unsavory chapter in its history.

“We are leaving the dark, horrifying past behind us,” Thomas Middelhoff, the company’s chief executive, said in an interview. “Our biggest pending legal problem was this Wertheim issue.”

Middelhoff credited the former German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, for helping to break the logjam between the company and the Jewish claims conference. Kohl, he said, convinced the two sides that they could negotiate in good faith, after years of often bitter legal maneuvering.

The amount of the payment was a compromise – representing roughly a one-third discount to the market value of the real estate, said a person involved in the negotiations.

Middelhoff said: “Of course, they asked for more. Of course, we offered less. This is typical in these cases.”

Like other German-Jewish merchants, the Wertheims lost their property in the late 1930s under Nazi policies that expropriated Jewish-owned businesses and put them in “Aryan” hands. In 1951, when Jews had begun reclaiming property, an adviser to the Wertheims, Arthur Lindgens, persuaded them to sell him the rights to their stores and real estate for a pittance.

He then merged Wertheim with another former Jewish-owned chain, Hertie. That company was taken over by KarstadtQuelle, which still owns the Wertheim department store on the Kurfürstendamm, the prime shopping promenade in West Berlin.

The German restitution authorities ordered KarstadtQuelle to turn over other former Wertheim land in East Berlin. What set this piece apart was its tangled history. In 1949, when Berlin was divided into western and eastern areas of control, the empty lot became part of East German territory.

In 1961 it was cut off from the rest of East Germany when the Soviets put up the Berlin Wall and did not properly follow the lines of demarcation. In 1988, officials from East and West Berlin negotiated a land swap to fix the error, which put the property on Western soil.

Because of that transfer, KarstadtQuelle contended, this parcel was different than the other sites in East Berlin. Complicating matters further, it had sold the land to a developer in 2000 for a huge sum.

Taylor said Middelhoff played a critical role in expediting the settlement. In his previous post as chief of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann, he ordered an unsparing investigation of its war-time activities. (Mr. Middelhoff is on the board of The New York Times Company). “I have responsibilities as a CEO,” he said. “On the other hand, I was watching these people getting older and older without any resolution.”

France Le Pen Buoyed By Outbreak Of Violence

French far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has received a significant boost from a riot at a Paris train station this week.

Reuters

French far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has received a significant boost from a riot at a Paris train station this week, according to an opinion poll ahead of next month’s presidential election.

The leader of the National Front party, who shocked France by coming second in the 2002 ballot, had appeared becalmed in the polls before the violence on Tuesday evening enabled him to play on voter concerns about security.

A poll in Le Parisien daily published on Friday showed support for Le Pen rising two percentage points to 15 percent. Centrist Francois Bayrou is on 19.5 percent, Socialist Segolene Royal on 24.5 and rightist Nicolas Sarkozy 26.

Le Pen reached the second round runoff in 2002 with just 16.86 percent of the vote. Pollsters say opinion polls regularly underestimate his popularity because some supporters refuse to admit openly they are backing him.

While Sarkozy’s rating was steady, Royal and Bayrou dropped back 1.5 percentage points in the Le Parisien poll.

Le Pen’s 2002 success followed a wave of violence in France that drew attention to his hardline security and immigration policies, themes which have returned to the fore thanks to the rioting at Paris’s mainline Gare du Nord station.

Fighting broke out between youths and police following the arrest of a 32-year-old immigrant from Congo who was travelling on the Metro transport system without a ticket.

“What happened at the Gare du Nord shows the reality of the situation. Security has burst into the election campaign,” Le Pen told a televised news conference.

Sarkozy, who stepped down as interior minister last week to concentrate on his campaign, has also used the fighting to promote his hardline credentials and present his mainstream rivals as soft touches when it comes to crime.

Left-leaning newspaper Liberation said on Friday images of the station skirmishes, which mostly involved black youths fighting well-armed riot police, could prove a turning point ahead of the first round vote on April 22.

“Jean-Marie Le Pen rubs his hands as he rediscovers the tone of 2002,” the paper wrote. However, leftist candidates have toughened their own law-and-order policies this time around.

“They call me soft, no? Well, you know me, that’s not me,” Royal told a Socialist rally this week to loud cheers.

Last week Royal stunned some Socialists by urging French families to hang out the national flag at holidays and she has started singing the national anthem at her meetings.

Royal’s decision to drape her campaign in nationalistic colours is regarded as a clear bid to woo back working class voters who turned to Le Pen in their droves in 2002.

Holocaust education touchy in Baltics

Michael J. Jordan

Holocaust education is spotty in the Baltics, where teaching children about atrocities may mean implicating their grandparents and denting national pride.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (JTA) — Inside the Vilnius Zveryno High School, the Lithuanian teens greet a guest to their Tolerance Center as they would a teacher — standing at attention.

Striking Holocaust images painted by the teens cover the blackboard: mostly watercolors of Jews deported, torn from loved ones, trapped behind barbed wire.

In the back of the classroom, a cabinet has become a permanent exhibit, its doors opened to reveal a miniature concentration camp built of wood, clay and paper.

“We need to learn our country’s history and what our ancestors did — it was very cruel,” says Ruta Vastakaite, speaking, like her classmates, in near-flawless English.

“Some thought they were better than the Jews,” Linas Budrys adds, “and that Jews should have no rights.”

“Only when we know our own history can we prevent it from happening again,” Ieva Kerzaite concludes.

The words are an encouraging sign considering that not a single student in the class is Jewish. That’s not surprising in a country that before World War II was a center of Jewish life but which today has no more than 5,000 Jews.

As in the neighboring Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, Holocaust education in Lithuania is a tricky business. Not only were the Jewish populations in the Baltic countries decimated by the Nazis, many of their own countrymen took part in the killings.

Approximately 220,000 of the 250,000 Jews in Lithuania were killed, and 90,000 of 100,000 in Latvia. Only seven of the estimated 1,000 Jews survived the onslaught in Estonia.

Teaching children about those atrocities may mean implicating their own grandparents and denting national pride that was allowed to grow only with independence 16 years ago.

Critics charge that some in these small ex-Soviet republics tend to deal with this complexity with a form of Holocaust denial: not denying the Holocaust per se, but rejecting local culpability and pinning blame entirely on the Germans. Indeed, in contrast to other European countries, no Baltic nation has ever imprisoned a local Nazi war criminal.

“You have to be very savvy about the Holocaust education being taught,” says Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Nazi-hunting office in Israel.

Five years ago the office launched “Operation Last Chance,” which offers cash rewards for information leading to prosecutions of war criminals from the Baltics and other countries.

“Is local complicity an important component?” Zuroff asked. “Or are they engaging in Holocaust deflection, dealing only with the easier part — what Germany and the Nazis did?”

One more question can be added: Are the Vilnius Zveryno students the rule or the exception?

In Latvia, which has about 200 sites where Jews were killed, some youth are in the dark about what happened or feel disconnected from it, says Gita Umanovska, executive director of the Riga Jewish community.

“Maybe in their town of 3,000, 1,000 Jews were killed in the woods,” Umanovska says. “Maybe they don’t know, or don’t want to know. They may feel it happened over there, but we’re over here; it’s not a part of my history, my town, my family.”

In some cases, the government isn’t helping.

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga has apologized for Latvian participation in the Nazi slaughter, but an official Latvian history book — produced in 2005 — described Salaspils, the country’s main concentration camp, as a “corrective working camp.” In reality, some 50,000 people were killed there.

Complicating the picture is that while Lithuania, for example, had one of Europe’s highest rates of collaboration with the Nazis, Yad Vashem has honored 693 Lithuanians as “Righteous Gentiles” among the more than 21,700 so recognized. From Latvia, 103 righteous have been identified; from Estonia, three.

A memoir of more than 100 Lithuanian ghetto and camp survivors, “With a Needle in the Heart,” cites countless instances of ordinary folks helping Jews.

In addition, the Baltic states endured their own wartime trauma: The Soviet “liberators” deported hundreds of thousands of people to Siberia, and executed or imprisoned many others. More attention to crimes against Jews might not resonate here, nor would puncturing these nations’ own sense of victimization.

The Holocaust itself was a taboo topic for a half-century. Soviet propaganda would refer generically to the “Soviet victims of fascism,” never the “Jewish victims.”

Compared with Western countries like France and Austria, which took four decades to confront their past, “I’d say Holocaust education in the Baltics is moving in a positive direction, but the question is the speed and intensity,” says Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee. “One can understand, if you’re talking about the Holocaust in general, there’s little opposition — the United Nations itself has recognized it. But when it comes closer to home, it increases sensitivity.

“Here we are trying to peel back decades of history to address a problem never critically reviewed,” he says. “It’s difficult for people who see themselves as victims to imagine their grandparents may also have been perpetrators or bystanders.”

Nevertheless, once the Soviet regime crumbled, the Baltics joined fellow Eastern European countries in saying the right things: apologizing for the Holocaust and vowing to commemorate it, resolve issues like restitution and prosecute war criminals.

Holocaust education essentially was a precondition for any country presenting itself as a decent, modern society with hopes of joining exclusive Western clubs like the European Union or NATO.

The Baltic countries joined both organizations in 2004. But backing up words with action has lagged, leading some to question the sincerity of the mea culpas.

When Council of Europe member nations declared their intention in 2000 to commemorate the Holocaust, Estonia, facing domestic resistance, designated Holocaust Day on Jan. 27, 2003 — not pegged to any date symbolizing local participation but to the liberation of Auschwitz.

Lithuanian officials, though, note that their Holocaust Day was created a decade earlier, before they learned they would join either institution.

“We were doing this for ourselves because everybody knows what happened to the Jews here,” says Rimantas Jokimaitis, a historian who is responsible for history textbooks in Lithuania’s Education and Science Ministry. “I think we do a lot because it’s impossible to discuss Lithuanian history without the Holocaust. It’s a part of our history.”

The ministry also sponsors an annual writing competition for teens entitled “My Grandparents’ Neighbor Was Jewish,” and has compiled the best essays into books. It also provides some funding for the 46 Tolerance Centers like the one at Vilnius Zveryno High School.

But these centers aren’t located in every Lithuanian high school, and their activities are voluntary, held after school.

Lithuania also has no specifically designed Holocaust-studies course. Instead, lessons are folded into the broader history curriculum for students in the fifth, 10th and 12th grades.

Jokimaitis shows a visitor a history book for 16- and 17-year-olds. The Holocaust chapter starts with “Destruction of the Lithuanian Jewish Community.”

Subsections highlight telling anecdotes from the era: a Lithuanian police officer’s letter to superiors explaining how they killed Jews; a police report questioning what to do about a priest who wouldn’t let killers of Jews into his church; a newspaper advertisement proclaiming that Lithuanians who help Jews would share their fate.

Yet the chapter runs just six pages.

“It wasn’t treated as something separate, just a part of history,” Benjaminas Krumas, 23, recalls of his high school lessons in Kaunas, known to Jews as historic Kovno and home to a ghetto liquidated by the Nazis in 1944. “Perhaps the teacher had her own point of view on it or was afraid to discuss it more. But we learned more about it from our grandparents.”

Indeed, history teachers like Arija Melaikiene play a pivotal role. Both the Ministry of Education and the Lithuanian Jewish community recommended the Tolerance Center that Melaikiene founded at Vilnius Zverynas.

It was seven years ago that Melaikiene had an epiphany. She had assigned her students to draw up family trees as a springboard to discussion of Lithuania’s various regions and names, as well as other topics.

One girl, by the name of Finkelsteinaite, turned in her assignment with half the tree lopped off.

“Everyone had died in 1942 or ‘43,” Melaikiene recalls. “At first I thought she was too lazy to draw a real family tree. Then I realized what had happened.”

It was cathartic, Melaikiene says.

“I decided that I hadn’t been a very good teacher because I hadn’t been paying attention to the most important facts,” she says.

That led to an immersion in Jewish history, Jewish contributions to Lithuanian culture, visits to Auschwitz and Yad Vashem — and a commitment to preach tolerance.

Melaikiene speaks of three categories of Lithuanians during the Holocaust — those who killed, those who turned a blind eye and those who helped Jews in some way — but admits to treading carefully when broaching the first two categories with students.

“I have to find a middle ground, talking about both good guys and bad guys,” she says. “If there are some students who don’t believe it, I don’t want the other students to think badly of them because they’re rejecting what I’m saying.

“I don’t know whose grandfather did what, but I can guess: If there’s a usually very active student, then we talk about the Holocaust and his activity disappears, I tell them, ‘Don’t hate your grandfather if he killed somebody because he’s still your grandfather and you love him.’ But if he killed someone, then it’s a fact and we have to say this. It’s a tragedy for that family.”

Others trying to connect with students are the Holocaust survivors themselves — like Kaunas-born Fania Brancovskaja-Jocheles, 84, who escaped the Vilnius ghetto alone. Her mother, father and sister were among 50 relatives killed.

In recent years, Brancovskaja-Jocheles has shared her story with classes in Lithuania. She also has traveled to Germany and Austria to recount her experiences.

“I tell them not only who was killing us but who was saving us, which is why I also tell them to talk to their grandmother and grandfather,” Brancovskaja-Jocheles says, pulling mementos from her shelves to show a visitor.

“I don’t want to threaten people, only for them to know the truth,” she says. “Those who were killed cannot speak, so I must. And if you tell them from your heart, even in a little way it may go to their brain and help them prevent bad things from happening in the future.”

Despite such campaigns, observers say the Baltic countries remain prone to anti-Jewish eruptions, especially in the media or on the Internet.

That’s most evident in the torrent of vitriol unleashed amid stalled negotiations to return Jewish property or bring accused Nazi-era war criminals to justice.

“Excluding the good efforts of hundreds of teachers and historians devoting their time to the memory of the Holocaust, the level of reaction and distrust is so great, I’m shocked by the reality 16 years after Lithuanian independence,” says Emanuelis Zingeris, the lone Lithuanian Jewish parliamentarian, who is among the lobbyists for restitution.

With the carrot of Western integration digested, the stick has vanished as well.

Lacking that leverage, Jewish activists like Baker say they now rely on a network of Baltic politicians, historians and teachers like Melaikiene.

Ultimately, though, there is no way to gauge if any of this Holocaust education “works.” As Latvia’s Umanovska says, “We have no special system to check it.”

Brit Sailors

Something stinks

In her own words: the female sailor held captive in Iran

An exclusive interview with Faye Turney, hours before she was seized

By Terri Judd in Bahrain

Published: 28 March 2007

The woman who was captured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards while serving with the Royal Navy in Iraq spoke of her devotion to both her family and her job just hours before she was seized.

In an interview with The Independent, leading Seaman Specialist Faye Turney described how the crew of HMS Cornwall were well aware of the perils of operating in an area that had been targeted by suicide bombers. The 25-year-old mother, one of 15 sailors and Marines captured on Friday off the coast of Iraq, said: “I know by doing this job I can give [my daughter] everything she wants in life and hopefully by seeing me doing what I do, she’ll grow up knowing that a woman can have a family and have a career at the same time.”

Diplomatic pressure to free the 15 captives is to be stepped up today as defence officials produce evidence to prove the British servicemen and women were in Iraqi waters.

As Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, cut short a visit to Turkey to fly back to Britain for a statement today to the Commons, defence chiefs were planning to produce the global positioning system (GPS) co- ordinates as proof that they were not on Iran’s side of the disputed waterway.

On the day before the British crew was captured Leading Seaman Turney had described how morale on HMS Cornwall had been buoyant since its arrival in the northern Arabian Gulf weeks earlier. She said: “The atmosphere on the boat is really good. We were made aware that some things can be really dodgy. [But] we’ve not really had anything that bad at the moment – that’s always a good sign.

“My parents made sure I was under no illusions that I could, and can, go to war at any time. Sometimes it can be like a cruise being in the Navy but sometimes you may be called upon. And if you are then you just have to get on with it, That’s what you’re paid for.”

For the past few weeks Leading Seaman Turney, along with the rest of the crew of HMS Cornwall, had been part of a massive military operation instigated three years ago after suicide bombers in three dhows attacked the Al Basra and Khawr Al Amaya oil terminals, killing three Americans. A three-kilometre exclusion zone was thrown up around each of the terminals – which pump out 90 per cent of Iraq’s crude oil. They are patrolled by Iraqis, the British, Americans and Australians.

On Friday Leading Seaman Turney was part of a boarding team of 15 in what the British insist were categorically Iraqi waters when they were taken captive by by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in speedboats mounted with machine guns.

A day earlier she had talked of her devotion to her three-year-old daughter, Molly, and the guilt of leaving her behind at home in Plymouth to be cared for by her husband Adam, a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy.

Of her daughter she said: “She’s bubbly, very headstrong, very girly, an absolute gem, a real diamond, a treasure. She’s getting more of a character each day. It’s a shame I’m missing that but she’s a top girl and will grow up to be a very reliable, independent, strong young woman, which is exactly what I want for her.

“I love my job, I really do love my job but I love my daughter also. If I didn’t love my job I wouldn’t be able to do it but if I had to make a choice my daughter would win every time – without a shadow of a doubt, no question about it.

“I’m too up-and-about to sit behind a desk – I would support her if she wanted to do the same. As long as she’s happy, I will support her.”

The captured sailors and Marines have now been held by Iran for five days. The only other member of the group to be named is 21-year-old Paul Barton.

Ministers were yesterday discussing producing photographs of the ship the Royal Navy teams were searching when they were surrounded by the Iranian guards. The ship’s engine had broken down and it is still moored where the incident took place.

Senior diplomatic sources said it was not clear what the Iranians’ motives were, but they were discounting fears that the 15 are being held as hostages.

“It is very difficult to know what the motives are,” said one Whitehall source. “Some say it is a response to our UN resolution over the weekend [imposing sanctions on Iran for its pursuit of a nuclear weapons programme] despite the fact that they were taken on Friday.”

The Foreign Secretary made “robust” protests to the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran by telephone yesterday over the failure to grant consular access to the 15 detainees. London does not know where they are held, or who is holding them, although there were rumours they were being held in the capital. “What we are looking at is pretty muddled,” said the source. “We don’t know who has got them. We don’t know their location but we are working with people with whom they have contact.”

Tony Blair appeared to threaten an escalation in the diplomatic crisis if they were not released. He said: “I hope we manage to get the Iranians to realise they have to release them. If not, then this will move into a different phase.”

But Downing Street quickly played down suggestions that the Prime Minister was hinting at the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from London or military action.

An official spokesman stressed that London was seeking to defuse the situation, and said Mr Blair was referring to the publication of the evidence that they were not in Iranian waters when they were taken.

As the diplomatic wrangling intensified, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “We have been clearly stating we are utterly certain that the personnel were in Iraqi waters. We so far have not made explicit why we know that because we don’t want to escalate this.

“We may have to go to the step where we become more explicit why we know. We don’t want to do this too soon because we prefer to resolve this quietly. If that is not possible, we may have to be more explicit.

“We want to resolve this quickly without having a public confrontation with them.”

Asked what proof the British might produce, the spokesman replied: ” There is a boat which we inspected.”

Reports that Iran had fired a missile at a US ship in the Persian Gulf sent oil prices soaring last night, but Lt Cmdr Charlie Brown, of the US Navy, said the rumors were untrue. The British government also said that none of its forces had been attacked.

OTHER

Iraq diggers ‘contaminated with radiation’ (Jewed up and Spit out)

TWO Australian soldiers who served in the first Iraq war have tested positive to depleted uranium (DU) contamination despite assurances from the Federal Government they had not been exposed, an anti-nuclear group said today.

Any such admission from the Government would leave it open to millions of dollars in compensation, said Pauline Rigby, project co-ordinator for the group Depleted Uranium Silent Killer (DUSK).

Urine samples from each of the men, who served in different areas of Iraq, were sent last year for uranium isotope analysis at the JW Goethe University in Germany at a cost of $1200 each under the auspices of DUSK and the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC) in Canada, Ms Rigby said.

The results, now being evaluated for publication next month in two scientific journals, showed both men had tested positive to depleted uranium contamination more than 15 years after their return from the first Gulf War.

Ms Rigby said depleted uranium was the toxic and radioactive waste from the nuclear enrichment process.

Denser and heavier than lead, it is used as a projectile to penetrate heavy bunkers and tanks.

“It’s going to be Agent Orange all over again, except this time it’s going to be a little bit worse because the mutations go into the general community from blood and organ donations.”

A 52-year-old Sunshine Coast man, known only as “Frank” (not his real name), said he was one of those tested.

In 1991, he was an army medic in the mountains of northern Iraq, aiding Kurdish refugees fleeing the persecution of Saddam Hussein’s forces.

He cannot work and has suffered skin rashes on his face, arms and neck, swollen joints, chronic fatigue and dizzy spells but his doctor can only treat his symptoms because he is at a loss to explain their cause.

Frank’s wife, from whom he is now separated, had cervical cancer and burning semen syndrome, a condition reported by American Gulf War veterans or their sexual partners since returning from the Persian Gulf.

They or their sexual partners have experienced a burning sensation after skin and/or vaginal contact with semen.

But Frank says he only wants recognition from the Government.

“I’m not looking for millions of dollars in compensation,” Frank said today.

“I just want to be treated fairly and I want our service recognised so that I can clearly have what I am entitled to and so my children can also seek and receive free of charge any and all testing and be honestly told and informed of where they stand.”

A Defence spokesperson said the department had no knowledge of the two men who had allegedly tested positive for DU.

Australia had not used DU munitions since 1990 and Australian personnel were not in “immediate proximity” to sites in Iraq or Afghanistan where DU munitions were used by Australia’s coalition partners.

“Accordingly, it is highly unlikely that any ADF personnel received significant exposure to DU residues in Iraq or Afghanistan,” the spokesperson said.

‘Marriage to an Arab is national treason’ (ynet news)

Recent poll reveals steep rise in racist views against Arabs in Israel; many participants feel hatred, fear when overhearing Arabic, 75 percent don’t approve of shared apartment buildings

Roee Nahmias

Over half of the Jewish population in Israel believes the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason, according to a recent survey by the Geocartography Institute.

The survey, which was conducted for the Center Against Racism, also found that over 75 percent of participants did not approve of apartment buildings being shared between Arabs and Jews. Sixty percent of participants said they would not allow an Arab to visit their home.

Five hundred Jewish men and women participated in the poll, which was published Tuesday.

According to the survey, racism against Arabs in Israel has seen a sharp rise since a similar survey was conducted two years ago.

In 2006, 247 racist acts against Arabs were reported, as opposed to 225 one year prior.

About 40 percent of participants agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked”. The number was 55 percent lower in the previous survey. Also, over half of the participants agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to immigrate from the country.

Over half of the participants said they would not want to work under the direct management of an Arab, and 55 percent said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”.

‘Arab culture inferior’

Participants were asked what they felt when they overheard someone speaking Arabic. Thirty-one percent said they felt hatred, while 50 percent said they felt fear.

Over 56 percent of participants said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both a security and a demographic threat to the country.

When asked what they thought of Arab culture, over 37 percent replied, “The Arab culture is inferior.”

Violations Force Feinstein Military Committee Resignation

A veteran California senator has resigned as chair of a powerful military construction committee after reports that for years she abused her position to award her husband’s companies billions of dollars in government contracts.

During her six years as chair and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Senator Dianne Feinstein annually supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars for specific military construction projects. The San Francisco lawmaker supervised her own staff of military construction experts and she lobbied Pentagon officials to support her favorite projects.

She wielded quite a bit of power and succeeded in steering hundreds of billions of dollars in military contracts to companies partially owned by her wealthy husband, Richard Blum. One company alone earned $792 million from military construction and environmental cleanup projects approved by Feinstein’s committee and another $759 million.

The blatant ethics violation and obvious conflict of interest was first exposed earlier this year by a weekly Northern California publication. The story details how Feinstein voted over the years for appropriations that enriched her husband’s firms and that her top legal advisor also happens to be one of her husband’s longtime business partners; in other words, a financial beneficiary of the senator’s decisions.

No wonder Feinstein, a former San Francisco mayor elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, is among the wealthiest members of congress. Last year she ranked eighth with a net worth of $42.6 million, boosted by assets she holds with her husband. Most of them are companies that have made their fortune from the very government contracts she has granted them.

Perhaps Feinstein quit her coveted military construction committee position because she is taking her new role as the senate ethics police quite seriously. As the new chair of the Senate Rules Committee Feinstein, for years an ethics violator, is actually in charge of regulating her colleagues’ ethical behavior.

Evil Americans, Poor Mullahs

By Claus Christian Malzahn

Forty-eight percent of Germans think the United States is more dangerous than Iran, a new survey shows, with only 31 percent believing the opposite. Germans’ fundamental hypocrisy about the US suggests that it’s high time for a new bout of re-education.

AP

A German man carries a banner with a picture of Bush as Hitler during a 2003 demonstration against the Iraq war in Leipzig. Bush-bashing is something of a national sport in Germany.

The Germans have believed in many things in the course of their recent history. They’ve believed in colonies in Africa and in the Kaiser. They even believed in the Kaiser when he told them that there would be no more political parties, only soldiers on the front.

Not too long afterwards, they believed that Jews should be placed into ghettos and concentration camps because they were the enemies of the people. Then they believed in the autobahn and that the Third Reich would ultimately be victorious. A few years later, they believed in the Deutsche mark. They believed that the Berlin Wall would be there forever and that their pensions were safe. They believed in recycling as well as in cheap jet travel. They even believed in a German victory at the soccer World Cup.

Now they believe that the United States is a greater threat to world peace than Iran. This was the by-no-means-surprising result of a Forsa opinion poll commissioned by Stern magazine. Young Germans in particular — 57 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds, to be precise — said they considered the United States more dangerous than the religious regime in Iran.

The German political establishment, which will no doubt loudly lament the result of the poll, is largely responsible for this wave of anti-Americanism. For years the country’s foreign ministers fed the Germans the fairy tale of what they called a “critical dialogue” between Europe and Iran. It went something like this: If we are nice to the ayatollahs, cuddle up to them a bit and occasionally wag our fingers at them when they’ve been naughty, they’ll stop condemning their women to death for “unchaste behavior” and they’ll stop building the atom bomb.

That plan failed at some point — an outcome, incidentally, that Washington had long anticipated. Iran continues to work away unhindered on its nuclear program, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts to UN demands with an ostentatious show of ignorance. The UN gets upset and drafts a resolution.

Another item on the Iranian president’s wish list is the annihilation of Israel. But that will take a bit longer. In the meantime, just to make sure it doesn’t get out of practice, the regime had 15 British soldiers kidnapped a few days ago. But it’s still all the Americans’ fault — that much is obvious.

Inherently evil

We’ve known just what they’re like for a long time. The 19th-century German author Karl May taught us about the American Wild West, and Karl Marx warned us about unbridled capitalism. Besides, we’ve all been there at least once — on vacation, of course. Be it in California or Florida (that’s where you get the best deals on rental cars, you know), we can see right through the Americans.

For us Germans, the Americans are either too fat or too obsessed with exercise, too prudish or too pornographic, too religious or too nihilistic. In terms of history and foreign policy, the Americans have either been too isolationist or too imperialistic. They simply go ahead and invade foreign countries (something we Germans, of course, would never do) and then abandon them, the way they did in Vietnam and will soon do in Iraq.

Worst of all, the Americans won the war in 1945. (Well, with German help, of course — from Einstein and his ilk.) There are some Germans who will never forgive the Americans for VE Day, when they defeated Hitler. After all, Nazism was just an accident, whereas Americans are inherently evil. Just look at President Bush, the man who, as some of SPIEGEL ONLINE’s readers steadfastly believe, “is worse than Hitler.” Now that gives us a chance to kill two birds with one stone. If Bush is the new Hitler, then we Germans have finally unloaded the Führer on to someone else. In fact, we won’t even have to posthumously revoke his German citizenship, as politicians in Lower Saxony recently proposed. No one can hold a candle to our talent for symbolism!

Anti-Americanism is the wonder drug of German politics. If no one believes what you’re saying, take a swing at the Yanks and you’ll be shooting your way back up to the top of the opinion polls in no time. And on the practical side, you can be the head of the Social Democratic Party and endear yourself to the party’s hardcore with a load of anti-American nonsense, and still get invited back to Washington — just look at Gerhard Schröder. In fact, you could, like leading German politicians in the debate over the planned American missile shield in Europe, be accused of having “an almost unbelievable lack of knowledge” by a former NATO general, and even that wouldn’t matter. It’s all about what you believe, not what you know.

Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest. You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of “24″ and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning. You can claim that the Americans have themselves to blame for terrorism, while at the same time calling for tougher restrictions on Muslim immigration to Germany. You can call the American president a mass murderer and book a flight to New York the next day. You can lament the average American’s supposed lack of culture and savvy and meanwhile send off for the documents for the Green Card lottery.

Not a day passes in Germany when someone isn’t making the wildest claims, hurling the vilest insults or spreading the most outlandish conspiracy theories about the United States. But there’s no risk involved and it all serves mainly to boost the German feeling of self-righteousness.

Not so safe

Iran is a different story. The last time someone made a joke on German TV about an Iranian leader, the outcome was not pleasant. Exactly 20 years ago, Dutch entertainer Rudi Carell produced a short TV sketch portraying Ayatollah Khomeini dressed in women’s underwear. Carell received death threats. The piece, which lasted all of a few seconds, led to flights being cancelled and German diplomats being expelled from Tehran. Carell apologized. Jokes about fat Americans are just safer.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, the American historian who in his 1996 book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” deprived the Germans of the belief that they didn’t know what was going on back in the day, is currently studying the history of genocides in the 20th century. One of the things he has noticed is that the politicians or military leaders who planned genocides and had them carried out rarely concealed their intentions in advance. Whether the victims were Hereros, Armenians, kulaks, Jews or later Bosnians, the perpetrators generally believed that they were justified and had no reason to hide their murderous intentions.

Today, when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about a world without Israel while dreaming of an atom bomb, it seems obvious that we — as Germans of all people — should be putting two and two together. Why shouldn’t Ahmadinejad mean what he says? But we Germans only know what we believe.

The Americans are more dangerous than the ayatollahs? Perhaps the Americans should take the Germans at their word for a change. It’s high time for a new round of re-education. The last one obviously didn’t do the job.

Pelosi going to Syria despite objections

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned as a sponsor of terrorism, despite being asked by the administration not to go.

“In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort of high-profile visitors to Syria,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Friday.

Pelosi arrived in Israel on Friday in what is her second fact-finding trip to the Middle East since taking over leadership of the House in January.

Her repeat trip, an indication she plans to play a role in foreign policy, is also an act of defiance to the administration, which says such diplomatic overtures by lawmakers can do more harm than good.

Pelosi will not be the first member of Congress in recent months to travel to Syria, but as House speaker she is the most senior.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the speaker “should take a step back and think about the message that it sends.”

“This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror, one that is trying to disrupt the Senora government in Lebanon and one that is allowing foreign fighters to flow into Iraq from its borders,” Perino said.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “probably really wants people to come, and have a photo opportunity, and have tea with him, and have discussions about where they’re coming from. But we just think it’s a really bad idea,” Perino said.

Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said the delegation “intends to discuss a wide range of security issues affecting the United States and the Middle East with representatives of governments in the region, including Syria,” as recommended by the Iraq Study Group.

The independent bipartisan commission suggested in December that engaging Syria and Iran could help the war effort. The Bush administration eventually agreed to reach out to the two countries, but only to discuss Iraq.

U.S. officials held their first direct, high-level contact with Syrian representatives in years when they met in Baghdad this month with officials from several Middle East countries to discuss Iraq.

McCormack said the State Department tried to discourage Pelosi and the others from visiting Syria but agreed to give their staffs a pre-trip briefing. The U.S. Embassy in Damascus also is expected to assist the delegation.

Others traveling with Pelosi were Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Henry Waxman and Tom Lantos of California, Louise Slaughter of New York and Nick Rahall of West Virginia, and Ohio Republican David Hobson. Ellison is the first Muslim member of Congress.

The House has adjourned for a two-week spring break.

The group planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and to travel to the West Bank to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Ellison’s spokesman, Rick Jauert.

The speaker is expected to address the Israeli Knesset on Sunday, her first speech to a foreign government. She will become the highest-ranking American woman to speak before the Israeli parliament, according to her office.

She is expected to discuss “America’s commitment to Israel and the challenges facing the two nations in the Middle East,” according to a statement.

In late January, Pelosi and a close political ally, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., led a delegation of House members to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and other countries.

The January trip to Baghdad came just days after the president asked Congress in his State of the Union address to give his revised war strategy a chance to work. Bush is sending 21,500 additional combat troops, plus thousands of other support troops, to Iraq in a bid to tamp down sectarian attacks and provide enough security to hasten reconstruction efforts.

Pelosi last week forced legislation through the House that would order all combat troops out of Iraq by September 2008, a measure that resembles legislation approved by the Democratic-run Senate.

Risk-taking in Riyadh

Fri. Mar 30, 2007

As the Forward went to press this week, reports from a senior Israeli journalist currently in Riyadh — those words themselves bespeak a revolution in Arab-Israeli relations — indicate that Saudi Arabia is preparing to roll out an elaborate new peace proposal. Formulated in the course of secret talks with Israeli and American officials, the new proposal reportedly is meant to fill the gaps that Israel finds most worrisome in the existing Saudi peace plan.

The main Saudi plan, first floated in 2002, promises Israel diplomatic relations and permanent peace with all 22 Arab states in return for withdrawal to the 1967 borders, establishment of a Palestinian state and honoring the Palestinian refugees’ “right of return.” Israel, after initially ignoring the plan, has lately taken to calling it “positive,” but rejects the idea of taking in a flood of Palestinian refugees. Israelis also worry about the apparent all-or-nothing nature of the plan; they want to talk it through, haggle over precise borders and build in reliable guarantees of their own security.

Those are the objections that the reputed new Saudi proposals are meant to answer. According to reporter Orly Azoulay, the Washington correspondent of Yediot Aharonot, who was in Riyadh to cover this week’s Arab League summit, the Saudis are developing on a plan to establish joint Israeli-Arab working groups that would negotiate the various specific elements and timing of the overall peace plan. The working groups would include representatives of the diplomatic Quartet — the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia — and would operate under the auspices of an international conference to be convened by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

In a separate report, Yediot stated that the Saudis had reached an agreement in secret talks with Washington and Jerusalem on a refugee deal that would give Palestinians a choice between financial compensation in the countries where they now live or applying for resettlement in the new Palestinian state.

The newspaper reported that the new proposals were to be aired only in the most general terms at this week’s Riyadh summit, where the original Saudi plan was to be revived. The plan won unanimous approval when it was first presented to the Arab League in 2002, but reportedly faces bitter opposition this time from Syria and Libya. Other states are likely to seek a middle ground in order to preserve the semblance of consensus, which could spell trouble for the Saudi efforts to move toward Israel.

Israel faces its own minefields. The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was elected on a promise to seek a settlement, and public opinion favors a deal. It’s not clear, though, that Israelis are prepared for the magnitude of the sacrifice that will be demanded of them. Reaching a deal will require leadership and courage, and both of those commodities are in short supply in Jerusalem right now. Olmert’s political career hangs by a dozen fraying threads, and his main challenges come from the right.

This is a fragile moment, fraught with opportunity and danger. Opponents of any Israeli compromise will dredge up every argument in the book to discredit the Saudis and the rest of the Arab states. They’ll question the viability of the plan and the wisdom of Israeli security experts who favor it. Friends of Israel, seeking only to protect the Jewish state from its enemies, may be tempted to join the fray by picking up the warnings and repeating them loudly, thinking they’re building pressure for a better deal.

But that’s the wrong response. The Saudi plan contains risks for Israel, but those are risks that Israelis are capable of navigating. The greatest danger right now is that a genuine opportunity for peace will be lost. The Saudis are taking an enormous risk in exposing themselves to hardliners as Israel’s advocates. They need encouragement, not abuse.

Secret Briefing by Zinni Seen as Key In Aipac Duo Trial

Nathan Guttman | Fri. Mar 30, 2007

‘Apartheid’ Book Exposes Carter-Clinton Rift
Clinton: ‘I Don’t Know Where His Information Came From’

Jennifer Siegel | Fri. Mar 30, 2007

For months, the controversy over former president Jimmy Carter’s book has generally been fueled by bitter criticism from the Jewish community. In recent weeks, however, the debate has shown signs of evolving into a personal clash between the country’s last two Democratic presidents.

Earlier this month, former president Bill Clinton spoke out against Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” during an appearance before the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County. “If I were an Israeli I wouldn’t like it, because it’s not factually correct and it’s not fair,” Clinton reportedly said.

This appears to be one of the few times that Clinton has taken a public swipe at the book or spoken out directly against his fellow former president on any matter.

In addition to Clinton’s comments in San Diego, the American Jewish Committee released a letter last week from the former president thanking the group’s executive director, David Harris, for speaking out against the book.

“Thanks so much for your articles about President Carter’s book,” Clinton wrote in a handwritten note dated January 11. “I don’t know where his information (or conclusions) came from, but Dennis Ross has tried to straighten it out, publicly and in two letters to him. At any rate, I’m grateful.”

Clinton appeared to be referring to sections of Carter’s book that denigrate the American-backed land-for-peace final settlement offer that Israel made to the Palestinians in 2000. Ross, who served as Clinton’s envoy to the Middle East, has said publicly that maps he published outlining the Clinton proposal were improperly reprinted, and then mislabeled, by Carter. In doing so, Ross said, Carter wrongly suggested that Israel had not, in fact, offered the Palestinians all of Gaza and roughly 97% of the West Bank, but instead small and isolated islands of Palestinian territory.

In his book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Carter argues that the terms of Clinton’s peace proposal at Camp David in the summer of 2000 were untenable for the Palestinians.

“There was no possibility that any Palestinian leader could accept such terms and survive,” Carter wrote. “But officials statements from Washington and Jerusalem were successful on placing the entire onus for the failure on Yasir Arafat.”

Word of Clinton’s public criticism of Carter comes as the 2008 presidential contenders, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, battle for Jewish support and money.

According to Democratic Party insiders, however, Bill Clinton’s recent remarks might be better understood as a temporary break in what has been a long and icy détente between two former presidents who share Southern roots, Baptist Christian faith and foreign policy legacies largely staked on the Middle East.

“Clinton and Carter have a long and tortured relationship,” said Steve Rabinowitz, a Washington media strategist who served as director of media planning in the Clinton White House. “They have never been close, but they have tried to stay out of each other’s way out of political respect.”

If Clinton was initially reluctant to speak out publicly about Carter’s book — unlike Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean — he has not been silent on the issue in private, according to one of his most important backers in the Orthodox community, Rabbi Menachem Genack.

Genack, who heads the kashruth division of the Orthodox Union and is now serving as a finance committee member on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, told the Forward that Clinton had openly discussed his displeasure with Carter’s book at a New York luncheon for Hillary supporters, held in mid-November. According to Genack, Clinton said that he was at the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations “and this notion that this was Israel’s obstinacy and so on completely conflicted with the reality of the negotiations.”

“He was very uncomfortable with the book,” Genack said.

Both Carter and Clinton doggedly pursued Middle East peace deals during their presidencies and have cited their Baptist upbringings as inspiration for seeking reconciliation between Arabs and Jews. But their personal allegiances to slain leaders, and their experiences at the negotiating table, appear to have driven them to different conclusions about where to cast blame for the continuing conflict.

Carter, in describing the historic peace talks at Camp David that culminated in the groundbreaking Israeli-Egyptian peace deal, has portrayed the late former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat as a visionary and heroic statesman who gave his life for peace, and the late former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin as a difficult interlocutor less prepared to transcend his past as an underground leader of Jewish nationalists.

In sharp contrast, Clinton developed a close personal relationship with Yitzhak Rabin before the Israeli prime minister was assassinated. Years later, after marathon talks at Camp David failed to produce an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, Clinton blamed the stalemate on Yasser Arafat, essentially casting him as a guerilla leader unable to embrace the role of statesman.

Independent of Middle East politics, some of the underlying tensions between Carter and Clinton go back decades.

In his 2004 autobiography, Clinton said that his failed 1980 bid for re-election as governor of Arkansas was damaged by the decision of President Carter to place 20,000 Cuban refugees at a military installation in the state, after some of the refugees had rioted and broken out of the facility as the National Guard looked on.

While Carter and Clinton have both pursued high-profile humanitarian causes as ex-presidents, and plan to participate in a gathering of progressive Baptists early next year, Clinton has often seemed much closer to former president George H.W. Bush, his partner in raising relief funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and those of the 2004 tsunami. Several political observers told the Forward that Carter’s outspoken political activism since leaving office has caused friction with Clinton and both Bushes.

“There is kind of this tradition that out of respect for the dignity of the office, presidents finish their terms and then sort of… let their successors have their own time at bat,” said Joshua Muravchik, a resident scholar of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute who recently published an article in Commentary magazine that is critical of Carter’s conduct as an ex-president. “Every one of Carter’s successors, including Clinton, has resented his meddling.”

Carter publicly opposed the use of force against Iraq in 1990 during the first Bush administration, and personally contacted United Nations member states to urge them not to support the American request for U.N. authorization of military action. In 1994, Carter successfully lobbied President Clinton to allow him to serve as an envoy to North Korea.

Rabinowitz suspects that his former boss decided to break with his “decades-long” approach of avoiding public criticism of Carter because “it all just got to be a bit too much.”

“This wasn’t one misstatement by Carter,” Rabinowitz said. “Needless to say, Carter didn’t let go.”

Higher Ed

New Delhi: The percentage of Indian students going to America for higher studies has decreased.

The US concerned over the issue said it had plans to increase the number of visas for them and also speed up the visa issuance process on Thursday.

“We are very much committed to assuring every Indian student admitted to a legitimate institution of higher education in the US that he or she will be granted visa on time,” US Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Karen P Hughes said.

“We have increased the number of visas for Indian students and we want to further increase the number,” Hughes added.

Hughes is on a week-long visit to India, heading a delegation of six US university presidents in an effort to expand educational partnerships with India.

The delegation also called on Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh to discuss two-way students’ exchange programmes with India.

“We discussed a variety of ideas like faculty exchange programme, student exchange programme and joint degree programme,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Thomas A Farrell said about the meeting.

He said the US was waking up to the reality that it is losing its advantage in drawing top-grade students from countries like India due to visa hurdles.

US FALLING BEHIND

The World Economic Forum, based in Geneva, said in its report that the United States had dropped from first to seventh place in its annual “Networked Readiness Index.”

The new champion, the Forum said, is Denmark, which had an excellent regulatory environment and clear government leadership and vision in application of computer technology.

By contrast, the U.S. decline was mainly due to the relative deterioration of its political and regulatory environment, it said.

But the report added that the country “maintains its primacy in innovation,” driven by its higher-education system and its cooperation with the tech industry and the availability of venture capital.

Executive summary of the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007

After Denmark, which was third in the 2006 ratings, the latest index showed Sweden in second place, up from eighth last year, Singapore third, Finland fourth, Switzerland fifth and the Netherlands sixth.

The report is produced by the Forum in cooperation with the Instead international business school at Versailles, near Paris. Its conclusions are based on assessments by experts at the two institutions.

The 122 countries surveyed were assessed on the general business, regulatory and infrastructure environment for technology applications; the readiness of individuals, businesses and governments to use and benefit from that environment; and their actual use of the latest technology.

In Asia, Hong Kong emerged in 12th place, with Taiwan 13th and Japan 14th. India, at 44th, and China, at 59th, had both dropped back, largely due to poor infrastructure, according to the report.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, Chile was leading at 31st in the global ranking, followed by Barbados at 40th. But most countries in the region were improving because of increased government emphasis on technology applications, the report said.

In Africa, almost all countries dropped in the ratings, including South Africa, which was rated 47th, compared with 37th the previous year. But a bright spot was Ethiopia, now spending nearly one-tenth of its gross domestic product annually on technology.

Foreign nations take tech title

Denmark ascends as the U.S. falls behind in technology education, development

Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Several European and Asian countries have overtaken the United States as the world’s leaders in leveraging information and communication technology, according to a report from the World Economic Forum.

The United States ranked seventh in the world in the Forum’s 2006-07 Networked Readiness Index, which measures a nation’s ability to participate in and benefit from developments in information and communication technology. Denmark, ranked third last year, took the top spot this year, followed by Sweden, Singapore, Finland and Switzerland.

The study echoes a new report from AEA, an industry trade group in Washington, that says the United States is falling behind other countries that are pouring more resources into technology education and development.

World Economic Forum officials said the United States remains a powerhouse, boasting a healthy market environment, continued innovation and plentiful venture capital. But it warns the country has been bogged down by a complex regulatory environment and a lack of technology adoption by individuals, businesses and government organizations.

This country’s slide from first to seventh in a year also reflects advances by other countries, which are leaping ahead at a faster pace, said Soumitra Dutta, a co-editor of the report.

“The U.S. has to observe trends in technology adoption around the world,” said Dutta. “In many parts of the world, in Asia and Europe, you have societies that are moving forward, leapfrogging the technology.”

Geneva’s World Economic Forum has issued networked readiness surveys since 2001. The latest index, which examined 122 countries, assessed the environment for information and communications technology in a country, the readiness of the industry and its stakeholders, and use of the technologies.

Peter Morici, an economist and a business professor at the University of Maryland, agreed the regulatory environment in the United States needs to be improved. He cited as an example how U.S. communications companies face stifling layers of federal and state regulations.

But he also said the network providers need to get the Internet infrastructure to operate faster instead of worrying about protecting their businesses from competitors.

“We haven’t gone backward, we’re just not moving forward,” said Morici. “We haven’t adequately built out our competitive technologies, and other countries are moving ahead. Unfortunately, it’s in the hands of cable and telecom companies. They’re not always forward-looking companies.”

This year’s leader, Denmark, has been steadily moving up the ladder over the years. Officials cited the relatively light regulatory burden in Denmark and clear vision from the government as contributing to the country’s rise in the rankings.

A new study by AEA, formerly known as the American Electronics Association, makes similar points. The study, “We Are Still Losing the Competitive Advantage: Now Is the Time To Act,” says other countries like South Korea are churning out more engineering graduates; the United States is not maintaining enough funding for basic research and development; and the level of math and science education remains low.

“Two years ago, AEA called the United States the proverbial frog in the pot of water, oblivious to the slowly rising temperature of a world catching up to us.

“Today, the heat is still rising and we are still in the pot. There is hope that we are finally feeling the heat and are poised to do something about it,” William Archey, association president and CEO, said in a statement.

Emily Nicely

Greensburg family accused of teen enslavement

By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Nelson Williams said he heard his caregiver question a teenager about her bruised appearance as she stood outside his Hempfield Township door March 10, delivering his Saturday newspaper.

“What in the world happened to you?” Williams, 66, remembered the caregiver asking the teen.

The teen then broke into tears and recounted that she had been beaten and kept against her will by a Greensburg family for more than six months, said Williams, who invited the teen inside and contacted authorities.

On Tuesday, members of that family, Mark Pollard, 43; his wife, Cynthia Pollard, 41; and children Mark Pollard Jr., 18, Jonathan Pollard, 17, and Tabitha Pollard, 16, all of 506 DelBene Way, were arraigned on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint, recklessly endangering another person, false imprisonment and conspiracy.

Mark, Cynthia and Mark Pollard Jr. were jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond after their arraignments before District Judge James Albert, of Greensburg.

Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard, both of whom have been charged as adults, are free on $50,000 unsecured bond. Arrangements were being made for them to stay with relatives.

Greensburg Detective Sgt. Henry Fontana alleges that the Pollards were keeping Emily Nicely, 19, against her will since September. She told police that she was beaten with boots, broom handles, a metal pipe, wooden door slats and other objects if she refused “to do chores,” according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Nicely, who had attended Greensburg Salem High School, began living with the Pollards last summer in the hope of finishing school there after her family moved out of the district, Fontana said. School district officials said she was last enrolled during the 2004-05 school year.

The abuse started shortly after she moved in, and the family referred to her as their “slave,” according to the affidavit.

“Ms. Nicely was not allowed to be alone or have contact with anyone except the Pollard family. She was not allowed out of the house unless she was with another family member,” the affidavit said.

Williams said that after he and his male caregiver invited the bruised Nicely inside, a woman came to the door and demanded the teen come outside. His caregiver — a tall, muscular man — refused, Williams said, shutting the door in the woman’s face.

“(Nicely) came in and sat,” Williams recalled. “I felt bad. She cried. I said, ‘Just sit here, stay warm. You don’t need to go outside. No one’s going to take you.’”

Two other people were outside his home as Nicely was delivering his copy of the Tribune-Review, Williams said.

Cynthia Pollard told police that members of the family had confrontations with Nicely, but only in self-defense, according to the affidavit. She said Nicely fell down while delivering the newspapers, and that was why she was bruised, court papers said.

After state police arrived at Williams’ home March 10, Nicely was taken for medical treatment at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, and city police were contacted. She is staying with her mother in another county, police said.

Tribune-Review records indicate Mark Jr., Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard serve as independent contractors delivering the newspaper. Each delivers on a different route in Greensburg.

‘Slave’ case neighbors stunned

By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tom Sarver said he was shocked when he heard a Greensburg family — his neighbors — allegedly kept a woman enslaved in their home and beat her for months.

“I thought it was terrible,” Sarver said Wednesday. “I didn’t think something like that could go on. And I was wondering about why it didn’t come to light sooner than it did.”

Since September, Mark Pollard, 43; his wife, Cynthia Pollard, 41; and their three children, Mark Pollard Jr., 18, Jonathan Pollard, 17, and Tabitha Pollard, 16, were holding Emily Nicely, 19, against her will at their 506 DelBene Way home, according to Greensburg police.

On Tuesday, the five family members were arraigned on kidnapping and other charges related to repeatedly beating Nicely with their fists and various objects and threatening to harm her and her family if she fled or told anyone, according to court papers. Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard are charged as adults.

Yesterday, other neighbors joined Sarver in voicing their astonishment at the charges and wondering why no one intervened sooner.

“I was shocked,” said Bill McAfee, a retired Greensburg police officer. “It’s always been a nice, quiet neighborhood. You wouldn’t think a block and a half from here that something like that was going on.”

“I don’t understand why someone didn’t notice and do something as far as counseling,” said another neighbor, Colleen Clark. “I don’t know why. I guess I’m as guilty (for not noticing).”

Many neighbors living on the 7th Ward hill with a view of the Westmoreland County courthouse and downtown Greensburg said they tend to keep to themselves and didn’t know the Pollards well.

Others, who asked not to be identified, said police often responded to calls about disturbances at the Pollard’s small, ill-kept house.

Greensburg police Capt. George Seranko confirmed that police had visited 506 DelBene Way, but said nothing tipped off officers about Nicely’s alleged ordeal, which she described as being treated like a slave, according to court papers.

Seranko said evidence shows that Nicely was beaten extensively over a period of time.

“It’s not a bruise; it’s hundreds of bruises,” he said. “You can tell this was a continuous assault. It wasn’t one time.

“It wasn’t bruising from a fall,” he added, referring to a statement Cynthia Pollard made to authorities. “Almost every part of her body had some type of a bruise on it.”

Detective Sgt. Henry Fontana said Nicely was staying with the family in hopes of continuing to attend Greensburg Salem High School after her family moved out of the school district. However, school officials said she was last enrolled in the 2004-05 school year.

All three Pollard children dropped out of school, Greensburg Salem officials said.

At some point, Nicely had dated both Mark Pollard Jr. and Jonathan Pollard, police said.

Nicely told police that she continued living with the family out of fear, according to a probable cause affidavit.

“They told her that if she told anyone or tried to leave, they would put wire around her neck and strangle her,” the affidavit said. “They would then go after her family.”

Authorities became aware of Nicely’s situation after Nelson Williams and his caregiver intervened after Nicely delivered a copy of the Tribune-Review to Williams’ Hempfield Township home March 10. Mark Jr., Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard all served as independent contractors delivering the newspaper, according to company records.

The caregiver questioned Nicely about her badly bruised face, Williams said, and Nicely said she had been beaten and kept imprisoned for more than six months.

They took Nicely inside, ignored Cynthia Pollard as she demanded that Nicely come outside, and called state police, Williams said.

Nicely was taken to Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, and doctors contacted city police.

Dr. Janet Squires, director of the Child Advocacy Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, said that in many publicized cases in which someone has been kept a prisoner, people often question why the victim did not try to escape.

In Nicely’s case, Squires said, even though she was 19, she was still childlike.

“Many times, one thing that makes people vulnerable is being threatened,” said Squires, whose center evaluates children and adolescents who may be victims of physical or sexual abuse, or neglect.

Threats can be very powerful, especially when a victim has no resources and no friends or family nearby, Squires said.

“I’ve heard horrific things that were said,” Squires said. “People are belittled. They are told, ‘If only you were good, I wouldn’t have to hit you.’”

After a while, a victim’s self-worth deteriorates.

“This young lady at least had the ego to articulate (what was happening) and report (it),” Squires said.

She said the Hempfield Township man who noticed Nicely’s injuries invited her in and contacted authorities is “a hero.”

“Sometimes the right person in the right place — asking, ‘Are you OK?’ at the right time — can give a victim a chance to ask for help,” Squires said.

Among the items seized during a police search of the Pollards’ home were a belt, a yardstick, window slats, a broom and a pole. Seranko said these items may undergo forensic testing if Nicely says that they were used to beat her.

The Pollards survive on Social Security payments, said Meagan Bilik, who represented the family at their arraignments before District Judge James Albert, of Greensburg.

“To my knowledge, there’s no prior (criminal) records,” the attorney said.

All five Pollards were jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond each.

Tabitha Pollard, who is six months pregnant, was put in jail yesterday after she could not satisfy authorities about an address where she would live on electronic monitoring while awaiting her preliminary hearing, court officials said.

The Pollards’ home is part of a mortgage foreclosure action begun by Citifinancial Services Inc, according to Westmoreland County court records.

Citifinancial alleges that no mortgage payments have been made since October. Nearly $42,000 is owed in principal, interest, late charges and other fees, according to court papers.

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Opening

TOPICS TONIGHT:

New Hush Crime: White Slavery in the
U.S.

A shocking story of a young white girl held captive by a mudshark and her
mud while being made to work and be used as a sex toy.

Uniforms

Implications for the rally in Tenn.

Looking for callers on the topic

Iranian seizure of British Marines In Iranian territorial waters

Spring Bling

Areas along the East Coast brace for random acts of TNB as darkies descend
on our towns.

Quick News

Some breaking news

This may simply be a misunderstanding, but it is probably a bit of cynical
maneuvering by the Americans to prevent Ahmadinejad from speaking.

March 23, 2007, 6:05PM
Iran’s president cancels U.N. appearance

UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad canceled a trip to New York to address the U.N. Security
Council before it votes on whether to impose further sanctions against his
country for refusing to stop enriching uranium, a Foreign Ministry spokesman
said Friday.

The decision came as diplomats from
the five veto-wielding members of the Security Council — the U.S., Britain,
France, China and Russia — and Germany held a flurry of last-minute
negotiations in New York on a draft resolution seeking to pressure Iran to
comply.

The six powers want a vote on the
resolution by Saturday, but diplomats said that could be delayed by efforts to
reach consensus to give the sanctions more weight.

The sanctions, agreed on last week
by the six powers, would ban Iranian arms exports and freeze the assets of 28
additional individuals and organizations involved in Iran’s nuclear and missile
programs. About a third of those are linked to the Revolutionary Guard, an
elite military corps.

Ahmadinejad said earlier this month
that he wanted to take his case for pursuing nuclear power to the Security
Council himself. Earlier Friday, a council diplomat said the Iranian president
would arrive in New York at 1 a.m. Saturday, just hours before the council is
expected to meet.

But Iranian Foreign Ministry
spokesman Mohammed Ali Hosseini told Iranian state television later in the day
that the trip had been scrapped because of “America’s obstruction in
issuing visas” to the Iranian delegation that was to travel to New York.

Hosseini said that instead of
Ahmadinejad, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will attend the Security
Council meeting and “explain Iran’s position regarding its nuclear
activities.”

“Due to open failure by the
United States to issue visas for members of the Iranian delegation accompanying
President Ahmadinejad and the air crew, American authorities have effectively
prevented President Ahmadinejad from attending the U.N. security council
meeting,” Hosseini said.

Mohammad Mir Ali Mohammadi, press
secretary of Iran’s mission at the U.N., told The Associated Press that the
U.S. did not deliver a visa to the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, in time
for Ahmadinejad to pick it up before flying to New York for the Saturday
session.

He said Russia and China were trying
to postpone the session until Monday and if the session was put off Ahamdinejad
would decide whether to come.

Tom Casey, a State Department
spokesman, said in Washington that 39 visas had been issued for Ahmadinejad and
other Iranian officials and their passports had been returned to Iranian
diplomats in Bern by Friday morning. He said another 36 passports with visas
were ready later in the day.

The U.S. says Iran’s nuclear efforts
are cover for a weapons program, but Tehran insists it only wants electricity.

In December, the Security Council
voted unanimously to impose limited sanctions on Iran, ordering all countries
to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to
its nuclear and missile programs and to freeze assets of 10 key Iranian
companies and 12 individuals related to those programs. Iran responded by
expanding its enrichment program.

Several non-permanent members of the
Security Council have resisted the draft resolution, agreed upon last week by
the five council powers and Germany.

In an effort to overcome their
concerns, Russia proposed a compromise Friday over a proposal by Indonesia and
Qatar calling for the Middle East to be free of weapons of mass destruction and
the missiles to deliver them. Including such an appeal could have implications
for Israel, a U.S. ally widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, though it
has never officially acknowledged it.

The Russian proposal would include a
recognition that “a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue would contribute
global non-proliferation efforts, including those in the Middle East.”

France and Britain approved of the
wording, while the United States was considering it, said Axel Crau, a
spokesman for France’s U.N. mission.

“It’s definitely a key point
and probably the key to unanimity,” Crau said.

He said the resolution’s co-sponsors
— France, Germany and Britain — still wanted to call a vote Saturday but may
delay it to seek consensus. “For the sake of unanimity we are willing to
make some efforts because unanimity has a value,” he said.

Alejandro Wolff, the acting U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations, said the nuclear debate should not be
affected by the Iranian seizure of 15 British sailors and marines in the
Persian Gulf Friday.

Bush Chimproval at new low

President Bush’s overall job approval rating and the rating of his handling
of the economy have dropped from to levels last seen in May 2006 as gasoline
prices increased, according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.”Among all Americans, 32% approve of the way Bush is handling his job as
president and 63% disapprove. When it comes to Bush’s handling of the economy,
32% approve and 64% disapprove. In February, 39% of Americans approved of the
way Bush was handling his job and 56% disapproved and 40% approved of the way
Bush was handling the economy and 54% disapproved.”

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan on
Thursday successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile with the
capability to avoid radar detection, the military said.

The missile, named Babur has a range
of 434 miles and is capable of carrying various types of warheads, including
nuclear, the military-run Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate said.

Pakistan routinely tests various
nuclear-capable missiles in its arsenal, believed to be designed mainly to
match that of neighboring archrival India.

The two countries have a history of
hostile relations. Both carried out underground nuclear tests in May 1998.

However, in 2004 they began a series
of negotiations to normalize relations and settle their dispute over the
Himalayan territory of Top of
Form

Kashmir, the main cause of bitterness between them.

Pakistan and India have fought two
wars over Kashmir since their independence from British rule in 1947. Kashmir
is split between the two countries, but each claims the whole of it.

India and Pakistan have an agreement
under which each country informs that other ahead of its missile tests.

But Pakistan did not inform India of
the test Thursday because the accord does not include providing prior
information on cruise missile tests, a military official said on condition of
anonymity because he was not authorized to comment to media.

In February, Pakistan successfully
test-fired a new version of its long-range nuclear-capable missile, (Shaheen
II), which has a range of 1,245 miles.

CONTEXT: compare/contrast Pakistan/Iran –3 wars in the last
century, tons of discord with a nuclear neighbor.

Also, not concerned because this
missile can only hit Iraq, not Israel. Also,
Pervez Musharaff is a Jew-tool.

Racial Discord (symphonies are racist)

Aaron Dworkin is founder of
something called the Sphinx Organization. Apparently he pays himself a lot of
money to “build diversity in classical music.”

Minorities make up 14 percent. The
New York Philharmonic has but one black member. However, Asian-Americans total
less than 4 percent of the U.S. population, but make up 10 percent of elite
orchestras.

Despite its many efforts to recruit minority students –including the
establishment of an office of diversity — the Julliard School (the nation’s
premiere institution of higher learning for artists and musicians) can boast of
a mere 17 black or Latino students out of a student body of 501. Julliard
Director of Diversity Allison Scott-Williams blames an unsupportive climate,
telling Newsday that because American’s orchestras have so few black
musicians, few blacks are interested in becoming classical musicians. The Newsday
reporter goes farther, citing racism as the cause. “Discrimination is
discrimination…whether it affects orchestras or jails,” Justin Davidson
opines a paragraph later. The author then drags out the mummified excuse that
blacks and Latinos cannot afford musical instruments and lessons, conveniently
ignoring the fact that so many other musicians become accomplished on their
own, or work to pay for their lessons.

SO ARE BLIND AUDITIONS the answer? No, says Dworkin. “I believe that more
information about the candidate should be incorporated, in the same way that
institutions of higher learning take cultural and racial background into
account.”

A more multihued orchestra can also be a more multitalented one, he tells Newsday. A greater variety of musicians will bring
more versatile orchestras, able to play a broader range of music. Translation:
whites and Asians can’t swing.

Traditionally government and academia have been the testing grounds where
theories of social engineering are put into practice. Social engineers,
however, have been less successful making inroads into professional sports, the
arts and the military. Perhaps that is why our government and schools run like
an Edsel, while the San Francisco Symphony and the U.S. Marines are beyond
compare.

If ever there was a case for elitism it should be made on the world’s great
orchestral stages, where perfection should never be held hostage to political
correctness. If you want mediocrity, look to the government and the public schools.
Plenty there to go round.

King allows pope to be main draw

Don King has been fond of using the phrase “only in America,” but
maybe now he’ll start talking about “only in Italy.”

Or, more accurately, “only in Vatican City.”

The flamboyant and controversial boxing promoter had a front-row seat for
Pope Benedict XVI’s general audience yesterday. King even dressed down for the
occasion, wearing a conservative suit and flattening his customarily
finger-in-a-light-socket hair.

“I was thrilled to be there. It was a deep spiritual experience,”
King said.

King made it to the audience through his boxing connections. One of his
fighters is Italy’s Luca Messi, a super welterweight champion whose brother is
a priest.

Afterward, King announced that the pope will be fighting George Foreman in
Las Vegas for the World Boxing Organization heavyweight crown.

French Jews petition U.S. for asylum

More than 7,000 French Jews have signed a petition asking for political
asylum in the United States because of anti-Semitism in France.

“Following the barbarous murder of a young Jew because he was Jewish, in
the context of the rise in anti-Semitic acts committed by Islamic
fundamentalists, numerous members of the community no longer feel safe in
France,” reads the petition, which was sent to the U.S. Congress. The
reference was to Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was kidnapped and
tortured to death last year by an anti-Semitic gang.

The petition asks Congress to enact a law according refugee status to French
Jews. “We believe that the United States, known for its traditional
welcome to those under threat in their native lands, must open its doors to
us,” the petition says.

French communal officials reacted with outrage. “This petition is bizarre,
stupid and out of place,” Haim Musicant, director of CRIF, the umbrella
organization of secular French Jewish groups, told Israel’s Ma’ariv newspaper.
“I don’t feel threatened in France, and the authorities are doing
everything they can to protect the Jewish community. French Jews don’t need
this kind of petition.”

Mel Goes Ballistic — “Lady, F**k Off!”

Posted Mar 23rd 2007 10:40AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Movies, Mel Gibson

TMZ has learned (TMZ acquired the video and broke the story of Michael “Kramer”
Richards’ verbal fireworks lat last year)
Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an
expert on Mayan culture accused him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the
movie “Apocalypto.”It happened last night at Cal State University at Northridge in the San Fernando
Valley. Gibson was speaking to a film class about his movies, and several
members of the Mayan community came to hear the famous director.

After Gibson’s presentation, the crowd was allowed to ask questions. Alicia
Estrada, an Assistant Professor of Central American Studies at CSUN, challenged
Gibson, asking him if he had read about the Mayan culture before shooting the
controversial film. Gibson said he had.
Estrada persisted, stating that representations in the movie that the Mayans
engaged in sacrificial ceremonies and had bloodthirsty tendencies were both
wrong and racist. Estrada and others tell TMZ that Gibson exploded in anger,
responding, “Lady, F**k off.”

We’re told Gibson also became extremely angry when members of the Mayan
community protested on how they were portrayed in the film. The emotional Mayan
members were escorted out of the room, and we’re told Gibson screamed a parting
shot — “Make your own movie!”

Around the Blogsphere

From Aryanawakening.blogspot.com

A great quote under an article entitled “Heroes of National Socialism.”

Where are the men behind the scenes of this
virulent world movement? Who are the inventors of all this madness? Who
transplanted this ensemble into Russia and is today making the attempt to have
it prevail in other countries? The answer to these questions discloses the
actual secret of our anti-Jewish policy and our uncompromising fight against
Jewry; for the Bolshevic International is in reality nothing less than a Jewish
International. It was the Jew who discovered Marxism. It is the Jew who for
decades past has endeavoured to stir up world revolutions through the medium of
Marxism. It is the Jew who is today at the head of
Marxism in all the countries of the world. Only in the brain of a nomad who is
without nation, race and country could this satanism have been hatched. And
only one possessed of a satanic malevolence could launch this revolutionary
attack. For Bolshevism is nothing less than brutal materialism speculating on
the baser instincts of mankind. And in its fight against West European
civilisation it makes use of the lowest human passions in the interests of
International Jewry.

“Communism with the Mask
Off”

Dr. Paul Joseph
Goebbels, 1935.

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News 14 reports on a White Pride rally !?!? in Scottsdale Az.

‘White Pride’ backers demonstrate in downtown Scottsdale

Brian Powell, Tribune

Scottsdale motorists traveling through one of the city’s
most congested intersections Wednesday came across a small group of people
holding banners promoting “White Pride Worldwide.”

Cars honked going through the intersection of Camelback and Scottsdale roads,
and a number of obscene gestures by passing motorists were witnessed. A
passenger threw ice out the window at the group of four to six people. At
times, people would approach the group on the sidewalk in front of P.F. Chang’s
and engage in a debate, criticizing the “White Pride” message.

Dana Arnold, who spoke on behalf of the rally, said the group chose the
Scottsdale and Camelback intersection “because there’s a lot of white people
here.”

Joel Breshin, associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Phoenix
office, said the rally was organized by the neo-Nazi group National Vanguard,
Arizona Unit. The ADL is a civil rights organization that monitors hate groups.

“Usually with these white power events they’re really trying to recruit,”
Breshin said. “They’re trying to show their strength in a particular area.”

The choice of a high-traffic intersection in Scottsdale for the demonstration
is an attempt to maximize the dispersion of their message, he said.

Arnold said the group is not preaching hate, but Whites should be allowed to
celebrate their culture the same as Blacks or Mexicans, and ideally have their
own land “to evolve and prosper.”

“I believe if there were no white people in America it would be total chaos,”
Arnold said. “White people are the backbone of the country.”

The demonstrators’ use of rhetoric claiming they stand for anti-discrimination
against white people is not a new phenomenon, Breshin said.

“That’s been around for years. It’s just the same message that manifests itself
in different ways every year. It’s a fallacy,” he said.

The rally came on the day the United Nations celebrates the International Day
for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or Harmony Day. In response,
Stormfront White Nationalist Community promoted White Pride World Wide Day on
its Web site, encouraging displays like the one seen in Scottsdale.

Tribune writer Ari Cohn
contributed to this report

Anti-rape device made available to women *from SA is Crap.blogspot

By Odette Ismail
20 March 2007

After much controversy, a South African female condom-like, anti-rape
device will be made available soon.

According to reports the device, known as rapex, had wide reaction when it was
launched one and a half years ago.

Inventor Sonnet Ehlers told the Cape Argus that she is currently busy with the
final pre-production phase after waiting for seven years. She says the product
will be on the market soon.

The debate is around whether it is a
medieval device made to impose
hatred on males or if it will indeed help reduce rape cases.

Ehlers has also made news in other countries after debates of her invention and
the merits thereof.

She says the device will give women a chance to escape harm while the rapist is
dealing with the pain. She says her aim is for the male to be identified and
evidence of penetration to be detected.

Main

IRAN

Iran confirms seizure of British marines

TEHRAN, March 23 (Xinhua) — Iranian foreign ministry confirmed on Friday that its country had seized some British marines earlier in the day when they entered its territorial waters illegally, the state television reported. “This is not the first time for British military personnel to enter the Iranian waters illegally since they occupied Iraq,” Ibrahim Rahimpour, director general for Western European affairs of the foreign ministry was quoted as saying. “The Iranian border authorities have detained 15 British soldiers and marines for further investigation of blatant aggression into Iran’s water,” he added. Meanwhile, the official disclosed that Tehran had summoned the top British envoy and demanded the London administration to explain it as soon as possible. “We have summoned British charged’ affaires Kate Smith to the foreign ministry to receive the firm protest for the illegal entry of British sailors into Iranian territorial waters,” said Rahimpour, adding the British government should ensure “not to do this again” in the future. The British Ministry of Defense (MOD) said earlier Friday that 15 British naval personnel were seized by Iranian forces. The incident took place at approximately 10:30 Iraqi time (0730GMT) Friday when the British soldiers were engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters in support of UN Security Council Resolution 1723 and the government of Iraq, the MOD said in a statement. “The UK boarding party had completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.” Said the MOD. “We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level,” said the MOD, adding that “on the instructions of the Foreign Secretary, the Iranian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office.” “The British Government is demanding the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment,” the MOD said. In June 2004, the Iranian forces detained eight British sailors for the same reason at the same area. The military personnels were paraded blindfold on television and forced to apologize for their “mistake.” The Iranian authority released them after three days in custody.

Spring
Bling influx puts beach city on alert

South
Florida Sun-Sentinel

March 22, 2007

Riviera
Beach – As thousands of college students descend on Singer Island this weekend
for BET’s “Spring Bling” to dance on the beach to the driving beat of
hip-hop headliners, some residents say they will either bolt their doors or
leave town.

And while some business owners say they might close for the three-day blowout,
others say they have hired security guards and stockpiled beer and beach food.

“There’s no alcohol on the beach and we’re going to get slammed with
college kids,” said Debbie Pepe, a bartender at Johnny Longboats Tropical
Grill, overlooking the public beach.

Pepe’s mind festered with questions: “It’s a nightmare. Where are all
these kids gonna stay? How do we ID them? And how do you control that many
kids?”

Starting Friday, hip-hop and r&b artists such as Young Jeezy, Ne-Yo, and
Ludacris will hit the beach to perform before more than 3,000 college students
glorying in their moment in the sun as extras in music videos that will be
taped and then aired on BET the first week of April.

The cable TV network, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc., is the nation’s largest
provider of entertainment and news programming targeted for African-American
audiences. According to Nielsen media research, the network reaches more than
80 million households across the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.

The City Council, which wooed BET for the event, hopes it will boost the local
economy and put Riviera Beach on the map. BET hopes the event, which is
advertised online as “Black Beach Week,” will draw legions of 18- to
25-year-olds.

Last year, the event was held in Miami and, before that, Daytona Beach. BET is
inviting 3,000 students from black colleges for the free event but thousands
more, black and white, are expected to crash. In past years, the event has drawn
up to 100,000 people.

Spring Bling is being held on Singer Island, a mostly white and affluent
seaside swath of Riviera Beach, which is mostly black and economically
depressed.

The Singer Island Civic Association has widely circulated a newsletter that
gives statistical shape to the fears of some residents and business owners.
Members of the association contacted however, refused to comment on the record
about the beach event.

The flier claims to cite statistics from the 2006 event in Miami.

It also claimed there were thousands of calls for service and more than a
thousand arrests.

“This is scaring some people,” said Lenny Fortune, who owns Longboats
and has heard crowd estimates rumored as high as 20,000. “Everyone is
either closing or hiring security guards.”

Riviera Beach police could not be reached for an official comment on the claims
or on the department’s specific preparations, despite repeated phone calls.

The City Council meanwhile has approved $40,000 to pay overtime for police, fire
rescue workers and lifeguards. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the
federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are providing
officers.

In addition to supplying about 70 security guards, BET is responsible for beach
cleanup. BET is also putting up $120,000 in advertising to hawk the city’s Jazz
and Blues festival in April.

Bart Berling, the owner of a nearby health food store called Nature’s Way
Pantry, said, “We’re staying open. There is nothing to be afraid of.”

Berling said he plans to sell loads of bottled water, soda and grilled garden
burgers to the beach crowd.

“The police, the sheriff and ATF will be all over the place. I just don’t
see a problem,” said Berling, who plans to bunker in a back room if chaos
erupts.

Robin Czajkowski, a retired professional motorcycle racer who owns the nearby
Down Lo Pub, is more wary.

“As soon as I see fights or racial issues, I’m gonna shut down,” said
Czajkowski, who usually doesn’t run from a fight but says she sees no up side
to the Bling.

Czajkowski said that Riviera Beach police told her it would be safer to shut
down for the weekend.

Despite the numbers hysteria, Longboats’ Fortune, a tough guy with fierce blue
eyes and a barbed wire tattoo who tucks his reading glasses in the collar of
his T-shirt, sees the event as a business opportunity.

“This isn’t Woodstock and they’re not singing about peace and love,”
said T.K. Bryant, a country singer who happens to be a regular at Longboats.
“These groups are singing about shooting people. It’s violent and it
denigrates women. It’s not the music I have a problem with, it’s the
attitude.”

Greg Kindert, who plans to leave town for the week, interjected: “Where is
Jimmy Buffett when we need him?”

Carla Johnson, a black woman, watched her 5- and 6-year-old grandchildren on
the swings at nearby Phil Foster Park.

“I’m hoping for the best,” she said. “I’m hoping these children
will just have a good time and conduct themselves in an orderly fashion. And I
hope security is in the right place if it’s needed.”

Hate Crimes legislation is back

Federal Hate Crimes Bill
Re-Introduced in Congress

More than 210 law enforcement, civil rights, civic and religious
organizations support

WASHINGTON,
D.C. – Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill.,
re-introduced the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (LLEHCPA), a
critical piece of legislation providing local police and sheriff’s departments
with federal resources to combat hate violence, in the U.S House of
Representatives on Tuesday night.

Gay groups such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Matthew Shepard Foundation
hailed the bill’s introduction and joined with more than 210 law enforcement,
civil rights, civic and religious organizations actively supporting its
passage.

More than 100 other members of Congress joined Conyers and Kirk in introducing
the bipartisan bill. The Senate is expected to introduce a bipartisan
companion bill next month.

“Each year, thousands of Americans are violently attacked just because
they are black, female, Christian or gay. These crimes not only harm
individuals, but they terrorize entire communities. It’s the
responsibility of our government to protect all Americans. After more than
a decade of delay, it’s time for Congress to provide local police and sheriffs’
departments with the tools and resources they need to put away society’s most
vicious criminals,” Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese said in
a release.

“The reintroduction of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention
Act in the House of Representatives last night marks a very important moment
for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community,” added Judy
Shepard, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and mother of
Matthew Shepard, in a separate release. “For far too long violence
motivated by hatred against GLBT individuals has gone unrecognized by the
Federal Government as well as many local agencies.

“The LLEHCPA will provide local law enforcement with the added resources
and support needed for investigating and prosecuting serious hate crimes that
are not currently included in existing law,” she continued. “The
investigation of Matthew’s murder and the trial of his killers cost Albany
County in Wyoming more than $150,000. This unplanned financial burden
forced the Sheriff’s Department to furlough five of its employees. If the
LLEHCPA had been the law of the land in 1998, this reduction in vital staff
could have been averted, while still ensuring that justice was served for my
son.”

Because there is no federal law mandating states and municipalities to report
hate crimes, they are often underreported. However, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s own statistics, based on voluntary reporting, show that since
1991, more than 100,000 hate crime offenses have been reported to the FBI, with
7,163 reported in 2005, the FBI’s most recent reporting period. Violent
crimes based on sexual orientation constituted 14.2 percent of all hate crimes
in 2005, with 1,017 reported for the year.

The LLEHCPA gives the Justice Department the power to investigate and prosecute
bias-motivated violence where the perpetrator has selected the victim because
of the person’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin,
gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. It provides the
Justice Department with the ability to aid state and local jurisdictions either
by lending assistance or, where local authorities are unwilling or unable, by
taking the lead in investigations and prosecutions of violent crimes resulting
in death or serious bodily injury that were motivated by bias. It also
makes grants available to state and local communities to combat violent crimes
committed by juveniles, train law enforcement officers or assist in state and
local investigations and prosecution of bias-motivated crimes.A wide coalition of national organizations has called for the passage of the
LLEHCPA legislation. Some of those supporting this legislation include:
the National Sheriffs Association, the International Association of Chiefs of
Police, 31 state attorneys general and the National District Attorneys
Association.

Both the Senate and House have voted in favor of legislation to combat
bias-motivated violence in the prior Congresses. Most recently in the
109th Congress, the House of Representative approved its hate crimes bill as an
amendment on a bipartisan vote of 223 to 199. House and Senate votes were
held in the 106th and 108th Congresses as well. In the 108th Congress, the
Senate passed the measure by an overwhelming vote of 65-33, with 18 Senate
Republicans voting yes, and the House approved it on a bipartisan vote of
213-186, with 31 Republicans voting yes.

Sophisticated
mongrel found guilty for
rape, murder of retired white headmistress

The Grahamstown High Court found a man guilty on Thursday of
the rape and murder of a retired headmistress. Theoniel “Gansie”
Smith raped Madge Fergusson, 82, former principal of Victoria Park Primary
School, and then murdered her in cold blood.

Smith, 25, had admitted only to raping and robbing the former principal four
years ago. He said he had smoked drugs and had gone to Fergusson’s house to rob
her because he was hungry. Smith said the only time he hit Fergusson was when
she was struck by the door as he forced it open. He said he had never intended
to kill her.

However, Judge Clive Plasket disagreed. He found Smith guilty of the murder.

“It is obvious following Dr Daniel de Gouret Villets’ testimony that
considerable force must have been used to result in the head trauma of the
victim,” said Plasket.

Smith claimed to have only hit Fergusson once after which she fell onto a sofa,
but testimony by witnesses contradicted this claim. Smith’s advocate, Deon
Geldenhuys, had argued that Smith was not guilty of murder because there was a
possibility that someone else entered the house after Smith had left, and also
that the state had not shown that Smith had the necessary intent to kill.

Plasket disagreed. “There is no evidence that anyone else could have
assaulted the deceased once the accused had raped her. The accused, through his
actions, appeared to have acted with a direct purpose to murder. If I am wrong
in this finding, then at least it is apparent that the accused through the
framework in which the crime was committed, acted with intent to commit
murder,” Plasket said, convicting Smith of murder.

Smith stared blankly ahead.

The court then heard testimony in aggravation of sentence.

State advocate Nico Henning called Fergusson’s daughter, Gwynne Nieuwoudt.

“She was an amazing person, very strong willed, but with a heart of
gold,” said Nieuwoudt, who spoke of the tragedy and the heartbreak her
mother’s murder had caused the family.

“We always told her don’t open the door! But she would reply: ‘They know
me, and if they need food and water I will give it to them’.”

Holocaust Victims Get Compensation From Insurance Companies

An international commission has wrapped up its work after more than $300
million (225 million euros) was paid on tens of thousands of claims by
Holocaust victims and their families in the past decade.

According to the International Commission on Holocaust Era
Insurance Claims’ final report, “306.24 million was offered or awarded to
more than 48,000 claimants.”

The ICHEIC, created in 1998, aimed to make sure insurance
companies were sticking to their commitment to process and pay World War II-era
claims.

“I fully recognize that no amount of compensation can
redress the suffering inflicted during the Holocaust,” said the
commission’s chairman, former US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.

“Nevertheless, I believe that ICHEIC has achieved its
goal of bringing a small measure of justice to those who have been denied it
for so long,” his statement said.

The ICHEIC grouped representatives of several dozen European
insurance companies with US insurance regulators, Israeli officials and Jewish
groups whose goal was to help victims of the Nazi concentration camps obtain
unpaid insurance claims.

More than 90,000 people were able to file free requests for
compensation, with more than half receiving some sort of payout.

Slightly more than 14,000 victims shared an overall sum of
238 million dollars from insurance companies, while 2,900 people from central
and eastern Europe whose insurance companies closed after World War II received
30 million dollars.

The ICHEIC distributed another 31 million dollars between 31,000
victims whose claims were deemed credible but could not be substantiated due to
“the ravages of war and the passage of time.”

Violent riots in Utrecht – Exploding
democracy in Europe

In the war of words, The Times is Israel’s ally

The paper consistently adopts Israel’s language, giving
credence to an inaccurate, simplistic and dangerous cliche.

By Saree Makdisi, SAREE MAKDISI, a professor of English and
comparative literature at UCLA, writes frequently about the Middle East.
March 11, 2007

‘AS SOON AS certain topics are raised,” George Orwell
once wrote, “the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to
think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: Prose consists less and less
of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases
tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse.” Such a
combination of vagueness and sheer incompetence in language, Orwell warned,
leads to political conformity.

No issue better illustrates Orwell’s point than coverage of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States. Consider, for example, the
editorial in The Times on Feb. 9 demanding that the Palestinians
“recognize Israel” and its “right to exist.” This is a
common enough sentiment — even a cliche. Yet many observers (most recently the
international lawyer John Whitbeck) have pointed out that this proposition,
assiduously propagated by Israel’s advocates and uncritically reiterated by
American politicians and journalists, is — at best — utterly nonsensical.

First, the formal diplomatic language of “recognition” is
traditionally used by one state with respect to another state. It is literally
meaningless for a non-state to “recognize” a state. Moreover, in
diplomacy, such recognition is supposed to be mutual. In order to earn its own
recognition, Israel would have to simultaneously recognize the state of
Palestine. This it steadfastly refuses to do (and for some reason, there are no
high-minded newspaper editorials demanding that it do so).

Second, which Israel, precisely, are the Palestinians being asked to
“recognize?” Israel has stubbornly refused to declare its own
borders. So, territorially speaking, “Israel” is an open-ended
concept. Are the Palestinians to recognize the Israel that ends at the lines
proposed by the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan? Or the one that extends to the 1949
Armistice Line (the de facto border that resulted from the 1948 war)? Or does
Israel include the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which it has occupied in
violation of international law for 40 years — and which maps in its school
textbooks show as part of “Israel”?

For that matter, why should the Palestinians recognize an Israel that refuses
to accept international law, submit to U.N. resolutions or readmit the Palestinians
wrongfully expelled from their homes in 1948 and barred from returning ever
since?

If none of these questions are easy to answer, why are such demands being made
of the Palestinians? And why is nothing demanded of Israel in turn?

Orwell was right. It is much easier to recycle meaningless phrases than to ask
— let alone to answer — difficult questions. But recycling these empty phrases
serves a purpose. Endlessly repeating the mantra that the Palestinians don’t
recognize Israel helps paint Israel as an innocent victim, politely asking to
be recognized but being rebuffed by its cruel enemies.

Actually, it asks even more. Israel wants the Palestinians, half of whom were
driven from their homeland so that a Jewish state could be created in 1948, to
recognize not merely that it exists (which is undeniable) but that it is
“right” that it exists — that it was right for them to have been
dispossessed of their homes, their property and their livelihoods so that a
Jewish state could be created on their land. The Palestinians are not the
world’s first dispossessed people, but they are the first to be asked to
legitimize what happened to them.

A just peace will require Israelis and Palestinians to reconcile and recognize
each other’s rights. It will not require that Palestinians give their moral
seal of approval to the catastrophe that befell them. Meaningless at best,
cynical and manipulative at worst, such a demand may suit Israel’s purposes,
but it does not serve The Times or its readers.

And yet The Times consistently adopts Israel’s language and, hence, its point
of view. For example, a recent article on Israel’s Palestinian minority
referred to that minority not as “Palestinian” but as generically
“Arab,” Israel’s official term for a population whose full political
and human rights it refuses to recognize. To fail to acknowledge the living
Palestinian presence inside Israel (and its enduring continuity with the rest
of the Palestinian people) is to elide the history at the heart of the conflict
— and to deny the legitimacy of Palestinian claims and rights.

This is exactly what Israel wants. Indeed, its demand that its “right to
exist” be recognized reflects its own anxiety, not about its existence but
about its failure to successfully eliminate the Palestinians’ presence inside
their homeland — a failure for which verbal recognition would serve merely a
palliative and therapeutic function.

In uncritically adopting Israel’s own fraught terminology — a form of verbal
erasure designed to extend the physical destruction of Palestine — The Times is
taking sides.

If the paper wants its readers to understand the nature of this conflict,
however, it should not go on acting as though only one side has a story to
tell.

(mis-drawn swastika alert) European Jewish body to meet German
Chancellor over anti-Semitism rise

Original article:
www.ejpress.org/article/15359

PARIS (EJP)—The European Jewish
Congress will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel next Tuesday in Berlin
to raise its concerns about the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, discuss
proposals to harmonise hate crime legislation throughout the European Union,
and to discuss the future of the 27-member bloc.

Germany currently holds the EU rotating presidency.

The announcement of the meeting, made by the Jewish body on Friday, came as the
EU was set to this weekend celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome
which established the European Economic Community, the fore-runner of the
European Union.

“Europe’s Jewish communities have always been full partners in the European
project and this weekend is an opportunity for them to celebrate their European
identity,” Pierre Besnainou, president of the European Jewish Congress, said.

“Like all other Europeans, we too will reflect on the future of the Union and I
look forward to sharing our contributions, concerns and ideas with the German
Chancellor.

“On the fiftieth anniversary of the European Union, this heavily symbolic
meeting between the highest representative of European Jewry and the German
Presidency of the European Union is a testament to the laudable progress that
Europe has made.”

The Paris-based EJC is a federation of 38 national Jewish communities in
Europe.

Holocaust denial

Despite repeated appeals by EU leaders to fight it, anti-Semitism has been
reported as being on the rise in Europe in the latest years, especially in
France, the UK and Germany, the countries with the largest Jewish communities.

Citing its particular historic responsibility due to its Nazi past, Germany has
proposed the other EU member states adopt a EU-wide legislation that would make
Holocaust denial a crime in the whole European Union.

But while unanimous in their condemnation of those who deny the Holocaust, EU
leaders are split over whether to criminalise such acts.

Two years ago, Luxembourg tried to use its EU presidency to push through
legislation to unify legal standards for Holocaust denial but was blocked by
Italy, Britain and Denmark on the grounds that the proposed rules breached
freedom of speech and civil liberties.

Such legislation requires unanimity among the 27 EU member states.

Against a backdrop of increasing racist attacks in Europe, a German blueprint
says that racist declarations or Holocaust denial would not be prosecuted if
they were expressed in a way that did not incite hatred against an individual
or group of people.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the EU German Presidency condemned all
forms of racism, racial discrimination, intolerance and discrimination. It
urged member states “to adopt effective measures to combat the symptoms and
causes of racism and discrimination” and “to effectively guarantee the freedom
of thought, conscience, religion and belief to all without distinction.

The declaration was made on the occasion of the International Day for the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Racial ignorance was bliss for
Turner

By the Mercury News

Article Launched: 03/18/2007
01:45:13 AM PDT

For a marquee speaker at the Bay
Area Council’s recent conference on clean energy, media mogul Ted Turner
sure left a dirty mess in his wake.

Asked about U.S. cooperation with
China in global-greening efforts, Turner told the crowd of 1,000 business and
political leaders: “The Chinese are very smart. Just think: Have you ever
met a dumb Chinaman?”

Putting his foot further into his
mouth, Turner rhetorically asked on-stage interviewer talk-radio host Ronn
Owens whether he’d ever seen a Chinese restaurant close. “The Chinese
are very smart, very hard workers,” Turner was heard to say.

Turners’ words sent an immediate
chill through the crowd, which up to that point had been in stitches over the
CNN founder’s hyperkinetic commentary on world affairs. State Sen. Leland
Yee, D-San Francisco – who came to the United States from China as a
toddler – condemned the remark as racist, and the council received several
complaints during and after the March 8 event.

“We sent a formal note to
Turner on Monday, thanking him for speaking but telling him the comments were
derogatory,” said council spokesman John Grubb. “Of course,
the comments don’t reflect the views of the Bay Area Council. We encouraged Mr.
Turner to apologize, which he did.”

In his statement, Turner wrote that
he was “unaware that the term `Chinaman’ was derogatory and hurtful to the
Asian Pacific American community.” Maybe Ted can

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get some pointers from Rosie
O’Donnell, who in December memorably imitated Chinese people with the
phrase, “ching chong, ching chong chong.”

Unlike the other seven U.S.
attorneys who lost their jobs, Ryan’s dismissal hasn’t provoked a peep of
protest from Democrats or just about anyone else familiar with his situation.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a judiciary committee member whose home turf is
San Francisco, has not defended Ryan despite raising vigorous objections to the
firing of the other top prosecutors, especially San Diego’s U.S. attorney, Carol
Lam.

By all accounts, Ryan lost his job
because of concerns in the Justice Department about his poor management of the
office and sagging morale.

The Justice Department completed an
internal audit of Ryan’s performance last fall, and by all accounts he was
widely criticized. In December, he was added to the Justice Department’s hit
list and fired.

Interestingly, Ryan was not on the
Bush administration’s radar as a target of the U.S. attorney purge until late
in the process, based on e-mails posted this week on the House Judiciary
Committee’s Web site. In fact, Ryan was not on the list in a Nov. 15, 2006,
e-mail exchange among top officials.

Ryan has refused to comment on his
ouster. In the meantime, a committee of Bay Area Republican lawyers is
interviewing potential successors.

During the city’s first charter
review in 15 years, committee members appointed by the city council are
weighing everything from limiting council terms to requiring long-range
financial planning.

The committee invited the public to
weigh in last week, and several residents asked why committee members aren’t
planning to recommend changing the city’s election system. Currently, council
hopefuls run for numbered seats; some at the meeting suggested an open election
where all candidates would run against one another at once.

Santa Clara County Assessor Larry
Stone said the system shouldn’t be changed because having to run against
fewer people makes campaigns more focused and promotes more debate.

“Politics is about contest,
it’s about competition,” said Stone, a former Sunnyvale mayor.

But when there’s only one person
running for a seat, there’s next to no debate, said Dianne McKenna, a
former Sunnyvale mayor and Santa Clara County Supervisor.

Two seats were uncontested as
recently as 1999. Ten years before that, three seats were uncontested -
including Stone’s – and Sunnyvale canceled its election to save money.

None of that has gotten U.S.
Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, the star status he received last week, when
he was named the highest-ranking elected official in the country who does not
believe in God. He was awarded the honor – or place in hell, whichever you
believe – by the Secular Coalition for America.

Most of his constituents from the
liberal Bay Area are slapping Stark on the back, he told IA this week from his
car phone in Washington, D.C. He even got about 50 campaign contributions from like-minded
godless souls.

So, who’s whispering he’ll spend his
days in Hades?

“Oh, I suppose the same people
who always thought I was going to hell,” he quipped. “Now they’re
even more convinced than ever.”

Noting he was surprised at how
“elevated” the issue became, Stark said the last time he received
such attention was when “I called the guy from Colorado a fruitcake,”
referring to the name he called Republican and former Rep. Scott McInnis
during a tense 2003 discussion about a controversial pension bill.

So, when IA pressed him to describe
whom he prays to as a Unitarian Universalist, Stark countered: “I don’t
really pray to, I pray on. Actually, I prey on Republicans. But
you spell it a different way.”

‘Social Democrats invited known anti-Semite to seminar’

Published: 23rd March 2007 12:15 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/6777/

The Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism (SCAA) has criticized the Social
Democrats for inviting controversial British-Israeli musician and political
commentator Gilad Atzmon to speak at a seminar on Iraq, the Palestinian
territories and Afghanistan, which was held in Stockholm on March 18th.

Writing in newspaper Expressen on Thursday, SCAA chairman Jesper Svartvik urged
the party to distance itself from the decision of its Christian organization,
Broderskapsrörelsen, and the Workers’ Educational Association (Arbetarnas
Bildningsförbund – ABF) to bring Atzmon to the capital.

Atzmon, a jazz musician regarded as one of the finest saxophonists in the
world, has long been accused of anti-Semitism.”We must begin to take the accusation that the Jewish people are trying to
control the world very seriously,” he said in 2003.

“American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the elder of
Zion’ are an authentic document or rather a forgery irrelevant. American Jews
(in fact Zionists) do control the world, by proxy,” he added.

The ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, a document describing a Jewish plot to
achieve world domination, is widely accepted to have been an anti-Semitic
forgery drafted by the Russian secret police in 1903. It was later used as a
propaganda tool in Nazi Germany.

Atzmon, himself born a secular Jew, is also credited with having said that
“the victim strategy is the latest and most sophisticated form of Jewish
supremacist segregation.”

According to Jesper Svartvik, Azmon describes Israel as a Nazi state that must
be eradicated.

“It is of course legitimate to criticize Israel’s politics, but democratic
forces need to react when debate about the Middle East is used to legitimize
the hatred of Jews,” he said.

Svartvik concluded by requesting that the Social Democratic party leadership
clearly distance itself from the seminar.

In a statement released to The Local, Ulf Carmesund, international secretary of
the Christian Social Democrats, rejects the allegations made by SCAA.

“Gilad Atzmon is himself a Jew, and when the Swedish Committee Against
Anti-Semitism starts calling Jews anti-Semites there is a risk that they
undermine the term anti-Semite and do the fight against anti-Semitism a
disservice,” said Carmesund.

“Atzmon is critical of the state of Israel’s politics and of Jewish
organizations that support the state of Israel’s politics in the name of all
Jews. Atzmon belongs to that group of Jews that refuses to be associated with
the Israeli occupation and the state of Israel’s breaches of international law.

“He aims his criticism not at Jewishness but at the politics and ideology
that lead to breaches of international law,” he added.

Blackstone’s Billions

Private Equity IPO Lifts the Curtain on Uberwealthy Takeover Titans

By DAN ARNALL and BILL MCGUIRE
ABC News Business Unit

March 23, 2007 — – The fabulously wealthy will get even
richer as Blackstone Group LP, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms,
plans to raise up to $4 billion in a highly anticipated initial public
offering.

The New York-based firm, known for marquee takeovers such as February’s $23
billion buyout of Equity Office Properties, is headed by former Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc. bankers Stephen Schwarzman and Peter Peterson. Schwarzman, 60, is
one of the world’s wealthiest people, with a fortune estimated at more than $3
billion.

The world of private equity, which works by taking public companies private
with investors’ and borrowed money, is one of secrecy because few of the firms
are exchange listed. Schwarzman, though, doesn’t hide from the spotlight.

Last month, for example, his multimillion-dollar birthday bash at an armory
building in New York included hundreds of his closest friends and performances
by Rod Stewart and Patti LaBelle. According to Fortune, which ranks the
Blackstone chief as the 249th richest in the world, Schwarzman has a $30
million apartment in a building that once housed members of the Rockefeller and
Vanderbilt families.

Until Blackstone filed to go public, its finances were cloaked in the fog of
being a private company. But consider that Blackstone’s funds own companies
with 375,000 employees and $83 billion in annual sales. That would put
Blackstone among the Top 15 in public U.S. companies.

“They’ve operated in their own stealth realm for so long that this
really does take advantage of the flip side of the coin. They have an
opportunity to benefit by being a public company,” said Denise Valentine,
senior analyst at business consultancy Celent LLC’s securities and investment
group. “This is going to be a big IPO, oversubscribed, and it will give
Blackstone a bigger kingdom.”

Blackstone, founded in 1985, said the initial public offering would allow it
to tap new sources of capital for buyouts. In addition, it would help extend
Blackstone’s brand name and gives management a way to profit from the increased
value of its stakes.

Details revealed in the firm’s SEC filing show it has enjoyed an amazing 40
percent annual return on its various investments since 2001.

“We intend to continue to follow the management approach that has
served us well as a private firm of focusing on making the right decisions
about purchasing and selling the right assets at the right time and at the
right price,” the company said in the prospectus, which did not reveal the
possible timing of an IPO or how many shares would be issued.

How did it do it? The Blackstone Group business is really four different
businesses cobbled together under one roof.

The biggest part of the company’s growth comes from its investments in hedge
funds and other alternative investment vehicles. That part of the business has
shown a better than 51 percent annual growth in the value of its investments.

It also invests in real estate, growing annually at 41 percent, corporate
buyouts and restructuring — annual compound growth of more than 31 percent.
The firm also offers advisory services to other Wall Street players, with a
growth rate of almost 23 percent.

According to Thursday’s filing, Blackstone has 57 top partners and an
additional 335 investment gurus on the payroll in New York and 10 offices
around the world. Schwarzman and other top management don’t plan to cede
control of the company or the collection of companies it has acquired.

He plans to structure the company to leave control in the hands of its
partners, not the new investors that will be buying shares when the stock
debuts.

Some of Blackstone’s worker bees — the people who punch the clock there but
are not considered senior directors — will all get shares of the IPO. The
senior directors also plan to start a charitable foundation with about $150
million in stock at the debut.

The filing has raised speculation that this might be the future for private
equity firms, many confronted with a contraction in global stock markets that
could stymie funding. Already, rival Fortress Investment Group LLC raised
$643.3 million when it became the first private equity or hedge fund to go
public.

Private equity funds, which used to be known in the industry as leveraged
buyout firms, use cash raised from investors and from its own coffers to buy
companies. The last few years have seen many of these firms band together to
take over companies on a scale never imagined before, including Harrah’s
Entertainment Inc., energy company TXU Group Inc. and lawn-care company
ServiceMaster Co.

The next step for private equity firms is to profit by taking these
companies public again within five years after the initial deal.

Blackstone has a varied portfolio of companies that includes Madame
Tussaud’s waxwork museums in New York and London. It took German chemical
company Celanese Corp. private, and then relisted it on the New York Stock
Exchange in 2005.

The most recent coup for the firm was February’s $23 billion acquisition of
Equity Office Properties, which is the largest office landlord in the United
States. The purchase was the largest private equity deal on record.

The buyout firms have prospered in an era of cheap money. The $144.7 billion
of private-equity deals and management buyouts announced this year is ahead of
2006’s record pace by 14 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.

Blackstone also said in the filing that there would be no severance
arrangement, or golden parachute, given to Schwarzman as part of the plan to
take the company public. He will receive no compensation other than a $350,000
per year salary.

Schwarzman is said to be the largest single shareholder of the company, but
there are plenty of other major shareholders, some of which average Americans
might have some part of. The filing shows pensions for public employees have
contributed about 49 percent of the total funds that Blackstone manages.
Corporate pensions, insurance companies and other individuals are also major
investors in the private equity firm.

Schwarzman could not be reached for comment.

Morgan Stanley Inc., Citigroup Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Credit Suisse
Group, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank Securities are listed as underwriters
for the offering.

No Way Out

By G. Tracy Mehan, III
Published 3/21/2007 12:07:05 AM

The public dialogue on the Iraq War
continues to careen between the heights of optimism and the depths of
pessimism. The bipolar nature of the debate was on display in Washington last
week at the Heritage Foundation’s blue-ribbon panel discussion on “Iraq: The Way Ahead.” The event was a very downbeat observance of the
fourth anniversary of the conflict in Mesopotamia.

There was plenty of intellectual firepower deployed at this gathering. Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of the
authors of the President’s

troop surge plan in Iraq, and an
uber neoconservative, was joined by Kenneth Pollack
of the Brookings Institution, a well-known expert on the Middle East and an
unabashed proponent of nation-building of the liberal interventionist school.

Rounding out the panel was Anthony Cordesman, Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a
leading military and foreign policy expert of the Realist persuasion.

The only omission on this impressive expert panel might be the full-throated
proponent of the “cut-and-run” school, retired Army Lieutenant
General William
Odom, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson
Institute, who has written provocative articles such as “Victory Is Not an
Option” and “Know When to Fold ‘Em.” That said, the actual panel
provided an energetic airing of differing views on the current controversy.

On the continuum between sunny optimism and manic depression, Kagan a military
historian, pushes the limits of the former position about as far as one can,
given present circumstances. He was a scathing critic of the Bush Administration’s
conduct of the war until it embraced his own ideas about the surge.

Kagan argues that, historically, America does very badly at the beginning of
its wars, but eventually gets it right in the end. He also believes
interventions such as Bosnia and Kosovo demonstrate that the U.S. can
ameliorate terrible situations abroad. He sees some evidence that the surge is
going well, but he concedes we will not know for some time. He points to the
support of the Iraqi government and the militias’ reluctance to engage U.S.
forces as positive signs. Moreover, he notes that the troop build-up is still
underway.

Kagan simply cannot countenance defeat because that possibility is too awful to
contemplate in terms of the Middle East and the spillover effects of terrorism,
which will look elsewhere for mischief making. He believes that the greatest
danger is “pulling the plug on the operation too early.” He is also
working on a follow-up plan to complement this initial troop surge, a proposal
for expanding the effort, presumably, to non-military areas.

Pollack, another tough critic of the Bush Administration for its failures to
date, hopes the surge will work, believing it is the right approach to fighting
this war. He believes it is the only option “promising a happy
ending.” Like Kagan, Pollack believes the consequences of withdrawal would
be “catastrophic.” It would be the ultimate “booby prize”
for the next president.

Nevertheless, Pollack fears that it may be too little, too late, to succeed. He
has no faith in the Bush Administration’s competence to do this job. He has
even co-authored an alternative to the surge. A recent program at Brookings
referred to it as Plan B: A Containment Strategy for Iraq in Civil War,
which speaks volumes.

Pollack notes that the insurgents’ “going to ground” can be an
indicator consistent with either victory or defeat. “We don’t know what we
will get,” says Pollack. It should be no surprise that the insurgents
would not confront superior U.S. forces.

As good as it is, “the military cannot possibly win this” conflict
alone, argues Pollack. The U.S. is hopelessly underinvested in terms of
personnel and resources to do the job of nation-building for the Iraqis,
regarding whom he has little confidence. The U.S. needs to “stand up to
the Iraqi government” and not hide “behind the charade of Iraqi
sovereignty.”

Cordesman secures the pessimistic end of the continuum. He declared Iraq to be
in a civil war two years before the Pentagon admitted it last week. From his
perspective the surge may or may not work, but he doubts it. If it succeeds, it
will simply establish Shiite dominance to the benefit of Iran.

Regardless of whether or not this new tactic “works,” Cordesman sees
the U.S. consigned to an everlasting purgatory in a region that is, was, and
always will be a geopolitical mess. He believes Iraq was a broken, failed state
since it inception. He first started working there in 1971 and views the
government to be “a command kleptocracy,” which is totally alien to
Americans.

Cordesman does not believe that Iraq will be more of a center of terrorism
than, say, the Afghanistan-Pakistan area. And even if the Shiites win the civil
war, there are 40 or 50 countries in which Al Qaeda can operate. Cordesman
believes ultimate Shiite dominance may be “a kind of victory,” but
hardly optimal for Sunnis. He is also doubtful of any containment strategy. The
best we can manage is “constant damage control.”

In the words of the French existentialist, Jean Paul Sartre, there is No
Exit for the U.S from a very conflicted region that has vital energy
resources essential to our economy. Indeed, it will be at least ten more years
before the U.S. approaches anything resembling relative energy independence,
which Cordesman characterizes as “an illusion.”

There is a kind of weird convergence between the realist Cordesman and the
neoconservative Kagan in their shared belief that the U.S. will be immersed in
Iraq for the foreseeable future. In the question-and-answer session of the
Heritage program, Kagan conceded that he believes the U.S. should maintain
“an open-ended commitment” in that country (Quaere: would he hold
this position even if the surge failed?). Cordesman basically sees the same
fate for America, but envisions a more modest mitigating role, hardly a
triumphal imposition of Western-style democracy or influence.

Cordesman, along with Pollack and probably Kagan, find it
“refreshing” to see a Secretary of Defense with “the ability to
cope with reality.” This may be the one positive note in this otherwise
depressing discussion. No one along the entire policy spectrum — including the
White House — is chanting the stay-the-course mantra any longer. Indeed, for a
leading conservative establishment such as the Heritage Foundation to sponsor
such a robust debate on the war is, well, refreshing. But that is about all
there is for an optimist to grasp onto.

Emily Nicely

Greensburg family accused of teen enslavement

By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Nelson
Williams said he heard his caregiver question a teenager about her bruised
appearance as she stood outside his Hempfield Township door March 10,
delivering his Saturday newspaper.

“What in the world happened to you?” Williams, 66, remembered the
caregiver asking the teen.

The teen then broke into tears and recounted that she had been beaten and
kept against her will by a Greensburg family for more than six months, said
Williams, who invited the teen inside and contacted authorities.

On Tuesday, members of that family, Mark Pollard, 43; his wife, Cynthia
Pollard, 41; and children Mark Pollard Jr., 18, Jonathan Pollard, 17, and
Tabitha Pollard, 16, all of 506 DelBene Way, were arraigned on charges of
kidnapping, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint,
recklessly endangering another person, false imprisonment and conspiracy.

Mark, Cynthia and Mark Pollard Jr. were jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond after
their arraignments before District Judge James Albert, of Greensburg.

Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard, both of whom have been charged as adults, are
free on $50,000 unsecured bond. Arrangements were being made for them to stay
with relatives.

Greensburg Detective Sgt. Henry Fontana alleges that the Pollards were
keeping Emily Nicely, 19, against her will since September. She told police
that she was beaten with boots, broom handles, a metal pipe, wooden door slats
and other objects if she refused “to do chores,” according to an
arrest warrant affidavit.

Nicely, who had attended Greensburg Salem High School, began living with the
Pollards last summer in the hope of finishing school there after her family
moved out of the district, Fontana said. School district officials said she was
last enrolled during the 2004-05 school year.

The abuse started shortly after she moved in, and the family referred to her
as their “slave,” according to the affidavit.

“Ms. Nicely was not allowed to be alone or have contact with anyone
except the Pollard family. She was not allowed out of the house unless she was
with another family member,” the affidavit said.

Williams said that after he and his male caregiver invited the bruised
Nicely inside, a woman came to the door and demanded the teen come outside. His
caregiver — a tall, muscular man — refused, Williams said, shutting the door
in the woman’s face.

“(Nicely) came in and sat,” Williams recalled. “I felt bad.
She cried. I said, ‘Just sit here, stay warm. You don’t need to go outside. No
one’s going to take you.’”

Two other people were outside his home as Nicely was delivering his copy of
the Tribune-Review, Williams said.

Cynthia Pollard told police that members of the family had confrontations
with Nicely, but only in self-defense, according to the affidavit. She said
Nicely fell down while delivering the newspapers, and that was why she was
bruised, court papers said.

After state police arrived at Williams’ home March 10, Nicely was taken for
medical treatment at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, and
city police were contacted. She is staying with her mother in another county,
police said.

Tribune-Review records indicate Mark Jr., Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard serve
as independent contractors delivering the newspaper. Each delivers on a
different route in Greensburg.

‘Slave’ case neighbors stunned

By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tom Sarver
said he was shocked when he heard a Greensburg family — his neighbors –
allegedly kept a woman enslaved in their home and beat her for months.

“I thought it was terrible,” Sarver said Wednesday. “I didn’t
think something like that could go on. And I was wondering about why it didn’t
come to light sooner than it did.”

Since September, Mark Pollard, 43; his wife, Cynthia Pollard, 41; and their
three children, Mark Pollard Jr., 18, Jonathan Pollard, 17, and Tabitha
Pollard, 16, were holding Emily Nicely, 19, against her will at their 506
DelBene Way home, according to Greensburg police.

On Tuesday, the five family members were arraigned on kidnapping and other
charges related to repeatedly beating Nicely with their fists and various
objects and threatening to harm her and her family if she fled or told anyone,
according to court papers. Jonathan and Tabitha Pollard are charged as adults.

Yesterday, other neighbors joined Sarver in voicing their astonishment at the
charges and wondering why no one intervened sooner.

“I was shocked,” said Bill McAfee, a retired Greensburg police
officer. “It’s always been a nice, quiet neighborhood. You wouldn’t think
a block and a half from here that something like that was going on.”

“I don’t understand why someone didn’t notice and do something as far
as counseling,” said another neighbor, Colleen Clark. “I don’t know
why. I guess I’m as guilty (for not noticing).”

Many neighbors living on the 7th Ward hill with a view of the Westmoreland
County courthouse and downtown Greensburg said they tend to keep to themselves
and didn’t know the Pollards well.

Others, who asked not to be identified, said police often responded to calls
about disturbances at the Pollard’s small, ill-kept house.

Greensburg police Capt. George Seranko confirmed that police had visited 506
DelBene Way, but said nothing tipped off officers about Nicely’s alleged
ordeal, which she described as being treated like a slave, according to court
papers.

Seranko said evidence shows that Nicely was beaten extensively over a period
of time.

“It’s not a bruise; it’s hundreds of bruises,” he said. “You
can tell this was a continuous assault. It wasn’t one time.

“It wasn’t bruising from a fall,” he added, referring to a
statement Cynthia Pollard made to authorities. “Almost every part of her
body had some type of a bruise on it.”

Detective Sgt. Henry Fontana said Nicely was staying with the family in
hopes of continuing to attend Greensburg Salem High School after her family
moved out of the school district. However, school officials said she was last
enrolled in the 2004-05 school year.

All three Pollard children dropped out of school, Greensburg Salem officials
said.

At some point, Nicely had dated both Mark Pollard Jr. and Jonathan Pollard,
police said.

Nicely told police that she continued living with the family out of fear,
according to a probable cause affidavit.

“They told her that if she told anyone or tried to leave, they would
put wire around her neck and strangle her,” the affidavit said. “They
would then go after her family.”

Authorities became aware of Nicely’s situation after Nelson Williams and his
caregiver intervened after Nicely delivered a copy of the Tribune-Review to
Williams’ Hempfield Township home March 10. Mark Jr., Jonathan and Tabitha
Pollard all served as independent contractors delivering the newspaper,
according to company records.

The caregiver questioned Nicely about her badly bruised face, Williams said,
and Nicely said she had been beaten and kept imprisoned for more than six
months.

They took Nicely inside, ignored Cynthia Pollard as she demanded that Nicely
come outside, and called state police, Williams said.

Nicely was taken to Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, and
doctors contacted city police.

Dr. Janet Squires, director of the Child Advocacy Center at Children’s
Hospital of Pittsburgh, said that in many publicized cases in which someone has
been kept a prisoner, people often question why the victim did not try to
escape.

In Nicely’s case, Squires said, even though she was 19, she was still
childlike.

“Many times, one thing that makes people vulnerable is being threatened,”
said Squires, whose center evaluates children and adolescents who may be
victims of physical or sexual abuse, or neglect.

Threats can be very powerful, especially when a victim has no resources and
no friends or family nearby, Squires said.

“I’ve heard horrific things that were said,” Squires said.
“People are belittled. They are told, ‘If only you were good, I wouldn’t
have to hit you.’”

After a while, a victim’s self-worth deteriorates.

“This young lady at least had the ego to articulate (what was
happening) and report (it),” Squires said.

She said the Hempfield Township man who noticed Nicely’s injuries invited
her in and contacted authorities is “a hero.”

“Sometimes the right person in the right place — asking, ‘Are you OK?’
at the right time — can give a victim a chance to ask for help,” Squires
said.

Among the items seized during a police search of the Pollards’ home were a
belt, a yardstick, window slats, a broom and a pole. Seranko said these items
may undergo forensic testing if Nicely says that they were used to beat her.

The Pollards survive on Social Security payments, said Meagan Bilik, who
represented the family at their arraignments before District Judge James
Albert, of Greensburg.

“To my knowledge, there’s no prior (criminal) records,” the
attorney said.

All five Pollards were jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond each.

Tabitha Pollard, who is six months pregnant, was put in jail yesterday after
she could not satisfy authorities about an address where she would live on
electronic monitoring while awaiting her preliminary hearing, court officials
said.

The Pollards’ home is part of a mortgage foreclosure action begun by
Citifinancial Services Inc, according to Westmoreland County court records.

Citifinancial alleges that no mortgage payments have been made since
October. Nearly $42,000 is owed in principal, interest, late charges and other
fees, according to court papers.

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Drug-dealing undercover officers kill concerned resident.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man died late Saturday after what police described as an
exchange of gunfire with two undercover narcotics officers just off Philips
Highway in the South Metro area.

According to the Jacksonville
Sheriff’s Office, the detectives had been working undercover for about three
hours in the 2300 block of Westmont Street when a man approached them with a
gun just before 6 p.m. The officers said they identified themselves as police
and ordered the suspect to put down the gun.

Witnesses said that the man refused
to drop his gun and gunshots were exchanged. The man was shot several times.

“The man came out three times
and was like, ‘Why are you not moving out of my yard,’” a resident told
Channel 4’s Jennifer Bauer. “So after the third time that dude came out of
the house, he came with a .357 and started shooting at the individuals, which
were the undercover police. They started shooting back at him.”

Police said he died later at
Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center. The name of the man was not released
Saturday night.

Neighbors told Channel 4 that the
victim was an elderly man who was very protective of his property.

“You don’t expect somebody to
come pointing a gun at you, and once they do that, the officers will tell them
to drop the gun,” JSO Chief Dwain Senterfitt said. “We’re still
investigating what statements were made, but obviously, at that point, the
officers’ lives were in danger.”

The two officers took cover behind a
tree — which took at least one bullet — and were not injured.

The detectives were placed on
administrative leave, which is standard procedure while a police-involved
shooting is investigated.

This is the third fatal
police-involved shooting in three weeks. Last Saturday evening, Douglas Woods
was shot and killed by an undercover JSO narcotics officer who said Woods tried
to rob him at the Sabal Palms Apartments on Emerson Street.

“If look at them, all three of
these were people brandishing firearms, either shooting at or attempting to
shoot at police, and police respond like they are trained to do,”
Senterfitt said.

UN’s human right’s council opens permanent probe on Iz

The United Nation’s Human Rights Council is expected to place
Israel under permanent investigation for its “violations” of international law
in the territories – until such time as it withdraws to the pre-1967 border -
according to Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. Neuer added that he
received that information from diplomatic sources.

It’s one of at least four anti-Israel actions he expects the council to take
during its fourth session, which started in Geneva on Monday and runs through
April 5, Neuer told The Jerusalem Post from
Geneva.

The UN body was created in June to replace the Human Rights Commission,
which was scrapped because it had a faulty membership composition and
repeatedly singled out Israel.

But since its inception, the 47-member body – which includes Cuba, Saudi
Arabia and China – has continued to single out the Jewish State. It has issued
eight anti-Israel resolutions, and none against any other nation. It has also
held three special sessions on Israel.

Neuer and Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Yitzhak Levanon, said
they expected this session to continue in that same pattern, although the
council is also expected to discuss human rights abuses in other parts of the
world, including in Darfur, Sudan.

“I’m expecting there will be some clashes concerning Israel,” Levanon told
the Post.

From S.A. sucks.blogspot: Australia
Gets Ready to Evacuate its Citizens from Zimbaboonwe

Australia said on Thursday it was drawing up plans for a
possible evacuation of its citizens from Zimbabwe after the regime’s violent
crackdown on opposition politicians. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the
government was concerned for the safety of about 700 Australians living in the
Southern African nation, where the situation was “going from awful to catastrophic.”
“We’re reviewing our contingency plans in relation to any evacuations of
Australians,” he told national radio. “We are very focused on this
crisis from that perspective.”
Downer urged neighbouring countries, particularly South Africa, to do more to
halt the violence and intimidation by President Robert Mugabe’s regime.
“They are the countries that can have influence on Zimbabwe and we will
continue to lobby them to be more decisive in the action they’re taking to
persuade the Zimbabweans to deal with their problems,” he said.
South Africa’s policy of quiet diplomacy had not succeeded, he said. “The
situation in Zimbabwe is going from awful to catastrophic and I have to say
there really has to be a much bigger effort from neighbouring countries.”
How about European countries evacuating Whites from South Africa? You think it
is going to be any different?

Non-Jewish
students, officials flock to AIPAC conference Via
AryanAwakening.blogspot.com

The 6,000 partici-pants who have congreg-ated in Washin-gton
to participate in AIPAC’s annual policy conference have seen their numbers
boosted by a growing number of non-Jewish students and public officials.

Christian and historically black colleges which sent student
delegates to the three-day event grew by 25 percent this year, with 55 campuses
represented. The number of student government presidents jumped by a third, to
160 such representatives, the majority of whom are not Jewish.

Online video of the AIPAC conference, click
here.

The program itself continues the tradition of holding
sessions on support for Israel among the African-American, Latino and Christian
communities.

NS In Taiwan:

TAIPEI — Israel Thursday voiced
concern to the Taiwanese government over the founding of a Nazi political
movement on the island, a foreign ministry official said.

The National Socialism Association
was set up by
university students who said that they were inspired by Adolf Hitler
and dissatisfied with persistent political squabbling, according to
local newspaper reports.

The group Thursday claimed more than
1,000 members, according to its Web site.

Israel’s de facto Ambassador to
Taipei Raphael Gamzou expressed concern over the group.

“The ambassador voiced his concerns
when we met today [Thursday].
He hoped Taiwan could better educate its students and make them
understand the background of the Nazis,” (ie. lie about them)
Anotonio Chen, head of the
foreign ministry’s West Asian Affairs Department, said.

Chen, meanwhile, urged his fellow
countrymen “to respect the
history of the other countries and not to apply salt to their wounds.”

World
nationalist groundswell picks up steam in Turkey

Posted March
15th, 2007 by
Categories: Tomorrow Belongs to Us

TODAY’S
ZAMAN

Turkish nationalism is now in ascendance. Public surveys
reveal an increased inclination in the general public’s voting behavior towards
nationalist parties, both right and left. In fact the left-right spectrum has
already lost its meaning for Turkish politics and left in its place the
universalist-localist scale (or globalized-protectionist or open-closed, if you
will). We have an ultra-nationalist religious party and an ultra-nationalist
socialist party. Universalism no longer has a definite address on the left or
right.

Oy
Vey, Le Pen is in . . . time to begin the slander in earnest

Posted March
15th, 2007 by
Categories: Europe

SFGate:
World Views : It’s definite: France’s far-right Le Pen will run for president
again

He’s baaaaack… More precisely, he never really went away,
and until yesterday, many power holders in France’s political establishment and
level-headed voters around the country had been holding their breath to find
out whether or not the 78-year-old, ultra-right leader of the anti-immigrant,
France-for-the-French National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, would be running for
president or not this year.

KSM
also admits to killing Dan Pearl, sailors at Pearl Harbor

Posted March
15th, 2007 by
Categories: AmeriKwa

9/11
mastermind admits killing reporter | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl and was
central to 30 other attacks and plots in the U.S. and worldwide that killed
thousands of victims, said a revised transcript released Thursday by the U.S.
military.

Germar Rudolf sentenced to 30 months for talking about his scientific
findings

BERLIN: A 42-year-old German deported from the
United States was convicted Thursday of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 2 1/2
years in prison.

A state court in Mannheim found Germar Rudolf guilty of breaking laws
against denying the Holocaust by publishing a study claiming to prove that the
Nazis did not gas Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. He also distributed
his theories over the Internet, the court found.

“He represented the Holocaust as invention,” prosecutor Andreas
Grossmann said.

Rudolf was convicted in 1995 of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 14 months
in prison, but then disappeared. He applied for political asylum in the United
States in 2000, but was rejected and was deported in 2005 to serve the 1995
sentence.

He was arrested when he appeared at an immigration office in Chicago to
apply for a green card based on his marriage to a U.S. citizen.

He was charged again in April, 2006, with “systematically” denying
or playing down the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews in documents and on the
Internet, and of stirring anti-Semitic hatred.

Former French PM accuses “Israeli
Lobby”

PARIS (EJP)— Former French Prime
Minister Raymon Barre has sparked an uproar within the Jewish community after
accusing “the Jewish lobby” of making “a scapegoat” of Maurice Papon, a French
senior official who signed deportation orders for hundreds of Jews in the
Bordeaux region during WWII.

In an interview last week with France Culture, a state-run radio station, Barre
also said that “opposing the deportation of Jews had not been a matter of
“major national interest.”

CRIF, the umbrella of French Jewish secular organizations, said it was
“scandalized” by the comments, adding that Barre “had joined the
extreme-right”.

Historian and film director Claude
Lanzmann accused Barre of being “an anti-Semite”.

A senior official under the wartime Vichy government, Papon was sentenced to 10
years in jail in 1998 for his role in organising the deportation of hundreds to
Nazi extermination camps.

During his six-month trial, the longest in French history, Papon came to
symbolize France’s collaboration with the Nazis.

He was convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity, after the court
rejected his plea that he was a civil servant following instructions from
above.

He was released in 2002 on medical grounds and died last month aged 96.

Moral judgement

The radio interview initially focused on Papon’s guilt. Asked if he understands
that it is possible for someone to be guilty of not disobeying, Barre said:
“When you have essential responsibilities in a department, a region or even
more at the national level, you don’t resign. You only resign when it is truly
a question of major national interest.”

“Mr Papon became a scapegoat. I am not passing moral judgment on the attitude
that one should have had with regard to the deportation of the Jews or not. But
I consider that this country is fundamentally hypocritical in seeking out a few
scapegoats.”

“Don’t forget that all the French personnel who went to manage the part of
Germany occupied by France [after the end of WWII] consisted in large part of
highly professional civil servants who needed maybe to be eliminated on a
national level but were able to continue to serve the country at the
international level”.

Barre added: “I want to say that on this issue I consider that the Jewish lobby
– and not only with regard to me – is capable of mounting disgraceful
operations and I want to say this publicly.”

Not the first time

Raymon Barre, who was Prime Minister under former President Valéry Giscard
d’Estaing, already shocked the Jewish community at the time when reacting to a Palestinian
terrorist bomb attack against a Paris synagogue in October 1980, he declared on
the television: “This appalling attack was intended to hit Jews on their way to
the synagogue, it has hit innocent French people who happened to be in the Rue
Copernic”.

He implicitely stated that Jews are not French.

During the interview with France Culture, Barre said he doesn’t not regret his
words.

“Don’t forget that in the same statement I said that the Jewish community
cannot be separated from the French community. When you quote, you must quote
in full. And the campaign undertaken by the Jewish lobby with the strongest
links on the left came from the fact that we were in an electoral climate and
this didn’t impress me and they can continue to repeat it.”

“Those who wanted to get their own back on Jews could have blown up the
synagogue and Jews. But not at all, they launched a blind bomb attack and there
were three French people, not Jews, that’s a fact, not Jews. And that doesn’t
mean that Jews are not French,” Barre said.

German academic’s lecture on
‘Islamic anti-Semitism’ cancelled in London Original article:
www.ejpress.org/article/15113

LONDON (AFP)— A lecture by a
German expert on “Islamic anti-Semitism” at a British university was
cancelled over concerns the lecturer would be attacked, The Times reported on
Thursday.
The University of Leeds denied accusations that it was stifling academic
freedoms when it cancelled Matthias Kuntzel’s lecture entitled “Hitler’s
Legacy: Islamic anti-Semitism in the Middle East.”

“I have been told that it has had to be cancelled for security
reasons,” Kuntzel told the daily.

“It seems there were concerns that there could be violence against my person.”

Kuntzel, an expert on Iran and research associate at the Vidal Sassoon
International Centre for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, went on to say that in his experience “nothing like this has
ever happened before — this is censorship.”

“It is a controversial area but I am accustomed to debate. I value the
integrity of academic debate and I feel that it really is in danger here. This
is a very important subject and if you cannot address it on university
property, then what is a university for?”

The University of Leeds, however, said the reason the lecture had been
cancelled was because proper stewarding arrangements for it had not been made.

Ahmed Sawalem, the president of the university’s student Islamic Society, said
that he had contacted the vice-chancellor’s office to file an official
complaint, but said the group had not asked for the event to be cancelled.

UK journalist slammed for Holocaust
comments

Original article:
www.ejpress.org/article/15106

LONDON (EJP)— The art critic of
London’s main evening newspaper has come under heavy criticism by Jewish
community leaders after saying that the Holocaust has been used to “whip guilt
into society”.

In a column published in the Evening Standard last week, art critic Brian
Sewell came out against a new exhibition commemorating the end of the slave
trade currently on display at the Victoria and Albert museum in central London.

While Sewell clearly deplored the slave trade he said he believed the
exhibition, which features artistic works inspired by the years of slavery, was
unworthy.

But in a sentence described by Board of Deputies Chief Executive Jon
Benjamin as “apalling”, Sewell accused Holocaust memorials as
well as those remembering the horrors of the slave trade as being used to make
people feel guilty.

“The historical slave trade was a business at least as appalling as the
Holocaust, with many, many, more victims, and like the Holocaust its memory has
been hijacked by the descendants of those victims and turned into a scourge
with which to whip guilt into society,” Sewell wrote.

Abused

Holocaust Education Trust Lord Greville Janner was one of a number of Jewish
leaders to speak out against Sewell’s words.

“The Holocaust and the slave trade were both vile injustices and wicked
betrayals of humanity,” Janner said. “To defile the memory of these acts as
Brian Sewell saw fit do is an abuse of his journalistic platform and a sad
reminder that the lessons of the holocaust and other similar horrors have not
yet been learned .”

Benjamin echoed Janner’s sentiments, pulling no punches in his criticism of
Sewell. “After cataloguing the appalling human cost of the slave trade and
categorising it alongside the Holocaust, it is quite appalling to dismiss the
suffering of its victims and their descendants in this way,” Benjamin said,
adding that he believed that Sewell “shows the conceit of those whose
comfortable existence has never been affected by such monstrous inhumanity.”

No complaints

However, according to Managing Editor of the Evening Standard Doug Wills there
had been no complaints sent to the newspaper about the column and that he
believed those expressing their concerns were taking the sentence out of
context.

Willis said: “It is wrong to bring out this partial phrase in isolation. The
focus of this 1,800-word feature and this reference is on the horrors of the
slave trade and this is absolutely apparent to those who read the whole
article.

“I am not aware of the Evening Standard receiving any complaints about
this article. This was an historic reference of measure and certainly did not
diminish the Holocaust or survivors in any way. The Evening Standard is well
known for its supportive coverage of Holocaust survivors, as our readers will
be very much aware.”

The column can be found on the Evening Standard website, at

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23387459-details/Uncomfortable+Truths:+The+Shadow+Of+Slave+Trading+On+Contemporary+Art+And+Design/text/review.do

Lawsuit Over Chabad Building Puts
Rebbe’s Living Legacy on Trial

Nathaniel Popper | Fri. Mar 16, 2007

The neo-Gothic brick building at 770
Eastern Parkway, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, has become the
defining symbol of Chabad Lubavitch as the ultra-Orthodox movement has spread
around the world with its philosophy of reaching out to all Jews.

The building was once the
headquarters of the Hasidic movement’s grand rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson,
who preached in the downstairs synagogue until his death in 1994. Today,
though, the building is at the center of a sometimes violent schism between the
rebbe’s followers.

In a lawsuit winding its way through
New York Supreme Court, two groups of Chabad leaders are fighting for control
of the synagogue in 770, which sprawls through the basement of the rebbe’s
former residence and a building next door. This week, the judge in the suit
decided that neither side had an open-and-shut argument, and so the case would
go forward to a full-blown trial.

At stake is the ultra-Orthodox
movement’s most famous synagogue. But the trial will also help decide the
public face that Chabad presents to the world. In short, will this be a
movement defined by a Messiah, or not?

On one side of the dispute are the
tight-lipped global leaders of Chabad, who own the buildings above the
synagogue and oversee the flow of Chabad rabbis to almost every corner of the
earth. On the other side is a group of leaders elected from the local Chabad
community of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, who say the movement’s global leaders
are trying to publicly blur and deny what they describe as its doctrine about
the late rebbe’s status as the messiah.

The roots of the lawsuit lie in a
fracas over just this very matter back in 2004. In the middle of a November
night, a band of rowdy youngsters tore out a plaque that had recently been
installed at 770 by the global leaders of Chabad, who own the building. The
youths were angered by the plaque because it referred to Schneerson with a
Hebrew acronym used for dead people, which conflicted with the youngsters’ view
that the rebbe is a still living messiah.

There probably would not have been a
protracted lawsuit if it were not for the fact that the views of the young vandals
coincided with the elected leaders, or gabbais, of the religious congregation
in the basement of 770.

In his affidavit, the lead gabbai,
Rabbi Zalman Lipskier, wrote that “the real issue in dispute involves
conflicting views on how our faith views the passing of the Grand Rebbe
Schneerson and whether or not at this time he may be referred to publicly as
the Messiah.”

Lipskier and the other gabbais were
chosen most recently in a 2005 election that was open to Lubavitch community
members in Crown Heights. The gabbais have long been able to control discourse
in the synagogue because they have run the day-to-day affairs in the downstairs
area of the building. For the lawsuit, they have submitted documents showing
that they pay the electric bills and also that they have paid for the entryway
in which the offending plaque was installed.

In the wake of the plaque-stealing
incident, however, the organization that owns the building, Agudas Chassidei
Chabad, decided that no one else would dictate what happens on the
organization’s property.

Arguing before the court, the
organization’s lawyer, David Zaslowsky, said that “there should be little doubt
that on the day we moved in back in 1940, if we wanted to put a plaque on that
building we’d have the right to do that, and that plaque could say anything we
wanted.”

A recent visit to the synagogue
downstairs indicated the strong influence that the messianic gabbais have over
the sanctuary. During the services, most worshippers joined in a spirited
prayer that celebrated the rebbe as the messiah. On the northern wall of the
sanctuary is a long banner that says “Live Our Master, Teacher, Rebbe King
Moshiach Forever and Ever.”

“What does it mean, he is alive?”
said Yitzhak Fuchs, a 47-year-old congregant who was standing outside in a worn
suit.

“We learned the king messiah is not
going to die. He is going to disappear, but he’s not dead,” said Fuchs, who,
like many of the other worshippers, wore a small, yellow lapel pin with a crown
and the word messiah in Hebrew.

The unanswered question at the core
of the lawsuit is whether the global leadership of Chabad — men like Rabbi
Yehudah Krinsky and Rabbi Yisroel Shemtov — actually disagree with Fuchs and
the gabbais about the rebbe’s status as messiah.

A number of affidavits in the
lawsuit assert that almost all Chabad leaders do privately believe that the
rebbe was the messiah but have been afraid to talk about it publicly, for fear
of scaring off the unaffiliated Jews who attend Chabad services around the
world.

The head of Chabad in southern Ohio,
Rabbi Sholom Kalmanson, gave an affidavit in which he argued that while most
Lubavitchers believe that the rebbe is the messiah, “others believe that while
the scenario is possible, it should not be a public position. A very small minority
have abandoned the notion that the rebbe is Moshiach.”

Kalmanson is no longer recognized by
the New York offices as an official representative of Chabad.

In the court case, the global
leaders of Chabad avoid commenting on the messiah issue, and state that the
matter to be settled is one of real estate and not religious dogma. But the
court papers nonetheless record the back and forth on the issue.

One statement, signed by close to
250 Chabad rabbis, identifies the rebbe as the messiah. Another, signed in 1998
by eight of the most powerful Chabad rabbis, says that “the preoccupation with
identifying the Rebbe as Moshiach is clearly contrary to the Rebbe’s wishes.”

David Berger, a rabbi and historian
who has studied the question and been very critical of Lubavitch theology, said
that neither side in the case would deny that the rebbe is the messiah. But he
also noted that this does not mean there are not significant theological
differences in the debate. According to Berger, there are strenuous disagreements
within Chabad over whether the rebbe died to return in the future or just
disappeared for a time.

In any case, Berger said, the top
leaders in Chabad “don’t want it to be in the liturgy. They realize it’s very
bad for the movement.”

In the basement at 770, the fervent
messianists appear to be carrying the day for now. Despite repeated attempts to
install a new plaque, the only sign of it today is a gap in the wall, with
messy streaks of plaster. In the middle of the gap is a brown stone that was
originally put there by the rebbe. As men walk into the synagogue at all hours,
they touch the stone and kiss their fingers.

England football team will have to
eat kosher during Israeli stay

Original article:
www.ejpress.org/article/14952

LONDON (EJP)— The chef of the
England international football team was “shocked” to learn that he
would be banned from cooking the players food containing pork, bacon and ham
when they stay at a kosher Israeli hotel this month, it has been reported.

The Football Association has booked 80 rooms at the five-star Dan Accadia Hotel
in the resort of Herzilya, near Tel Aviv, when England play Israel in the
forthcoming Euro 2008 match.

However in advance of their stay, the hotel has warned the England team, its
officials and management, that they will have to abide by the laws of kashrut
or laws of kosherness.

Meat and milk

England’s chef usually cooks pork sausages for the players, and mixes meat with
milk by serving cheese at the same time.

Captain John Terry particularly likes Parmesan cheese with every meal, the chef
was reported to have revealed, and the rules of mixing meat with milk will
prohibit that, the hotel has said.

“The England chef was shocked when he found out he wouldn’t be able to
cook pork, sausage and cheese together,” Arik Porat, the hotel’s chef,
told the Jewish Chronicle newspaper. “He said: ’What will I do with
captain John Terry, who likes to have Parmesan with every meal – including
meat?’”

No problems

In an official statement, the FA, however, said the restrictions would not
cause any problems. “We are satisfied that we will have an enjoyable time
in Israel, and we are looking forward to our visit,” a spokesman said.

For its part, the FA has handed a 13-page list of demands to the hotel with
strict requirements for management to abide by in order to ensure that the team
functions optimally on the playing field.

It includes removing mini-bars and restricting room service for all 80 rooms
reserved for the team, it has been reported.

“We are very thorough in our preparation for matches and this is standard
practice,” an FA spokesman said.

“We are doing nothing different in Israel than we do anywhere else.”

US Attorney General in Serious
Trouble

WASHINGTON, March 14–Embattled
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday it is up to President George
W. Bush whether he remains in the administration amid an escalating political row
over what critics contend is the politically motivated firing of eight top
federal prosecutors.
With some Democratic lawmakers calling for his resignation, Gonzales said, “I
work for the American people and serve at the pleasure of the president,“ AP reported.
“I think you can look at the record of the department in terms of what we’ve
done … going after child predators, public corruption cases,“ he said on
NBC’s “Today“ show.
“I think our record is outstanding.“
The dispute over the US attorneys has become the latest clash between Bush’s
Republican Party and the newly empowered Democratic majority in Congress.
Democrats, who have long accused Republicans of running roughshod over
opponents, have portrayed the firings as part of a campaign of intimidation and
obstruction by the Bush administration and Republican lawmakers.
Gonzales acknowledged, as he had on Tuesday, that mistakes were made in the
handling of the US attorney firings and said he wanted to remain in the job to
make things right with Congress.
“I think we’ve done a good job in managing the department … Things are going
to happen,“ he said.
“We are going to work with Congress to make sure they know what happened … We
want to ensure that they have a complete and accurate picture of what happened
here.“
“I didn’t become attorney general by quitting,“ Gonzales said on CBS’s “The
Early Show.“
Several Democrats have called for Gonzales’ resignation, among them
presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards.
“The buck should stop somewhere,“ Clinton said in an interview with ABC’s “Good
Morning America“ which was broadcast Wednesday morning.
She added that Bush “needs to be very forthcoming–what did he say, what did he
know, what did he do?“ and that high-level White House adviser Karl Rove also
“owes the Congress and the country an explanation“ for his role in the affair.
The firestorm of criticism has erupted in the wake of the disclosure of emails
within the administration which showed that Gonzales’ chief of staff, Kyle Sampson,
had discussed the possible firings of US attorneys in early 2005 with
then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers.

Dems abandon war authority provision

By DAVID ESPO and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers Mon
Mar 12, 7:22 PM ET

WASHINGTON – Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit

President Bush’s authority
for taking military action against

Oficials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news,
bio,
voting
record) and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a
major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from
Congress before moving against Iran.

Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible
impact on

Israel had argued for the change in
strategy.

The developments occurred as Democrats pointed toward an initial test vote
in the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday on the overall bill, which
would require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2008,
if not earlier. The measure provides nearly $100 billion to pay for fighting in
two wars, and includes more money than the president requested for operations
in

Afghanistan and what Democrats
called training and equipment shortages.

The White House has issued a veto threat against the bill, and Vice
President

Dick Cheney attacked its
supporters in a speech, declaring they “are telling the enemy simply to
watch the clock and wait us out.”

House GOP Leader John Boehner (news,
bio,
voting
record) of Ohio issued a statement that said Democrats shouldn’t count on
any help passing their legislation. “Republicans will continue to stand
united in this debate, and will oppose efforts by Democrats to undermine the
ability of General Petraeus and our troops to achieve victory in the Global War
on Terror,” he said.

Top Democrats had a different perspective.

Pelosi issued a written statement that said the vice president’s remarks
prove that “the administration’s answer to continuing violence in Iraq is
more troops and more treasure from the American people.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news,
bio,
voting
record), D-Nev., said in a statement that America was less safe today
because of the war. The president “must change course, and it’s time for
the Senate to demand he do it,” he added.

The Iran-related proposal stemmed from a desire to make sure Bush did not
launch an attack without going to Congress for approval, but drew opposition
from numerous members of the rank and file in a series of closed-door sessions
last week.

Rep. Shelley Berkley (news,
bio,
voting
record), D-Nev., said in an interview there is widespread fear in Israel
about Iran, which is believed to be seeking nuclear weapons and has expressed
unremitting hostility about the Jewish state.

“It would take away perhaps the most important negotiating tool that
the U.S. has when it comes to Iran,” she said of the now-abandoned
provision.

“I didn’t think it was a very wise idea to take things off the table if
you’re trying to get people to modify their behavior and normalize it in a
civilized way,” said Rep. Gary Ackerman (news,
bio,
voting
record) of New York.

Several officials said there was widespread opposition to the proposal at a
closed-door meeting last week of conservative and moderate Democrats, who said
they feared tying the hands of the administration when dealing with an
unpredictable and potentially hostile regime in Tehran.

Public opinion has swung the way of Democrats on the issue of the war. More
than six in 10 Americans think the conflict was a mistake — the largest number
yet found in AP-Ipsos polling.

But Democrats have struggled to find a compromise that can satisfy both
liberals who oppose any funding for the military effort and conservatives who
do not want to unduly restrict the commander in chief.

“This supplemental should be about supporting the troops and providing
what they need,” said Rep. Dan Boren (news,
bio,
voting
record), D-Okla., on Monday upon returning from a trip to Iraq. Boren said
he plans to oppose any legislation setting a clear deadline for troops to
leave.

In his speech, Cheney chided lawmakers who are pressing for tougher action
on Iran to oppose the president on the Iraq War.

“It is simply not consistent for anyone to demand aggressive action
against the menace posed by the Iranian regime while at the same time
acquiescing in a retreat from Iraq that would leave our worst enemies
dramatically emboldened and Israel’s best friend, the United States,
dangerously weakened,” he said.

Web 2.0

DelTube

Even casual YouTube users have no doubt come across video clips that the
company has taken down for one reason or another, but a new service gives
viewers at least a chance to see the offending content. Delutube, as its name implies, can
serve up some video clips even after YouTube has purged them.

Looking through a selection of random clips on Delutube provides insight
into YouTube’s takedown practices. A large number of the clips contain
copyrighted music, though the video is typically of high school girls trying to
look like strippers as hip-hop plays in the background. (Note that not all of
these clips may be work-safe.)

Delutube allows visitors to enter the video ID (pulled from the end of the
YouTube URL) of a deleted clip, then attempts to retrieve the clip from
YouTube’s system. Clips are not apparently deleted from YouTube’s database at
the moment they are taken down (or they at least persist in YouTube’s cache
before being cleared), allowing Delutube a chance of retrieving them. The site
also allows for the easy downloading of clips.

The service, and others like it, could make YouTube’s network an easy way to
share and download even illicit video files that will quickly be pulled from
the public portion of the site. It’s also the sort of thing likely to cause
even more angst among content owners, especially if visitors can still retrieve
clips that have been the target of DMCA takedown notices.

Delutube isn’t the only service that can do such a thing, of course, but
it’s possibly the most ironic; the site makes money serving Google ads. The
creation of these services shows how much demand exists for this sort of
material, and what a hard time content owners have controlling it. For them,
such sites are one more frustrating roadblock on the way to exerting control of
songs and video clips on the Internet.

Are such sites legal? It’s hard to say. The clips all come from YouTube’s
servers, and many of them don’t appear to infringe anyone’s copyright (these
are generally removed due to depictions of drunken behavior or inappropriate
sexual content). Still, expect some form of legal action against the services
if they become a big-enough nuisance to content owners or make YouTube’s own
negotiations with copyright holders more difficult.

Iran

Anti-Semitism on the rise in
Switzerland’s German speaking communities

Original article:
www.ejpress.org/article/15074

ZURICH (EJP)— New statistics
released by a Swiss Jewish organisation have indictated an increase in
anti-Semitic incidents in the country’s German speaking regions.

The Action Group of the Children of the Holocaust (AKDH) said it registered 73
cases of what it considers to have been anti-Semitic incidents between
September 2005 and December 2006.

From August 2004 through September 2005 only 32 cases were registered, the Neue
Zürcher Zeitung´(NZZ) daily reported.

According to the report, 42 of the incidents which occurred during the past
year were of a “tangible nature”, such as those committed against the
properties of Jewish institutions and organisations. These included a synagogue
in the eastern lakeside city of Biel was vandalised with graffiti.

Samuel Althof, speaker of the AKDH said that a Zurich based house of worship
had dog droppings smeared on parts of its façade.

Internet anti-Semitism

Over the course of the same period, 15 anti-Semitism statements were reported
to have been found in internet guest books and forums.

Althof said that his organisation had received several anti-Semitic comments on
its internet site. Even non-Jewish organisations are reported to have had
anti-Semitic comments recorded within their internet pages – such as the Ice
Skating Club of Bern, the Swiss capital.

According to AKDH, seven cases of anti-Semitism were publicly made defamatory
statements.

Altof told NZZ that he does not believe that the rise of reported anti-Semitic
cases means that such incidences are becoming epidemic. Instead, he believes
that although most cases go unreported, the public is becoming more aware that
they need to go to the police or to his organisation when such cases occur –
regardless of how minor the incidences might have appeared.

The AKDH, which also acts as a trauma centre for victims of anti-Semitic acts,
has, together with the Federation of Swiss Jewish Communities called upon the
government to set up a centralised database for monitoring anti-Semitic acts
for the entire country.

More information on the AKDH’s work is available in German at

http://www.akdh.ch

Anti-Semitic
forces out to get Levy, says rabbi

Via Aryanawakening.blogspot.com

Lord Levy’s rabbi intervened in the cash-for-honours row again yesterday to
attack the “anti-Semitic” forces trying to undermine the Labour peer.

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet said there was a widely held view in his community that
Lord Levy was being targeted because he was Jewish.

In an interview he said: “There is a general feeling, and it is
increasingly sensitive, that this is all about ‘get the Jew’. I do not play the
anti-Semitic card. But within my immediate community, and the Jewish community
generally, they are sensitive to the fact that this is becoming all about one
Jew.”

Rabbi Schochet, 41, has run north London’s Mill Hill Synagogue, where Lord Levy
regularly attends, for 14 years. A photograph of the rabbi with Tony Blair has
pride of place in his cramped office.

Lord Levy, the Prime Minister’s personal fundraiser, has used his famous
business acumen to raise more than £1.5 million for the synagogue redevelopment
fund.

“I have known Lord Levy for the 14 years I have been at the synagogue. He
has never said to me that he thinks what is going on is anti-Semitic. We have
1,400 families at the synagogue. That is the view of many of them,” the
rabbi said.

Lord Levy was thrust into the centre of the cash-for-honours investigation this
week when it emerged police were studying a memo from Ruth Turner, the director
of government relations, about a meeting the two held last summer.

In the memo, Miss Turner, 36, disclosed that she believed Lord Levy’s
recollection of events was “untrue”.

Downing Street has insisted that the Prime Minister has full confidence in Lord
Levy, who will continue in his role as his personal Middle East envoy.

http://tinyurl.com/2ghhhj

Bush vows migration reform drive

US President George W Bush has said
efforts to reform US immigration laws are key to improving ties with Mexico.

Speaking with Mexican President
Felipe Calderon, on the last leg of a tour of Latin America, Mr Bush said he
believed the US Congress would approve new laws.

He was keen for legislation that
would “respect the rule of law – and at the same time, respect
humanity,” he said.

Hundreds of protesters earlier
rioted outside the US embassy in Mexico City, in the latest protest against his
tour.

Demonstrators burned US flags and
threw stones at police guarding the building. Several people were injured,
including a number of police officers.

There have been protests at each
stage of Mr Bush’s trip, and verbal attacks on him by Venezuela’s President
Hugo Chavez, who is on his own tour of the region.

The US president has visited Brazil,
Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and finally Mexico on his seven-day tour.

Fence plan

Speaking at a news conference in the
eastern city of Merida, Mr Bush called immigration an “important but
sensitive” issue.

He said a reform of immigration laws
was essential – and added that he was optimistic that both parties in Congress
were coming round to his view.

“If people can come into our
country, for example on a temporary basis to work, doing jobs Americans aren’t
doing, they won’t have to sneak across the border,” said Mr Bush.

“And, by the way, a system that
encourages people to sneak across the border is a system that leads to human
rights abuses.

“It’s a system that promotes
document forgers. It’s a system that allows for the exploitation of citizens
who are trying to earn a living for their families.”

Mr Bush added that he did not
envisage widespread amnesty programmes or mass deportations of illegal
immigrants.

The US is planning to construct
hundreds of kilometres of fencing along the border to try to prevent the flow
of illegal immigration from Mexico – a measure Mr Calderon has strongly
criticised.

Mr Calderon said the challenge for
Mexico was to improve the opportunities it offered, in order to encourage young
Mexicans to stay in the country or to return from the US.

“We share the need of having a
safe border that will close the gates to drugs, arms and terrorism and that
will open its doors to trade, investment and prosperity,” he said.

The BBC’s Duncan Kennedy in Merida
says Mr Bush’s comments on immigration represent the position he has long held.

Like much of the trip there has been
a shortage of new policies, our correspondent says.

Instead, the tour is being viewed as
one that has cemented political relationships rather than develop new
programmes, he says, making it likely that there will be a mixed reaction over
whether it has been a success.

Hungarian protests turn violent

There have been violent clashes
between police and far-right protesters on the streets of Budapest.

The trouble began when nationalist
leader Gyorgy Budahazy, who has been wanted by the police since disturbances
began last September, was detained.

Police decided to clear the city
centre using tear gas and water cannon as the crowd of demonstrators swelled.

Earlier thousands of supporters of
the main opposition party held a peaceful mass rally to mark National Day.

There has been tight security, amid
fears of a repetition of last October’s clashes that marred the 50th
anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising.

The unrest followed Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsany’s admission that he had lied during the electoral campaign
about the state of Hungary’s finances.

TV siege

The far-right rally began
peacefully, with speeches from, among others, British historian David Irving,
who was imprisoned until recently in Austria for Holocaust denial.

The rioting began in the early
evening after police identified and arrested Mr Budahazy, who is wanted in
connection with the siege of a public TV station during last September’s
disturbances.

As the crowd grew to around 1,000,
people converged on the centre of the city, with some clearly looking for a
fight with police, others just curious, correspondents say.

There were no immediate reports of
serious injuries, although eyewitnesses mentioned that some demonstrators had
attacked journalists.

Police drove down the city’s main
boulevard firing water cannon and tear gas canisters in an attempt to break up
the protest, which they consider illegal.

Protesters responded by throwing
bottles and stones, and built and set fire to barricades to obstruct the
police.

Flag row

At official ceremonies for the
holiday, which marks Hungary’s brief independence from Habsburg rule in 1848,
Mr Gyurcsany was booed by a few hundred protesters, who shouted “Go,
Gyurcsany, go!”

Later, Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky,
an ally of Mr Gyurcsany, had to be protected with an umbrella against eggs
thrown by protesters during his speech.

The main conservative opposition
party, Fidesz, held its own rally on Thursday afternoon, attended by tens of
thousands of supporters.

Fidesz made it clear it had nothing
to do with the far-right protesters.

Organisers asked participants at the
Fidesz rally to carry only the official flag and not the traditional Hungarian
Arpad flag, a modified version of which was used by the pro-Nazi government of
1944-1945.

Yet some participants still carried
the Arpad flag and sang songs lamenting the demise of Greater Hungary after
World War I.

Fidesz has been accused in the past
of not dissociating itself from far-right elements. The party is in the main
centre-right group in the European Union – the European Popular Party – and has
vehemently denied that it harbours xenophobic or anti-Semitic views.

Main

Racism vs. Marxism

What would most people say if you told them G.W.Bush was a Marxist?

Organizing principles

We were always family/tribe/nation (recall the etymology of “nation”)

This, vs. Marxist O.P. of socio-economic status. Farmers in Angola / Idaho.

The problem, as with almost everything when it comes to Marxism, is
reality, and in reality, the way it works is that societal elites and Jews
retain a powerful model of organization, while we are left to try our hand at
organizing people who don’t know liberty from slavery, or creation from
destruction: Recall how President Bush
cavorts around the world signing trade deals that benefits powerful businessmen
in Vietnam and Brazil while the American
workers (along with the Vietnamese and Brazilians in this case) are simply left
out of the equation. It becomes a little
easier to see how the elite possess their corrupt brand of plausible
deniability towards racial truths: The
coloreds with whom our leaders sign
multi-million business deals do not rape them for days, pour drano down their
throats and discard them in five trash
bags—that is unfortunate. They hob-nob
with the talented 1/1000^th of a percent while we are forced down
into the gutters along with the non-creating third-world populations of brown
stubbies.

Why we are disallowed this organizing principle

If Marxism wasn’t supposed to be this way, then it was a coincidence far
beyond that with which we normally deal.

Did Marx know what he was doing?

Could he have been talking about helping the down-trodden organize while he
was actually trying to help Jews carve up western civilization? Or did he simply know how Jews were and
wanted to help the goyim establish a bulwark against capitalists?

We certainly know how it’s worked out—Jews singing the praises of “the
worker” knocked over the Russian government in 1917, financed in large part by
banker-jew money from New York City.
They tried the same stunt in Germany, but the Germans revolted and began
expelling them. The Jew-led WWII
devastated the West, and delivered both Europe and the U.S. into varying forms
of socialism.

Was this planned? It’s hard to get
at the truth to that. We do know that Marx’s
dad was a crypto-Jew who converted to lutherenism because of
“anti-Semitism.” I wonder if there could
be any long-running resentment against the goyim there? Also, recall that Marx’s first treatise was titled “On the
Jewish Question.” Also, he was funded
life-long by Engels, a Jew who owned a textiles plant.

Moreover, he was a hypocrite. He
couldn’t stand being around the working class.
He tended to be annoyed when they couldn’t come along and party with
him. He himself wasn’t frugal, always
asking Engels for money despite Engels’ pleas.

Hitler talked about the communist jews and trade-unions. It’s actually what his “Kampf” was—He says
his struggle was over when he figured out that it was Jews who were behind the
madness of leftism. He went on to
expound how wealthy Jews organized labor against their managers, and how it
ended up being actually better for those wealthy Jews who owned the
factories.

AIPAC Conference

IRAN

Security Council Set to Impose Sanctions on Iran

By Staff

(EUNN) London – The UN Security Council is set to impose sanctions on Iran
over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment with the six powers in full
agreement. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested to speak
to the UN Council, and conveniently
enough, he’s been asked to speak at the council before the final decision is
made.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday that Tehran does
not intend to have a conflict with the UN but has the right to use nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes.

The Iranian inner-circle is talking as though they are hanging tough, but
the tides have continued to shift against Ahmadinejad.

UN ambassadors from the six countries which comprise the world powers on the
Security Council announced a deal on Thursday on a new sanctions resolution
that was submitted to the Security Council’s 10 non-permanent members ahead of
a vote expected next week.

Even Russia, which has in the past been reluctant to go along with
sanctioning Iran appears to now be in agreement after a technicality over
whether agreed payments for work on the Bushear facility were to be in dollars
for the nuclear power plant Russia had supplied to Tehran.

At the daily press briefing Thursday, U.S. Department of State spokesman
Sean McCormack admitted that Iran’s having already had sanctions applied
against it has made it difficult for Tehran to use the financial community,
which in turn hurt its ability to pay Russia in dollars.

“One can only say that the pathway that President Ahmadinejad is
pursuing on behalf of the Iranian people is misguided and unfortunate. But it’s
important that the Iranian people know that they have a way out and that way
out is via the negotiating table and having this regime take up the six world
powers on the Council on their offer of negotiation,” said McCormick.

Acting American Ambassador to the UN, Alejandro D. Wolff, called the
resolution “a good, balanced, incremental step”, for which his
British counterpart Emyr Jones Parry called it a “ratcheting
up” of the restrictions.

300

Made in final cut pro, like Byron’s new film

Lame, ahistorical

Described as a “purim afterparty”

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If You Want To Get To Heaven    9 lb. Hammer
Johnny Rebel – Coon Town (song    Johnny Rebel
Love Ain’t For Keeping    The Who
Naked Eye    The Who
Njosnavelin (Nothing Song)    Soundtrack
No Voices In the Sky    Motörhead
Not Today    _Singles
Passing Time    New Found Glory
Pictures of you    Cure
Piece Of Pie    Stone Temple Pilots
Pumpkin Rum    Hefner
Radar    Morphine
Residue    Hefner
rub yer daddy’s lucky belly    9 lb. Hammer
Shake My Tree    Led Zeppelin
Silver Gun Superman    Stone Temple Pilots
Still Remains    Stone Temple Pilots
Summer in Melbourne Beach    _Singles
Tear Drop    Monkey
The Distance    Cake
Throw    Stabbing Westward
Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Reprise)    _Singles
Under My Thumb    Bossa-n-’Stones
Where Is My Mind    The Pixies

Raw (unedited) MP3<—–

Particulars

Wednesday’s show was great

Contacting the show:

Phone number:

660-675-4388

SKYPE ID: VNNFREETALKLIVE

Opening

Factoid: Colin Powell speaks Yiddish

Gingrich admitted he cheated on his wife during Clinton impeachment . .

He also left his wife after she found out she had cancer

This is likely his attempt to clear the air before a Presidential run

No way because he’s against free speech

“We need to get ahead of the curve rather than wait until we actually
literally lose a city, which I think could literally happen in the next decade
if we’re unfortunate,” Mr. Gingrich said Monday night during a speech in New Hampshire. “We now
should be impaneling people to look seriously at a level of supervision that we
would never dream of if it weren’t for the scale of the threat.”

Speaking at an award dinner billed as a tribute to crusaders for the First
Amendment, Mr. Gingrich, who is considering a run for the White House in 2008, painted
an ominous picture of the dangers facing America.

“This is a serious, long-term war,” the former speaker said,
according an audio excerpt of his remarks made available yesterday by his
office. “Either before we lose a city or, if we are truly stupid, after we
lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that use every technology we can
find to break up their capacity to use the Internet, to break up their capacity
to use free speech, and to go after people who want to kill us to stop them
from recruiting people.”

Mr. Gingrich acknowledged that these proposals would trigger “a serious
debate about the First Amendment.” He also said international law must be
revised to address the exigencies posed by international terrorists.

Contacting the show . . . need fewer Skype messages (distraction), delay, better
on the forum, on the thread or P.M.

News

IRAN

Getting along with ZOG:

From the latest edition of the Forward:

For the consideration of those who believe the mainstream press’ rendition
of the situation in Iraq / Iran

But a great many more political analysts in Europe and even the United
States take a less panicky view of the Iranian nuclear threat. The country is
still years, and maybe decades, away from building an effective nuclear device.
Its enrichment program has fallen behind schedule, and North Korea, which is
far more advanced in its atomic quest, has not yet been able to build a usable
weapon, last summer’s nuclear test notwithstanding.

And what if Iran does get the bomb? It would clearly make the Middle East
less stable and increase the risk of further proliferation, but even a
nuclear-armed Iran could be effectively contained. Despite its radicalism, the
Iranian regime has always been concerned about self-preservation and is
unlikely to risk severe retaliation by the United States or Israel.

French President Jacques Chirac was probably right when he told a group of
international journalists last month that the world can live with one or two
Iranian nuclear bombs. That he was probably right, however, does not make up
for the fact that his statement was a major gaffe. Any sign of complacency
about the Iranian nuclear program, Chirac must have known, may weaken the
global front against Tehran and give hope to the Iranian leadership that it can
get away with building a bomb.

From Abid Mustaf, political commentator

Unlike North Korea, Iran is a subordinate state to America and since the
early eighties has been protecting US interests throughout the region. However,
the belligerent statements emanating from Tehran and Washington these days
conveys a different picture altogether—one where both countries are preparing
for war. America’s detention of Iranian diplomats, the arrest of Shia
clerics with close ties to Tehran, the arrival of a second air-craft carrier in
the Persian Gulf, the allegation of Iranian explosives used by the Iraqi
resistance and numerous intelligence reports about an imminent US strike
have reinforced the impression that war is inevitable. Likewise, Iranian
allegations that Britain, America and Pakistan are supporting insurgents
amongst Iran’s minorities, Tehran refusing to surrender its right to enrich
uranium and Iran conducting war games does little to dispel the notion that war
can be averted.But when measured against the backdrop of Iranian influence in Iraq, Lebanon
and Afghanistan, the confrontational posturing between the two countries belies
reality. America knows full well that without Iranian assistance, she would not
be able to control the Shia population in the South of Iraq. Equally important
is Iranian influence over Hizbollah, and without Tehran’s cooperation the US
would be unable to pressurise Israel to resume peace talks with the
Palestinians or stabilise Lebanon. The same can be said about Afghanistan.America’s intention to hold talks with Iran has been welcomed by Iran’s Supreme
National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani and other senior officials.
The same officials are actively curbing and undermining Ahmadinejad’s limited
powers. There in mounting speculation in Tehran that the President may not even
survive his term. The Iranian leadership has also signalled its readiness to
halt enrichment. This is nothing new—as far back as 2003 in secret talks with
the US— a similar offer was made. The aggressive actions undertaken by the US
is designed to bolster American authority in Iraq ahead of talks with Iran, and
deny her agents in Tehran the ability to rebuff US demands. In the forthcoming
US-Iran talks it is likely that Iran will halt its enrichment programme and
withdraw support for Hizbollah. In return, Iran will be given the
responsibility to manage the affairs of Southern Iraq under American tutelage
and be re-admitted to the comity of nations.The chances of US normalising its relationship with Iran is far greater than
its endeavours to normalise ties with North Korea, even though political
developments suggest otherwise.–Abid Mustafa is a political commentator who specialises in Muslim Affairs

From Chain: Israeli officer sells
weapons to terrorists in Iraq

Ma’ariv Daily has reported that an Israeli retired officer sells weapons to
terrorist groups in Iraq.Shmoel Avivi, an Israeli retired officer, had established a firm in Iraq 2
years ago, which secretly sold arms to terrorist groups in Iraq, Ma’ariv
reported.Amnesty International reported that Avivi was one of the biggest weapon dealers
in the Middle East.Iraqi sources earlier announced that terrorist attacks in Iraq were backed by
the intelligent agencies of CIA and Mossad and the secret agents of Iraqi
former regime.Earlier, Iraqi parliament security commission chairman Hadi Ameri had accused
the occupying soldiers of secretly directing the terrorist attacks and forming
terror squads in Iraq.

US Coast Guard in Cuba exercise

The US Coast Guard is staging a huge
exercise in Florida in preparation for a possible mass exodus from Cuba in the
event of the death of Fidel Castro.

More than 300 agents and 85 law
enforcement agencies are taking part in the two-day Operation Vigilant Sentry.

Actors are playing imaginary Cuban
migrants in mock interceptions.

The operation has taken on a renewed
urgency since President Castro fell ill and handed temporary power to his
brother Raul last July.

President Castro recently spoke in a
live broadcast with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, but has not been seen
in public since last year.

Coast Guard Rear Adm David Kunkel
said: “It’s a mass migration plan in general. It doesn’t have to be from
Cuba.

“However we do recognise that
Cuba is certainly an area where we must be prepared.”

In the early 1980s, tens of
thousands of people left Cuba after receiving permission from the government.

In more pleasant news: TNB
Thwarted:

(ASHLAND, Ky.) — An eastern Kentucky man fatally shot one of two alleged
intruders who claimed to be police officers, according to sheriff’s officials.

The other alleged intruder was arrested and charged with burglary and
impersonating a police officer, a sheriff’s report said.

Jason Daniels (GOOD GUY), 23, of Ashland, shot Robert Lewis Chapman, 50, of
Greenup in the chest, shoulder and wrist on Wednesday night, the Boyd County
Sheriff’s office said in the report.

Adam C. Justice, 22, of Summitt, was lodged in the Boyd County jail.

The County Sheriff said the case would be turned over to the commonwealth’s
attorney and a grand jury would be asked to decide if any charges would be
filed against Daniels.

The intruders allegedly broke into a home where Daniels was staying after
Daniels refused to answer the door. The men had pounded on the door claiming to
be police officers with a search warrant, Keelin said.

The men then allegedly forced Daniels into the bathroom, tied him up and
proceeded to ransack the house, the sheriff’s report said. While the alleged
burglars were busy in other parts of the house, Daniels freed himself and got a
9 mm pistol from a cabinet, the report said.

“When the suspects returned to the bathroom, they found Mr. Daniels,
now armed and in a shooting stance,” the report said.

When one of the alleged intruders attempted to draw a revolver from its
holster, Daniels fired four times and both men fled in a van that was parked
nearby.

Chapman was dumped outside the emergency room entrance to Kings Daughters
Medical Center about three miles from the scene of the incident and later died,
the report said. Police stopped the van a few blocks from the hospital and
arrested Justice.

The Jewish community has joined calls to ban West Ham United football fans
who were singing virulently anti-semitic chants at the club’s London derby last
Sunday against Tottenham Hotspur.

A video which was posted on the internet on Monday showed Hammers’
supporters inside the Upton Park stadium at half-time chanting lyrics such as
“I’d rather be a Paki than a Jew.”

The posting, which was removed after complaints, also showed the home fans
singing, “I’ve got a foreskin haven’t you? ******* Jew!”The Metropolitan Police’s Public Order Football unit confirmed it is
investigating allegations of racism and the Football Association, along with
the Community Security Trust, have called on West Ham to identify and punish
the perpetrators.

And finally tonite, from the “diversity is our strength” file: M

Ex-U.S.
Navy sailor held on charges of abetting terrorism

NEW YORK: A former U.S. Navy sailor has been arrested in
Phoenix, Arizona, on charges of allegedly spying and offering material support
to terrorists.

The department of justice said Wednesday the sailor, Hassan Abujihaad,
formerly Paul Hall, 31, who has been detained on a federal criminal complaint,
is alleged to have handed over classified information to a group called Azzam
Publications in London.

Body

Dutch stormfronters and mods

Candy From a Baby…Why The Traditional Catholics Are No Threat to the Jewish
Agenda

Mark Glenn

From Crescent
& Cross

Relax, Mr. ‘Morris Dees’ Seligman of the Southern Poverty Law Center. There
is no need to sound the alarm in that shrill, southern-drawl-screeching that
has become your trademark and which you employ whenever something resembling a
white blood cell pops up and threatens the Judaic infection of which you are
but one small virus.

Yes, that’s right, I did ‘out’ you as an operative for
the Synagogue, Mr. Seligman. I hate to bust your bubble here (since no doubt
you spent a lot of time coming up with that misleading title–Southern Poverty
Law Center–as if you were a Good Samaritan-type fighting for the rights of
poor people) but for far too long and on too many occasions you have spilt the
beans you are really just another front for the multi-headed Zionist hydra.

But anyway, back to the topic at hand…As I said, relax…there is no need for
you and your fellow Pharisees and Bolsheviks to wet yourselves in panic…The
Traditional Catholics, or ‘Trads’ as we often refer to ourselves, are for the
most part absolutely no threat to you or your anti-Christ agenda. That
hit-piece written by that ‘nice Jewish girl’ Heidi Beirich in your recent SPLC Intelligence
Report was in all respects really just a red-herring, much ado about
nothing and tantamount to the boy who cried wolf. The ‘Trad’ movement is as
much a threat to your peoples’ 3,000 year-old-fantasy-rooted-in-madness of
‘inheriting the earth’ and ‘making footstools’ of Israel’s enemies as a mouse
is to a gorilla.

I can say this with a certain amount of authority because I have been part
of the ‘Trad’ movement for some time now and can say unequivocally that in many
respects it is like a shiny, brand-new Cadillac with no motor inside. Yes, it
may have produced men such as Mel Gibson and his movie The Passion of the
Christ that caused you and many of your fellow tribal warlords to defecate
all over yourselves in what was a prime-time performance of raw, organic hatred
for Christianity, but that really is the high-water mark of the movement and as
radical as it is going to get. For the most part, you will find that they are almost
as cooperative with your agenda of de-Christianizing the world as are the rest
of the mindless dolts you have bred throughout the rest of the western society.
For a while at least (until you pull the necessary strings making it illegal)
they will continue to inundate the rear-ends of their cars with bumper stickers
such as ‘Pray the rosary for world peace’ and ‘Abortion stops a beating heart’,
but you can be rest assured that this will be the sum total of their
revolution. They will simply lie down and take it, just as you need them to–bit
by bit, just like the rest of the Christian world–until they and their movement
have been erased, just as you demand.

But you already knew this all too well, Mr. Seligman, so I know I am not
telling you anything new. The piece that you contracted the Jewess Beirich to
write for your porno-phile/abortion-friendly Marxist organization SPLC knows
that the Trads do not pose any threat to what Jews like you are planning for
the rest of us, and a cursory study of what they are up to reveals this fact in
a New-York minute. They vote for guys like Bush, even though he is opposed to
everything that they support and supports everything they oppose, his best lies
notwithstanding. They pay their tithes to you and the rest of the brethren from
the synagogue without a whimper, ‘rendering unto Caesar’ everything that is not
Caesar’s so that you and your buddies can continue on in your march towards
sterilizing the world of Jesus’ anti-Judaic message. Their priests–with few
exceptions–say nothing from the pulpit concerning you and your agenda, despite
the fact that you are the great grandchildren of those who had Jesus crucified.
They keep all discussion of the world and its woes in that safe ‘grey area’ of
‘man’s fallen nature’ and ‘sin’ and all the rest of it without whispering that
dreaded ‘j’ word that will bring the heat down on their multi-million dollar
church properties.

But, again, you already knew all of this, didn’t you Mr. Seligman? You know
that the Trads wouldn’t hurt a fly and that in the bigger scheme of things they
pose absolutely no threat to you and your agenda. The largest group of
‘anti-Semites’ in the world? Give me a break! Do you know many times I have run
into fellow Trads who parrot that old line about the Jews being ‘God’s chosen
people’ and that ‘Israel was promised to them by God’ and all the rest of that
hooey? Do you know how many times I have witnessed them getting indignant
whenever I mention the unadulterated brutality that has been waged against the
innocent peoples of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine by you and your scummy
entourage?…How many times I have been accused of wanting to ‘incite another
Holocaust’ for daring to point the finger of blame on the real, organic
enemy–not just of Christians, but indeed all mankind–known as organized Jewry?

It is a number too high to count. Even those who are wise to your ways are
nonetheless cowards for the most part, individuals who will not go to the
websites devoted to exposing you and your agenda and many of whom have told me
personally that they did not want me sending emails to them with the words
‘Jew’ , ‘Zionism’ or ‘Israel’ in them lest they ‘get into trouble’.

But the biggest proof of the fact that they pose no threat to your or your
agenda is the manner by which many of them have become cozy with certain Rabbis
as of late. Some of the very same people you mentioned in your hit-piece on the
‘Dirty Dozen‘–namely John Vennari, Fr. Nicholas Gruner and some of the
publications and groups with which they are associated such as the Remnant, the
Society of St. Pius X and the Fatimah Crusader–have lately found themselves
comfortably bedded-down with wolves in sheep’s clothing who comport themselves
as ‘conservative Rabbis’ sharing Christians’ concerns for the ‘decline in
morality,’ Daniel Lapin, Mayer Shiller and Yahuda Levin. These men–blind,
arrogant, deceitful followers of a book that might as well have been written by
the hand of Satan himself–the Talmud–with its characterization of Christ as a
sexual pervert and his mother Mary a whore and yet these men are paid lip
service from the likes of these same ‘anti-Semites’ you mention in your
used-toiletpaper article.

No, Morris, there is no need for you or the others to lose any sleep over
them. For the most part, they have mastered that part of Jesus’ message in
‘being as meek as doves’ while at the same time forgetting what it was that
followed, which was to be as ‘as wise as serpents’. They will keep bantering on
about the ‘Message Of Fatima,’ keeping a watchful, wary eye on Russia while you
and your brothers in Israel and elsewhere wreak havoc upon the very land where
their savior Jesus Christ was born, not to mention on the Christian West
itself. They will parrot all the vile garbage that you and your fellow liars
spew about the religion of Islam and its adherents, not recognizing that they
are slitting their own throats in the process, as the Muslims are the last
remaining impediment to you being able to declare victory over the world. When
you come for their children and drag them off to fight and die for that vile
manifestation of Judaic hatred for all that is decent–Israel–they will hand
them over just as your people of the Old Testament did when they threw their
own children into a burning pit to appease the pagan god Moloch. And all the
while that they are obediently allowing themselves to be distracted with these
little trinkets that you have left for them, you can continue on in laying the
groundwork for the seizure of their multi-million dollar properties…

…And in the end, as you and the rest of the gang are toasting and
celebrating over the victory for which you have longed these last 20 centuries
of erasing the name of the hated Jesus from the memories of mankind, you will
note how useful were the idiots within the Traditional Catholic movement, the
very same people you have described as being ‘the most dangerous group of
anti-Semites’ in the world, and will muse amongst yourselves that in the end it
was as easy as taking candy from a baby.

The State of “Antisemitism”

israelinsider:
Views: Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

I read an interesting article the other day concerning Israel’s declaration
that anti-Semitism is as virulent now, as it has always been. And no matter how
much the world pretends that anti-Semitism is no longer an issue, it just isn’t
so.

Therefore, the new Israeli position on
anti-Semitism seems to be, that it is a disease we will have to live with
forever.

It was perceived long before the Holocaust by early Zionists, that the
recreation of a Jewish State in the Middle East, where Jews could find refuge,
would somehow alleviate at worst, and eliminate at best, anti-Semitism.

But it wasn’t so.

As a matter of fact, the creation of Israel has achieved the opposite
effect. Because of Israel, the world has become even more polarized against
Jews, but in a different context.

While it is unfashionable to be an open anti-Semite (oh, just wait),
it has become very fashionable to be an anti-Zionist; even amongst many Jews.

There are no shortages of Liberal Jews who have fallen into the anti-Zionist
trap, thinking that Israel, like any other country should be held to a high
degree of scrutiny and criticism.

But to show their “real” Liberal bona fides, these elitists hold Israel up
to a higher standard than they do any other country. Why?

What they don’t realize is that criticism of Israel has nothing to do with
criticizing a nation on its policies, as much as it does with going after this
specific nation (Israel) because of its cultural and religious foundation.

Israel is unlike any other country. Israel is the only exclusive home to
Jews on this planet, where Jews can live without any fear of religious
persecution from within.

Every other culture and religion on Planet Earth
has a territory they can call home. Many cultures and religions have several
territories they can call home.

No, excuse me, but Jews intermixed my country
at gunpoint, and as Alex
Linder correctly points out, they
turned over centuries of legal precedent to do it.

Why not the Jews, especially since the Jewish religion and culture go back
5767 years throughout the Middle East?

Also: from the time of King David, some 3000 years ago, Israel is the only
nation on this planet that has to fight for it’s very survival from day to day.
Just one military lapse, and Israel will be gone forever, with another 6
MILLION Jews lost in a Holocaust.

The reason why the world (with the exception of just a few countries) wants
to see Israel destroyed and done away with has nothing whatsoever to do with
so-called Palestinians and contrived refugee camps.

It is all about anti-Semitism.

The world cannot stand the reality that there is a sliver of land that is
Jewish. And that this miniscule country is so incredibly successful that it has
honest to goodness international ranking.

If Israel was Palestine, and the Palestinians were Israelis, and the
Israelis were Palestinians, no one would utter a peep about a reversal of
fortunes.

That’s the reality of modern anti-Semitism.

As a matter of record, Israel is a net positive contributor to the worldwide
human condition in every way possible.

The unbelievable hatred Nazi Europe had for Jews was so extreme, that even
though European Jews made life better for all Europeans in all aspects of
humankind, they were still dispossessed and slaughtered by the millions.

It doesn’t matter how good Israel is for the human condition, and how
much Israel contributes to the well being of humanity, anti-Semites will only
see the flaws (perceived or real) of Israel.

How many brilliant minds, which could have made unbelievable discoveries to
benefit mankind were murdered by the Europeans, just because those minds
belonged to Jews?

If you think I’m over the top with this: think about the huge number of
prominent Western Universities that boycott Israeli academics, and the tens, if
not hundreds of thousands of teachers and professors in Western educational
institutions who follow suit.

THAT’S ANTI-SEMITISM!

For some reason, even as a pre-teenager, I always felt that Jews would never
be free from anti-Semitism. I always feared there could be another Holocaust
given the “right” conditions, even in the country (Canada) of my birth.

The world doesn’t hate Israel. It just hates the idea that Israel is a home
for the Jews whom they hate so much.

How do Israel and the Diaspora fix this? They don’t. This is a problem that
cannot be fixed. It is a problem that can only be dealt with by a military
deterrent unwilling to bend or compromise.

This is a reality Jews have lived with for thousands of years. And if we’re
lucky, we’ll live with this reality for thousands more.

spiked
| What’s behind the ‘new anti-Semitism’?

So, who is an anti-Semite today? It is very difficult to answer that
question, since virtually no one in the West is prepared to acknowledge that
they dislike Jewish people or Jewishness. Yet some commentators insist that we
are confronted with a new phenomenon – ‘The New Anti-Semitism’ – which is
apparently thriving and becoming increasingly menacing.F
. . .

Stephens’ call for moral judgements on what people really mean can only
encourage an inquisitorial climate. Yet he does highlight a genuine problem
with public debate today. We live in a world where speech is
heavily policed (and yet you yids can’t figure out why
you’re hated?), and where people are actually
discouraged from saying what they genuinely believe. People habitually censor
themselves in anticipation of the charge that they are defying some
contemporary speech code, whether formal or informal (You see, Schlomo,
we Whites didn’t have speech-codes before Jews came to our shores).
Increasingly, fear of being told ‘You can’t say that!’ is giving rise to a
culture of self-censorship. At a time when calling someone ‘old’ instead of
‘elderly’ is likely to lead to charges of insensitivity, or using the word
blind or handicapped can cause a storm of controversy, people have become
careful indeed about what they say and how they say it.

Matters are even more complicated when it comes to anti-Semitism. Since the
Holocaust, and especially in recent decades, very few in the West have openly
expressed anti-Jewish sentiments. Indeed, in some European countries it is
illegal to make anti-Semitic comments, and even where it is not illegal, there
are powerful cultural barriers against holding or giving voice to such views.
The marginalisation and even criminalisation of public expressions of
anti-Semitism are in part understandable responses to the tragic events of the
Second World War. They are also a consequence of what we
might call the sanctification of the Holocaust.

In recent years, the Holocaust has been elevated to the status of a secular
truth and a moral compass. At a time of great moral uncertainty in the West,
the Holocaust increasingly serves as a unique symbol of evil, and thus atoning
for it is seen as an act of virtue. There are Holocaust Memorial Days, through
which governments communicate their key values, including multiculturalism,
anti-bullying and the protection and promotion of self-esteem. There are more
and more Holocaust museums and memorials that seek to remind us what can happen
when we lose our humanity. The Holocaust is now taught as part of citizenship
or religious studies classes in numerous schools, and is discussed in a growing
number of ethical and moral schoolbooks aimed at children.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this transformation of the
Holocaust into a secular sacred symbol underpins the West’s entire moral
universe today. That is another reason why, even by the
standards of the prevailing climate of self-censorship, explicit anti-Semitic
pronouncements are relatively so rare. This symbolisation of the Holocaust also
helps to explain some of what lies behind today’s ‘new anti-Semitism’.

Is the genie out of the bottle?

. . .

Before answering that question, it is important to note that the genie may
indeed have escaped from the bottle. The sanctification of the Holocaust, the
institutionalisation of this horrific event as a new moral absolute to guide
our societies, has had the predictable effect of breeding cynicism, and in some
cases giving rise to contestation over the meaning of the Holocaust. Consider
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent sponsorship of a conference
questioning the Holocaust: that is only the most striking
illustration of an attempt to hit out at the West by undermining the moral
meaning of the Holocaust, an historic episode that is now tied so closely to
Western governments’ sense of moral purpose and vision (Tear
it down! NOW!!!).

Even more significantly, some have sought to divest Israel from any
association with the moral authority of the Holocaust.
Critics of Israel, some unconsciously, others consciously, try to turn the
symbolic authority of the Holocaust against Israel. So opponents of
Israel frequently accuse the Israeli government of acting like the Nazis.
Respectable media outlets in the West now regularly claim that Israel is
engaged in ethnic cleansing, genocide, crimes against humanity, all of which
invite comparisons between Israel and the Nazis. Some critics liken Theodor
Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, to Adolf Hitler. Israeli or Jewish
complicity in Israel’s war crimes is said by some to be even more comprehensive
than the complicity of the German people with the crimes of the Nazis. Some
talk of the ‘Nazification’ of Israeli society, suggesting a role reversal,
whereby Jews become the twenty-first century equivalent of their former
oppressors.

. . .

Demonising Israel (or: Those were . . .
other . . . kids . . . bombing Lebanon last summer)

In a confused and confusing debate, where much of the focus is on what
people apparently ‘secretly mean’ and where there is an emerging competition
over the Holocaust, it can be difficult to get to the truth. However, as a rule
of thumb, it is worth judging people by what they say and do rather than what
we think they mean. The criticism of Israel should be interpreted as just that.
To criticise Israel, even to call into question the legitimacy of the Jewish
state, is not, in itself, an act of anti-Semitism. Even the harshest
denunciation of Israel can be inspired by motives that have nothing to do with
anti-Semitism. It is certainly difficult to characterise the arguments put
forward by someone like American commentator Tony Judt as anti-Semitic.
Therefore, it is possible to draw the conclusion that some wield the charge of
anti-Semitism against their opponents in order to defend Israel from legitimate
criticism.

However, something very peculiar is emerging in the debate about Israel
today, on both sides of the Atlantic. Increasingly, Israel is depicted as the
biggest threat to world peace and stability. The Walt and Mearsheimer article
not only suggested that the pro-Israel lobby had more or less hijacked
Washington’s foreign policy; it also implicitly called into question the
loyalty of American Jews to America and its interests. These days, you do not
have to look very far before finding someone who is convinced of the
omnipotence of the American Jewish lobby. In recent weeks
colleagues of mine on both the left and right of the political spectrum have
tried to convince me that were it not for the Jewish lobby there would be no
war in Iraq (egads!).

This view of the American Jewish lobby as an omnipotent global conspiracy
springs from a growing tendency to demonise – not just criticise – Israel.
Israel is represented as a malevolent society sui genesis. It alone
faces regular demands for academic and commercial boycotts. It is frequently
described as the greatest threat to global stability, and portrayed as an
intensely racist and barbaric society. Once upon a time, leftists viewed Israel
as a guard-dog of imperialism; these days they are more likely to discuss it as
the very seat of the Empire. Whatever the motivations behind this demonisation
of Israel, it does seem that Israel is judged by a double standard by a rising
number of influential thinkers and activists.

For a variety of reasons, Israel has come to bear the cross of the
West’s sins. In Europe in particular, there is a powerful sense
of weariness towards Israel. ‘If only it would go away, then we would have a
chance for peace in the Middle East’, is the fantasy view of some European
officials and writers. Others simply resent Israel’s claims to special status
on the basis of its links with the Holocaust – which is why there is a growing
trend to turn the moral power of the Holocaust against Israel. The West’s
estrangement from Israel today does not mean it is
ready to rethink its transformation of the Holocaust into a new moral symbol
(good! Us “Nazis” were afraid for a moment that you had come to your
senses!). All that it means is that the West increasingly embraces the
‘good Jews’ who were the victims of the Nazis, while distancing itself from the
‘bad Jews’ who are alive and kicking in Israel.

In today’s climate of self-censorship, moral uncertainty and competition
over the Holocaust, it does not look as if the genie of the ‘new anti-Semitism’
will return to the bottle anytime soon.

By Rev. Ted Pike –free speech again at risk

Good news from Congress! Onerous Sec. 220 of the Senate’s Lobby Reform
bill, defeated by the providence of God and the political and religious right
in January, has been omitted from Pelosi’s new House version. This does not
exclude possible Democratic attempts to reattach it in some form during the
upcoming conference between the House and Senate. Yet, Sec. 220, with its
ambition to impose crushing paperwork requirements on small
Christian/conservative activists (on penalty of $100,000 fine) seems defeated
– at least for this session of Congress.New Threat EmergesBut how does liberal Jewish activism, epitomized by senators Carl Levin and Joe
Lieberman, sponsors of Sec. 220, respond to the amputation of this arm of their
Orwellian “thought crimes” agenda? Like the starfish, they grow another! Fellow
Jewish activist Rep. Henry Waxman has now introduced similar legislation, just
as sinister, to take its place in the Lobby Reform bill. Waxman’s “Executive
Branch Reform Act,” H.R. 984, would bring the democratic process to a
crawl, not just on the grassroots level but at its furthest extreme, among more
than 9,000 employees of the executive branch of government. Waxman contends
every American is a “citizen lobbyist,” whose pointed comments or suggestions
to the federal government should be carefully recorded and then made public. In
Waxman’s brave new world, Joe Q. Citizen is no longer viewed as a welcome
source of input to the federal government. Rather, only Waxman and select
colleagues, primarily in Congress, the intelligence community, and the
military, are allowed to communicate freely with one another. The common
American is viewed as a potential source of unhealthy opinions (i.e.,
grassroots lobbying efforts).Because of such potential “corruption” of federal officials by
heartland America, H.R. 984 will require all members of the executive branch to
keep records of every call from concerned citizens. Such federal employees must
even keep records of conversations during work or at a bar after work or even
from their spouses in bed — input which might be construed as desiring to
influence national policy. These records must include names, date, and detailed
information about the content of each conversation.Every quarter those federal employees must file a mountain of documentation
with the government. Failure to report accurately and on time means, at
minimum, loss of their job. It can also mean a $50,000 fine.The federal government will then take this data and publish it for the world to
see. This, Waxman contends, is “openness in government.” H.R. 984 means the
government, which should be responsive to free petition, comment and criticism
from the American people, will find its paperwork obligations so burdensome
that the only way to govern will be by isolation from the public. This sinister
legislation demolishes free exchange between citizens and those who govern,
helping create a “big brother” police state. The government will know
everything about us while we would be afraid to raise our heads in comment or
protest for fear of even greater federal control over our lives.

Preparing for Takeover

In early January when I sounded the first alarms on radio and internet against
Sec. 220, I warned that, if passed, the bill’s promoters would ask for even
more than crushing paperwork requirements on all grassroots organizations: They
would demand registration of everyone who petitions Congress. H.R. 984 comes
pretty close to that. (For a much fuller discussion of the absurd and yet
frightening implications of this bill, go to the National Right to Life
Committee’s excellent article at www.nrlc.org/FreeSpeech/WaxmanDavisArticle.pdf)

Some might reply, “It’s high time the federal government began to suffer under
overwhelming paperwork obligations just like they have imposed on us!” Yet this
legislation will do nothing to humble government or create equality in the
public process. Instead, it will dramatically hasten federal involvement in our
daily lives at every level.

In the years preceding the communist revolutions in Russia, China and Cuba,
revolutionaries quietly gathered the names and detailed personal information on
every potential opponent. When revolution finally came, they knew exactly whom
to liquidate. Over a 150 million were slaughtered. The Anti-Defamation League
has a long and tawdry history of secretly and illegally gathering the names of
tens of thousands of its political opponents, including Christian
/conservatives, pro-lifers and Muslims. Levin, Lieberman, Waxman, and a host of
other activist Jews in Congress are all part of ADL’s inner circle. There can
be no doubt that legislation which intends to identify every potential opponent
has only one object in mind: to empower elimination of those opponents when
such Jewish activists take over, as they did in Russia in 1917.

Stop Waxman Before It’s Too Late

Nancy Pelosi wants to pass her new lobby reform bill, including H.R. 984,
immediately. It is vital NOW to call members of your congressional delegation
with the following message: “Please do not pass Rep. Waxman’s bill H.R. 984,
which requires executive branch officials to report all their conversations
with concerned Americans. This violates our First Amendment rights as well as
the right of petition.” The toll free number is 1-877-851-6437. (Toll is
1-202-224-3121.)

Massive protest defeated Levin and Lieberman’s Sec. 220. Now, intense protest
can kill its replacement. H.R. 984 has already passed Waxman’s Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform by a vote of 20-0! If it is inserted quietly in
the House version of the Lobby Reform bill and passed by the House and Senate
to become law, I will hold to my prediction: Jewish activists in Congress will
legislate for yet another cinch of the noose — requiring that everyone who
proposes to call Congress even once must register as a “citizen lobbyist.”
Failure to comply: $50,000 fine. Penalty for repeated offenses: prison.

This
time, the doors are doing the poisecutin’!

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8th, 2007 by
Categories: jew’accuse!, oi the poisecution, AmeriKwa

March 7, 2007 — Religious Jewish residents of Stuyvesant Town
yesterday complained to the owners that a planned electronic key-card
system would lock them out on the Sabbath and holy days.

The new access method – which is already in place and causing similar
headaches at nearby Peter Cooper Village – is set to replace all
traditional keyholes in the complex .

As early as next week, occupants would have to swipe an ID containing their
personal information to enter their buildings.

Problem is, observant Jews are forbidden from using such technology on
Friday nights, Saturdays and religious holidays, which can last several
days.

“They are making us prisoners in our own homes,” said Jeannette
Shuck, 67, who has lived in Stuy Town for more than 25 years.

“What do they want us to do? It’s not like we can go somewhere else. It’s
our home.”

She said she began a letter-writing campaign over a year ago to the
building’s management company.

That’s when the newfangled system was implemented at Peter Cooper
Village – and she began hearing horror stories from other Orthodox
friends who were stranded outside for more than 30 minutes waiting for
someone to let them in.

“I write to them and months and months later they’ll write back,” she said.

But nothing was done.

When The Post contacted a spokesman for new Stuy Town owner Tishman
Speyer, he said that they had just learned of the problem and had
decided to give residents of both Stuy Town and Peter Cooper
old-fashioned keys during the Sabbath.

“They really are sensitive to the religious needs of the community,” said
Tishman Speyer spokesman Howard Rubenstein.

Which came as good news to the dozens of Orthodox families, who
previously had to schlep over to the manned security booths and ask a
guard to let them in every Saturday.

“Think of the
inconvenience,” said Shuck, who uses a cane to get around. “It means
having to go back and forth three blocks each way.”

And even
then, tenants said, they had to wait for the security personnel to find
someone to man the booth while the guard leaves the booth to open the
door.

Rochelle Neumann, a Peter Cooper Village resident for 18
years, has been spending weekends with her sister to avoid the problem.

“Either I go to my sister’s or I don’t go out,” said Neumann, who has waited
up to 30 minutes on a Saturday to be let in.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), who has worked alongside the
community trying to resolve the issue, said he is delighted that the
end is in sight for the aggrieved tenants.

“This has been going on for over a year with no results,” he said. “If this
is correct, I am thrilled.”

Jews push Obama

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama stepped up his outreach
to potential Jewish backers this week, with an address to pro-Israel
supporters in Chicago and the announcement of a fundraising push in
South Florida.

Speaking
at a policy forum held by (AIPAC)
in Chicago on March 2, the Illinois senator delivered his first
presidential campaign speech on Israel. In the warmly received talk,
Obama echoed the concerns of Jewish organizations over Iran’s nuclear
program and the Palestinian unity deal.

“We
should all be concerned about the agreement negotiated among
Palestinians in Mecca last month,” Obama told Jewish constituents in
the Windy City. “The reports of this agreement suggest that Hamas,
Fatah and independent ministers would sit in a government together,
under a Hamas prime minister, without any recognition of Israel,
without a renunciation of violence, and with only an ambiguous promise
to ‘respect’ previous agreements…. We must tell the Palestinians this
is not good enough.”

At the same time, Obama
argued that the United States should be taking more aggressive
diplomatic steps on several fronts in the Middle East, and he appeared
to take a subtle swipe at the Bush administration for reportedly
blocking Israel from negotiating with Syria.

Following
up his speech in Chicago and his appearance at next week’s Aipac
conference in Washington, Obama plans later this month to make his
entrance onto the Democratic stage of South Florida with five
big-ticket fundraisers slated for March 25. The region boasts more than
300,000 Jewish residents, making it the third-largest Jewish population
center in the country.

Obama’s path in the
Sunshine State is being cleared by Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler, whose
heavily Jewish district contains parts of Palm Beach and Broward
counties. Wexler announced last week that he will serve as co-chairman
of Obama’s Florida campaign.

“[Obama] may not
be unique in this regard, but for me, somebody’s passion and stance on
Israel is essential for me to get engaged in their campaign,” Wexler
said in an interview with the Forward. “We’ve had a very specific
conversation about the American-Israeli relationship, the challenges
relative to the Palestinians, to Syria and most especially to Iran… and
I am absolutely convinced that President Obama will be a historically
strong president for Israel.”

. . .

Obama’s
Jewish push comes on the eve of Washington’s biggest pro-Israel summit,
the annual Aipac conference,
which attracts thousands of pro-Israel
activists and political donors from across the country. According to
one Democratic insider contacted by the Forward, the senator’s camp
intended to get a jump on the gathering, which will be crowded with
presidential hopefuls from both parties.

In
recent weeks, Obama has appeared to make inroads into political turf
previously claimed by the Clinton juggernaut, including red-carpet
Hollywood, which forked over $1.3 million to the Illinois senator’s
campaign last month at a high-profile fundraiser hosted by DreamWorks
executives Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Obama
has recently narrowed Clinton’s lead among voters, with a poll of the
Democratic primary electorate conducted by The Washington Post showing
that the Illinois lawmaker had jumped to 24% from 17% while the former
first lady dropped to 36% from 41%.

Obama has
strong support from Chicago’s Jewish Democratic establishment, which is
solidly backing him over Clinton, according to several Democratic
insiders.

. . .

Other Jewish
supporters in Chicago include Obama’s national finance chair, business
mogul Penny Pritzker, a major Democratic donor and fundraiser whose
family founded Hyatt Hotels ; Joan Harris, a leading Chicago
philanthropist whose late husband, Irving Harris, served as chairman of
the Liberty Acorn mutual fund, and billionaire financier Lester Crown,
a top supporter and a leader of the city’s Jewish federation.

“He’s
beloved [by the Chicago Jewish community]. I can’t tell you the passion
that’s behind it,” said Anne Wedner, an Aipac supporter who spearheaded
a get-out-the-vote effort during Obama’s 2004 Senate primary campaign.

One
potential roadblock on the path of Obama’s Jewish push emerged on
Tuesday, when The New York Times reported on controversy surrounding
the lawmaker’s religious mentor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., senior
pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church.

According
to the Times, the Senator’s camp disinvited Wright from speaking at
Obama’s presidential announcement due to concerns about his
Afro-centric teachings and past associations.

“When
his enmies found out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit
Muammar el-Qaddafi, Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his
Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”

In
last week’s Aipac address, Obama argued that “tough-minded” diplomatic
engagement with Iran, combined with sanctions, should be America’s
“primary means to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons,” but that
America’s leaders “should take no option, including military action,
off the table.”

The lawmaker seemed to be
criticizing the Bush administration’s reported efforts to block Israel
from opening peace talks with Syria.

“We also
know that we should never seek to dictate what is best for the Israelis
and their security interests,” Obama said. “No Israeli prime minister
should ever feel dragged to or blocked from the negotiating table by
the United States.”

The speech is believed to
have been shaped by adviser Dan Shapiro, a former National Security
Council official in the Clinton administration. Shapiro joined the
campaign last month to assist with Middle East policy and Jewish
outreach. Most recently, Shapiro served as deputy chief of staff to
Florida’s Democratic senator, Bill Nelson.

The “Lebensborn”

From Jewish Virtual Library: Lebensborn
means “spring of life”. The “Lebensborn” project was one of
most secret and terrifying Nazi projects. Heinrich
Himmler created The “Lebensborn” on December 12th, 1935. The goal
of this society (“Registered Society Lebensborn – Lebensborn Eingetragener
Verein”) was to offer to young girls “racially pure” the
possibility to give birth to a child in secret. The child was then given to the
SS organization which took in charge his “education” and adoption.

In the beginning, the “Lebensborn” were SS
nurseries. But in order to create a “super-race”, the SS transformed
these nurseries in “meeting places” for “racially pure”
German women who wanted to meet and make children with SS officers. The
children born in the Lebensborn were taken in charge by the SS and it is
important to know that most of them were also victims of this race policy….

From 1939, one of the most horrible side of the Lebensborn policy was the
kidnapping of children “racially goods” in the eastern occupied
countries. These kidnappings were organized by the SS in order to take by force
children who matched the Nazi’s racial criteria (blond hair, blue eyes,
etc….). Thousands of children were transferred to the “Lebensborn”
centers in order to be “Germanized”. In these centers, everything was
done to force the children to reject and forget their birth parents. As an
example, the SS nurses tried to persuade the children that they were
deliberately abandoned by their parents. The children who refused the Nazi
education were often beaten. Most of them were finally transferred to
concentration camps (most of the time Kalish in Poland) and exterminated. The
others were adopted by SS families.

From the court decision via Wiki:
The prosecution has failed to prove with the requisite certainty the
participation of Lebensborn, and the defendants connected therewith in the
kidnapping program conducted by the Nazis. While the evidence has disclosed
that thousands upon thousands of children were unquestionably kidnapped by
other agencies or organizations and brought into Germany, the evidence has
further disclosed that only a small percentage of the total number ever found
their way into Lebensborn. And of this number only in isolated instances did
Lebensborn take children who had a living parent. The majority of those
children in any way connected with Lebensborn were orphans of ethnic Germans.

As a matter of fact, it is quite clear from the evidence that Lebensborn
sought to avoid taking into its homes, children who had family ties; and
Lebensborn went to the extent of making extensive investigations where the
records were inadequate, to establish the identity of a child and whether it
had family ties. When it was discovered that the child had a living parent,
Lebensborn did not proceed with an adoption, as in the case of orphans, but
simply allowed the child to be placed in a German home after an investigation
of the German family for the purpose of determining the good character of the
family and the suitability of the family to care for and raise the child.

Lebensborn made no practice of selecting and examining foreign children. In
all instances where foreign children were handed over to Lebensborn by other
organizations after a selection and examination, the children were given the
best of care and never ill-treated in any manner.

It is quite clear from the evidence that of the numerous organizations
operating in Germany who were connected with foreign children brought into
Germany, Lebensborn was the one organization which did everything in its power
to adequately provide for the children and protect the legal interests of the
children placed in its care.

Upon the evidence submitted, the defendant Sollmann is found not guilty on
counts one and two of the indictment.

In Norway the Lebensborn organization handled approximately 250 adoptions.
In most of these cases the mothers had agreed to the adoption, though not all
were informed that their child would be sent to Germany. The Norwegian government
brought back all but 80 of these children after the war. The Norwegian
Lebensborn records are intact, the majority stored at the The National Archival
Services of Norway.

TECH

The music industry is asking 50 Ohio University students to pay

$3,000 each to avoid lawsuits accusing them of pirating songs off the
Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America asked the university to
pass along letters to the students with Internet addresses accused of being
involved with the illegal sharing of copyrighted music. The university notified
the students on Monday. “The downloading has occurred and we can’t change
that, but we can let them know what their options are,” OU spokeswoman
Sally Linder said Wednesday. Patrick McGee, a local attorney the university
arranged to meet with students, said $3,000 is the standard offer though cases
have settled for as much as $5,000. He has represented four Ohio University
students in file-sharing lawsuits.

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Denying the existence of the supernatural is fine, but personalizing it, and saying that others should as well is stupid.  The Human Dilemma is much more complex than that, and really, it just comes off as nihilistic. 

Beliefwatch: Blasphemy – Newsweek Periscope – MSNBC.com

Jan. 8, 2006 issue – With that five-second submission to YouTube, a 24-year-old who uses the name “menotsimple” has either condemned herself to an eternity of punishment in the afterlife or struck a courageous blow against superstition. She’s one of more than 400 mostly young people who have joined a campaign by the Web site BlasphemyChallenge.com to stake their souls against the existence of God. That, of course, is the ultimate no-win wager, as the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal calculated—it can’t be settled until you’re dead, and if you lose, you go to hell.

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Although it’s a semitically-correct rendering of some fundamental truths about mankind’s future, Idiocracy is just too dangerous. Being that there is something horribly wrong in the U.S., and whatever it is ties in with an overbearing, controlled media, the fact alone that it needed to be spiked makes it a must-see, ignoring for a moment that it is an outstanding film in its own right.

In his sardonic interpretation of a dumbed-down future, Mike Judge has proven his mettle as an artist and social satirist. It’s nice to know others have noticed that the stupids are having more children than the able. At the beginning of the movie, this is illustrated through a comparison between a married couple of intelligent city-dwellers who choose to wait and never have children with fecund boondocks rednecks. It would be ‘loxism at itz finest’ were it not for the more-important overall message that Judeo-Christian culture’s ultimate expression is a eugenics experiment in reverse. Indeed, Idiocracy is an apt criticism of nearly everything that makes Amerikwa so deserving of all that observers are willing heap upon it.

Mike Judge uses the plot device of an experimentally-hibernated Joe Everyman to bring an average ‘Kwan into the world of his descendants 500 years hence, where nurses (and all but a few others) do their work by pushing large colorful buttons as with fast-food counter terminals. In “2505,” there are advertisements on everything and the cities are buried under trash. In this future, that which passes for crude sexual titillation prevails, as does the fascination with bodily functions, lust for money, and laughter much like a slack-jawed retard who’s huffed carpet cleaner.

It is too bad that nearly everything that could’ve been rendered with a Jew-friendly gloss, was. Although it could have been worse, the racial angle was very “P.C.” I would hope all budding film makers take note that even with all the appeasement, his film was all but spiked by the financiers and distributers of the project. There are still some interesting, even if unintentional, messages in the film. The first is when the main character is replaced at his job by a Latino. Another is an in-film Disneyfied history lesson on WWII:

“. . . the year 1939, when (Jew/Commie-ed) Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved
Europe and tried to take over the world.”

[Model of Charlie Chaplain as Hitler giving salute, then a scene with two model dinosaurs fighting in a city, one draped with a Stars and Stripes, the other with a Nazi Flag and accompanying armband.]

“But then an even greater force emerged, “the un,” and “the un” de-Nazi’d the world, forever.”

[Cut to scene of another model dinosaur in front of U.N. building. It is wearing a powder-blue helmet.]

That happens at the end of the film, as if to explain how things went so horribly stupid. I wouldn’t think too much of it, except the film implies an argument for eugenics, something for which, oddly, Nazis are especially known. It’s not too far off to think he may have meant to send that message without reading too much into things. It is true that Idiocracy could be called a live action Beavis and Butthead set in the future, but it makes for a film that is thought-provoking and even more enjoyable to watch than Judge’s other modern classic for those of my generation; Office Space. There isn’t a cubicle-dweller/tech geek alive who can’t quote that movie. For every meme handed down by that film, (“I believe you have my stapler,” ”Federal PMIA”), Idiocracy has a useful and enduring criticism for contemporary Amerikwa while providing a strong argument for eugenics.

Politically, it is important to know that our dumbing-down is not by accident. Greed and cowardice cause the elites in our society to prefer dull and “politically reliable” cogs over actual human beings, when everything is broken down to the only things a multicult society has in common with itself—sex, obnoxious consumerism, and amusement at watching men having their testicles harmed. How’s that for neurodivershitty? Their brand of forced eKwality is imposed by media masters, war-mongering “Zionists,” and defective foot-soldiers like Dick Warman.

I give the film a 4/5 with a caution that it is a must-see for anyone who enjoyed Office Space, and anyone who is in any way politically aware.

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Mr. Stadtmiller,

Because we can indeed handle the truth, it is with delight that I hear that RBN has taken an editorial slant that indeed broadcasts some truth.

In every way, we are better off telling the truth without delay. Don’t worry about the names they’ll call you–they call you those anyway. History is watching. Free men of the future will build statues to guys like us, not like Abe Foxman. Moreover, these genetic gangsters mean us harm. If you consider yourself a patriot, your job is to tell us.

I need something I can put on CD and pass out on campus.

Sincerely,

Theseus

Republic Broadcasting Network

Tell RBN

When the American conservatives figure out you neo-cons have been lying to them, they’re going to be looking for the truth of “why there were no flower-throwers?” or “why no wmds?” or “how is it that conservatives are for open-borders?” or “why is the RNC chairman (Mehlman) a gay Jew?”  They’re going to start wondering why neocons fail to describe reality, and that they keep getting burned by the results of this failure to deal with reality.

When that time comes, my blog will be one of the thousands that, unlike the mainstream press, suggests true alternatives to the two brands of reality-denying liberalism that passes for our current, albeit crumbling, liberal/conservative political paradigm.  We are the future.  Tomorrow belongs to us.

Thanks for reading,

–Theseus

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 . . . to tell you what’s going on in Iraq. 

In short: 

Iraqi patriots continue to kill ZOG collabs.  U.S. is letting it happen, which signals a definate shift away from current gov’t.

There is no civil war.  Iraqis are fending off Iranian agents, and doing a damn fine job.

The U.S. is hedging its bets with Al Sadr.  My earlier prediction that there would be a showdown of U.S. vs. Al Sadr is off.  U.S. wants to get out quicker than I thought.

U.S. is doing a great job setting up Syrian and Iran.

There may still be a huge showdown in Basra developing in December.  Either way, there will lots of bloodletting between factions before April.  By then, a clear victors should emerge. 

Ahmadin-Nejad is losing ground in internal Iranian politics.

Turkey may become a player now that it’s been utterly smacked-down by the E.U. (which is good for both)

One will be able to tell how well Syria is cooperating w/ the U.S. by the unrest in Lebanon.  If Syria falls into line behind Washington, Iran will let loose on her by proxies in Lebanon.  Today’s suicide-bombing was a shot across the bow.  Ultimately, Syria will probably fall into line, if for no other reason than the sorry state of Lebanese fighters.  It is likely that the U.S. will try to play it as close as possible in order to exacerbate Syrian/Lebanese relations, and de-pressureize the Lebanese/Israeli situation.  One can see that now in the senseless refusal of U.S. diplomats to meet with the Syrians.

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Free Speech and the Holocaust

We join this conversation already in progress:
A ‘for instance’ on patterns: throwing scholars in jail for studying what is referred to as “The Holocaust” is a flashing neon sign. As some Brit journalist said (obviously about something else) “What sort of truth needs protection?” It is evidence a priori that when legal and ultimately violent (if Rudolf the chemist didn’t report to prison, they would have sent guys with guns, you know) force is necessary to put someone in jail for their scientific opinion–or political opinion–or historical opinion–they are standing on thin ice with me, as indeed: Truth need not be enforced with violence. This is why “holocaust deniers” rule and “holocaust allegers” drool. Truth has always been cool. Taking on bullies is “evergreen.”

Freedom of Speech is funny like that. On something so sacred, most people still believe even their own freedom of thought/speech/expression should be limited in the “Fire in a crowded theater” case. Still, there is the provision for allowing even the shouting of “Fire!” in a crowded theater: when you are describing or attempting to describe the reality of the theater actually being (or even just believed to be) on fire. Truth isn’t a defense–it’s a trump card.

When you do find out about this myth, you want to tell everyone. “ALERT, PEOPLE! free beer, free sex, a new ipod–listen for a second! the founding principle of our multi-cult nightmare is utter horseshit! Snap out of it, and throw off this tyranny before it finishes driving us off a cliff! Pitchforks are on your right, torches on the left.”

However, the job of deprogramming takes time and finesse’, yet all we have is the truth. The ugly, yet resilient truth.

When these researchers are limited in their speech despite the fact that they could have the faintest of cause to believe (as in oh, say, the fact that THERE WERE NO GAS-CHAMBERS AT AUCHWITZ) that insane chutzpathetic whopper may be just that–it is tyranny. That, right there. The fact that they are researchers with Ph.Ds in History, Chemistry, etc . . , only makes it worse, even though it shouldn’t matter what someone’s education was as that was their opinion.

Jews are content when the reality-allegers at the bottom simply loose job after job, or in this case, my blog–whatever a person needs to lose until they learn to obey. Unless one takes the “Mark of the Beast,” one can neither buy nor sell, right?

The general population can be re-educated, but the scholars must be treated in a different manner. That they must put the ones up higher in prison for years at a time over of the mere result of professional analysis only demonstrates the hollowness of this hoax, not to mention the depravity of this authentic case of blood-libel against Germans, and all Aryans.

That’s the way Jews hate on Germans–blood libel. Note to self: need to come up with a shorter way of saying “As in every other case where Jews allege something, yet they turn out to be the worst perpetrators of that which they’ve accused–sometimes lying even as they are doing it.” And indeed, that hate is but a part of the larger puzzle of malicious contempt displayed for all mankind. Verily, Jews are proof there is no loving God.

–Theseus

OR USE: http://odeo.com/show/9966723/1331553/download/WM4WLPromo.mp3