See the DVDs shocking the nation:
When the Darkness Falls: The Racially Divided States of America
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Making Criminals of Christians
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The Line in the Sand: America's Forgotten Borders
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The Persecution of Revisionists: The Holocaust Unveiled
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Zionist War Crimes: The Case for the Prosecution
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Judea Declares War: A Critical Look at WWII
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Understanding Anti-Semitism: Why Do Some People Dislike Jews?
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Rep. Paul Findley Dares to Speak Out: A 22-Year Veteran Congressman Exposes Israel's Lobby
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Ritual Murder Revisited: The Hidden Cult
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Human Sacrifice among the Fanatical Hasidic Jews and Other Cults from Ancient Times to the Present
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Slave Trade in the World Today
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The Whole Story of Zionist Conspiracy
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Michael Collins Piper Live Radio 7-8 PM EST
Politically Incorrect Cartoons
Paul Grubach's Writings on the Holocaust, Etc.
South African/ Zimbabwean Headlines
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“A preliminary
hearing in the sexual assault case against professional basketball player Kobe
Bryant came to a halt Thursday after comments by Bryant's defense attorney
angered the judge.”
Full story: CNN
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Springsteen
reportedly snubbed by NYPD
Full story: CNN
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Report: Arafat
Has Stomach Cancer
Full story: FOX
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Israeli Forces
Enter Gaza Refugee Camp
Full story: FOX
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FBI Confiscated
Mayor John F. Street's Wireless E-Mail Unit
“Mayor John F.
Street acknowledged Thursday that FBI agents confiscated his BlackBerry wireless
e-mail unit shortly after police discovered hidden listening devices in his City
Hall offices earlier this week.”
Full story: FOX
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Gun Makers May
Win Exemption From Suits
“After years
fending off lawsuits, gun manufacturers appear close to getting Congress to
exempt them from suits blaming them for gun crimes and seeking millions of
dollars in damages.”
Full story: FOX
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FBI 'offered
money to Hamas'
“The FBI
secretly funnelled thousands of dollars to Palestinian militant group Hamas
during the Clinton era in a bid to track terror funds, it has emerged.”
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Foreign
languages gain ground in US
“According to
the 2000 census, 47 million people over the age of five - nearly a sixth of the
US population - do not speak English with their families.”
Full story: BBC
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Review: Putting
Stan Lee in his place
“New biography
offers context for Marvel Comics king”
Full story: CNN
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At least 2,000
Shiites protest cleric's arrest
“More than 2,000
Shiite Muslims continued their protest, marching to the U.S.-led administration
headquarters Wednesday where they demanded the release of a Shiite cleric who
was arrested the day before for storing weapons.”
Full story: CNN
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'Ghettopoly'
game causes outrage
“Black leaders
are outraged over a new board game called `Ghettopoly' that has `playas' acting
like pimps and game cards reading, `You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to
crack. Collect $50.'”
Full story: CNN
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US set to
tighten Syria sanctions
“A key US
congressional committee has voted to impose new sanctions on Syria.”
Full story: BBC
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Israel mobilises
reserve troops
“Israel is
mobilising troops to be deployed to the West Bank and Gaza Strip after new
alerts that Palestinian militants are planning attacks.”
Full story: BBC
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Prising open the
Syrian file
“By extending
their arm to attack a Palestinian camp near Damascus, the Israelis might also be
hoping to prise open the file on US President George W Bush's desk marked
`Syria.'”
Full story: BBC
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CD copy
protection trumped by Shift key
“A Princeton
graduate student said Monday that he has figured out a way to defeat new
software intended to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer -- simply by
pressing the Shift-key.”
Full story: CNN
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Muslim doll
offers modest alternative to Barbie
“At first
glance, this new girl on the block doesn't give Barbie much of a run for her
money. After all, Barbie is everything Razanne is not -- curvaceous, flashy and
loaded with sex appeal.”
Full story: CNN
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Pastor fined in
nude beach protest
“The 3rd
District Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a $1,000 fine against a minister
accused of taunting a woman in a parking lot near a nude beach in 2001.”
Full story: CNN
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Peach $20s to
land Thursday
“It's party time
for the nation's moneymakers: the redesigned $20 bills reach the public this
Thursday.”
Full story: CNN
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FBI Admits
Planting Bug in Philly Mayor's Office
“Federal law
enforcement officials on Wednesday confirmed that listening devices found in the
offices of Mayor John F. Street were planted by the FBI -- a discovery that
touched off a political furor just weeks before Election Day.”
Full story: FOX
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Arafat Advisers
Deny Heart Attack Reports
“Yasser Arafat's
advisers said Wednesday that the 74-year-old Palestinian leader has the stomach
flu and continues to be weak, but denied a report that he suffered a mild heart
attack.”
Full story: FOX
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FDA Considers
Dropping Ban on Silicone Breast Implants
“Eleven years
after most use of silicone-gel breast implants (search) was banned amid fears
they were dangerous, the Food and Drug Administration is considering letting
them back on the U.S. market.”
Full story: FOX
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Report warns of
HIV catastrophe
“A young person
is infected with HIV every 14 seconds, a report from the United Nations
Population Fund reveals.”
Full story: FOX
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Sharon: Israel
Will Strike at Enemies
“Bolstered by
U.S. support for Israel's bombing raid in Syria, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
said Tuesday his nation won't hesitate to attack its enemies anywhere -
heightening concerns it may widen the Palestinian conflict by again striking
countries it accuses of harboring terrorists.”
Full story: FOX
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Syria accuses
Israel of warmongering
“Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad has accused Israel of trying to drag Syria and the
rest of the Middle East into a wider conflict, following its air strike inside
Syrian territory at the weekend.”
Full story: BBC
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Escalation fears
grip Mid-East
“Condemnation of
the Israeli raid continues to dominate editorial and comment pages in the Arab
press. Several papers criticise Washington for its response to the attack.”
Full story: BBC
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Arab fury at
Israel's 'terror acts'
“Senior Saudi
Arabian officials yesterday delivered a sweeping attack on Israel, accusing it
of a series of terrorist acts - the latest being Sunday's bombing of an alleged
Palestinian base in Syria.”
Full story:
Guardian
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Bush signals
backing for Syria sanctions
“A bill to
impose new economic sanctions on Syria will begin its passage through the US
Congress today after the Bush administration gave the measures a green light to
signal its frustration with Damascus.”
Full story:
Guardian
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BADIL Resource
Center aims to provide a resource pool of alternative, critical and progressive
information on the question of Palestinian refugees in our quest to achieve a
just and lasting solution for exiled Palestinians based on their right of
return.
PO Box 728,
Bethlehem, Palestine;
Email: info@badil.org;
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Telephone/Fax:
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From outside of
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Israelis Versus
Arabs: Who are the Real Terrorists?
Full story: Hal
Turner Show
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Teacher throws
'noisy' Moroccan schoolboys out of window
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The Life of an American Jew in Racist
Marxist Israel
--Written in 1985 by Jack Bernstein,
condensed by Clay Douglas -
A CHALLENGE -- THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK
ARE EXPECTED TO BRING A STRONG REACTION FROM THE ZIONIST JEWS.
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Jews and Immigration
By Dr. Kevin McDonald
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A Jewish Defector Warns
America
By Benjamin H. Freedman
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The Jewish Stake in America's Changing
Demography
Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration
Policy
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German Justice Minister Complains About
Italian `Hitler' Wine
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The Curse Of
Multiculturalism
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GAO: Pentagon sold biolab gear
“The Defense Department sold equipment to
the public that can be used for making biological warfare agents, according to a
draft report by the General Accounting Office.”
Full story: CNN
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Israel won't rule out another attack in
Syria
“The Israeli government is not ruling out
another attack in Syria, a spokesman said Monday, adding that although Iran "is
not a target," the strike over the weekend was aimed at putting pressure on both
countries to cut their ties with Palestinian militants.”
Full story: CNN
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Analysis: Discreet US warning to Syria
“President George W Bush was quick to
repeat his standard line that follows atrocities against Israeli civilians,
complete with his customary contradictory caveat.”
Full story: BBC
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Israel soldier killed near Lebanon
“An Israeli soldier has been killed in
gun clashes across the border with Lebanon, Israel's military has said.”
Full story: BBC
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DA wants teens in hazing case to stand
trial as adults
“A Pennsylvania district attorney
announced Monday that he has petitioned the court to have three high school
football players stand trial as adults on sexual assault charges related to the
alleged sodomy of their young teammates.”
Full story: CNN
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Computer Scientists Fear Voter Fraud
“Punch-card ballots from Tuesday's
historic recall election are sure to get a going-over by political activists,
but some computer scientists think touch-screen voting machines deserve just as
much scrutiny.”
Full story: FOX
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Syria May Amend Proposed U.N. Resolution
“Syria is considering amending its
resolution that seeks U.N. condemnation for Israeli air strikes on its soil
after many countries, including the United States, called for more balance.”
Full story: FOX
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Bush: Israel Has Right to Defend Itself
From Terror
“President Bush declined to criticize
Israel Monday for its air strike deep inside Syria, saying Israel "has got a
right to defend herself." But Bush also said he had cautioned Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon to try to avoid escalating tensions in the region.”
Full story: FOX
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High Court Won't Hear Bible Club Case
“The Supreme Court turned aside a
church-state fight over a Bible club given permission by a lower court to meet
in a public school during classtime.”
Full story: FOX
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Man: Officials 'Flushing' Toilet Display
“A protester-turned-politican says town
officials are trying to flush his campaign by claiming the toilets he's
displayed on his home the past four years are a health hazard.”
Full story: ABC
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Diwali comes to Manhattan
“Traditional Gujarati dance mingled with
bhangra-style workouts, amidst a feast of Indian cooking and shopping, as the
festival of Diwali was celebrated in Manhattan's South Street Seaport on
Sunday.”
Full story: BBC
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Magic show in doubt after mauling
“The future of the famed Siegfried &
Roy magic show is in doubt after illusionist Roy Horn was mauled by a white
tiger.”
Full story: BBC
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Worries at the White House
“Is President Bush going to go the way of
his father?”
Full story: BBC
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Powell
Criticizes Israel on Security Fence Construction
“Israel's plan
to build 565 new homes in Jewish enclaves on the West Bank drew criticism and an
implicit threat Friday from the Bush administration.”
Full story: FOX
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Justice
Department Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Section of Patriot Act
“Urging
dismissal of a court challenge to the USA Patriot Act, the Justice Department
said Friday that it has never used wide-ranging search and seizure powers in the
law that are being challenged by civil rights and Muslim groups.”
Full story: FOX
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Fair and
Balanced?
“A lot of people
ask me about bias in the media. I always have a standard response: The issue
isn't what the media reports, it's what the media does not report.”
Full story: FOX
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Groups Unveil
Anti-Schwarzenegger Ads
Full story: ABC
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Hospital’s
comply angers black staff
“A suburban
Philadelphia hospital apologized to employees for complying with a man’s demand
that no black staff members assist in the delivery of his child.”
Full story:
MSNBC
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Black police
chief firing causes stir
“The firing of
Dallas’ first black police chief ended a brief peace in this racially volatile
city that followed a decade of strife.”
Full story:
MSNBC
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Defending
Limbaugh
“Rush was right:
McNabb isn’t a great quarterback, and the media does overrate him because he is
black”
Full story:
MSNBC
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Latinos wooed by
US hopefuls
“Republicans
from the Bush administration and eight of the nine Democratic presidential
candidates came to Phoenix this weekend to woo Latino leaders.”
Full story: BBC
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Hispanics
overtake blacks in US
“Hispanics, the
fastest growing ethnic group in the US, have overtaken blacks to become the
largest minority in the US, according to newly released government figures.”
Full story: BBC
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Washington DC: A
city of immigrants
“Washington, DC,
has become a new Mecca for immigrants into the United States in the last
decades, with a five-fold increase in 30 years.”
Full story: BBC
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School
apologizes for Nazi display by band
“The Paris,
Texas, school district apologized Tuesday for a performance by one of its
marching bands which played an Adolf Hitler anthem and waved a Nazi flag during
a football halftime show.”
Full story: CNN
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Fired
ballerina set for encore
“Russia's Labor
Ministry on Tuesday ordered the theater to reinstate Anastasia Volochkova who
was sacked two weeks ago amid claims from other dancers she was too big to
lift.” (C'mon--she's 5'7" and only weighs 109 pounds!)
Full story: CNN
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Muhammad,
Malvo to meet at pretrial hearing
“John Allen
Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo -- both accused of orchestrating a series of
sniper-style shootings last year -- will see each other in person Wednesday for
the first time since their arrest 11 months ago.” (They ought to lock the
two up together and give all the other prisoners pellet guns to shoot the two to
death--to see how much they like it.)
Full story: CNN
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Israel
detains key militant
“The Israeli
army has detained a leading member of the Palestinian militant group Islamic
Jihad in the West Bank.” (The Palestinians should start "detaining" the
Israeli terrorists who are building the wall and living in the ever-increasing
"settlements"--that is, land taken under Israel's state-sanctioned "ethnic
cleansing" policy.)
Full story: BBC
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Man in court
tries to attack witness
“A man in court
to be sentenced for wounding three people tried to attack one victim's mother
and was wrestled to the ground by police.” (What an
idiot!)
Full story: CNN
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Time to flee
America?
“The United
States might not be a very good place to [invest] your money anymore,” says CNN.
(No kidding. What do we do here? No TVs are manufactured
here--also, no computers, no tennis shoes, no power tools, and no radios.
We make houses, carpets, military hardware, and fast food--and little
else. Our economy has been utterly wiped out.)
Full story: CNN
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Razzing the
Big Brains
“Scientists
Gather From Around the World for Dubious Ig Nobel Honors”
(Awards for
those scientists who conducted bizarre experiments or studies.)
Full story: ABC
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Toddler
spends 2½ weeks alone
“A 2-year-old
girl survived on ketchup, mustard and dried pasta for nearly three weeks after
she was left home alone while her mother served time in jail.” (The woman
might be charged with child abuse; she should be tried for attempted
murder.)
Full story: MSNBC
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Radio host
fired for on-air racial slur
(The talkshow
host failed to be politically correct and abide by the prescribed
punishment.)
Full story: MSNBC
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Park Service
seeks greater diversity
“The National
Park Service has signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding with the American
Indian Higher Education Consortium's Student Congress that's designed to
increase diversity in the agency's work force.” ("Diversity," by today's
definition, means they're going to discriminate against
whites.)
Full story: MSNBC
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China loosens
up marriage rules
“Under the new
rules, people can get married without permission from their employers and
without a medical check.”
Full story: BBC
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Atheist Jews
Gather for Meeting
But how can this
be if Jews are just a religion, as they sometimes argue?
Full story: USA
Today
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EDWARD
SAID
"[Electronic
Intifada] continues to publish articles celebrating the life and work of
Palestinian American academic Edward Said, who passed away on 25 September 2003
after a long battle with cancer. These are listed chronologically on our
homepage at http://electronicIntifada.net."
------------------------------
27 Israeli
pilots boycott territories
"Twenty-seven
Israeli pilots sent a letter to the Israeli air force commander refusing to
carry out duties, which include track-and-kill operations, in the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip, an Israeli air force officer said Wednesday."
Full story: MSNBC
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New cartoon:
"C'mon Goy, Fly the Flag for Israel"
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Jewish
Defense League established in the Netherlands
Will Jewish
terrorists bomb the Netherlands as they have done in America and
elsewhere?
Full story: Electronic
Intifida
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'You lied,
they died,' US parents tell Bush
"The father of a
soldier killed in Iraq accused President George Bush yesterday of being
responsible for his son's death. Fernando Suarez, whose 20-year-old son, Jesus,
was one of the first fatalities, said: 'My son died because Bush
lied.'"
Full story: Guardian
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Guns,
Freedom, and Terrorism
"Our country's
new war is no longer being fought on distant battlefields with designated
combatants. Instead, the individual citizen is now as intricate a part of our
nation's self-defense as any military unit."
Full story: Townhall.com
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Jewish
supremacist arrested for terrorizing herself
A Jewish woman
was arrested for setting her car and home on fire. This is a particular
mentality that many Jews exhibit. The want to be viewed as "victims" in an
effort to elicit sympathy (and often its accompanying funds) from
others.
For more about
Jews terrorizing themselves in an effort to be viewed as "victims," see the book
"Crying Wolf."
------------------------------
Home loans
for illegal Mexican aliens?
Why not?
The government has been discriminating against Gentiles in favor of
illegal aliens for decades, so this should come as no surprise. Illegal
Mexican aliens are allowed to have U.S. drivers' licenses too. What
happens when 500 million Mexicans move to the U.S.? Where are our borders?
Who is responsible for this outrage? And why isn't that person on
trial for treason?
Full story: Townhall.com
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Campbell's
Soup becomes the latest victim of the Kosher racket
Campbell's Soup
now has joined many other products that pay the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax, a
needless food tax for Gentile consumers that might very well promote
Zionism.
Full story:
Jewish Orthodox
Union
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U.S. Accused
of War Crimes
This is what
happens when you're a world leader and you listen to your Zionist plutocrats.
There's a lesson to be learned somewhere.
Full story: Information
Clearinghouse
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NY Rabbi
charged with stealing $700,000 in grant money
"A Brooklyn
rabbi was accused this week of pocketing $700,000 in grant money meant for
disabled Jewish children to pay off his credit card bills, life insurance
premiums, and help companies run by his sons-in-law in the US and
Israel."
Full story: Jerusalem
Post
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Journo claims
proof of WMD lies
AUSTRALIAN
investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq
was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and
bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.
Full story: News.com.Au
(Australia)
------------------------------
Book:
"Weapons of Mass Deception"
I have no idea
if this book is any good. It may be excellent, or it might not be.
But the cover makes it look hilarious! If anyone has read this,
please let me know if you want to write a review I can post.
More about the
book: Amazon.com
------------------------------
A lesson from
Hitler's hideaway
"...[A] British
magazine is crying [copyright] infringement because a British blogger dredged up
a 65-year-old article [from "Homes & Gardens"] describing Hitler as a
gentleman squire living in stylish surroundings in the Bavarian
Alps."
Full story: Townhall.com
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Hollywood's favorite child molester
"One of the most
popular movies currently playing at the box office, 'Jeepers Creepers 2,' is a
teen horror flick directed by a stomach-turning registered sex offender [Victor
Salva] who was convicted of molesting a 12-year-old-boy he targeted, groomed,
seduced, and filmed in pornographic home videos." (This just goes to
demonstrate the utter mental sickness of those making movies that influence
America.)
Full story: Townhall.com
For more about
Hollywood, see Who Rules
America?
------------------------------
How to Talk
About Israel
"The Jewish
Problem pops up in the strangest places. In the winter of 1991, at the height of
the first gulf war, I asked a right-wing Japanese politician who still wields
considerable power in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to explain the
Japanese role in the Middle Eastern conflict. After clearing his throat with
some perfunctory remarks about oil supplies and United States-Japan relations,
he suddenly stopped midsentence, gave me a shrewd look and said: 'Look, we
Japanese aren't stupid. We saw Henry Kissinger on TV. We know how America
operates. We're perfectly well aware that this war is not about Kuwait. It's
about Jewish interests. It's all about Israel.'"
Full story: NYT
------------------------------
LaRouche
Calls on Bush to Shut Down All Funding of Israel If Talk of Expulsion or
Assassination of Arafat Persists
"Lyndon
LaRouche, leading candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004,
today called on President Bush to stop his cowardly capitulations to Israel's
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. If Sharon persists in even talking about the
expulsion or assassination of the duly elected Palestinian Authority President
Yasser Arafat, President Bush should immediately sign an Executive Order
freezing all U.S. financing of Israel, LaRouche demanded." (For the
record, the LaRouche team has made an excellent expose' on the ADL called,
appropriately enough, "The Ugly Truth about the ADL.")
Full story: LaRoucheIn2004.net
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A Time to
Speak
"I want to thank
you for coming by the office last week to vent your frustrations over the
anti-Christian remarks your professor has been making in the classroom..."
(Anti-Christian propaganda has seemingly become socially acceptable.
Meanwhile, Jews whine about alleged "persecution" from the highest pulpit
while shedding crocodile tears to elict sympathy [and its accompanying monetary
rewards].)
Full story: Townhall.com
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Blix attacks
Iraq weapons 'spin'
“The U.N.'s
former chief weapons inspector has attacked the `spin and hype' he says the
United States and Britain used when warning about Saddam Hussein's weapons of
mass destruction.”
Full story:
CNN
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Bush rejects
Saddam 9/11 link
“US President
George Bush has said there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in
the 11 September attacks.”
Full story:
BBC
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Drug craze is
fuelling murder on streets of Iraqi capital
“An epidemic of
narcotics is making thugs more aggressive and life more perilous, reports Peter
Beaumont in Baghdad.”
Full story:
Observer
------------------------------
Bill Gates
embraces rivals, Linux
“It's not often
that Bill Gates is associated with the free Linux computer operating system,
Netscape's Web browser or royalty-free software, but on Wednesday he embraced
all three.”
Full story:
CNN
For more about
Linux, a free Operating System that is not as susceptible to virus attacks (as
Microsoft Windows), see www.Linux.org
For more about
Netscape Navigator, a free Web Browser that is also not as susceptible to virus
attacks, see www.Netscape.com
------------------------------
Virus sender
helped FBI bust hackers
“Federal
prosecutors credited the man responsible for transmitting the Melissa virus -- a
computer bug that did more than $80 million in damage in 1999 -- with helping
the FBI bring down several major international hackers.”
Full story:
CNN
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Israel
embarks on major raid in Jenin
“The Israeli
military has embarked on a wide-ranging raid in Jenin after getting tips that
the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad was planning to carry out terror
attacks against Israel from the northern part of the West Bank, the Israel
Defense Forces said Thursday.”
Full story:
CNN
------------------------------
Chemical
company owners charged with bribery
“Authorities in
Georgia and Florida arrested a chemical company's top executives and charged
them with bribing state and local government workers to buy millions of dollars
worth of its products.”
Full story:
CNN
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West Nile
numbers on pace to break record
“America likely
will have another record-breaking number of reported West Nile cases this year,
with the number up by more than a third in the past week alone, federal
officials said Thursday.”
Full story:
CNN
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Man Arrested
for Allegedly Plotting to Murder Kobe's Accuser
“Authorities
Thursday arrested a Swiss bodybuilding coach they said made a $3 million offer
to kill the woman who has accused Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant of sexual
assault.”
Full story:
FOX
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Two 'Portland
Seven' Terror Suspects Plead Guilty
“Two brothers
[Ahmed and Muhammad Bilal], who were among seven people accused of aiding
terrorists, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiring to help Al Qaeda
and the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan.”
Full story:
FOX
------------------------------
Not at
Albright
"If anyone here
is a spy, please raise your hand."--Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, when
it was discovered that lax security left the State Department crawling with
spies posing as journalists.
Full story:
FOX
------------------------------
Treasury
Leaves Rules in Place Allowing Banks to Accept Mexican IDs
“The Treasury
Department said Monday it will leave in place rules that allow financial
institutions to accept the Mexican identification card, called matricula
consular, which often are used by undocumented immigrants to open bank
accounts.”
Full story:
FOX
------------------------------
Prosecutor
Says Teen Killed by Rapper Was a Fan
“A teen killed
in a nightclub shooting was a devoted fan of the rapper charged in his slaying,
the prosecutor said as the performer known as C-Murder went on
trial.”
Full story:
FOX
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Powell sued
over Jerusalem's status
“An
American-Israeli couple are taking legal action against the US Government for
not recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.”
Full story:
BBC
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Kidnap danger
to tourists [in South America]
“Foreign workers
and tourists have often been easy targets for rebels seeking ransoms or
political leverage in their struggle for a Marxist state within a
state.”
Full story:
BBC
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Gay rights
activists seek arrest of reggae stars at [England's] Mobo
awards
“Three reggae
stars nominated for a Mobo award may be arrested at the prize ceremony next week
because the lyrics of their songs allegedly incite the murder of gays and
lesbians.”
Full story:
Guardian
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Settlers
guilty of school bomb plot
“Three Jewish
settlers have been convicted by a court in Jerusalem of attempted murder after a
failed plot to blow up an Arab girls' school in the city.”
Full story: BBC
----------------------------
Hackers push
new software for attacks
“Security
researchers on Tuesday detected hackers distributing software to break into
computers using flaws announced last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp.'s
Windows operating system.”
Full story: CNN
----------------------------
Ever had a
metapneumovirus? You probably have
“Something
called the metapneumovirus, discovered just two years ago, is turning out to be
an exceedingly common cause of human misery, responsible for garden-variety
colds in grown-ups and more severe coughing, wheezing and congestion in
children.”
Full story: CNN
----------------------------
Arafat Says
Hamas Might Join Mideast Truce
“Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat offered a new truce to Israel on Wednesday, after
Palestinian officials said the militant group Hamas has signaled it might agree
to stop attacking Israelis.”
Full story: FOX
----------------------------
God's Word
Goes Glossy
“Instead of
fawning over a hot young actor in Tiger Beat, teen girls are now going ga-ga for
Jesus' teachings in Revolve, a magazine that's slicked up the New Testament for
girls ages 12 to 17.”
Full story: FOX
----------------------------
California
Gives Driver's Licenses to Illegals
“Your driver's
license, which is the closest thing the United States has to a national
identification card, just became less valuable as a means of identifying who you
are and as a tool for law enforcement.”
Full story: FOX
----------------------------
Attempt to
Revise Citizenship Oath Criticized
“An attempt to
revise the citizenship oath to make it more meaningful for new Americans has
been stalled after conservatives complained it weakened a pledge to serve in the
military and eliminated a promise to bear arms.”
Full story: FOX
----------------------------
Senate Moves
Closer to Ban on Abortion Procedure
“The Senate
advanced one step closer Wednesday to final congressional passage of a bill to
ban certain abortions, clearing a procedural hurdle on a 93-0 vote that belied
years of struggle surrounding the legislation itself.”
Full story: FOX
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Famed Russian
Ballet Dancer Fired for Being too Big
“The Bolshoi
Theater has fired one of Russia's best-known ballerinas for being ... well, too
Bolshoi.”
Full story: FOX
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No library
searches, Ashcroft says
“Under pressure
from library groups and civil liberties activists, Attorney General John
Ashcroft declassified information Wednesday on how often the FBI has sought
records from libraries and businesses without a search warrant under the
anti-terrorism Patriot Act. It turns out that the agency has never done so, he
said in a memo obtained by NBC News.”
Full story: MSNBC
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A New TV
Choice for African Americans
“Veteran
broadcast exec Johnathan Rodgers is launching a cable network targeted at black
adults. `It's not a “BET or us” situation,' he says”
Full story: MSNBC
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'Saddam tape'
calls for US withdrawal
“An Arabic
television station has broadcast what it says is a new audiotape from the former
Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein.”
Full story: BBC
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Militant
killed in Gaza Strip
“A local
militant has been killed in an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
Jihad Abu
Suheireh died when missiles were shot at his house in a refugee camp in central
Gaza.”
Full story: BBC
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Saudis
consider nuclear bomb
“Saudi Arabia,
in response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a
strategic review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons, the Guardian has
learned.”
Full story: Guardian
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Smoking them
out
“France's
proposed new soft drug legislation has sparked fears of a more repressive
approach to cannabis users, says Amelia Gentleman.”
Full story: Guardian
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Arab world
condemns US Arafat veto
“Arab diplomats
have condemned Washington's decision to veto a UN Security Council draft
resolution denouncing Israel's policy of `removing' Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat. … The US was the only one of the 15 countries on the Security Council to
oppose the resolution….”
Full story: BBC
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Syria rejects
US criticism
"I think the
policy here is to rid all Arabs of any armaments they have while their
territories are occupied, while [funding] Israel to have all kinds of mass
destruction weapons," a spokeswoman for Syria's foreign ministry, Bouthaina
Shaban, told the BBC.
Full story: BBC
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Russia turns
spotlight on abortion
“Russia could be
on the point of a significant change in direction on morality and sexual issues,
as a major debate looms over the rights of women and unborn
children.”
Full story: BBC
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Why Bush
escaped an Iraq row
“Why hasn't
George Bush encountered the same storm of criticism in the US over his
intelligence claims on Iraq as Tony Blair has received in the
UK?”
Full story: BBC
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Senate blocks
US media reform
“The US Senate
has voted to rescind new rules allowing large media companies to grow even
bigger, in defiance of the Bush administration.”
Full story: BBC
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Ousted
monument offered to Congress
“Seeking to move
his battle over religion in government to a national stage, suspended state
Chief Justice Roy Moore on Tuesday offered his Ten Commandments monument to
Congress for display in the U.S. Capitol.”
Full story: CNN
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Sun unveils
software to replace Windows
“In a move aimed
squarely at Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. unveiled on Tuesday a suite
of software for businesses that want to dump -- or just can't afford -- the
Windows operating system on their companies' desktop
computers.”
Full story: CNN
(For the Linux
website, where you can get a free Open Source operating system that doen't have
all of Window's bugs, see www.linux.org )
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Clark vows to
transform the U.S.
“Former NATO
supreme commander Wesley Clark will announce his presidential candidacy
Wednesday, becoming the 10th Democrat to seek to unseat President Bush in 2004,
sources close to the retired general told CNN.”
Full story: CNN
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U.S. to
reduce future loan guarantees for Israel
“The Bush
administration will go ahead with $1.6 billion in loan guarantees requested by
Israel but will reduce subsequent guarantees as punishment for expanding Jewish
settlements in the occupied territories, the State Department announced
Tuesday.”
Full story: CNN
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Judge refuses
to block ex-radical's release
“A state judge
has turned down an attempt by police groups and the relative of a police officer
killed during a robbery in 1981 to block the expected release this week of 1960s
radical Kathy Boudin after 22 years in prison.”
Full story: CNN
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Spanish
protesters invade GM corn fields
“Spanish farmers
and ecologists invaded fields of genetically-modified corn to protest against
cultivation of the crop in the only European country where it is grown on a
commercial scale.”
Full story: CNN
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Report: U.S.
No. 1 in school spending
“The United
States spends more public and private money on education than other major
countries, but its performance doesn't measure up in areas ranging from
high-school graduation rates to test scores in math, reading and science, a new
report shows.”
Full story: CNN
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U.S. Students
Need Better Civics Education, Experts Say
“Emphasis on
multiculturalism and cultural diversity is getting in the way of proper history
and civics educations, particularly the teaching of the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks and its aftermath, say some education experts who are
demanding teachers refocus their classes.”
Full story: FOX
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Pop Culture
Pimps Out
“Pimps have come
off the street corner and into record shops, music videos and even grocery
stores near you.”
Full story: FOX
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