ROME - Archaeologists excavating an ancient tannery believed to be the largest ever found in Rome said Tuesday they might need to move the entire work site, which is being threatened by railroad construction. The 1,255-square-yard complex includes a tannery dating to the second or third century, as well as burial sites and part of a Roman road.

At least 97 tubs, some measuring more than three feet in diameter, have been dug up so far in the tannery, archaeologists said. Read more »

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A single joint of marijuana obstructs the flow of air as much as smoking up to five tobacco cigarettes, but long-term pot use does not increase the risk of developing emphysema, new research suggests.

The study by New Zealand’s Medical Research Institute found that longtime pot smokers can develop symptoms of asthma and bronchitis, along with obstruction of the large airways and excessive lung inflation. The paper was released Tuesday ahead of its publication in the journal Thorax. Read more »

BREAKING NEWS AT THIS HOUR, SAMETTA HEYWARD - GOES BEFORE A JUDGE - Charged with homicide by child abuse. The children were discovered late Monday.

The Willows apartment complex in Hanahan was swarming with police Monday night…after two small children were found dead in apartment 24. This morning…a small teddy bear sits by the apartment door..a memorial to 4 year old Shawn Campbell,Jr. and his sister one year old Triniti Campbell. Read more »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A proud enclave of Kurds has lived in this city for decades, starting businesses and soccer leagues, holding down good jobs and blending into the immigrant neighborhoods south of town.

But now the Kurdish immigrant community has been shaken to see its young people joining a street gang that blends old-world customs and new-world thuggery. Police blame the gang for a string of rapes, assaults and home invasions. Read more »

By Curt Maynard

Mark Glenn is an accomplished author and the webmaster of Crescent and the Cross -

As a politically correct apostate I have rejected the religion of political correctness which has freed me from the dogmatic and confining requirement to please everyone all the time. This allows me to write what I like, when I like, and about whom I like without qualms. I am completely free of the self imposed limitations that an embrasure of the PC Agenda guarantees and I prefer it that way.

Mark Glenn too is a politically correct apostate; he more than proves this with his latest book “No Beauty in the Beast: Israel Without Her Mascara.” Glenn has taken political incorrectness to a whole new level, this book hones in on Israel like no other I have ever read. Read more »

Two men died after an early-morning shooting on East Seventh Street in Hazleton Monday.

By Monday evening, police issued an arrest warrant for a suspect.

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JERUSALEM - An Israeli government offer of a new $20 monthly stipend for Holocaust survivors provoked outrage Tuesday, with survivors charging the meager allowance will do nothing to make up for years of neglect of the 240,000 Israelis who lived through Nazi horrors.

Survivors have long claimed that European countries treat them far better than Israel, where many elderly survivors live in poverty. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announcement of the new allowance did nothing to change that impression. One survivor called the offer “absurd and insulting.” Read more »

The “Nashi” youth movement, meaning “Ours” - is run by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin that has become a central part of Russian political life. It aims to promote a healthier lifestyle and an end to the extinction that Russian people are on the verge of.

Nashi’s annual camp, 200 miles outside Moscow, is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks of lectures and physical fitness.

Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on sale. Read more »

This is what they get for their support of so many blacks.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Nike Inc. has reached a $7.6 million settlement in a class-action race discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of 400 black employees of the company’s Chicago Niketown store, the company said Monday.

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It’s a wrap for Twista and Mickey D’s.

McDonald’s Corp. has sacked plans to include Chicago-based rapid-fire, foul-mouthed rapper Twista as part of its 10-city live music tour.

The rapper was scheduled to perform Aug. 7 as part of the McDonald’s Live tour, the initiative created to connect with young consumers that kicked off in Los Angeles Thursday. Read more »

A report of thousands of fliers urging “white workers to rise up against nigger crime in Henderson,” including pictures, names, addresses and phone numbers of local African Americans to be targeted, has been received in the U.S. mail by residents of Henderson, NC. The North Carolina NAACP has asked the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Governor Mike Easley and NC Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate these attempts at intimidation. Read more »

GENEVA - Sexual atrocities in Congo’s volatile province of South Kivu extend “far beyond rape” and include sexual slavery, forced incest and cannibalism, a U.N. human rights expert said Monday.

Yakin Erturk called the situation in South Kivu the worst she has ever seen in four years as the global body’s special investigator for violence against women. Sexual violence throughout Congo is “rampant,” she said, blaming rebel groups, the armed forces and national police. Read more »

PHOENIX —  Officers responding to a report of an exorcism on a young girl found her grandfather choking her and used stun guns to subdue the man, who later died, authorities said Sunday.

The 3-year-old girl and her mother, who was also in the room during the struggle between 49-year-old Ronald Marquez and officers, were hospitalized, police said. Their condition was unavailable. Read more »

The 7-Eleven clerk who was fired after a bullet-riddled dispute over his U.S. Border Patrol cap is “telling the truth” when he says he didn’t fuel the clash.The canned clerk, Bruno Kirchenwitz, passed a lie-detector test indicating he did not instigate the clash with two Hispanic men angered by the cap he wore off the job to protest illegal immigration, Denver talk-radio host Peter Boyles announced on 630 KHOW-AM today. Read more »

 Welcome to the new America, this is our future.One minute, Sam and Nathan Corle say, they were sitting outside a Grand Junction fast-food restaurant, enjoying a late-night snack.

The next, they were being assaulted by a group of strangers, leaving the teenagers with black eyes, bloody noses and bruises.

The father of the brothers is decrying last weekend’s attack as random and racially motivated and says he fears it could be symptomatic of a larger problem with street gangs in the Grand Valley. Read more »

Police discovered a drop house for illegal aliens Thursday in the 12800 block of South 46th Street after noticing an open garage door.

According to Phoenix Police Sgt. Leonard Piñuelas, 19 Mexican nationals were taken into custody by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Police and ICE agents suspect that three of those taken into custody may be “coyotes,” or handlers involved in the smuggling the illegal immigrants across the border.

The home was a rental and neighbors said they had no idea it was being used for illegal activities. Read more »

EASTON | A 20-year-old illegal immigrant faces assault charges after he punched and kicked his girlfriend’s 2-year-old boy, knocking him unconscious, police said.

According to court papers:

Between June 7 and June 10, Juan Arreola kicked the toddler, who fell and hit his head. On June 10, the Easton man punched the boy twice in the chest to keep him from going to sleep. Read more »

An illegal immigrant will spent the rest of his life in prison for his role in the brutal beating and rape of a Limestone County Teenager last summer.

Noel Darwin Hernandez pleaded guilty Friday in a Freestone County Courtroom for the June 2006 attack.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Police charged two men with murder Saturday in the shooting death of 9-year-old Annaijh Rolax last Wednesday.

Charged were Jason Ardis, 27, who had been taken into custody Friday, and Charlie Michael West, 20. Read more »

Five people were arrested and two people were slightly injured yesterday at a rally in Morristown, N.J., that attracted hundreds of demonstrators both for and against stricter immigration law enforcement, the police said yesterday.

Morristown police officers, in riot gear and using a fence to separate the rival demonstrators, broke up several fights at the rally, held in front of the Morristown town hall.

In the most serious clash, a man threw two small metal cylinders at a pickup truck. When the driver of the truck and his female companion confronted the man, they were set upon by about 10 other men, said Lt. David Ackerman of the Morristown police. Read more »

Police yesterday arrested a Pace University student born in the former Soviet Union and charged him with a hate crime for allegedly clogging toilets with the Koran on two occasions last year.

Business major Stanislav Shmulevich, 23, was collared at his Brooklyn home after cops confronted him with surveillance photos from the incidents last Oct. 13 and Nov. 21. Read more »

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau - The fishermen who came across the bags of white powder bobbing in the ocean knew they had found something valuable, but they weren’t sure exactly what.

Back in their village, women unwrapped the layers of plastic and sprinkled the contents on their crops, thinking it might be fertilizer. Read more »

FORT WORTH, Texas - Fed up with deadly drive-by shootings, incessant drug dealing and graffiti, cities nationwide are trying a different tactic to combat gangs: They’re suing them.

Fort Worth and San Francisco are among the latest to file lawsuits against gang members, asking courts for injunctions barring them from hanging out together on street corners, in cars or anywhere else in certain areas. Read more »

Killadelphia - Five people have been slapped with charges in connection with Thursday’s melee outside the Criminal Justice Center, authorities said yesterday.One of the alleged attackers was a former Temple University police officer who was fired by the school earlier this month.

The fight occurred after defendants Louis Rodriguez, 26, of Kensington, and Shawn Beckham, also 26, of North Philadelphia, were convicted of first-degree murder in the 2001 shooting death of Nicholas Santiago, 21. Read more »

U.S. officials say the Bush Administration is expected to ask Congress to approve a major arms package for Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations, partly to counter Iran’s rising influence in the area.
Administration officials say the package, worth at least $20 billion will include sophisticated weaponry, including satellite-guided bombs.

The administration is also expected to propose a new 10-year aid package for Israel worth $30 billion, as well as well as a10-year package for Egypt worth $13 billion. MORE>>>

Netherlands A woman who fatally crushed a teenager with her car after he snatched her purse will be prosecuted, authorities said Friday.

The early 2005 incident assumed national importance and inflamed tensions with the country’s Moroccan community. The 19-year-old man came from a Moroccan family and the filmmaker Theo van Gogh had been murdered by a Muslim radical just two months earlier.

Some sympathized with the driver, believing she justifiably chased the thief and killed him accidentally. But many in Amsterdam’s Moroccan community said the incident reflected Dutch disdain for them.  MORE>>>

PHILADELPHIA - Mayor John F. Street drew cheers during his first months in office, dispatching squadrons of beeping tow trucks and helmeted demolition crews to clear out thousands of abandoned cars and dilapidated buildings.

But as his second and final term draws to a close, the sound of progress has been drowned out by the noise of gunfire and a chorus of critics who say the mayor has seemingly disappeared in the face of a rising murder rate. Read more »

“Burn in hell you (expletive) (expletive),” repeatedly screamed one woman.

“Die like those dogs,” shouted another.

Not long after Vick got inside the courthouse – and in a scene that was repeated when he left less than two hours later – the two sides clashed in shouted voices and dueling signs.

White people screaming for justice; black people asking if they still remember everything justice entails. Read more »

GREENWICH, Conn. –A supervisor in the parks department has been fired following a controversy over a swastika.

Greenwich officials said Thursday that Craig Whitcomb had been fired. Town officials said Whitcomb ordered a parks department worker to paint a swastika on the desk of another worker. Read more »

Let me get this out of the way. I am not an anti-Semite. And Night And Fog is not a good documentary, assuming it can even be called a documentary.

I say this because the near universal praise for Alain Resnais’s 1955 black and white, and color, film is ill-founded. Most of it has to do with a) the seeming impolitic nature of criticizing anything that displays Nazi butchery, and b) the fact that the 31-minute long film was the first “real” attempt at categorizing the Nazi horrors of World War Two to the world at large. This was long before canonical terms and figures like “The Holocaust” or “six million” dead Jews were prevalent in pop culture. Read more »

A German historian has called for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic book “Mein Kampf” to be reprinted and put back on sale in German bookshops. Horst Möller, director of the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, said the move would be preferable to waiting until 2015, when anybody could publish it after copyright on the book in Germany lapses. Möller said it would be better to issue an edition now, with footnotes explaining page by page how Hitler was wrong, rather than wait for cheap commercial editions that could appear without commentary. Now, only purchasers who can prove an academic purpose may secure a copy of “Mein Kampf” within Germany. As the copyright holder, the State of Bavaria has refused to authorise the printing of a new edition. “Mein Kampf,” which translates at “My Struggle,” is available online and published in most countries, including Israel.  SOURCE>>>

BERLIN (Reuters) - A suspected neo-Nazi attacked an Indian student on a tram in the eastern city of Dresden, leaving the victim with serious head injuries, police said on Wednesday.

The shaven-headed man attacked the Indian student without provocation and demanded that he leave the tram, police said. The victim had to be taken to hospital for treatment. Read more »

Could they be any less original? 

Horror author Clive Barker’s newest foray into video games, Jericho, pits players against some formidable, freaky foes. Gamers will fight as members of the Department of Occult Warfare against soldiers of Evil, which sometimes include “child-monsters,” “Viking-monsters,” and “Nazi-monsters.” 

Jericho’s story centers on the reappearance of a lost city and its slowly rising evil percolations. The Department of Occult Warfare is sent in to destroy the force before it is unleashed on humanity.   

The game is slated for release in fall 2007.  SOURCE>>>

The hip-hop star known as Swizz Beatz rolled over to a city park in a black Cadillac Escalade Thursday night, wowed the thousands gathered with a mix of old-school beats and rhymes, and then used a bit of showmanship to address the controversy swirling around his appearance.

Just as Mayor Gwendolyn Faison had promised, the rapper avoided the violent, misogynistic lyrics that had prompted a public rebuke from the police department and a small protest outside city hall earlier in the day.

Then, he dared to do it: He rapped “It’s Me Snitches,” his new single and the very song that bothered some in the community because it seems to say that people who report crime to the police should be punished on the streets. Read more »

Cannabis, or marijuana, is the most commonly used illegal substance in most countries. Enough evidence now exists to warn young people that using cannabis could increase the risk of developing a psychotic illness later on in life by more than 40%, concludes an article in this week’s issue of Lancet.  MORE>>>

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