Health officials continued their 17-state search Sunday for passengers who may have been infected with a rare, potentially deadly form of tuberculosis by a woman on an American Airlines flight from New Delhi to Chicago.
The 30-year-old woman, a native of Nepal who now lives in Sunnyvale, Calif., had been diagnosed with drug-resistant TB in India, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says. She was a passenger on Flight 293 from India to Chicago and flew on to San Francisco on Dec. 13.
About a week later, she checked in to the emergency room at Stanford University Hospital. “She was quite sick,” says Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine for the CDC. “She was at the extreme end of the severity of the disease.”
Children are more likely to shield their faces than to smile when Daniel Santillan points his camera.Santillan’s photos aren’t for any picture album or yearbook—they help prove that Mexican youngsters are illegally attending public schools in this California border community.
With too many students and too few classrooms, Calexico school officials took the unusual step of hiring someone to photograph children and document the offenders. Santillan snaps pictures at the city’s downtown border crossing and shares the images with school principals, who use them as evidence to kick out those living in Mexico. Read more »
WELLINGTON, Fla. – What began as a dispute over a young man wearing droopy pants at a South Florida mall led to a wild scuffle, a massive police response and six members of an entire family being arrested.
The incident took place Thursday evening as Joseph Leger, 52, took his wife and four other family members shopping at the Mall at Wellington Green.
Apparently Leger’s 20-year-old son, Frantz, had been banned from the property previously for wearing his pants too low, violating the mall’s “Rules of Common Courtesy.” Read more »
German President Köhler has said expellee groups should be included in plans for a memorial in Berlin, opposed by Poland, to recall the sufferings of ethnic Germans forced out of Eastern Europe at the end of the war.
In an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, Köhler said he saw “no plausible reason” to exclude such groups from the project approved by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government.
“Their expertise would prove helpful,” the president said in the interview on Saturday, Dec. 29.
The forum seemed tailor-made for Ted Hayes, the Los Angeles activist for the homeless who has become one of the nation’s most visible African Americans raising a ruckus about illegal immigration.
A mostly black crowd had gathered at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles for a feisty debate about illegal immigration’s effects on the African American community. When Minister Tony Muhammad of the Nation of Islam and others called for black-brown unity, they drew boos and yells of dissent.
“Illegal immigration is wrong! They have no business being in this country!” shouted one audience member, drawing thunderous applause. Read more »
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In 1950, this cotton market town in northern Alabama lost a bid for a military aviation project that would have revived its mothballed arsenal. The consolation prize was dubious: 118 German rocket scientists who had surrendered to the Americans during World War II, led by a man — a crackpot, evidently — who claimed humans could visit the moon.
Ultimately those German immigrants made history, launching the first American satellite, Explorer I, into orbit in January 1958 and putting astronauts on the moon in 1969. The crackpot, Wernher von Braun, was celebrated as a visionary.
Far less attention, though, has been given to the space program’s permanent transformation of Huntsville, now a city of 170,000 with one of the country’s highest concentrations of scientists and engineers. The area is full of high-tech giants like Siemens, LG and Boeing, and a new biotech center. Read more »
MUNICH (Hollywood Reporter) - For the first time in recent memory, Germans spent less time in front of their TVs in 2007 than they did the year before, according to a new survey.
Perhaps distracted by the introduction of such Web sites as MySpace.de and iTunes.de, German kids led the exodus, boding ill for the future of the medium.
According to the preliminary results of an annual study by Germany’s television research institute, the GfK in Nuremberg, average per-day viewing in 2007 slipped to 208 minutes, down from 212 the year before. For young people the drop was more severe, to 178 minutes from 184. Read more »
We have all experienced the negative effects of outsourcing, whether it is difficulty finding a job or just the aggravation of not understanding the accent on the other end of the tech support phone call. However, outsourcing has hit a new low recently in a trend that is sure to have long lasting detrimental effects to our countries. Couples in the United States and the United Kingdom, among others, are paying women in India to be have their children for them. Currently, more than 50 women in Anand, India are pregnant with such babies in what the press calls “baby farms.” Experts say commercial surrogacy — or what has been called “wombs for rent” — is growing in India. “You can picture the wealthy couples of the West deciding that pregnancy is just not worth the trouble anymore and the whole industry will be farmed out,” said Dr. John Lantos of the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Mo. More>>>
LONDON: Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group has said in a report.
Greece, Romania and Canada had the best privacy records of 47 countries surveyed by Privacy International, which is based in London. Malaysia, Russia and China were ranked worst. Read more »
LOS ANGELES - In a murderous quest aimed at “cleansing” their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County’s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings of black gangsters and then, when the intended victim couldn’t be located, said “Well, shoot any black you see,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said. “In certain cases some murders were just purely motivated on killing a black person,” Baca said. Read more »
Two teenage girls confessed to their roles in the October slaying of a Lake Elsinore mother, then giggled and chatted about what happened as they sat together in a police interrogation room. After Anna Salinas, 15, and Dayana Cordova, then 16, explained how they planned the Oct. 18 shooting that killed Angelina Arias, 20, the teenagers were left in a room together at the sheriff’s station in Lake Elsinore, Detective Darren Wills testified.
During the hearing at the Southwest Justice Center, Wills’ testimony revealed a picture of two teenagers who left a Lake Elsinore home on Oct. 18 with a pistol and a plan to carjack someone if they could not find a ride to Knott’s Berry Farm and Long Beach. They saw a car they liked and found out it belonged to Arias when they went inside a restaurant. Arias was not scheduled to work that day; she was covering for a co-worker whose son was sick, testified Detective Raymond Huskey.
While getting in Arias’ car they shot her that night in Lake Elsinore while her infant was in the car and left the baby outside a Perris apartment where it sat on a porch for two hours, Wills testified. Arias’ body was left in the street near the corner of Lantern Hill Lane and Westwind Drive in Lake Elsinore, and the shooting was reported around 9:40 p.m., authorities have said. After leaving the baby, Cordova went to a friend’s house and got “high” while Salinas got something to eat from Jack N the Box with another friend, Wills testified. Full Article
He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won’t, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American consumer economy depends on him. America as we have known it for generations may not survive him.
We can’t seem to live with him and his family, and if we can live without him, nobody’s figured out how.
He’s the Illegal Immigrant, and he’s the 2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year – for better or for worse. Given the public mood, there seems to be little middle ground in debate over illegal immigrants. Spectacular fights over their presence broke out across Texas this year, adding to the national pressure cooker as only Texas can. Read more »
Instead of being charged with a ‘hate crime’, they get ‘disorderly conduct’ for beating up a white woman and using racial slurs.
Prosecutors in Baltimore have decided not to charge the nine middle school students accused in the beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus with a hate crime as a judge postponed their trial yesterday until Jan. 31.
Judge Edward R.K. Hargadon, the head of the city’s juvenile judges, granted a request from the state to postpone a Jan. 4 trial date despite objections from the juveniles’ attorneys. A hearing on the teenagers’ home-detention status will take place Jan. 4.
In court yesterday, Assistant State’s Attorney Janet S. Hankin requested the addition of two charges: malicious destruction and disorderly conduct. The teens had previously been charged with aggravated assault and destruction of property. Read more »
DELRAN, NJ — A husband and wife were assaulted during an armed invasion of their home on Suburban Boulevard, police said.
According to investigators, four masked men forced their way into the home Thursday through a back door shortly after 7:30 p.m. The men were armed with guns and demanded money. One of them struck the husband and wife with the butt of a handgun, police said.
Prior to the assault, the wife was able to call 911, which brought police to the house.
The four invaders fled without taking anything as police arrived. Read more »
In Maine, a 75-year old man has blacks more scared than any skinhead gang.
BANGOR, Me. — In October, the N.A.A.C.P. chapter for northern Maine got shocking news. A man from a nearby town had threatened to shoot “any and all black persons” attending the group’s meetings at an old stone church here, and state prosecutors were worried enough to seek a restraining order.
Such remarks are not unheard of in Maine, the nation’s whitest state, which has fewer black residents — 10,918 in 2006, or less than 1 percent of the population, according to the Census Bureau — than some neighborhoods of Chicago or New York. But nor are they usually so blunt. The chapter has since held meetings at police stations and canceled its annual Kwanzaa celebration, which normally draws people from up and down the coast of Maine.
“It’s discouraging and it’s heart-wrenching,” said Joseph Perry, president of the chapter, which has 175 members from Augusta to the Canadian border. “There are still people who aren’t comfortable, who don’t feel safe.” Read more »
A botanist who used to work on his studies in various remote parts of the Sonora, Mexico, mountains says that work now is being left incomplete because of a health problem that developed for him on the job.
“I got kind of allergic to pistols being held to my forehead,” botanist Richard Felger said in a report on the impact drug smugglers are having on various scientific endeavors.
The Arizona Republic report was published on the website of KPNX, Channel 12, television in Phoenix, and documented the scientists’ inability to complete studies on jaguars, various insects, bats, fish and other subjects of scientific inquiry. Read more »
On May 11, 2007, at approximately midnight, deputies in Columbia, S.C. say an armored car pulled over at a gas station to refuel. The car that just happened to be carrying about $18 million. Once the guard refueling the truck finished at the pump, he got ready to hop back into the driver’s seat. Deputies say as he was re-entering the car he was struck in the face by someone with a handgun. Before he knew what was happening, the guard found himself struggling with two attackers, who overpowered him and threw him between the seats of the truck. Deputies say the attackers were Dominic La Shaun Lyde, 22, and Jeremy McPhail, 19. Then McPhail and Lyde allegedly forced the second guard, Darryl C. Frierson, 21, to drive.
After driving about two miles away, McPhail and Lyde had Frierson stop the car. Deputies say they were met by two other suspects at this location, Kelby Blakney, 20, and Dominique Blakney, 19. Investigators say the men proceeded to rob the truck of roughly $9.8 million.
CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against fighting al-Qaida and vowed to expand the terror group’s holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.”
Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently al-Qaida’s latest attempt to keep supporters in Iraq unified at a time when the U.S. military claims to have al-Qaida’s Iraq branch on the run.
The tape did not mention Pakistan or the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, though Pakistan’s government has blamed al-Qaida and the Taliban for her death on Thursday. That suggested the tape was made before the assassination. Read more »
MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. - At age 9, Korey Davis came home from school with gang writing on his arm. At 10, he jacked his first car. At 13, he and some buddies got guns, used them to relieve a man of his Jeep, and later, while trying to outrun a police helicopter, smacked their hot wheels into a fire hydrant.
For his exploits, the tough-talking teen pulled not only a 15-year sentence (the police subsequently connected him to three previous car thefts) but got “certified” as an adult offender and shipped off to the St. Louis City workhouse to inspire a change of heart.
Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He’s written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged to take his course.
Some are MIT students and alumni, while others have no connection at all — like Gus Whelan, a retiree on nearby Cape Cod, and Dustin Darcy, a 27-year-old video game programmer in Los Angeles who uses linear algebra regularly in his work.
“Rather than going through my old, dusty books,” Darcy said, “I thought I might as well go through it from the top and see if I learn something new.” Read more »
YAKIMA — The mother of a girl who claims her teacher molested her for more than a year told Action News her family wants to move on and forget about the allegations.
Wapato’s Adams Elementary substitute teacher Jesus Barcenas was arrested and charged with several counts of child rape last week.
Cops say he raped the fifth grader for more than year, including several times in the classroom, then continued the relationship when Barcenas began dating the girl’s mother and moved into their home. MORE>>>
The syndicate in London to which Rhodes contracted to sell De Beers’ entire production of diamonds in 1893 was made up of ten firms. These were Wernher, Beit & Company, Barnato Brothers, Mosenthal Sons & Company, A. Dunkelsbuhler, Joseph Brothers, I. Cohen & Company, Martin Lilienfeld & Company, F. F. Gervers, S. Neumann, and Feldheimer & Company. All these firms were interconnected by marriage and family ties, and all were owned by Jewish merchants. The fact that Jewish companies completely dominated the distribution of diamonds at the end of the nineteenth century was not particularly surprising. For a thousand years, diamonds had been almost entirely a Jewish business.
Until the early part of the eighteenth century, the entire world’s supply of diamonds came from India. The caravans that brought them across Arabia traded these rare stones to Jewish traders in Aden and Cairo for gold and silver. The traders then resold them to Jewish merchants in Venice, Lithuania, and Frankfurt. It was a natural enterprise for the Jews scattered throughout central Europe: Since they were moneylenders, they had to concern themselves with assessing, repairing, and selling gems that had been offered to them as collateral for loans. They also had close connections with the Jewish trading centers in the Ottoman Empire through which all the Indian diamonds passed.
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In the summer of 2002, the FBI, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and several other agencies began a massive search for a serial killer suspected of murdering three women. Based on an FBI profile and an eyewitness report, they upended southern Louisiana looking for a white man who drives a white pickup, collecting DNA from more than 1,000 Caucasian males. They found nothing. Meanwhile, the killer struck again.
In March 2003, investigators turned to Tony Frudakis, a molecular biologist who said he could determine the suspect’s race by analyzing his DNA. Uncertain about the science, the police asked Frudakis to take a blind test: They sent him DNA swabs from 20 people to see if he could identify their races. He nailed every one.
On a conference call a few weeks later, Frudakis reported his results on their killer. “Your guy could be African-American or Afro-Caribbean, but there is no chance that this is a Caucasian.” There was a prolonged silence, followed by a flurry of questions. They all came down to this: Would Frudakis bet his life on his results? Absolutely. Read more »
Upper Darby police today charged a 19-year-old man with addresses in Philadelphia and Upper Darby for the murder of a cab driver, found slain early on Christmas Eve.
Ramir Steve was arrested in Philadelphia yesterday afternoon and arraigned this morning in the shooting of Gregory Cunningham, 42, of Clifton Heights. He was held without bail, and his preliminary hearing was scheduled for next Friday.
Police believe the shooting was the result of a botched robbery attempt, and that Steve fled after the shooting, taking only the cab driver’s cell phone. The driver was found with $700 in his pocket. Read more »
A New York City police officer has been charged with raping a teen student at his martial arts school and led her to believe it was part of the program, police said Friday.Middletown police said Trent Young, 39, began having sex with the 15-year-old girl in 2005. The girl told police she’d been a student at Iron Tiger Martial Arts in West Milford, N.J. for a year when Young asked her to sign an oath of obedience.
She told police that Young made her take off her clothes as part of the oath, and then sexually abused her. She said he then told her to get dressed and that the encounter was part of a test. Read more »
As costs and taxes rise, our assets are disappearing.
WASHINGTON - The housing market plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years.
The slump worsened even more than most analysts expected, heightening fears that the country might be thrust into a recession.
New-home sales tumbled 9 percent in November from October to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 647,000, the Commerce Department reported Friday. That was the worst sales pace since April 1995. Read more »
CHICAGO - Family members arranged a meeting at an undisclosed location between investigators and a married woman from Illinois whose disappearance on Christmas Eve prompted a costly search.
Anu Solanki, 24, met with law enforcement officials at an undisclosed location Friday, said Cook County sheriff’s police spokesman Steve Mayberry.
“I don’t care why she left,” her brother, Dhiren Patel, told reporters. “Hey, she’s alive. That’s the most important thing.” Read more »
Thanks to Hispanics, another dangerous new drug is hitting very young people in the north Texas area. It’s called ‘cheese’ and it mixes heroine with over the counter drugs. It is reaching children in middle school and killing some after only one use.
Let’s look at who is being targeted in the Western world as terrorists. We can be arrested for words that we say that aren’t popular with the powers that be. We are targeted for things such as radio broadcasts, books or speeches. White historians are regularly arrested in Canada, Europe, and Australia for voicing their ideas. Certain books and even words are ‘illegal’ in these countries.
Doesn’t that show how oppressive our current governments are? Doesn’t that show that they are so afraid of the truth that they can’t handle free speech? We are taught that the Nazis were the most evil people because they took away freedom by burning books and arresting dissidents. Aren’t our governments arresting dissidents and outlawing speech?
These thoughts came from reading the following article which says that the ‘radical, violent, terrorist’ group Hamas is broadcasting religious services from an Israeli occupied area. Read more »
A woman who suffered a break-in robbery in which she lost some valuable antiques worth “thousands” has been told she could face a significant liability if she beefs up her home’s security, and a returning robber would be injured.
“If I have got to live behind locked doors for the rest of my life, I hope the rest of my life isn’t very long,” the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Rugby, England, Advertiser.
“But why would I want my house safe for these people? It’s crazy,” she said. Read more »
A chief rabbi of the Spinka ultra-Orthodox sect and his aide were indicted in California last week for using their synagogues to launder money.
Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz was arrested in Los Angeles along with his top aide, Moshe Zigelman, for what the U.S. Attorney’s Office describes as a “sophisticated tax fraud and money laundering scheme” spanning from Israel to Los Angeles via Brooklyn.
According to the 37-count indictment handed down December 19 by a grand jury, Weisz and Zigelman solicited donations to several Brooklyn-based charities connected to the Spinka ultra-Orthodox sect.
The donations were declared as tax deductible, but Weisz and his aide secretly promised to return between 80% and 95% of the money to the donors while keeping the difference as a fee, according to the charges. Read more »
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Health officials continued their 17-state search Sunday for passengers who may have been infected with a rare, potentially deadly form of tuberculosis by a woman on an American Airlines flight from New Delhi to Chicago.
Children are more likely to shield their faces than to smile when Daniel Santillan points his camera.Santillan’s photos aren’t for any picture album or yearbook—they help prove that Mexican youngsters are illegally attending public schools in this California border community.
German President Köhler has said expellee groups should be included in plans for a memorial in Berlin, opposed by Poland, to recall the sufferings of ethnic Germans forced out of Eastern Europe at the end of the war.
The forum seemed tailor-made for Ted Hayes, the Los Angeles activist for the homeless who has become one of the nation’s most visible African Americans raising a ruckus about illegal immigration.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In 1950, this cotton market town in northern Alabama lost a bid for a military aviation project that would have revived its mothballed arsenal. The consolation prize was dubious: 118 German rocket scientists who had surrendered to the Americans during World War II, led by a man — a crackpot, evidently — who claimed humans could visit the moon.
MUNICH (Hollywood Reporter) - For the first time in recent memory, Germans spent less time in front of their TVs in 2007 than they did the year before, according to a new survey.
We have all experienced the negative effects of outsourcing, whether it is difficulty finding a job or just the aggravation of not understanding the accent on the other end of the tech support phone call. However, outsourcing has hit a new low recently in a trend that is sure to have long lasting detrimental effects to our countries. Couples in the United States and the United Kingdom, among others, are paying women in India to be have their children for them. Currently, more than 50 women in Anand, India are pregnant with such babies in what the press calls “baby farms.” Experts say commercial surrogacy — or what has been called “wombs for rent” — is growing in India. “You can picture the wealthy couples of the West deciding that pregnancy is just not worth the trouble anymore and the whole industry will be farmed out,” said Dr. John Lantos of the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Mo. 
LONDON: Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group has said in a report.
LOS ANGELES - In a murderous quest aimed at “cleansing” their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County’s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
Two teenage girls confessed to their roles in the October slaying of a Lake Elsinore mother, then giggled and chatted about what happened as they sat together in a police interrogation room. After Anna Salinas, 15, and Dayana Cordova, then 16, explained how they planned the Oct. 18 shooting that killed Angelina Arias, 20, the teenagers were left in a room together at the sheriff’s station in Lake Elsinore, Detective Darren Wills testified.
He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won’t, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American consumer economy depends on him. America as we have known it for generations may not survive him.
Instead of being charged with a ‘hate crime’, they get ‘disorderly conduct’ for beating up a white woman and using racial slurs.
DELRAN, NJ — A husband and wife were assaulted during an armed invasion of their home on Suburban Boulevard, police said.
In Maine, a 75-year old man has blacks more scared than any skinhead gang. 
On May 11, 2007, at approximately midnight, deputies in Columbia, S.C. say an armored car pulled over at a gas station to refuel. The car that just happened to be carrying about $18 million. Once the guard refueling the truck finished at the pump, he got ready to hop back into the driver’s seat. Deputies say as he was re-entering the car he was struck in the face by someone with a handgun. Before he knew what was happening, the guard found himself struggling with two attackers, who overpowered him and threw him between the seats of the truck. Deputies say the attackers were Dominic La Shaun Lyde, 22, and Jeremy McPhail, 19. Then McPhail and Lyde allegedly forced the second guard, Darryl C. Frierson, 21, to drive.
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MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. - At age 9, Korey Davis came home from school with gang writing on his arm. At 10, he jacked his first car. At 13, he and some buddies got guns, used them to relieve a man of his Jeep, and later, while trying to outrun a police helicopter, smacked their hot wheels into a fire hydrant.
Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He’s written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been privileged to take his course.
YAKIMA — The mother of a girl who claims her teacher molested her for more than a year told Action News her family wants to move on and forget about the allegations.
The syndicate in London to which Rhodes contracted to sell De Beers’ entire production of diamonds in 1893 was made up of ten firms. These were Wernher, Beit & Company, Barnato Brothers, Mosenthal Sons & Company, A. Dunkelsbuhler, Joseph Brothers, I. Cohen & Company, Martin Lilienfeld & Company, F. F. Gervers, S. Neumann, and Feldheimer & Company. All these firms were interconnected by marriage and family ties, and all were owned by Jewish merchants. The fact that Jewish companies completely dominated the distribution of diamonds at the end of the nineteenth century was not particularly surprising. For a thousand years, diamonds had been almost entirely a Jewish business.
Here is something which we have already talked about since it was first discovered. Now the pages of mainstream WIRED magazine are bringing this information to the tech portion of the public. Enjoy and spread this info.
Upper Darby police today charged a 19-year-old man with addresses in Philadelphia and Upper Darby for the murder of a cab driver, found slain early on Christmas Eve.
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Thanks to Hispanics, another dangerous new drug is hitting very young people in the north Texas area. It’s called ‘cheese’ and it mixes heroine with over the counter drugs. It is reaching children in middle school and killing some after only one use.
A woman who suffered a break-in robbery in which she lost some valuable antiques worth “thousands” has been told she could face a significant liability if she beefs up her home’s 
A chief rabbi of the Spinka ultra-Orthodox sect and his aide were indicted in California last week for using their synagogues to launder money.
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