(CNN) — FBI wiretaps have “given us the most powerful and persuasive source of all for seeing how utterly selfless Martin Luther King was,” as a civil rights leader, according to a leading civil rights scholar.

“You see him being intensely self-critical. King really and truly believed that he was there to be of service to others. This was not a man with any egomaniacal joy of being a famous person, or being a leader,” said Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar David Garrow in a recent interview with CNN.

Hoping to prove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was under the influence of Communists, the FBI kept the civil rights leader under constant surveillance.

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PEARLAND, Texas — A man was arrested after he allegedly threatened to stab community activist Quanell X on Monday, KPRC Local 2 reported. Pearland police said Hunter Martin Ratliff started an argument with Quanell X as he worked out at the 24-Hour Fitness in the 10000 block of F.M. 518 at about 9:30 a.m.Ratliff made comments that made Quanell X feel threatened and pulled out an open pocketknife, investigators said. Read more »

MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.

“The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran,” the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.

He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran “that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost.” Read more »

A sex offender recently freed from prison was arrested in the death of a woman abducted while visiting a friend, police said Monday. The friend was shot and seriously wounded.

The body of Mary Ellen Welsh, 62, was found in a wooded area of Bristol, about 10 miles from New Britain, where she was abducted Sunday. She had apparently been shot, New Britain police said. Read more »

Two people are being detained after being taken into custody near the Picatinny Arsenal and authorities are investigating photos taken around the area of the base late Sunday afternoon. One witness, according to the Daily Record, reported seeing an official using what appeared to be a Geiger counter near the seen. This has not been confirmed by officials. 

We will continue to update this story as details become available.

Authorities closed a span of Route 15 South near the Rockaway Township-Wharton border around 4:30 p.m., where FBI agents, state, county and local police gathered around a tan Nissan Pathfinder with New Jersey license plates. Read more »

Boubakeur el Hakim traded his Paris neighborhood of boulangeries and halal butcher shops for the insurgent camps of Iraq. When he came home, he told his war stories to other young men on the forgotten edges of French society, allegedly persuading some to follow in his footsteps.

His younger brother did, and died fighting U.S. forces.

After years of investigation by French authorities, el Hakim, 24, went on trial this month in a case exposing how the Iraq war has sucked radical youths from Europe to a battlefield where they have learned skills that officials fear may one day be used in domestic terror attacks. Read more »

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP)—WTA head Larry Scott said Thursday that he strongly disagrees with comments made by Richard Williams, father of Serena and Venus, regarding racism on the women’s tour.

Saying he was disappointed by Williams’ recent remarks during an interview in India, Scott said in a statement: “The Tour has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racism, and I have previously let Mr. Williams know that he should let me know if he ever had evidence of racist comments or acts in women’s professional tennis.” Read more »

CENTER CITY - March 26, 2008 (WPVI) — In a chilling confession in the murder of 36-year-old Sean Patrick Conroy, 16-year-old Kinta Stanton allegedly tells police that he and his friends went out randomly looking for somebody to beat up just for kicks.

“I think that’s what makes this so horrific is the fact that anybody could have basically been the victim of this type of behavior,” said Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross.

The tenth grader at Simon Gratz High School told police he and 3 other students, who remain on the loose, skipped classes yesterday. He said they beat Conroy with their fists just before he collapsed on the subway floor in the 13th Street station of the Market-Frankford line. Read more »

I have said this a million times. Jews are not a completely monolithic block, they don’t have a hands on conspiracy where they can control all people, all media, all the time. What are they, simply the most united and organized people on earth, (not without some elements of dissent) relentlessly striving for their own agenda. What is the agenda, it is what I coined, Jewish supremacism. Whether religious or not, it is the belief that Jews are the chosen, chosen by God or simply chosen by themselves to be the earth’s elite. Even though groups like Habad Lubavitch are but a small element of Jewish organization, their vicious anti-Gentilism still is an underlying theme of all Jewish organizations.

Don’t mainstream Jews continuously complain that all Gentiles are in essence anti-Semites, that all Gentiles, even including Americans as well are Whites anywhere in the world are “responsible for the Holocaust? Every history book of the Jews is a long recantation of the crimes of Gentiles against them and the need for Jews to keep their own solidarity.

That’s why, whether we talk about Freud’s subversion of the European institution of marriage and family, or what Dr. Abrams refers to as the atavistic hatred of Gentiles that in no small part motivates Jewish pornographers in their defilement of our people, or the Hollywood promotion of Negroes as desired mating partners for our young men and women, it all comes from the same source, a deep-seated hatred of us. Read more »

Today I heard some talking head on CNN actually try to pass the lie that Israelis were warning president Bush against invading Iraq.  Since 1988, Zionists in both America and the Middle East have been pushing heavily for US war and involvement in the Middle East under the guise of ’spreading democracy’.  Helping to make this point evident is the special interest group, Project for a New American Century.  This group is very influential, very Jewish and very interested in warmongering.  A bit of studying at this website should shed some light on our latest problems in the Middle East.

I think this new idea about Israelis being against the Iraq war is being pushed so that Israel can ask for more money and claim to be a victim of the Iraq war.  The Zionists are claiming that a weaker Iraq has strengthened Iran and this hurts Israel.

We will see what happens and if any more of the public becomes aware of the doubletalking Zionists.

We get it. A lot of white people were offended by snippets of sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

But frankly, critics and those who are supporting a candidate other than Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination have gotten all of the mileage they can out of this debate.

The aftermath of this racially polarizing incident is predictable. Instead of rising to the challenge to move away from the racial rhetoric that Obama talked about in his historic speech, we the media will continue to fan its flames. Read more »

“Racism is not the problem.” Like its title, Dinesh D’Souza’s speech on racism provoked some audience members Tuesday night. D’Souza is a very personable man, which I discovered while eating dinner with him before he spoke in the CUE. A Dartmouth graduate, D’Souza is quite an influential conservative intellectual.

When it comes to racism, everyone in America is guilty at one point or another. In a nation with hundreds of cultural, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds, it is impossible for one person to always accept another. The Ku Klux Klan hates Jews and blacks. The Black Panthers discriminate against white people. While these are extremist groups, it doesn’t mean everyone hasn’t ever thought someone was stupid because of their racial or ethnic stereotype. It just happens in a nation like ours. Read more »

DALLAS — The controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. has “dared to unwrap the flag from around the cross” in his sermons — not because of a lack of patriotism, but out of concern, a Dallas preacher said Saturday at a panel discussion at the State of the Black Church Summit.

Wright, former pastor to presidential candidate Barack Obama, has been criticized by some as racist and by others as anti-American because of his provocative statements about U.S. policies.

But “we don’t love America uncritically; you don’t just tell the good things,” said the Rev. Frederick Haynes III to about 100 scholars, clergy and students gathered at Paul Quinn College. “He (Wright) has dared to unwrap the flag from around the cross, and when you do that, you give the cross the power to tell the flag which way to wave.” Read more »

Is sin dead? No, not by a long shot. Yet as Easter approaches, some pastors and theologians worry: How can Christians celebrate Jesus’ atonement for their sins and the promise of eternal life in his resurrection if they don’t recognize themselves as sinners?

Take it from Pope Benedict XVI. He says the modern world “is losing the notion of sin.” And not just personal sins such as greed, lust or the rest of the infamous Seven Deadlies, but social sins, too, such as polluting the planet or allowing injustice to flourish.

Take it from the Rev. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, who doesn’t give a jelly bean for the modern version of Easter.

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Two Philadelphia police officers from the department’s elite Narcotics Strike Force faced punishment this week for a racist poster found inside a locker, back in January.

Police confirm two officers, Scott Schweizer and Eric Dial, have been transferred out of the narcotics squad.

The disciplinary action followed a two-month internal investigation that began after two paper emblems were found inside Schweizer’s locker. One read: “White Only”.  The second showed a police officer on one side and a white hooded character on the other.  It said “Blue By Day, White By Night”.

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In a country where patriotism is looked down upon, a new film about a World War I pilot — one of most expensive movies ever made in Germany — takes a new twist: It paints the Red Baron as a national hero.

According to historical accounts, Manfred von Richthofen — dubbed the Red Baron due to the color of his aircraft — shot down 80 Allied planes as a fighter pilot during World War I and became not only the most successful German pilot but also an icon of his era.

Ninety-years after his death, an 18-million-euro ($28-million) film which opens in Germany on April 10, recounts the war adventures of the Prussian nobleman whose life ended at the age of 25. The English-language German production is based on a biography of von Richthofen by historian Joachim Castan, which came out last fall.

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Flagging economic growth in the US and the strong euro have dented German exports to the US, Germany’s biggest export partner outside Europe, the Federal Statistics Office reported this week.

German exports to the United States last year dipped by 5.9 percent to 73.4 billion euros ($115 billion), the country’s federal statistics office revealed this week.

The fall has been attributed to a sagging US economy, which experts say is facing a sharp slowdown, and a soaring euro.

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Rebel fighters attacked villages in the Central African Republic, raping women and taking 150 hostages, including 55 children, UN officials here and in Bangui said Friday.

A UN investigation into attacks on four CAR villages between February 9 and March 10 found that men and women were tied at the hips with rope and forced to march from their homes carrying stolen food and supplies.

All 55 of the kidnapped children, many of them younger than 15, are still missing, although close to 40 adults have been released, the officials said. Read more »

HOUSTON - Mayra Figueroa — a naturalized U.S. citizen, community organizer and licensed driver — had no reason to fear being arrested, no need to worry about deported.

Then she was pulled over by a Houston police officer, who told her he found it suspicious that a Latina was driving a late-model car. The first thing the officer requested? Figueroa’s Social Security card, as proof of citizenship.

Until now, few local police and sheriff’s departments wanted any part of enforcing federal civil immigration laws. They had their hands full with local crime — and needed witnesses and victims to work with them without fear. Read more »

TEL AVIV - A prominent Israeli rabbi has called on the state to exact “terrible revenge” against Palestinians for the recent killing of eight teenagers at a religious school in occupied Jerusalem, drawing heavy criticism.

In an article on the front page of a Jewish nationalist pamphlet, Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of the northern city of Safed, blasted the state for failing to avenge the March 6 attack.

“Two weeks have passed since the attack in Merkaz Harav Yeshiva and we have yet to hear of an Israeli retribution. Something has gone wrong with the decision makers. This used to be one of Israel’s basic policies,” he wrote in the latest issue of the weekly publication. Read more »

ATLANTIC CITY - Atlantic City is paying nearly $200,000 to a former fire captain it fired for allegedly making racist threats against a multiracial coworker.Former firefighter Ricky Williams sued the city in 2005 after claiming that Capt. Edmund Mawhinney draped a pillowcase over his own head and threatened to burn down Williams’ house in 2003.

Mawhinney sued, charging wrongful termination. In a December settlement, he agreed to accept $199,148.44 in back pay in return for immediately retiring from the fire department. He denies making the threats or wearing a hood.

This month, the City Council refused to pay the settlement. The city’s legal staff then warned that the city could lose a lot more if the case went to trial.  SOURCE>>>

A 16-year-old boy has admitted to the murders of 12 people in southern Brazil, according to a police investigator who described a chillingly calm confession.

The teenager, whose identity was not revealed because he is a minor, allegedly told police he killed his victims over the past three months in a fit or rage or out of revenge, and police inspector Enizaldo Jose Plentz said Friday he believes the boy killed some of his victims for enjoyment.

He said police have enough evidence to prove the teenager, an unemployed high school dropout, shot dead at least six of the 12 people he says he killed. Read more »

PENITAS, Texas — A pickup truck crammed with as many as 25 people crashed into an SUV near the Texas-Mexico border Thursday, killing three and injuring nine others in what authorities believe was an illegal immigrant smuggling attempt. The wreck occurred before dawn on U.S. Highway 83, the main east-west artery along the border in the Rio Grande Valley, about 15 miles west of McAllen.”There were bodies all over the place,” said Penitas interim Police Chief David Harris. Nine people, believed to be illegal immigrants were taken to hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately available. Read more »

Programs in New York and Arizona aimed at cutting the prison sentences of certain immigrant inmates so they can be deported faster have federal officials urging other states to adopt similar policies.

Officials in the two states say they have saved millions by turning over for early deportation some non-violent immigrant criminals who have served at least half of their sentences.

Eligible inmates include both legal immigrants who committed certain crimes and illegal immigrants.

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March 26, 2008 — A Brooklyn teen accused of swiping a skullcap from the head of a visiting rabbi was arraigned on grand larceny charges yesterday, officials said.

Hussein Ali, the 19-year-old alleged yarmulke yanker, was released on $5,000 bail following his arraignment in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday on charges of grand larceny as a hate crime and aggravated harassment. Read more »

A St. Charles high school student who scrawled a racial slur on the locker of his former girlfriend after their breakup has been charged with a hate crime, police said Monday.

The ex-boyfriend is white and his former girlfriend is African-American. The 14-year-olds are freshmen at St. Charles East High School.

“He was bitter about their breakup, and he wrote some disparaging comments about her race on her locker,” St. Charles Detective Sgt. Steve Huffman said. The incident reportedly took place March 17.

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Even a Chinese website allows free discussion on this topic.

The leader of Germany’s No. 1 far-right party on Tuesday was accused of publishing pamphlets before the 2006 World Cup the questioned whether nonwhite players should be on the nation’s soccer team.

Prosecutor Simone Herbeth said in a statement that Udo Voigt, head of the National Democratic Party, or NPD, was charged with incitement and defamation because of the pamphlets. NPD spokesman Klaus Beier and Frank Schwerdt, a leading member, also were charged, Herbeth said.

The pamphlets pictured black defender Patrick Owomoyela’s number 25 on a traditional white German jersey. They read: “White, not just a jersey color! For a real NATIONAL team!”

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Laying the groundwork for a bold presidential bid, the young Democratic senator set up a meeting with a key leader of the Jewish community. He had won substantial Jewish support in his home state, but as a first termer, he was not yet well known nationally. Sitting down with a prominent Chicago developer, the senator averred that he hoped to make progress on the Palestinian refugee situation.

The rebuke to John F. Kennedy came instantly. Philip Klutznick told him, “If you are going to run for the presidency, and that is what you are going to say, count me out and count a lot of other people out too.” Kennedy counted Klutznick in, shortly thereafter giving a speech lavishly praising Israel and dropping the refugee question for the duration of his campaign.

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Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. That may have been true for his 19th-century force. But the modern American military runs on jet fuel—and lots of it.

Today the average American G.I. in Iraq uses about 20.5 gallons of fuel every day, more than double the daily volume consumed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2004. Thus, in order to secure the third-richest country on the planet, the U.S. military is burning enormous quantities of petroleum. And nearly every drop of that fuel is imported into Iraq. These massive fuel requirements—just over 3 million gallons per day for Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Energy Support Center—are a key reason for the soaring cost of the war effort.

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A judge known for creative sentencing has ordered three Spanish-speaking men to learn English or go to jail.

The men, who faced prison for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery, can remain on parole if they learn to read and write English, earn their GEDs and get full-time jobs, Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. said.

The men, Luis Reyes, Ricardo Dominguez and Rafael Guzman-Mateo, plus a fourth defendant, Kelvin Reyes-Rosario, all needed translators when they pleaded guilty Tuesday. Read more »

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) – The Mexican government has ordered 2,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to a wave of drug-related violence that is blamed for 200 deaths since January, officials announced Thursday.

The troops are expected to depart Friday. The majority will be near the northern border of Mexico, in Juarez.

Juarez sits across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.

Officials said the violence in Mexico has increased in large part to competing drug cartels.

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President Robert Mugabe accused the West of driving Zimbabwe towards misery as a result of sanctions as the contest to rule the ailing former British colony entered the final stretch.

In his most outspoken attack to date on the former colonial power and the United States, Mugabe said they were responsible for the chronic problems which are now afflicting the health service in a country where even bandages and painkillers are scarce and where from where most doctors have emigrated.

As one of his two challengers said the country needed a period of healing and reconciliation, Mugabe insisted it “will never die”. Read more »

Six women?

What? No cry for serial-killer status from the MSM?

A judge on Thursday convicted a Kansas City man of killing six women whose bodies were found in an area of Kansas City frequented by drug dealers and prostitutes.

Jackson County Circuit Judge John R. O’Malley found Terry Blair, 46, guilty of six counts of first-degree murder in the 2004 deaths of Sheliah McKinzie, 38; Anna Ewing, 42; Patricia Wilson Butler, 45; Darci I. Williams, 25; Carmen Hunt, 40; and Claudette Juniel, 31. Read more »

A federal appeals court on Thursday said former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal cannot be executed for murdering a Philadelphia police officer without a new penalty hearing.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Abu-Jamal’s conviction, but said he should get a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions. If prosecutors don’t want to give him a new death penalty hearing, Abu-Jamal would be sentenced automatically to life in prison.

Prosecutors are weighing their options, Assistant District Attorney Hugh Burns Jr. said Thursday. Read more »

Raleigh, N.C. — North Carolina Department of Correction officials are expanding their probe into probation offices in Wake and Durham counties, saying they are bothered by what they are finding.

Officials launched an internal investigation earlier this month based on the cases of two men charged in the March 5 death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson.

“I think it’s fair to say that we’re disturbed,” DOC spokesman Keith Acree said Wednesday, declining to elaborate further. “The director (of the Division of Community Corrections) has said he’s greatly disturbed by what he’s seen so far.” Read more »

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