ORLANDO, Fla. — A Central Florida man successfully infiltrated a white supremacist group and fed domestic terrorism information to the FBI, a Local 6 investigation has learned.

In February 2006, Neo-Nazis marched on Orlando, fueling racial tensions and costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra police costs.

Unknown to the Neo-Nazi group was that the manager of their event, David Gletty, was being paid by the FBI to gather intelligence. Read more »

Historically the Walpurgisnacht is derived from Pagan spring customs. In the Norse tradition, Walpurgisnacht is considered the “Enclosure of the Fallen”.  It commemorates the time when Odin died to retrieve the knowledge of the runes, and the night is said to be a time of weakness in the boundary between the living and the dead. Bonfires were built to keep away the dead and chaotic spirits that were said to walk among the living then.   This is followed by the return of light and the sun as celebrated during May Day. Due to Walpurga’s holy day falling on the same day, her name became associated with the celebrations. Early Christianity had a policy of ‘Christianising’ pagan festivals so it is no accident that St. Walpurga’s day was set to May 1st. Walpurga was honored in the same way that Vikings had celebrated spring and as they spread throughout Europe, the two dates became mixed together and created the Walpurgis Night celebration.   MORE>>>

For Heinz Heister, presiding judge of the court where wanted concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim has been indicted, it’s a familiar refrain: What’s the point?

“There’s often people who say: ‘He’s in his 90’s, why do you bother?’” Heister told The Associated Press in a recent interview at his Baden-Baden state court office. “But his age has got nothing to do with it. It is our duty to pursue this to the best of our abilities.”

The question cited by the judge is part of what Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff calls “misplaced sympathy syndrome” — a reluctance to go after war crimes suspects just because they’re old. Read more »

For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia’s throne.

Some said the delicate 13-year-old had somehow survived and escaped; others believed his bones were lost in Russia’s vastness, buried in secret amid fear and chaos as the country lurched into civil war.

Now an official says DNA tests have solved the mystery by identifying bone shards found in a forest as those of Alexei and his sister, Grand Duchess Maria. Read more »

A series of often explicit text messages from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff appear to show she had a long-term romantic relationship with the mayor and that he played a role in the firing of a police officer who sued the city.

The embarrassing messages between Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty from 2002 and 2003 appear in an 18-page document released Tuesday on the orders of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Colombo Jr. in response to a lawsuit by the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.

The document was obtained from the computer of Michael Stefani, an attorney who represented three police officers in whistle-blowers’ lawsuits against the city that were settled last year for $8.4 million. The text messages were taken from Beatty’s city-issued pagers. Read more »

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Final exams have been canceled and students are being told to stay in their dorms as authorities search Florida Atlantic University for a man who fired a gun at a party on campus.

Police say shots were fired shortly after 1 a.m. after an altercation at a party in the student apartments on the Boca Raton campus. One person was slightly injured but not seriously. Read more »

ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world’s gay women. Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name. One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, “insults the identity” of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians. “My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian,” said Dimitris Lambrou. “Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos,” he said. Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. “But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years,” said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church. More>>>

(FROM PEOPLE) - CSI star Gary Dourdan was arrested early Monday (April 28) for alleged drug possession. The Palm Springs Police Department says officers approached Dourdan, apparently sleeping, in a car parked the wrong way on the street at around 5 a.m. Monday. They found the actor in possession of suspected cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and prescription pills. He was released after five hours of custody. It was recently announced that Dourdan, who plays investigator Warrick Brown on CSI, is leaving the eight-year-old drama, probably in the next few weeks.   SOURCE>>>

The former local leader a nationwide veterans’ group has been banned from the organization for life after a hearing found that he had been involved in racist activities.

William Clifford “Cooter” Peek, 64, was removed from his role as commander of the AMVETS DeLand Post in March after allegations that he distributed T-shirts bearing the N-word and images of a lynching taking place. A grievance hearing by the Florida chapter of AMVETS on Saturday in Tampa found him guilty of the charge, and he was stripped of his membership and banned from the organization and its properties for life, according to AMVETS National Commander John Brown, III. Read more »

ROME (AFP) - Rome city hall shifted to the right for the first time in 15 years on Monday as former neo-fascist Gianni Alemanno triumphed in a bruising showdown with left-wing rival Francesco Rutelli.

“This long battle has ended with our victory,” Alemanno said after winning by 54 percent to Rutelli’s 46 percent, according to the interior ministry. Read more »

NEW YORK — Dozens of cats were lined up in cages at a Petco in Old Bridge, N.J., on a recent Saturday afternoon, much as they are most weekends at adoption events and shelters across the country. Percy tumbled playfully, while Parker snoozed in his litter pan, curled up with his cage mate, Alexandra. Chester gamboled about nearby.

Alexandra, a calico, and Chester, a brown tabby, received adoption applications, but Percy and Parker weren’t so lucky. They’re at a significant disadvantage in the adoption market, because they’re black.

“Black cats don’t get adopted nearly as frequently as other colors,” said Kathleen Fram, the co-chair of adoptions for the Summit Animal Rescue Association, or S.A.R.A., a nonprofit rescue group. “People just pass them by.” Read more »

A young women was attacked, brutally beaten, raped, sodomized, robbed, left bound and gagged, bleeding to death, naked and unconscious in Central Park, Manhattan by a group of blacks and Latinos out on a night of, what was then casually referred to as “wilding.” The victim was not expected to survive. She did, but was permanently damaged. When the trial began, the victim needed protection, in part because of the media circus, that was obvious, but what was not, was that the “jogger” and the prosecution had been threatened with violence, even death. Whenever the prosecutor (Elizabeth Lederer) crossed the street from her office to the courtroom she had to run a gauntlet of protesters who insisted it was a racist trial, the white establishment against blacks; they threatened her life constantly, yelling threats and obscenities and spitting at her. The year was 1989.

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CENTRAL PARK JOGGER: THE HEALING CONTINUES — (April 19, 2008) — (WCCO) Nineteen years ago this week the story of a New York woman broke the hearts of Americans and outraged a nation that was fed up with senseless violent crime. The Central Park jogger’s real name was Trisha Meili. She was savagely raped. Suffering numerous injuries, including severe brain injury, Meili was in a coma for nearly two weeks. “I (still) have some physical deficits like no sense of smell and some double vision,” Meili said. MORE>>>

PHOENIX — Arizona schools whose courses “denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization” could lose state funding under the terms of legislation approved Wednesday by a House panel.

SB 1108 also would bar teaching practices that “overtly encourage dissent” from those values, including democracy, capitalism, pluralism and religious toleration. Schools would have to surrender teaching materials to the state school superintendent for review, who could withhold state aid of districts that broke the law. Another section of the bill would bar public schools, community college and universities from allowing organizations to operate on campus if it is “based in whole or in part on race-based criteria,” a provision Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, said is aimed at MEChA, the Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, a student group he described as racist. Read more »

White racial activists who advocate non-violent activism are labeled ‘domestic terrorists’ by the FBI, while Al Sharpton can advocate terrorism and violence and still operate freely. 

Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict - infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to “grandstand in front of white people,” sources told The Post.During what a source described as a “heated” phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was disappointed with the Illinois senator’s words on Friday, when Obama said “resorting to violence to express displeasure” was “completely unacceptable and counterproductive.”

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 The race industry and its elite enablers take it as self-evident that high black incarceration rates result from discrimination.At a presidential primary debate this Martin Luther King Day, for instance, Sen. Barack Obama charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, (and) receive very different sentences . . . for the same crime.”

Not to be outdone, Sen. Hillary Clinton promptly denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African-Americans proportionately than whites.”

If a listener didn’t know anything about crime, such charges of disparate treatment might seem plausible.

After all, in 2006, blacks were 37.5% of all state and federal prisoners, though they’re under 13% of the national population. About one in 33 black men was in prison in 2006, compared with one in 205 white men and one in 79 Hispanic men. Eleven percent of all black males between the ages of 20 and 34 are in prison or jail. Read more »

A university has withdrawn a researcher’s fellowship after he published an article claiming that the gas chambers of Auschwitz never existed.

Nicholas Kollerstrom, an academic specialising in astronomy, posted the article, The Auschwitz “Gas Chamber” Illusion, on the website of the revisionist Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.

He claimed that only one million Jews died in the war and that “the only intentional mass extermination program[me] in the concentration camps of WW2 was targeted at Germans”. Read more »

The bridge where state officials told a high-risk sex offender to sleep after his release from prison earlier this month is less than five miles from the home of the woman he raped.

Some of her children go to an elementary school blocks from the bridge. Another goes to the high school about a mile away.

“I’m scared to be at my house now. I’m scared to go around town. I’m scared to run into him. I’m scared for my kids at school,” said Sabrina, 29. She asked that her last name not be used. “I don’t think he has anything to lose now, so who knows what he’ll do.”

Police still are looking for David J. Torrence, 43, a level-3 sex offender released from prison on April 20. He was told by state parole officers to sleep below a bridge along 88th Street SW under U.S. 2 near Snohomish. Read more »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Police confiscated maps of the federal courthouse from members of a street gang.

Police said it was a sign that members of MS-13 might consider an ambush to spring fellow gang members from custody.

“MS-13 swept into Nashville like a pack of jackals and they left a group of bloody victims in their wake,” said Jim Cavanaugh, special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, in an interview last year. Read more »

This writer says he is not an extremist, yet he agrees with LaRaza’s statements on the US and immigration.  LaRaza has been linked to MEChA and violent terrorist activities in the US by Mexican supremacists.

In a recent commentary, I wrote that, as a Mexican-American, the ugliness of the immigration debate offends me — not as a Mexican, but as an American.

A woman wrote in and asked me to be more specific: Just what was it about the immigration debate that was so ugly?

She came to the right place. After nearly 20 years of writing opinions and insisting that I don’t speak for all Hispanics, in recent months, I’ve heard from hundreds of Hispanics who — appreciative of my middle-ground approach to the immigration issue — insist that I can speak for them anytime. So, with the authority vested in me, I’ll now share some of what other Hispanics are saying.

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CLEVELAND—A former autoworker accused of being a Nazi death camp guard has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an order by the nation’s chief immigration judge that he be deported, a newspaper reported Friday.

Prosecutors initially claimed he was the notoriously sadistic guard at the Treblinka camp known as “Ivan the Terrible.” Officials later concluded he was not, but a judge ruled in 2002 that documents from World War II prove Demjanjuk was a Nazi guard at various death or forced labor camps. Read more »

HOUSTON — Houston police asked for help on Monday locating a 22-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old pregnant girl, officials told KPRC Local 2.Hector Perez-Garcia has been charged with sexual assault of a juvenile.He is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, 135 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He drives a black Mitsubishi Eclipse and was last seen near the 2200 block of Wirt Road.

Anyone with information on Perez-Garcia’s whereabouts is asked to call Houston police at 713-986-3346 or 713-731-5353. SOURCE>>>

Seven Palestinians have been killed in a raid by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip, including four children and an elderly man.

The children’s mother was taken to hospital but died later.

The health ministry said shells were fired at a house in the town of Beit Hanoun where the family were eating breakfast.

The Israeli army denied attacking the house, saying instead that an air raid targeted armed men near the house.

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OPEC President Chakib Khelil does not rule out oil prices reaching $200 a barrel, even though supply is adequate, because the market is driven by the dollar’s slide, Algerian government newspaper El Moudjahid reported on Monday.

“Questioned about a possible rise which would go to $200, the minister did not rule out this eventuality, explaining that this rise is indexed from now on to the fall in the dollar or to the rise in the dollar,” El Moudjahid reported.

“In terms of fundamentals, stocks are high, demand is easing, supply is satisfactory. Therefore normally, without geo-political problems and the fall of the dollar, the prices of oil would not be at this level,” he was quoted as saying.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A ban in Germany on Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf should be lifted so the book can be published with editorial comments, a Jewish leader said on Friday.

“I’m basically in favour of the book being made publicly accessible with annotation,” Stephan Kramer, general secretary of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, told German radio.

Speaking on broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, Kramer said he believed such an edition should be made available online, where the book can already be read in most countries.    Read more »

Los Angeles (myfoxla.com)  –  The psychoactive herb Salvia divinorum is so potent that it causes hallucinations, and it’s still legal… for now. Salvia has been used in spiritual rituals for ages, but it’s being used as a recreational hallucinogen more and more, and that’s got the government’s attention. FOX 11’s Gina Silva reports on the alleged dangers of Salvia divinorum in this video report.   VIDEO & MORE>>>

Teen idol Miley Cyrus, the fresh-faced star of Disney’s “Hannah Montana” television franchise, has apologized for two sets of photos in which she flashes her bra, lies across a boy’s lap, and appears semi-nude.

The 15-year-old churchgoing daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus said in a statement on Sunday that she was embarrassed about some photos released on the Internet and others to be published in Vanity Fair magazine.

The first series of photos, which circulated on the Internet last week, showed Cyrus draped over the lap of her then-boyfriend, her producer’s son, while another showed her revealing part of her green bra. Read more »

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church.

Barack Obama’s longtime pastor says he hopes the controversy will have a positive outcome and spark an honest dialogue about race in America. Wright says black church traditions are still “invisible” to many Americans, as they have been throughout the country’s history. Read more »

Wotan’s moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner’s “Siegfried” premiered 132 years ago — but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.

For just a second the chief god stoops, picks up a handful of earth and sniffs at it, in a powerfully telling gesture of what is about to come: an end his rule and with it, oblivion. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Curtains for one era and the start of a new one.

Director Sven-Erich Bechtolf and his co-creators sprinkle similar deft touches throughout this new production of the second-to-last work in Wagner’s four-part Ring Cycle. Read more »

A three-day conference of Mexican immigrant leaders in Dallas illustrated both the depth of Mexican migration to the U.S. and the counterpunch of a crackdown against illegal immigrants. And unlike immigration conferences larded with statistics on demographics, or loaded with how-to sessions by attorneys on clever legal maneuvers, this one brought home the human narrative of immigrants reviled and revered.

“I am only focused on migration,” said Maria Dolores González, who two years ago was a Dallas homeowner and a border customs broker and now is a federal congresswoman in Mexico. Read more »

HOUSTON (AP) - An illegal immigrant accused of killing a Houston police officer may still face the death penalty after prosecutors rejected his offer to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence without parole.

The capital murder trial of Juan Leonardo Quintero-Perez is set to start Monday in Houston.

Quintero-Perez shot Officer Rodney Johnson after a traffic stop in 2006 with a gun he had hidden in his waistband. Read more »

An Israeli court sentenced an ultra-Orthodox MP and former minister to 18 months in jail on Sunday on corruption and fraud charges which automatically suspend him from parliament.

MP Shlomo Benizri of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party was earlier this month found guilty of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes while serving in several senior government posts, including as health minister, between 1996 and 2001.

The Jerusalem court sentenced Benizri, who is also a rabbi, to 18 months in prison and an 80,000 shekel (23,000 dollar) fine after state prosecutors demanded a much stiffer sentence. Read more »

I was listening to a local talk show last week and there was a man on by the name of John Rosenthal from an organization called Stop Hand Gun Violence, and I don’t remember the exact figure, but he mentioned the fact that at least 85% of the people killed by handguns are African American.  Absolutely stunning.  So if you are black, watch your back.  He talked about the gun industry, particular guns, how guns are marketed, and the government’s sort of chummy relationship with the gun industry.  

 Check out these guns from The Bloomberg Collection.  They almost look like fashion accessories, ones you’d pick out to match your outfit or you can have a different color for the day of the week.  How fashionable.  If you are going to kill, why not do it in style?  Just what our impressionable young people need–matching guns and outfits. Read more »

The Sun-Times got it backward in more ways than one this week. We got it right when we decided to launch a “Stop the Killing” campaign, featuring our cover in reverse type with a photo of people’s backs. To me, this ingeniously highlighted the paradigm shift that must occur to stop the scourge of child murders afflicting our city.

The graphically striking cover was one of the most extraordinary the paper has produced, and it was effective. The campaign got national media attention, and people are talking about meaningful solutions. Mayor Daley, in addition to commissioning a University of Chicago study of people who are affected by and commit violence, is holding a City Hall summit today with police, school and community leaders to hammer out solutions to our city’s gun violence.

But . . . a flutter in my belly told me the photo might be a problem. If you recall, the cover picture featured the backs of six white people walking down the street. I thought it might be misinterpreted by some readers. Read more »

Morrissey has donated £28,000 to an anti-racism music festival in the wake of the storm over his alleged comments on immigration in an NME article.

The former Smiths frontman, 48, said he decided to help fund tomorrow’s event after a sponsor pulled out of supporting the campaign.

Love Music Hate Racism, a free event, takes place in Victoria Park, east London.

It features bands including The Good The Bad And The Queen, Hard-Fi, The View and Jay Sean.   [No wonder they can’t get a sponsor for these third-rate acts] Read more »

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