Town in Tuscany bans ethnic food

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Economy, Opinion, Shera Crossan

The small town of Lucca, in Tuscany not all that far from Florence, has one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful piazzas in Italy, and a preserved medieval center that some stands apart in a country with no shortage of preserved medieval centers.
Is this gastronomic discrimination? Some local officials and restaurant owners think so. They say [...]

$314 BILLION IN PAYOFFS TO DEMOCRAT CONSTITUENCIES

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Economy, Feedback, Immigration, Opinion, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

$314 BILLION IN PAYOFFS TO DEMOCRAT CONSTITUENCIES
• $83 billion in welfare payments (the earned income credit for people who don’t pay income tax)
• $81 billion for Medicaid
• $66 billion on “education”, more than the entire Department of Education required just ten years ago
• $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
• $20 billion for food stamps
• $8 [...]

With mop in hand courageous White woman whacks two black shoplifters

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Audio-Video

South Carolina —- Talk about cleaning up crime. A convenience store employee used a mop to take down two shoplifters, and the wild incident was caught on surveillance camera.
Teresa Fowler works at Spinx on W.O. Ezell Boulevard in Spartanburg. Early Wednesday morning, she was mopping the floor when two men walked into the store. Video [...]

Young man with extroadinary computer skills apparently threatens the ‘president’

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Nathaniel Bacon, Science and Technology, Top Stories

DENVER — A Colorado man has been indicted on charges of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and blow up the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis. The man said the threat against Obama was a prank. Timothy Ryan Gutierrez, 20, surrendered Thursday at the FBI’s office in Durango and was being held without bond, [...]

Secretary Clinton cracks the whip for Israel

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Israel & Jewish Issues, Politics, Top Stories

New Secretary of State Clinton cracked the diplomatic whip for the first time Friday after a dust-up between Turkey and Israel over Gaza.
Clinton’s special Mideast envoy, veteran mediator George Mitchell, abruptly cancelled a visit to Turkey. Mitchell, on an eight-day listening of the region, had been slated to visit Ankara today.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood insisted [...]

Obama’s finances an intrusive bureaucratic quagmire

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Business & Finance, Economy, Nathaniel Bacon, Top Stories

Even as President Barack Obama issued new rules to make government more open and transparent, his administration is relying on an antiquated and opaque system.
Anyone seeking copies of the financial disclosure reports recently filed by members of his Cabinet and his top aides has to navigate an arcane and intrusive bureaucracy reliant on faxes, dense [...]

Detroit broadcast angers Muslims

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Immigration, Religion

SOUTHFIELD — Muslims and interfaith leaders in Metro Detroit are asking a local radio station owner to discontinue broadcasts in which they say, a Coptic priest has repeatedly defamed the Prophet Muhammad over the last year.
In an Arabic-language broadcast Wednesday on WNZK 680/690 AM, the Rev. Zakariah Boutros said the Muslim prophet Muhammad had engaged [...]

Obama’s Muslim apology distorts the facts

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Immigration, Israel & Jewish Issues, Nathaniel Bacon, Opinion, Religion, Top Stories

Is it “new” to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn’t just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting on the need to “restore” the “same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”
Astonishing. [...]

Rape victim leads police to suspect

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Immigration, Top Stories

A man accused of raping and terrorizing a North Lauderdale women while threatening to kill her 4-year-old son is being held in jail without bond after he was linked to the attack through DNA, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
Milton Allen, 29, broke into a North Lauderdale apartment during the early morning hours of Jan 16 [...]

Obama stocks White House with high paying lawyers

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Nathaniel Bacon, Politics, Top Stories

Washington lawyer Norman L. Eisen made his name in politics as a regular Democratic contributor and co-founder of Citizens Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, a liberal-leaning watchdog group that, among other things, sued then President George W. Bush over missing White House e-mails. Now, Eisen is part of the White House, named by President Obama [...]

Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was a speaker at The Council of Conservative Citizens

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Immigration, Shera Crossan

Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was a featured speaker for a nationalist white hate group that condemns blacks, immigration and is in favor of preserving the country’s “cultural and racial integrity.”
Hall spoke about his department’s controversial 287(g) federal immigration program at a Nov. 22 dinner of the Council of Conservative Citizens held at the Piccadilly [...]

30,000 New Soldiers Likely for Afghanistan

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, John Fife, Shera Crossan, War Coverage

Admiral Michael Mullen, the most senior American military officer, said the U.S. will probably deploy close to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to shore up deteriorating security there.
In an interview, Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, also said he is hopeful that other NATO nations will contribute additional military and civilian resources this year [...]

State department officer claims Constitution bars appointee from serving

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Politics, Shera Crossan

A State Department employee has filed a lawsuit today in federal court against newly sworn-in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claiming she is constitutionally ineligible to serve.
“This is not a partisan, political or personal issue,” Rodearmel said in a statement. “I have faithfully served under six prior Secretaries of State of both parties, and under [...]

Football Players Wife Arrested on Two Alleged Counts of ‘Lynching’

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Shera Crossan

The 27-year-old wife of a New England Patriots defensive lineman was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of second degree lynching in connection to an assault at a New Year’s Eve party in Richland County.
According to the police report, the victims were jumped by a group of people at a party sometime after 12:30 [...]

Every American citizen got tapped by wiretapping program?

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Nathaniel Bacon, Science and Technology, Top Stories

As shadows of the Bush Administration’s questionable policies still linger in Washington, perhaps the most ominous one revolves around wiretapping. Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice recently revealed in an MSNBC interview that the Agency “tracked millions of e-mails and phone calls of everyday American citizens,” with the help of various telecommunications companies.
“The NSA [...]

PJB: Globalism vs. Ethnonationalism

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by John Fife in Patrick Buchanan

By Patrick J. Buchanan
Standing before the Siegessaule, the Victory Column that commemorates Prussia’s triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France in the wars that birthed the Second Reich, Barack Obama declared himself a “citizen of the world” and spoke of “a world that stands as one.”
Globalists rejoiced. And the election of this son of a white [...]

Obama’s not so top secret Blackberry

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Nathaniel Bacon, Science and Technology, Top Stories

Mr Obama was spotted tapping away outside the Oval office before holstering the gadget to his belt, as photographers snapped away.
According to The Atlantic Magazine, the president will be using a standard Blackberry but one equipped with a “super-encryption package” developed by an intelligence agency, probably the National Security Agency.
Other reports suggested that the President [...]

Judge: Anti-gay marriage donors must be public

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Shera Crossan

This clearly is a victory for the people of California and disclosure. The commission will continue to vigorously defend any suit brought
A federal judge today denied a request to keep the names of donors to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative secret, saying the public has a right to know who’s giving money to state ballot [...]

Man arrested in hate crime For Saying Speak English

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Free Speech, Shera Crossan

28-year-old San Jose man arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime Monday . . . .
. . . .could face up to six months in county jail, a fine or both, district attorney’s office spokeswoman Amy Cornell said.
The 53-year-old victim, who is Hispanic, was talking on his cell phone in Spanish in [...]

Get Criminal Aliens Off Streets

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Immigration, Politics, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

“That sounds very simple, but it’s historically not been done,” Napolitano said, speaking to reporters and senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday.
If you’re a criminal and you’re not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out of the country. Napolitano wants what she calls “criminal aliens” off [...]

Obamas’ Bill Hands ACORN $5.2 Billion Bailout

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Politics, Shera Crossan

A rising chorus of GOP leaders are protesting that the blockbuster Democratic stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal investigation for massive voter fraud.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., could appear to be a �payoff� for community groups� partisan political activities in the last election cycle.
�It [...]

REV. R. E. WILLOUGHBYS’ Beware Hate-Crime Backlash

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Editorials, Feedback, Free Speech, Shera Crossan

As an involved member of the Southern Poverty Law Center, I have a growing concern, following the election of Barack Obama to our highest office in our land, that we might begin to see the increase in racially motivated hate crime along with the stirring of such groups as the neo-Nazis and Aryanism proclaiming their [...]

Diversity!! Can You Afford It!!

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Editorials, Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Free Speech, John Fife, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

I want to say something prior to posting this about an article I submitted last night titled Social Justice: Code Word for Anti-Americanism.
I was in no way trying to Promote Multicultrism or anything Anti-White.
As a244 stated I was trying to prove and show what we are up against and their take on things.  [...]

Scientist Threatened Over Revealing LIES, LIES, LIES

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Hidden Crimes, Israel & Jewish Issues, John Fife, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Francisco Lacerda, a professor of phonetics at Stockholm University, is one of two scientists threatened with legal action after the publication of a scientific article condemning the use of lie detectors.
The Israeli company Nemesysco, which manufactures detectors, has written in a letter to the researchers’ publishers that the researchers may be sued for libel [...]

3 More Nazi Bunkers Found

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Top Stories

NAZI BUNKERS

Three Nazi bunkers on a beach have been uncovered by violent storms off the Danish coast, providing a store of material for history buffs and military archaeologists.  The bunkers were found in practically the same condition as they were on the day the last Nazi soldiers left them, down to the tobacco in one trooper’s pipe and a half-finished [...]

Jew council in Germany breaks ties with Vatican

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Israel & Jewish Issues, Nathaniel Bacon, Top Stories

BERLIN — The Central Council of Jews in Germany is breaking off contact with the Roman Catholic Church because Pope Benedict XVIs rehabilitation of a bishop who has denied the scale of the Holocaust, its president said Thursday. Last weekend, the Pope lifted the excommunication of four traditional catholic bishops, including the British-born Richard Williamson, [...]

CIA terror chief in Algiers drugged and raped 2 women

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Nathaniel Bacon

The CIA’s top officer in Algeria has been returned to Washington amid allegations that he drugged and raped two women at his Algiers residence, an accusation that presents the Obama administration new intelligence team with an unexpected legal and diplomatic crisis even before it officially takes office.
The 41-year-old Algiers station chief was ordered home [...]

Social Justice: Code Word for Anti-Americanism

Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Feedback, Opinion, Politics, Shera Crossan

Social Justice
Social Justice For the Israeli political party
Why did 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex unions?
Many of these young people identify “social justice” as the reason that led them to relegate the prime moral issues of life and marriage to the back burner. [...]

Firefighter Tears Up Over Six-Month Suspension For Nod To Obama

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Events, Free Speech, Hidden Crimes, Politics, Shera Crossan

A local firefighter says he has accepted his six-month suspension from his role in the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes and Drum Corp for giving President Barack Obama a nod and wave during last week’s inaugural parade in Washington, D.C.
“I just was told this was a military parade and I was not to salute the president, [...]

…discriminated against for refusing to trade his turban for a hard hat.”

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in John Fife, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Ontario Human Rights Tribunal:   he was discriminated against for refusing to trade his turban for a hard hat. Loomba was seeking damages of $40,000.
Loomba said he was assigned to patrol a Home Depot under construction in Milton on Dec. 6, 2005, when assistant manager Brian Busch asked him to wear a hard hat instead [...]

Miss. mayor indicted on Katrina fraud charges

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Top Stories

JACKSON, Miss. – The mayor of a Mississippi city devastated by Hurricane Katrina pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he lied to get disaster assistance to repair his damaged beachfront home.
Gulfport Mayor Brent Warr is the highest-ranking public official so far to be charged with fraud related to the storm that slammed the Gulf Coast [...]

Israel’s chief rabbinate severs ties with Vatican

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Israel & Jewish Issues, Religion, Shera Crossan

JERUSALEM – Israel’s chief rabbinate severed ties with the Vatican on Wednesday to protest a papal decision to reinstate a bishop who publicly denied 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The Jewish state’s highest religious authority sent a letter to the Holy See expressing “sorrow and pain” at the papal decision.
“It will be [...]

Iceland to appoint gay woman minister to PM post

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Politics, Shera Crossan

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Iceland’s next leader will be an openly gay former flight attendant who parlayed her experience as a union organizer into a decades-long political career.
“Now we need a strong government that works with the people,” Sigurdardottir told reporters Wednesday, adding that a new administration will likely be installed Saturday.
Sigurdardottir will lead until new [...]

Fifth Mass “Death of Southern California Family by Murder or Suicide in a Year.”

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

It was the fifth mass death of a Southern California family by murder or suicide in a year. Police urged those facing tough economic times to get help rather than resort to violence.
Police believe Ervin Lupoe, 40, killed his five children and his wife before turning the gun on himself. Both adults were recently fired [...]

What Obama owes Africa

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Nathaniel Bacon in Nathaniel Bacon, Race

by Njoroge Wachai
Dear President Obama,
There’s nowhere your presidency matters more than in Africa. I know some will differ with me on this; they will, rightly, say that your top priority should be to serve America. Well, I agree, but I must remind you of the folly of forgetting your roots.
Expectations are high for your presidency [...]