Mich. shoplifting suspect crushed in trash compactor
Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
Mich. – Michigan authorities say a shoplifting suspect has died after being crushed in a trash compactor where she was hiding.The Eaton County sheriff’s department said two women fled a Lansing-area TJ Maxx discount store after spraying a security guard with Mace. A deputy found one of the women behind a nearby trash compactor.
Deputies say [...]
Georgians Illegally Armed With German Weapons
Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in War Coverage
The report by German public broadcaster ARD, which was to be aired late on Sunday, claims that Georgian elite forces in the rebel province of South Ossetia were supplied with German weapons manufactured by arms company Heckler & Koch based in the south-western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The broadcaster’s “Report Mainz” program shows images of Georgian soldiers [...]
UK seeks gays for spies
Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
LONDON – Britain’s domestic spy agency wants gay recruits to know: It’s time to come out of the closet.
After shunning them for decades over worries of blackmail, MI5 is now asking gay and lesbian people to consider a career as a spy, promising the chance to fight terrorists, protect their country — and earn a [...]
Muslim kids forced to flog themselves in the UK
Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Immigration
LONDON (AFP) – Two teenagers were forced to flog themselves until their backs bled during a Muslim ceremony to commemorate the death of the spiritual leader of Shia Muslims, a British court heard Tuesday.
One of them, who was 13 at the time of the alleged incident, accused Syed Mustafa Zaidi of forcing him and a [...]
Women having less children
Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Health
WASHINGTON – More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, the Census Bureau said Monday.
In the last 30 years, the number of women age 40 to 44 with no children has doubled, from 10 percent to 20 percent. And those who are mothers [...]
Aboriginal children ‘can count without numbers’
Posted on 19. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
LONDON (AFP) – Australian Aboriginal children can count even without having words for numbers, according to a study by British and Australian experts released Tuesday.
The findings run counter to recently revived scientific claims that children can only count if they know the words for numbers, said the lead author of the research, from University College [...]
HUCKABEE: US SCARIER THAN ISRAEL
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Israel & Jewish Issues
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, mentioned as a possible running mate for presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain, yesterday said he feels safer in Israel than in American cities.
Huckabee made the comment as he headed off on a two-day trip to Israel, where he will meet with various groups to discuss the Mideast peace process, [...]
Illegals leaving AZ schools
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Immigration
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Changing laws have made life tougher for illegal immigrants in Arizona, including young people giving up dreams of college and better lives because they are unable to pay out-of-state tuition as required by voters.
With privately funded grants and scholarships lagging far behind the demand, some would-be students have dropped out, and [...]
Communist Party USA high on Obama
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
An anti-communist activist is not surprised that the Communist Party USA has written a glowing editorial about Barack Obama. The editorial, titled ”Eye on the Prize,” was published in the group’s official newspaper The People’s Weekly World.
According to the editorial, “A broad multiclass, multiracial movement is converging around Obama’s ‘Hope, change and unity’ campaign because they see [...]
Doctors blame laws, not illegals, for health scare
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Immigration
Doctors say a growing fervor over illegal immigration may scare illegal immigrants away from seeking health care and create a public health threat.
A recent case in Alamance County, N.C. — in which medical records may have been used to help prosecute a library worker who was in the country illegally — has prompted many to [...]
Anti-Nazi Rally in Germany Ahead of Hess Death Anniversary
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
The small southern German town of Wunsiedel held a Festival of Democracy Saturday to register its opposition to neo-Nazis who have demonstrated in the town in years past to commemorateNazi leader Rudolf Hess.
In nearby Warmensteinach, around 2,000 gathered for a more general protest against the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) and to demonstrate against the [...]
U.N. rights body urges Russia fight racism
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
GENEVA (Reuters) – A key United Nations rights body voiced alarm on Monday at mounting racial violence in Russia and called on Moscow to take firm action against ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi groups and hate speech in the media.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also urged the Russian government to hold an investigation into [...]
Racial tensions boil over in PA
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
POTTSVILLE, Pa. – A judge has ordered three teenagers to stand trial on charges related to the beating death of a Mexican immigrant in a small eastern Pennsylvania town.
A judge in Pottsville said Monday that prosecutors have enough evidence to try 17-year-old Colin Walsh and 16-year-old Brandon Piekarsky on counts of third-degree murder and ethnic [...]
Europe’s (dis)unity over Russia
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in War Coverage
This week President Bush promised to “rally the free world in the defense of a free Georgia.” But will America’s European allies fall in line? Troubling divisions on the continent show just how difficult it may be to present a united front against an overly aggressive Russia.
Moscow’s invasion of Georgia one week ago, including its [...]
Judge: ‘English-only’ policy didn’t create ‘hostile environment’
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Immigration
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled today against three Hispanic families who had claimed a Catholic school policy discriminated against their children.
Marten said this afternoon the Catholic Diocese of Wichita’s policy requiring students to speak only English while at school did not rise to the level of a “hostile educational environment.”
The lawsuit sought an [...]
Minority preference for state contracts in dispute
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
MADISON, WI — Critics are calling for a review of the preference the state offers to minority contractors after an out-of-state firm won a choice job despite charging taxpayers $1.3 million more than the low bidder.
The $29.5 million renovation and expansion of a UW-Stout science building was won by an established minority-owned Twin Cities firm, even [...]
Lithuania’s campaign against Holocaust survivors
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Israel & Jewish Issues
Jewish supremacists are crying ‘victim’ once again.
Our cousin Rachel Margolis is not in her native Vilnius this summer, as she has been in summers past, to teach visitors from around the world about Lithuania’s role in the Holocaust.
Despite the fact that the Lithuanian prime minister honored her three years ago as a war hero, the [...]
City be ignorin’ hate crime
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
LA VERGNE, Tenn. – A small, but vocal group of people made their point loud and clear Thursday night in La Vergne.They feel the city is sweeping a hate crime under the rug and they don’t understand why.
The people who protested Thursday night in La Vergne said what happened couldn’t be any clearer. The incident [...]
Germany Needs to Do More Against Racism, UN Body Says
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
Members of a UN anti-racism body have called on Germany to do more to integrate foreigners. A controversial citizenship test in one German state especially caught their attention.
Members of the United Nations Committee for the Eradication of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Friday, Aug. 15, said that they were concerned about citizenship application questions targeted at [...]
Oregon high court protects racist, homophobic speech
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Free Speech
PORTLAND — Yelling homophobic or racist names is free speech protected by the Oregon Constitution if the insults don’t lead to violence.
In a unanimous ruling, the Oregon Supreme Court struck down a provision of the state harassment law that prohibited insulting a person publicly in a way likely to merely provoke violence.
Oregon law does not [...]
Jews not happy with Ethiopian Jews
Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Israel & Jewish Issues
GONDAR, Ethiopia – Sitting in a leaky, flyblown hut, a few dozen Ethiopian villagers are anxiously waiting to be transported to another world.
They have just been given word that their years of waiting are over, and that soon they will make a 2,000-mile journey by land and air with what is probably the last wave [...]
Rapper in trouble again
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Chart-topping rap star DMX was arrested at a store in Florida on Thursday for failing to appear in an Arizona court on drug charges, authorities said.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was taken into custody outside a Wal-Mart store in north Miami Beach on [...]
Mistrial in Tenn. student’s Confederate flag suit
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A teenager’s free-speech lawsuit against a school dress code that banned Confederate flag clothing ended in a mistrial Friday when a jury in federal court failed to reach a verdict.
The panel of five women and three men deliberated about 13 hours over three days before telling U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan they [...]
Blowback From Bear-Baiting
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Patrick Buchanan, War Coverage
Saakashvili’s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia’s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.
Nasser’s blunder cost him the Sinai in the Six-Day War. Saakashvili’s blunder probably means permanent loss of South [...]
Extremists Attack John McCain as ‘Pawn of Jews’
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
New York, NY, August 13, 2008 … While continuing their racist attacks against Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, white supremacists and anti-Semites have opened up a similar line of attack against his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, claiming that he is a “pawn of the Jews” and an enemy of the white [...]
Slavery was good for the black man
Posted on 16. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
As we celebrate emancipation and independence, we are being reminded of the horrors of slavery. According to our leaders, academics and others, slavery was the worst institution ever created. However, while it is popular for most to agree with this claim, I beg to disagree. Indeed, contrary to the belief that slavery was bad for [...]
UK man shuts down Jewish supremacist radio station
Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Israel & Jewish Issues
London’s only Jewish community radio station has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing a High Court libel case brought against it by the Respect MP George Galloway.
Jcom, a non-profit station which broadcast online and to a small area in north-west London, was wound up after it was told to pay the MP damages of [...]
Two Jews and a black man help Phelps fulfill Olympic dream
Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Israel & Jewish Issues
When a mainstream Jewish newpaper prints this kind of garbage it is acceptable. If we discuss race and reality then we are ‘hateful nazis’.
BEIJING – Thousands of spectators and journalists stood on their feet for minutes and applauded in every language one of the greatest moments in the history of swimming, as they held their [...]
Family sues CA over crossdressing teen
Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — The family of a gay teenager who was fatally shot in class blames the school district for allowing their son to wear makeup and feminine clothing to school — factors the family claims led to the death.
The parents and brother of 15-year-old Larry King of Oxnard filed a personal injury claim [...]
Teen gets 4 months in prison for driving past blacks
Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Top Stories
ALEXANDRIA, La. – A Louisiana teenager who hung nooses off the back of his truck to intimidate a group of black civil rights demonstrators has been sentenced to four months in prison.
Federal prosecutors say 19-year-old Jeremiah Munsen displayed the nooses when he drove past people who had attended a massive civil rights march in Jena [...]
Sources of genetic diversity found
Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Science and Technology
TROY, N.Y., Aug. 13 (UPI) — A U.S.-led study has identified 200 genetic variations scientists say are responsible for most of the genetic diversity among European-Americans.
The researchers, led by Professor Petros Drineas of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, analyzed genetic information from 1,521 individuals to find the most frequently shared single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs — [...]
Young girl tells the truth about war in Georgia
Posted on 14. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in War Coverage
CONEY ISLAND MOB BEATS EX-MARINES RESCUING GIRL
Posted on 14. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
A wolf pack of at least 30 thugs viciously attacked two hero ex-Marines in Brooklyn after they rescued a teenage girl who was being assaulted, police and witnesses said yesterday.
And when the brother of one of the former servicemen tried to come to his rescue during the July 25 melee in Coney Island, he was [...]
Teen charged with 5 rapes
Posted on 14. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
MILWAUKEE – A 17-year-old boy is charged with five rapes in Milwaukee.
People living on Milwaukee’s north side say for the first time in weeks, they feel safe letting their children outside to play again.
“Oh, I know, it’s a great release, it’s a great release. You be fearing walking the streets and stuff like that that,” [...]
Another of the Jena 6 leaves La.
Posted on 14. Aug, 2008 by Derek Bargeld in Race
It looks like these thugs are being spread throughout the country but they cannot escape their violent past and continued violent behavior.
JENA, La.—Jesse Ray Beard is not returning to Jena High School this school year.
Attorney David Utter says the youngest of the Jena Six defendants will attend school in Connecticut.
Beard is to attend Canterbury School, an [...]
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