CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.” Source>>>
You can call it the Camelot effect or maybe it’s just that people are nosy. Whatever it is, people can’t stop searching for information about the Obama family, not just the immediate first family, but the extended family as well.
Robinson’s main job during Barack Obama’s two-year-long campaign for the presidency was to make sure the Obamas’ young daughters, Malia and Sasha, were taken care of while mom and dad were on the campaign trail. According to a Boston Globe article from early this year, duties included upholding family rules (8:30 p.m. bedtime, healthy food) and getting the girls to the appointments on their daily schedules.
In the article, Obama credited his mother-in-law with making his campaign possible: Source>>>
Probably even Benjamin Franklin, who tried to get a clause in the
Constitution banning Jews from America, could not have fully
envisioned the day. First, there was George W. Bush, who declared
that, for the first time, the White House was “officially” “Kosher.”
Not just in food, but in subservience. Fixtures included such scions
of the Israeli-Lobby as Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter
Libby. Even though the people “impeached” Bush, by voting him and his
ilk out, in order to supposedly bring about “change,” Barack Obama
brought in Robert Reich, Robert Rubin and Rahm Emmanuel. Name change?
Just more of the same.
Wolfowitz was the architect of the illegal and failed invasion of
Iraq. But, Emmanuel was the proponent of a further illegal and failed
invasion of Afghanistan. Read more »
Benjamin Smith never lived to see “Obamanation” take the White House.
He killed himself, after going on a shooting spree against
minorities. Luke Smith didn’t have to bear the dishonor of a Negro in
the Oval Office, either. He killed himself, after being repeatedly
jailed for protesting integration. Likewise, Matthaeus Jaehnig, who
committed suicide after a cop-chase. Indeed, “Death Before Dishonor”
is commonplace on Skinhead websites and in Skinhead lingo. Since the
Bush-McCain “impeachment” vote, elevating Barack Obama, threats,
vulgarity and attacks against the Skinhead Website have increased
twenty-fold, with similar assaults against individual Skinheads, on
the streets, on the upswing. So, to counter “Obamanation”, Skinheads
have launched “Operation Rectification”. Read more »
The dictionary definition of “pruning” is “to cut out useless parts.
To cut off or cut out dead branches.” The purpose of pruning is to
“change the growth of a tree, train for proper growth and repair
injury.” According to the Horticulture Department of the University
of Texas, pruning serves “to increase the quality of fruit or flower
production. Pruning at the proper time can produce larger, through
possibly fewer, fruits or flowers. Pruning will also promote an
abundance of new growth.” When George W. Bush withered on the vine by
invading Iraq and Afghanistan, becoming subservient to Israel,
promoting amnesty for Mexicans and elevating integration,
Nationalists succeeded in lobbing off the dead-wood. Then, it was
time to prune “Obamanation.” But what about “new growth”? More
high-quality political “fruits” and “flowers” seemed to be poised to
bloom. Read more »
To most of the nation, the presidential-election was an “impeachment”
vote, to oust the war-criminality, corruption and ineptness of the
Bush-Administration, as well as to chastize the segregated Republican
Party for selling-out its own principles. The prevailing notion was
that the mood for “change” from the liars and phoneys of the
John-McCain variety would make it easier to oust the usurpers and
tyrants of the Barack-Obama variety. Even though Nationalists
cautioned that the vote was not “for” Obama, but “against” McCain,
the “Heart-of-Dixie” refused to mark a ballot for a Negro, setting
itself up to overthrow the Second Reconstruction as tenaciously as
the First. Read more »
One week after he slammed his Nissan Sentra into a car waiting at a stoplight, killing a U.S. Marine and his female passenger, Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano, whose blood alcohol level was measured at .32 – four times the legal level in Maryland for intoxication – has been identified as an illegal immigrant by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Baltimore.
Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews, 21, of Columbia and his date, Jennifer Bower, 24, of Montgomery Village were killed Thanksgiving night, shortly after 10:00 p.m. when Bower’s Toyota Corolla was hit from behind by Morales-Soriano, 25, of Mexico. Mathews and Bower were on their second date and were planning to take part in the June wedding of friends who had introduced them to each other. Source>>>
WACO - Waco police have arrested a juvenile suspect after he allegedly wrecked a stolen truck then lead police and a helicopter on a chase through Waco streets on Sunday afternoon.
An alert witness recognized someone else driving his friend’s stolen truck just after 4 p.m. in the Dean Highland neighborhood of Waco. That person called the owner of the truck, who then notified police. The dispatcher alerted officers in that area and minutes later the truck was spotted.
The driver of the truck took off at a high rate of speed and crashed the red Chevrolet truck into a parked car near 34th Street and Parrott. Source>>>
KILLEEN - A man arrested for burglary escaped from police custody, leading them in a chase just a few feet away from the police station.
Around 1:15 p.m., several officers were seen running after a suspect on Avenue C in downtown Killeen.
The suspect had been arrested just an hour earlier for burglarizing a home on the 200 block of Blair Avenue, Killeen Police spokeswoman Carroll Smith said. Source>>>
BERLIN (Reuters) – The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.
The daily printed three architect’s drawings on yellowing paper from the batch of 28 pages of blueprints it obtained. One has an 11.66 meter by 11.20 meter room marked “Gaskammer” (gas chamber) that was part of a “delousing facility.”
No one from the federal government’s archives was immediately available for comment on the authenticity or importance of the documents.
The plans, published ahead of the 70th anniversary of the “Kristallnacht” or the Nazi pogrom that was a harbinger of the Holocaust, also include a crematorium and a “L. Keller” — an abbreviation for “Leichenkeller” or corpse cellar. Source>>>
WASHINGTON – In a record bailout of a private company, the government on Monday provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American International Group, including $40 billion for partial ownership.
Reserve and the Treasury Department, was taken as it became increasingly clear that an original financial lifeline thrown to AIG in September would be insufficient to stabilize the teetering company. All told, the moves boost aid to the company to more than $150 billion. Fed officials, however, expressed confidence that the money would be repaid to taxpayers.
The $40 billion infusion comes from the recently enacted $700 billion financial bailout package. The government is buying preferred shares of AIG stock, giving taxpayers an ownership stake in the company. In turn, restrictions will be placed on executive compensation at the firm.
As part of the new arrangement, the Federal Reserve is reducing a $85 billion loan it had made available to AIG to $60 billion. The Fed also is replacing a separate $37.8 billion loan to the insurance company with a $52.5 billion aid package.
The actions were needed to “keep the company strong and facilitate its ability to complete its restructuring process successfully,” the government said.
Shares of AIG surged on the news, gaining 48 cents, or 22.3 percent, to $2.59 in morning trading. The company’s stock has traded between $1.25 and $62.30 in the past year. Source>>>
Nearly hysterical, Mark Bablin shouted, “What do we do now?” “What do
we do now?” Bablin had been the same counterpart to George Wallace as David Plouffe had been to Barack Obama. Strategist. Workhorse.
Ideologue. However, Bablin seemed panicked by Obamanation. He should
not have been. Nationalists related that they had “Obama-buster”
strategy in place. Nonetheless, Bablin persisted that he feared
Nationalists would be jailed, as he decried the Wallace
grave-desecration. On the other hand, the outpouring of volunteers
has begun, but with a novel twist. Many newcomers insist upon
anonymity. Stumbling block, to some. Stepping-stone, to others.
As a result of Internet-upswing, Nationalists have said that their
outreach and empowerment will rely heavily on technology. The
Internet will form a new and compelling medium, which Nationalists
have used successfully and are expanding. Already, the Internet is
abuzz with Obama-parodies and caustic-criticism, but Nationalists say
that they have set up the nuts-and-bolts to build the superstructure,
which will energize and organize the new wave of pro-majority
stalwarts, most of whom are young. Bablin, who does not own a
computer, insisted that “I don’t see it,” “I don’t see it.” But, that
is the “beauty” of Nationalist Internet-operations. For now, they are
“under the radar.” Read more »
DALLAS (AP) - The U.S. attorney’s office is defending itself against claims that racial bias drove a corruption investigation at Dallas City Hall that led to federal charges.
Lead prosecutor Marcus Busch said in a court filing this week that a defense request to have the 166-page indictment thrown out because investigators singled out blacks is “gratuitous invective. That’s according to a report today in The Dallas Morning News.
Former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill was among 16 people, 12 of them black, named in a federal corruption indictment in September. They are accused in a bribery and extortion scheme within Dallas City Hall. Source>>>
WACO - Immigration Customs Enforcement officials say roughly 15 to 20 percent of illegal aliens from Central Texas to the border are caught in the Waco area.
In August, a fugitive operation team was created in Waco to help cut down on illegal aliens. It’s one of 100 undercover units working to capture illegal immigrants.
I.C.E. credits the Waco unit for playing a part in a 200 percent increase in immigration holds the the agency has seen in southern and central Texas. Source>>>
ST. JOHNS, Ariz. – It’s a crime that police officers in a small eastern Arizona community can hardly fathom yet have to deal with: an 8-year-old charged in the fatal shootings of his father and another man.
“Who would think an 8-year-old kid could kill two adults?” St. Johns Police Chief Roy Melnick said Friday.
The killings on Wednesday sent shock waves through St. Johns, a community of about 4,000 people. The boy had no disciplinary record at school, and there was no indication he had any problems at home, prosecutors said.
“It was such a tragedy,” said the boy’s defense attorney, Benjamin Brewer. “You have two people dead; you have an 8-year-old in jail. It tugs at the heart strings. It’s a shocker, no doubt about it.”
On Friday, a judge determined there was probable cause to show that the boy fatally shot his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos, with a .22-caliber rifle. The boy faces two counts of premeditated murder. Under Arizona law, charges can be filed against anyone 8 or older. Source>>>
WASHINGTON – When the government took over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers inherited more than just bad debts. They’re also potentially on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in legal fees for the executives at the center of the housing market’s collapse.
With the Justice Department investigating companies involved in the mortgage and financial meltdown, executives around the country are hiring defense lawyers. Like many large companies, Fannie and Freddie had contracts promising to cover legal bills for their executives.
When the Treasury Department delivered a $200 billion bailout to Fannie and Freddie, that obligation passed to the government, which may find itself paying for the lawyers defending the executives against the government’s own prosecutors.
“Who’d have thought we might be on the hook for paying the defense costs when we’re also paying the prosecution costs?” Source>>>
The Quetzalcoatl legend is known throughout Mesoamerica. Some legends refer to Quetzalcoatl as a god, others a stranger from a distant land who sailed to their shores upon a “magic raft of serpents.”
The feathered serpent god is commonly referred to as Quetzalcoatl. The name Quetzalcoatl has Toltec/Aztec origins. A series of invasions by the Toltec’s, which led to a blending of cultures, introduced the feathered serpent god to the Mayas, where he was later referred to as Kukulcan.
Two male heroes similar to the god Quetzalcoatl appear in Mayan lore. Itzamna and Kukulcan were both portrayed as bearded men who led their ancestors into the Yucatan. Itazmna was known as a guide who helped build up the great cities and who invented the letters that make up the Mayan language. Kukulcan was referred to as a great architect, a builder of pyramids. Could all of these legends be based on one real person? And could that person have been a Norseman? Source>>>
WACO - As pundits are hailing the election of the first African-American President, political and racial tensions are flaring on the Campus of Baylor University. Baylor Police are reporting three separate incidents took place on campus that are interlaced with racial tension.Interim President David Garland described the events in an email to students:
Having surfed to power on a wave of voter discontent generated by the failures of President George Bush and the Republican Party, and having generated a level of enthusiasm among supporters not seen in decades, Barack Obama has become the 44th president of the United States.
But as he prepares to enter the White House, he faces challenges almost unique in modern times. It has been 40 years since a new president took office in a time of war.Read more »
KILLEEN - Killeen Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with an assault on a mother and child.
Officers were called out to the 614 block of Adams Avenue just before 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19. with reports that a child was not breathing.
When officers arrived along with paramedics, they found a distraught woman standing on the side of the roadway holding an unconscious 2-year-old child in her arms.
The Killeen Fire Department paramedics began to administer medical assistance as the mother spoke with the officers. The woman told officers that her boyfriend, Malcolm Jamon Evans, was babysitting her son while she was at work. Source>>>
KILLEEN - Police have identified and need your help in finding a suspect in Thursday night’s home invasion murder in Killeen .
Killeen officers have obtained an arrest warrant for 20-year-old Daren Terrence Walker who also goes by D-Lo.
Walker is described as a black male, 6′1″ approximately 200 pounds. His hair worn as a small black afro and he has brown eyes. He has a tattoo on is upper shoulder that reads “1DEEP” and another tattoo on his right forearm “254″. Source>>>
Officials in Mexia say 22-year-old Damion Jackson, of Waco, and Willie McCraw, 20 of Waco, and Louis Smith, 21 of Waco, are charged with Aggravated Assault With a Deadly Weapon and Burglary of a Habitation.
Once officers determine who the driver of the speeding car was, that person will be charged with Aggravated Assault of a Police Officer.
The victim of the home invasion and shooting has been identified as Nick Hill, in his early 20’s. He was home alone at the time of the attack. Source>>>
CHICAGO – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed. The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father.
A statement given to the AP by Obama’s campaign said, “Senator Obamahas no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.” Onyango is part of Obama’s large paternal family, with many related to him by blood whom he barely knows. Obama first met Onyango when he traveled to Africa as an adult — he referred to her as “Auntie Zeituni” in his memoir. Source>>>
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria threatened Wednesday to cut off security cooperation along the Iraqi border if there are more American raids on Syrian territory, and the U.S. Embassy announced it would close Thursday because of a mass rally called to protest a deadly weekend commando attack.
Thousands were expected to participate in the government-sanctioned protest. Though authorities usually keep Syria under tight control and Americans have generally been welcomed, violence against U.S. and European interests at protests has erupted in the past.
“The U.S. Embassy will be closed on Oct. 30th due to past demonstrations which resulted in violence and significant damage to U.S. facilities and other embassies,” the embassy said on its Web site.
It also said an American school in the Syrian capital would temporarily shut its doors Thursday and warned U.S. citizens in Syria to be vigilant.
The Syrian government already ordered the closure of the school and an American cultural center linked to the embassy. In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Syria formally notified the U.S. that the cultural center should shut down immediately and the school by Nov. 6. Source>>>
Due to years of violence, hate and just being plain criminals, many
Skinheads have projected a very bad public-image, which has been
bought into by the likes of Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman,
which, in turn, has produced some very bad publicity. It is sad to
say, but we bring it on ourselves, if we allow it to happen. The
things we do, what we say and how we act need to be positive,
inspirational and victorious. However, a lot of Skins, who I would
call so-called Skins, have been proud of the assassin, out-of-control
image. I will admit that I was, too, but I now know that it is time
for change.
If anything, the Cowart and Schlesselman caper is awakening Skinheads
to the need to be organized, disciplined and protective. So, where do
we start? Start with our group-activities and public-behavior. How
are we going to do it? Start at the same place where those calling
themselves “Skinheads” created a bad-image. Schlesselman, for
example, sported a goatee and was not the clean-cut, trim,
hippy-opposite, which would qualify him to be a Skinhead, in the
first place. So, if you look like a hippy or gang-banger, you are
going to act like one. So, clean up — and, while you’re at it, tone
up — your body. Read more »
Rip Daniels: I don’t know of anyone else whop would have the
perspective to talk about the neo-Nazis, who were plotting to kill
Barack Obama. I receive his magazine, “All The Way”. Richard Barrett,
leader of The Nationalist Movement, there in Learned, Mississippi.
Good morning, Mr. Barrett.
Richard Barrett: Good morning, Rip. Thanks for having me.
Daniels: It was tragic that these people were plotting to kill
Senator Barack Obama, don’t you agree?
Barrett: Well, all this culture of murder and assassination. It all
actually started with Rosa Parks, who said, “Just don’t obey the laws
you don’t like. I have been saying for years that “Diversity Equals
Death” and “Integration Equals Murder”. I noticed in the Associated
Press this morning, in reporting on that issue, they went to the
hometown, there, in Helena, Arkansas, of one of the boys, and they
interviewed a colored man, and he said, “the whites feel that way and
the Negroes feel that way.” So, I feel that we need solutions, Rip,
and the solution is, “Let’s say ‘no’ to the black-power,” “Let’s say
‘no’ to the integration,” “Let’s say ‘no’ to the hate,” and, maybe,
we can get back to some law and order in this country.
Daniels: I guess, then, that you don’t see any problem with these
guys attempting to kill eighty-eight Negroes and behead fourteen and,
then, go on to kill Barack Obama? Read more »
When we think of childhood today, we think going to school, engaging in afternoon activities, spending weekends with family and friends and going on summer vacation and sporting tournaments. Pastimes include reading a book, listening to music, talking to friends on the phone, playing video games and surfing the Net. It is a time of doing some chores to help mom and dad around the house. But it is mostly a time of enjoying a young life!
What was it like being a child during the Viking Age, a thousand years ago? Well, it certainly wasn’t like being a child today. For one thing, there weren’t any books, television, video games or computers! And because most children of the Viking Age had to work along with their parents, they had very little childhood at all.
At ten years of age, Viking children were considered to be adults. During their childhood, they didn’t attend school. There just weren’t any schools in Viking times. The printing press had not yet been invented and books, other than religious ones found only in churches and monasteries, did not exist for ordinary people to read. Educating children the way we do today wasn’t possible. And, it really wasn’t necessary. At a time when providing the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter took most of every waking hour, there would not have been time for school anyway.
Just because there weren’t any schools doesn’t mean that children weren’t educated. By the age of five, Viking children were expected to work to support the homestead. Children were required to learn the jobs of the adults. Since most Vikings were farmers, both boys and girls were expected to keep the family farm going.
DETROIT – Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail for four months Tuesday for his part in a sex-and-text scandal and the judge chastised the disgraced ex-mayor for arrogance and disregard for the rule of law. Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner’s sentence was the finale to the scandal that destroyed Kilpatrick’s reign at City Hall and threw local government into disarray for months.
“At a time when this city needed transparency, accountability and responsibility, you exhibited hubris and privilege at the expense of the city,” the judge said.
He ruled that Kilpatrick not be given an opportunity for early release. But county sheriff’s spokesman John Roach said in a subsequent statement that Groner didn’t have the standing to order Kilpatrick not receive time off for good behavior.
The judge’s ruling “does not override Michigan Statute that says a sheriff shall credit all sentenced county jail inmates with one day good time for every five days served, provided the individual is a model inmate,” Roach said. Kilpatrick, 38, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, admitting he lied about an affair with his chief of staff while testifying in a civil lawsuit in 2007. He also pleaded no contest to assaulting a sheriff’s detective. Source>>>
Washington – In the name of protecting its forces in Afghanistan and now Iraq, the United States appears to have begun to step up a bold gamble: conducting raids in countries it believes are not doing enough to fight extremist militants.
But taking such actions in Pakistan and now Syria may involve high diplomatic risks and offer limited military gain, say experts outside the military. “It could be morally justifiable, legally justifiable, and strategically a mistake,” says