Saturday, May 31st
Ex-Agriprocessors Workers Detail Abuse in Wake of Raid
As the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse scrambles to stay open after a federal raid, former workers at the plant -- many still fearful of retribution from government authorities -- have begun to tell their stories, revealing new details of conditions there.
Agents in the May 12 raid at the Agriprocessors plant in this small northeastern Iowa town arrested 389 illegal workers, among them 18 juveniles.
In recent days, former employees have been painting a picture of a company indifferent to federal laws prohibiting slaughterhouses from employing workers younger than 18, and where workers frequently were pressured to exchange sexual favors for preferred treatment.
At least one lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), reportedly has said that he supports an investigation into conditions at the plant.
[ Why on earth wouldn't there be an investigation? Are Jews allowed to get away with things when others aren't? ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 12:58 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
German Retail Chain Slammed for 'Racist' portrayal of an Italian in ad
German electronics giant Media Markt may have thought its TV ad featuring a stereotype of an Italian was funny. But after Italian newspapers decried that ad as racist, it was pulled. It's not the first time the company has got into hot water for its depiction of its European neighbors.
Toni wears oversized sunglasses pushed back into his wavy hair, a gold chain around his neck, three-day-old scruff and a moustache. He is macho, greasy and sexist -- the Italian stereotype. That doesn't play so well in bella Italia. The Italian newspapers Corriere della Sera and La Republica called the ads, four of them in total, racist and riddled with cliches.
Italians living in Germany have also complained about the campaign. Particular anger was directed against the spot where Toni explains the difference between people on either side of the Alps: "The Germans buy laptops; the Italians buy referees," a too-close-for-comfort jab at the bribery scandal that rocked Italian football in 2006. Although Toni's next line is "just a little joke," Italy has failed to find much humor in the ad.
[ Could it be they are most offended because the portrayal is quite valid? ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 12:23 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
The 'Diversity' Threat to California Charity
A bill purporting to encourage diversity among nonprofits has passed the California Assembly and faces a key vote in the state senate in early June. While little attention has been paid to this bill, it poses an enormous threat to private philanthropy in this country.
The Foundation Diversity and Transparency Act requires California foundations with $250 million in assets to report the composition by ethnicity and gender orientation of their boards and staffs, the boards and staffs of the charities they support, and the degree to which they are run by or support certain minorities.
The "diversity" bill, if enacted into law, would be just the beginning. Already contemplated is legislation to cover all foundations, and all grant recipients, not just in California, but nationally; and to broaden reporting requirements to include the aged or the disabled. Ultimately, this all leads in one direction: to politically determine how private charities manage and deploy their resources.
The state senate should understand what a disincentive - and an injustice - it would be for the government to micromanage private charity to favor a preferred political agenda, thereby turning private funds into public funds by diktat.
[ Effectively it makes giving to charity into a kind of voluntary taxation, where the government still has some control over where it is spent. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 12:16 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Level of immigrant integration in Ireland highlighted
Just 12 per cent of Chinese immigrants, and 22 per cent of Lithuanians, are 'highly integrated' into Irish society, according to a major study by researchers at UCD.
The report, Getting On, assessed the experience of four migrant groupsâ€"Nigerians, Chinese, Indians and Lithuaniansâ€"across a selection of political, economic and social indicators.
It found that more than 90 per cent of Indian respondents and over 70 per cent of Nigerians indicated medium to high levels of integration. However, half of Chinese respondents showed low or very low integration levels, while almost 40 per cent of Lithuanians were placed in the same category.
[ Such integration destroys the Irish. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 12:10 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Blacks are fastest growing demograph amongst home schooled children
According to the National Urban League, black male achievement begins to decline as early as fourth grade. Blacks continue to fall behind through high school, in test scores, grades and dropout rates. Fewer than half of black males graduate in four years.
The Barcos join an increasing number of black families in the Triangle and across the country who choose to home-school their children. Of the estimated 1.1 million home-schooled children in the U.S., about 10 percent are black, according to the most recent federal statistics from the U.S. Department of Education.
Blacks are the fastest-growing demographic among home-schoolers, said Jennifer James, a Boone mother of two who in 2003 founded the National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance, a nonreligious group that provides online information and support to about 3,000 home-schoolers.
Disappointed with the public school system, many black parents opt to home-school because they want more rigorous academics and a truly multicultural education, James said.
[ Just the fact that these kids have a parent who is concerned about their education will help them immensely. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 12:00 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Japanese are Loath to Rebuild Workforce through Immigration
Inside the government, there is growing agreement that Japan can head off disastrous population decline by significantly increasing immigration.
Japan has the world's highest proportion of people older than 65 and the world's smallest proportion of children younger than 15. Without immigration in substantial numbers, it will soon run perilously low on people of working age.
Yet among highly developed countries, Japan has always ranked near the bottom in the percentage of foreign-born residents. In the United States, about 12 percent are foreign-born; in Japan, just 1.6 percent. Most immigrants here are from Asia or South America. The largest number come from Korea (about 600,000 people), followed by China and Brazil. The Brazilians are mostly of mixed Japanese descent.
Yet there is little or no political will here to persuade or prepare the public to accept a sizable influx of foreigners.
[ Because economic growth is so sacred, population growth is also required, this will only come from the nations that produce the most children. Some populations are being actively replaced, while the world'd population continues to grow. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 10:59 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Tens of thousands more Arctic species may soon be listed as "endangered"
As a result, the IUCN is working on a second way of assessing the future threat to species because of climate change. "We are working with life history traits - if a species has very specific requirements, how will those be affected by climate change?" says Foden.
She and her colleagues have identified 84 traits - such as migration timing and a requirement for certain temperatures - that could make a species vulnerable. They are now engaged in a mammoth project to assess all birds, amphibians and warm water corals - 16,800 species in total - for these traits. They will present their preliminary findings in October at the World Conservation Congress.
Once the species are listed, there remains the difficult issue of what can be done to protect them. Responding to the threat of climate change is quite different to responding to illegal poaching, they say.
"We can eliminate all other threats that might be operating on the species, such as hunting and habitat destruction," says Foden. "This will give the species the best chance of surviving climate change. Listing species on global and federal threatened species lists will help in this regard."
[ Positive moves - hopefully they don't come too late. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 10:49 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Indonesia and Malaysia lied about extent of forests cleared for palm oil
INDONESIA and Malaysia have long denied that their tropical forests are being burned to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations. It seems they've been lying through their teeth.
Between 1990 and 2005 palm plantations rocketed by 1.87 million hectares in Malaysia and by more than 3 million hectares in Indonesia. With the help of data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Lian Pin Koh at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and David Wilcove of Princeton University found that more than half the palm plantations came at the expense of forests - largely pristine, intact forest in Indonesia and previously logged forest in Malaysia. The rest of the expansion covered pre-existing cropland.
The European Commission is drafting a law to ban imports of palm oil crops grown on intact tropical forests. But logged forests support nearly as much biodiversity as primary forests, say the researchers, and should also be protected.
[ They'd better hurry up with that law and be sure to enforce it strongly as well. Also it would be reasonable to tell Indonesia, Malaysia and Brazil that if they don't cease the destruction of forestry, war will be declared. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 10:44 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Bahrain: Islamic MP calls for expulsion of Bangladeshis
Manama, 26 May (AKI) - An Islamic parliamentarian in Bahrain has called for the expulsion of Bangladeshi immigrant workers after one of them was accused of a gruesome killing.
"We need to expel all the Bangladeshi workers that are in our country," said Abdel Halim Murad of the hardline Salafi bloc according to a report in the local newspaper Akhbar al-Khalji.
"We cannot tolerate the way in which these people continue to repeat crimes," he said.
There are about 200,000 foreign workers in Kuwait and their presence in the country is often a source of protest from the rest of the local population.
[ Non white countries turn on their minorities without a peep from the "international community". ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 10:25 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Indian government wants to encourage inter-caste marriages
The central government has asked all states to encourage inter-caste marriages to combat caste based discrimination, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Meira Kumar said here.
"In a letter to all the chief ministers, I have requested that they increase the incentive amount for inter-caste marriages to at least Rs.50,000, of which 50 percent would be borne by the centre," Meira Kumar told journalists here Friday.
[ They are even using bribery in their attempts to encourage dysgenics. That is crazy. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 10:14 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Neo-Nazis divided, disorganized, dysfunctional
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization that monitors and pursues legal action against hate groups, says that while groups like the NSM have shot up in membership, these groups are divided and disorganized. Some previously large white supremacist groups like the Aryan Nations are now a shadow of their former selves. Power struggles within the National Socialist Movement, including the defection of several high-profile members, have depleted its ranks. Some former members went on to form their own groups, or join rival organizations. Others turned out to be FBI informants.
[ What is the cause of our dysfunction? It's our liberal within, and here are its symptoms:
1. Individualism. People become nationalists to make themselves seem cooler, e.g., for the same reason people become liberals. The disease of social self-judgment has reached us as well.
2. No one other than a handful of people understand the ideology because most neo-Nazis insist on distilling it to complaining and hatred in order to attract more members.
3. Incompetence. NS people are so used to being demonized that they accept anyone who swears by their beliefs, no matter how insane (or obviously an informant) this person is.
4. Loudmouths. When you make ideology a rush to the bottom, the loudmouths get all the attention, and thoughtful/powerful people go elsewhere. Smart people get shouted down by impoverished, diseased, angry and impotent failures because the failures "express more fully" their distillation of NS ideology.
A formula for failure. ]
news on 05.31.08 @ 08:59 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Homosexuals have "24 hours to leave" Gambia
Gay rights activists have condemned Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's threat to behead homosexuals.
Last week he told a political rally that gay people had 24 hours to leave the country.
He promised "stricter laws than Iran" on homosexuality and said he would "cut off the head" of any gay person found in The Gambia.
[ That sort of populism makes Gambia rank highly as a democracy. ]
nationalist on 05.31.08 @ 07:37 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Friday, May 30th
Islamist 'Washington ruin' image turns out to be from Fallout 3 game
This image of Washington after a nuclear holocaust, which a US intelligence group claimed showed the ambition of Islamic extremist terrorists, was actually lifted from a computer game.
The SITE Intelligence Group said that the image, showing a ruined Capitol Building in Washington, was created by extremists as part of discussions about the feasibility of nuclear strikes against the US and Britain.
The images appeared in a video, called Nuclear Jihad: The Ultimate Terror, posted on two password-protected websites, al-Ekhlass and al-Hesbah, believed to be affiliated with al-Qa'eda.
SITE also released translated several chatroom threads from al-Ekhlass and al-Hesbah, discussing the possibility of nuclear attacks on the West.
[ Could have blamed Iran for making those plans and then nuked them first. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 10:33 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Muslim living in California starved and tortured his 3 wives and 19 children
For weeks, the three wives of Mansa Musa Muhummed and most of their 19 children have been telling a jury countless stories of torture and starvation that they kept to themselves for years.
Muhummed sat in a desert courthouse with a hand over his face, shaking his head in denial as family members described being beaten, strung up by their feet and forced to eat vomit and feces.
[ Unusual in America but not nearly so unusual in Islamic nations. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 10:13 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Protests Erupt Over German Medical Group's Award to Ex-Nazi
A spokesman for Germany's Central Council of Jews called the decision by the Professional Association of German Internists to honor Nazi doctor Hans-Joachim Sewering "a scandal."
On Saturday, May 24, Sewering was honored with the top award of the German internists group, known as the BDI.
The award was presented for having "perfomed unequalled services in the cause of freedom of the practice and the independence of the medical profession, and to the nation's health system," according to a BDI press statement.
But Stephen Kramer from the Central Council of Jews said Sewering's Nazi past was well known. In 1993 he was publicly pressured to decline the presidency of the World Medical Association because of his alleged Nazi activities.
[ So it is "alleged". He is found guilty on the basis of rumor. That's the real scandal. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 09:57 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-year-old Skeletons
Analysis of DNA from the remains of ancient humans provides valuable insights into such important questions as the origin of genetic diseases, migration patterns of our forefathers and tribal and family patterns.
Using freshly sampled material from ten Viking skeletons from around AD 1,000, from a non-Christian burial site on the Danish island of Funen, Dissing and colleagues showed that it is indeed possible to retrieve authentic DNA from ancient humans.
Wearing protective suits, the researchers removed the teeth from the jaw at the moment the skeletons were unearthed when they had been untouched for 1,000 years. The subsequent laboratory procedures were also carefully controlled in order to avoid contamination.
Analysis of the Viking DNA showed no evidence of contamination with extraneous DNA, and typing of the endogenous DNA gave reproducible results and showed that these individuals were just as diverse as contemporary humans. A reliable retrieval of authentic DNA opens the way for a valuable use of prehistoric human remains to illuminate the genetic history of past and extant populations.
[ It's meaningless to make the statement regarding diversity. It is scientifically proven that genetic diversity is reduced in populations the further away their native land is from Ethiopia ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 09:45 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Altruism In Social Insects Is A Family Affair
The contentious debate about why insects evolved to put the interests of the colony over the individual has been reignited by new research from the University of Leeds, showing that they do so to increase the chances that their genes will be passed on.
A team led by Dr Bill Hughes of the University's Faculty of Biological Sciences studied 'kin selection' - the theory that an animal may pass on its genes by helping relatives to reproduce, because they share common genes, rather than by reproducing itself.
The concept of 'kin selection' was developed in 1964 by the evolutionary biologist Bill Hamilton, first proposed by Charles Darwin to explain, for example, why sterile workers evolved in social insect groups and why a honeybee would sacrifice its life to defend the colony. Charles Darwin recognized that such altruistic behaviour in highly social insect groups was at odds with his theory of natural selection, and Bill Hamilton's theory of kin selection showed that this behaviour can evolve because it still fulfills the drive to pass on genes - but through relatives instead.
[ This is NEWS? For 30 years scientists have covered this up - according to a paper from the Max Planck society. Now finally the link between altruism and helping your own tribe (because this applies to mammals and humans too) is being admitted. It is not at odds with natural selection. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 09:36 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Model in Dunkin' Donuts Ad looks like a promotion for islamic terrorism..?
Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
[ Dunkin' Donuts supporting al Qaeda? ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 09:25 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Texas town's immigrant-renting rule is struck down
A Dallas suburb's ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants, an ordinance passed by city leaders and later endorsed in a vote by its residents, is unconstitutional, a federal judge found Wednesday.
Only the federal government can regulate immigration, U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay concluded in his decision.
The city didn't defer to the federal government on the matter, violating the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, which allows for the federal government to pre-empt local laws, Lindsay said.
[ The farce of democracy again. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 09:04 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
In Miami, Spanish is becoming the primary language
The 49-year-old flower shop owner and Miami native said her inability to speak "espanol" makes it difficult to conduct business, seek help at stores and even ask directions. She finds it "frustrating."
In many areas of Miami, Spanish has become the predominant language, replacing English in everyday life. Anyone from Latin America could feel at home on the streets, without having to pronounce a single word in English.
"The Anglo population is leaving," said Juan Clark, a sociology professor at Miami Dade College. "One of the reactions is to emigrate toward the north. They resent the fact that (an American) has to learn Spanish in order to have advantages to work. If one doesn't speak Spanish, it's a disadvantage."
According to the Census, 58.5 percent of the county's 2.4 million residents speak Spanish - and half of those say they don't speak English well. English-only speakers make up 27.2 percent of the county's residents.
[ If English speakers don't like it they have to reduce the proportion of hispanics. This doesn't seem to occur to most of them. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 08:36 AM CST [more..] [2 Comments]
Ethiopian to replace German news presenter Eva Hermann who was sacked for non PC speech
An Ethiopian-born migrant has replaced popular news presenter Eva Hermann on the German television network NDR, following her firing over Politically Incorrect remarks she made last September.
The new host is Yared Dibaba, who hails from the Oromo tribe of the impoverished African country's southwest corner.
Dibaba, 38, came to Germany with his family in 1979, where he grew up and attended school. He went on to pursue an acting career before being "discovered" by the latter-day
German media. He is not expected to be Politically Incorrect like his predecessor.
Hermann had praised the family model promoted by the National Socialists and compared it with its collapse following the Second World War.
[ His appointment should offend more Germans than anything Hermann has said. ]
nationalist on 05.30.08 @ 06:13 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Thursday, May 29th
UK Families struggling as bills begin to bite
The numbers and the precise circumstances may vary, but in recent months the Walls' experience has found echoes in family budgets up and down Britain. The global commodity price hikes that have led to riots and civil disorder from Haiti to west Africa to the Philippines may have been greeted, in this country, with British stoicism, but for many, food price rises - a pound here, £10 there - are starting to hurt.
Bread costs 20% more than it did a year ago, according to a survey earlier this month by the price comparison site mysupermarket.com, and rice 60% more. Pasta has gone up by 81% in some shops, and in Tesco it was found to be 113% more expensive. Butter costs 60% more than it did, meat prices too are up. The site puts the annual rise at 19.1%. Though industry observers point out that this figure includes prices from the more expensive Waitrose but not the promotion-focused Morrisons or any budget supermarket chains such as Lidl, it represents the sharpest rise in food prices since records began.
"The odd thing is that a lot of people seem to have only just noticed," says Alex Beckett, a food specialist at the industry magazine The Grocer. "In fact, food prices have been going up for quite some time, but they have dramatically soared in the last 18 months."
[ If a family used to spend £100 a week on food and now spend £120 that is £1040 more a year - and that can mean serious problems. They have to look at cutting costs by buying cheaper ingredients rather than anything ready made, and many will have to stop eating out ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 11:05 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
All whites racist' indoctrination revived!
An indoctrination program that was shut down at the University of Delaware last year after it was revealed the teachings included, "All whites are racist," now is being revived, and an organization monitoring such educational behavior is concerned there will be violations similar to those of a year ago.
Adam Kissell, a spokesman for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told WND his worry is that this year's "program" for incoming students at Delaware has the same "learning outcomes" as a year ago, the same administrators are running it, and components appear simply to have been renamed, instead of changed.
WND reported a year ago when a series of teachings mandated for all residence halls told students "all whites are racists."
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 10:52 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Oprah's Obama Backlash
Oprah Winfrey's decision to openly back Barack Obama early in his nomination campaign has cost her dearly with the key demographic whose members made her so
famous: middle aged white women. According to ratings data cited by "Fox and Friends" hostess Gretchen Carlson, the Oprah show is "down seven percent [overall], but down, I believe, twenty-five percent in the key demographic of those young viewers." Steve
Doocy, a co-host, intimated that this was the result of Oprah's support for Obama and news that she also attends Obama's racist black church, Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago: "Isn't true if you're in the business of words, as she is, if she takes this stand, she's gonna alienate half the country when she opens her mouth?" Oprah's support for Obama came complete with messianic pangyrics delivered in the kind of threatening ghetto Ebonics slang that makes her white church lady viewers "uncomfortable."
Winfrey, who was clearly an affirmative action beneficiary of the corporate media's desire to put "black faces in high places," has been so successful not because she is a "strong black woman" but because many whites are desperate to find and support non-threatening, "nice" nonwhites who seem to reinforce the media stereotype of multiculturalism as actually workable. Supporting such "Uncle Toms" also allows these whites to relieve a measure of misplaced "white guilt."
[ Oprah's just showing a little hint of how she wants to be when the boot is on the other foot. ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 09:06 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
European Parliament Bans Opposition
The European Union, the "free trade organization with a few added extras," is officially turning into a pan-European dictatorship. The Daily Telegraph reports:
The European Union assembly's political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings. Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP's pan-European Eurosceptic "Independence and Democracy" grouping. Under the rule change, the largest and most pro-EU groups would tighten their grip on the Parliament's political agenda and keep control of lavish funding.
Racism includes "Islamophobia," according to numerous EU documents. Which means that "Islamophobia" will soon be treated as a crime as serious as rape and armed robbery across most of the European continent. At the same time, European leaders are busy enlarging the EU to include North Africa and the Middle East, thus flooding Europe with tens of millions of additional Muslims. Not far into the future, EU authorities can arrest a person in, say, Denmark or Italy, who has published a cartoon that could be considered offensive to Islam. He or she will then be quietly handed over to the authorities in Algeria, Egypt or Jordan. Remember that blasphemy against Islam potentially carries the death penalty according to sharia. Multiculturalism in Europe is thus reaching its openly totalitarian phase. Those who think this is a joke can look at the Dutch cartoonist who was arrested recently.
[ It seems too horrific to be believable, but what seems unimaginable is certainly possible, and all the more easy for those in power to achieve if people are incredulous. ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 06:28 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Muslim group to help keep peace in Miami's Overtown
Muslim group to help keep peace in Miami's Overtown As Miami steps up police presence in Overtown, it is starting a communityoutreach program run by a group affiliated with the Nation of Islam.
Seeking a balance between outreach and enforcement, Miami is launching a nearly $1 million crime-fighting initiative in Overtown that will mix police patrols, video cameras -- and suit-and-tie wearing Muslims.
''All these corners had these high school kids dealing the drugs for them,'' Daniel said. "Desperate people do desperate things.''
He said the Nation of Islam carries ''street credibility,'' and added: "Any positive influence that our young kids see, particularly in this community, where there's so few males anyway, would be a help.''
[ Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakhan, supports racial separation as well as attempting to make Blacks improve their lives. ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 06:17 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Indian couple abandons IVF 'wrong sex' babies
The mum aged 59 and dad, 72, conceived in India with fertility treatment and returned to England for the birth.
They told horrified medics they did not want the "wrong sex" babies immediately after the Caesarean section in Wolverhampton.
The husband then asked how soon it would be before his wife was fit enough to fly out again for further IVF in the hope of getting a boy to continue the family name.
An NHS insider told The Sun: "Everyone is utterly appalled. How could any parent do this?"
[ It is ignorant and racist to be appalled by traditional Indian attitudes towards female offspring. ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 03:08 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Migrant workers 'find it easy to get British work permit despite controls'
Migrant workers find Britain is still one of the easiest countries in which to obtain a work permit, despite the introduction of a new system designed to tighten UK border controls, new research has found.
Britain came 16th out of 20 global economies ranked in descending order, with one being the strictest, in a survey by Sarah Buttler Associates (SBA), the business immigration experts.
The US was deemed to have the strictest immigration policy and only three countries - Japan, Australia and Thailand - were considered to be less strict than the UK.
[ If the US has the strictest immigration policy - imagine how easy it must be for immigrants to get into the other countries! ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 02:41 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General's report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a "War Crimes" file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantanamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports.
The World Socialist Web Site, together with human rights groups and other opponents of US militarism and repression, has long insisted that the actions of the Bush administration the launching of wars of aggression, assassinations, the abduction and detention of civilians without trial and, most repugnant of all, torture, constitute war crimes under any legitimate interpretation of longstanding international statutes and treaties.
To have this assessment confirmed, however, by the IG of the Justice Department, the only senior official there not answerable directly to the White House, and by agents of the FBI, an agency not known for its sensitivity to questions of democratic rights, is an indication of the rampant character of these crimes as well as the crisis they have engendered within the US government and America’s ruling elite as a whole.
The report makes it absolutely clear that torture was ordered and planned in detail at the highest levels of the government, including the White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Justice Department. Attempts to stop it on legal or pragmatic grounds by individuals within the government were systematically suppressed, and evidence of this criminal activity covered up.
[ This torture is not in the public interest - because the government is not run for the national interest. Any legitimate torture should not be covered up like a dirty secret. Anyone who would try to replace the government with one that is genuinely in America's interest could expect war crimes and torture to be committed upon them. ]
nationalist on 05.29.08 @ 01:52 AM CST [more..] [1 Comment]
Wednesday, May 28th
Germany Pledges Funds for Protection of Tropical Forests
Stopping global warming means putting a halt to deforestation. At the UN biodiversity conference in Bonn on Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged billions of euros to support that effort.
[ Apparantly simply buying the Amazon costs $50 billion - according to the Swedish tycoon who has already bought some - so this looks like paying the owners of the forest not to cut it down. If that's the case there is some astonishing corruption going on. ]
nationalist on 05.28.08 @ 09:47 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Obama mistaken on name of Nazi death camp
The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II.
The Democratic presidential candidate said the story is accurate except that the camp was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz.
"Senator Obama's family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II especially the fact that his great-uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald," campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. "Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically."
[ Obama has to get his camps straight if he wants to win the trust of the Jews. Why is this story just coming out now, when he could have capitalized on that much longer ago, I wonder. ]
nationalist on 05.28.08 @ 08:42 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Californian prisons prepare to integrate cellmates
"We segregate amongst ourselves because I'd rather hang out with white people, and blacks would rather hang out with people of their own race," said Good, 33, of Walnut Creek. "Look at suburbia. Look at Oakland. Look at Beverly Hills. People in society self-segregate."
San Quentin and 30 or so other state penal facilities are gearing up to carry out a federal court mediation agreement for integrating double cells and ending the use of race as the sole determining factor in making cell assignments.
Men in California's prisons have long been segregated in cells to quell racial tensions.
But Good, along with California's other 155,700 male inmates, may soon be forced to live in a 4-by-9-foot cell with an inmate of a different race.
[ Chances are this will cause so many problems they have to revert back to segregation. ]
nationalist on 05.28.08 @ 08:36 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Poor eating more food than they can produce for their large families
The farmer is on his weekly trip to the market, where he has to buy more food than he sells because his ability to produce children has far outpaced the capacity of his land to feed them.
Thirteen years ago, when Tayaban started tilling the paddies, he had two fields and two mouths to feed. Today he has no more land, but six children. The producer has had to become a consumer. That was not a problem when grain was cheap. But in the past year, global prices have tripled.
Tayaban has little inkling of the reasons why. There is no television reception at his home, so he hasn't heard about UN warnings of a food crisis or seen the reports about tortilla rallies in Mexico, pasta protests in Italy and onion demonstrations in India.
The same problem of demand exceeding supply applies to the country. The Philippines is the world's biggest importer of rice. It expects to ship in 2.7m tonnes this year, almost 10% of the total needed to feed a population of 91 million that is growing annually by more than 2%, one of the fastest rates in the world. Large tenders by the Philippines on the international market helped drive up rice prices by 76% between December 2007 and April 2008, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
[ We all have to pay more for the rice as well. These third world nations threaten the world with their growing population. ]
nationalist on 05.28.08 @ 03:52 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Tuesday, May 27th
Peacekeepers Sexually Abusing Children
A 13-year-old girl said that she was raped by about 10 UN violent peacekeepers in a field in the surroundings of her home in Ivory Coast. After the rape they left the victim lying bleeding on the ground. The soldiers were not sentenced.
In the report it is written that the peacemakers and the members of charity organisations sexually abuse little boys and girls.
After an inquiry was carried out in Ivory Coast, Sudan and Haiti, the members of a British humanitarian organisation stated that hundreds of children are victims of these crimes and that it is necessary to protect them.
- It's a minority of people but they are using their power to sexually exploit children and children that don't have the voice to report about this â€" said Heather Kerr, director of the organisation "Save the Children" from Ivory Coast.
[ That's why many people join these charity organizations. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 01:15 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
China's one-child policy has exemptions for quake victims' parents
In response to inquiries from grieving relatives, local officials announced Monday that parents whose only child was killed or grievously injured in the May 12 earthquake would be exempt from the country's one-child policy.
The exception, issued by the Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee in Sichuan Province, said qualified parents could apply for legal permission to have another child, according to The Associated Press.
Thousands of parents have openly challenged the government over why so many schools collapsed during the earthquake. An estimated 10,000 students are believed to have died.
The anguish of parents and grandparents has been compounded by the one-child policy, which was introduced in 1979 to control population growth. Provincial officials, especially those in rural areas or in regions with large minority populations, are sometimes given latitude in the application of the regulations. In some places, for example, families are permitted to have more than one child if the first is a girl.
[ And girls are the ones who grow up to give birth so this would be an ineffective policy for population reduction. Any Chinese abroad can reproduce to the max. The policy is therefore encouraging colonialism. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 01:10 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Brazilians angered by Swedish tycoon's Amazon price tag
Johan Eliasch, the 46-year-old boss of the Head sports equipment company, is under investigation by Brazilian police and intelligence services for the alleged comments and for 160,000 hectares (395,000 acres) of Amazon forest he is believed to have bought, the newspaper O Globo reported on Monday.
He reportedly made the assertions to stimulate land acquisition as part of his role as director of Cool Earth, an organization he co-founded which finds sponsors for the rainforest as a way of protecting it.
"Eliasch held meetings with businessmen between 2006 and 2007 in which he proposed that they buy land in the Amazon, and told them 'only' $50 billion would be needed to acquire all the forest," according to a report by Brazil's Abin intelligence agency cited by O Globo.
The issue is a sensitive one for Brazil, which has been offended by statements by British politicians suggesting that the Amazon is too important to all of mankind to be left to the management of Brazil's government alone.
[ If all it takes to save the forest is for environmentally responsible people around the world to buy it THAT MUST BE DONE. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 01:05 PM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Race-Related Newspaper Magazine to Launch
RiseUp, a weekly magazine with race-related content, is set to launch June 22 in major newspapers, carrying a four million circulation.
"The mission of RiseUp is to provide an ongoing conversation for all races and ethnicities to better understand each other and to build stronger communities, cities, nations and a better world," founder and executive editor Janice Ellis tells FOLIO:.
RiseUp, which will be driven by national advertising, has secured several newspapers including the New York Daily News, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and the Houston Chronicle to distribute the magazine. Ellis says she plans to look for additional partnerships and to increase RiseUp's circulation to eight million this fall. By the first quarter 2009, circulation could be as high as 12 million, she says.
[ This is another attempt to further push pluralism rather than attempt to make the world a better place by encouraging the preservation of culture and ethnicity. The Jewish founder and executive should concentrate on her own people instead. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 05:48 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Mexico's war against drugs is killing its police
Opposition politicians and even some police officials have begun to question whether the president's ambition has exceeded his grasp, with dangerous and destabilizing consequences for a country that shares a 3,200-kilometer, or 2,000-mile, border with the United States. Bush administration officials have said Calderon's efforts might founder unless the U.S. Congress approves a $1.4 billion package of equipment and training over three years for the Mexican police.
Top security officials who were once thought untouchable have been gunned down in Mexico City, four in the last month alone. Drug dealers killed another seven federal agents this year in retaliation for drug busts in border towns. Others have died in shootouts.
Drug traffickers have killed at least 170 local police officers, among them at least a score of municipal police commanders, since Calderon took office. Some were believed to have been corrupt officers who had sold out to drug gangs and were killed by rival gangsters, investigators say. Others were killed for doing their jobs.
[ If the gangsters aren't eradicated they will continue to spread corruption and crime. Hang some corpses of them around in public view or some such atrocity. Only terror works on these people. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 05:39 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
What Is The Value Of Biodiversity To Our Collective Future?
What will the loss of biodiversity cost us in the long term? How much do national economies need to invest now in order to stop the trend? And what price will we have to pay if we do not act? These are the questions the TEEB - The Economics of Eco-systems and Biodiversity - project is seeking to answer.
The pilot study led by Pavan Sukhdev, who is head of Deutsche Bank's Global Market Centre in London, was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) and the European Union. The BMU asked the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) to co-manage the scientific contributions to the study. Preliminary results will be presented during the 9th UN Conference on Biological Diversity (COP9) in Bonn, Germany on 29 May.
"The Stern Review changed the way we look at the economic consequences of climate change. It is our hope that the TEEB Report will do the same for biodiversity. It is becoming clear that stopping the extinction of species is not merely a romantic notion, but is actually crucial for human survival."
[ Financial concerns are the only motive for democratic governments and corporations to become environmentally responsible - if it hits their profit margin then they care. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 03:53 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Israel 'has 150 nuclear weapons' says ex president Carter
He also described Israeli treatment of Palestinians as "one of the greatest human rights crimes on earth".
Most experts estimate that Israel has between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads, largely based on information leaked to the Sunday Times newspaper in the 1980s by Mordechai Vanunu, a former worker at the country's Dimona nuclear reactor.
The US, a key ally of Israel, has in general followed the country's policy of "nuclear ambiguity", neither confirming or denying the existence of its assumed arsenal.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert included Israel among a list of nuclear states in comments in December 2006, a week after US Defence Secretary Robert Gates used a similar form of words during a Senate hearing.
[ Why won't the US insist they tell the truth about their nuclear arsenal? It is in the US interest that this would be disclosed - but NOT in the Jewish interest - and that's the only interest the US govenment cares about. ]
nationalist on 05.27.08 @ 01:54 AM CST [more..] [No Comments]
Monday, May 26th
No More Pyrotechnics - rock concerts going slightly greener
Some bands and concert organisers have taken strides to minimise touring's environmental impact. Festivals such as Lollapalooza, an American summer institution, and Britain's massive Glastonbury Festival have switched to biofuel-powered generators. The organisers of last summer's Oshega Festival in Montreal went one step further: they hired Hydro Quebec to supply their main stage with emission-free geothermal energy. Reverb has encouraged organisers to offer reusable aluminum canteens rather than plastic water-bottles, and also set up "Eco-Villages", with information on how to minimise one's carbon footprints, outside concert venues.
This is all very well, but bands still seem more committed to talk than action. The Dave Matthews Band, peripatetic college favourites, made much of its decision in 2006 to use biofuels and emissions reduction credits (ERCs) to make its annual summer tours "carbon neutral". But it still schedules concerts at places like the George Amphitheater, 150 miles east of Seattle and hundreds of miles from any public transport. That produces immense quantities of CO2, half of which will still be there in 100 years.
[ Pathetic! ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 02:05 PM CST [more..]
A desperate new generation driven to drink
Britons drink so much that we now have children admitted to hospital with liver disease. According to a survey by the Office for National Statistics, more 13-year-olds have drunk alcohol than not that's 350,000 13-year-old drinkers in England and Wales alone; I don't expect the figures for Scotland especially buck the trend.
The week before last a 25% rise in crime over three years by girls aged between 10 and 17 was blamed on ladette culture and underage drinking (I don't know why they bother to differentiate: ladette culture is underage drinking).
"The relentless rise in [hospital] admissions involving more and more young people is very bad news," said Professor Roger Williams, a liver specialist at University College London, who added that he and his colleagues were treating people in their twenties and thirties for liver failure and cirrhosis.
The proposed solution shops and supermarkets facing legal curbs on the sale of cut-price alcohol has its heart in the right place, but I don't see how it would really address what has become a problem of epidemic proportions. If people whose definition of enjoyment is drinking can no longer buy cheap booze, they start concocting their own and end up drinking meths or whatever its modern equivalents might be.
[ Curb the subhumans - it's the only solution! ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 12:59 PM CST [more..]
An Asian is murdered: media and police suggest race attack - but it turns out otherwise
An Asian teenager battered to death in a town centre park may have been the victim of a racist gang, it emerged today.
Police are investigating whether there is a link between the boy's death and reports of running battles between two gangs of youths in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, throughout yesterday afternoon.
A source close to the victim's family said that the Bank Holiday had been marred by violence between the warring gangs.
The man, who lives in Dewsbury and did not wish to be named, said: "Stuff went on in the park between different gangs of youths during the day. There was fighting between a white gang and a non white gang."
[ If a white is killed, eg the Harry Potter actor, they won't so much as mention the race of the attackers. It has now emerged that Asians have been arrested in connection with the above attack. But the media managed to get some anti-white propaganda out first. ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 12:54 PM CST [more..]
Anti-tech ants!
Electrical systems in Houston have been failing after a huge influx of ants, according to reports from Associated Press.
The ants are resistant to over-the-counter poisons and have ruined pumping equipment at sewage stations, damaged computers and caused fire alarms to malfunction.
Like many insects, the ants are attracted by electronic devices.
Ants can be a major problem around electrical items as they eat through cable insulation on power lines and congregate on metal conductors, causing shorts in electrical lines, junction boxes, traffic and street lights and air conditioners.
[ Wow are they secret mini robots from Russia?! Heh - the unabomber would be loving it. ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 12:46 PM CST [more..]
Organised crime 'behind illegal fishing'
ORGANISED crime groups around the world and even motorcycle gangs are becoming involved in illegal fishing, lured mainly by demand from China for prized fish species, a study by Australian crime experts said.
The groups from China, Australia, Russia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Japan have all been linked to illegal fishing, with fish stocks either sold illegally or used to launder money, the Australian Institute of Criminology said.
[ Organized crime faces little opposition.]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 09:42 AM CST [more..]
Paris during Nazi occupation was 'one big romp'
A new book which suggests that the German occupation of France encouraged the sexual liberation of women has shocked a country still struggling to come to terms with its troubled history of collaboration with the Nazis.
"It is a taboo subject, a story nobody wants to hear," said Patrick Buisson, author of 1940-1945 Annees Erotiques ("erotic years"). "It may hurt our national pride, but the reality is that people adapted to occupation."
Many might prefer to forget but, with their husbands in prison camps, numerous women slept not only with German soldiers the young "blond barbarians" were particularly attractive to French women, says Buisson but also conducted affairs with anyone else who could help them through financially difficult times: "They gave way to the advances of the boss, to the tradesman they owed money to, their neighbour. In times of rationing, the body is the only renewable, inexhaustible currency."
[ What can we conclude about the French?]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 08:00 AM CST [more..]
Harry Potter actor stabbed to death by negroes
Then two black men in an Audi A3 turned up outside. The bouncers didn't seem to search them.
"It kicked off straight away. One went up to Jamie and said, 'I'm going to get you. I'm going to slit your throat.'
This man threw a chair at Jamie and a big fight erupted.
"We were all trying to get the knife off him. It all spilled outside the bar. He had one in each hand and was just lashing out. It was terrible."
Robert, thought to have three stab wounds to the chest, was declared dead soon after arriving at hospital.
[ The British media were careful not to mention the race of the attackers. Pluralism doesn't work. ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 07:40 AM CST [more..]
Indiana Jones movie upsets communists
Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist in 1957 competing with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.
It hit Russian screens Thursday.
Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 "did not send terrorists to the States," but launched a satellite, "which evoked the admiration of the whole world."
Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday "it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."
[ Many thousands of movies, including Indiana Jones, have portrayed nazis in an offensive light, but we don't make that kind of fuss. These Communists are very sensitive. ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 07:11 AM CST [more..]
No kidding! Climate change spreads to Jupiter, Mars
According to Philip S. Marcus, a professor of fluid dynamics at UC Berkeley, analysis of the Hubble and Keck images may support his 2004 conjecture that Jupiter is in the midst of global climate change that will alter temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler near the south pole.
Mars, too, is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, according to scientists.
Scientists from NASA say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.
Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
[ This should not be seen as an excuse to continue to pollute the planet. Greenhouse gasses still cause climate change and there are still many other problems from ozone depletion, to ocean acidification, and species extinction that are immediate threats. ]
nationalist on 05.26.08 @ 06:50 AM CST [more..]
Sunday, May 25th
Increased U.S. airstrikes in Iraq killing more civilians
A surge in US airstrikes within densely populated areas of Iraq has led to a dramatic rise in civilian casualties.
According to the Washington Post, ever since an attempted crackdown on Shi'ite militias by the Iraqi government in March, which led to increased attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad that killed some Americans, the US military has been firing missiles almost every day into the crowded Shi'ite slum of Sadr City.
Residents describe the attacks as indiscriminate and say they have led to many civilian deaths. However, the US Army states that they choose their targets carefully and often refrain from firing for fear of civilian casualties.
[ Sounds like some sort of revenge - and to make those who attack Americans fear the consequences. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 12:28 PM CST [more..]
US political author Norman Finkelstein denied entry to Israel
Jerusalem - The US political author and critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein was denied entry to the Jewish state on Friday, his lawyer said.
Finkelstein landed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv in the early morning and was told by a representative of the ministry of interior that he would not be allowed into the country on 'security' grounds, attorney Michael Sfard told dpa.
'This usually means a 10-year ban on entry,' Sfard added.
Finkelstein, who is Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, has written critical books on Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories and on what he called 'exploitation' of the Jewish tragedy during World War II.
Finkelstein has received with the fierce disapproval of some authors and academics, while others have praised his controversial works.
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 12:14 PM CST [more..]
Italians bulldoze mosque, create Oriana Fallaci Square in its place
This decision was taken by the committee of Oppeano (Verona, Italy), where yesterday morning a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed. In its place, the Municipality will create a public square named after the writer of The Rage and the Pride, which promoted a bitter campaign against Islam.
The decision to raze the structure which had been opened by ONLUS [translator’s note: Organizzazione Non Lucrativa di Utilita’ Sociale, a non-profit registered Italian charity] "For the success of Muslims", was taken by the municipal administration, which acquired the area for €70,000 in order to transform it into an open area for parking and green space.
"My citizens did not want this takeover," explained the mayor, Alessandro Montagnoli, deputy of the Lega Nord, "above all because it could create problems of practicability and cohabitation with the residents."
[ The Italians have been really making postive strides lately! ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 12:09 PM CST [more..]
Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare
Breault cut her driving time in half. She switched to a diet of locally grown foods near her upstate New York home and lost 70 pounds. She sliced up her credit cards, banished her television and swore off plane travel. She began relying on a wood-burning stove.
"I was panic-stricken," the 50-year-old recalled, her voice shaking. "Devastated. Depressed. Afraid. Vulnerable. Weak. Alone. Just terrible."
These energy survivalists are not leading some sort of green revolution meant to save the planet. Many of them believe it is too late for that, seeing signs in soaring fuel and food prices and a faltering U.S. economy, and are largely focused on saving themselves.
Some are doing it quietly, giving few details of their preparations â€" afraid that revealing such information as the location of their supplies will endanger themselves and their loved ones. They envision a future in which the nation's cities will be filled with hungry, desperate refugees forced to go looking for food, shelter and water.
[ People have various strategies for behavior, and we need that kind of variation, because in nature disasters and extinctions happen and if everyone did the same thing then it would be like putting all your eggs in the same basket. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 12:05 PM CST [more..]
Does course on Islam give law enforcers wrong idea?
Bukhari believes the need for police training on issues of profiling and bias was highlighted by an incident last summer in which the FBI launched an international search for two men who took photos below deck on a Washington state ferry. The FBI announced earlier this month that the men were tourists, not terrorists.
Bukhari said law-enforcement agencies need to learn about Islam, but not just in the context of terrorism.
But Solomon Bradman, CEO of Security Solutions International, which is conducting the program, said, "I can't take the responsibility of my course linking their religion to terrorism. I think their religion got linked to terrorism a long time ago."
The purpose of the course, Bradman said, is to teach officers how to protect people from terrorism. His company has provided training to hundreds of agencies, including the FBI, the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.
[ American Jews (eg Solomon Bradman) would clearly prefer the police to take a suspicious view of Muslims, since any terrorist threat to them would almost certainly come from such people. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 11:56 AM CST [more..]
Fake border crossing the new outdoor adventure
Gunshots ring out and sirens shriek, mixing with the ragged breath of muddy, panting humans. Suddenly, the full moon sweeping the ground like a searchlight reveals a disturbing scene: a group of illegal immigrants being handcuffed and led away by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
But the U.S. border is 700 miles from this rugged municipal park in Hidalgo state, a three-hour drive north of Mexico City. The spectacle unfolding here isn't an actual border crossing attempt but a live simulation-adventure that attempts to give participants a taste of what it's like for the thousands of Mexican and other Latin American undocumented migrants trying to enter the promised land of "el norte."
Dubbed the "Caminata Nocturna" (Night Hike), the three-hour simulation is a combination obstacle course, sociology lesson and PG-rated family outing. Founded in 2004, it's run by members of a local village of Hnahnu Indians, an indigenous people of south-central Mexico, whose population of about 2,500 has been decimated by migration to the United States
"It's part of our culture, and it's important to know it," said Sergio Mendieta, a secondary school teacher from the state of Mexico.
[ Being an illegal immigrant is part of Mexican culture?! ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 09:23 AM CST [more..]
Americans have identities stolen by illegal immigrants and are hit with massive tax bills
As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007- one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access to jobs, credit, and driver’s licenses, many undocumented aliens are using the personal data of real Americans on forged documents. The immigrants' identity theft has become so pervasive that the need to combat it is "a disturbing front in the war against illegal immigration," according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Americans who have their identity stolen by these gangs are in for major headaches. Among the complaints filed with the FTC is that of a Texas man arrested for a crime committed by an illegal alien who had filched his identity. In another case, highlighted by Nevada senator John Ensign in last year's immigration-reform debate in Congress, the Internal Revenue Service hit a woman with a $1 million back-tax bill, even though she was a stay-at-home mom. An investigation later found that 218 illegal aliens were using her Social Security number. A Los Angeles police detectiveâ€"who, ironically, worked in the department's fraud bureauâ€"was unable to buy a home because of bills piled up by an illegal immigrant who stole his Social Security number to gain employment at a processing plant. Then the IRS served the cop with a bill for $40,000 in back taxes; when he protested, the agency threatened to send his case to collection. Other legal residents have had their unemployment claims or workers' compensation cases rejected after government records showed that someone with their Social Security number was working.
[ the country is falling apart ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 09:13 AM CST [more..]
Jew Praises Liberal Guilt - especially inherited guilt
Critics of Obama supporters who use the phrase "guilty liberal" or "liberal guilt" in a condescending, above-it-all manner suggest there's something weak about feeling guilt; they paint a trivializing, Woody Allen caricature of it.
Actually, I think it requires a kind of strength, not weakness, to face the ugly truths of history and to react to them in an honest way. "Liberal guilt" isn't a reason one must automatically support a black candidate, but that doesn't mean that liberal guilt-better defined as an awareness of the need to contend with, and overcome, a racist past-shouldn't be a factor in politics.
Of course, it's not enough just to feel guilty or to act on guilt alone. But guilt can often spur us to deal with the enduring consequences of the injustices of the past and force us not to pretend there are none.
[ The problem is that this is a case of feeling guilt where one is entirely innocent of that crime which one is being made to feel guilty about. The Jew who wrote the piece also wrote a book called "Explaning Hitler" - see the connection? ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 08:58 AM CST [more..]
German Left Wing May Have Ties to Colombian Extremists
According to data found on a laptop confiscated by Colombian authorities, the terrorist group FARC may have had ties to left-wing politicians in Germany. E-mails found on the computer, confiscated after the recent killing of FARC commander Reyes, show that his son visited Berlin.
The Colombian guerrilla group FARC isn't just well connected in the region. According to e-mails found on the laptop of the recently killed FARC commander Raúl Reyes, the group, listed by the European Union as a terrorist organization, also has close ties to the far left in Germany.
E-mails on the computer indicate that, according to "Roberto," Gehrcke suggested that the PDS could back a bid in the European Parliament to remove FARC from the list of terrorist organizations. "It was a very positive meeting," "Roberto" wrote. "We were able to solidify a number of points to reactivate the solidarity with the fight of the Colombian people."
[ This just shows a split that has happened, with conscientious "Leftists" falling out of love with Israel and the US/Israel globalisation plan, a plan that only got the momentum it now has thanks to the blindness of the "useful idiot" Leftists of previous decades. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 02:48 AM CST [more..]
What Would It Cost to Save Nature?
"This forest stores carbon dioxide, and thus helps to slow down global warming. It regulates the global water supply and holds valuable pharmaceuticals," says Schipulle, a veteran environmentalist who works for the German government. "We must finally realize that these are services that are worth something to us."
Schipulle is in the region on a sensitive mission. Since December, he has headed the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), a group founded by Americans, Europeans and the countries along the Congo River. The alliance aims to prevent the Congo basin from being plundered and transformed into oil palm and coffee plantations by mid-century. The Congo rainforest is still largely in one piece, but investors from around the world have already discovered the region's potential for big business -- ore, diamonds, plantations and lumber. But Schipulle and his partners have other plans for the Congo basin. They want international financial institutions or the world community to fork over money to preserve the rainforest as it is today. The threat of clear-cutting poses a double risk for the world. First, destroying the Congo rainforest would eliminate one of the earth's most important cooling systems. Second, the carbon dioxide (CO2) released as a result of slash-and-burn agriculture would further accelerate global warming.
An Emissions Trading Market for the Congo Rainforest
Schipulle firmly believes in this vision. The World Bank already plans to incorporate the entire Congo basin into its Forest Carbon Partnership program. The Washington-based organization wants to enter the emissions trading market with the CO2 stored by the Congo rainforest. Because deforestation in tropical regions is responsible for about 20 percent of climate change, protecting the forest is synonymous with protecting the climate -- and the world community is increasingly willing to pay a lot of money to make that happen.
[ These ideas must push forward before the demograph who care about such things and have the will to act become too few in number. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 02:41 AM CST [more..]
Race And Conspicuous Consumption
To examine spending by racial groups, Roussanov and his colleagues studied data collected from 1986 to 2002 for the Consumer Expenditure Survey conducted by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Blacks and Hispanics spend up to 30% more than whites of comparable income on visible goods like clothing, cars and jewelry, the researchers found. This meant that, compared to white households of similar income, the typical black and Hispanic household spent $2,300 more per year on visible items. To do that, they spent less on almost all other categories (except housing), and they saved less.
Visible items are those others can see when one is in public. The researchers found that blacks and Hispanics do not spend more than whites on items such as home furnishings that could serve as status symbols but aren't seen by as many people.
This may explain the chief exception the researchers found in the data: Older people don't spend more on visible goods, even if their incomes are the same as those of younger people who do. Perhaps it's the wisdom of age, or the fact that older people grew up in "different
times." But it's more likely, says Roussanov, that older people, regardless of their community, don't need status symbols as much because they're generally not out hunting for jobs and mates.
[ Non whites living in the west leave have a bigger negative effect on the environment, both socially, genetically and in terms of their impact on the ecology. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 02:36 AM CST [more..]
Police chief says immigration figures are wrong and predicts "tension"
THE credit crunch could lead to violence and rising tensions in our communities as migrants and Britons face fewer jobs, a chief constable warned yesterday.
Vietnamese drug dealers are gaining Bulgarian passports to make it easier to get into Britain as EU citizens. Similarly, Russians are posing as Poles, she said.
Julie Spence also indicated the true number of East European workers who have flocked here could be more than 1.4million.
She said she didn't trust "poor" Government figures and said the number of Eastern European
workers could be underestimated by up to two-thirds.
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 02:30 AM CST [more..]
UK passport is handed out every three minutes - the nation is being deliberately destroyed
What is so depressing is that the change cannot be undone. Labour has wreaked havoc on many fronts, including crime, tax, welfare, bureaucracy and education. But in all those, the damage can be reversed if the political will exists.
In contrast, the demographic shift will continue to accelerate, particularly because two-thirds of immigrants hail from Asia and Africa and their families tend to have far higher birth rates than the indigenous population. In the coming years, the wail of the mosque and the sound of gunfire will become ever louder in urban Britain.
The Labour Government is often accused of "incompetence" on immigration, as if the collapse of our borders was the result of a ministerial oversight. But this is a mistaken belief. In truth, Labour's promotion of unprecedented levels of migration has been a cynical, deliberate strategy designed to alter permanently the structure of our nation.
The gang of socialist ideologues who have been in charge of Britain for the past decade have never been concerned with the national interest. They have been obsessed with refashioning society.
[ This is a great article apart from the defeatest message. Yes we can still undo these changes, but time is running out. ]
nationalist on 05.25.08 @ 02:15 AM CST [more..]
Saturday, May 24th
Tens of thousands of immigrants flee for home
South Africa's bloodletting is a long way from the ethnic killings of Rwanda and Kenya. But at least 43 people have been murdered and tens of thousands forced from their homes as mobs hunted down African immigrants in a dozen Johannesburg suburbs and satellite townships. With it has come looting and rape.
Thousands of immigrants are fleeing home. About 15,000 Mozambicans crossed the border back to their country on Thursday alone. Others packed Johannesburg's bus and train stations looking for a way out. Many thousands are crammed into police compounds and community halls.
More than 2,000 immigrants, mostly Zimbabweans, are sheltering at the Central Methodist Church. They fill every space, sleeping on the pews, in the corridors, on the stairs. About a third are women and children. Makeshift defensive weapons are everywhere - bricks, wood from broken chairs, metal bars.
[ What would happen if people in western nations tried to drive out immigrants like that? We are told it's not nice behavior so we let the immigrants walk all over us instead. ]
nationalist on 05.24.08 @ 01:36 AM CST [more..]
Chinese government repatriates "economic migrant" partner in any Chinese couple
Take Sun Hwa (not her real name), a seven-year old girl, for example. She was born in China, to a Chinese father and a North Korean mother. Under Chinese law, she is entitled to Chinese nationality at birth.
But it wasn't until a few months ago that she was registered under the Chinese household registration system or hukou. Sun Hwa's father had faced two terrible options: registering her at the risk of exposing her North Korean mother, who could then be arrested and repatriated, or not registering her, and thus denying his daughter a legal identity and legal access to education.
The concerns faced by Sun Hwa's parents are not unfounded. For years, China has been arresting and summarily repatriating many North Korean women living with Chinese men, including those with children.
[ We hear very little of China's eugenic policies because, although it conveniently demonizes China, it also brings the idea of eugenics forward in western nations. ]
nationalist on 05.24.08 @ 12:57 AM CST [more..]
Sun lotions help to kill coral reefs
Tourists heading to the tropics were warned yesterday that their suntan lotion can kill off one of the main attractions of their holiday - the colourful corals that thrive in warmer waters. Residues from sunscreens that wash off in the sea were shown by researchers to cause coral bleaching, a condition that leads to the death of the organism and the collapse of delicate ocean eco-systems.
Chemical compounds that make up the ultra-violet (UV) filters in sunscreens, which are essential to protect the skin against burning, were shown to be harmful to coral reefs, even in small quantities.The researchers called for regulations to limit human contact with reefs where the coral was already suffering from other environmental threats such as rising sea temperatures.
[ It's going to be hard to keep tourists out of the water or make them leave off the suncream. ]
nationalist on 05.24.08 @ 12:46 AM CST [more..]
Buy a car and get a free gun offer
A US car dealer has seen his sales soar after he launched a promotion offering customers a free handgun with every car.
Max Motors, a small car dealer in Butler, Missouri in the US Midwest, has seen sales quadruple since the introduction this week of a scheme offering customers either a $250 voucher for a gun or the alternative of a gas card.
Mark Muller, the owner of the dealership, said that he had sold more than 30 cars and trucks in the past three days but only two customers had opted for the gas card.
"We did it because of Barack Obama," Mr Muller said, referring to the Democratic presidential hopeful. "He said all those people in the Midwest, you've got to have compassion for them because they’re clinging to their guns and their Bibles. I found that quite offensive."
[ People shouldn't be encouraged to buy cars.]
nationalist on 05.24.08 @ 12:41 AM CST [more..]
Israeli fighter pilots threatened to blast Tony Blair's jet out of sky
Tony Blair came within moments of being killed when two Israeli fighter aircraft threatened to shoot down a private jet taking him to a Middle East conference in the belief that it might have been staging a terrorist attack.
The warplanes were scrambled to intercept after the jet pilot failed to contact air traffic control. Mr Blair, the international community's envoy to the Middle East, was flying from the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to attend a major conference on private investment in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem.
The Israeli aircraft used to intercept Mr Blair's plane would have been versions of the F16 or F15, armed with Shafrir and Python air-to-air missiles. Both missiles have proved to be devastatingly effective and versatile. The Shafrir 2 missile shot down nearly 100 aircraft in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
[ It would have been poetic justice had they blown up the plane. ]
nationalist on 05.24.08 @ 12:37 AM CST [more..]
Friday, May 23rd
Truth about mass killings in Korea revealed
Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.
With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and as North Korean invaders pushed down the peninsula, the southern army and police emptied South Korean prisons, lined up detainees and shot them in the head, dumping the bodies into hastily dug trenches. Others were thrown into abandoned mines or into the sea. Women and children were among those killed. Many victims never faced charges or trial.
The mass executions --intended to keep possible southern leftists from reinforcing the northerners -- were carried out over mere weeks and were largely hidden from history for a half-century. They were "the most tragic and brutal chapter of the Korean War," said historian Kim Dong-choon, a member of a 2-year-old government commission investigating the killings.
Hundreds of sets of remains have been uncovered so far, but researchers say they are only a tiny fraction of the deaths. The commission estimates at least 100,000 people were executed, in a South Korean population of 20 million.
That estimate is based on projections from local surveys and is "very conservative," said Kim. The true toll may be twice that or more, he told The Associated Press.
[ America is largely to blame for this war crime. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 09:07 AM CST [more..]
Threat of Another Riot in Crown Heights Called Overblown
The executive vice president of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Rabbi Chanina Sperlin, seemed mystified at the idea that relations between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights are deteriorating.
"I don't think we have problems with our African-American neighbors," he said. "The problem is gangs from outside."
Rabbi Sperlin downplayed reports of daily attacks against Jews in the neighborhood that elected officials have cited as the reason for their concern.
"What could I tell you: Last night there was no assault, the night before there was no assault," he said, although he did acknowledge that last week there had been three confrontations.
[ Perhaps the fears are down to paranoia. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 08:59 AM CST [more..]
TDSB gives final approval for Afrocentric school
The Toronto District School Board debated last night a host of measures aimed at making schools safer, and gave final approval to establishing an Afrocentric elementary school in North York by 2009.
Trustee Stephnie Payne called the safety plan unveiled this week in response to the school shooting death of 15-year-old Jordan Manners "a watered-down document," which she said lacked community consultation. "I understand the Manners family was not pleased," said Ms. Payne. "How do you expect to get buy-in
from the community.... If there is no community consultation?"
And she expressed concerns about promises for a "police presence" in schools, which she said would make students afraid to attend.
Trustee Chris Bolton said the plan was "an honest" response to a January school safety report that exposed alarming levels of gun, and sexual violence in Toronto high schools.
[ Any gun or sexual violence whatsoever in a school is alarming. This is where pluralism gets us. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 08:54 AM CST [more..]
Racist posters in parts of Phila. deemed legal
Racist posters put up in Port Richmond and Northeast Philadelphia were "repugnant," but still legal, the city's Commission on Human Relations said yesterday.
The poster features a photo of slain Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, who was killed while trying to apprehend bank robbers earlier this month in Port Richmond.
The poster also shows three other white Philadelphia police officers killed in the line of duty, and the three black men charged in their deaths. It reads: "Guns don't kill people. Dangerous minorities do. How much longer can you ignore this?"
A local group calling itself the Keystone State Skinheads took credit for the posters.
[ What's more offensive: such posters or the number of dangerous "minorities" ? Pluralism doesn't work. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 05:36 AM CST [more..]
Can Obama win over Jewish voters?
Barack Obama on Thursday promised "an unshakable commitment to Israel's security" as he sought to reassure doubtful Jewish voters. He also said he hopes to help improve relations between American blacks and Jews.
In a passionate appearance at a synagogue, Obama courted Jewish voters by reaffirming his opposition to negotiating with the militant Palestinian group Hamas and said talks with Iranian leaders could help strengthen Israeli security.
[ Wasn't long ago that Obama was selling himself on the basis that he WOULD talk to Hamas. Now he has figured out that if the Jews don't love you, you can forget about being President. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 04:22 AM CST [more..]
Texas seizure of polygamist-sect kids thrown out
Texas - An appellate court decision upended the custody case that sent more than 440 children from a polygamist sect's ranch into foster care, but it's not clear whether the children might soon return home.
The Third Court of Appeals in Austin said the state failed to show the youngsters were in any immediate danger, the only grounds under Texas law for taking children from their parents without court action.
Texas District Judge Barbara Walther now has 10 days to release the youngsters from custody, but the state could appeal to the Texas Supreme Court and keep the children from immediately going back to their parents.
[ The whole event is a fiasco. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 04:16 AM CST [more..]
Egyptian press blasts Bush over 'Torah-inspired' Knesset speech
Egypt's state-owned press opened fire Saturday on U.S. President George W. Bush as he arrived for talks with regional leaders at the conclusion of a five-day Mideast tour.
The newspapers, whose management are all appointed by the government, criticized Bush's speech Thursday in front of the Israeli Knesset for being overly supportive of the Israelis and not mentioning the Palestinians' plight.
"The Torah-inspired speech of Bush raised question marks over the credibility of the U.S. role in the Middle East," wrote Mursi Atallah, the publisher of Al-Ahram, the flagship daily of the state-owned press. "Bush aims to do nothing but appeasing Israel."
[ Yep. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 03:46 AM CST [more..]
Feds: Drugs made at kosher meat plant
Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work.
The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa.
According to the application, a former plant supervisor told investigators that some 80 percent of the workforce was illegal. They included rabbis responsible for kosher supervision, who the source believed entered the United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. The source did not provide evidence for his suspicion about the rabbis.
The source also claimed to have confronted a human resources manager with Social Security cards from three employees that had the same number. The manager laughed when the matter was raised, the source said.
[ They must have been surprised they got raided. ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 03:40 AM CST [more..]
Unapologetic Hagee Says Hitler Statement Was "Mischaracterized"
Pastor John Hagee said on Thursday that his controversial sermon, in which he said Hitler was fulfilling God's will for a state of Israel, had been "intentionally mischaracterized" and constituted a "gross example of bias." In a statement to The Huffington Post, he did not apologize for or distance himself from the sermon, saying simply that he had long grappled with how God "who controls what happens here on earth" could allow the Holocaust.
"To assert that I in any way condone the Holocaust or that monster Adolf Hitler is the biggest and ugliest of lies," Hagee wrote. "I have always condemned the horrors of the Holocaust in the strongest of terms. But even more importantly, my abhorrence of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism has never stopped with mere words."
The Huffington Post, which reported the story after it was first revealed by Talk To Action's Bruce Wilson, never wrote that Hagee condoned the Holocaust. Rather, the story, highlighting a more than two-minute section from the Reverend's sermon, The Battle of Jerusalem, noted that Hagee had posited that Adolph Hitler had been a "hunter" who was tasked with expediting God's will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel.
[ Hagee is "McCain's Pastor" and much more of a lunatic than "Obama's pastor" ]
nationalist on 05.23.08 @ 03:13 AM CST [more..]
Thursday, May 22nd
Aussies lose millions to Nigerian scams
Nigerian authorities are presently prosecuting nine "advance fee" fraudsters who conned unsuspecting Queenslanders, but millions of dollars continue to flow out to African scammers, Queensland Police warns.
"Unfortunately, we see more more money leaving our shores every day," Detective Superintendent Brian Hay, operations commander of the Fraud and Corporate Crime Group, said.
"Just last week, I was on the phone to a person who had sent $585,000 believing he was involved with a pipeline business venture with Nigerian government officials.
"This was an intelligent, articulate man who was successfully self-employed, yet I had difficulty persuading him not to send any more money."
[ Anyone fooled like this must have part of their brain missing. ]
nationalist on 05.22.08 @ 12:35 PM CST [more..]
Berlin is Washington's vassal until 2099?
Top intelligence officers rarely reveal secret strings, pulling the nation's political mechanism. Publication of a book like The German card. The obscure game of secret services, authored by Gerd-Helmut Komossa (Gerd-Helmut Komossa. DIE DEUTSCHE KARTE. Das verdeckte Spiel der geheimen Dienste. Ares-Verlag, Graz 2007. â€" 230 S.), is an exceptional occurrence. Raising very sensitive issues, the author appeals to the core of German identity that had been deliberately suppressed for decades by the United States and its allies.
The book is focused on contradictions between the United States and Germany, sometimes very strong but not supposed to be discussed in public. It was published in Austria, and its distribution in Germany may encounter certain difficulties today. Still, the very fact of its appearance indicates that the German intelligence community is increasingly dissatisfied with the role of a vassal of the United States (the definition applied to Europe by Zbigniew Brzezinski), imposed on Western Germany after World War II.
Gerd-Helmut Komossa reveals the uncomfortable truth about the post-war conditions, dictated by the US and its allies. The state treaty, dated May 21, 1949 and classified by BND as top secret, suggests restrictions of state sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany, introduced for a period until 2099. These restrictions include the provision that the winning coalition exercise complete control over Germany's mass media and communications; that every Federal Chancellor is to sign the so-called Chancellor Act; that the gold reserve of Germany is kept under arrest.
[ I doubt Britain even needed to come under any secret agreement to be a vassal state of America yet it is so, and likewise for other European countries - indeed the EU itself. But the news about Germany is proof, and may wake people up a little. ]
nationalist on 05.22.08 @ 09:49 AM CST [more..]
In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims
This prison is majority Muslim -- as is virtually every house of incarceration in France. About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country's prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders, sociologists and researchers, though Muslims make up only about 12 percent of the country's population.
On a continent where immigrants and the children of immigrants are disproportionately represented in almost every prison system, the French figures are the most marked, according to researchers, criminologists and Muslim leaders.
[ This should particularly surprise Americans since Muslims are such a small minority in the US and are not associated with criminality. ]
nationalist on 05.22.08 @ 05:31 AM CST [more..]
George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider
Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades.
[ Just note that this is someone who was very high up in the government - so it intriguing that he is saying the things he does in this interview with Alex Jones, and also that the fact he gave such an interview should hqve been publicised in mainstream western paper, if only to ridicule him, yet all such sources are silent on the story. Instead it is appearing in the Pakistan Daily. ]
nationalist on 05.22.08 @ 05:24 AM CST [more..]
South African anti-immigrant violence spreads
President Thabo Mbeki tonight ordered troops into South Africa's troubled townships as violence against black migrant workers spread across the country, threatening the city of Cape Town.
President Thabo Mbeki has announced the establishment of a "special committee" to examine the causes of the violence but his own government's failings to address the widespread poverty within South Africa itself and deal with the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe are blamed by opposition parties, human rights groups and NGOs.
The Institute of Race Relations issued a scathing indictment on Mbeki's style of government, listing rampant crime, unemployment, education and corruption as they key areas where his government had failed.
"In failing to maintain the rule of law, the state had conditioned many poor communities to violent behaviour," the Institute said.
[ A better leader would be a tyrant, although all African leaders are corrupt. After all the violence in Zimbabwe, by contrast, is instigated by their leader, Mugabe. Mbeke is just a bum who can't control his country and can't be bothered to. ]
nationalist on 05.22.08 @ 04:46 AM CST [more..]
Kenyan Officials: Mob Burned to Death 11 People Accused of Witchcraft
A group of up to 300 young men have burned to death 11 people suspected of being witches and wizards in western Kenya in some cases slitting their victims' throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said.
The gang moved from home to home through two villages, iden