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Saturday, May 17th
The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating hate speech laws and held overnight before being released, a spokeswoman for his publisher Uitgeverij Xtra said.
"He was arrested with a great show of force, by around 10 policemen," the spokeswoman said.
[ Holland is a land of many freedoms, as long as they are decadent or support pluralism. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 09:08 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Monash University professor Andrew Markus said raw immigration numbers masked the magnitude of a demographic revolution that had produced a population where one in four residents was born overseas.
At 24 per cent, the overseas-born proportion of the population is twice that of the US at 12 per cent, and three times that of England and Wales at 8 per cent, where racial tensions have flared again.
[ If White Australians haven't the will to preserve their ethnicity and land then they will go "down under". ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:58 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
MP Roger Godsiff (Lab Sparkbrook and Small Heath) called for an inquiry to discover why police had targeted Channel 4, broadcaster of the Dispatches documentary, instead of prosecuting the "religious and racial hatred" uncovered by the programme.
The documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, broadcast in January 2007, showed preachers and teachers stating "Allah created the woman deficient" and "by the age of 10, it becomes an obligation on us to force her (young girls) to wear hijab and if she doesn’t wear hijab, we hit her".
Other statements included "take that homosexual and throw him off the mountain" and "whoever changes his religion from Al Islam to anything else - kill him in the Islamic state".
[ The police were confused - any criticism of ethnic minorities is a hate crime surely? ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:44 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
It would bar so-called "sanctuary cities," authorize state troopers to be trained to enforce federal immigration laws, and require driver's license tests be given in English.
But it also contains an amendment that leaders in the State House don't like.
That amendment would fine employers who misclassify undocumented workers as "contractors" up to $50,000.
[ Hopefully a trend that will catch on all over the US. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
A U.N. panel which examined the U.S. record on racial discrimination last March urged the United States to halt racial profiling of Americans of Arab, Muslim and South Asian descent and to ensure immigrants and non-nationals are not mistreated.
It also said America should impose a moratorium on the death penalty and stop sentencing young offenders to life in prison until it can root out racial bias from its justice system.
[ What is meant is that the only possible explanation for more blacks being jailed than whites is racial prejudice and hatred. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:26 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Recidivism is so overwhelming, the U.S. Justice Department found, that "two out of three inmates are rearrested within three years of being released from prison. Just over half are reincarcerated."
"We're focusing on decreasing the risks of performing another crime," Leaphart said.
[ Eugenics is one answer. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 06:19 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Dutch cartoonist arrested for 'insulting people'
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work, authorities said Friday.The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating hate speech laws and held overnight before being released, a spokeswoman for his publisher Uitgeverij Xtra said.
"He was arrested with a great show of force, by around 10 policemen," the spokeswoman said.
[ Holland is a land of many freedoms, as long as they are decadent or support pluralism. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 09:08 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Australia: 'Hidden' migrants drive ethnic change
AUSTRALIA is undergoing an unparalleled movement of people and ethnic change through "hidden immigration", but lacks a comprehensive policy to deal with it, according to an eminent demographer.Monash University professor Andrew Markus said raw immigration numbers masked the magnitude of a demographic revolution that had produced a population where one in four residents was born overseas.
At 24 per cent, the overseas-born proportion of the population is twice that of the US at 12 per cent, and three times that of England and Wales at 8 per cent, where racial tensions have flared again.
[ If White Australians haven't the will to preserve their ethnicity and land then they will go "down under". ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:58 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
TV documentary on Muslims lead to police action against documentary makers - UK
The Home Secretary has come under pressure to investigate the behaviour of West Midlands Police, after the force issued a grovelling apology to documentary-makers who exposed extremism in Birmingham mosques.MP Roger Godsiff (Lab Sparkbrook and Small Heath) called for an inquiry to discover why police had targeted Channel 4, broadcaster of the Dispatches documentary, instead of prosecuting the "religious and racial hatred" uncovered by the programme.
The documentary Dispatches: Undercover Mosque, broadcast in January 2007, showed preachers and teachers stating "Allah created the woman deficient" and "by the age of 10, it becomes an obligation on us to force her (young girls) to wear hijab and if she doesn’t wear hijab, we hit her".
Other statements included "take that homosexual and throw him off the mountain" and "whoever changes his religion from Al Islam to anything else - kill him in the Islamic state".
[ The police were confused - any criticism of ethnic minorities is a hate crime surely? ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:44 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Missouri Senate passes wide-ranging immigration bill
The Missouri Senate has passed a wide-ranging illegal immigration bill.It would bar so-called "sanctuary cities," authorize state troopers to be trained to enforce federal immigration laws, and require driver's license tests be given in English.
But it also contains an amendment that leaders in the State House don't like.
That amendment would fine employers who misclassify undocumented workers as "contractors" up to $50,000.
[ Hopefully a trend that will catch on all over the US. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday
A special U.N. human rights investigator will visit the United States this month to probe racism, an issue that has forced its way into the race to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.A U.N. panel which examined the U.S. record on racial discrimination last March urged the United States to halt racial profiling of Americans of Arab, Muslim and South Asian descent and to ensure immigrants and non-nationals are not mistreated.
It also said America should impose a moratorium on the death penalty and stop sentencing young offenders to life in prison until it can root out racial bias from its justice system.
[ What is meant is that the only possible explanation for more blacks being jailed than whites is racial prejudice and hatred. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 08:26 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Nutter hopes to stop the "staggering" recidivism rate
Today, a newly released national report on the re-entry of ex-offenders should come in handy at Mayor Nutter's "Re-entry Summit" at Temple University Health System, where 300 people are gathering to address the problems of ex-offenders.Recidivism is so overwhelming, the U.S. Justice Department found, that "two out of three inmates are rearrested within three years of being released from prison. Just over half are reincarcerated."
"We're focusing on decreasing the risks of performing another crime," Leaphart said.
[ Eugenics is one answer. ]
nationalist on 05.17.08 @ 06:19 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Friday, May 16th
In a policy paper prepared ahead of the President's Conference, "Facing Tomorrow," Professor Chaim Waxman asserted that a sense of "too much overlap, duplication, and non-cooperation" among organizations in the American Jewish establishment is also disillusioning, especially among the younger generation, in regards to Jewish organizational life.
"There is a sense among some that the older established organizations are incapable of making the changes necessary to accomplish what some non-establishment organizations have been able to achieve," he wrote. Waxman also pointed to the perception that the American Jewish establishment seems closed to those "who are not members of the "'old boys club,' the circle of wealthy, old men who are at the helms of most major Jewish organizations." He stressed, however, that these perceptions were just some of the many factors contributing to a decline in communal participation and a general "disillusionment" with the organized Jewish community.
[ Support nationalism, support Israel ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:49 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
[ "Most"? "Propaganda"? These are judgment-terms, not scientific terms. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:40 PM CST [link] [3 Comments]
Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York and scientists at 10 other institutions have linked physical and biological impacts since 1970 with rises in temperatures during that period. The study, to be published May 15 in the journal Nature, concludes human-caused warming is resulting in a broad range of impacts across the globe.
"This is the first study to link global temperature data sets, climate model results, and observed changes in a broad range of physical and biological systems to show the link between humans, climate, and impacts," said Rosenzweig, lead author of the study.
To arrive at the link, the authors built and analyzed a database of more than 29,000 data series pertaining to observed impacts on Earth's natural systems. The data were collected from about 80 studies, each with at least 20 years of records between 1970 and 2004.
[ Yet there are still many thousands who refuse to accept the reality of human caused climate change or even accept the reality of climate change at all. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:31 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
[ Languages should be preserved. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:27 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
While nitrogen alone is inert and harmless, reactive nitrogen compounds - such as ammonia - have been released by its use in nitrogen-based fertilizers and the large-scale burning of fossil fuels.
Various forms of nitrogen contribute to greenhouse warming, smog, haze, acid rain dead zones with little or no life along the coasts, and depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, the researchers concluded.
[ These are all corporate "externalities". Hitler knew this would happen when he said that if the Germans lose the war, it will cause the end of life on Earth. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:19 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
The problem is, even if the Airbus plan works exactly as expected, it won't make a difference in terms of aviation's emissions problem.
Today, aviation uses about 5 million barrels a day of jet kerosene. Assume healthy efficiency gains, and you could still see 12 million barrels a day of jet kero on the tarmac in 2030.
So what would the Airbus algae formula do? Substitute one-third of that, or 4 million. That leaves 8 million barrels a day of old-fashioned kerosene contrails in the sky - almost twice as much as today.
[ Biofuels burn just like fossil fuels... and leave pollutants as well. We're just prolonging the inevitable: the end of cheap growth. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:12 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Marine species have been particularly hard hit as the human population booms, while numbers of birds and, fish and animals have also gone down, said the WWF in a report.
[ Half of all species exist in the rainforests and it looks like they will all be cleared. It's doubful humans will survive after that. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 09:26 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound immediately decried the filing as a mistake, and the lobbying firm later amended it in the US Senate Office of Public Records to eliminate the reference to Oxbow.
"They have their own money," said Brad Goldstein, Oxbow's corporate communications director, who said he would not consider his company to be directly involved in the group's lobbying.
[ Indirectly then - eg. give the money to a middleman first. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 09:20 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
"She was the environment's guardian angel," said Frank Guggenheim, executive director for Greenpeace in Brazil. "Now Brazil's environment is orphaned."
In a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Silva said that her efforts to protect the rainforest acknowledged as the "lungs of the planet" were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies. "Your Excellency was a witness to the growing resistance found by our team in important sectors of the government and society," she wrote.
[ Da Silva shoulders much blame for this. Note how he is a big friend of Israel and the neo con government of the US, while being a "socialist" who should have more in common with Castro and Chavez. He is corrupt and phony. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 09:12 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Tutu, who headed South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing human-rights abuses under apartheid, was here to receive the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation's Lincoln Leadership Prize, presented by Oprah Winfrey.
Unlike in South Africa's apartheid era, he said, where blacks were treated as "nothing," in America, "You say to them, 'You're equal, and the sky's the limit.' And they keep bumping their heads against this thing that's stopping them from reaching out to the stars."
[ That's their innate limitation. Nature is such a fascist. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 08:48 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital emergency rooms, so waiting times have decreased. Although the rest of the country is in an economic slump, unemployment is going down in Arizona, from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in March. Day laborers loitering outside of Home Depot and other stores have mostly disappeared, ending months of confrontation between illegal immigrant sympathizers and protesters. Desert lands near the border are returning to their pristine condition and the wildlife is coming back. Identity theft and car thefts are decreasing. No one showed up on May 1 to march in immigrant rallies.
With illegal immigrants leaving, the state will see huge savings as fewer illegal immigrants use social welfare programs and the cost of arresting, prosecuting, incarcerating and deporting them decreases. Arizona is facing one of the worst budget deficits ever, looming as high as $2 billion in 2009, but the situation may resolve itself.
[ They will taking all these problems to other states. Hopefully those states will also decide to clamp down on illegals. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 08:28 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Obama and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at being compared to the Nazis, especially on a visit to Israel. They also condemned Bush for breaking a long-time convention against using foreign visits to score domestic points.
Obama described it as a "false political attack", saying he had never advocated talking to terrorists, while Joe Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said: "This is bullshit." The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, described Bush's comments as "beneath the dignity of his office".
[ "Obama and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at being compared to the Nazis" That is hilarious! ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:33 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
'Elitist' leadership alienating U.S. Jews, says prominent sociologist
The perception that the American Jewish leadership is "elitist, parochial, self-serving and resistant to innovation," is fueling a decline in Jewish communal participation in the U.S., a leading sociologist said this week.In a policy paper prepared ahead of the President's Conference, "Facing Tomorrow," Professor Chaim Waxman asserted that a sense of "too much overlap, duplication, and non-cooperation" among organizations in the American Jewish establishment is also disillusioning, especially among the younger generation, in regards to Jewish organizational life.
"There is a sense among some that the older established organizations are incapable of making the changes necessary to accomplish what some non-establishment organizations have been able to achieve," he wrote. Waxman also pointed to the perception that the American Jewish establishment seems closed to those "who are not members of the "'old boys club,' the circle of wealthy, old men who are at the helms of most major Jewish organizations." He stressed, however, that these perceptions were just some of the many factors contributing to a decline in communal participation and a general "disillusionment" with the organized Jewish community.
[ Support nationalism, support Israel ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:49 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Islamism being spread to Muslims...(?!)
Though most Muslims reject Islamism and its propaganda, anti-Semitic messages from satellite channels like the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa are helping to bring a message of hate and intolerance to Europe. The effects of such hate preaching can already be felt in Germany.[ "Most"? "Propaganda"? These are judgment-terms, not scientific terms. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:40 PM CST [link] [3 Comments]
NASA study links Earth impacts to human-caused climate change
A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa.Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York and scientists at 10 other institutions have linked physical and biological impacts since 1970 with rises in temperatures during that period. The study, to be published May 15 in the journal Nature, concludes human-caused warming is resulting in a broad range of impacts across the globe.
"This is the first study to link global temperature data sets, climate model results, and observed changes in a broad range of physical and biological systems to show the link between humans, climate, and impacts," said Rosenzweig, lead author of the study.
To arrive at the link, the authors built and analyzed a database of more than 29,000 data series pertaining to observed impacts on Earth's natural systems. The data were collected from about 80 studies, each with at least 20 years of records between 1970 and 2004.
[ Yet there are still many thousands who refuse to accept the reality of human caused climate change or even accept the reality of climate change at all. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:31 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Petition calls for German language boost in European Union
Multilingualism Commissioner Leonard Orban was yesterday (10 April) presented with a petition calling for German to remain on an "equal footing" with English and French as an "EU procedural language".[ Languages should be preserved. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:27 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment
While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.While nitrogen alone is inert and harmless, reactive nitrogen compounds - such as ammonia - have been released by its use in nitrogen-based fertilizers and the large-scale burning of fossil fuels.
Various forms of nitrogen contribute to greenhouse warming, smog, haze, acid rain dead zones with little or no life along the coasts, and depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, the researchers concluded.
[ These are all corporate "externalities". Hitler knew this would happen when he said that if the Germans lose the war, it will cause the end of life on Earth. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:19 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Airbus and Algae: Why Biofuels Won't Cut It
We noted yesterday aviation's uphill battle to replace tradititional and increasingly expensive jet fuel with alternative fuels. Today, Airbus and Honeywell announced a new project to provide one-third of aviation's fuel needs by 2030 using second-generation biofuels made from things like vegetable biomass and algae.The problem is, even if the Airbus plan works exactly as expected, it won't make a difference in terms of aviation's emissions problem.
Today, aviation uses about 5 million barrels a day of jet kerosene. Assume healthy efficiency gains, and you could still see 12 million barrels a day of jet kero on the tarmac in 2030.
So what would the Airbus algae formula do? Substitute one-third of that, or 4 million. That leaves 8 million barrels a day of old-fashioned kerosene contrails in the sky - almost twice as much as today.
[ Biofuels burn just like fossil fuels... and leave pollutants as well. We're just prolonging the inevitable: the end of cheap growth. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:12 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF
The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization.Marine species have been particularly hard hit as the human population booms, while numbers of birds and, fish and animals have also gone down, said the WWF in a report.
[ Half of all species exist in the rainforests and it looks like they will all be cleared. It's doubful humans will survive after that. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 09:26 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Documents link wind farm foes to energy firm
A new lobbying firm for the group opposing a wind farm off Cape Cod filed a federal document last month reporting that its work for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is partially funded and shaped by an international energy conglomerate.The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound immediately decried the filing as a mistake, and the lobbying firm later amended it in the US Senate Office of Public Records to eliminate the reference to Oxbow.
"They have their own money," said Brad Goldstein, Oxbow's corporate communications director, who said he would not consider his company to be directly involved in the group's lobbying.
[ Indirectly then - eg. give the money to a middleman first. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 09:20 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
"Guardian angel" of Brazil's rainforests gives up
Brazil has been accused of turning its back on its duty to protect the Amazon after the resignation of its award-winning Environment Minister fuelled fresh fears over the fate of the forest. The departure of Marina Silva, who admitted she was losing the battle to get green voices heard amidst the rush for economic development, has been greeted with dismay by conservationists."She was the environment's guardian angel," said Frank Guggenheim, executive director for Greenpeace in Brazil. "Now Brazil's environment is orphaned."
In a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Silva said that her efforts to protect the rainforest acknowledged as the "lungs of the planet" were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies. "Your Excellency was a witness to the growing resistance found by our team in important sectors of the government and society," she wrote.
[ Da Silva shoulders much blame for this. Note how he is a big friend of Israel and the neo con government of the US, while being a "socialist" who should have more in common with Castro and Chavez. He is corrupt and phony. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 09:12 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Desmond Tutu: Equality of U.S. blacks an 'illusion'
"You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've ever come across in the world."Tutu, who headed South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission probing human-rights abuses under apartheid, was here to receive the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation's Lincoln Leadership Prize, presented by Oprah Winfrey.
Unlike in South Africa's apartheid era, he said, where blacks were treated as "nothing," in America, "You say to them, 'You're equal, and the sky's the limit.' And they keep bumping their heads against this thing that's stopping them from reaching out to the stars."
[ That's their innate limitation. Nature is such a fascist. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 08:48 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Striking changes in Arizona as illegal immigrants flee the state
Arizona is leading the nation in local enforcement of laws against illegal immigration. As illegal immigrants leave the state, the state's most serious problems such as traffic congestion and the expense of teaching English Language Learner classes are dissipating.Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital emergency rooms, so waiting times have decreased. Although the rest of the country is in an economic slump, unemployment is going down in Arizona, from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in March. Day laborers loitering outside of Home Depot and other stores have mostly disappeared, ending months of confrontation between illegal immigrant sympathizers and protesters. Desert lands near the border are returning to their pristine condition and the wildlife is coming back. Identity theft and car thefts are decreasing. No one showed up on May 1 to march in immigrant rallies.
With illegal immigrants leaving, the state will see huge savings as fewer illegal immigrants use social welfare programs and the cost of arresting, prosecuting, incarcerating and deporting them decreases. Arizona is facing one of the worst budget deficits ever, looming as high as $2 billion in 2009, but the situation may resolve itself.
[ They will taking all these problems to other states. Hopefully those states will also decide to clamp down on illegals. ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 08:28 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Obama outraged by president's claim that talking to US foes in Middle East is like negotiating with Hitler
President George Bush used a visit to Israel yesterday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America's enemies in the Middle East as comparable to appeasement of Hitler. Although Bush did not name any Democratic politician, the party's presidential contender Barack Obama has offered to open negotiations with the Iranian leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.Obama and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at being compared to the Nazis, especially on a visit to Israel. They also condemned Bush for breaking a long-time convention against using foreign visits to score domestic points.
Obama described it as a "false political attack", saying he had never advocated talking to terrorists, while Joe Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, said: "This is bullshit." The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, described Bush's comments as "beneath the dignity of his office".
[ "Obama and other Democratic leaders expressed outrage at being compared to the Nazis" That is hilarious! ]
nationalist on 05.16.08 @ 01:33 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Thursday, May 15th
Refugees in hiding and immigrants without documentation are currently unable to receive care without paying tens of thousands of kronor in healthcare costs.
[ They can expect health tourism from the third world - and the tourists will try to stay permanently. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:33 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Jesus Miguel Huizar, 28, made his first appearance before a federal magistrate Wednesday afternoon.
Emeterio Sigala-Favela and Luis Carlos Chacon-Rubio, both of Chihuahua, Mexico, are also charged in this case.
[ Ethnicity triumphs over patriotism; forget patriotism! ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:28 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
He did not explain how that would be achieved. Bush predicted Iran and Syria would be peaceful nations and that the Islamic militant groups al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas would be defeated.
[ Achievable once Israel learns to live and let live. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:21 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Police arrested 383 people including 268 foreigners, with 53 immediately taken to the border for expulsion, in a week-long operation stretching from northern Italy to the Naples area.
In Libya, police have arrested 240 would-be illegal migrants from several African countries over the past four days as they prepared to sail to Italy, the Interior Ministry said.
Libya is a springboard for hundreds of thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe via Italy on board unseaworthy boats.
[ The Italians need to be doing this every day if they're serious. And a big thank you to Colonel Gaddafi is in order - no one is comparing him to a nazi. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:12 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
There is a shortage of 2 million workers in the Pearl River Delta alone, China's industrial zone abutting Hong Kong, where companies from Adidas to Mattel have their products manufactured. The manufacturers there compete relentlessly for labor, fighting desperately for each worker. This struggle marks a new chapter in the history of globalization.
For a long time, it seemed as if China, with its 1.3 billion people, offered the world an inexhaustible reservoir of low-wage workers.
China's planners know that their country has no future as a low-cost producer. Following in the footsteps of Japan and South Korea, they are converting their industrial base, hoping to catapult Chinese industry to the high-tech level. It is a change that Beijing's communist strategists are promoting as energetically as only dictatorships can.
[ It's amazing how quickly the world is changing. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
[ It's unlikely that these "extremist" views are any more objectionable than those of the wishy washy "Left Party", and that party was already "politically correct" after all. In fact a little more idealism might be a good thing. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:24 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Indians were appalled. According to the IHT, Americans eat 3,770 calories per day on average, whereas Indians average 2,440 per day. Americans also eat by far the most beef, the most energy intensive food source. They ask "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than Indians?"
[ That is too many calories for either group. Indians are naturally smaller in stature than Americans and shouldn't exceed 2000 calories of nutritious food to be at their peak health. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 12:06 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Illegal immigrants in Sweden may get free health care
Migration Minister Tobias Billström hinted that he is open to offering healthcare to immigrants who find themselves in Sweden without proper residence permits.Refugees in hiding and immigrants without documentation are currently unable to receive care without paying tens of thousands of kronor in healthcare costs.
[ They can expect health tourism from the third world - and the tourists will try to stay permanently. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:33 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Border patrol agent arrested, accused of smuggling illegals
A U.S. Border Patrol Agent is under arrest charged with helping run a massive human smuggling ring out of El Paso.Jesus Miguel Huizar, 28, made his first appearance before a federal magistrate Wednesday afternoon.
Emeterio Sigala-Favela and Luis Carlos Chacon-Rubio, both of Chihuahua, Mexico, are also charged in this case.
[ Ethnicity triumphs over patriotism; forget patriotism! ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:28 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Bush predicts rosy scenario for Israel within another 60 years
"Israel will be celebrating the 120th anniversary as one of the world's great democracies, a secure and flourishing homeland for the Jewish people," Bush forecast. "The Palestinian people will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserve â€" a democratic state that is governed by law, and respects human rights, and rejects terror. From Cairo to Riyadh to Baghdad and Beirut, people will live in free and independent societies, where a desire for peace is reinforced by ties of diplomacy and tourism and trade."He did not explain how that would be achieved. Bush predicted Iran and Syria would be peaceful nations and that the Islamic militant groups al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas would be defeated.
[ Achievable once Israel learns to live and let live. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:21 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Italy arrests 400 in illegal immigrants swoop
Italian police announced on Thursday the arrest of hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in a sign of the new right-wing government's determination to clamp down.Police arrested 383 people including 268 foreigners, with 53 immediately taken to the border for expulsion, in a week-long operation stretching from northern Italy to the Naples area.
In Libya, police have arrested 240 would-be illegal migrants from several African countries over the past four days as they prepared to sail to Italy, the Interior Ministry said.
Libya is a springboard for hundreds of thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe via Italy on board unseaworthy boats.
[ The Italians need to be doing this every day if they're serious. And a big thank you to Colonel Gaddafi is in order - no one is comparing him to a nazi. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:12 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Chinese refusing to work for lowest paid jobs - companies relocating to Vietnam
What can Western companies do when China's factory workers start demanding better wages and conditions? Easy -- just transfer production to a cheaper country. China's loss is Vietnam's gain.There is a shortage of 2 million workers in the Pearl River Delta alone, China's industrial zone abutting Hong Kong, where companies from Adidas to Mattel have their products manufactured. The manufacturers there compete relentlessly for labor, fighting desperately for each worker. This struggle marks a new chapter in the history of globalization.
For a long time, it seemed as if China, with its 1.3 billion people, offered the world an inexhaustible reservoir of low-wage workers.
China's planners know that their country has no future as a low-cost producer. Following in the footsteps of Japan and South Korea, they are converting their industrial base, hoping to catapult Chinese industry to the high-tech level. It is a change that Beijing's communist strategists are promoting as energetically as only dictatorships can.
[ It's amazing how quickly the world is changing. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Extremists Have Infiltrated Germany's Left Party, Authorities Warn
Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned of "extremist structures" within the Left Party. A new report lists a number of left-wing extremist factions within the party, including the Communist Platform, the Marxist Forum and a pro-Cuba group.[ It's unlikely that these "extremist" views are any more objectionable than those of the wishy washy "Left Party", and that party was already "politically correct" after all. In fact a little more idealism might be a good thing. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 01:24 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Indians wish to become as obese as Americans
On May 2 George Bush was asked about food prices, and he responded with a common complaint of those in America who think that the rest of the world has too many people and that they are getting to be too middle class, having money to buy cars, electricity and better food. Bush said of India's growing middle class "when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up."Indians were appalled. According to the IHT, Americans eat 3,770 calories per day on average, whereas Indians average 2,440 per day. Americans also eat by far the most beef, the most energy intensive food source. They ask "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than Indians?"
[ That is too many calories for either group. Indians are naturally smaller in stature than Americans and shouldn't exceed 2000 calories of nutritious food to be at their peak health. ]
nationalist on 05.15.08 @ 12:06 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Wednesday, May 14th
"The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,' " recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."
For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.
[ Pluralism doesn't work. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 11:53 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Then came reports earlier this week of Obama canvassers confronting racists in the streets and on the phone.
Last night, more than half of West Virginia's 95% white voters said that they wouldn't be happy if Obama got the nomination. A shockingly large number say they would vote for McCain if he got the nomination.
[ The white vote is a response to seeing that 90% of black people vote for Obama, and that his identity politics: I am black so i am a racial martyr and messenger of christlike peace, defined the campaign. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 01:28 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Arabs employed in the retail businesses or the services is growing, especially in the large chains and the telephone service depots.
Once, before the intifadas and the curfews, Jews would travel to Arab towns to do shopping. Today Arabs come in droves to the Jewish communities to sell in response to the needs of both sides - the economic interests of the employers and the socioeconomic interests of
the workers.
Moshe Rosenblum, CEO of Israel Malls, says the phenomenon stems, among other things, from the shortage of workers. "The chain stores pay minimum wage or a little more than that. A lot of Jews have become choosy, while many of the Arab women prove themselves to be very good sales people," he says. "An Arab salesman is prepared also to clean the
toilets and to work for minimum wage without fringe benefits. Jews, less so," says Adib Yihye, the owner of a manpower company from Kafr Kara.
[ Israel::arabs, usa::mexicans, europe::slavs... migration is finance-driven. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 01:23 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Some want to know why it isn't racist when 70 percent of African-Americans vote for Obama but it is when 70 percent of whites vote against him.
The answer has to do with history. Over the decades, black Americans have had plenty of opportunities to vote for white people for president. And they have done so. But this is the first time that white Americans have a chance to vote for an African-American with a shot at the presidency. And what are they doing?
[ Minorities groups see only race, and now, there's a question of self-interest in white people's actions, so it must be wrong. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 12:52 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
[ Freedom is not what it seems. Some results of freedom are more oppressive than control can be. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 12:47 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
The Nairobi-based agency said the tree planting campaign, inspired by Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai, will help mitigate the effects of pollution and environmental deterioration.
[ The UN did something good for a change! ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 12:39 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
"If I’d turned a paper in grad school using data that was 18 years old, my professors would have said it was an invalid study," Cervera said. "The African American population has increased tremendously."
King acknowledged that not accounting for the increasing black population in Virginia Beach skewed the study toward showing that a higher percentage of blacks were arrested for drugs.
He said the main point of the study remained valid: Blacks still are being arrested more frequently on drug charges. "There are no studies of use, abuse or selling dynamics," he said, "that support the scope of disparity we see."
[ No one is suggesting that those arrested are innocent. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 08:28 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
David Watkins told the African Canadian Diaspora 2008 youth conference at the University of Windsor that when a community is only vaguely aware of its past, it becomes easy for negative assumptions to be foisted upon them.
He said many blacks are unaware of the history of Africa, running back hundreds to thousands of years to when Ethiopia and Zimbabwe were great empires and Africa was "the envied cradle of civilization," boasting the first universities, great religions and a proud people.
"The record companies say throw in some 'nigger, bitch and ho' and we'll take you on," he said. "Gangsta rap is bought 80 per cent by white male college students... It's a construct from outside our community... As educators, we need to deconstruct this mentality and show how we're being manipulated. We've got to replace it with the truth."
[ Whites stole the Black identity and achievements when really Whites were the backward people and Blacks invented civilization. He must hope that message will turn Blacks right around. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 08:21 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Norman acknowledged the imagery's Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent African-American as a monkey.
"We're not living in the (19)40's," he said. "Look at him . . . the hairline, the ears he looks just like Curious George."
About a dozen prostestors rallied against the shirts Tuesday afternoon, condemning them as racist and asking Norman, longtime proprietor of Mulligan's Bar and Grill on Roswell Street, to stop selling them.
[ But there are pictures depicting President Bush as a chimp. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 08:10 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Bombing ranges have become prime hunting grounds for so-called "scrappers," who are motivated by soaring commodity prices to take greater risks in their quest for brass, copper and aluminum. The scavenging causes headaches for the military, which cannot patrol every inch of the remote bases where spent ammunition, shrapnel and unexploded ordnance are easy to find.
[ So shoot them. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 07:06 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Educational romanticism consists of the belief that just about all children who are not doing well in school have the potential to do much better. Correlatively, educational romantics believe that the academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive; that innate intellectual limits (if they exist at all) play a minor role; and that the current K-12 schools have huge room for improvement.
Educational romanticism characterizes reformers of both Left and Right, though in different ways. Educational romantics of the Left focus on race, class, and gender. It is children of color, children of poor parents, and girls whose performance is artificially depressed, and their academic achievement will blossom as soon as they are liberated from the racism, classism, and sexism embedded in American education. Those of the Right see public education as an ineffectual monopoly, and think that educational achievement will blossom when school choice liberates children from politically correct curricula and obdurate teachers’ unions.
[ It's amazing that the outdated view persists that everyone who fails at school must have been environmentally disadvantaged somehow. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:59 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Witnesses to the attack told police Forrest High School sophomore Karl Koch Jr. was targeted because of the color of his skin.
According to the police report, one of the suspects said, "Look at the white boy, he looks like a victim," before punching Koch in the eye.
The report states all three attackers began kicking Koch and then laughed and ran away from the scene.
[ There is an ongoing problem with objections to the school's name, which is associated with the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. The Black attackers go to the school. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:45 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
[ I wonder how free and fair those elections were. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:23 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Granahan's father, Richard, blamed Zeigler for the incident. He told the Daily News for an article in Sunday's editions that Zeigler was parked at a hydrant in Corona, Queens, with the SUV's windows rolled up and the engine off.
The father said that Granahan's partner saw the driver fumble at his waistband and hollered, "Gun!" As Granahan grabbed the door handle, Zeigler stepped out and "smacked Michael's hand," Richard Granahan said.
Zeigler's wife, Neldra, is the NYPD's deputy commissioner for equal employment opportunity.
[ It sounds like an honest mistake which was aggravated by the police chief's arrogant reactions. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:18 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
The annual mean growth rate for 2007 was 2.14ppm - the fourth year in the last six to see an annual rise greater than 2ppm. From 1970 to 2000, the concentration rose by about 1.5ppm each year, but since 2000 the annual rise has leapt to an average 2.1ppm.
Scientists say the shift could indicate that the Earth is losing its natural ability to soak up billions of tonnes of CO2 each year. Climate models assume that about half our future emissions will be reabsorbed by forests and oceans, but the new figures confirm this may be too optimistic.
[ The climate models must be rethought - but politicians can't be expected to act to change the CO2 any more than they are, which isn't enough. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 05:55 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
"Not a whole lot of what we know as archaeology goes on in these movies, except what the Nazis do. They seem to be doing some real archaeological work," said Walsh, who wrote the cover story in the May-June issue of Archaeology magazine examining the real history of crystal skulls featured in the new "Indiana Jones" movie.
[ Nazis are generally portrayed as serious and methodological. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 05:46 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Obama campaingers shocked by "horrible response" from White electorate
Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated."The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,' " recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."
For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.
[ Pluralism doesn't work. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 11:53 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
More than half of West Virginia's 95% white voters said that they wouldn't be happy if Obama got the nomination
Last month after the Pennsylvania caucus, I mentioned a Republican calculation that 15% of white voters would never vote for a Black man. Exit polls gave circumstantial confirmation.Then came reports earlier this week of Obama canvassers confronting racists in the streets and on the phone.
Last night, more than half of West Virginia's 95% white voters said that they wouldn't be happy if Obama got the nomination. A shockingly large number say they would vote for McCain if he got the nomination.
[ The white vote is a response to seeing that 90% of black people vote for Obama, and that his identity politics: I am black so i am a racial martyr and messenger of christlike peace, defined the campaign. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 01:28 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Arabs taking Jews' jobs
Most of the customers do not usually realize that the woman who helps them in the mall to choose a pair of jeans, or the salesman for a hose for the garden, or ink for the printer, is an Arab resident of the Triangle, or Wadi Ara, or Ramle, or Lod or Galilee. But the number ofArabs employed in the retail businesses or the services is growing, especially in the large chains and the telephone service depots.
Once, before the intifadas and the curfews, Jews would travel to Arab towns to do shopping. Today Arabs come in droves to the Jewish communities to sell in response to the needs of both sides - the economic interests of the employers and the socioeconomic interests of
the workers.
Moshe Rosenblum, CEO of Israel Malls, says the phenomenon stems, among other things, from the shortage of workers. "The chain stores pay minimum wage or a little more than that. A lot of Jews have become choosy, while many of the Arab women prove themselves to be very good sales people," he says. "An Arab salesman is prepared also to clean the
toilets and to work for minimum wage without fringe benefits. Jews, less so," says Adib Yihye, the owner of a manpower company from Kafr Kara.
[ Israel::arabs, usa::mexicans, europe::slavs... migration is finance-driven. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 01:23 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
No racism in the presidential election?
Meanwhile, some white Americans are turning themselves inside out to come up with excuses for why they're not supporting Obama. It seems like just yesterday that these folks were arguing there is no racism in the immigration debate, and now they're insisting there is no racism in the presidential election.Some want to know why it isn't racist when 70 percent of African-Americans vote for Obama but it is when 70 percent of whites vote against him.
The answer has to do with history. Over the decades, black Americans have had plenty of opportunities to vote for white people for president. And they have done so. But this is the first time that white Americans have a chance to vote for an African-American with a shot at the presidency. And what are they doing?
[ Minorities groups see only race, and now, there's a question of self-interest in white people's actions, so it must be wrong. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 12:52 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
The Chinese welcome censorship as a protection against depravity, decadence and degeneracy
Many Americans assume that China's internet users are unhappy about their government's control of the internet, but a new survey finds most Chinese say they approve of internet regulation, especially by the government.[ Freedom is not what it seems. Some results of freedom are more oppressive than control can be. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 12:47 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Two billion trees planted in UN campaign
More than two billion trees were planted around the world as part of the UN's campaign to combat climate change, the world body's environment programme (UNEP) said Tuesday in a statement.The Nairobi-based agency said the tree planting campaign, inspired by Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai, will help mitigate the effects of pollution and environmental deterioration.
[ The UN did something good for a change! ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 12:39 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Beach disputes study on racial bias in arrests
The most obvious flaw in the study, police said, is that all the figures are derived using the city's 1990 U.S. census racial breakdown of 10 percent black and about 86 percent white. By the 2000 census, Virginia Beach was 19 percent black and about 71 percent white. The black population in 2006 was estimated at about 20 percent of the total."If I’d turned a paper in grad school using data that was 18 years old, my professors would have said it was an invalid study," Cervera said. "The African American population has increased tremendously."
King acknowledged that not accounting for the increasing black population in Virginia Beach skewed the study toward showing that a higher percentage of blacks were arrested for drugs.
He said the main point of the study remained valid: Blacks still are being arrested more frequently on drug charges. "There are no studies of use, abuse or selling dynamics," he said, "that support the scope of disparity we see."
[ No one is suggesting that those arrested are innocent. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 08:28 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Negative images harm black youth, forum told
Black youth must gain a greater knowledge of the history of African civilization and the effects of colonialism and the slave trade before they can learn to reject some of the negative influences that enslave them today, says an award-winning history teacher.David Watkins told the African Canadian Diaspora 2008 youth conference at the University of Windsor that when a community is only vaguely aware of its past, it becomes easy for negative assumptions to be foisted upon them.
He said many blacks are unaware of the history of Africa, running back hundreds to thousands of years to when Ethiopia and Zimbabwe were great empires and Africa was "the envied cradle of civilization," boasting the first universities, great religions and a proud people.
"The record companies say throw in some 'nigger, bitch and ho' and we'll take you on," he said. "Gangsta rap is bought 80 per cent by white male college students... It's a construct from outside our community... As educators, we need to deconstruct this mentality and show how we're being manipulated. We've got to replace it with the truth."
[ Whites stole the Black identity and achievements when really Whites were the backward people and Blacks invented civilization. He must hope that message will turn Blacks right around. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 08:21 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
'Racist' chimp Obama T shirts
Marietta bar owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring a look-a-like of cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" underneath, are not meant to offend.Norman acknowledged the imagery's Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent African-American as a monkey.
"We're not living in the (19)40's," he said. "Look at him . . . the hairline, the ears he looks just like Curious George."
About a dozen prostestors rallied against the shirts Tuesday afternoon, condemning them as racist and asking Norman, longtime proprietor of Mulligan's Bar and Grill on Roswell Street, to stop selling them.
[ But there are pictures depicting President Bush as a chimp. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 08:10 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
'Scrappers' Cause Headaches for Military
Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape. Behind the wheel was a suspected scrap metal thief who had been combing the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center for spent brass shell casings. His intrusion onto the base was the 12th time in six months that scavengers had inadvertently halted combat exercises.Bombing ranges have become prime hunting grounds for so-called "scrappers," who are motivated by soaring commodity prices to take greater risks in their quest for brass, copper and aluminum. The scavenging causes headaches for the military, which cannot patrol every inch of the remote bases where spent ammunition, shrapnel and unexploded ordnance are easy to find.
[ So shoot them. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 07:06 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Charles Murray criticises "educational romanticism".
On requiring every child to be above average.Educational romanticism consists of the belief that just about all children who are not doing well in school have the potential to do much better. Correlatively, educational romantics believe that the academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive; that innate intellectual limits (if they exist at all) play a minor role; and that the current K-12 schools have huge room for improvement.
Educational romanticism characterizes reformers of both Left and Right, though in different ways. Educational romantics of the Left focus on race, class, and gender. It is children of color, children of poor parents, and girls whose performance is artificially depressed, and their academic achievement will blossom as soon as they are liberated from the racism, classism, and sexism embedded in American education. Those of the Right see public education as an ineffectual monopoly, and think that educational achievement will blossom when school choice liberates children from politically correct curricula and obdurate teachers’ unions.
[ It's amazing that the outdated view persists that everyone who fails at school must have been environmentally disadvantaged somehow. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:59 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Attacker: "Look at the white boy, he looks like a victim,"
A Jacksonville high school student was recently beaten and battered at school by three students he said he didn't even know.Witnesses to the attack told police Forrest High School sophomore Karl Koch Jr. was targeted because of the color of his skin.
According to the police report, one of the suspects said, "Look at the white boy, he looks like a victim," before punching Koch in the eye.
The report states all three attackers began kicking Koch and then laughed and ran away from the scene.
[ There is an ongoing problem with objections to the school's name, which is associated with the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. The Black attackers go to the school. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:45 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
A Setback for Nationalists and a Victory for Pro-Europeans
Despite predictions to the contrary, the pro-European party of President Boris Tadic won the parliamentary election in Serbia, according to preliminary estimates. However, Tadic still lacks a clear majority to form a government. His opponent, Tomislav Nikolic, wants nationalist parties to join forces to govern.[ I wonder how free and fair those elections were. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:23 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Officer sacked for stopping black NYPD chief
Civil rights advocates said Sunday that a recent incident in which a high-ranking black police official was ordered out of his car by a white officer points out ongoing racial problems in the city's Police Department.Granahan's father, Richard, blamed Zeigler for the incident. He told the Daily News for an article in Sunday's editions that Zeigler was parked at a hydrant in Corona, Queens, with the SUV's windows rolled up and the engine off.
The father said that Granahan's partner saw the driver fumble at his waistband and hollered, "Gun!" As Granahan grabbed the door handle, Zeigler stepped out and "smacked Michael's hand," Richard Granahan said.
Zeigler's wife, Neldra, is the NYPD's deputy commissioner for equal employment opportunity.
[ It sounds like an honest mistake which was aggravated by the police chief's arrogant reactions. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 06:18 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Earth losing its natural ability to soak up CO2?
Scientists at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii say that CO2 levels in the atmosphere now stand at 387 parts per million (ppm), up almost 40% since the industrial revolution and the highest for at least the last 650,000 years.The annual mean growth rate for 2007 was 2.14ppm - the fourth year in the last six to see an annual rise greater than 2ppm. From 1970 to 2000, the concentration rose by about 1.5ppm each year, but since 2000 the annual rise has leapt to an average 2.1ppm.
Scientists say the shift could indicate that the Earth is losing its natural ability to soak up billions of tonnes of CO2 each year. Climate models assume that about half our future emissions will be reabsorbed by forests and oceans, but the new figures confirm this may be too optimistic.
[ The climate models must be rethought - but politicians can't be expected to act to change the CO2 any more than they are, which isn't enough. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 05:55 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Indiana Jones movie flatters nazis, backhandedly
Other than Indy's brief classroom scenes, the closest thing to authentic archaeology in the "Indiana Jones" flicks is done by the bad guys, whose elaborate, systematic digs in "Raiders" resemble actual excavations."Not a whole lot of what we know as archaeology goes on in these movies, except what the Nazis do. They seem to be doing some real archaeological work," said Walsh, who wrote the cover story in the May-June issue of Archaeology magazine examining the real history of crystal skulls featured in the new "Indiana Jones" movie.
[ Nazis are generally portrayed as serious and methodological. ]
nationalist on 05.14.08 @ 05:46 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Tuesday, May 13th
relinquishing their historically bound identity as Jews. While I don't think that the American and the Jewish identity principles are always necessarily opposed, I do think that keeping both ideas in one's head at one time can be the source of a tremendous amount of creative tension.
It is also inherently deceptive, in the sense that one is quite often signaling to others that one has agreed to dissolve one's particular heritage and historically bound point of view into a common Christian-inflected, highly individualistic and alienating, yet incredibly productive future-oriented social whole that most American Jews view with a high degree of distance and skepticism. The only real parallel for the ungracious refusal of large numbers of American Jews to buy into the full weirdness and wonder and scariness of the American idea is the experience and behavior of blacks --- whose situation is radically different because of the overt and inescapable historically-bound prejudice directed at the color of their skin. Blacks
can't dissolve themselves in the American melting pot, and so they often see the American idea as a open lie at the same time as they taste its sweet honey.
[ Blacks are not the most influential ethnicity in US politics. Jews admit that it is they. What is "the American idea" that the writer finds so weird? The American dream is the gospel of consumption - and Jews fit into that like a hand in a glove. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:29 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Einstein also said he saw nothing "chosen" about the Jews, and that they were no better than other peoples "although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power."
The renowned physicist, who died a little more than a year after writing the letter, also had tough words for God and the Bible, according to the text published by the British The Guardian daily.
[ Jews don't need their stoneage religion to have ethnic cohesion. There is so much confrontationalism and supremacism in their religion. If they dropped it they would no longer be so likely to find themselves "persecuted". ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:16 PM CST [link] [3 Comments]
[ This sort of dishonest activity gives Jews a bad reputation. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:03 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
The leftist leader, who famously called U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" at a United Nations assembly, slammed Merkel for calling on Latin American leaders to distance themselves from Chavez.
"She is from the German right, the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany today," he said.
[ Speaking as a Nazi: Chavez has a lot of good points, while Merkel is a deadly traitor. Chavez is a little confused about Hitler, just as many Nazis don't see the merit in the way Chavez and Fidel Castro have stood up to globalization. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 12:49 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
The controversial ad is part of the bank's campaign timed to coincide with the Victory Day celebrations in Russia. It's offering a 14.88 per cent interest rate on deposits made by World War II veterans.
The 'encrypted neo-Nazi message', according to bloggers, is in that very number. Both 14 and 88 hold special meaning for neo-Nazis: 14 is the number of words in a slogan authored by notorious white nationalist leader and ideologist David Lane, while 88 stands for the Nazi salute 'Heil Hitler' as 'H' is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
The bank's management reject all accusations and say the outrage stems from 'pervert outcasts, roaming around in search for hidden symbols and made public by irresponsible people who spread such stories.'
[ Those pervert outcasts are untermenchen. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 12:35 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
The Russians - and there have been more than a million migrants in the past 20 years from the former Soviet Union - are on the make, with the classic profile of the Jewish migrant: determined, hard-working and studious. There are enough of them to sustain a flourishing culture - attracting a new respect from other Israelis.
Such confident multiculturalism helps explain an easing in the perennial Orthodox-secular strains in Israeli society. The downside is the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. Bibi had hacked away at the welfare state with a vigour that made Thatcherites pale. Many economists say he saved the country. But a million or more poor Israelis have yet to feel the promised trickle-down effect, while the super-rich soar into the stratosphere. Silver-tongued Bibi may bamboozle with a bridge of words. But the chasm between rich and poor yawns dark and menacing.
[ Interesting how national and ethnic origins (as long as they are all Jewish) are becoming less important in Israel. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 02:26 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
ANC and alliance leaders have many grievances against Mbeki - his policies over Zimbabwe and Aids have brought nothing but disaster and lack of international credibility; the onset of regular power cuts has ruined hopes of high economic growth and put many jobs at risk; unemployment and inequality remain stubbornly high; the government's failure to stem the crime wave is complete and Mbeki is now revealed as having tried unconstitutionally to prevent the public prosecutor from bringing proceedings against the police chief, Jackie Selebi, Mbeki's crony - a matter about which Mbeki had very publicly lied.
[ We are yet to see a modern African leader who is not corrupt and can rule effectively. Not that such leaders are in abundance anywhere in the world. Africa's "big man" culture, of respecting brutality and ostentatious wealth, doesn't help. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:39 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
According to Chauvel, 41, a sociologist at the National Foundation for Political Science, for the first time in recent history a generation of French citizens aged between 20 and 40 can expect a lower standard of living than the one before. 'Mileuristas or babylosers: it's the same story,' he said. 'They have an average of three years more education than their parents, a worse job and a lower standard of living.'
In 1973, only 6 per cent of recent university leavers in France were unemployed; now the rate is 25 to 30 per cent; salaries have stagnated for 20 years while property prices have doubled or trebled, though the overall proportion of French people living in poverty has not changed. Whereas in the 1960s the poor were mainly the old, now they are the young; in 1970, salaries for 50-year-olds were only 15 per cent higher than those for workers of 30; the gap now is 40 per cent.
[ The situation is the same over western Europe and the US. And they we are working for the 1% of the population who own 40% of the wealth of the world. This is exploitation. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:31 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
"Double-ness, lying and imposture have a special significance for an American Jew"
I think that the themes of double-ness, lying and imposture have a special significance for me as an American Jewish writer. If Americans are self-made people who embrace an imagined future in order to escape the burdens of the past, American Jews seek to have their cake and eat it too by embracing the future-oriented American idea withoutrelinquishing their historically bound identity as Jews. While I don't think that the American and the Jewish identity principles are always necessarily opposed, I do think that keeping both ideas in one's head at one time can be the source of a tremendous amount of creative tension.
It is also inherently deceptive, in the sense that one is quite often signaling to others that one has agreed to dissolve one's particular heritage and historically bound point of view into a common Christian-inflected, highly individualistic and alienating, yet incredibly productive future-oriented social whole that most American Jews view with a high degree of distance and skepticism. The only real parallel for the ungracious refusal of large numbers of American Jews to buy into the full weirdness and wonder and scariness of the American idea is the experience and behavior of blacks --- whose situation is radically different because of the overt and inescapable historically-bound prejudice directed at the color of their skin. Blacks
can't dissolve themselves in the American melting pot, and so they often see the American idea as a open lie at the same time as they taste its sweet honey.
[ Blacks are not the most influential ethnicity in US politics. Jews admit that it is they. What is "the American idea" that the writer finds so weird? The American dream is the gospel of consumption - and Jews fit into that like a hand in a glove. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:29 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Einstein: Nothing 'chosen' about the Jews, Bible 'childish' legends
Albert Einstein, writing in 1954, dismissed Judaism and other religions as "an incarnation of the most childish superstitions," though he said he gladly belonged to the Jewish people and felt a deep affinity for the Jews' "mentality," excerpts published on Tuesday showed.Einstein also said he saw nothing "chosen" about the Jews, and that they were no better than other peoples "although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power."
The renowned physicist, who died a little more than a year after writing the letter, also had tough words for God and the Bible, according to the text published by the British The Guardian daily.
[ Jews don't need their stoneage religion to have ethnic cohesion. There is so much confrontationalism and supremacism in their religion. If they dropped it they would no longer be so likely to find themselves "persecuted". ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:16 PM CST [link] [3 Comments]
300 arrested at US kosher meat plant for fraudulent methods helping illegal immigrants
U.S. immigration agents arrested more than 300 people on Monday at Agriprocessors Inc, a kosher meat plant in Postville, Iowa, amid an ongoing investigation into identification theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, and for illegal immigrants, Immigration officials said.[ This sort of dishonest activity gives Jews a bad reputation. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:03 PM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Chavez slams Merkel as a "political descendant of Adolf Hitler"
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called German Chancellor Angela Merkel a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism.The leftist leader, who famously called U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" at a United Nations assembly, slammed Merkel for calling on Latin American leaders to distance themselves from Chavez.
"She is from the German right, the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany today," he said.
[ Speaking as a Nazi: Chavez has a lot of good points, while Merkel is a deadly traitor. Chavez is a little confused about Hitler, just as many Nazis don't see the merit in the way Chavez and Fidel Castro have stood up to globalization. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 12:49 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Russian bank hit by 'neo-Nazi ad' scandal
Bloggers are enraged by billboard advertisements for a bank in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. They claim the ad has an encrypted message that glorifies Nazi ideology. Bank officials have called the scandal a plot by 'some outcasts' reports the Gazeta.ru news site.The controversial ad is part of the bank's campaign timed to coincide with the Victory Day celebrations in Russia. It's offering a 14.88 per cent interest rate on deposits made by World War II veterans.
The 'encrypted neo-Nazi message', according to bloggers, is in that very number. Both 14 and 88 hold special meaning for neo-Nazis: 14 is the number of words in a slogan authored by notorious white nationalist leader and ideologist David Lane, while 88 stands for the Nazi salute 'Heil Hitler' as 'H' is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
The bank's management reject all accusations and say the outrage stems from 'pervert outcasts, roaming around in search for hidden symbols and made public by irresponsible people who spread such stories.'
[ Those pervert outcasts are untermenchen. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 12:35 PM CST [link] [No Comments]
Growing gap between rich and poor in Israel - while ethnicity becomes less important
The Sephardi-Ashkenazi fissure is blurring, a prey to intermarriage, social mobility, and to the distance in time from countries of origin and their culture. Young Israelis do not carry their "ethnicity" in the forefront of their consciousness. Their Israeliness, however defined, is steadily taking precedence.The Russians - and there have been more than a million migrants in the past 20 years from the former Soviet Union - are on the make, with the classic profile of the Jewish migrant: determined, hard-working and studious. There are enough of them to sustain a flourishing culture - attracting a new respect from other Israelis.
Such confident multiculturalism helps explain an easing in the perennial Orthodox-secular strains in Israeli society. The downside is the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. Bibi had hacked away at the welfare state with a vigour that made Thatcherites pale. Many economists say he saved the country. But a million or more poor Israelis have yet to feel the promised trickle-down effect, while the super-rich soar into the stratosphere. Silver-tongued Bibi may bamboozle with a bridge of words. But the chasm between rich and poor yawns dark and menacing.
[ Interesting how national and ethnic origins (as long as they are all Jewish) are becoming less important in Israel. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 02:26 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Mbeki clings on
Thabo Mbeki has just survived an attempt to sack him as president of South Africa. This occurred at last weekend's summit of the tripartite alliance - the ANC, the Communist Party (SACP) and the biggest trade union group, Cosatu, where the motion for Mbeki to go was put by the SACP. At the end of the summit the leaders of the three organisations appeared together to insist that Mbeki would in fact be staying on but the fact that his dismissal could be openly discussed and debated shows how completely his presidency has collapsed.ANC and alliance leaders have many grievances against Mbeki - his policies over Zimbabwe and Aids have brought nothing but disaster and lack of international credibility; the onset of regular power cuts has ruined hopes of high economic growth and put many jobs at risk; unemployment and inequality remain stubbornly high; the government's failure to stem the crime wave is complete and Mbeki is now revealed as having tried unconstitutionally to prevent the public prosecutor from bringing proceedings against the police chief, Jackie Selebi, Mbeki's crony - a matter about which Mbeki had very publicly lied.
[ We are yet to see a modern African leader who is not corrupt and can rule effectively. Not that such leaders are in abundance anywhere in the world. Africa's "big man" culture, of respecting brutality and ostentatious wealth, doesn't help. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:39 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Westerners working more for less reward
Across Spain, France and Italy, young middle-class professionals with good degrees and diplomas are facing a lifetime on low salaries with unrewarding jobs, forever poorer than their parents.According to Chauvel, 41, a sociologist at the National Foundation for Political Science, for the first time in recent history a generation of French citizens aged between 20 and 40 can expect a lower standard of living than the one before. 'Mileuristas or babylosers: it's the same story,' he said. 'They have an average of three years more education than their parents, a worse job and a lower standard of living.'
In 1973, only 6 per cent of recent university leavers in France were unemployed; now the rate is 25 to 30 per cent; salaries have stagnated for 20 years while property prices have doubled or trebled, though the overall proportion of French people living in poverty has not changed. Whereas in the 1960s the poor were mainly the old, now they are the young; in 1970, salaries for 50-year-olds were only 15 per cent higher than those for workers of 30; the gap now is 40 per cent.
[ The situation is the same over western Europe and the US. And they we are working for the 1% of the population who own 40% of the wealth of the world. This is exploitation. ]
nationalist on 05.13.08 @ 01:31 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Monday, May 12th
John Kenneth Galbraith has written a brilliant, mordant book, The Culture of Contentment, about the reasons why America is incapable of constructive change. He compares today's American political class (those people who vote and involve themselves in politics) to the French aristocracy before the Revolution. Everybody knew that the situation was insupportable, and that eventually there would be an explosion, but the immediate costs of doing something about it were so unpalatable that everyone decided to do nothing and hope that things would somehow work out. We're in exactly the same situation here and now.
So while it may be appealing to fantasize about vast government programs bailing us out of the present predicament, such fantasies are not a practical way of responding to the situation. We have to start with the recognition that the most likely outcome of the current situation is collapse: to borrow the Club of Rome's formulation, sustained, simultaneous, uncontrolled and irreversible declines in population, industrial production, and capital stock.
[ Make poverty the future. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 08:09 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Diplomats and pundits, for their part, fear that the West is "losing" Africa and other resource-rich regions. China's sudden prominence, according to this view, will reduce the clout of America, Europe and other rich democracies in the developing world. China will befriend ostracised regimes and encourage them to defy international norms. Corruption, economic mismanagement, repression and instability will proliferate. If this baleful influence spreads too widely, say the critics, the "Washington consensus" of economic liberalism and democracy will find itself in competition with a "Beijing consensus" of state-led development and despotism.
[ Surely the competition exists right now! And Washington is hardly going to just stand by and have the US replaced as a superpower by China. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 07:04 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
The legislative motion dealt primarily with homelessness in Burlov and the appeals court ruled the motion was written so poorly that its aim was rendered unintelligible.
Instead, the court attempted to interpreted what Pettersson meant.
According to the Court of Appeals, the text of the proposal could be read as saying that Kosovo Albanians are especially inclined to be involved with the heroin trade and therefore cause homelessness and other societal problems.
Ultimately, the court choose to release Pettersson, arguing that freedom of expression and the right to criticize current policy is important, especially when it comes to political debate.
[ If the court felt that "freedom of expression and the right to criticize current policy is important, especially when it comes to political debate" then why waste all that time and money prosecuting the politician in the first place? ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 06:32 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Is anyone not aware that wild fish are in deep trouble? That three-quarters of commercially caught species are over-exploited or exploited to their maximum? Do they not know that industrial fishing is so inefficient that a third of the catch, some 32 million tonnes a year, is thrown away? For every ocean prawn you eat, fish weighing 10-20 times as much have been thrown overboard. These figures all come from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which also claims that, of all the world's natural resources, fish are being depleted the fastest. With even the most abundant commercial species, we eat smaller and smaller fish every year - we eat the babies before they can breed.
Callum Roberts, professor of marine conservation at York University, predicts that by 2050 we will only be able to meet the fish protein needs of half the world population: all that will be left for the unlucky half may be, as he puts it, 'jellyfish and slime'. Ninety years of industrial-scale exploitation of fish has, he and most scientists agree, led to 'ecological meltdown'. Whole biological food chains have been destroyed.
[ The longer this goes on, the less hope there is that is will be stopped. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 06:18 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
In the twenty-first century's "Evergreen Revolution", as he calls it, conservation farming and green technology will bring about sustainable change that could allow India to become an even bigger supplier of food to the world.
With genetically advanced seeds, farmers overlooked the potential ecological damage of heavy fertiliser use, the drop in water tables due to heavier irrigation and the impact of repeated crop cycles on soil quality.
He believes we've learned from those lessons, and the next wave of improvements will have environmental considerations at their core, without the need to return to the genetics lab.
[ The problem is that more food generally means more people. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 04:28 AM CST [link] [2 Comments]
Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers or buying new ones to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say.
"Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the gas prices," said Barry Dahl, who opened Barry's Bikes in Bismarck in April. He sold more than 50 bicycles in the first month, double the projections in his business plan.
Teacher Joyce McCusker of Herndon, Va., owns a bicycle for the first time in years. She bought it last month and uses it to make the eight-mile trip home from work. A friend drives her pickup to take McCusker's daughter home from school.
[ Fitter people and less pollution. Something positive! ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 04:20 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Whether Philip, who has four children with the Queen and eight grandchildren, is contemplating a Chinese-style one-child policy for Britain or other, more radical ideas, remains unknown.
"You've got to be fairly hard-hearted about it. Conservation is not a romantic business. It's a very practical business, trying to ensure as many different species of wildlife can exist, and which means in some cases controlling some so the others can have a better chance."
[ Since he appreciates that some species (read: ethnicities?) need controlling to give others a chance I can't see him suggesting the Brits need to reduce their negative birth rate even further. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 02:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Peak civilization
We - and by this I mean people throughout the industrial world - have to make the transition to a Third World lifestyle. There's no way to sugar-coat that very unpalatable reality. Fossil fuels made it possible for most people in the industrial world to have a lifestyle that doesn't depend on hard physical labor, and to wallow in a flood of mostly unnecessary consumer goods and services. As fossil fuels deplete, all that will inevitably go away. How many people would be willing to listen to such a suggestion? More to the point, how many people would vote for a politician or a party who proposed to bring on these changes deliberately, now, in order to prevent total disaster later on?John Kenneth Galbraith has written a brilliant, mordant book, The Culture of Contentment, about the reasons why America is incapable of constructive change. He compares today's American political class (those people who vote and involve themselves in politics) to the French aristocracy before the Revolution. Everybody knew that the situation was insupportable, and that eventually there would be an explosion, but the immediate costs of doing something about it were so unpalatable that everyone decided to do nothing and hope that things would somehow work out. We're in exactly the same situation here and now.
So while it may be appealing to fantasize about vast government programs bailing us out of the present predicament, such fantasies are not a practical way of responding to the situation. We have to start with the recognition that the most likely outcome of the current situation is collapse: to borrow the Club of Rome's formulation, sustained, simultaneous, uncontrolled and irreversible declines in population, industrial production, and capital stock.
[ Make poverty the future. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 08:09 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
China's Unwelcome Advances
Some non-governmental organisations worry that Chinese firms will ignore basic legal, environmental and labour standards in their rush to secure resources, leaving a trail of corruption, pollution and exploitation in their wake. Western companies fret that the Chinese state-owned firms with which they suddenly find themselves competing have an agenda beyond commercial gain. The Chinese government, they say, is willing to pay over the odds for mining or drilling rights to secure access to physical resources. It also intervenes unfairly on its companies' behalf, they claim, by offering big aid packages to countries that welcome Chinese investment. All this, it is feared, will dent the profits of big oil and mining firms, stoke inflation and imperil the West's access to resources that it needs just as much as China does.Diplomats and pundits, for their part, fear that the West is "losing" Africa and other resource-rich regions. China's sudden prominence, according to this view, will reduce the clout of America, Europe and other rich democracies in the developing world. China will befriend ostracised regimes and encourage them to defy international norms. Corruption, economic mismanagement, repression and instability will proliferate. If this baleful influence spreads too widely, say the critics, the "Washington consensus" of economic liberalism and democracy will find itself in competition with a "Beijing consensus" of state-led development and despotism.
[ Surely the competition exists right now! And Washington is hardly going to just stand by and have the US replaced as a superpower by China. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 07:04 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Swedish politician acquitted of hate speech charges
A local politician from the Malmo suburb of Burlov has been acquitted of charges of agitation against an ethnic group.The legislative motion dealt primarily with homelessness in Burlov and the appeals court ruled the motion was written so poorly that its aim was rendered unintelligible.
Instead, the court attempted to interpreted what Pettersson meant.
According to the Court of Appeals, the text of the proposal could be read as saying that Kosovo Albanians are especially inclined to be involved with the heroin trade and therefore cause homelessness and other societal problems.
Ultimately, the court choose to release Pettersson, arguing that freedom of expression and the right to criticize current policy is important, especially when it comes to political debate.
[ If the court felt that "freedom of expression and the right to criticize current policy is important, especially when it comes to political debate" then why waste all that time and money prosecuting the politician in the first place? ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 06:32 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
How the world's oceans are running out of fish
One old lady asks me what I'm after. 'I want to know why the Spanish are eating so many undersized fish from populations that are running out,' I say. 'It's simple,' she says. 'We like fish and small fish taste better.'Is anyone not aware that wild fish are in deep trouble? That three-quarters of commercially caught species are over-exploited or exploited to their maximum? Do they not know that industrial fishing is so inefficient that a third of the catch, some 32 million tonnes a year, is thrown away? For every ocean prawn you eat, fish weighing 10-20 times as much have been thrown overboard. These figures all come from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which also claims that, of all the world's natural resources, fish are being depleted the fastest. With even the most abundant commercial species, we eat smaller and smaller fish every year - we eat the babies before they can breed.
Callum Roberts, professor of marine conservation at York University, predicts that by 2050 we will only be able to meet the fish protein needs of half the world population: all that will be left for the unlucky half may be, as he puts it, 'jellyfish and slime'. Ninety years of industrial-scale exploitation of fish has, he and most scientists agree, led to 'ecological meltdown'. Whole biological food chains have been destroyed.
[ The longer this goes on, the less hope there is that is will be stopped. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 06:18 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Indian "green revolutionary" aims to solve global food crisis
The 82-year-old scientist, dubbed here the father of the Green Revolution for helping development a hybrid wheat seed that allowed Indian farmers to dramatically increase yields, says the current food crisis offers the world a chance to put farmers on the right road to unending growth.In the twenty-first century's "Evergreen Revolution", as he calls it, conservation farming and green technology will bring about sustainable change that could allow India to become an even bigger supplier of food to the world.
With genetically advanced seeds, farmers overlooked the potential ecological damage of heavy fertiliser use, the drop in water tables due to heavier irrigation and the impact of repeated crop cycles on soil quality.
He believes we've learned from those lessons, and the next wave of improvements will have environmental considerations at their core, without the need to return to the genetics lab.
[ The problem is that more food generally means more people. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 04:28 AM CST [link] [2 Comments]
Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear
Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business if you run a bike shop.Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers or buying new ones to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say.
"Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the gas prices," said Barry Dahl, who opened Barry's Bikes in Bismarck in April. He sold more than 50 bicycles in the first month, double the projections in his business plan.
Teacher Joyce McCusker of Herndon, Va., owns a bicycle for the first time in years. She bought it last month and uses it to make the eight-mile trip home from work. A friend drives her pickup to take McCusker's daughter home from school.
[ Fitter people and less pollution. Something positive! ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 04:20 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Prince Philip criticises global overpopulation
"Food prices are going up," he tells his interviewer, Sir Trevor McDonald. "Everyone thinks it's to do with not enough food, but it's really that demand is too great too many people. Basically, it's a little embarrassing for everybody. No one quite knows how to handle it. Nobody wants their family life to be interfered with by the government."Whether Philip, who has four children with the Queen and eight grandchildren, is contemplating a Chinese-style one-child policy for Britain or other, more radical ideas, remains unknown.
"You've got to be fairly hard-hearted about it. Conservation is not a romantic business. It's a very practical business, trying to ensure as many different species of wildlife can exist, and which means in some cases controlling some so the others can have a better chance."
[ Since he appreciates that some species (read: ethnicities?) need controlling to give others a chance I can't see him suggesting the Brits need to reduce their negative birth rate even further. ]
nationalist on 05.12.08 @ 02:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Sunday, May 11th
'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said.
The mother is now trying to raise enough money to escape abroad. 'I miss my two boys,' she said. 'But they have sent a message saying that I am wrong for defending Rand and that I should go back home and live like a blessed Muslim woman,' said Leila, who is now volunteering with a local organisation campaigning for better protection for women in Basra.
[ Miscegenation is a bad thing, and parents should take an extremely intolerant stance against it, however the Muslims often take things too far. They kill their daughters for falling in love with a Muslim of a different sect, and they would accept this British man as being one of them if he had converted to their own sect. This story gives an insight into an ethnic difference in temperament. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 07:31 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Adelie penguins, known for their waddling gait and a habit of nesting on stones, have long shown evidence of DDT in their fatty tissues, although not in enough concentration to hurt the birds, according to Heidi Geisz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
But researchers were surprised to see that the level of the pesticide in Adelies' fat had not declined, even after DDT was banned for exterior use in the 1970s in the United States and elsewhere.
[ Even where few humans go, our pollution collects in large amounts. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 03:04 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Nairobi, 8 May 2008 - An unprecedented 1.5 million Chinese children have participated in a painting competition on the topic of climate change, in a sign of the country's growing awareness of environmental issues.
The competition, held in China for the first time, saw the children collectively submit 200,000 paintings on the theme of climate change. Some 620 paintings were selected for prizes by the jury, which was made up of renowned Chinese artists, UNEP officials and Ms Elizabeth Rihoy of Resource Africa.
The top three winners will be announced on 5 June for World Environment Day alongside the winners of UNEP's International Children's Painting Competition. As a reward for their artistry, the talented trio will participate in the UNEP Tunza International Children's Conference in Stavanger, Norway on 17-21 June 2008.
In July, the top 20 winners will be invited to Nairobi to receive their prizes from UNEP's Executive Director, Mr. Achim Steiner and to participate in children's community activities in Kenya.
This is the first time the Children's Painting Competition was held in China, in conjunction with UNEP's International Children's Painting Competition which takes place every year. The competition - sponsored by Mr. Luo Hong, a Chinese businessman, environmentalist and photographer - aimed to raise awareness on climate change issues among China's young people and the Chinese public in general.
[ On the one hand, it's great if the Chinese will start being more environmentally responsible, but on the other the way this is organized looks like a plan to further the globalist agenda. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:59 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
[ Nature will depopulate the world sooner or later. Humans have become a plague. When you realise that 40% of the victims are estimated to be children you can see how fast the Burmese were reproducing. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:52 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
US President George W. Bush is expected to discuss the issue during his visit to Israel on Wednesday and Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the state, people familiar with the matter said, according to the report.
[ A birthday present from the American taxpayers. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
In the days running up to the parade, things in Moscow looked a bit strange. Tanks rolled down the streets in the direction of Red Square while fighter jets flew over the office blocks in the heart of the Russian capital. To Western observers, these scenes were anachronistic. If it weren’t for the hundreds of billboards and luxury boutiques, it would almost seem as if things had jumped back in time to the Soviet Union in 1990.
[ The point is to strengthen national pride and to show confidence in Russia's military power. Washington snears at the "old equipment". ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:21 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Iraqi kills his daughter over (unreciprocated) crush on British soldier
Two weeks ago, The Observer revealed how 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader was beaten to death by her father after becoming infatuated with a British soldier in Basra. In this remarkable interview, Abdel-Qader Ali explains why he is unrepentant - and how police backed his actions.'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said.
The mother is now trying to raise enough money to escape abroad. 'I miss my two boys,' she said. 'But they have sent a message saying that I am wrong for defending Rand and that I should go back home and live like a blessed Muslim woman,' said Leila, who is now volunteering with a local organisation campaigning for better protection for women in Basra.
[ Miscegenation is a bad thing, and parents should take an extremely intolerant stance against it, however the Muslims often take things too far. They kill their daughters for falling in love with a Muslim of a different sect, and they would accept this British man as being one of them if he had converted to their own sect. This story gives an insight into an ethnic difference in temperament. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 07:31 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Pesticide DDT shows up in Antarctic penguins
The pesticide DDT, banned decades ago in much of the world, still shows up in penguins in Antarctica, probably due to the chemical's accumulation in melting glaciers, a sea bird expert said on Friday.Adelie penguins, known for their waddling gait and a habit of nesting on stones, have long shown evidence of DDT in their fatty tissues, although not in enough concentration to hurt the birds, according to Heidi Geisz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
But researchers were surprised to see that the level of the pesticide in Adelies' fat had not declined, even after DDT was banned for exterior use in the 1970s in the United States and elsewhere.
[ Even where few humans go, our pollution collects in large amounts. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 03:04 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
1.5 Million Chinese Children Take Part in Painting Competition on Climate Change
Winners will be announced on World Environment Day on 5 JuneNairobi, 8 May 2008 - An unprecedented 1.5 million Chinese children have participated in a painting competition on the topic of climate change, in a sign of the country's growing awareness of environmental issues.
The competition, held in China for the first time, saw the children collectively submit 200,000 paintings on the theme of climate change. Some 620 paintings were selected for prizes by the jury, which was made up of renowned Chinese artists, UNEP officials and Ms Elizabeth Rihoy of Resource Africa.
The top three winners will be announced on 5 June for World Environment Day alongside the winners of UNEP's International Children's Painting Competition. As a reward for their artistry, the talented trio will participate in the UNEP Tunza International Children's Conference in Stavanger, Norway on 17-21 June 2008.
In July, the top 20 winners will be invited to Nairobi to receive their prizes from UNEP's Executive Director, Mr. Achim Steiner and to participate in children's community activities in Kenya.
This is the first time the Children's Painting Competition was held in China, in conjunction with UNEP's International Children's Painting Competition which takes place every year. The competition - sponsored by Mr. Luo Hong, a Chinese businessman, environmentalist and photographer - aimed to raise awareness on climate change issues among China's young people and the Chinese public in general.
[ On the one hand, it's great if the Chinese will start being more environmentally responsible, but on the other the way this is organized looks like a plan to further the globalist agenda. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:59 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Burma cyclone death toll could hit 500,000
THE death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 " more than TWICE the total killed by the Boxing Day Tsunami.[ Nature will depopulate the world sooner or later. Humans have become a plague. When you realise that 40% of the victims are estimated to be children you can see how fast the Burmese were reproducing. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:52 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
Bush to offer Israel powerful radar
The US may offer Israel a powerful radar system that would greatly strengthen Israeli defenses against ballistic missiles while incorporating it directly into a growing US missile shield, Reuters reported on Saturday.US President George W. Bush is expected to discuss the issue during his visit to Israel on Wednesday and Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the state, people familiar with the matter said, according to the report.
[ A birthday present from the American taxpayers. ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:37 AM CST [link] [No Comments]
Russia puts on an arms parade to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany
For the first time since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow has put on an arms parade to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany. Russians are impressed with the military show of strength, but in Eastern Europe the parade has reawakened old fears.In the days running up to the parade, things in Moscow looked a bit strange. Tanks rolled down the streets in the direction of Red Square while fighter jets flew over the office blocks in the heart of the Russian capital. To Western observers, these scenes were anachronistic. If it weren’t for the hundreds of billboards and luxury boutiques, it would almost seem as if things had jumped back in time to the Soviet Union in 1990.
[ The point is to strengthen national pride and to show confidence in Russia's military power. Washington snears at the "old equipment". ]
nationalist on 05.11.08 @ 02:21 AM CST [link] [1 Comment]
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