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Every person who read this should forward the link to at least 5 people they know: At the 6:45 mark of the video, you will see Sen. Obama, in 2006, standing side by side with Raila Odinga in Kenya, campaigning with him on a taxpayer-funded trip. Raila Odinga lost the election by 235,000 votes and subsequently called for violence, resulting in thousands dead and many churches burned. This is the untold foreign policy story of Barack Obama that no one dares to talk about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ

Sandra Bernhard is "terribly upset" to be dropped from a woman's shelter fundraiser following her controversial comments about US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The comedienne allegedly shocked fans at a show in Washington D.C. last month when she said that Palin would be gang-raped if she ever set foot in New York. According to reports, the star said the Alaskan Governor could expect to be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" during the on-stage rant aimed at pro-life Palin, who has said she opposes abortion in cases of rape and incest. Organisers for Rosie's Place shelter in Boston, Massachusetts subsequently...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2008 – Violence in Iraq – even in the midst of the holy month of Ramadan, which has seen increases in violence in the past – continues its downward trend, the commander of coalition ground forces in Iraq said today. Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, Multinational Corps Iraq commander, spoke to Pentagon reporters via teleconference from his headquarters in Baghdad. Austin charted the continued progress in Iraq. “We've experienced continued low levels of violence, with 15 of the last 16 weeks remaining below the 200-attacks-per-week mark,” he said. “In Baghdad, … we've averaged less than...

Russia’s Restless Muslim Republics By Uwe Klussmann Although Russia is celebrating the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, it still has its own problems in the region as its Muslim republics are drifting toward a partisan war. Last Monday, an eerie funeral procession passed through the center of Nazran in the Russian republic of Ingushetia. Hundreds of people silently crowded around the coffin of Magomed Yevloyev. The 37-year-old lawyer and founder of a Web site ( www.ingushetiya.ru) that was critical of the government was killed in police custody. The authorities said that he was shot in a police car “inadvertently”...

MEXICO CITY -- Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.

There’s nothing surreptitious about the message of Boston rap trio East Coast Avengers’ new single. In “Kill Bill O’Reilly,” the lyrics call for the Fox News star to “be hanged like Benito Mussolini and otherwise killed.” The song is causing outrage - and not just among admirers of right-wing personality O’Reilly. The lyrics are so extreme that even O’Reilly’s fiercest media enemy, TV pundit Keith Olbermann, has condemned the East Coast Avengers.

Excerpt - A day of relative quiet that had observers wondering what happened to the large demonstrations expected in Denver this week turned violent Monday night as police fired pepper balls and pepper spray at protesters. Police dressed in riot gear and wearing gas masks clashed with scores of people who refused to leave a one-block stretch of 15th Street near Civic Center Park. Police made 91 arrests. No serious injuries were reported. ~ snip ~

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2008 – From Mosul in the north to Basra in the south, insurgent-committed violence in Iraq continues to decrease as stability visibly increases, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today. Video “For 10 of the last 11 weeks, we’ve sustained less than 200 attacks per week nationwide,” Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of Multinational Corps Iraq, told Pentagon reporters during a satellite-carried news conference from his Baghdad headquarters. Attacks in Iraq had once reached more than 1,500 a week a few years ago during the zenith of insurgent-committed violence. “It...

To make good on his offer to help Chicago combat violence, Gov. Blagojevich envisions putting speed cameras on interstates across Illinois -- and using the revenue to form an "elite tactical team" that would operate in Chicago and other cities. The idea is in its infancy, with no budget and no timetable. About 50 Illinois State Police employees have been assigned to work with Chicago Police on everything from tracking down illegal gun buyers to hunting for criminals on Chicago's expressways, Guerrero said. "I want to be judged not by the number of people we provide, but by the results...

A 31-year-old woman was shot when she tried to flee an armed robbery attempt Tuesday night in Mid-City, police said. The woman was shot in the chest, but the wound apparently was not life-threatening, police said.

Apparently, some people got all exercised over my articles on "Homosexuality in America," especially by my referencing Dr. Paul Cameron who gays seem to believe is the Devil Incarnate. I hereby post their comments, with my rejoinders, [in brackets] I also took the opportunity to contact Dr. Cameron. His response can be seen on my website, http://genelalor.com/ Freeper mommy. said, in August 3rd, 2008 at 8:19 pm Wow, what good references you have! [SARCASM?] ........................................................ Zoe Brain said, in August 4th, 2008 at 2:26 am The source for the Family Research Council’s pamphlet is Dr Paul Cameron. He either resigned...

In days of old when knights were bold/ And “gay” was not invented,/ They went along their hidden way/ And seemed to be contented. That bit of doggerel is simplistic, of course, but it did seem that forty years ago homosexuals seemed happier in the closet. That may not have been altogether true but prior to co-opting and misusing the word “gay,” they definitely seemed gayer than they seem today. Perhaps gays were seething underneath, and it’s true that some may have been bullied and ridiculed, but they didn’t seem violent before the mass outings that began with the Stonewall...

Most haughty Europeans look down their nose at we "violent Americans." They sniff the air at the ugly American and assume that they are, one and all, more "civilized" than we gauche colonials. Look at all the gun violence in America, they say. They tsk. tsk us for the deaths by gun. Certainly they are better than we? Now shocking news emerges out of England this month. It is estimated that 25,000 stabbings have occurred in Jolly, more civilized ol' England in the last 12 months alone. You read that right, there have been 25,000 incidents of knife violence in...

OVERALL violence in Iraq is declining to almost "normal" levels, General David Petraeus said today, following a string of attacks the day before. The commander of US forces in Iraq told USA Today however that the trend could be reversed by "sensational attacks" like those yesterday in Baghdad and Kirkuk that killed some 56 Iraqis. "If you could reduce these sensational attacks further, I think you are almost approaching a level of normal or latent violence," he told the newspaper from Baghdad. "The fact that the levels of violence have come down so significantly and stayed down now for some...

A Rhode Island author claims in his book that Islamic violence against Jews and Christians has been part of the religion since its origins 1,200 years ago. Andrew Bostrom, associate professor of medicine at Brown University, wrote in his book, The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism: from Sacred Texts to Solemn History, that Muslim governments dating back 1,000 years forced Jews and Christians to show deference to Muslims and wear clothing that distinguished them from followers of the official state religion, IsraelNN.com reported Friday. Bostrom claimed the Koran itself is anti-Semitic, with references to the prophet Mohammed's poisoning death at the...

Police say it was a jealous rage that led to the attack. She was dragged into the street away from her house.

WASHINGTON -- A 13-year-old boy was killed, seven people shot and a person stabbed within minutes of each other in a spate of violence in the Trinidad section of NE shortly after midnight Saturday. Police said between midnight and four in the morning a person was also stabbed and another shot citywide. DC Police Inspector Rodney Parks says the shootings appear to have taken place in connection with three attempted robberies. Police are looking for a gold or metallic colored car, possibly a Dodge Intrepid, spotted at each crime scene. The police have no suspects in custody at this time....

"Two policemen were attacked by a 30-strong mob including schoolchildren after asking a 15-year-old to pick up her litter. They were bitten, punched and kicked and had to call for back-up to escape serious injury. Witnesses to the attack, on a busy shopping street in Croydon, South London, feared that the uniformed officers would be beaten to death."

Violence erupts over Pakistan stock drop By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad Published: July 17 2008 09:23 | Last updated: July 17 2008 19:06 Investors upset over falling Pakistan share prices smashed windows of the Karachi Stock Exchange on Thursday during a day of protests that led to scuffles between traders and investors demanding the temporary closure of the stock market. The KSE 100 index dropped by 2.7 per cent to close at 10,212.92 points. The index has plunged 35 per cent from a record high reached on April 21. “I am upset because I am constantly losing money and there...

Our Constitution is one of our greatest assets in the fight against terrorism. A free-flowing marketplace of ideas, protected by the First Amendment, enables the ideals of democracy to defeat the totalitarian vision of al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. That free marketplace faces a threat. Individuals with alleged connections to terrorist activity are filing libel suits and winning judgments in foreign courts against American researchers who publish on these matters. These suits intimidate and even silence writers and publishers. Under American law, a libel plaintiff must prove that defamatory material is false. In England, the burden is reversed....Consequently, English...

Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. One gene called MAOA that played an especially strong role has been shown in other studies to affect antisocial behavior -- and it was disturbingly common, the team at the University of North Carolina reported. People with a particular variation of the MAOA gene called 2R were very prone to criminal and delinquent behavior, said sociology professor Guang Guo, who led the study. "I don't want to say...

TAMPA - A Tampa woman bit off another woman's fingertip during an argument at a Tampa meat market. Police say two women were waiting to be served Monday when they began arguing about who was next in line. Customers take a number to order when they enter the market, but another customer who left before ordering had given Pamela Bumpers her number.

BAGHDAD, July 9, 2008 – If you asked Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin in April which cities in Iraq were the hot spots and would be the focus of his forces’ efforts, he would have replied quickly: Basra, Mosul, Diyala and Baghdad’s Sadr City district. But when reporters asked the commander of Multinational Corps Iraq about those same cities today during a media roundtable at Al Faw Palace here, his reply was quite different. Today, the Iraqi government is “firmly in control of Baghdad, Basra and Mosul,” Austin said. “We’ve made some significant gains here in terms of security,...

....U.S. law enforcement authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, a border city across from El Paso Texas with rampant drug smuggling, gunfights and corruption. According to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asked for an investigation into Immigration and Custom Enforcement´s (ICE) recent efforts in procuring the release of a Mexican woman kidnapped in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The family raised the money, according to the memo. On June 21,...

Karen Coughlin, a psychiatric nurse in Taunton, Mass., remembers the evening four years ago when her 14-year-old son asked her if any patients had tried to kill her that day. “I was astounded, but he was serious because he’d heard about co-workers going to the hospital for injuries,” Ms. Coughlin said. “I’ve been hit, I’ve been kicked and spit on. I’ve had a knife pulled on me. I love what I do and many of the patients I work with, but I don’t love the conditions I work in.” Three years ago, an enraged patient — 6 feet 4 inches...

More than 100 injured in South Korea beef protests Posted: 29 June 2008 1306 hrs SEOUL: South Korean police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports here on Sunday, leaving more than 100 people injured, officials and witnesses said. Police fired water cannon and wielded batons to try to control protesters, who hit back with poles and steel pipes, smashing police bus windows and spraying street fire hoses. With rocks also hurled through the air, many of the injured suffered head wounds and were taken to hospitals in ambulances, according to witnesses on the scene

Two different kinds of violence Yesterday's article "Because only Spartan women give birth to real men." has produced quite a lot of notice and controversy. Some of the nutroots have come across it, and have showed up to add to the comment thread. And now, as is sometimes the case, the comment thread is almost as interesting as the original article.It's of a decent size, and there are a lot of ideas in it. And certainly there's no reason to give oxygen to the people who can't do any better than things like "cornhole" and "You guys are such a...

American School Books Redefine 'Jihad' to Exclude Violence -- Where is Media? By Warner Todd Huston | June 8, 2008 - 21:49 ET In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic "Jihad." Now, our children will not be taught what "Jihad" truly means, nor that it has been used as an excuse to kill their fellow citizens because our schools have sanitized Islam...

Kim Whitley (in the Obama shirt), Flo Rida, Lil Mama, Young Joc and Mc Lyte praise Obama from the red carpet at the Black Entertainment Awards in America. BBC has video of the interviews HERE. The BET crowd joined together to holler "Obama or Die" (video here) last night at the annual awards show. MyWay reported: Barack Obama didn't attend the BET Awards, but that didn't stop attendees from talking about him. "If we all register and vote, we will have the first black president in the history of America," Sean "Diddy" Combs told the crowd Tuesday at the Shrine...

Paddy Ashdown: Military intervention in Zimbabwe 'would be justified' Lord Ashdown says terror must be ended Michael Evans, Defence Editor and Catherine Philp in Harare Military intervention in Zimbabwe would be justified to stop the violence there deteriorating into mass slaughter, Paddy Ashdown told The Times last night. Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon said: “The situation in Zimbabwe could deteriorate to a point where genocide could be a possible outcome - something that looks like [another] Rwanda.” In that case, international military action, with Britain playing a “delicate role”, would have to be considered, said the former European Union High Representative...

CYPRESS -- Things are getting ugly at Southern California gas pumps, and we're not just talking about the record prices. Some drivers are turning to violence. A doctor from La Palma was arrested Monday night after police say he grabbed a tire iron and threatened a driver who cut him off at a Costco gasoline station in Orange County. According to witnesses, Dr. Antonio Reyes, 58, was among a crowd of motorists waiting in line at the pumps at the Costco on Katella Ave. around 5:40 p.m. when another vehicle cut in front of him. Apparently angry about being cut...

I'm not sure I said enough about domestic violence last week, while attacking a vicious "public service" advertisement from the Canadian Women's Foundation, designed to focus hatred on "white males" -- though perhaps I did say enough to satisfy some of my feminist readers. I mentioned the ad as a token for what has in fact been a long-rolling social and political campaign, nay melodrama, dating back before the "take back the night" spectacles of the '90s, before the "recovered memory syndrome" hysteria of the '80s, before the "pantsuit revolution" of the '70s, to the pioneers of "second-wave" feminism in...

June 6, 2008: With things quieting down in Iraq (U.S. casualties hit an all-time low in May, 2008), South Africa has regained its position as the most violent country on the planet, with a murder rate of 65 per 100,000 population. The death rate is also high in some other African countries (like Sudan, Somalia and Congo), but those placed don't keep records as effectively as South Africa. The Iraqi rate is now running at about 48 per 100,000. The Afghanistan rate is about 15. India, another area with lots of terrorism (and half of it is from communist and...

Four Catholics Are Slain in Mexican Clash As Police Rout Rally for Reopening Churches By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHNWireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. MEXICO CITY, May 31. – Governor Victor Fernandez Manero of the State of Tabasco reported today that four Catholics had been killed and one Catholic and one policeman had been wounded when police dispersed a street demonstration by Catholics in favor or reopening the churches in Villahermosa, the State capital. The Catholics have sent messages of protest to the Bishop of Tabasco, the Most Rev. Vicente Camacho, who is now in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and to the Mexican...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday will join governors from both sides of the border in Mexico City to push for more action on crime-fighting and border security, a visit that comes as Mexico is facing unprecedented violence. Schwarzenegger will offer support to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his crackdown against the drug trade, in which he has deployed more than 20,000 federal troops across Mexico. Cartels have responded with increasingly bold attacks against security forces, including beheadings and assassinations of top police officials and soldiers. On Tuesday, seven federal officers were killed in a shootout with one cartel. Beyond policy...

The British and Irish culture of street violence Who's really more violent?By Christopher CookIf I had a dollar for every time a Brit has told me that our "gun culture" makes us "uncivilized"...... This tragic story caught my eye this morning...Teen Actor in Upcoming 'Potter' Film Stabbed to Death in Bar Brawl: LONDON — A teenage actor who is to appear in the new 'Harry Potter' film was stabbed to death Saturday during an early morning barfight. Robert Knox, 18, was murdered outside the Metro bar in southeast London as he tried to protect his brother Jamie, 17, from a...

The worsening credit crisis could lead to ethnic violence on Britain's streets as jobs become more scarce, one of the country's most senior police officers has warned. Julie Spence, Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire, said her officers were already struggling to cope with the consequences of migration and warned that if the economic downturn continued, it would heighten tensions in communities with large numbers of migrant workers. Speaking at the Police Federation conference in Bournemouth on Wednesday, Mrs Spence said: "We do wonder what is going to happen as the credit crunch starts to bite. We have already seen [claims that]...

Thugs vs. Peacekeepers or Fighters vs. oppressors; Mob vs. Protectors or Martyrs vs. killers? Before I could judge, please allow me to present some recounts of the Tibet unrest from the commons there. (As most western media had sided with Tibetans, I basically pick quotes from common Hans for balance.) http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/21/china-commons-in-violence-and-conflict/

Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level in more than four years, figures released by the US military showed on Saturday, but officials said progress was still fragile and reversible. Iraqi security officials said an offensive against al Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul, which the US military says is the Sunni Islamist group's last major urban stronghold, had wiped out most of the insurgent network.

JOHANNESBURG: The South African community of Actonville, a mainly Indian township east of here, is on edge after the killing of photographer Kiten Singh, 55, believed to be the first person of Indian origin to fall prey to the xenophobic violence sweeping the country. Kiten was allegedly burnt alive by a mob on Wednesday. The crowd of over 100 residents of a hostel that is home to local workers also set his house on fire. As violence continued in neighbouring areas on Thursday, police in Actonville were trying to solve the murder. The investigators were reportedly puzzled by the fact...

South Africa: Cape Town on high alert as Thabo Mbeki deploys troops to quell violence Last Updated: 8:31PM BST 21/05/2008 President Thabo Mbeki tonight ordered troops into South Africa’s troubled townships as violence against black migrant workers spread across the country, threatening the city of Cape Town. Attacks on migrant workers erupted around Johannesburg over the weekend, forcing foreigners to return to their neighboring countries. Violence flared against foreigners in the provinces of KwaZulu-Nataland and Mpumalanga and police in Cape Town were put on high alert. Mr Mbeki, who has been criticised for his lack of leadership during a week...

NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Two people were shot dead and five others were wounded by gunfire in three separate shootings Tuesday night that had police searching neighborhoods door to door for gunmen, finding one suspect in a backyard. The two fatal shootings were related and took place within three blocks of each other in North Hollywood at about 7 p.m., LAPD's Deputy Chief Michel Moore told reporters. About an hour earlier, a man was shot in Northridge by a gunman riding with a number of men in a car near Wilbur Avenue and Parthenia Street, said LAPD Lt. Bill Maarschalk. His...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Mobs rampaged through poor suburbs of Johannesburg in a frenzy of anti-foreigner violence over the weekend, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens and forcing hundreds to seek refuge at police stations. The attacks capped a week of mounting violence that started in the sprawling township of Alexandra. Angry residents there accused foreigners — many of them Zimbabweans who fled their own country's economic collapse — of taking scarce jobs and housing. Police and government officials say organized criminals are also taking advantage of the anti-foreigner sentiment by using it as a cover for looting and...

WASHINGTON - Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence escalates in the Mexican drug wars and spills across the U.S. border, a top Homeland Security official told The Associated Press. In the past few months, the police officials have shown up at the U.S. border, fearing for their lives, according to Jayson Ahern, the deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. "They're basically abandoned by their police officers or police departments in many cases," Ahern told AP. Ahern said the Mexican officials — whom he didn't name — are being interviewed and their cases...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Even by tough, urban-crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head. When the crime-hardened neighborhood awoke later that morning, two people reported a man lying on the pavement, his clothes being dragged off by his assailants. "You got a male being assaulted by 15 other guys. He's laying on the street," one 911 caller said. The April 27 attack on Charles Gooden Jr. happened in the most murder-ridden neighborhood in one...

HARARE (AFP) - The UN warned on Tuesday that post-election violence in Zimbabwe was rising to near crisis levels ahead of a planned presidential run-off, with opposition supporters bearing the brunt of attacks. As opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai prepared to return home to contest the election against President Robert Mugabe, his hopes the ballot would be held later this month in a peaceful atmosphere appeared to be wishful thinking. With Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change claiming 32 of its supporters have been killed since voting on March 29, the United Nations resident representative in Zimbabwe said most of the violence...

BOYS who don't play videogames at all are at greater risk of getting into trouble than those who play violent games occasionally, according to two Harvard psychologists. The pair also said there was also no evidence to suggest violent games turn young people into criminals or violent people, despite some media reports. "If you look at the violent crime in the US over the past 20 years among teenagers it's gone down, and gone down significantly, and if you look at videogame play, it's gone up," said Dr Lawrence Kutner and Dr Cheryl Olsen of Harvard Medical School in a...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration accused Iran and Syria on Friday of fueling ongoing violence in Lebanon by inciting members of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement to take up arms against the country's western-backed government. As Hezbollah militants seized control of large parts of Beirut, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced the show-of-force, which she said was being supported by Iranian and Syrian elements, and reaffirmed the firm support of the United States for Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's shaky coalition. "Backed by Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and its allies are killing and injuring innocent citizens and undermining the legitimate authority...

BEIRUT (AFP) — A strike over wage demands degenerated into violence in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday as anti-government protesters clashed with ruling coalition supporters, sparking fears of civil unrest. Militants loyal to the Hezbollah-led opposition blocked several roads with blazing tyres and dumped dirt along the main road leading to Beirut international airport. Gunfire, meanwhile, erupted in several neighbourhoods of the capital as armed supporters of the Western-backed ruling bloc and the opposition, backed by Syria and Iran, faced off. A security official told AFP that about 10 people, including two soldiers, were slightly injured. Anti-riot police and the...