13 May '07 01:22
Who are the real Nazis ?
A close friendship has grown between Holocaust denying European Nazis and the Jihadist Iranian regime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson
Robert Faurisson (born January 25, 1929) is a French holocaust denier .....
Faurisson became familiar to a wider audience through the publication of three letters in French newspaper Le Monde between December 1978 and February 1979, in which he maintained that the gas chambers at the death camps were never used, and denied the existence of the systematic murder of Jews.
Christopher Hitchens has described Faurisson's goal as "the rehabilitation, in pseudo scholarly form, of the Third Reich"[2][3]. Faurisson claims to be apolitical and an atheist.
In 1991 Faurisson, in collaboration with Siegfried Verbeke, published the Dutch-language brochure Het "Dagboek" van Anne Frank. Een kritische benadering ("The 'Diary' of Anne Frank - A Critical Evaluation" ), which claimed that the diary of Anne Frank is a forgery since the original handwritten manuscript cannot be that of a child; the brochure was banned in the Netherlands.
In December 2006 Faurisson gave a speech at the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, which was sponsored by the government of Iran. He repeated his theories about gas chambers and said that in the past 32 years he had been waiting for someone to show him one of those chambers.
The following Iranian documentary "Merchants of the Myth", an Iranian TV documentary dedicated to Holocaust denial, (English subtitles) shows the alliance between Holocaust denying European Nazis and the Iranian Islamist regime in their combined efforts to reïnterprete an important part of modern history:
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1424wmv&ak=null
Transcript:
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1424
courtesy of ivanhoe
12 May '07 08:08
http://www.kwrw.org/
Above internet site has extensive articles and reports concerning "honour killings", among others articles about the stoning of the Kurdish girl Dua Khalil Aswad.
In particular the article titled "The Background of Murdering Dua" written from a (liberal?) Kurdish perspective by Dr. Showan Khurshidis is informative.
http://www.kwrw.org/index.asp?id=91
Also the article "Honor Killings Fuel Tensions in Iraq`s Kurdish North" by Barry Newhouse is worth while reading to discover the political backgrounds of this "honour killing".
http://www.kwrw.org/index.asp?id=99
courtesy of ivanhoe
10 May '07 00:35
Guns don't kill drug dealers, militias do!
Rio militias keep peace in slums
By Peter Muello
The Associated Press
May 6, 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil · For as long as anyone can remember, the cracked asphalt soccer field in the Roquete Pinto slum was off-limits to children, "reserved" by gangs selling marijuana and cocaine. Then, a few months ago, a mysterious squad of beefy men with submachine guns started patrolling on foot, and the drug dealers disappeared.
Last month, while gunbattles were raging in two other Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods and bystanders were shielding their kids from the bullets, the barefoot teens of Roquete Pinto kicked a ball around their freshly liberated field.
Startling transformations like Roquete Pinto's are increasingly visible across Rio, as for-profit "militias" made up of active and former police officers, private security guards, off-duty prison guards and firefighters evict drug gangs from slums where violence used to be out of control.
Although some worry about the implications of vigilante justice, the militias have powerful sympathizers, among them Mayor Cesar Maia, who calls them "self-defense groups" and says that compared with the drug gangs, the vigilantes are the lesser evil.
The surprise is that the gangs aren't fighting to hold their turf. In the few known cases where they did, militia gunfire turned them back.
Critics say the city risks going the way of Colombia, where violent paramilitary groups that sprang up to battle guerrillas came to hold more power than authorities in some areas.
"It's the state that establishes law and order, not the militia," said Sergio Cabral, governor of Rio de Janeiro state. "We won't accept this under any conditions."
But President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hasn't spoken out against the militias, and it seems that law enforcement has fallen into a gray area in many Rio slums. Authorities in the city of 6 million people may be content to leave it at that as Brazil prepares to host Pope Benedict XVI next month and Rio stages the Pan American Games in July.
First gaining strength in 2003 as an alternative to ineffective, often corrupt police, the illegal security forces have mushroomed since late last year and now control about 90 of Rio's 600 favelas, Maggessi said. Success in slums such as Roquete Pinto, meanwhile, fuels their expansion into others.
"This place was dead," said Joao Batista dos Santos da Silva Jr., president of the Roquete Pinto residents association. "It was war every day."
Like many slum community leaders, he refuses to acknowledge the existence of the militias, saying the cleanup is entirely the work of the police, even though there is no station in the slum and not a single officer or patrol car was seen during two recent visits.
On the other hand, Roquete Pinto's new protectors were hard to miss: seven big men in shorts and T-shirts, silently eating lunch in a pool hall, a submachine gun and automatic pistols on the table between their plates.
In another favela, Rio das Pedras, a woman selling shampoo on the street had no doubts. "There are no muggers and no drug sellers," said Margarida Rodrigues dos Santos, 57. "The militia won't let them in."
Copyright © 2007, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-hbrazrio06may06,0,5792855.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean
courtesy of der schwarze Ritter
07 May '07 07:51
look, in the bottom right corner of the photo! it's Seitse!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070506/ap_en_ot/mexico_nude_photos;_ylt=AujiOZLDnQHdBc_jWQ5a_BXMWM0F
"Mexicans strip en masse for U.S. artist
By ISTRA PACHECO, Associated Press Writer
Sun May 6, 3:23 PM ET
MEXICO CITY - More than 18,000 people stripped down and bared it all in Mexico City's vast main square Sunday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick's biggest nude shoot yet...."
courtesy of zeeblebot
05 Feb '07 17:40
I think the U.S have got it wrong in the David Hicks charges ,They have created new laws for him to be charged and kept the poor man in a cell for 5 years without charge .
Its only when the U.N ask questions about him that they fast track these laws .
Is it a case of the U.S making up laws as they please ,to somehow justify what they have done to the man over the last 5 years.
courtesy of boarman
17 Jan '07 21:03
The "HugoChavez" People's Libertation Front for Chancremechanic
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Subject: Communicate
Origin: A cafe in Rue Dauphin
Date: Unknown
Destinatary: The World
C.c. [Confidential]
The HuCh FroLiCh hereby communicates to the international
community its decision to launch a worldwide campaign to evict
chancremechanic from the darkness of ostracism, pushing him back
to the glamorous debate arena of RHP forums.
Our organization, with members in the 5 corners of the world, is ready
to demonstrate peacefully, yet it is aware that, if our demands are not
met, the revolution shall begin through violent means: Stink bombs,
tickling devices placed on the seats of world leaders, wreckage of
RedMike's wheelchair, changing shavixmir's marihuana for dried
banana leaf, amongst other vicious acts against the free world.
You've been warned.
(signatures)
Commander Carlos Arruabarrena Worcestershire III, a.k.a. The Jackass
Over & Out.
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courtesy of Seitse