OK, this is way off-topic for Rantburg, but the photo and the cruel comment thread at the link made me laugh. I pray there are enough Rantburgers with a similarly warped sense of humor to excuse my indulgence.
A U.S. Navy sailor serving at Fort Bragg was charged today with attempting to sell classified documents.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Minkyu Martin, 22, of New York, was charged with attempting to forward classified information to a person not authorized to receive such information, a news release from the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic public affairs office said. A court-martial date has not been set, but legal proceedings will take place at the Region Legal Service Office at Norfolk Naval Station.
Martin, an intelligence specialist, was arrested Dec. 1, 2010 while he was assigned to the Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek -- Fort Story in Virginia Beach. He was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan in support of the Army and had been undergoing training at Fort Bragg in preparation for that deployment.
According to a warrant filed in Eastern District Court in North Carolina, Martin accepted a total of $3,500 from an undercover FBI agent in exchange for dozens of pages of documents that were classified either secret or top secret.
[Straits Times] A PHILIPPINE politician sentenced last week to 18 months in a Hong Kong prison after pleading guilty to cocaine trafficking has resigned from his post. Didja ever notice how seldom any of our politicians go to Hong Kong?
House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr says he has accepted Rep Ronald Singson's resignation and that should start the process of finding his replacement.
He says Tuesday's resignation has spared the House of Representatives 'from a potentially divisive process'. He was apparently referring to calls to expel Singson.
Singson was caught with 6.67 grams of cocaine in July at Hong Kong's airport while en route to a poker tournament in the gambling enclave of Macau. He avoided a maximum life penalty by convincing a judge the drugs were for his personal use.
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[Emirates 24/7] A jilted lover uses Facebook to settle scores with his ex-lover by posting pictures of them kissing and in passionate embraces.
The girl, also a Pak, said their relationship had blossomed and was going steady but when he started taking pictures of them kissing, she threatened to leave him. This agitated him and he threatened to publish the pictures and beat her
A 21-year-old Pak student became abusive when his 18-year-old partner broke up with him, heard the Dubai Court of First Instance.
The girl, also a Pak, said their relationship had blossomed and was going steady but when he started taking pictures of them kissing, she threatened to leave him. This agitated him and he threatened to publish the pictures and beat her, claimed the girl's mother.
However, The infamous However... when the girl remained adamant on not communicating, the boy turned up outside her house and threatened the girl's father, who immediately lodged a complaint with the police. Then "the boy's parents requested us to withdraw the complaint and promised to return the pictures of our daughter", said the victim's mother. "However, The infamous However... when we checked there were no pictures in the memory card." she added.
The family sighed relief and carried on with their life, when one day to their astonishment they discovered the pictures of their daughter on Facebook.
The boy faces a possible prison term but he has denied the charges of threatening behaviour and publishing indecent pictures of the girl. The case is adjourned.
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Then "the boy's parents requested us to withdraw the complaint and promised to return the pictures of our daughter", said the victim's mother.
IOW, the agreement was if he didn't publish the photo's they would see to their daughters' beatings. And the fact that Loverboy is 21 and the harlot is 18 proves the parents were seeking an "honorable" solution.
Today's dispatch from the Depths of Depravity... [Dawn] Investigators who spent more than a week searching for a 13-year-old girl her family feared had run away with someone she met online found her unharmed in a hotel Wednesday, where she said she had been hiding to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistain.
Jesse Bender was taken into child protective custody as authorities decide whether to recommend filing charges against her family, San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman said.
No arrests have been made. A call to the Bender family home in the desert city of Hesperia went unanswered late Wednesday.
Jesse's mother reported her missing on Feb. 22, telling authorities that her daughter was upset about having to go on a two-month vacation to her father's native Pakistain, Bachman said.
Several days later, Melissa Bender told Sherlocks she was worried her daughter ran off with someone she had been communicating with on Facebook.
Her statement launched a nationwide kidnapping investigation by the FBI, US Marshals Service, and multiple law enforcement agencies fearful that the girl was with an Internet predator.
Detectives served several search warrants and the investigation reached as far as Chicago because the mother believed the person who befriended her daughter on Facebook lived there.
"All that information was misleading," Bachman said. "Whoever she was communicating with online was not a threat to her."
As detectives began to focus on the Bender family, they learned that a relative was hiding Jessie in the nearby town of Apple Valley out of fear that she would be taken to Pakistain. That relative led detectives to the hotel early Wednesday.
Jesse's three siblings were also taken into child protective custody pending the completion of the investigation, Bachman said.
"All of the information that was obtained by Sherlocks will be sent to the district attorney's office for review, I'm sure they'll make some sort of recommendation," Bachman said.
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Not one mention of Islam. Not one mention of Sharia. Not one mention the custom of the Muslim men's custom of selling thier daughters to the highest bidder.
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The thing not mentioned in the article is that the girl is not Pakistani, nor half-Pakistani. It's her mother's possibly common-law husband and father of her youngest child, Mohammed Khan, who is the Pakistani, according to the news report on the television this morning. Given that the child was not born to the religion or the culture, where could she possibly have gotten the idea that she was going to be suddenly married off at such a young age, in country she'd never seen before?
o Mrs. Bender said she wanted to take the children to see her husband's family and homeland,
o she was going to take the girl, an honours student, out of school for two months for the purpose
o the girl and her brother live with Mrs. Bender's brother and disabled, aged mother; it was that uncle who hid the girl, clearly believing her fears valid
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama made culinary history when they served homebrewed White House Honey Ale, made with a pound of honey from the White House Beehive, to guests at last month's Super Bowl party.
A farmer from Jiayu county of Hubei Province has lived 55 years without an anus, after being born with congenital anal atresia in the Wuhan Union Hospital. But now doctors have reshaped a new fundament for him in January.
Wu previously endured a 0.5-centimeter diameter surgical hole, or stomas, near his urethra for excrement, through which he could squeeze stools out with his hands. Wu had to pay attention to the food he ate, avoid constipation and was a frequent user of laxatives.
The dilemma left him very thin but it did not prevent him getting married and having children.
As his economic situation improved, Wu went to the Wuhan Hospital at the end of last year, where Dr Li Zhibiao examined him and framed operation plans. Wu accepted an artificial anus, and three days later, could excrete like normal people.
Answer to today's trivia question: Pete Seeger is NOT dead...
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- New York City folks singer Pete Seeger announced his support for the Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel last week, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and Adalah said in a statement. Moshe, Pete Seeger supports the boycott.
Pete Seeger? He's NOT dead? Really?
The 92-year-old singer made the news public at his home in New York, saying "I support the BDS movement as much as I can," Yes, I think we already know Pete suffers from BDS...
and telling reporters that a virtual rally hosted by Friends of the Arava Institute, an Israeli environmental organization ICHAD says is closely partnered with the Jewish National Fund, did not mean he supported JNF activities. I support them. But I don't support them. I like tapioca. And butterscotch pudding.
Speaking alongside Seeger, coordinator of ICAHD Jeff Halper, said "Pete did extensive research on this. He read historical and current material and spoke to neighbors, friends, and three rabbis before making his decision to support the boycott movement against Israel. ...and we figured we'd better get him on the record before he forgot. Or died.
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Isn't this the Icehole who said we should stay out of WW2 back in the days of the Molotov-Ribbentroff Pact? I'm trying to remember the exact wording, I think it was something about staying out of Mr. Roosevelt's War For The Jews.
Seeger was a very talented Folk Singer in the day this is just sad
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It was "Mr. Roosevelt's War For J. P. Morgan". Can't say he's an anti-semite, but he was a card carrying commie until he found out Uncle Joe wasn't such a nice guy. He has settled for being a useful idiot for about 50 years.
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In 2007, Seegar did a song that criticizes Stalin. Seegar claimed then to have realized Stalin's errors back in 1996 or so (although no one else corroborated it). Nonetheless, if one gives Seeger the benefit of the doubt and accepts the 1996 date it would mean Seegar supported Stalin 40 years after Khrushchev denounced Stalin, 50+ years after Stalin's takeover of E Europe and 60+ years after Stalin's genocide in the Ukraine.
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With the ever-growing revelations of Joseph Stalin's atrocities and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, however, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet Communism. In his PBS biography, Seeger said he "drifted away" from the CPUSA beginning in 1949 but remained friends with some who did not leave it, though he argued with them about it.
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And now he's someone who supports killers who run through Israeli settlements with an axe. The boomer counter-culture is the gift that just keeps giving, no matter how much you wish it would stop.
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The boomer counter-culture is the gift that just keeps giving, no matter how much you wish it would stop.
I hate to break this to you, but at 92 he is hardly considered a boomer. Counter-culture or otherwise.
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LOL You are right. I guess I knew less about who he was than I thought. In my mind, I have him sort of lumped in with the whole folk/protest music scene of the early sixties, without understanding how far back his career goes.
[Emirates 24/7] John Galliano has been sacked from Christian Dior. The most effeminate of all possible homosexuals would mince past this guy, stop, stare, and sneer: "Faggot!"
The fashion house have decided to axe their creative director following his alleged anti-Semitic remarks last week as they don't want to be associated with his views. I apologize to any homosexuals I've offended. Funny-looking as the guy is, when you come right down to it, it's not so much the packaging that's loathsome as the content.
Truth be told, gay guys in gay bars say worse things about other gays all the time. Trust me.
Sidney Toledano, Dior's president and chief executive officer, said in a statement today: "I condemn most firmly the statements made by John Galliano which are in total contradiction to the essential values that have always been defended by the House of Christian Dior."
The house confirmed the "odious behaviour" exhibited by Galliano in the video released yesterday - in which he told a group of people he believed to be Jewish they should be dead and pronounced his love for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler - was the final straw resulting in his dismissal.
Wouldn't it have been just fabulously ironic if, upon saying those words, he had been instantly transported to a Nazi rally during Hitler's heyday wearing the exact outfit that he's wearing in the picture?
The news of Galliano's sacking comes hours after Natalie Portman disassociated herself from the designer because of his recent actions.
The actress - who is the face of Christian Dior's Miss Dior Cherie fragrance - said: "I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano's comments that surfaced today. In light of this video, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way. I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful."
As well as the video, Galliano is accused of making racist remarks to Geraldine Bloch - including calling her a "dirty Jew face" - during a drunken episode in Gay Paree last Thursday (24.02.11) as well threatening her friend Philippe Virgitti.
Despite the controversy, a spokesperson for Galliano's eponymous label has confirmed the show will go ahead this Sunday (06.03.11) at Gay Paree Fashion Week.
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Well, he certainly puts the gay into Gay Paree, doesn't he?
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Well, when you're working the épater le bourgeois schtick, and nearly everything that doesn't land you with a life sentence has been done, then maybe pulling that old brown shirt and jodhpurs out of the closet might work...
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Click on the article headline and enjoy the idea that the Flower Child in that photo was thrown out so fast on his exquisitely upholstered ass that he left skid marks on the sidewalk.
[An Nahar] Interim Tunisian President Foued Mebazaa on Thursday announced that a constituent assembly charged with developing a new post-revolt constitution will be elected on July 24.
"We declare today the start of a new era ... in the framework of a new political system that breaks definitely from the deposed regime," Mebazaa said in a televised address to the nation.
He said the July 24 vote would be for the "formation of a national constituent assembly that will develop a new constitution."
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[Arab News] More than 200,000 people have decamped a suburb in Ivory Coast's commercial capital amid days of heavy street fighting that has left dozens dead and spread fears the country will slide back to civil war, the UN said Thursday. Comes as a surprise, huh? I know. It floored me, too.
Days of intense festivities have taken place in Abobo between police loyal to sitting president Laurent Gbagbo ... President of Ivory Coast since 2000. Gbagbo lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and Laurent has refused to leave despite the international community's hemming, hawing, and broad hints... and rebel soldiers allied with his opponent, Alassane Ouattara.
Local UN human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... representative Guillaume Ngefa said Thursday that at least 26 people have been killed in Abobo in the last 24 hours alone.
The UN's refugee agency also has expressed alarm about the dire conditions facing people trying to get out of the area, citing "reports of many dead bodies, buses burned and shops looted, and of young forces of Evil attacking people inside their homes." The standoff between the two men claiming to be president reached a new level last week when the army began using war-like weapons, including mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
Gbagbo, the sitting president, has refused to cede power three months after the UN said Ouattara won the election.
The standoff already has claimed the lives of hundreds of Ouattara supporters, victims of targeted liquidations and "disappearances" carried out at night by security forces loyal to Gbagbo.
Multiple delegations of African leaders have come through Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial hub, in an attempt to persuade Gbagbo to leave office. Gbagbo has rejected all their proposals, including offers of amnesty and a comfortable exile abroad.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday went to court challenging the central bank order that removed him from the post of managing director of Grameen Bank, while the wider international community showed its displeasure at the way the Nobel prize winner for Bangladesh was treated. There's a nice-sized boodle there, just for the taking, once he's out of the way. Why piss it away on some po' folks?
The court fixed March 6 (Sunday) for delivering an order on a writ petition filed by Yunus. The Nobel winner found himself in the middle of a campaign since a Norwegian TV documentary alleged that he had transferred Norway government's money unlawfully to another organisation. Norway later in a statement cleared the air and said no corruption or illegal activity had taken place.
Challenging the legality of the government's move to remove Yunus from Grameen, nine directors of the microlender jointly filed a second writ petition with the High Court.
Dr Kamal Hossain who appeared for Yunus told the court that the government has removed the Grameen Bank founder from his post without issuing any show-cause notice.
Earlier when Yunus had asked the Grameen Bank board of directors to exempt him from the office considering his age, they requested him to continue, Dr Kamal said.
The directors last met on February 27 and decided to hold another meeting later on, but Yunus has been removed from the office before that meeting could be held, Dr Kamal said.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam opposed the writ petition, saying that Grameen Bank was established as per Grameen Bank Ordinance 1983, and as per its section 36, the retirement age of its officials is 60.
This provision applies to Dr Muhammad Yunus as it does to the other employees of Grameen Bank, he said.
The attorney general said Yunus is now 70 years old, and as per section 36 of Grameen Bank Ordinance 1983, he cannot hold this office.
After the court hearing, Yunus said he wanted a "graceful solution" allowing him to step down from his post at the microfinance institution.
"I have said repeatedly that I don't want to be in the position of managing director but the (Grameen Bank) board would not accept my resignation. They asked me to stay and this is why I am in this position now," he said.
"I want a graceful solution to my departure from Grameen," he added.
"I urge all of you to save and protect this institution. Grameen Bank has come this far on its own money and labour, not foreign funds," Yunus told reporters at the Supreme Court premises.
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As Turkey tries to gain entry into the European Union, new stats reveal a frightening trend in the treatment of women in the Islamic majority nation.
From 2002-2009, which is the most recent data available, cases of women being murdered in Turkey has grown 1,400%. There were 66 known cases in 2002 and 953 in 2009. And the vast majority of these cases are related to Muslim men punishing their wives, daughters, or sisters for shaming their religion. Even worse, other research shows up to 40% of Turkish women have been abused physically or sexually.
Every day there are more horror stories, Hatice Firat is just one of the latest examples. The 19 year old girl ran away from home with her boyfriend about a month ago. Her family eventually located her and convinced her to come home. Shortly after, Firat's brother took her for a walk on the beach, and then he plunged a knife into his sister's chest 40 times. He was following the will of their family and what they believed was the will of Allah.
Firat's family would not bury their daughter or go to the funeral. Around fifty women paid for it and marched chanting for the end of such violence against women:
"We are not going to be anyone's honor," "End honor killings," "Hands that hurt women should be broken."
Stories like Firat's are more than daily occurrences in Turkey,Pakistan, and many other parts of the Muslim world. And recent cases in the United States show it is a growing problem here too.
But while women's groups are becoming more outspoken in Turkey, feminist organizations are silent in America. And to make matters worse, our media continues to argue there is nothing to fear with the spread of Sharia.
Europe is looking at Turkey and their own problems and our finally starting to see the dangers. When will America do the same? How many women will be abused or killed before we do?
A day after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Westboro Baptist Church's right to protest against homosexuality at military funerals, the fallen Marine's father, who unsuccessfully sued the controversial Kansas congregation, warned that the church's protests will eventually spark violence. Karma does that. Too bad we can't predict when it will strike.
"Something is going to happen," Albert Snyder told CNN Thursday. "Somebody is going to get hurt." Or maybe better.
"You have too many soldiers and Marines coming back with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and they (the Westboro protesters) are going to go to the wrong funeral and the guns are going to go off."
"And when it does," Snyder said. "I just hope it doesn't hit the mother that's burying her child or the little girl that's burying her father or mother. It's inevitable." Very, very unlikely because I doubt the WBC folks will come armed.
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So is what Westboro doing not similar to yelling fire in a church--spurring incendiary behavior which inflames emotions and behaviors and endangers public safety?
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There was an interesting case several years ago where a man bought a book from Paladin Press entitled Hit Man which was a basic "how to" about being a hit man. It is interesting that the Westboro case has parallels to that case but the ruling was in favor of free speech concerning deplorable behavior. It seems like a lack of consistency regarding free speech in the Federal courts.
In 1993, a triple murder was committed in Montgomery County, Maryland, by a man who claimed to have used the book as his guide. James Perry, who had been imprisoned for violent crime, was caught, convicted, and sentenced to death. He had been hired by Lawrence T. Horn, who sought to receive the proceeds of a trust fund that resulted from his ex-wife's suing a hospital over injuries to their son. The families of Mildred Horn, her son Trevor, and her nurse Janice Saunders sued Paladin Press, the publisher of the book, claiming Paladin Press "aided and abetted" the murder. The suit, Rice v Paladin Enterprises, claimed that Paladin Press had a share of responsibility in the murders by virtue of their publication of a book that, by Paladin's own admission, could be used by criminals and would-be criminals in the solicitation, planning, and commission of murder for hire.
In November 1997, a U.S. appeals court ruled 3-0 that Hit Man was not protected by the free speech/free press clause of the First Amendment and thus Paladin Enterprises could be held liable for a triple murder committed by one of its readers.
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Just as some claim to be 'anti-war' when their real agenda is anti-Republican, the Westboro trolls put an anti-gay mask on their clearly anti-American activities.
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I suspect that Fred Phelps' little troupe are solely interested in litigation. They are very careful to always follow the letter of the law, and if pre-event publicity is too harsh, they won't show up. And, if they ever think they are at physical risk, they bug out.
So their biggest vulnerability is a lone gunman with no assets, who sneaks by the police cordon and comes in blasting. Gerald Loughner type.
Ironically, depending on the jurisdiction, without explanation, the jury might acquit him. Then unless the Just Us department retried him for a Civil Rights violation, the SCOTUS would likely poop themselves.
They truly fouled up with this decision, opposed as it is by 48 States. The first amendment is already perforated with exceptions, so they should have just added a very narrow one to that list, so at least there would be a way for cities, counties and States to stop this sort of crapola in the future.
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I agree with the SOTUS decision. You have the legal right to say any damn thing you want short of libel or yelling fire in a crowded theater.. and God isn't likely to file a suit claiming he never said " I hate fags". That said, you also have responsibilities and consequences for your actions. I have the legal right to head down to the local biker bar and call them all sissies. And the responsibility and consequences of that action are all my own. As Phelps' are all his own.
I fear courts and gov't placing limits on the Bill of Rights just slightly more than I despise Phelps and crew.
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Have the Westboro scum protested at Arlington National Cemetery? Just asking. Recently a group of HS students were attending a conservative leadership conference and touring the Lincoln Memorial on June 25. So far this is not a court case to my knowledge. They said they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem. I'm all for free speech but the average citizen (me) is left scratching his head and asking: "What is free speech?" My somewhat jaundiced view of all this is that this litigation is good for the legal profession but provides scant consistent guidelines for individual rights. As our newspaper said: Constitutional but not conscionable. If someone or some group wants to be the most annoying, irritating, disrespectful a$$holes they know how to be, it is legal so long as it is restricted to speech/signs.
Most torts (laws) are based on some harm or damage or occurring. It seems like that test would be made here. I understand the SCOTUS said free speech had to be protected at all costs; ignoring harm or damage that might result. But again, consistency of decisions does not seem to be the watchword here.
* CNSNEWS.COM > ORGANIZED CRIME [includ Cartel Wars] IN MEXIO JEOPARDIZES PROSPERITY OF NORTH AMERICA: MEXICO PRESIDENT SAYS.
Well, iff POTUS BAMMER = THE FED + US CONGRESS are going to continue to NOT secure the SW borders, then IMO Wahsington + Voets should NOT be surprised iff NOT-A-FEW STATE GOVTS ORGANZIED THEIR OWN MILITIAS = STATE GUARDS + DECLARE THE BORDERS TO NO LONGER BE A LEGIT "FEDERAL ISSUE", BUT A SOVEREIGN STATE ISSUE AS DUE TO "INCOMPETENCE/MISTAKE OR CORRUPTION".
[Ma'an] Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people as a whole from responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a new book due to be published this month, prompting praise from Jewish groups. Again? How many times does the Church have to do this? Don't they have pencils and paper so they can remember from one day to the next?
The pope wrote that the condemnations of Jesus Christ came from the "aristocracy of the temple" in Jerusalem and from the "masses" who acclaimed Barabbas instead of Jesus -- not from "the Jewish people as a whole". Oh. Well. Glad he straightened that out.
Extracts from the book, the second volume of a biography of Jesus Christ, were published by the Vatican's official Osservatore Romano daily on Thursday. I thought there were already four biographies of Christ?
The World Jewish Congress in a statement praised the pope "for unequivocally rejecting the argument that the Jewish people can be held responsible." Congress head Ronald Lauder said: "2,000 years after the event it really was high time that the head of the Catholic Church made a clear statement on this. I thought they did that in the 1960s? Remember? John XXIII? Or did I dream the whole thing?
"It sets an important marker against anti-Semitism in the Church," he said. Perhaps it should be designated a sin... "Jews suffered from brutal persecution and anti-Semitism because Christians held them collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus Christ, even though he was himself a Jew and was crucified by the Roman rulers," he added. The Church fathers were Jews as well. It took a little time to come around to the idea that anybody could join, rather than the Church being an hereditary club...
Marco Politi, a Vatican expert at Italian daily Il Fatto, That'd be Il Fatto Quotidiano, I think, which is "The Daily Fact," not "The Fat Newspaper."
said the pope's words were "a positive signal for the Jewish people, showing that Benedict XVI absolutely does not consider the gospels as a basis for any anti-Judaism." I don't think anybody's ever found a basis for it in the gospels. I think it comes from the darker reaches of the heart, which then does a little sophist juggling to get the conclusion it wants from the documentation available.
Tensions between Judaism and Catholicism have been high for centuries because of Catholic blame of the Jews for Christ's death. There's no Protestant pope, so Lutherans and Methodists and such are free to continue sneering. And there's no Moslem pope, so they're free to continue chasing Jews out of their countries after raping their daughters and the occasional son.
A Vatican Council in the 1960s that exonerated the Jews failed to end tensions, which have resurfaced in recent years under Benedict's papacy. I guess they might have forgotten to write it down, so everybody forgot but me. I was sober at the time...
In 2007, the pope reinstated a "prayer for the conversion of Jews." Praying for their conversion's not the same thing as anti-Semitism. The Jews are perfectly free to pray that God opens the eyes of the Gentiles and we all get the snip and start wearing hats. The Moslems will, of course, continue to pray to their god to kill us all, so this little kerfuffle seems pretty minor in comparison.
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The reporting on this has been horribly inaccurate. Pope Benedict simply reiterated the 1965 document and explained the reasoning behind each point in the original decision.
This "exoneration" does not break any new ground and simply reiterates the doctrine that has already been in place for many decades.
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Jesus's life and death were pre-ordained by a higher power than men & women and anti-semites (and Helen Thomas, but I repeat myself). If you are a Christian, you believe they may have played a minor local power-play role in the setting, but were nothing in the big picture. This is tiresome sh*t
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I've never gotten the whole Joooos-killed-Jesus schtick.
The Italians killed him. (Well, the Romans, but Rome has always been in Italy.) Then the church proceeded to have Italian Popes for a couple of thousand years, so they obviously weren't too bothered by it.
Anyway, Christians couldn't be saved if Jesus hadn't died and risen again, so where's the beef?
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[Straits Times] THE Philippine military deployed two warplanes near the disputed South China Sea region after a local ship searching for oil complained it was harassed by two Chinese patrol boats, which later left without confrontation, officials said on Thursday.
The incident happened Wednesday at the Reed Bank, which is near the disputed Spratly Islands that are claimed by the Philippines, China and other nations, said Lieutenant General Juancho Sabban, who heads the military's Western Command. Philippine officials said the Reed Bank is clearly within Philippine territory.
The Spratlys, a group of islands, reefs and atolls believed to be sitting stop vast oil and gas reserves, has been claimed in whole or in part by China, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. It has long been regarded as a potential flash point for conflict in Asia.
Mr Sabban said he deployed an OV-10 bomber plane and an Islander light aircraft to the Reed Bank to undertake surveillance after the Philippine ship radioed his command that two suspected Chinese patrol boats approached and ordered it to leave the area.
When the planes reached the area, the foreign vessels have left, he said. 'It's clearly our territory,' Mr Sabban told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
'If they'll bully us, well, even children will fight back.' Chinese Embassy front man Ethan Sun declined to immediately react to Mr Sabban's statement.
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You know the world has changed when the Philippine military started chasing the Chinese away.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Straits Times] A PHILIPPINE 
[Dawn] Investigators who spent more than a week searching for a 13-year-old girl her family feared had run away with someone she met online found her unharmed in a hotel Wednesday, where she said she had been hiding to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistain.
John Galliano has been sacked from Christian Dior. 
Laurent Gbagbo
Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday went to court challenging the central bank order that removed him from the post of managing director of Grameen Bank, while the wider international community showed its displeasure at the way the Nobel prize winner for Bangladesh was treated.
As Turkey tries to gain entry into the European Union, new stats reveal a frightening trend in the treatment of women in the Islamic majority nation. 
[Ma'an] Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people as a whole from responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in a new book due to be published this month, prompting praise from Jewish groups.
"Jews suffered from brutal persecution and anti-Semitism because Christians held them collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus Christ, even though he was himself a Jew and was crucified by the Roman rulers," he added.
[Straits Times] THE Philippine military deployed two warplanes near the disputed South China Sea region after a local ship searching for oil complained it was harassed by two Chinese patrol boats, which later left without confrontation, officials said on Thursday.
