Chirac counts on jungle tribes to swing EU vote - Sunday Times - Times Online

"Their [French Guiana] 1.4m voters could swing the result in the closely fought May 29 French referendum on the European Union’s constitution and determine the future of Europe, not to mention influence the timing of Tony Blair’s departure from No 10 [Downing Street]."

Newsday.com: Two Suspected in van Gogh Slaying Arrested

MSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Authorities have arrested two Chechen citizens in France and the Netherlands in connection with the November slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, prosecutors said Thursday.

Brazzil Magazine - 200,000 Children in Brazil Are Learning from Mao's Red Book

"Leornardo Boff, a former Catholic friar and the 'father' of liberation theology in Brazil, has once suggested that his country currently enjoys the biggest network of revolutionary 'social movements' in the world. "

Oprah's Mag Misses the Mark

Continued media omission of incitement to violence in Palestinian culture -- from HonestReporting.com

WorldNetDaily: FBI has secret docs it's reticent to give up

The FBI says it has located 340 documents related to the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, documents that could reveal damaging information about what the agency and its informants knew about the mass murder plot, reports the McCurtain Daily Gazett

WorldNetDaily: Egyptian Christian held in mental hospital

"Doctors in a Cairo mental hospital are holding an Egyptian Christian against his will, telling the man he'll be a permanent resident there until he recants his faith and returns to Islam, reports a leading monitor of Christian persecution."

OpinionJournal - Hypocrisy Most Holy

"With the revelation that a copy of the Quran may have been desecrated by U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay, Muslims and their governments--including that of Saudi Arabia--reacted angrily. This anger would have been understandable if the U.S. government's adopted policy was to desecrate our Quran. But even before the Newsweek report was discredited, that was never part of the allegations." - BY ALI AL-AHMED

The Scotsman - Top Stories - Cannabis linked to bone disease

"Scottish scientists found that the drug can cause increased bone loss, which in turn leads to osteoporosis. The findings add to a growing body of evidence on the dangers of cannabis and prompted campaigners to renew their calls for the government to rethink its drugs law."

Reuters | Chavez says Venezuela interested in nuclear energy

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government was interested in nuclear energy and could start talks with Iranian partners to study possible atomic and solar power projects.

WorldNetDaily: Are illegals making U.S. a leper colony?

"Americans should be told that diseases long eradicated in this country – tuberculosis, leprosy, polio, for example – and other extremely contagious diseases have been linked directly to illegals," Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., told the Business Journal of Phoenix. "For example, in 40 years, only 900 persons were afflicted by leprosy in the U.S.; in the past three years, more than 7,000 cases have been presented."

WorldNetDaily: Soros funded 'Media Reform' conference

"The just-held National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis – which featured charges that the U.S. military targets journalists in Iraq – was sponsored by a group that received $400,000 from the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute over the last two years."

WorldNetDaily: Newsweek put U.S. flag in trash on foreign cover

I guess anti-americanism is what sells abroad!

FrontPage magazine.com :: More LOST than Mobility by Ryan Peterson

"Among the many provisions Ireland cited to demonstrate Britain’s culpability was Article 192, which states, “States have the obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment.” The untold generality of this provision could potentially be employed to indict virtually any U.S. activity that may harm the marine environment, including activities on U.S. soil or even those activities of nuclear powered warships. Vital U.S. interests could be left in the hands of international arbiters – most likely ones who hold contempt for the U.S. and its unparalleled military force."

The American Thinker: Chavez's growing influence in France

"It's incredible that a fully Westernized country - a benchmark Western country like France, with a highly centralized educational structure, could so allow the teaching of this Chavista intellectual debris."

Arizona Daily Sun- FBI official calls ecoterrorism the nation's greatest threat

WASHINGTON -- Environmental and animal rights activists who have turned to arson and explosives are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat, an FBI official told a Senate committee on Wednesday.

World Magazine - ABORTION: A gruesome Florida abortion saga reveals sordid—and possibly illegal—practices in late-term procedures

"It's a women's clinic . . . My friend is having an abortion and the baby was born alive. . . . They're not allowing her to use the phone there. They're wanting the baby to die! . . . and she's not wanting that to happen."

news @ nature.com�-�East Antarctica puts on weight�-�Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise.

So much for Global Warming!

FSO Editorials: "Running on Empty: Venezuela..." by Dr. Joe Duarte 05/20/2005

RUNNING ON EMPTY
Venezuela's Oil Production Woes Will Be Felt Widely
by Joe Duarte, MD
Joe-Duarte.com & IntelligentForecasts.com
This article appeared on Marketwatch.com
May 20, 2005

The Leadership Institute: DEEP BLUE CAMPUSES

A detailed report of the disparity of compaign contributions from major US universities to John Kerry versus George Bush in the 2004 election.

Brazzil Magazine: Lula's Workers Party (PT) and Political Correctness in Brazil

Janer Cristaldo writes about censorship and political correctness in Brazil. The Workers Party (PT) has compiled a new dictionary free of all those offensive words. Even the word "communist" is now banned. Never mind that the Workers Party is a communist organization.

WorldNetDaily: 50-50 chance al-Qaida has nukes, says report

WASHINGTON – There's a 50-50 chance al-Qaida already has nuclear weapons, says a top intelligence analyst based on an analysis of the findings and the methodology of the U.S. WMD Commission.

The Daily Standard: The Castro Caucus

"Why would 22 House members oppose a Cuban democracy bill?"

Roosevelt’s Social Security Plan Included Private Accounts

"Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s original Social Security plan included provisions that would have allowed people to make personal investments not altogether different from the private accounts that President Bush is currently proposing. In fact, this was one of three “necessary principles” in FDR’s legislative package presented to Congress on January 17, 1935."

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Unions Are Still Threatening Businesses Over Social Security Reform by Linda Chavez

"Now, the AFL-CIO and individual unions are threatening some investment firms and corporations with pulling out their pension fund investments unless the companies withdraw their support for President Bush's plans to overhaul the ailing Social Security program."

Might the Saudis Blow Up Their Oil Infrastructure? - article by Daniel Pipes

"Investigative writer Gerald Posner reveals something most extraordinary in Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection, his book to be published by Random House later this month: that the Saudi government may have rigged its oil and gas infrastructure with a self-destruct system that would keep it out of commission for decades. If true, this could undermine the world economy at any time."

Investigators Find Evidence of Voter Fraud in Milwaukee

"A task force looking into potential voter fraud on Election Day said Tuesday that it found more than 200 felons voted illegally and more than 100 instances of people voting twice or using fake names and addresses."

TimesDispatch.com | Woman gets prison term for defending hersel

"When Whitaker, 28, kicked in the door and choked her again, she fired a shot downward to get him away from her, she said. The bullet lodged in Whitaker's pelvis, and he bled to death from what appeared at first to be a superficial wound."

Jewish cemetery desecrated

Metz, France - Scores of tombstones were overturned in the Jewish cemetery at Sarreguemines in the eastern French region of Moselle, a police chief said on Wednesday.

- Why doesn't the mainstream media in America report these events.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Swedish court reviews 'hate' case

"Sweden's Supreme Court has said it will review the acquittal of a Pentecostal pastor who denounced homosexuality as "a deep cancer" in a sermon."

Austin Bay Blog � Anti-American Conference Flips and Flops

"Anti-American elites have staged a conference in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia. And they immediately discovered their various gripes with “America” didn’t mesh. Nope, varied stripes of jealousy, hate, envy, and fear of liberty aren’t the foundation for a cohesive “united front,” though bellicose demands and “we’re victims” propaganda will get them headlines."

The American Thinker: "Greenpeace blows off threat to Venezuelan ecology"

"Although Venezuela's government already owns 60% of the land in the country, it is targeting the small but well-developed private farms for confiscation and redistribution, including lands that are not suited to crop agriculture, like cattle ranches and jungle swampland. This move is certain to destroy Venezuela's productive agricultural capacity, and more sadly, will lay waste to Venezuela's precious and irreplaceable natural wildlife."

Extreme Conservatives vs. Unlabeled Liberals -- 05/09/2005 - Media Research Center - Media Reality Check

MRC Study: Six Times More “Conservative” than “Liberal” Labels on Network News Since Election Day

Press Release | Times Square Billboard Declares: “PETA Kills Animals”

"Between 1998 and 2003, PETA put to death over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other creatures that the group publicly calls “companion animals.” Not counting those that PETA held only temporarily -- for spaying or neutering -- the group killed over 85 percent of the animals it took in during 2003."

The People v Harvard Law

"The battle over free speech is between the “left” and the “far left.” (p. 170) Conservatives are rarely mentioned in the book; the major players consist of traditional leftists like Alan Dershowitz versus the new leftists, known as “Crits.”

“Crits” is the abbreviation for proponents of Critical Legal Studies, the legal offshoot of postmodernism. The underlying goal of Crit theory is that current societal structure and laws should be torn down because they were created by sexist white males."

Federal Incentives Make Children Fatherless -- Phyllis Schlafly May 11, 2005 column.

As Ronald Reagan often said, "The most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."

Pro-Israel Palestinians - article by Daniel Pipes

"For all their rhetoric about Israel's "vicious" and "brutal" occupation, Palestinian Arabs - including their leaders - sometimes let down their guard and acknowledge how they prefer Israel to the Palestinian Authority."

WorldNetDaily: Saudi Arabia's cousin-marriage epidemic

"Saudi Arabian men's habit of marrying their first cousins is creating a health and cultural crisis in the kingdom, says an analyst of international affairs who has studied demographic issues in the Muslim state."

Rethinking a legal sex trade | csmonitor.com

FRANKFURT – "When it legalized prostitution two years ago, Germany sought to bring the industry under state control, providing sex workers with labor rights and greater health protection. But some Germans are now saying the law has failed to achieve its objective."

"The issue came to the fore earlier this year when a 25-year-old waitress looking for work was told that she faced losing her unemployment benefits because she had turned down a job at a brothel."

US News Article - Police nab activists seeking Bush's nuke suitcase

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested six activists on Sunday who said they wanted to enter President Bush's Netherlands hotel and look for the suitcase which allows him to activate nuclear weapons.

OpinionJournal - Nuclear Nonsense

At the U.N., the threat is America, not Iran.

WorldNetDaily: Google still runs anti-DeLay ads

"The issue of the anti-DeLay ads came to light when a conservative activist group discovered the ads and designed a similar campaign, using the same verbiage, targeting House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi."

"When the anti-Pelosi ads were rejected by Google, RightMarch.com protested what it saw as political bias in Google's content."

CNN.com - 'Al Qaeda hit squad' arrested - May 6, 2005

The hiys just keep on coming!

FrontPage magazine.com :: North Korea: Chavez's Supply Line? by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu

Things just keep getting worse!

MercuryNews.com | 05/04/2005 | Some call centers decide there's no place like home

No duh!

Crosswalk.com - Iran Changes Venue for Apostasy Trial

"For the past two months, Pourmand has been jailed in Tehran in a group cell with a number of well-known political dissidents. He had lost nearly 40 pounds while undergoing interrogation in the first five months of strict isolation."

N.H. Try Tactic With Illegal Immigrants

"It's basically a situation here where right now if you make it past the border patrol, you're free and clear," Chamberlain said. "What I'm hoping to do is find a way that if the feds aren't going to help us out, then local enforcement can take care of it."

World Magazine - At death's door

"The McClanahans may be victims of what is known as "futile care theory," a medical trend in which doctors and hospitals set policies that allow medical staff to withdraw or deny treatment over a family's objections. Two states, Texas and California, have statutes that allow such policies, but futile care protocols have also turned up in Des Moines, Iowa. MUSC's legal affairs department did not return calls seeking information on whether MUSC has a futile care policy."

WorldNetDaily: Google censoring conservative ads?

Left-wing bias at Google? Not exactly new news.

Los Angeles Times: Oklahoma City Bomber Nichols Says a 3rd Man Took Part in Plot

The truth is beginning to come to light.

The New York Times > Washington > Congress May Require Closer Scrutiny to Get a Driver's License

Finally, a step in the right direction.

WorldNetDaily: Socialist was behind U.N. sea treaty

"One of the main authors of the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, not only admired Karl Marx but was an ardent advocate of the Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order, according to a new report."