Says Jews drove out Arabs even though town was founded on empty sand dunes
By Aaron Klein
TEL AVIV – An Israeli town is suing Internet giant Google after surprised municipal officials discovered Google Earth, the popular, user-driven satellite map, labels their city as stolen Palestinian land.
"[The label] is simply complete nonsense," Yossi Ben-Artzi, a history professor at Israel's Haifa University told Yediot Ahronot, Israel's leading daily. "Kiryat Yam was built on sand dunes, and there wasn't any Palestinian village in the area. The lands were bought in 1939 by the Gav Yam construction company."
The professor was responding to a criminal complaint filed by the northern Israeli coastal town of Kiryat Yam, which a Google Earth user mapped as stolen by Jews when Israel was founded in 1948.
About 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab countries warned they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. Some Arabs also were driven out by Jewish forces while they were trying to push back invading Arab armies. At the same time, over 800,000 Jews were expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel was founded.
The Google Earth user, identified as Palestinian physician Thameen Darby, inserted a note on ...   more »

by James R. Crowe
Anything or anyone is better than Hillary Rodham Clinton  
KENTUCKY - USA - Imperial Wizard, Ronald Edwards has stated that, "anything is better than Hillary Clinton."
White Christian Supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America.
Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that "crazy ass bitch" as President.
This is the first time in Klan history that any member of the KKK has ever publicly supported an African American candidate for the presidency.
KKK lodges all over America have been gathering and holding rallies supporting the black presidential candidate.
KKK members in Tennessee rally against Hillary Clinton and support Barack Obama
Grand Turk Cletus Monroe has also been very vocal about the election and has donated thousands of dollars to Obama's election fund.
"The boy's gonna do it. My Klan group has donated up to $250,000 to the Obama fund. Anything is better than Hillary Clinton. Hell I'll even adopt a black kid from Africa before I vote for Hillary."
"A few years back we were lynching Negroes.  ...   more »

SOMARK Innovations, Inc. recently completed a field demo of its patented Chipless RFID Ink Tattoo animal ID system.
St. Louis, Mo. (PRWEB) February 6, 2008 -- SOMARK Innovations, Inc. recently completed a field demo of its patented Chipless RFID Ink Tattoo animal ID system. The demo proved the SOMARK system's ability to apply a tattoo in less than three seconds and read the tattoo (translate the tattoo into a unique ID, with a handheld reader in real time). The demo was conducted at a private facility in the U.S.
"This is a giant leap for the company," said Mark C. Pydynowski, SOMARK President. "This demo proves our system's ability to function quickly and automatically. Previous tests, which confirmed the technology's feasibility, were slower and required some tasks to be performed manually."
SOMARK's system includes a disposable ink cartridge, a multi-needle applicator and a handheld reader. This technology combines features of several common technologies, including human tattoos (ink-based and inexpensive), chipless RFID (machine-readable and no-line-of-sight), biometrics (unique to the individual) and hot-iron brands (permanent and tamper-proof).
"Although potential applications include cattle, pigs, horses, sheep, dogs, cats, mice, rats and prime cuts of meat, our primary focus is cattle," said Ramos M. ...   more »

Japan has accused Russia of violating its airspace over the Pacific Izu islands and demanded an explanation.
A Russian Tupolev 95 bomber flew for about three minutes over the isle of Sofugan, 650km (400 miles) south of Tokyo, Japanese officials said.
Japan responded by scrambling 22 jets and lodging an official protest with the Russian embassy.
But a spokesman for the Russian air force denied any incursion into Japanese airspace had occurred.
Alexander Drobyshevsky told Russia's Itar-Tass news agency that strategic bomber flights had been "carried out in strict accordance with international rules on flying over neutral waters, without violating the border between the two countries".
Rally
Russia last violated Japan's airspace in January 2006 near Rebun Island near the northern island of Hokkaido, Japanese officials said.
On Thursday, Japan held an annual rally to demand the return of four disputed islands - known as the Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan - which Russia seized in the closing days of World War II.
The dispute has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty to formally end the war.
It was not clear whether Saturday's flyby was related to the rally.
Despite their territorial disputes, ...   more »

Dipesh Gadher, Christopher Morgan and Jonathan Oliver
A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge in birth defects - comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.
Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the “elephant in the room”. Woolas, a former race relations minister, said: “If you have a child with your cousin the likelihood is there’ll be a genetic problem.”
The minister, whose views were supported by medical experts this weekend, said: “The issue we need to debate is first cousin marriages, whereby a lot of arranged marriages are with first cousins, and that produces lots of genetic problems in terms of disability [in children].”
Woolas emphasised the practice did not extend to all Muslim communities but was confined mainly to families originating from rural Pakistan. However, up to half of all marriages within these communities are estimated to involve first cousins.
Medical research suggests that while British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for one in three British children born with genetic illnesses.
The minister’s comments come as Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of ...   more »

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea warned the United States on Friday pressure over its nuclear weapons programs will only aggravate the standoff and could lead to an "explosive crisis."
North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper issued the warning, accusing what it called "hardline conservative forces in the U.S." of seeking to increase pressure on Pyongyang in an attempt to disrupt efforts to end the nuclear dispute through dialogue.
"As shown in the previous nuclear crises on the Korean peninsula, pursuing a policy of force would only bring about an explosive crisis, not a resolution of the problem," the paper said in a commentary, carried by the country's Korean Central News Agency.
"Everything achieved through dialogue so far would evaporate into the air," it said, warning of an unspecified "corresponding response if bellicose U.S. forces" continue to put pressure on North Korea.
The paper accused hardline U.S. officials of calling for an end to negotiations with North Korea on the nuclear dispute, raising the North's human rights record and seeking to build a missile-defence system in the region.
The warning came as six-country talks on the nuclear dispute, which made progress in shutting down and disabling the North's nuclear reactor, are ...   more »

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
In light of the latest news regarding Iran's rapid advances in nuclear centrifuge technology and Tehran's warning that it will reject any new UN measures aimed at halting its nuclear progress, it's clear that Iran's nuclear standoff has entered a new phase - one that may have global consequences and cause irreparable harm to the pillars of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The connection between the two issues has been presented in a different light by Western pundits who have maintained that the NPT will deteriorate in the absence of effective action to counter the Iranian "proliferation activities". Foremost among such pundits is a former official of the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA), Pierre Goldschmidt, who has called for proactive initiatives by the UN Security Council to address proliferation risks often attributed to "NPT loopholes".
Of course, first among the "loopholes" is the right to produce nuclear fuel under Article IV of the NPT. In the words of IAEA chief Mohammad ElBaradei, this means that the non-nuclear weapons nations exercising nuclear power would become "virtual nuclear weapon states". The gap between "virtual" and "actual" can be rather wide, however, and may remain so as long as a ...   more »

By D. PARVAZ
We live in a world where the satisfaction that comes with the resolution of something major is hard to come by.
And it's not just that things are determined in good time -- which Democratic candidate "won" on Super Tuesday, how did Natalie Holloway die, what came of Sen. Larry Craig's resignation, etc. -- it's that few seem to ever finish anything they've started.
Then again, sometimes, the stated mission is nothing short of impossible. Case in point: Will disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard ever be straight again (if he ever was)? He reportedly dropped out of that homosexual rehab (or "restoration" program) he signed up for a year ago. Well. It was not so much a "program" as it was a peculiar sort of voluntary observation.
For those who have forgotten, Haggard was president of the National Association of Evangelicals, a powerful group with about 30 million members. He had serious pull with the Republican Party and even acted as an adviser to President Bush and occasionally -- or every Monday, depending on whom you care to believe -- took and listened in on calls with the president.
Then a former male escort went to the ...   more »

Federal authorities say a high-level Muslim Pentagon aide, who led a
campaign to silence a Pentagon intelligence analyst for taking a hard
line against Islam, is running an "influence operation" on behalf of
U.S. Muslim groups fronting for the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Hesham H. Islam, a special assistant to Deputy Defense Secretary
Gordon England, recently criticized Maj. Stephen Coughlin, one of the
military's leading authorities on Islamic war doctrine, for making the
connection between the religion of Islam and terrorism.
After Islam lodged complaints, Coughlin's contract with the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon was not renewed.
Islam also was upset with briefings Coughlin recently prepared for the
U.S. military warning that major U.S. Muslim groups were fronting for
the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide jihadist movement based in Egypt.
Islam, who was born and raised in Egypt, is heavily involved with one
of the groups – the Islamic Society of North America, which U.S.
prosecutors last year named as a member of the U.S. branch of the
Muslim Brotherhood and an unindicted co-conspirator in a major
terror-funding case.
Islam has persuaded his boss, England, to conduct various outreach
with ISNA, including hosting the group's leaders in ...   more »

Sue Bradley
In 1798 Thomas Malthus predicted that population would increase by exponential progression while agrarian growth would progress at an arithmetic or lineal rate thus causing catastrophic degeneration and inevitable famine and plague. Though Malthus’ solutions were reflective of societal morality, his conclusions were based on economic ratios where geometric progression always exceeds linear expansion.
While Thomas Maltus errantly applied his Essay on the Principle of Population to nineteenth century Europe, his predictions seem eerily prescient and applicable to recent global agricultural, environmental, political and scientific events. http://i.am/jah/environ.htm
As recently as twenty years ago, with dramatic advances in food enhancements, growth acceleration, preservation and delivery, the ability to produce and provide better than subsistence level nutrition was becoming feasible. The spectre of third world families on drought stricken expanses might finally have been poised for extinction and purged from modern memory and history.
And while the eyes of proud western civilizations watched political walls collapse and treaties signed, then turned to focus on ‘humanitarian’ welfare and unprecedented technological and scientific maturation, it seemed as though a seal was loosed just a bit somewhere. Slowly a backwash began to seep in.
"Unusually active" hurricane seasons began to recur and became ...   more »