Posted by Kriesgberichter on February 1, 2010 under Media | 
Obama’s Jobs Bill May Cost $100 Billion
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Legislation aimed at making it easier for companies to hire more workers is likely to cost about $100 billion, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
The measure should include a tax credit for small businesses to offset payroll taxes, as President Barack Obama proposed in a Jan. 29 speech, Gibbs said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program yesterday. The administration would also like to add infrastructure spending, Gibbs said.
“We’re not creating the jobs that we would like,” Gibbs said. “I think some additional recovery and stimulus spending is important in order to create an environment where small businesses and large alike can hire more workers.”
The president also wants to use $30 billion repaid by banks under the Troubled Asset Relief Program to enable community banks to make loans to small businesses, Gibbs said. U.S. gross domestic product grew 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, the fastest pace in six years, the Commerce Department said Jan. 29.
Obama would help businesses gain the confidence they need to start hiring again by shelving health-care reform and assuring business owners that taxes won’t increase, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“If you’re in business now and you’re trying to figure out what the future is, you’re looking at health care taxes, you’re looking at capital gains taxes going up, dividend taxes going up,” McConnell said. “Is that a great environment in which to expand employment? I think the answer is no.”
Obama’s call to freeze discretionary spending in the federal budget over three years, not including defense or national security, is “an important step” toward bridging the disconnect between Washington’s actions and budget decisions made by local governments and families, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Cutting spending is even more important,” said Granholm, a Democrat. “Triage everything to provide the basics to people so you’re protecting them. But all this other stuff, forget it. Put money where you have to. Cut everything else.”
Obama’s spending freeze would be more effective if it began right away and not in 2011, Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“What matters in Congress is the first year’s spending levels,” Ryan said. “Get your handle on the deficit and debt and lower tax rates for employers, for workers, that’s the best way to grow the economy.”
Posted by Kriesgberichter on January 31, 2010 under Media |
Nazi group tackles Colorado highway trash
Monday, January 25, 2010; 11:22 AM
BRIGHTON, Colo. — A white supremacist group in Colorado will be heading out on the roads near Denver to pickup litter.
The chapter of the National Socialist Movement is participating in a state Adopt-A-Highway program. The group calls itself America’s Nazi Party and it will be responsible for picking up trash along a 1-mile stretch of highway in a suburb north of Denver. A sign is already up in the area with the group’s name on it.
A spokesman for the group, Neal Land, says the group is “doing good things.”
State highway officials say they allowed the highway adoption because their lawyers said they could be in violation of the group’s free speech if they issued a denial.
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Ukraine to honor Nazi sympathizers
President awards medals to leaders of Ukrainian nationalist group, who helped Nazis murder Jews
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced this week that he had approved medals of commendation for members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), despite their cooperation with the Nazi regime during World War II.
Yushchenko had been under pressure by the group to recognize its veterans as “fighters for the independence of the Ukraine”.
The president announced the move at a memorial for members of a Ukrainian organization that fought against the Bolshevik army in 1918.
“I have signed an order to honor all those who participated in the battle for the Ukraine’s independence in the 20th century,” he said.
Among the men to receive the medal will be Stepan Bandera, who led the younger and more radical members of the OUN. Bandera, who is no longer among the living, helped the Nazis to kill Jews hiding in Galicia, then a district of Poland.
In October 2009 Yushchenko honored the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Roman Shukhevych, who also participated in the slaying of Jews during the war. The president said his government would soon award the leaders of the various groups official status.
Yushchenko’s controversial decisions have engendered rage among the Ukrainian public, as well as that of the international community, and the Wiesenthal Institute has been one of his major critics.
The institute has defined the decision as “tragic”, especially as it was made just a few days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Skinhead admits Obama death plot
(UKPA) – Jan 14, 2010
An American skinhead has admitted plotting to kill then-Senator Barack Obama and dozens of other black people in 2008.
Paul Schlesselman, 19, of Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, one count of threatening to kill and harm a presidential candidate and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in April.
A co-defendant, Daniel Cowart, 21, of Tennessee, remains in custody.
Authorities described the two as white supremacist skinheads who hatched a plot for a cross-country robbery and killing spree that was to culminate with an attack on Mr Obama, who was then a candidate for president. They were arrested in October 2008 and have been held without bond since.
“Despite great civil rights progress, hate-fuelled violence remains all too common in our country, as illustrated by this unthinkable conspiracy,” said Thomas E Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.
Authorities said that although the two had enough guns to create carnage, they never got close to carrying out their plans. When arrested, Cowart and Schlesselman were staying with Cowart’s grandparents in rural northwest Tennessee.
Much of the evidence against the two was seized by sheriff’s deputies from the grandparents’ home. Items seized from the home included a sawed-off shotgun, a high-powered rifle, a handgun and several swords and knives.
Federal investigators said the two gave statements about their plans, which included shooting at Mr Obama from a speeding car while wearing white tuxedoes and top hats. Prosecutors said investigators were looking for Schlesselman and Cowart on a tip from an informant when the two drove up to the home of Cowart’s grandfather in a car emblazoned with a large swastika on the hood and the slogan Honk if you love Hitler on the back.
Authorities said Cowart and Schlesselman met over the internet where they shared common white supremacist views.
Posted by Kriesgberichter on January 7, 2010 under Media |
Detention officer fired for KKK membership
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An Alachua County Sheriff’s Office corrections officer who admitted to being an active member of the Ku Klux Klan has been fired.
According to an administrative investigation report, Detention Officer Wayne Kerschner told authorities that he blogged regularly on a KKK Web site, attended a rally in Tennessee and was an officer of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He said his wife was also a dues-paying member.
Kerschner reportedly told investigators that the KKK was a faith-based group and said he believed in the organization’s ideology.
The report states that Kerschner didn’t want his role in the group to negatively affect the sheriff’s office, saying that he thought he was a “pretty dang fair officer.”
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Posted by Kriesgberichter on November 12, 2009 under Media |
Jewish-American charged with killing Palestinians
JERUSALEM — A Jewish-American extremist has been charged with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others with explosive devices and poison.
According to an indictment filed in Jerusalem district court on Thursday, Jack Teitel set out to avenge the deaths of Israelis killed in Palestinian terror attacks.
Teitel is a 37-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish West Bank settler originally from Florida.
Israeli newspaper Web sites quoted him as telling the court that “it was a pleasure and an honor to serve my God.”
He was arrested five weeks ago.
The indictment says his rampage began in 1997. He was also accused of anti-gay violence and incitement as well as bombings against a peace activist and messianic Jews who believe in Jesus.
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MacFarlane’s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
The animated sitcom “Family Guy” isn’t exactly high art. The Sunday night, 30-minute program, which airs on the Fox television network, is filled with off-color jokes. Nonetheless, many fans were disappointed when the show’s creator, Seth MacFarlane, took things to a new extreme November 8 during a variety special titled “‘Family Guy’ Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show.”
In the special, part of a Fox night of programming celebrating MacFarlane with multiple “Family Guy” episodes, the screenwriter’s Jewish co-star, Alex Borstein, (who, like MacFarlane, voices a character on the animated series), protests his singing “Edelweiss” from “The Sound of Music,” a tribute to Austria. MacFarlane tells Borstein that the television show is not the place to bring out her “Hebrew baggage.” Still arguing, Borstein reveals that her mother and grandmother “barely escaped” the Nazis. In response, MacFarlane implies that if World War II were never to have occurred, Borstein would have more competition in Hollywood from Jewish female comedians. “Right now, it’s just you and Sarah Silverman,” he says. Defeated, Borstein joins MacFarlane in song.
The variety show included a bit that mocks Jewish actress Marlee Matlin, who is deaf. When asked if she found the show’s controversial jokes offensive, Matlin told EW.com: “Offensive. No. Sick, very. But that’s Seth and Alex. Humor comes in all forms and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh.”
Questions regarding MacFarlane’s humor about Jews have long circulated. In 2000, he penned a “Family Guy” episode titled “Once Upon a Weinstein.” The show’s Catholic protagonist, Peter, happens upon a Jewish man, and the encounter leads him to conclude that converting his dim-witted son, Chris, to Judaism will increase the boy’s intelligence. Father and son race off to Las Vegas for an instant bar mitzvah, prevented only by the family matriarch, Lois. Due to its controversial content, the episode did not air for several years.
In October, the Forward reported that Fox took flack for airing an episode titled “Family Goy,” in which Lois discovers her mother is Jewish. The episode was laden with stereotypes.
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West Bank rabbi says non-Jews can be murdered
A Jewish rabbi from the Israeli-occupied West Bank has endorsed the killing of any non-Jew, including children and babies, who pose a threat to Israel.
In a book written by the prominent right-wing religious figure, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, it is suggested: “If a gentile endangers the existence of Israel, it is allowed to kill him. Also if he is completely not to blame for the situation that has been created.”
The author has written: “Children should not be exempt from this fate. There is a reasonable explanation for killing infants if it is clear that they will grow up to hurt us, and in this situation, the strike should be directed at them.”
The rabbi has added that non-Jews could also be killed if they violate commandments, such as the prohibition against stealing, murdering or idol-worshipping.
The book includes endorsements from leading Jewish spiritual authorities in the West Bank.
The book, The King’s Torah, is to be published as a general opinion of the more radical settler rabbis living in the West Bank.
According to Jewish activists, the thinking in the book is quite widespread among settlers as a number of them have a deeply racist philosophy against any non-Jews, and especially against Arabs.
Shapiro is considered to be a leading spiritual authority among the more radical Jewish inhabitants in the West Bank.
He is the head of an Orthodox Jewish school in Yitzhar, one of the territory’s most hardline settlements, located near Nablus.
The mass-selling Israeli newspaper Maariv has described the book as a deliberation on the permissability of taking the life of someone who is not Jewish.
The book will not be sold in mainstream Israeli bookstores, but the author has offered sales over the Internet.
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Powerless Danish government calls for help on gang war
COPENHAGEN — Picturesque Copenhagen, renowned for its fairytale palaces and Little Mermaid, has for more than a year been the scene of a full-blown gang war that the government admits it is powerless to end.
Daily police patrols, raids and harsher sentences for gang-related crimes have failed to quell the wave of drive-by shootings, execution-style killings, and grenade attacks that have rocked the Danish capital and its suburbs since August 2008.
Although Denmark is no stranger to gang wars after dealing with clashes between rival biker gangs Hells Angels and Bandidos in the 1990s, this upsurge of violence — pitting biker gangs against youths of immigrant origin — has spiralled out of the authorities’ control.
“I am asking everyone for help and good advice,” Justice Minister Brian Mikkelsen implored, taking directly to citizens his plea for ideas to bring a halt to the bloody conflict.
Copenhagen’s spiral of violence started in August 2008 when an armed man of Turkish origin was executed on the street, his body riddled with 25 bullets by a member of Hells Angels spin-off AK81.
At times played out in broad daylight, the conflict has claimed seven lives and wounded 60 people since then, some of the dead and wounded being innocent bystanders.
In October alone, nine attacks shook the ordinarily calm, seaside capital, including its posh and residential areas.
Authorities say the conflict originally stemmed from the desire to control territory for the sale of both hard and soft drugs but that it is increasingly fuelled by vengeance, with each clan avenging its own losses.
This war is much deadlier than the 1990s biker feuds, and Mikkelsen said it “could only be stopped by society.”
More than 300 Danes have sent tips on how to stop the conflict to Mikkelsen by email, the minister said, while even the United States has offered help.
“We have some expertise in the area of gangs … And if we can offer some assistance or training that would be beneficial, we would be happy to do that,” US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told reporters after talks with Mikkelsen in Copenhagen.
The minister announced a series of meetings where his country, a normally peaceful country of 5.5 million inhabitants, hopes to learn from the United States how to deal with urban violence.
So far, Mikkelsen’s hardline anti-gang plan seems nowhere near putting an end to the bloodshed.
“We cannot control this absurd and infernal cycle of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” chief police inspector Per Larsen admitted.
He says it is a “miracle” that the conflict has not claimed more victims, but insists that police have not surrendered and that Copenhagen still “isn’t Chicago in the 1930s.”
But a Gallup poll has suggested more than eight of 10 people in Denmark do not believe police will be able to stop the conflict, with many Danes, consistently ranked among the happiest people on earth, fearing for their own safety.
“Those gangs should face-off and kill each other once and for all so we can finally live in peace,” says Inger, a woman in her 70s.
A founding Hells Angels member was injured by two youths of immigrant origin in an attack in broad daylight in the suburb where she lives.
“The Hells will avenge the attack, and the spiral of violence will continue,” said Yavuz Ilmaz, a 28-year-old Dane of Turkish descent, of the incident.
Despite the authorities’ best intentions and promises, Ilmaz judged “insane” how easy it was to obtain illegal weapons in Copenhagen, and suggested stronger measures to stop the gang war.
“Putting cameras up everywhere like in London and legalising hash like in the Netherlands” could halt the drug trade and the violence, giving Copenhagen a chance to return to calm, Ilmaz proposed.
