Professor accused of likening Bush to Hitler

USA Today | Oct 11, 2006

“Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush, so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler,” said professor Kevin Barrett.

A university instructor who came under scrutiny for arguing that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks likens President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy for his course.
The essay by Kevin Barrett, “Interpreting the Unspeakable: The Myth of 9/11,” is part of a $20 book of essays by 15 authors, according to an unedited copy first obtained by WKOW-TV in Madison and later by The Associated Press.

The book’s title is 9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out. It is on the syllabus for Barrett’s course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Islam: Religion and Culture,” but only three of the essays are required reading, not including Barrett’s essay.

Barrett, a part-time instructor who holds a doctorate in African languages and literature and folklore from UW-Madison, is active in a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. The group’s members say U.S. officials, not al-Qaeda terrorists, were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

“Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies,” he wrote.

Barrett said Tuesday he was comparing the attacks to the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, in 1933, a key event in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

Radical Communists Clash With Police in Ukraine Rallies

Mos News | Oct 14, 2006

Hundreds of radical communists clashed with police during mass demonstrations in Kiev on Saturday marking Ukraine’s divisive World War Two history, the DPA news agency reports.

An estimated 200 members of the extreme-left Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) attempted to break through police cordons separating them from Ukraine nationalist marchers.

Ukrainian rightists and nationalists in annual street marches on October 14 commemorate partisans that fought in World War Two. The demonstrations are always tense, as some Ukrainian partisans fought against the Soviet Union’s Red Army.

Fists, clubs, and riot shields were used in the brawl. PSPU activists and police were roughly evenly matched in the 10-minute melee, until a paramilitary police unit fired an ’unspecified gas’ into the crowd, dispersing the combatants.

One civilian participant in the battle was treated by an emergency medical team for minor injuries.

An estimated 5,000 former partisans, their supporters, and a small minority of partisan opponents had gathered in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev by mid-morning. Police presence was heavy with more than 4,000 uniformed law enforcers on hand. The marchers were generally peaceful, although pro- and anti-partisan demonstrators repeatedly insulted each other verbally, across police cordons.

Ukrainian nationalists operating in the country’s densely forested western and northern provinces formally founded the Ukrainian Revolutionary Army (UPA) on October 14, 1942.

UPA partisans fought primarily against German troops occupying Ukraine at the time, but also against Soviet forces, and against ethnic Ukrainian and Polish partisans. All sides targeted civilians and an estimated 100,000 people died in three years of intense fighting and ethnic cleansing.

New speed cameras could be ruled illegal

Telegraph | Oct 16, 2006

Cameras could be classed as “covert surveillance”

The latest generation of speed cameras which record number plates and take pictures of drivers could be illegal, a Government watchdog has warned.

Sir Andrew Leggatt, the Surveillance Commissioner, has said that new laws are needed to prevent the evidence the cameras provide from being successfully challenged in the courts.

According to Sir Andrew, the cameras could be classed as “covert surveillance” and could be declared inadmissable. “It probably also amounts to the obtaining of private information about any such person, whether or not that person has been identified for the purposes of the investigation,” he said.

‘Independent journalism has been killed in Russia’

Guardian | Oct 11, 2006

Since the death of the campaigning Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya last weekend there has been much speculation about who was behind the killing, with some suggesting it was politically motivated or that it may even have been carried out on the orders of a faction within the Kremlin.

Alexey Venedictov, the head of the Russian radio station, Echo Moskvi, said: “This is a signal. Many of my journalistic colleagues feel intimidated now – and they will think twice about writing about corruption or the Chechen conflict. Some students I talked to told me they would like to work somewhere like Glamour magazine. They don’t want to do something serious anymore.”

Most of newspapers and TV channels in Russia are officially or unofficially controlled by the government. Before her death, Politkovskaya had been working on an article about torture in Chechnya. Some of the copy was found on her computer and is to be published soon. Another unpublished article about pro-Kremlin journalism is also to be printed.

Now air passengers get tagged

 

The tags will not stop ‘determined terrorists’, but they will control and track everyone else like domesticated animals

Metro | Oct 13, 2006

Metro Reader Comment:

No way in hell !!! I am all for security in airports just like any other frequent traveller but in what already is becoming a police state this is just too much. we have camera’s everywhere watching our every move and now they want to tag us, ok just in the airports but what do they think we are ? dog’s ?

– Tim, London

Airline passengers could soon be tagged and monitored in an effort to increase airport security.

Electronic wristbands would be used to keep tabs on suspicious individuals – as well as track down lost children or remind passengers to get to their departure gates on time.

A trial is planned this year in Hungary.

If successful, the tags could be rolled out internationally within two years.

The project, codenamed Optag, is spearheaded by University College London, where a new Centre for Security and Crime has been established.

Under the scheme, wearing a tag would be compulsory for every passenger entering an airport.

Scientologists drop Foley from Web site

Religion and Spirituality.com | Oct 9, 2006

Scientologists have removed a photograph of former Florida Congressman Mark Foley from the Web site of its Flag Service Organization.

Foley recently quit after a number of e-mails and instant messages to minor boys working in Congress as pages, were made public. The content of those communications was sexual in nature.

A cached version of the Flag Service Organization page shows the Florida Republican accepting leather-bound copies of two books by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, said Radar Online.

Foley received the two books, “Dianetics” and “The Way to Happiness,” during a brunch hosted by the Clearwater Business Association.

“The Flag Service Organization is a religious retreat for Scientologists, while the Clearwater Business Association appears to be a front group designed to give the church easier access to politicians,” Radar Online wrote on its Web site.

Israeli police say president should be charged with raping employee

 

Israel ‘s President Moshe Katsav attends an open house in his sukka, a ritual booth used during the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in Jerusalem October 9, 2006. Israel said on Sunday its police force had acquired evidence suggesting Katsav had raped and molested women who worked for him. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman

Guardian | Oct 16, 2006

· Katsav is suspected of bugging staff telephones

· Scandal-hit leader says he is innocent and won’t quit

Police in Israel said last night that the country’s president should be charged with raping and sexually assaulting several women who worked for him.

In the most serious allegations faced by an Israeli head of state, Moshe Katsav was also suspected of bugging his staff’s telephones and of fraud, police said.

The case, which has dragged on for months, will now pass to the attorney general, who is expected to take several weeks to decide whether or not to bring charges.

“There is prima facie evidence of a number of incidents in which several women who worked under his authority were involved, that the president carried out sex crimes of rape, sexual molestation by force and without consent,” the justice ministry and the police said in a joint statement.

He was also suspected of a “violation of a law against eavesdropping”, it said. The announcement came after investigations, searches of his office and home, and police interrogations.

Irving Kristol key founder of the neoconservative movement, father of William Kristol, admits Marxist roots

Google Video | Posted Jun 29, 2006

Marxists now call themself the new conservatives. Read what Ron Paul has to say about these neo-commies. … all » http://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol.html

QUOTE: ” Ever since I can remember, I’ve been a neo-something: a neo-Marxist, a neo-Trotskyist, a neo-liberal, a neo-conservative; in religion a neo-orthodox even while I was a neo-Trotskyist and a neo-Marxist. I’m going to end up a neo- that’s all, neo dash nothing.”

See also

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr071003.htm HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The modern-day limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington.