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  BUSH APPROVES NUKE RESPONSE TO FUTURE BIO, CHEMICAL ATTACK Kralev, Nicholas. “Bush approves nuclear response.” The Washington Times. January 31, 2003.

A strong warning indeed.

 
  INS: 7 million illegal immigrants in U.S.... Frieden, Terry. “INS: 7 million illegal immigrants in United States.” CNN.com. January 31, 2003.

The figures show that between October 1996 and January 2000, the number of illegal immigrants grew from about 5.8 million to about 7 million, an increase of more than 300,000 annually.

The proportion of the illegal immigrants who are Mexican has increased to nearly 70 percent from less than 60 percent, the INS said.

Although California is home to the most undocumented immigrants, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina have the greatest rate of increase, the figures showed.

 
  US warns N Korea after nuclear bomb alert... Dinmore, Guy, Ward, Andrew, and Fidler, Stephen. “US warns Saddam has only weeks to disarm.” Financial Times (UK). January 31, 2003.  
Germans guilty in Iraq supergun case... “Germans guilty in Iraq supergun case.” BBC News. January 31, 2003.

Engineer Bernd Schompeter was sentenced to five years and three months for dealing in drills that can be used for boring tubes for long-range cannons, capable of launching nuclear, chemical or biological warheads.

 
       

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  Glazov, Jamie. “The Jews and President Bush.” FrontPageMagazine.com. January 31, 2003. In the last election, American Jews voted 80% for Al Gore and the party that engineered the Oslo disaster. Since then, President Bush has declared war on terrorism and identified Yasser Arafat and the Palestine authority as terrorists. In the last year, moreover, there has been a wave of anti-Semitism in the United States and abroad coming from the left. One would think that these developments would affect the traditional alignments of Jews with the left. Have they? And what is at the root of the traditional Jewish attraction to the left?  
  Loberfeld, Barry. “The Coercive Communism of Noam Chomsky.” FrontPageMagazine.com. January 31, 2003. An essay on radical behaviorist B.F. Skinner was the last thing I expected to encounter when I picked up Noam Chomsky’s classic political tract For Reasons of State. However, I soon recognized the value of this piece, which I found notable for its presentation of the MIT linguist’s own notions of freedom and dignity — and what constitutes their negation.1

1This worthiness was recognized also by editor James Peck, who included an abbreviated version of the essay in 1987’s The Chomsky Reader. As Clemson University psychologist Robert L. Campbell has observed, “Once Chomsky put forth these arguments, the demise of behaviorism . . . [was] assured. B.F. Skinner never answered Chomsky’s arguments in print . . .” (dailyobjectivist.com/Extro/dividedlegacyofnoamchomsky3.asp).

NOTE: I was unable to find this link.

 
  Calvert, Tommy. “Libya’s ‘UN-Human’ Rights Record.” FrontPageMagazine.com. January 31, 2003. Most people are shocked to learn that there are as many as 30 million people enslaved in virtually every region of the world. Defined as “forced work for no pay under the threat of violence,“ contemporary slavery includes chattel slavery, sex slavery, and debt bondage.

Unfortunately, slaves around the world received a collective slap in the face on Monday, January 20, 2003, as Libya was elected to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. This commission is one of the few international forums for confronting human rights violators and sets the tone and agenda for global human rights accountability.

Many of you are aware of the plight of southern Sudanese who are enslaved in Sudan. Most of you are probably not aware that some of these slaves end up in Libya and are sold into bondage. The Libyan government has not put a stop to these practices and, with Libya's dismal human rights record, we are hardly surprised.

The Middle East continued the East African slave trade long after the West stopped the West African trade in slaves. Apparently Libya is continuing this tradition. Again, the U.N. puts political correctness above doing what’s right.

 
  Ponte, Lowell. “Marxist Madness.” FrontPageMagazine.com. January 31, 2003. ALL BUT THE MOST LEFTIST LAWMAKERS in Congress applauded last Tuesday night when President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech proposed a massive effort to help the estimated 28.1 million Africans infected with HIV, a virus linked to AIDS.

In South Africa this lethal plague (spread mostly by odd and injurious heterosexual practices) has by one estimate infected 40 percent of all black women of childbearing age. It is cutting down this nation’s future like a scythe in the hands of one of the fatal Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

“Odd and injurious heterosexual practices” sounds like the practice of pederasty as a form of birth control.

When news programs late Thursday teased that former South African President Nelson Mandela had made “comments” about President Bush, it therefore seemed likely that Mr. Mandela in gratitude and largeness of spirit had thanked and praised America’s President for aid that could save millions of African lives.

Such positive expectations soon proved mistaken. Everything this Nobel Peace Prize recipient had to say was juiced with venom and ingratitude, the product of a hateful tongue and increasingly-demented brain.

Since Left-wingers believe that man’s highest good is the advancement of socialism they only have gratitude for help that advances socialism. Mandela’s remarks indicate that he believes in the Leninist theory of imperialism that holds capitalism responsible for all the evil in the world. By adhering to extreme Leftist beliefs Mandela is vindicating the belief that the anti-Apartheid movement was a Communist movement.

This column also says that the current president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, is Mandela’s “hand-picked successor.”

Such positive expectations soon proved mistaken. Everything this Nobel Peace Prize recipient had to say was juiced with venom and ingratitude, the product of a hateful tongue and increasingly-demented brain.

Blair and Bush are “undermining“ the past work of the United Nations, said Mandela. “They do not care. Is it because the Secretary-General of the United Nations is now a black man?“ (His reference is to Kofi Annan of Ghana.) “They never did that when secretary-generals were white,“ said Mandela, revealing as he uttered these insane words his own racism.

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America,“ declared Nelson Mandela on Thursday. “They don’t care for human beings.”

Mandela neglects to mention the countries that have committed “unspeakable atrocities:” the Soviet Union, Communist China, North Korea, Communist Vietnam, Communist Cambodia, etc. These regimes cared even less for human beings than the U.S. This is a variation of the socialist belief in eliminating private property: “putting people first.”

But somehow Nelson Mandela is unmoved by the greatest atrocity and violation of human rights in history – the systematic murder of 100 million people by Marxists – that make even the monstrous Adolf Hitler look like a small devil by comparison. Perhaps the reason is that Mandela is himself a Marxist and longtime ally of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Hitler needed a war to start his mass killing. Since World War II started as the result of the allicance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Communism bears some responsibility for Hitler’s crimes.

We knew Nelson Mandela was a Marxist – a hater, an enemy of every human being on our planet – even as we helped save his life and win his freedom. As Aesop told us more than two milleniums ago, no gratitude (or rationality) is to be expected from the wicked.

As a sign on a church in North Little Rock said, “Graditude is a God-honoring attitude.” If gratitude is God-honorning, what is ingratitude?

 
  Ponte, Lowell. “Hot Air Emissions in Johannesburg.” FrontPageMagazine.com. August 28, 2002. “A GLOBAL HUMAN SOCIETY BASED ON POVERTY for many and prosperity for a few, characterized by islands of wealth surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable,” said South African President Thabo Mbeki in his speech Monday welcoming more than 60,000 delegates from 182 countries to Johannesburg for the two-week World Conference on Sustainable Development.

Mbeki’s remarks indicate that he also believes in Lenin’s

 
  Phombeah, Gray. “Children Rescued from Muslim Torture in Kenya.”  FrontPageMagazine.com. January 31, 2003. Kenyan police have rescued 11 boys from an Islamic correctional centre in the capital, Nairobi, where they were kept in chains and tortured.

Most of the teenagers came from Kenya, but others were from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ethiopia.

In a dramatic raid at the Khadija Islamic Institute of Discipline and Education, the police were forced to fire in the air to fight off residents pelting them with them stones - before rescuing 10 teenagers who were being held at the centre.

They were kept in chains and secured by padlocks in small rooms with little ventilation or light in Eastleigh, a Nairobi suburb inhabited mainly by ethnic Somalis and refugees from the Horn of Africa.

Nairobi police boss Mr Kimenchu says the children were sent to the centre by their parent who pay $1,500 per child for a two-year stay. “I think the parents believed their children were learning the Koran. I don't think they were aware of the actual conditions their children were living in,” he said.

 
  Gorin, Julia. “The Integration Blues.” FrontPageMagazine.com. January 31, 2003.

After spending decades trying to get white society to include them, black people finally realized they don't really like hanging around white people after all.

So indicates a new report by The Civil Right Project at Harvard University. According to the study, public schools have gradually re-segregated. Analyzing enrollments in the 2000-2001 school year, the report found that black and Latino students are more likely to go to a school where the majority of students are black and Latino, leaving many schools “white.”

Interestingly, schools in the South remain far more integrated than those in the Northeast and on the West Coast. There, 31% of black students go to majority white schools, as compared to 13.6% of black students and 13.3% of Hispanic students who attend majority white schools in New York state--which was found to have the most segregated schools.

 An AP article citing the report attributes the re-segregation in the Northeast and West Coast to “socio-economic divisions between city and suburb,” creating “a different kind of segregation.”

These developments warrant paraphrasing. The social engineers of the North who, after winning the fight for Southern desegregation, went on to push for forced busing while sending their own kids to private schools, today live in the seat of segregation. The reasons they cite are economical—precisely the argument they famously scoff at when told that societal segregation has more to do with class than with race.

 
       
 

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