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WASHINGTON - An increased level of protection for the region means you'll see missile launchers around the District to guard against the possibility of an air attack.

The senior member of the House armed services committee [U.S. Rep James Saxton, D-NJ] has drafted a resolution, which he intends to introduce this week, that would call on all US companies and government officials to bypass the biennial gathering, widely regarded as the most important trade show for the industry.

The “Bound for Victory” link has 12 pages of stills from Sarah Kozer fetish and bondage videos. There is no nudity.

JANUARY 29--One of the trio of “Joe Millionaire” finalists has starred in dozens of kinky bondage and fetish films that feature her being handcuffed, gagged, hog-tied, and bound with duct tape, The Smoking Gun has learned.

AMERICAN war planners believe that they have little more than 48 hours from the start of a ground war to kill President Saddam Hussein if they are to avoid a protracted conflict and a complicated peace.

Haunted by the failure to capture Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, Washington is putting in place plans to limit the damage if it fails to topple the Iraqi leader swiftly.

On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after U.S. Fire Administrator David Paulison described a list of useful items, stores in the greater Washington, D.C. area reported a surge in sales of plastic sheeting, duct tape, and other emergency items. 

These items, Paulison said, can be helpful after a biological, chemical or radiological attack.

A day after federal officials urged Americans to prepare their homes in case of a biological, chemical or radiological attack, and four days after the nation's threat level was raised from yellow to orange, many Washingtonians found themselves on a grim shopping trip, just in case.

Saddam may have been involved in this terrorist attack.

Two federal law enforcement agencies had information before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing suggesting that white supremacists living nearby were considering an attack on government buildings, but the intelligence was never passed on to federal officials in the state, documents and interviews show.

FBI headquarters officials in Washington were so concerned that white separatists at the Elohim City compound in Muldrow, Okla., might lash out on April 19, 1995 - the day Timothy McVeigh did choose - that a month earlier they questioned a reformed white supremacist familiar with an earlier plot to bomb the same Alfred P. Murrah federal building McVeigh selected.

The disloyalty of the Hollywood types now, during the Vietnam Era, and during the latter half of the Cold War shows that the blacklisting was a good idea. People who are disloyal to this country in wartime shouldn’t be able to have cultural influence.

This could indicate that anti-American Hollywood stars may not be popular with American audiences.

Bad-boy actor Sean Penn says his opposition to a war in Iraq cost him a lucrative movie role - but the film's producer, Steve Bing, calls the claim “extortion.”

The feud over Why Men Shouldn't Marry erupted yesterday amid dueling lawsuits in Los Angeles.

Penn accuses Bing of “borrowing a page from the dark era of Hollywood blacklisting” by denying him a promised role in the movie, which Bing wrote and was supposed to direct.

But Bing - a multimillionaire who fathered a child with Liz Hurley - says he's the object of “an extraordinary extortion attempt by an irrational and irresponsible actor.”

Bing says Penn is trying to force him to pay $10 million, even though Penn never had a formal contract to do the movie.

Life imitates art. The films show the stars as unnaturally perfect, and now they want their real lives to look the same.

CATHERINE Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas insisted on having some of their wedding pictures retouched as part of a £1million deal with OK! magazine, the High Court was told yesterday.

Former editor Martin Townsend said the Hollywood couple wanted the exclusive pictures to reflect more class and glamour than when David and Victoria Beckham tied the knot and posed for OK! pictures on “his and hers” thrones.

There was widespread speculation at the time about why Mr Douglas, now 58, appeared to look younger in the photos.

Good news for privacy advocates. Once the government starts doing this it would be too easy for them to snoop on anybody for any reason.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House and Senate negotiators have agreed that a Pentagon project intended to detect terrorists by monitoring e-mail and commercial databases for health, financial and travel information cannot be used against Americans.

The conferees also agreed to restrict further research on the program without extensive consultation with Congress.

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SAN FRANCISCO--Imagine my surprise when I found out that I am banned from speaking at a peace rally here this Sunday. As editor of Tikkun, the largest-circulation liberal Jewish magazine in the world, I have been an outspoken critic of the proposed war in Iraq. I have also unequivocally condemned Saddam Hussein's brutality and called for the world community to bring him to justice for crimes against humanity. But we at Tikkun do not believe that this war--in which thousands of Iraqi civilians are likely to die--will bring democracy to the Middle East. Instead, it is bound to increase the threat of terrorism to American citizens and provoke more violence. It will also fuel American fantasies of world economic and political domination.

So why was I being blackballed over the peace rally?

My sin was publicly criticizing the way that A.N.S.W.E.R., one of the four groups sponsoring the San Francisco demonstration, has used the antiwar demonstrations to put forward anti-Israel propaganda. An A.N.S.W.E.R. spokesperson, speaking on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, said that they didn't want a “pro-Israel” speaker at their rally.

Libertarianism is simplicity itself. It proceeds from a single, quite beautiful, concept of the primacy of individual liberty that, in turn, infuses notions of free markets, limited government and the importance of property rights. In terms of public policy, these notions translate into free trade, free immigration, voluntary military service and user fees instead of taxes. Sometimes these policies are argued in a totally unforgiving way so that it's not easy to separate the lunatics from the libertarians. But it's a snap to separate libertarians from conservatives.

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A city opposing Federal law; this certainly appears to be a form of secession. This also raises the question of what kind of people would have a public monument to the evils of Communism.

Piana, Ronald. “The Seattle Syndrome.” FrontPageMagazine.com. February 12, 2003.

In his masterwork Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon wrote, “Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.” Sadly, that does seem to be the case, at least sometimes. Consider Seattle, a city apparently locked in a death struggle with Berkley to become the undisputed epicenter of anti-Americanism and radical egalitarianism. Perhaps the citizens of Seattle who have chosen to oppose enforcement of immigration laws and the war on terrorism should have visited Ground Zero the day after 3,000 innocent people were murdered by foreign terrorists in an act of breathtaking evil.

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… The so-called “peace movement” spearheaded largely by America-haters, poisons domestic solidarity and strengthens the resolve of our enemies. Blinded by false piety, they refuse to connect the dots between lax immigration laws, terrorism, and the security of their own nation.

Recently, the nine dunderheads comprising the Seattle City Council unanimously approved an ordinance barring local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities ferreting out illegal aliens. According to a flabbergasted Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), “Under federal law, no public servant can be prevented from cooperating with federal authorities enforcing U.S. immigration laws.”

Germany’s National Socialist regime was not “Right-wing;” it was a form of socialism based on nationalism that borrowed heavily from Marx.

Ganske, Charles. “School's Out for Sharpton.” FrontPageMagazine.com. February 12, 2003.

The true threat of “the new anti-Semitism” emanates not from right-wing nationalists, but from the Left and anti-globalization activism, a University of Toronto conference on anti-Semitism heard yesterday.

“Before the [Second World War], the Right rather than the Left was the paramount source of hatred and contempt for European Jews,” said Todd Endelman, a professor of modern Jewish history at the University of Michigan.

This is no longer true. On the right, anti-Semitism no longer functions as a cultural code or a rallying cry, while on the Left, it has become entangled with and draws energy from ... anti-Americanism, Third Worldism and the anti-globalization campaign," Dr. Endelman said.

The two-day conference, called Anti-Semitism: The Politicization of Prejudice in the Contemporary World, brings together nearly two dozen academics to probe the roots and scope of anti-Jewish bias and hatred.

Yesterday, scholars defined the differences between the old anti-Semitism that was embodied in Nazi Germany and the often more subtle manifestations seen today.

Anti-Semitism is again on the rise, said Dr. Endelman.

“There is more hostility to Jews in Western Europe now than there was a decade or two earlier.... Alongside the taunts of hooligans and the ravings of skinheads, expressions of overt hostility have sprouted in the liberal media.”

So much for our schools teaching patriotism. What kind of people would require children to listen to the rants of a notorious anti-Semite?

A rational country would withdraw the school district’s Federal funding.

On Thursday, February 13 at 1:30, students at Miller High School in Corpus Christi, TX will have the privilege of missing an hour of class in order to be subjected to an anti-war harangue by Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton.

Linda Brown, the Texas spokesperson for Sharpton’s National Action Network, said that all of the high school's students from grades 9-12 will be required to attend the assembly. She said Sharpton will discuss “issues germane to youth and his position on the war in Iraq.”

Sharpton will lead an anti-war rally in Corpus Christi at a location Brown said had not been determined. Brown noted that Sharpton chose to visit Corpus Christi, a Texas city on the Gulf of Mexico with a population of 300,000, because “there is a factory there that builds artillery or tanks.” Corpus Christi is also home for flyers from the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force training at the nearby naval air station. Some of these pilots’ children may be sitting in Sharpton's captive audience.

Edward Blum, Director of Legal Affairs for the American Civil Rights Institute, stated, “It is outrageous that high school students will be pulled out of class and made a captive audience to the anti-war ravings of Al Sharpton. It is inappropriate for any public high school to suspend classes and hold an assembly promoting any presidential candidate, but it is especially galling that they would do so for Sharpton to deliver an anti-war, anti-Bush diatribe, with no one there to provide a rebuttal. If public schools are going to interrupt classes for a discussion of current events topics such as the war, at least both sides of the debate should be represented.”

Blum also argued, “Al Sharpton is one of the most incendiary and divisive figures in American politics today. Given his long record of anti-Semitism and race-baiting, it is almost a hate crime to force impressionable students to be subjected to him. This school is turning the National Action Network into the National Indoctrination Network. Jesus Chavez, the superintendent of the Corpus Christi School District, ought to order Miller High School to cancel the assembly for Sharpton.”

Hanoi Chomsky

A good Cold War recap

More on the crimes of Communism

It seems that the report of Noam Chomsky's cheerleading speech for the Viet Cong in this blog provoked some discussion amongst left-anarchists.

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As for the USA being more imperialist, the Viet Cong were trying to overthrow the governments of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, so they could set up puppet regimes in all of those countries in an Indochina Federation along the lines Ho Chi Minh got from Stalin (who had similar plans for the Balkans which Tito thankfully didn't go along with), his old boss when Ho was a Comintern agent. The Viet Cong did this with the help of China, which intervened directly in Tibet and North Korea, repeatedly threatened Taiwan, and supported guerillas all over the Third World, and the Soviet Union, which invaded & occupied Eastern Europe at the end of WWII then puppetized all those countries and never withdrew the Red Army until 1989. In contrast, the USA tried to save South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from North Vietnamese imperialism, as it had saved South Korea and Taiwan from North Korean and Chinese imperialism, and as it had saved Western Europe from the Nazis and Japan from the Militarists.

As for the 3 million deaths attributed to the USA, about 2 million of those were murders committed by the Khmer Rouge, which was created and helped into power by the Viet Cong, and supported by China, North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union until 1979, when North Vietnam invaded because Pol Pot was insufficiently obedient to Hanoi and the Soviet Union followed suit. The rest wouldn't have happened if the Viet Cong hadn't committed aggression against 3 out of 4 of its neighbors. Even if we accept all 3 million as being the responsibility of the U.S. for the sake of argument, that number is literally dwarfed by the number of those mass-murdered by North Vietnam, China, and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union mass-murdered about 20 million in the collectivization of agriculture and the Gulag, according to the Black Book of Communism, while Maoist China mass-murdered about 60 million in the Chinese Civil War, Great Leap Famine, and the Cultural Revolution. That makes for a total of 80 million, without even including North Vietnam - more than 20 times the number attributed to the US even if we include the Khmer Rouge's democide count, 80 times the number resulting from subtraction of the Khmer Rouge's democide. As for the Viet Cong, they started murdering their political opponents, actual and potential, starting in 1945, after that great "anti-imperialist" was put into power in North Vietnam by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. They collectivized agriculture in North Vietnam during the late 1950s, following Chinese advice, killing an estimated 100,000 of their own people in the process. About 900,000 of their own people chose to flee to South Vietnam during that same time period. When the Viet Cong captured the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive of 1968, they murdered about 3,000 people, marching them out of town, forcing them to dig their own graves, binding their hands behind their backs with wire, kneeling them in front of their graves, then shooting them in the back of the head for such crimes as being street vendors who sold hand-made jewelry. When the final invasion came, the South Vietnamese people didn't welcome the Viet Cong as liberators, they fled from them as if they were flesh-eating zombies, fleeing the country in anything that could float by the hundreds of thousands. Those who made it were the lucky ones, those who were left behind to starve after the collectivization of South Vietnamese agriculture by the Viet Cong were the worst victims.

The answer here is that radical feminists don’t care about the fate of politically incorrect women.

Before and after Sept. 11, politically correct feminists crusaded for Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban. By contrast, little outrage has been expressed over the treatment of Iraqi women under Saddam Hussein.

The silence may be currently appropriate -- feminist goals should play no role in forming foreign policy. But the contrast between the two reactions is puzzling, especially in the face of horror stories coming out of Iraq.

Amnesty International has documented the brutal executions of Iraqi women accused of prostitution. For example, Najat Mohammad Haydar, an obstetrician in Baghdad, was beheaded in October 2000 after criticizing corruption within local health services. According to another report, in October 2000 “a group of men led by Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, beheaded with knives 50 young women in Baghdad. The heads of these women were hung on the doors of their houses for a few days.”

The Iraq Foundation joins Amnesty International in chronicling human rights violations, such as the methods of torture in prison, which include rape and “bringing in a female relative, especially the wife or the mother, and raping her in front of the detainee.”

Why then does the Feminist Majority site have a “Help Afghan Women” button but no “Help Iraqi Women?” Why does an Oct. 10, 2002 press release from NOW warn, “A U.S. invasion of Iraq will likely entail ... dangers to the safety and rights of Iraqi women who currently enjoy more rights and freedoms than women in other Gulf nations, such as Saudi Arabia.”

The Black Panthers were a form of organized crime family. This brings to mind Ogden Nash, “When called by a panther don’t anther.”

In case you were unaware, the original Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded in 1966 by two street thugs named Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. Newton was actually a quite shrewd manipulator: he concocted political justifications for his on-going criminal activities (i.e., drug dealing, pimping, and extortion) by disingenuously touting himself as a revolutionary engaged in civil disobedience; he garnered liberal sympathy by promoting the BPP as an oppressed vanguard at war with the existing American power structure; and his bogus claims of BPP adherence to Marxist-Maoist strictures garnered him tremendous financial/legal support from affluent supporters of radical causes. For Huey, “revolution” and Marxism were damn good hustles.

The overwhelming majority of Newton's many crimes were committed against poor blacks, and most of his financial support came from rich, misguided whites. The bulk of donated money went not to worthy BPP causes, but up Newton's own nose (in the form of cocaine), and toward endless bail postings for BPP muscle. Obedience to Newton’s will was enforced by beatings (of black men, by black men) with bullwhips and chains. Chairman Bobby Seale, and leaders like Ericka Huggins, openly advocated torture and murder of turncoats. For Alex Rackley, party member and suspected police informant, death was deliverance from unimaginable agony: BPP thugs inaugurated several days of torture by pouring boiling water over his bared chest.

In addition to regularly beating young Elaine Brown, Newton groomed her to be one of his closest lieutenants. After Newton killed a prostitute (by shooting her in the face), other local pimps put a bounty on his head. Subsequently, circa 1973, he fled to Havana to avoid both assassination by his peers and prosecution by legal authorities. Elaine, based in California, stayed in daily phone contact with Newton. In addition to coordinating activities in Newton's absence, she is suspected of having relayed Newton's order to have BPP accountant, Betty Van Patter, kidnapped, raped, and murdered. (Newton later claimed that “Elaine killed Betty”: read David Horowitz's book, Radical Son.)

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More madness stemming from the refusal of Congress to differentiate between violent and non-violent religions. Had they done this in the Selective Service legislation Cassius Clay wouldn’t have had a legal leg to stand on.

Call it the Radical Muslim Cleric Importation Plan. Under the religious worker visa (“R visa”) program, an unknown number of Middle Easterners claiming to be imams or other mosque employees have been admitted to the United States with minimal scrutiny.

This is what you get when foreigners are allowed to practice all of their customs in America.

As part of its massive PR offensive, the House of Saud is trying to convince the world that its treatment of women is improving. But a first-hand witness would see a far different reality: women who are literally locked inside homes, paid little or nothing as domestic servants, worked up to 20 hours per day, and verbally and physically abused. This sad state of affairs exists not just in Saudi Arabia, but in Saudi homes right here in the United States. But there are people who know all about it, and even allow the practice to continue unabated on American soil: the U.S. State Department.

The malign effect of corporate fascism—our Fourteenth Amendment rights are abridged for corporate convenience.

Although he was the patron saint of capitalism, Smith was no fan of capitalists. Any policy advocated by businessmen, he said, “ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.”

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While businesses will use the rhetoric of the free market when it suits their purpose, they will dump it in a minute when it does not. Against this background, it is not surprising that big business is filing briefs in favor of affirmative action in the University of Michigan case that the Supreme Court will be hearing this spring.

Big business has long been in favor of racial quotas. When an effort was begun back in the 1980s, within the Reagan administration, to get rid of affirmative action, the influence of corporate America helped squelch this effort.

Why does big business want racial quotas? Because it is in their own self-interest.

If a corporation does not have enough minority employees to satisfy government agencies, that can lead to racial discrimination lawsuits. But if they hire by quotas and quotas are outlawed, they can be sued by whites for reverse discrimination. Keeping affirmative action legal solves their problem.

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If there is anything more ridiculous than endlessly repeating the magic word “diversity,” it is trying to come up with plausible arguments in favor of the racial quotas that this euphemism really means.

History is now repeating itself. Once again appeasers, isolationists, and others who believe in peace at any price are marching. …

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