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Joe Biden, presumed the winner of the presidential election according to mainstream media networks, issued a call for “unity” Saturday evening after a bruising campaign in which he had compared President Donald Trump to Nazis, including Adolf Hitler. Biden, who called his campaign a “battle for the soul of our nation,” launched his campaign in April 29 with the false claim that Trump had referred to neo-Nazis as “very fine people.” (Trump in fact said that they should be “condemned totally.”) When confronted with that fact, Biden continued to insist on his version of events, despite evidence to the contrary....

A group of artists have claimed responsibility for hanging three effigies of lynching victims around the University of California-Berkeley campus this weekend. The artists, who say they are a 'collective of queer black and (people of color) artists, posted a message on a campus bulletin board today saying that the images - which many students and faculty found deeply offices - were part of an art project. The statement said the perpetrators are from the San Francisco Bay area - but does not state whether the people behind it are students. The artists did not identify themselves, but said that...

NEW DELHI (AP) - Angry crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Richard Gere on Monday after he swept a popular Bollywood actress into his arms and kissed her several times during an AIDS-awareness event. Photographs of the 57-year-old actor embracing Shilpa Shetty and kissing her on the cheek at an HIV/AIDS awareness event in New Delhi were splashed across Monday's front pages in India - a country where sex and public displays of affection are largely taboo.(AP) Hollywood actor Richard Gere, left, hugs and kisses Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty during and event...

Spanish villages are abandoning the centuries-old tradition of burning effigies of the Prophet Muhammad for fear of offending Muslims. The annual festivals...feature locals donning medieval costumes to re-enact battles between "Moors and Christians" during the Reconquista period. The fiestas celebrate events in 1492, when the Catholic kings of northern Spain defeated and expelled Islamic forces, ending more than 800 years of Moorish rule in the Iberian Peninsula. Traditionally the festivities have culminated with the burning of mannequins of the Mahoma, a figure based on the Prophet Muhammad, to represent the final defeat of Islam in the region.

A fervent anti-Communist, anti-North Korea, pro-USA demonstrator, Mr. Lee, was again arrested in S. Korea today, for carrying signs against Kim Jong il and also cursing (the appeasing) liberal S. Korean president Roh Mu Hyong.Lee also burned a North Korean flag again, this time on a busy intersection.Mr. Lee is backed up by his organization. Protests actually AGAINST Kim Jong il and in SUPPORT of President Bush and America are increasing recently in S. Korea.

Demonstrations against Communist North Korea and Kim Jong-il are increasing in S. Korea by patriotic and pro-Bush/pro-America S. Koreans. This is despite a crackdown by the liberal, appeasing government of Roh Mu Hyon, the leftist Minjudang Party.One such tactic of recent has been very public displays of hatred toward the North Korea regime, such as the burning of the DPRK national flag.Here is a short streaming video at 200k (through the conservative Chosun Ilbo newsite) showing a N. Korean flag burning and arrest today near the S. Korean "White House" in downtown Seoul.Cut and paste this URL and view:Video:...