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Excavation finds remains of 4 killed at Herrin Massacre The Associated Press Posted Nov 15, 2013 @ 08:42 AM HERRIN — Researchers say their excavation of a southern Illinois cemetery has located the likely remains of people killed during a violent 1922 labor strike at a nearby coal mine. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that the Herrin City Cemetery search headed by Eastern Illinois University geologist Steven Di Naso and author Scott Doody found four coffins matching the description of those used for victims of the Herrin Massacre. Doody, who in April published a book about the violence, says the...

At long last, the conservative movement is taking a long, hard look at itself. Meanwhile, Barack Obama and his fellow ideologues barrel full steam ahead in their quest to “fundamentally transform” the country. The time is now to read to Ilana Mercer’s, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa. Mercer, the daughter of a rabbi and former anti-apartheid activist, was raised, first in Israel, and then South Africa. Though this classical liberal and self-professed “paleo-libertarian” has never been any sort of friend to either apartheid or any other racially-based institutional arrangement, Mercer is at great...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- There's been much research on the need for a healthy diet to avoid obesity and heart problems, but a Congressional field hearing in Hartford today heard that bad diet is also causing the epidemic of violence and shootings. The latest research concludes that too many french fries and other heavily processed foods are contributing to the nation's epidemic of violence. "Junk foods make junkie minds," said Capt. Joseph Hibbeln, National Institute of Health. The field hearing heard that too much fast food, coupled with low consumption of fish or fish oil, is contributing to the epidemic...

A teenage gang of two girls and three boys have been accused of raping and beating a 16-year-old girl so badly she broke bones in her face and bled from her ear. The victim was allegedly set upon when she visited a friend's house in Hollywood on Friday night. Police claim she was raped by one of the accused, 19-year-old Jayvon Woolfork, while she was held down by Lanel Singleton, 18, and three minors - a 17-year-old male, 15-year-old female and a 14-year-old girl.

50 Cent has avoided jail time for allegedly kicking the mother of one of his children in a dispute dating back to June, TMZ is reporting. In a deal worked out by his lawyers that removes a serious domestic violence charge, the real-life Curtis Jackson has agreed to plead no contest to one count of misdemeanor vandalism and was sentenced on Monday to three years probation. He must complete 30 days of community service and attend counseling, as well as pay $7,100 in restitution to Daphne Narvarez, the mother of his second child. The former couple got into a fight...

Why the USA supported Muslim Brotherhood Regime in Egypt? And Why USA insist on supporting Brotherhood after the ouster of their regime in Egypt? USA claimed that they will always support the Egyptian’s will and will never interfere in Egyptian people’s choices! Meantime, US still support the Brotherhood, despite that the choice of million of Egyptians on 30/6/2013, was to get the Brotherhood Regime down!

Below is another post, from my discontinued blog of a few years ago, which can still provide food for thought today. The article, dated 19 September 2006, was prompted by and referring to a then recent event, that of Pope Benedict XVI quoting from the erudite 14th-century Christian Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, and the violent reactions from Muslims it elicited. Since it's not in the article, this is what the Holy Father said in the lecture he gave at the University of Regensburg in Germany: In the seventh conversation (διάλεξις - controversy) edited by Professor Khoury, the emperor...

In Italy the number of marriages, especially in church, has reached historic lows, but on the other hand mixed marriages between Italians and immigrants are on the rise and have been for several years. What's the result? Not always family bliss. As could have been easily predicted, cultural and religious differences are more important than multiculturalism leads people to believe. And within purely immigrant Muslim families the problems are the same. From Il Giornale di Vicenza, a local paper in the Venice region: The wife who kills her husband's mistress because she does not comply with the dictates of...

The shrinks tell us we are only as sick as our secrets. And nothing inspires more secrecy than race. But since some racial topics are off-limits, what is sick often passes for normal. As Exhibit A, consider a recent headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Fear white influx will erase West Oakland history.” A version of this story has appeared in every major paper in the country. The Chronicle is a card-carrying member of the chorus telling us diversity is good. But now a bunch of white folks are moving into a black neighborhood and we are supposed to wail...

The well-loved Afrikaans author and academic Prof. Daan Wybenga, 69, has just been tortured to death in his house in Clarens, in the Free State. His body was found on Monday night in his home. Wybenga is the latest casualty in South Africa’s spate of sadistic black-on-white murders, fueled by racial animosity and years of communist propaganda. His body was so badly mutilated that his son, Mr. Wim Wybenga, 37, could only recognise him by his hands. According to him, the killers threw boiling water over his dad, hit him over the hand, tied up his hands and feet, and...

Attorney Benjamin Crump talks about the new Trayvon Martins, a brutal death and the fears for all black sons.Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin's family, has become a new face in the fight for the equal treatment (under the law) of black and brown boys. Just months after a demoralizing verdict in George Zimmerman's second-degree-murder trial, which saw Trayvon's killer walk free, Crump is engaged in two new cases. First, the case of Leon Ford Jr. -- a teenager at the time of the incident -- involves a far too common occurrence of unexplained police brutality. The second case...

Hundreds of outraged Muscovites -- blaming a migrant for the fatal stabbing of a local -- attacked businesses in a southern district of Moscow run by natives of the Caucasus. Police detained over three hundred people during the unrest on Sunday

Black mob violence and denial have a new victim: Ray Widstrand of St. Paul, Minn. Earlier this year, Widstrand, who is white, moved into a black neighborhood. Soon after, he took an evening stroll and met some of his new neighbors. He then found himself in the hospital – the victim of a vicious beating at the hands of a large black mob. Widstrand suffered broken bones, a fractured skull and permanent brain injuries. Widstrand said he forgives them, though not one of his alleged assailants is asking for forgiveness. His attackers were just some kids lashing out, Widstrand said....

A first-year student at San Francisco’s UC Hastings College of the Law allegedly ran a guy over while trying to take revenge on a group of graffiti taggers with her 1984 Mercedes-Benz. According to the San Jose Mercury News, police say the bizarre incident went down around about 12:45 a.m. on Saturday after the student, 26-year-old Meghan Anne Zato, was asked to leave an Oakland bar for unspecified reasons. On the way, Zato and an unnamed man saw the graffiti vandals tagging an exterior wall of the Oakland Public Library. Zato’s companion told the taggers they shouldn’t deface the wall....

Event aims to give parents practical knowledge about best practices when raising Black children The Black Parent Initiative is hosting its 4 th Annual Parent Symposium on Oct. 19. The symposium, entitled “Breaking the Cycle-Closing the Gap; Saving Our Boys,” will be held at Marshall High School from 10 am to 3 pm. It’s designed to provide parents and community members with practical knowledge about best practices when raising Black children.

They filled the Dorchester apartment yesterday afternoon, dressed in their Sunday suits and black dresses, some whispering in Portuguese, others erupting in anguished wails. At the center of this universe of grief sat Dominga Carvalho, a 60-year-old woman who had just flown back from Cape Verde to bury the third, and last, son she’s lost to these streets.

Raleigh, N.C., citizens are on alert after two cases of black mob violence in two nights in their downtown. The attacks are the latest in a series of episodes of racial violence in the area. The local ABC affiliate was the only media outlet to report that last Tuesday, a group of at least 15 black people stalked and beat a homeless woman after she saw them coming and tried to get out of their way. In contrast to most cases of black racial violence, local journalist Kelli O’Hara actually identified the mob the way victims and the police did:...

Serbia’s prime minister says a gay pride march scheduled in Belgrade on Saturday has been banned because of threats by right-wing groups against the participants. … Two other scheduled gay pride marches in 2011 and 2012 had also been banned by authorities. …

White liberals may deny black mob violence but many black people are way past that: Today, its all about white racism.Ebony magazine's latest issue is a good example of that. Ebony is upset that some are trying to score political points from the recent shooting of 13 people on a Chicago basketball court. Black violence in Chicago takes other forms as well,: some of it black on white. Some black on Asian. Or black on gay. Or black on young. Or black on old. Black on rich. Black on poor. Black on illegal immigrant. Black on tourist. Black on...

CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court has banned the Muslim Brotherhood group and ordered its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Egypt state TV said the court issued its ruling on Monday.