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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200605/CUL20060505b.html
"California's 'Gay History' Bill Advances"
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
May 05, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - A California Senate committee has approved a bill requiring "gay history" to be included in public school textbooks. The bill now moves to the full Senate, where a vote may come next week.
Not requiring textbooks to include homosexuals' and transgenders' contributions to California history amounts to "enforced invisibility," said Sen. Sheila Kuehl, the Democrat lesbian who introduced the bill.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the bill has attracted national attention because California accounts for about 12 percent of the nation's textbook market.
SB 1437 reads in part, "No textbook or other instructional materials shall be adopted by the state board or by any governing board for use in the public schools that contains any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion."
The bill also requires all social studies textbooks to "study the role and contributions of...people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender...with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society."
The conservative Campaign for Children and Families testified against the "transsexual-bisexual-homosexual curriculum bill," calling it "sexual indoctrination."
'Mental molestation'
CCF President Randy Thomasson is urging Americans to "loudly protest at every opportunity," and he is urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to announce that such bills will be vetoed when they reach his desk."
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Adding this link:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=40fc1791-d4ac-413a-a24b-618249de81c2&k=34913
"Police search for suspects after two teens fatally shoot officer"
The Canadian Press
Published: Friday, May 05, 2006
WINDSOR, Ont. -- ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The area where the shooting took place is on the other side of the city from the border crossing to Detroit.
Officials at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor said security had not been stepped up as a result of the shooting and that officials were taking no extra precautions."
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"Ontario police officer shot by two teens"
CTV News ^ | Fri. May. 5 2006 4:23 PM ET | CTV.ca News Staff
Posted on 05/05/2006 1:27:25 PM PDT by fanfan
http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/05/terrorist-events-for-may-5-2006.html
Friday, May 05, 2006
"Terrorist Events for May 5, 2006
News briefs on terrorism-related events."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627244/posts
"The Terrorist Round-up for 5/05/06"
5/05/06
Posted on 05/05/2006 6:13:50 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/05/alazam_5_rockets_and_the_zarqa.php
"Alazam 5 Rockets and the Zarqawi Tape"
By Bill Roggio
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000339.html
May 03, 2006
"Al-Qaida trying to heat things up in Asia?"
Large evacuation,.....mysterious odor.....Walnut Grove and Klingerman, near Whittier Narrows park
482.8125 LASD
Thank you BurbankKarl.
Updates appreciated.
OPINION: I bet the jihadis all over the world are laughing hysterically over this.
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"Muhammad Questions Sniper Witnesses"
May 5th - 1:55pm
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Writer
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, representing himself in his second trial stemming from the October 2002 Washington-area shootings, questioned witnesses Friday on the point that no one actually saw the gunman.
Prosecutors began their case by asking witnesses to describe the loud, echoing bang of a gunshot and the collapse of the sniper's first victim.
Muhammad, who is acting as his own lawyer, asked if any of the witnesses saw the person who fired the shot."
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http://terrortracker.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=240&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Militants warn against voting
Posted by: Neil on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 12:55 PM
Followers of the radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad are warning Muslims that voting in elections is un-Islamic.
Two press releases issued by Bakri's Al-Ghurabaa organisation claim that participation in today's local elections constitutes approval of the "killing of thousands of Muslims all over the world".
One says: "The reality of the councillor is that he/she is involved in making by-laws and implementing them within the local governments this act is forbidden (Haram) in Islam.
"The by-laws may be for the better of the community or may even agree with Islam but because the system is not based upon Islam this action is forbidden.
"So any Muslim who stands or involves himself in this duty is sinful, irrelevant of his intentions, and he should be aware that he is going against the commands of Allah."
Bakri's supporters waged a campaign during the General Election to dissuade Muslims from participating.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has stated his intention to ban the group under anti-terrorism legislation, but no action has yet been taken.
Neil Doyle
see also:
Militants defiant over demo death calls
Bakri followers slam Galloway
Bakri bombings link denied
Breaking terrorism news
Database search
From the article about the US flu plan:
"Townsend said the blueprint for action is silent on some issues, including the kind of people who might get preferential access to vaccines and anti-viral medications in case of a pandemic."
Some kind of materials related to the city water company....seems the City of Rosemead has Cinco de Mayo off!
Thanks to fanfan for the update on the murdered officer:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627517/posts?page=50#50
Thanks for that update Burbankkarl.
Let me check my calendar to see what I have listed for events on May 5th:
http://www.truthusa.com/cindy3.html
Why yes, here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624056/posts?page=2#2
May 5, 2006: AMERICA CELEBRATES AMERICAN FOOD TODAY!
http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/education/cookbooks.html
http://theoldentimes.com/recipes2.html
Nope, no cinco de mayo on my AMERICAN calendar.
THE TRUTH: There is nothing "gay" about "being gay."
OFF TOPIC:
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"Gay skaters sue Berkeley rink for discrimination"
AP ^ | 5/5/6
Posted on 05/05/2006 4:28:04 PM PDT by SmithL
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BERKELEY, Calif. - Two gay figure skaters sued the Berkeley ice rink for discrimination after twice being told to stop holding hands while skating."
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(YNETNEWS.com)
May 03, 2006
CHINA SENDS ISRAEL AN INDEPENDANCE DAY GIFT
Israel Seizes Combat Equipment Destined for Gaza:
Customs officers at Ashdod Port, scanning a shipping container on Tuesday that had been sent from China to the Gaza Strip, found it to contain hundreds of combat support items including telescopic sights and infrared markers for long-range targets. "We are speaking of a quantity that could upgrade the fighting capability of a whole brigade in the Palestinian Authority security forces," customs officials said. The container was declared to contain sewing notions, hats, and clocks. (Ynet News)
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060505_5036.html
Terrorists Use Internet for Propaganda, Defense Officials Say
By Steven Donald Smith
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 5, 2006 – Terrorist networks are skillfully using the Internet to raise money, recruit and train members, and to spread a message of hatred, defense officials said here yesterday.
"The enemy's message, of course, is a gross distortion of American policy," Peter Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for policy and international security affairs, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "It is at bottom an incitement to hatred, extremism and terrorism."
Rodman, along with U.S. defense contractors, presented a briefing to Congress that demonstrated how terrorists have used the Internet for propaganda purposes. The briefing was developed by Defense Department contractors in conjunction with the Marine Corps, in particular the Marine Corps Training and Education Command, he said.
"The briefing draws on over two and a half years of research done by these contractors as they have been examining Arab media in the context of our operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the broader war on terrorism," Rodman said.
The defense analysts employed a method called full cultural context, where they try to capture as much of the nuances in the analysis as possible.
"The monitoring of Arab media, which these particular contractors do, while its immediate purpose is force protection, provides other products of analysis which are shared with other agencies and which seem to be widely appreciated as a useful contribution of the interagency effort of public diplomacy," Rodman said.
Defense contractors said they were continuously amazed at how terrorists are able to grab multimedia products or images off the Internet and repackage them to fit their own goals and objectives. For instance, terrorists use the Internet to download DVDs, CDs, training manuals, pamphlets, and copies of sermons and speeches, and then distribute them at a local level.
Wherever there's Internet availability, terrorists can disseminate information to a greater range of people in the oral tradition that they've grown up with. Terrorists in Iraq pass their message over the Internet, via Web sites that constantly go up and down, through songs and stories that appeal to disaffected youths, defense contractors said.
The target audience for terrorist propaganda is recruitment-age youth - ages 7 to 25. Defense contractors said they have even seen products that are aimed at ages younger than 7.
Rodman said the terrorist message is also meant to try to convince the Iraqi people and other Arabs that their insurgency is working. "It is not necessarily directed at our forces at all, because our forces knows that the claims they're making are not true," he said.
The capturing of journalists, murdering of relatives, the bombing of homes and crowded markets are all "methods of intimidation aimed at specific things, and they want to ensure that they get their time in the media," he said.
He said terrorists in Iraq are losing their audience because of the large numbers of innocent Iraqis killed by their violent acts. "The core of our strategy in this part of the war on terror is precisely to bolster the mainstream Muslims, who are our allies, and the moderates, who are themselves on the frontline of the struggle against the extremists," he said.
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"Radical Islamist bullies are intimidating world"
Star Tribune ^ | 5/5/06 | Clifford D. May
Posted on 05/05/2006 9:18:04 AM PDT by LibWhacker
".....our ports are a big "boom" waiting to
happen."
The "boom" won't be at the ports though, it will be at the mall, at the church, at the movies.
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