Posted on 02/26/2007 4:18:14 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
No one to counter Chavez In a region where the leading ideology is Bolivarianism, there is not one leader positioned to offer a better idea for a brighter future.
Commentary by Sam Logan for ISN Security Watch (23/02/2007)
For over two decades, the prevailing ideology in Latin America was neo-liberalism, a Washington-born idea that claimed the power of open markets would lift the region’s poor from misery. It did not, and corruption ran rampant.
While democracy still remains strong, resentful voters ushered in a new generation of neo-populist leaders touting a new idea: a form of socialism, called Bolivarianism, that has slowly but surely become the loudest and most prevalent ideology.
Bolivarianism is anti-capitalist, supports nationalization, regional trade with like-minded countries and above all, suggests that a country should rely on itself or fellow socialist states, not imperialist powers, as a source of the economic growth that will lift all from poverty. It is a sort of refurbished socialism that is not a guiding light for the future.
Latin America cannot readily absorb the economic shock of open markets, nor can it get bogged down in the trappings of old socialist ideas. A blended ideology must be promoted, but the problem is that no one is strong enough to counter Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the leader of Bolivarianism.
Chavez calls it Socialism for the 21st Century. Cuba's Fidel Castro passed him the torch. Leaders around the region pay homage to their own past as socialist upstarts through hugging and laughing with Chavez on the international stage while taking care of often pro-capitalist, neo-liberal business at home.
Brazilian President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva is a perfect example. He has the leftist background and eye for fiscal conservatism to become a great ideological counterweight to Chavez. His politics represent an ideal blend for the region. But his politically weak position at home and strong voices from his own left deter any would be shouting match with Chavez.
Within a week after winning his second term in office, Lula visited Chavez for a photo opportunity on a bridge linking both countries. That was in November, and it looks like Lula’s administration will remain bogged down until March as he struggles to get past his party’s sordid past and form a working cabinet willing to share the same table.
Argentina of the past could have been a counter weight to the Bolivarian ideology. But since Nestor Kirchner has come to power, Argentina has become a Venezuelan puppet.
Chavez has literally bought the support of his southern neighbor with over US$3 billion in purchases of Argentine debt. The most recent purchase occurred on 16 February, when Venezuela dumped another US$750 million into Argentine government coffers.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has the politics to promote an ideological battle with Chavez. Colombia has been a model of economic growth through a mixture of neo-liberal policies and social programs. But Uribe has serious problems.
Political allies are falling like dominos due to links with former paramilitary leaders. And if Uribe took the time to speak out for neo-liberalism and against Chavez, he would be dismissed as another of Washington's puppets. Colombia is a top recipient of US aid.
The only other leader who could take up an ideological fight with Chavez is Mexican President Felipe Calderon. He has the right politics and his country has a history of not blindly supporting the US. Voting against the US invasion of Iraq at the UN is a clear indication. But Calderon won on the thinnest possible mandate. His opposition controls enough seats in the Mexican Congress to block any unwanted initiative, and his focus is on Mexican organized crime, not on verbal sword play with Chavez.
Finally, the US has launched a diplomatic offensive in the region. This is to be a year of engagement, but the US president is clearly obsessed with the war in Iraq, not with putting a muzzle on Venezuela’s leader for the sake of the region’s future. Washington is doubly discredited, first for promoting an ideology that clearly did not work, and second for doing nothing about it.
Latin America needs an independent leader willing to stand up to Chavez, but that leader does not exist on the region’s geopolitical map. Bolivarianism will continue to seep into the minds and hearts of millions across Latin America. Chavez and his pool of allies will control the headlines until the next round of presidential elections tell the world how the region has embraced this new ideology.
As Chavez puts it, Socialism for the 21st Century is just getting started. If that is true, then he will continue to trumpet his ideology until Latin Americans learn, the hard way, that Bolivarianism did not carry them much farther from poverty than neo-liberalism. Disillusionment with reality may then spread faster than hope for the future.
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Sam Logan is an investigative journalist who has reported on security, energy, politics, economics, organized crime, terrorism and black markets in Latin America since 1999. He is a senior writer for ISN Security Watch based in Brazil.
The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author only, not the International Relations and Security Network (ISN).
Indian Muslim group calls for beheading of writer Taslima Nasreen
Indian Muslim group calls for beheading of writer Taslima Nasreen
36 minutes ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070317/wl_sthasia_afp/indiareligionculturenasreenbangladeshcrime_070317084710;_ylt=AuSNcIOPK2c9AHdshfSQfQNA7AkB
LUCKNOW (AFP) - An Indian Muslim group has offered a 500,000 rupee (11,319 dollar) bounty for the beheading of controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen.
The president of the All India Ibtehad Council, Taqi Raza Khan, said on Friday he had declared the reward for anyone who carried out the "quatal" or "extermination" of the "notorious woman."
"Taslima has put Muslims to shame in her writing. She should be killed and beheaded and anyone who does this will get a reward from the council," he said in a statement received in Lucknow, capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state.
The council, based in the Uttar Pradesh town of Bareilly, is a splinter group of the influential All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Khan said the only way the bounty would be lifted was if Nasreen "apologises, burns her books and leaves."
The bounty was not a fatwa as Khan, while a cleric, is not senior enough to issue Islamic decrees.
But it drew swift condemnation from one of south Asia's most powerful Muslim seminaries.
The clergy of the Sunni seminary Dar-ul Uloom in Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, a state with a large Muslim population, said the call to behead Nasreen was "un-Islamic" and that clergy should not issue such "fatwas."
"Unnecessary edicts increase friction in society and people of other religions start treating Islam as a barbaric religion," Mufti Arif, who sits on the board of the fatwa committee of Dar-ul Uloom, told AFP by telephone.
At the same time Arif backed Khan's call for 45-year-old Nasreen's expulsion from India, where she is seeking permanent residence or citizenship.
Nasreen has incensed conservative Muslims for writing a novel "Lajja" or "Shame" depicting the life of a Hindu family facing the ire of Muslims in Bangladesh. The book is banned in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
The author was forced to flee her homeland in 1994 after radical Muslims decried her writings as blasphemous and demanded her execution.
There was no immediate comment available from Nasreen, who is also a doctor, who has lived in self-exile in Europe and the United States but who has lately been living in India.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/192566
Arrest made after synagogue attack
Man, 20, accused of smashing 4 windows was wearing a swastika, police say
Mar 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Tamara Cherry
Staff Reporter
Jewish groups are applauding the quick arrest of a man with a swastika on his clothes following what police are calling a hate crime against a midtown synagogue early yesterday.
A TTC bus driver called police after seeing a man throw something through four windows of the Chabad of Midtown Jewish Centre on Bathurst St., south of St. Clair Ave. W., around 2 a.m., said Toronto police Const. Victor Kwong.
The 20-year-old suspect was arrested within minutes.
"It wasn't hard to find him because ... he was found to be with clothing and items that are representative of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups," Kwong said, confirming the man was wearing a swastika.
B'nai Brith is looking for a way to pay tribute to the bus driver who, by calling police, "could easily have stopped a slew of these incidents," said executive vice-president Frank Dimant.
He said one such anti-Semitic incident is often followed by a few more but, in this case, there was an immediate arrest because of the "very alert" driver.
Len Rudner, community relations director for the Canadian Jewish Congress, said in an interview from the synagogue site: "We are very grateful for that TTC employee for having his or her eyes open and doing the right thing."
The smashed windows have been covered. It's unknown what was thrown through them.
Two men seen with the suspect didn't cause any damage and weren't arrested, Kwong said.
Dimant said members of the Jewish centre are feeling "distraught, anguish, frustration.
"It's a very unnerving experience to have your place of worship vandalized and we know that the anti-Semitism is continually on the upswing in this country."
Rudner said the fact that the suspect was wearing a notorious Nazi symbol makes the situation even more serious.
"An attack on a religious facility is disgusting, but for someone to do it because they are motivated from an ideology is a double insult."
He said he doesn't believe this synagogue has been targeted before.
"But sadly ... I wish I could say the synagogues, being the face, being the target of these individuals, wasn't a common thing. But as I know, and as you know, that's not the case, not in Toronto."
Both groups applauded the decision to brand the incident a hate crime.
If the man is convicted, the designation could lead to a stiffer sentence.
Jason Belfiglio is charged with "hate motivated" mischief causing damage under $5,000.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/193076
Canadian assaulted in Mexico
was assaulted while vacationing in Acapulco said Mexican police would only arrest his alleged assailant if he gave them money to buy beer and Coca-Cola.
Ryan Imgrund, a science teacher at a Richmond Hill high school, said he was in Mexico with his wife, Sarah, for March break when he was punched in the face by a cab driver.
"I was more shocked than anything. Even after the punch happened, I just sort of sat there, and it was more my wife screaming. ... she was much more scared," Imgrund said in an interview yesterday.
The couple got into a cab on March 12 to go back to their hotel. Two other taxis were blocking them in and were asked to move, Imgrund said. When one of the cabs wouldn't budge, Imgrund and his wife raised their hands as if to say, "What are you doing?"
Responding to the couple's gesture, the cab driver blocking them in jumped out of his car and opened the door of Imgrund's cab. He then punched Imgrund in the face, Imgrund said.
A bellboy at a nearby hotel called the police but they failed to show up, Imgrund said.
The couple went to a club down the street where officers were patrolling, then took them to the scene of the assault, Imgrund said.
"I'm sitting there with a swollen eye, blood all over the shorts I had on, and we were explaining what actually happened," Imgrund said.
"The cab driver's story was that he responded the way he did because I gave them the middle finger, and I did not."
The police said they would only arrest the cab driver if Imgrund gave them money for beer and Cokes.
"I thought no way. I was assaulted and something has to be done here. It wasn't a lot of money they were asking for, but it was still the fact of giving money to the police officers," Imgrund said.
Imgrund said it initially appeared that the cab driver was arrested, because he was put in a police car, but then police drove for only a moment before doing a U-turn and letting the cab driver go free, he said.
Recent violence in Mexico makes Canadians like Imgrund worried about vacationing in the country.
In January, Adam DePrisco, 19, died while vacationing in Acapulco.
In February 2006, Domenic and Nancy Ianiero from Woodbridge were stabbed to death in their hotel room on the Mayan Riviera.
Last month, the Conservative government brushed aside opposition calls for an emergency debate on the escalating violence in Mexico.
Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
Explosives seized from cab in Richmond - Canada
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b6f0bdcb-dcdb-
4f71-bcee-0f9ef5e75672&k=90404
Explosives seized from cab in Richmond
Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, March 16, 2007
Surrey RCMP reacted swiftly to prevent the delivery of a parcel
containing dynamite when officers surrounded a taxi as it was
proceeding along 132nd Ave. at 11:35 p.m., Thursday.
One male who was a passenger in the cab was arrested.
Several residences within a block of where the cab was stopped
between 90th and 92nd Avenues were evacuated after a police dog
confirmed there were explosives in a parcel found in the cab.
"The cab driver wasn't involved. But we have a male in custody,"
said Surrey RCMP media relations officer Cpl. Roger Morrow.
Morrow said police wouldn't be releasing any further information on
the incident as it was part of an ongoing investigation.
Surrey fire department and paramedics were called to the scene and
everyone stood back until the RCMP Explosives Unit from Vancouver
headquarters arrived and took possession of the explosives some
hours later.
Milford's group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/under-investigation/
[WT posts 2115 and more between it and 2127, are about threats to schools, this will give you pause to think. Thanks to Milford421 for catching it for his group.
Note to Sneakers, I thought you might want to see this one, so am taking the liberty of pinging you.
granny]
Explosives team destroys cache of dynamite
An explosives team from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department is
destroying a cache of dynamite near El Molino High School in
Forestville this morning after a landowner found the stuff hidden on
his property overnight, authorities said.
The dynamite is to be burned and should be disposed of without any
problems, said Sgt. Rob Douglas, head of the explosives unit.
The dynamite was found in a box wrapped in a black plastic bag in
some brush in a field off Davis Road, around the corner from El
Molino and about 800-to-1,000 yards away, Douglas said.
It posed no immediate threat to students, he said.
"It's not a routine thing, but it's a routine thing, something that
we do and nobody's in danger," he said.
The cache of dynamite, estimated to be at least four decades old,
was deteriorating and becoming unstable but apparently had been
secreted on the property only recently, Douglas said.
The landowner said it was not there when he purchased the land six
months ago, he said.
The man was lucky, Douglas said, because he did not know what was in
the box when he struck it with a shovel to break it open and could
have caused it to explode.
"We're not going to hit it with a shovel," Douglas said.
The dynamite was to be lit around 8:30 a.m. and was expected to burn
for an hour or 90 minutes, he said.
— Mary Callahan
Thanks to Milford421 for this report, I heard it on KGO.com news, during the night.....Said a woman found it and took it to the Police station.
granny
SF: SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE DETONATED BY BOMB SQUAD AT TARAVAL STATION
http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2007/03/17/n/HeadlineNews/SF-
SUSPICIOUS-PACKAGE/resources_bcn_html
SF: SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE DETONATED BY BOMB SQUAD AT TARAVAL STATION
03/17/07 2:00 PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)
San Francisco police report that the police bomb squad detonated a
suspicious package this morning after a concerned citizen dropped the
package off at Taraval Police Station.
A police operations officer reported that the package was dropped of
outside Taraval Station, located at 2345 24th Ave., at around 10:40
p.m. Friday.
The device, which was unspecified, was detonated without injury just
before 1 a.m. today, according to police.
http://news.google.com/news?q=found%20dynamite%20&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
Explosives infiltrating meth culture
Grand Junction Sentinel, CO - 7 hours ago
It may have begun — at least in a high-profile case — when authorities found dynamite in a Horizon Drive motel room as they were scrambling to find ...
Sonoma Deputies Burn Dynamite Found Near School
KTVU.com, CA - Mar 15, 2007
FORESTVILLE -- The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department's bomb squad burned 50 pounds of dynamite Thursday that was found in a field near the El Molino High ...
Old dynamite discovered on Forestville land KGET 17
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Mounties nab parcel of dynamite
Vancouver Sun (subscription), Canada - 3 hours ago
SURREY - Surrey RCMP reacted swiftly to prevent the delivery of a parcel containing dynamite when officers surrounded a taxi as it was proceeding along ...
North State Briefs: March 17, 2007
Record-Searchlight (subscription), CA - 1 hour ago
ONO -- Ten sticks of dynamite were found Thursday morning in an old shed outside a Rainbow Lake Road home in Ono, Shasta County sheriff's deputies said ...
Mulit-talented author ‘a man for all seasons'
The Porterville Recorder, CA - 47 minutes ago
“He wrote about what he is not doing and what he feels he should be doing to help this person. I just think, ‘boy, he gets deep.' His poetry is dynamite. ...
Man found dead in Green home with guns, explosives, drugs
Canton Repository (subscription), OH - Mar 7, 2007
In addition to the drugs and the guns, deputies found thousands of rounds of ammunition, dynamite and blasting caps, according to a news release from the ...
http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_074230539.html
Mar 15, 2007 7:58 pm US/Pacific
Man With 700 Pounds Of Stolen Dynamite Charged
Yreka man charged with stealing explosives
More Top Stories
(AP) SACRAMENTO A Yreka man was indicted today for the theft of more than 700 pounds of explosives from a remote California gold mine nearly five years ago.
Larry St. Clair faces three federal charges alleging that he stole dynamite, blasting caps, fuses and other materials from the Gumboot Mine in Scott Bar.
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RELATED:
Unabomber-Like Figure Baffles Feds
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The mine is about 90 miles north of Redding.
Despite a large scale investigation, authorities say they didn't find the explosives until federal and Siskiyou County narcotics agents searched St. Clair's Yreka home last July 26.
St. Clair has been in custody since then on a federal indictment charging him with marijuana cultivation and firearm violations.
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There are new stories on the Bishop bomber, that they are calling the Unabomber above:
http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_060163453.html
http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_075091546.html
[This was a big fire, photos at link]
Mar 16, 2007 9:08 am US/Pacific
Railroad Trestle Fire Leaves Messy Aftermath
Sac County Issues Health Warning
Creosote: What You Need To Know
Amtrak Capitol Corridor
(CBS13/AP) SACRAMENTO Union Pacific on Friday assembled cranes, front-end loaders and other construction equipment to begin demolishing charred sections of a 300-foot elevated trestle, parts of which were still burning a day after it caught fire.
The intense blaze, which began late Thursday, disrupted daily passenger and freight rail traffic that runs through the state capital. Union Pacific, which owns the railroad lines, said repair work could begin as early as this afternoon after fire officials complete a routine arson investigation.
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"We stand ready," Union Pacific spokesman James Barnes said. "Right now we're assessing how much of the structure is viable."
Although Sacramento firefighters were able to stop the fire from spreading to a nearby bridge, the wooden trestle that crosses over a local bike trail and wetlands area just north of the American River, was expected to burn and smolder for a few more days.
"The wood is thick, heavy timber. You can put all the water in the world on it and it's burrowing down into the wood," said Sacramento Fire Capt. Jim Doucette.
Amtrak officials said it could be two weeks or more before repairs are completed. Until then, passengers on its roundtrip daily service between Auburn and Sacramento will be bused. The other daily train, from Emeryville to Chicago, will be rerouted and will run two hours late, Amtrak spokeswoman Tracy Connel said.
"It's a pretty good service disruption," Connel said. "We're accommodating passengers as best we can and getting them to their destinations as close to on time as possible."
About 130 passengers were stranded Thursday on a train in Roseville, a suburb northeast of the capital, for nearly five hours, said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole. Buses were brought in to bring the passengers to Sacramento.
At least one business near the fire has closed due to the smoke in the area. A spokesperson for Costco told CBS13 that the Costco store on 1600 Expo Parkway will be closed today and possibly tomorrow.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation. About 125 city and county firefighters responded to the blaze. One firefighter's head was hit after he attempted to move a heavy sign along the shore, Doucette said.
The creosote-soaked trestle fueled an intense blaze that could be seen from more than 50 miles away. Before nightfall, the wall of smoke extended an estimated 2,000 feet into the air and bent in a giant S-curve, blanketing the capital skyline. Smoke was still billowing into the air early Friday.
The burning creosote also raised contamination concerns for the nearby American River, which flows through Sacramento. Agents from the California Department of Fish and Game were testing the water draining from the trestle as a precaution, Doucette said.
The spectacle drew a crowd of hundreds of pedestrians from nearby hotels and stores and crippled rush-hour traffic on the Capital City Freeway around Cal Expo, the state fairgrounds. The fire also burned near power lines and cut power to some local stores.
In addition to halting Amtrak service, the fire also stalled freight traffic. About 50 trains a day use the Union Pacific lines, spokesman Mark Davis said.
"All of them are being detoured on other Union Pacific routes," Davis said.
(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc.
http://cbs13.com/topstories/topstories_story_076095731.html
Mar 17, 2007 6:15 am US/Pacific
Alaska Town Giving Away Free Land
(AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska Anderson, a little town in Alaska's interior, has no gas station, no grocery store and no traffic lights, but it does have plenty of woodsy land — and it's free to anyone willing to put down roots in the often-frozen ground.
In a modern twist on the homesteading movement that populated the Plains in the 1800s, the community of 300 people is offering 26 large lots on spruce-covered land in a part of Alaska that has spectacular views of the Northern lights and Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak.
And what's an occasional day of 60-below cold in a town removed from big-city ills?
"It's Mayberry," said Anderson high-school teacher Daryl Frisbie, whose social studies class explored ways to boost the town's dwindling population. Students developed a Web site and Power Point presentation, then persuaded the City Council to give it a go.
"Are you tired of the hustle and bustle of the Lower 48, crime, poor schools, and the high cost of living?" the Web site asks. "Make your new home in the Last Frontier!"
The 1.3-acre lots will be awarded to the first people who apply for them and submit $500 refundable deposits beginning at 9 a.m. Monday. Each winning applicant must build a house measuring at least 1,000 square feet within two years. Power and phone hookups are already available.
City Clerk Nancy Hollis said people who apply in person or have someone stand in for them will have the best shot, since the post office doesn't open until noon and deliveries are even later from the regional hub of Fairbanks, 75 miles away.
People seeking more information are calling from such places as California, Texas, Idaho and Florida.
Locals eyeing the sites include 15-year-old newcomer Brittney Warner, a student who worked on the project. The 10th-grader, her parents and three siblings moved to Anderson two months ago from Boise, Idaho, when her father got a job at nearby Clear Air Force Station.
Warner calls her new community "very nice, small, very outdoorsy" — a place that would be even better if it brought in some new businesses. Residents now have to drive at least 20 miles for gasoline or groceries.
Her family is now living in a rental home and planning to apply for one of the lots.
"We already have a house design," she said.
Cory Furrow, a 26-year-old electrician, said he will be in line, too. Anderson has everything he enjoys — good terrain for snowshoeing and skiing, fishing, and hunting for moose and grizzly bears.
"I've lived here my whole life, so when free land comes up in my hometown, I can't pass that up," said Furrow, who lives in his family home.
Folks in Anderson say there are some job opportunities within driving distance, including a coal mine, a utility, major hotels and the air station, a ballistic missile early-warning site. Locals also would like to see entrepreneurs among the newcomers.
In addition, they are hoping for families. The high school basketball team had to go coed this year because there weren't enough boys.
Among the other advantages of Anderson: no property taxes, state income taxes or sales tax, virtually no crime, and no traffic. There are magnificent summers with temperatures as high as 90 degrees and plenty of wide-open space.
"One of the resources that we have is land," said Mayor Mike Pearson, a mechanic at the air station. "If this works out well, the city's got lots more property."
(© 2007 The Associated Press.
LOL, I have not read all there is on this, but it is interesting.
In 1924 the Russians then living in Canada, returned to Russia, looking for a better life.
http://canadianmysteries.ca/sites/verigin/suspects/sovietgovernment/indexen.html
There is stolen dynamite, and several other pages to read.
http://canadianmysteries.ca/sites/verigin/suspects/factions/1258en.html
Thanks to Milford421 for this report:
Police seek man after suspicious incident - VA
http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20070314/NEWS01/70314012/1002
Police seek man after suspicious incident
Staff Reports
WAYNESBORO — Police are on the lookout for a man they say acted
suspiciously at Waynesboro High School, briefly shutting down the
school this morning.
The man is described as dark-skinned, with a thick foreign accent,
about 5 feet, 3 inches in height, 140 to 150 pounds, with salt-and-
pepper hair and mustache. He was last seen wearing a blue jacket
with blue jeans and brown shoes, said Sgt. Kelly Walker.
A custodian found the man carrying what appeared to be a lunch box
in the school as students arrived about 7 a.m., police reported. He
was escorted out of the building after police say he failed to give
a reason for being in the school.
Police and fire crews searched hallways for suspicious packages,
devices or people until about 9:30 a.m., Walker said.
Police do not necessarily suspect terrorism, Walker said, but they
are alerting federal authorities in Charlottesville out of caution.
<*> To visit Milford421's group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/under-investigation/
This is the link to Calpernia's blog, she has the article on dangers to our schools.
http://www.justwhatithink.com/blog/index.php?y=2007&m=1&d=25
Mass Slaughter in Our Public Schools: The Terrorists' Chilling Plan
2007-01-25 @ 12:08:15
http://www.policeone.com
Mass Slaughter in Our Public Schools: The Terrorists' Chilling Plan
By Chuck Remsberge
Probably the last place you want to think of terrorists striking is your kids' school. But according to two trainers at an anti-terrorism conference on the East Coast, preparations for attacks on American schools that will bring rivers of blood and staggering body counts are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps.
* The intended attackers have bluntly warned us they're going to do it.
* They're already begun testing school-related targets here.
* They've given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we've largely ignored and they've learned more deadly tactics from.
"We don't know for sure what they will do. But by definition, a successful attack is one we are not ready for," declared one of the instructors, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Our schools fit that description to a "T"-as in Terrorism and Threat.
continues.........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802292/posts
(Southwest Virginia) Students charged with plotting attack
The Roanoke Times ^ | March 17, 2007 | Shawna Morrison and Albert Raboteau
Posted on 03/17/2007 4:00:46 AM PDT by Perseverando
Two Auburn Middle School students were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and having a gun at school.
By Shawna Morrison and Albert Raboteau 381-1665 albert.raboteau@roanoke.com 381-1663
RINER -- Two Auburn Middle School students were charged with conspiracy to commit murder on Friday after one of them took a gun to school and they purportedly talked of shooting several people, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said.
The boys, ages 14 and 15, were taken into police custody about 9 a.m. after a student told Deputy Kirk Hendricks, the school resource officer, that the boys had a gun, said Lt. Brian Wright, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
continued...........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802359/posts
Black Panther: We Weren't About Violence; Ex-leader Seale says Party Fought Racism
Madison.com ^ | March 16, 2007 | Katrina Madayag
Posted on 03/17/2007 7:14:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The Black Panthers tried to fight institutional racism with grass-roots action and coalition-building, not violence, said Black Panthers Party co-founder Bobby Seale at a presentation at Edgewood College Thursday night.
Donning a black beret, Seale dismissed the one-dimensional image of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as a militant group to a crowd that filled up the bleachers and spilled out to the sidelines of the Edgedome. Seale, now 70, has written several books on the Black Panthers and has starred in a barbecue cooking show with his wife.
continued........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802367/posts
The Secret Rulers of the World: The Legend of Ruby Ridge
BBC Channel 4 Video Documentary ^ | ? | Jon Ronson
Posted on 03/17/2007 7:32:42 AM PDT by amchugh
This is one part of a five part series done for BBC Channel 4. It focusses on Ruby Ridge and the Weaver family, with some digression into seperatists, conspiracy theorists, etc...
Very long; very good
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802304/posts
Emergency landing for Howard (Prime Minister John Howard's plane forced to land in Iraq - down safe)
news.com.au ^ | 17th March 2007
Posted on 03/17/2007 5:19:27 AM PDT by naturalman1975
Prime Minister John Howard's Hercules has filled with smoke over Iraq, forcing it into an emergency landing.
Mr Howard had visited Iraq yesterday to meet with Australian troops and US generals.
His Hercules had just left the runway on its way to Baghdad when the cockpit started filling with smoke which spread from the back of the cabin.
Mr Howard and passengers were asked to fit their smoke masks.
The Hercules dropped from just over 1500m and returned to the Talil runway, in southern Iraq.
All left the plane safely as SAS troops surrounded the plane to ward off any potential runway attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
It is good to see you posting, but did you have to post one that is going to give me nightmares?
Good post and way too much truth in it. It gives me chills.
It explains what is happening here also, that is a worry.
I keep finding reports of "Putin says that he does not like this"and so the changes should not be made........in some other countries plans, is the EU, what he uses for cover.
I also, found a site last night that talked about the problems the people of Norway, is / was having with the nazi party, it appeared to stop the court trial publications in 2004,but it turns out there are many other countries that are having nazi troubles.
Right then, I was too tired to figure out what it was all about, hopefully I can find it again.
I don't know how to get people awake, there is not one problem in the world, that we do not have here, to match them with.
This is where I started on the Nazi in Norway last night, was checking for the dynamite links, see also the links and other info, this will take you on a merry search, that appears to be growing also.
http://www.magasinet-monitor.net/english/dynamite.htm
British and nazis:
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/
Links to other sites/countries:
http://tumbalalaika.memo.ru/links_eng.htm
I knew that the communist gangs caused trouble, but did not know that so many countries have nazi problems.
Is it that they do not want to be left behind, with the muslims taking over?
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