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There were angry clashes in a city centre today as right-wing protesters fought with anti-fascist campaigners in a busy shopping street. A planned demonstration by The English Defence League in central Birmingham descended into violence as the group charged along New Street, close to the city's main train station. More than twenty men have been arrested. 'There were about 250 people in total, fighting and Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211414/Anti-fascists-clash-right-wing-protesters-Birmingham.html#ixzz0QFxinqVM

(IsraelNN.com) The Arab League reacted with fury on this week to reports that a small group of Jews had prayed on the Temple Mount on Sunday. Secretary-General Amr Moussa termed the spontaneous prayer gathering “a violation of international law.” Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, led the guided tour on the Temple Mount. While guards on the mount have a policy of preventing Jewish prayer or religious gestures such as kneeling or bowing, Rabbi Ariel's group managed to briefly pray at the site. "This is the first time since 1967 that Jews have conducted prayers on...

I have a dynasty keeper fantasy baseball league that is active 12 months per year that needs more of a freeper presence. I have a few freepers already, but I could use you, too. There are 16 teams, and I have two openings. Please post or freepmail me if you have any interest. Below are the specifications and the rules.

General invite for a Basketball Fantasy league for conservatives. Anyone who would like to join is welcome. Name: Nobamicans Password: nobama any questions please post them. Thanks!

Republican presidential candidate John McCain envisions a "League of Democracies" as part of a more cooperative foreign policy with U.S. allies. The Arizona senator will call for such an organization to be "the core of an international order of peace based on freedom" in a speech Tuesday at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. "We Americans must be willing to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies," McCain says, according to excerpts his campaign provided. "Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want,...

NJDC'S Guide to Responding to Obama, Clinton, and Edwards Smears aimed at Jewish Voters contains a statement from Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League. This statement leaves little doubt that Barack Obama must distance himself from the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton if he expects voters to take him for anything but a sick and demented practical joke on the American people. ADL National Director Abraham Foxman released a statement saying: "We welcome Barack Obama's condemnation of the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Minister Louis Farrakhan, and his making clear that he did not agree with his church's decision to honor...

Iraqi soccer players line up during the opening ceremony of the “Fallujah Cup” here, Dec. 14. Soccer, a favorite sport among Iraqis, was chosen as the first organized sporting event the city of Fallujah would embrace as a result of improved security in the area. “This is kind of a microcosm of everything that is going well right here in Fallujah, and this is a culminating event,” said 2nd Lt. Gregory Collins, the platoon commander of 2nd Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6. 071214-RCT6-1876J-FUTBALL02—Two of Fallujah’s best amateur soccer teams battle it out...

(IsraelNN.com) Journalists and left-wing politicians kept the "Rabin festival" going for yet another day, ganging up against the Israeli Soccer Association for meting out "too light" of a punishment to fans who jeered during a "moment of silence" for Rabin. At the Sunday night soccer game between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Haifa, hundreds of fans jeered, booed and sang songs of support for Yigal Amir during what was supposed to be a "minute of silence" for Yitzchak Rabin on the 12th anniversary of his murder. MK Ophir Pines (Labor) was the first to jump, saying the Soccer League must condemn...

Problem:According to the State of Black America, "African American men are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as white males and make only 75 percent as much a year. They're nearly seven times more likely to be incarcerated, and their average jail sentences are 10 months longer than those of white men [for the same offenses]. In addition, young black males between the ages of 15 and 34 years are nine times more likely to die of homicide than their white counterparts and nearly seven times as likely to suffer from AIDS. Five Urban League Solutions: (1)Universal childhood...

Ivy League Professor Caught with Videos That Show Him Having Sex with Children, Feds Say August 28, 2006 6:10 PMJack Date Reports: An Ivy League business school professor is in federal custody for allegedly having videos of himself engaging in sexual acts with children, ABC News has learned.Lawrence Scott Ward, 63, Professor Emeritus of Marketing at University of Pennsylvania's renowned Wharton School of Business, was caught with child pornography in his luggage and on his laptop computer after arriving at Dulles International Airport on a flight from Brazil, according to court documents.An affidavit in support of a criminal complaint...

If you click on the link it should take you to the right league page. League Name: NFL 2007 League ID: nfl Important: During the signup process you will be asked to create an EA username and password if you have not already done so. Do NOT use your league name and ID for these entries. Instead, create a unique name that you will personally use to login to your league. If you are unable to click on the link above, you may cut and paste the following location into your browser instead : http://fantasy2.easports.com/signup/invite_league.asp?product=122&league=46124

http://fantasy2.easports.com/signup/invite_lookup.asp League Name: NFL 2007 Password: nfl This is a 32-team league setup just like the NFL. Each team is placed in a division and will battle it out for the playoffs and a trip to the conference finals. The conference champs will then press on to the SUPER BOWL! I've never tried EASPORTS' version of fantasy football but stats wise, looks wise, and features wise, it appears to be the best thing going. SO SIGN UP, EVERYONE! And pass this on to your friends. As of press time we have 30 teams to fill so everyone is welcome to...

If anyone is interested I'm running the Freepers Fantasy Football League over at Yahoo! again this week. Feel free to come join. There's an auto draft league for people who want to take it easy or are new to the concept. Visit http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1 and join private league 99463 and the password is freep. The autodraft will be triggered sometime later this month in August. Or, if you are more hardcode, there is a LIVE DRAFT league. You can join it by visiting http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1 and joining private league 99439 and the password is also freep. The live draft will commense on...

MEL Gibson once had close links to the Australian League of Rights, a Far Right group notorious for its anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial. The league claims the world is run by a secret society of Jews. The Hollywood star's foray into Far Right activist politics in Australia occurred in 1987 when he campaigned for a friend, Rob Taylor, who stood unsuccessfully for the northern Victorian federal seat of Indi. Charles Pinwill, a former Queensland state director of the League of Rights, said he knew Gibson's father, Hutton, and said Gibson was interested in the league's ideas. "They were...

The Irrelevant UN By Jenni Vinson Trejo January 4, 2005 On January 8, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson explained to the US House and Senate that the world had gotten smaller and that nations now affected each other so we needed to form a group of nations who agreed to work together. The world was embroiled in World War I. Wilson put forth fourteen points intended to serve as the basis for an alliance and world peace. Point 14 says: "A general association of nations should be formed on the basis of covenants designed to create mutual guarantees of the political...

I know it's early, but it's time to start thinking about Fantasy Football! After much success with last year's league, which was won and flatout dominated by the "Gangsta Crabs", it's time for everyone to shoot for the champion ... Matt Perry (no relation to the friends actor), who no doubt will be playing again. The first 14 teams that sign up will be accepted. You'll need a Yahoo account to sign up. It's fast and easy to create one if you need to. http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/99439 League Name: Freerepublic Live League ID#: 99439League Password: freep If you need any help or...

This may not seem like your mother's League of Women Voters. The 86-year-old league, so often regarded as the epitome of good-government wonkery, will wade into pointedly political territory during its four-day national convention, which begins today in Minneapolis. Immigration policy, the death penalty and a move to upend the Electoral College are on the convention agenda. And the featured speaker at the convention's banquet on Monday is Garrison Keillor, the homegrown humorist who has long and loudly been a defiantly partisan Democrat. "We're looking forward to what he has to say, but just because he's a Democrat, you can...

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last month Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard; today Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi will speak by video to a conference at Columbia University that his regime is cosponsoring. (Columbia won't answer questions about how much funding it got from Libya or what implied strings were attached.) Then there's Yale, which for three weeks has refused to make any comment or defense beyond a vague 144-word statement about its decision to admit Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi--a former ambassador-at-large of the murderous Afghan Taliban--as a special student. The three backers of the foundation that,...

Since the New York Times and Wall Street Journal broke the news about the admission of Taliban official Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi to a special student program at Yale, we’ve received numerous emails from outraged Yale Alumni. One email stood out from the rest — "I won’t give Yale one red cent this year, but maybe I will give them a red fingernail instead!" She was referring to the Taliban’s policy of pulling the fingernails off of Afghani women who dared to wear fingernail polish. Some of these women even had their thumbs sliced off as punishment. To date, Mr. Rahmatullah...

Wednesday's developments in diplomatic efforts on halting Iran's quest for nuclear technology: • Europe, backed by the United States, rejected Iran's request for talks on its nuclear program, cranking up international pressure on Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said "there's not much to talk about" until Iran halts nuclear activity, saying the Islamic republic and its current leaders are not trusted with such technology. Rice met in Washington with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana. • Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, accused the West of acting like the "lord of the world" in...