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Dr. Fauci is a high priest of the pandemic cult, and his Reign of Terror must come to an endIt’s time to pressure congress to begin a process of investigation that leads to the removal of the man who has used our tax dollars to torture helpless babies and dogs.(LifeSiteNews) – As Dr. Anthony Fauci was grilled by Sen. Rand Paul about knowledge of his agency’s involvement in “gain of function research” with coronaviruses in communist China labs, we witnessed a revealing manifestation of the quintessential D.C. swamp creature. A many-year veteran of the bureaucratic swamp, and a darling of...

Gulalai, wearing sunglasses and standing next to Karzai in the photo, gets a pink two-story stucco ranch house in Los Angeles. Whole communities of Somali and Bosnian Muslims have been brought to the U.S. and plunked en masse in middle America. Where are the communities of Christians who are facing violent persecution in Syria, Egypt, Nigeria and elsewhere in the Muslim world being settled? Can they even get into the U.S. at all? “Mystery surrounds move of Afghan ‘torturer in chief’ to U.S. amid allegations of spy agency abuse,” by Greg Miller, Julie Tate and Joshua Partlow, Washington Post, April...

The madman who burned an elderly Prospect Heights woman to death had been doing odd jobs for her - but was fired after she caught him stealing, her nephew said today. “He was doing more stealing than cleaning,” said a distraught Rickey Causey, 52, about the man in custody for allegedly setting 64-year-old victim Delores Gillespie on fire Saturday. Causey said the unidentified suspect - who turned himself into cops at Brooklyn’s 32nd transit district early today reeking of gasoline - had left a note on Gillespie’s door with a list of chores he was demanding payment for.

June 24, 2009 Saeed Mortazavi: butcher of the press - and torturer of Tehran? Jenny Booth and James Hider The Iranian regime has appointed one of its most feared prosecutors to interrogate reformists arrested during demonstrations, prompting fears of a brutal crackdown against dissent. Relatives of several detained protesters have confirmed that the interrogation of prisoners is now being headed by Saaed Mortazavi, a figure known in Iran as “the butcher of the press”. He gained notoriety for his role in the death of a Canadian-Iranian photographer who was tortured, beaten and raped during her detention in 2003. “The leading...

Saeed Mortazavi, who has reportedly been given the job of pursuing Iranian democracy protesters through the courts, is a formidable hardliner with a decade-long track record of cracking down on reformists. As prosecutor-general of Tehran since 2003 and as a judge before that, he has earned the nickname "the butcher of the press" for ordering the closure of more than 100 newspapers, journals and websites suspected of being hostile to the establishment. He oversaw the arrest and trial earlier this year of Roxana Saberi, the American-Iranian journalist sentenced to eight years for spying, and it has been Mr Mortazavi's name...

LEFTIST leaders and sympathisers marked the 40th anniversary of the death of revolutionary icon Ernesto Che Guevara today in Cuba, where he is buried, and Bolivia, where he was killed in 1967. Cuba's Acting President, Raul Castro, led the main event under a giant bronze statue of the guerrilla fighter in the town of Santa Clara, some 300 kilometres (186 miles) east of Havana. Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, 81, was absent, but a homage he penned was read in public. The Argentine-born doctor-turned-guerrilla was "a flower torn up prematurely by the stem. I bow my head to pay tribute...

Published: 14th July 2006 11:50 CET Jackie Arklöv, currently serving a life sentence for murdering two policemen in Malexander in 1999, was charged on Friday with crimes against international law in Bosnia. "The crimes were committed during the spring, summer and autumn of 1993, mostly during the summer," said prosecutor Lise Tamm to TT. According to Tamm, Arklöv committed robbery and torture against prisoners of war as well as civilians, and demostrated 'particular brutality'. The crimes are said to have been carried out in different jails in Bosnia Herzegovinia where Arklöv was a guard. Arklöv was a mercenary soldier in...

Munib Suljic who has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in absentia was arrested in The Hague on June 1. The Interior Ministry has learned from well-informed sources that he had surrendered to the Dutch police due to his serious health situation. After being treated at the prison hospital he will be transferred to extradition custody where he will be awaiting to be handed over to Croatia. The state prosecution has allegedly known about Suljic’s surrender and had already requested to conduct an interview with him at The Hague custody.

CELEB Big Brother prat George Galloway is today exposed in his revolting true colours — fawning before Saddam Hussein’s murderous son Uday. An astonishing video shown in part on the Sun TV Bulletin depicts Galloway, 51, laughing and joking with the evil psychopath during a 20-minute meeting in an Iraqi palace. The Respect party MP, who Sun readers can boot off the Channel 4 show tonight, has sickened viewers with his antics in the BB house. Galloway’s crawling around the tyrannical old Iraqi regime was even more disgusting. He famously met dictator Saddam in 1994 and told him: “Sir, allow...

When President George W. Bush met with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in the Oval Office this month, the talk turned to Merkel's childhood under Communism, then wandered into the subject of Bush's latest bedtime reading: "Mao: The Unknown Story," an 814-page biography that presents the Chinese dictator as another Hitler or Stalin. Participants in the meeting say that Bush spoke glowingly of the book, a 10-year project by Jung Chang, the author of the hugely successful memoir "Wild Swans," which has sold 10 million copies worldwide, and her husband, John Halliday, a British historian. "Mao" has been at the...

"Terri Schiavo's husband starts a PAC devoted to defeating the Bible-thumping politicians who used his comatose wife as a football." (Salon)

MILLION MOAN MARCH: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SPEAKERS By Michelle Malkin October 15, 2005 12:21 PM ***135pm EDT update...Al Sharpton calls President Bush "evil...James Crow Jr., Esquire...broken levees are weapons of mass destruction...Our people are dying in Iraq and being drowned in New Orleans...We'll be in Baton Rouge on the 29th...this is the beginning of the regeneration of the movement for our people..."*** If you tune into C-SPAN right now, you will hear a lot of angry bloviating and blaming. The 10th anniversary of the Million M[o]an March is here and Farrakhan's fulminators have seized the day in D.C....

After state lawmakers passed ''Terri's Law'' in 2003, the Florida Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional. But that rebuke hasn't stopped lawmakers from rushing to prepare other bills this year in an attempt to keep Terri Schiavo on a feeding tube and undermine the authority of Florida courts. There indeed may be room to improve protections for people who are incapacitated or cannot communicate their medical wishes, but changes to law should be debated in a deliberate fashion. Policy that would have life-and-death implications shouldn't be rushed -- not through the Florida Legislature nor Congress. Yet that is what...

I loved that chirping little chick, all downy yellow, pecking away in its box. I'd rub the chick against my cheek, hold it and give it a love squeeze. Maybe a little too hard, because sometimes it would try to squirm out of my grasp. Until the day that it jumped and landed on the floor head first. It started convulsing, chirping wildly, and then its little eyes closed and it lay perfectly still. It couldn't be dead, I prayed. No, no, and no. In search of a miracle, my 7-year-old brain came up with a plan. I would put...

The United Nations broke its own anti-torture convention by allowing a Zimbabwean police officer accused of torture to leave its peace force in Kosovo and return to Zimbabwe where he will probably not face investigation. Henry Dowa, a Zimbawe chief inspector, was named by several victims as having directed their torture, which included prolonged beatings on the soles of their feet and electric shocks causing convulsions. The victims' allegations were backed by medical examinations. Human rights groups urged the UN to arrest Chief Insp Dowa and put him on trial for torture. The UN declined, citing a lack of funds,...

Captured: the torturer and killer who hid Saddam's cash By Donald Macintyre at Central Command, Doha 18 April 2003 Barzan Al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein's half-brother and one of his most feared associates, was captured yesterday by American-led marines and special forces in what was probably the most important operation of its kind since the war began. Barzan, who allegedly personally took part in the torturing to death of opponents, was seized in a raid in south Baghdad. He is believed to have helped Saddam Hussein to hide billions of dollars in other countries and has also been held responsible for the...

An irate Iraqi demands that a peacenik answer the trick question: "How can you promote peace and justice without removing Saddam?" Andrea "the little girl" obviously can't provide an answer and giggles while she waffles to her own agenda. THIS IS MUST HEAR AUDIO! Just writing down the text here won't do it justice. Click in this link (http://komo1000news.com/audio/kvi_aircheck_031003.mp3) and turn up your speakers. NOTE: If you don't have the ActiveX program installed already, just click NO. Without it, the audio will load and play in small chunks, but it's well worth the wait. Andrea's childish antics (Nickelodeon Diplomacy) are...

Belgium's most hated man, convicted paedophile Marc Dutroux, has been locked up for the last six years without trial. Andrew Osborn wonders why it is taking so long for justice to be done Friday January 25, 2002 He stands accused of committing the vilest of crimes - of raping, torturing and murdering young girls as young as eight for his own sexual gratification. And yet Marc Dutroux, already a convicted paedophile, has still not been brought to justice. Dutroux, Belgium's public enemy number one without equal, has been incarcerated since 1996 and yet still there is no trial date. It...