News for November 07, 2005

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French solution: ‘Paristinian’ state (November 08, 2005) - OK, enough is enough. It’s clear France is no longer in control of its population. It’s clear millions within its borders are struggling for freedom and independence. It’s clear that these people are not rioting for the sake of rioting, they are responding to oppression from French authorities. It’s clear that their uprising cannot be met with state violence, because that would only lead to a cycle of violence. It’s clear that these freedom-fighters – whom I have dubbed “Paristinians” – want a state of their own. It’s clear that the international community must force France to the negotiating table with these freedom fighters to begin the peace process that will inevitably lead to the creation of an autonomous, independent state of “Paristine.” If it’s good enough for Israel, it’s good enough for the French surrender monkeys who have been leaders of the global movement to force the Jewish state into appeasement of terrorists. We’ve got to stop referring to this “intifada” in France as “riots.” This is a movement for self-determination. This is a movement for independence. This is a movement for freedom from imperialism.

The analogy is apt. That’s not “Frère Jacques” they’re singing in France. It’s “Fire Jacques.” The president of France can see the cinder in the eye of others, but is missing the beam in his own. It’s time for France to stop the hypocrisy. It’s time for the French to take a dose of the medicine they have been handing out to the Jews of Israel. It’s time to end the apartheid within its population. It’s time for France to stop treating those poor, Muslim immigrants as second-class citizens. It’s time to accept the only permanent solution that can address the root problem in French society – the recognition of the Paristinians as a legitimate negotiating partner.

Before this cycle of violence spreads throughout all of Europe, France needs to do the right thing. The French have been speaking out of both sides of their mouths for too long. They’ve been speaking out of both of their nostrils for too long, too. If appeasement was the solution in Iraq, it’s the solution for the “Paristinian” revolt. If appeasement was the solution for Hitler, it’s the solution for the “Paristinian” revolt. If appeasement was the solution for Israel in dealing with its “Palestinian” problem, it’s the solution for France’s “Paristinian” uprising. more...

On A7 Radio: Slice Her Up! The Un-doing of Israel (November 07, 2005) - The Vatican wants Jerusalem’s King David’s Tomb for themselves. The Evangelists want the shores of the Sea of Galilee. The U.N. is hinting it wants Jerusalem to be its new home and the Arab invaders want ALL of Israel. How much will Israel secede before fading to oblivion? Plus: Prof. Paul Eidelberg speaks on, “The State Versus The Jewish People”.

Abbas’ group: We’re with Iranian president (November 06, 2005) - Expresses solidarity with call to ‘wipe Israel off map’  The military wing of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party today expressed solidarity with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks to “wipe Israel off the map,” and is currently the only Palestinian terror group to reject a cease fire being quietly negotiated by Egypt, WND has learned. “We express our full support and solidarity with the Iranian President in which he frankly called to erase Israel from the map of the world. We support the Iranian President’s position vis-à-vis this illusion that is the state of Israel and we say that with the help of Allah this illusion will disappear,” stated a pamphlet distributed in Gaza yesterday by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and obtained by WorldNetDaily. The Brigades was founded in 2000 by senior Fatah members to serve as the “resistance” wing of their party. Continued the pamphlet: “Everyone who recognizes Israel as a state while it continues to exist on Palestinian land neglects and disregards the Palestinian people who daily sacrifice their blood for the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem.” Al Aqsa also stated “the clashes taking place in our occupied territories will determine our destiny for hundreds of years to come.” The comments come as Egypt is attempting to broker a renewed cease fire with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al Aqsa since the current truce, signed in February, expires at the end of the year. more...

Fuel’s paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head (November 07, 2005) - It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head. Randell Mills, a Harvard University medic who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims to have built a prototype power source that generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel. Independent scientists claim to have verified the experiments and Dr Mills says that his company, Blacklight Power, has tens of millions of dollars in investment lined up to bring the idea to market. And he claims to be just months away from unveiling his creation. The problem is that according to the rules of quantum mechanics, the physics that governs the behaviour of atoms, the idea is theoretically impossible. “Physicists are quite conservative. It’s not easy to convince them to change a theory that is accepted for 50 to 60 years. I don’t think [Mills’s] theory should be supported,” said Jan Naudts, a theoretical physicist at the University of Antwerp.

What has much of the physics world up in arms is Dr Mills’s claim that he has produced a new form of hydrogen, the simplest of all the atoms, with just a single proton circled by one electron. In his “hydrino”, the electron sits a little closer to the proton than normal, and the formation of the new atoms from traditional hydrogen releases huge amounts of energy. This is scientific heresy. According to quantum mechanics, electrons can only exist in an atom in strictly defined orbits, and the shortest distance allowed between the proton and electron in hydrogen is fixed. The two particles are simply not allowed to get any closer. more...

Italian FM calls for global backing of Israel (November 07, 2005) - Italy’s foreign minister has called on the international community to help guarantee Israel’s security and condemned Iran’s president for saying the Jewish state should be “wiped off the map.” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad merely said what many others think “but have not always dared speak with such brutality,” Gianfranco Fini also was quoted as saying in an interview published Saturday in Milan daily Corriere della Sera. “Not recognizing Israel’s right to exist is an incentive for terrorism because the moment you don’t recognize a state’s right to exist you don’t recognize a people’s right to exist,” Fini was quoted as saying. “That makes it clear that it is indispensable to guarantee to Israel the commitment of the international community towards its safety,” Fini said. During a visit to Israel earlier this week, Fini said Italy wants Iran to be referred to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions on the issue of nuclear weapons. Until then, Fini had rarely spoken in public about Italy’s position on the Iranian nuclear issue.

Chirac vows action as riots spread (November 07, 2005) - Rioters fired at police and burned schools and churches in an 11th night of violence in France, despite words from the president that restoring order was a top priority. Damage from protests across France hit a new peak overnight, as rioters burned 1,408 vehicles, France’s national police chief said. More than 4,300 vehicles have been burned since the riots began. The figure was an increase from the night before, when 1,295 vehicles were burned, Michel Gaudin told a news conference. He said that police made 395 arrests overnight Sunday-Monday, up from 345 the night before. Apparent copycat attacks spread outside France for the first time, with five cars torched outside Brussels’ main train station, police in the Belgian capital told The Associated Press. Ten riot police were injured by youths firing fine-grain birdshot in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said. Two were hospitalized but their lives were not in danger, he said. It was the first time police were injured by weapons fire since the unrest started. “We are witnessing a sort of shock wave that is spreading across the country,” Gaudin said, noting that the violence appeared to be sliding away from Paris and worsening elsewhere in France. more...

Muslim Riots Break Out in Denmark As Well (November 07, 2005) - As Muslim riots spread across France, Denmark is also beginning to see its own Islamic Intifada. In Arhus, Denmark, young Muslims were heard chanting, “This land belongs to us!” A masked spokesman for the rioters told Danish reporters that Muslims were tired of being oppressed and harassed and warned the police to stay away. “This is our area. We rule this place,” he said. The riots have increased following a cartoon in Danish paper The Jyllands Pos involving Mohammed. Rocks and firebombs have become commonplace in many neighborhoods and firefighters are afraid to enter them to put out the fires. more...

11th night of holy hell in France (November 07, 2005) - France endured its 11th straight night of riots by mostly Muslim immigrants with as many as 30 policemen injured, 10 of whom were shot. A Molotov cocktail “factory” was discovered by police just outside Paris, 839 vehicles were burned, and rioters were reported to have fired shotguns and hunting rifles on police for the first time since the uprising began. French President Jacques Chirac promised arrest, trials and punishment for those sowing “violence or fear” as police and rioters clashed south of Paris and in other towns around the capital. Ten riot police were wounded, two seriously, in fighting with 250 to 300 youths in Grigny. Across the country, rioters pelted Molotov cocktails at cars and a school, and firefighters in some areas worked under police escort. In Evry, south of Paris, police discovered what they called “a Molotov cocktail factory” in an unused police station. Six teenagers were arrested. Significant supplies of gasoline were found and about 150 bottles, a third of them filled and ready to be used, were seized. On Saturday night, mostly North African rioters torched nearly 1,300 vehicles and torched businesses, schools and symbols of French authority, including post offices and provincial police stations. The violence spread to Paris for the first time. more...

Report: Israel to Hand Control of Jerusalem Holy Site to Vatican (November 07, 2005) - According to the reports, Israel will give the Holy See possession of the Coenaculum, or the Room of the Last Supper (also known as the Upper Room or the Cenacle), on Mount Zion. In exchange, Israel is to gain control of a 12th-century synagogue in Toledo, Spain, which is currently the Santa Maria la Blanca Church, says the Times of London. The synagogue became a church during the 15th-century expulsion of Jews from Spain. President Moshe Katsav and Pope Benedict XVI are to announce the historic real estate deal during their upcoming meeting in Rome, the reports claimed. The Foreign Ministry has dismissed the reports as “nonsense,” but they have already aroused stormy reactions from religious factions warning against a change in the fragile status quo in relations among Christians, Jews and Muslims. Israeli government sources said the report recycles an old proposal that came up during more than a decade of Israel-Vatican talks on bilateral ties. They called the Catholic proposal “insulting and unreasonable,” and said an Israeli investigation indicated that the Vatican does not even own the Toledo church. The ministry said Israel rejected the proposal in 2003 and that the issue has not been raised since. The only Israeli official who has publicly spoken about this issue is former interior minister Avraham Poraz (Shinui), who said during a visit to the Vatican last September that from Israel’s perspective, the exchange could take place if the relevant parties were to agree. In the last few days, officials in the Greek Orthodox Church have asked the Jerusalem municipality for an explanation, since it claims ownership of all of Mount Zion. The Diaspora Yeshiva, which uses several buildings on Mount Zion, asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday to intervene in an effort to prevent “the Tomb of David from getting into Christian hands.” more...

Indiana tornado kills 23, injures at least 220 (November 07, 2005) - At least five people were confirmed dead in Warrick County and at least 18 were killed in Vanderburgh County, according to county officials. Three area hospitals reported treating more than 220 people. At St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, the closest hospital to the destruction, at least 30 were admitted with serious injuries, and twelve people were in critical condition. Deaconess Hospital in Evansville had at least 15 people in critical condition, officials there said. “We’ve had severe damage,” said Newburgh Assistant Fire Chief Chad Bennett. “Homes were totally devastated. There are a lot of people thankful to be alive today.” Officials said the death toll would likely climb as rescue workers picked through rubble in house-to-house searches and scoured farm lands. About 130 Indiana National Guard troops were called in to assist in recovery efforts and to help provide security and clean up debris. At least two people were found dead in a soybean field in Warrick County, according to the Newburgh fire department. The Eastbrooke mobile home park in Evansville was one of the places hardest hit when the storm struck well before dawn. Many homes there were reduced to twisted piles of metal that lay mixed with the remains of downed trees, smashed cars, and other debris. more...

Sanhedrin Project Unveiled With Humility (November 06, 2005) - Since it was launched in Tiberias last year, the Court of 71 rabbis has strived to fulfill the halakhic (Jewish legal) requirements for renewing authentic semicha (rabbinic ordination passed down from Moses) and for reestablishing the Great Court, which was disbanded 1,600 years ago. At Sunday’s conference, distinguished members of the Court, led by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz), presented a humble, yet exhilarating plan to widen the scope and acceptance of the Court to truly move toward becoming the restored Sanhedrin of old. Along with the increasingly modest references to the current institution of a Court or Sanhedrin project came new high-caliber participants in the project. Rabbi Even-Israel publicly accepted the position of Nassi, President of the Sanhedrin, and Rabbi Re’em HaCohen – head of the Otniel Hesder Yeshiva - delivered the first address of the morning. Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi and Dayan (Rabbinical Court Judge) Dov Lior spoke both at the conference and later at the festive meal. Also participating in the conference were Rabbi Yisrael Rozen, who heads the Tzomet Institute, and Rabbi Ratzon Arussi, Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Ono and a member of the Chief Rabbinate. Both spoke about the relationship of Torah Law with the law of the State of Israel, with Rozen focusing on the grassroots desire for honest and sincere leadership in Israeli society following the crisis of the Disengagement, and Arussi outlining the critical importance of the formation of a unified court of Torah monetary law. Rabbi Ratzon Arussi addresses those attending the conference. more...

Sex at School Increasing, Some Educators Say (November 06, 2005) - Perhaps the most shocking thing about students having sex in a high school auditorium was that other students didn’t find it very shocking at all. “I glanced over and, whatever, I just let him continue on with his business,” said a 16-year-old linebacker on the Osbourn High School football team who, along with a friend, stumbled upon a couple engaging in oral sex. “I stayed for five to eight minutes, just talking. We weren’t worried about it. When the janitor came in, everyone started running.” Manassas school officials weren’t as laid back. The students -- eight in all -- were quickly identified and suspended, and the matter prompted the small school system to confront an issue many adults would rather not face: in this case, two girls and three boys engaging in oral sex or intercourse on school property while three other boys watched, according to sources familiar with what happened. “In all the years that I’ve been in education, I’ve never run into this one before,” said John Boronkay, the school system’s acting superintendent. “It’s a new one.” Actually, it’s not so new. According to some teenagers, sex on school property is more frequent than adults might imagine. And some adults who work with teenagers said it’s happening more often these days. There’s anecdotal evidence to support that: more...

ALIEN ABDUCTION REPORTS ARE RISING — AS SEEN ON TV (November 05, 2005) - A few quick questions: Have you seen beams of light come into your room through a window? Have you ever woken up startled? Do you have chronic sinusitis? Do you have to sleep against a wall? Ever been afraid of your closet? Have ringing in your ears? A fear of doctors? Had the feeling you were going crazy? Are you aware of the cosmos, interested in ecology, the environment, vegetarianism? Did you answer “yes” to one or more?

The good news is, welcome to the club. The bad news is, according to a study conducted in 2002 by the Roper Center for Public Opinion, these are a few of 58 positive indicators that you might be one of the 3.7 million Americans who say they have been abducted by aliens. Even better news? There’s about to be a bunch more of you. It seems that you can Google “alien abduction,” read big books, do extensive research and still come up with one conclusion: The more TV you watch, the more knowledge you have of the appearance and behavior of abducting aliens. And the more knowledge you have, the more likely you are to be abducted. Or think you've been abducted. Or are willing to try to convince the rest of us that you’ve been abducted, experimented on, had your eyes pulled out, your private parts probed and your nose implanted with some kind of thing that only the aliens can find on careful review. more...

Thousands Demonstrate at Pro-Israel Rally Near Iranian Embassy in Rome (November 04, 2005) - Italy’s foreign minister said he would not participate in a pro-Israel rally in Rome on Thursday evening, despite a promise to Israel that he would do so, in order to avoid damaging Italian national interests. The Italian defense minister also said he would not attend the rally, Israel Radio reported. Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini issued a statement a few hours before the torch-lit demonstration outside the Iranian embassy to protest remarks by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” “My physical presence, as foreign minister, at this evening’s rally could cause harmful consequences to our national interests and to the security of our fellow citizens from the Iranian side,” Fini said. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi expressed support for Fini’s decision not to attend the rally, news agencies reported Thursday night. Fini had made a two-day official visit to the Palestinian territories and Israel earlier this week. During the visit, he had promised Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom that he would participate in the Rome rally. As Iran worked behind the scenes to express displeasure over a planned pro-Israel rally scheduled to be held in Rome on Thursday, Italian politicians from the left and right have said they were to join the event. more...

Wake Up, Europe, You’ve a War on Your Hands (November 07, 2005) - Ever since 9/11, I’ve been gloomily predicting the European powder keg’s about to go up. “By 2010 we’ll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the news every night,” I wrote in Canada’s Western Standard back in February.

Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday’s edition of the Guardian reported in London: “French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.” “French youths,” huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the “youths” are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn’t take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as “French”: They’re young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you’re likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive “Arab street,” but it’s in Clichy-sous-Bois. The notion that Texas neo-con arrogance was responsible for frosting up trans-Atlantic relations was always preposterous, even for someone as complacent and blinkered as John Kerry. If you had millions of seething unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringing every major city, would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fighting alongside the Americans? For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc. The concern of the political class has been to prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest. They seem to have lost that battle. Unlike America’s Europhiles, France’s Arab street correctly identified Chirac’s opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.

The French have been here before, of course. Seven-thirty-two. Not 7:32 Paris time, which is when the nightly Citroen-torching begins, but 732 AD — as in one and a third millennia ago. By then, the Muslims had advanced a thousand miles north of Gibraltar to control Spain and southern France up to the banks of the Loire. In October 732, the Moorish general Abd al-Rahman and his Muslim army were not exactly at the gates of Paris, but they were within 200 miles, just south of the great Frankish shrine of St. Martin of Tours. Somewhere on the road between Poitiers and Tours, they met a Frankish force and, unlike other Christian armies in Europe, this one held its ground “like a wall . . . a firm glacial mass,” as the Chronicle of Isidore puts it. A week later, Abd al-Rahman was dead, the Muslims were heading south, and the French general, Charles, had earned himself the surname “Martel” — or “the Hammer.” more...

Thailand: Martial Law Extended as Insurgency Rages On (November 07, 2005) - Two more Muslim-dominated districts under martial law. “The insurgents have used the districts to hide weapons”. The army has extended martial law to two more Muslim-dominated districts of its insurgency-wracked south, a day after Islamic separatists staged a new show of strength with bombings that blacked out a provincial capital. The top security official for the south, general Khwanchart Klaharn, said martial law was being declared in two districts of Songkhla province, which is next to the country’s three southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces - Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani - where the insurgency has flared, killing more than 1,100 people since January last year. “The insurgents have used the Chana and Thepha districts in Songkhla to hide weapons”, the general said. Meanwhile, police recovered the head of a man believed to be a Buddhist monk. More than a dozen Buddhists have been decapitated in the area’s sectarian violence. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the latest clampdown was a decision of the military, and he was not told about it in advance. more...

Abolishing the USA (November 07, 2005) - The United States of America is being abolished. Piecemeal. Before our very eyes. By our own elected officials — under the guidance and direction of unelected elites. Incredible? Certainly. But, unfortunately, true nonetheless. For decades, federal officials have ignored the pleas of American citizens to secure our borders against an immense, ongoing migration invasion that includes not only millions of “common variety” illegal aliens, but also drug traffickers, terrorists, and other violent criminals. Now, under the pretense of providing security, the Bush administration is adopting an outrageous policy that, in effect, does away with our borders with Mexico and Canada altogether. Regular readers of THE NEW AMERICAN know that this magazine has been warning that this direct assault on our nationhood was coming, that it is part and parcel of the NAFTA-CAFTA-FTAA process. However, almost a million Americans received their first notice of this fast-looming threat from a startling special report on CNN. On June 9, CNN anchorman Lou Dobbs began his evening broadcast with this provocative announcement: “Good evening, everybody. Tonight, an astonishing proposal to expand our borders to incorporate Mexico and Canada and simultaneously further diminish U.S. sovereignty. Have our political elites gone mad?” Mr. Dobbs, who has been virtually the lone voice in the Establishment media cartel opposing the bipartisan immigration and trade policies that are destroying our borders and national sovereignty, then noted:

Border security is arguably the critical issue in this country’s fight against radical Islamist terrorism. But our borders remain porous. So porous that three million illegal aliens entered this country last year, nearly all of them from Mexico. Now, incredibly, a panel sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations wants the United States to focus not on the defense of our own borders, but rather create what effectively would be a common border that includes Mexico and Canada. Dobbs then switched to CNN correspondent Christine Romans in Washington, D.C., who reported: “On Capitol Hill, testimony calling for Americans to start thinking like citizens of North America and treat the U.S., Mexico and Canada like one big country.” Romans then showed brief excerpts of congressional testimony by Professor Robert Pastor, one of the six co-chairmen of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Task Force on North America. “The best way to secure the United States today is not at our two borders with Mexico and Canada but at the borders of North America as a whole,” Pastor told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “What we hope to accomplish by 2010,” Pastor continued, “is a common external tariff which will mean that goods can move easily across the border. We want a common security perimeter around all of North America, so as to ease the travel of people within North America.” more...

Chip the Light Fantastic (November 07, 2005) - Super-fast optical computers are a step closer thanks to research breakthroughs that may lead to silicon chips that can process information as electronic bits or flashes of light. Two discoveries announced in the past week have sped the path to the fabrication of hybrid silicon chips with both electronic and photonic components. The first discovery, published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, foreshadows a future in which computers may run at terahertz speeds and, paradoxically, light will move much more slowly than it does today. The other discovery, published in last week’s issue of the same journal, presents a new silicon-based microtransmitter that can send optical data at 100 Gbps -- one-tenth of a terahertz. Both teams are hoping their discoveries will fit within the present manufacturing framework -- and can be built using the same techniques as silicon semiconductor chips (technically, “complementary metal-oxide semiconductor,” or CMOS). Both must also work around what is both the inherent strength and weakness of optical computing and communications: The bits are always moving at the speed of light. Here is where something called “slow light” comes into play. Having been studied in elaborate laboratory settings for years, light propagating in optically dense media -- media that slow light's propagation speed down considerably -- has been an area of increasing interest in photonics. Slowing an optical bit down enables a computer to better buffer and route information traffic in much the same way that stoplights and speed limits are essential to controlling the flow of physical traffic. more...

It is Time to End Corruption in UN and Punish All Who Supported Oil Scam and Bribe Mechanisms (November 07, 2005) - Corruption didn’t arise out of thin air, it arose out of the culture of the place. United Nations, international companies, many Governments and the political parties of many nations indulged in corrupted behavior, bribing and other illicit methods. The oil scam is just tip of the ice berg. This is how the world is in operation. Nothing gets done without kickbacks. It is time to make all in UN questionable for such dishonest behavior and take appropriate actions against the people involved.

Individual nations like India should punish those within the country involved in oil scam. It is an opportunity for the countries to vacuum clean their closets full of thieves, thugs and scam artists in the name of political parties and organizations.

Senior officials at the United Nations had disregarded the damning findings of the Volcker Commission's probe into the Iraqi Oil-For-Food programme, the US envoy to the global body has said.

“In the bubble on First Avenue, Volcker is just ignored. I talk about it, but it’s a solitary conversation. Nobody else will be fired unless people are indicted by outside authorities,” the Sunday Telegraph daily on Sunday quoted John Bolton, the American Ambassador to the UN, as saying at a private dinner in New York last week.

“Corruption didn’t arise out of thin air, it arose out of the culture of the place. Bribes, mismanagement etc. It would be unacceptable for executives in any normal organisation,” he said. more...