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Hamastan is broke:
Hamas says PA coffers are 'empty'
Mr Haniya said he would make every effort to pay employees
The Palestinian prime minister has told the first meeting of his Hamas-led cabinet that the government is facing a deep financial crisis.
Ismail Haniya says his administration inherited a finance ministry that had no money left, yet had mounting debts.
He said the new leadership would do its best to pay the wages of more than 100,0000 Palestinian Authority workers.
The international community is using financial pressure to require Hamas to recognize Israel:
Aid donors have threatened to cut funds to the PA if Hamas does not change its doctrine of non-recognition of Israel.
Hamastan is finally at the mercy of the West. It's essential to keep up the pressure on this nation of terrorists until they give up their evil purposes. Per Daniel Pipes:
Israel needs only to defeat the Palestinian Arabs, not the whole Arab or Muslim populations, who eventually will follow the Palestinian Arab lead.
... Ironically, Israeli success in crushing the Palestinian Arab war morale would be the best thing that ever happened to the Palestinian Arabs. It would mean their finally giving up their foul dream of eliminating their neighbor and would offer a chance instead to focus on their own polity, economy, society, and culture. To become a normal people, one whose parents do not encourage their children to become suicide terrorists, Palestinian Arabs need to undergo the crucible of defeat.
McKinney still hasn't apologized:
McKinney wasn't backing down from the argument. She charged anew that racism is behind what she said is a pattern of difficulty in clearing Hill security checkpoints.
"This has become much ado about hairdo," she said Wednesday on CBS's "The Early Show." McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, recently dropped her trademark cornrows in favor of a curly brown afro.
I guess McKinney wants Blacks to have a special right (which people of other skin colors don't have) of being able to hit policemen. Throw the book at her.
DENTISTRY, 7000 BC. (We are so lucky to be living today.)
"ADVICE TO WOMEN EXPECTING TO BECOME PREGNANT to take folic acid to cut the chance of their babies being born with neural tube defects..."
From Josh Meyer of the LA Times comes an extraordinary account of behind-the-scenes goings-on at Al Qaeda during preparations for 911:
Mohammed described Al Qaeda in a written statement for his U.S. interrogators...
Mohammed revealed some of his management stratagems to his interrogators.
"Simplicity was the key to success," was one of them.
For instance, he told the plot's co-conspirators not to use codes, especially in routine messages or e-mails.
"He asked the operatives to be normal to the maximum extent possible in their dealings, to keep the tone of their letters educational, social or commercial, and to keep the calls short."
Mohammed also delegated tasks. He entrusted much of the communications and finance details to two underlings so he would not have to be in contact with the hijackers while they were in America. And he gave lead hijacker Mohamed Atta the authority over many operational details.
Mohammed said he was a stickler for security. He insisted on compartmentalizing the details of the plot, to such a degree that even some of Al Qaeda's top officials did not know them.
"When four people know the details of an operation, it is dangerous; when two people know, it is good; when just one person knows, it is better," Mohammed said, according to his interrogators.
Impressive: Wal-Mart to Open Stores in Struggling Urban Neighborhoods.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said Tuesday it plans to build more than 50 stores in struggling communities over the next two years, as part of a goal to create between 15,000 and 25,000 jobs.
Wal-Mart said it will build the stores in neighborhoods with high crime or unemployment rates, on sites that are environmentally contaminated, or in vacant buildings or malls in need of revitalization.
The Bentonville, Ark., company said it expects many of the jobs will be in minority communities and could generate more than $100 million in state and local tax revenue. It already has over 1.3 million U.S. employees.
For a company to purposely build megastores in neighborhoods with high crime, or in need of revitalization, etc., takes a lot of vision and courage. Contrast this with Border Books' cries of fear to justify its refusal to stock a little magazine that shows the Mohammed cartoons. Wal-Mart is taking steps to make America stronger. I live in California, and I've seen how commercial development of the Third Street Promenade changed it from being like a street in a ghost town, to a thriving commercial district that has been widely emulated since then in locations such as Universal Citywalk and at the Grove. I expect Wal-Mart to do more to build those communities, than most government programs.
Saddam Hussein Charged With Additional Crimes
BAGHDAD, Iraq Apr 4, 2006 (AP)— The Iraq tribunal announced new criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others Tuesday, accusing them of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from a 1980s crackdown against Kurds that included the gassing of thousands of civilians.
The move, tantamount to an indictment under the Iraqi legal system, paves the way for a second trial of the ousted ruler. Saddam already is being tried in the killings of more than 140 Shiites in a town north of Baghdad.
Under Iraqi law, the second trial could begin in at least 45 days.
This may show Saddam that his grandstanding attempt to make a meaningless circus out of his trial, will not protect him from justice.
IN ASIA, lots of online role-playing games don't charge a subscription fee, but still generate lots of profit. How? Because the players buy stuff in the game for their characters to use.
THE TOP AMERICAN TV SHOW WORLDWIDE, is CSI:Miami. Which probably makes it the biggest TV show in the world.
IT'S LOOKING MORE LIKE THE FUTURE EVERY DAY: "Lab-Grown Bladders Successful in Humans"
I guess, historically speaking, things are improving. Warfare used to be conducted with armies; in the 21st century, nations try to conquer other countries by just immigrating to them and then instigating violence, and/or refusing to assimilate, from within the host nation. Here are a number of dramatic cases in point:
Violence at a Berlin school dominated by Arab and Turkish youths and the nearby slaying of police officer, shot in the head while trying to arrest muggers, has fuelled alarm that troubled parts of the German capital are lurching out of control.
Police have now been brought in to help control the situation at the Ruetli school in the immigrant-dominated Neukoelln district, with six officers checking students for weapons.
Teachers at the school published a letter this week widely interpreted as saying conditions at their school had become so bad that it should be closed down.
The letter said teachers had lost all authority and were now so afraid that they only entered classrooms with a mobile phone so they could call for help in an emergency.
"The mood ... is dominated by aggression, lack of respect and ignorance," said the letter, adding: "We have reached a dead end and there is no way to turn around."
The Hilliard I grew up in was sleepy cowtown. As the son of one the local police officers (and my older brother would later follow him on the force), it was impossible to do anything serious without word quickly making its way back to my home, so I didn't even try. No one else did for that matter. The city was safe and relatively crime-free, except for the obligatory fight at the local bar every Friday night and the annual confiscation of the slot machines at the Moose Lodge. Back then, virtually every area of town was within a half-an-hour walk. While I was in high school, after classes I would walk across the street to the local library at the entrance to the City Park to study and to pass the time.
Today, that former library building is now a full-time Islamic school (K-8), Sunrise Academy, funded and operated by the local-area branch of the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Society of Greater Columbus (ISGC) MAS has been identified by researchers and many media outlets (such as these recent articles in the Chicago Tribune and The Weekly Standard) as one of the U.S.front groups for the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood and funded by the extremist Saudi Wahhabi lobby. Hasan al-Banna, the Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, stated this as the organization's credo: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
Baltimore, Maryland, and Little Rock, Arkansas:
The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution
First in Europe and now in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they can uphold and enforce greater compliance to Islamic law. While the U.S. Constitution enshrines the right to religious freedom and the prohibition against a state religion, when it comes to the rights of religious enclaves to impose communal rules, the dividing line is more nebulous. Can U.S. enclaves, homeowner associations, and other groups enforce Islamic law?
Such questions are no longer theoretical. While Muslim organizations first established enclaves in Europe,[1] the trend is now crossing the Atlantic. Some Islamist community leaders in the United States are challenging the principles of assimilation and equality once central to the civil rights movement, seeking instead to live according to a separate but equal philosophy. The Gwynnoaks Muslim Residential Development group, for example, has established an informal enclave in Baltimore because, according to John Yahya Cason, director of the Islamic Education and Community Development Initiative, a Baltimore-based Muslim advocacy group, "there was no community in the U.S. that showed the totality of the essential components of Muslim social, economic, and political structure."[2]
Baltimore is not alone. In August 2004, a local planning commission in Little Rock, Arkansas, granted The Islamic Center for Human Excellence authorization to build an internal Islamic enclave to include a mosque, a school, and twenty-two homes.[3] While the imam, Aquil Hamidullah, says his goal is to create "a clean community, free of alcohol, drugs, and free of gangs,"[4] the implications for U.S. jurisprudence of this and other internal enclaves are greater: while the Little Rock enclave might prevent the sale of alcohol, can it punish possession and in what manner? Can it force all women, be they residents or visitors, to don Islamic hijab (headscarf)? Such enclaves raise the fundamental questions of when, how, and to what extent religious practice may supersede the U.S. Constitution.
Prominent on display at demonstrations around the country supporting illegal immigration has been the flag of Mexico. The last time demonstrators waved the flag of a foreign government in American streets on such a scale was during the Vietnam War when New Leftists were championing the cause of North Vietnam against the United States. Those street people were mainly mush-brained college students whose ignorance of world affairs allowed them to be manipulated by their Marxist professors. This time is different. The protesters are not just advocating a foreign cause, they are part of it. Most of the Latino students boycotting classes in California and elsewhere should not be in those classes to begin with, since they have no legal right to even be in the United States. Indeed, their enrollment has generated a financial drain on state and local budgets across the country.
The costs of illegal immigration are intolerably high:
Nationally, the huge impact of illegal immigration on American health care has been well-documented. Years ago, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a lengthy report documenting how the increasing number of illegal aliens has forced the closure of hospitals and spread previously vanquished diseases such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, polio and dengue. Additionally, the report explains the huge cost of so-called anchor babies, which are born to illegal aliens and instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits.
Earlier this month the Federation for American Immigration Reform published results from various studies that detail how high levels of unpaid medical bills for illegal immigrants have forced local health care providers to reduce staffing, increase rates and cut back services. One of the studies says that in 2000 almost $190 million of southwest border hospitals' uncompensated costs were for emergency medical treatment for illegal aliens, with another $13 million in ambulance costs.
The good news is that this form of 21st century warfare is a lot easier to fight, than wars conducted via combat between traditional armies. All we have to do is:
Immigration reform is key to the future safety of the U.S. in response to this form of 21st century warfare.
