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CNN reports from Venezuela

Armed men forced their way into a Caracas synagogue, defacing its administrative offices with anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalizing an interior room where the Torah is kept, officials said.
Vandals smashed items in an interior room where the Torah is kept, officials said.
About 15 men forced their way into the Mariperez Synagogue in Venezuela’s [...]

This guest post is cross posted from Seismic Shock
On a talk show for Press TV, in an interview with Alan Hart, Reverend Stephen Sizer cites American evangelical Dale Crowley after about four minutes.

Dale Crowley’s anti-Israel radio talk show (Crowley’s Spotlight on Israel, with a nod and a wink to the fascist magazine Spotlight) was recently [...]

This is a guest post by Mira
One hundred years ago this month the first state pensioners queued at their local Post Offices to claim the small but often critical amount of money allocated to them under the 1908 Old Age Pensions Act. This act was a watershed in British social policy. With it ended the [...]

This is a guest post by Ben Cohen of Z Word
Reza Aslan, a California-based academic, has been speaking to Jimmy Carter about the Middle East. It is the kind of interview which all politicians dream about. Aslan bolsters rather than challenges Carter, leading him to his favorite topics and themes with dutifully worded questions. Two [...]

Haaretz report on a secret Israeli report into West Bank settlements:
Here, for the first time, information the state has been hiding for years is revealed. An analysis of the data reveals that, in the vast majority of the settlements – about 75 percent – construction, sometimes on a large scale, has been carried out without [...]

I’m not quite sure what to make of this:
Officials removed Adolf Hitler Campbell and his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie, from their home in Holland Township, Sergeant John Harris said.
But the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) did not reveal the reason why the children were taken into the custody of [...]

Mohammad Rashid Abdulaziz Saeed Alim, aka Nicky Reilly, has been jailed for life for attempting to set off a nail bomb in a crowded restaurant in Exeter.
Apparently Alim got stuck in the toilet cubicle he’d entered to prime his bomb and part of the detonator system went off prematurely, injuring only Alim himself.
He was described [...]

The Palestinian daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, features a story about a Palestinian family, the Abd Rabbos, who have spoken out about how Hamas threatened and violently intimidated people into letting militants use their homes for military purposes, including arms storage, weapons smuggling tunnels and even rocket launching.
The report said, according to the Jerusalem Post, that people who objected [...]

Here’s a sticker that caught my eye on the way into work this morning.

A lie from Moses? I’m not sure I’d put it that high. The man was working with limited data, and came up with what must have seemed to be a pretty plausible theory, at the time. Aristotle didn’t do that much better. [...]

Another sign that the Bush era is over: President Obama gets righteously angry at corporate greed and excess: in this case payment of $18.4 billion in bonuses to employees of New York financial companies in 2008, despite their parlous condition.

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