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A Rare Opportunity to Defend GIPSA Rule Against Packer Lackeys

Unless all of us acts, the attack by Senator Roberts, on behalf of the meatpackers, will reign as the ultimate truth in Washington, D.C.

(WASHINGTON D.C. ) - Yesterday, Senator Pat Roberts used the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing on the State of U.S. Livestock to deliver a personal attack against GIPSA Administrator Dudley Butler in an attempt to kill the GIPSA rule.

GIPSA facilitates the marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related agricultural products, and promotes fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture.

Congo, a Poem

I have to wonder why more women, in particular, are not raising attention; flying flags and freaking out over what women are enduring in D.R. Congo.

(CLEVELAND) - As Salem-News.com Reporter Jennifer Fierberg wrote this week in her article, Mass Rape in D.R. Congo: Where is the end to suffering?, we were updated on the continual, brutal mass rapes in the Democratic Republic Congo. Reports continue to surface on every day and they are ugly.

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla has Set Sail

"Now Israel is saying they will let us go (as if we ever asked them for permission) and they have made an arrangement with the Egyptians to offload our cargo in Al Arish. They don't get it. We are going to Gaza. We are opening the sea route to Gaza. We go to stop the illegal blockade. We're NOT going to Al Arish." - Greta Berlin

(ATHENS) - In spite of Israel's threats of violence (snipers, attack dogs, sound bombs) against unarmed people on unarmed ships, threats from the US government of legal action against American participants, and the Obama administration's clear permission granted to Israel to attack the boats, including the American-flagged "Audacity of Hope", the FLOTILLA HAS SET SAIL!

The first boat left France today.

And What About Jewish Anti Gentile Studies?

The institute’s scholars would also be well advised to elaborate on Jewish cultural supremacy, and Jewish political lobbying, from Purim to AIPAC.

(LONDON) - American Jewry won a victory last week: Yale University bowed to pressure - it is now starting yet another initiative to study anti-Semitism, after a decision to cancel an earlier programme had sparked criticism.

The earlier programme created in 2006 was cancelled because it had produced "little scholarly work,” and the institute's courses had not attracted large numbers of students, according to Donald Green, the director of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

America`s Bizarre Presidential Campaign Follows Culture

Stay tuned for more bizarre, strange and freakish footnotes to America's upcoming presidential election.

(APTOS, Calif.) - During these difficult economic times, nuttiness floats to the top of American culture and politics.

Adam, Get Their Guns

How al-Qaeda’s spokesman advances the Israel lobby’s gun control agenda.

(OSAKA, Japan) - On June 3, in an al-Qaeda video rather loftily titled “You Are Held Responsible Only for Thyself,” al-Qaeda’s California-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, urged followers to commit violent acts of jihad by exploiting alleged weaknesses in U.S. gun laws and the gun background check system.

“America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms,” he said.

In defense of foreskins

Cord Contributor Amelia Calbry-Muzyka argues that circumcision is simply mutilation and should be banned

(SAN FRANCISCO Cord) - San Francisco will vote on an issue that has raised a number of strong voices and opinions.

The circumcision ban would make it “unlawful to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the whole or any part of the foreskin, testicles, or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years.”

Freedom of expression in the eyes my pro-Woyanne `Ethiopian-American` friend

The latest victim of this costly exercise of repression is a television network launched by patriotic and professional Ethiopians from America.

(UGANDA) - One pro-Woyanne1 friend of mine, who has been living in America for over two decades, cited Addis Fortune Newspaper as a testimony to the existence of freedom of speech in Ethiopia.

U.S. Boat Rejects Israeli Army Allegation of Violence

Passengers Reiterate Nonviolence Pledge, Openness to Neutral Inspection

(ATHENS) - Passengers on the U.S. boat to Gaza rejected as ludicrous and provocative an unsubstantiated accusation by the Israeli Army that passengers in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla plan to kill IDF soldiers with chemical weapons.

The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday an Israeli Defense Forces allegation that some passengers on the flotilla had prepared sacks of sulfur which they planned to pour on Israeli soldiers.

Sri Lanka Continues Genocide, Thumbing Nose at UN and World

Video shows man hanged by neck; executed without a trial on the side of the road.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Sri Lanka's government is suspect in a massive Genocide two years ago.