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NOVANEWS modernityblog     Tags: Anti-Muslim Bigots, Anti-Muslim Racism, antifascism, BNP, Elections, Far Right, May 2011, Racism, UK | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-39l In Britain there is a local election on the 5th May 2011, the Indy covers the piss poor quality of BNP candidates: "The BNP was last night accused of turning to "a hardcore group of neo-Nazis and racists" to stand as candidates in next month's local elections.The anti-BNP campaign group Hope not Hate said it had compiled a dossier of extremist postings of candidates standing on 5 May, either in council elections or those to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. Among the postings the group collected from Facebook pages were:* One BNP candidate in the North of England wh...

NOVANEWS   The Guardian usually has three editorial pieces, two on something current and third headed "In praise of...." and then it praises someone or something it deems praiseworthy.  Well today it's the turn of film and theatre director and writer, Mike Leigh.  Here's the piece: The big mistake people make with Mike Leigh is to simplify him into caricature; he is much too various for that. He is the man who turned London into his own film set, so that to wander around the capital is to think of Naked, Happy-Go-Lucky, Secrets & Lies – yet he is a Salford boy. And of course his work is so distinctive in both focus and style that almost everybody knows what you mean by a "Mike Leigh film" – yet he famously creates his dramas through extensive improvisation and rehearsal. He is ...

THIS EMAIL FROM A MUSLIM WOMAN  MASHALLA INVITING GAY'S & LESBIAN'S FOR ANTI-ISLAMOPHOBIA DEMO ??? Anti-racism and Islamophobia demo Nov 6. From: Merfat Hashem <merfathashem@yahoo.com>  View Contact To: Sammi Ibrahem <ibrahemsammi@yahoo.co.uk> 2 Files  Download All Racist attacks summer report.odt (26KB); UAF 6 Nov supporters list.odt (30KB) Dear Brother Sammi (PSC)   I am writing you this letter to inform you about the national anti-racism and Islamophobia demonstration  on  the Nov 6. This  demo is called by Unite Against Fascism. Backed by TUC and MCB,  supported by  most  if not  all  anti-racism campaigns and organisations, all major tradeunions, and a long list of people that you w...

NOVANEWS Our joy that the Ahava store in Covent Garden is closing was tempered this week by the commemoration of the memory of Vittorio Arrigoni, who was so cruelly murdered by an insane Jihadist/Salafist group in Gaza last week. The beneficiary and responsibility for Vik's murder though lies lies with the Israeli state. Even assuming that the murderers, first of Juliano Mer Khamis and now Vittoria Arrigoni weren't actually paid assets of Israel, and this is by no means certain, only Israel stands to gain. Palestinians can now be branded collectively as insane Islamist murderers, even of those who have devoted their lives to solidarity with them. When you cage people for years on end and deliberately starve them and deprive them of life’s necessities, whilst regularly murdering and injurin...

NOVANEWS   Ignorance is not bliss. It is often the prelude to sudden destruction. It is not bliss to be ignorant of the corruption that is undermining your government .   –Dr. Lawrence Davidson   Lobbification is a word I have just coined for the corruptive process that bends politicians to the will of special interests–that is to the will of lobbies. The result of lobbification can be seen in the stilted and fawning behavior of the lobbified political brain. Politicians with lobbified brains become the obedient instruments of the lobbies which have captured their political souls. Below are a few examples of the results of lobbification. Part I: An Example from the House of Representatives The majority of the politicians who sit on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross   Stltoday.com Syeeda Hussaini has suffered from neck pain the past few years, to the extent that it’s difficult for her to drive and get a good night’s rest. So on a recent weekend, she, her husband, and their three kids loaded up the car and drove less than a mile to Mattress Firm. Her husband, Mohammad, encouraged her to lie on different beds to see which one felt best. She said the store manager approached, but oddly didn’t want to help. He told the family that he wouldn’t sell them a mattress for security reasons, she said. Hussaini, 27, who is Muslim, covers all but her hands, feet and eyes in public to show respect for femininity and her religion. She said the manager told her she needed to show her face for service. Mohammad, a pathology r...

NOVANEWS   by Eileen Fleming     Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress during his visit to Washington next month. He also is headline speaker for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee/AIPAC’s Annual Conference. Other confirmed speakers include: John Boehner (R-OH) Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives Harry Reid (D-NV) Majority Leader, U.S. Senate Robert Casey (D-PA) U.S. Senate John Thune (R-SD) U.S. Senate Eric Cantor (R-VA) Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives Steny Hoyer (D-MD) Democratic Whip, U.S. House of Representatives Jim Woolsey Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Martin Indyk Vice President for Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution; Former U.S. ...

NOVANEWS   IsraHell Lobbyist Abraham Feinberg’s FBI File Released   ABRAHAM FEINBERG FBI FILE FBI files released under the Freedom of Information Act unveil new details about the life of influential lobbyist Abraham Feinberg (1908-1998). Feinberg is best known for funding President Harry S Truman’s “whistle stop” campaign, saving Truman’s 1948 election campaign from almost certain defeat. In an interview, Feinberg summarized his long success in Democratic Party politics: “My path to power was cooperation in terms of what they needed—campaign money.” According to new histories of Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program including “Israel and the Bomb” by Avner Cohen (1998), Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion secretly named Feinberg his chief nuclear weapons fundraising co...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross   Students who interrupted a speech at the University of California at Irvine by Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren face charges of ‘disturbance of a meeting’. Ed Note–we can JUST IMAGINE what would take place if the same thing had been done to JEWISH students protesting the speech of, oh, let’s say the President of Iran. The officials responsible for arresting and ‘brutally manhandling’ these poor, defenseless, pure-as-the-wind-driven snow Chosenites would be lucky if the only negative thing coming his or her way was that they were fired, as a hit squad would be given a contract on the life of any person attempting such a sacriligeous act. Eleven Muslim students have pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the disruption of a speech by the ...

Statement by West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WMPSC) It has come to our notice that West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign (WMPSC) material has been appearing on Websites which contain anti-Semitic material. We completely dissociate ourselves from these sites and the material they contain and do not want our material posted on them. PSC nationally, and we as the West Midlands Branch of PSC, have a stated commitment to oppose all forms of racism including anti-Semitism. ** ( WHAT ABOUT ANTI-ZIONISM? ANTI-MU-BARAK? ANTI-ZIONIST HISTADRUT THE ZIONIST WORKER UNION? CAN YOU DISSOCIATE YOURSELF FROM PRO-ZIONIST AB-A$$ REGIME? Postings on this site sometimes claim to be placed by an officer of WMPSC.  We categorically state that no posting is being placed by an officer of WMPSC...