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NOVANEWS  By Rev. Ted Pike The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says alleged racial slurs by Tea Party protesters against Congress members in March are “hate speech” and not protected by the First Amendment. According to ADL, Tea Party protesters “crossed the line” with racial slurs against black congressmen.  Such slurs, ADL head Abe Foxman contends, “are not constitutionally protected and require a strong legal response.” Really? Such slurs are socially repugnant—and often unconstitutionally prosecuted under ADL-inspired state and local hate crime statutes. But racial, “homophobic,” and “anti-Semitic” slurs are protected by the First Amendment. Threat of imminent violence against a congressman is illegal. But tolerance of slurs as well as profane, obscene and blasphemous speech is a necessa...

NOVANEWS By Michael Collins Piper Outspoken Israeli-born critic of Israel Gilad Atzmon put it bluntly in the title of his March 25 Internet essay: “Judea Declares War on Obama.” Atzmon—whose candor is unswerving—was referring to the recent avalanche of bitter commentary unleashed at Barack Obama by powerful international Jewish organizations that perceive the president’s Middle East policies to be less than supportive of the demands of Israel and the Jewish lobby in America. While Israeli immigrant Orly Taitz—a hardline Arab- and Muslim-basher—beats the bushes in public forums all across America, questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s citizenship and thus the very constitutional legitimacy of Obama’s occupation of the White House itself, her ideological allies, at the higher levels—an amazi...

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NOVANEWS Antony Loewenstein   Telling Kevin Rudd that refugees are human beings Miliband deserves more than political punishment over Iraq Sydney Morning Herald ignores war crimes in Sri Lanka and urges a visit See: www.antonyloewenstein.com

NOVANEWS Telling Kevin Rudd that refugees are human beings Miliband deserves more than political punishment over Iraq Sydney Morning Herald ignores war crimes in Sri Lanka and urges a visit Miliband deserves more than political punishment over Iraq Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:27 AM PDT Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in an interview with the Guardian, doesn’t seem to get it. Voters are angry with the major parties because of years of arrogance. And comments like these simply add insult to injury: I met some guy in Soho yesterday, when we were launching the Labour lesbian and gay manifesto. And I said to him, ‘Look, you’ve punished us enough about Iraq, all right? So don’t start punishing yourself.’ Sydney Morning Herald ignores war crimes in Sri Lanka and...

NOVANEWS Destroying America’s Economy 101 by Jeff Davis A disaster for the American economy potentially worse than the subprime mortgage mess is now on the Democrat drawing boards. It is essential that Americans understand what these people are about to do to this country. Desperate to pay for Obamacare and to recoup the untold billions of dollars thrown away as gifts to the banks, the Democrats are planning on introducing a European-style VAT (value-added tax or national sales tax on crack). A recent news article reports: “President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days… After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-a...

NOVANEWS Democrats Pushing a Federal Sales Tax? Democrats Pushing a Federal Sales Tax? by Jeff Davis Most sane politicians realize that you shouldn’t raise taxes during economic bad times. Unfortunately the current crop of politicians running things aren’t sane. Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are far Right lunatics, who don’t care about ordinary Americans. They probably don’t understand or simply don’t care that our economy is 70 percent driven by consumer spending, which means the government should leave the consumers with some money in their pockets rather than endlessly increase taxes. A Reuters article reports that ” ‘The United States should consider raising taxes to help bring deficits under control and may need to consider a European-style value-added tax,’ White House adviser Paul...

NOVANEWS Is Arizona the Most Racist State in Amerikkka? by Johnny Punish In Arizona, get ready for “Zee Papers Please” The racial profiling edict passed by the Arizona legislature now on the desk of their Governor will permit a police officer (on his own, without provacation) to stop you and ask “for your papers”.  Don’t have ID?   No problem, go to jail or at least to the intergation room probably housed next door to the water boarding gas chamber! As a Arab American, what if I don’t look exactly like John McCain?  Am I in trouble because I don’t have my papers on me?   I am concerned that these white guys with badges will simply say I look like a terrorist or some dishwasher at the local Denny’s and confiscate my person.  After all, we middle eastern types look like Mexicans too, so ...

NOVANEWS by Bob Higgins * By Sherwood Ross * If you’ve ever wondered why the public tolerates politicians who lie to them it’s likely that they “don’t have a high expectation that they’ll tell the truth” in the first place, a noted ethicist says. As a result, explains Michael Josephson, “when they lie we are generally less offended in principle. That doesn’t make their lying acceptable; it just explains why there is a high tolerance level for it.” Josephson is one man who should know. He is founder of the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Los Angeles, Calif., and is a well-known radio commentator on the subject. In an interview that appeared in “The Long Term View” magazine published by the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Josephson noted that former Boston Mayor James Michael Curle...

NOVANEWS Israel Tells U.S. ‘No’ on Halting Building in East Jerusalem by Michael Leon Israel rejects US demand to halt building in disputed East Jerusalem By James Hilder Israel has officially rejected President Obama’s demand that it halt all construction in east Jerusalem, deepening the diplomatic deadlock between the allies just as the US regional envoy is due to renew efforts to resume indirect peace talks. Officials said that Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, conveyed his position to the White House at the weekend. Mr Netanyahu and other senior ministers had already declared publicly that they would not cease construction in the disputed eastern half of the city, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day war. The refusal cast a shadow over the scheduled arrival of Ge...