In Berlin, Jew Tells Holocaust Joke, Rankling Builders of Shoah Memorial
By Toby Axelrod
BERLIN, March 9 (JTA) Sometimes, a bad joke can elicit worse things than a painful groan from listeners.
http://www.jta.org
Carni-Fuhrer
Why One Vegetarian Activist is Obsessed with Hitler's Diet.
By Alex Frangos
Posted Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, at 3:52 PM PT
Rynn Berry wants to set the record straight about Adolf Hitler. "There's absolutely no evidence he was a vegetarian. It simply isn't true." Berry, a 54-year-old raw-foodist and "vegetarian historian" who is the author of Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism and the World's Religions, is on a mission to dispel the commonly held view that the 20th century's most notorious mass murderer was also an adamant herbivore.
http://slate.msn.com
Why 'Hitler And the Vatican' Fails as History
Interview With Father Peter Gumpel, Postulator of Pius XII's Cause
ROME, MARCH 3, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The new book "Hitler and the Vatican" by Peter Godman "is exaggerated in relation to the work done and the quoted documents," says the postulator of Pius XII's cause of beatification.
http://www.zenit.org
Haider Comeback Leaves Austria Braced for Trouble
Ian Traynor in Vienna
Wednesday March 10, 2004
The Guardian
Austria's centre-right government is bracing itself for internal revolt and destabilisation efforts following the return to the political limelight of Jörg Haider, the extreme rightwing populist whose triumph in a provincial election last weekend has stunned the Viennese political elite.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
US-Iran: Ad Hoc Détente to Continue Despite Conservative Sweep
by Jim Lobe
Despite the sweeping victory of staunchly anti-U.S. conservatives in Iran's elections last month, analysts here believe the tentative détente between the two countries that began late last year will continue at least through the November U.S. elections.
http://www.lewrockwell.com
Neocons' Iraq Strategy Now Focused on Syria
by Tom Barry
Getting out of the political quicksand of Iraq, or at least burying the bloody occupation as an embarrassing daily news item, is mission number one for the Bush campaign.
http://antiwar.com
Neoconservatives Use Oil to Keep Heat on Mideast
by Emad Mekay
With threats of a Venezuelan oil blockade helping to push petroleum prices higher, neo-conservative politicians and analysts continue to insist the biggest threat to U.S. energy supplies is Washington's reliance on Middle East oil.
http://antiwar.com
Faltering Neo-Cons Still Dangerous
How They Might Influence the Election
By BILL CHRISTISON
Former CIA Analyst
(A Primer for a Talk in Santa Fe, New Mexico.)
You've all surely heard widely varying stories about how much power, or how little power, the so-called neoconservatives -- or neocons -- have inside the Bush administration. I've been asked to explain, briefly, some of the mysteries about these neocons and what role, if any, they might play in this year's election.
http://www.counterpunch.org
Frank Rich: 'Passion' and the U.S. Culture War
Frank Rich NYT
Friday, March 5, 2004
NEW YORK Thank God - I think. Mel Gibson has granted me absolution for my sins. As "The Passion of the Christ" approached the $100 million mark, the star appeared on "The Tonight Show,'" where Jay Leno asked if he would forgive me. "Absolutely," he responded, adding that his dispute with me was "not personal." Then he waxed philosophical: "You try to perform an act of love even for those who persecute you, and I think that's the message of the film."
http://www.iht.com
The Passion and the Jews
by Paul Gottfried
Understandably, because Paul Gottfried is an editor of The American Conservative and so is John Zmirak, the magazine would not publish this letter to the editor. LRC is, of course, delighted to do so.
John Zmirak (in The American Conservative) has written a forceful and timely defense of Mel Gibson’s reverential cinematic treatment of The Passion of the Christ, and one can find much to admire in his criticism of Christianity-bashers. One can never vent enough contempt in dealing with the whiney Abe Foxman, who is beginning to surpass even Al Sharpton as a victimological nudnik. Zmirak rightly stresses that anti-anti-Semites dislike pious Christians more than they like Jews. He is also fair enough to point out the artistic defects in Gibson’s work while praising its inspirational aspect.
http://www.lewrockwell.com
The Revolution’s Forgotten Hero
by David A. Merrick, December 2003
On December 15, an anniversary will come and go with little or no fanfare. It will probably pass unnoticed, even though it is the anniversary of one of the greatest events in the history of written law. On that day, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, commonly known as the Bill of Rights, will have been ratified for 211 years.
http://www.fff.org
Who Made the Fannie and Freddie Threat?
By Frank Shostak
[Posted March 5, 2004]
On Tuesday February 24, 2004, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, in his testimony to the Senate Banking committee, issued a warning that Fannie Mae and Freddie Macthe two giant mortgage buyershave grown so large that they pose a threat to the entire financial system. To reduce this threat the Fed chairman recommends that Congress cap their size. In this regard, in Q4 the assets of Fannie Mae stood at over $1 trillion.
http://www.mises.org
Another Embarrassment for the Pentagon
The Pentagon has cancelled the expensive and increasingly irrelevant Comanche helicopter program. At 15 years overdue and many millions over budget, the only thing the Comanche ever did well was prove that pigs can fly. With any luck, this is just the first domino in a chain of many in the Pentagon budget. The Pentagon insists each of its weapons projects is essential to national security, but the failure of the Comanche has undercut their credibility, and the next domino seems within reach.
http://www.progress.org
Waxman: Halliburton Problems Uncovered
NewsMax Wires
Thursday, Mar. 11, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Pentagon and congressional investigators found widespread problems with Halliburton's cost estimates for billions of dollars' worth of contracts in Iraq as well as the military's oversight of those contracts, a Democratic critic said Wednesday.
http://www.newsmax.com
US Forces Accused of Looting, Torture and Death in Afghanistan
By Kim Sengupta
08 March 2004
American forces in Afghanistan have been accused of flouting international law with arbitrary arrests, torture and killing of prisoners in a report by a civil rights watchdog.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Spanish Right in Hitler Smear Row
By Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck in Madrid
10 March 2004
Spain's Conservatives abandoned a pledge to avoid mud-slinging in their electoral campaign this week, with one leading conservative politician comparing Spain's Socialist candidate Jose Luis Zapatero to Adolf Hitler. "Let's not forget that Hitler also won an election and then did what he did," Jose Manuel Molina told party members in Toledo yesterday.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Bypassing China's Net Firewall
Numerous efforts are under way in the West to help Chinese web users get around China's censorship of the internet, reports technology correspondent Clark Boyd.
Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Log Your Life Via Your Phone
By Mark Ward
BBC News Online technology correspondent
Nokia is developing software that will help turn its phones into life loggers.
The Lifeblog software automatically arranges all the messages, images, videos and sound clips people capture with their phones.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Architect Aims to Build Missing Colosseum Wall
By Peter Popham in Rome
10 March 2004
The Colosseum, the immense circular auditorium where chariots thundered, lions snacked on Christians and emperors waggled their thumbs, is Italy's most popular historical site. But part of its exterior wall is missing.
http://news.independent.co.uk
Man Admits: I Was 'Bigfoot'
Says famed footage depicts him in gorilla costume
Posted: March 10, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Thirty-six years after the fact, Bob Heironimus' conscience finally caught up with him: He confessed to having donned a gorilla costume and appearing in the famous 1967 footage of Bigfoot.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com
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