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Pushed Saudi-funded textbook that wildly fabricates history (excerpt) by Aaron Klein The Obama administration's reported pick Charles Freeman for a top intelligence post once peddled a book to U.S. public schools that falsely claims Muslims inhabited North America far before European explorers. The book, funded by Saudi Arabia, also contains widely inaccurate anti-Israel Arab propaganda. Charles "Chas" Freeman, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, is slated to head the National Intelligence Council, according to multiple reports. Yesterday, it came to light Freeman has financial ties to the infamous bin Laden family – including dealings he defended after Sept. 11, 2001. Freeman served as president of the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington-based Saudi backed nonprofit that received tens of thousands of dollars per year from the bin Laden family and other Saudi donors. In 2003, Freeman's council joined with California-based Arab World an

by Abe Selig Growing harassment of Jewish students on college campuses across Britain, the US and Canada has prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Center to announce plans for an international effort to counter the phenomenon. The whole idea of the campaign is "to debunk the mythology of the anti-Israel forces," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The campaign will include a so-called "iCAN" ad to run in student newspapers during this year's Israel Apartheid Week (which starts on Sunday), in which protesters worldwide will attempt to compare the Jewish state with the former racist regime in South Africa. The ad, which features two aluminum cans connected together by a string, asks where modern society would be if it boycotted Israeli technology. "Committed to boycotting Israel?" the ad asks. "Be Zion-free - do not use cellphones, voicemail, AIM and ICQ instant messaging, Google (which runs on Israel

from: STALKING THE SOUL Perverse abusiveness fascinates, seduces, and terrifies. We sometimes envy abusive individuals because we imagine them to be endowed with a superior strength that will always make them winners. They do, in fact, know how to naturally manipulate, and this appears to give them the upper hand, whether in business or in politics. Fear makes us instinctively gravitate toward them rather than away from them: survival of the fittest. The most admired individuals are those who enjoy themselves the most and suffer the least. In any case, we don't take their victims, who seem weak and dense, seriously, and under the guise of respecting another's freedom, we become blind to destructive situations. In fact, this "tolerance" prevents us from interfering in the actions and opinions of others, even when these actions and opinions are out of line or morally reprehensible. We also weirdly indulge the lies and "spin" of those in power. The end justifie

by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. The global economic crisis is exposing the president's preoccupations as the soppy indulgences they always were. 'Put away childish things', President Obama said during his inauguration. He couldn't have found a theme more suited to the moment. The preoccupations that he and most politicians are used to running on, and that still characterize too many of his administration's utterances, are being exposed in the global economic disaster as the soppy indulgences they always were. Put away the global warming panic. Mankind's contribution to rising CO2 levels raises serious questions, but the tens of billions poured into climate science have, by now, added up only to a negative finding. We don't really have the slightest idea how an increase in the atmosphere's component of CO2 is impacting our climate, though the most plausible indication is that the impact is too small to untangle from natural variability. In any case, has Mr. Oba

By Julie Steenhuysen Anger and other strong emotions can trigger potentially deadly heart rhythms in certain vulnerable people, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Previous studies have shown that earthquakes, war or even the loss of a World Cup Soccer match can increase rates of death from sudden cardiac arrest, in which the heart stops circulating blood. CAN YOU BE SCARED TO DEATH? CLICK HERE "It's definitely been shown in all different ways that when you put a whole population under a stressor that sudden death will increase," said Dr. Rachel Lampert of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, whose study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. "Our study starts to look at how does this really affect the electrical system of the heart," Lampert said. She and colleagues studied 62 patients with heart disease and implantable heart defibrillators or ICDs that can detect dangerous heart rhythms or arrhythmias and deliver an electrical shock t

To be in a relationship with a narcissist is to be treated as an object. If you've ever been treated as an object before, for example being a victim of sexual molestation or incest as a child, you may be susceptible to the wiles of the narcissist. [Many women are] deeply wounded by this type of parent or partner. ...he criticised and undermined any pastimes, hobbies or anything I became interested in to the point where I lost heart in all of them... He can't acknowledge or respond to your needs, because he only sees you as an extension of himself, a reflection. If you express a need, he immediately perceives it as an attack on himself. Because the narcissist lacks self-esteem, he must get it via the reflection of those people and things he surrounds himself with. Since you're merely an object of reflection for him, he can't hear, understand, or acknowledge you. One [victim] finally gathered the strength to leave a long, draining, marriage to a narcissist. At one point

You just can't make this nonsense up! 'All-knowing' God would know of lawsuit BY PAUL HAMMEL A God who is "all-knowing" should know when he's being sued, even without being served notice of the lawsuit, said former State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha. After all, Chambers wrote to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, courts already invoke the Almighty in oaths to witnesses that they tell the truth "so help me God." He said it was inconsistent for the Douglas County District Court "to take judicial notice of God in order to administer oaths and to enter an order to dismiss . . . yet simultaneously deny that the all-knowing God has notice of the petition," Chambers stated in written arguments submitted Monday. Chambers, an atheist who got a law degree at Creighton University, filed suit against God in 2007. The purpose, he said, was to uphold citizens' rights to sue "anyone else, even God." Chambers said he acted in response to legislat

From my friend - the inscrutable Uppity Woman: A real American Story: Have octuplets, beg on a website , shop at Nordstrom ’s and don’t pay the mortgage When last we looked, poor poor Nadya Suleman, single unemployed woman who already had six kids and deliberately had a boatload of eggs-fertilized- by- her -boyfriend implanted into her womb, gave birth to 8 babies. Seeking fame and fortune and already on the government take for three of her earlier children, Nadya hired a publicist and was seeking $2 million to tell her story to American Icon shows such as Oprah! She also planned to star in her own TV show as a “Child Care Expert”. No kidding. You can’t make this shit up. But poor poor Nadya didn’t pass the smell test and she didn’t win her lottery as planned – nor has anybody offered her a TV show. Denying she was on the public teat because a reporter wasn’t clever enough to ask the “Entitlement” question instead of the “Welfare” question, it was discovered that Nadya was already coll

After my life was altered by a porn addict - I saw up close & personal the horrible effects of it on the psyche, one's empathy and the permanency of then seeing women as objects (even when they SAY different. I am left with PTSD and permanent scars on my psyche and sexuality. Get help if this is you or your partner - porn addiction is NOT normal. It is not "just something guys do." Life with a PA – the Dark Side of the Moon By FairyG We’ve just had yet another argument over his use of porn, and I don’t know what to do. I feel like I’m going insane with so many conflicting thoughts and emotions inside my head: anger, betrayal, love, compassion, self-loathing, fear, misery… will I lose my mind first, or my relationship? Why am I not good enough for him? How do I get him to hear me? How can he keep betraying me and not caring? I’ve tried to tell him so many times how I feel about it, hoping he might do something to change. How many arguments have we had about this? I’

A Letter to the Editor of a Jacksonville paper in response to this article From: FREDERIC PORCASE Physician, Jacksonville FIBROMYALGIA - Painfully real "Monday’s article demeans all of us with fibromyalgia. "The horrible part was the “Mind over Matter?” stating that “ Patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia are more likely to have a history of mental illness, be overweight and economically disadvantaged. Some doctors say their suffering may stem from difficult circumstances rather than disease.” "I run a support group for people with fibromyalgia, and that is not the case . We are all type “A” personalities who have been forced to change our lives due to this horrible disease/syndrome. "ALL of us would give up our “ great ” disability checks for the more profitable lives we were living before the chronic pain and fatigue. "We may be overweight now, due to not being able to exercise, but this was not the case before the chronic pain and fatigue start

by Will Heaven For the first time since the death of Pope John Paul II, Catholic-Jewish relations have become strained. Pope Benedict XVI, in an effort to heal a 20-year-old schism in the Catholic Church, has allowed a high-profile Holocaust denier back into his fold. But must the views of one lunatic bishop put an end to interreligious dialogue? Surely not. Now, more than any other time in our troubled history, Catholics and Jews must stand together against the threat of Islamism. The Holocaust-denying Bishop Williamson is, by all accounts, a deeply unpleasant and ignorant man. Despite being educated at Cambridge University, he rejects the existence of the gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps. In doing so, he denies the Holocaust as a historical event, claiming that "only" 300,000 Jews perished. To Roman Catholics, these views are intolerable. The pope has expressed his disapproval in the strongest terms, saying to an American Jewish delegation, "The hatred that was

Have we all heard about Chris Brown beating up Rhianna? You haven't? Then please come out of your cave because I am about to vent. I have been there and been called all the same names Brown is calling Rihanna as well as being the recipient of the lamest "apologies" ever. Mr. Brown, no matter " what kind of person " Rhianna " really is " or how she's " crazy " or a " scorned woman " - nothing, I repeat NOTHING justifies you beating her up. All bets were off the minute you laid a hand on her. And frankly, we are all getting damn tired of you abusive, manipulative, selfish jerks calling women archaic names just to take the heat off yourself. You're an ABUSER, Mr. Brown... man up and take some responsibility for your actions. And your apology? Let me thank you for yet another great example of NARCISSISM at work. It's meaningless... doesn't take ANY responsibility for your actions... doesn't own or acknowledge

Ah, FauxBama's collectables... as real as his birth certificate! Obama Collector's Coins Turn Out To Be Stickers Stuck On Regular Coins You may have seen the commercial where Montel Williams hawks some goofy collectible coins with President Obama's face IN FULL COLOR OMG! If you were planning on ordering some, though, watch this video from KATU 2 TV in Portland, Oregon first. * A father and daughter bought the coins and discovered that they're just regular money with color stickers applied. One of the news anchors even comments that she could see the face on the coin through the sticker when she looked at it from the side. The company that's scamming them, U.S. Coin Network (uscoinnetwork.com and obamacoincollection.com) , won't let them cancel the remaining orders they placed that haven't shipped yet, either. We think this looks like the sort of thing the Feds may want to get involved in. And if they don't do anything about it, we're going to go buy

As a graying-baby-boomer who will be having more surgery within the next couple months and who's been disabled for 14 years, I see this happening and the Democrats have sunk so low as to try to SANITIZE this for everyone. Stop it NOW! To paraphrase Martin Niemöller: First they came for the elderly, but I was not elderly, so I did not care. Then they came for the disabled, but I was not disabled, so I did not care. Then they came for the infirm, but I was not infirm, so I did not care. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to stand up. This is despicable. And as a writer who prefers calm and reflective analysis, when such a course is possible, I’m shocked at having to write the above headline. But far more important than mannerism is the profound obligation of every citizen and active US resident to scream out against the despicable “healthcare” provisions in the “Stimulus” Bill. The so-called “Stimulus Bill” has in it a provision to establish a “National Coordinator o