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Hungary’s lawmakers rejected constitutional amendments to make Holocaust denial a punishable offense. Some local Jewish community leaders believe that Monday’s vote secured the first parliamentary victory for Jobbik, a rapidly rising local neo-Nazi movement widely predicted to win several seats in the national elections due within a year.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/…ust-denial-law
Hungarian lawmakers reject Holocaust denial law
July 1, 2009
BUDAPEST (JTA) — Hungary’s lawmakers rejected constitutional amendments to make Holocaust denial a punishable offense.
Some local [...]
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Employees at Los Angeles International Airport were considering plans Friday to walk off the job ahead on what is traditionally the busiest traveling day of the year.
A coalition of Southland labor and community leaders are calling for the protest of alleged violations by LAX contractor Aviation Safeguards (AVSG) after breaking their contract with the airport earlier this year.
Andrew Gross-Gaitan, the director of the Southern California Airports Division of SEIU, [...]
Philip Sherwell
London Telegraph
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Residents of the mainly black South Side want stop-and-search tactics brought back as gang murders plague President Barack Obama’s home city.
The mayhem, playing out within ambulance siren range of the Chicago home of Barack and Michelle Obama, has not just put a city on edge. It is also unleashing a passionate national debate on policing tactics.
For the upsurge in gang killings has followed a decision [...]
Yamiche Alcindor
USA Today
June 12, 2012
A task force set up by Gov. Rick Scott to evaluate Florida’s stand-your-ground law will hold its first public hearing Tuesday.
The group — whose members include law enforcement officers, politicians, and community leaders — plan to have several other meetings across the state following the national uproar over the death of Trayvon Martin. Tuesday’s meeting will include presentations by experts who will talk about how the [...]
Last night it was uber-dove Janet Yellen, today it is uberer-dove, former Goldmanite (what is it about Goldman central bankers and easing: Dudley unleashing QE2 in 2010, Draghi unleashing QE LTRO in Europe?) Bill Dudley joining the fray and saying QE is pretty much on the table. Of course, the only one that matters is Benny, and he will complete the doves on parade tomorrow, when he shows that all the [...]
Police and FBI officers are still hunting for a man who left three people dead and two others critically wounded in a shooting spree early on Friday morning which is feared to be racially motivated.
The African-American victims, found within a three-mile radius in north Tulsa, were all shot as they were out walking and are not thought to have known each other.
The series of shootings is unprecedented according to local [...]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor is offering more than $20 million in grants to organizations that will help former prisoners find work.
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis made the announcement in Newport News on Thursday, saying those who have served their time deserve a second chance to make a positive contribution to society. About 700,000 inmates are released from state and federal prisons each year.
Nationwide, the [...]
Photo by Donovan Slack/POLITICO
Dozens of journalists packed into the East Room at the White House today for the president’s remarks on “in-sourcing,” at least 60 of them lining the press risers and walls.
But what many couldn’t see in press coverage of the event — held with roughly 120 executives to discuss bringing jobs back to America from overseas — were the dozens of empty seats in the audience.
At one point during Obama’s [...]
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a shift in White House tactics on the cusp of an election year, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away these days from saying that many of his policies were designed with African-Americans in mind.
Until now, the nation’s first black president has carefully avoided putting any emphasis on race, ascribing to a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats approach to governing. That has drawn heavy criticism within the black community, [...]
Obama at anti-war protest, 2002 (Source: Verum Serum)
Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests.
He would have organized them.
From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8:
“In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO’s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping [...]
Gilad Atzmon
Gilad.co.uk
September 23, 2011
Ynet’s Washington reporter, Yitzhak Ben – Horin, produced last night a clear and succinct reading of Obama’s recent UN General Assembly address:
“Likudnic in the White House.”
“Netanyahu could not have written it better.”
“Obama at this point, is in line with the Likud party.”
“Obama is a pro-Israel president …Since January 2009, he provided Israel with all its needs both in diplomacy and in terms of security”
Obama is [...]
(Reuters) – The weekend shooting of three teenagers at a large late-night “flash mob” gathering prompted local authorities to pass an ordinance on Thursday that sets curfews as early as 9 p.m. for people under age 18.
At the urging of Mayor Sly James, the Kansas City Council passed the ordinance 13-0, allowing police to issue citations to parents whose children violate the curfew. Parents [...]
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Mayor Michael Nutter today announced a tighter weekend curfew in the Center City and University City regions of the city, as he continues grappling with the threat of “flash mobs” in Philadelphia.
Nutter today described those engaging in flash mob rampages (see previous story) as “a tiny minority of ignorant, reckless fools.”
Then, flanked by dozens of law enforcement and community leaders, he spelled out [...]
DETROIT – Detroit neighborhoods with more people and a better chance of survival will receive different levels of city services than more blighted areas under a plan unveiled Wednesday that some residents fear may pit them against each other for scarce resources.
Mayor Dave Bing released details from his Detroit Works Project, calling the changes a “short-term intervention” necessary because the city, with limited [...]
$108 Billion Total Debt amounts to $63,525 per household in Chicago and $32,901 for suburban households.
Stunning Municipality Debt Brought to Light
Chicago, June 21, 2011– Cook County taxpayers are on the hook for a staggering amount of local debt, according to figures presented by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today. Cook County’s numerous local governments face mounting debts totaling more than $108 billion. And, for the first [...]
The Road to Recovery: Puerto Rico and the Mainland
Remarks at E-3 Summit of the Americas: Export Trade Basics Forum 101, San Juan,
Puerto Rico
Good morning. I am pleased to be back in Puerto Rico to speak to you and meet with various communities in the Commonwealth. Each visit gives me a chance to deepen the Bank’s relationship with the island. Last year I visited [...]
The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half the district’s schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy.
The board voted 5-4 after parents and community leaders made final pleas to spare the schools even as the beleaguered district seeks to erase a projected $50 million budget shortfall. The approved plan calls for shuttering 29 of 61 schoolsâ€â€a striking amount even as [...]
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Public hearing on Fla.’s stand-your-ground law Tuesday
Yamiche Alcindor
USA Today
June 12, 2012
A task force set up by Gov. Rick Scott to evaluate Florida’s stand-your-ground law will hold its first public hearing Tuesday.
The group — whose members include law enforcement officers, politicians, and community leaders — plan to have several other meetings across the state following the national uproar over the death of Trayvon Martin. Tuesday’s meeting will include presentations by experts who will talk about how the [...]