http://news.frontierist.com News of interest to the discriminating mind. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:51:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Indian Express: US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has put an Indian American of Kashmiri origin in charge of the George Bush administration's $700-billion rescue effort for distressed financial institutions. Neel Kashkari, 35, has been an advisor to Paulson since 2006 and was promoted to the post of second assistant secretary of the ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/07/121/ AP: The top congressional budget analyst says pension plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months. Peter Orszag told a House panel on Tuesday that the losses are likely to force many workers to hold off on major purchases and delay their retirements. http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/07/119/ BBC News: The first winner of Mr Gay UK stabbed a man to death before cutting a piece of flesh from his thigh, cooking it and trying to eat it, a court has heard. Anthony Morley, 36, of Bexley Avenue, Leeds, then walked to a nearby takeaway and told staff he had ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/06/117/ Seattle Post-Intelligencer: According to the USDA, food required to sport a country of origin label includes most cuts of beef (including veal), lamb, chicken, goat, and pork; ground beef, ground lamb, ground chicken, ground goat, and ground pork; perishable agricultural commodities like fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables and macadamia nuts, ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/06/115/ Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Frank Lowy, an Australian Jew, for the first time was identified as the nation’s richest man. Lowy, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager on the run and then fought in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, has amassed a fortune estimated at $4.5 billion from the Westfield Group, an ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/06/113/ JPost: Two far-right parties, the Austrian Freedom Party and the Movement for Austria's Future, managed to win 29 percent of the vote in the recent general elections in Austria. This is double what they got in the elections of 2006. [...] Yet to see the rise of the Austrian right as a ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/06/111/ The Guardian: Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland's currency, is in freefall and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan. One of the country's three independent banks has been nationalised, another is asking customers for money, and the ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/06/110/ NY Times: The cost of determining a person’s complete genetic blueprint is about to plummet again — to $5,000. That is the price that a start-up company called Complete Genomics says it will start charging next year for determining the sequence of the genetic code that makes up the DNA in one ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/06/108/ http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/05/106/ NY Times: DIEPSLOOT, South Africa — A dusty maze of concrete, sheet metal and scrap wood, Diepsloot is like so many of the enormous settlements around Johannesburg, mile after mile of feebly assembled shacks, the impromptu patchwork of the poor, the extremely poor and the hopelessly poor. Monica Xangathi, 40, lives here ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/05/105/ Haaretz: The U.S. may waive its visa requirement for Israelis, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff told Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit during their meeting in Washington Thursday. "I received a positive readiness from Secretary of Homeland Security Chertoff, and also from Under Secretary of State William Burns. Their agreement is ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/05/104/ Ohio State University Research: A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before. In a new book, Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/05/103/ San Francisco Chronicle: Yreka, Siskiyou County -- Some folks around here think the economic sky is falling and state lawmakers in Sacramento and Salem are ignoring their constituents in the hinterlands. Guess the time is ripe to create a whole new state. That's the thinking up here along the border between California and ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/05/101/ London Times: Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain. GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to finance the first stage of the project. http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/10/05/100/ Washington Post: The face of women who have abortions has shifted significantly in the past 30 years, with relatively fewer white childless teenagers and more mothers of color in their 20s and 30s opting to terminate their pregnancies, according to a report being released today. In the first comprehensive analysis since 1974 ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2008/09/24/98/ Sunday Magazine (Canada) Brazil’s best-known rabbi, who was charged with shoplifting in Florida last week, entered hospital on Friday for what doctors called a mood disorder after using drugs that may cause confusion and amnesia. Rabbi Henry Sobel asked for a suspension from his duties as chief of Sao Paulo Rabbinate on ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/31/97/ CNN Members of [foreign] extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said "parents and children have nothing to fear." [The bulletin] noted "recent suspicious activity" by foreigners who either drive school buses or ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/17/96/ Cheryl Wittenauer via Modern Tribalist The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died — and at such a young age — remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/17/95/ Jerusalem Post Friday's vandalism of Vladivostok's only synagogue reflects a growing trend of xenophobia and neo-Nazi association in the region, according to Rafael Heltzer, Jewish Agency emissary to the Russian Far East. [...] In September, a synagogue in Khazarov, the capital of the Russian Far East, was attacked with stones and Molotov cocktails ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/06/94/ NY Times Just as the technology boom of the late 1990s turned twenty-something programmers into dot-com billionaires, and leveraged buyouts a decade earlier turned Wall Street bankers into Masters of the Universe, the explosive growth in subprime lending turned mortgage bankers and brokers into multimillionaires seemingly overnight. Now an escalating crisis in ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/04/93/ FOX News Six men face charges for hiding 67 illegal immigrants in a one-story house in a residential neighborhood, U.S. officials said. The residence is thought to be one of many houses in the city where human smugglers put illegal immigrants until they can be moved or ransomed, said Luisa Deason, a ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/04/92/ LA Weekly Cudahy is a strange little city; some say a scary one. In 2003, city leaders fired the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department — which had policed Cudahy for 14 years, focusing on gang and drug crime — in favor of a nearby municipal police force that recently erupted over public ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/03/91/ Tucson Citizen A man infected with an especially virulent strain of tuberculosis has spent eight months in a hospital jail ward under a court order and may be held until he dies. Robert Daniels has not been charged with a crime, but the 27-year-old violated the rules of a voluntary quarantine, exposing ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/03/90/ Washington Times Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit. The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/03/89/ Jerusalem Post A former mobster has written a tell-all book, for the first time ever exposing the inner workings of an Israeli gang that took over the New York drug trade for a brief period in the eighties. Ron Gonen, who has spent the past 18 years in the US Witness Protection ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/03/88/ Boston Globe Leading conservatives yesterday attacked the Republican party as big-government, free-spending coddlers of illegal immigrants and said the country's conservatives should withhold support from the GOP's current slate of presidential nominees to force them to the right. http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/03/87/ The Oil Drum The four different sources all estimate Saudi production slightly differently - they fluctuate in different ways month to month, and disagree over the absolute level (that last may be differences in exactly what is defined as oil). However, the regressions make clear that all four sources are in ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/02/86/ Wired News Homeland Security officials released long-delayed guidelines that turn state-issued identification cards into de facto internal passports Thursday, estimating the changes will cost states and individuals $23 billion over 10 years. The move prompted a new round of protest from civil libertarians and security experts, who called on Congress to repeal ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/01/85/ The Guardian (UK) He calls himself ``The Bishop.'' Exactly why is just one of the many mysteries surrounding the increasingly menacing figure. The man - and investigators believe they are dealing with a man - is suspected of sending at least a half-dozen threatening letters to financial institutions over the past 18 ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/01/84/ The American Prospect In his testimony before Congressional today, Ben Bernanke reportedly made an effort to sooth uneasy financial markets. For this he was widely applauded by the business press. But is it the Fed’s job to be soothing financial markets? [...] Bernanke’s soothing words would have the effect of keeping the market ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/03/01/83/ Reuters A Sports Illustrated bash for its annual swimsuit issue has turned into a health scare for stars in Hollywood after a caterer working for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck may have exposed them to acute Hepatitis A. The Los Angeles County health department recommended on Tuesday that anyone who ate uncooked food ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/27/82/ Jerusalem Post Seven suspected neo-Nazis went on trial Monday charged with incitement and disturbing the peace of the dead for allegedly burning a copy of Anne Frank's diary during a celebration last year. The men, aged from 24 to 29, are accused of holding a ceremony on June 24 during which they ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/27/81/ PNAS via Dienekes' Anthropology Blog [A team from University College London and Mainz University] shows that the gene that controls our ability to digest milk was missing from Neolithic skeletons dating to between 5840 and 5000 BC. However, through exposure to milk, lactose tolerance evolved extremely rapidly, in evolutionary terms. Today, ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/27/80/ SF Gate A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian America" is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled "Why I Hate Blacks." In the column, AsianWeek regular contributor Kenneth Eng listed "reasons" to discriminate against African Americans. The piece has ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/79/ NY Times In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including California almonds, one of the nation’s most profitable. “I have never seen anything like ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/78/ NY Times “Proudly South African” is this nation’s E Pluribus Unum, a slogan stamped on products, echoed in radio commercials and inculcated into the new South African DNA. Much as America’s motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa’s says that it doesn’t matter what you look like — we can ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/77/ Jerusalem Post Knesset Members demanded Monday that the state prosecute Prof. Ariel Toaff, author of Pasque di Sangue [Passover of Blood], which suggests that there might be hard facts behind the accusations of blood libels against the Jews. Blood libels are accusations, traced back to the 12th century, that Jews used human ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/76/ Washington Times via Eunomia The women of Tecalpulco, Mexico, want the U.S. government to enforce its immigration laws because they want to force their husbands to come back home from working illegally in the United States. [...] In poignant public messages to their husbands, the women talk about their children who feel abandoned, ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/75/ NY Times The International Court of Justice ruled today that Serbia had failed to prevent the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, but cleared the country of direct intent to commit genocide. The landmark case, brought by Bosnia against Serbia, was the first time the United Nation’s highest court had ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/26/74/ Reuters via The Scotsman Islam is growing fast among African Americans, who are undeterred by increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States since the September 11 attacks, according to imams and experts. Converts within the black community say they are attracted to the disciplines of prayer, the emphasis within Islam on ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/25/73/ Reuters via The Scotsman The leader of a Dutch anti-immigration party will call for a vote of no-confidence in two Muslim government ministers next week, citing their dual nationality as the issue, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/25/72/ Miami Herald The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line, and the gulf between the nation's ''haves'' and ''have-nots'' continues to widen. A McClatchy Newspapers analysis of 2005 census figures, the latest available, ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/25/71/ The Register (UK) Detailed maps of the UK created by the KGB between 1950 and 1990 have gone on sale in digital format for the first time. The maps show 16,000 square kilometres and 103 UK town and cities in more detail than Ordnance Survey maps. The Russians used satellite images and ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/23/70/ MSNBC An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his traveling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said. The American, who is about 70 years old and retired from the military, put the 20-year-old in ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/23/69/ SFGate Canadian attorney David Lesperance, an expert on customs and immigration, says he had a client who was involved in a fraternity prank 20 years ago. He was on a scavenger hunt, and the assignment was to steal something from a Piggly Wiggly supermarket. He got caught, paid a small fine ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/23/68/ Wired News Tiny computer chips used for tracking food, tickets and other items are getting even smaller. Hitachi Ltd., a Japanese electronics maker, recently showed off radio frequency identification, or RFID, chips that are just 0.002 inches by 0.002 inches and look like bits of powder. They're thin enough to be ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/22/67/ CNN Three top officials of a nationwide cleaning service were charged Thursday with fraud and tax crimes as part of an ongoing federal investigation that also netted hundreds of illegal immigrants in 18 states. The illegal immigrants were working as janitors for Nevada-based Rosenbaum-Cunningham International, Inc., or RCI, a cleaning contractor for ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/22/66/ PhysOrg Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new protoype engine that allows satellites to take off with less fuel, opening the door for deep space missions, lower launch costs and more payload in orbit. The efficient satellite engine uses up to 40 percent less fuel by running on solar power while in ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/22/65/ BBC News Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology. Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks. http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/22/64/ NY Times Today’s high school students are taking seemingly tougher courses and earning better grades, but their reading skills are not improving, according to the results of a national assessment released here today that cited grade inflation as a possible explanation. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called the nation’s ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/22/63/ NY Times Zimbabwe’s economy is so dire that bread vanished from store shelves across the country on Wednesday after bakeries shut down, saying government price controls were requiring them to sell loaves at a loss. The price controls are supposed to shield consumers from the nation’s rampant inflation, which now averages ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/21/62/ Click2Houston Hundreds of Houstonians waited in line for hours on Tuesday to get a shot to prevent hepatitis A, KPRC Local 2 reported. The people who lined up ate or worked at Pappasito's Cantina on the North Freeway near Airtex Drive while a waiter who was later diagnosed with the disease was ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/20/61/ Michael Burch [found], originally uploaded by frontierist. WRAL Durham police on Monday arrested a suspect in connection with a sexual assault reported earlier this month at a party near Duke University. Michael Jermaine Burch, 21, of 322 Junction Road, was taken into custody as he was leaving his job at a discount department ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/20/60/ CBS News A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to charges that include terrorism financing, material support of terrorism ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/20/59/ The Times (UK) Wendy Duncan and her husband Brian are white. Nineteen months ago, the Lincolnshire housewife gave birth to a beautiful, healthy, Indian daughter. Freya, brown-skinned and dark-eyed, is not a medical miracle after a long and fruitless quest through IVF and adoption, but the product of a booming industry in ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/19/58/ NY Times A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration’s behest that makes it easier for ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/19/57/ Kensal Green Gang [found], originally uploaded by frontierist. BBC News An armed gang led by murderers Donnel Carty and Delano Brown has been jailed after a campaign of 150 robberies. The Kensal Green Gang stabbed, punched and kicked their victims during eight months of robberies, including numerous attacks on London Underground trains. Described as ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/19/56/ Eunomia Here are three questions a critic of Mearsheimer and Walt might ask. First, is there such a thing as the national self-interest of the United States? Second, is there such a thing as the national self-interest of Israel? Third, are these interests distinct, so that there may be points at ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/19/55/ BBC News Scientists have found new autism genes by scanning the largest collection of families with multiple cases of autism ever assembled. The monumental task of studying the 1,200 families took more than 120 scientists from more than 50 institutions across 19 countries. The work, described in Nature Genetics, implicates a region of ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/54/ Financial Times All the world’s extra oil supply is likely to come from expensive and environmentally damaging unconventional sources within 15 years, according to a detailed study. This will mean increasing reliance on hard-to-develop sources of energy such as the Canadian oil sands and Venezuela’s Orinoco tar belt. A report from Wood Mackenzie, ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/53/ CNN This summer, scientists are planning to see whether the powdered pig extract can help injured soldiers regrow parts of their fingers. And a large federally funded project is trying to unlock the secrets of how some animals regrow body parts so well, with hopes of applying the lessons to humans. http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/52/ The Times (UK) Radical proposals to reunite Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope are to be published this year, The Times has learnt. The proposals have been agreed by senior bishops of both churches. In a 42-page statement prepared by an international commission of both churches, Anglicans ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/51/ Haaretz An anti-Semitic booklet published by a far-right Polish deputy to the European Parliament has sparked outrage among European Union officials and Jewish organizations. The 32-page brochure "Civilizations at war in Europe" by Maciej Giertych, says Jews "create their own ghettos" because they like to separate themselves from others. [...] The remarks were condemned ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/50/ Coming Anarchy [T]he cocaine that sells in the United States for hundreds of times what it costs in Columbia provides a strong incentive to be smuggled. The same goes for weapons, exotic plants and animals and other illegal goods. One could say in a globalized world, goods naturally gravitate to where ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/49/ Technology Review Benford has a proposal that possesses the advantages of being both one of the simplest planet-cooling technologies so far suggested and being initially testable in a local context. He suggests suspension of tiny, harmless particles (sized at one-third of a micron) at about 80,000 feet up in the stratosphere. ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/48/ Jerusalem Post The site of an Israeli archaeological dig that has sparked angry Muslim reaction worldwide contains what could be a Muslim prayer room, an Israeli archaeologist said Sunday. Muslim leaders and critics of the work said the announcement of the find, three years after it was discovered, confirmed their fears that ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/47/ Jerusalem Post Jakob Finci, the leader of Sarajevo's small Jewish community, has asked the European Court of Human Rights to lift the prohibition on Jews and other minorities running for the Bosnian presidency. Under the country's post-war constitution, only Bosnian Serbs and Croats, who are overwhelmingly Catholic and Christian Orthodox, respectively, and ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/46/ al-Jazeera The authorities in Blagoveschenck, a city in Russia's far east, are introducing immigration restrictions in the hope of curbing a rising tide of migration from China. [...] With more than seven million Chinese nationals already living in three regions on the Russian side of the border and more than 100 million in ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/18/45/ PhysOrg.com Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh the pressure of conventional natural gas tanks. The breakthrough, announced today in Kansas ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/17/44/ Telegraph (UK) We have, post-Dunblane, what are said to be the toughest gun control laws in the world. They have actually proved strikingly ineffectual. Gun crime has doubled since they were introduced. Young hoodlums are able to acquire handguns - either replica weapons that have been converted, or imports ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/17/43/ NY Times Home builders, grappling with a slump in demand, slowed construction on new homes in January to the lowest level in almost a decade. The Commerce Department reported Friday that its seasonally adjusted annual rate of new construction fell 14.3 percent from December and 37.8 percent from a ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/17/42/ Antiwar.com What we know is this: in the months prior to 9/11, bands of Israelis posing as "art students" [.pdf] had carried out what seemed like a coordinated probing of U.S. government facilities, including locations not known to the public. A secret government report detailing the activities of the ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/17/41/ Haaretz European Union countries remained divided over how to deal with claims the Holocaust never happened, diplomats said on Thursday, after ministers discussed the issue for the first time in more than a year.The bloc has struggled for almost six years over proposals for an EU-wide, anti-racism law which ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/15/40/ CNN Money The slump in home prices was both deeper and more widespread than ever in the fourth quarter, according to a trade group report Thursday. Prices slumped 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the fourth quarter of a year earlier, according to the report from the ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/15/39/ BBC News Babies who are breastfed are more likely to move up the social ladder as adults, a study has suggested. The University of Bristol team looked at 1,400 babies born from 1937-1939 and followed their progress for 60 years. Those who were breastfed were 41% more likely ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/14/38/ Jerusalem Post The author of a new book that suggested there was factual basis to blood libels that led to the murder of millions of innocent Jews announced on Wednesday that he was suspending the book's distribution. Ariel Toaff, an Israeli-Italian professor at Bar Ilan University near Tel ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/14/37/ Haaretz A commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday that a commando unit has engraved the military organization's emblem into the side panel of an American warship stationed in the Persian Gulf. Nur Ali Shushkari, the head of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces, told Iranian pro-government news agencies that ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/14/36/ CNN Researchers who wanted to find out why it is not only taboo to kiss your sister, but also disgusting, said Wednesday that they have discovered why in a discovery that challenges some basic tenets of Freudian theory. The instinct evolved naturally and cannot be taught, John Tooby ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/14/35/ CNN The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday. The decision comes amid pressure from the U.S. Congress and the international community to do more about the growing refugee crisis. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/14/34/ Washington Times The National Football League refused to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in last week's Super Bowl program, saying it was "controversial" because it mentioned duties such as fighting terrorism and stopping drugs and illegal aliens at the border. http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/14/33/ 'Alas, a blog' In response to Ezra Klein’s two posts on prison rape yesterday (which themselves relied on a 2001 Human Rights Watch report), a lot of bloggers are discussing prison rape today, and past posts are being linked again. Booman Tribune …Giving someone HIV and subjecting them ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/13/32/ Telegraph (UK) South Africa has expropriated the country's first farm under its land reform programme aimed at returning agricultural land taken from black communities during the apartheid era, officials said yesterday. The South African Evangelical Lutheran Church, owners of the large farm in the Northern Cape Province, have been ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/13/31/ Reuters Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation's fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/13/30/ BBC News The next time you venture out for lunch in Magdeburg, check what kind of loose change you have in your wallet. Like any other city in Germany, the normal currency here is the euro. But bizarrely, they also have another currency in circulation: the Urstromtaler. [...] More ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/13/29/ Wired It may be a mobile home, but the Glassic Soho won’t be mistaken for any of the single-wides dotting trailer parks across the US. Developed by San Francisco architect and furniture designer Christopher Deam, it’s a sleek, modern alternative living space. At just north of $59,000 for the ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/11/28/ Crisis Magazine The Crusades are generally portrayed as a series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics. They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance, a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/11/27/ The Observer (UK) Americans have long been in the grip of a cultural taboo [...] : 'All Jews are silenced by the requirement to be supportive of Israel, and all non-Jews are silenced by the fear of being thought anti-Semitic, and there is no conversation on the subject.' http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/11/26/ Jerusalem Post A new study released by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI) at Brandeis University indicates that American Jewry may number as high as 7.4 million. The figure represents a spectacular jump from the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) figure of some 5.2 million, or even ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/10/25/ City Journal As long as blacks commit crime in numbers wildly disproportionate to their representation in the population, police data are going to show higher involvement with blacks than with whites. According to victims and witnesses, blacks committed 68.5 percent of all murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults in New ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/10/24/ Mark Krikorian According to a congressman's wife who attended a Republican women's luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president's amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas." There should be no need ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/10/23/ via Reddit The Speculist The August edition of Popular Science details several different methods for dealing with Global Warming, but the "iron-the-oceans" idea looks like the most promising. [...] According to the article, the average American puts 25 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. One-half pound of iron ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/10/22/ Dru Sjodin (victim) & Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr. (murderer & rapist) [found], originally uploaded by frontierist. CNN A rapist who killed college student Dru Sjodin six months after being released from prison was formally sentenced to death Thursday in a case that led to tougher sex-offender laws. U.S District Judge Ralph Erickson also rejected ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/08/21/ BBC News Vikings may have used a special crystal called a sunstone to help navigate the seas even when the sun was obscured by fog or cloud, a study has suggested. Researchers from Hungary ran a test with sunstones in the Arctic ocean, and found that the crystals ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/08/20/ Trevis Smith [found], originally uploaded by frontierist. Canada.com Trevis Smith, a one-time Canadian Football League linebacker, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for exposing two women to the virus that causes AIDS by having unprotected sex without telling them about his condition. [...] During the trial, the [British Columbia] woman testified she had a ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/08/19/ Jerusalem Post An Israeli historian of Italian origin has revived "blood libel" in an historical study set to hit Italian bookstores on Thursday. Ariel Toaff, son of Rabbi Elio Toaff, claims that there is some historic truth in the accusation that for centuries provided incentives for pogroms against Jews ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/07/18/ Jerusalem Post An Israeli archeologist said Wednesday that he has pinpointed the exact location of the Second Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. The site identified by Hebrew University archeologist Prof. Joseph Patrich, based on the study of a large underground cistern on the Temple Mount and passages from ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/07/17/ CNN A black MIT professor began a hunger strike Monday to protest the university's decision to deny him tenure, which he claims was based on race. James Sherley, a stem cell scientist, said he tried for two years to persuade administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to reverse ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/06/16/ CNN The Ku Klux Klan has rebounded by exploiting current hot-button issues, especially immigration, according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League. The Klan, and other white supremacist groups like skinheads and neo-Nazis, grew significantly more active in the past year, holding more rallies, distributing leaflets ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/06/15/ NY Times [...] Zimbabwe’s economic descent has picked up so much speed that President Robert G. Mugabe, the nation’s leader for 27 years, is starting to lose support from parts of his own party. In recent weeks, the national power authority has warned of a collapse of electrical service. ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/06/14/ Newsweek Once prized as a leafy haven from the social ills of urban life, the suburbs are now grappling with a new outbreak of an old problem: poverty. Currently, 38 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defines as an annual income of $20,000 or less for ... http://news.frontierist.com/index.php/2007/02/05/13/