Australian News.

KEVIN RUDD TO ACCEPT INSANE ASYLUM SEEKER DEAL WITH GUANTANAMO BAY INMATES

KEVIN Rudd has left open the possibility of Australia taking former inmates from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, but warned that any US request for an inmate to come would be subject to legal criteria and assessed on a case-by-case basis.
As the Greens warned the Prime Minister he faced a political backlash if he accepted detainees held in the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a spokesman for Mr Rudd confirmed that US authorities had approached Australia and other countries about resettling the detainees.
"Australia, along with a number of other countries, has been approached to consider resettling detainees from Guantanamo Bay," the Prime Minister's spokesman said.
"Any determination for an individual to come to Australia would be made on a case-by-case basis. All persons accepted to come to Australia would have to meet Australia's strict legal requirements and go through the normal and extremely rigorous assessment processes."
The Australian reported yesterday that the US State Department had over the past 12 months cabled more than 100 countries seeking help to clear out Guantanamo Bay.
The incoming administration of Barack Obama, which plans to shut the facility within two years, is expecting help in resettling more than 250 detainees still held at Guantanamo Bay.
About 60 detainees have been cleared for release by US authorities but are unable to return to their homelands because they fear retribution.
Greens senator Rachel Siewert told The Weekend Australian Guantanamo Bay was a creation of the US Government and was therefore Washington's problem. She said the Prime Minister should refuse to take any detainees.
"It's something they should be dealing with on home soil," she said. "We understand some can't go back to their homelands, but in those instances the US Government should be helping them within America."
Guantanamo Bay was opened in 2002 as a way of holding detainees caught in the war on terror beyond the reach of the US courts, where civilian rules for detention would apply.
Some European countries, keen to improve relations with the US, are understood to have said they are willing to help with resettling the detainees.
Germany and Portugal have acknowledged they were considering taking detainees, but The Netherlands has ruled out taking any, arguing it is the responsibility of the country that imprisoned them.
While some inmates are al-Qa'ida linchpins such 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, others have been held for years without charge or trial and without presenting any threat to the US or the West.
Australian David Hicks was held there for five years before being convicted last year of providing material support for terrorism. He was returned to Australia to serve nine months' jail before being released and placed under a control order, which expired last weekend.
Another Australian, Mamdouh Habib, was released from Guantanamo Bay without charge in 2005.

SOURCE: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24845331-601,00.html

The traitorous Kevin Rudd will accept this deal because he does not care about the safety of the Australian people. He has done everything he can since coming into office to dismantle everything our forefathers stood for and fought hard for.

He is going to bring these Guantanamo Bay inmates into our country to live next door to you and your familes so they can plot against the public. It is all part of the plan of the "Great Multicultural Society" that Kevin Rudd has planned for us all. For the first time in a long time I agree with the Greens this is an American problem Washington built these facilities and locked these inmates up so Washington should have to pick up the peices.

His job is to look after the safety of the Australian people not people who have bared arms against them. Inviting Terrorists to live in Australia is the last thing that the people of Australia elected this traitor into office for.

I would like to see if the mainstream media have anything to say about this issue and even the opposition.

People need to make the connection between Multiculturalism and domestic Terrorism, it is quite simple....

World News.

At least 228 die as Israel hammers Hamas-run Gaza

GAZA CITY (AFP) — Israel hammered Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 228 people in retaliation for rocket fire, in one of the bloodiest days of the decades-long Middle East conflict.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said "Operation Cast Lead" against the Islamist movement, which has also left some 700 wounded, will continue "as long as necessary.
"The battle will be long and difficult, but the time has come to act and to fight," he said.
Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called in Damascus for a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israel and promised new suicide attacks.
Following mid-morning bombings, in which some 60 warplanes struck more than 50 targets in just a few minutes, Hamas fired more than 70 rockets and mortars into Israel killing one person and injuring four, according to a new Israeli army toll.
Israeli air strikes continued sporadically throughout the day and into the night.
Two Hamas members were killed in an Israeli helicopter raid in eastern Gaza City while they were preparing to fire more rockets into Israel, a medical source said.
Two other Palestinians were wounded in that late Saturday attack, as Israeli helicopters also targeted four metals factories in the city where rockets are believed to be stored or built.
"We will not stand down and we will not cave in even if (the Israelis) should eradicate the Gaza Strip or kill thousands of us," Ismail Haniya, who heads the Hamas government, said in a defiant radio address.
Meshaal called for a "military intifada against the enemy" and said "resistance will continue through suicide missions."
Hamas has not carried out a suicide attack in Israel since January 2005.
He said that for there to be any talks with the people of Gaza, "the blockade must be lifted and the crossings (from Israel) opened... notably that in Rafah," which leads to Egypt.
Israel imposed a blockade after Hamas seized power in Gaza last year, but let in dozens of truckloads of humanitarian aid on Friday.
The White House said only Hamas could end the cycle of violence by putting a stop to the rocket fire on Israel.
"These people are nothing but thugs, and so Israel is going to defend its people against terrorists like Hamas," spokesman Gordon Johndroe said at George W. Bush's Texas ranch, where the president is preparing to spend the new year.
"If Hamas stops firing rockets into Israel, then Israel would not have a need for strikes in Gaza," Johndroe said. "What we've got to see is Hamas stop firing rockets into Israel.
"The United States holds Hamas responsible for breaking the ceasefire; we want the ceasefire restored. We're concerned about the humanitarian situation and want all parties concerned to work to make sure the people of Gaza get the humanitarian assistance they need," said Johndroe.
He was referring to a six-month truce mediated by Egypt, which ended on December 19, with Hamas refusing to renew it.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged Israel will do its utmost to avert a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
"The people in Gaza do not deserve to suffer because of the killers and murderers of the terrorist organisation," he said, referring to Hamas.
He insisted that Israel had only hit Hamas targets, including command structures and rocket-manufacturing installations.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate halt to the violence , as did the European Union, Russia, Britain and France, while several Middle Eastern states and the Arab League slammed Israel.
The Arab League will hold an extraordinary summit in Doha on January 2 to discuss the crisis, diplomats in Cairo said.
In Gaza, thick clouds of smoke billowed into the sky. Mangled, bloodied and often charred corpses littered the pavement around Hamas security compounds, and frantic relatives flooded hospitals.
Medics said civilians had been hit, but the majority of the victims appeared to be members of Hamas, branded a terror group by Israel and the West.
Hamas said the strikes destroyed its security structures across Gaza and killed three senior officials -- the Gaza police chief, the police commander for central Gaza and the head of the group's bodyguard unit.
Dr Moawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, put the toll at 225 dead and 700 injured, 140 of them seriously.
Later, a medical source added three more to the toll with witnesses saying that two of them died in the east of Gaza City while they were preparing to fire rockets towards Israel.
The bombing came after days of spiralling violence, with militants firing rockets and Israel vowing a fiery response.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak , who brokered the six-month truce, slammed the "Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip" and blamed "Israel, as an occupying force, for the victims and the wounded."
The bombardment set off angry demonstrations in Israel's Arab towns and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as protests in countries around the region.
It came less than two months ahead of Israeli elections on February 10.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the head of the governing Kadima party and one of the front-runners for the premier's chair, said that "today there is no other option than a military operation."
Violence in and around Gaza has flared since the truce ended, and it escalated dramatically on Wednesday.

SOURCE: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hGdOVX8wKfbGm3FAUNLxtM9TEPZw

The Terrorist State of Israel strikes again. They should stop maipulating western nations to fight their never ending wars with Islam and fight these wars on their own.

Australian News.

ANGER AS MUSLIM GANG RAPISTS SENTENCES CUT

December 17th 2008.




NSW Premier Nathan Rees says he wants to appeal against the reduction in the sentences given to brothers Bilal and Mohammed Skaf over the gang rape of a teenage girl.
"I'm just off the phone to the acting Attorney-General [Verity Firth] to see if we can appeal that decision, and if we can, we will," he told reporters.
"This is exactly the sort of decision by the judiciary that gives rise to claims in the community that the judiciary is out of touch," Mr Rees said.
The Skafs failed to have their convictions overturned for the gang rape of a teenager but were successful in having their sentences reduced.The decision in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal today related to the gang rape of a 16-year-old at gunpoint, with up to 14 men watching, at Gosling Park, Greenacre, in August 2000.The brothers were appealing after a 2006 retrial.
Bilal Skaf, 26, had his minimum sentence reduced by two years, meaning he will now be eligible for parole in February 2031.
Mohammed Skaf, 25, had his minimum sentence cut by 18 months and he will be eligible for parole in January 2018.
Bilal Skaf was originally sentenced to 55 years in jail for a string of rapes. That figure was later reduced to 38 years on appeal.
He will now serve a maximum of 35 years following today's decision.

FATHERS OUTRAGE

The sentence cut prompted outrage from "Darren", the father of a teenage girl - identified only as Miss C - who was raped at Bankstown by a pack including the Skaf brothers just two weeks after the Gosling Park offence.
"It's unbelievable," Darren told Macquarie Radio after hearing of the sentence cut.
"I don't get it. I would honestly like to meet and speak to one of these lawyers who defend these guys. What, do they love criminals?" During the Gosling Park appeal, the Skafs' lawyers had argued there was no long-term physical injury suffered by that victim.
"You can't tell me raping someone isn't going to have a psychological effect," Darren said.
"My daughter has come out of it not so bad. I know one of the girls who has come out of it, her life's a mess."
During the appeal in June, Bilal Skaf's lawyer argued that the conviction for the attack in Greenacre should have been overturned as his client's name had become synonymous with gang rape and he could not be fairly tried.
It was also argued that the trial should have been permanently stayed.
The two had successfully appealed against the verdict in their first trial after it was revealed that two jurors had conducted their own investigations at the park.
No deterrent, says Opposition
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Greg Smith said he did not agree with the reduction, which was the second the brothers had been granted.
"They were the worst series of gang rapes this country has ever seen," Mr Smith told reporters.
"Unless we send strong messages out to the community, to other yobbos who might be thinking of doing things to girls, then they won't be deterred.
"This is the problem. Even though it might seem only a light reduction, it's the second reduction."

SOURCE: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/skafs-sentences-cut/2008/12/17/1229189669105.html

If it were up to me I would let the father take care of this human garbage.....

The idea that these girls did not go through any lasting pain or injuries is absurd being gang raped at gun point because you are white at 16 years old doesnt effect you mentally? I hope the Lawyers who represented the Skaf brothers burn in hell which they surely will.

If they encourage more Bilal Skafs out there to do the same thing by reducing the sentences on these animals then it is the courts who are to blame for the next girl who is raped.

World News.

Zimbabwe accuses Britain of cholera 'Genocide'

HARARE (AFP) — President Robert Mugabe's government Friday accused former colonial power Britain of causing a "genocidal" cholera epidemic, as the UN secretary general urged him to "look for the future."
The latest accusations over the cholera crisis came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the death toll had risen to 792, and aid groups warned the epidemic could last for months.
"Cholera is a calculated, racist attack on Zimbabwe by the unrepentant former colonial power, which has enlisted support from its American and Western allies so that they can invade the country," information minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu told a press conference.
"The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is a serious biological, chemical war force, a genocidal onslaught, on the people of Zimbabwe by the British," he said. "It's a genocide of our people."
One day earlier, Mugabe had proclaimed in a nationally broadcast speech that "there is no cholera" -- comments his spokesman George Charamba said Friday were meant as "sarcasm."
His remarks drew an international outcry and were quickly denounced by aid agencies as well as Britain, France and the United States, which have loudly called for Mugabe to step down.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon told reporters that he had met with the 84-year-old leader two weeks ago at a summit in Qatar, where he urged Mugabe to leave his legacy "in a positive way."
"Mugabe really should look for the future of his country and his own people, who have been suffering too much, too long from this political turmoil now coupled with very serious humanitarian tragedies," Ban said in Geneva.
But Ban said the meeting did not go well, calling the dialogue "very difficult."
EU leaders at a summit in Brussels also urged Zimbawbe's political rivals to resolve the political standoff following disputed elections this year, and demanded the immediate release of missing human rights activists.
Mugabe's comments on cholera stoked ire at his government, with one South African Anglican bishop likening him to Adolf Hitler and calling for him to face war crimes charges at the Hague.
"Mugabe must be viewed as the 21st century Hitler because of the deaths and suffering of Zimbabweans under his rule," Bishop Joe Seoka said in The Times newspaper.
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said that "either Mr Mugabe is mischievous or genuinely out of touch with reality."
"Instead of conveying a message of condolences, Mr Mugabe was busy politicking," spokesman Nelson Chamisa told AFP.
The cholera epidemic is only the latest grim symptom of Zimbabwe's collapse.
The economy has crumbled under the world's highest inflation rate, last estimated in July at 231 million percent but now believed to be much higher.
A new 500 million dollar note, worth 10 US dollars (7.50 euros), was introduced Friday by the central bank, which struggles to print money fast enough to keep pace with prices that rise several times a day.
Due to currency shortages, cash can only be withdrawn once a week from banks, and then people are allowed to take only 500 million dollars, which is not enough to see them through the day.
Hospitals have no drugs, no equipment and no staff left to treat the cholera epidemic, which has spread as sewage and water lines have broken down, contaminating the drinking supply.
A political stalemate between Mugabe and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has deepened the crisis and left government in limbo.
The two signed a power-sharing deal three months ago but have so far failed to agree on how to form a unity government.

SOURCE: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g-u0MK3td1fY8HG987WXd0CxI5UQ

Australian News.

POLICE COWARDLY SHOOT MELBOURNE BOY, 15

THE 15-year-old boy shot dead by police in Melbourne last night was a member of a nationalist organisation called the Southern Cross Soldiers.

Tyler Cassidy was killed at a shopping centre in Melbourne's northern suburb of Northcote after police unsuccessfully tried to calm him, then sprayed him with capsicum spray and fired a warning shot.
Tyler, who was armed with knives, shouted "kill me, I'm going to kill you" to four officers before he was gunned down, police said this morning.
But Tyler's mother, Shani, said in a written statement today that she would ``fight'' for Tyler, describing him as a ``scared little boy''. ``He died alone without his family at his side, gasping his last breath,'' the statement said. ``The entire family and friends of Tyler Cassidy are appalled at the actions by Victoria Police last night. ``Their heavy handedness and lack of negotiating skills at the scene of the shooting contributed to the untimely death of our beautiful 15-year-old." Tyler's MySpace page is covered in pictures of the Australian flag, video tributes to the Cronulla riots and pictures of a meeting of the Melbourne chapter of the Southern Cross Soldiers on December 6. "Hmmmmm well my names Tyler im aussie i love Austrlia more then eneythink and 2nd to that i love bundy (good stuff)," he wrote. "play hard and fight to win ... victory and pride forever!" His friends have left dozens of messages on his website page, including many from other members of the Southern Cross Soldiers. "Tyler mate, i f..ken love you. dont let them pigs get the better of you. u will get throu this and we will get them f..kers back. memba revenge is sweet. we all love you and are sendin our best wishes mate," writes one mate. Another message reads: "Gunned down by idiot cops. Thats life hey? You were a mad little bastard but no-one will ever forget you..We will keep SCS going in your name." Another read: "Tyler Cassidy was one of the most caring, honest people i have ever met. He would always do everything he could to help you out. He will be dearly missed and always remebered for all that he was." The MySpace page for the Southern Cross Soldiers states the group is not racist or a gang. "WE are not racist, we are just proud to call our selves Australians. SCS isn't a gang. If your proud to call yourself Australian then you already are a Southern Cross Soldier. Its a shame that to some people being proud of the country your born in is being racist, well to them people I say go f..k yourself :) There is only one ethnicity in Australia, AUSTRALIAN."
A manager at his school said Tyler was a ``lovely young man'' showing great promise in his hospitality studies.
``Tyler was a lovely young man. He came to us about six weeks ago,'' Rowena Bailey, manager of The Island, a vocational campus of Collingwood College where Tyler had been studying, told AAP.
``He was achieving enormous success. He was in our hospitality unit and doing very well, he showed great promise and was doing extremely well.''
Tyler had many friends and was an easygoing boy, she said.
``It's a terrible shock because he was achieving. He was very well liked,'' she said. ``He was an easygoing boy, in our environment, very easygoing, and he was very happy. He had a lot of friends and he was very happy.''

SOURCE: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24789926-601,00.html

3 of 4 of the police Shot young Tyler in what they call "Self Defense", they could have easily disarmed the young man but instead shot to kill. Sounds similar to what they are rioting over in Athens.

American News.

WHITE BACKLASH RISES AS OBAMA PRESIDENCY LOOMS

Atlanta - In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting "inappropriate" comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.
The election of America's first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, the white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters' comfort with a multiracial demography, expects Mr. Obama's election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element.
Most election-related threats have so far been little more than juvenile pranks. But the political marginalization of certain Southern whites, economic distress in rural areas, and a White House occupant who symbolizes a multiethnic United States could combine to produce a backlash against what some have heralded as the dawn of a postracial America. In some parts of the South, there's even talk of secession.
"Most of this movement is not violent, but there is a substantive underbelly that is violent and does try to make a bridge to people who feel disenfranchised," says Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "The question is: Will this swirl become a tornado or just an ill wind? We're not there yet, but there's dust on the horizon, a swirling of wind, and the atmospherics are getting put together for [conflict]."
Though postelection racist incidents haven't posed any real danger to society or the president-elect, law enforcement is taking note.
"We're trying to be out there at the cutting edge of this and trying to stay ahead of groups that are emerging," says Special Agent Darrin Blackford, a spokesman for the Secret Service, which guards the US president.
"Anytime you start seeing [extremist propaganda] floating around, you have to be concerned," adds Lt. Gary Thornberry of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, a member of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. "As far as it being an alarmist situation, I don't see that yet. From a law enforcement point of view, you have to be careful, because it's not illegal to have an ideology."
After sparking conflict and showdowns in the 1990s – think Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing – white supremacist and nationalist groups began this century largely splintered and powerless. Though high immigration levels helped boost the number of hate groups from 602 in 2000 to 888 in 2007, key leaders of such groups had died, been imprisoned, or were otherwise marginalized.
But postelection, at least two white nationalist websites – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – report their servers have crashed because of heavy traffic. The League of the South, a secessionist group, says Web hits jumped from 50,000 a month to 300,000 since Nov. 4, and its phones are ringing off the hook.
"The vitriol is flailing out shotgun-style," says Mr. Levin. "They recognize Obama as a tipping point, the perfect storm in the narrative of the hate world – the apocalypse that they've been moaning about has come true."
Supremacist propaganda is already on the upswing. In Oklahoma, fringe groups have distributed anti-Obama propaganda through newspapers and taped it to home mail boxes. Ugly incidents such as cross-burnings, assassination betting pools, and Obama effigies are also being reported from Maine to Alabama.
The Ku Klux Klan has been tied to recent news events, as well. Two Tennessee men implicated for plotting to kill 88 black men, including Obama, were tied to the KKK chapter whose leader was convicted in a civil trial in Brandenburg, Ky., last week, for inciting violence. The murder last week in Louisiana of a KKK initiate, allegedly killed after trying to back out of joining, came at the hands of a new group called Sons of Dixie, authorities say.
"We're not looking at a race war or anything close to it, but ... what we are seeing now is undeniably a fairly major backlash by some subset of the white population," says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report in Montomgery, Ala. "Many whites feel that the country their forefathers built has been ... stolen from them, so there's in some places a real boiling rage, and that can only become worse as more people lose jobs."
In an election in which barely 20 percent of native Southern whites in Deep South states voted for Obama, the newly apparent political clout of "outsiders" and people of color has been unnerving to some.
"In states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, there was extraordinary racial polarization in the vote," says Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta. "Black Americans really do believe that Obama is going to represent their interests and views in ways that they haven't been before, and, in the Deep South, whites feel exactly the opposite."
But for nonviolent secessionist groups like the League of the South, the hope is for a more vigorous debate about the direction of the US and the South's role in it, says Michael Tuggle, a League blogger in North Carolina.
Mr. Tuggle says his group isn't looking for an 1860-style secession but, rather, a model that Spain, for one, is moving toward, in which "there's a great deal of autonomy for constituent regions" – a foil to what is seen as unchecked, dangerous federal power in Washington.
"To a lot of people, the idea of secession doesn't seem so crazy anymore," says Tuggle. "People are talking about how left out they feel, ... and they feel that something strange and radical has taken over our country."

SOURCE: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1117/p03s01-uspo.html

World News.

RUSSIA: "IRAN COULD NOT BUILD A-BOMB"

A senior Russian diplomat says that even if Iran sought to make a nuclear weapon, it does not have the necessary "means" to do so.

"One cannot say today that Iran can create nuclear weapons," head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department of European cooperation, Vladimir Voronkov, was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying Tuesday. Voronkov said Russian intelligence agencies confirm that Iran does not have the "means" to develop a military nuclear program. Russia, helping Iran construct a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, has worked closely with Iran in the field of nuclear technology over the past decade. His remarks come shortly after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday that Iran "is still pursuing quite clearly the technology that can lead to a nuclear weapon." Under the allegation that a nuclear Tehran would pose an existential threat to Israel; Washington and Tel Aviv have threatened Iran with the use of military action should the country continue its enrichment program. Iran insists its activities are directed at the civilian applications of the technology and are in line with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) -- the treaty grants all signatories the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. Meanwhile, the Bush administration's carrot-and-stick policy toward Iran has resulted in three rounds of United Nations Security Council sanctions resolutions against Tehran -- which Moscow also approved of. The Kremlin later denounced the US policy and urged the White House to engage Iran in direct diplomacy. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in early September that he would not approve of any new sanctions against Tehran for the time being. On Tuesday, Voronkov said the difference between the stances of Russia and the West on Iran's nuclear program is that "our partners want to use instruments of pressure." "We do not consider such instruments to be always effective," the Russian diplomat added.

Tel Aviv's rising rhetoric against Iran has fueled speculations that an Israeli go-it-alone strike is in the offing. However, many analysts believe an Israeli attack on Iran would not be possible without a US green light. Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski warned on the weekend that Israel risked jeopardizing relations with Washington by pushing the US government to opt for an attack. Following the US foreign policy mogul's warning, Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that military option against Iran seems unnecessary, claiming the worldwide financial crisis has crippled Tehran from investing in its nuclear program. According to the UN agency investigating Iran's nuclear program, there will not be any "credible assurance of undeclared nuclear material and activities" in the country unless Tehran increases its nuclear cooperation. In response, Iran has welcomed the change in the White House, saying that the Obama administration should move to pave the way for the two countries to resolve the controversy surrounding the Iranian program. The UN nuclear watchdog said in its latest report that it has "been able to continue to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran," adding that Iran has managed to enrich uranium-235 to a level "less than 5 percent." The rate is consistent with the development of a nuclear power plant -- nuclear arms production requires an enrichment level of above 90 percent.

SOURCE: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=77931&sectionid=351020104

Australian News.

Anger over students' 'Jew parking' gibe.





Senior students at two elite Sydney schools have been accused of setting up internet sites which feature anti-Semitic abuse.
One Facebook site features a discussion network called "The Jew Parking Appreciation Group", which suggests bad parking is an art in Bellevue Hill, an affluent suburb in eastern Sydney where many Jews live.
The site appears to have been set up by senior boys from the fee-paying Scots College in Bellevue Hill.
Another site, which urges people to support Holocaust denial, appears to have been created with the help of a student from Kambala girls' school.
Vic Alhadeff, the chief executive at the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, says he is not amused by the parking jibe.
He says the site defines "Jew parking" as when a car is slightly over the line and taking more than one parking spot.
While the site has since been modified by Facebook, Mr Alhadeff says it still villifies Jewish people.
"Australia is a society which respects diversity, and any comments which trash that, any comments which make derogatory remarks against any one sector of society, fly in the face of Australia," he said.
"[It is] damaging and [it] sends the signal that racism is acceptable. Racism is never acceptable, no matter what group, no matter what sector, it's directed against."
Mr Alhadeff says the site cannot just be written off as a joke.
"The issue is a slippery slope," he said.
"In other words, it's never acceptable to make racist jokes, it's never acceptable to make racist comments."
Scots College's own internet site proclaims it to be one of Australia's oldest and most respected independent boy's schools.
Mr Alhadeff says the Board of Deputies has been in touch with school authorities.
"The Jewish Board of Deputies contacted Scots College, they were unaware of it at the time we contacted them, and we made them aware of it, and the senior officer I spoke to undertook to look into it," he said.
Dr Ian Lambert, the principal of Scots College, says racial slurs are unacceptable and he is investigating the claims.
"At this stage there's a lot of conjecture about what has been put on Facebook but we certainly wouldn't support any students that hold those views," he said.
"My strongest concern is that for well over a century the Scots College has supported Jewish students, staff and families in significant ways, and many of our greatest supporters are Jewish," he said.
"The way in which this has been reported is extremely disappointing and doesn't capture the ethos of our college and the concern of our community in relation to tolerance and acceptance. And that's a great pity."
Dr Lambert says the school is investigating whether current students are involved.
Mr Alhadeff says any students found to be linked to either site should be set straight.
"The best response would be for them to see the end result of where racism can lead," he said.
"Say, for example, it is in Sydney. The Sydney Jewish Museum, which is in fact a Holocaust museum - let them have a quick visit to the museum and let them see the end point of racism."

SOURCE: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/09/2441252.htm

Sounds like a Witch Hunt to me..........

World News.

GEERT WILDERS - FITNA WORLD TOUR

BRUSSELS, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Dutch right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders plans to make an international tour with his film Fitna which is critical of Islam, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported Monday.
Wilders said on Sunday that he will show the film in Israel, the United States, Britain and France.
Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration and anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV), released the film on the Internet in March. The17-minute film depicts Islam as a religion which encourages acts of terrorism. It sparked widespread protests in many muslim countries, and supermarkets in some countries boycotted Dutch products.
Wilders said he wants to use the tour "to build alliances for freedom and against the Islamization of the West."
Wilders will go to the United States in the spring to receive the American Freedom Award for "showing courage and dedication in defense of freedom."
Last week, Dutch National Coordinator for Counter-terrorism Tjibbe Joustra said the Netherlands is facing a "higher than ever" threat of a terrorist attack, mainly due to the film made by Wilders. He said the country is increasingly being mentioned in terrorist communications.

American News.

JOE BIDEN : "I AM A ZIONIST"

Vice President Elect praises Israel In 2007 interview with 'Shalom TV'

WASHINGTON – Senator Joe Biden, who was chosen by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to be his running mate in the upcoming US elections, has previously declared himself to be a Zionist. Calling Israel "the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East," he also revealed a Jewish connection in an interview last year.

During the interview conducted by the Jewish 'Shalom TV' Biden said, "I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist." He also revealed that his son is married to a Jewish woman, of the Berger family from Delaware, and that he had participated in a Passover Seder at their house.
He added that "probably my most poignant Seder memory is not with the Bergers, but what happened right after I came back from meeting Golda Meir (in 1973). I had predicted that something was going on in Egypt. And I remember people talking about what it meant to them if Israel were actually defeated."

Biden presented himself as a friend to Israel, which he referred to as the US' greatest Middle East ally.

"Imagine our circumstance in the world were there no Israel. How many battleships would there be? How many troops would be stationed?" he asked.
He also called comments about Israel's connection to the war in Iraq "insulting", explaining that "if tomorrow, peace broke out between Israelis and Palestinians, does anybody think there wouldn't be a full-blown war in Iraq?"
Regarding the terror attacks in Israel, Biden said the Sept. 11 attacks made American parents feel what Israeli parents have been feeling. "The difference between now and before 9/11," he said, "is that many Americans can taste what it must feel like for every Israeli mother and father when they send their kid out to school with their lunch to put them on a bus, on a bicycle or to walk; and they pray to God that cell phone doesn't ring."

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Derek Black Formally Denied Seat By Jewish Republican Boss Sid Dinerstein In West Palm Beach; Black Contemplates Suit

Derek Black, the son of Stormfront webmaster Don Black, is vowing a legal challenge after the Palm Beach County Republican Party refused to recognize his election to a local party post at a West Palm Beach, Florida meeting on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008. Media story published by the Palm Beach Post. Multi-page Stormfront discussion thread HERE.
Upon arrival at the meeting, Derek Black (wearing the hat) approached Palm Beach County Jewish Republican Chairman Sid Dinerstein (standing to the left of Black) while Dinerstein was giving a television interview before the meeting, and began debating the party’s enforcement of the oath requirement.
He then challenged Dinerstein once again the meeting began. “Are you saying the party’s rules override elections?” Black asked. After that, Black remained seated while new committee members stood up to be sworn in and Dinerstein was reelected without opposition as party chairman.
About an hour later, as party members plowed through procedural votes, Black stood up in front of the meeting and began addressing the crowd of about 200, but his words were inaudible to most because he did not have a microphone. Dinerstein promptly cut him off. “You need to sit down or leave,” Dinerstein told Black. Black chose to leave at that point, but later returned and apologized for the disruption, saying that he planned to be involved in the party in the future.
While Black was disqualified from his elected committee position because he failed to sign and return a loyalty oath by a prescribed deadline, Dinerstein and the local Republican brain trust have been accused of singling out Black because of his father’s operation of Stormfront, considered a “white supremacist” forum by its detractors, but more precisely described as a white nationalist discussion forum. To defray this criticism, the party also disqualified nine other would-be county GOP committee members for also failing to sign the oath.
However, Dinerstein made it clear numerous times that even if Black had signed the loyalty oath on time, he would have rejected Black because Black’s “white supremacist associations” violate a provision in the GOP oath that forbids activities likely to injure the name of the Republican Party. It’s these latter statements which may provide the grist for legal action against the party by Don Black.
The 19-year-old Black won a little-noticed election for one of 111 county Republican Executive Committee seats back in August, earning 58 percent of the vote. But the party immediately called the election invalid because Black hadn’t signed the Republican Party of Florida’s loyalty oath before a June deadline. Black maintains his understanding was that the oath had to be signed by the first meeting of the new committeemen, by December 1st. Black also continues to dispute the white supremacist accusation, describing himself as “a white person who is concerned about discrimination against white people.”
Although Derek’s father Don Black and Dr. David Duke provided advice and counsel to Derek, it was strictly Derek’s show all the way. He went out on the hustings and earned the support. Monitor the designated Stormfront thread and Dr. David Duke’s website for subsequent developments in this case.
Analysis: The fact that nine other committeemen were also disqualified for failure to sign and return the loyalty oath was obvious protective cover for the fact that Dinerstein had specifically targeted Derek Black for special attention. Dinerstein clearly stated that he still would have disqualified Black even if he had signed the oath, simply because, in Dinerstein’s opinion, Black is a “white supremacist”. And this is what makes it potentially actionable.
Whether Derek Black pursues legal action is contingent upon the family finances. If he truly wants to make an issue of this, and lacks finances, I hope he considers setting up a legal fund and reaching out to the white nationalist community for help. This is a battle worth joining.
Article Source: White Reference

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NEW CHAPTER IN STRUGGLE FOR ELECTION SEAT

WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- A new chapter tonight, in a struggle for a political seat that's been underway since the August election.
The son of a White supremacist leader is continuing his fight to keep his seat on the Palm Beach County Republican Committee.
Supporters from both sides are already at the government building where the meeting will be held on the 6th floor.
And both sides are expecting a lot of fireworks tonight.
19-year-old Derek Black arrived at the government building with growing support from a radical movement.
It starts with Black's father, who runs "Stormfront," a White supremacist website.
He's also a former klan leader.
"He can contribute a great deal," said Derek's father Don Black. "It has nothing to do with me. If people don't like me, it doesn't mean they don't have to like my son."
Former KKK grand wizard David Duke likes Don's son. Duke is publicly backing the teen, who won 62% of the vote for a committee position back. Still, Derek Black maintains he's not racist, just concerned about discrimination against White people.
"I'm not a White supremacist," said Derek Black. "It's an insult thrown around by party bigwigs who think they can control a democracy."
Sid Dinerstein is the head of Palm Beach County's Republican party. He says it not about Black's background at this point.
But that he's one of six local committeemen who've been disqualified for not signing a loyalty oath.
"These are not Palm Beach County rules," said Dinerstein. "These are Republican party of Florida rules and they've been applied everywhere across the state evenly. Nobody is discriminating against Mr. Black or anybody else."
But, Black says the people have spoken in a fair electoral process and Republican leaders don't have the right to take the position away from him.
"The whole intention was political shenanigans," said Black. "They wanted to control who got on, have the priority to disqualify someone who was legally elected."
Dinerstein says Black will be allowed in the chambers tonight, just like any other member of the public. But he won't be allowed to vote as a member of the committee.
"But that is not our fault," said Dinerstein. "That is his fault for not completing the loyalty oath last June."

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White Civil Rights Activists Receive Death Threats

Stormfront owner Don Black and family receive death threats over son’s political aspirations.
From European Americans United
We’ve all heard of Stormfront, the grand daddy of all white nationalist message boards. Whether you approve of it or hate it, you’ve probably heard about it. Proprietor Don Black’s son, 19 year old Derek (pictured right), decided to put his online activism into real world practice by running for public office; specifically a seat on the Palm Beach County’s Republican Executive Committee. Well, lo and behold he won and was successfully elected on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 to be a local Republican Party committeeman in the Palm Beach area. His job is to essentially ensure that voters in District 29 vote Republican. Winning 58 percent of the votes, 167 out of 287 against his opponent Ed Burkhart, Derek’s victory was a ’sure thing.’
But not for long. Under the authority of GOP boss Sid Dinerstein the local GOP has moved to kick Derek Black out. Something to do with his “views”, we’re sure. Egging on the effort to remove Derek Black’s election Sid Dinerstein is making a mockery of free and fair elections.
Dinerstein says candidates are required to sign an ‘oath of loyalty’ in June, and apparently Derek Black didn’t do so, and as far as Dinerstein is concerned, Ed Burkhart won. And so on Thursday August 28th, Dinerstein managed to have Derek Black kicked off the committee. But here’s the rub: Derek Black says: “My understanding is that the oath had to be signed by the first meeting of the new committeemen, and that’s by December 1st. They’re obviously looking for a way to keep me out, but I won’t let that happen”.Derek Black says “of course” he will attend a meeting Wednesday for new members of Palm Beach County’s Republican Executive Committee. Never mind that the party chairman says Black’s “white supremacist” associations are not welcome and he will not be seated.
Well, someone else is also trying to keep Derek Black from moving forward, though no one is sure who it is. On or about December 1st the Black residence received four telephoned death threats. “Hey Don,” one of the calls stated: “I just wanted to let you know we’ll have a scope trained on your son Wednesday. We have had for days.” Police have noted the caller ID says 772-812-3827, which is a Vero Beach area wireless number.
For the record, here are the MP3s of the calls:http://www.stormfront.org/audio/harrassing_phone_call-12-01-08.mp3http://www.stormfront.org/audio/harrassing_phone_call2-12-01-08.mp3
Forget who Derek Black is. Forget his (entirely legal) views on race and nation. Forget about Stormfront or what you may even think of Stormfront. This is a civil rights infraction issue, and a serious one at that. Derek, who has a clean record, won a seat on the Republican Executive Committee fair and square. He has as much of a right to be there as anyone else. When threats of violence are used to prevent a person from exercising his political civil rights, it is not only unacceptable it sets a dangerous precedent. Coupled with political boss Sid Dinerstein’s** unrelated dismissal of Derek Black’s seat, such dismissals and such threats need to be investigated just as if similar dismissals and similar threats had been issued against a black man.
In fact, can you imagine the hue and cry if we were in reality discussing a black person who wished to “speak to members of the black community” being dimissed after winning an election fair and square and then subsequently threatened with death by unknown persons? Can you say Michael Chertoff of Homeland Security fame?

For the record, European Americans United, without reservation, deplores and condemns these serious infractions against Derek Black’s civil rights and supports his rightful seat on the Palm Beach County’s Republican Executive Committee.
Board of Directors, European Americans United

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PROTESTERS RALLY AGAINST ISLAMIC SCHOOL

PROTESTERS have swarmed the Gold Coast City Council headquarters, and with blaring rock anthems vented anger over a planned Muslim school.
Almost 200 residents turned out for the demonstration, draped in Australian flags and shouting pro-Aussie slogans while Australian rock classics such as Down Under and Great Southern Land boomed across the parkland, The Courier-Mail reports.
Australian International Islamic College, planned for Carrara, has raised the ire of residents who fear it will lead to the local Muslim population withdrawing from the rest of the community. A rally last week attracted about 400 people, while people turned out yesterday carrying placards bearing slogans such as "no Muslim school, hell no" and "integration, not segregation". Resident's spokesman Tony Doherty said Muslim schools did not encourage multiculturalism. "It's segregation, not integration," he said. "They're not trying to integrate into the rest of society. "Since we have started protesting against this our churches have been covered in hate-filled graffiti." He denied it was hypocritical to oppose Muslim and not Christian schools. "Catholics aren't a different culture," he said.
"They are the same as us." Some residents say they are opposed to the school more because of parking issues rather than religious grounds. Mayor Ron Clarke has publicly said he would support the school as long as it satisfies the council's planning criteria. The council will not make any decision on the future of the school until next year. If approved, the school is unlikely to open until at least the middle of next year.

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WMD will be used within 5 years - US commission

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Terrorists are "likely" to use nuclear or biological weapons in the next five years, a US commission warned Tuesday, highlighting Pakistan as the weakest link in world security.Without urgent action, "it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013," the bi-partisan commission said in its report "World at Risk."The report, ordered by Congress and based on six months of research, warned the incoming administration of Barack Obama: "America's margin of safety is shrinking."The report was due to be presented to President George W. Bush on Wednesday, the White House said, and also to vice president-elect Joseph Biden, according to officials from Obama's transition team.The main dangers highlighted by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism are the rapid spread of atomic technology in countries such as Pakistan and Iran and poor security in biotech industries worldwide.Although Pakistan is a close US ally, its inability to control swaths of territory, violent political instability, and a nuclear standoff with neighboring India make the Islamic nation the most lethal tinderbox of all."Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan," the report said."There is a grave danger it could also be an unwitting source of a terrorist attack on the United States, possibly with weapons of mass destruction," the report said.The commission said terrorists are more likely to be able to obtain biological than nuclear weapons, with anthrax a particular danger, and warned that threats are "evolving faster than our multi-layered response."The White House portrayed "World at Risk" as proof of Bush's strong security record, arguing that the United States has made important strides in addressing the dangers of nuclear and germ attacks."Under President Bush's leadership, extensive progress has been made on securing the world's weapons of mass destruction and protecting our citizens from a WMD attack," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said."Our WMD preparedness has been transformed," Stanzel said in comments sent by email.Congresswoman Jane Harman, the Democrat heading the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment, also downplayed the warnings."It's time to retire the fear card," she said in a statement."We need to educate and inform the American people, not terrify them with alarming details about possible threats to the homeland.... Congress has in fact done a great deal to minimize and mitigate WMD threats."The commission was led by former senator Bob Graham of Florida, a Democrat, and former congressman James Talent of Missouri, a Republican.They were tasked by Congress in 2007, fulfilling a recommendation from the commission examining the hijacked airliner attacks of September 11, 2001 against New York and the Pentagon.The main recommendations of the commission, aimed principally at the incoming Obama White House, are:-- Better safeguard uranium and plutonium stockpiles and step up measures against nuclear smuggling rings.-- Toughen the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.-- Ensure access to nuclear fuel for countries committed to developing only peaceful atomic technology.-- Prevent new countries, including Iran and North Korea, from possessing uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing capabilities.-- Urgently tighten security in domestic bio-sphere institutes and laboratories.-- Call for an international conference of countries with major biotechnology industries.-- Secure nuclear and biological materials in Pakistan.-- Constrain a growing Asian arms race.-- Agree with Russia on extending essential monitoring provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty due to expire in 2009.-- Create a White House advisory post on weapons of mass destruction proliferation.

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Foxman slams Zionism entry in 'Encyclopedia of Racism'

Announcing that "Zionism has no place in an encyclopedia on racism," the Anti-Defamation League has joined a chorus of condemnation of an article published in an encyclopedia that covers race and racial discrimination. Printed by the Gale publishing company in November 2007, The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism has been awarded reviews promoting it for use in high school and religion classes. But an entry on Zionism featured in the encyclopedia has drawn the ire of Jewish groups, including the Zionist Organization of America and the American Jewish Committee, which called last month for the article to be withdrawn - prompting an apology from the publisher, but no pledge to pull the entry. Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, published the apology on its Web site last week, with links to both the AJC and ZOA Web sites, and a message promising to supplement the on-line version of the encyclopedia with articles describing alternative perspectives on Zionism. However, the message goes on to say that Gale, which also publishes an updated version of The Encyclopedia Judaica, stands by the article, and that it will remain. "Gale's role as publisher of the encyclopedia is not to present a particular viewpoint on any topic, but to provide well-founded information that presents a broad scope of knowledge and views on a subject," the message read. "Further, while we cannot and do not shy away from controversial views, we are committed to providing comprehensive, respectful coverage. Based on the constructive feedback we have received, we have concluded that we should offer a broader range of views on the subject of Zionism." The ZOA called those measures insufficient, and the ADL is renewing the call for the entry to be pulled altogether. "Zionism simply has no place in an encyclopedia on racism," said Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director. "It is offensive to see it there, period. Any effort to explain this, defend it, rationalize it, or to give others an opportunity to rebut it is unacceptable. Nothing can change the fact that a fundamental mistake and a terrible error in judgment was made." When the original complaint was filed with Gale in October, AJC Executive Director David Harris pointed out that "no other form of nationalism is included in the three-volume encyclopedia. Gale has given fodder to academia and beyond to assault the State of Israel." Noel Ignatiev, whom the ADL has described as "a known anti-Zionist," authored the entry on Zionism, and is the co-founder of Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism, an on-line publication that has featured anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic authors who demonize Israel and the Zionist movement. In a letter to Frank Menchaca, Gale's executive vice president and publisher, AJC not only questioned why Zionism had been included in the encyclopedia but also pointed out a number of factual and historical inaccuracies in the chapter. According to the AJC, Ignatiev had no track record of scholarship in Middle Eastern or Jewish studies and his previous writings showed an inherent bias against Jews and Israel. In fact, the entry misrepresents Zionism as an "ideology of race" and promotes the canard of Zionist-Nazi "collaboration." In May 2004, Race Traitor printed a piece by Ignatiev based on a talk he gave in March 2004 titled, "Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine." In his speech, Ignatiev likened Zionism to racism and Israel to Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany, accusing Zionists in the US of unfairly using charges of anti-Semitism to stifle debate on Zionism. "Israel is a racial state," an excerpt from the piece reads. "Where rights are assigned on the basis of ascribed descent or the approval of the superior race. In this respect it resembles the American South prior to the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, Ireland under the Protestant Ascendancy, and, yes, Hitlerite Germany. But in its basic structures, it most closely resembles the old South Africa." Ignatiev goes on to write: "The greatest ideological weapon in the Zionist arsenal is the charge of anti-Semitism." Before beginning his academic career, Ignatiev had worked in a Chicago steel mill and become a prominent Marxist activist. In 1985 he was arrested on charges of throwing a paint bomb at a strikebreaker's car. In a letter to Patrick C. Sommers, president of Gale, the ADL pointed to the encyclopedia entry's invented claims about Israel's practices and incendiary statements regarding Zionist ideology as making it unfit for inclusion in an encyclopedia that purports to contain factual information. The League's letter called on the publisher to take immediate steps to remove the entry from the publication. The League's letter to Gale also noted that the charge of "Zionism is Racism," which has long been used by Israel's critics to demonize and delegitimize the existence of the Jewish State, including, most notoriously, in a 1975 resolution passed in the United Nations General Assembly that was repealed in 1991.

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David Duke helps Derek Black in fight for Palm Beach County Republican Seat.

By CHARLES ELMORE

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Monday, December 01, 2008

WEST PALM BEACH — — Derek Black says "of course" he will attend a meeting Wednesday for new members of Palm Beach County's Republican Executive Committee. Never mind that the party chairman says Black's "white supremacist" associations are not welcome and he will not be seated.
"I was elected," Black, 19, says.
Sporting a black hat, the son of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black was seated last week in a restaurant off Southern Boulevard. Sitting next to him was one of his supporters: David Duke, former Louisiana state legislator and another former KKK grand wizard.
"We're going to fight," Duke said. "I know Derek Black is going to fight for his constitutional liberties. That's why I'm here, because I want to assist Derek."
Sorry, says county GOP Chairman Sid Dinerstein. In the qualifying period in June, Black didn't sign a loyalty oath pledging he would not do anything injurious to the party. And that's not the only problem.
"He participates in white supremacist activities," Dinerstein said. "We're the party of Lincoln. We're the party that says we don't judge anybody by the color of their skin."
Derek Black's response: "I've told (Dinerstein) I'm not a white supremacist; that's an insult. I would describe myself as a white person who is concerned about discrimination against white people."
A community college student who was home-schooled in West Palm Beach, Black once contributed a kids page to his father's Stormfront Internet forum around the time he was 12. The page included puzzles, games, animated Confederate flags and white-pride songs. He has since helped with his father's Internet audio broadcasts.
But did voters really have any idea who he is?
Duke leaned in.
"Irrelevant question," Duke said. "He got the votes. He won election."
Black says he campaigned around the district for the seat. Executive committee members elect the county party chairman and help determine where the party spends its money.
He said he answered any questions voters asked, but mostly talked about issues.
"I talked about immigration," he said. "I talked about the presidential campaign. That was the biggest issue. This was back in August, July. Most of them weren't happy with (Sen. John) McCain turning out to be their candidate. It did come up a few times that I didn't like McCain."
He continued: "A large part of the district, the Republican part of the district, is Hispanic, Cubans. They're the ones I've gotten the most public support from. Walking down the street, going to Publix, it was old Cuban men who slapped me on the back and told me to fight the system."
Duke, who lives in Louisiana, said he won't be in West Palm Beach for the Wednesday meeting, but he conducted an Internet broadcast with Don Black from the restaurant. The Grateful Dead's Truckin' blared over the eatery's music system in the background. In the broadcast, the men took Dinerstein to task: He has "chutzpah" to take an "anti-democratic" position, Duke said.
It's a line Duke has used before on his Web site: "Sid Dinerstein, a Jewish-extremist loyalist to Israel, has the chutzpah to think that he has the right to deny Derek Black his legally elected office because he doesn't like Mr. Black's views."
At least four books and dictionaries have defined Stormfront as the Internet's first "hate" site dating back to 1995. Stormfront's site link on a Google search comes with this description: "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival."
Barack Obama's election has helped drive up Stormfront traffic to record levels, Don Black said.
Duke said the historic election has helped galvanize support for the causes he believes in: "Obama enables people to see more clearly. It makes it clear we're losing control of our country."
But Don Black said press reports of threats against Obama on the Stormfront forums have been exaggerated. He said he suspects one contributor, who hadn't posted in six years, was deliberately trying to stir up trouble for the site recently. He said he does not condone violence and wants a "peaceful revolution" that ends racial preferences for minorities and promotes the civil liberties of whites.
Echoing what Duke and his father say about themselves, Derek Black says he never uses the term "white supremacist."
His case goes like this: He says he won 62 percent of the vote in his district (published reports put it at 58 percent at the time). The oath is a technicality that should not overturn an election, he contends. He says he is prepared to hire a lawyer to explore legal options if he is not seated.
When party leaders realized who he is, they scrambled to bar him within days of the August vote. Dinerstein said he has the backing of the state party.
"The loyalty oath is very important, and folks do need to sign it on time," said Republican Party of Florida spokeswoman Erin VanSickle.
But Derek Black said he'll keep up the fight for the seat, even if his opponents want to shun him as viper's brood.
"I thought it was amusing. I'm accused of having a past when I'm 19," he said.