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NNA Breaking News 12/18/98
US News
1. David Duke to Appear on Pirate Radio Network
2. Canadian Sues over Aryan Nations Parade arrest.
3. Study: Anti-Asian incidents drop.
4. US. Powerless against doomsday cyber attack.
5. Federal Judge Aims at Traffic Bias
World News
6. Russian Tycoon Seeks Communist Ban
7. More anti-semitic remarks point to trend in Russian Communist
Party.
8. Controversial French writer loses appeal, gets tougher sentence
9. French Cop Investigated in Shooting
10. A boost for France's mainstream right?
11. 300,000 illegal immigrants seek residence in Italy
12. Australia combating racism, government says
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David Duke to Appear on Pirate Radio Network
Former Louisiana State Representative David Duke will appear live on
the Pirate Radio Network Friday night at 8:00pm EST. Duke will talk
about his autobiography entitled "My Awakening" as well as about
current events.
After the FCC shut down Tampa's 102.1 FM, known as the "Party Pirate,"
Doug Brewer began broadcasting live on the internet. Since then, his
listenership has grown into an international audience. Radio Pirates
around the world now download Brewer's online format and re-broadcast
his Pirate Radio Network to local communities.
Listeners can e-mail David questions or call their studio line. This
is the closest thing to an alternative radio network there is so let's
take advantage of it.
Listen to David Duke Live on Friday, December 18, 8:00pm EST at:
http://www.ldbrewer.com/pirate.html
Vincent Breeding
NNA Editor
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Canadian Sues over Aryan Nations Parade arrest.
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A Canadian man who was arrested
for possession of a deadly weapon after carrying a walking cane at an
Aryan Nations parade in Idaho last summer has filed a $1.5 million
claim
against the state.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper reports today that Gary A.
Bizek, 21, also names Kootenai County and city of Coeur d'Alene
officials in his claim.
In his claim, Bizek says he was walking the parade route when police
approached him and demanded that he give up his cane because it was
considered a weapon.
When he explained that he needed the cane due to a recent knee
infection, authorities arrested him and confiscated the cane.
He says authorities refused to return the $20 cane when he was
released, causing him to walk around for several days in great pain.
``This all was part of an effort to silence the free speech of parade
protesters by harassment, intimidation, and intentionally causing
physical harm,'' Bizek's claim adds.
The claim charges that authorities violated Bizek's constitutional
rights by conducting an unreasonable search and seizure.
Charges against Bizek were dismissed in November.
Bizek is the third anti-racism protester arrested at the parade to
have filed a wrongful arrest claim.
Two others, Lori Graves, 29, and Jonathan Crowell, 23, filed claims
totaling $6.8 million after they were arrested for refusing to let
police search their backpacks.
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Study: Anti-Asian incidents drop.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A study by the National Asian Pacific
American Legal Consortium has found there was a 10 percent decline in
the number of anti-Asian incidents reported in the United States in
1997, though there were dramatic increases in California and New
Jersey.
The group reported today that there were 481 anti-Asian incidents
last year, down from 534 in 1996 but still higher than the prior three
years.
The largest increases in violent incidents against Asians were
reported in California (up 20 percent to 226) and New Jersey (up 106
percent to 66).
The study does not include information from Massachusetts, which had
the third highest total of incidents in the country from 1994 to 1996.
Eleven other states didn't collect any hate crime statistics.
The consortium's executive director, Karen Narasaki, says, ``Though
we are pleased that there was a drop in total reported incidents in
1997, we are concerned about the increases in New Jersey and
California.
Furthermore, even with the decrease, there were still too many
incidents
of anti-Asian violence.''
The group says hate crimes against Asians may be caused by rapid
demographic changes when minorities first move into an ethnically
homogenous area.
The consortium prepared its fifth annual Audit of Anti-Asian Violence
along with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in New
York, Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific American
Legal Center in Los Angeles.
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US. Powerless against doomsday cyber attack.
WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (AFP) - Thirty computer experts strategically
located around the world could bring America to its knees, a
blue-ribbon panel of information warfare reported Tuesday.
Attacks on information systems are "as serious a threat as this
country faces," said Senator Chuck Robb of Virginia, who endorsed a
report released by the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, (CSIS) a Washington think tank.
The report warns dramatically that US defense capabilities and
its economy are practically at the mercy of computer mercenaries,
"cybercriminals" and "cyberterrorists."
US law enforcement agencies are "five to ten years behind the
transnational crime curve," a gap at least partially attributable to
the fact that it takes a government agency an average of 49 months
to buy, install and use a new computer system, versus nine months in
the private sector.
The report, "Cybercrime, cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare," says
that information warfare specialists at the Pentagon estimate that a
properly prepared and well coordinated attack by fewer than 30
computer virtuosos around the world, with a budget of less than 10
million dollars, could bring the United States to its knees.
"Such an attack "would shut down everything from electric power
grids to air-traffic control centers," the report says.
"America's adversaries know that the country's real assets are
in electronic storage, not in Fort Knox. Virtual corporations,
cashless electronic transactions, and economies without inventories
.. will make attacks on data just as destructive as attacks on
actual physical inventories.
"Bytes, not bullets, are the real ammo," the report said.
Using the tools of information warfare, cyberterrorist can
overload telephone lines with special software; disrupt the
operations of air traffic control as well as shipping; scramble
software used by major financial institutions; alter the formulas
for medication at pharmaceutical plants; change the pressure in gas
pipeline to cause a valve failure; and sabotage the New York Stock
Exchange.
The CSIS offered some recommendations, most notably that the
president order an exhaustive review of the dangers inherent in
computer technology and that the military and computer
establishments do more to prepare themselves to confront the new
challenges.
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[The federal government has appointed itself the protectorate of
non-whites. Often this policy allows non-white criminals to slip
through the justice system, which is greased with liberal sentiment
and egalitarian religious dogma.]
Federal Judge Aims at Traffic Bias
BOSTON (AP) A federal judge gave a black man a reduced sentence for
gun possession because she said his lengthy arrest record stemmed from
officers' habit of stopping black drivers more often than white ones.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner said the prevalence of motor vehicle
offenses on Alexander Leviner's record raised ``deep concerns about
racial disparity,'' particularly since none of his past motor vehicle
charges involved driving erratically or in such a way that might
attract an officer's attention. Most were for relatively minor
things like driving with a suspended license.
Had she followed the calculations normally used to determine federal
sentences, Leviner would have been sentenced to nearly four years to
as much as six years for illegally possessing a gun and 14 rounds of
ammunition. Instead, she sentenced him to 2 1/2 years in prison
earlier
this month.
Gertner's ruling, believed to among the first to adopt such a theory
in federal sentencing, gives legal voice to the long-standing
complaints of minorities, particularly black men, that police
routinely
stop and search their cars based on their race.
Some critics say that police have created a de facto crime ``DWB'' or
driving while black. In proposing a bill earlier this year to look at
the practice, Rep. John Conyers cited figures showing that blacks, who
make up about 14 percent of the population, account for 72 percent of
drivers pulled over for routine traffic stops.
``Courts are waking up to the fact this practice is out there and that
it has a corrosive effect on the criminal justice system,'' David
Harris of the University of Toledo Law School told The Boston Globe.
Leviner, 33, was arrested in September after Boston police stopped the
car in which he was riding. Police were investigating a report of
shots
fired, and they stopped the red Nissan when they saw it driving fast
with its lights off.
A spent shell casing from Leviner's gun was found on the floor of the
car, along with the ammunition. Based on his prior convictions, which
included some minor drug possession charges, Leviner was charged with
being a felon in possession of a firearm, a federal offense.
The length of one's criminal record is especially important in federal
court, where judges generally use calculations based on a defendant's
criminal background to impose a sentence.
However, judges are free to give lesser sentences.
When traffic stops result in criminal convictions, even minor ones,
``you can develop a prior record more quickly,'' said Marc Mauer,
assistant director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based
nonprofit group that specializes in criminal justice policy.
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World News
[Things are heating up in Russia, as Russians -- even Communists --
see
the Jews for the blood-sucking parasites that they are.]
Russian Tycoon Seeks Communist Ban
MOSCOW (AP) A business tycoon appealed Wednesday for a ban on the
Communist Party, going so far as to say that force should be used if
need be to prevent lawmakers from making anti-Semitic remarks.
"The later they use force the more blood that will be shed,'' said
Boris Berezovsky, who is Jewish.
His comments came a day after top Communist lawmaker Viktor Ilyukhin
accused Jews of waging "genocide'' in the country.
At impeachment hearings Tuesday against President Boris Yeltsin,
Ilyukhin also said Russia's post-Soviet collapse would not have
happened if the government was not made up ``exclusively of one
group, the Jews.''
Yeltsin's governments have contained a number of Jews in prominent
positions, but they have always been outnumbered by ethnic Russians.
Another Communist lawmaker, Albert Makashov, made similar anti-Semitic
remarks at a Moscow rally in October. Berezovsky demanded the
Communist
Party be disbanded at that time as well.
"Such people as Ilyukhin and Makashov should sit in the dock, and not
in the Duma,'' the Interfax new agency quoted Berezovsky as saying.
Top Russian officials also criticized Ilyukhin.
The Duma "must rigorously curb such statements or else it will utterly
discredit itself,'' Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin said.
Members of the liberal Yabloko faction proposed a resolution
denouncing
Ilyukhin's statement, but parliament did not immediately act.
Unrepentant, Ilyukhin responded to the motion by accusing liberals of
inflaming anti-Semitism in Russia.
"What kind of democracy is it when a Russian man can't speak the
truth?'' he said Wednesday.
Other Communists demanded that Russian television networks be banned
from covering the Duma's activities, saying coverage of Ilyukhin's
remarks was biased against him.
The business daily Kommersant speculated Wednesday that Ilyukhin made
the statements to provoke the Kremlin into trying to ban the Communist
Party.
"That would strengthen the party's image as the main opposition
force,'' the newspaper said.
Yeltsin banned the Communist Party for one year in the early 1990s,
but it quickly rebounded as the country's leading opposition group
and now has the largest faction in parliament's lower house, the
State Duma.
The Communists and Berezovsky have never been on good terms. Many
Communists believe Berezovsky, one of the country's richest and most
powerful businessmen, symbolizes the wild, unrestrained capitalism
that
has emerged in post-Soviet Russia.
The Communists have also demanded that Berezovsky step down from his
post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States,
a loose grouping of 12 ex-Soviet republics.
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More anti-semitic remarks point to trend in Russian Communist Party.
MOSCOW, Dec 16 (AFP) - A Communist Party deputy's remarks
blaming the country's ills on a preponderance of Jews in or close to
government were aggravated Wednesday with the emergence of
anti-semitic remarks by other communists.
Viktor Ilyukhin on Tuesday drew fire when he said: "There are
too many Jews in President Boris Yeltsin's entourage."
Ilyushin made the remark while presiding over the security
committee of the Duma, the lower house of parliament. He called for
ethnic quotas for government posts.
The committee was examining an accusation of "genocide against
the Russian people" lodged by certain deputies calling for Yeltsin
to be sacked.
The deputies hold Yeltsin responsible for Russia's economic and
social crisis, which has worsened conditions for the general public
since the ruble was devalued in August.
Ilyushin spoke of "genocide on a large scale," which would not
have been possible "if there had been more native Russians in Boris
Yeltsin's entourage and in the government rather than
representatives of a single nationality, the Jews."
An official in the presidential administration condemned
Ilyushin's "wild" remarks, which he said aimed to "provoke
nationalist and religious hostility."
In October, another Communist deputy, General Albert Makashov,
had issued a similar call for such quotas, saying there were "at
least a dozen kikes, shylocks and bloodsuckers" he would like to
"ship off to another world."
Those remarks stirred accusations of Communist anti-semitism,
prompting Communist Party chief Gennady Zyuganov to issue a formal
denial of any anti-semitic current in the party.
"We are fighting against Russophobia and anti-semitism, two
totally unacceptable phenomena," he told a press conference in
November.
But Zyuganov could not explain the failure of the Duma,
controlled by the Communists and their allies, to condemn Makashov's
remarks.
Nor would he say why he had not censured other such remarks made
in his presence at a recent congress of the pro-Communist movement,
the People's Patriotic Union.
"Dostoyevski said the Jews would bring down Russia, and that's
what they're doing today," a delegate to the congress said to loud
applause. The delegate then stated his support for the remarks made
by Makashov.
Last week, tracts were distributed in the southern Russian city
of Krasnodar calling on people to "rid themselves of these damn
kikes" and set fire to their homes.
The tracts, unsigned, appealed for support from regional
governor Nikolai Kondratenko, known for his anti-semitic stances.
Jewish families in Krasnodar reported receiving death threats
and warnings to leave.
The recent resurgence of anti-semitism in Russia, a year before
legislative elections, has draw sharp rebukes from political and
religious leaders, including Yeltsin, Orthodox Patriarch Alexis II,
and likely future presidential candidates General Alexander Lebed
and Moscow Mayor Yuri Lujkov.
A host of liberal politicians have called for the Communist
Party to be banned, prompting Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov to
ask: "How do we ban a party that holds a majority in the Duma?"
It is estimated there are today about 500,000 Jews in Russia.
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Controversial French writer loses appeal, gets tougher sentence
Agence France-Presse
PARIS, Dec 16 (AFP) - Controversial French writer Roger Garaudy was
sentenced Wednesday to a nine-month suspended jail term and a 160,000
franc (28,000 dollar) fine for playing down the Nazi extermination of
Jews and inciting racial hatred.
The appeal court toughened a sentence handed down by a lower court
in February which ordered Garaudy to pay 120,000 francs for playing
down the extent of the Holocaust in his 1995 book entitled "Israeli
Zionism on trial". That court had also cleared him of charges of
inciting racial hatred.
Garaudy, 85, a former communist who has converted to Islam, last
month released a new book in which he reiterates scepticism about
the number of Jews killed in the Nazi gas chambers during World
War II and attacks Zionism.
He insists that his writings in no way condone Nazism but are an
attack instead on Israeli government policy.
The controversial writer won wide support in the Islamic world in
his face-off with the French legal system with petitions in his
favour coming in from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait.
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[The title here makes the reader search in the content to find out
what
really happen, which is non-whites stealing, looting, and rioting in
once-white France.]
French Cop Investigated in Shooting
TOULOUSE, France (AP) The policeman who shot and killed a teen during
a
weekend arrest has been placed under formal investigation for
manslaughter one step short of being charged for the crime, French
media reported Wednesday.
The police brigadier, Henri Bois, was released from custody Tuesday
night, while angry youths battled police and torched cars for a third
straight night in a troubled area of Toulouse, in southeastern France.
About 100 cars have been torched in the last few days.
Meanwhile, interim Interior Minister Jean-Jack Queyranne warned
rioting
youths the government will assure that order is restored in the
troubled neighborhoods.
"We will have a return to order because we must have calm in housing
projects,'' Queyranne said, speaking after a Cabinet meeting
Wednesday.
An autopsy found that 17-year-old Habib, whose last name hasn't been
released, was killed by a bullet that entered the left side of his
neck
and punctured a lung, causing him to bleed to death.
The other police officer arrested after the slaying was freed Tuesday
afternoon, the prosecutor said.
Police contend the shooting, which occurred during a scuffle while
police were trying to make the arrest, was accidental. Police say
Habib was trying to steal a BMW.
The Toulouse riots are just the latest flareup reflecting the bitter
tension between French police and disaffected youths from immigrant
families.
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A boost for France's mainstream right?
A fratricidal power struggle that is tearing the extreme right-wing
National Front party to pieces could reshape the French political
landscape and give moderate conservative parties a chance to reassert
themselves, political analysts here are suggesting.
The anti-immigration National Front (FN), one of the biggest
far-right forces in Europe, now seems doomed to split into two parties
as a result of an ugly and protracted public battle between leader
Jean-Marie Le Pen and his former deputy, Bruno Mgret.
The question is where the 15 percent of the French electorate that
habitually votes for the FN will go now.
The crisis ``is good news'' for mainstream right-wing parties,
according to Nicolas Sarkozy, secretary-general of President Jacques
Chirac's conservative Rally for the Republic party (RPR). ``If [FN]
voters or activists want to turn away from this party to join us, we
will accept them,'' Mr. Sarkozy said in a recent interview with the
Paris daily Le Figaro.
President Chirac has gone on the offensive in recent weeks, taking
advantage of disarray in Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's Socialist-led
government over immigration policy and a new law offering broader
rights to same-sex couples.
Chirac is anxious to infuse new vigor into the French right, which
was demoralized by its defeat in snap parliamentary elections last
year and has seemed to lack leadership and direction ever since.
But the split in the FN, pitting the pugnacious, charismatic Mr. Le
Pen against the smooth and calculating Mr. Mgret, poses a dilemma for
the mainstream conservative parties such as the RPR and its ally, the
Union for French Democracy (UDF).
Mgret's political strategy has been to cleanse his party of its
skinhead, neo-fascist image, and to do electoral deals in the regions
with traditional right-wing parties so as to cement alliances with
them. His strength has lain in the steady support the FN has won from
voters worried about their jobs, fearful of immigrants, and
mistrustful of politicians.
``We want to launch an offensive to win power in this country ...
while Jean-Marie Le Pen wants to maintain the National Front as a
small family business,'' Mgret said Dec. 14, outlining his differences
with his former boss.
Banned from running for office after assaulting a rival politician,
Le Pen had announced that his wife, Jany, would head the party's list
of candidates at next June's European parliamentary elections.
Local politicians from the RPR and UDF who struck deals with the
National Front after regional elections last summer were expelled from
their parties. Chirac lambasted Le Pen's party as ``racist and
xenophobic,'' and RPR leaders have tried to put as much distance as
possible between themselves and the FN.
But if Le Pen continues to attract the hard-core neofascist vote,
the big conservative parties might be tempted to angle for Mgret
supporters and thus encourage acceptance of their extremist attitudes
into the French political mainstream.
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300,000 illegal immigrants seek residence in Italy
Agence France-Presse
ROME, Dec 15 (AFP) - Around 300,000 illegal immigrants have applied
for permanent residence in Italy under a partial amnesty - eight
times the number the government planned to grant for 1998, according
to official estimates.
Tuesday was the deadline for immigrants to submit applications under
a programme which has been criticised on all sides of the political
and social spectrum.
The former government of Romano Prodi decided in September to offer
38,000 residence permits to illegal immigrants.
That decision triggered an administrative stampede as thousands of
potential applicants -- some travelling from France to try to take
advantage of the amnesty -- besieged local authorities.
The interior ministry said this week that 60,000 files had been
completed, with another 240,000 requests still in the processing
pipeline.
Under bilateral agreements, 3,000 residence permits are reserved
for Albanians, 1,500 for Tunisians and 1,500 for Moroccans. The
remaining 32,000 are up for grabs for those who have a job, a
permanent residence, no criminal record, and can prove they were
living in Italy before March 27, 1997.
Social workers estimate that 200,000 people qualify under these
conditions. And Interior Minister Rosa Russo Jervolino has given
assurances that those who do not get permits this time will not
be expelled and will be eligible for similar government amnesties
in 1999 and 2000.
Social workers argue that Italy has now created a new class of
immigrant who cannot be expelled, legally has no right to work
and is just on a "waiting list."
Italy has about 1.1 million legal immigrants.
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Russian Tycoon Seeks Communist Ban
More anti-semitic remarks point to trend in Russian Communist Party.
Controversial French writer loses appeal, gets tougher sentence
French Cop Investigated in Shooting
A boost for France's mainstream right?
300,000 illegal immigrants seek residence in Italy
Australia combating racism, government says
Agence France-Presse
CANBERRA, Dec 16 (AFP) - An anti-racism campaign launched by the
government in response to the rise of extremist groups had been
a huge success, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said Wednesday.
Ethnic groups had complained that Asians and Aborigines were being
made scapegoats by Pauline Hanson and her far-right One Nation party
and the government was not doing enough to help.
But Ruddock told a Press Club function here that since the campaign
was launched in July fears had diminished.
"Earlier this year I embarked on an information campaign aimed at
correcting some of the myths and misinformation surrounding the
immigration debate," he said.
"I took the campaign around the country to every state and territory.
It was well received everywhere as a positive step towards rebutting
the divisive and intolerant views then being propounded by a few
prospective, and now failed, politicians."
He called for Australians to join together on March 21 next year to
celebrate "Harmony Day".
"It will be an expression of community harmony and acceptance of our
cultural diversity by the Australian people," he said.
"There will always be people who will try to undermine the harmony
of the Australian community, but they will not succeed because the
Australian spirit has an instinct for acceptance and goodwill which
has always survived, and which will take us confidently into the next
century."
One Nation scored eight percent of the vote, or one million people,
in October elections but Hanson lost her Senate seat. The party won
just one parliamentary seat.
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