Border agent killed responding to possible incursion

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was shot and killed Thursday night was responding to a potential incursion into the United States, authorities said.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says, “This act of violence will not stand.”

Honduras chief’s return scorned

Interim Deputy Security Minister Mario Perdomo said authorities did not bother to arrest Mr Zelaya because he barely entered Honduras.
“Zelaya made a show of entering Honduras: he put one foot in, and left,” Mr Perdomo told Associated Press news agency.
“And he did this in a dead zone of the frontier, which we tolerated.”

Bingo backs Israeli hawks

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But the real winners and losers live many thousands of kilometres away, where the profits from the nightly bingo ritual funds what critics describe as a form of ethnic cleansing by extremist organisations.

Each dollar spent on bingo by the mostly Latino residents of Hawaiian Gardens, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, helps fund Jewish settlements on Palestinian land in some of the most sensitive areas of occupied East Jerusalem, particularly the Muslim quarter of the old city, and West Bank towns such as Hebron, where the Israeli military has forced Arabs out of their properties in their thousands.

The foundation, which did not respond to requests for an interview, bills the bingo operation as of great benefit to the local community through donations to a number of groups, such as the Hawaiian Gardens food bank, as well as scholarships. It has also given money for disaster relief in Central America, Kosovo and parts of the US.

But tax returns show that the bulk of the donations go to what the foundation describes as “charitable support” for an array of organisations in Israel.

“The loss of many of Dr Moskowitz’s relatives during the Holocaust strengthened his conviction that Israel must be maintained as a safe haven for Jewish people from all over the world,” the foundation says on its website. “In Israel the foundation supports a wide array of religious, educational, cultural and emergency services organisations.”

What it does not say is that the focus of the donations is a number of Jewish organisations intent on claiming Palestinian territory for Israel and ensuring that occupied East Jerusalem remains in the Jewish state’s hands.

Thank you, Dr. Moskowitz.

Naval Officer’s Letter Accuses Newspaper Reporter of Sexual Harassment

The letter — the online copy isn’t written on official letterhead — alleges that on “multiple” occasions in the last year, reporter Carol Rosenberg “made abusive and degrading comments of an explicitly sexual nature” against Gordon and others at Guantanamo Bay and Andrews Air Force Base.

“Her behavior has been so atrocious over the years,” Gordon said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I’ve been abused worse than the detainees have been abused.”

Palin Ethics Investigator Closely Tied to Democratic Party

Daniel has contributed $3,500 in recent years to Democratic causes, including $1,500 to Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004 and $1,000 to Alaska Sen. Mark Begich’s senatorial campaign last year.

The law firm where he is a partner, Perkins Coie, serves as counsel of record for the Democratic Party and its candidates, and attorneys there recently represented Obama’s presidential campaign.

France’s losing cycle sets to continue

Cycling’s greatest race has not had a home winner since 1985. But is that because the others cheat — or that French riders are lazy?