Adolf Hitler Took 'Primitive Viagra' to Have Sex with Eva Braun, Claims New Book
THE TELEGRAPH: Adolf Hitler took a primitive form of Viagra when he tried to have sex with Eva Braun, a new book on the Fuhrer’s fragile health has claimed.

Hitler believed the sex drug would give him the necessary energy for his encounters with Eva Braun, the book claimed. Photo: The Telegraph
Based on long-dormant medical archives and formerly classified military documents, it claimed the dictator was so afraid of pills that most of his medication was injected.

The authors of the book, titled Was Hitler Ill?, claimed he took 82 different sorts of medication during his rule of Nazi Germany including the primitive “Viagra”, which was a testosterone extract.

The book is largely based on papers from Dr. Theodor Morrell, regarded as a quack among many in the upper echelons of Nazism, who Hitler came to rely on with increasing urgency during the war.

The less-than-flattering nickname “Reich syringe master” was given to him by Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, himself a morphine addict by war's end.

According to the book, in 1944, Morrell began giving Hitler injections of the testosterone and a cocktail made from the semen and prostate glands of young bulls into his bloodstream. >>> Andrew Hough, and Allan Hall in Berlin | Saturday, February 06, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI Criticises 'Tide of Secularism' in UK and Support for Euthanasia
THE TELEGRAPH: Pope Benedict XVI has criticised the “increasing tide of secularism” in Britain, in his second comments on the country in a week.

The pontiff condemned support for euthanasia, which he said goes directly against the Christian understanding of the dignity of human life, and recent developments in embryo research.

He also said that too many people see the Roman Catholic Church in terms of “prohibitions and retrograde positions” but ignore its positive vision of the world.

The pope added that faith schools are a “powerful force” for improving society.

It comes just days after Benedict XVI made an unprecedented attack on Labour’s “unjust” equality laws, claiming that they restricted religious freedom. >>> Martin Beckford | Saturday, February 06, 2010

Stifling Free Speech Is Not Really Free
In protecting Muslims from those who offend them, the West ill-serves Islam and those Muslims who seek its reform. Muslims need untrammelled free speech to awaken to the awareness of how totalitarian and comatose is their culture. – Salim Mansur, QMI Agency
TORONTO SUN – Comment: Free speech is not merely an ornamental bauble found in liberal democratic societies. It is the well-fought ground upon which the structures of such societies have been constructed.

It is free speech in practice, or its ideal subscribed to, that has distinguished Europe and western civilization from all others past and present. Its absence or suppression is the main feature of totalitarian culture.

Yet free speech has never been entirely free from siege by special interests.

Except for the United States where free speech is constitutionally protected by the first amendment, the exercise of free speech can still be constrained by the guardians of public interests as we see in the case of the Dutch MP Geert Wilders, indicted and brought to court for offending Muslims in Holland.

The trial of Wilders is as much a step backward from the ideal of free speech as it is indicative of how free people willingly compromise their freedom by forgetting their history.

In indicting Wilders for hate speech, the Dutch, and their Western supporters, have turned their backs to the long line of defenders of free speech as the cornerstone of liberty, from Spinoza and Voltaire to Emile Zola. >>> Salim Mansur, QMI Agency | Thursday, February 4, 2010

Pat Condell: The Crooked Judges of Amsterdam

Is Islam Compatible with Democracy?


Islam: The Enemy of Democracy and Freedom >>> Mark Alexander | Friday, April 20, 2007

Colin Powell Joins the Obama Movement Backing Gays in Military
TIMES ONLINE: “You don’t have to be straight in the military,” Barry Goldwater said in 1994. “You just have to be able to shoot straight.”

Sixteen years on, the conservative icon and former presidential candidate can look down from the hereafter on an American cultural scene where the President and his top commanders at last agree that gays should be able to serve openly in the armed forces.

They have been joined this week by General Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who once called homosexuality “a behavioural characteristic” unlike such “benign characteristics” as skin colour.

General Powell’s opposition to repealing the longstanding ban on gays in the military helped to produce the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, the death knell of which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address. With General Powell’s change of heart — which aides said came two years ago, even though he waited until Wednesday to announce it — the US Congress is the only remaining obstacle to ending the ban.

For decades, the status of gays and lesbians in uniform has created an apparently unbridgeable gulf between liberals who note that gays are allowed to die for their country but not to be open about their sexuality, and social conservatives who insist that lifting the ban would lead to sexual harassment cases and undermine the effectiveness of fighting units.

It is a potentially explosive political issue that President Clinton tried and failed to resolve in 1994, and that Mr Obama must still sell to Republicans and some Democrats in the centre. >>> Giles Whittell, Washington | Friday, February 05, 2010

Rauchverbot in Griechenland total gescheitert
KRONE.at: Griechenlands Kampf gegen seinen Ruf als Europas Raucher-Nation Nummer eins ist zumindest vorerst einmal völlig gescheitert: Sechs Monate nach der Einführung eines angeblich strikten Rauchverbots an öffentlichen Plätzen wird in Lokalen weiterhin gequalmt. Nur in Krankenhäusern und öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln wird das Verbot eingehalten. "Ansonsten wird überall geraucht", sagte Panagiotis Behrakis, Professor für Lungenheilkunde an der Universität Athen, am Freitag.

Grund des Fehlschlags sei die Tatsache, dass die zuständigen Ministerien nie richtig geklärt hätten, welche Ausnahmen es geben dürfe und wie die speziell für Raucher eingerichteten Räume aussehen müssten, hieß es in Medienberichten. >>> | Freitag, 05. Februar 2010

Greenland MPs Call for End to Danish Political Involvement
ICE NEWS (.is): The Danish parliament’s elected representatives for Greenland have declared that they are ready to begin negotiations aimed at discontinuing the semi-autonomous country’s involvement in Danish domestic politics.

“This is a process we need to get started,” said Greenland MP Sofia Rosssen. “This was something I said during the last election”. Rossen has not suggested a date for any withdrawal but claimed it would not happen until Greenland has been afforded full responsibility for the administration of its own domestic affairs. >>> | Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Rising Anti-Semitism in Malmo
ICE NEWS (.is): Jewish residents in the southern Swedish city of Malmo are being increasingly targeted by anti-Semitic threats and harassment, causing many to flee the city out of safety concerns.

“Threats against Jews have increased steadily in Malmo in recent years and many young Jewish families are choosing to leave the city,” said Jewish Community of Malmo leader Fredrik Sieradzki in a report by The Local. “Many feel that the community and local politicians have shown a lack of understanding for how the city’s Jewish residents have been marginalised”.

In 2009 there were 79 crimes reported to Malmo police against Jewish residents, representing a 50 percent increase from the previous year according to media reports. >>> | Thursday, February 04, 2010

It Looks As If You’ll Soon Qualify to Live in Florida Yourself, Arnie!
THE TELEGRAPH: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California, is facing a backlash from fellow governors after saying that Florida is just "for old people" and that "no one would want to go to Iowa".

Mr Schwarzenegger took a swipe at the two other states in a speech in Silicon Valley promoting his own state as a destination for tourists and businesses.

"No matter where you go in the world, people still want to come to California," he said. "There's no one screaming 'I can't wait to get to Iowa.' That I can guarantee you. They want to come here to California." Florida just for old people, says Arnold Schwarzenegger >>> Nick Allen in Los Angeles | Friday, February 05, 2010

This Video Will Show You, Dear Fellow Infidel, Exactly the Fanaticism We Are Up Against: “If You Stood in Front of the Prophet for Just One Minute...”

BAE Pays Fines of £285m Over Arms Deal Corruption Claims
THE GUARDIAN: Guardian campaign vindicated by weapons maker's admissions over Saudi al-Yamamah contract and other cases

The British arms firm BAE Systems has accepted guilt and agreed to pay penalties in the US and the UK totalling several hundred million dollars to settle all the long-running corruption allegations against it.

Under the deal, announced simultaneously in London and Washington this afternoon, BAE will pay $400m (£255m) in the US and £30m in the UK.

In the US, the company will plead guilty to offences of false accounting to settle bribery allegations made over the enormous al-Yamamah arms deals with Saudi Arabia stretching back more than 20 years, as well as corruption allegations over arms deals in central Europe. >>> David Leigh and Rob Evans | Friday, February 05, 2010

THE GUARDIAN: To the BAE files and videos >>>

Watch an Exclusive Trailer for David Baddiel's The Infidel
THE GUARDIAN: In David Baddiel's new comedy, a devout Muslim Londoner (Omid Djalili) discovers that he's adopted, and Jewish. The Infidel is released around the UK on 9 April

Watch the trailer here | Friday, February 05, 2010

Russia Sees No Problem in Arming Iran
CNSNEWS.com: The Russian government sees no problem selling weapons, including advanced anti-aircraft systems, to Iran, saying that arms sales are fine so long as there is no U.N. weapons embargo on the Islamic Republic. >>> Matt Cover, Staff Writer | Friday, February 05, 2010

Germany's Very Own Minaret Debate Turns Nasty
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: A small Muslim community in a western German town would like to build a minaret on its mosque. But the plan has triggered passionate opposition from locals, many of whom rely on rhetoric from the extreme right in railing against the "symbol of Islam's quest for power."

"Willkommen," reads the stencilled print on the wall along the riverside boardwalk in the small town of Völklingen. Not content to just welcome its German guests, however, the message is translated into a number of languages. "Bienvenue ... bienvenidos ... velkommen," it reads. And "hosgeldiniz," a nod to the city's substantial Turkish population.

Elsewhere in the city -- particularly in the quarter known as Wehrden -- Muslim immigrants may not feel quite as welcome. A small mosque on the banks of the Saar River there has applied for a permit to build a small minaret on its roof -- triggering a wave of at-times vehement protest reminiscent of the fuss surrounding the November 2009 referendum in Switzerland to ban minarets in the country.

"I am against the Islamification of our fatherland!" reads a message, posted by "Tommy" on the Web site of the local paper Saarbrücker Zeitung. "Islam is the greatest threat facing humanity," he adds. >>> cgh | Friday, February 05, 2010

Zapatero zu Gast in Washington
Spaniens Ministerpräsident Zapatero und Präsident Obama umarmen einander. Bild: Spiegel Online
SPEGEL ONLINE: Mit seiner Absage für einen EU/USA-Gipfel hatte Barack Obama für Enttäuschung in Spanien gesorgt - das Land hat derzeit die Ratspräsidentschaft inne. Jetzt trafen sich der US-Präsident und Spaniens Ministerpräsident José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero am Rande eines traditionellen Termins in Washington.

Washington - US-Präsident Barack Obama und der spanische Ministerpräsident José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sind am Donnerstag kurz in Washington zusammengekommen. Das Treffen am Rande des traditionellen Gebetsfrühstücks in der US-Hauptstadt fand wenige Tage nach dem Wirbel um Obamas Absage für einen für Mai geplanten EU/USA-Gipfel in Spanien statt. >>> luk/dpa | Freitag, 05. Februar 2010

Bat Ye’or in Israel

Bat Ye’or on Islamic Jihad

Global Sell-off Shudders Markets as Euro Plunges to Eight-month Low Amid Fears of Debt Default
MAIL ONLINE: The euro fell for a second straight day today amid fears that economies of Portugal, Greece and Spain could collapse in a sea of debt.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 1.6 per cent, while Germany's DAX fell 1.3 per cent and the CAC-40 in France was 2.1 per cent lower.

The euro tumbled below $1.37, its lowest level since May 2009.

It also slumped against other safe-haven currencies like the Swiss franc, forcing the Swiss National Bank to take the unusual step of intervening in the market.

But the currency remained steady against sterling, reflecting the weakness of the British economy. >>> Lucy Farndon and Heath Aston | Friday, February 05, 2010

Nouveau décrochage de l'euro face au dollar
LE FIGARO: Face aux détériorations des finances publiques de plusieurs états de la zone euro, la monnaie européenne est passée à 1,3648 dollar ce vendredi matin.

L'euro est tombé vendredi à son niveau le plus bas depuis mai 2009. Ce matin, la monnaie unique enchaîne sa troisième séance de repli et est passé sous les 1,37 dollar, après avoir franchi en baisse le seuil des 1,38 dollar la veille (jeudi soir vers 22 heures). Il a atteint 1,3648 dollar vers 9 heures 30. C'est un niveau inédit pour la monnaie unique depuis le 9 mai.

Depuis le début de l'année, l'euro a cédé 2,5%.

Cette chute s'explique en particulier par l'inquiétude des cambistes due aux difficultés budgétaires de plusieurs pays de la zone euro. Beaucoup s'attendent à une intervention musclée de l'Europe, voire à un appel auprès du Fonds monétaire international (FMI), pour aider la Grèce à se sortir d'une crise budgétaire sans précédent.

Un autre sujet vient inquiéter l'euro sur le marché des devises, le cas de l'Espagne qui a très mal digéré la crise avec notamment un taux de chômage atteignant près de 20%. D'ailleurs Dominique Strauss-Kahn, le patron du FMI, a parlé ce jeudi sur RTL d'une crise «très forte en Espagne» et que le pays devait faire «un effort considérable» pour réduire les déficits publics. La dette publique espagnole s'est envolée un peu au-dessus des 60% du PIB en 2010 alors qu'en 2007 elle ne représentait que 36,2% du PIB. >>> Jean-Guillaume Brasseur (lefigaro.fr) | Vendredi 05 Février 2010

First Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop Says St. Paul Was Condemning Homosexual Acts by Heterosexuals


CNS NEWS: To the news article >>> Karen Schuberg | Thursday, February 04, 2010