A black man who knowingly infected a 19-year-old with HIV has been sent to jail for two years

His victim found out only when she went for a pregnancy test. Thirty-one-year-old Nicholas Andrew Richards was given two years in prison and a five-year unprotected sex ban after he pleaded guilty to two charges of grievous bodily harm. In June 2008 Richards had unprotected sex with a 19 year old despite knowing he was HIV positive. The young woman only found out she had the deadly virus when she fell pregnant and took routine blood tests. Luckily her baby was spared. Richards was sentenced to a year in jail and given a five year sexual offenses prevention order, which forbids him from having unprotected sex and means he must warn any potential partners about his HIV status. He was given an additional year's prison sentence for a separate incident of grievous bodily harm with intent when he assaulted a 28 year old leaving him with a partially severed tongue, bleeding to the left side of his brain, a bruised and swollen face and a broken nose.

Petah Tikvah city hall won't let Ethiopian kids transfer out of elementary school in Israel

Dozens of parents of Ethiopian origin have been blocked by the Petah Tikva municipality from moving their children from the majority-Ethiopian religious Ner Etzion elementary school to other schools in the city. Most of the requests were based on the parents' desire not to have their children studying in a school whose student population was nearly exclusively Ethiopian. The municipality, backed by the Education Ministry, rejected most of the requests, saying that it could not force the other religious schools, private and public, to accept a large group of Ethiopian students. "The arrangement with the schools is based on the assumption that each religious school takes only a small group of Ethiopian students. Taking several dozen such children is out of the question," a source with close knowledge of the Petah Tikva education system said. Of the 290 students expected to attend Ner Etzion, only one, is not of Ethiopian origin. The process by which the Ethiopian students became the school's majority took place over a period of years, and is due to the large number of Ethiopian families in the underprivileged neighborhoods for whom this is their default school, and partly because the parents not of Ethiopian background removed their children from the school. Some moved their children to independent Orthodox Jewish schools (most of them associated with Shas), while others moved their children to other state-religious schools, with the approval of the municipality. Another source said that Ner Etzion provided a convenient solution for everyone involved - everyone, that is, except the parents who wanted to move their children to a different school. "The existence of a school that contains nearly 300 children of Ethiopian background means other schools don't need to take them," the source said. Children in the largely Ethiopian neighborhood were divided on the issue, with some saying they'd like to have some "white" friends and other saying Caucasian Israeli Jews shunned them at school and called them "Negroes."

Jewish community in Venezuela shrinks by half

The economy, violence and anti-Semitism are cited as primary reasons for the decline over the last decade. Violent crime is a major issue plaguing Venezuela. According to recent reports the number of civilian deaths in Venezuela in 2009 was approximately 19,000, almost three times higher than that in Iraq. Also, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a strong ally of Iran, an avowed enemy of Israel. Chavez is a strong critic of Israeli policy and severed ties with Jerusalem in 2009. Anti-Israel sentiment is widespread and supported by the state.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says the EU should pay Libya at least 5 billion euros a year to stop illegal African immigration

Speaking on a visit to Italy, Col Gaddafi said Europe "could turn into Africa" as "there are millions of Africans who want to come in". "Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European, and even black, as there are millions who want to come in," said Gaddafi. He was speaking at a ceremony in Rome, standing next to Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "We don't know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans," Gaddafi said. "We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions." Gaddafi's visit to Rome was overshadowed by another controversial speech he made - to two groups of several hundred young Italian women, hired at a fee of 70 or 80 euros each from a local modeling agency. He told them that Islam should become the religion of Europe and gave them free copies of the Koran, after he had lectured them for an hour on the freedoms enjoyed by women in Libya.

What do typhoid, leprosy, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and bed bugs all have in common?

From Grand Rants:

There are many reasons for the resurgence of these diseases, but I believe one main factor has facilitated this deadly resurgence: open borders, which let in more than just illegal aliens. They also allow in the third-world diseases that some border-crossers carry. Close the borders, and you begin to control the diseases that piggyback in with the illegals.

Blacks are more prone to blood clots after stents

Blacks treated with a drug-coated stent to open clogged heart arteries are nearly three times more likely to develop a life-threatening blood clot than whites. Being black was the strongest predictor of stent thrombosis - blood clots that can occur after a stent is implanted - even after considering other known risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney problems.

The mayor of a town in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas has been shot dead

The shooting is the latest violence in the troubled state, which saw a wave of bomb attacks. Police in Tamaulipas are investigating a mass killing of 72 migrants by suspected members of a drug gang. Meanwhile, the army said it had captured the "lieutenant" of a cartel in the northern city of Monterrey. Francisco Zapata Gallegos was captured during a raid in Monterrey. He had confessed to taking part in an attack in March 2010 that caused the deaths of two students at a Monterrey university, the army said. Zapata, whose alias is "the Bald One" is thought to have been the chief figure for the Zetas cartel in Monterrey. He had reportedly spent the past few months in hiding, but a tip-off from one of his associates led the army to his door. Away from Monterrey, the state of Tamaulipas was the target of a wave of violence. Marco Antonio Leal Garcia, mayor of Hidalgo, a small town in the western part of the state, was killed in a gun attack that also wounded his four-year-old daughter. Garcia, 46, was shot dead while driving his car. Hidalgo borders Nuevo Leon state, where the mayor of another small town was found murdered on 18 August 2010. Local police allied with a drug gang are suspected to be behind that killing. Much of the violence in the region is blamed on the Zetas, a brutal group of former elite Mexican army commandos. The US government describes the gang as the most dangerous organized crime syndicate in Mexico. Four devices exploded separately in Tamaulipas injuring at least 17 people. The explosions appeared to target places connected with the probe into the migrant killings. Police are still searching for a prosecutor involved in the case who has been missing for several days. Mexican prosecutors have said they are deeply concerned for the safety of Roberto Suarez, who is leading the investigation into the deaths. It appears that gangsters are trying to stop those trying seeking evidence of the murders. Recently, two bombs exploded in the state capital, Ciudad Victoria, targeting a television station and the offices of the transport authorities.

8 people, including one soldier, died in clashes between the military and suspected drug cartel members in Mexico's eastern state of Veracruz

One civilian also died in the violence, which appears to be the latest in the ongoing war in Mexico between the state and powerful drug cartels. Five people were injured in the clashes. More than 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence since December 2006.

About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May 2010 for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption

Of those, 465 have been charged with crimes. In addition, another 1,020 officers face disciplinary proceedings for failing confidence exams. Among the officers who were fired were officials in Ciudad Juarez who were publicly accused by fellow officers of corruption. In that incident, two groups of officers shoved and fought each other outside police headquarters. The fired officers account for about 9% of the federal police force, which has about 34,500 officials.

The quality of students — intelligence and motivation — is by far the most important factor in whether a school is bad or good

Steve Sailer reviews a new book by Robert Weissberg called Bad Students, Not Bad Schools.

The spiritual leader of one of Israel's ruling parties has appealed to God to inflict the plague on Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the spiritual head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, one of the parties that makes up Israel's ruling coalition. In a sermon he said "May all the nasty people who hate Israel vanish from our world", and named Mahmoud Abbas. "May God strike them down with the plague, along with all Palestinians who persecute Israel." Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has condemned the remarks as an incitement to genocide and questioned how he could effectively call for the Palestinian leader's assassination while the Israeli government prepares for peace talks.

A Somali woman who tried to hijack a small aircraft on an internal flight in New Zealand in 2008 has been sentenced to nine years in prison

In the first incident of its kind in New Zealand, Asha Ali Abdille took three knives onto the plane and tried to force its pilot to fly to Australia. When told that the plane lacked fuel she demanded it fly into the sea. It landed safely in the city of Christchurch and she was overpowered by the crew. Abdille, a 36-year-old refugee, approached the pilots about 10 minutes after takeoff and claimed she had two bombs. She came close to causing the aircraft to crash after she interfered with controls. When she was denied the flight change, she attacked the pilots and a passenger, insisting the 19-seater plane ditch into the sea. The pilot had to undergo extensive surgery to re-attach tendons, muscle and a nerve after being cut on both hands; the first officer received a cut foot. Abdille had been living in Blenheim for five years, working in vineyards. She had previous convictions for threatening to pour petrol on a Red Cross member in Wellington and throwing a bucket of feces over a policeman in Hastings and was already on bail for another offense. It remains unclear why she wanted to divert the plane, which was on an internal flight from Blenheim to Christchurch, on to Australia. The incident prompted a security review on domestic air travel in New Zealand and led to a tightening of carry-on baggage checks.

Jews and prostitution

Lasha Darkmoon writes about the Jewish role in the sex trade.

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White male serial killers

Audacious Epigone explains why most serial killers are white:

Whenever the issue of black criminality is brought up, a SWPL can always be relied on to note that most serial killers are white men, as though that somehow proves there are no real differences in rates of criminal behavior by race. It is not surprising that most serial killers are indeed white men, since men perpetrate more than 90% of all violent crime and the majority of the US' population is white. As La Griffe has shown, however, black men are still about twice as likely to become serial killers as white men are. Parenthetically, blacks are similarly twice as likely to engage in hate crime as are whites.

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Hitler and race

Jim Goad explains why the idea that Adolf Hitler was genetically Jewish is fascinating to him:

If true, it would constitute the most egregious example of guilt-projection in world history. If Hitler had African as well as Jewish genes, it would undermine the notion that Caucasians are uniquely disposed toward waging genocidal wars. If the Holocaust had been overseen by a crazed, mixed-race monster, some ne’er-do-wells might construe that as an argument against race-mixing. And perhaps most uncomfortably for the professional Hitler-haters, it would hammer home the idea that race is more than an imaginary “social construct” and can be quantified through DNA testing.

A singer who performed in front of a mixed group of men and women was lashed 39 times after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at bringing Jews “back to religion” (hazara betshuva), has made it his recent mission to fight against musical performances for both men and women. His “judicial panel,” with Rabbi Ben Zion Mutsafi and another member, sentenced Erez Yechiel to 39 lashes in order to “rid him of his sins.” In a video clip of the court posted on the Shofar Web site, Ben Zion said that those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come. He displayed a leather strip he said was made by his father from ass and bull skin, with which Yechiel was to have been whipped. Yechiel, who said, “I accept upon myself the lashing for my sins,” was ordered to stand by a wooden poll with his head facing north (“from whence the evil inclination comes”), his hands tied with a azure-colored rope (“a symbol of mercy”), and served his “sentence.”

More than 60% of black high school dropouts born since the mid-1960s go to prison

This may help to explain why only 35% of black children live with two parents. In addition, while only 24% of white eighth-graders watch four or more hours of television on an average day, 59% of their black peers do.

Scientists in Britain have shown that genetic variations in the Y chromosome affect a male’s risk of coronary heart disease

Researchers found that those carrying the I-haplogroup variant had a 55%higher risk of coronary heart disease. The association of the I-haplogroup with coronary heart disease was independent of, and not explained by, traditional heart risk factors such as cholesterol, high blood pressure and smoking. Commonly found in central, eastern and northern Europe, the I-haplogroup is carried by about 13% of British men. The I-haplogroup is thought to have come to Europe from the Middle East about 25,000 years ago. Since the I-haplogroup is not so prevalent in southern parts of Europe, an interesting speculation is whether it contributes to the higher levels of coronary heart disease in the north compared to the south – however, this requires further research and testing. What is clear from this study though, is that men carrying the I-haplogroup are more likely to suffer from coronary heart disease than men with other Y-haplogroups.

Authorities have arrested two illegal immigrants from Mexico following a raid on a marijuana garden in Yosemite National Park

Park rangers uprooted more than 3,600 marijuana plants and seized several pounds of processed pot. Officials said that the rangers arrested two Mexican citizens, who were in the U.S. illegally, on suspicion of cultivating the garden. Authorities estimate the plants had a street value of $14.6 million. The park says one of the men was had a concealed loaded pistol. Both were wearing camouflage. The suspects’ names were not released. Park officials say hose lines, fertilizers, trash and human waste spread throughout the site had caused extensive environmental damage.

BP oil spill: Only 32% give Obama good marks for his actions in the aftermath of the spill, while 61% disapprove

Louisianans are feeling more and more that George W. Bush's leadership on Katrina was better than Obama's on the spill. 54% think Bush did the superior job of helping the state through a crisis to 33% who pick Obama. Louisianans are generally softening with time in their feelings about how Bush handled Katrina. Almost as many, 44%, now approve of his actions on it as the 47% who disapprove.