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Canada's Human Rights Commissions new best friends? Muslim 9/11 truthers and their anti-Semite pals!
fivefeetoffury.com - 12/6/2008
Canada's Human Rights Commissions new best friends? Muslim 9/11 truthers and their anti-Semite pals!
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BlazingCatFur breaks the story: ...on the same day that the CHRC released its Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Universal Periodic Review of Canada in 2009, in which it listed The Canadian Arab Federation as a contributing "Stakeholder"... The ...

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Thinking the no longer unthinkable
pajamasmedia.com - 12/11/2008
Thinking the no longer unthinkable
— pajamasmedia.com — Fox News reports that Barack Obama is offering Israel an nuclear guaranty against Iranian attack, signalling that a nuclear Iran is inevitable. President-elect Barack Obama will offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on ... (more) Thinking the no longer unthinkable

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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/11/2008
Invoking the Holocaust to Defend the Occuption
— tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — For American readers, the great virtue of Avraham Burg's important new book is that he says things about Israel and the Jewish people that are hardly ever heard in mainstream discourse in the United States. It is hard to believe how stunted and ... (more) Invoking the Holocaust to Defend the Occuption

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Overheard During A United Nations Human Rights Council Lunch Break
small dead animals — Overheard During A United Nations Human Rights Council Lunch Break CHRC delegate - "You must try the champagne glazed strawberries. They're exquisite." CHRC stakeholder - "Only abject subservience to Israel can explain the World Trade Center attack." ...

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