The Brooklyn man arrested Thursday for dealing in black-market kidneys was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring. Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s name, address and even phone number were passed to an FBI agent in a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan by a prominent anthropologist who has been studying and documenting organ trafficking for more than... 

Group of scammers arrested two weeks ago suspected of defrauding elderly American citizens out of millions of dollars. Attorneys: State must examine new social phenomenon. The Foreign Relations Division at the State Prosecutor’s Office is expected to file a request with the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday for the extradition to the United States of 11 Israelis arrested two weeks ago for... 

The mayors of two New Jersey cities and a state legislator were arrested Thursday in connection with a major corruption and international money-laundering conspiracy probe. Some of the suspects were also allegedly involved in an illegal human organ-selling ring. Among the approximately 30 people arrested were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, who took office 23 days ago, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell,... 

“It is common knowledge throughout the Christian and Muslim communities in Kenya that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., was born in Mombasa, Kenya.” – Rev. Kweli Shuhubia, an Anabaptist minister in Kenya “For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of... 

Somali Mustaf Jama was jailed for life today for his part in a robbery during which police officer Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead. A gangster who fled to his native Somalia after taking part in a robbery in which police officer Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead was jailed for life today. Mustaf Jama, 29, was told he would serve at least 35 years for the murder of the mother-of-three. Jama was part... 

An HIV-positive man was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison after having unprotected sex with three women, including a 13-year-old girl. The 41-year-old, identified as Kennedy O., was found guilty of eight counts of attempted assault and the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old-girl after he slept with her and two girlfriends – a housewife and a hairdresser – without disclosing he had the... 

The New York Press reports that a New York City-based director was responsible for the now-infamous Sprite ad, and that the spot was produced without The Coca-Cola Company’s permission. The author of this controversial video ad is a German Jewish filmmaker Max Issacson, according to the NY Press. The NY Press spoke to John Jones IV, the male model pictured in the video: “The funny thing... 

The French Interior Ministry has issued orders to the prefects not to communicate to the media the crime statistics for the nights of July 13-15. The cartoon at the top shows Marianne, the woman symbolizing the French Republic, watching the “official” weather report, “More sun tomorrow” it says, as it pours outside. Le Monde has a long article about the news blackout: […] Only... 

The caller introduced herself as Cathy from Massachusetts. She had a couple of modest points to make about the benefits of a national health service but Glenn Beck, one of America’s most ferocious right-wing broadcasters, was in no mood for a discussion about “socialist medicine”. “Cathy, get off my phone,” he yelled, his voice rising several octaves. “Get off my phone, you little pinhead.... 

Krisztina Morvai, one of Jobbik’s three MEPs is a human rights lawyer. She is very dissappointed with the EU’s attitude towards grave and systematic violations of human rights in Hungary that have been practiced especially by the highly over-politicized police on the streets of Budapest during demonstrations since the September 2006. Dr. Morvai therefore decided to take all the opportunities that... 

Straight out of Avigdor Lieberman’s Foreign Ministry: a new Internet Fighting Team! Israeli students and demobilized soldiers get paid to pretend they are just regular folks and leave pro-Israel comments on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other sites. The effort is meant to fight the “well-oiled machine” of “pro-Palestinian websites, with huge budgets… with content from the Hamas news... 

Somali hijackers said on Saturday they had released the German ship Victoria and its crew which they had been holding for three months after being paid a ransom of $1.8 million. “We have released the ship and its crew overnight after receiving a ransom. It is free now and gone,” Mohamed Abdi, a pirate in the Somalian coastal town Eyl told news agency AFP by telephone. A spokesman for the... 

Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers. New York’s top income bracket could reach as high as 57 percent — rates not seen in three decades — to pay for the massive health coverage proposed... 

Two Israeli missile class warships have sailed through the Suez Canal ten days after a submarine capable of launching a nuclear missile strike, in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The deployment into the Red Sea, confirmed by Israeli officials, was a clear signal that Israel was able to put its strike force within range of Iran at short notice. It came before long-range... 

While Google Alert produces scores of items on yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the S.909, the Hate Crime Bill, only a few go beyond summarizing Attorney General Eric Holder’s submission to give even a cursory account of what was said in opposition. So once again we are reliant on the invaluable service supplied by the Rev Ted Pike (sign up at the top of his web site for his email...