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Jeffries' charge of Jewish responsibility for the Atlantic Slave Trade is just utter ignorance. While some Jews were into slaving, the Atlantic Slave Trade was overwhelmingly a vile act by Christendom, not by Judaism. And, alas, Jeffries, if he took a moment to read rather than emote, might have added that another major component of the structure of slaving involved African societies themselves, or more precisely not the victimized agrarian African masses but the cynical ritual leadership and chiefly leadership sectors of African societies who manned the scaffolding of slaving--without guns at their backs but with myriad mercantile capitalist...
...also disclosed weaknesses that led to the Pope's downfall. Castellano installed a flirty Colombian maid as his mistress -- so flagrantly that his wife left him -- thereby violating the unwritten Mafia law that girlfriends stay discreetly out of sight. He also named his murderous, vile- tempered driver, Tommy Bilotti, as his underboss and heir, a decision that infuriated members of the family. Within the Mob, word got out that Big Paul had lost touch. And so it was that Castellano and Bilotti were shot outside a fancy Manhattan steak house in December 1985. The gunsels were never caught...
...Angeles area in 1991. During the decade of the 1980s, in fact, 40% more businesses flocked to or were started up in L.A. than ran away, a burst of enterprise that covetous rival cities rarely match. Such economic success makes it easier for Los Angeles to endure its vile reputation. Says Mesa's Mayor Rubach with a shrug: "If we didn't also want what L.A. has, we wouldn't try to lure it away, would...
True, Christian theology is occasionally tarnished by vile anti-Semitism, but then again, the Hebrew bible advises atrocious punishments for women who grab men's genitals and even commands Jews to commit genocide against the Amalekites. We should no more revile the apostles than the prophets. For Dershowitz, who sees everything through the lens of his paranoia, any whiff of anti-Semitism disqualifies all manner of good deeds...
...part of a conspiracy to hurt Depardieu's chances for an Oscar. Minister of Culture Jack Lang, a frequent critic of American "cultural imperialism," lambasted the "low blow against one of our great actors." Raged Jacques Attali, a former aide to President Francois Mitterrand: "This is a vile defamation with a high financial payout...