Arizona Man Admits Lying About HLF Support
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
Posted by admin / Under Mesa Arizona Temple
| Prosecutors have secured their seventh conviction in the Hamas-financing case against the defunct Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). On Wednesday, 54-year-old Akram Abdallah pled guilty to lying to federal agents about his HLF involvement during interviews in 2007. According to his indictment, Abdallah told FBI agents he had nothing to do with HLF, when, in fact, "between approximately 1994 and 1997, defendant was involved in fund raising activities" in the Phoenix area. Abdallah faces up to eight years in prison when he is sentenced in August. In November, five former HLF officials were convicted on 108 counts... |
East Valley (Arizona) Tribune to shut down Dec. 31 (Official Dinosaur Media Wake®)
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
Posted by admin / Under Mesa Arizona Temple
The Tribune Newspapers will cease operations on Dec. 31, the parent company Freedom Communications said Monday. Read the company's news release (PDF) Freedom officials made the announcement to Tribune employees Monday morning, citing the economic recession and changes in the newspaper industry that have cause many publications to close and others to file for bankruptcy protection. Freedom, which itself is operating under Chapter 11 reorganization, had been attempting to sell the Tribune, but no acceptable offers have come forward, said Interim Chief Executive Burl Osborne. We have received a number of inquiries, but none at a level we would remotely...
Homosexual Pressure Group Turns up Heat on Mesa for Domestic Partner Benefits
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
Posted by admin / Under Mesa Arizona Temple
| Equality Arizona continues to push its radical agenda onto the citizens of Mesa, one of the nations more conservative communities. Earlier this summer, Equality Arizona encouraged homosexuals to move to Mesa, and now it is campaigning for domestic partner benefits with city officials there. This is nothing more than an effort to undermine marriage and family. Whats more, this group is asking its members call or email members of the Mesa City Council, Mayor Scott Smith and the Human Relations Advisory Board to let them know you support a process to explore relationship recognition that that will provide opportunities for... |
Anti-Stimulus [Tea Party] Protests Sprout Up
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
Posted by admin / Under Mesa Arizona Temple
| Holding signs reading "Stimulate Business, Not Government," "Families Against Porkulus" and "Say No To Generational Theft," protesters opposed to the $787 billion stimulus package have been mobilizing across the country. It started last Monday in Seattle, then moved Tuesday to Denver, where President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. That was followed by another one in Mesa, Ariz., where Obama unveiled a mortgage rescue plan. Another protest was planned for Saturday outside the office of Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, Kan. The Democrat voted for the stimulus. His office didn't return calls seeking comment. A New Populism? As... |
STUDENTS QUESTION OBAMA'S PLAN
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
Posted by admin / Under Mesa Arizona Temple
| A Dobson High School Advanced Placement government class with strong opinions about Barack Obama watched the president's speech Wednesday on a small, grainy TV in the corner of their classroom. Some of the students attentively watched the speech, giving questioning looks and comments, shaking their heads and laughing at some of Obama's words. Other students listened, occasion ally glancing up to watch, while texting on their cell phones, reading a book or finishing school work. The gymnasium's events were shown simultaneously in rooms throughout the Mesa school, and teachers were given discretion on whether to show the speech, the students... |
Protesters greet the Messiah In Mesa (pics)
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
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| From this morning at the Dobson High School in Mesa, AZ. (I didn't take these pics but I drove by) |
Mesa "Mock and Ridicule" Protest
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
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| I attended the Mesa AZ "Mock and Ridicule" protest today at Dobson High arranged by Bruce Jacobbs and J.D. Hayworth of KFYI Radio. Attendees gathered intially for a hearty breakfast at T G Eggingtons's on Alma School Road where Bruce And JD were on location to broadcast Bruce's morning show. Breakfast was great, I was already ahead on the day in discovering a new breakfast venue worth re-visiting. JD, being the politician that he is, circulated round the entire restaurant and shook every hand. The intent of the protest was to mock the stimulus plan with bail out requests of... |
Arizona Muslims draw FBI scrutiny (Shooting AK-47's In A residental Area)
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:59:00 AM
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| PHOENIX, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Muslim leaders in Arizona have drawn increased scrutiny from federal officials in the past year because of a string of suspicious incidents, officials say. Although no one in the state has been accused of supporting terrorists, one Mesa, Ariz., man was charged with lying to the FBI during the terror financing investigation into a Muslim charity accused of funneling money to the Palestinian group Hamas, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday. Also drawing attention to Arizona Muslims was a target-shooting episode in Phoenix that involved a large group of Muslim men and boys firing hundreds of... |




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