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Nazis
[An ad on New York City Assembyman Dov Hikind’s website]

Business Insider reports that Democratic New York City Assemblyman Dov Hikind is to start an ad campaign warning New Yorkers that they might be living next to a Nazi.

It reports:

‘According to an announcement posted on his site Tuesday, Hikind’s ads asking, “Would you be a Nazi’s neighbor?” will be appearing in newspapers and bus stops around New York starting Wednesday [today]. The announcement describes the ads as “part of Hikind’s campaign to rid the United States once and for all of illegal Nazi war criminals.” Hikind, who represents a district in Brooklyn with a large Orthodox Jewish population said the campaign was inspired by the case of a former Nazi guard who lives in Queens.

“Jakiw Palij, an ex-Nazi slave-labor camp guard, continues to live comfortably in Jackson Heights, N.Y., because the United States has, thus far, found it difficult to get rid of him,” Hikind said in a statement accompanying the announcement about the ads.’

Blimey.

New Yorkers Are About To See These Ads Warning That Their Neighbors Might Be Nazis (Business Insider)

H/T: Frank Fitzgibbon

Unlike Ireland

In a response to a Maori affairs select committee inquiry into the tobacco industry and Maori smoking rates, tabled in Parliament today, the Government agreed to develop targets for reducing smoking rates with the goal of becoming a smokefree nation.

It will also consider law changes around the promotion, packaging and display of tobacco products as part of the Smokefree Environments (Controls and Enforcement) Bill currently before Parliament. Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia said the Government’s response was “a landmark moment” for New Zealand.

“It is about us asserting our own identity as a nation and defining for ourselves the role tobacco is allowed to play in the life of this country. This is not something we are just going to leave in the hands of the tobacco industry.”

Smokefree NZ by 2025? (3News)

(Hat tip: Mark Geary)

Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte was responding to comments made on the issue in an RTÉ interview by Cardinal Seán Brady.

When asked how the Church would react if the Government decided to legalise the carrying-out of abortions in this State, the Cardinal said it would launch a “media campaign” and would also be “lobbying public representatives”.

“I don’t have any objection to any of the churches stating its position and making it clear, but I think it would be a retrogressive step if we were to go back to the days of the Catholic Church dictating to elected public representatives how [they] should address an issue that a very large section of our society believes that governments in the past ought to already have done.”

The Minister then returned to his lunch.

Kidding.

Church Warned Against Campaigning On Abortion (Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish Times)

(Laura Hutton, Photocall Ireland)

CAMPAIGNING BY the Coalition parties on the fiscal treaty referendum will be ramped up today amid warnings from a senior Fine Gael figure that the Yes side is facing a “difficult engagement” with the electorate.

And then some.

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte said the International Monetary Fund “will not come to the rescue of any member state of the European Union, only in partnership with the ESM”.

However, Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín, citing a story in a Sunday newspaper, said Ireland would not be isolated from funding [from the IMF}  if it voted against the treaty.

“If they would not let Anglo Irish Bank fail, they’re not going to let this State fail,” he said.

*popcorn, Minstrels, large Sprite*

Coalition To intensify Yes Drive In ‘Tight’ Referendum (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApjHZq9o7M

The first of an old-school, fear-mongering eight-part mini-series from the Santorum camp, evidently targeting the ‘paranoid moron’ demographic.

BONUS SUBLIMINAL: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually morphing into Obama as the narrator delivers the phrase “sworn American enemy.”

Subtle.

US election: Rick Santorum advert compares Barack Obama with Iranian President (Telegraph)

video: iheartchaos